After Feng Yu finished eating that day, Fu fluttered away and flew to the north with Jiang Heng's letter. Arriving at Geng Shu's side, Wang Jun has completed the entire deployment of encircling Zhaoshui by land.
In Liangdong, all the troops stationed near Zhaoshui City totaled 10,000 defenders, all of whom were removed one by one by Geng Shu along the way. The defeated Liang army was either taken prisoner or fled to Anyang.
"It's much easier this way." Geng Shu sat down on a high stone, flipped his wrists, played with the blazing light sword in his hand, held up a sword flower, and looked down at Zhaoshui City in the distance.
Now in the enemy city, there are less than 30,000 defenders left. And the 80,000 navy troops of the Ying Kingdom also came along the river, blocking the waterway of this big city.
According to the water city, Geng Shu and Song Zou began to discuss the method of breaking through. Feng Yu came, and suddenly relieved the burden of the scouts. Geng Shu let go out, scouts the troops at the city wall, and took down the letter and read it. .
"The foundation of Zhaoshui City is muddy. In early spring, the mountains melt into snow, and the water level of the river rises..." Geng Shu said.
Geng Shu had a bit of a headache. Jiang Heng provided his knowledge, but he didn't say how to use it. Eight words are easy to say, but it is not easy to find a way to persist. Besides, we have to do our best to reduce casualties. under the premise.
However, Jiang Heng was not good at deploying troops and sieging cities, and Geng Shu had to find a way by himself.
"I'll go for a walk." Geng Shu said to Song Zou.
Song Zou knew that when Geng Shu needed to calm down and think, he did not stop him, but sent someone to follow him from a distance.
The waterfall was full of melted ice water, and it was bitingly cold. Geng Shu came to the mountain stream, looked up for a while, took off his robe, wore only a pair of long underpants, and walked up to the stones under the waterfall, sitting cross-legged, letting go. Hit yourself with ice water, and concentrate on thinking.
Haidongqing's cry came from afar, and at that moment, Geng Shu's eyes seemed to cross the mountains and saw the dense forest.
A quarter of an hour later, Geng Shu walked down the waterfall, dripping water all over his body, and looked down at the dirt he was stepping on under his bare feet.
"I have a solution." Geng Shu went to the tent, and the superior army sent by Ying Guo was discussing with Song Zou, and there was a soldier in the armor of the water army beside him.
He had seen Qufen many times, mostly in the palace, and the one that impressed him the most was when he and Jiang Heng were invited to the waterside to negotiate with Prince An. Qufen | Tall, like a bear, he was about to reach the tent, and he spoke harshly, with the rattan armor on his belly, like a big old man, but Geng Shu respected him in his speech.
"His Royal Highness fought really well," Qu Fen said, "Now we just need to concentrate our efforts to solve Zhaoshui City."
Song Zou said: "Qu Jun, I think the morale in the city has already been low, and it is better to persuade to surrender."
Qu Fen waved his hand and said, "Whatever! Feel free! Come out, Wang has already instructed, His Highness Miao has the final say!"
Geng Shu said: "The map is spread out, let me take a look."
Everyone looked at the terrain near Zhaoshuicheng, and Geng Shu said, "I have a way. The mountains will melt in spring, and there is plenty of water. From here, we can dig a gap, divert the river, and flood the land outside the city."
Song Zou said, "I said earlier that flooding the city is the best policy, Your Highness."
"It's not Deng Shui." Geng Shu said.
Zhaoshui is adjacent to Ershui as the city, and the two rivers are in contact with each other. The north is the Bin River which descends from the mountain, and the south is the Dengshui, a tributary of the Yangtze River. Since ancient times, Zhaoshui has been broken into the city several times, because the Dengshui water is turbulent, and after the embankment was dug, the flood flooded the whole city, and each time there were 100,000 casualties.
What Geng Shu dug was the Bin River, which had little water. Once the water volume suddenly increases, it will break through the river bend at the corner and roll towards the city wall.
"This is not very useful." Qu Fen said, "The Bin River has too little water. If it reaches the front of the city wall only half a zhang, it will be blocked by the city wall. Now, I'm not stupid, I've already raised the city wall."
Song Zou pondered and looked at Geng Shu, knowing that he must have intentions.
Geng Shu said, "Luoyan City has taught me a lot. How long does it take to cut down 100,000 trees from the mountain?"
"One hundred thousand trees?" Qufen was surprised and asked, "What are you going to do?"
Song Zou said, "The navy has to come here. It doesn't take long to log the wood, but it is very laborious to transport the wood. Where do you want to transport it?"
Geng Shu: "In front of the city wall."
Song Zou said: "We use the Bin River to transport wood, but there are not so many axes, and there are only 3,000 in the army."
"Start now," Geng Shu said. "Let's do it now, take shifts. Qufen, call the soldiers here, and after logging, they will all be piled up in front of the city wall."
Qu Fen was full of doubts, but Jiangzhou gave instructions and could only do as he did.
In the city of Jiangzhou, Haidong Qingfei came with a letter from Geng Shu.
Jiang Heng said: "Fight with him, Feng Yu, don't come here for now, I'm safe, take care of him."
Jiang Heng stroked Feng Yu's feathers and whispered in his ear, as if the words were addressed to Geng Shu, and let go again.
Xiang Yu stayed by Jiang Heng's side these days, watching him handle books and mobilize an army of 100,000 people. Preparations for the siege.
Prince Anle had to let him handle it with full power, isn't it just spending money? The royal family has scavenged the people's fat and plaster for many years, and rarely fights, but more money.
"Do you want to go to the front line to see Brother ?" Xiang Yu said, "I see that Mr. Jiang can't sit still in the palace, so it's better to go to the army."
Jiang Heng laughed and said, "I haven't beaten it yet."
Xiang Yu said: "It should be soon, but I don't see the shadow of the assassin who protected him, is that Jie Gui?"
"Maybe something else stumbled him." Jiang Heng said softly.
As soon as he finished speaking, Mi Luo, the chief counselor under Prince An's command, came quickly and said, "Mr. Jiang, Xiang Jun."
Jiang Heng lifted his head, saw Mi Luo's face with a happy look, and asked, "Is there any progress in the war?"
"It can be considered progress." Mi Luo put the letter on the case, and said, "Zhu Cong has left the customs, and he will take all his troops, with Ju Ling as the forward, and start attacking Liang Guoguo, Anyang."
Jiang Heng's heart finally came, and Juicong would not let this opportunity pass up in vain.
Mi Luo smiled and said, "Now Liang Guo is being attacked from the north and the south, and they can't stand it anymore."
"I Have a Scroll of Ghosts and Gods"
Seeing Mi Luo's excited face, Jiang Heng only said "um". Mi Luo said, "His Royal Highness asked me to report to you immediately. Zhaoshui has stabilized. I will retire first. The East Palace is still discussing setting up a county."
After Mi Luo left, Xiang Yu said, "You don't seem very happy."
"Because Juicong is different from my brother," Jiang Heng thought for a while and said, "Under the merits of the monarch, he is the bones of the common people, so of course he can't be happy."
In fact, Jiang Heng never thought that even Geng Shu's expedition was a good thing, but he had no choice.
"It's not me who killed me, or I killed me." Xiang Yu raised his eyebrows, but God was very gentle, "If you don't want to be killed, you have to learn to kill. Hasn't Master taught you anything?"
"Teached." Jiang Heng smiled and said, "But by nature, I can't learn."
But what can be done? Liang Jun still rushed into Luoyang and killed Fang, even the emperor dared to drag him down from the throne; Zheng Jun defeated Luo Yan, but never showed mercy. In a world of great contention, the kingly way has faded, and only killing can bring peace to China.
"I don't want this anymore," Jiang Heng said. "I have done what I can do and wait for the result."
On the fifth day of the lunar month, the Liang State in the south of Zhaoshui and the north of Anyang were in an emergency and were besieged by the two kingdoms of Ying and Yong. This battle started from Ying, and Yingdi dispatched almost all of their elites, and then they were involved in the soldiers and horses of the other three countries, triggering an unprecedented melee.
Yong fought 60,000 people, Liang Guo's troops totaled 100,000, the Ying Shui army was 80,000, the Wang army led by Geng Shu was nearly 30,000, and the Zheng army was 80,000, a total of 350,000.
This scale is comparable to the battle in Luoyang seven years ago, and this time, the balance of power is bound to be completely broken, bringing the world into a new situation unprecedented in a century.
This stalemate for hundreds of years, the final battle of the world of great contention, kicked off with the fall of Zhaoshui City.
In the early morning of the sixth day of the lunar month, thousands of logs flowed down the Bin River, and washed ashore at the bend of the river. The navy of Yingguo pushed the logs, while the cavalry of Song County rode their horses and dragged them from both sides with thick cables. log.
The logs slammed into the city wall one after another, causing the guards of Zhaoshui City to panic. They shot arrows at a high place on the city wall, but Ying Jun and Wang Jun hid behind the barrier of the log, and immediately left after the log hit.
At first, the defenders thought that the enemy was going to use ramming wood to break the wall, but the city wall was unbreakable, and they were not afraid of this mere impact.
During the whole day, more and more logs grew, and by dusk, 100,000 large trees had piled up under the city walls.
Before nightfall, Geng Shu, dressed in military armor, was stationed outside the city of Ma. He slightly pushed up his helmet, revealing bright and clear eyes.
"Ignition." Geng Shu said, but for some reason, he remembered what Xiang Yu said - playing with fire is not good, and playing with fire is easy to burn.
I just like to play with fire. Geng Shu thought so.
Geng Shu took the lead in pulling the longbow, and a rocket led thousands of rockets to fly to the broken wood in front of the city wall. , a raging fire was ignited under the city walls.
At the end of the spring, the southeast wind was strong, and the flames swept the entire city wall. The soldiers who defended the city shouted and fled in a panic. The flames burned along the city wall, but it was stopped by the high wall. The people in the city near the west moved away, and each looked at the huge city wall in horror.
The Lord of the City of Zhaoshui came and inspected it.
"It was only built in the past twenty years!" The city owner is a nobleman of the Liang Kingdom, named Chi Day, the uncle Chi Yan who died under the sword of Geng Yuan in the past is his uncle. Go into battle in person and report the humiliation of the year.
However, the enemy's army was so large that Chi Hou had to lie dormant and wait for an opportunity, hold Zhaoshui, hold the enemy army, wait for the Zheng army to relieve Wang's danger, and then the main force of Liang's country will go south to rescue, and their chance for revenge will come.
"Don't be afraid!" Chi Hai looked up at the sky and said, "It's going to rain! It's going to rain! There's nothing they can do!"
Although the fire was fierce, it could not last. Even if all the trees on the nearby mountains were cut down, it would not be able to burn the people in the city to death. Chi Ri was only afraid of the navy in the south of the city, and that was the main force.
He simply didn't care about the cavalry that Geng Shu led. Anyway, the burning city wall was scorching hot, and he could neither climb anyone nor take a cloud ladder. As long as he deployed his troops, the waterway in the south of the city would be well guarded and everything would be fine.
Chi Ri sneered: "Young military god? It's just mere ability."
The fire burned for a whole day and night, and the upper reaches of the Bin River had already been cut off. From below the waterfall on the mountainside, the mountain stream became a huge water storage lake, blocked by broken trees, and the water level became higher and higher, and there were collapsed lakes along with it. danger.
Chi Hai's judgment was not bad at all, so much wood could only be burned for a day or two, until the morning of the third day, the sky was bright, the outside of the city was full of ashes, black smoke spread all over the city, the defenders couldn't stop coughing and were smoked. Got to cry.
But the sky was overcast, and a torrential rain was brewing, and thunder came faintly.
"Driving the embankment." Geng Shu was expressionless and issued the second order.
The whistle sounded, and on the mountainside, nearly 3,000 soldiers dragged the broken wood to block the mountain dammed lake.
Chi Ri was patrolling the city when suddenly he heard a loud bang on the mountainside ten miles away, and the earth array shook.
Immediately afterwards, the ice water that had melted from the snow for several days crashed down along the dry riverbed, quickly rolled over the river, and rushed to the end of the river. Roaring and rushing up to the hot city wall that was burned for a day and two nights.
The amount of water was only enough to form a wave, and it quickly dissipated, but it was enough.
The white steam rose into the sky, and then there was a continuous soft sound, as if something had cracked, and the stone wall that was almost burning red was suddenly cooled, and it sounded like a cannonball. Skyrim's rolling thunder mixed in.
The scene of Luoyan City's destruction was repeated outside Zhaoshui. Although it was not as good as when Prince Ling dug and collapsed the ten-mile wall in a full month, the nearly five-zhang-high wall was shattered, and the collapsed gravel was also very spectacular. .
Chi Zhou suddenly opened his eyes wide, and watched as the city wall in front of him cracked and collapsed again!
Outside the city, the green hills, river bends, and plains were unobstructed. Geng Shu stationed his horse expressionlessly, watching the high wall smashed to both sides in front of him, pulled down his helmet, and blocked the upper half of his face. The moist lips moved slightly.
Chi Ri couldn't see what the leader of the army was doing, but the huge gap in front of him told him that he didn't need to resist.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Qi launched a charge towards them, galloping horses through the rocks, and rushed into Zhaoshui City.
"This is... the actual situation." Jiang Heng took Geng Shu's letter from home, and explained to the court people from beginning to end.
Xiong Lei and Crown Prince An were stunned for a while, thinking that Jiang Heng was making up a story.
"To be honest," Jiang Heng said, "It's faster than I thought, um, indeed, it's really fast. It was originally expected to end before the first day of May, and it's only... a month. Now Zhaoshui is a territory of the country of Ying, Qufen. Qu's army has taken over the whole city."
"Oh... ok." Prince An is like a dream.
Xiong Leideng laughed and said to Jiang Heng, "Good job!"
"Very good, very good." Xiong Lei stood up slowly and sighed, as if he was sighing and hurt, and said, "Young man, it's amazing, Wang Er, take care of the aftermath."
Speaking of which, Xiong Lei actually left alone.
Prince An came over, took Jiang Heng's hand, and sighed: "It's not easy. In the seventeen years of the Ying Kingdom, this was the most beautiful victory. His Royal Highness Zimiao is truly famous."
Jiang Heng smiled and said, "I just rely on Wang Wei."
"From now on, the two of you will be my Daying's state officials!" Prince An moved, but there was anger and fear in his voice.
Jiang Heng knew exactly what he was thinking at this moment: If Jiangzhou encountered such an offensive, what would he do? ! Can't pay! If Geng Shuruo used the same tactic to attack Jiangzhou, the city wall would be broken once it was broken.
"Actually, if you had foreseen it in advance," Jiang Heng said, "if you don't let him set the fire, then there is nothing you can do. What if it rains? Even if it doesn't rain, a waterwheel will be dragged from the city, and the ignition will start, and you will be far away. Far away, the water is thrown from the city to the outside of the city..."
"," the prince said, calming down, "it's not difficult to break, eh."
"It should be Zhao Ling who broke the wild geese and inspired him," Jiang Heng said. "This tactic is used once, but it cannot be used a second time. Once the enemy is on guard, it can't be called a miracle. carry."
Although Jiang Heng is humble, he understands how powerful Geng Shu's strategy is, and it's no exaggeration to praise him as a military god. It seems that ordinary people can think of it, but they must know the terrain of the battlefield, where the river bends, how large the flood can be, how long it will take for the fire to break before the water can be broken through, and whether such a thick city wall can form cracks, And whether 100,000 logs are enough to burn until that time.
Geng Shu's every step was extremely accurate. Obviously, it was accumulated over the years, and he had done a lot of homework. Even if he thought of any strategies that didn't work, he would write them down first.
Kung Fu is always outside of war, probably so.