Chapter 217
Nan'an City Lahar was watching the performance of the poisonous dancer in the mansion. During this period, he arranged everything and waited patiently for Feng Yu's reaction, so he seemed relatively leisurely.
Dekar suddenly rushed into the hall and walked towards Rahar. He said excitedly: "Brother, the Liang army has finally moved. According to the front fortress of our Wuyang City defenders, there are about five or six thousand Liang army, all of which are infantrymen, who are coming from the water by boat."
When Rahar heard the news, he sat upright. He waved his hand to let the dancers retreat, and then asked Dekar: "Do they have any movements to Chengdu?"
Dikar immediately responded: "Brother, in Chengdu, Liang Jun did not move any action. This army directly bypassed Chengdu and came down along the Minjiang River."
Dikal continued: "Brother expected it was indeed not bad. They must have wanted to cut off our food route from Wudao to Chengdu before they could start to lift the siege of Chengdu. It was strange that the force was a little less than we expected, and their cavalry did not appear. Are we still acting as planned?"
Lahar asked excitedly: "What does it mean that the cavalry did not appear? Didn't they find their cavalry going south with the fleet, or did it mean that the opponent's cavalry had not been dispatched at all?"
Dikal explained seriously: "It means that there are no war horses on the Han army's fleet, and there are no cavalry on both sides of the strait going south with the fleet."
After pondering for a moment, Lahar said, "It is impossible for them to not use their own superior cavalry. I concluded that their elite cavalry must be not far from the Minjiang River channel so that they can obtain supplies from the fleet at any time."
Dekar didn't fully understand Rahal's meaning and asked in a little puzzled manner: "Brother means..."
Lahar raised his eyebrows and said, "As long as the plan is done, the military order is quickly sent out. Mobilize the troops around Wuyang, including Nan'an City, and quickly advance towards Wuyang. Relying on Wuyang Jiancheng, eat this part of Liang's army!"
Dekar asked doubtfully: "But if it is as my brother expected, the opponent's cavalry is not far away. They suddenly rushed out and attacked our army behind..."
Lahar sneered: "I have already dealt with this, and our troops have more troops than the opponent. The cavalry's longboard is mobility. If they come to actively attack our military formation, there will be no such longboard. No matter which direction they attack my large formation, they will not get it. We can even use the terrain to set a trap for their cavalry."
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Under Wuyang City, the Liang soldiers approached the city with big shields and arrows like locusts. Strangely, after they approached the city, they did not attack the city, nor did they dig ditches to build fortifications to siege Wuyang. Instead, they were looking for something.
"Finish another!" A Liang army soldier shouted in surprise. He saw a bamboo branch tied with red cloth in a small pit he dug out. This was a mark left by the Liang army when they withdrew. Several soldiers quickly came over and digged further downwards and found a thick bamboo tube...
After a moment, hundreds of Liang soldiers organized and dug the trench under the cover of their companions' shields. They were obviously not building fortifications.
"What are they doing? What tricks do they want to play?" A commander of the Zhu Luo army said in confusion at the top of the city wall.
"They don't want to dig the river to flood us!" an intermediate general exclaimed.
"How is it possible? Although it is the season of abundance, the water level of the river is lower than the ground. Even if they attract water, it will have no effect on the city!"
"I understand. They are digging trenches and want to rely on them to approach the city wall."
"This is even more impossible. They can do this by relying on big shields. Why do they have to work hard to give up easily and make it difficult? What's more, if this is the case, why do they dig to the river? And the ditches they dug are so shallow! This is not what it looks like for transportation!"
The Zhuluo soldiers and generals on the front of the city were talking about it, but in the end no one could guess the other party’s intention. Naturally, they had no way to deal with it, just shot arrows down the city.
Before we knew it, time passed by little by little. Half of the sun had already set under the horizon. The ditches dug by the soldiers of Liang Kingdom had been completed. They found a large saw and sawed the bamboo tubes buried in the soil, revealing the black holes. Apart from the sawed top bamboo joints, the rest of the bamboo joints inside were hollow.
With a command, several soldiers dug up the last shovels of soil on the river bank. The river water rushed down the ditches to the walls and soon poured into the bamboo tubes.
The water flows forward along the bamboo tubes. Each pipe is connected by six or seven thick bamboo tubes. Finally, the water flows into a hollowed-out cave under the city wall.
The water in the cave flowed down more than a dozen culverts to a dry well in the city. Under the huge water pressure, the Minjiang River water blew out from the culvert. Under the erosion of the water, the soil around the cave peeled off layer by layer, and finally the beams and pillars supporting the top of the cave were also washed down by the torrent...
Zhu Luojun at the top of the city heard a subtle and strange sound, and then felt the soles of his feet shaking. Before they could be scared, their bodies suddenly sank and fell down.
A section of the city wall, which lasted for more than ten battles, suddenly collapsed. There were nearly a hundred Zhu Luo soldiers on the top of the city wall, and they were buried in the collapsed city wall in an instant.
Outside the city, the Liang army soldiers who had already prepared a long time ago immediately launched a charge. Before the other Zhu Luo soldiers who were shocked could react, they rushed into Wuyang City.
Although the defense facilities at the top of Wuyang City were all available, there were no defensive fortifications in the city, and there was not even the most basic roadblock to resist horses. The Zhu Luo army here obviously did not expect that it would be attacked by the Liang army so soon.
When more than 2,000 soldiers of the Liang army rushed into the city, the Zhu Luo soldiers realized that the Zhu Luo soldiers on all sides ran down the corridor to the city. The Zhu Luo soldiers in the city also ran towards the gap led by their respective generals.
At the front, the infantry battalion of Zhao Yun's army was rushing to the front, and under the command of the general, he threw the spears and guns in his hands at the crowd. After two rounds of throwing, with a scream, hundreds of Zhu Luo soldiers were pierced by spears and guns. Then the shield wall and gun forest pressed towards them.
The two sides cut and stabbed each other through the shield wall. When the Zhu Luo soldiers put their shields on, the guns and shield soldiers gave up their spears and used two-foot-long short swords to stab and kill them.
Suddenly, the flanks of the Zhuluo soldiers were in chaos, and dozens of tall figures appeared in the twilight. The giant ape soldiers rushed out of a side street and attacked the Zhuluo soldiers. They slashed horizontally and vertically with long swords and axes, and countless Zhuluo soldiers fell into their sword light and axe shadows.
More and more Liang soldiers were pouring into the city, and as several city gates opened, the influx was getting faster and faster...
Chapter completed!