Three Kingdoms Star System

Chapter 511 The Battle of Jiangling ([-])

In a rage, Zhou Yu led his army along the Yangtze River to Jiangling. Although it was from the upper reaches to the middle reaches, although it was [-] to [-] miles away, it took only two days to reach Jiangling because it was going down the river. arrive.

This time, in order to fight for Jiangling, Zhou Yu brought all [-] troops over, and there were tens of thousands of warships alone. Along the way, the flags covered the sun, the warships were like clouds, the drums were like thunder, the shouts of killing were shaking, and the momentum was menacing. It's so overwhelming that it makes people change their color.

However, the defenders of Jiangling City were not too panicked, because they had already expected that Zhou Yu would not give up, and had made corresponding protective preparations.

On the city wall near the river in Jiangling, the defenders stood ready. They built high walls more than ten miles along the river, causing the outer city to expand more than ten miles south. They built crenels and parapets on the high walls, completely following the style of the city wall. , and it was densely covered with soldiers, each holding a repeating crossbow that fired twenty crossbow arrows.

Zhou Yu didn't expect that in just three days, the opponent would build such a high wall, and he could clearly see from the top of the tall building that the enemy soldiers hiding behind the female wall were all holding crossbows. Tens of thousands of people lurk behind a high wall.

Seeing this scene, even Zhou Yu was a little worried, but now that the arrow was on the string and had to be fired, Zhou Yu had no choice but to bite the bullet, stand on the top of the building boat, and shouted to the top of the city: "Where is Zhang Xiu? Why did you attack without authorization?" My city? If I don’t give an explanation today, my 10 people will definitely wash Jiangling with blood!”

But Zhang Xiu on the top of the city said loudly: "This is the city of my Han family. How did it become yours? Zhou Yu, your master's descendant, Sun Quan, murdered his elder brother and usurped the throne. Now he doesn't listen to the imperial court and tries to separate the regime. It is a crime." Mo Dayan, if your lord, Sun Quan, would have put down his weapons and surrendered early, confessed to the crime of killing his brother, and handed over the city to my lord, if your lord Sun Quan was sensible, my lord might spare his life for the sake of his in-laws. Blindly resisting, I am afraid that even if my lord wants to protect him, he can only be punished by the law, so as to frighten the world."

"Hmph! What are you talking about? Killing brother? You are talking about the death of Bofu? Bofu was killed by Xu Gong's disciples. Everyone in the world knows about it. Now you are making up the crime like this, isn't it a bit too much?" Ridiculous?" Zhou Yu couldn't help laughing when he heard Zhang Xiu's words, and laughed at Zhang Xiu's words of "slandering" Sun Quan's reputation.

But Zhang Xiu laughed and said: "I dare not fabricate such a crime. This is what my Madam Sun said personally, and it was also heard by my Madam Sun. Sun Quan did not hesitate to kill his brother in order to gain power. Ruin!"

Of course Zhou Yu didn't believe this, and said angrily, "It's disgusting that you insult my lord so much. Where is the archer? Shoot all the arrows and shoot him to death with me!"

Then the archers appeared one after another, bowed their bows and set their arrows, ready to start shooting.

However, at this moment, only the sound of piercing through the air not far ahead could be heard suddenly, and everyone looked involuntarily, and as far as they could see, there were all black and dense crossbow bolts. The sky actually blocked the sun, like a large cloud, or like thousands of locusts passing through.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Yu's complexion changed drastically, and he quickly shouted: "Quickly dodge!"

However, it was too late at this time. Those archers who had not yet had time to shoot their bows and arrows all became targets and were engulfed by the rain of arrows. In an instant, they could only hear the continuous screams, tens of thousands of people. Almost none of the archers were intact. Some of the lucky ones had several crossbow arrows on their bodies. Some of the more miserable ones had dozens or hundreds of arrows stuck in their bodies. They looked like hedgehogs, which was terrifying.

Because the soldiers were shooting arrows near the side of the ship, when this round of arrow rain came down, many soldiers fell into the river while avoiding or panicking. This caused many soldiers to be swallowed by the river, and the blood stained the river surface red. This The scene looked extraordinarily miserable and shocking.

Although he guessed that the opponent's crossbow arrows were unusual, Zhou Yu did not expect that these crossbow arrows would produce such great power. In just one round of arrow rain, 6000 of the 3000 archers were killed and [-] were seriously injured. Less than [-]% of those who can continue fighting are less than [-]%.

At this time, after calculation, Zhou Yu realized that the opponent's crossbow machine could fire more than ten feather arrows at the same time, and there may even be twenty arrows. He had never heard of such a powerful weapon in this world!

"Hmph! Let me see how many crossbow arrows you can have? Send the order down, the archers cover, and the other soldiers set up ladders to attack the city!"

After many years of fighting, Zhou Yu absorbed the style of the siege ladder passed down from Liu He's army, and dispatched a large number of craftsmen. After many experiments, he finally invented a ladder that could be built directly on the ship. Many well-defended cities, seeing that he had suffered such a heavy loss as soon as he came up, Zhou Yu immediately resorted to the ability to suppress the bottom of the box, ordering the whole army to directly attack the city by this method, in an attempt to take advantage of the superiority of numbers Heap each other to death directly.

Of course, the reason why Zhou Yu issued this order was because he estimated that the other party said that there were not many feather arrows left, because it was roughly estimated that the other party had consumed more than [-] crossbow arrows in just this round of arrow rain. They are all made of iron. Although they look much shorter than ordinary crossbows, they consume a lot of iron resources after all. If these iron ores are used to forge weapons, it is estimated that at least [-] to [-] troops can be armed. Even under Liu He's rule, resources cannot be obtained in a short period of time.

However, Zhou Yu naturally didn't know that Liu He had found more than a dozen large iron mines during this period, and hired workers to mine and smelt iron with high remuneration, resulting in extremely rich iron resources. 20 iron crossbow arrows are just a trivial matter.

Therefore, in the next scene, Zhou Yu's army was in a tragedy. They found out in despair that another round of feathered arrows was shot at them, and this round of feathered arrows would definitely not be inferior to the previous round in terms of strength and lethality. In addition, Zhou Yu and his soldiers were ordered to start attacking the city, and they naturally appeared from inside the ship. As a result, Zhou Yu's army lost almost twice as much as the last time.

In just two rounds of crossbow attacks by the opponent, his army lost more than [-] people without even seeing the opponent's face. This result was really unacceptable to Zhou Yu.

Therefore, Zhou Yu couldn't calm himself down at all, he was almost hysterical, and ordered the army to continue to attack, and he wanted to capture Jiangling City at all costs!

"I don't believe that you can still have a third wave of arrow rain like this? Huh, I don't believe you would be so willing to use the iron resources that can equip an army of [-] to [-]. Even if it takes ten years, you probably won't be able to get it." Are these resources?" Zhou Yu gritted his silver teeth and said in a deep voice with a hint of ferocity on his face.

(End of this chapter)