The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 71
Zhou Yu saw that there were many casualties among the soldiers, their morale had dropped sharply, and they were unable to attack the city wall for a long time, and there was no progress on the other three sides, so he suggested to Sun Quan to withdraw his troops for the time being.

Sun Quan looked at the situation on the battlefield, and although he was reluctant, he had no choice but to order the troops to withdraw.

Seeing that the opposite side had retreated, Zhang Wu hurriedly organized rescue for the wounded, cleaned up and repaired the city wall, and prepared enough stones, wood and other things for defending the city.The logistics personnel began to busy carry the wounded, move things, and bring food and hot water to the defenders on the city wall.

Hua Tuo organized doctors in the city to treat the wounded. According to Zhang Wu's order, he washed the wound with strong wine provided by the general's mansion, and wrapped it with boiled cloth strips to treat every wounded as much as possible.The slightly injured continued to fight after being cured, and the seriously injured were rescued and transferred to the rear for treatment.

Mi Heng and Huang She organized personnel to distribute grain and grass, replenish weapons and armor, make arrows and stone bombs, and continue to recruit common people to do a good job in logistics support.

Although the Jiangdong Army suffered heavy casualties, the Jiangxia defenders also suffered heavy casualties. After two days of offensive and defensive battles, the Jiangdong Army suffered more than 2000 casualties, while the Jiangxia Army also suffered more than [-] casualties.This is because Jiang Xia was fully prepared. When defending the city, he smashed down stones and wood desperately, poured boiling water and hot oil, but these things are limited after all, and they will be used up in a few days. Even the arrows can't keep up. Consumed.

Zhou Yu didn't expect there to be such a powerful catapult in Jiangxia City. This Wuzhen is always unexpected. Looking at the situation, he intends to consume the Jiangdong Army under the city wall. At this time, he has also estimated the number of defenders in Jiangxia City. The spies of the Jiangdong Army have gathered all kinds of information to him, and he also knows the news that the defenders of Jiangxia County's counties have gathered in Jiangxia County City.

There are at least [-] defenders in Jiangxia City, and more than [-] civilians. The opponent is so determined to resist, even if the defenders are exhausted in the end and Jiangxia City is captured, the Jiangdong Army will lose at least [-], which is not worth it!

So Zhou Yu suggested to Sun Quan to withdraw his troops, or leave a partial division here to monitor Jiangxia City, and the main force boarded the ship and went straight to Xiangyang or Jiangling.On the one hand, we can look for Jiangxia's water army to annihilate them, on the other hand, we can try to see if we can attract the defenders in Jiangxia City to fight again.My Jiangdong Navy is about to come to Xiangyang City, don't you, Liu Biao, not be in a hurry?Could it be that your Jiangxia navy still dares to avoid the battle?Don't you, Zhang Wu, dare not rescue him?

Taking down Jiangxia City is of no great significance to Jiangdong, because it cannot be defended at this stage, and the most important thing is to annihilate Jiangxia's navy.As long as the Jiangxia navy is destroyed, the entire Yangtze River will be dominated by the Jiangdong navy, and they can rampage without any scruples. The Xiangyang navy and Jiangling navy are nothing more than transport teams.

But Sun Quan was unwilling to withdraw his troops. You said it was not easy to fight after only two days of fighting. Did I bring an army of [-] to play every house?Wouldn't it be an admission of failure to withdraw at this time? How will the people of the world evaluate me?It is useless to say that I, Sun Quan, with an army of [-], can't even take down a Jiangxia city. It is far worse than his brother Sun Ce!

Sun Quan is a very face-to-face person. He doesn't want everyone in the world to think that he just inherited Sun Ce's foundation. He wants to prove that Sun Quan is also a hero with practical actions, and he is no worse than Sun Ce!

Seeing that Sun Quan disagreed, and that Han Dang, Huang Gai and others also supported Sun Quan, Zhou Yu had no choice but to arrange soldiers to build siege equipment and prepare to attack the city again.Although Sun Ce ordered Zhou Yu to lead the army before his death, the prestige of Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Huang Gai and other veterans in the army was not lower than that of Zhou Yu.

During the Battle of Chibi, Sun Quan appointed Zhou Yu as the governor and Cheng Pu as the deputy governor.Cheng Pu felt that he was older than Zhou Yu and was a veteran of the three dynasties, but now his official position was not as good as Zhou Yu's, and he had to be his deputy, so he was unhappy, and even refused to excuse Zhou Yu's illness when he was promoted to discuss matters.

Although Cheng Pu didn't come for this expedition, Han Dang and Huang Gai came, and Han Dang was captured by Zhang Wu and locked up in Jiangxia for so long when he was defeated last time. I have always felt ashamed, wishing I could fly up the city wall and cut Zhang Wu in two!

The Jiangdong Army began to build catapults and other siege equipment again, but they still attacked the city as usual every day, but the intensity was not as good as the previous two days.Zhang Wu commanded the soldiers to counterattack in an orderly manner. A lot of stone bombs were spent in the past two days, so we should save them. As long as the opponent does not use large equipment such as catapults and heavy crossbows, the catapults in Jiangxia City will no longer be used on a large scale. .

Every time the Jiangdong Army built a catapult and put it on the battlefield, Zhang Wu commanded the catapult phalanx in the city to carry out fixed-point clearing. Taking advantage of his own advantages of long range and accurate shooting, the Jiangdong Army's catapults could never threaten the defenders.

After ten days of stalemate in this way, the stone bullets in the city were almost exhausted, and morale gradually declined. After all, the defenders were real people. Injury, and there is no news of reinforcements for a long time, it is normal to feel pessimistic and disappointed.

Xu Shu also discovered this problem. He went to Zhang Wu and said, "General Zhang, Jiangxia City has resisted Sun Quan's [-] troops for so many days, and Jiangdong's army has suffered no less than [-] damage, which is enough to prove the strength of Jiangxia's army. But if my estimation is correct , the defenders in the city suffered more than [-] damage, right? The Jiangdong Army did not retreat after being so severely injured, which shows Sun Quan’s determination to break through Jiangxia. Now the morale of the defenders in the city has dropped, and all kinds of defense supplies have basically been exhausted. The loss is difficult to estimate. The point is, most people now know that Xiangyang will not send reinforcements. I am afraid that the soldiers will collapse after a few days of defense. Why not break out when the siege of the Jiangdong Army is not tight. As the saying goes 'If you keep the green hills, you don't have to worry about no firewood'!"

Xu Shu was very puzzled, how did you, Zhang Wu, offend Sun Quan? The Jiangdong army has killed and injured so many people, yet they still haven't withdrawn. What a hatred!
In fact, Sun Quan also regretted it a little bit. He knew that there would be such a big damage, and he really shouldn't attack so forcefully.Moreover, the grain and grass were almost consumed, and the transport team was attacked by a naval army of the other side the day before yesterday, and a lot of grain and grass were dumped into the river.

But now it's hard to get off. If they retreat now, those soldiers will die in vain.And after these two days of testing, it can be seen that the other party's defense materials have been almost consumed, and their morale is not as good as before. Maybe they can break through the city and capture Zhang Wu alive in a few more days. I heard that Liu Biao's eldest son, Liu Qi, is also there. In the city!

Zhang Wu looked at Xu Shu, then at the soldiers around him, and then said slowly, "Who says we don't have reinforcements?"

(End of this chapter)