The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

But now that he finally saw Liu Zheng's navy, he realized that his manpower was not enough for the opponent's round of attack.

Just because of the strength of the shooters shown by both sides just now, the soldiers and horses around Wu Fu are far inferior to their opponents.

If the main forces of the two armies were to compete, Wu Fu would not be sure that he would be able to survive and escape from the random arrows of the other side.

"General Ma Teng, we didn't expect Nei Liuzheng to send a navy to patrol the river."

"And judging from the sudden arrival of these navy troops, there should have been an ambush long ago."

"Yes, when we went to attack Deng County this time, we couldn't find much supplies around Deng County. It is conceivable that the enemy has already prepared."

"It's just that these cavalrymen under my command have only made it halfway, and nearly ten thousand cavalrymen are still unable to cross the river."

Ma Teng saw that there were still many soldiers and horses in the jungle on the other side of the river. These soldiers and horses did not dare to approach the river bank for a while.

Once they get close to the bridge, they will be attacked by enemy shooters.

After all, the bridge has been damaged, and it is not easy to erect the bridge again. With so many people, they have no time to react when the navy appears.

"Are there any other bridges around here?"

Ma Teng, who didn't dare to take risks, could only ask Wu Fu if he could return with soldiers and horses from other places.

Wu Fu frowned.

Ma Teng quickly answered.

"General Ma Teng, the nearby bridges were demolished by the enemy ahead of time, and there is only a stone bridge along the Hebei River eighty miles away."

"Eighty miles?! Forget it, if you can't cross the river in other places, you can only go around there. Eighty miles is eighty miles, and the speed of the cavalry under your command is fast enough, it's nothing more than a day's delay. .”

Ma Teng shook his head and sighed.

According to the direction Wu Fu pointed out, he went to give orders to the cavalry on the other side of the river, letting them detour along the river and return to Xinye County.

The sky is gray at the moment, it rained a lot last night, and the ground is still a little wet.

Even the water flow in this river has risen a lot.

Another two days had passed since the battle in Xinye.

In the past two days, Liu Zhengjun and Liu Bei's men did not attack too eagerly. On the contrary, everyone lived in peace because of the rain.

Guan Yu did not order his troops to attack the city gate.

Liu Zheng also did not send his troops to attack Guan Yu's men.

Everyone is safe and sound, and each rests.

The soldiers and horses on both sides knew that this tranquility was just the last calm before the storm.

Both sides have dispatched more than 10 troops to station nearby, and it is impossible to end like this.

Two days later.

Walking up along the river bank, it took a long time to return to Ma Teng in Xinye City.

Quite depressed, he went back to the camp to meet Guan Yu.

"Brother Yun, I'm finally back."

"General Ma Teng, you only went to Deng County for a few dozen miles, why did it take you so long to come back?"

It is less than a hundred miles from Xinye to Deng County.In addition, Ma Teng's soldiers and horses are all cavalry.

Even if there is a river in between.It stands to reason that it will not exceed two days.

But it took Ma Teng six or seven days to come and go.

Guan Yu was quite curious.

It was good that Guan Yu didn't mention this, but Ma Teng would be furious if he mentioned this.

He immediately told the story of being ambushed by Huang Zhong's soldiers at the mouth of the river two days ago.

After hearing this, Guan Yu's face suddenly darkened.

"There are still such things, no wonder Liu Zheng is not panic at all, he has deployed so many soldiers and horses in Xinye!"

"But it doesn't matter. Although I haven't launched an attack on Xinye City in the past two days, I have already produced a large number of engineering tools."

"Especially those catapults under our command. These catapults were stolen from Liu Zheng's barracks by our secret agents."

When Guan Yu mentioned this, he still had a slightly smug expression on his face.

Let Ma Teng be interested immediately.

"Oh?"

"Brother Yun is under Liu Zheng's command, and there are spies?"

"It's natural. When the two armies are at war, spies play a very important role. My elder brother has already started to deploy spies in Jingzhou and Yangzhou a few years ago. On the one hand, it is to inquire about news about Liu Zheng's subordinates."

"As for the other aspect, it is naturally to learn these skills from Liu Zheng's men."

This matter has to be talked about a few years ago, because of the plague at that time.

There was an uproar in the whole big man, and many people died.

But only Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses were safe from that plague.

Only Liu Zheng can deal with that plague.

At that time, Liu Bei was very curious. At that time, Liu Bei was not a general, but just occupied Yanzhou.

After he knew how powerful Liu Zheng was, he began to let his subordinates pretend to be secret agents and sneak into Jingzhou and Yangzhou at that time.

Now that several years have passed, there are quite a few of these secret workers, and there are always a few who sneak into the barracks and get some useful things.

The method of making this catapult is not particularly confidential, and the core technology is not strong, so it is normal for them to secretly learn it.

Chapter 1000 Two hundred and 79 plans to flood the Seventh Army

With these catapults, Guan Yu's soldiers and horses will be more confident in attacking Xinye City again.

They don't need to lead soldiers and horses to charge directly.

Instead, the catapult is used for precise projection on the tower.

Use intensive firepower to suppress the Zhuge Liannu shooters under Liu Zheng on the tower.

Thus.The siege of Xinye City was enough to defeat Liu Zheng and his troops.

But because the day is not so good recently, it has been raining.

Guan Yu also did not let his men and horses attack in the rain.

Instead, he wanted to wait for the weather to be a little clearer, and then let his soldiers and horses attack Xinye City.

After waiting for another two days, the sky around Xinye gradually cleared up.

Such a sunny day only lasted for a short period of time.

Guan Yu immediately seized the opportunity!

Let the catapults made by the people under him in the past few days be transported to the battlefield.

Dozens of catapults started, bombing in turn at this moment.

As a result, the defenders on the city tower suffered a lot.

Liu Zheng's men were not worried that the army would attack, but Guan Yu's non-attack was just a wretched way of using long-range catapults to project.

But it made Liu Zheng and the others helpless.

Although this kind of offensive method can't cause much damage to the defenders in Xinye City, it is also a threat, which can make the defenders of the tower afraid to stay on the tower all the time.

Once in the city tower, if you are unlucky, you will be easily hit by stones projected from outside the city.

Once such a huge projectile stone is hit, it is no joke, either death or injury.

Even if you are not hit directly, but just splashed by a small stone, you will still be injured.

Therefore, when the stones were constantly being used to project outside the city, Liu Zheng could only hide in the city and dare not do other things.

Guan Yu's trebuchet bombing did not bring much change to Liu Zheng, and he still lived an ordinary life.

On this day, Huang Zhong and others returned from the attack on Ma Teng.

Return to Xinye City.

Huang Zhong told Liu Zheng what happened on the river this time, and explained that they repelled some of Ma Teng's cavalry, but it was too difficult to kill them all.

Liu Zheng praised Huang Zhong's approach, and he didn't intend to rely on Huang Zhong's manpower to eliminate Ma Teng at the beginning.

It's just to give Ma Teng some blows, so that these cavalry don't be too arrogant.

"So, now that Deng County has been completely defeated by them, wouldn't it be that they are going to attack Zaoyang next?"

"It should be, Your Majesty. According to their plan, Xinye will be completely surrounded in a short time. If the delay continues, it is not the best strategy for us to station in Xinye and keep defending."

"When they take down all the surrounding counties, we still have to fight. Guan Yu's men are forcing us to fight."

Guo Jia quickly came to a conclusion.

Liu Zheng nodded.

"It's okay, let's give up Xinye, and we will withdraw to Fancheng."

"Withdraw to Fancheng?"

Guo Jia was taken aback for a moment, and some didn't understand why Liu Zheng suddenly chose to retreat at this time.

Although they didn't have any advantages for the time being, they didn't have any disadvantages either. The two sides looked evenly matched, and retreating easily was not Liu Zheng's fighting style.

"Your Majesty, what do you think?"

Guo Jia didn't know what Liu Zheng was thinking, and was very curious, so he could only ask Liu Zheng a question.

"At first, I didn't intend to retreat. It's just that it has been raining for the past few days. Just now, General Huang Zhong told me that the water level of the Baihe River has risen a lot. I thought of a wonderful plan."

Liu Zheng chuckled, revealing a trace of excitement.

What he said made Guo Jia even more curious.

Hastily asked Liu Zheng.

"What plan can your majesty tell me?"

Liu Zheng saw that Guo Jia seemed to be very interested, and he didn't intend to hide it. After all, these plans are of great importance, and these staff advisers need to take a good look at them.

if they disagree.

Liu Zheng might also choose to give up.

"Didn't General Huang Zhong just say that the water level of the Baihe River is rising? I think it has been raining for the past few days. Looking at the clouds in the sky, it must continue to rain in the next few days, and the water level will definitely rise again by then."

"We can retreat back to Xiangfan. In this way, Guan Yu's soldiers and horses will definitely take advantage of the victory to pursue, and even directly stationed in Fancheng."

Fancheng faces water on three sides.

There is only one plain.

If the water level rises sharply, it only needs to dig the dam, and the flood can be poured directly around Fancheng.

The entire area around Fancheng, except for some mountain peaks, will turn into a vast ocean.

At that time, let alone Guan Yu's 10,000+ army here, even if it comes a few times more, they will all die tragically in the torrential flood.

Although doing so will bring great destruction to the people around Fancheng.

The economic loss will be immeasurable, but if Liu Bei can be defeated with one blow, the victory will be established.Liu Zheng felt that this matter was still necessary.

He told Guo Jia about his plan to flood Fancheng.

Guo Jia fell into deep thought at first and was greatly surprised.

Afterwards, starlight began to shine in his eyes, and the whole person became excited.

"Your Majesty, such a clever plan is really wonderful!"

"If Your Majesty's plan is really successful, we can even wipe out the more than [-] troops under Liu Bei without any effort, and Liu Bei will no longer have the strength to fight us!"

"Yeah, it's just because I thought it would have such an effect, that's why I thought I could give it a try."

Seeing that Guo Jia agreed with his opinion, Liu Zheng immediately became excited.