The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Sure enough, Liu Zheng didn't expect it.

Runan County was breached in just three days.

Guan Yu's army started from Nanyang County and fought all the way there. With Guan Yu's ability, there was no city that could be his opponent wherever he passed.

Although there are not many city defenders under Liu Zheng, all of them are quite loyal to Liu Zheng, especially Liu Zheng praised a county magistrate for resolutely resisting the enemy, which made the county officials under his command take sacrifice very seriously. Heavy.

Guan Yu's [-] cavalry came all the way and defeated seven cities in three days.

The soldiers were divided into three groups, and the soldiers and horses were gathered in Shangcai County, Runan County.

The defenders of Shangcai County were led by Zhang Lin, the prefect of Runan County.

This Zhang Lin (a friendly guest star of the book fan Linlin) is young, only in her early twenties.

They are also students trained in Liu Zheng Military Academy, they are the second batch of students. Because they are not good at martial arts, they are only proficient in administration, so they did not join the army. government affairs.

When Guan Yu's army appeared in the border of Runan, Zhang Lin actually reacted very quickly. He knew that his side was the front line of the battlefield. Half a month ago, he adopted the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the field.

Almost all the people were relocated to the city, and only a small number of people were left to farm outside the city.

In addition, he also gave the people a lot of weapons, and temporarily recruited Xiangyong to go to the towers of various cities to participate in the defense of the cities.

But even so, none of his troops could stop Guan Yu's army.

Guan Yu's Karasuma army is divided into three groups, each with more than 1 cavalry, and these cavalry running around the city is enough to make people terrified.

In addition, these cavalry are the cavalry of the Guishuang Empire. They are all good at riding and shooting. They are good at shooting while running.

Because of this, it is difficult for the defending people to really defend.

It is not even necessary for these cavalry to be really under the tower to attack the city gate, they just need to run around the city to attract the attention of the people on the tower.

The defenders in these small towns would be fooled around, and they would not have the guts to keep calm under the onslaught of more than ten thousand cavalry.

After several surrounding cities were conquered, Shangcai County, where Zhang Lin was stationed, became the only city with defenders.

Guan Yu's [-] cavalry gathered here, and he had no intention of attacking the city immediately. There are still [-] defenders in the city.

Guan Yu planned to adopt the method of night attack, and then attack the city at night.

But he received an order from Liu Bei and learned of the battle situation in Fancheng, which made Guan Yu unable to sit still.

Instead of taking a more stable approach to break Shangcai County, after receiving the order, they stormed Shangcai at all costs.

In just half a day, Guan Yu broke through Shangcai County, and successfully entered Shangcai County at the cost of losing more than 5000 cavalry.

Zhang Lin, the prefect of Runan, a scribe, personally commanded the soldiers and horses to fight on the tower, and fought until the last soldier, and finally died in the city.

When the news came back to Xiangyang City, Liu Zheng was stunned on the chair.

It was a bit regrettable, Zhang Lin's move moved Liu Zheng even more.

"Zhang Lin is worthy of being a student from the military school, and she has lived up to her reputation!"

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"Come here, seal Zhang Lin as Marquis of Shangcai, and reward him with a thousand taels of silver and a hundred taels of gold!"

Liu Zheng knows that this kind of behavior needs to be rewarded, and it can bring a great morale shock to the soldiers on the front line.

Only in this way, others will know the importance of fighting the enemy bravely and sacrificing one's life for righteousness.

This is a hero!

Liu Zheng's posthumous title was quickly passed on to the battlefield through his subordinates, even back to Yangzhou, and to Zhang Lin's family.

Although Zhang Lin's death in battle made their family members extremely sad, such a sacrifice was not useless. At least the only son left behind by Zhang Lin could inherit Zhang Lin's title, so that he would have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life.

Even because of this, because of the blessing of his father Zhang Lin, he entered the core of power in the imperial court and became a pillar of talent like his father in the future.

And the fall of Runan has dealt a big blow to Yuzhou.

After Runan was defeated by Guan Yu's soldiers, Liu Chong was the first to bear the brunt.

Most of Liu Chong's headquarters is concentrated in Chen Jun.

Originally, because of the existence of Runan County, Liu Chong had no worries in the future, and he could fight Zhang Fei with peace of mind.

But now Runan County is gone, and Guan Yu's tens of thousands of troops are stationed in Runan.

This made Liu Chong's back, there would be enemies appearing at any time, and he didn't dare to lead the army to fight Zhang Fei, so he could only switch from offense to defense.

Guan Yu's soldiers and horses also knew this and understood Liu Bei's purpose of letting him surprise Runan, so after occupying Shangcai, they quickly aimed their target at Liu Chong of Chen Jun.

The army began to approach Chen Jun's position slowly.

At the same time, Liu Zheng in Xiangyang decided that there was no need for the war on the Jingzhou battlefield.

Just in time, the flood has receded in the past few days, and the battle in Fancheng should be settled.

At the same time that Guan Yu's soldiers and horses were marching towards Chen Jun, Liu Zheng also ordered Tai Shici and Zu Lang to attack Fancheng with all their strength.

Outside Fancheng.

On the muddy road, more than 2 sailors under Zu Lang and 5 troops under Tai Shici, a total of nearly [-] horses, surrounded Fancheng to death.

Liu Zheng didn't ask them to persuade them to surrender at all, because after so many days of delay, if these people in Fancheng were willing to surrender, they would have already surrendered.

The reason why they did not go out of the city to surrender, they would rather starve in the city and endure the ravages of disease, is to wait for Liu Bei's reinforcements.

Liu Zheng just wanted to defeat their hopes, attack the city directly, kill all these enemy troops, and give Liu Bei a blow.

turn the tide.

"Get our killer out!"

This time, Liu Zheng came to the battlefield in person, and there was no danger at all against Fancheng, which had been besieged for several days.

In order to break through the city as soon as possible, Liu Zheng directly moved another killer weapon prepared by the Mo family this time.

This thing is the Jinglan car!

The Jinglan cart was actually transported to Xiangyang City a long time ago.

It's just this thing, I haven't had a chance to use it before.

Especially because after the flooding of Fancheng, there is water everywhere around Fancheng, and there is no way to use it.

Before that, the troops under Liu Zheng's command did not engage in offensive battles with the enemy, but retreated most of the time.

So to a large extent, this Jinglan car is useless.

But it's different now.

This time Liu Zheng took the initiative to attack, and these Jinglan vehicles had a chance to be used.

Following Liu Zheng's order.

Soon, there were four heavy machines on the road outside Fancheng, which were slowly pushed up from behind.

These things are relatively laborious to manufacture and require a huge amount of engineering, but it took a lot of means to transport them from Xiangyang City.

It is more than three feet high.

It is a bit taller than the Fancheng tower.

When these Jinglan carts were transported outside Fancheng, they had already attracted the attention of the defenders on the tower.

"No, General!"

The defenders in the city were shocked when they saw such a huge monster outside the city, and quickly found Zhang Xiu who was stationed in the city.

At this moment, Zhang Xiu is very busy in the city.

On the one hand, due to the shortage of food, the defenders in their city have lost their morale and have not had a good meal for two days.

Most of the grain has already begun to germinate due to soaking in water.

It even stinks.

There is no food and grass, and the [-] troops in the city have already complained. Some people even spread the word that there is no reinforcements in the army, and they will die if they continue to hold on. It is better to surrender.

But Zhang Xiu didn't dare to surrender. He shouldered Liu Bei's trust. If he surrendered, tens of thousands of troops would be lost. This is not what Zhang Xiu wants to see.

What's more, if you don't have an inch of merit and surrender easily, I'm afraid you won't be valued by Liu Zheng. A real man was born in the world. If you can't win the fairness and just live in mediocrity, what is the difference between death and death.

Therefore, Zhang Xiu was unwilling to surrender, and his military advisor Shi Tao also did not intend to surrender.

After all, they had only joined Liu Bei not long ago, and if they betrayed the master, they would be infamous.

These celebrities care most about their reputation.

Seeing is more important than your own life.

The problem of food had made Zhang Xiu very busy, but the previous flood had caused a lot of dead rats, carcasses of various small animals, poultry, etc. to appear in the city.

There was no place to put the corpses, and they couldn't be burned. Germs grew and many people in the city fell ill for a while.

There were originally 3 defenders, but 4000 or [-] were infected with the plague.

This is a big deal. In order to prevent the remaining people from being infected by the plague, Zhang Xiu had to divide up an area in the city to detain the sick.

Just after finishing these things, the soldiers in the city rushed to him and told him that Liu Zheng's army outside the city had come to kill him.

Letting Zhang Xiu not rest for a moment, he quickly dragged the military adviser Shi Tao and ran to the tower.

While heading to the city tower, Zhang Xiu asked the soldiers around him.

"What's going on outside the city? Can Liu Zheng's men attack?"

"Returning to the general, the enemy army has not yet attacked, but they have transported a few huge monsters, and those things are approaching our tower."

"Big monster? What is this?"

At this moment, Zhang Xiu didn't know that Liu Zheng had acquired such things as Jinglan chariots, and even if they knew about Jinglan chariots, these soldiers might not know these things.

"I don't know what that thing is, but it's very tall, taller than our tower."

The soldier's description made Zhang Xiu and Shi Tao very curious.

"Military division, let's go, let's rush to the tower as soon as possible to see what these things are and what the enemy troops want to do."

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Zhang Xiu and Shi Tao hurried to the top of the city tower with difficulty.

But when they came up, they heard a scream from the tower.

On the city tower, countless arrows were suddenly shot out, and the arrows rained like a forest.

The rain of short and sharp arrows fell on the city tower, and immediately shot and killed many soldiers guarding the city.

When Zhang Xiu appeared on the tower, he saw four arrow tower-like things standing outside the city not far from the tower.

They were only about three feet away from the tower.

There are still more than a dozen soldiers standing on the towering wooden behemoths.

These soldiers held a continuous crossbow in their hands.

The rain of arrows just now was launched by the soldiers on these four arrow towers.

There were only a hundred people in total, but there were thousands of arrows shot out, directly killing hundreds of soldiers and horses guarding the city.

Originally, there would not be many people guarding the city on the tower.

However, with the interference of these shooters standing on the tower, the soldiers guarding the city did not dare to stand on the tower.

As soon as it appears, it will be targeted by arrows and greeted carefully.

After Zhang Xiu and Shi Tao appeared here, they were extra careful, otherwise they would be easily shot without arrows with long eyes.

"This... what is this thing?"

"Arrow tower?"

"It shouldn't be, they are building arrow towers here, how could our people not find it?"

"No, they didn't build it, look at the wheels under those things, they pushed them!"

"What is this? A mobile arrow tower?"

Zhang Xiu was dumbfounded at this moment.