[Three Kingdoms] Xinghan

The chief general stationed in Jiujiang County is named Qiao Rui, and he is the second-ranked general under Yuan Shu's account.

Both are highly regarded by the lord, Qiao Rui and Ji Ling have always been at odds.

After hearing that Ji Ling was defeated and killed, Qiao Rui immediately became vigilant, began to arm the whole city, and wrote to Yuzhou for help.

Lujiang and Jiujiang are only two days away.He knew well that the king of Changsha might come to attack Jiujiang soon.

He expected that there would be plenty of food and grass in the city, and the [-] defenders would be enough to support the arrival of reinforcements.

On the second day after the request for help was sent, the king of Changsha came with soldiers.

Qiao Rui stood on the top of the east city and watched, and the spies he sent came back to report soon.

"General, the enemy has about 1 people this time."

Qiao Rui sneered, "It's his mother's dream to attack Jiujiang with only [-] troops!"

He immediately ordered that the matter be notified to the whole army.

"Don't panic! The King of Changsha only brought 1 people, you just need to do your own thing, and let the King of Changsha know how powerful we are today!"

Hearing that there were only [-] enemy troops attacking, the defenders of Jiujiang relaxed a lot.

However, at this moment, Qiao Rui's heart was not at all relaxed.

Although he usually doesn't like Ji Ling, he has to admit that Ji Ling has two talents.

However, to this day, I only know that Ji Ling was defeated, but I don't know the details, because I haven't received any news of a soldier who escaped.

This means: either, the King of Changsha is really as brave as in the legend, with many soldiers and generals, killing all the soldiers, and he doesn't look down on the captured soldiers at all.

Or, the King of Changsha did not know what tricks he used to make all the captive soldiers follow him wholeheartedly, and no one escaped secretly.

No matter which one it is, it is enough to show that Changsha King Liu Ying is definitely not a simple character!

Lu Kang, the prefect of Lujiang, would not be ignorant of the situation of the Jiujiang defenders.

But this time, the king of Changsha dared to attack Jiujiang with [-] troops, so there must be some kind of reliance.

What will the opponent rely on?

Qiao Rui couldn't figure it out even if he tried his best.

Wearing a black iron armor and holding a saber in his hand, he watched Changsha King's army coming from afar and approaching the city.

Naturally, he was ready to issue various orders to deal with the siege at any time.

"Ok?"

Qiao Rui watched the enemy stop after some distance from the city gate, and couldn't help frowning: "What are they going to do?"

After observing for a while, a guess suddenly popped up in Qiao Rui's mind, but he couldn't quite believe it: "Is the king of Changsha planning to attack with acupuncture points?"

However, acupoint attack was no longer used by anyone a long time ago.

"General."

A confidant of Qiao Rui stepped forward and said, "Didn't the previous spies say that the King of Changsha brought 1 people? There are no 1 people here, and there is no siege equipment."

"You're right."

Qiao Rui also reacted immediately: "The king of Changsha wants to confuse this general. On the surface, he uses the acupuncture technique to attack the east gate, but in fact he wants to use his elite troops to seize other gates!"

For hole attack, if you want to dig enough to get in and out of many soldiers at the same time, it is impossible not to dig for a few days.

If the digging is fast, it means that the digging is very narrow, and the purpose is to collapse the city wall, and it also needs to stay directly under the city wall for a long time.

Qiao Rui was not in a hurry, and ordered the whole army to be on alert, and at the same time be alert to other city gates.

After half a day.

A soldier rushed to report: "General! About two thousand soldiers and horses appeared at the west gate!"

"Two thousand soldiers?"

Qiao Rui thought to himself, is this the elite of King Changsha? But 2000 people are too few, can they really hit the next city gate?

Then he asked coldly, "Who leads the army?"

"Return to the general, on the flag is written a character Sun."

"Sun?" Qiao Rui suddenly thought of a name: "It's Sun Ce!"

It was as if there was a flash of inspiration, and suddenly, everything made sense.

He originally thought that how could King Changsha, a prince raised in the deep palace, know how to march and fight.

As for the addition of destiny, even half a word is unbelievable.

It's just that there are too many stories about the other party, and the more they spread, the more mysterious they become.

The Black Mountain Army can also be explained that the King of Changsha only acted as a bait.However, Ji Ling really took [-] elite soldiers to wipe out the entire army, which is really inexplicable.

But if that battle was fought by Sun Ce, it would make sense.

Qiao Rui has long heard of the name of the little overlord Sun Ce.It is said that he is extremely brave at a young age, even better than his father Sun Jian, the Jiangdong tiger.

Even the lord has praised him many times in private.

"so."

Qiao Rui paused and said, "The king of Changsha wants to use Chang Shan's tricks again, and use himself to attract my attention. In fact, he hopes to take Jiujiang with the help of Sun Ce's bravery!"

He was about to take some soldiers to the west city gate to strengthen the defense there, but he stopped suddenly.

"That's not right." Qiao Rui doubted again: "If this acupoint attack is just a cover, then this cover is really ridiculously rough and not clever at all."

"Also, how can there be so many people here as bait? Unless they are all miscellaneous soldiers. But why did the King of Changsha bring so many miscellaneous soldiers here? Even if it is to transport food, grass and military equipment, it is impossible to use so many people. "

Whether it is true hole attack or bait.No matter which one, it would be ridiculous for King Changsha and Sun Ce to take down Jiujiang with [-] soldiers.

But they were able to defeat Ji Ling's [-] soldiers, so they wouldn't be so unbearable.

Seeing the officer's hesitation, his confidant said anxiously, "General, Sun Ce has already led his men to attack the city. You need to make a decision quickly!"

Qiao Rui's expression froze, and he ordered to his confidant: "You take Fengxiao Battalion to support the west city gate! You were going to guard the east city."

Although the Fengxiao Battalion has only 500 people, it is the most powerful unit under Qiao Rui's command, and it is more suitable for fighting against the enemy's elite Jiangdong Army.

Although it is believed that the Jiangdong Army may be the real siege army, the King of Changsha is here after all.

For this prince, even though he was full of doubts, he did not dare to take it lightly.

"General Sun has successfully distracted Qiao Rui's attention and confused them."

Ling Han asked: "How's the tunnel going?"

Yang Zhen cupped his hands and said, "It will take another quarter of an hour at most."

"Very good!" Ling Han said with a smile, "With two quarters of an hour's time, even if Qiao Rui wanted to stop him now, he would be unable to do so."

This method of blasting the city wall is not without solutions.

If the guard can recognize the intention in advance, he can also dig a cave in the same direction in the city, and then pour a lot of water into it to completely moisten the soil under the city wall.

In this way, there is no way for the lead wire to ignite the black powder in the mold.

But ordinary defenders will hardly choose to irrigate when dealing with acupoint attacks.

Although irrigation can prevent the enemy from destroying the city wall, it will also damage the strength of the city wall.

Not to mention, at this moment, Qiao Rui completely thought that the acupoint attack was a way to deceive the eye, and would not take any measures to deal with it.

Qiao Rui leaned down and found that the sound of the ground could almost be heard.

"Is it digging so fast? It seems that only a small tunnel was dug for the purpose of destroying the city wall."

If you want to destroy the city wall, you must first dig the bottom of the city wall wide, because the soil needs to be transported out continuously, so this speed will be very slow.

"It's unlikely that it's really an acupoint attack. But since we've dug here, it's time for the general to make some arrangements for the acupoint attack."

He was about to give an order when he suddenly found that the soldiers of King Changsha walked out of the passage one after another and retreated a certain distance.

The behavior of the king of Changsha was even more strange, he even started to line up the army.

Seeing this scene, Qiao Rui couldn't help but muttered to himself: "Is this play realistic or not?"

If it is not realistic, but the orderly and eager appearance of the enemy army clearly seems that the city wall will collapse in the next moment, and they will launch an attack.

If it is realistic, the king of Changsha clearly arrived here this morning to dig the tunnel.Anyone who has read military books knows that it is impossible to dig down the city wall in such a short period of time.The soldiers under the command of Changsha King can't all be born with supernatural powers, can they?Even if he was born with supernatural powers and didn't dig out so much soil, he couldn't just eat the soil!

"What the hell are they planning to do?"

At this moment, Qiao Rui, like Ji Ling back then, felt that today's battle was full of weirdness.

If the person in front of him was an unknown junior, he probably had already handed over the task of defending the city to his subordinates, and went home to drink by himself.

But the people opposite were Changsha King and Sun Ce. Qiao Rui felt that these two people could not be so absurd, but he thought it was absurd no matter how he looked at it.

"alert!"

Qiao Rui let out a loud shout, with a serious expression on his face.

Everything is still careful.

Since King Changsha seemed to have completed the acupoint attack, he might as well treat it as if he had completed it.

As soon as such an idea came into his mind, Qiao Rui suddenly felt the city wall tremble under his feet.

Immediately afterwards, thick black smoke rose into the sky.Last time in the mansion, Ling Han only packed dozens of kilograms of black fire powder.But this time, he directly filled the mold to the brim, weighing hundreds of catties!

"Boom".

Many defenders were hit by the brick wall blasted into the sky, and their heads were bleeding immediately.

And the defender standing above the blasting point collapsed in pain at the moment of the explosion, bleeding from his ears.

Qiao Rui stood there in a daze, completely unaware of what happened.

He was also hit by a few small stones just now, it wasn't serious.

I saw many soldiers lying on the ground, bloody and wailing in pain.

He felt that there was something on his face, and subconsciously reached out to touch it, and then touched a thick layer of sand.

Just when Qiao Rui was in a daze.

Before the black smoke completely dissipated, Ling Han ordered: "Get in!"

Zhao Yun clamped his horse's belly and went straight to Qiaorui.

It is different from the defenders in Jiujiang.

When Ling Han's soldiers saw that the city wall was really bombed, they all showed joy.

Your Highness can really summon the thunder!

Although it is impossible to see things in the black smoke, the screams of the enemy soldiers in the smoke are even more terrifying.

But they are not afraid at all, they just feel kind.

Since the thunder was summoned from the sky by His Highness, the black smoke is also helping us.

Seven thousand soldiers followed Zhao Yun with great fighting spirit, crossed a gap in the city wall several meters long, and rushed into the city.

Beside Ling Han, Zhou Yu saw this scene.

He rode on the horse and didn't move for a long time, full of surprise in his heart.

Ling Han told the soldiers that he would use firecrackers to summon sky thunder to break through the city walls.

But people like Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, it is impossible for them to believe such remarks, so they must tell the truth.

Even though he had heard the Changsha King say this beforehand, Zhou Yu chose to believe it for the time being.

But when he actually saw the effect of blasting the city wall, he still couldn't help being shocked.

On the top of the city, Zhao Yun easily broke through many obstacles and came to Qiao Rui.

Only then did Qiao Rui come back to his senses.

He subconsciously drew out his saber, and was knocked down before he could lift it up.

The next moment, the silver long gun was resting on his neck.