It must be emphasized that in the Romance of the Romance, Guan Yu flooded the seven armies, captured Yu Jin and killed Pang De, and was dealt with as Guan Yu built a weir and stored water, flooding Cao's army and Fancheng's walls.

In "The Three Kingdoms" and "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty", it was only when the rain continued to rain upstream of the Han River and the water level naturally surged, which led to all the following.

In the eyes of first readers, it seems that the image of Romance is more courageous and exerts more "subjective initiative" and "strategy". But those who know the military can see that the skills required to take advantage of the situation and the right place are no less than artificial floods.

To put it simply, Cao Ren was surrounded in Fancheng at that time. He had been stationed in Jingzhou for many years, and the Han River was the river at the gate of his city. Why didn’t he prepare the ships? Why couldn’t he remind Yu Jin to cooperate with him?

Or why did Yu Jin not camp in advance? When the flood came, he only drowned him but did not drowned Guan Yu? Why did Guan Yu immediately have a proper structure and the whole army can switch freely on land and water without any harm?

These are all the skills of using troops, decades of immersion and experience summary.

The same is true in the Chencang battlefield at this moment.

Li Su's foreshadowing is too far away to say and cannot be reminded, such as the tofu project he did when he built a city in Chencang five years ago.

Therefore, when Guan Yu was deploying troops, he budgeted the battle time according to the "quality of the city wall is passed, and how long does it take to soak and bombard it normally and then smash it." The variable "tofu shit" was not included.

However, Guan Yu's ten years of experience and habitual use of military service allowed him to make adjustments immediately after an emergency occurred and seize the opportunity of the fighter, which achieved the current effect.

Luck is still needed, but opportunities can only be seized by those who are prepared.

Guan Yu used military service for ten years in this life, and his experience and qualifications may not be worse than that in the first town of Jingzhou in later generations, because work experience is not purely a pile of years, and it also depends on what major projects he participated in over the years. For example, in history, when Liu Bei first joined Liu Biao in his seven years of "resurrection of the thigh meat" was not much helpful for improving his abilities.

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After Guan Yu's fleet rushed into the gap in the city wall neatly, he soon found that the submerged area in the city was not very large, with a width of only two or three miles from north to south, and a depth of only one mile from east to west, which was one corner from south to south, accounting for one eighth of the entire Chencang City.

After all, Chencang's main urban area was chosen long before the Western Han Dynasty. It was located at a high place at that time. Even if the Western Han Dynasty waters entered the Wei River, it would not be flooded. Now that the river channel has returned, of course, it can only flood the expanded new city.

However, the chaos and morale blow caused by the city wall being broken and collapsed are far beyond the actual flooded area.

Because the incident happened suddenly, when Guan Yu entered the city, there were 8,000 people in Chen Cang's 15,000 defenders on the west wall, or on standby in the camp west of the city as a reserve team. I don't know what happened in the east of the city for a while.

Guan Yu's troops were limited by the number of ships, with only more than 200 small boats, each of which could carry more than a dozen soldiers, so the first batch of only 4,000 infantrymen rushed into the city while the water was in full swing. Guan Yu was very courageous to let all the ships rush to the beach, and the soldiers jumped down to fight in the streets and lined up to seize the key points of the government offices and granaries in the city.

The Zhang Jijun reserve team patrolling the streets in the city had only a few hundred people at each place. When they encountered Guan Yu's troops, they were almost at a loss.

Some brave ones wanted to take the bow and arrow to the waterside and shoot against the Han army on the ship, but they were quickly suppressed, just as stupid as Yu Jin wanted to organize soldiers to shoot against the warship on the river bank.

Although Guan Yu's boat is not as protective as a professional warship with cabins and shooting holes, it has three feet high sideways.

The soldiers he brought had mastered basic water war tactics and knew how to shoot when shooting with archers on the shore. Using the ship's side can reduce the area of ​​bombing by at least 70% to 80%. In contrast, Zhang Ji's archers were all standing directly on the street and shooting without any cover at all, so the gap in killing efficiency was of course obvious.

After destroying more than a thousand people in the city patrols, all the government office warehouses were occupied. Guan Yu ordered: "Let the troops set fire on the west gate and the main street of the east gate, and the camp followed me to the south gate! The fleet immediately went back to pick up the second batch of troops into the city!"

The soldiers immediately executed the order, which was obviously pretending to open the west gate, but in fact they attacked the south gate. Because there were still eight thousand people in the west gate, but only more than two thousand people in the south gate, the number of soldiers was not as many as Guan Yu had already entered the city.

As for the gap outside the southeast corner, although it can keep rushing in, the water is too deep, and 1.5 meters of water cannot be crossed. If the ship is not enough, it will take half an hour to transport a group of troops.

In comparison, although there is also water accumulation in the south gate, it is only more than one foot deep and comes in after stepping on the water.

At this moment, the Xiliang soldiers in the city had fully reacted. In the camp within the Ximen, there were three or four thousand reserve teams starting to counterattack at the government arsenal, but Guan Yu's men rely on the tall buildings to defend, with strict crossbows and rounds shooting, and easily blocked them, and the battle was in a stalemate.

Guan Yu's side only left more than a thousand people to defend these positions, and he could not repel or annihilate the counterattacking Xiliang army, but it was absolutely impossible to withstand them for a few hours. As the effect of setting fire disturbance became more and more obvious, the counterattacking Xiliang army quickly fell into a state of headless flies.

Guan Yu led a camp of traps and hundreds of crossbowmen to the south gate along the main street in the city. He quickly rushed up to the city tower and cut the gate. The city gate rushed to the suspension bridge and put it down. The army outside rushed in stepping on a foot of water.

At this moment, more than a thousand people on the southern city wall were still fighting stubbornly, and under the leadership of several Qu Junhou, they chose to surrender in an organized manner. The reason why the army Sima, who was responsible for the city gate defense, was not the army Sima, who was responsible for the city gate defense, surrendered, of course, because the army Sima had been chopped off by Guan Yu on the city tower.

"The city wall was washed down because Emperor Gaozu showed his spirit, and the Qiang thieves were killed! Zhang Duwei Han Sima and Wang Sima were all beheaded. If you resist the heavenly soldiers, you will definitely not die well!" Various tragic cry that caused the morale to vent, spreading wildly and quickly in Liangzhou's troops.

Even if some people don’t believe it, they looked at the Han soldiers opposite each of them so brave, their morale was as high as when they were injected with chicken blood, and their eyes were filled with pride of confidence in victory, which made the people of Xiliang who were fighting with them frightened.

It turns out that I have never seen the people of Yizhou so brave and have a high morale in war. How did they motivate them? Could it be that the so-called miracles they saw are true and so passionate? Zhang Jiao was not so morale when he incited the Yellow Turban Strongman.

One hour later, the eight thousand defenders in the west of the city had 6,000 living people left. Finally, their morale collapsed completely and they surrendered in an institutional way.

Only then did Guan Yu free up his hand to deal with Zhang Ji on the Dongcheng Gate Tower.

Zhang Ji has been supervising the battle on the east wall personally. After the city wall was smashed to a gap, he personally brought the archers to block the entrance. When he saw Guan Yu's ships pouring in, he also ordered to shoot arrows from a high place to cover the shooting.

The walls of Chencang are as high as four meters high, and the gap is only half a meter, so there is still a gap of three to five meters. When close to shooting, there are many casualties on both sides.

In order to pass this gap, the Han army had been shot to death on the ship for more than two or three hundred people. Zhang Ji's archers squeezing at the gap were also shot to death by the Han army. The main reason was that the fracture of the city wall did not have a balustrade like the facade, so Zhang Ji's archers did not have a cover, but only had an advantage of height gap.

However, as the battle in the city was basically over, Zhang Ji's results today remained at the level of "shocking two or three hundred people to death by blocking the mouth".

Guan Yu gathered 4,000 soldiers and took more than 200 boats to approach the last city tower that Zhang Ji guarded from the southwest, but hid outside the range of the bow and arrow and did not get close. Guan Yu himself took the main force to go east from the newly broken North City Gate, to the northeast corner of the city wall, and then crossed the city wall from north to south to cover the city wall.

Zhang Ji was attacked from both sides, and the last three thousand veterans of his line were soon seriously damaged, leaving only two thousand people.

"General, the enemy has controlled the entire city, but our army is more than ten times more. Otherwise, we can't continue to fight!" The commander Zhang Xian held a broken sword with blood on his head, whispering to Zhang Ji while smearing blood.

Zhang Ji looked as if he was dead: "I rejected Guan Yu's conditions for persuading surrender, and how could our Liangzhou people believe the conditions offered by Liu Bei? I have the hatred of killing Wu Lan and Cheng Ji. Xiu'er also shot Liu Bei with an arrow. If he surrendered, he would die without a burial place."

Zhang Xian: "But if you continue to fight, it will be a death. The brothers will die in vain and may be a mutiny."

Zhang Ji gritted his teeth: "Didn't you say that there are still a few rafts before? You dare not let you go out of the city to beat Guanyu and install a catapult. Now I'll use it to break through to the headquarters? Choose hundreds of the most capable brothers, jump out of the city and climb the raft. We cross the Wei River north and take small paths. As long as we can cross Longshan and meet Xiu'er and Wenhe, we can still return to the extreme northwest to be the territorial emperor!"

The desire to survive made Zhang Ji never give up on the idea of ​​returning to his hometown in Wudu County until this moment. Because after all, he still has more than 10,000 soldiers in his nephew's hands, as long as he can return to the northwest alive, he can still live a glorious life.

Of course, he did not forget to make a wish to all the officers who were willing to protect him from breaking through. As long as he returned to Wudu County alive, everyone would be promoted to another level and would be rewarded with gold and silver equivalent to three years of military salary.

There must be brave men under heavy rewards. Such a promise has really recruited two hundred confidants, and they took a group of rafts temporarily built with wooden pillars to jump into the city to escape. Of course, they didn't want the family in the city.

Unfortunately, such a breakthrough was obviously not effective. On the way out of the city, the Han army archers at the top of the city were shot and sent away. Dozens of them died. Finally, they rowed to the northeast corner outside the city and were about to enter the Wei River. The Han army warships behind them chased after them again.

The speed of the boat is naturally faster than that of the raft, and it will not take long to be caught up. Zhang Ji was anxious and took the whip and asked the soldiers to row quickly. As a result, in a hurry, he used uneven force, and the bottom of the raft hit the reef formed by the river bank and flipped over directly.

Zhao Yun on the other side had seen the situation a long time ago, so he sent a boat to intercept it. Both sides held spears and stabbed them at the capsized position, trying to fork the corpse up, and after a quarter of an hour, they found all the corpses on the raft. Many people were not stabbed to death, but were drowned when the spear was inserted.

All the bodies were dragged back to the city. Guan Yu looked at it and dragged a woman over to identify it: "Say, who is Zhang Ji? If you recognize it, you will be spared." The fastest update is computer::/

The woman was naturally Zou, a wife and concubine who was abandoned by Zhang Ji. She crawled over and identified her for a while, pointed to a corpse without armor and said, "This is the dead husband."

Guan Yu didn't believe it: "He? This person is just wearing leather armor. How could it be Zhang Ji? Could it be a fraud?"

Zou kowtowed and begged for mercy: "How dare you deceive? Zhang... Zhang Ji was born in the Gobi Desert and was not familiar with water. Maybe he was afraid that he would easily drown when he crossed the river with iron armor. I know he had the habit of wearing leather armor."
Chapter completed!