In July of the eighth year of Yanxing, July was in full swing, and the weather was just getting a bit autumnal. Tian Feng's leading cavalry suddenly appeared in the suburbs of Xiao County.
About a thousand riders secretly swam across the water in the middle of the night. At midnight, they arrived at Zhisangmen in the north of Xiao County. He stopped to tie up a long piece of silk to make a ladder, but was discovered by the defenders. Immediately the trumpet was blown, and the Western Army sergeants climbed up to the ridge to shoot arrows. In this way, they retreated and circled to the northwest near Yannian City.
There are only more than twenty Western Army defenders in Yannian City, almost a team of scouts, and they are unable to resist at all. The Eastern cavalry passed through the streets and slaughtered all the soldiers and civilians they saw. At dawn, the pile of captured heads was as high as a hill, and most of them were farmers and vendors who went to the local market. Their faces were so bloody that they could not be distinguished.
After daybreak, Huang Zhong sent hundreds of horses to open the door to challenge. The two sides raced horses on the north bank of Jishui for hedging.
In fact, according to Huang Zhong's habit, he should lead the troops into the battle in person, but Zhang had already given instructions beforehand. Now that the troops on the front line are weak, he told him not to rush into the battle. Therefore, Huang Zhong is now just wearing armor and stomach, standing on the tower. Looking at the situation along the river from a distance.
The cavalry in the distance looked like a group of insignificant black dots, tangled back and forth unhurriedly in the sun. But Huang Zhong knew that every intersection and separation was a test of life and death for the knights on horseback. Only the purest warriors could struggle out of this hell.
What made him happy was that although the number of soldiers was small, the Westerners had a slight advantage in the initial confrontation. The East's momentum was very strong, but the last victory made them somewhat arrogant, which led to the appearance of some rangers who were greedy for military success and left the group. The Westerners' formation was much more strict, and those rangers who rushed over could not No matter what results were achieved, the overall formation was dragged down, causing the easterners to suffer less damage than the westerners under the back and forth staggered attacks. But overall, there is still no winner.
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After fighting for an hour, both sides became a little tired, so they began to change people and horses to fight again. When the two sides clashed again, Huang Zhong was surprised to find that Dongren's formation had shrunk into a cone shape, and there were no more rangers charging randomly, and some light cavalry were also deployed on both wings to assist. In the first confrontation after the change of formation, most of the Westerners in the front were killed on the spot, but the Easterners still had quite a bit of strength left.
The most eye-catching thing is the green-black armored knight at the head. He is seen holding two horse poles, one long and one short. He always collides head-on with the Western cavalry. Most of those who fight with him directly The few who were knocked away and injured were stabbed directly into the horse's belly by the horse's spear. They were knocked to the ground, dizzy and dizzy, and their heads were cut off by the knight. After charging for about seven or eight rounds, eight or nine heads hung on the saddle of the armored knight. The blood was extremely scary. When the Westerners saw him charging over, they felt as if they were seeing a dead person. They instantly lost their fighting spirit and turned around. Scattered away.
At this time, Huang Zhong saw that the atmosphere was not right, so he sent 20 more armored horses out of the city. The soldiers riding on them were also covered in thick armor, like ferocious iron beasts. They immediately dispersed the Dong people's array, and part of the Dong troops were scattered. The people returned to Yannian Temple, and the rest were wandering around the alley. Among them was the green and black armored knight covered in blood.
The knight was removing the skull from the saddle and sorting the quiver full of armor-piercing arrows on his back. At this time, seeing that the cavalry was not stopping, he jumped off the horse and took out a three-stone strong bow. He stood alone in the middle of the alley, aiming at the charging cavalry and shooting arrows. The arrow hit the knight right in the face, knocking him off his horse.
After he shot one arrow, he immediately drew out another and stretched the three-stone bow for a full moon. The two ends of the bow almost touched each other. The arrow shot out and hit the front horse in the forehead. Even though the horse's head was covered with an iron curtain, it was still pierced by the armor-piercing arrows. The head of the horse hit by the arrow sank, and it fell to its knees on its front hooves. The man on the horse flew out from the front. The remaining knights stopped and watched. When they saw the colorful face of the knight opposite, which was smeared with blood and sweat, and saw the three-stone strong bow held by his thick black arms, they all looked at each other and shook their heads, not daring to No more close to charging.
Someone asked him: "What a man! What an accurate arrow! What is your name and where are you from?"
The man replied: "I am the Sima of General Anwu, Wenji of Qiao County. Do you want to fight again?"
When everyone heard that he was originally from the state of Pei, they couldn't help but sigh and said to each other: How could such a good man end up in the hands of the thief Cao! At this point, there was no result in fighting again, so they all retreated and returned to the city to report to Huang Zhong.
After Huang Zhong heard about it, he also sighed and asked his subordinates: "Can you remember his appearance?" Seeing them nodding, he told him: "This is a black tiger! You must be prepared for the next battle. , don’t let him escape!”
Even so, he also knew that the Dongren cavalry's sneak attack failed, and if the infantry and cavalry troops arrived later, he might only be able to defend the city.
Sure enough, within ten days, Tian Feng's army also crossed the water one after another. The Han army scouts inquired about the generals accompanying them. It was said that in addition to General Anwu Tian Feng, there were also General Yan Liang of Pinglu, Lieutenant of Sili School Xiahou Dun, Prefect of Hanoi Sima Lang, Prefect of Bohai Chun Yuqiong, Prefect of Hejian Han Hao, Prefect of Donglai Gao Lan, there are about 60,000 people in total. They crossed Xiao County and pushed directly towards Pengcheng in the east. They responded to the 70,000 Cao troops in Xuzhou. For a while, flags were flying in the sky and the flags were like clouds, completely surrounding Pengcheng from south to north.
Pengcheng had been flooded for more than a month at this time, and the area within ten miles outside the city had been reduced to a swamp. There was no place to stay in the city. The defenders in the city could only sit on the wall and light fires to rest. Life was extremely difficult. However, after the flood, the people in the East were only shooting arrows by boat, which was not conducive to erecting Tushan and making it difficult to go to the city to fight. Therefore, in a short period of time, it was difficult for Cao's army outside the city to break the city. But both the offensive and defensive sides also knew that the waves under the city were ghosts seeking life, and were constantly eroding the city wall. As long as the flooding continued, the fall of the city was only a matter of time.
Therefore, Jushou led his troops to move to the side of the weir downstream of Jishui to block Zhu Zhi's retreat to the south, while Jushou stationed himself twenty miles east of Xiao County to prevent Zhu Zhi from escaping to Pei State. It seems that Cao Jun has made up his mind to capture Pengcheng before the Han army arrives.
Seeing this, Zhu Zhi in the city knew that it would be useless to hold on, so it was better to preserve the army for counterattack. So one night, he sent an envoy out of the city at night. The envoy sat in a wooden bucket as big as a bathtub, slowly skied to the shore, and then walked to Xiapi City to ask for help.
At this time, Zhou Yu was confronting Shen Pei and Yu Jin. There were occasional frictions between the two sides, but no war broke out. It was obvious that they were planning to hold a decisive battle after the main force arrived. Zhou Yu heard that Zhu Zhi could no longer hold on and planned to withdraw his troops, so he asked: "How many days has the water been stored upstream? Where are the bandit troops stationed?"
After getting the answer, he quickly came up with an idea and said: "I sent Zhou Sima to send troops, and you lead the way. You broke his dam at night. When the water floods, are you still afraid that Zhu Jun will not be able to escape?" The Zhou in his mouth The Sima was Cai Zhoutai from the lower reaches of Jiujiang. Although he was young, he was quite brave and had conquered the city several times. Therefore, he was appointed Sima of another department by Sun Ce.
Zhou Tai got the order and took 600 people out that night. They took a boat up the river, and when they reached a place about five miles away, they abandoned the boat and walked on foot. That night there were dark clouds, no moon, and light rain falling in the sky. This covered up the footsteps of the Wu people and made the defenders of the dam relax their vigilance. Most of the people had gone to sleep, and a small number of night watchmen were hiding from the rain in the watchtower. This made the Wu people groping to the back of the embankment, but no one found them yet.
Zhou Tai realized that this was an excellent opportunity and immediately divided his men into two groups. Four hundred people followed him to the camp first, while the rest stayed where they were. Not long after, there was a lot of noise in the Jushu camp. Many people shouted that they were under attack, but they didn't know where the enemy was. In panic, many people were beheaded by the Wu people who were far smaller than their own.
Seeing the chaos in the camp, the defenders of the dam immediately rushed to support, but this time a bigger flaw was revealed. The Wu people took the opportunity to climb up the embankment, and while driving the remaining defenders down the dam, they threw away the leather bags that blocked the water one by one. Months of continuous rain had already reached the limit of the dike and required constant piles of soil for reinforcement. But as soon as the Wu people dug, the accumulated river water suddenly surged out. An insignificant breach cracked open to the surrounding area almost instantly.
With a loud noise, even villagers twenty miles away felt a thunderbolt flash, followed immediately by the violent sound of waves crashing onto the shore. Whitecaps crossed the river very quickly and rushed towards the surrounding lowlands. Once out of control. The waves roared for nearly a night, sweeping for dozens of miles, and the entire lower reaches of Jishui were affected, as if they were in the ocean. It was unknown how many ordinary people and villagers who had no time to move were submerged under the rolling waves. In less than three or four days, corpses swollen by the floods could be seen almost everywhere.
Zhou Yu saw this scene from the lower reaches, and everyone looked at the water of the river and sighed. But Zhou Yu was unmoved. He looked back at the crowd and said, "Please don't be frightened. If you are guilty, I will bear the responsibility myself. It has nothing to do with you and others!"
After the torrent stopped, Zhou Yu sent a large ship upstream and sailed all the way to Pengcheng City. At this time, Cao Jun did not have a comparable ship, so he could only watch Zhu Zhi and others board the ship and come and go freely. . Fortunately, most of Cao's troops camped in high places, and no losses were caused by the breach of the embankment. Once Zhu Zhi left, Pengcheng was captured as expected, but it didn't look good after all.
After Cao Cao received the battle report of the capture of Pengcheng, he was quite surprised. He said to Guo Jia: "Who is Zhou Yu? He is more than 20 years old. Can he be our Hebei army?"
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