The south of Jingzhou City is adjacent to the Yangtze River. This is a must-fight place for military strategists in the Three Kingdoms era. Guan Yu guarded Jingzhou, but because of Lu Xun and Lu Meng's plan, he was crossed the river by white clothes and attacked Jingzhou.

Although the war described in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is not completely true, it is still a good book that emphasizes strategy.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Jingzhou City was strong and easy to defend but difficult to attack. However, after more than a thousand years of silt in the Yangtze River, the Jingjiang area has become a hanging river on the ground, with the river surface being more than ten meters higher than Jingzhou City. Therefore, the commanding height outside Jingzhou City is on the river embankment by the river.

The previous water battle with the bandit army was to seize the river embankment in the south of Jingzhou City. Once the river embankment was controlled, you can shoot Jingzhou City from a high place; if you are more shameless, you can dig open the Yangtze River embankment and flood the Seventh Army. In the Jingjiang River in June, just after the plum rain season, the water level of the Yangtze River soared, and the water level had risen above the Jingzhou city wall. If you dig open the embankment, even if the defenders blocked the city gate, the flood could still flood Jingzhou City.

Li Guodong also sent some small fleets to enter the river channel on the Jingjiang Plain along the tributary of the Yangtze River, and cooperated with the cavalry to cut off Ma Shouying's escape route.

After the drying Yunmengze, countless rivers remained. These rivers were actually not small and could navigate warships of hundreds of stones. As long as the Jinyang cavalry cooperated with the Huai Army Navy, they could flexibly and maneuverablely attack the enemy who broke out of the city, making it difficult for the horse guard to fly.

After the navy entered various tributaries, it seized ships of all sizes and large along the way and arranged defenses along the river bank. Zhang Wei's light cavalry spread everywhere. Once he found an enemy who broke through the siege, he immediately reported to the navy. On the Jingjiang Plain, a large number of nights were active.

Looking at the Ming army camping on the river embankment, Ma Shouying's general Ma Guangyu suggested: "King, the official Gouzi has occupied the river embankment. Once the river embankment is opened and released, our army will become fish and turtles. We should break through the north direction of the city as soon as possible and go north along the Han River to Xiangjing (Xiangyang, which was renamed by Li Zicheng) to meet with the main force of the rebel army."

Ma Shouying disagreed with giving up Jingzhou and fled: "Brothers, although Guan Gouzi occupied the river embankment, he was building weapons for siege. This means they did not want to flood Jingzhou. The leader of the Jinyang army opposite was Li Laoer. This man claimed to be kind to the people. If he flooded Jingzhou, wouldn't it be against his promise to treat the people well? Ma had observed the enemy's movements. They had light cavalry heading towards the Han River. This was the circumference of three missing one! Moreover, Guan Gouzi's navy was strong. Even if our army escaped from the pursuit of Guan Gouzi's cavalry, he was afraid that Guan Gouzi's navy would have been waiting for us for a long time? As long as we stick to the city of Jingzhou, Guan Gouzi would not dare to open the embankment to release the water, this man would still pursue the Western Army and would not be able to consume it with our army for a long time."

Sun Ang said: "The king is wise! We will definitely survive and die together with Jingzhou City!"

Li Guodong stood on the Jingjiang River embankment, holding a monocular telescope and looking at the Jingzhou city ahead. This is a big city. The city wall is 18 miles and 381 steps, 26 feet and 5 inches high. There are urns at each gate. According to the information obtained in advance, there were more than 80,000 defenders in the city, and the main force was Ma Shouying's more than 20,000 gods' soldiers, and the rest were refugees who were trapped and residents in the city. Ma Shouying's more than 20,000 gods' soldiers were almost all cavalry. If it weren't for the water network in Jingzhou, Ma Shouying would have been afraid of his navy, who would have left the city to break through.

Jingzhou is very close to Wuchang Prefecture. It is very prosperous and is also a famous land of fish and rice. It can be called the grain production place of this era. Since the Gods Army occupied Jingzhou, the Ming army has never returned here. If you don’t fight for a long time, you can’t let the land be deserted, so there are many farmland outside the city. There are also some residents, but after the Jinyang Army arrived, these residents ran away overnight. Li Guodong stood on a high place and saw clearly with a telescope. Some families didn’t even have time to close the door, and the inside and outside the house were in a mess. It can be seen that they were very hurrying to escape.

It is the sixth month of the lunar calendar, which is the ripe season for early rice. Looking around, the rice fields outside Jingzhou City are golden, with heavy rice ears hanging down, and it is obvious that they can be harvested. Between the farmlands, the auxiliary soldiers of the Jinyang Army and the Huai Army are waving their sickles to harvest early rice under the scorching sun.

Food is precious and cannot be left to the enemy. In order to open a road where large siege weapons can approach the city walls, rice fields must be cleaned. Li Guodong couldn't bear to burn all the food in a fire, so he mobilized people to harvest rice fields.

While the auxiliary soldiers snatched the rice fields, the gun doors of the warships on the river opened, and the black muzzles aimed at the city gate. Once the defenders in the city were found out that they went out of the city to harvest the rice fields, the powerful firepower of the warships could leave corpses everywhere.

Li Guodong looked into the city wall from afar and saw that in front of the city wall, there were plum blossom piles, deer antler formations, and trenches and suspension bridges. There were also several wolf teeth beatings, yakshas, ​​winches, and crossbows on the city wall. The thieves on the city shuttled back and forth, transporting gray bottles, rocks, and turret tanks, and laying out various city guarding equipment.

"Lord, the thief army has left the city!" Han Dashan suddenly shouted, "It seems that they are coming to grab food with us too!"

The telescope in Li Guodong's hand aimed at Nanji Gate in the south of the city. The city gate was opening. The thief army on the city gate tower pulled the winch and slowly lowered the suspension bridge.

"Good come!" Li Guodong shouted, "Send the order and wait until the thief army suspension bridge is completely lowered and the thief army rushes out of the city gate, fire the cannon in the city gate!"

Concentrating artillery fire to aim at the city gate hole is the most ruthless method. A large number of thieves were crowded in the narrow city gate hole. A few twelve-pound red artillery shells could penetrate the entire city gate hole. At that time, all twelve-pound carrier-based red artillery can fire in turn, which could make the city gate hole bloody and block the door hole.

"Kill!" I heard a shocking shout of killing from the direction of Nanjimen. At this moment, a row of fire flashed on the river near the shore. Sixteen twelve-pound red barbarian cannons on the starboard side of a large warship were firing in turn from head to tail. White smoke rose from the surface of the river, and sixteen artillery shells roared and flew towards the direction of Nanjimen.

One mile away, the accuracy of the Red Barbarian cannons was not that high. Most of the shells fell on the city wall. One of the shells hit the arrow tower on the city gate. Only a sound of wood and bricks and stones were heard. A huge hole appeared on the arrow tower, and the splashed bricks and wood chips hit a large area of ​​the defenders on the city. The shells hit the city wall, the stone bricks were broken, the female wall battlements were smashed, and screams came one after another.

Four artillery shells hit the city gate hole, and the thief army crowded in the city gate hole was penetrated by the artillery shells, and immediately flew with blood and blood, with many casualties.

Immediately afterwards, there was another row of roaring cannons. The shells roared with afterimages and landed accurately in the thief army. No matter what was blocked in front of them, they were torn into pieces by heavy projectiles, and they rang out with screams and wails. The broken limbs and weapons that were shot and flew fell to the ground, and a corpse and wounded soldiers fell in front of the city gate.

After the black shell landed, it bounced up again, slowing down a little, but the angle suddenly turned, smashing several thieves, hitting the walls in the city gate hole, bounced back and forth, breaking several bodies again. The shells were like pinballs, jumping back and forth in the city gate hole, rushing around, drilling into the city gate hole, and flying all the way to the city. The four shells that hit the city gate hole took away at least 400 lives!
Chapter completed!