The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. When the flood appeared in the latter half of the night, some of the city guards noticed the anomaly in time, but it was already useless. [
The yellow line spread from the west side of Lihu City. The raging flood was like a monster with its mouth wide open, swallowing everything in its path. The guards on the city walls were so shocked that their bodies went limp and their faces turned pale. It took them a while to remember to shout.
"Roar! Boom boom boom … "
The flood didn't give the city guards much time to react. In the blink of an eye, the yellow line had reached Lihu City from afar and crashed into the city walls.
Lihu City was a high-level city, and its walls were 120 feet tall and very thick. However, when the flood reached the bottom of the walls, the guards on the walls still shook violently as if they were hit by something huge.
Fortunately, although the flood was fierce, it didn't break the walls directly. The sturdy walls of Lihu City were like a dam, blocking the flood and temporarily keeping it outside the city.
After a cup of tea's time, the city was completely submerged by the flood. In the dim vision, there was nothing but water. The entire Lihu City had become a boulder in the midst of the flood, stubbornly resisting the beating of the flood.
The flood was temporarily stopped, but Lihu City's walls weren't an airtight dam. As the water level rose outside the walls, water started to seep through the walls, and the inside of the city started to become muddy.
This was especially true for the four city gates, which were leaking the most. The city guards had basically filled up the ramps below the gates with all the resources they could. But they still couldn't stop the flood from coming in through the gaps around the gates.
"Crack crack crack …"
The gates of the city were also under great pressure from the flood. It made a teeth-numbing sound. Of course, such a soft sound was already drowned out by the flood.
"Crack! Whoosh … whoosh … whoosh … "
When the water level rose to two-thirds of the height of the city walls, the west gate of Lihu City finally couldn't withstand the pressure and was the first to burst open. The flood surged into Lihu City.
"Wah, the west gate is leaking …"
"Run! Run … "
"…"
The nearby defenders were the first to suffer. Before they could even shout out, they were already swept under the waves and disappeared without a trace!
Even if there were distant soldiers who tried to pass the message inside. Just as he shouted a few words, he was caught up by the flood. After a few waves, he was nowhere to be found. With the sound of the surging water, who would be able to hear the shouts from this side?
There was a huge difference in the water level between the inner and outer parts of the city. Once the western gate was destroyed, it became a critical point for the city to collapse. The water level in Lihu City was also slowly rising.
The soldiers quickly realized this and began to scramble to climb the walls, roofs, trees, and other high places. A small number of soldiers successfully reached high places, but most of them were washed away by the flood before they could escape.
Crack! Roar … roar roar … "
"…"
The surging flood did not decrease in power just because it had found an outlet. Soon enough, the other three gates of Distant Fox City were also blasted open by the immense pressure, and the same scene played out in all four directions of Distant Fox City.
The walls of high-grade cities were sturdy. However, the gates were far too weak. Usually, when attacking a city, a few dozen people would be able to break open the gates with simple battering rams, let alone a flood! No matter how sturdy the battering ram was, it would not be able to stop the flood!
The collapse of the four city gates caused the flood to surge into the city without restraint, and the water level in Lihu City rose rapidly. Although the city walls were able to block some of the flood's power, most of the buildings and soldiers in the city couldn't escape the fate of being submerged.
In the beginning, it was still possible to hide on the roofs and treetops for a while, but after fifteen minutes, it was no longer possible to hide from the flood at such high places. This was because the water level in the city had almost caught up to the water level outside the city. It was almost half the height of the city walls!
As such, the only places to hide from the flood were the inner and outer city walls and a few gatehouses. Of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and able-bodied men in Distant Fox City, only a small portion of them could make it to the city walls in time.
Due to the fact that the ramps to the city wall and the gate tower could not accommodate too many people, the guards began to kill each other in order to climb up the city wall. The number of soldiers who were able to climb up the city wall was much lower than this number!
At this moment, Yang Rui was using a Coordination Talisman and riding on a Wind Carpet with Zhang Ning to patrol the surroundings of Distant Fox City. Naturally, the two of them saw the scenes of the flood breaking into the city and the soldiers slaughtering each other on the ramps to the city walls.
Yang Rui and Zhang Ning had originally planned to deal the final blow, but Yang Rui could not bear to see the situation of the soldiers in Distant Fox City. The scene of Distant Fox City flooding made Yang Rui experience the cruelty of war once more. This kind of cruelty was unavoidable in both the real world and the game!
Although he could not see it with his own eyes because of the tall city walls, Yang Rui could easily determine the rapid rate of deaths of the soldiers in the city from the rapidly increasing Plot Points and Achievement Points in his character interface.
The last time he encountered such a situation was when Yang Rui set fire to the Yellow Turban Rebellion twice. At that time, Yang Rui had relied on the Thunderfire Talisman and Starfire Talisman to successfully set fire to the Yellow Turban Rebellion and achieved amazing results.
This was especially true when Yang Rui used the Thunderfire Talisman to defeat Bo Cai in the Battle of Chang She, burning more than a million Plot Points and Achievement Points in one fell swoop, establishing his leading position in the Yellow Turban Rebellion storyline!
At this time, Yang Rui's Plot Points and Achievement Points in the Dong Zhuo Rebellion storyline were unshakeable. However, the rewards from the flood of Distant Fox City were still not to be underestimated!
From this, one could tell that the power of water and fire in the game could be extremely powerful as long as they were used well. In fact, several classic battles in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms had a lot to do with water and fire.
Guo Jia's plan to flood Distant Fox City was undoubtedly a success. There were two main prerequisites: the first was Distant Fox City's location and terrain, and the second was the identity of an NPC in Distant Fox City.
Distant Fox City's terrain was high in the west and low in the east. Moreover, it was located near a bend in the Yellow River. Due to years of blockage, the Yellow River's course was much higher than Distant Fox City's. This created an opportunity for Yang Rui to tap into the Yellow River's waters.
On the other side of Distant Fox City was a tributary of the Yellow River, the Luo River. This meant that Distant Fox City was sandwiched between the tributaries of the Yellow River. Even if Yang Rui breached the Yellow River's banks, he would only be able to reach a radius of 50 kilometers around Distant Fox City. Any further and he would be blocked by the Luo River, and the river would flow back into the main stream of the Yellow River.
Back then, Guo Jia had acutely noticed this, which was why he had come up with the plan to flood Distant Fox City. However, if not for the fact that there weren't many NPC citizens left in the city, Guo Jia wouldn't have made such a plan, and Yang Rui wouldn't have adopted it, either.
In this regard, he had to thank Liu Dai for clearing out almost all of Distant Fox City's NPC citizens in order to save on food.
Even so, Yang Rui had still spent a lot of time clearing out all of the NPC citizens within 50 kilometers of Distant Fox City to avoid unnecessary sacrifices.
As for why he had set up camp west of Distant Fox City, it was mainly because the west side of the city was much higher than the Yellow River's upper reaches. At the same time, it would make it easier for him to secretly dispatch troops to dig up the Yellow River's banks and retreat.
In truth, during the first two days after Yang Rui had set up camp, he had secretly ordered his soldiers to withdraw from the vicinity of Distant Fox City in batches. He had only left behind a few high-tiered soldiers to prevent enemy spies from leaving the city.
Of course, some of the soldiers he had left behind had to deliberately create a commotion and pretend that the army was still in the original camp. Whether it was a feint, cooking dinner, or setting up a bonfire at night, nothing could be left out.
Even so, if the defenders of Distant Fox City were cautious enough, they could still force their way out of the city and figure out Yang Rui's background. Yang Rui and Guo Jia had calculated that most of the soldiers in the city were low-tiered soldiers. They would stay in a defensive state and would not take the risk of leaving the city to investigate.
Otherwise, they would easily discover that Yang Rui had withdrawn his troops in batches.
A day had passed, and the flood inside and outside Distant Fox City remained at a height of 10 feet. The flood outside the city, however, had stabilized and was no different from an ordinary river.
The defenders could only obediently stay on top of the city walls. Although they were no longer threatened by the flood, another very serious problem had become apparent. They had not eaten a single grain of rice for an entire day.
At this moment, Yang Rui, Zhang Ning, and the Crippled Man appeared near Distant Fox City with all sorts of transport ships in tow. They started to capture the soldiers on the walls.
At this point, the only thing the remaining soldiers of Distant Fox City wanted was to survive. They were overjoyed to see ships coming to their rescue. Why would they put up any resistance?! After half a day of hard work, Yang Rui and the others finally managed to transfer all five thousand of the remaining captives of Distant Fox City.
Most of them were soldiers who had been stationed on the walls since the beginning of the battle. Including the Sixth Grade archers, there were over five hundred of them!
The Battle of Distant Fox City thus came to an end. Just as Guo Jia had said, they had not lost a single soldier while exterminating most of the enemy's defenders.
At the same time, digging up the Yellow River turned Distant Fox City into a wasteland. Moreover, the main flow of the Yellow River had shifted slightly due to the battle.
Two whole days had passed by the time Yang Rui reappeared in the army. At this point, Yang Rui's army had arrived at the southeast side of Guan County under Guo Jia's command. They were coordinating with the armies of Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu 'an, surrounding Guan County in a loose circle. Only the southwest side of the city was not occupied by Yang Rui's forces.
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