Chapter 470: Confrontation between the North and the South, the World is Divided
The Wei army dispatched the Fourth Route Army to take advantage of the Han army's eastward expedition to Jiangdong to drag the main force, and take this opportunity to sweep the counties of Wu.
In the meantime, Zhang Liaobu led a crowd of 3,000 armor soldiers and 800 knights to cross the river by boat from Jiangdu and directly take Wudu Jianye.
In terms of Hefei New Town, more than 5,000 soldiers and civilians from Runan were sent from Xiaoyaojin to enter Wuhu, Chungu and other cities.
On the other hand, the great Sima Cao Xiu led more than 10,000 elites from Huainan to the south of Chaohu Lake and the Wenpin Institute who led troops to cross the Yangtze River from Jiangxia to join Peng Zehu to sweep Yuzhang, Luling and other counties west of Jiangdong.
However, the Wei army never expected that after the sudden change in Wudi, Sun Quan would send an envoy to invite the Jingzhou army and give up the important town of Xiakou, and lead the crowd to reinforce Jiangdong.
What is even more unpredictable is that Guan Ping did not choose to take advantage of the victory to pursue and annihilate the main force of the Wu army in one fell swoop, but went straight north to capture it while the land in the north of Jiangxia was empty, and sent the Xiliang knights to continue to raid and harass the hinterland of Huainan and disturb the rear of the Wei army.
Wet beard mouth.
This is a ferry port located in Jiangbei, followed by Chaohu Lake, which is an important ferry port to defend Jiangbei, and it is also a place where the Wu army and the Wei army have fought back and forth with each other for a long time.
At this moment, due to the westward advance of the Wu people, it was easily occupied by the Wei army, so the great Sima Cao Xiu stationed troops here as an outpost to cross the river.
"Sun Quan invited Guan Ping with the important town of Xiakou in exchange for the Jingzhou army not taking advantage of the victory to pursue when it retreated?"
"Guan Ping took the opportunity to turn the spearhead and invade Jiangxia, seized Jiangxia County, and sent knights north to attack Huainan?"
At this moment, Cao Xiu was living in the camp, sitting precariously reading a military report from the sentry horseman, and couldn't help but show a strange look, and a rather unexpected look emerged.
They miscalculated!
Guan Ping actually led the people north to conquer Jiangxia and Huainan when Sun Quan asked for peace and received his own southward crossing of the Yangtze River.
As a result, they are now in a predicament.
The Wei army scout returned: "Qi Qi Da Sima." According to the villains, the main force of Sun Wu has retreated to Jing County in Danyang County. ”
When the military heard about it, Cao Xiu immediately fell into a contemplative decision, should this battle of crossing the Yangtze River in the south continue?
Because as the war situation develops, this is no longer in line with the original intention of their pre-war plan.
Originally, the Wei army decided to take advantage of the confrontation between Han and Wu to avoid the main force of the Wu army, and the soldiers captured the Jiangdong counties without blood, but now with Sun Quan leading the main force to personally return to help, if the war continues, it will let the Jingzhou army grasp the initiative, and even if it captures the land of Wu, it will be worth the loss!
But it is indeed a pity that he gave up this result.
After groaning for a long time, Cao Xiu's face suddenly became solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "All units of the whole army crossed the river with all their might, relying on the Spring Valley to prevent the Wu army from advancing east to aid Jianye. ”
Although due to Sun Quan's reinforcement, the fighter has been lost, but at present, Zhang Liao's troops are advancing from Jiangdu, and now they are approaching the hinterland of Danyang, Cao Xiu's thinking is also extremely clear, and he can no longer attack the city, why not create a Wu County and Danyang for Zhang Liao to sweep east of Jiangdong?
Under the castle of Spring Valley.
With the garrison of the Wei army, Sun Quan, the lord of Wu, led the crowd to rush here, and then waved his army to attack, intending to break the defense.
It's just that the Wei army's defense was as solid as a rock, and although the Wu people kept attacking day and night, they failed to break through the city defense except for throwing a corpse and white bones under the halberd city.
On this day, Lu Xun asked to see: "King Wu." The Wei people held on to the Spring Valley, thinking that they were delaying time to create an opportunity for Zhang Liaobu to attack Jianye from the Jiangdu, and our army was difficult to overcome for a while, for the sake of the overall situation, Xun suggested that King Wu personally lead the sailors across the Yangtze River to defeat the Wei army to intercept and return to Jianye to preside over the overall situation. ”
"As for the battle situation here, it will be led by the Xun Commander to contend with the Wei people."
The siege of the city for several days was unsuccessful, and Lu Xun persuaded him.
That's it.
Sun Quan thought about it solemnly, and couldn't help but respond, so far there is indeed no very good plan, Lu Xun's strategy may be a strategy to bring the dead back to life, but you can give it a try.
In the early morning of the next day, Sun Quan, the lord of Wu, led the water division to intercept the Wei army from the Yangtze River on the flank of the Spring Valley...... The opponent of the Wu people, although Cao Xiu wanted to reinforce but was delayed by Lu Xun, in a short time, the Wu people's sailors broke through the interception and went straight down the river!
The tide of battle has changed again.
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The other side.
With the threat of Zhang Liaobu's surprise attack on Jianye, the pressure on Jianye suddenly doubled, which gave the Jingzhou army an opportunity.
The main general Fei Shi seized the opportunity to build siege equipment to storm Shanyin, and Gong Yuan also organized the Shanyue tribes and pressed to the territory of Wu County with a huge force.
Jiangdong is now suffering from the enemy, Sun Huan's defense of Jianye is too late, so what is the spare energy to care about Wu County?
In a short period of time, Shanyin was not broken due to the help of all the heroes, but Wu County has gradually changed hands.
The Jingzhou army has slowly gained a foothold in the land of Jiangdong.
Under the great changes, Sun Huan had to gradually abandon the shrinking defense line, and most of the military forces were stationed in Stone Town and Zhongshan on the flank, in order to guard against the attacking Zhang Liao's troops.
Jiangcheng is an important ferry port on the south bank of the Yangtze River, across the river from the Jiangdu in the north of the Yangtze River, due to its unique geographical advantages, it is also one of the transit stations for merchants from the north and south on weekdays, and it is precisely because of this that the economy of this place is extremely prosperous.
The local people fish along the river, and then cooperate with the merchants who go south to the north to sell the big fish to the north, so driven by economic interests, it also leads to the fact that most of the people have a good family and live well.
However, at this time, it was a bit of a depression, and after Zhang Liao led his troops to cross the river, he occupied this place as a military stronghold, expelled the rest of the idle people, etc., and did not allow merchants to approach.
"General Qiyu. The villains have already found out that behind the rebellion of the Shanyue tribes is planned by the Jingzhou army, and now they have taken advantage of the fact that the Wu people have no time to take care of it, and Sun Huan, the general of the Sun clan, is also shrinking the defense line, and is fully committed to the barrier of Jianye, Stone City and Zhongshan, in order to resist the invasion of our army. ”
Zhang Liaonan crossed over to the river for a few days, and then sent a large team of scouts to inquire about the news, and in recent days, spies have come to report one after another.
After gradually understanding the current situation, Zhang Liao pondered for a while, suddenly made a solemn decision, and ordered: "The whole army listens to the general's order, opens the way with knights, gallops to Jingkou, and occupies here." ”
"Whoa."
The order was delivered, and the generals did not hesitate, and immediately went to each other to give the order.
In a moment, all the divisions went straight to Jingkou.
They have followed Zhang Liao to fight for many years, and they have made numerous victories, large and small, so they have no doubts about Zhang Liao's order.
This is the prestige of the generals in the army, which makes everyone obey unconditionally.
As for the capture of Jingkou, Zhang Liao naturally also has considerations.
First of all, of course, because the Wu people stuck to the hinterland of Danyang, it would be difficult to conquer in a short period of time with their own military strength.
Jingkou is also located on the flank of Jianye, close to the city on the bank of the Yangtze River, occupying Jingkou can connect the north and south banks, even if the Wei army can not capture the Jiangdong counties this time, but it is equivalent to planting a nail in Wudi, and the future can also rely on this to fight for the Jiangdong counties.
This is Zhang Liao's plan to take a step back, if he can seize the counties, it is naturally the best, and if he can't seize it, he will have a further place to maneuver.
The Wei army galloped down for days, and naturally took advantage of the fact that the Wu people did not react, and easily conquered the empty Jingkou City.
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On the other hand, just when Sun Quan led the naval division to break through the defense of most of Cao Xiu and rushed to Jianye, the main force of the Jingzhou Army, which had already occupied Anhui Pass at Pengzehu, was also gradually advancing the front under the leadership of Guan Ping.
Like a dragon and a tiger, the morale of the Jingzhou army, which has broken through successive victories, has undoubtedly reached its peak at this moment.
In addition, due to the Huang Quan Department of the garrison in Changsha, he vigorously recruited young and strong people to enlist in the army, and immediately organized more than 10,000 people to march east along the Xiangshui River to Yuzhang, Luling and other counties to join the main force of the Guanping Division.
In a row, Yuzhang, Luling and other counties changed hands in an instant.
The Jingzhou army has already occupied most of the territory of Jiangdong counties, and the confrontation between the north and the south is inevitable!
For Sun Quan at this time, the situation was tantamount to worsening, with the encroachment of Wei and Han one after another, the territorial control over the Jiangdong counties was becoming less and less.
Since Sun Quan entered Jianye, the territory he could control was limited to the half of Danyang, which was dominated by Jianye, Jing County, and Dantu, as well as Shanyin and remote coastal counties where membership was the mainstay.
Most of the remaining counties have been pocketed by the Jingzhou army.
Nowadays, the Sun regime has existed in name only, even though Sun Quan still has tens of thousands of main forces, but it is only a remnant, not enough to mention!
The pattern of the world has changed greatly, and it has officially entered the trend of dividing the world into Wei and Han.