The gains and losses of one city and one place really don't matter.

At present, the hope of the Guan family is all in Ma Liang. If the Wuxi barbarians can move, recapture Nanjun, and drive Sun Quan and Zhou Yu away, it will be no problem.

On the contrary, Nanjun can only be handed over.

Yan Yan joined this war, and the Guan family began to have an overall disadvantage.

At this time, the people of Jiangdong are proud.

"What about Dangyang?" Ying Sima understood the importance of the matter, but still frowned and asked.

"Let Dangyang County order organize the people to defend the city first, and if you can keep it, you can defend it, and if you can't keep it, forget it. I wrote to the lord and asked him to personally send troops south. If Dangyang can hold it, he will hold it, and if he can't hold it, he will be cursed by the troops, and he will confront Zhou Yu in a county of Maicheng. All in all, first maintain the current situation and contain Sun Quan's forces in Nanjun and Jiangxia. Only in this way can Ma Liang succeed, otherwise, the area around Nanjun will no longer be owned by the Guan family. If you are in a hurry, you will set off today, day and night. ”

Li Zheng is out of the way, it doesn't matter if he doesn't want to be Yang, as long as he becomes Yang. He asked the battalion Sima to go down to continue to organize the men and horses, and he took advantage of the time to share the roasted whole sheep with his own soldiers, and then put on his armor and got on the horse, leaving a large amount of baggage grain, so that the Dangyang County Order could receive it, and only took away a cart pulled by mules and horses with a small number of tents, brought enough dry food to eat for ten days, and went to Chengyang day and night.

Facts have proved that among the young generals of Guan Ping's generation, Li Zheng is extremely good and smart, and his move is extremely decisive and a wonderful move.

For the Guan family to seize Nanjun, there is hope.

And Sun Quan was indeed as Li Zheng expected, after seizing the city of Nanjun, he divided a small number of troops and horses to seize the Jiangxia city on the north bank. Then he ordered the general Han Dang to lead the troops, Ling Tong, Jiang Qin and others to surround the generals, and led about 30,000 elite soldiers to attack Chengyang.

Cheng Yang is in danger like tired eggs.

Chengyang is a place where the strategic location is not important, there is no danger to defend, it is just a lonely city on the plain, and the reason why Zhuge Liang is here is because this is a city under the rule of Jiangxia County.

Therefore, it was used as a place to store grain, so as to supply the military rations of Wang Wei, Huang Zhong and others in the south, and there were some people, a large amount of grain, and military supplies.

4,000 elite soldiers.

After Zhuge Liang received the message, he had two choices. One is to retreat, the other is to defend.

It is simple to retreat, Zhuge Liang can burn the grain baggage in the city, cross the river to the east, and go back to Anlu to station, where Jiang Wan, Lei Xu, Chen Lan and others will respond.

It's a bit more complicated to keep. Relying on Zhuge Liang's 4,000 elite soldiers, plus Zhao Yun's more than 1,000 cavalry, there were only 5,000 people, and it was really difficult to hold Chengyang City.

Moreover, Zhao Yun's cavalry is the family business that the Guan family has accumulated with great difficulty, and it is too stupid to use it to garrison the city. Outside aid is needed.

Anlu is too far away, and it is separated by the Han River, so it is necessary to cross the river, and the distant water cannot save the near fire. The current reinforcements are only Wang Wei's naval army, as well as Dangyang's Li Zheng's army.

Wang Wei can divide Ding Feng's department, the navy disembarks, and the light army comes.

Li Zheng doesn't need to mention it.

But the two of them have their own advantages and disadvantages, Ding Feng doesn't need to guard somewhere, he just came, but the road is a bit far.

And Li Zheng is very close, but Li Zheng needs to guard Dangyang.

Zhuge Liang thought about it and chose to ask Li Zheng to come to the rescue. However, Li Zheng is a general, not under Jiangxia, Zhuge Liang can't dispatch Li Zheng, he needs to find someone with weight to ask for rescue.

After Zhuge Liang made a plan, he summoned Ge Yun, the chief bookkeeper of Jiangxia, in the study room in the mansion, put the written letter into a bamboo tube, and carefully handed it to Ge Yundao: "The matter is urgent, the master of Ge must say that General Li will be used to save Jiangxia." ”

"No." Ge Yun also understood the urgency, and immediately left the mansion, turned on his horse, took a team of people, and headed for Dangyang.

"It should be in time." Zhuge Liang thought about it, picked up the goose feather fan, and went out of the mansion in person, and then ordered the soldiers to carry the materials to the city wall, and inspected the city wall himself to boost morale.

Guard, must guard.

Only by holding Chengyang can there be hope of driving away the Jiangdong people.

If you can't hold Nanjun, more than a dozen cities in the Jiangxia area and the vast Jianghan Plain will be over. As long as the people of Jiangdong are given time to operate, their strength will increase greatly, and it will be basically difficult to regain it.

When Zhuge Liang organized people and planned to hold the city. Zhao Yun also led his troops back, and Zhuge Liang heard the news and personally went out of the city to greet Zhao Yun.

"Zhuge Jiangxia, Zhao Yun came to help defend the city."

In the afternoon, Zhao Yun led more than 1,000 horses to come back, he turned over and dismounted, and said to Zhuge Liang. Zhao Yunnai is a general who leads the army, and Zhuge Liang is actually not under the same command.

But Zhao Yun has always been gentle and polite to Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang helped Zhao Yun up, shook his head and said: "General Zilong is a general, if the general has to guard the city, it will naturally be foolproof." But I don't need the general to garrison Chengyang, I only ask the general to lead his troops back to the north. ”

Zhao Yun frowned when he heard this: "Zhuge Jiangxia, is this planning to give up Cheng Yang?" You must know that Chengyang has a lot of materials, and it would be a pity to give up. ”

Zhuge Liang shook his head and said, "General Zilong misunderstood, I will guard Cheng Yang." And it's a pity that your cavalry garrisons the city, general. Second, there are more than 3,000 horses, but the city can't accommodate them. ”

Zhao Yun frowned even more, and said: "Zhuge Jiangxia is a civil official, and there are no generals in the city. If the Jiangdong people and horses come to attack, at least 40,000 or 50,000 people, how can they defend it? ”

Zhuge Liang smiled and said with relief: "The general can rest assured that he will go north, I have already invited General Li Zheng to come to the rescue, and when the time comes, it will not be a problem to join forces and garrison Chengyang." ”

Zhao Yun's brows were lifted, he had been with Li Zheng for a while, and he admired each other very much. Furthermore, the cavalry defending the city was indeed wasteful. "Well, then I'll go back to the north. Zhuge Jiangxia take care. Zhao Yun clenched his fist towards Zhuge Liang, did not enter the city, hugged his fist, turned over his horse, and galloped towards the north.

Zhuge Liang sent Zhao Yun away with a smile, went back to the city to close the city gate and continue to defend the town, and the situation became more and more urgent, Sun Quan's people broke through many cities, and the county commanders of many cities led their cronies and a small number of scholars and people to defect to Zhuge Liang.

But it also provided more or less manpower, Zhuge Liang took the opportunity to recruit soldiers from the city, and planned to take it at a critical moment.

And as time passed, the 30,000 elite soldiers led by Han Dang had completed the action of attacking the county seat, and led the troops to attack Chengyang.

If Li Zheng can't enter the city, Zhuge Liang will never be able to hold it.

In such a situation, Zhuge Liang was still calm and calm, and he organized the manpower to guard the city. The general is brave, and the three armies are vibrating.

Zhuge Liang is an extraordinary person, and such a move has made the hearts of the people in the city stable.

And that night, Ge Yun galloped into the city. At this moment, it was extremely late, Zhuge Liang had already fallen asleep, and when he heard the news, he was immediately startled and frowned.

Not long after, Ge Yun entered the mansion, and Zhuge Liang met Ge Yun in the study.

"Calculating the time, Master Ge won't come back so soon, but why did he come back?" After Zhuge Liang saw Ge Yun, he asked Ge Yun to sit down, and then frowned and asked.

This is what Zhuge Liang is worried about, he is afraid that Li Zhengna will have a problem.

Ge Yun laughed loudly, and said happily: "General Li is a resolute person." Before I arrived in Dangyang, I met General Li. It turned out that after General Li got the news, he prepared enough dry food and came to Chengyang day and night. After about an hour, you will be able to enter the city. General Li sent me back first to tell the Ming Mansion the news. ”

"Be brave and dare to act, General Li is really talented." Zhuge Liang was first shocked when he heard this, and then he was also delighted.

Immediately, Zhuge Liang ordered Ge Yun to say: "Order the soldiers to make rice and entertain the soldiers under General Li." Set up a banquet in the mansion, and I will entertain General Li. ”

"No." Ge Yun immediately agreed and went down.

An hour later, under the starry night, before the Jiangdong people surrounded him, he finally arrived at Chengyang and led his troops into the city. Zhuge Liang personally went to the city gate to welcome Li Zheng into the city, and placed Li Zheng's men and horses, and invited Li Zheng into the mansion to eat and drink.

Everyone chatted and greeted each other. Then Li Zheng and his soldiers recuperated in the city. Two days later, Han Dangcai led 30,000 elite soldiers to Dayang.

After two days of rest, the soldiers under Li Zheng's command regained their energy. And Li Zheng is a general, so Zhuge Liang handed over the matter of defending the city to Li Zheng to be responsible.

When Li Zheng heard that Han Dang led his troops to Chengyang, he climbed to the west gate with Zhuge Liang, Ge Yun and others to watch the situation.

"Off"

"Zhuge "

"Lee"

At this moment, there are three flags hanging in front of the city gate tower, flying in the wind. The defenders of the city are ready with archers, pikemen, wrestlers, shield bearers and other troops.

There are nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses in the city, plus Zhuge Liang recruited new soldiers in the city as reserves, and there is a lot of food in the city, which can be fed by the army and civilians for more than a year, and the morale is extremely high.

It's morning, the sun is shining high, and the visibility is excellent.

Li Zheng, Zhuge Liang and others looked at each other, and saw that the Jiangdong soldiers were divided into troops and set up camp, and thousands of elite soldiers were divided, and the banner was "Han".

These thousands of elite soldiers pushed the ladder cart, entered the cart, and lined up neatly.

Li Zheng said to Zhuge Liang with a smile: "Han Dang didn't know that I had arrived with my troops, he thought that there were only 4,000 elite soldiers in the city, and he planned to fight down. ”

"Please Zhuge Jiangxia go to the city to sit in the town, and leave it to me here." Immediately, Li Zheng bent down and clenched his fists at Zhuge Liang, so politely asked Zhuge Liang to leave.

"There's General Lau Lee." Zhuge Liang also knew that he was a literati, and standing here was not only useless, but also dangerous, so he returned the salute to Li Zheng and led Ge Yun and other civil officials to return together.

"Cheer up, heat up the oil pan, and prepare to defend the city." After inviting Zhuge Liang to leave, Li Zheng pressed his sword and shouted, his face was very stern.

"No."

The soldiers cheered up, lit the fire, and heated the frying pan.

"Knock Knock Knock !!!"

Soon after, a roaring drum sounded in the Handang military camp, and a large number of Jiangdong soldiers, in the sound of drums, marched proudly into Chengyang City.

In addition to ladder carts and well carts, there are also some siege vehicles, which are boxy and can be used as shield soldiers to help archers get closer to the city wall and shoot arrows.

Soon after, the two sides came into contact.

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