It's not that Zhou Yu doesn't pay attention to the issue of grain and grass, on the contrary, he takes it very seriously.

Zhou Yu, the grain camp on the north side of Chaohu Lake, sent an army of up to 20,000 people to be stationed here, led by two generals, Ling Cao and Lu Meng, and the garrison was not tight

If an ordinary surprise attack can't help this grain camp at all, even if it is a large-scale attack, the 20,000 people stationed in the grain camp will be enough to drag on for a while, waiting for Zhou Yu to divide his army to come back

It can be said that this grain battalion basically has no possibility of falling, but the troops who came to attack this grain camp before are very likely to fall into the end of total annihilation

But after repeated consideration, Lu Xun finally decided on the idea of fighting this grain camp

It is true that Zhou Yu has done a very good job in arranging the defense of the Chaohu grain camp, but it is precisely because of this that he will ignore the possibility of this grain camp being breached

Lu Xun asked Zhang Liao to leave Hefei with 40,000 men overnight, enter the mountains and forests, and lurk, and wait until the Jiangdong Army left Hefei and continued to go north to attack the city, and then rushed south to Chaohu to attack the enemy's grain camp

Of course, if the Jiangdong army launched a carpet search near Hefei, the whereabouts of these 40,000 people might also be discovered, but Sun Jian was too anxious, he couldn't wait to attack Xuchang City, and didn't want to spend too much time on other things, so he only carried out a rough and random search, and then hurriedly led the army to continue to march north

Because there were 20,000 heavy guards, Zhou Yu was very confident in the defense of the Chaohu grain camp, and subconsciously had the idea that the grain camp was very safe, which led to negligence, Zhou Yu has always been wary of Zhang Liao's 40,000 troops will launch a surprise attack on his own army or other means, but he didn't think that the grain camp might be in danger

Even if there are 20,000 heavy troops to defend it, if you face the full attack of 40,000 troops at once, how can you resist it

What's more, the 20,000 people don't have the support of the city wall or anything like that

Lu Xun's plan was to abandon Hefei as the premise, and then put all the troops he could command into Chaohu to burn the granary of the Jiangdong Army

Of course, Lu Xun was very cautious, and after the army was lurking, he did not rush to attack Chaohu, but waited until the Jiangdong army captured Ruyin before resolutely attacking Chaohu in the south

At this time, the battle line of the Jiangdong Army was still elongated, and even if Zhou Yu got the news that the grain camp was attacked, it would definitely be too late to return to the army to rescue

Although Zhang Liao's army attacked the Chaohu grain camp was not very smooth, it did not suffer much setbacks

After all, the number of his own army was twice that of the opponent, and in the case that Cao Jun did not lose to the Jiangdong Army in terms of individual combat strength or team cooperation, such a huge numerical advantage allowed Cao Jun to have an absolute upper hand in the field battle from beginning to end

In the end, the Chaohu grain camp was broken, and Cao's army broke into the granaries and set fire everywhere, only to see hundreds of thousands of stones, grains and grass, and soon they were burned

The 20,000 Jiangdong troops died in battle and the fugitives added up to about 15,000, and the remaining 5,000 were all captured by the Cao army, and the general Ling Cao was killed in battle, and Lü Meng escaped under the best protection of the remnants, but he was also seriously wounded

Although the casualties on the Cao army's side were not as severe as the Jiangdong army, it was inevitable that the number of Cao army's casualties was about 6,000, and the total number of light and serious wounded was 8,000, and even Li Dian was stabbed in the chaos, fortunately, the injury was not serious, but the casualties were also expected in advance, after all, the Jiangdong army was very aware of the importance of this granary, and would definitely try its best to fight to the death, even if it was at a disadvantage, it would fight back to the death, and the resulting casualties should not be underestimated

After burning down the Chaohu granary, Lu Xun took the prisoners of the Jiangdong Army as the front army, successfully deceived the gate of Hefei City, and recaptured the city that was once lost to the enemy and was slaughtered

Sun Jian was arranged by Sun Jian to be responsible for guarding Hefei, his third Sun Yi, who is only nineteen years old this year, Sun Yi and Sun Ce are also quite fatherly, fierce and fierce, although Sun Jian is not as spoiled as Sun Quan, but the degree of love is not light

Sun Quan was captured by Cao Jun, all he hoped was to save his life, and even did not hesitate to serve Cao Cao, but unfortunately Cao Cao did not give him this opportunity, and did not want to give him this opportunity, so he killed him directly, but Sun Yi is different, Sun Yi's personality is similar to Sun Ce, they all belong to the type that would rather be straight than bend, rather die than yield, he will not allow himself to join the enemy at all, that is the greatest humiliation for him, even more terrible than death, after seeing Hefei change hands again, Sun Yi still led his personal guards to fight to the death, and finally abandoned the guns after the personal guards died one after another, and they were all killed in front of Cao Jun

Seeing Sun Yi so strong, Zhang Liao couldn't help but sigh for it, and let people bury him

In any case, Lu Xun's strategy is a great success, and the Jiangdong army has been burned with food and grass, and the defeat has been decided, and there is no way to return to the sky