Chapter Sixty-Four: Unsuccessful
"General, the enemy is attacking!" A Chu army general defending the city exclaimed at Lu Xun.
"Don't panic, guard the battalion, follow me to meet the enemy!" Lu Xun drew his sword, and without hesitation, he led the soldiers of the pro-guard battalion to kill the enemy soldiers who were pouring onto the city wall like a tide.
Lu Xun's eyes were extremely resolute, as a Confucian general, he should have been in the middle and commanding thousands of troops and horses to fight. It's just that the disparity between the strength of the enemy and us this time is too great, Liu Du's army of 170,000 attacked Jiangling, which had less than 20,000 defenders, and Lu Xun had to personally go into battle to kill the enemy and boost morale.
And his opponents are Jia Xu, who has the name of "poisoner", and Zhao Yun, who is both wise and brave, and Lu Xun has nothing to do. Before Chen Wu's reinforcements arrived, Lu Xun had been holding Jiangling City for fifteen days, and he had done his best.
Zhao Yun took the Qingyu sword and cut down a large number of Chu soldiers in the city like chopping melons and vegetables, and Zhao Yun's bravery inspired the Shu soldiers behind him, and all of them were like chicken blood, and they were not afraid to kill Lu Xun.
"Resist me, I can't let the enemy kill me!"
"Quick, you go and protect General Lu! Leave me alone. Zhuge Jin raised his sword and stabbed to death a Shu soldier who was swinging a knife at him, and turned to the Chu soldier behind him who was fighting bravely with the enemy.
The Chu army behind Zhuge Jin moved in the direction of Lu Xun according to the order, trying to stop Zhao Yun, who was directly taking Lu Xun. There were fewer and fewer soldiers beside Zhuge Jin, Zhuge Jin was not careful, and was kicked down from behind by a Shu soldier, and when he staggered up, several Shu soldiers had already put knives on his neck.
Lu Xun saw Zhao Yun killing him, and he didn't dare to fight him, so he hurriedly retreated. Lu Xun took a bow and arrow and aimed it at Zhao Yun and shot an arrow, Zhao Yun blocked it with a shield, the crossbowman next to Lu Xun shot at Zhao Yun in a burst, Zhao Yun flicked the Qingyu Sword with one hand to cut a few flying arrows, and then turned around and blocked the Chu soldiers surging on the right side with his shield.
Although the death squad sergeants behind Zhao Yun fell on the way to charge one after another, they successfully bought time for Zhao Yun. Zhao Yun spotted the shooting blind spot of a Chu soldier, jumped towards the city wall on the side, and with the help of the backward momentum of the city wall, he jumped up and quickly approached Lu Xun.
"General be careful!" Lu Xun's guard Lu Zhou saw Zhao Yun slashing with a sword in the air, and hurriedly jumped in front of Lu Xun, Zhao Yun's sword turned to Lu Zhou's face, and Lu Zhou was killed on the spot.
"I, Lu Boyan, swear to live and die with Jiangling City today, Zhao Yun, I will fight with you!" Lu Xun shouted, and stabbed Zhao Yun straight with his sword.
It's just that where is he Zhao Yun's opponent, after three moves, Zhao Yun smashed a shield on Lu Xun's head, and Lu Xun was smashed to the ground. Lu Xun was dizzy by this blow, and he gritted his teeth and rushed towards Zhao Yun again.
Zhao Yun thought about capturing Lu Xun alive at this time, and did not make a dead move. Seeing the flaw in Lu Xun's sword move, he dodged the sword sideways, and immediately followed up with a kick to Lu Xun's lower abdomen, and Lu Xun was kicked out again.
Lu Xun got up with a disgraced face, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and kept panting. Seeing that the soldiers beside him were cut down by Zhao Yun one by one, Lu Xun knew that Zhao Yun wanted to capture him alive, and he would not let Zhao Yun get his wish.
Lu Xun took advantage of the fact that Zhao Yun and several Chu soldiers were entangled and fighting, and rushed towards the city wall. Lu Xun jumped towards the city and committed suicide.
Lu Xun opened his arms and let his body fall freely, and the warm clips of being with his wife flashed in his mind, as well as Han Xuan, Han Hao and others, he closed his eyes with a smile, and the last thing in his ears was the sound of his body falling to the ground, and the horn of the cavalry charge from a distance.
"It's still a step too late!" Seeing that the banner of the word "Han" had been planted on the city of Jiangling, Chen Wu indignantly pointed the halberd in his hand to the front, preparing to lead the army straight to Liu Du's army, which had not yet gained a firm foothold.
"Guan Hai, you lead an army to attack the enemy from the right flank and cut off its receiving troops!"
"Zhang Fei, you lead an army to kill the enemy siege soldiers from the left flank, be sure to rush into the city."
"The rest of the generals, follow me to lead the army straight to Liu Du's main formation!"
"Brothers of the Wudang Army, let these Shu dogs taste the power of our spears!" Quan Cong, the new commander of the Wudang Army under Chen Wu, waved the spear in his hand to pick up more than a dozen Shu soldiers, and said to the Wudang Army soldiers who were like wolves and tigers behind him.
After Sun Ce's death, Sun's power plummeted, and Quan Cong ignored his father's obstruction and threw himself into Han Xuanjun's army from Sun Quan.
Quan Cong was fortunate to be assigned to Chen Wu's Wudang Army as a captain, he was brave and strategic, and led his subordinates to make a lot of achievements. And now Chen Wugui is the general of the Chu State, commanding tens of thousands of troops, and he lacks skills, and this Wudang army, as a small number of elite soldiers, naturally needs a new commander.
Quan Cong was promoted by Chen Wu, and jumped directly from a lieutenant to the commander of the army, and Quan Cong urgently needed military exploits to establish his prestige. Quan Cong locked his eyes on a Shu general in a silver armor robe, and he raised his gun to urge the horse to kill the Shu general.
Quan Cong took advantage of the defenselessness of the silver armor Shu general and shot straight to his heart, but saw that the Shu general suddenly turned around and attacked Quan Cong with a shot. Quan Cong was shocked, it turned out that there were other fierce generals in silver armor besides Zhao Yun.
Fortunately, Quan Cong saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly turned the horse's head and fled. The silver-armored general was Zhang Ren, and Zhang Ren did not chase after Quan Cong when he saw him fleeing, but only led troops to block and kill the Chu soldiers who intended to rush into the city gate.
Chen Wu, Zhang Fei, and Guan Hai each led troops to kill the Shu army, and the three of them were like three sharp swords and ruthlessly tore open three openings in the formation of the Shu army. Chen Wu rushed back and forth under the escort of the cavalry, and no one in the Shu army could stop him.
On the other side, although Zhang Fei and Guan Hai fought bravely to kill the enemy, the gap between the two sides was too large, and soon the two felt that the attack was becoming more and more difficult.
On the upper floor of Jiangling City, Liu Du looked at the Chu army attacking like chicken blood under the city, and said to Jia Xu, the military advisor beside him: "Chen Wu is so brave, can Wen He have a good strategy to defend him?" β
Jia Xu looked at the battle situation under the city and said to Liu Du: "Your Majesty, you can order the army to retreat into the city first, and when the ministers make a decision, then offer a strategy to break the enemy." β
Liu Du nodded and ordered the generals to withdraw their troops into the city. Chen Wu was worried that the Shu army would cut off his rear route, so he also ordered all the troops to retreat first to rest. After Chen Wu's army set up camp, Chen Wu ordered all armies to count the men and horses, and there were less than 30,000 horses left, even if more than 10,000 sailors were added, it was too different from Liu Du's 170,000 army.
Chen Wu couldn't help but tighten his brows, Liu Du came with the country's troops this time, in order to settle the battle in a battle. The border of Chu is too long and needs a large number of soldiers and horses to defend, although Han Xuan and Wei temporarily formed an alliance, Han Xuan still has to leave heavy troops to prevent Wei from taking advantage of the fire to rob, so there are not many soldiers and horses left for Chen Wu.
But fortunately, Zhang Liao led reinforcements from Jiaozhou to the north, and Gan Ning and LΓΌ Meng also led their troops on the way to the rendezvous, what Chen Wu needed now was time.
Sergeant Chen Wuming scolded Liu Du under Jiangling City, and Wen Ping, Zhang Yi and other generals heard that the Chu soldiers scolded too badly, and they asked to fight. But he saw Liu Du wave his hand and said: "Chen Wu is in a hurry to fight, just to delay time." After our army is assembled, we will go down the river in one go, and calm Jiangnan in one battle! β
The generals obeyed the order and left, and the city hung a free battle card, Chen Wu had to say to Mi Fang and Guan Hai when he saw this: "Today, the enemy is outnumbered, and our army does not have much food and grass, you can lead the army to retreat to Jingling City first, and Zhang Yide and I will come later." I will plan with Lu Meng and Gan Ning later. β
After Chen Wu withdrew his troops, Liu Du's army took the opportunity to rest, and at this time, a military report came from the south: Huang Quan was defeated by the Chu general Zhang Liao in Taoyang, and Huang Quan was leading his army to retreat to Lingling City.
Liu Du sighed after hearing this, and then ordered: "Pass on my general's order, order Huang Quan to be Ma Chao's deputy general, and be sure to assist Ma Chao to block Zhang Liao in Lingling!" β
Liu Du was worried, Yizhou came to ask to see, Liu Du taught people to invite people in, and the person who came was Deng Zhi, who joined the army. Liu Du was overjoyed when he saw Deng Zhi and said: "Deng Bomiao is here today, and Chen Wu can break it!" β