Of course, Sima Liang is going to mix. Don't look at the previous war between the Jin State and the Eastern Wu Kingdom for Xiling, this prince behaved very generously and decentralized. But on the one hand, it was Wang Hun who asked for instructions and reported everything, and King Runan felt very comfortable. On the other hand, the king of Runan did not receive good results when he released power: Xiling lost his troops and generals, and the three counties of Shangyong rebelled. So since that battle, Sima Liang has begun to pay attention to grasping power.

Chen Qian, as the general of the Jin Empire, was much higher in military rank than Sima Liang's Zhennan general. But the surname is Sima!

It can be said that Chen Qian crossed Sima Liang and gave orders directly to Wang Hun and Yanghu when he was building Yangyang, which made Sima Liang very unhappy. Therefore, at this time, the prince directly gave Chen Qian an order in the form of a prince's order, just to give Chen Qian a dismissal.

"Hey, what the king of Runan means is to let Hu Xuanwu of Xiangyang go east out of the Han River, and concentrate my Jingzhou naval army to block the Han River lanes so that it cannot return to the west. As for us, we are still united, and we will immediately march east and hunt them down! ”

"This ....... general, the last general always feels that something is wrong here."

"Hehe, uncle, what do you think?"

As the general said, the naval army of Soochow was strong, and if it entered the Han River, Lu Youjie would be able to come and go freely on the Han River. We're in a dilemma. ”

"Well, I didn't think of that. But...... Let's follow the prince's strategy first. Together, we also wrote to the prince to explain our opinions. ”

"Hey, yes."

……

And the day before.

After taking Caiyang City, the entire logistics and grain of the Eastern Wu army was once again full, and the morale was extremely high at this time.

"Order, the whole army withdraws from Caiyang and marches in the southwest!"

"Huh~~~!"

……

As a big country with the ambition of unifying the world, whether it is Wei or Jin, there are naval armies in Jingzhou. However, it is a pity that because it has always been impossible to win the battle against the Wu navy on the Yangtze River, the Jingzhou naval army of the Wei and Jin dynasties basically took the Han River basin as the main activity and training area, and its scale was not very large, with more than 5,000 people in the whole army. However, if there is no intervention of the Eastern Wu naval army, the Han River is blocked, and the road to the west of the Lu Resistance is blocked, then there is no problem.

Yes, without the intervention of the Soochow naval army.

On April 27, Lu Kang led his army to withdraw from Caiyang City. The Wu army did not advance to Jiangxia County in the southeast, as Sima Liang had predicted, but surged again towards the Han River in the southwest.

On the 28th, Chen Qian led Wang Hun, Yanghu and others and 47,000 main forces to rush from west to east to the Han River in accordance with Sima Liang's orders. They wanted to find the army of Lu Kang on the east bank of the Han River for a battle.

On the 29th, Hu Lie received an order to immediately set out from Xiangyang City, came to Deng County, and began to gather his own naval army to prepare to go south to blockade the Han River.

However, on the 30th of this month, Lu Kang led the main force of 40,000 Wu troops to march at a very high speed, and came to the Han River again before Hu Lie's army could gather. Then he quickly crossed the Han River from east to west, and took the county of Qi on the side of the Han River in one fell swoop.

At this time, Chen Qian's troops had just crossed the Han River from west to east more than 70 miles away from Lu Kang......

The terrain of the Jingzhou battlefield is actually a bit similar to the terrain in Yibei Pass. In terms of geographical barriers, it is also horizontal and vertical. The difference is that there are Qinling Mountains and Longshan Mountains on the Guanzhong side. On this side of Jingzhou are the Yangtze River and the Han River - the horizontal is the Yangtze River, and the vertical is the Han River.

Jingzhou, which was subordinate to the Jin State, had three most important cities. Counting from north to south, they are Wancheng (close to Luoyang, which is a satellite city of Luoyang and the rear of the Jingzhou Corps), Xinye (the administrative center of Jingzhou in the Wei and Jin dynasties), and Xiangyang (the first line of military towns to resist Eastern Wu).

All three cities are on the west bank of the Han River.

Therefore, the Jingzhou Corps of the Jin State was basically stationed on the west bank of the Han River.

And now, they have been successfully mobilized to the east bank of the Han River by Lu Kang......

"The Governor is really clever! Now, the main force of the Jin thieves has been thrown by us on the east bank of the Han River. In this way, the west bank of the Han River is empty! ”

"The Governor is really a celestial man! Now, Xiangyang is an empty city! Our wish for many years is finally coming true! ”

"We would like to congratulate the Governor! The art of war of the Governor, we admire it! ”

"Yes, when the original purpose of imprisoning Chen Xiuyuan was not achieved, the governor will make a plan, and in turn take advantage of the unfavorable situation of our army to mobilize the enemy army. I'm really convinced! ”

"Hehehe, everyone. What if I said I didn't want to lock up Chen Xiuyuan in the first place? ”

"Huh?!"

"Over there, since the incident of His Majesty's confidant Wang Shunmin. Its efficiency has improved a lot. In fact, the speed of Chen Xiuyuan's retreat from Shangyong would have always been known. Ben will deliberately arrive at Zhuyang a little bit more finished than him. ”

"The Governor meant to deliberately put the main force of our army in a situation that looked dangerous, and then let the enemy general think that there was a chance to annihilate our army. And in order to achieve this goal, the enemy general will unconsciously obey the dispatch of our army? ”

"However, why should I enter Zhuyang? Yes, advanced Zhuyang can lock up Chen Xiuyuan, but at the same time, we ourselves are condemned to death there. Moreover, our grain channel will be stretched extremely long, and if we are not careful, we will starve to death before Chen Xiuyuan...... Ladies and gentlemen, my Great Wu has been entangled with Wei and Jin in Jingzhou for decades. Wei and Jin want our country's Xiling, and we want their Xiangyang. Both of these cities are west of the Han River. Therefore, the war between the two sides has also been unfolding west of the Han River in recent years. Benjiang has actually been thinking for more than ten years, why can't he make some articles in the east of the Han River? ”

"I see, Governor Dacai, I'll wait to obey!"

"Yes, it's ridiculous that Chen Xiuyuan, who is also called a generation of famous generals in vain, turned out to be a straw bag!"

"Hahaha~~~ Now that old man can't cry on the east bank of the Han River!"

"Huh." After waving his hand lightly to stop the ridicule of Chen Qian by the generals under his command, Lu resisted and said: "Chen Xiuyuan is by no means a mediocre general, but it's a pity that he doesn't count Jingzhou now." ”

"The governor is saying that the straw bag prince of the Jin thief is blindly commanding?"

"However, if it weren't for Sima Liang presiding over military affairs here, my strategy, even if Chen Xiuyuan couldn't understand it for the time being, would not have fallen into such a deep trap."

It can be said that in this ingenious operation, Lu Kang calculated all aspects. Including the fact that the field combat ability of its own soldiers was not as good as that of the Jin army, and the unfavorable factors such as the defeat of Eastern Wu in the field with the same strength were also taken advantage of. Finally, he succeeded in inducing the commander of the Jin army to make a fatal mistake: when the naval army was inferior to the other side, he actually transferred the main force to the east bank of the Han River, where the main cities were not there.

"Now issue the order!"

"I'll wait for the Governor's order!"

"Some time ago, the general had already sent the school south and ordered all the sailors assembled in Xiakou to enter the Han River. I think it's almost time to come to Ye County. Their mission was to defeat the Jingzhou naval forces of the Jin State and then blockade the Han River. Delay as much as possible the time for Chen Xiuyuan's main force to return to the west bank of the Han River. ”

Yes, it can only be sluggish and not completely stopped, because the further the Han River goes, the smaller the amount of water and the narrower the river becomes. After all, there will be places where the large ships of Soochow can't get in (it's easy to run aground if you get in). As long as Chen Qian is willing to take a detour, he can still come back after all.

"Calculating the time, we probably won more than ten days for this transfer. Now we are only more than fifty miles away from Xiangyang in the Jin Kingdom. So next, Shi Ze and Ji Yang, you lead the army to rush forward with me and quickly take Xiangyang. Zi Zhan, Ben will give you 5,000 people, and you go south to take Yicheng County first. Completely open up the grain routes of our army on land. Although Ben will have full confidence in the complete defeat of our naval army and the control of the Han River waterway. However, the land grain route can be opened, which is also an additional guarantee. ”

"Well, please rest assured, the last general will definitely take Yicheng quickly."

"Good, next, the whole army will march north, target: Xiangyang!"

"Huh~~~~!"

In the cheers of tens of thousands of people, the Buddha wanted to confirm the wisdom of the new generation of commanders of Eastern Wu, when the cheers did not stop. The people in the head of Ye County, in the lower reaches of the Han River, saw countless towering masts.

The Soochow Navy arrived as promised.

……

On May 3, 268, Lu Kang led his army to attack Xiangyang. Xiangyang, which was almost an empty city, fell in half a day. This military town of Dongwu Nianzi for more than 40 years has erected the banner of Sun Wu for the first time.

Before that, May 2. Sun Yi, Liuxi, Zhu Wan and others led the Jingzhou Navy of Eastern Wu to fight with the Jingzhou Navy of the Jin State commanded by Hu Lie, and Hu Lie's entire army was annihilated, only to be spared. Control of the Han River was now entirely under the state of Wu.

At this time, Chen Qian's army had just entered Caiyang City out of breath......

As a veteran who worked in the eastern, central, and western lines in the Cao Wei era, and all of them did well. Chen Qian's record is generally good, but it is definitely not amazing. In short, he was a steady commander, though not quick or quick. But he rarely makes mistakes, and it is difficult for opponents to catch his flaws.

Therefore, although forced by Sima Liang's order, Chen Qian had to lead his army eastward. But along the way, he and Wang Hun, Yanghu and others had a very tacit understanding and pressed the speed of the troops extremely slowly.

But limited to the bad communication methods of this era, here he and Sima Liang used letters back and forth before they entered the second round, and Lu Kang took Xiangyang down there.

"Hey! I think I, Chen Qian, have been fighting for most of my life, and when I am dying, I actually planted such a big fight. This Lu Young's Festival is really terrifying! ”

At this time, it is meaningless to talk about the indiscriminate command of the king of Runan, the responsibility is not the old man, and so on. Chen Qian wasn't bored to that extent. After confirming Lu Kang's march route and the result of the fall of Xiangyang, he just looked up to the sky and sighed, and then quickly recovered his mood.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the case now. Although Xiangyang is lost. But the benefit of this is that this Lu Youjie was also nailed by Xiangyang. We don't have to run around searching for him anymore. ”

"Hehe......" squeezed out a smile that was more ugly than crying, of course, he only received the news not long ago, and Wang Hun, who knew that his younger brother had died in Longxi: "General, what should we do now?" Immediately cross the Han River and return to the west? ”

"Hmph, the Dongwu Navy has already gone north, and at this time, our army cannot cross the river at all in the open water surface of the Han River. Now we only have one way, go north, to Huyang County. From there, we crossed the water and returned to Shinno. ”

"What does the general mean that Xiangyang doesn't care about for the time being?"

"No matter what, I can't do it. But we're not too worried. Xiangyang is too far from the Yangtze River. My Great Jin is now involved in a lot of military power in Yongliang and Yangzhou, so I don't have enough strength to put pressure on Lu Youjie for a while. Let's just let him be there for a while. As long as we can win in Yongliang and Yangzhou. The Chinese army in Luoyang can turn to the side of Jingzhou. At that time, Lu Youjie will automatically retreat. ”

"I see, Shogun Takami. But on the side of King Runan? ”

"Hmph, Ben Jiang was originally entrusted by His Majesty to come to exterminate the thieves of the mediocre. The battle situation in Jingzhou had nothing to do with Ben General. The general came to support out of public intentions, but he didn't expect to achieve the reputation of Lu Youjie's erection...... After returning to Xinye, Ben General led the army into Zhuyang to prevent Zhang Hu and others from wandering into Nanyang County. ”

That's it, it's almost like scolding my mother publicly. But Chen Qian didn't know at this time that in more than a month, Sima Yan would give him the responsibility of controlling the Jingzhou battle situation under Yang Yan's persuasion - if the number of troops did not increase, he would want him to drive Lu Kang away. At that time, he had a headache.