As if to prove his words, Lu Meng pretended to be calm and picked up the rice bowl, ate the remaining rice inside, and even ordered the generals to rest as usual, and tomorrow Pan Zhang will lead 5,000 people to garrison Maicheng to continue to search for Guan Yu's whereabouts, and he will personally lead 20,000 horses back to Jiangling to rescue. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But Lu Meng didn't wait for dawn, just when the sky was just dawning, the attendant woke him up and carefully told him the news that his jaw was about to drop: "Du Du, Du Du!" Oh no, Jiangling City has been lost, and General Zhu Ran is already kneeling outside the door waiting for you to fall! ”

"What!" Lu Meng was sleepy, jumped up from the couch at once, put on his coat in three or two, strode open the door, and looked at Zhu Ran, who was kneeling outside with a dead face, and grabbed his collar with both hands and said angrily: "The enemy army is only twice as large as you, and you are not good at attacking the city, you actually lost Jiangling without holding it for a day!" ”

"I, I, it's not that the last general is incompetent, it's really that Zhuge Song is really terrifying, that Mi Fang was originally under his instruction to pretend to surrender our army, and now he is taking advantage of the fact that the governor is far away from the city to let the barbarians enter the city, and when I know it's too late, I lost Jiangling, the governor!" Zhu Ran also shed tears when he talked about his sadness and grievances, and his face was depressed.

And Lu Meng, who took Wu Jiang to Maicheng to catch Guan Yu and left Mi Fang to Zhu Ran, also had nothing to say at this time. Na Mi Fang, who surrendered in Kaecheng without the slightest resistance under the persuasion of Dr. Ren, and repeatedly mentioned to him the grudge between him and Guan Yu, coupled with the fact that Nanjun was at the beginning and could not immediately unload the mill and kill the donkey, Lu Meng rewarded him with two hundred taels of gold, and dismissed the vast majority of the military forces in his hands in a soft way in disguise, so he was no longer worried. How do you know that although most of the soldiers in Zhuge Song's hands were handed over to Guan Yu, he was able to borrow 10,000 people from the Wuxi barbarians, and expected that he would make the Jiangling garrison empty in order to capture Guan Yu, and with the help of the "internal response" that had been buried before, he recaptured Jiangling in one fell swoop!

Lu Meng tried his best to stabilize his emotions, and at this point, he instead helped Zhu Ran and comforted: "You can't be completely blamed for this matter, that Mi Fang doesn't care if the grudge with Guan Yu is true or not, after all, it is still Liu Bei's in-laws, although I have disbanded most of his army and horses when I was in Jiangling, how did I expect that Zhuge Song was so scheming, I knew that Mi Fang's 3,000 people would be difficult to defend Jiangling, so I ordered him to fake surrender, and after my army left, I should open the door for the inside!" With that, he summoned the generals to discuss how to retake Gangneung.

At this time, the 35,000 people of Eastern Wu in Nanjun were first lost by Lu Xun and 5,000 by Zhu Ran in Jiangling.

Now there are only 25,000 Wu troops that can be used in the hands of Lü Meng, and now Jiangling is in the hands of Zhuge Song, except for a few large ships that were left in the public security and guarded by Dr. Ren, most of the small boats were transported into Jiangling because Lü Meng was not very worried about Dr. Ren. Without a ship, the army would not be able to retreat from the river to the land mouth before making plans.

What's more, not long ago, Lu Meng also sent a good news to Sun Quan, attracting Sun Quan to lead an army of 50,000 people, and bring Gan Ning, Zhou Tai and other generals to come and eat Nanjun, so as not to have any dissent after Liu Bei's reinforcements came to seize or Cao Cao captured Xiangyang.

The current Lü Meng has actually fallen into the dilemma that Guan Yu heard that Jiangling had been lost, so he had to abandon the north and try to recapture Jiangling.

It's just that it was Lu Meng himself who was firmly in Jiangling to change, and it was Guan Yu who fell into an embarrassment and later evolved into a desperate situation, but now he is replaced by Zhuge Song who sits firmly in Jiangling City, and the poor man who can't retreat and is difficult to advance has become Lu Meng.

Perhaps, at the beginning, Lu Meng was in the posture of the situation controller and the winner, although he could expect it, but he could not deeply understand Guan Yu's helpless mood at that time, and he still couldn't give up.

But now Lü Meng has deeply realized, especially the generals here all agree that now one person should be left with a small number of troops to defend Maicheng as a barrier and backup in the north, and Lü Meng personally led 20,000 people back to the division to recapture Jiangling, in order to avoid the lack of numerical advantages, and even immediately ordered Lu Xun, who had "occupied" Yidu, to "abandon" Yidu to join under Jiangling City, and only a small number of guard posts should be left in the west to Chuankou to report Liu Beijun's movements in Shu in time.

Of course, these Wu generals still don't know that Lu Xun has already been captured by Zhuge Song, and those 5,000 people will never come to Jiangling City to join them.

Lü Meng's current situation is consistent with the original Guan Yu army's unanimous belief that Jiangling was wanted, and the soldiers were unwilling to abandon their families and retreat to Shuzhong. These Wu soldiers are not small in Jiangling now, but several major generals feel that if they don't recapture Jiangling, as soon as Sun Quan's army arrives, not to mention that Zhuge Song can even hold on to Liu Bei's reinforcements with a strong city, it is to join Sun Quan's army under Jiangling City, seeing that the great achievement has become a great mistake, who can have the face to go to see his lord like this!

So the result of the final discussion was that Lu Meng did not even have an army of 5,000 left in Maicheng, leaving only a small leader with a very low position in the army to take 500 people to camp in Maicheng, playing a role in guarding the north.

Of course, the letter, which was quite earnest and still trying to save face for himself, naturally just arrived at the vicinity of Yidao, and was intercepted by a small number of barbarians left by Shamoke, and even if it was not intercepted, it would still be intercepted by the guard posts scattered by Shana when it arrived in Yidu, and there would be no 5,000 reinforcements from the west.

Speaking of Zhuge Song's side, in the face of Mi Fang, who opened the city gate to guide the barbarians into the city and made great contributions to recapture Jiangling, but was still a little uneasy, Zhuge Song comforted him with kind words and persuaded him not to worry. After Mi Fang said that although most of his 3,000 troops were disbanded by Lü Meng, he still kept in touch with him in the form of regular reports from the small leader, and even promised to compile his previous surrender to the enemy after retreating to the point that the two of them saw that Jiangling had few soldiers and it was difficult to defend, so they realized the plan to surrender Mi Fang to the enemy under pretenses, and then Zhuge Song took advantage of Lü Meng's distance to lead the barbarian soldiers to recapture.

Mi Fang's eyes were full of golden light, and he immediately gathered his subordinates everywhere, fortunately, these people were shocked to hide everywhere at the beginning when Zhuge Song led the army into the city, but it was also because the family furniture was in Jiangling, and they did not escape from the city, and when Mi Fang found them together, with the words discussed with Zhuge Song, the little leaders were excited, and in less than two hours, they gathered people again, and immediately turned back to three thousand regular troops after receiving equipment from the arsenal.

At this time, the army available for Zhuge Song to command in Jiangling City reached 13,000 people, especially the 3,000 Han soldiers who were familiar with the defense of Jiangling City, which made Zhuge Song's next intense city defense preparations more handy.

In addition, in addition to the tense arrangement of the city defense, Zhuge Song did not forget to ask Shamoke to take 5,000 barbarian soldiers and 1,000 Han soldiers and Mi Fang to the public security to find trouble with Dr. Ren first.

Dr. Ren does not have Mi Fang's deep background, after seeing Mi Fang and learning that Jiangling was recaptured by Zhuge Song, he was not as simple as Mi Fang repeatedly, seeing that the incoming army was only twice as much as him, and even wanted to resist stubbornly, hold on for a few days, and wait for Lu Meng to come back.

Helplessly, Dr. Ren's subordinates are also natives of Jingzhou, and many soldiers are also in Jiangling, who was forced by the situation to surrender to Eastern Wu, and now I heard that Jiangling has been recaptured, Mi Fang lied according to Zhuge Song's instructions before leaving, saying that the rescue troops in Shuzhong had arrived, and now there are 30,000 troops in Jiangling, and they all want to return to Liu Bei and do not want to be ruled by Wu generals from Jiangdong.

In this way, the public security city, which was originally built according to the port and only surrounded a city, and its own defense was extremely low, and it immediately became a mess under the first wave of attacks by Mi Fang and Shamoke, even if Dr. Ren repeatedly restrained it to no avail, and in the end, Dr. Ren just grabbed a small boat and fled in the direction of Lukou with a dozen cronies.

Mi Fang didn't bother to lead people to chase after him, but just actively collected the troops under Dr. Ren according to Zhuge Song's request before leaving, did not burn Lu Meng's big ship parked in the public security, and immediately returned to Jiangling.