Chapter 961: Don't retreat, but advance
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When Lu Meng was carried to the outside of Chaisangkou City, the banner of Zhuge had been erected on the head of Chaisang City, Zhuge Liang was sitting at the head of the city with a lupine scarf, and said to Lu Meng who was lying in his cloth pocket with a smile: "Mr. Lu, your Chaisang is already my big man, you surrender quickly, I will protect you from wealth and glory." โ
Lu Meng looked at Zhuge Liang, who had a calm and breezy face, but couldn't hide his smugness, and his heart was hot, and a mouthful of black blood gushed out.
"Zhuge Villager, if I am asked to surrender, you don't think, my Chaisang is gone, but my sailor is still there, let's continue to fight." Then he didn't care about Zhuge Liang, and directly took Ling Tong to the Yangtze River Water Village.
The sudden change made Ling Tong a little at a loss, he picked up Lu Meng and asked anxiously, "What should we do next?" โ
Lu Meng spit out a mouthful of black blood, but the pent-up qi was unblocked, his chest was relaxed, and his spirit was much better, so he thought for a while and said: "Quickly gather the soldiers who escaped from Chaisang, count the number of people, reorganize the team, and appease the army." โ
Although the thing was sudden, but at that time the rebels in Chaisangli were leaderless, and when Ma Tan rushed in from the city gate, it was only 10,000 archers, which did not play a role at all, so he could only watch countless Dongwu soldiers escape from the south gate Chaisang, in order to fear that the army was unstable when Dongwu counterattacked, he urgently closed the city gate, did not pursue the fleeing Dongwu army, and missed the opportunity.
Therefore, after the rectification of Ling's unified formation, he actually gathered 40,000 troops, which was indeed an unexpected joy.
reported this number to Lu Meng, and Lu Meng smiled with relief: "Fortunately, although Zhuge Liang caught me off guard, he didn't expect things to develop so quickly, so that the soldiers who were loyal to us came back, so plus the 30,000 sailors in your hands, we still have 70,000 troops, and we can also have a fight with Zhuge Liang." โ
"Next, are we going to recapture Chaisang?" Ling Tong asked.
Lu Meng shook his head: "The matter is no longer possible, now I decide, we withdraw the army." โ
"Withdraw Jianye?"
"Nope." Lu Meng firmly rejected Ling Tong's proposal: "Jiang Wei's sailor knows that the incident here will definitely block our return route in the east, so we will give him a surprise attack, advance along the west of the river by surprise, and then go to Xiazhi." โ
"Go there? Isn't that a dead land? Ling Tong asked suspiciously.
Lu Meng laughed: "When the plan was made, we thought that Chaisang might not be guaranteed, so Lu Xun and I made a cunning rabbit three holes, accumulated more grain and grass in Xiazhi, and sent a team of 10,000 elite soldiers to protect it, we went there, the grain and grass were enough for us to support the arrival of Lu Peng's army in the future, I just wanted to be there, block Zhuge Liang, I made his Zhuge Liang think in vain, I just want to make the entire Jingzhou our surrender to Lu Peng." Then he stared at Ling Tong deadly: "Now is the time for you to make a choice, do you follow me to Xia Zhi and take the next step, or take your sailor and withdraw to Jianye with my head, and the general will decide." โ
Ling Tong was stunned, it was really premeditated, it seems that not only Lu Meng has already decided to surrender Lu Peng, but even Lu Xun is also a participant, Eastern Wu, the general trend has gone.
He is not the general of the third generation of the Sun family, and he doesn't have to keep his loyal beliefs and die for Sun Quan, who has already reached a dead end, so take a broad road.
Gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "Okay, I'll listen to the orders of the governor, and we'll go to the child." โ
Since Ling Tong had already expressed his position, there was nothing to say, and immediately rectified the naval army, loaded all the army officers and soldiers who had escaped, beat the war drums, discarded all unnecessary burdens, and the whole army rushed out of the water village.
Jiang Wei received Zhuge Liang's news for the first time, he really didn't expect that looking at the impregnable Chai Sangkou, in Ma Tan's heart-to-heart battle, it collapsed so violently, and it went down in a blink of an eye.
Now that Chaisang has been captured, it is time to deal with the Soochow naval army in front of him.
When Zhuge Liang reported the news, there was also a military intelligence order, ordering him to merge his two fleets into one, go down the river, block the waterway for the Eastern Wu Naval Division to return to Jianye, and ordered him to annihilate the last naval force of Eastern Wu on the Yangtze River at all costs, so as to sweep away the obstacles of Eastern Wu Shaoqing in the future.
No matter what the goal is, this last naval force of Eastern Wu will definitely not flee to the west, because Chaisang has been lost, the gate of Jingzhou has been opened, and if the enemy breaks through to the west, it will be tantamount to throwing himself into the net, and sooner or later he will be annihilated there.
However, Jiang Wei expressed doubts and opposition to this order, and from the perspective of the overall situation, Jingzhou was still in the hands of Eastern Wu, at least for now.
And in Jingzhou, there are 100,000 horses of Lu Xun in the north, and 100,000 horses of Huanggai Handang in the west, which is 200,000 horses gathered together and hugged together, as long as the command is appropriate, there is still a chance to turn the tables. If you add these 30,000 naval troops, the 30,000 or 40,000 army troops who have escaped converge, and close to 300,000 men and horses, will definitely make a difference.
After careful consideration, Jiang Wei wrote a letter to Zhuge Liang on the one hand, explaining his judgment and thoughts, but on the other hand, he strictly obeyed Zhuge Liang's general order, and immediately went east with the combined fleet, using his original water village to block the Yangtze River, preparing to annihilate the last naval army of Eastern Wu here.
Ling Tong seized this rare opportunity, with all his fleet, ten thousand oars to the west, and when the fleet came to the Hengjiang Iron Cable, the bunkers on both sides put the iron cable into the river, so that the fleet could pass smoothly, and then lifted the five Hengjiang Iron Cables again, and became a solid barrier for their own fleet. It was really God's help, the contempt of the enemy, and Lu Meng's decisive decisiveness that allowed this fleet to escape without danger.
Zhuge Liang received Jiang Wei's report, and he regretted it so much that he slapped his thigh, and immediately felt that his judgment was wrong, and he urgently went to the top of the city, what he saw was the sailor of Dongwu walking away, and he saw Jiang Wei's sailor, sitting on the Yangtze River downstream with big eyes and nothing to do in strict accordance with his own orders.
For such an ending, Ma Jian jumped to his feet and complained. Zhuge Liang nodded secretly in his heart with relief, Jiang Wei, sure enough, is a person who keeps his duty and respects his boss, at this point, he is better than this Ma Tan guy who obviously likes to call the shots.
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