Chapter 382: Recovering Changsha
The last battle can also be called death and then life, Han Dang is testing whether this sentence makes sense.
With less than 50,000 Jiangdong soldiers and horses, the most tragic bloody battle was fought under the leadership of Han Dang.
Huang Zhong's face was grim, as if he had seen his former comrades being slaughtered by the Wu army during the defense of Changsha.
"Kill!" A word popped out of Huang Zhong's mouth!
The soldiers around him beat the war drums vigorously, and the two armies of Xiahou Yuan and Wenpin also responded with war drums.
The hundreds of fire dragon arrow launchers placed in front of the formation were aimed at the Wu army who rushed over.
The lit fuse made a "snort" sound, followed by flames erupting from the tail of the launcher, urging the crossbow bolts to fly towards the enemy.
Han Dang's soldiers and horses fell to the ground not far in front of Huang Zhongjun, and the damage of the powerful fire dragon arrows ten miles away to the enemy troops close at hand was immeasurable, and the crossbow arrows passed through the bodies of countless people, and the corpses of the soldiers of the Wu army slowly piled up.
Wenpin adopts a "three-stage" style of play, one group shoots the second group to fill the position, and then reloads the first group of fire dragon arrows, and when the third group finishes shooting, the first group has been loaded.
In Han Dang's view, the fire dragon arrow is a continuous shooting.
Xiahou Yuan looked at it from behind him, and he couldn't bear it, so he persuaded Huang Zhong to persuade the other party to surrender.
Huang Zhong was unmoved, and after a long time, when he saw that the fire dragon arrows were almost consumed, he said to Xiahou Yuan: "Brother Miaocai, it's time for you to play, remember to stay alive!" β
Huang Zhong is the main general, although Xiahou Yuan is a little unbearable, but the military order is like a mountain and must be executed.
Some of the troops led by Xiahou Yuan were born from tiger and leopard riding, and their combat power was good.
Facing Han Dang's remnants of the defeated generals rushed over, the battle was without suspense, Han Dang was killed by a random knife in the battle, and the rest of the hundreds of defeated soldiers fled in embarrassment.
Huang Zhong told all the soldiers and horses not to pursue, and to clean up the battlefield after the battle was over. Nearly 50,000 corpses of Wu soldiers were thrown into the Xiangjiang River, and the river water was dyed red.
Huang Zhong's barbaric approach spread to Changsha City, and the defenders were terrified and trembling.
When Huang Zhong's banner of the Chinese army appeared in Chaoyang, the defenders of Changsha City opened the city gate, and weapons and armor were piled up outside the city gate.
Only then did Xiahou Yuan understand why Huang Zhong wanted to kill Han Dangjun, and let a small number of people escape, it turned out that he was playing psychological warfare!
Use this terror to deter the defenders of Changsha, the defenders of Changsha surrendered without a fight, avoiding the huge losses that may be caused by the siege, it can be said that it is a soldier who surrenders without a fight! Huang Zhong can also be regarded as a fight to fame!
Changsha is the birthplace of Sun Quan's father, Sun Jian, and the people still support Sun Quan, otherwise Sun Quan would not have taken Changsha so easily.
Huang Zhong understood the situation in Changsha, so he simply started with bloody violence, which seemed to be a success.
The counties of Changsha County changed color when they heard the name of Huang Zhong, and the defenders were scattered within a few days, and Changsha County was quickly recovered.
Jiang Sheng sent a congratulatory letter, hoping that Huang Zhong and all the soldiers and horses would seize the opportunity to rest and train the troops, and guard Changsha County in preparation for Sun Quan's counterattack.
Jiang Sheng's worries are not unreasonable, the people of Changsha County are forced by Huang Zhong's military pressure for the time being, but it does not mean that there is no problem.
Sure enough, Sun Quan ordered LΓΌ Meng to be the governor, prepare 150,000 soldiers and horses, and go north from Guiyang County to avenge Han Dang.
Zhu Ling, who was fighting in Wuling County, withdrew from Wuling immediately after receiving a summons from Lu Meng, and made a gesture of counterattacking Changsha.
The fleet led by Zhou Tai also went west along the Yangtze River, planning to go straight to Jiangxia County and copy Jingzhou!
The combat strength of the Jingzhou naval army is average, if it is against Sun Quan's naval army, the chances of victory are not great, Jiang Sheng simply let Cai Mao lead the naval army south along the Xiangjiang River to support the Changsha operation.
Cai Mao was puzzled: "Lord Wang, Sun Quan's water army is coming, if we leave, Xiangyang will be in danger!" β
Jiang Sheng said: "With the Jingzhou Navy compared to Sun Quan's Water Army, is there a chance of winning?" β
Cai Mao was embarrassed, and he really couldn't compare, so he had to be ordered to go.
In fact, when the battle in Changsha began, Zhang Ning had already been ordered to prepare, and by now, Jiangxia's coastal defense positions had been built.
Sun Quan's navy was powerful, but Jiang Sheng didn't send a navy to meet it at all. Jiang Sheng told Sun Quan that either he would not fight, or if he wanted to fight, he would go ashore and fight.
Sun Quan is not a fool, when he went ashore, that was the end of being abused by Jiang Sheng.
Zhou Tai was full of confidence, and it was easy to defeat the Jingzhou naval army, but he didn't expect that there was not a single Jingzhou warship in the Yangtze River.
It took a lot of materials and manpower to turn around the Yangtze River in the Jiangxia section for many days, and there was not a single battle.
Zhou Tai couldn't hold it back, so he let some of the ships sail to the river bank, wanting to fight a landing battle.
As soon as they got closer, they saw a dense number of stone bullets flying out of the shore, and the ships that could not dodge were smashed squarely, the sailors screamed again and again, and the fleet hurriedly withdrew to the center of the river, and several other places that tried to land were also beaten back.
The navy should not fight, the defense of the river bank is strong, Zhou Tai stayed here bored for more than half a month, and he withdrew in disgrace.
Only then did Zhong Wenwu know Jiang Sheng's cleverness, which made Sun Quan helpless.
Zhao Yun and Cao Chun's soldiers and horses were stationed in Jiangling, Nanjun, in response to Huang Zhong's Changsha defensive battle, and Xu Huang, Zhang Xiu, Dian Wei, Xu Chu and others in the north also led their troops south.
The total strength of the combat readiness zone reached 500,000, and all kinds of weapons, equipment, and military supplies were also transported to Jiangxia.
The navy led by Tai Shici went south with full strength and stood by in the coastal waters of Songjiang, because the latest ironclad ships were being built and could not be equipped with troops, so Jiang Sheng did not plan to use the navy to fight, as long as Sun Quan's naval army was contained near Songjiang.
Looking at it like this, Jiang Sheng is about to start the southern expedition, Jiang Sheng may have to clean up Sun Quan at the end, but he didn't expect that the preferred target Liu Bei was more peaceful, but Sun Quan jumped out to beg for a fight, so it was as he wished!
Zhou Yu has always suggested that Sun Quan accept it when he sees it, don't rush to accept Jingzhou, Sun Quan just doesn't listen, this provokes Jiang Sheng, let's see how Dongwu responds.
Sun Quan is not a mediocre person, and he has already sent Lu Su as an envoy to visit Liu Bei.
Zhuge Liang calculated that Sun Quan would come to Liu Bei, and he had already been prepared.
Lu Su and Zhuge Liang met, and these two guys have been thinking about things together in history, but it was Zhuge Liang who went to talk about Sun Quan, and here is Lu Su to talk about Liu Bei.
Liu Bei agreed to send troops together, Liu Bei fought to the west, Sun Quan was impressed, and let Jiang Sheng use troops on two fronts, and he could not give full play to the advantage of troops, but he also set conditions: Nanyang, Nanjun, Wuling, and Jiangxia returned to Liu Bei.
Lu Su resolutely disagreed, in this way, Sun Quan only had two territories in Changsha and the south where birds don't, and it was impossible to agree.
Jiang Sheng's detailed work in Chengdu fed back the details of Zhuge Liang's meeting with Lu Su to Jiang Sheng.
The ministers looked at each other, it seemed that they had won, Jiang Sheng smiled and said: "I'll tell you a story:" There are two brothers who saw the geese flying and were about to shoot them, but the brother shot them down and cooked them to eat, but the younger brother objected, arguing that the geese on the ground are suitable for boiling and eating, and the flying geese are suitable for roasting and eating. The two argued, and asked the wise man, who said to boil half and bake half. But when the two brothers went to shoot geese, they had already flown away. β
Jia Xu said with a smile: "The geese are not obtained, and the cooking is boiled, and the cakes are full of hunger!" β
The ministers laughed and laughed at Liu Bei and Sun Quan's idiot dreaming!