Chapter 173: Lu Meng is defeated, and Lu Xun is exposed

Early this morning, Sun Quan once again asked Lü Meng to lead the siege. www.biquge.info But there are only less than 20,000 Jiangdong people outside the city at this time, almost all of them are new soldiers, and they know at a glance that they have not been on the battlefield. How to fight this battle, you must know that there are nearly 20,000 cavalry in the current White Tiger City, and there are 30,000 sailors converted from foot soldiers. Needless to say, the other party is well-armed, and this number alone has an innate overwhelming advantage.

It's okay not to attack, but once you attack, what are you going to attack? Or don't you get in? What I am most afraid of is that my side is attacking the city, and the other party suddenly rushes out, and it is estimated that the new recruits on hand are not enough for the cavalry to charge. Looking at Sun Quan's warrant, Lu Meng is now in a dilemma. But it is not a way to stand still like this, once the soldiers in the White Tiger City overcome the water and soil adaptation, they rush out. The entire coast of Jiangdong had to fall. The coastal areas of Jiangdong occupy almost one-third of the land in Jiangdong, and if they are lost, it is estimated that the fall of the entire Jiangdong will not be far away.

Maybe it's really what you're most afraid of, what are you more and more afraid of? The besieged White Tiger City suddenly opened its gates, and under the command of Zhao Yun, several brave thousand-strong generals rushed out of the city with their own cavalry. The recruits who were still preparing to attack the city here had not reacted at all in the face of the sudden battle situation, and Lu Meng secretly scolded: "It's not good. ”

He hurriedly ordered the drums to be beaten in a procession to meet the battle, and then the two hundred chariots prepared for the northern cavalry were pushed up. This barely blocked the charge of the cavalry on Zhao Yun's side, but who is Zhao Yun? Ten thousand enemies, but also a resourceful and improvisable general. When they saw the chariot, they dismounted the cavalry that had rushed out and returned. When it was time to go out of the city again, the cavalry at the head of the line threw out the three-clawed iron hooks used on the boats from their horses. One head grabbed the chariot, the other tied to the horse, and then the cavalry ran back again. Almost every horse ran in a different direction, and the effect of five horses splitting appeared. The disadvantages of the chariots, which were originally assembled from wood, appeared at this time, and under the pull of multiple horsepower, one chariot after another was destroyed. Seeing this, Lu Meng lost his temper at once, shouting an order, and the soldiers of Jiangdong attacked.

When the narrow road meets, the brave wins, and the sword will be shown before death.

At this moment, Lu Meng only had killing in his mind, and he didn't think about other reasons at all. The battle heated up as the two sides fought for a day and a night in front of the White Tiger City. In the end, Jiangdong was defeated by the lack of soldiers, and Lü Meng, who was seriously wounded, was escaped by several henchmen who risked their lives to carry them out of the battlefield. And the cavalry on Zhao Yun's side lost more than 3,000 in this battle, and the sailors suffered 5,000 casualties.

Fortunately, after a little trimming, Zhao Yun's department still has the strength to fight. In contrast, there are less than 10,000 combatants in the coastal areas of Jiangdong. Sun Quan, who was originally recuperating in bed with a slight cold, learned that Lu Meng was defeated and has been unconscious since then, and there is not one out of ten soldiers who have been brought back. couldn't help but be stimulated by this, coughing constantly, and his subordinates hurriedly found a doctor, but found that the air rushed into the lungs, and the condition worsened and he was bedridden.

And now only Lu Su is in charge of the overall situation in Sun Quan's camp, but in the face of Zhao Yun's fierce cavalry battle, coupled with the lack of soldiers at hand, Lu Su, who has always been cautious, has no choice but to retreat again and again. Although he had already sent people to Sun Ce and Lu Xun to ask for help, it was a pity that the distant water could not save the near fire, and almost all the coastal areas of Jiangdong had fallen in just half a month.

On the other hand, Sun Ce's side was also powerless in the face of Sun Quan's request for help, and now most of the troops on hand in Jiangdong Sun Ce were in the hands of Zhou Yu and Liu Xuewu on the Yangtze River. The soldiers he could call on now were only a few thousand men, and compared to the coastal war situation, it was almost nothing.

As for Lu Xun's side, he has been holding his troops, he is waiting, waiting for an opportunity to defeat Liu Xuewu in one fell swoop. It's a pity that after the whole plan was disrupted by Zhou Yu, the opportunity he was waiting for became more and more slim. He didn't know if there was any point in waiting, but he wasn't willing to fail. Even if he had Sun Quan's urgent letter for help in his hand, he was indifferent. It was an incomprehensible belief, and of course no one but himself understood it, not his soldiers, not even his teenage son. You must know that at this time in Jiangdong, in addition to the 50,000 or 60,000 horses in Zhou Yu's hands, there are almost 40,000 elites left in Lu Xun's hands.

What is he doing here? His subordinates were speculating whether he was preparing to rebel. After all, Jiangdong and Liu Xuewu are fighting, you have heavy troops to play neutrality, once this Jiangdong loses power, who will believe it if you don't oppose it. Even its lord Sun Quan wouldn't believe it, so when there was a lot of discussion outside, and when rumors spread, even Liu Xuewu heard the rumors. After carefully checking the combat map, I couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Liu Xuewu empathized, if he was Lu Xun, what would he do if he had a heavy army in Changsha and stayed still? Remain neutral, you might say, and wait for the wall-to-wall grass to win. If it were someone else, Liu Xuewu might believe it, but that person was him Lu Xun. This is definitely not simple, as a modern time-traveler, especially a time-traveler who loves history and literature. The cognition and understanding of Lu Xun is definitely loyal, and he is Sun Quan's absolute confidant. If there is no problem in standing in Lu Xun's seat, suddenly Liu Xuewu's eyes swept over the Yangtze River in the middle of the map, and then looked at Changsha, the seat of the garrison, and couldn't help but think of something.

If the estimate is correct, this Lu Xun is definitely playing a trick of drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle. Once Liu Xuewu's army crossed the river, he raided Jingzhou from the flank. At that time, Liu Xuewu's army will become a lonely army that has always been completely alone, and what it means for a lonely army to go deep into this, even fools know that waiting is destruction.

Finding out the seriousness of the problem, Liu Xuewu could not sit idly by. Hurriedly issued an order to transfer troops from Yangzhou next door to attack Changsha. Strengthen Qingzhou and Xuzhou to increase logistics reinforcements in the area of Baihu City, and the new troops from various states and counties continue to arrive, and the troop source on hand of Liu Xuewu suddenly became sufficient. In order to defeat Jiangdong better and faster, Liu Xuewu even let the generals at the level of thousands of generals have the power to adapt to changes under his command. And the tightest and strictest grasp is the discipline of the army, if there are violators of discipline and military law to engage in it, under this iron-blooded means, Liu Xuewu can better control these mixed armies in various places. (To be continued.) )