Chapter 071: Burning the Company Camp

With the change of the situation, Lu Xun saw that the time had come, so he turned defense into attack, burned the Baili company camp, broke Liu Bei in one fell swoop, and eliminated tens of thousands of soldiers of Shu Han. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

【The time has come】

After a long stalemate, Lu Xun saw that the time had come, so he said: "Yiling is a military key place, an important pass in our country, although it is easy to capture, it is also easy to lose. The loss of Yiling is not only the loss of land in a county, but more importantly, the loss of the gateway to Jingzhou, which is worrying. So now it's time to fight for this place and succeed. Liu Bei defied common sense and did not guard his lair, but dared to send himself to death. Although he is not talented, with the prestige of His Majesty, he can defeat and annihilate the Shu army with a way to defeat and annihilate the Shu army. Reviewing Liu Bei's leading troops to fight before and after, he always won less and lost more, and by extension, there is nothing worrying about this person! At first, Weichen was worried that he would advance by land and water, but now he abandoned his boats and ships to fight exclusively with infantry, and camped everywhere, observing his military deployment, there must have been no major changes. I hope that Your Majesty will sit back and relax and not worry. ”

Seeing that Lu Xun was preparing to fight, all the generals said: "The attack on Liu Bei should have been when he first marched, and now let him go deep into the territory for five or six hundred miles, and confront each other for seven or eight months. ”

Lu Xun said: "Liu Bei is a cunning enemy, he has experienced many accidents, and when his army has just been assembled, he should be precise and single-minded, and he should not easily attack him." Now that he has been stationed for a long time, he has not taken advantage of us, and the army is tired and depressed, and can no longer think of new strategies to resist such an enemy, and now is the right time. ”

So Lu Xun first sent troops to attack a camp of the Shu army, but he did not get cheap. All the generals said, "This is for nothing to send the soldiers to death." Lu Xun said, on the contrary: "I have mastered the way to defeat the enemy." ”

【Burning the Camp】

After the initial trial, Lu Xun has achieved the way to victory, when the hot summer season, the climate is hot, and the Shu army's camp is made of wooden fences, and its surroundings are full of woods and thatch, once a fire starts, it will be burned into a piece. After the decisive battle began, Lu Xun immediately ordered the Wu soldiers to each hold a handful of thatch, raid the Shu army camp at night, and set fire to the wind.

Suddenly, the fire was fierce, and the Shu army was in chaos. Lu Xun took advantage of the situation to launch a counteroffensive and forced the Shu army to retreat westward. Wu general Zhu Ran led an army of 5,000 to break through the front of the Shu army first, plunged into the rear of the Shu army, and entered the Shu army in Zhuoxiang with Han Dang's department, cutting off the retreat of the Shu army. Pan Zhang's troops attacked Feng Xi's department of the Shu army and broke it.

Zhuge Jin, Luo Tong, and Zhou Yin cooperated with Lu Xun's main force to attack the Shu army at Yaoting. Sun Huan's troops, who guarded the Imperial Yi Road, also took the initiative to attack and enter the battle. The Wu army made good progress, and soon broke through more than 40 Shu army camps, and cut off the connection between the two sides of the Yangtze River of the Shu army with the water army. Shu generals Zhang Nan and Feng Xi and the indigenous tribal leader Shamoke were killed, and Du Lu and Liu Ning surrendered. Seeing the collapse of the whole line, Liu Bei fled to Ma'anshan, northwest of Yiling, and ordered the Shu army to defend themselves around the mountain. Lu Xun concentrated his forces, besieged on all sides, and annihilated tens of thousands of Shu troops. At this point, the Shu army was crushed, most of them were killed and wounded and scattered, and vehicles, ships and other military supplies were lost. Liu Bei broke through the siege at night and escaped, marched to Shimen Mountain, was pursued by Wu's general Sun Huan, was almost captured, and the guard general Fu Tong and others were killed. Later, he relied on the post station personnel to burn the equipment abandoned by the rout soldiers to block the mountain road, so that he was able to get rid of the pursuers and escape into the White Emperor City.

At this time, Huang Quansuo, the general of Zhenbei of the Shu army, was defending the Wei army in Jiangbei. After Liu Bei's defeat and retreat, Huang Quan's return route was cut off by the Wu army, and he had to lead the people to surrender to Cao Wei. At the same time, Ma Liang was killed by Buqi when he retreated from the south to the northwest.

At that time, after Fu Wei led his troops to resist, his soldiers were all dead, and the generals of Wu ordered Fu Wei to surrender, and Fu Wei scolded: "Wu dog! How could there be a Han general who surrendered! So he died in battle.

Cheng Ji, who was engaged in sacrificial wine, also went to battle with Liu Bei, and after Liu Bei's army was defeated and fled, Cheng Ji followed, and someone told Cheng Ji: "The pursuers behind have caught up, abandon the ship, and you can escape." Cheng Ji said: "I was in the army, and I never abandoned the ship because the enemy left, let alone encountered danger by following the Son of Heaven!" So the pursuers caught up with Cheng Ji's boat, and Cheng Ji personally fought the enemy with a halberd, and even an enemy ship overturned in the river. A large number of enemy troops arrived and attacked Cheng Ji together, and Cheng Ji was killed.

The battle of Yiling ended with Liu Bei's heavy defeat, Liu Bei suffered heavy losses in this battle, and his tens of thousands of troops were almost completely wiped out, Zhang Nan, Feng Xi, Fu Tong, Cheng Ji, Ma Liang and the indigenous tribal leader Sha Moke were all killed, Du Lu and Liu Ning surrendered to Sun Wu, and Huang Quan surrendered to Cao Wei in the north.

When Liu Bei fled, Sun Huan cut off the dangerous road to Kuimen, and Liu Bei climbed over the mountain to escape by himself. He sighed ashamedly and resentfully: "When I came to the capital at the beginning of the year, Sun Huan was still a child, but today he forced me to such a point!" As for Lu Xun, Liu Bei was even more ashamed and resentful, saying: "I was insulted by Lu Xun's setback, isn't it providence!" ”

【Lu Xun convinces】

Lu Xun because of his outstanding performance in the battle of Yiling, so that the generals were impressed with it, happy and convinced, after the war, even Sun Huan, who originally complained that Lu Xun did not send rescue soldiers, saw Lu Xun and said: "At first, I did complain that you did not come to the rescue, but now that things have become clear, I know that you have a good plan." ”

When Sun Quan learned about it, he said, "Why didn't you tell the generals that you didn't obey the command and restraint at that time? ”

Lu Xun replied: "I am deeply blessed by the country, and I bear a heavy responsibility beyond my actual ability. Moreover, these generals are either His Majesty's cronies, or brave generals of our army, or heroes of the country, all of whom the country should rely on to build a great cause together. Although the minister is stupid and cowardly, he secretly admires the morality of Lin Xiangru and Kou Xian's modesty in his heart to achieve national affairs. Sun Quan laughed and said yes, and was awarded the title of General Lu Xun Auxiliary State, concurrently serving as the pastor of Jingzhou, and then changed his title to the Marquis of Jiangling.

After Liu Bei fled to the White Emperor City, Xu Sheng, Pan Zhang, Song Qian and others saw that Liu Bei did not run far, so they vied with each other to say that Liu Bei would be captured, and asked to send troops to attack again. Sun Quan consulted Lu Xun on this matter, and Lu Xun, Zhu Ran, and Luo Tong believed that Cao Pi was massing troops on a large scale, ostensibly under the pretext of helping Wu to fight against Liu Bei, but in fact he had sinister and treacherous schemes, so he should solemnly decide to withdraw his troops.

As Lu Xun expected, Cao Pi really sent troops to invade Jiangdong, and Sun Quan heard that Liu Bei was stationed in the White Emperor City, and he was quite frightened and sent an envoy to sue for peace. Liu Bei Xu He, and sent Taizhong doctor Zong Wei to discuss and complete the mission, and the war between Sun and Liu came to an end.

After Liu Bei's defeat in the Battle of Yiling, the Shuhan group lost the opportunity to recapture Jingzhou.