Looking at Tai Shici who was kneeling in front of him, Lu Meng and Jiang Qin, Sun Quan was speechless for a long time. Especially Jiang Qin, he almost put his face on the ground, and this posture of asking for sin is called a "standard".

After a long time, Sun Quan said abruptly: "This battle is caused by Zhao Feng being too cunning, and at the same time, our army is insufficient. When you have done your best, there is no need to blame yourself, get up! ”

When Tai Shici and the others heard this, they immediately burst into tears, and hurriedly got up and stood aside with their hands down. At this moment, Zhang Zhaohu stepped forward and asked, "When the three of you evacuated, did you inform General He Qi of Hulin?" ”

"This?" Tai Shici and the other three remembered He Qi's matter, and their faces suddenly changed greatly. As soon as Sun Quan saw their appearance, he knew that He Qi couldn't count on them, so he hurriedly ordered someone to go to Hulin to inform He Qi to evacuate.

"My lord, General He Qi is proficient in the art of war, and he will definitely withdraw to Anhui City in time." Zhang Zhao said as relieved as possible. Sun Quan also smiled reluctantly when he heard this, but his expression was very distorted. But on the second day, bad news came back one after another.

"Jia Hua was killed in battle, He Qi was captured, and the whole county of Lujiang was lost." These three news made Sun Quan unable to slow down for a while, and his heart was panicked. "Send someone to tell Gongjin quickly, and everything is up to him to decide!" Sun Quan waved his hand a little weakly. After a pause, he ordered Sun Yi and Gu Yong of Danyang to guard the city carefully and not act rashly for the time being. At present, there are nearly 100,000 troops in Xuzhou who have crossed the river, and there are only 30,000 defenders in Danyang, of which 10,000 are still county soldiers.

"What?" In the Jiangdong Navy camp in Yuzhang County on the west bank of the Ganjiang River, Zhou Yu was also shocked when he heard the news. "I didn't expect He Gongmiao, Jiang Gongyi and Taishi Ziyi to fail to hold the north bank, it seems that Zhao Feng really has a hand in using troops!" Zhou Yu muttered, and couldn't help but think back to the young general who bargained with him when he was under Shouchun City.

"Governor, what should I do now?" Zhou Tai on the side hurriedly asked. lost a county all of a sudden, and anyone knows that this loss is really not small. It was supposed to be the whole army to fight again at this time and regain the lost territory, but now the Jingxiang Water Division is also eyeing the other side, how can he get out?

"Return to the lord, let Jiang Gongyi lead the army to guard Chaisang, and General Taishi will be stationed in Poyang, as long as these two fortified cities are held, plus General Shubi of Danyang, Zhao Feng's army will be pinned down in Lujiang. Now that it is winter, the Xuzhou army cannot enter, so we still try our best to break the Jingxiangshui division on the opposite side as soon as possible, and then return to the army to meet the Xuzhou army. Zhou Yu thought about it, but quickly formulated a countermeasure.

"That's great!" Cheng Pu, the deputy governor on the side, also nodded in agreement when he heard this. Since his defeat to the Xuzhou Navy, Cheng Pu's original arrogance has been greatly reduced. Recently, seeing that Zhou Yu was properly allocated, and he was helpless to beat 50,000 Jingxiang sailors with more than 20,000 Jiangdong water divisions, Cheng Pu also secretly admired it, and no longer put his old qualifications in front of Zhou Yu. At that time, Zhou Yu sent someone to report back to Sun Quan, and at the same time tried his best to think about how to crack the Jingxiang Water Master on the other side.

In the middle of winter, the road was not smooth, and the Xuzhou army had no choice but to continue the march by land. But on this great river, as long as the surface of the river has not completely frozen, it can fight. As Zhou Yu expected, Zhao Feng did not continue to march after occupying the entire territory of Lujiang County, but he was not idle this winter.

After the pacification of several counties in the southern Lujiang, Zhao Feng took advantage of this winter to consolidate the newly laid base, after all, Lujiang is the connection point between his team and Xuzhou, in case it is not good to make Zhou Yu cut off the back road, then his own team will become a complete lonely, so this bridgehead must be properly kept.

The first is the transfer of troops. From Sun Fu's mouth, Zhao Feng learned that Jiangdong's military system was very different from other places. Since each family has its own private soldiers, ranging from hundreds to thousands, Sun Quan not only relies on them politically and economically, but also needs them to provide these most basic soldiers militarily. At present, the population of the entire Jiangdong + Jiaozhou is claimed to be nearly 2 million, but Sun Fu estimates that if you count the tenants and private soldiers of the big families who are not included in the total population, it should exceed 2 million. In terms of the army, Sun Quan's front-line combat troops + county soldiers should be almost 200,000. Among them, there are about 120,000 front-line combat troops, which are descendants of Sun Quan. The remaining 80,000 county soldiers are mainly composed of private soldiers of major families, and their combat effectiveness is uneven, but their generals are generally their own people, driven by the motivation to defend their hometowns, these people often have a more tenacious will to fight. As for the distribution of troops, Jiaozhou had just been pacified, so in order to stabilize the situation, Sun Quan specially placed 60,000 troops there. Among them, there are 20,000 front-line combat troops, and 40,000 are new troops recruited from the local area, which are managed by his uncles Sun Jing and Zhuge Jin.

"Then what is the Jiangdong Marine?" Zhao Feng thought for a moment and asked again. If this line of combat troops does not include the Jiangdong Naval Division, then Sun Quan's land and water army that can fight well in Jiangdong will add up to 130,000.

"Jiangdong Navy Division is the lord, ah no, the army directly under Sun Quan." Sun Fu is still accustomed to calling Sun Quan the lord by his surname, although he quickly changed his words, and he was already in a panic. Zhao Feng waved his hand to signal that he was out of the way, and calculated it carefully at the moment.

Of the 130,000 front-line fighters in Jiangdong, the ones who were really killed by themselves were more than 10,000 people from Cheng Pu + He Qi before, and less than 120,000 remained, except for 50,000 led by Zhou Yu, who fought against Jingxiang men and horses in Ganjiang. The remaining 60,000 or 70,000 were mainly stationed in Danyang, Wu and Huiji counties with the county soldiers from all over the country.

"By the way, General Zhao, when I was stationed in Beilujiang before, the 10,000 county soldiers, most of which were the private soldiers of the former Wu County Taishou Xu Gong and their old troops, were transferred by Sun Quan to garrison Lujiang." Sun Fu suddenly remembered something and added.

"I see!" Zhao Feng was also stunned when he heard this, this Xu Gong had 10,000 people under him, and he was the former Wu County Taishou, no wonder the Sun family was so worried about him, so he sent his people to accompany Sun Fu to death. Thinking about it again, eighty percent of Xu Gong really rebelled because of this, after all, his military power was completely hollowed out, no wonder his attitude changed so resolutely a while ago.

"I already know everything about this, it's winter now, we can't use troops, so let's consolidate Lujiang first!" Zhao Feng thought about it and decided to redeploy his forces first. How can all of his nearly 100,000 people be stationed in Wancheng? At that time, Zhang Liao and Li Tong were ordered to lead an army of 20,000 troops to be stationed at Mixukou, which was the place where Sun Quan defeated Cao Ying twice in history, and let them build a dock there and temporarily camp for the winter, which could not only echo their own army in Wancheng, but also threaten Wujun and Danyang, and take into account Niuzhu and Sanshan Town. When Zhang Liao and Li Tong heard the news, they also set off immediately, and went to the mouth of the water to dig and burn bricks to build a dock without mentioning it.

For the rest of the men, Zhao Feng himself led the army to garrison Wancheng, and Xu Sheng led an army of 10,000 to garrison Hulin Water Village to prevent the Jiangdong Navy from sneaking up on the waterway. Although the Hulin Water Village has been set up quite cleverly, Zhao Feng still feels that it has some fly in the ointment. Specifically, in the face of the attack from the river, it can be calmly resisted, but it is a little difficult to resist the threat from the land behind it, because of this, when He Qi was attacked by himself behind his back, he simply ran away without even guarding. Now that he occupies this place, Zhao Feng didn't want to be like this one day, so he ordered to strengthen the defense behind Hulin Water Village.

"General, building a city costs a lot, and I'm afraid it can't be completed in one winter!" Lu Hao, who had just arrived in Lujiang that day, learned that Zhao Feng was actually preparing to build a city, and he didn't agree with him very much.

"I'm not building a city, I'm just building a few docks to strengthen our preparedness capabilities." Zhao Feng said with a smile. There is a difference between the so-called city and the dock, in addition to the military use of the city to prevent invasion, but also to provide a place for the townspeople to live. And this dock is basically a fortress specially used for defense, basically only stationed troops, but no residents. Of course, the size is different, if you want to say that the big one belongs to Dong Fatzi's Yiwu, it is simply a copy of Chang'an City. If you want to talk about the small ones, you have built them here, and they are almost a fight with the little devil's turret. According to Lu Hao, Cao Ying also ordered Xiahou Yuan to build a lot in Guandu. Of course, he piled it up with loess.

There was no other reason why these docks were built: they were much better defensive than the tents of wooden fences and felt tents. Since Zhao Feng and Lu Hao developed the method of burning cement, Liu Bei has almost doubled the entire city walls of Xuzhou and Yuzhou. The burned bricks were then built with cement to form a wall, which was much stronger than the original wall built directly with large bricks. In view of this, Zhao Feng specially suggested that Liu Bei specially allocate a craftsman army in the army, and he didn't care about fighting in peacetime, just building tools and repairing the city. This time he went on an expedition to Jiangdong, and there were nearly 1,000 craftsmen with the army, and the last time Wei Yan built a raft was implemented by the craftsmen with the army, and now he wants to build a city without labor.

"By the way, Lu Hao, how about explaining what you did?" Zhao Feng came back to his senses and hurriedly asked about the matter that he should explain, this is the top priority.

"Back to the general, Lu Hao already knows how to build a thunderbolt, wait for me to build one first, how about the general look at it and then make plans?" Lu Hao is also quite confident.

"Okay, how long does it take you to build one?" Zhao Feng asked.

"I build it by myself, more than five, less than three." Lu Hao thought for a while and replied.

"That's without further ado, build it quickly. After we finish it, we will improve it and build more. Now it is the middle of winter, and it is said that it is ready to be used for the spring war. Zhao Feng didn't hide it in front of him, and directly said his thoughts.

"That's exactly how it should be!" Lu Hao nodded when he heard this, and then said goodbye and went out to build a thunderbolt car. At the same time, Cao Ying and Yuan Shao, who were facing each other in Guandu, had to suspend the confrontation and curl up in their camps for the winter after staring at each other for several months.

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