Xiangyang has been a transportation fortress since ancient times, known as "the southern ship and the northern horse, the thoroughfare of seven provinces", and has always been a channel for trade and cultural exchanges between the north and the south. The location is superior and the transportation is convenient. Xiangyang is bordered by Sichuan and Shaanxi in the west, Jianghan in the east, and Hunan and Guangdong in the south.

In the late Han Dynasty, Xiangyang was the place of four wars, and the north was close to Wanluodong, and the south of Jingjiang could enter Hanzhong, which was a place where soldiers must fight. Fancheng and Xiangyang are separated by a strip of water, and the two cities face each other across the water, plus the Han River in the north of Xiangyang and the Xiangshui in the south of Xiangyang, thus forming a natural strategic defense system.

The ancients called the south of the mountain and the north of the water as yang, and vice versa. The name of Xiangyang is derived from the Yang of Xiangshui (north), Lu Xun supervised 10,000 troops and quietly crossed Xiangshui and Hanshui to reach the north bank, but because Cao Xiujun's pontoon bridge was built on the shortest distance between Xiangyang and Fancheng, that is to say, the pontoon bridge is only more than 20 miles away from Fancheng, this distance is too short, Lu Xun is not easy to attack.

"What about the right general? The enemy guarded the pontoon bridge too tightly, and it was too close to Fancheng, and Sun Li was not easy to deal with. "Jiang Qin has been surveying near the pontoon bridge with water ghosts for the past few days, and found that the enemy's defense is too tight, and his people are really difficult to operate, but if Lu Xun's large army moves Fancheng, it will be found that if it can't reach the pontoon bridge, it will be caught up by Fancheng's troops, and there is really nothing to do.

Although Sun Li did not have any great military exploits at this time, he could be valued by Cao Cao, and it was not easy for him to be a person who worked for the air force when he was still a secretary, you must know that Sun Li's top boss at that time was Guo Jia, the priest of the air force, Guo Jia (the relationship between the staff officer and the chief of staff).

Lu Xun bowed his head and was silent, Jiang Qin could only be in a hurry, but Zhang Ren on the side looked at the map and was distracted. In the end, Zhang Ren was silent. "General Chiang's guards on the pontoon bridge, if they attack with 5,000 men, will they succeed?"

"No problem. However, as long as the army of our army moves, it is difficult not to be discovered by Sun Li of Fancheng. ”

"General Right, there is a plan in the end that may work." Zhang Ren said to this Lu Xun. Although the words were not confirmed, the tone was extremely firm.

Feeling that firmness, Lu Xun asked curiously, "What's the plan?" ”

"Sound from east to west!"

"I want to hear about it!"

Zhang Ren pointed to the map and said: "General Right, judging from the intelligence, Sun Li in Fancheng should only have 5,000 soldiers, and all of them are foot soldiers, what we are worried about is that the whereabouts are discovered and the 2,000 soldiers stationed on the north bank of the pontoon bridge will drag our army back, it is true that if the enemy finds that our army is entangled by it, it is very easy for Cao Xiu's reinforcements to break through, but what if our army attracts Sun Li's troops and does not let them out of the city?" ”

"Oh." Lu Xun bowed his head and was silent when he heard this, he knew that he had fallen into a dead end, otherwise with his ability, he would be afraid of Sun Li's five thousand soldiers. "You mean to feint against Fancheng."

"It's more than that. The meaning of the last general is that the last general will lead a thousand troops to pretend to be bandits to attack the grain transport team in Fancheng first, and the metropolitan governor will lead the army to attack the garrison of the pontoon bridge when Sun Li has no time to take care of it, but it is up to General Jiang to really do it. ”

"Look at me?" Jiang Qin touched his head and asked puzzledly, "What do you want a certain family to do?" ”

"In fact, it is not necessary to use fire to destroy the pontoon bridge, and General Jiang Qin's subordinates are proficient in water and can take advantage of the fact that the Wei army is tired of dealing with the right general, and lurk in the water to wash the pontoon bridge away! The pontoon bridge of the Wei army was connected with iron cables with wooden planks paved with walking ke, and then suppressed with two iron oxen on each bank, as long as General Jiang Qin pushed the two iron oxen on the south bank into the river, the pontoon bridge would naturally be washed away by flowing water. Moreover, even if the Wei army wanted to build another pontoon bridge in the future, it could not find an iron bull to suppress it. Zhang Ren said to Jiang Ji with a smile.

"But the iron bull is so heavy, how can a certain family move." Jiang Qin is not unreasonable. How much strength did the Wei army use to move these four iron oxen to the riverside.

"The general can spread a rolling log under it." Of course, Zhang Ren knew such a simple principle, and it was not a problem at all as to how to transport the logs, because the Wei army hoarded a large number of logs on both sides of the pontoon bridge, which was specially used to repair the pontoon bridge.

Lu Xun thought about it for a while, but felt that this was not enough insurance. He instructed Jiang Qin: "This plan is feasible, but Gongyi still brings the oil and tinder, and if the rolling wood is ineffective, he will immediately set fire to the pontoon bridge." ”

"Whoa!"

"General Zhang!" Lu Xun turned to Zhang Ren and hugged his fists and said, "I'm tired." There are few generals and there are many dangers behind the Wei army, so it is limited to five days later. Five days later, regardless of whether they succeeded or not, they all crossed the Yangtze River and returned. ”

"Good!!"

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Four days later, Lu Xun really got the news that Fancheng's grain convoy had been attacked by bandits many times. And coincidentally, there was a township party in Linying County who was dissatisfied with Cao Wei's harsh government, which made Sun Li believe that it was the mob and bandits who attacked him instead of the Wu army, so he took 2,000 soldiers to exterminate the bandits, leaving Fancheng to Qin Lang to guard.

"The general is not in a good situation!" At this time, a personal guard came to Lu Xun's side and whispered.

Lu Xun's brows have never stretched, and he wrinkles even more tightly when he hears it. "What?"

"It's Wei Xu who is stationed in Jiangbei."

"Trapped? Damn Wei Xu! "Lu Xun didn't expect that Wei Xu and his trapped camp and Bingzhou cavalry did not follow Cao Xiu to Xiangyang City, but were in the north of the (Han River)." The army died down for a moment. ”

The more Lu Xun thought about it, the more wrong it became, such as trapping the camp and joining the state to ride such an elite as it was impossible to stay here to guard the pontoon bridge, and according to intelligence, Wei Xu was now under the command of Zhang Liao, and they were all transferred after the Xiliang Rebellion, and it was very likely that they were just passing by.

Half an hour later, just when Jiang Qin and his brothers were about to soak in edema, Wei Xu really led 700 traps and 1,000 Bingzhou cavalry to the north. As Lu Xun expected, Wei Xubu was indeed passing by, but he was going north to exterminate the bandits in Sun Li's mouth. Because the siege cavalry is not very useful, it is most suitable to deal with the bandits who attack the grain route. However, these are obviously not what Lu Xun guessed.

"Finally left, the whole army obeyed the order to march in a hurry and attack the Wei army"

"Whoa!" Time did not allow Wu Jun to maintain the way of conserving physical strength, and in desperation, Lu Xun had no choice but to order to speed up the gallop.

"Kill!" "Kill!"

The Wei army stationed in Jiangbei would never have thought that there would be enemy troops from behind and on their sides, and when the Wu army suddenly killed, many of these Wei troops still had many people drinking horses by the water.

"Enemy attack!" A terrible shout pierced the silence, and for a while, countless Wei soldiers and soldiers were looking for weapons, and even half of their armor was undressed, and at this time, they still needed to approve the armor, but obviously there was no such opportunity.

Although the Wu army did not have a fierce general, but the numerical advantage was obvious, a large number of Wu troops entered the battle to surround the two thousand regiments, and the Wu army formed a simple three-person formation and began to massacre these Wei troops.

"One, two, three." Jiang Qin also came out of the water at this time, and took hundreds of people to pave a path on the ground with logs, but this iron bull was indeed too heavy, and a dozen or so strong men couldn't push it.

Each of these iron oxen is as high as one meter long and two meters five, the shape is vivid, the front legs are pedaling, the hind legs are crouching, the horns are corrected, the head is raised, the cow body is strong and strong, and the tail is applied to the iron shaft to tie the pontoon. There is a mountain under the abdomen, and there are three iron pillars with a diameter of less than half a meter and a length of about two meters under it, which are connected obliquely in front of each other, and each iron pillar has a reverse extension iron foot respectively, and the function is the same as the ground anchor.

It is precisely because of these damn ground anchors that it is difficult for Jiang Qin and other soldiers to shake this iron bull, and it seems that Cao Xiu also took this factor into account when building the pontoon bridge.

"Damn, no. Take the oil and burn the bridge. Jiang Qin looked at the iron bull who had been pushing hard for a quarter of an hour but did not move at all, and scolded viciously, and had no choice but to choose a backup method.

"Whoa!"

At that moment, the Wu soldiers took out the saltpeter hidden in the oil paper and a bottle of fire oil that one person carried, poured them all into the boats under the pontoon, and by the way, they also hoarded all the logs near the iron ox and spread them with fire oil and saltpeter.

"Ignition!" Jiang Qin roared as he watched the battle come to an end on the north shore.

Then you can see a puff of smoke rise, dozens of pontoon bridges all burn together, and the entire river is printed in a fiery red. The firelight was obscured by the afternoon sun in a small visible area.

"Withdraw, quickly get out of the fight." Looking at the ships that came to meet them according to the schedule, Lu Xun immediately ordered. (To be continued......)