Compared with Luoyang, where Cao Xiu is located, the Shouchun of Sun Shao's garrison is much closer to Xiapi, but why did Cao Xiu swear to intercept Sun Shao's army? This is for a reason, Sun Shao's hands originally had the Ding brothers, Lujiang Taishou Xu Sheng, Huainan Taishou Zhu Huan, Poyang Taishou Zhou Yi and other armies, but when Qiao Ren returned to Jianye from Lujiang, he brought Sun Shao's love Liu Xun, Xu Sheng of Lujiang, and Zhou Yi of Poyang back to Jianye Qinwang, and the current army of these three people is slowly and leisurely coming to Shouchun with Qiao Ren.

At this time, there were only more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under Shouchun Sun Shao, less than 30,000. Not only did he have to outflank Xiapi but also defend his own Shouchun, which was stretched, so the Prime Minister and the East China Sea fought so hotly, but Sun Shao of Shouchun did not leave the city at all, in order to wait for the arrival of Xu Sheng and others.

Although Cao Xiu was far away in Luoyang, it would not take too much time for him to gather his army, and the terrain of the Central Plains was flat, and the galloping roads were dense, and the time it took for Cao Xiu to rush from Luoyang to the north of Shouchun was actually not more than the time for Xu Sheng and others to reach Shouchun.

In Shouchun City, Jiujiang County, Yang Mu, Jiujiang Taishou, and Zhenbei General Sun Shao read the simple letters in their hands with great interest, and their faces showed a knowing smile from time to time.

"Go back and tell the Metropolitan Governor that King Gu will definitely cooperate." Sun Shao carefully put the letter into his arms, and said to the messenger: "Come on, send him to rest." ”

At this time, there were two knights with personal guards to deliver the letter, and they went to the wing room or some place to rest.

"King, what did Dai Dudu say?" Hao Zhao asked curiously with a poker face.

Sun Shao rubbed his hands that looked a little cold when he read the letter, spit out a breath of warmth, and said slowly: "The Metropolitan Governor wants to encircle and annihilate Cao Xiu's reinforcements. ”

"Oh!?" Hao Zhao Gujing Wubo's face showed a hint of surprise, and he asked, "Dai Dudu is sure." Zang Xuangao is not an easy person, will he be seen through but will break the suspicious soldiers in Xuzhou. ”

"The Metropolitan Governor is stationed in the lower minister. The stone henge was laid down, and the Xishan camp and the Xiaxiang City were built as horns for each other, and it was difficult to take it even if Zang Ba came to attack it for four or five months. Sun Shao is quite relieved of Dai Gang's formation, Dai Gang is proficient in Sun Bin's ten formations, and Zhou Yu has personally passed it on, which can be called the formation at that time.

Ding Feng smiled when he heard this: "In this case, all we need to do is wait, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will arrive." ”

Shouchun is a military town, even if Sun Shao wants to go north, he has to leave a large army to defend it, but Sun Shao's total of more than 20,000 people to participate in the attack is still too little, how can there be any people left behind!! Therefore, Sun Ce specially arranged for the crown prince Sun Shao to sit in Jiujiang County. It was to take into account Shouchun, otherwise if Sun Shao's troops fell into the Xiapi battle, Cao Xiu would be in trouble to surround Wei to save Zhao Ke, of course, Sun Ce didn't know that Dai Gang was fighting to pay attention to encircling the point to help.

"Cao Xiu's troops are almost in Qianjun, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has just walked to Hefei. Let's not rush!! Zhu Huan frowned.

"That's a problem, too!" Sun Shao's hands were rubbed together and then he put them in his sleeves. At this time, he waved his sleeves and said, "Send someone to the plan of the Lieutenant General Dai Dudu of the Prince Army." Please, Captain, decide. ”

Sun Shao knows very well that although he is Sun Shao's brother, his status is very embarrassing, and some things are not appropriate for him to say in person, it would be much better to hand them over to Qiao Ren, this is not enough for outsiders.

Compared with the tepid on the Eastern Front, the fighting on the Western Front was much hotter.

Wu Huanglong for seven years. The beginning of the new year. The Jingzhou army went to the south of Xinye to set up camp, and within two days, Lu Xun patrolled the camp day and night, and he would bow in person. Mobilize rangers to patrol the surrounding area, and many times a lot of tigers will press on the head of the city to check the terrain of Xinye.

And the enemy army could not retreat, but the generals of the Wu army became more and more aware of the fighting spirit of the defenders. During this time, the army cut down trees and built siege equipment around the clock. Coming with the army, there were already some high-grade ordnance placed in the Xiangyang Treasury, but Lu Xun was still prepared to build more and more out of the importance of Xinye City, after all, this was the first battle in which he really became famous.

This was his first battle after becoming the governor of the capital, and almost all of Wu's troops in Jingzhou were mobilized, and 50,000 troops surrounded Xinye. Although the Xinye City was well repaired, it was burned by Liu Bei and Lu Xun himself, and now there is not a single common person in the city except for Wen Ping and Pang De's Wei army. But Pang De is a general who makes good use of cavalry, and there are no less than 1,000 Xiliang iron cavalry in the city, which makes Lu Xun have to pay attention.

Three days. Whether it was the Wei army in Xinye or the Wu army outside the city, they all maintained an eerie peace. Lu Xun's cautious and strict defense certainly made Wen Ping and Pang De in the city feel that they couldn't start, but the precipitousness of the newly built Xinye City and the cavalry in the city also made Lu Xun feel that no matter how many siege equipment he had, he was a little powerless.

However, Lu Xun couldn't wait any longer after all, at this time, Wu Junjun's heart was strong, and he would inevitably be exhausted after waiting for a long time. Lu Xun's biggest advantage in leading the troops this time is that the soldiers and horses are 40,000 more than the 10,000 guards in Xinye City, and he also has the psychological advantage of slaughtering Xinye. If Luoyang's reinforcements are called, the only thing left is a psychological advantage.

With the first morning three days later, the sky was dawning, and a loud military horn outside the city sounded, long and deep, this unveiling could not help but make everyone in Lu Xun's camp high. But in the same way, the loud sound of the horn made the defenders in Xinye City all look solemn.

The war drums beat, on one side, on ten sides, on one side, on one side, on one side, with that sonorous and powerful pace, the front three thousand soldiers and horses supervised by Lu Xun stepped into Xinye's sight in an orderly manner.

On the city wall glowing with earth light, Wen Ping was dressed in a silver armor robe, his eyes were deep but a little cold, looking at the outside of the city, the gray-clothed army array advancing layer by layer, his face was extremely solemn.

After Lu Xun's generals arrived, they had three strict orders, not daring to have the slightest fatigue, and at this moment, the war drums of the two armies were beating together, adding to the killing intent, shrouding this ten miles of land in a bloody confusion.

Before the war began, the air began to be filled with a strong smell of blood. Seeing such a scene, all the soldiers knew in their hearts that the purgatory of life and death was about to be staged again. Siege warfare is a flesh mill, whether you attack or defend it, you die or I die.

Lu Xun was dressed in a white robe, wrapped in delicate Mingguang armor, and stood on a high slope with a horse, and behind him the Chinese army sheng flag was closed in the air, and the knife face was imprinted. Lu Xun slowly raised his handsome face and looked at the towering city wall, although his face was still unfazed, but there were all kinds of worries in his heart.

At the beginning, he was able to burn Xinye, and even more so to destroy Wei Xu and his trapped camp because he had the new thunderbolts and incendiary bombs transported by Jianye, but in this era without oil, incendiary bombs are not so easy to make. Jianye's incendiary bombs mainly relied on flammable materials refined from fish fat, and Jingzhou was far away from the sea, where did the fish fat come from, so although Lu Xun brought a lot of thunderbolts and ballistas this time, there were no incendiary bombs, and there were cavalry in the Wei army, and the thunderbolts did not dare to get too far ahead, and the hit rate of the thunderbolts in the back was too low.

Looking at the incomparably familiar Xinye City in front of him, Lu Xun decided to test it first.

"Ballista, Breakshot!!"

Knock knock! Knock knock! Behind Lu Xun was a phalanx composed of war drums, and after Lu Xun gave an order, hundreds of war drums roared together, accurately converting Lu Xun's order into drums, and then conveying them to the entire battlefield.

Although Lu Xun ordered, Cheng Shi, the commander-in-chief of the ballista and thunderbolt, held the Iron Spine Snake Spear in one hand, squinted one eye with his pestle, stretched out two fingers and kept looking at the head of Xinye Castle.

"The thunderbolt is five inches to the east, the ballista is three meters above (three meters away), shoot!" After Cheng Zhi finished adjusting Zhu Yuan, he yelled and gave orders.

Knock knock!! The drums sounded in unison, accompanied by countless wooden spears flying stones to the city wall, but due to the distance between the thunderbolt and the ballista cart was relatively far away from the city wall, this wave of shooting had little effect, and the wooden spears were better, and most of them were shot on the city wall, and there was some effect. The boulders were ridiculously close, except for a few in the middle of the city wall, all of the others fell in front of the city wall.

"One more meter higher Thunderbolt, one more shot!!" Seeing that the results were not good, Cheng Shi looked very angry and yelled and commanded the soldiers to adjust.

Rumble! The flying stones shot from the sky are even more difficult to control, and the effect of this wave of flying stones is worse than the last time, and only one shot falls on the city wall. Lu Xun looked at the thunderbolt and ballista and couldn't see the work, and his face sank like water. (To be continued......)