Chapter 576: Defeated again, Jiangdong wants to retreat
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"Withdraw!" Seeing smoke on both sides, Sun Quan hesitated for a moment and ordered a retreat. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Compared with Wuling, the Fuguan camp is more important, after all, there are still 100,000 troops there, and there are countless grains, grasses, and materials! Hearing Sun Quan's order, LΓΌ Meng no longer hesitated and immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops. However, no one expected that Wuling had indeed been captured, but the Fuguan camp was as stable as Mount Tai!
"Zijing, what do you say Zhou Yu is doing?" Since I got up in the morning, I saw Zhou Yu's corporal doing something inexplicable, Zhu Zhi really didn't understand, so he called Lu Su here!
"Zhou Yu is so wise, I can't guess what he wants to do! Still, the general is on guard and beware of his tricks! Watching Zhou Yu command his soldiers to cut down big trees one by one, chop them into firewood, and then carry them to the Jiangdong Army camp and pile them up, Lu Su was also confused! However, he believed that Zhou Yu would not do useless work, so he monitored at the camp gate!
How strong is the cutting power of 50,000 soldiers? Even if two people cut down one tree and eight people carry it, they can cut down 5,000 trees at a time. Of course, Zhou Yu didn't need so much, he only sent 10,000 soldiers to cut down trees, and he also sent 10,000 soldiers to chop trees into firewood. When Lu Su knew what he wanted to do, he couldn't stop it!
Fire, raging fires rose into the sky. A mountain of firewood was poured with tung oil. After a torch, Lu Su and Zhu Zhi were stunned! Looking at the smoke billowing above the fire, and then looking at Zhou Yu behind the fire, Lu Su was shocked: "General Zhu, he is lying to the lord to return to the division, and quickly lead his troops to extinguish the fire!" β
"Pass my orders and go out to fight the fire!" Zhu Zhi was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what Lu Su meant, and he mobilized his army to prepare to fight the fire. But since Zhou Yu decided to attract Sun Quan's attention, how could anyone interfere with his plans? Before the Jiangdong army left the camp gate, it was shot back by a rain of arrows. Liu Zhangjun's strong bow and crossbow are not vegetarian!
Seeing that the walled gate and walled wall on which he relied for survival turned into an obstacle, Zhu Zhi was a little at a loss, he pulled Lu Su and asked: "Zijing, our army can't rush out, what should I do?" β
"This..."Lu Su was also a little numb, he really didn't expect Zhou Yu to use this method, and he also knew that Zhou Yu did this for two purposes, one was to attract Sun Quan to come back for help, and the other was to lure the Jiangdong army out of the camp. A clear conspiracy is more difficult to deal with than a conspiracy! After thinking for a while, Lu Su gritted his teeth and said, "General Zhu, if the lord sees the fireworks and comes back to help, everything will be over!" Do you dare to take a gamble, tear down the wall, and raid Zhou Yu with the whole army? β
"Tear down the wall?" Zhu Zhi hesitated: "Zijing, there are still a lot of supplies in the camp, if the wall is demolished, what if Zhou Yu takes the opportunity to plunder and burn our army's grain, grass and materials?" β
Lu Su didn't answer, but narrowed his eyes and asked, "Compared with Wuling, where are there more supplies in the camp?" β
"Wuling, of course!" Zhu Zhi suddenly realized, he smiled slightly: "It's me who is confused!" Give the order to go down, tear down the gate and wall, and follow me out of the camp! β
After a few loud bangs, the gates and walls of the Jiangdong Army collapsed, and a group of Jiangdong soldiers rushed towards Zhou Yu's army. Zhou Yu was not surprised when he saw this, he left a team of people to guard the fire, and ordered his corporal to form a formation to prepare to meet the enemy! Although the Jiangdong soldiers were twice as large as Zhou Yu's army, because Zhu Zhi still left some people to guard the supplies in the camp, the strength of the two armies was drawn closer a lot! What's more, Zhou Yu's wisdom can also make up for some gaps!
Liu Zhangjun's foot soldiers are well-known elites, even if they are less than the Jiangdong army, but they do not fall into the wind. Although Zhu Zhi is a general in Jiangdong, his martial arts are almost the same as Zhou Yu, and he is also a Confucian general. Since both of them are Confucian generals, they can only be more elite than whose soldiers! However, when it comes to the art of conducting, Zhou Yu is still more clever, so Zhu Zhi reluctantly relied on the number of people to fight a draw with Zhou Yu!
"Leave the command to me!" Seeing that the fire was getting stronger and stronger, and the smoke almost covered half of the battalion, Lu Su was so anxious that he had to seize Zhu Zhi's command.
"Okay, I'll leave it to you here, I'll guard the camp!" Knowing that Zhou Yu was not a fierce general, Zhu Zhi was also relieved to hand over the command to Lu Su, and he believed that it was the best choice for Lu Su to deal with Zhou Yu!
Glancing at Zhu Zhi deeply, Lu Su did not speak, he took the order and directly commanded the Jiangdong Army. Under the command of Lu Su, the Jiangdong Army's attacks became more and more sharp, and the cooperation between the various arms became more tacit, so that Zhu Zhi, the old general, had to obey. Of course, if Lu Su didn't have any ability, how could Sun Quan rely on him!
In history, Zhuge Liang once said: "The road is guarded by Rao Zijing, and there is Zhou Lang in the water battle on the river." "Not to mention, Lu Su is really talented in army command. It didn't take long for him to regain his disadvantage and slowly approach the fire. The blood shed by the two soldiers during the fight flowed down the earth into the fire, making a gurgling sound. A strong fishy smell fills the air!
"Kill!" The two armies started a tug-of-war around the fire, and Zhou Yu relied on the elite soldiers to hold on to Lu Su, but it can be seen from the distance from the fire that Zhou Yu gradually fell into disadvantage. It's not that Zhou Yu is inferior to Lu Su, but that he has fewer corporals. However, as long as the fire still exists, the thick black smoke still wafts, and nothing else matters!
The two armies were in a stalemate for three hours, from morning to evening, and in the afternoon, Sun Quan was defeated twice in a row by Zhang Liao and Pang Tong, and he also saw thick smoke. In order not to break the camp, and in order to avoid the edge of Zhang Liao and Pang De, Sun Quan hurried up and rushed to the Fuguan camp with the army.
Sun Quan wanted to run, how could Pang De and Zhang Liao agree? The two of them chased after with 100,000 cavalry! In the pursuit, countless Jiangdong soldiers died under the butcher's knives of the two, and a large number of Jiangdong soldiers fell behind and fled. But Sun Quan has no time to pay attention to these things, he is worried about the Fuguan camp!
Before coming to the Fuguan camp, the fire had been extinguished, Lu Su worked hard to seize control of the fire, and naturally he wanted to extinguish the fire as soon as possible, but when he saw Sun Quan, he almost cried! Thinking of the useless work he had done for a long time, Lu Su's whole body began to tremble, he glared at Zhou Yu angrily, and shouted: "Zhou Gongjin, I will never die with you today!" β
"Who's afraid of whom?" There was a trace of contempt in Zhou Yu's eyes, not that he looked down on Lu Su, but that he wanted to provoke Lu Su. No matter how wise and wise a commander is, under the blindness of anger, the level of command will inevitably be abnormal. It's just that he underestimated Lu Su, even when he was angry, as a commander, Lu Su would not lose his mind!
"Zijing, what's going on?" Seeing that the camp was fine, Sun Quan breathed a sigh of relief, but he looked at the pile of ashes in front of the camp, and he couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart!
"Zhou Yu set fire to smoke here, attracting the attention of the lord, his subordinates should be damned, he failed to see through his conspiracy as soon as possible, and harmed the lord to come back!" Lu Su lowered his head in shame, he didn't know that Wuling had been lost, and he didn't know that Sun Quan was forced to return to the army by Zhang Liao and Pang De!
"I don't blame you!" Sun Quan sighed and said; "I was ambushed on the way to rescue and was forced to retreat, and Dinggong also encountered an ambush along the way, and Dinggong was killed! Later, I joined forces and tried to force a breakthrough, but was blocked by General Liu Zhangjun. Seeing the smoke rising from Wuling, this is the only way to come to the rescue! β
"So, Wuling is lost?" Lu Su was shocked, and there was an unknown meaning in his eyes.
"It should be lost!" Sun Quan shook his head and said: "The Pang Tong army can use cavalry to attack the city, last time they captured Wuling in only half an hour, this time it took a few hours to break the city, it is already slow!" β
"My lord, what should our army do?" Lu Su frowned; "Without Wuling transit materials, we can't stay under Fuguan. Unless you're willing to raise the walls of Wuling and dig deep into the moat..."
Lu Su didn't finish speaking, but Sun Quan understood what he meant. Since Pang Tong can break through Wuling twice, he can break through the third time. In today's situation, either ruthlessly build Wuling, or abandon Wuling. After thinking for a while, Sun Quan sighed: "Forget it, our army no longer has the strength to compete with Liu Zhang, so it's better to retreat!" β
"This..."Lu Su exclaimed: "Lord, are you willing to retreat like this?" β
"What if you are unwilling?" Sun Quan smiled bitterly: "Do you have a way to defeat Liu Zhang?" If you look at the opposite side, although our army still has nearly 300,000 troops, there are also 150,000 or 60,000 troops on the opposite side. With Zhou Yu's ability, if he uses infantry to resist our army, and then uses cavalry to outflank from both flanks, does our army have any hope of victory? Rather than spend it like this, it is better to withdraw the soldiers to Jiangdong to protect the foundation! With these soldiers, coupled with the Yangtze River moat, it should be able to stop Liu Zhang! β
"Lord, you..." Seeing that Sun Quan was only thinking about self-preservation, Lu Su's eyes showed disappointment. With the current situation, if Cao Ying was defeated, it would be impossible for Jiangdong to have the ability to protect himself, and he really couldn't imagine that Sun Quan would be so short-sighted. But Sun Quan seems to have made up his mind, and he doesn't want to persuade him anymore!
"Collect the troops and return to the camp!" Since he wanted to protect himself, Sun Quan was not in the mood to fight with Zhou Yu again, he returned to the camp with the Jiangdong Army, preparing to withdraw the army, and Zhou Yu and the others on the opposite side saw the Jiangdong Army returning to the camp, so they naturally retreated!
Originally, Zhou Yu wanted to invite Pang De and Zhang Liao to Fuguan, but the two wanted to go to restore their lives, so Zhou Yu did not force them to stay. When the two of them saw Pang Tong, Pang Tong was already sitting in the city guard mansion! In fact, the wolf smoke that Sun Quan saw was not released by Pang Tong, but Dong Xi burned a granary to remind Sun Quan that Wuling was a trap.
It's a pity that Dong Xi didn't know that no matter whether he burned the granary or not, Sun Quan couldn't come to Wuling, but he also paid the price for ignorance. After setting the fire, he met Zhang Fei and was picked off his horse by a spear! As for Ling Tong, another defender of Wuling, he was quite lucky and jumped off the city at the last moment. Of course, it is unknown whether he can escape in the chaos of war!
(To be continued)