Sun Xiu's purpose of advancing north from Jingzhou this time was to cooperate with Lu Kang's actions on the eastern front, that is to say, when Lu Kang marched north from Yiyang and launched an attack on Tiger Pass, Sun Xiu had already sent troops to Jingzhou. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

According to Sun Xiu's original intention, the first target to attack was Xiangyang, this important town belonging to Jingzhou has always been the dream of Wu Guo to take the target, with Jiang Wei and Zhong Hui's northward advance, the Han army left in Jingzhou can not even exceed 10,000 people, and it is definitely the best time to attack Xiangyang at this moment.

However, Lu Kang ordered Sun Xiu not to attack Xiangyang, but to bypass Xiangyang and march to Luyang and Xiangcheng to put pressure on the Han army in Luoyang to respond to the actions of the Wu army on the eastern front.

Now Wu's appetite is no longer a city like Xiangyang, Lu Kang's march this time is to try to play a big game, directly take Luoyang, if Sun Xiu goes to attack Xiangyang, it will undoubtedly deviate from the main battlefield, no help to the progress of Wu's army, now the capture of Luoyang is the top priority, taking Luoyang, is equivalent to ruling most of the world, as for Xiangyang this kind of city, it is not to capture.

Sun Xiu is very entangled, after all, Xiangyang only has less than 10,000 troops of the Han army, and with 50,000 troops in his hands, it is relatively good to eat Xiangyang, and now let him bypass Xiangyang and go north to Luyang and Xiangyang to fight Luoyang, this is obviously a more difficult errand.

However, Lu Kang is the great Sima and the governor of the capital, although his military order is not as good as the emperor's order, but it is also full of weight, the consequences of disobeying the military order, Sun Xiu is absolutely unbearable, as a last resort, he can only give up the fat to his mouth, bypass Xiangyang, and attack Luyang and Xiangcheng directly.

The guard of Xiangyang is called Yu Kun, Jiang Wei was ordered to stay in Xiangyang when he went north, in the Jingzhou area, the Han army only left less than 10,000 troops, at this moment in Xiangyang City, there are only 7,000 people at most, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, with this little force, it is difficult to hold Xiangyang, in the face of the Wu army that passed by, lent him Yu Kun ten dares and did not dare to go out of the city to block the Wu army.

Sun Xiu even deliberately lined up the team when passing through Xiangyang, revealing flaws and trying to lure the Han army out of the city to attack, in Sun Xiu's opinion, if he could take the opportunity to take Xiangyang by the way and not waste time, Lu Kang would definitely not be to blame.

But Yu Kun was self-aware, and he was not fooled, and in the face of Wu Jun's provocation, he didn't pay attention to it at all, just stayed in the city, strictly guarded it, and let Wu Jun go around the city to the north.

Yu Kun's duty is to hold Xiangyang City, as for the purpose of Wu Jun's trip to the north, it has nothing to do with him, even if Wu Jun hits Luoyang, it has nothing to do with him, no one will blame him, with thousands of Han troops want to block tens of thousands of Wu troops, it is completely a mantis arm as a car, this kind of stupid thing Yu Kun will not do.

Seeing Wu Jun go north, Yu Kun straightened his helmet as if nothing happened, only Xiangyang was not lost, he had already fulfilled his duty, as for the rest, except for sending someone to Luoyang to play a letter, it had nothing to do with him.

The defenders of Xiangyang are not set, Sun Xiu is also helpless, even if there are only a few thousand defenders, Sun Xiu wants to eat Xiangyang, it is not an overnight thing, and Lu Kang has issued a death order, asking him to rush to Luyang as soon as possible, and cooperate with the main force of the Wu army to attack Luoyang, he does not dare to delay more time in Xiangyang, and drive north all the way, pointing directly at Luyang.

The time when Sun Xiu arrived in Luyang was basically when Lu Kang had just taken the Tiger Prison Pass, although Luyang and Xiangcheng were also regarded as areas controlled by the Han army, but at best they were just inserted into a Chinese character flag, and the officials here were still the old officials of the former Jin Dynasty, with the fall of the former Jin Dynasty, they changed their faces to become officials of Ji Han, there was no Han army stationed in these places at all, only some local civilian troops, scattered, in addition to maintaining local order, there was no combat effectiveness at all, When Sun Xiu took the two county towns of Luyang and Xiangcheng, it was almost effortless.

But further north from Luyang, is the Han army's assembly place of Yuyuan Pass, Guangcheng Pass, Dagu Pass, in this area, but there are more than 100,000 garrisons of the Han army, Sun Xiu found out the truth, shocked into a cold sweat, hurriedly stopped advancing, sent people to get in touch with Lu Kang, and asked for instructions on whether to continue to attack Luoyang.

Just kidding, there are more than 100,000 horses of the Han army in front, just crashing headlong, wouldn't it be to hit the head and break the bloodstream?

On this way, Sun Xiu did not encounter a strong enemy, and the march was very smooth, he even thought that it was really a smooth road to Luoyang, but just after Luyang, he poured a basin of cold water on him, which made him sober up a lot, it seems that it is not easy to take Luoyang.

However, Sun Xiu's trip is only to deal with Lu Kang, his way is not the direction of the main attack, since he has arrived at the designated place of Lu Kang, Sun Xiu can be regarded as having completed the task, as for the next arrangement, it still needs to be instructed by Lu Kang.

Sun Xiu took the initiative to send someone to contact Lu Kang, and soon got Lu Kang's reply, Lu Kang had also attacked Luoyang City at this time, and was about to launch the final general attack on Luoyang City.

As for whether Sun Xiu was able to defeat the Han army in Luoyang, drive straight to Luoyang, and capture Luoyang City with his army, even Lu Kang thought it was wishful thinking.

Lu Kang's request was only to order Sun Xiu to operate in the Luyang area, to contain the Han army in Luonan, and let them take care of reinforcements to Luoyang without flaw. Sun Xiu couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, Yuyuan Pass, Guangcheng Pass, and Dagu Pass are the three of the eight passes in Luoyang, and the degree of danger is self-evident, plus the strength of the Han army stationed here far exceeds that of the Wu army, Sun Xiu wants to break through the three passes heavily guarded, and the difficulty is self-evident. Now Lu Kang's order is only to contain the Han army, and there is no hard indicator for Sun Xiu to break the enemy and rush to Luoyang, which makes Sun Xiu a lot easier.

After all, attacking and containment are two different strategic tasks, if you attack, with Sun Xiu's strength, it is really not enough to see, but the containment is different, Sun Xiu only needs to carry out some nuisance to the Han army on the periphery, so that the Han army cannot send troops to reinforce Luoyang, such a battle, for Sun Xiu, is at ease.

But at the same time, Jiang Bin received Liu Yin's order to lead his troops south to Luyang and started a face-to-face battle with Sun Xiu.