Chapter 45 Expedition Planning, Luling Confrontation

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The earth is rejuvenated, everything is revived, but the cold wind is still there.

No matter how the princes of the world talk about and look at Liu Xiu, Liu Xiu at this time has already begun to carry out the final integration of soldiers and horses in the military camp, just waiting for tomorrow to go on the expedition.

Compared with the lineup of 5,000 vanguard troops in Jingnan, Liu Xiu sent 40,000 troops to Yuzhang County this time; Among them, Yang Liulang led 10,000 sailors to set off from the Dongting Lake waterway; Liu Xiu himself, Wei Rui, Liu Bowen and others led 30,000 soldiers and horses from Guiyang County to Yuzhang County, passing through Nanye, Ganxian County, Luling, and finally meeting Nanchang, while Fang Xuanling led 10,000 soldiers and horses to stay in Guiyang County and was in charge of grain and grass allocation; As for Xie Xuan, he is still guarding Changsha to guard against Jingbei Cai and others!

To say that Liu Xiu did not raise his troops and horses to attack Yuzhang, in addition to the relationship between grain and grass restrictions, the main reason is that in this small Yuzhang County, there were Liu Xuan, who was defeated and fled to Panyang, Zhuge Xuan, who was recommended by Liu Biao as the Taishou and occupied Nanchang, and Zhou Yu, who abducted thousands of men and horses from Guiyang and withdrew to Luling, the three forces balanced each other, and the number of troops never exceeded 40,000, so Liu Xiu only used 40,000 troops

Outside Guiyang County, in the camp under Liu Xiu,

Liu Xiu was standing on the high platform at this time, looking at the 30,000 troops under the stage, and shouted impassionedly: "Soldiers, according to the report, Zhang Xian still has more than one party to flee into Yuzhang County, and this trip will definitely wipe out this group of rebellious ministers and thieves, so as to make meritorious contributions!" Are the soldiers willing to follow this general to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions?! ”

"Yes! Willing! ”

"Make a difference! Make a difference! ”

"Good!" Liu Xiu waved his hand and continued: "Tonight, all the soldiers will eat, drink and rest, and from tomorrow, they will kill the enemy with this general!" Make contributions! ”

In the military tent of the large camp, Liu Xiu looked around at the civil and military forces, and suddenly found that since the territory was larger, it seemed that there were no longer enough talents;

Fang Xuanling needs to stay in the rear to guard the door for him, Xie Xuan must guard Jingbei for him, and Yang Ye has not officially returned to the account, only Liu Bowen and Wei Rui are left who can give him advice at any time, and now there are only Luo Cheng and Yang Sanlang who are brave and good at fighting around him;

When Liu Xiu thought of this, he couldn't help but feel distressed in his heart: There are not enough talents!

But now is not the time to think about this, shaking his head, Liu Xiu adjusted his thoughts back to the current question, and asked Liu Bowen and Wei Rui: "Now that the expedition is imminent, is there a clever way to quickly pacify Yuzhang?" ”

When Liu Bowen and Wei Rui heard this, they looked at each other, and Liu Bowen spoke first: "If the lord wants to pacify Yuzhang, there are three enemies, and the first obstacle is Luling Zhou Yu; Zhou Yu occupied Luling for just over two months, and his soldiers and horses were only 5,000, and his purpose was only to block the expansion of the lord, so it would not be easy for the lord to quickly capture Luling! ”

"Indeed!" Liu Xiu also frowned and analyzed: "This Zhou Yu is simply here to delay the advance of our army, so as to buy time for Sun Ce, but I am afraid that Zhou Yu will not be able to hold out at that time!" ”

The more Liu Xiu analyzed, the more he felt that Zhou Yu was in trouble, he couldn't be caught, he couldn't be killed, but he was always embarrassed by him, so he said hatefully: "If it weren't for the beginning of our army, the time and grass were limited, otherwise I would have attacked Luling City and captured Zhou Yu!" ”

Liu Bowen smiled, shook the feather fan and said, "The lord doesn't need to care too much about Zhou Yu this time!" ”

"What do you mean?" Liu Xiu wondered.

"Zhou Yu is to delay the time of the lord, so the lord left General Wei to entangle with Zhou Yu, and we will directly bypass Luling City and take Nanchang County first; And Zhuge Xuannai in Nanchang County is under the command of Liu Jingzhou, and his person is a scribe, so it is easiest to take Nanchang! ”

"Brilliant plan!" When Liu Xiu heard this, he pondered it carefully and praised: "In this way, I won't go to Luling City, but go directly to Nanchang County?" ”

"No, no!" This time, it was Wei Rui who answered: "The lord still needs to go to Luling City to fight with Zhou Yu, but after the battle, the lord can lead his troops to secretly detour first, and stay with him!" ”

Liu Xiu's eyes lit up, and he clapped happily: "Okay!" I'll give Zhou Yu a 'Ming Xiu Plank Road, Dark Chen Cang', and when I capture the rest of Yuzhang, I will go back and clean up Zhou Yu! Quack"

For a while, Liu Xiu's laughter was weird, and the eighth and ninth sisters on the side frowned, and the eighth sister said in disgust: "Brother Ji Xu's laughter is really ugly!" As he spoke, he waved his hand in disgust

"Hey, hey, hey"

Early the next morning, Liu Xiu and the others led an army of 30,000 and went to the direction of Luling to kill!

In the next few days, wherever Liu Xiu's army passed, they easily took those inconsequential small cities, and smoothly came to the Luling City where Zhou Yu was!

Liu Xiu set up a formation under Luling City, and Zhou Yu only had 5,000 people in the city, so it was naturally impossible to open the city to meet the enemy, so there was no so-called fighting general on both sides, and they were just waiting for the battle.

Zhou Yu saw Liu Xiu and shouted loudly: "I don't know what the Marquis of Chu is doing when he comes to my Luling City today?" ”

When Liu Xiu heard this, he also replied loudly: "This general heard that the remnants of the rebellious Zhang Xian fled into Luling City, and asked Senior Brother Gongjin to open the city gate, let me wait in and search for it!" ”

This statement of arresting Zhang Xian's remnants is naturally an excuse, in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the imperial court was still there, no matter what kind of war was fought, there must always be a good excuse!

Zhou Yu didn't care what excuse Liu Xiu used, he just objected: "There is no rebellion in this Luling City that Chu Hou wants, Chu Hou should go out to him!" ”

Liu Xiu said forcefully: "Yes or no, you open the door and let General Ben go in and search, so that you can know!" Otherwise, don't blame General Ben for being unpredictable! ”

Zhou Yu also said politely: "No is no!" It's useless to say more! ”

Zhou Yu actually guessed that Liu Xiu would come, but he never thought that Liu Xiu would come so quickly, let alone that his heart to attack the city was so strong, it seemed that this meant that he was going to attack?!

Liu Xiu is just starting to gain power, isn't he afraid of attacking and losing heavily?!

Zhou Yu thought secretly, but the orders did not stop, and all kinds of rolling stones and sassalwoods were ready.

Liu Xiu no longer talked to Zhou Yu about it, and directly ordered the siege equipment to go into battle, the sword and shield soldiers defended, and the archers covered, gradually approaching the city wall!

I saw that the soldiers under Liu Xiu's command would rush to the Luling City like a rushing car, a ladder, and a catapult!

For a moment, boulders roared overhead, and rushing cars and ladders took the opportunity to quickly advance towards the city wall.

Wei Rui calmly commanded, and when he saw the opportunity, he kept charging!

It's a pity that Zhou Yu's ability is not idle, Luling City has already been arranged by him in the past few months, if it is not for the grain and grass and soldiers and horses, it is easy to hold it for a year and a half.

After Liu Xiu handed over the command to Wei Rui, he watched from the rear, he only saw that his soldiers kept falling, and there were constantly latecomers to make up for them, and the losses were not heavy, and he repeatedly said in his heart: This storming the city is really the stupidest tactic.

Fortunately, after only half an hour, Wei Rui also ordered a retreat, and a tough battle came down, although it brought a lot of losses to Zhou Yu's side, but the city did not attack half a point, and his own soldiers and horses had lost more than 1,000 people.

Liu Xiu looked at Zhou Yu in Luling City from a distance, and coldly ordered,

"Withdraw!"

(PS: Not enough talent?) Hold your horses! Soon the summoning will continue! Guess what kind of talent)