Hu Ji was worshiped as the governor of Zhengnan and had the right to control the troops and horses of all roads, so after arriving in Xiangyang, he issued an order to Fu Bai, the governor of Pingnan, to lead his troops to attack Jiangling in order to contain the Wu army attacking Xiling. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It stands to reason that Hu Ji's Governor of Zhengnan is not much higher than Fu Ji's Governor of Pingnan, but he is now a fake festival, and he is on the orders of the emperor to go on the expedition, and he has the power to control the soldiers and horses of all roads, which is comparable to the minister of Qincha.

However, Hu Ji's tone of intimidation made Fu Ji's generals quite annoyed, thinking that even King Yong had never treated Fu Yi so pretendiously.

Zhuge Shang said angrily: "Governor Hu is simply too deceitful, he and the Metropolitan Governor are only at the same level, what qualifications do you have to be so arrogant?" ”

Fu Yan was calm, and said: "Since Commander Hu has His Majesty's order, we will naturally obey it, General Zhuge , you immediately gather all the men and horses and march to Jiangling." ”

Zhuge Shang said dissatisfiedly: "Commander Hu led his troops to fight Xiling, but let us be a partial division to attack Jiangling to contain the Wu army, obviously wanting to take the credit alone." ”

Fu Yan smiled and said: "Okay, don't complain, since Commander Hu is the commander, he naturally has the power to transfer troops, we just need to do our part, as for the result, it is not humanly determined." ”

Although there are 100,000 troops under the command of Fu Yan, but the distribution is very wide, from Xuzhou in the east, to Yizhou in the west, the battle line stretches for four or five thousand miles, in the Jingzhou area, only the strength of the White Emperor Army and another army, a total of more than 30,000 people, after receiving the order, Fu Tong immediately mobilized all the troops and horses, from Jingzhou to the south, launched an attack on Jiangling.

In addition to Fu Ji's men, Hu Ji also ordered Wang Jun, the assassin of Yizhou, to send troops from Yong'an to attack Jianping County of Wu and form an offensive from the upper reaches of Xiling.

Hu Ji's move to "encircle Wei and save Zhao" can be called a two-pronged approach, whether it is Jianping County in the upper reaches of Xiling or Jiangling City in the lower reaches of Xiling, they are both strategic and critical places for Wu State, and they are all urgent places for defense, Hu Ji does not believe that Zhou will ignore them. Once Zhou sent troops to rescue Jiangling and Jianping, then the strength of the Wu army to attack Xiling would be greatly reduced, and at this time, Hu Ji led the army to advance, and he could easily relieve the siege of Xiling.

Therefore, after arriving in Linfang, Hu Ji did not rush to march, but waited for Fu Ji to send troops to Jiangling and Wang Jun to send troops to Jianping, and then he ordered his troops and horses and marched to Xiling.

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The news of the Han army's large-scale reinforcements reached the Wu army camp in Xiling, and the Wu army was panicked. Zhou Chuzi led his troops from Wuchang to the west, and had besieged Xiling continuously for more than 20 days, Cen An knew that once the city was broken, he would definitely die without a place to be buried, so he resisted desperately and refused to surrender.

Xiling is a fortress city that Wu has painstakingly operated for many years, the defense is solid, far better than the general city, although Cen An has only more than 20,000 men and horses, and the 80,000 troops around are at an absolute disadvantage, but relying on the solid defense of Xiling City, the Wu army has attacked continuously for more than 20 days, and has never been able to break through the wall of Xiling.

Just when the attack of the Wu army was in a hurry, the three-way reinforcements of the Han army had arrived, and the Wu army was in an uproar.

Xue Ying, the governor of the left department of Wuchang, said worriedly: "Jiangling is the seat of Jingzhou Prefecture, once it is lost, the country will be shaken, and the governor of the capital must divide his troops to ensure that Jiangling is not lost." ”

Zuo General Shen Ying said: "Jiangling fell second, now the most important thing is Xiling, our army has been attacking for more than 20 days, Xiling rebels are already at the end of the crossbow, now you can take advantage of the Han army has not arrived, increase the intensity of the siege, day and night to storm Xiling, as long as Xiling is taken, the Han army's rescue target is lost, and the troops will retreat." ”

Zhou Chu shook his head lightly and said: "Now that the rebel general Cen An hears that reinforcements are coming, his morale must be greatly boosted, and he will definitely fight to the death, so even if we do our best to launch an attack day and night, we may not have a chance of winning." Now the top priority is still the reinforcements of the Han army, only by breaking the reinforcements of the Han army, the fighting spirit of the rebels will collapse, and Xiling City will naturally be self-defeating. As for Jiangling Jianping's side, the governor has ordered the right general Zhuge Liang and Jianping to guard Wu Yan separately and refuse, and the Han army attacked Jiangling and Jianping's soldiers and horses, but it was a partial division, and it was not enough to be afraid of shaking Jiangling and Jianping. ”

Jiangling is where the Jingzhou government of Wu State is located, the solidity of the city, naturally no less than Xiling City, now the Zhou has sent the right general Zhuge Liang to sit in Jiangling, the Han army of 30,000 horses to attack Jiangling, presumably there is no bargain.

As for Jianping County, there are steep mountains as barriers, and it is not easy for the Han army to come over the mountains and mountains, and it is not easy to take Jianping County.

Zhou completely ignored the other two Han armies, but he also temporarily stopped the onslaught on Xiling City, divided a part of the troops and horses, implemented the tactics of encircling but not fighting, and transferred all the main forces to the north of Xiling, tightly choked the dangerous passes, and prepared for a decisive battle with the Han army.

Zhou is very aware of the heavy responsibility he is shouldering now, the important town of Xiling, must not be lost, once lost, the door of the entire Yangtze River defense line will be opened, and the living space of Wu will be squeezed again.

But now the surrounding is facing considerable difficulties, Xiling City has been repeatedly attacked, of course, this is no wonder others, when the Xiling City was built, it was for fear that it was not built firmly enough, the successive governors of Xiling of Wu State spared no effort to strengthen it, after decades of painstaking management, the current Xiling City has long been as solid as a rock, Wu Jun spent the strength of milk, and could not take Xiling.

The more sinister situation is that the Han army reinforcements are killed, if the Wu army can not take Xiling, it will inevitably bear the pressure of the enemy on the belly and back, no matter in any case, the enemy on the belly and back is the situation that the generals of the army do not want to see, if the surrounding area can not come up with a set of effective methods, the Wu army will inevitably fall into passivity.

Zhou did not pay attention to the Han army's plan to encircle Wei to save Zhao, did not send a soldier to rescue Jiangling and Jianping, even the troops besieging Xiling, have been reduced to the minimum force requirements, and now he concentrated all the main forces, in the mountains north of Xiling, and placed heavy troops to block, in order to intercept the reinforcements of the Han army to Xiling.

From Xiangyang to Xiling, almost all of them are mountain roads, and there is no end in sight to the rolling mountains, Hu Ji led 50,000 Han troops from Linfu to Xiling, along the winding and rugged mountain roads, towards Xiling.

At Longshou Mountain, the Han army and the Wu army met here, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides, and the battle was dark.