The Spring Festival in 207 A.D. is the time for people everywhere to celebrate the New Year. In the Luling Crocodile Mouth Barracks, General Sun Gao was drinking with the adjutant general in the barracks, and at the same time ordered the Huotou Army to cook a good meal and improve the food for the defenders.

"Hehe, brother-in-law, it seems that this group of Sun Jun is still celebrating the festival, and there is no strict defense at all." On a high slope to the west of the crocodile's mouth, Lu Rui led the tiger and leopard cavalry and three thousand elite Wumanxi broadsword soldiers to ambush here, preparing to raid the defenders of the crocodile mouth.

"Brother-in-law, it seems that they are having dinner, we will rush down and raid now, and we will definitely win." Shamoke waved his fist, his hand was already itchy, and he was about to raise his fist and kill Sun Jun at the bottom of the mountain.

"Shamoke, don't worry, this place is very close to Luling, if we attack now, I'm afraid the defenders of Luling will arrive soon." Lu Rui held down Shamoke and signaled him not to be impulsive.

"Brother-in-law, isn't this your plan? Let the defenders of Luling come to support, and the second brother-in-law will attack Luling. Shamoke scratched his head and looked at Lu Rui suspiciously, this is not Lu Rui's strategy, could it be that Lu Rui has changed his strategy?

"Shamoke, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and any strategy must adapt to the environment of the battlefield. Originally, I thought that the defenders of Luling were not afraid enough, but now from the investigation situation, the defenders of Luling are well guarded, and they may have to change their strategies to attack Luling. Lu Rui smiled slightly, the rapid changes on the battlefield are unpredictable, only in this way can the talent of the commander be reflected, and this is also an opportunity for Shamoke to learn hard.

Since in ancient times, information was collected by people, drawn into drawings, and then presented to the commander. Because it is a human to gather information. The span of time is long. In general, the actual situation will deviate from the situation reported by the spouts.

The most important thing is the intelligence of antiquity. Generally, it is only to report the key military situation, such as the distance between the two places, the general terrain, etc., Lu Rui originally thought that he could attack Luling by encircling the point and sending reinforcements, but after arriving in Luling, after actually surveying the terrain, he found that Luling was not so easy to break.

Luling is a county to the south of Poyang Lake, connected to the Poyang Lake water system. There is also a strong water system network around Luling. Without a strong water army, it will be difficult to control the situation here.

"Brother Rui, it seems that after the actual investigation, the situation in Luling is a little complicated, even if we can take this crocodile mouth, I'm afraid we won't be able to capture Luling." Cao Chong also shook his head after listening to the spies' report, if the guard of Luling was not stupid, Lu Rui's strategy was useless.

The crocodile's mouth is the entrance to Luling and Chaisang County, surrounded by water on three sides, except for the west side. Three miles away from the Wu army camp at the mouth of the crocodile is a deep swampy place, and there are many man-eating crocodiles in it. Hence the origin of the crocodile's mouth.

Luling County is almost the same as the crocodile mouth, and it is also surrounded by water on three sides, but the south of Luling County is connected to Jiaozhou is a canyon, as long as the canyon is guarded, Luling County is impregnable.

Although Lu Rui has 50,000 soldiers in the hands of the five barbarian streams, but the ability to fight on the water is not strong, and he is good at mountain warfare, now even if Lu Rui raids the crocodile mouth and the army of Luling comes to the rescue, it is impossible for Lu Rui to take Luling, because Luling is surrounded by water on three sides, and only the south is land, and if you want to capture the south, you must make a detour to Jiaozhou.

The ancients once described the topography of Lingnan as far away in the sky, close in front of you. If you stand on a small slope and see a mountain peak not far away, the straight-line distance is only two or three miles, but the actual distance may be tens of miles, or even hundreds of miles. This is the portrayal of Lingnan's mountains, water, and ravines!

"Cangshu, send someone to inform Zihuan that the battle strategy has changed, let Zihuan's army move closer to the crocodile's mouth, as long as our army attacks the crocodile mouth, we will camp at the crocodile mouth. At the same time, he sent someone to inform the Wu army of the strength of our army in Luling. "The battlefield is changing rapidly, and Lu Rui has to judge the situation and make his own judgment.

"Yes, Brother Rui, I understand, I will immediately ask the people of the tiger and leopard rider to inform the second brother. Then send three people to wait at the end of the original second brother's march, in case the second brother misses our spies" Cao Pi and Lu Rui still have two days of marching distance, Cao Chong made a cautious arrangement.

"Yes!" Lu Rui nodded, Cao Chong already has the style of a king, and he does everything without leakage.

"Brother-in-law, if you still can't beat this crocodile, are we just doing it here?" Shamoke didn't know about Lu Rui and Cao Chong's plan, so he just wanted to rush out and kill Sun Jun below.

"Shamoke, don't worry, there are only a thousand people here, of course we have to fight the crocodile, but it's not at this time, it's at midnight that we'll do it." Lu Rui comforted Shamoke and told him that if you have the opportunity to rush and kill, you will not be allowed to come in vain.

"Okay, in that case, I'll go eat some dry food, and wait until the night, and kill him a chicken and dog!" Shamoko smiled, revealing two rows of white teeth.

When the two armies fight, the commander not only has to fight for strategy and bravery, but also needs patience. Calmness and endurance are often important factors in testing the ability of the commanders of the two armies.

When the sky was still bright, Lu Rui took out his self-made chessboard and played against Cao Chong on the hillside, and played a few games, all of which were lost to Cao Chong, not only lost chess, but also lost a lot of money, Cao Chong also learned badly with Lu Rui, sometimes he is a bad gambler!

It was getting dark, and it was impossible to play the game. Lu Rui lay on the grass and looked at the stars in the sky and chatted about family life. Cao Chong had long been accustomed to Lu Rui's behavior, and chatted with Lu Rui about family life, but Shamoke couldn't adapt to it, and he had to shout and kill him several times.

Lu Rui and Cao Chong sang and harmonized, using Cao Hua as a threat, and detained Shamoke on the hillside. After a few rounds of shouting, Shamoke seemed to calm down and listened to Lu Rui and Cao Chong chatting about family life. In the end, I slumped off and fell asleep.

"Shamoko, get up!" As the minutes ticked by, midnight came, and a new day was about to begin. Lu Rui pushed Shamoke beside him, and Shamoke was still sleepwalking with Zhou Gong at this time.

"Brother-in-law?" Shamoke rubbed his tired eyes and glanced at Lu Rui.

"Shamoko, it's time to attack. Don't you want to kill the enemy? This is your chance to make meritorious contributions. Lu Rui pointed to the Sun Jun military camp below. There were sporadic fires in the barracks.

The Spring Festival dinner should be over. Most of the Sun army went to sleep, and only a small number of soldiers were guarding and guarding, which was the most suitable time for a surprise attack.

"It's finally time for me to show my skills, brother-in-law, rest assured, I will definitely kill the enemy general, make his head into a wine glass, and give it to Hua'er." Shamoko waved his fist and raised his broadsword. called a few henchmen, and then touched down the mountain.

Lu Rui and Cao Chong glanced at each other and swallowed their saliva, if Cao Hua knew what the wine glass sent by Shamoke was made of, it was estimated that he would even vomit out the stomach water. The barbarians like to make various ornaments out of the human bones of their enemies to show off their military exploits.

"Evil, you lead a team to follow Shamoke, pay attention to his safety, I don't want the son-in-law of the Cao family to be gone like this." Shamoke's personality is reckless, and it is the first time to go into battle, and Lu Ruike has to think about Cao Hua's happiness in the future.

"Understood. Master Hou, please rest assured. Dian Wei nodded, took his guards and followed.

"Brother Chong. We are eating some fruit, and after eating the fruit, it is estimated that the enemy camp will fall into our hands. ”

"Hehe, okay, Brother Rui, you still know me, I don't like to charge into battle, just come up with a plan." Cao Chong took out a pineapple from his package and skillfully peeled it with a dagger.

"Brother, it's so cold, is there any wine?" The guards at the entrance of the barracks were still thinking about the wine rewarded by Sun Gao, but it was a pity that one person only had one cup, and if he drank it, he was gone, he was really stupid, why didn't he leave a sip, he could go to the cold on such a cold day.

"You dead boy, it's not okay to be rewarded with a glass of wine, you still have to drink, you are really a drunkard, my brother has thought about it, my brother's share of wine is still in the military tent, and when the shift changes, we will share it to drink, and when people are old, they will look down on wine." The older guard spat and touched the younger guard's head.

"Hey, thank you, old." Before the young guard could finish speaking, the two guards let out a muffled sound, and they were dealt with by Shamoko.

"Holy shit, you're still thinking about drinking, I'm going to kill you all tonight, you can't drink." Shamoko kicked the bodies of the two guards with a look of disdain.

"Listen, ten people are a team, get rid of the patrolling soldiers, and then rush into the military tent, kill people when they see them, cut their throats with knives, and can't let one go!" Shamoke glared at the soldiers behind him, this was the first time he had made military merits on the battlefield, and he must not be ashamed.

"Don't worry, let Sun Jun see how powerful our Wumanxi is, we were always bullied by the Han people before, and now we also have good weapons, it's time to take revenge." Shamoke's personal soldiers were very excited, their relatives were killed by the Han dog officials, and they could finally take revenge.

"Dead boy, be careful when you speak, it's a bad Han, not all Han, your princess is still Han!" Shamoke knocked on the head of his own soldiers, to distinguish between the good and bad Han people, and the good Han people help Wumanxi!

"Yes, yes, yes! The prince is right, kill all the bad guys! ”

"The general is not good, it is not good, someone has attacked the camp!" Just when Sun Gao was sleeping soundly, the guards suddenly rushed into Sun Gao's tent, covered in blood.

"Raided?" Sun Gao poured the water in the copper basin in front of him on his head, and sobered up for a moment before he heard the sound of fighting outside.

"Enemy troops, all enemy troops, general, retreat!" The soldiers were already at a loss, and just told Sun Gao that the camp was full of enemy troops.

Seeing the panicked appearance of his own soldiers, Sun Gao knew that there must be many enemy troops attacking the barracks, thinking of this, Sun Gao lifted his broadsword, put on armor, rushed out of the military tent, and broke through to the east.

An hour later, Lu Rui took Cao Chong to Sun Jun's barracks, at this time the barracks were full of corpses, many of them were still wearing a thin single coat, because it was a raid, so many people were still in their dreams and were killed by the soldiers of Wumanxi.

"Shi'a, you send someone to rebuild the defense of the military camp, let Xiahoulan and the tiger and leopard cavalry continue to be stationed on the hillside, and then you take my personal soldiers to the east of the crocodile mouth to be stationed, as the front army outpost of our army." Lu Rui instructed Shi A to deal with the aftermath, and then continued to inspect the situation of cleaning up the battlefield with Cao Chong.

"By the way, where did Shamoko go?" Lu Rui looked around, as if Shamoke was not there.

"Master Hou. Shamoko went after the enemy general. My father followed with his guards. My father asked me to stay and inform Master Hou. Dianman followed behind Lu Rui and explained to Lu Rui.

"I see, they're back, and you let them come to me!"

"Yes, Master Hou, I understand." Dianman arched his hand and retreated.

As soon as he finished cleaning the battlefield, Shamoke came back with Sun Gao's head. Holding a bloody head. Show off in front of Lu Rui and Cao Chong. When Lu Rui saw Shamoke's appearance, he hurriedly stopped his showing off, this kind of scene of making jokes about people, Lu Rui couldn't adapt to it.

The next day, the report of the loss of the crocodile mouth had been presented to Sun Yi.

"Brother, the crocodile mouth is lost, so our way north?" Sun Shao, who was on the side, saw the battle report and looked at Sun Yi with a panicked expression.

"Brother Xian, don't be nervous, the crocodile mouth is lost, and it is not a big threat to my Luling. It's just that I'm wondering where this army is sacred. Why did you raid my crocodile mouth? Could it be Cao Jun? I'll wait until I'm going to find out about this matter before I make a plan. "Sun Yi has the legacy of Sun Ce, and he is an expert in marching and fighting.

Sun Shao nodded, he is still a powerful brother, and he can still stay calm when he encounters this kind of thing.

Soon, the accurate information of the crocodile mouth has been spied back by Sun Jun's spies.

The army that captured the crocodile mouth was Cao Jun, and the commander was Lu Rui, who borrowed 50,000 troops from Wumanxi, and this time he captured Wumanxi in order to attack Chaisang and Poyang Lake from the rear, in order to echo with the Cao army in the north, trying to capture Sun Quan's Chaisang and Lujiang two counties.

"Fifty thousand troops?" Sun Shao gasped, the 50,000 army is half of Sun Quan's total strength now, the army of Wumanxi is all southerners, different from Cao Cao's northern army, and is good at fighting in the jungle in the south, these people are much more difficult to deal with than the cavalry in the north.

"Brother, we have to recapture the crocodile mouth as soon as possible, if the crocodile mouth is strangled by Cao Jun, the lord's way south?" Sun Shao's worries are not unreasonable, although there is a large amount of water in the Luling area, but if Sun Quan and Cao Cao fail in the battle in the north, they will inevitably retreat from Luling to Jiaozhou.

"Brother Xian doesn't have to be nervous, things haven't reached the worst step yet, we are assisting in garrisoning Luling, the safety of Luling is our responsibility, the matter of the crocodile mouth, we have to think about it in the long run." Sun Yi calmly analyzed Sun Shao's advantages and disadvantages now.

Sun Quan has been operating in Chaisang and Lujiang for many years, and swept away the strength of the local family, if the foundation is much deeper than the foundation of Wu County and Huiji, although Cao Cao's army is violent, but can cross the waters of the Yangtze River, and the only one who can adapt to the southern battle is Cai Mao's army. In this way, Sun Quan had an advantage compared with Cao Cao's forces.

As long as Sun Quan holds on for three months, in the summer, Cao Cao can't retreat if he doesn't want to, and the soldiers in the north will definitely not adapt to the soil and water, and then Sun Quan will take the initiative.

Although Lu Rui borrowed a large army and captured the crocodile mouth, the crocodile mouth did not affect Sun Quan's overall situation relative to Luling. Lu Rui explained his military strength to Sun Jun in such a high-profile manner, I am afraid that there is an ulterior secret.

"Brother Gao Jian, brother is reckless, hearing what my brother said, Lu Rui is afraid that there is really a conspiracy, we still notify the lord and wait and see what happens." Sun Shao listened to Sun Yi's words and felt that it made a lot of sense, Lu Rui's wisdom had already surprised Sun's people when he captured Wu County and Huiji, and now he still had to be careful with Lu Rui.

"Well, quickly report the military situation here to the lord, and at the same time suggest that the lord borrow troops from Jiaozhou Shixie, if Lu Rui really goes north with an army of 50,000, I'm afraid the lord will not feel good." Sun Yi immediately made a decision, wait and see, and see what Lu Rui's real plan is!

"Brother Rui, it seems that this Sun Yi is still quite cautious, he just sent spies to collect intelligence near us, and did not send a large army, it seems that he is also a cautious person." On the morning of the third day, Sun Yi had not made any moves, and Cao Pi's army could reach the mouth of the crocodile in the afternoon.

"Those who are cautious in the use of troops will not go out of the city easily, since this is the case, we can only rely on strategy to attack Luling." Lu Rui threw away the information of the spies and rubbed his temples, a calm general is really difficult to deal with.

"Brother Rui, don't worry about this matter, if Sun Yi really sticks to Luling, we will wave our army north and defeat Sun Quan, Luling will be meaningless, Sun Quan's main force is now holding against Cai Mao in the Yangtze River area, Chaisang's rear is empty, I don't believe that with our 50,000 army, we can't make some trouble for Sun Quan!" Cao Chong smiled slightly, and continued to eat the good fruits of Lingnan.

"Brother Chong is right, now that our army has the initiative, no matter how the situation develops, we are now in an invincible position, and as for the headache, of course, it will be handed over to Sun Jun." Lu Rui also laughed when he heard Cao Chong's words, what Cao Chong said was reasonable, he should also enjoy the fun of being invincible, what move Sun Jun makes, Lu Rui will be fine then.

Sun Yi's battle report was soon delivered to Chaisang, and Sun Quan was taken aback when he knew that an army of 50,000 led by Lu Rui had suddenly appeared in his rear, and hurriedly convened civil and military consultations. In the end, Sun Quan decided to send Zhang Zhao as an envoy to Jiaozhou, and on the condition of Shi Xie's family, let Shi Xie send troops to contain Lu Rui's 50,000 army. (To be continued......)

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