When Cao Cao returned to the north, the southern expeditionary army was besieging the Wanling Tomb in Danyang County. Wanling is also known as Xuancheng, Sun Ce era once ordered Sun Quan to guard, encountered bandits, almost inevitable, fortunately saved by Zhou Tai. After that, the fortifications were repaired and the defenses were strengthened, and within a few years the city had a completely new look.

At this time, the person guarding Wanling was Sun Quan's cousin, Sun Yu and Sun Zhongyi, the general of Fenwei Zhonglang, who was signed as Danyang Taishou. Sun Yu is good at soothing people's hearts, and all the soldiers are happy to use it, so although the soldiers are outnumbered, they rely on the strength of the city, and they actually blocked the pace of Cao's army's advance, and they could not pull it out for ten days. However, it was only a matter of time before Wanling fell, Sun Yu sent envoys to break through the siege many times and ask Sun Quan for help, but unfortunately Sun Quan did not have many soldiers and horses in his hands, and he had to prevent Wei Yan from using Rugao Island as a base and landing on the coast of Wu County, even if three or five thousand reinforcements could not be drawn out - what if it was less than three or five thousand? Isn't that for Cao Cao to send someone to the head, if you send it, you can't send it.

Therefore, Sun Quan had to summon Sun Yu and ask him to find an opportunity to give up Wanling and break through to the east. All Sun Quan can do now is to gather scattered soldiers and horses from all over the country, concentrate in Wu County, and find favorable terrain to fight the final decisive battle with Cao Cao, in order to survive in death.

However, Cao's army was strong and surrounded Wanling City, unless Sun Yu abandoned the army and fled alone, where could he break out. So Sun Yu summoned his subordinates Rao Zhu, Yan Lian, Ma Pu, etc., and made a bloody alliance and vowed to defend it to the death: "If Wanling is lost, Danyang will be lost, and the enemy can drive Wu Hui for a long time." Today, if we can hold on for more than a month, the northerners will not tolerate the dampness and cold in the south of the Yangtze River, or they will be sick, and if their qi is frustrated, Wu will be complete. But the Lord is at peace, even if he dies?! ”

Sun Yu's budget makes some sense, and although the climate in the Jiangnan region is generally warmer than in the north, it is too humid. Winters are wet and cold. It's hard for northerners to get used to. Highly susceptible to disease. For example, Tai Shici fell ill under Wanling City, and the high fever did not go away for several days, so Cao Cao had to order him to go north to Spring Valley to recuperate.

The so-called "one blow of energy, then decline, three and exhaustion", the northern army is vigorous and slaughtering, if it stops for more than a month under Wanling City, which is not the enemy's last base, morale will inevitably suffer. Moreover, after fighting for more than a month, Sun Quan's defense system in Wu County can be further improved. So Sun Yu risked his life and planned to be firmly nailed to death here in Wanling!

Cao Cao asked the group for advice, and Jia Xu proposed: "There are many thieves in Danyang, or they can be appeased and appointed." "The people in Danyang are fierce, and they have always been strong foot soldiers, but being able to fight is one thing, and disobeying the rule is the other side of the opposite, including Han people and Shanyue, and they are everywhere in the mountains. to resist the levy of taxes and military service. Jia Xu means that this guy may not be difficult to beat. But there are too many problems, and we don't have time to pay attention to them at this time, so it's better to try to turn waste into treasure, forgive them for their past sins, appease them, and win them over to fight the Sun family.

After all, the claws of the imperial court have not been able to reach into Danyang for many years, and this bandit and chief Hao have been fighting with the Sun family for more than ten years - the enemy of the enemy is not necessarily a friend, but it can definitely be used.

So he took Zhuge Kongming as an envoy to go to appease Jin Qi of Anle Mountain in She County, Mao Gan of Wuliao Mountain, and Chen Servant and Zushan of Lin Lishan in Yi County. Originally, Zhuge Liang in history was quite good at words - although "tongue battle group Confucianism" is a novelist's language, he did cross the river to lobby Sun Quan - this timeline has been studying under the Xun sect for several years, but what can Xun teach him? In addition to talking about the scriptures, he can only teach him sophistry, and recently he has become blue.

Therefore, under Zhuge Liang's lobbying, in the end, most of the Kui chieftains expressed their willingness to submit to the imperial court, and Chen Fu and Zu Shan led more than 3,000 people to the north to join Cao's army, and contacted the same party who had been hiding in Wanling City for many years to watch the movement, and Shun Lì opened the door to Wanling.

However, at this time, Cao Cao had already left Liyang in Jiangbei and returned to Xudu. He has never crossed the Yangtze River in person, and the war in Jiangnan was just remote control, so he simply handed it over to Xiahoudun to be responsible. It is precisely because Zhuge Liang's lobbying is effective, and Jia Xu will Xun "southerners return to the south, northerners return to the north" eight characters as a good strategy, so Cao Cao is relieved to return to the north, and after dealing with the affairs of Xudu, he plans to turn to the west - Jiangdong, I will no longer go to fight in person.

On the sixth day after Cao Cao's return to the north, Wanling City, which had been held for nearly a month, was finally broken, Rao Zhu and Yan Lian fought and died, and Sun Yu and Ma Pu were captured. Xiahoudun loaded Sun Yu into a prisoner car and escorted him to Xudu, and then planned to use Wanling as a rear base, and the whole army went east to kill Wu County.

But at this time, there was a sudden warning from the rear. It turned out that Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and other generals led Peng Lishui's division to storm Cao's water village regardless of casualties for several days, wanting to open a way to reinforce the war downstream. However, after Lu Su defeated Zhu Zhi, he led the main force to return to the west, reunited with Jiang Ji, and firmly sealed the passage of the southern army into the river. After days of fierce fighting, the ships of the Southern Army capsized and burned a large number of people, Cheng Pu and others had no choice, and finally had to make a decision - let's simply abandon the boat and go ashore and go to the east with our legs!

When the naval division lands, the combat effectiveness will inevitably be greatly reduced, and if it goes east along the river, it is afraid that the Lusu naval division will attack on the side, and the losses will be great; If you detour from the south, not only will it be a long detour, but also the hills in Yuzhang County will be dense, and the road will be difficult to navigate......

However, Cheng Pu and the others have no second way to go, so can they just watch Cao Jun enter Wu County and capture Sun Quan, and then we will be forced to abandon the armor and surrender?

The fierce general Zhou Tai invited himself to lead the division to think that he was a suspicious soldier, and traveled at night to avoid the attack of the Lusu Water Army, and went all the way east along the south bank of the Yangtze River, so that Cheng, Huang and other generals led the main force around Poyang and fought a bloody way out of the mountains.

Although the plan of the suspicious soldiers was wonderful, they could not hide it from Lu Su and Jiang Ji, and they hurriedly sent an envoy to the east by boat to report to Xiahoudun - thousands of enemies came along the river, and its main force was expected to make a detour from the southern mountains, and wanted to save Wanling.

Xiahoudun consulted with Jia Xu, Liu Ye and other strategists, and decided to block the west and attack the east, and the main force was still directed at Wu County, and only sent partial divisions to the village in the mountain pass to block the Peng Lishui army on the land. From Yuzhang out of Danyang, there are only two roads that can be marched, one is the route along the river of Zhou Tai's department, and the other is to enter through Poyang, which refers to Lingyang and Jing County in the past. The north road is by the water and the mountains, the spring valley is its exit, the general Liu Wei is the road to the village, and the spring valley county is a horn trend, and then add the Lu Su water army, enough to resist it. As for the South Road, General Lingjiang was ordered to guard Jing County, and Zushan and other powerful departments to cut off their mountain roads to block Cheng Pu and Huang Gai.

The assignment was established, and Xiahoudun thought that he had no worries about the future, so he left Wanling boldly and confidently and headed for the east.

Besides, Zhou Tai and Zhou Youping, led three thousand elites down the river, all the way against the rain of arrows of the Lusu water division on the river, everyone spread their footsteps, and their lines were like flying, not only one day, and finally came to the southwest of Chungu County twenty miles away. This place, probably the territory of Fanchang County in later generations, as long as you climb over a mountain range, you can reach the Spring Valley, and then the front of a horse Pingchuan, all the way to the vicinity of Taihu Lake, there is basically no danger to defend. Zhou Tai was so anxious that he wanted to have wings on his back, and he jumped in front of Sun Quan to protect the lord - even if he died, I had to die in front of the lord!

However, the sentinel immediately reported that there was a Cao army at the foot of the mountain next to the road in front of him, blocking the way to the east. This is also expected by Zhou Tai, so he summoned the generals to boost morale, and its meaning is nothing more than - if we can rush over, we can escape and return to the side of the Supreme, if we can't rush over, we all have to die on the bank of the Yangtze River, "When this is fighting to the death, I should be advanced, you and others will follow, stop talking about retreating, and those who dare to delay will be killed!" ”

So Zhou Youping rode his horse and took the lead, and rushed straight to the enemy's village. The one who defended the village was Liu Wei, the general of Cao Wei, and the nephew of Liu Xun, the general of Pingyu. Liu Xun is an evil man in Lang, Qingzhou, once served as the Taishou of Lujiang, Yuan Shu made Sun Ce attack Xun, Liu Xun fled to Xu Capital after the defeat, and was named a liehou. This guy relied on being an old friend of Cao Cao, and he was arrogant and lawless, and it can be said that he and Cao Hong were the two major cancers that broke the law and discipline - and were finally killed by Cao Cao.

However, on this timeline, Liu Xun has not hung up to this time, and because the Cao family's power has expanded rapidly, and the internal cohesion and binding force are also strong, it has somewhat converged. But even so, the Liu family is still generally above the top, and they pretend to honor the old - including this partial general Liu Wei.

Liu Wei's ability is mediocre, but he thinks very highly of himself, and often sighs that the pearl is covered with dust, and he can't be recognized by those in power - as far as my ability is concerned, I really want to go into battle and make meritorious contributions, how can I be named a liehou like my uncle, and the military position should at least be a miscellaneous general, what is the matter of just giving a partial general?

As soon as there is resentment in this person's heart, he will not devote himself to doing things, and the same is true for Liu Wei, Xiahoudun put him in Spring Valley, originally with high hopes to block the enemy, but he thought that Xiahoudun was jealous of his talent and deliberately cast idle, so although he set up a camp according to the requirements, he set up a drinking party all day long, and he was not guarded at all. In Liu Wei's opinion, the landing of the naval army was originally a, and thousands of people were rushing along the river, how much combat power is left when I am here, seeing that my village has been completed, do they really dare to fight?

The main general is drunk, and the soldiers will inevitably slack, and in the face of the Jiangdong soldiers who are killed and killed, they will be in chaos in an instant. It wasn't until Zhou Tai picked off the deer, broke through the gate, and entered the village, that Liu Wei trembled and got on the horse and came to meet him.

Zhou Youping didn't say a word, and stabbed it away, Liu Wei hurriedly separated each other, but the wine surged, his body shook slightly, and he couldn't hold it, and he stabbed the tip of the other party's huge lance into his chest. immediately screamed, Liu Wei was provoked in the air by Zhou Taiyi, splashing a rain of blood, and then like a broken sack, he threw off the dust with a "snap" - he was already dead.

Seeing that the Lord was about to die, Cao Bing was even more chaotic, scrambling to abandon and flee. Zhou Tai didn't want to chase and kill hard, just beckoned his subordinates, quickly rushed through the enemy village, and went straight to Spring Valley - if the defense of Spring Valley City is weak, we will take advantage of the momentum of victory and go down, if the defense is still tight, we will bypass it and rush back to Wu County.

But at this time, I suddenly saw a horse rushing towards him, and immediately the general was tall and thick-shouldered, with a halberd in his beard, similar to a god, and shouted angrily: "As Donglai Tai Shici, who will fight with a certain male!" ”

Zhou Tai couldn't help but shudder in his heart when he heard this-I rely on Taishi Ziyi, how can this guy be here? Can I be his opponent?! (To be continued......) R1292