Unlike Lu Xun's worries, Pan Jun is not crazy, on the contrary, he is very calm, almost cruel.

Wu Jun's biggest problem at present is the lack of food, and Wei Ba's purpose is also obvious, he just wants to block Pan Jun's way and starve him to death here. As long as he insists on it for about ten days, no matter how Pan Jun saves, he will completely run out of food. Once there is no food, then there is no need to fight, Pan Jun's army will collapse, and even a mutiny will occur, and the hungry soldiers, especially those barbarians who were originally forcibly recruited, will not hesitate to attack them.

Wei Ba will win without a fight, and Shu Han's strategic goal of weakening the strength of Wu's Jingzhou army has been overachieved.

If you want to thwart Shu Han's conspiracy, if you want to defeat Wei Ba, you must hold out for a longer time. Pan Jun knew very well that his food was insufficient, and Wei Ba's food was also insufficient. His advantage is only that he can hold on a little longer than he does.

And that's just a little bit.

Wei Ba came out of Jinping Mountain and ran wildly all the way, it was impossible for him to bring too much food. Generally speaking, a soldier costs six liters of rice a day, and one stone and eight buckets of rice a month. One stone and eight buckets of rice is more than fifty catties, plus weapons and armor, the total amount is about 100 catties, which is the limit of the weight that a man in the prime of life can carry. In other words, if there is no logistical supply, an army will carry a month's worth of food at most, and these people need to be strong, otherwise the number will be reduced a little more.

According to Lu Dai's analysis, after Wei Ba came out of Jinping Mountain, he had several opportunities to replenish supplies, and with the rice from Lipu, there should be no problem with the baggage that Wei Ba brought with him for two months. But maintaining two months does not mean that he can hold on here for two months, and Wei Ba has to give himself time to leave and transfer. From here to the Three Valleys. He needs a month, even if he goes to Jinping Mountain, he needs half a month, then he will only hold on here for a month and a half at most.

This is calculated based on Wei Ba's current strength. If you add the captives, his food consumption will increase considerably, and the time he will be able to hold out will be further reduced.

Pan Jun's intention was very clear, that is, to attack at any cost, on the one hand, to consume Wei Ba's combat materials such as arrows, stones, etc., to clear the obstacles in the water, and on the other hand, to remove those who were relatively weak in combat. Or the lightly wounded soldier was sent to Wei Ba's knife. Either let him kill, or let him take prisoners, in a word, reduce his own food consumption. At the same time, it increased Wei Ba's food consumption. He is not a long one. He'll be able to hold on for longer. Shorten the time that Wei Ba insisted.

In two days, more than 3,000 people were killed, which was far from enough. Pan Jun decided to cut another two or three thousand people, and what Zuihou was left with was more than five thousand elites, real elites. With just five thousand men, he would have five or six more days.

This kind of thinking cannot be said to ordinary soldiers, or even to some generals, this decision is too cruel and not everyone can accept it rationally. It's just that Pan Jun always felt that Lu Xun should be able to understand, so he was very surprised by Lu Xun's words and was not very acceptable. When Lu Xun said that he could deliver food to him within five days, he was also quite skeptical.

He decided to do it in his own way, and while maintaining the pressure of the surface attack, he sent people up the mountain to attack Wei Ba's position. Although he knew that Wei Ba could not be defenseless, and the casualties would be very large, he still had to do this, because he needed to reduce two or three thousand mouths that had to consume food every day.

Part of the task fell on Lu Dai's shoulders.

In Pan Jun's opinion, Lu Dai's main force followed Lu Kai to break through to the south, and the rest of these people were all waste, chased by hundreds of barbarians and lost their despair, they had long lost the dignity of a warrior, and they should die first. However, in the face of Lu Dai, Sun Quan's confidant and old minister, he said it tactfully.

Lu Dai was too shrewd, and he knew what Pan Jun meant as soon as he heard it. He was very sad, this was Pan Jun's biggest insult to him, but he couldn't refute it. Compared with Pan Jun's subordinates, his subordinates have indeed been killed by the barbarians. This time, the three-way army attacked, and he also lost the worst along the way. First Lu Kai was defeated in the Emperor Girl Lake, then Wuyang was lost, and then the Xuefeng Mountain camp was lost, and the generals Dai Wei and Chen Shi, who had followed him for many years, died in battle, losing nearly 10,000 people before and after, and even he himself was chased like a wild dog by a little-known young general, lost his soul, if it wasn't for Pan Jun, he would have collapsed, what qualifications did he have to talk nonsense with Pan Jun.

"Okay, tomorrow I will lead my troops up the mountain and attack that bridge." Lu Dai stood up and walked slowly. Looking at Lu Dai's old back, Pan Jun's heart suddenly passed through a burst of sadness. He asked himself, "Am I being too cruel to do this?" This is an old minister who has followed the king for more than 30 years, in case of a little mistake, how can it be good?

Pan Jun hurriedly got up and chased after him, stopping in front of Lu Dai: "Duke Lu, the war is dangerous, you don't want to go by yourself, just send a subordinate." I still need Lu Gong's help here. ”

Lu Dai glanced at him, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "My subordinates, of course, I will command." Although I am old, I can still hold a knife. General Pan, thank you for your kindness. If the general has a heart, it is better to allocate some food to me, I am afraid that I will not have a chance to come down and get food. ”

Pan Jun's words were sluggish, and his face flushed: "Please rest assured that Lu Gong is this." ”

"Thank you." Lu Dai said, stretched out his hand to push Pan Jun away, and walked away slowly.

The next day, Lu Dai personally led the remnants of the army to exit the canyon, found a mountain road, and trekked hard for two days before finally coming to the southern end of the overpass. Wei Ba protected the overpass very closely, and as soon as Lu Dai appeared in the field of vision, Wei Ba received the news, and he immediately sent Jin Dongliu to stop it. With the help of the dangerous terrain, Jin Dongliu guarded it very tightly, Lu Dai fought hard for a day, and he didn't even see anything like the overpass, more than a thousand people almost all died, and the remaining dozen people were also exhausted and unable to fight again.

Lu Dai was still full of fighting spirit, he launched an attack with the personal guard battalion, braved the rain of arrows, and crawled towards Jin Dongliu's position. Watching the white-haired Lu Dai crawl the mountain road, there were only two guards left around him, but he still refused to retreat. Jin Dongliu sighed, raised his hand and ordered the crossbowmen to stop shooting.

The crossbowman lowered his bow, and without the whistling of feathered arrows, there was calm all around, except for Lu Dai's breath like a Wu ox. Jin Dongliu jumped out of cover and quietly waited for Lu Dai to climb up.

As soon as the archer stopped, Lu Dai found out, he took a look, there was neither ecstasy nor sorrow, he clung to the stone next to him, gritted his teeth, exerted all his strength, and finally climbed up and stood in front of Jin Dongliu. The two guards also followed, holding shields and swords, panting in front of Jin Dongliu. All their strength had been expended on this mountain road, but they still stood in front of Lu Dai, protecting their general.

Jin Dongliu slowly pulled out the long knife, held the knife in both hands, held it high above his head, and looked at Lu Dai with blazing eyes: "Chen Jun Jin Dongliu, challenge the old general." ”

Lu Dai gasped violently, and when he heard Jin Dongliu's words, he was not surprised at all. He took two deep breaths, nodded, pushed away the two guards in front of him, walked in front of Jin Dongliu, slowly pulled out the long knife, slowly wiped the shiny blade with his sleeve, looked at his gray face on the narrow blade, and said lightly: "Is there any wine?" ”

Jin Dongliu was stunned for a moment, took a step back, and put away his knife. "Someone, serve wine to the old general."

A barbarian ran over and handed a bamboo tube to Lu Dai, who took the bamboo tube, raised his neck, drank a few sips, threw the bamboo tube, sprayed a sip of wine on the war knife, and said loudly: "Okay, happy, happy!" Young man, come to war. ”

Jin Dongliu raised his knife again, Lu Dai roared wildly, rushed forward, and the wine-scented war knife went straight to Jin Dongliu's neck. Jin Dongliu parried with his horizontal knife, and the two war knives rubbed together, making a sharp whistling sound.

"Kill!" Lu Dai roared, swung his knife and slashed again.

Jin Dongliu blocked again.

Lu Dai slashed three times in a row, and Jin Dongliu connected three moves. When Lu Dai slashed out the fourth knife, he was already out of breath, his steps were disordered, and the knife had lost its direction. Jin Dongliu shouted violently, and swung his knife to open Lu Dai's light and weak knife, and the tip of the knife swept past Lu Dai's neck.

The blood spurted out, Lu Dai zhanzhu, shook it, supported his body with the war knife in his hand, touched his neck with one hand, looked at the blood in his hand, and smiled at Jin Dongliu.

"Thank you, young man!"

"The old general goes all the way." Jin Dongliu put away his knife, took a step back, and bowed.

Lu Dai sighed and slowly fell back. The two guards hurriedly rushed up and held his body to prevent him from falling to the ground. Lu Dai closed his eyes, and the war knife in his hand fell to the ground with a "danglang".

The two guards caressed the corpse and wept bitterly.

The remnants of the soldiers in the distance were stunned and at a loss.

When Lü Dai was fighting on the south bank, Zhu Ji also led 2,000 men to attack on the north bank. His task is the same as Lu Dai's, which is to find a way to destroy this bridge that symbolizes the god's side. He encountered the same stubborn resistance as Lu Dai, and he had no skills to break the formation, but he didn't play with his life like Lu Dai, he tried to find a way while fighting.

Wei Ba also knew that Zhu Ji had no chance of succeeding, so he just sat calmly on the overpass, thinking about his thoughts. Standing on a footbridge that is hundreds of feet above the ground and swayed by the wind, it will be terrifying at first, but at the same time it can give people a strange thrill and pleasure. Wei Ba found himself in love with the feeling.

Hearing Jin Dongliu's report, Wei Ba raised his eyebrows, snorted, and was silent for a long time before he said lightly: "Send his corpse to Lu Xun, make some effort, leave him a whole corpse, and leave him some dignity." ”

Jin Dongliu hesitated for a moment, then bowed down to receive the order: "Thank you, young master." ”

Wei Ba turned his face to look at Jin Dongliu, and couldn't help but laugh: "Zhaoming, I'm here to see your face, otherwise, with the things he did in Jiaozhou, he wouldn't be worthy of such courtesy." Hurry up, when Zhu Wu knows, I'm afraid he won't agree. In addition, throw all those corpses, including those captives killed these days, into the water and give them to Lu Xun together. (To be continued......)