Chapter 11 Dispatch to Changsha

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou caused people to create all kinds of accidents to delay the Xuanzhi Qincha, and at the same time seized the time to send troops to Changsha County.

Changsha County has jurisdiction over 4 counties of Changsha, Hengyang, Yiyang and Shaoyang, with Changsha County as the county. Changsha County doesn't look big, however, it's not that easy to fight.

Changsha County was owned by the Sun family as early as the Sun Jian era, and the Sun family has been operating here for a long time, which can be said to be the hinterland of Soochow, and is an important grain production base and talent export place of Soochow. Therefore, Soochow must attach great importance to Changsha County, and will inevitably have heavy troops here.

This is the original Chu land, and the Central Plains Dynasty has always had little influence here. And the Sun clan has ruled in this side for a long time, and the people have returned to Sun's rule. The Shu army, an outsider, is obviously not as popular as the Eastern Wu soldiers.

Judging from the information obtained by the "CIA", it is indeed the case, Soochow stationed 200,000 troops here and hoarded a large amount of grain, grass and military supplies. Such a force is already comparable to the national strength of a small country, so Changsha County is undoubtedly a hard nut to crack.

However, Liu Houyi was not afraid, now that his rattan armor army and musketeers had a certain scale, he was confident that the world was so big that he could get it.

It is said that Liu Hou led the army out of the border of Guiyang and came to Hengyang County. In Hengyang County, he unsurprisingly encountered the army of Eastern Wu.

The commander of the Eastern Wu army was Lu Xun, assisted by three generals, Ding Feng, Zhou Tai, and Xu Sheng. The 200,000 army was exhausted, and the momentum was fierce in Hengyang, and it seemed that they wanted to have a decisive battle with the Shu army in Hengyang, so that Liu Hou's Hong army could not affect the battle situation in Jingzhou City.

In a head-on decisive battle, Liu Hou naturally will not be afraid, although the strength of the Eastern Wu Army is several times that of his own, but the combat effectiveness of his own troops is also several times that of the Eastern Wu Army.

It's a pity that Liu Hou's opponent is Lu Xun, the one who likes to play intrigue and tricks the most, and the one who single-handedly planned the white-clothed cross-river sneak attack on Jingzhou City. How could such a person have a tough confrontation with Liu Hou, even if he knew that his troops were overwhelmingly superior, he still didn't need to play with an upright style, and still played conspiracy.

Liu Houzhen didn't understand, why didn't he, the No. 1 think tank in Eastern Wu, fight wits and courage with Zhuge Liang under Jingzhou City, why did he come here to embarrass himself? He didn't know that now in the eyes of the Eastern Wu monarchs, Liu Hou's danger was definitely no less than Zhuge Liang.

Therefore, Sun Quan would rather personally conquer, sit in Jingzhou City, and command the battle besieging Jingzhou City, but also transfer Lu Xun out and let him come over to deal with Liu Hou, which shows that the Eastern Wu people attach great importance to Liu Hou.

Faced with Lu Xun's tricks, Liu Hou soon found himself and his troops in a quagmire. Lu Xun did not line up to confront Liu Hou, but made full use of the terrain of Hengyang, scattered his troops, and constantly harassed the Shu army day and night.

Hengyang is located in the south-central part of Hunan Province, in the middle reaches of the Xiangjiang River, south of the Hengshan Mountains. Hengyang is located in the concave plane axis part of the central and southern regions, surrounded by ridges and mountains formed by the intermittent ring formed by ancient depressions, and inlaid with a large area of red hilly platforms of the White and Lower Tertiary red beds, constituting a typical basin topography.

The Hengyang Basin is high in the south and low in the north, and the mountains above 1,000 meters in the south of the Hengyang Basin stretch for dozens of kilometers; The Hengyang Basin is surrounded by hills, and the central part of the Pinggang Hill is staggered.

In a word, there are many mountains in Hengyang, but this is nothing, Liu Hou's troops are accustomed to walking mountain roads, walking over mountains and mountains like flying, which can be called Wudang Flying Army. The most important thing is that there are not only many mountains in Hengyang, but also a dense network of rivers.

The river did not hinder people in the later era when bridge-building technology was developed, but in the Three Kingdoms period, it was a disaster for marching troops.

The smaller river is fine, or it has a simple bridge, or the Shu army temporarily cut wood and bamboo to build a pontoon bridge, and it is not too difficult to get through guò.

Those wide, fast-flowing rivers are troublesome, and it is impossible to build pontoon bridges in a short time, so they can only be crossed by boats or rafts.

One or two rivers were not a big problem, and the Shu army had enough manpower to build rafts and bamboo rafts very quickly. However, the terrible thing is that there are so many rivers in Hengyang that they are outrageous.

The area of Hengyang in later generations was much smaller than that of Hengyang in the Three Kingdoms, even so, there were 393 rivers and streams in Hengyang in later generations with a river length of 5 kilometers or a basin area of more than 10 square kilometers, with a total territory of 8,355 kilometers and a river network density of 0.55 kilometers per square kilometer.

This caused the Shu army to constantly build rafts and bamboo rafts, and constantly guard against the Eastern Wu army's half-crossing attack.

Can you imagine? When you have worked hard to cut down a tree, you have built a raft with your comrades, and you have crossed a river and stream, and you have not walked a few miles before you encounter another river and stream.

You have to cut down the trees again to make a raft, because the raft you used is left in the previous stream, and that river can't communicate with this river, or you can communicate, but you have to go a long way to get through.

There is no way to access the upper river and the next, and the raft is very heavy, unlike a rubber boat, which can be carried around.

All in all, the raft built earlier is no longer usable, and a new one must be made. Well, you have to take out the axe, sweat it and continue to cut down the big trees and continue to build the raft.

If you can endure it once or twice, a few times, but what if you build a raft a dozen times in just a few days? Do you want to die?

Don't forget that the Shu army did not cross mountains and mountains and build rafts to cross rivers in a safe environment, they did these things under the encirclement of the Eastern Wu army and under constant sneak attacks and harassment. So, the Shu army really had a bit of a cup, and they found themselves as if they were stuck in a quagmire, unable to extricate themselves, and the more they struggled, the deeper they sank.

Lu Xun divided his troops very scattered, often in teams of several thousand or even several hundred. These people made full use of the terrain and set up ambushes everywhere to attack the Shu army.

Whenever the Shu army crosses the river, it is a fixed project to attack half-crossing. Therefore, every time the Shu army crossed the river, they were scared, they all woke up one by one, and they were ready to respond to the attack of the Eastern Wu army on the other side at any time.

In addition, the mountains and forests also provided good cover for the Eastern Wu people, who often hid in the mountains and forests and in the canyons to take the opportunity to sneak attack the Shu army. Therefore, the Shu army on the march must always be prepared to deal with the ambush of the Eastern Wu people.

These Soochow people are very cunning and slippery. Usually leave with one blow, regardless of whether this sneak attack is effective or not, after the attack, immediately retreat, without giving the Shu army any chance to counterattack.

Under the blow of such guerrilla warfare, the Rao is Shu army was protected by rattan armor, and still suffered a lot of losses. Liu Hou couldn't understand how this Lu Xun was so shameless and shameless when he had the advantage of troops, playing guerrilla warfare.

Is there a guerrilla detachment that is several times larger than the number of opponents? The guerrillas were usually too small in numbers to compete with the enemy's main force, so they resorted to a wandering style of play, in order to inflict massive casualties on the enemy with as few losses as possible.

But now the way of the world has changed, and 200,000 people have become guerrillas, and more than 30,000 people have attacked the enemy. But Lu Xun didn't blush at all, and still carefully commanded the troops, constantly sneaking up on the Shu army.