Chapter 269: Iron Lock Hengjiang

Zhang Zhao and Gu Yong expressed their opinions, and they argued for a long time without arguing for a reason. Without a strong and authoritative person as a referee, such an argument will never come to fruition. It's a pity that Sun Quan, who can be a referee in one word, can't get up, and may never get up.

Originally, a strong governor like Zhou Yu could also speak, and he could barely be this referee. It's a pity that there was no governor of Eastern Wu after Zhou Yu. The meaning of this sentence does not mean that there is no official position, but in people's minds, except for Zhou Yu, no one is qualified to be the governor of Eastern Wu.

Lu Xun was originally qualified, but it was a pity that Liu Hou, who was tirelessly destroyed, completely knocked him to the dust, and he couldn't be destroyed anymore. What's more, he wasn't there. Lu Xun is now in a hurry in the Xiakou naval camp, the front-line naval army has been defeated, and the ships and men who have fled back are less than one percent, he has to settle these defeated soldiers, and he has to find a way to prevent Guan Gong from taking advantage of the victory to pursue and kill the naval army camp, and now he can't go back to participate in those court disputes.

With the four armies of soldiers and horses being sent out to resist the Shu army in the southern, central, and northern directions, Lu Xun's forces on hand have been exhausted, and the remnants of the defeated army who have just fled back will be temporarily unusable, and there are only 5,000 soldiers left in the Xiakoushui army camp. Although these 5,000 people are the elite of the elite of the Eastern Wu Naval Army, all of them are heroes who can be five with one, but the number of people is too small, and such a few people are not enough to fill the gaps between people's teeth.

If it was still the old confrontation between troops, Lu Xun was not so desperate, he had these five thousand elites in his hands, and with his own clever strategy, even if the enemy army had several times more troops than himself, he would not be able to fight.

But the opponent is a new army whose attack power far exceeds that of this era, and many things are completely beyond Lu Xun's imagination, such a force, they must have several times the strength of the opponent to dare to fight with it, and now on the other hand, the enemy's strength is several times that of their own, how can this battle be fought?

Lu Xun pondered for a day and a night, and finally let him think of a solution. The solution he came up with was to "cross the river with an iron lock", that is, to use iron chains across the river to stop the boats that came from swimming. In the original history, this strategy was invented by Wu Yan, a general of Eastern Wu after the fall of the Shu Kingdom, in the late Three Kingdoms period, to be exact.

Since Wu Yan could think of this method, how could Lu Xun, who was extremely smart, not think of it, but he didn't think of it at that time, but he didn't need it at that time. In the past, the Soochow Navy had been on the offensive, where did it need to think of this defensive method. Now that the situation is embarrassing, as a last resort, Lu Xun came up with this strategy in advance.

The reason why Lu Xun was able to think of this strategy was also inspired by the practice of pulling fishing nets to prevent waterproof mines. He thought to himself, since simple and cheap fishing nets could block the Shu army's mine attacks, could they also use a similar method to stop their ships from going down the river?

He first thought of using a rope, a tough rope across the river, to strangle the boat that came down. Later, when I thought about it, the current ships are all Big Macs, what kind of rope can strangle such a Big Mac without breaking? And there is another problem, it has to withstand destruction, if the Shu army finds that the ship is blocked, it will definitely send someone down to investigate the reason.

When they find out that it is the rope that is at fault, they will inevitably find a way to cut the rope. In this way, isn't your strategy a failure? It is necessary to have something very hard, which can stop the giant warship without allowing the Shu army to destroy it so easily.

Thinking about it, under Lu Xun's hard thinking, he finally thought of a method, that is, to cast a giant iron chain across the river, as long as the iron chain is thick enough, it is extremely difficult for the Shu army to cut it. After all, in this era, there are no power tools, and there is no mechanical power, and all work depends on manpower, and no matter how large the manpower is, there is a limit.

Of course, there are some things beyond the reach of human beings, and human beings do not say that they have no choice, and the way is to rely on water mills. As long as there is enough time, the chain will be broken one day. Lu Xun also understood this, he didn't expect this iron rope to lock the Shu army upstream forever, he only needed him to block the Shu army for a while, so that he could come up with other ways to deal with it.

So, Lu Xun recruited all the blacksmiths of the navy, and sent troops to collect blacksmiths and ironware from several nearby cities, and asked the blacksmiths to melt some weapons in the warehouse, and then started to build a super thick iron cable day and night. Xiakou was the camp of hundreds of thousands of Dongwu naval troops, and the weapons here were piled up, which ensured that Lu Xun had enough metal to build this super iron cable.

Lu Xun came up with this plan, which fully proved that he had messed up and was no longer thoughtful. His method could indeed block the passage of Shu ships in a short time, but he did not expect that casting an iron chain across the Yangtze River would be a big project in this era of low productivity, and how much time it would take.

This project has just been implemented for two days, Lu Xun regretted it, if Guan Gong defeated the Dongwu frontline naval army, he immediately went down the river non-stop, and he would soon be able to reach here, the iron cable would definitely not have enough time to complete, so he worked so hard to recruit so many blacksmiths, melted so many weapons, and paid so much price for this project, wouldn't it be useless work?

Lu Xun didn't expect that he would be dizzy and come up with such a stupid move. Although he realized his mistake, for the sake of face, Lu Xun was embarrassed to stop the project. In this way, another three days passed in anxiety, and he still did not wait for the Shu Navy to come, and Lu Xun was relieved.

While supervising the construction of this big iron cable, Lu Xun let the defeated soldiers rest and recuperate, hoping that they could restore their state to the fullest, and at the same time he issued a military order to intercept the three-way army invading the Shu army in the south, middle, and north directions, summon some of them back, and make every effort to strengthen the Yangtze River defense line. He let these three people leave only enough troops to contain the Shu army, and the excess troops immediately returned to Xiakou.

The other directions are not as important as the Yangtze River, because the golden waterway of the Yangtze River can go down the river and reach Jianye, if it is lost, the Shu army will soon be able to reach the capital of Eastern Wu without hindrance, which also means that the destruction of Eastern Wu is imminent. It's not that he didn't think about whether these three people would be able to resist the Shu army after being drained of some of their troops, but when it came to this time of life and death, there was no other way to think about it.

Who made it so that there are not many troops in Soochow now. At this time, it can only be abandoned to protect the car. It is only possible to abandon some irrelevant territories and focus on maintaining strategic positions. In fact, in Lu Xun's mind, he was planning how to comprehensively shrink the army and narrow the scope of defense. Of course, this also means that it will take the initiative to give up a large ~ piece of territory.