Lu Xun spent a month in his anxiety to cast a large~ leg-thick iron chain, and cast it on both sides of the bank with two iron pillars one zhang deep underground, so that it would not be so easy for the Shu army to destroy it. After the completion of this iron chain, Lu Xun felt a lot more relieved, and saw that the Shu army had not yet attacked, so he took advantage of the time to order someone to wrap thorns, thistles and other things on the iron chain, and tied a sharpened wooden stake every few steps.

The tip of the stake is facing upstream, and it looks like a land-based horse. Lu Xun constantly ordered people to add various ancillary facilities, making the iron chain more difficult to destroy, and more dangerous to upstream ships.

Lu Xun did a lot of things during this time, all in preparation for the large-scale eastward invasion of the Shu army. However, Guan Gong did not send troops for a long time. Why didn't Guan Gong take advantage of the victory to pursue, but gave him so much time to make enough preparations? Lu Xun can be said to be a sister who can't think of it.

After Guan Gong defeated the front-line troops of the Eastern Wu Naval Army, he also ordered the troops to pursue, but he only let the troops pursue for ten miles, and then Mingjin withdrew his troops. He didn't let the troops chase all the way down, hit Xiakou, and even hit Jianye in one go. It's not that he doesn't want to do this, but he feels that the conditions don't allow it, and he feels that the Shu Navy is not ready for the expedition.

Especially in terms of gun~ammunition reserves, this battle looks infinitely beautiful, destroying the fleet of the Eastern Wu front, but the Shu army has consumed almost all the gun~powder reserves in Jingzhou, most of which are planned to be transferred to the northern front.

The battle fought by Guan Gong not only caused Jingzhou's defense to drop greatly in the short term, but even affected the process of Liu Hou's Northern Expedition. At this time, Zhang Fei and Pang Tong had already conquered Wancheng, and Liu Hou and a cadre of civil and military officials also set off for Wancheng with the Hong army. However, he found that there was no ammunition to transport from the rear, and Liu Hou had to temporarily stop his strategy plan for Xuchang.

Guan Gong's gambling behavior was so angry that Sima Yi jumped to his feet, but he has always advocated that he should do his best to capture Xuchang, creating the illusion that Wei has been destroyed, so as to win the hearts of the people in the world.

But his proposition has been repeatedly blocked, first Liu Hou did not pay attention to his proposition, thought it was too risky, and refused to put the main direction of attack in Xuchang, and now he finally cleaned up Cao Ren's troops, and the direction of the army's attack was finally back on track, and it was about to hit Xuchang to realize his proposition, but in the end he was destroyed by Guan Gong, an old stunned young man, can he not be angry?

It was useless to be angry, the southern, central, and northern armies were dispatched at the same time to transfer the Eastern Wu naval army, and then it was his plan to defeat the remaining front-line naval forces of Eastern Wu with Guan Gong's Jingzhou army. Guan Gong completed this task perfectly, but the consumption was really large, which he didn't expect, what else could he say? What's more, Guan Gong's identity is there, does he dare to say anything?

He even built Liu Hou to continue to attack Xuchang regardless of whether he had ammunition or not. He felt that it was a joke for the troops to stop advancing without ammunition, so many troops were not the same before, and there were no firearms, gun~, so people didn't have to fight? Now that the Shu army is strong and strong, there are Hong troops, as well as the armies of Zhang Fei and Pang Tong, is such a strong lineup still afraid that it will not be able to capture a mere Xuchang City?

However, Liu Hou resolutely disagreed to attack Xuchang at this time, he did not think that the Shu army could not capture Xuchang now, the training of the Hong army was very strict, even the fire ~ gun troops had never pulled down the hand-to-hand combat training, although they had very little actual combat in hand-to-hand combat, but it was not completely without the power of a battle.

What's more, there are hand-to-hand combat ace rattan armor soldiers, as well as Zhang Fei and Pang Tong's troops that still rely on cold weapon tactics, if their army presses the border and attacks with all their might, I believe that Xuchang will not be able to hold out for long. However, Liu Hou was reluctant to let these elites of his subordinates sacrifice in vain. These are all troops he has carefully cultivated, and he can suffer for a long time if he dies.

If he fights hand-to-hand combat, the casualties must be heavy, he has always been accustomed to crushing the enemy with powerful firearms, so that the casualty rate of his troops is extremely low, if they are allowed to spend on siege warfare in vain, then he will not have to suffer until next year?

Liu Hou didn't care about waiting for a while longer, waiting for the ammunition to be replenished. A few days earlier, he felt that the latter was more important than the death of a few fewer soldiers. From this point of view, Liu Hou is not a real hero, in the eyes of some people, he is still a hairy boy with the kindness of a woman.

The pace of the Northern Expedition of the Shu army was delayed, and from this point of view, the purpose of Eastern Wu to delay the destruction of the Wei State and prolong the world situation of the Three Kingdoms was achieved, but unfortunately the price they paid was too great. Dongwu lost nearly half of the naval force, and it was very difficult to defend in the future, and they really did a live Lei Feng this time, which can really be said to be self-interested and beneficial to others.

In fact, Guan Gong can also ignore the consumption of ammunition and directly move eastward, expanding the results of the battle infinitely, and he will definitely do this if he changes the previous one. But after the lessons of the Northern Expedition, his old and angry personality has completely changed, and he is much calmer in doing things, at least not so proud, not so arrogant, and not so impulsive.

Moreover, in recent years, he has fully seen the power of firearms, and gradually his dependence on firearms has become higher and higher. It's not that he won't fight without firearms now, but he has gradually accepted Liu Hou's set, and if he can solve problems in a simple and easy way, he will try to use simple and easy methods, and if he can kill as few people as possible, he will die as few people as possible.

And he also believes that as long as he replenishes enough firearms ~ medicine, it is easy to take down Wu Guoyi, and now it is just to let those jumping clowns jump for a few more days, although he hates those despicable villains in Dongwu very much, and he can't wait for their flesh, but he can afford to wait, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, let alone wait for three months.

Three months later, the gun~medicine transported from Chengdu will be enough to start another big war, and then he can take these gun~medicine to Xiakou and Jianye, and wipe out the old nest of Dongwu and capture Lu Xun and Sun Quan.

Guan Gong didn't think about these newly shipped fire~ medicine at all, whether the little emperor also had an emergency, from this point of view, Guan Gong's self-centered personality and not caring much about other people's feelings has not completely changed. He didn't expect at all that he intercepted the ammunition that was transported to the front line of the Northern Expedition in Jingzhou, and how much impact it would have on the Northern Expedition troops.

In terms of the overall situation, Guan Gong is indeed not strong, compared with his martial arts, it is more than a little bit worse. In addition, he never thought that he sent troops to Eastern Wu, which was to launch a national war, such an important thing, and he didn't think about asking the little emperor and the court first, just like when he sent troops to the Northern Expedition to Cao Wei, he also made his own opinion, did not ask Liu Bei, and did not discuss countermeasures with Zhuge Liang.

Although Guan Gong has changed a lot, some places are still easy to change and difficult to change. It can be said that the current Guan Gong is a contradictory individual, although he is calmer, not so impulsive, not so arrogant, he attaches more importance to the enemy, he is not as proud as before, and he thinks that he is invincible in the world. However, he still has no political wisdom, no overall view, and no scruples about things in the officialdom.

Fortunately, he has a special identity, he is not only the sworn brother of the former emperor, but also the current abbot, and everyone knows that he is loyal and righteous, otherwise he would change people and do things like him~ He has no scruples, he can't get along in the officialdom for a long time, and he has killed people a hundred times.