Chapter Eighty-Seven: Sending Troops
Of course, Sun Quan couldn't send his own son to Chang'an. */.//* After Zhang Zhao came back, he shirked it with various excuses. Until the prologue of the war shh
After three months of preparation, Liu Bei gathered all the soldiers in Yizhou, with Huang Zhong as the general, Guan Xing and Zhang Bao as the vanguard, Ma Ming as the military division, and Liu Bei himself led it. Liu Bei took the dry road, and his own navy had a few catties and taels, compared to the navy of Eastern Wu, he knew very well in his heart. Since the infantry army is stronger than Dongwu in terms of number and morale, it is better to use the infantry army.
From Jiangzhou through Fuling to Linjiang, this is Liu Bei's territory, but this road is still not very comfortable. The news from Soochow was not good news. The first is that Dongwu did not abandon Jingzhou and shrink back to defense as Liu Bei imagined, but sent Han Dang and Chen Wu to lead troops to aid Ling Tong and defend Yong'an. The second thing, Li Hui actually sent someone to Dongwu, which made Liu Bei the most uncomfortable.
Ma Mingdao: Your Majesty doesn't have to worry, Li Hui has also met a few times, and he still has some understanding, and now he sends people to Dongwu, just to take advantage of the fire to rob the old ones, and when the army destroys Dongwu, Li Hui and Dongwu's promises will naturally be useless, and then Li Hui will have to look at their faces!
The military advisor is right! Zhang Bao immediately said: Uncle don't worry, our army of 300,000 can set foot in Dongwu, even if Li Hui comes, we are not afraid!
Liu Bei nodded, seeing that Huang Zhong was silent. Liu Bei asked: When does Hansheng think the army will be able to recapture Jingzhou?
Huang Zhongdao: The prime minister said that Dongwu seems to have withered talents, but there are many resourceful people, and they sent troops this time.
The prime minister is no longer here, how can he know the situation in Soochow so clearly? Ma Ming interrupted Huang Zhong's words: Most of the generals who can conquer and fight in Eastern Wu have died, and the two junior generals about Zhang are enough to fight against ten thousand!
Huang Zhong said no more. Liu Bei looked at Huang Zhong and faintly moved some thoughts in his heart. After Zhuge Liang came to Liu Bei's side, he did increase a lot of Wenchen military generals, but there were almost no people who could really trust Liu Bei, Yizhou generals couldn't believe it, Jingzhou generals couldn't believe it, and only Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were calculated, but now they are both dead.
Liu Bei sighed: Forget it, don't talk about it, the three armies are ordered to stay in Linjiang and send people to Jianye, even if they fight, they will be justified and evidenced to salute first and then soldiers!
When Lu Xun accepted Sun Quan's appointment, he began to select soldiers and prepare ordnance. Naturally, the naval army inherited by LĂź Meng' from Zhou Yu could not be left behind, and the foot soldiers of Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and others were also brought along, with 50,000 horses and 100 warships, and sailed to Nanjun via Chaisang.
Lu Xun ascended to the tent, and the generals came to pay homage to the governor. Lu Xun glanced at everyone and suddenly asked, "Chinese officer, and the general has not arrived?"
The Chinese officer hurriedly replied: General Han Dang sent someone to say that he was seriously ill and could not come!
Han Dang is an old minister of Eastern Wu. Since Sun Jian, he has worked under the account, and after three generations, Zhou Yu and Lu 'Meng' are all talented, and Han Dang admires them and is willing to live under them. And Lu Xun Huangkou Xiaoer, a literati, has never been on the battlefield, let alone killed anyone, using such a person as the governor, Han Dang was not convinced.
Lu Xun suppressed the anger in his heart, knowing that he still lacked qualifications, and there was more than one Han Dang in the army who was dissatisfied with him. When he came, he deliberately asked Sun Quan to give an order, Sun Quan's sword was in Lu Xun's hand, and if anyone who did not obey the order could be cut first.
Everyone under the tent smiled and watched how Lu Xun handled Han Dang's affairs. Lu Xun shouted: Please sword the lord!
The soldiers hurriedly stood beside Lu Xun with Sun Quan's sword. All the generals knelt on the ground and called the lord. Lu Xundao: Ling Tong, order you to bring Han Dang here quickly!
Ling Tong didn't dare to disobey the order, and led someone to bring Han Dang, who was drinking, to the big tent, and the smell of wine was everywhere in the big tent. Lu Xun said sharply: Han Dang violated the order to drink in the army, he couldn't hear the drums, he delayed the military plane, someone came, and Han Dang was pushed out and beheaded!
Dare? Han Dang opened his eyes, waited for the two soldiers who came up, and sneered: \u201a Han Dang has been laughing for more than 100 battles since he followed the old master, and he has never been greedy for life or afraid of death. Come on!
Han Dang stretched his neck out and deliberately teased Lu Xun. Some generals hurriedly dissuaded, but Han Dang just didn't listen. Han Dang pulled away his clothes and said, "Look at it, the scars on this body were bought for Dongwu's birth and death, do you have it?" If not, get back and don't pretend here!
Lu Xun was furious and 'drawn' his sword: Han Dang was rude, and he roared at the big tent of the Chinese army, and his crime should be punished!
Hahahaha\\ Han Dang laughed: The lord is polite to speak, you actually killed, give you another chance, you will kill, right? Han Dang stretched his head in front of Lu Xun again.
I saw Lu Xun throw his war knife on the ground, and everyone thought that Lu Xun was soft, and the matter was over. Lu Xun suddenly turned around, 'drawn' Sun Quan's sword from the hand of the guard, and the knife fell from his hand, just above Han Dang's neck, and the sound of the sharp blade slashing into the bone could be clearly heard. Before everyone could turn around, Han Dang's head had already landed, and the dead man pounced again, and the blood that spurted out dyed the whole body of a soldier on the opposite side red.
Yes! The crowd was shocked.
Lu Xun 'handed' the sword to the guards, and glanced at it: Han Dang relied on the old man to sell the old and collided with the governor of Pontus, everything will be made clear to the lord, from today on, dare to disobey the military order, Han Dang is your example!
Be! Only then did the crowd come to their senses. Looking at the dead corpses on the ground, I had a new understanding of Lu Xun in my heart.
Lu Xun nodded, and asked Han Dang's dead body to be carried down: Order, the whole army can support Yiling to deploy defenses, and there must be no mistakes; Order, Ling Tong led 10,000 troops, entered Badong, and waited for the opportunity to 'riot' Liu Bei; ordered Chen Wu to lead 10,000 troops to garrison Yong'an, and be sure to guard the city;
At the same time, in Xiangyang City, Li Hui also moved. For this operation, Li Hui specially transferred Chen Dao, Zhang Xiu, Gao Shun, Ma Zhong and others from Hebei, and transferred 50,000 soldiers from various prefectures into Xiangyang, ready to occupy the entire Jingzhou at any time.
Xu Shu said: The second brother can think about it, the land of the four battles in Jingzhou, even if you take it, if you don't have a powerful general to defend it, you will end up like Guan Yu, and the second brother will regret it for life.
Pang Tong nodded: Jingzhou extends in all directions, the waterways and land routes are extremely developed, and the area is also very large, in the opinion of his subordinates, at least three generals are needed to garrison together, and it may be possible to keep it, which is very beneficial to take Jingzhou in the future.
From what the eldest brother and Brother Shiyuan can see, those three people can take on this big responsibility? Li Hui asked.
Pang Tongyi smiled: It seems that the lord has already had a plan, why don't the three of us write it out at the same time?