The Jiangdong army attacked the city in one day, but it did not gain much.

Siege is a very troublesome thing, and in this era there is no army that can do a continuous siege every day, and after a day of fruitless attack, it is necessary to take a little rest.

One is to deal with the wounded and restore morale.

The other is that the siege equipment needs to be refurbished.

The siege equipment in Zhou Yu's camp suffered a lot of losses in the siege on the first day, seven or eight ladders were broken, two rushing cars were burned, and the remaining siege equipment could not support the next battle, so it had to be re-cut and manufactured.

Of course, there is also the threat of Wei Yan's camp, and Zhou Yu also plans to find a way to pull it out before attacking Echeng next time.

For this reason, Zhou Yu found Lu Meng and asked him to explain in detail the reasons for the failure of the containment.

Lu Meng did not hide it, and told Zhou Yu 1510, without making any excuses for his command mistakes.

Lu Meng still has the demeanor of a general in this regard, and he is very responsible, so he can do whatever he wants.

As for Wei Yan's ability to lead and grasp the fighter, Lu Meng also gave enough affirmation.

After Zhou Yu listened to Lu Meng's story, he still restored the real reason for Lu Meng's failure this time.

Obviously, from the very beginning, Lu Meng entered the rhythm of the other party.

First, the opposing general actually dared to divide his troops in a weak situation, and laid an ambush on the periphery in advance, and Lu Meng probably felt that the enemy had few people and could not make other moves under the pressure of his own army, so he didn't notice it.

Second, when the other party sent out an ambush, Lu Meng made a mistake in judgment and subconsciously thought that the ambush was the main direction of the opponent's attack, so he ordered the whole army to turn back to meet the enemy, but he did not expect that the enemy army in the camp was the main attack.

Third, when Lü Meng was facing the enemy's attack on him, he did not command the army to meet the enemy in batches at the first time, or that the opponent moved too fast, causing Lü Meng to advance and retreat, which was the reason for the complete failure of this containment.

After summing it up, Zhou Yu found that although there was Lu Meng's command problem here, the guards in the camp, the military command ability and battlefield sense he showed were also one and the same.

Zhou Yu is a little bit of a talent.

With the level of Liu Biao's goods in Jingzhou, even if he has such a wise and brave general, he should not be very useful. Just look at Gan Ning.

Of course, all this will have to wait until Zhou Yu defeats the defender and breaks through Echeng.

Love is love, but first, you have to defeat him.

Zhou Yu immediately began to arrange and decided to pull out this small camp in the southeast corner of Echeng.

Zhou Yu had no intention of underestimating the enemy, but a camp of less than a thousand people, and a battle had just experienced during the day, even if he won, it would be impossible to lose nothing.

And Zhou Yu has more than 20,000 troops in his hands.

A small camp, unlike Exian, which is protected by a city wall and is bright in the light, has no way to stop the attack of its own army in any case.

But Zhou Yu obviously would not only consider taking a camp stationed abroad, but also had to take into account the reaction of the defenders in Echeng.

Judging from the siege of the city during the day, the defenders of Echeng are very disciplined in defending the city, but for a small county like Echeng, the number of soldiers in the city will not exceed 2,000 at most, even if they go out of the city to rescue, in the case of a field battle, Zhou Yu is not afraid.

Zhou Yu's biggest advantage now is that there are many soldiers, even if most of them are naval forces, but it is difficult for Jiangdong to distinguish between naval forces and army forces, and they have always been common to both.

So Zhou Yu made two preparations.

One is the siege of Wei Yan's walled city, which is led by himself, and Zhou Yu also wants to personally weigh Wei Yan's weight.

The other is to arrange for Ling Tong to command an army of 5,000 to guard the south gate of Echeng, and arrange for Chen Wu to command an army of 5,000 to guard the west gate of Echeng to prevent the defenders in Echeng from going out of the city to respond.

There will not be too many defenders in the city, and the soldiers and horses who will go out of the city to meet will not be more than a thousand, maybe only a few hundred, five thousand people each of the two gates, and then tell the two generals to deal with it carefully, Zhou Yu doesn't believe that there will be any accidents.

After making these preparations, Zhou Yu returned to his Zhongjun tent and began to prepare for rest.

But Zhou Yu had only been lying down for a long time, and he was a little dazed in his sleep, when he suddenly heard the sound of gongs and drums, mixed with some shouts and killings.

Zhou Yu immediately got up, put on his cloak, calmly sat in the tent of the Chinese army, and began to give orders, asking the generals of each battalion to pacify the soldiers and arrange for manpower to prepare for defense.

When encountering an attack on the camp at night, the most taboo thing is panic, Zhou Yu must first calm down, and then use his actions to make the soldiers feel that everything is under the control of the coach, so as to stabilize.

For the night attack on the camp, Zhou Yu has his own set of coping plans, so he is not in a hurry.

It's just that Zhou Yu can't figure it out a little, do those people who defend Echeng really dare to risk attacking the camp in the middle of the night?!

Let's not say that the soldiers in this year basically can't see at night, take a step back, even if the defenders of Echeng can see at night, they are not afraid that they will suffer heavy losses after the failure of the attack, which will affect the defense of the city in the future?!

Or is it said. In fact, Jiangxia's reinforcements have arrived?!

If reinforcements arrive, then this battle will be a little difficult to fight.

What Zhou Yu hopes most is to fight a quick victory, which will maximize the benefits of Jiangdong.

Jiangdong also has Jiangdong's shortcomings, if it can't win quickly, if it drags on for a month or two, there will be problems in the rear.

The military system in Koto is different from that of other places.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the conscription system was adopted, and those who were conscripted into the army were all from good families, who were innocent and had land.

However, there was a common problem at the end of the Han Dynasty, that is, the land annexation was serious, and the conscription system was greatly damaged, so now most of the princes in the world adopt the conscription system, and those who pay money and grain are recruited as soldiers, and they are handed over to the command of their generals in wartime.

Only Koto is special.

At the beginning, after Sun Ce asked for his father Sun Jian's troops from Yuan Shu, because of the lack of troops, and in order to quickly pacify Jiangdong, Sun Ce adopted a more strange method, that is, the hereditary military system.

Let me give you an example.

For example, when Zhou Yu came to Sun Ce, Sun Ce would give him the title of general and let him take charge of an army of 2,000 people.

But these 2,000 people were not directly allocated to Zhou Yu by Sun Ce, but needed to be recruited by Zhou Yu himself, and these 2,000 people were Zhou Yu's private soldiers, and Zhou Yu was asked to pay for them, but the advantage was that these 2,000 people Zhou Yu could pass on to his son after his death.

This is the hereditary military system.

In this way, Sun Ce could quickly pull up a team and quickly pacify Jiangdong, but it also laid hidden dangers for Jiangdong, and even Sun Ce himself was assassinated because of this.

In this place of Jiangdong, the families nominally recognize the power of the Sun family, but in fact they still retain their own army and land, and in this case, you Sun Ce still wantonly attacked and killed the Jiangdong family, isn't this looking for your own death.

And Sun Quan was in power at a young age, in order to quickly stabilize Jiangdong, and in order to deal with the consequences of Sun Ce's killing of too many families, he had to further compromise the Jiangdong family to a certain extent.

Therefore, Jiangdong's foreign war is not up to Sun Quan alone, and if he wants to send troops to attack a certain place, he needs Sun Quan to convince Jiangdong's family interest groups and obtain their support before he can act.

If Jiangxia can win quickly this time, it can bring benefits to the Jiangdong family, then the Jiangdong family doesn't mind sending troops during spring ploughing.

But if you can't win a quick victory, but get caught up in a protracted siege war, then the Koto family will definitely retreat when they can't see the benefits.

Therefore, Zhou Yu knew that once Jiangxia's reinforcements had arrived in Echeng, although Zhou Yu was still confident that he could win, but. It can't be delayed for too long, otherwise it will be detrimental to Koto if it drags on.

Zhou Yu suppressed the worries in his heart, sat firmly in the tent of the Chinese army, and waited for the return of the officers and men in his army, hoping to judge whether the Jiangxia reinforcements had arrived from this attack on Echeng, and if so, how many people came.

But soon, Zhou Yu was rewarded.

There was no attack on the camp, but one hundred and ten Jiangxia soldiers and soldiers took gongs and drums to the vicinity of the Jiangdong camp and knocked for a while, and before the Jiangdong army could leave the camp to check what was going on, they had already run away.

Zhou Yu was stunned for a moment, and then laughed angrily.

What kind of child's ploy is this?!

Even a hundred and ten people dare to do a tired strategy?!

If the strength of the two sides is equal, Zhou Yu still has to worry about whether this is the opponent's tired strategy, he can't sleep well at night, and he is afraid that there will be an ambush and dare not chase, which is really uncomfortable.

But now you're short of manpower at all, and it's not too troublesome to play such disgusting methods?!

Yes, now Zhou Yu can already be sure that Jiangxia reinforcements have not yet arrived, only the defenders of Echeng on the opposite side came out and beat the gong in the middle of the night to disgust people.

Otherwise, the enemy troops who beat the gongs and drums would not have withdrawn so quickly, at least they would have to wait until their side sent military horses to investigate the truth before withdrawing.

Running so fast not only shows that the other party has no ambush, but also shows that the Echeng defenders lack confidence, and even these 100 soldiers dare not lose.

If so, Zhou Yu is not worried at all.

It was rearranged, and some Jiangdong soldiers were on duty at night, and regular arrangements were made to go out on patrols, and the disgusting people in the province came again by beating gongs and drums, and then continued to arrange for the camps to rest.

After that, there was naturally nothing to say all night, and it seemed to confirm Zhou Yu's conjecture, and the defenders of Echeng did not come to harass again.

This strategy of harassment in the middle of the night is naturally Zhang Xi's purpose. Zhang Xi really didn't want to be disgusting, he really wanted a night attack.

Zhang Xi originally thought that the Jiangdong Army had just arrived and its foothold was not stable, so maybe it could make a sneak attack, so he arranged a night attack.

But you can't directly rob the camp, after all, there are many people in Jiangdong, and Zhou Yu is a famous general with excellent resourcefulness, so if you don't do it directly, you will suffer a loss.

Therefore, Zhang Xi originally wanted to lure the enemy into sending troops by striking the gong in the middle of the night, and then let Kou Feng ambush him halfway, thinking that in case Zhou Zhou Yu sent someone to investigate the truth and truth, it would be better to do him at least.

After all, it's the middle of the night, Zhang Xi doesn't believe that Zhou Yu will let the big army pour out, it must be that only the small army goes out to investigate, so Kou Feng has about 500 people, and he can't run away, Zhang Xi doesn't believe that Zhou Yu in the middle of the night dares to send someone to pursue.

Left and right will not suffer a big loss.

Of course, it doesn't matter if Zhou Yu doesn't come, just disgust Zhou Yu.

But Zhang Xi didn't expect that those sergeants who sneaked close to the Jiangdong camp and were responsible for beating gongs and drums were so timid, and the Jiangdong Army was only on guard, and they didn't leave the camp, so these people retreated in a hurry.

They all withdrew, and this plan was exposed, so what kind of ambush did Kou Feng have.

As soon as Kou Feng saw his teammates retreating in front of him, the Jiangdong Army military camp did not react at all, knowing that he couldn't wait for the pursuit team, so he naturally led the team back.

Fortunately, there were no mosquitoes in the early spring, but Kou Feng was still hot.

This is too cowardly, isn't it, just this guts, how can you go into battle to kill the enemy?!

But Zhang Xi is not surprised, in the face of Zhou Yu, he didn't suffer a loss, even if he made a profit.

Besides, these soldiers were all sailors half a month ago, and Chen was able to stay and hand them over to the soldiers commanded by Zhang Xi, what kind of elite do you expect them to be?!

To have the ability to defend the city like the day before yesterday, Zhang Xi was already very pleased.

appeased Kou Feng for a while, and let Kou Feng go back to the house to sleep, and then. Zhang Xi is worried.

It's been a few days, and the reinforcements from Xiling County are not coming?!

Uncle Chen, Uncle Chen. If there are no reinforcements, you should send someone to deliver a letter.

If it goes on like this, I really have to explain it in this Echeng.

(End of chapter)