In November of the 22nd year of Jian'an, Lü Meng secretly returned to Lukou from Jianye.

Lü Meng not only returned to command of the troops in Lukou, but also brought 20,000 Chinese troops under the direct control of Sun Quan, 20,000 defenders in Lukou, and Sun Huan, who had retreated to Jiangxia to rest, and more than 20,000 soldiers led by Sun Yu, totaling 60,000 people, preparing to attack Jingzhou.

The first outpost was launched in Wuling.

The six barbarians of Wuling, under the secret instigation of Lü Meng, rose up at the same time and besieged the counties of Wuling County together, and even some barbarians attacked the northern part of Lingling County because of their geographical relationship, and defeated the suppressive army led by Fan Ling of Lingling County.

After the Wuling Barbarian Rebellion, Lü Meng decisively ordered Lü Dai to send 5,000 troops from Guiyang, and cooperate with Jiaozhou Shixie, who was moved by Sun Quan, to attack Lingling County.

The battle between Wuling County and Lingling County officially began.

And Lu Meng, at this time, also officially began to implement his plan to backstab Jingzhou.

First, a small number of warships were sent to pretend to be merchant ships, and most of the soldiers were hidden in the cabins, so that the clever soldiers disguised themselves as merchants and went to Jingzhou to do business.

It is also known as "crossing the river in white".

As an aside, in fact, the "white clothes" of "crossing the river in white clothes" do not mean wearing white clothes or wearing a white cloak, but refers to not wearing armor and plain clothes.

In other words, Lü Meng asked some of his soldiers to wear the clothes of ordinary merchants and pretend to be merchants, in order to deceive Guan Yu in a series of beacon towers set up along the river.

One thing to say, this trick is actually very dangerous, and at the same time very clever. The danger is that as long as one beacon tower finds that something is wrong, Lü Meng's sneak attack will turn into a strong attack, and the clever part is that Lü Meng really deceived all the beacons, and also sent troops to collect the guards on these beacons.

I really don't know how this guy did it, it's hard to imagine anyway.

All in all, Lu Meng disguised all the way and broke through all the way, so that the beacon tower set up by Guan Yu in order to guard against Jiangdong was useless, and he quickly marched to the public security.

When the public security was approaching, Lu Meng did not continue to disguise, because there was no point in disguising anymore.

The public security guard will be a civil servant, which is a hard bone that must be gnawed down.

Wen hires this person, Lu Meng knows his ability and character very well, this is a person who is strategic, cautious and not lacking, no matter what kind of "crossing the river in white" is, it will be easily recognized.

Therefore, Lu Meng did not intend to play tricks with Wen Ping, but simply suppressed people with power and sent all the troops in his hands to besiege the public security.

Lü Meng now has 40,000 troops under direct control, leaving 10,000 as reserves, and the remaining 30,000 are all pressed up to attack the public security.

In the hands of Wen Ping, there are only 5,000 people now, and they are still in a hurry to meet the battle.

Wen Ping was indeed taken aback by Lu Meng's sudden appearance, but only frightened.

Wen Ping is stationed in the position of public security, and he knows very well who he is guarding against, and he knows that he will meet Jiangdong's army in the public security one day sooner or later, so he will not be frightened by the appearance of Jiangdong Army.

What really surprised Wen Ping was that the Jiangdong Army suddenly appeared in the public security without any warning, and the beacon tower defense system along the river did not play a role at all.

But. So what, just come and fight, I can still be afraid of you Jiangdong children?!

The raid of the Jiangdong Army quickly occupied the ferry belonging to the public security, and Wen Ping did not have any water army in his hands, and most of the water army was transferred north by Guan Yu to fight Xiangfan, so Wen Ping knew that if he fought with Jiangdong for the ferry, it would definitely be his own loss, so it was better to directly shrink his forces and defend the public security city.

Behind the public security is Wuling County, as long as Xu Shu can free up his hands to support himself, Wen Ping is really not worried about the public security being besieged to death.

Of course, at this time, Wen Ping didn't know that Xu Shu's Wuling County soldiers were temporarily dragged by the barbarians, and there was no way to support them for a while.

After Lü Meng led his army ashore, he began to launch a fierce attack on Gong'an City.

Lu Meng is a person who is very good at using the heart attack technique, he knows that the current public security has soldiers and food, although it is at a disadvantage with 5,000 to 30,000, but people have cities.

You only need to defend the city and delay time, wait for the Sifang Prefecture and County to react, and the rescue is in place, then it will be considered a win.

So, when he was defending the city at the beginning, Wen Ping was still full of energy, and it was impossible to choose to surrender. It's a veteran of Jingzhou anyway, and I don't have any confidence at all, how can I live for so long in this troubled world?!

Only by waiting for his siege of the city to put enough pressure on Wen Ping, and then telling Wen Ping that he is now isolated and helpless, and it is impossible for Xu Shu of Wuling County to support him, so it is possible to force Wen Ping to surrender.

Of course, Lu Meng also knows that this possibility is still not very large, but it doesn't matter, doesn't he have a backhand.

Therefore, Lü Meng first ordered the 30,000 Jiangdong Army to surround the public security, and then began to command the generals in the army to build siege equipment and prepare for the siege.

Lü Meng himself led 10,000 troops to sit in the Chinese army as the general reserve, and the remaining 20,000 soldiers were assigned to Zhu Huan, Ding Feng, Xu Sheng, Quan Cong and other generals, so that they could besiege Simen with all their might.

Wen Ping only had 5,000 people, leaving a reserve of 1,000 people, guarding the north gate by himself, and consolidating the east gate, and handed over the defense of the west gate and the south gate to Zhang Ren, who was responsible for leading the defense.

Wen Ping knows that if he defends for a long time, he will lose, so this reserve of 1,000 people is intended to be used at a critical moment to go out of the city to burn siege equipment, or to interrupt the rhythm of the enemy's siege.

Now, it's still based on the traditional defensive walls.

But the Jiangdong Army commanded by Lu Meng attacked the city, which really made Wen Ping feel very uncomfortable.

Lu Meng didn't build any complicated siege equipment, he just asked the soldiers to build some hook ladders and cloud ladders, such as rushing cars, wells and other powerful siege equipment, but Lu Meng didn't build any of them.

Then, Lü Meng didn't know where to collect 2,000 crossbowmen, and used the crossbows to suppress the arrows of the defenders of the city wall to return fire, regardless of the cost of arrows, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to quickly advance under the city wall while the wall was suppressed, and climb the siege.

Yes, Lu Meng is not immutable, he will also grow up with the methods used by Zhou Yu when he fought Hefei, and he was learned by Lu Meng and attacked the public security.

Although Wen Ping could still command the soldiers, he quickly took advantage of the arrows to suppress the non-stop kung fu to organize the defense, and drove the siege soldiers in Jiangdong off the city wall. But after coming so many times, Wen Ping really didn't know if he could still bear it.

At this time, Wen Ping felt somewhat lucky, glad that Lu Meng only had two thousand crossbowmen in total, and all of them were left at the north gate where Lu Meng was personally in charge.

If there were two thousand crossbowmen at all four gates, then the city would not be defended, and it would not be able to defend it at all.

Crossbowmen should operate in groups of at least three people, and the number of people who came to attack Jiangdong this time should not exceed 30,000, and there should not be so many crossbowmen.

Just when Wen Ping was rejoicing, Lu Meng suddenly changed his tactics.

Lü Meng ordered his 5,000 soldiers of the Chinese army to secretly move to the east gate of the public security city under the command of Xu Sheng, who attacked the east gate.

Then, during the day, Lü Meng, as before, continued to launch a crossbow suppression operation at the north gate.

Just when Wen Ping commanded the soldiers to fight hard and fight hand-to-hand with the Jiangdong Army at the North Gate, Xu Sheng of the East Gate suddenly invested an additional 5,000 soldiers and soldiers, and made a sneak attack in one fell swoop and climbed the city wall of the East Gate.

The Jiangdong Army's offensive was carried out at the same time by four gates, so the public security defenders were defending all four gates.

Wen Ren himself was pinned down at the north gate, and he couldn't get out for a while, Zhang Ren was in command of the defense at the west gate at this time, and there was no way to take care of the east gate for the time being, although there were still a thousand defenders at the east gate, but it was only a captain left by Wen Ping in command.

Outside the east gate, in addition to the 5,000 soldiers led by Xu Sheng, there were 5,000 more soldiers and soldiers to support.

In other words, through his own mobilization, Lu Meng attacked the east and west, and created a local numerical advantage at the east gate, and the ratio of this advantage reached ten to one.

In this case, it would be very difficult for even Wen Ping to defend in person, let alone just a school captain.

Wen Ping saw that the situation was critical, and there was no way out, so he directly called the thousand-person reserve.

Let's talk about the attack later, if we can't drive the Jiangdong army at the east gate off the city wall today, then there will be no chance to attack in the future.

Thousands of reserves were thrown into the battle at the East Gate, and Wen Ping also went to the East Gate to command after the situation at the North Gate was a little more stable, and finally reluctantly drove the Jiangdong Army at the East Gate off the city wall.

When night fell, the two sides stopped fighting, and after Wen Ping counted the losses, his brows furrowed.

After being besieged for five days and besieged for three days, Wenpin has lost nearly 700 people.

Although it can still be defended, if it continues to hold on like this, it will not be a way out after all.

But Wen hired few soldiers, and in the face of tens of thousands of Jiangdong troops outside, Wen Ping would not risk choosing to go out of the city to rob the camp. We can only hope that the reinforcements from Wuling or Gangneung will arrive in time.

And Lü Meng, who also collected troops and returned to the camp, did not care in the face of the loss of nearly 2,000 people in the three-day siege.

One is that Lü Meng has a lot of soldiers and losses, and the other is that Lü Meng has achieved his goal.

There were a total of 5,000 people in Wenpin City, and Lu Meng had already known about it through his meticulous work.

But in the siege of the city in the past few days, only 4,000 people have been found, so Lu Meng judged that Wen Ping also hid a thousand people.

The continuous siege of the city in the past two days has finally forced Wen Ping's backhand out, so the next thing will be easy to do.

Wenpin's backhand is gone, and it's Lu Meng's turn.

And Lu Meng's backhand is Liu Zhang.

As early as half a year ago, Lü Meng secretly established contact with Liu Zhang, and at the same time asked Sun Quan to admit that Liu Zhang was still the pastor of Yizhou in the name of the general of the chariot cavalry.

Now, it's the turn of this "Yizhou Mu" to contribute to Jiangdong.

Lü Meng asked him to contact the public security city and asked him to meet Liu Zhang as his envoy and tell Liu Zhang that as long as Liu Zhang led the tenants to create riots in the city, he responded to Lü Meng's siege.

After defeating Guan Yu, Lü Meng can call the shots and lend troops to Liu Zhang, so that he can kill back to Yizhou and regain power in Yizhou.

Lu Meng didn't believe that Liu Zhang would be moved by this proposal.

(End of chapter)