With 10,000 reinforcements from Xiangyang, Zhou Tai marched quickly and rushed to Jiangling.

With the previous experience of leading the team, the marching speed of this state is much faster than before.

In addition, this is a military operation to rescue Gangneung, and Zhou Tai also wants to be rewarded for his meritorious service, so along the way, Zhou Tai used a semi-rapid march to urge the soldiers to hurry up.

Of course, Zhou Tai also knows where the limit of the sergeants' daily march is, and he is not a brainless person, even if he is in a hurry to make meritorious contributions, but he also knows that if the soldiers are overly squeezed, even if the soldiers endure along the way and do not mutiny, his reinforcements will not have much combat effectiveness when they arrive in Gangneung.

Such reinforcements are useless when they get to Gangneung.

Therefore, although Zhou Tai was really in a hurry to make meritorious service, he did not get dizzy in the end, and the rapid march returned to the rapid march, although the non-commissioned officers would also complain, but under the control of Zhou Tai, there was no dissatisfaction.

This shows the importance of the experience of 10,000 troops led by Zhou Tai from Gangneung to Xiangyang before.

If Zhou Tai did not have this kind of experience in leading 10,000 troops, then he would now estimate that he would have to grope while marching, and he would definitely not dare to use a rapid march to rescue Gangneung. Then God knows when we will be able to get to Gangneung.

After all, it's December, and the land of Jingzhou is not a warm winter this year, and heavy snow may close the road at any time.

Zhou Tai hurried all the way to Jiangling to support, while Lu Xun led 5,000 troops, bypassing the main road and marching in the direction of Yidu County.

With 5,000 people, it is not a simple matter to conquer a county, but there is no way, this is the maximum force that Lu Meng can transfer to himself.

The only good thing is that Lu Meng did not ask Lu Xun to quickly capture Yidu, but only asked Lu Xun to capture Yidu before he captured Jiangling, and blocked the gateway for Xichuan soldiers to enter Jingzhou.

After all, most of the current Xichuan soldiers are still confronting Cao Cao in Hanzhong, and they can't come so quickly for a while.

But Lu Xun felt that if he acted in such a step-by-step manner according to Lu Meng's requirements, he really couldn't show his ability.

And what. Liu Beijun's Yidu is too guarded by Meng Da, which is also quite interesting.

Now that the Jiangdong Army is attacking Nanjun, Yidu Taishou Meng Da learned the news and gathered troops to defend the east side or Tunbing County to defend to the death, which is understandable.

However, according to the report of Tanma, this Mengda, although he arranged people to defend in two or three counties on the east side, focused his defense on the direction of the three eastern counties in the north. So, what the hell is this guy thinking?!

Lu Xun carefully studied the map of Yidu County, although the distance between the two counties in the north and the three counties on the east side is very close, and it only takes a few days to transfer troops back and forth to shift the center of gravity of defense, but a few days can sometimes be fatal.

What's more, this Meng Da is really defenseless against the southern riverside area, doesn't he really know what the Jiangdong Army is best at?!

Lu Xun didn't understand Meng Da's approach, but Lu Xun knew very well that since this Meng Da arranged the defense line like this, if he didn't take advantage of it, he would really be sorry for the good opportunity Meng Da created for him.

Continue to march in secret, cut directly from the direction of the southeast corner of Yidu County, and do not attack the county seat, but directly attack the county seat of Yidu County, which is also the garrison of Meng Da.

Capture the thief and capture the king first.

And Meng Da is indeed a little negligent and precautionary.

Meng Da, the ability is there, after all, he can make friends with Fa Zheng and Li Yan, and he can also mix well in Cao Wei, if you want to say that he doesn't learn and don't know how to do it, it's too much.

But Meng Da's character is really not good, capricious, forgetting righteousness, and in the end, because of arrogance and unpreparedness, he was killed by Sima Yi's rapid march, which led to a sharp decline in his later reputation.

But if you really want to talk about it, maybe Meng Da can't reach the level of Fazheng, but he can still do it with Li Yan to guard one side.

Meng Da really didn't want to risk sending troops to rescue Nanjun, he treated Yidu County as his own one-third of an acre of land to operate, and he was reluctant to take a little risk.

But there is one thing to say, Nanjun was attacked by Jiangdong, and Yidu was not 100% safe, and Meng Da knew these things in his heart.

Even if Meng Da didn't want to rescue Nanjun, Meng Da was very concerned about defending Yidu, after all, Yidu was already regarded by Meng Da as his own territory.

Therefore, after Meng Da rejected Xu Shu's request for help, he did not do nothing, but redeployed all the soldiers in the counties and strengthened the defense of the eastern part of Yidu.

However, because Meng Da rejected Xu Shu's letter for help, mentioning that the three eastern counties were unstable and could go south at any time, Meng Da had to assign some of his soldiers to the north side.

In Meng Da's opinion, the Shen brothers in the three eastern counties are also the dogs of the household, and they will definitely not attack themselves easily, so preventing troops in the north of Yidu County is actually just a show.

Meng Da dared to do this because the two counties in the north of Yidu were not far from the distance between Yidu County and the three counties in the east, and it would only take a few days to return to defense.

Even if Jiangdong really sent people to raid the eastern part of Yidu County, as long as the soldiers on the eastern front line could block it for a few days, the soldiers of Yidu County in the north would be able to rescue in time without affecting the overall layout of the defensive line.

As for the south side, Meng Da did not send troops to defend along the river, but it was not because Meng Da did not know the strength of the Jiangdong naval army.

Meng Da had no choice but to do this, he didn't have many naval troops at hand, and his troops were not enough, so he couldn't set up a defense line along the river, so he could only temporarily choose to abandon the defense along the river in the south.

Once the Jiangdong Army marches from the waterway, Meng Da will take the initiative to shrink his forces to defend the county, give up the land in the south to lure the Jiangdong soldiers to fight ashore, and then Meng Da will contact Fu Kuang, who is defending in Yufu, and let Fu Kuang lead the water army down the river, attack the back road and grain supply of the Jiangdong Army, and trap the Jiangdong Army on the shore.

Fighting a land battle and defending the city, Meng Da felt that he would not lose to the people of Jiangdong.

But Meng Da really didn't expect that Lu Xun didn't take the waterway, and the land route also bypassed the defense of the county town in the east, and the hidden march along the way cut from the southeast of Yidu County, until it was close to Yidu County, and it was not found until it was close to Yidu County.

And Meng Da didn't expect that Lu Xun didn't care about the surrounding county towns at all, but directly led the troops to pounce on the county where Meng Da was located, trying to break through the county rule and seize Yidu County as quickly as possible.

Now, there are two choices in front of Meng Da.

One is to stick to the county rule by himself, and then order the Yidu county soldiers who are outside to cut off Lu Xun's back road.

After all, although Lu Xun's army was fast, he did not occupy any county seat, and there was no supply node, so it must be a quick battle.

In this case, Meng Da only needs to be able to hold on to the county seat, wait until Lu Xun runs out of food, and then slowly clean up this group of lone Jiangdong Army.

The other is to order all the county soldiers outside to return to the county to help, as long as the county is held and not lost, even if a few peripheral counties are lost, it will not affect the overall situation, at least there are still escape routes.

After all, Lu Xun did not bring many soldiers, once Meng Da gathered the county soldiers to hold on, the number of troops would be more than Lu Xun, if he couldn't hold Yidu anymore, then Meng Da would directly find a stone and kill him.

Two choices, placed in front of Meng Da, let Meng Da choose.

The first option, although a bit risky, but once successful, the benefits are relatively large, and you can completely annihilate the 5,000 soldiers who invaded Jiangdong.

The second option is relatively safe, there is not much risk, and it is easier to hold Yidu.

After some thought, Meng Da chose the first option.

Although the first option will put yourself in danger, but in the same way, once you succeed, it will be a great achievement to completely annihilate these Jiangdong soldiers who have invaded the border.

After all, Meng Da had already refused to rescue Nanjun, and if he didn't do something to give Liu Bei an explanation, it would probably be a bit troublesome to fool people like Liu Bei just by relying on his excuses for not sending troops.

Although Fa Zheng and Li Yan will help to talk and preserve, and there is also the credit of Irikawa, but if you can do something to prove that you really can't leave, or even make some more credit, wouldn't it be better.

Based on this idea, Meng Da decided to strengthen the city defense in the county, let half of the soldiers and horses in the three eastern counties, and intercept the back road of Lu Xun's 5,000 soldiers.

As long as he holds on for ten days and half a month, Lu Xun will retreat because of lack of food, and at that time, he will lead his troops to pursue and will definitely be able to win a big victory.

Meng Da thought very well, but the problem was that Lu Xun in front of him was not the kind of mediocre general who would only act according to the established plan.

After Lu Xun led his troops to Yidu County quickly, he did not attack the city at the first time, but set up camp first, and at the same time sent scouts to collect information around him.

After receiving the news that the soldiers of Yidu County appeared on the back road, Lu Xun immediately ordered to hang flags all over the camp, leaving a few troops to do suspicious tactics, and led the remaining troops to counterattack the three eastern counties, and easily broke through the defense of the three eastern counties of Yidu, and completely opened up his own grain route.

At the same time, before Meng Da could react, he quickly went north to cut off the connection between Meng Da and the soldiers of the two northern counties.

Lu Xun's actions were very fast, and in less than ten days, he moved to three places, easily dividing the connection between Meng Da and the soldiers from the outside counties.

As for Meng Da, it took three days just to find out that the camp in front of him was empty.

It was these three days that gave Lu Xun an opportunity to take advantage of it, so that Meng Da was always in a passive situation.

After Meng Da found that the camp in front of him was an empty camp, he immediately realized Lu Xun's plan and hurriedly sent someone to contact the three eastern counties, but it was already a step too late, and the three eastern counties had already been broken by Lu Xun.

After receiving the news that the three eastern counties were attacked by Lu Xun, Meng Da immediately understood that Lu Xun might go north to cut off his contact with the northern county soldiers, and hurriedly ordered the northern county soldiers to shrink back to the county of Zhiyidu.

But by the time the northern county soldiers received the order, Lu Xun had already cut off the return route of the northern county soldiers.

Meng Da is actually not stupid, he can guess the other party's intentions in Lu Xun's response, but it is because of the three-day time difference that Meng Da is passive everywhere.

In the end, Meng Da gritted his teeth and wanted to send troops to cooperate with the northern county soldiers to attack Lu Xun on both sides, but before Meng Da could go far out of the city, he received the news that Lu Xun took advantage of the panic of the northern county soldiers to completely defeat the northern county soldiers.

As soon as Meng Da heard the news, he knew that he was no longer able to break through Lu Xun's invading army, so he could only retreat to the county and stick to it.

But the problem now is that when Lu Xun cleared the county troops in the east and north, Meng Da only had more than 2,000 people to hold on to Yidu County, while Lu Xun had almost no losses.

The situation has changed and reversed.

(End of chapter)