Lu Meng is not unaware of his own situation, nor does he not know that as a commander, he should not pin his military hopes on the unreliability of the enemy.

It's just that he is really unwilling, and at the same time, there is no way out.

It was Lü Meng who insisted on persuading Sun Quan to turn his back on the Sun-Liu alliance and launch a sneak attack, and it was Lü Meng who personally formulated all the strategic plans and told Sun Quan that this sneak attack would definitely succeed.

But now, everything is not going as expected.

Lu Dai of Guiyang has not received any news of breaking through Lingling County and threatening Wuling County, which has led to Xu Shu of Wuling County having enough time to quell the barbarian rebellion and thus support the civil security of the police.

And the speed at which Xu Shu quelled the barbarian rebellion was also faster than Xu Shu imagined, not to mention that Xu Shu also quickly organized a team of recruits, with a number of up to 10,000, which was beyond Lu Meng's estimate of Xu Shu.

If you really want to talk about it, Lu Meng thinks that he is not contemptuous of Xu Shu, after all, when he was in the Battle of Jingnan, Xu Shu was able to quickly lead the troops to react and block his way to the west, Lu Meng felt that Xu Shu's ability was basically not much worse than his own.

But now it seems that he still underestimated this Xu Shu's ability. Thinking about it from another perspective, Lu Meng felt that it would take at least a month for him to quell the rebellion of the barbarians in Wuling, and it would take at least a month to organize reinforcements to rescue the public security.

But now, Xu Shu has done it in about twenty days.

Now it's okay, the underestimation for a while has caused Xu Shu to be able to lead the troops to threaten his own grain channel.

In addition, Jiangling's reinforcements are coming, and he is still stumbling under the city, and the grain road may be harassed at any time, rationally speaking, Lu Meng should really choose to retreat, rather than continue to fight under Jiangling City.

Lu Meng's reason told him that if he continued to fight like this, it might bring unpredictable harm to the whole army, but at the same time, Lu Meng couldn't bear this breath in his heart.

Of course, Lu Meng couldn't predict how he would face the lord Sun Quan, who had always trusted him, once he collected his troops and went back.

Therefore, Lu Meng still wanted to fight in the end, so he gambled on the defenders in Jiangling City and couldn't hold on to the attack for a few days.

But in reality, this is not possible.

The state capital has already passed Dangyang County, how can he not give information to Wang Ji in Jiangling City, after all, his purpose is to rescue Jiangling.

Therefore, at this time, Wang Ji had already learned the news that reinforcements were about to arrive.

Although there are not many reinforcements coming, for Wang Ji, it is a good thing to have more than two or three thousand reinforcements now, so that at least there is no need to shrink in the city and be beaten passively, so that people can block the door and be beaten.

The defense of Gangneung City is very strong, the city wall is high enough, and the materials for defending the city are very sufficient, and it is simply unrealistic for the Jiangdong Army to break through Gangneung City by climbing the city wall.

The only trouble is the Jiangling city gate, the current city gate has indeed loosened, Wang Ji has sent a reserve of 2,000 people to the hidden soldier cave at the city gate just in case.

But in the end, Wang Ji still has the confidence to continue to hold on for a while, not to mention, there are now 10,000 reinforcements on the way.

Therefore, Wang Ji's current mentality is relatively relaxed, and the troops in the city are still sufficient, so it is impossible to have the situation that Lu Meng expected and cannot hold on.

In fact, at this time, Lu Meng has fallen into an irrational state of love and war, which is a very fatal thing for a coach.

The second master in history was in love with Xiangyang City, which led to the defeat of Maicheng, and Ji Han lost Jingzhou.

Now it was Lu Meng's turn to fall into this irrational state.

Therefore, in the next few days, Lu Meng suddenly increased the intensity of his attack on the Jiangling City Gate, completely urging this soldier to attack regardless of casualties.

The attack of the soldiers was unfavorable and wanted to retreat to rest, but Lü Meng personally stood in front of the military law team and ordered the military law team to shoot arrows at the retreating soldiers to drive them to continue the siege.

At the same time, Lü Meng also sent crossbowmen to suppress the Jiangling defenders on the city tower, so as to prevent the defenders from having the opportunity to attack the rushing cars and soldiers who were storming the city gate with rolling stones and sassal wood.

But the problem is that the crossbowmen cannot effectively control the range of fire, although Lü Meng ordered the crossbowmen to suppress the defenders of the city tower, creating an opportunity for the attacking soldiers of the Jiangdong Army under the city to storm the city gate, but in fact, the crossbowmen at least half of the bow and arrows fell on the head of the attacking Jiangdong army.

The soldiers of the Jiangdong Army wanted to retreat, and behind them were the crossbowmen of the military law team, and if they wanted to enter, they had to withstand the accidental injury of the Jiangdong crossbowmen.

The two sides weighed it, and the desire of the Jiangdong soldiers to attack did come up.

After all, there is still a glimmer of hope for attacking forward and breaking through the city gates, but retreating back to the camp is 100% dealt with by military law.

This is the battlefield, and I can't escape for a while, so I can only rush forward, praying that I won't be so unlucky and accidentally injured by my own arrows.

Indeed, Lu Meng did this, so that the gate of Jiangling City was greatly loosened under the impact of the rushing car, which made people see the hope of breaking through Jiangling City.

But in the same way, the morale of the Jiangdong Army is also in visible decline.

At night, when the troops were collected and returned to the camp, the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army would have a feeling of the aftermath of the disaster, and once it was night, thinking that they would have to continue to attack the city like this tomorrow, the entire Jiangdong Army fell into a state of lifelessness.

Therefore, since the beginning of the past few days, there has been a continuous phenomenon of desertion in the Jiangdong Army, knowing that there is a high probability that they will be sent to death when they go to attack the city tomorrow, so why do they continue to stay in the camp.

Lu Meng didn't know about this situation, but now he was really a bit of a tiger.

Look at that Gangneung City Gate, and see that you can take it with a little more effort.

But looking back at the morale of the army, it has basically fallen to the bottom.

Moreover, these soldiers are all their own Chinese soldiers, and they belong to Sun Quan's direct troops, and if they continue to lose like this, it is estimated that even the two brothers, Sun Yu and Sun Huan, will have to come to him and talk to him.

Therefore, Lü Meng finally began to waver and included the withdrawal of troops as his choice.

The current situation is indeed very unfavorable to the Jiangdong Army.

Reinforcements in Gangneung City are about to arrive, although the city is still insufficient, but after five or six days, at most it will not exceed ten days, as soon as the reinforcements arrive, Gangneung City will become impregnable and difficult to overcome.

And Xu Sheng behind him, although he is still holding on, he is basically sending a battle report to himself every day, which shows that the pressure is also very great.

Although Lu Xun has broken through the outer defense line of Yidu County and can conquer Yidu at any time, the problem is that whether Lu Xun conquers Yidu or not has no decisive impact on the current situation.

Lu Meng was really shaken, he thought about whether he should be rational and retreat back to Lukou.

However, there is a problem that Lu Meng has never been able to avoid - he has already destroyed the Sun-Liu alliance by sending troops this time, once he temporarily withdraws his troops and allows Liu Bei's group to relieve, then Jiangdong will definitely be retaliated.

Even though Liu Bei's group's naval army is not Jiangdong's opponent, on land, Liu Bei's group can station troops in Nanjun and seek to take Changsha and Lingling, which are now part of Jiangdong, through Wuling and Lingling.

Not to mention what kind of growth will be achieved once Liu Bei's group captures Hanzhong in the west and stabilizes the Xiangfan defense line in Jingbei. By that time, Koto will not be as simple as losing an ally, but will add a very strong enemy.

Regardless of whether the lord Sun Quan wants to go north to fight for the world, or to cross the river to defend himself, he cannot face the enemy in both directions at the same time.

This time, if Lü Meng could not capture Jiangling and occupy Nanjun, it would be tantamount to dragging Jiangdong into a very dangerous situation.

At that time, it will not be a question of Lu Meng's personal life and death and reputation, but a question of Jiangdong's life and death.

Therefore, Lü Meng felt that he had no way to retreat, and he had to storm Jiangling and defeat Jiangling.

As for the current disadvantage, Lu Meng can't help it.

On the one hand, the army is stepping up patrols in the camp, and if any deserters are found, they will all be beheaded for public display to deter the whole army.

On the other hand, the order was sent to Xu Sheng and Lu Xun to continue to insist, one insisted on defense to block the attacks of Wen Ping and Xu Shu, and the other insisted on attacking, and after conquering Yidu as soon as possible, he led the soldiers back to Jiangling City to help the attack.

Lu Meng made all the psychological preparations, and the next day, he continued to attack the city.

But soon, Lu Meng found that this siege was different from the previous ones, and this time, the gate of Jiangling City took the initiative to open.

Lu Meng has not yet gone crazy, knowing that this cannot be Wang Ji's initiative to surrender.

Then there is probably only one reason for opening the city gate at this time - the reinforcements from Gangneung City have arrived, and now the troops are enough, and they can go out of the city to fight in the field, burn and rush the car.

This was nearly two days faster than Lu Meng expected.

Lu Meng suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, and he almost fell off his horse.

Lu Meng's guards hurriedly supported him, helping Lu Meng to calm down, and at the same time covering up the embarrassment that Lu Meng almost fell off the horse.

After all, he is the commander, and his every move is related to the morale of the army in the army.

After taking several deep breaths, Lu Meng barely maintained his body, forced himself to calm down, pushed away the support of his personal guards, and continued to command the battle.

Really, even if the reinforcements arrive, it is only 10,000 more, and there are more than 40,000 people in his hands, against 20,000 people, there is still an advantage, okay, Lu Meng knows very well in his heart, this is not right, this is an offensive and defensive battle in the city, not a field battle, and the comparison of troops cannot be calculated so simply.

But there was no way, Lu Meng had to think like this and give himself a reason to persist in the attack.

Moreover, the enemy is not necessarily a bad thing for himself when he is out of the city. Lü Meng immediately ordered the Chinese army to attack and press, and with the advantage of numbers, tried to surround the soldiers who went out of the city and burned the rushing cars, giving the enemy the greatest casualties.

Hiding behind the city walls, I can't do anything about you, now that I'm out of the city. Then stay!!

(End of chapter)