Zhou Tai also reached the blood mold.

He led the troops from Xiangyang to rescue Jiangling, marched rapidly along the way, and arrived at Jiangling City three days faster than expected, which was indeed a great achievement.

After Wang Ji welcomed Zhou Tai into the city, he almost immediately gave Zhou Tai a credit.

After all, after more than ten days of defending the city, Wang Ji's strength has dropped from 12,000 to less than 10,000.

Although the defenders of the city defense battle were very advantageous, the troops were tight after all, and now that there were 10,000 reinforcements, Wang Ji suddenly felt that his waist was stiff again.

Of course, Wang Ji also knew that in order to quickly lead the troops to reinforce, Zhou Tai was marching all the way over, although the soldiers arrived, they were still relatively tired, and they needed to rest for some time to recover their combat effectiveness, but Wang Ji was not to the point of exhaustion, and he was not so anxious that he needed these reinforcements to enter the battle immediately.

Therefore, Wang Ji's order to Zhou Tai was to let him lead the troops to recuperate, and then go to the city wall to defend after he had recuperated.

But the state is clearly not satisfied.

Although the credit for leading the troops to rescue in time is not small, whether it is the credit obtained from the battlefield or not, Zhou Tai is somewhat dissatisfied.

Zhou Tai also thought that he would repel the attack of the Jiangdong Army under Jiangling City and further establish meritorious deeds.

As an official from a humble background, you need to seize any opportunity, so that you can gain a foothold in this world, so as to glorify your ancestors and seal your wife and son.

Therefore, when he saw that Lü Meng launched a rushing car attack on the city, and Wang Ji could only be beaten passively, Zhou Tai took the initiative to ask Wang Ji for his life, led the troops out of the city, and burned these rushing cars.

Wang Ji thought for a while before telling Zhou Tai that it was not yet time.

Of course, Wang Ji didn't want to watch these rushing cars hit the city gate like this every day, no matter how strong the Jiangling city gate was, it couldn't withstand such a continuous impact.

But now that the troops are insufficient, and the reinforcements have not recovered their combat effectiveness, he cannot risk going out of the city now.

Kezhoutai said that although the reinforcements had gone through a rapid march and most of them were tired, it was not a problem to send 3,000 people who still had combat effectiveness to fight.

Besides, being beaten so passively, just in case, Wang Ji had to put 2,000 reserves in the cave of hidden soldiers, isn't it also a waste of troops.

It's better to take the initiative and burn some of the rushing cars, so that the soldiers in Jiangdong will not dare to attack so blatantly, and they can also liberate the soldiers in the Tibetan soldier cave, isn't it the best of both worlds?!

Wang Ji pondered for a while and felt that it was right, so he asked Zhou Tai to lead 3,000 people out of the city and burn down the car.

Of course, Wang Ji has always been cautious in doing things, and just in case, he asked Guan Xing to lead 3,000 people as a response, and he was ambushed behind the city gate.

Zhou Tai led the troops out of the city, and indeed killed the Jiangdong Army by surprise, and as soon as he got out of the city, he defeated the front army protection of the Jiangdong Army and ignited several rushing cars.

But Zhoutai's good fortune did not last long, and soon, with the large pressure of the Jiangdong Army, Zhoutai fell into the encirclement of the Jiangdong Army.

On the one hand, it was Zhou Tai who was a little anxious to make meritorious contributions, thinking of burning a few more rushing cars, and at the same time underestimating the enemy's combat strength, so he dragged his feet when he retreated and was surrounded by the Jiangdong Army.

On the other hand, Lu Meng's reaction was fast enough, and as soon as he saw that Zhou Tai had the intention of fighting, he would definitely not let go of any opportunity and command the Chinese army to quickly surround him.

After Zhou Tai found out that he was surrounded, he immediately led his troops to break through in all directions, but he was blocked by the Jiangdong Army several times.

Zhou Tai was surprised to find that the combat strength of this group of Jiangdong troops was really not bad, although his soldiers were mentally and physically tired after a long march, but they would not be in a comprehensive disadvantage in the contest with the enemy.

At this time, Zhou Tai regretted his greed for merit and love war, but fortunately, Zhou Tai did not panic because of this.

There is no way, things have come to this point, and they can only order the soldiers to shrink their formation and wait for reinforcements. There are still soldiers in Gangneung City, and they are fighting under the city, so they don't have to worry about no one to answer.

Wang Ji in the city soon sensed that the situation was wrong, and saw that Zhou Tai slowly began to shrink the formation, so he asked Guan Xing to prepare to go out of the city to respond, and went out of the city to answer at a critical moment, so that Zhou Tai did not let the soldiers brought out to Lang, and finally took Zhou Tai back.

But this time, Zhou Tai also lost nearly a thousand people, which was greater than the loss of Wang Ji defending the city for five days.

Really, if it weren't for the wartime employment, Wang Ji would have the heart to get rid of Zhoutai and let him be a big soldier.

And Zhou Tai's appearance in this game made Lu Meng misjudge a problem. Although the number of reinforcements received by Gangneung City was 10,000, the actual combat strength was not high.

A field battle that goes out of the city and burns siege equipment can lose nearly 1,000 people, so these 10,000 people, will they be exhausted if they come to ten more such field battles?!

Well, it's a bit blind to say this, but if the number of reinforcements is not large, and the combat power is not strong, Lu Meng feels that there is really no need for him to retreat so quickly.

As long as Xu Sheng in the rear is still holding on, or taking a step back, as long as the public security officer does not organize a naval fleet for the time being, which can threaten Lü Meng's grain route, then he still has hope of breaking through Jiangling.

Even if Gangneung already has reinforcements.

Lu Meng, who suddenly had hope again, began to calculate the chips in his hands while directing his soldiers to continue to attack the gate of Jiangling City.

The original army of 45,000 people had suffered nearly 7,000 casualties in the siege a few days ago, and more than half of them were the Chinese army under their direct control.

The so-called Chinese army is actually the army directly under Sun Quan and handed over to Lu Meng to command.

Before the start of the war, Lü Meng led 35,000 men, of which 20,000 were Chinese troops.

After the public security left Xu Sheng with 5,000 people and distributed 5,000 people to Lu Xun, Lü Meng only had 10,000 Chinese troops left, and now after several sieges, the Chinese army in Lü Meng's hands is about 5,000 people.

With such a small number of troops, it is definitely not possible to continue the siege of the city, and it is necessary to seek support.

Ask those generals to seconded private soldiers, even if they agree, it is estimated that they will not attack the city with all their might, and what Lu Meng lacks most now is time.

Therefore, it has to be directly subordinate to Sun Quan's troops. For example, the 20,000 soldiers brought by Sun Huan and Sun Yu.

Although it is also directly under Sun Quan's team, Sun Huan and Sun Yu will not lend their soldiers to Lu Meng so simply, if they hand over the command so easily, Sun Quan will not need to train clan generals to lead troops.

Therefore, Lu Meng must discuss with Sun Huan and Sun Yu, and in the end, he must let Sun Huan and Sun Yu command the army, and he cannot directly command it.

But Lu Meng felt that it was not impossible to do this, after all, there was no need for the Sun brothers to grind foreign workers on the battlefield, and they would take down Jiangling and occupy Nanjun, and Sun Quan would benefit the most.

However, this is not a complete solution, after all, the command of the army is not in his hands, and Lu Meng feels that he is still not at ease.

Therefore, Lü Meng ordered Lu Xun, who was attacking Yidu, to return to the division.

The peripheral forces of Yidu have been cut off, and Yidu will not be able to recover these shortages in the short term, and there will be no reinforcements around to rescue Yidu, so it is better to withdraw for the time being, and then attack Yidu after defeating Jiangling.

And Lu Xun is beating Meng Da at this time, and the beating is refreshing.

It's a rare opportunity to lead the troops alone, and he used a trick so smoothly to cut off Meng Da's reinforcements outside, and he was beating up.

That is to say, this Yidu is too good to defend Mengda, and the defense of the city is very tightly organized, and Lu Xun was not given too many opportunities, otherwise, this place would have been captured by Lu Xun a long time ago.

However, Lu Xun felt that as long as he gave himself enough time, he would not be unable to attack, but Lu Meng's order to return to the army had arrived.

Lu Xun was slightly dissatisfied.

It's not that he is dissatisfied with Lu Meng and letting him return to the army, but mainly because Lu Xun feels that Lu Meng's practice of sending troops to attack for a while and letting people return to the army for a while is a bit of a child's play.

Changing the order at a time is not something that a mature military general should do.

However, the superior ordered, even if Lu Xun was dissatisfied, he could only carry it out. After all, these soldiers he brought were not the private soldiers of the Lu family, but the Chinese army under the direct command of Lu Meng.

Even if he wanted to attack hard, no one would listen to him.

Again, Lü Meng also explained the reason to Lu Xun on the document of returning to the army - although the reinforcements from Jiangling arrived, their combat strength was very average, and there was still a possibility of victory, so Lü Meng needed troops to strengthen the attack on Jiangling.

Lu Xun pondered, this matter. It's not necessarily true.

Lu Xun has also been in contact with the battle reports of the reinforcements, and there is one thing to say, the level of the unknown general who set off from Xiangyang is really not too high.

Although he led the troops to rescue Jiangling quickly, he did not hide his whereabouts at all along the way, and it was easily judged that the time of the rescue would be replaced by Guan Yu or Zhang Xi to lead the army, and it would definitely not be such a blatant march, they would definitely be secretive, so that you could not judge the number and location of the reinforcements at all.

What is placed on the surface is not scary, and the reinforcements that make people confused are the most scary.

From this point of view, the level of this unknown general is indeed inferior to Guan Yu and Zhang Xi.

But it can't be deduced from this that the level of this unknown general is not good, let alone that the combat power of the soldiers is not high, right?!

can march in a hurry to support Gangneung, and the march of more than 500 miles actually has no broken troops, how can it not be regarded as weak combat effectiveness?!

Lu Xun didn't believe in Lu Meng's judgment very much, but these have nothing to do with him for the time being, since the governor let him withdraw from the army, then he will withdraw from the army.

It's just a pity, in a few days, it is estimated that he will be able to conquer a county with 5,000 people

After getting the military order, Lu Xun repeated his old tricks, posing as a suspicious soldier in the empty camp, but in fact, he led the soldiers to retreat before dawn, and when Meng Da found out that Lu Xun had retreated, Lu Xun had already left Yidu County for twenty miles.

Meng Da knew that he couldn't catch up even if he chased it, not to mention that his troops were insufficient, and he didn't dare to chase at all, which made Meng Da feel deeply humiliated.

As a representative of the people of Dongzhou, a romantic figure on the same level as Fa Zheng and Li Yan, he was actually played by an unknown young general from beginning to end, and he did not grasp the initiative on the battlefield for a moment.

In the end, it was the people who took the initiative to retreat, and they barely managed to keep Yidu County, and even the people retreated calmly, and they didn't dare to pursue the shame, an absolute shame.

Meng Da wrote down the name of this general named Lu Xun, thinking that the next time he had a chance, he must get it back.

(End of chapter)