Zhu Ran was ordered by Sun Quan to lead 50,000 land and water coalition troops to attack Jingzhou.

At the beginning of this battle, Zhu Ran was actually a little uneasy, because from the perspective of combat readiness, this was not a well-prepared battle, and its outcome depended on the commander-in-chief and generals to respond to the situation.

But. First, this was Emperor Wu's order, and even the general Zhou Yu was ordered to cover himself and feint to attack Xiangyang, and he really couldn't refuse.

Second, Zhu Ran also needs such an opportunity to be independent.

Although he has been in the army for a long time, and Zhu Ran has also established his place in the army, throughout his military career, he rarely has the opportunity to lead the army alone.

The position of the coach, Zhu Ran has nothing to think about, there are Zhou Yu, Lu Meng, after Lu Meng died of illness, and Lu Xun came from behind, and Zhu Ran also admired the ability of these people, so he would not raise any objections to these people leading the army.

However, Zhu Ran has never had a chance to obtain the position of the main general of one party.

I don't know if it's because of the relationship between himself being the adopted son of Zhu Zhi, an old minister of Eastern Wu, or because of his personal relationship with Emperor Sun Quan of Wu since childhood, everyone seems to take good care of Zhu Ran, leading the troops to go to battle, and the tasks assigned to Zhu Ran are never on the front line in person, but are all on standby by the side of the commander.

But Zhu Ran didn't want to do this, he was also a military general, and he was not the kind of person who was incompetent, and could only rely on the help of his boss and colleagues. Therefore, although the opportunity to lead the army this time was not very good, Zhu Ran still took the initiative to ask Sun Quan to lead the troops to battle.

Sun Quan finally agreed to Zhu Ran, on the one hand, Zhu Ran did have this ability, and on the other hand, Sun Quan did not have too many hard requirements for the victory or defeat of this army.

If it can't be captured, it can attract the Jingzhou army to come back and slow down the pace of the Han army's northern expedition, which can be regarded as achieving the strategic goal.

Such a soldier who can get military merits regardless of victory or defeat, Sun Quan doesn't mind mentioning someone he trusts.

Therefore, Zhu Ran led the troops out under this circumstance.

Of course, although Sun Quan doesn't mind too much about victory or defeat, it doesn't mean that Zhu Ran intends to mess around, he still hopes to achieve some results in this battle.

For this reason, Zhu Ran specialized in studying the strategy of General Lü Meng's sneak attack on Jingzhou in the early years.

Although General Lü Meng's sneak attack on Jingzhou failed in the end, it does not mean that his strategy was wrong, in fact, Zhu Ran has always believed that General Lü Meng's failure was a miscalculation of two people, not that his strategy was problematic.

The first person to misestimate was Zhang Ren, or in other words, General Lü Meng did not take into account Zhang Ren's role, he believed that as long as he could plot against Liu Zhang, Zhang Ren would definitely choose to obey orders.

As a result, after the war, according to the description of the detailed work, Liu Zhang agreed, but Zhang Ren took it upon himself to cut down the secret envoy and persuaded Liu Zhang to change his mind and give up the practice of responding to Eastern Wu, resulting in General Lü Meng being trapped under the public security city for a while.

Subsequently, General Lü Meng decided to ignore the public security and risk the risk of dividing his troops to attack Jiangling, and misestimated the ability of Wang Ji, the defender of Jiangling.

But to tell the truth, at that time, no one thought that Wang Ji would become the biggest roadblock. At that time, Wang Ji, although he was in a high position, he was only in his twenties at the time, and he had been in the process of studying abroad, and he was still relying on the identity of "Zheng Xuan's disciple" to become a scholar, and he did not show any military formation ability at all, not even an experienced civil official.

Who would have known that such a thing was actually a calm and all-round talent who was both civil and military?!

This is that General Lü Meng's intelligence work is not in place, but the problem is that this is reflected from the perspective of hindsight, no one took this Wang Ji seriously at that time, thinking that as long as the two armies converge and the troops are in the city, then Jiangling City will definitely be able to capture it in the absence of soldiers and commanders, as long as it is attacked a few times.

So. Lu Meng did lose, but in Zhu Ran's opinion, Lu Meng made a big mistake in small details, which does not mean that there is anything wrong with Lu Meng's strategy and approach.

Of course, it was also related to the fact that this battle happened too suddenly, Zhu Ran didn't have time to think carefully about the combat ideas, and had to follow the prescription to catch the medicine All in all, Zhu Ran decided to attack Jingzhou according to Lu Meng's routine.

First of all, before leaving, Zhu Ran asked Sun Quan to secretly send an envoy to Jiangling, secretly met with Jiangling Taishou Shibao of the Han Dynasty, and made a heavy promise to him.

As long as Shi Bao is willing to take the initiative to surrender when the Eastern Wu soldiers are approaching the city, then the Eastern Wu is not only willing to wait for the high position of the general of the chariot cavalry, but also is willing to marry Shi Bao as a wife of the daughter of the clan.

This is Zhu Ran's first plan, to persuade him to surrender.

The Jiangling defender is a key, and Lu Meng was unlucky to misestimate the ability of the Jiangling defender.

As long as the Jiangling guards are persuaded to surrender, then the next thing will be much easier.

Moreover, in Zhu Ran's opinion, compared to Wang Ji back then, the current Jiangling guard Shi Bao, although his ability is also quite outstanding, but this person has the possibility of persuasion.

Who made this stone bud, he is lustful!!

It's, it's not a big problem, how can a big man not like a beautiful girl?!

Confucius said that food and sex are also nature, not a bad thing.

However, when lust becomes a fame, a label for a person, and even Dongwu knows about it, it will be a big problem.

is lustful, then there must be a bottom line, the basic morality still has to be observed, and everyone is lustful to the point that everyone knows it, and this person's bottom line must not be high.

According to the thinking of people in this era, a lustful person represents a lack of virtue, and such a person has weaknesses to exploit, and it is unlikely that he is the kind of person who is loyal to his duties.

It is also that the preparation time for this operation is too short, otherwise Zhu Ran would not simply suggest that Sun Quan send a secret envoy to see Shi Bao, he would follow Lu Meng's example and corrode and infiltrate Shi Bao for a long time, so that it is not impossible for Shi Bao to become the internal response of Eastern Wu.

But. It's a pity that this time the time is so short, I can only hope that Shi Bao is indeed a lustful and immoral person as rumored by the outside world.

According to what the secret envoy said after he came back, Shi Bud seemed to have some intentions, but in the end he did not give a clear reply, but he did not embarrass the secret envoy Zhu Ran's judgment that this matter may not be impossible.

Next, in front of Zhu Ran, I am afraid that the only thing in front of me is how to quickly conquer the public security.

As long as he can quickly overcome the public security, besiege the Jiangling army before the Jingzhou army returns to help, and then send someone to reiterate his interests with Shi Bao and induce him to take advantage, Shi Bao may take the initiative to open the city and surrender to Soochow.

In addition to misestimating Zhang Ren and Wang Ji, there was also a problem, that is, he did not directly cross the river to attack Jiangling under the condition of conquering the public security, which led to a set of reinforcements brought by the public security defenders and Xu Shu behind him, cutting off the road for the transportation of military rations.

This time, Zhu Ran made up his mind that he must first conquer the public security and then attack Jiangling.

As for whether this will delay the time and cause the Gangneung defenders to be prepared and prepared, the battle situation this time is different from the last time.

Last time, the Jingzhou army was in Xiangyang, and it was only ten days to return to Jiangling, and if you marched faster, you would come back in seven or eight days.

But this time, the Jingzhou army was in Nanyang, and it didn't take half a month and 20 days to come back.

If you count the time it takes to deliver the news, Zhu Ran even has a full month to attack the public security, and the public security will not be able to have reinforcements from Wuling County at this time.

According to intelligence, the Han army troops in Wuling County and Lingling County had already shrunk to the front line of Gong'an and Jiangling.

So, Zhu Ran has enough time to fight with the police.

And taking a step back, even if Zhu Ran failed to conquer the public security within a month, as long as he could attract the Jingzhou army to come back, then his strategic goal would have been achieved.

At that time, it was entirely up to Soochow to decide whether to fight or not.

The Jingzhou Naval Army, which had already retreated to Xiangyang, had no time to come south in time to find trouble with the Eastern Wu Naval Army. Even if you are looking for trouble, you are not afraid, can the Dongwu Navy still be afraid of the Jingzhou Navy Army?!

Therefore, Zhu Ran felt that he did not seek a big victory when he went out this time, but he still had great hope of completing the strategic purpose of the Supreme.

Zhu Ran confidently led his troops to set off, approaching the public security port, and then Zhu Ran received the news that the forward troops had encountered the enemy.

What's worse is that Zhu Ran received a report from his own forward, General Lou Chuan, that the enemy he encountered was not the Jingzhou army.

The reason is very simple, what the whole end encountered is a water army, and the number is 3,000 people.

You must know that in order to shrink the strength to defend the land city, at this time in Jiangling, the front line of public security, there were only more than 1,000 people in Jingzhou, and in the face of tens of thousands of Dongwu naval troops, it was simply a state of shrinkage.

Shi Bao and Zhang Ren, where did they get these 3,000 sailors?!

And with the subsequent development of the battle situation, more information has been transmitted back from the front line, which suddenly made Zhu Ran feel the pain of Lu Meng at the beginning.

Why don't these Shu thieves play cards according to the routine.

The Yizhou army didn't stay in Yizhou well, and actually ran to the ground in Jingzhou to play?!

Another one, a dignified servant of the country, does not handle government affairs in the national capital, and goes to the Yangtze River to patrol. Do Shu thieves feel that they have more talents, and they plan to waste less than one or two?!

After summarizing the various situations, Zhu Ran suddenly felt that his head was big - he couldn't judge now whether the three thousand Yizhou sailors happened to pass by, or the Shu thieves had already seen through their strategy and sent reinforcements to the public security.

One more. The opponent has changed again.

From Shi Bao, Zhang Ren, to the reputation of Mr. Pang Tong Fengxiao, is it touted? !

How just. There are so many variables?!

(End of chapter)