The war in the land of Heluo began with Sima Yi's initiative. But in fact, Sima Yi took the initiative to attack, not according to the plan, but without authorization.

Sima Yi didn't want to do this, the county soldiers in Yanzhou were still gathering in Chenliu County, and they hadn't even been fully assembled, let alone supporting Tiger Prison.

But Sima Yi really can't wait any longer, if he waits any longer, Zhuge Liang will almost plug all the loopholes in Heluo Land.

Therefore, Sima Yi could only take the risk and take the initiative to capture Gongxian in a short period of time and establish an advance fortress.

Doing so, on the one hand, can disrupt Zhuge Liang's strategic arrangement, and on the other hand, if it goes well, it can also give the reinforcements left behind Chen to come to help, and buy a certain amount of time.

This is the main reason why Sima Yi attacked in advance, and it is also the reason why Sima Yi persuaded Xiahou Ba, the protector, to agree to him to take the initiative. Without Xiahouba's consent, Sima Yi would not have been able to attack smoothly.

It's just that although Sima Yi persuaded Xiahou Ba, it was somewhat risky for him to do so.

After all, if he attacked without authorization and set off the Heluo battle in advance, it might also cause his own side to be caught off guard.

For example, Chen Tai and Cao Zhen.

Chen Tai really didn't expect Sima Yi to start the war in advance, and when he received this military report, he was still in Xuchang to raise the military rations needed for the counterattack.

As soon as he received the battle report that Sima Yi took the initiative to attack, Chen Tai hurriedly sorted out the county soldiers and immediately went north, trying to drag the Wudang Fei army stationed on the border between Yingchuan County and Henan County. It's a pity that by the time Chen Tai arrived at the border, the Wudang Flying Army had already retreated to Luoyang, and Chen Tai didn't even see a shadow.

Chen Tai had no choice but to immediately lead his troops back to Xuchang. Yingchuan County has such a small number of county soldiers, Guo Huai's Runan County soldiers are still confronting Zhu Ju, and they have not yet withdrawn into Yingchuan as planned, and Chen Tai's troops are insufficient.

Moreover, in the strategic arrangement of this war, Yingchuan County only assumed the task of flank threat, Chen Tai did not dare to lead his troops too far away from Xuchang, and he also had to guard against the threat of Shu thieves in Xiangcheng to Xuchang.

Now that his mission goal is gone, there is really not much difference between continuing to stay at the border and returning to Xuchang.

If the Son of Heaven asks after the war, it can only be Sima Yi's question, even if the war starts in advance, he doesn't even notify himself in advance, who can be blamed for this?!

On Chen Tai's side, there is no big problem, but Cao Zhen from Hedong County is almost angry and scolds his mother directly!!

Sima Lao Thief is capable, he will send troops directly without saying hello, you can rely on the 30,000 foot soldiers in your hand to counterattack Luoyang, I'll take a look?!

Of course, Cao Zhen is angry in his heart, Sima Yi has already sent troops, and if he doesn't make any moves, then this counterattack on Luoyang will really be completely ruined.

Originally, Cao Zhen also planned to stay in Hedong County, try to calm some of the contradictions between the Hedong family and Qin Lang, and persuade the Hedong family to come up with enough money, grain and ships to support the army to cross the Henan expedition. Now, it's all in vain.

Cao Zhen gathered and quickly marched south to settle in Hanoi County, and at the same time gave an ultimatum to the Hedong families - when he led his troops to the crossing of the Yellow River in Hanoi County, he hoped to see at least a hundred ships that could transport troops there.

The consequences of not appearing, let these Hedong families weigh it themselves.

I don't have the patience to entangle with these big families.

And then bar. The family really made up eighty or ninety merchant ships of various kinds for Cao Zhen within ten days.

The Hedong family is not stupid.

Qin Lang, a person born as a son-in-law, has no prestige in the army, and has no foundation in the court, so the big families of the Hedong family can fool him and even slap him in the face.

After all, when the lawsuit is in front of the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven also has to weigh whether the Hedong family is important or Qin Lang is important.

But the order given by someone of Cao Zhen's level, if the Hedong family does not obey it. When you break your home, don't blame people for not reminding you.

One is a fake general who relies on the cronies of the Son of Heaven as a general, and the other is a clan general who was killed in the sea of corpses, who can fool and who has to listen to his words, in fact, these Hedong families know very well.

In this way, Cao Zhen got a large number of boats to cross the river, and he didn't bother to worry about these Hedong families, so he immediately began to arrange for soldiers to cross the river and cross the river to seize Mengjindu.

The battle of Heluo, although there were some twists and turns, was officially started in this situation.

The two sides fought in the Heluo area, and each responded to the battle according to the original plan. And the battle of Gangneung, from the beginning, was so single, but it was a bit weird.

This is not Zhang Xi's opinion alone, even Wang Ji thinks so.

The battle of Gangneung really doesn't have much to do, after so many years, the routine of Dongwu's attack on Gangneung is just a few tricks.

On land, troops were sent from Jiangxia to march in the direction of Yingxian.

On the water, troops were dispatched from Lukou to attack Gong'an, cut off the flank threat, protect the grain route, and after going ashore, they marched to Gangneung.

And in all probability, the waterway is the main army, and Jiangxia is the army of partial divisions. After all, Soochow has an advantage in water warfare.

Whether it was Lu Meng's sneak attack on Jingzhou back then, or Zhu Ran's siege of Jingzhou later, it was all this routine.

The singleness of the offensive line led to Zhang Xi's very focused response to the attack of Soochow.

Sent Zhou Tai to lead 10,000 troops to garrison Yingxian County, first resist a wave of attack by the Eastern Wu army, delay time, and observe the development of the situation.

The Gangneung Navy was dispatched to guard the water passage from Gangneung to the public security, and to assist in guarding the public security as much as possible. If it can be defended, Dongwu has no choice but to retreat, and if it can't hold it, then retreat to Gangneung and rely on the Jiangling city defense to continue to hold on.

This is all the offensive routines that Soochow can play in the past three Gangneung offensive and defensive battles.

But this time, the battle of Gangneung turned out to be strange from the very beginning.

First of all, Zhuge Ke of Jiangxia, when Lu Xun was still in Jianye to sort out the Jiangdong County soldiers, suddenly took the initiative to send troops and led 20,000 Jiangxia infantry to Yingxian.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Ran, the governor of Jingnan, who was supposed to cooperate with the action, still led the naval army to stand still at Lukou.

What's even more outrageous is that Zhuge Ke is like a stunned young man, without any army response, he rushed all the way, and it took less than fifteen days to reach the periphery of Yingxian.

You must know that Yingxian County only needs five days to march from Jiangling, and at this time, more than 30,000 county soldiers have been assembled in Jiangling City.

That is to say, Zhuge Ke's light troops broke through to the periphery of Yingxian, and there were no other Eastern Wu troops around him to contain and respond, if Zhang Xi suddenly sent troops from Jiangling at this time, it would only take five days to rush to Yingxian County, surround Zhuge Ke's department, and besiege it.

Even if Zhuge Ke wanted to run, he didn't have any allies to connect with.

Such an abnormal military action directly made Zhang Xi and Wang Ji a little confused, is this Zhuge Ke crazy? !

This is the ability of the "Prince and Four Friends" of Soochow If it is at this level, then the future of Soochow will really become a joke.

With this abrupt behavior, let alone Zhang Xi, even Wang Ji wondered if there was something greasy in it.

Judging from the information obtained from the Eastern Wu side, although this Zhuge Ke has never led a large army to fight abroad, but within Eastern Wu, Zhuge Ke is also a person who quelled the Shanyue rebellion, and he still has experience in leading troops, and in that battle, it can be seen that Zhuge Ke has quite good strategy and wisdom.

This kind of person shouldn't be a reckless man who can advance lightly.

Wang Ji didn't believe it, and Zhang Xi couldn't believe it.

Although Zhuge Ke's overall character and ability are indeed as Yang Wei said, he is a person who is "talented and sparse". But in this sentence, there is a premise, there must be "talent" first.

This is a person who has a certain talent, but does not think about things well, but thinks very highly of himself, and does things for himself. It is two different things to be sparse from Zhidacai.

Now this thing behaves like a reckless man, and the light troops rush to Yingxian. Don't be a plan for Soochow to divert the tiger from the mountain.

Zhang Xi decided that it would be better to wait and see for the time being.

And this wait-and-see, something happened in the south.

Shi Bao, who was stationed in Lingyang, was suddenly attacked by Lu Dai, the Taishou of Wuling in Eastern Wuling.

In fact, Shi Bao has long been ready to be attacked by Lu Dai, and the "suddenly" here refers to the number of troops sent by Wuling County, which is really more than Shi Bao expected.

The last time Dongwu attacked Jiangling, the strength of the siege of Lingyang was at most 10,000 people, and Shi Bao guarded Lingyang with 5,000 people, although it was more difficult to defend, but it could still be defended.

But this time, Lu Dai directly led 30,000 people to besiege Lingyang, and directly surrounded Lingyang as soon as he came up, cutting off Shi Bao's retreat to the public security after leading the troops.

Shi Bao was really dumbfounded, where did Lu Dai get so many troops, why didn't he even receive any information beforehand?!

With a strength of 30,000 troops, this is to transfer all the county soldiers from Guiyang, Lingling, and Changsha counties to have so many troops, right?!

But no matter what, Shibao is now in a predicament and can only defend the city.

And Li Qiu, who was guarding the public security, was also taken aback after the scouts reported that Lingyang was besieged, and hurriedly sent a letter to Jiangling Now it is not a question of whether Shi Bao can hold Lingyang, but whether he can escape.

Moreover, once Lingyang was lost, 30,000 Eastern Wu troops took advantage of the situation and went north. I am afraid that the public security will also be under siege.

Therefore, Li Qiu had to hurry to the direction of Gangneung for help.

(End of chapter)