Wait, wait, wait. Zhang Xi waited for seven days, during which he continued to be beaten back and forth by Zhou Yu, but he still did not wait for reinforcements from Kou Feng.

Reinforcements did not arrive, but waited for Kou Feng's third letter.

In the letter, Kou Feng told Zhang Xi that he had indeed led his troops through Dangyang County and was marching to Jiangling, but for some reason, the Eastern Wu army, which was supposed to act as a suspect on the north bank of the Han River, suddenly appeared in front of him, occupied the favorable terrain of Hulukou, and intercepted his own advance.

Now Kou Feng had to temporarily stop marching, rest and prepare for battle, and first break through the Eastern Wu army at Hulukou.

That's understandable.

Hulukou is one of the only roads leading to Gangneung.

And if you look at the name, you will know that the so-called gourd mouth is an open area on both sides, and there is a very narrow overall shape of the mouth in the middle, just like a gourd.

In this place, if the Eastern Wu army blocks the narrow road crossing, and you want to go through the gourd mouth to support Jiangling, there is no gate.

Bypass?!

Yes, but you have to walk back first, walk back to Dangyang County, and then take a detour to the west to Linfu, and make a big circle from the direction of Xiling in Yidu County to get to Gangneung. It's too far.

Kou Feng came from Xiangyang, and he was to rescue Gangneung, so he must have taken the nearest route, so he would definitely choose to pass through Hulukou. If you go back again, the delay is not a day or two, ten days and half a month is not much.

Therefore, it was not a strange choice for Kou Feng to choose a frontal attack and break the Eastern Wu army intercepted at Hulukou.

Besides, judging from the other party's main flag, the two sides are already opponents who have fought once, and Kou Feng also has a bottom in his heart.

Last time on the north bank of the Han River, Kou Feng's main purpose was to test the enemy's movements, so he didn't do his best, but he had already gained the upper hand.

This time, Kou Feng's troops have an advantage, and the combat power of the soldiers is a little higher than that of the other party, Kou Feng really didn't think that this Eastern Wu army could stop him.

Even, as soon as Kou Feng came up, he chose his best way to lead the troops to charge into battle.

The topography of Hulukou restricts the number of troops on both sides to fight at the narrow crossing, and in this case, individual martial arts can play a great role.

Select the elite and focus on breaking through, as long as you rush through the narrow area of the gourd mouth, the follow-up infantry will follow, and maybe you will be able to rush through.

Of course, if you can't break through the enemy's line, then you may be blocked by people on the side of the gourd mouth forever and unable to advance.

But Kou Feng is very confident in himself, in the world, in the face of his leading army, there are not many people who can stop him.

First of all, he needs to be able to match himself in terms of personal martial arts, and secondly, the soldiers of the department must also be able to withstand the impact of the soldiers of the three eastern counties of Kou Feng's department, and the old generals of the previous generation dare not say it, but among his peers, Kou Feng really has this self-confidence.

And then bar. Kou Feng was blocked.

It's none other than Zhu Huan, who is now in urgent need of "guilty and meritorious service", with his own soldiers, who stubbornly blocked the gourd mouth and blocked Kou Feng's way forward.

After receiving Zhou Yu's military order, Quan Cong did not hesitate to withdraw his troops from the north bank of the Han River, and under the transportation of the Jiangxia Water Army, he landed in Hanjindu again, and then marched all the way to the vicinity of Dangyang County before Kou Feng

There is no way, the speed of taking a boat down the Han River must be faster than the soldier walking on two legs, and there is no way to do it if Quan Cong occupies Dangyang before Kou Feng.

After that, Quan Cong carefully observed the nearby terrain, and did not choose to intercept Kou Feng on the spot in Dangyang County, but gave up the advantage of city defense and chose to fight at Hulukou.

intercepted Kou Feng in Dangyang, if Kou Feng really ignored it and directly bypassed Dangyang County's rapid march, then Quan Cong would be lonely.

Because Dangyang County is not too far from Jiangling, it is only a five- or six-day march, Kou Feng can really do without logistics supplies, and only rush with dry food with the army.

As long as Kou Feng led his army into Jiangling, then his logistical problems would be solved.

However, the gourd mouth is not good, and Kou Feng will not be able to cross it no matter what, unless he turns around again, returns to Linfu on the west side, and makes a detour to support Jiangling.

If this is the case, Quan Cong can also follow behind Kou Feng and send troops to attack and kill at any time to delay Kou Feng's march.

Therefore, after his own judgment, Quan Cong decided to deploy at the mouth of the gourd.

In the meantime, Zhu Huan did not raise any objections.

On Zhou Yu's side, the treatment of Zhu Huan was not mentioned, Zhou Yu was busy arranging tactics and arranging Quan Cong to intercept the reinforcements of the Shu army going south.

But on Sun Quan's side, the punishment of Zhu Huan has already come out. There is no penalty.

But the precondition for this no punishment is - "reading in the past has meritorious".

In other words, Sun Quan was actually very dissatisfied with Zhu Huan's actions, but because Zhu Huan had meritorious service to Great Wu, and he was a child of the four great families of Wuzhong, he turned a blind eye to this matter.

However, Sun Quan's temper is known to everyone.

Back then, Zhang Zhao advocated surrender during the Battle of Chibi, and now Sun Quan will still take it out from time to time and say that Zhang Zhao, an old minister who has done his best for the foundation of the Sun family, is treated like this, what is Zhu Huan? !

In case one day in the future, Zhu Huan provokes Sun Quan again, or the Zhu family in Wuzhong provokes Sun Quan, Sun Quan will never be stingy with turning over old accounts.

Therefore, now for Zhu Huan, his top priority is to "make meritorious service by wearing guilt".

It is necessary to establish enough meritorious deeds in order to ensure that when the Supreme of Soochow turns over the old accounts in the future, he can read the merits and get the same treatment as Zhang Zhao - just beep a few sentences, and he will not really turn over the old accounts and punish the crime.

Now Zhu Huan has no time to compete with Quan Cong about who is the most suitable commander, and he must now block the Shu army at the mouth of the gourd.

Zhu Huan urgently needs such an opportunity to make contributions, and Quan Cong To be honest, Quan Cong is not a bad person, he did not fall into the well, but gave Zhu Huan this opportunity, and let Zhu Huan take his own headquarters soldiers to become the first line of defense in Hulukou.

And the soldiers of Quan Cong's department are the second line of defense.

Quan Cong personally fought against the county soldiers of the three eastern counties, and he knew how strong the opponent's combat power was.

Don't look at him with nearly 10,000 Eastern Wu troops going south, but the only ones who are really sure to be able to stop the Shu army are probably only his own 2,000 soldiers.

Even if the two thousand soldiers under Zhu Huan's command could stop it, Quan Cong didn't dare to guarantee it.

And this is also the key reason why Quan Cong chose to intercept at the mouth of the gourd. In the narrow part of the gourd mouth, a defensive formation of 1,500 people can be lined up at most, and it is useless to have more.

The two lines of defense, Zhu Huan in the front, Quan Cong in the back, no matter what, blocking the soldiers of the three eastern counties for a while, it should be possible.

Of course, Quan Cong didn't expect that he didn't need his world soldiers to appear at all, and in the first round of the confrontation, Zhu Huan relied on his heroic battles and fought with the world soldiers under his command, and stubbornly blocked Kou Feng's attack.

At this moment, the pressure on Quan Cong was much smaller all of a sudden.

Actually, this is not surprising.

Kou Feng's use of troops to fight, all rely on his own martial arts and lifeless fighting style, the really powerful, that is, once the three-plate axe does not work, Kou Feng's leading command ability is still lacking.

And Zhu Huan's side just met the basic conditions for restraining Kou Feng's three-plate axe.

First of all, Zhu Huan himself is also famous for his martial arts in Soochow.

may not be as good as the older generation of fierce generals such as Gan Ning, Zhou Tai and others, but among the generals of the Mesozoic Era, only in terms of force value, I am afraid that Xu Shengneng can be compared with him, and even Ding Feng is inferior.

Zhu Huan has the ability to lead the soldiers and horses of his headquarters to stop Kou Feng when Kou Feng is rushing into battle, and he will not fall behind.

Secondly, Zhu Huan's world soldiers were actually the first group of world soldiers to respond to Zhou Yu's call to strengthen land combat training.

The heritage of the Zhu clan in Wuzhong is much greater than that of the Qiantang Quan, not to mention anything else, Zhu Huan's world soldiers, in terms of money and food expenditure, are definitely more willing to spend money than Quan Cong.

And in this year's training, in addition to the so-called method of military training, the most important thing is money and food. As long as the soldiers are well fed and drunk, and the nutrition is up to date, even if the training method is a little worse, their own combat effectiveness will not be much worse.

Therefore, whether it is the main general or the soldier, Zhu Huan's soldiers still have the ability to compete with the soldiers of the three eastern counties under Kou Feng.

Being able to stop Kou Feng's march is a great achievement for the current Quancong Department. Quan Cong was a little relieved, but Zhu Huan was not happy.

He only has these two thousand soldiers, and the battle damage he has spent a lot of money to train is one less.

The world soldiers, unlike the county soldiers, need the main general to be personally responsible for supporting Sun Quan, who only limits the number of world soldiers that each general can lead, and the others don't have a dime.

Now Zhu Huan can block Kou Feng, but it doesn't mean that the soldiers under his command will not have battle damage.

Yes, now, Zhu Huan needs to "make meritorious contributions", he can't care too much, he has to fight hard, but even if he fights his world soldiers, he can't stop the 15,000 Shu army on the opposite side.

It's a big deal for people to play wheel wars.

The combat power of the soldiers of the three eastern counties on the opposite side is relatively average, but on their own side, in addition to their own soldiers, that is, the soldiers of Quan Cong, they still have some combat effectiveness, and the remaining more than 5,000 Jiangxia soldiers cannot afford such an interception task.

So it goes on. Sooner or later, I won't be able to consume it.

For this reason, Zhu Huan had to put down the unhappiness in his heart and discuss it with Quan Cong. Why don't you do it, let's have a wheel fight too?!

Let's change our guard in a while, you will be the first line of defense, and I will be the second line of defense?!

It's really not that Zhu Huan wants to preserve his strength at this critical moment, but he has to do it. If the main general on the opposite side is not brain-dead, he will definitely choose wheel warfare, if we don't do this, we won't be able to withstand it for too long.

In fact, after Kou Feng failed in the first attack and learned Zhu Huan's ability, he had indeed begun to prepare for the wheel battle.

Kou Feng is a little reckless in using troops, and his tactical command ability is a little worse, but it doesn't mean that he is a fool with an iron head.

Since you can't win quickly, it is natural to choose to consume the wheel war. This is not a clever tactical choice, it is just the military experience accumulated over many years of fighting.

As soon as he saw that Kou Feng was adjusting the deployment of troops and preparing for wheel warfare, and then thinking about the current situation, I have to say that Quan Cong is really a good general.

He agreed to Zhu Huan's request, changed guards with Zhu Huan, and led his troops to the front line.

(End of chapter)