The battle situation has developed to the current situation, to be honest, whether it is Zhang Xi or Pang Tong, they actually didn't expect it.

Mainly on the water army side. No matter how they thought about it before the war, Zhang Xi and Pang Tong never thought that they could beat the Dongwu Naval Army, which was known as "the first in the world", and they could only hold on to it in the water village.

Even, Pang Tong wanted to suggest to Zhang Xi, or let's not do any sneak attack on Chen Cang, and directly transfer Shi Bao, Jiang Wei and others to Wulin, and directly attack Changsha.

As long as Changsha County is defeated, then it will be possible to completely cut off the connection between Jingnan and other regions of Eastern Wu, and it will be easy to capture the four counties of Jingnan.

Not to mention, Zhang Xi is also a little cautious.

However, after a series of discussions, Zhang Xi and Pang Tong finally decided to implement the strategy according to the original plan.

On the one hand, the strategic arrangements have been made, and if they continue to be implemented, there will be no difficulty, but if they change their strategy halfway and transfer Jiang Wei and others to Wulin, then the preparations made by Jiang Wei and others before will be wasted.

On the other hand, Zhang Xi was still a little entangled and hesitant, and it was a bit risky to rashly cross the river from Wulin without completely controlling the Yangtze River defense line.

Now the two naval teams of Eastern Wu, the Jiangxia Naval Army and the Baqiu Naval Army, have indeed been suppressed by our naval army in the water village, but it does not mean that they have lost their combat effectiveness.

In addition, on the ground of Jingxiang, there are only these two naval armies in the Han Dynasty, and on the Dongwu side, they actually still have reserve naval armies, such as the Dongwu naval army responsible for defending the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and crossing the sea, and the Eastern Wu naval army responsible for Gongwei Jianye.

If Dongwu is really in a hurry, it is not impossible to send these two naval armies to help.

In this case, crossing the river in Wulin to storm Changsha, the back waterway and grain and grass supply cannot guarantee absolute safety.

Therefore, Zhang Xi felt that it was better to press Changsha according to the original plan, but not to attack, as long as he created enough pressure on Zhu Ran to attract him to transfer troops from Wuling County.

As long as Dongwu was not in a hurry, seeing that the situation was still possible to hold, Zhang Xi felt that with Sun Quan's courage, he should not send more sailors to support.

After weighing back and forth, Pang Tong did not continue to insist on his proposal, but agreed with Zhang Xi's idea of continuing to implement the strategy.

In this way, in October of the first year of Yanxi, Zhang Xi led his troops to cross the river from Wulin, entered the territory of Changsha County, and marched in the direction of Xiajun County.

At this time, Zhu Ran was still in Luo County, and as soon as he heard that Zhang Xi was leading his troops across the river and approaching Xiajun, he immediately led troops to reinforce without hesitation.

Xiajun County is in the northeast of Luo County, and if it is lost, the Shu army will be able to drive straight into Luo County, and in this way, the Baqiu naval army in the north of Luo County will be cut off from support, causing the entire water area near Baqiu to be completely out of control.

Therefore, Luo County is very important, and Xiajun County, as a barrier to Luo County, can not lose as much as possible.

Now the Wuling County soldiers led by Zhang Cheng have not yet rushed to Changsha County, and Lu Yi is also in the process of going north, Zhu Ran has no soldiers and no generals available, so he can only lead 5,000 soldiers and gallop all the way to Xiajun County.

Xiajun County was originally guarded by only 10,000 soldiers, but with Zhu Ran's rapid reinforcements, there were barely 15,000 people, even if Zhang Xi really led an army of 50,000 to cross the river, then Zhu Ran also had the capital to hold on for a while and wait for Zhang Cheng to lead the troops to help.

What's more, when Zhu Ran led the troops to Xiajun County, he found that Zhang Xi had indeed personally led the troops across the river, but the strength was not 50,000, but only about 30,000.

Although there are a lot of troops, how do you feel that it is a little different from what you expected?!

Moreover, after crossing the Yangtze River, Zhang Xi did not rush to attack, but after the soldiers surrounded Junxian, he began to build siege equipment unhurriedly and slowly prepared to attack the city. This made Zhu Ran feel even more wrong.

According to Zhu Ran's conception, although Soochow is now at a disadvantage on the Yangtze River defense line, Zhang Xi led a heavy army to cross the river, and the logistical pressure is not small, especially when the Yangtze River is not completely controlled, it is somewhat risky to transport grain and grass in the defense area between the Baqiu Navy and the Jiangxia Navy Army.

Therefore, Zhu Ran judged that Zhang Xi should take a strong attack and seek a quick victory to attack Changsha County.

After all, the more it drags on, the greater the risk of logistical pressure on the Shu army.

In case the Jiangxia Naval Army or the Baqiu Naval Army defeated the Shu Naval Army in one direction and won the game, then Zhang Xi's department was likely to be blocked in Changsha County.

However, Zhang Xi is so slow and leisurely, it is indeed different from what Zhu Ran thought.

And the number of troops is not right, why is there only 30,000 people?!

Even if Zhu Ran's prediction of the strength was wrong, he should not have misjudged as many as 20,000 people at once. Where did the rest of the Shu army go?!

Soon, Zhu Ran received an urgent report from Luo County, Shu General Zhoutai, led 10,000 soldiers, raided Luo County, and Luo County was in an emergency!!

Zhu Ran almost jumped in fright.

There were only 20,000 foot soldiers in Changsha to guard, 10,000 were placed in Xiajun County by Zhu Ran to prevent the main force of the Shu army in Wulin in the north from crossing the river, and the other 10,000 people, Zhu Ran stayed in Luo County.

Later, Xia Jun County was in an emergency, and Zhu Ran had to rush over with 5,000 people to rescue, and Luo County now has 5,000 defenders left.

Of course, this is not the most troublesome, the most troublesome thing is that there is no general in Luo County to guard it now. It took time for Lu to go north, and Zhang Cheng didn't lead his troops to arrive.

The difference between a city guarded by a general and a city guarded by a general is still very big.

With a general to guard and the defenders to have a backbone, the morale and morale of the army will naturally be guaranteed, but without the general to guard, everyone will not know who to listen to, and it is naturally difficult to guarantee the morale and morale of the army.

Of course, the county order can also lead the defenders to hold on, but unless the county order has a high prestige in the county, and at the same time, it can also suppress those foreign generals. But, it's too hard.

Historically, as a county commander, people who can defend the city and not be attacked by foreign enemies, without exception, are all outstanding people Most of the county orders defend the city.

So, the current Luo County, Zhu Ran really can't rest assured, even if there are 5,000 guards, but as far as the county order from a local family is concerned, Zhu Ran is not even afraid that he will run away directly, but is afraid that he will come to a "pot pulp".

For this reason, after a simple empathy, Zhu Ran weighed which was more important, Luo County or Xiajun County, and immediately made the decision to abandon Xiajun and return to Luo County.

Obviously, Luo County is the most important.

In this way, after the collapse of the river, Zhang Xi occupied Xiajun County almost bloodlessly.

Zhang Xi and Pang Tong were a little crying and laughing. This time it's really wronged, Zhang Xi really didn't want to occupy Jun County.

According to Zhang Xi and Pang Tong's plan, they planned to lead the troops to suppress Jun County first, and then divide the troops into a detour, with Zhou Tai leading 10,000 soldiers to attack Luo County.

For this reason, Zhang Xidu called Zhoutai and a 10,000-strong Han army back from Zhangling.

But the purpose is not to require Zhou Tai to succeed in a sneak attack on Luo County, after all, in Zhang Xi and Pang Tong's predictions, Luo County should have 5,000 to 10,000 defenders of Eastern Wu, and Zhou Tai can hardly succeed in a sneak attack with only 10,000 troops.

The real purpose is just to create a tense situation and make Zhu Ran firm in the idea of transferring troops from Wuling County At this time, Zhang Xi and Pang Tong didn't know that Zhu Ran had already transferred troops from Wuling County.

After all, the communication conditions in this era are limited, and the fine work is not omnipotent, it is impossible to see what happened in Dongwu, and Zhang Xi will know everything the next day.

So, the original intention was to scare Zhu Ran's strategic division of troops, but I didn't expect Zhu Ran to be so frightened, he directly gave up the defense of Xiajun County, and the whole army retreated to Luo County.

It's a big deal. In private, Zhang Xi couldn't help but sigh with Pang Tong, after Zhou Yu, Dongwu really didn't even have a commander who could take the stage.

That Lu Xun in Huainan may be okay, but this Zhu Ran in Jingnan is obviously a little too big a gap with Zhou Yu.

Although Zhu Ran's performance disappointed Zhang Xi, Zhu Ran's withdrawal was indeed beyond Zhang Xi and Pang Tong's expectations. In this case, on your own side, will you enter the army or not?!

Let's march, the next thing you need to attack is definitely Luo County. There are 20,000 troops in Keluo County to hold on, so is it necessary for Zhu Ran to transfer troops from Wuling County?!

If you don't enter the army, don't put a good city and can't say it, and if you don't enter the army, it is even more impossible for Zhu Ran to transfer troops from Wuling County to support Changsha.

So well. Zhang Xi still led the army into Xiajun County.

At the same time, Zhang Xi rested in Xiajun County for ten days to provide time for Zhu Ran to transfer troops, and then officially led the troops to Luo County to join the 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Zhou Tai Department stationed outside Luo County.

Now, it is the main army of 50,000 against the 20,000 defenders of Zhu Ran in Luo County.

It's still the same old rule, first set up camp, and then slowly began to prepare to cut down trees, build siege equipment, and prepare for the siege of Luo County.

A few days later, according to the report of the scouts in Zhang Xi's army, thirty miles southeast of Luoxian, there was a Soochow army rushing in the direction of Luoxian, with more than 10,000 troops.

At this time, Zhang Xi was relieved and finally mobilized.

At this time, there are still more than 10,000 troops to support Changsha, except for the reinforcements from Wuling County, Zhang Xi can't think of the second possibility.

As a result, Zhang Xi immediately ordered the envoys in the army to hurry up and return to Jiangling to deliver the order.

Shi Bao, Jiang Wei and others' partial divisions can be dispatched!!

(End of chapter)