A siege of a major battle lasted for a year, and it was not a problem at all, or rather, this was the stalemate time that a siege war should have.

But so be it. Obviously, it is not suitable for the current battle of Jingnan.

Zhang Xi can really besiege Luo County for a year, but Sun Quan will not give Zhang Xi this time.

Jingnan started fighting, which was not unexpected by Sun Quan, after all, a variety of intelligence before the war showed that Shu Han would attack Jingnan.

But the battle of Jingnan was fought like this, and it was indeed beyond Sun Quan's expectations.

Originally, Sun Quan pondered, no matter what, he also has 100,000 people in Jingnan and Jiangxia combined, if you Shu Han want to launch a large-scale attack, there are no 200,000 people, can you fight?!

What's more, the Soochow Navy is the first in the world!!

Fight Jingnan, there is no navy, you fart, and then Sun Quan connected to Baqiu, and the battle report of the successive defeats of the naval armies in Xiakou and Xiakou was received.

This slap in the face made a snapping sound.

Zhuge Ke, a young man, lacks experience in water warfare, even if he commands the water army to lose like that in Baqiu. Excuse me?!

Just when Sun Quan was angry with Zhu Ran, he received another battle report. The four counties of Jingnan are in an emergency.

Lu Dai of Wuling County may have 20,000 troops, but he is forced to hold on to a small county seat.

Lu Kai of Lingling County was in the rear, and he was actually attacked by someone and lost an entire county, and his life and death are now unknown.

And Zhu Ran in Changsha was first frightened to give up Xiajun County, and then let people fight to Liling County, and the 30,000 Shu army directly threatened Yuzhang County.

At this time, Sun Quan was no longer angry, but angry.

Zhu Ran is incompetent, Lu Dai is useless, Zhuge Ke. In vain.

But after the outburst, Sun Quan regained his composure.

The situation is already like this, and Sun Quan also knows that no matter how angry he is, the most important thing now is to quickly find a way to solve the threat brought by Shu Han.

But the problem is that before the war, Sun Quan did not feel that he would not be able to hold the four counties of Jingnan and Jiangxia, so Jiangdong and Huainan were not ready to support Jingnan, and now the situation is changing too quickly, less than two months after the war started, it has actually developed to the point that the four counties of Jingnan are about to be lost, and even Jiangxia is in danger.

Sun Quan also doesn't know if Zhu Ran can hold out until the moment when he sends reinforcements when he starts to mobilize for war now.

But no matter what, Sun Quan still has to do the preparations.

In the four counties of Danyang County, Wu County, Huiji County, and Lujiang County, the county soldiers were concentrated, the grain and grass ordnance were prepared, and the troops were prepared to send troops to support, and Yuzhang County concentrated troops to do a good job in defense to prevent the Shu thieves from entering Yuzhang County eastward after conquering Liling County.

Mobilize the naval forces in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to prepare for war, and once the supply is completed, they will immediately go up the river to support Xiakou.

This is Sun Quan's response to the beginning of the Jingnan War.

It's just that these responses were carried out in a hurry, not only did they require one to two months of preparation time, but Sun Quan could not guarantee whether the soldiers would be able to exert their maximum combat effectiveness.

For this reason, in addition to asking Zhu Ran to stay on for help, Sun Quan also privately sent his own envoy to the Jingnan front line to talk about friendship with his brother-in-law.

As far as the public is concerned, there is no deep hatred between Shu and Wu, and they are filthy with each other, but they are just some territorial disputes.

Privately, it doesn't matter if my sister recognizes it or not, it's always a family. Why make such an ugly fuss?!

If the Shu Han side only has a claim for the territory of Jingnan, it is not impossible for everyone to sit down and talk, why make such a fuss to the point of meeting each other in such a war?!

Of course, Sun Quan's purpose in doing this was, on the one hand, to paralyze Zhang Xi and let Zhang Xi slow down the pace of his attack on the four counties of Jingnan, and on the other hand, Sun Quan was also buying time for himself to gather reinforcements.

Eating something in Sun Quan's stomach, he didn't vomit it so easily.

It's just that Sun Quan also knows that his brother-in-law is not easy to fool, and if he wants Zhang Xi to be fooled, he must send a character who makes Zhang Xi unable to refuse. Sun Quan sent Zhou Yin.

Zhou Yu's second son and Zhang Xi's nephew. You can't stop here, can you?!

In this way, Zhou Yin, under the dispatch of Sun Quan, passed through Yuzhang County and went to the front line of Changsha County.

first met with Zhu Ran, conveyed Sun Quan's request for Zhu Ran to stick to the help, and then went out of the city, went to the Han army camp, asked to see Zhang Xi, and conveyed to Zhang Xi in person Sun Quan's request that the two families should strike the army and make peace.

"My lord is willing to redefine the boundaries with the boundaries of the Xiangshui covenant, and the two families will make peace. I don't know what Zhang Hussar means, how?! Zhou Yin said.

One thing to say, Zhou Yin's ability is really not good, compared to his old man, it is far worse.

Of course, if he really came, it is estimated that he would not have come to negotiate, but directly to start a war.

It's just that, Zhou Yin's rhetoric, on the one hand, did not emphasize that the Eastern Wu side still had the strength to fight, and there was no practical need to fight with each other, and on the other hand, it did not show the sincerity of the Eastern Wu willing to make concessions.

This kind of rhetoric, don't talk about Zhang Xi, you just replace it with Mi Fang, Fu Shiren, two fools of this level, they can't believe this nonsense.

Lao Tzu has already fought to the east of Xiangshui, and Dongwu is left to the west of Xiangshui, and there is only one Lu Dai still defending the city. Why do you want to return to the boundary of Xiangshui demarcation?!

The negotiation conditions are not sincere at all, who can believe your empty words.

It's just that this is also a junior in the end. When Zhou Yu was alive, Zhang Xi might not have taken Zhou Yin to heart, but after Zhou Yu's death, Zhang Xi looked at Zhou Yin with a feeling of looking at a junior.

didn't refuse in words, only said that he would think about it, and then asked Zhou Yin to go back to Luo County to see Zhu Ran first, and then directly launched an attack on the city.

In the previous Luoxian offensive and defensive battle, Zhang Xi had already begun to prepare for the siege, and he had not fought, on the one hand, he was waiting for the siege equipment to be prepared, and on the other hand, he also wanted to see if the stone buds in the south and Jiang Wei in the west could make a breakthrough.

But now, I can't fight it.

Zhou Yin's arrival said that he was here to negotiate peace, but in fact, from the eyes of Zhang Xi and Pang Tong, how could he not see that this was Sun Quan's attempt to delay the army and delay time? !

If Sun Quan really wanted to make peace, he would not have sent a junior of Zhou Yin's level as an envoy, at least he would have to send Gu Yong, Bu Qi, and other important ministers who had the ability to independently decide the terms of peace. Sending Zhou Yin as an envoy, there is obviously only one goal, that is, relying on Zhou Yin's special identity to confuse Zhang Xi.

One more. The condition of Xiangshui demarcation is really insincere, but if there is a little sincerity, it must be taken into Guiyang County.

So Ma started fighting directly, as a response to Sun Quan's peace.

Zhou Yin still couldn't understand why the situation had suddenly changed again, didn't he say that he would consider the conditions for peace negotiation, but Zhu Ran was not as naïve as Zhou Yin, and directly responded to the battle to defend the city.

By the way, Zhou Yin also hurried back to Jianye, repaid the Supreme, and asked the Supreme for help.

Actually, it doesn't matter if you ask for help or not, Zhu Ran already knows Sun Quan's arrangement, and it makes no practical sense to send someone to ask for help.

Zhu Ran just found an excuse to let Zhou Yin leave the front line quickly.

Just like Zhang Xi used coaxing to trick Zhou Yin back to Luo County and then attack the city, Zhu Ran actually used this kind of coaxing to coax Zhou Yin back to Jianye.

The two of them are actually a kind of protection for Zhou Yin, so that Zhou Yin can stay away from the battlefield as much as possible. Who made Zhou Yin the son of Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yin, who was ignorant, left Luo County as soon as possible and returned to Jianye at Zhu Ran's strong request.

And the offensive and defensive battle in Luo County officially began.

Both sides threw in their maximum forces, attacking on one side and defending on the other, both doing their best.

Zhang Xi knew that Sun Quan was already preparing reinforcements, and according to the mobilization capacity of the Eastern Wu side, he had at most a month and a half to attack the city, maybe only a month.

If Luoxian County cannot be captured within this month, and when the naval support of Eastern Wu arrives at Xiakou, then Zhang Xi may have to temporarily withdraw his troops back to Wulin, sit and watch the development of the war, and then decide whether to continue to attack Changsha.

Attacking Soochow is this, it is very annoying, there is no advantage of the water army, and it is really difficult to break it in one battle.

For this reason, Zhang Xi and Pang Tong discussed it carefully, and finally decided to let Jiang Wei give up the siege of Wuling County and directly choose to go east to Changsha County.

Just doing so will lead to Lu Dai of Wuling County getting out of trouble, and he has 20,000 soldiers from Dongwu County.

And once Jiang Wei leaves Wuling County and comes to Changsha, then Lu Dai has three choices.

One is to go north to counterattack the public security, collapse the river and attack Jiangling, and besiege Wei to save Zhao.

This practice is the greatest threat to Zhang Xijun, and it is also what Zhang Xi is most worried about.

But Pang Tong felt that there were 5,000 sailors led by Zhong Limu guarding the Jiangling Water Village, and Lu Dai did not have enough sailors to respond, even if he could collect enough ferries to cross the river, it would be impossible to break through Zhong Limu's defense and land in Jiangling.

And even if he breaks through Zhong Limu's defense, Jiangling still has Wang Ji, with Wang Ji's ability, even if he temporarily recruits some private soldiers of the family to guard Jiangling, he will not easily lose it.

This attack on Jingnan was fully supported by the Jingxiang family, and the private soldiers, those families would not push back and not give it.

At least Pang Tong believes that this risk is worth taking.

The second is to attack Lingling County in the south.

If Lu Dai adopted this approach, then Zhang Xi would be the least worried about letting Pan Jun retreat into Changsha County and join Shi Bao.

As long as he defeated Zhu Ran's army in Changsha and then turned back to clean up Lu Dai, Lu Dai had no second choice except to escape from Jiaozhou and return to Soochow.

The third is that Lu Dai also led troops to aid Changsha.

In this case, it depends on whether the Southern Army of the Great Han Dynasty can defeat the soldiers of the Eastern Wu County in the field. This depends on the military command ability of Jiang Wei and Lu Dai.

This approach is what Zhang Xi and Pang Tong hope the most.

Zhang Xi is confident in Jiang Wei's ability, while Pang Tong is confident in the combat effectiveness of the Southern Han Army.

If Lu Dai really did this, then the 20,000 Dongwu soldiers he led would probably not really want to reinforce Changsha County.

It's just that I don't know which response Lu Dai will choose.

(End of chapter)