Jiang Wei received the order to transfer troops to the east, and without any hesitation, he immediately withdrew from Wuling County, and went east along the renovated Dongting Lake swamp area into Changsha County.

It is really thanks to the unremitting efforts of the Soochow side to transform Changsha County in recent years, transforming a large swampy tidal flat area around Dongting Lake into fertile land, otherwise, if he wants to march into Changsha in such a terrain, Jiang Wei can't even think about it.

And Lu Dai in Wuling County, as soon as he saw Jiang Wei suddenly withdraw from the siege and advance eastward, he immediately judged Jiang Wei's strategic intentions.

This is to go to Changsha County to join the main force of the Shu army and besiege Luo County, where Zhu Ran is located.

For this reason, Lu Dai had to quickly make his own decision to respond.

For the first time, what Lu Dai thought of was also to go north to attack Jiangling and besiege Wei to save Zhao.

As long as he can come to Jiangling City, no matter what happens to Changsha, Lu Dai believes that Zhang Xi will definitely not sit idly by and watch Jiangling in distress, and will definitely choose to withdraw to protect himself.

But the problem that also makes Lu Dai feel embarrassed is that he is now short of troops, not to mention that there is no naval army to escort him.

In the days when Wuling County was fighting with Jiang Wei, whether it was defending the city or going out of the city to attack and protect, the defenders of Wuling County were somewhat damaged, and Lu Dai now only had more than 18,000 soldiers to use.

And the Baqiu naval army was blocked by the Jiangling naval army in Baqiu and could not get out, and the water area from Baqiu to Jiangling was under the control of the Shu army.

If there is no navy to transport soldiers across the river, it will be time-consuming and laborious to collect ferries by yourself, and there is no guarantee that you can cross the Yangtze River safely and the troops will be in Jiangling.

If this was discovered by the Jiangling Navy halfway and directly sank the ferry, then the little 20,000 soldiers in his hands would have died too unjustly.

As for going south into the territory of Lingling County. Not to mention anything else, as far as the choice made by the clans in Lingling County in this war, Lu Dai knew that he could not really take root in Lingling County.

When Zhang Xi solves Zhu Ran, then he is afraid that he will be sold by the clans of Lingling County again, repeating Lu Kai's mistakes.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Lu Dai still felt that leading the troops to Changsha and joining forces with Zhu Ran was probably the most promising way for him to break through.

Of course, Lu Dai also knew that Jiang Wei was advancing eastward, and he was also following eastward, and a field battle was likely to break out between the two sides.

However, Lu Dai himself has confidence in himself.

First of all, there is not much difference in the strength of the two sides.

There are more than 18,000 soldiers under his command, and in the hands of the opponent Jiang Wei, after about a month of mutual attack and defense, there are also some battle losses, which are estimated to be about 18,000 people.

Second, Lu Dai believes that his military command ability is not bad.

Although he can't compare with a famous general like General Zhou Yu, he is not incapable, and his opponent Jiang Wei is just a military novice who has just experienced the battle array.

Perhaps, he is very smart and has great potential, so he is valued by Zhang Xi and Zhuge Liang.

However, on the battlefield, battlefield experience is sometimes more important than potential, not to mention anything else, just look at Zhuge Ke.

How powerful he is boasted about on weekdays, how good his strategic vision is, and how well he has the combat experience of exterminating Shanyue. But as soon as he really goes to the battlefield, a civil servant can suppress him to death.

Lu Dai doesn't think that he will be inferior in ability and experience than Wenpin.

Therefore, in the field battle between the two sides, Lu Dai did not think that he would lose to Jiang Wei, and even, if he could replicate the results of Wen Ping's defeat of Zhuge Ke, then the situation in Jingnan might come back to life.

Now the focus of the battle of Jingnan is in Changsha, as long as Dongwu has the ability to hold Changsha County, then even if the Shu army now occupies Wuling County and Lingling County, it will finally take the initiative to withdraw from these places and return to Jiangling after the attack is unfavorable.

Indeed, it is a bit risky to go to Changsha to support by yourself, but the current situation in Jingnan is extremely unfavorable to Dawu, if you don't take risks, how can you see the hope of turning the tables? !

Based on these considerations, Lü Dai decided to march eastward to support Changsha County.

Then Lü Dai and Jiang Wei, on the edge of Wuling County and Changsha County, had an encounter.

Both sides were actually ready for this encounter, and no one was in a hurry.

Based on Jiang Wei's judgment of the situation, he knew that it was possible for Lu Dai to choose to follow him eastward to support Changsha, so he had been paying attention to the movements of Lu Dai's army behind him.

And Lu Dai not to mention, the purpose of his troops from Wuling was to rush to this encounter.

Each other was prepared, and this encounter was naturally doomed from the beginning, and it was a battle that had to be won or lost.

And the final result disappointed Lu Dai.

He really failed to replicate Wen Ping's defeat of Zhuge Ke, but was defeated by the troops led by Jiang Wei.

In fact, the reason is also very simple. Lu Dai made a mistake, Wen Ping was able to defeat Zhuge Ke, not because Zhuge Ke's ability was not good, but because Zhuge Ke's character was not good.

But as long as Zhuge Ke can be a little more modest, less arrogant and self-serving, and can listen to Sun Sheng's advice a little bit with the combat effectiveness of the Eastern Wu Naval Army, he will not be able to lose to Wen Ping.

But Jiang Wei is not Zhuge Ke.

Although Jiang Wei is also a little juvenile, he is not the kind of character who is rigid and self-serving, and he is not self-righteous enough to rely on his own imagination to formulate tactical arrangements. Jiang Wei is honest, and according to the tactical tactics taught by his master, he is commanding the army to fight.

Jiang Wei's own ability is very outstanding, his ability to adapt to the battle is extremely strong, plus he is not fooling around, Lu Dai wants to find Jiang Wei's flaws in the field and defeat him in one fell swoop, so don't even think about it.

Of course, if this is the case, Lu Dai can at least delay Jiang Wei's march and prevent Jiang Wei from quickly going to Changsha for reinforcements, after all, Lu Dai is also a rare famous general in the middle of Eastern Wu, and he still has the ability to fight.

But the problem is that the army led by Jiang Wei is the Southern Army of the Great Han.

Although the Southern Army of the Han Dynasty has always guarded Chengdu and never went out to fight, their treatment, training conditions and training subjects are exactly the same as those of the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty, and they are all written by Zhuge Liang and the late Zhang Fei.

The only difference between the Southern Army of the Han Dynasty and the Northern Army of the Great Han Dynasty is probably the difference in battlefield experience.

The Southern Han Army in Jiang Wei's hands is probably equivalent to the Northern Army of the Great Han Dynasty that fought against the Cao Wei Central Forbidden Army led by Guo Huai near Meixian County during Liu Bei's second expedition to Guanzhong.

Against the Cao Wei Central Forbidden Army, which was at the peak of its combat power that year, the Southern Army of the Great Han Dynasty may still be at a disadvantage due to lack of experience. But this time, the opponent was not Cao Wei's elite forbidden army, but the ordinary county soldiers of Eastern Wu.

The land combat ability of the soldiers of the Eastern Wu Army, that is the famous Han Southern Army encounters such an opponent, is it not a casual fight?!

Lu Daizhen did not lose too much to Jiang Wei in terms of personal ability, but the Dongwu soldiers under him, after encountering opponents who were better than their own in terms of equipment, treatment, physical fitness and fighting will, directly showed the traditional art of the Dongwu soldiers - field crotch pulling.

Originally, the soldiers of Dongwu County, who could still fight with the Southern Han Army in the defense of the city, were suppressed by the high-intensity attack of the Southern Han Army in the field battle, and finally chose to flee after not being able to withstand the pressure.

This is not something that Lu Dai can control, this is the old problem of the soldiers of the Eastern Wu County, and the ability to fight in the field is too stretched.

And the only thing that Lu Dai could control was to flee the battlefield and flee in the direction of Guiyang County in the midst of this ragged and chaotic army, under the protection of his own personal guards.

Jiang Wei did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, and let Lu Dai break through, and even Jiang Wei did not collect the troops of Eastern Wu. The Southern Army of the Great Han Dynasty did not hesitate to do this.

Now Jiang Wei is thinking about what he should do next.

According to Zhang Xi's military order, Jiang Wei should now make a detour to the north, go to Luo County to join the main army of the Han Dynasty, and besiege Luo County.

But so be it. After Jiang Wei entered Changsha County from Wuling County, he suddenly found that he seemed to be quite close to Changsha County, the county of Changsha County.

According to the information Jiang Wei received before, Changsha County does not seem to have many troops to defend, and if it can take advantage of the situation to capture Changsha County, it seems to be a big achievement.

Do you want to attack Changsha County?!

To be honest, from the perspective of military orders, Jiang Wei doesn't seem to be suitable for doing this, and he is suspected of violating military orders.

However, if everything is commanded and acted in accordance with military orders, it will only take much time to go to see the preparedness of Changsha County.

Therefore, in Jiang Wei's opinion, he just made a slight detour of seventy or eighty miles to Changsha County to see if there was any possibility of a sneak attack to capture Changsha County, and it was not a violation of military orders.

Well. The result made Jiang Wei very disappointed.

Intelligence-wise, Changsha County should only have a small number of Dongwu soldiers stationed, and after a big battle under his command, there are about 15,000 people left.

If Changsha County is really empty, it's not that it can't be beaten. But Jiang Wei found that the defenders of Changsha County were at least 8,000 people.

Yes, if you run for nothing, you can't capture a big county city guarded by 8,000 people with your own troops.

But just when Jiang Wei was disappointed and was about to turn north to Luo County. An army suddenly appeared in the south.

According to the scout's report, this army was the army of Eastern Wu, and the number of troops was about 5,000 people.

And most importantly, the movement of this army is very hasty, and it does not look like a normal march. It's kind of like trying to run for your life.

When Jiang Wei heard that there was such a good thing, he didn't eat the meat that was brought to his mouth, so he was too sorry for himself.

Jiang Wei immediately ordered the whole army to prepare for battle, go to intercept it, and eat this defeated army of Eastern Wu first.

(End of chapter)