On February 1, the third year of Wuping in the Northern Qi Dynasty, the spring was cold, the ice and snow gradually disappeared, and the Chen army camp besieging Jiangling was still quiet, and there was no tension at the time when the war was imminent. Various defensive measures are being carried out in an orderly manner.

Zhang Zhaoda's main force had almost forced Lu Teng to camp. The forward sentinel has also been in contact with Lu Teng's elite sentinel.

Lu Teng's reaction was almost the same, no fighting, no peace, no retreat, no leaving, except for using sentry horses to cover his own camp and spy on intelligence, he did not go out of the city at all.

However, in order to cover his camp, Zhang Zhaoda also sent an infantry army to form a formation in front of the camp, waiting for Lu Teng to take advantage of Chen's unstable foothold to sneak attack, and he was worried for a few nights, and the sentinel doubled the past, but nothing happened.

Cheng Wenji, the former vanguard general of the army, Chen Guomeng, analyzed the situation of the two armies, and basically expressed a cautious and optimistic attitude, and echoed Xiao Moke's inference that Lu Teng's momentum had been frustrated, whether he would go or fight was undecided, and the people in Jiangling City were panicked.

And told Zhang Zhaoda that as long as the follow-up baggage was quickly transported, the Chen Army Brigade could break the main force of Lu Teng in the Yicheng field battle with one drum. It's just a matter of time before the city is broken.

This idea is also in line with Zhang Zhaoda's thoughts, but no matter how good the plan is, it can't tear a gap in the Jiangling city defense arranged by Lu Teng, so there is no way to fight in the field. It was impossible for Chen's army to inflict effective casualties on the defenders through the high city walls.

Lu Teng was good at fighting, Zhang Zhaoda couldn't succeed in attacking for several months, and his anger gradually rose.

Lu Teng pays attention to the battle after the battle, the mobility is not as good as the people, and he can't go out of the city for a decisive battle, so he can only fight for material consumption.

When a large army is pulled out to fight in the field, tens of thousands of armors and millions of arrows need to be transported. The soldiers were not allowed to gnaw on the dry food they carried with them, and they had to be treated well before they went out into battle, so that the sergeants and soldiers could be fed, clothed, and strengthened, and meat and dry food were also necessary.

In the field battle of the army, there must be a reward, and the more tragic the battle, the more we must see it, and now the camp is reluctantly rooted by this group of soldiers, far from being stable, and there are still a large number of baggage used to camp in the rear, which must be transported up, so that the people can strengthen this important camp under the city of Gangneung as a support for the war.

In addition, they grabbed strong men, set up tents, and built special sizes of wood and woodworking tools, iron siege equipment, lighting equipment, and iron chains that were locked with deer barbs............ All kinds of things are loaded on the carts and small carts of these people's auxiliary soldiers, and they have to be transported with great difficulty.

Gangneung Cangfu is consumed extremely fast! But the monarchs and ministers of the Liang State have been in business for a long time, and their family background is extremely thick, and it is more than enough to guard Jiangling for another year!

When these astronomical supplies arrived, the camp was stabilized, and it was even more difficult for the main force of Chen's army to attack the city.

The Zhou army and the Liang army had sufficient supplies, and then had a stable camp as a support, and they had a basis for advancing and retreating.

And they were armed with the sharpest bed crossbows of this era, heavily armoured, and held sharp blades, and the whole army fought back, enough to defeat all the enemies in front of them!

Chen Jun, of course, understands this truth, they must not give Lu Teng a chance to counterattack, what they have to do now is to transport supplies as soon as possible, so that Chen Jun can continue to form an overwhelming advantage over the defenders in the city!

This made Huang Fayan in the rear bitter, not only to guard against the Qi State in the north, but also to ensure the transportation of money, food, and equipment for the army as much as possible, and to distribute materials like sea water every day.

Needless to say, the supply consumption of the army is at least 100,000 with the army and civilians, and the daily salt and vegetable money is a huge number.

There are also some officials at the bottom of the key who like to drink the blood of soldiers and are greedy for money and food. The people traveled across the strait every day, worked hard to transport, and risked swords and soldiers.

If this is deducted, it will lead to the instability of the army's morale and poor transportation, although there is no other action under the service of the army, but there will be complaints in the heart, and there will be no effort to work.

The pontoon bridge was easy to build, and after the main force of the army passed, these people crossed the river very slowly, and people, horses, and cars were crowded together at every turn, and there was no order at all, and the speed of transportation could be imagined.

The generals in charge of this matter were so anxious that they jumped to their feet, and sat on the river in a small boat dozens of times a day, shouting hoarsely It was useless, and finally Zhang Zhaoda personally issued an order, Huang Fayan took out of his busy schedule to solve it a few times, and during the march, he didn't talk about some of them, and directly singled out more than a dozen generals who were greedy for ink, and showed them to the public, so as to suppress this bad incident of drinking the blood of soldiers.

The Northern Expedition attracted the attention of the whole country. There are nearly 100,000 troops, countless fierce generals, and the accompanying officials are even more innumerable, and killing a few is just killing chickens to show monkeys, barely deterring those guys who want money and don't want to die.

What really worries Huang Fayan is that the surrounding state capitals are empty, and they will definitely not be able to support the army's actions in the future, and no matter how far away they will be, they will have to call the Jiankang Imperial Court to transport from Zhenjiang and other important towns, and it is conceivable that the pressure on logistics will be several times greater!

Before coming, everyone was full of confidence, and even old and serious generals like Huang Fayan thought that they would soon be able to take Jiangling, but who would have thought that Lu Teng and Wang Cao would have supported it for so long and had not been completely defeated.

The radius of Jiangling is only 300 miles, and the Xiao father and son have been operating for two generations, which has allowed them to save a strong family foundation.

For a month, Huang Fayan can still hold on for another month, and if Zhang Zhaoda does not win after a month, Chen Jun will have only one way to retreat......

Zhang Zhaoda will not be unclear, come to think of it, the real decisive battle will come soon!

Xiao Moke's remaining troops, who were in charge of guarding the ferry, opened up more and more defenses. Zhang Zhaoda ordered the army to build a military fortress at the embankment is also about to be completed, and now Zhang Zhaoda, the commander, wants to play a role in distributing these rewards before the war, boosting morale, and supervising the final decisive battle.

"Give you another seven days, and the heavy supplies with the army must all be delivered to the village along the river, and all the barricades must be completed, and those who are overdue will be beheaded! Otherwise, the pontoon bridges and river embankments are unguarded, and the grain and grass are not guaranteed, so they have to borrow the heads of the others to calm the hearts of the army! ”

To the east of the Chinese army camp, there were originally some generals stationed. However, in order to be thorough, Zhang Zhaoda transferred all of them to guard the river embankment in the west, and at the same time ordered them to take care of this main ferry and pontoon bridge.

Seeing Zhang Zhaoda's arrangement, anyone with a discerning eye understands that the decisive battle is just around the corner. Zhang Zhaoda kept building a military village on the river embankment, digging ditches and ditches, and it was clear that he wanted to wait for the south wind to melt the ice, so he dug the embankment and flooded Jiangling City!

The ferry was less than twenty miles away from the camp under the army. Definitely within the scope of care. On the west bank of the ferry, there were 13,000 or 4,000 soldiers and horses left to guard the ferry and a few pontoon bridges, which was almost 30% of the main force of the entire army under Zhang Zhaoda. Equipped with a strong bow and crossbow, it is enough to defend in battle.

Needless to say, the morale of the Jiangling defenders was already depressed, even if he drew out his troops and horses to attack the ferry and intercept Zhang Zhaoda's back road. The garrison here is also enough to support the main force of the front army ...... to come back to help, what can Lu Teng do to defend the city? Soon, he will flood Gangneung!

All the arrangements made by Zhang Zhaoda were in Lu Teng's eyes, he took a lot of trouble like this, all he did was to divert water to irrigate the city, he also played like this last time, but he was intercepted by Lu Teng, and he did not compete for all the work.

As the weather warms up, the ice on the river melts, leaving only a few pieces of ice floe floating on it.

Jiangling is under the embankment, if Zhang Zhaoda chisels the embankment, the river will go straight to Jiangling, and Jiangling will be broken! The monarchs and ministers of Liang State couldn't discuss it for a long time, and many courtiers suggested surrendering to Chen State, but Xiao Yue naturally refused, and then someone proposed to surrender to Qi State, under the threat of Zhang Zhaoda, everyone was in chaos, and the stable atmosphere that Liang Guojun and Lu Teng had worked hard to create was swept away in an instant.

Lu Teng violently pressed his sword and hacked the few courtiers who surrendered to death on the spot. The scene was very terrifying, Liang Lord Xiao Yue's face was blue and white, and he pointed at Lu Teng and shouted: "General Lu, what do you mean by this?" Lord Liang and Lu Teng's respective guards all drew their swords, and as long as the other party dared to make a move, they would immediately make their blood splash on the spot!

Lu Teng didn't have any superfluous expressions such as guilt on his face, but looked up to the sky and laughed, "Hahahaha, what is the great cause of reviving the ancestors, it's just a bunch of bullshit!" The enemy has only gained the upper hand for a while, and you are all afraid? Don't you dare to fight to the death forward?! ”

"Zhang Zhaoda is a tiger, and the old man has to pull out all his teeth! If you dare to surrender, I will slaughter the whole city!" ”

His eyes were fierce and cruel, and no one present dared to look at him. Lu Teng had already descended once before, and it had become an indelible stain in his life, and now if he descended again, his reputation and righteousness would be gone! In any case, he will never surrender, and he can only fight to the death!

Only Wang Cao was still calm, and after he signaled Lord Liang with his eyes to calm down, he asked him: "In this case, does General Lu have a strategy to break the enemy?"

"Zhang Zhaoda wants to supervise the repair of the village, and he wants to send additional troops to the east to besiege the city...... To the west, there must be an empty army! Since he wants to divert water to irrigate the city, then we will let his calculation fail! ”

"First the cavalry army rushed, and then the six armies fired together, and a partial division went straight to where Zhang Zhaoda's Chinese army was, and I was killed to bite him, and delayed time for our army to destroy the Western Army!

"In addition, the people and horses will be dispatched to watch the people, so that they will not mess with themselves, at this time, those who disturb the hearts of the army will be beheaded!

"Gather all the generals and let them use the men and soldiers to deliver arrows and crossbows to the front of the army. Everyone is in their place, and one is in the middle to supervise the battle.

"As long as you hold on for half a day, and when you finish cleaning up the west road, the army will come back to help...... We must fight him with dignity!

"Inform the generals, this general's order, those who take a step back, the whole team will be killed!!"