Jiang Wan could see clearly that there was a commotion in the Jiangdong Army outside Jiangling City.

In all fairness, Jiang Wan didn't have much trouble during this time.

After all, when Guan Yu built Jiangling City, the Eight Bull Crossbow was already the standard for defending the city in Jiangling.

When it was decided to temporarily abandon Gong'an County and retreat to Jiangling, the eight-bull crossbows connected to the water power workshop along the Hudu River were also dismantled and transported.

These eight-oxen crossbows were sent to Jiangling and Xiangfan, and were turned into the city defense of Jiangling City and the sharp weapons on the ships of Jingzhou sailors.

By the way, Huang Yueying also upgraded the pedals for these "Water Power Workshop Special Edition Eight Bull Crossbows" to make it easier to wind.

Lu Meng was completely ignorant of this, and only when the Gong'an County completed the reorganization of the division and waved the army to attack the city, did he understand what firepower suppression was.

The twin cities of Jiangling were surrounded by water on three sides, and Lü Meng asked some of the warships to make noise along the three sides of the river to attract attention, and then personally led a large number of soldiers around to the west to land and try to attack the city.

This city is difficult to attack, and Lu Meng has long expected this.

But it was so difficult to attack, and Lu Meng really didn't expect it.

A Jiangdong soldier listened to the commander's order and got off the boat in a daze.

The rudimentary armor on his body and the long knife in his hand, which was sharp but easy to break, did not provide a sense of security.

Lu Meng had a very beautiful imagination of his grand plan to divide the river and rule.

The soldiers hated that they could only go out with the army to backstab General Guan.

If he could, the soldier would miss the hoe he held in his hand a month ago.

But it's a pity that the fertile land is not your own field, and you can't help yourself as a slave.

As soon as the owner gave the order, he was going to fight for the owner of the owner's family, and to serve the Jiangdong of the owner and the big bosses.

For him, the greatest luxury of this battle is simply "if he can survive......

But when the army came to Gangneung City, this "if" was smashed to pieces.

At this time, after getting off the ship and facing this fortified city, the luck disappeared completely, replaced by fear and a faint unwillingness.

If only he and his fellow villagers had mustered up the courage to abscond to Jingzhou a year ago, he thought.

In that way, he may be able to stand on the city wall at this moment and watch this group of "Jiangdong Xiaoxiao" peacefully.

Jun Zheng's scolding interrupted this extravagant fantasy, and seeing the treasure sword in Jun Zheng's hand, the Jiangdong soldiers had no choice but to advance.

Greet the roaring eight-bull crossbow head-on with your chest.

An eight-ox crossbow is more of a deterrent to foot soldiers.

But if dozens of eight-ox crossbows were lined up at the head of the city and fired continuously, it would not only destroy the morale of the foot soldiers, but also the bodies of the soldiers.

To add insult to injury, the naval warships that were noisy along the river were also taken care of by the Eight Bull Crossbows without discrimination.

The special crossbow arrows passed through the ship, leaving a hole that could not be plugged by manpower, and after several volleys, the sailors of Jiangdong also avoided one after another.

Keeping the farthest distance and making the loudest noise was the best they could do to carry out General Lu's orders.

So after a few rounds like this, the soldiers who disembarked preferred to face the sword of the army than to meet the crossbow arrows with their thin chests.

At this point, Lu Meng's various thoughts about Jiangling can only come to naught, and the only solution is the only option left to be trapped and killed.

The headquarters was left to confront Gong'an Gangneung, and the remaining forces began to attack and plunder in the north, south, and west directions with this as the center.

Jiang Wan, who saw everything really in the city, was not worried.

After all, the population of Jingnan is not large, and after the public security in Jiangling and Jiangling became more and more prosperous, the common people basically chose to come to these two places to find a food errand.

The remaining few people were also transferred to Xiangfan by signing documents.

After the end of General Guan's northward march, with the departure of his soldiers, Fancheng and Xiangyang also became empty cities.

But in the final analysis, Liu Jingsheng chose Xiangyang as the seat of Jingzhou for a reason, and it is indeed a good place with fertile land, natural hazards and mountains and rivers.

Ordering the people of Dangyang, Yicheng and other places to move north to Xiangfan can not only avoid the soldiers of Jiangdong, but also serve as the first batch of residents to revive Xiangfan, which can be regarded as killing more birds with one stone.

Therefore, Jiang Wan's defense of the city can almost be regarded as risk-free, except for the fact that he can't open the official market to trade, which makes the merchants a little depressed, the other impacts are not very great.

On the contrary, because of this, Jiang Wan has a lot less official business to deal with, and he still has time to take a walk on the city wall with Zhou Qun every day, and take a look at the Jiangdong camp in Gong'an County from a distance.

Under the "idleness", the changes in Lu Meng's camp were soon seen by Jiang Wan.

"The enemy wants to return...... Either Shanyue attacked Yunmengze to the west. ”

Taking a walk every day, Zhou Qun is also close to Jiang Wan and Fa, and he still has time to joke with Jiang Wan at this time.

Hearing that this mountain was attacking in the west, Jiang Wan shook his head with a smile.

Zhou Qun was also full of smiles, and arched his hand and said:

"Then it should be our army's naval division going south to storm Jiangxia, so that the siege of Jiangling will be lifted, and congratulations to Gongyan."

Jiang Wan looked at it, thoughtfully, and thought about it according to the city, one by one figures crossed in his mind, and finally the figure of Gan Gui, a young general, appeared in his mind.

Therefore, his brow loosened, and he smiled a little, and shook his head:

"Looking at Lu Meng's situation, it should be that the sailor goes straight into the hinterland of Jiangdong."

Zhou Qun didn't ask on the side, although Jiang Wan was approachable, but Zhou Qun always remembered the other party's high position and authority, and he must know a lot of confidential information that he was not qualified to see.

But it goes straight into the hinterland of Koto...... Zhou Qunxuan even understood.

The warships of the Jingzhou Navy Division are better, if they abandon the benefits of the warships, it is very unwise to want to defend against the enemy according to Jiangxia.

However, if he can take Jiangdong directly regardless of Jiangling, Zhou Qun also has to praise this person's good courage!

Jiang Wan was silent, relying on sufficient information in advance, he felt that he had almost grasped the general trend of the current battle situation.

If Gan Gui obviously had the idea of attacking the enemy and saving him, then he must have to cooperate with Gan Gui's efforts to leave or delay the Jiangdong army here.

That being the case...... With the battle between heaven and man in his heart, Jiang Wan gradually made up his mind.

With a loud laugh, Jiang Wan pulled Zhou Qun with a look of ecstasy and said:

"Now that the thieves have retreated, it must be God bless Xuande Gong! Nakao should have a feast with me! ”

Zhou Qun was at a loss in his heart, but he was already thoughtful, and he naturally disposed of it at this time:

"This matter is celebrated, and the people in the city should be congratulated when a banquet is held."

Jiang Wan's face was full of joy: "Zhong Zhi still understands me!" I would like to ask General Zhenwei to move to the palace to celebrate. ”

Zhou Qun was naturally quite cooperative: "Good." ”

Under the deliberate impetus of Jiang Wan, soon the officials of Jiangling City knew the news of Jiangdong's retreat, and then through the spread of those who had a heart, soon the whole city fell into a faint restlessness.

And for the officials of Jiangling, the banquet of the government is not a secret, and Jiang Taishou, who does not drink alcohol, rarely feasts and drinks, and soon gets drunk.

"The retreat of the thief army, the defenders in the south of the city are the first to contribute!"

So the banquet participants all chuckled, Taishou seemed to be really drunk, and it was the crossbow army in the west of the city that destroyed the enemy again and again, how did it become the first merit in the south of the city?

But Jiang Wan didn't stop there, I saw him blushing and burping:

"Come on, pass on the order too much, and the defenders in the south of the city will give wine to congratulate!"

Someone tried to dissuade him, but he was almost kicked down by the drunken Jiang Wan, or Liu Zhang came over to fight and persuaded with a big tongue with a wine burp, saying that now that the thief army is about to retreat, how can he have the leisure to attack the city? Don't panic.

With the acquiescence of Jiang Wan's cronies and the persuasion of Liu Zhang's boat, this untimely order was quickly carried out.

Then Jiang Wan fell asleep on the table, and so did Liu Zhang.

The host was overwhelmed by the wine, and the feast naturally stopped there, and as the worried guests dispersed, the things on the wine table spread on a small scale.

The vast majority of people expressed their understanding, after all, the fact on the surface was that Sun Cao joined forces, and General Guan was unable to help himself, and the pressure on Taishou in this situation can be imagined, and now it is expected that he will suddenly be ecstatic after knowing that the siege has been lifted.

But for those who are rooted in Jingnan, today is the last chance to make a move.

After drinking, the guards in the south of the city became a lot of difficulties, and the defense line on the city wall also appeared flawed, with the cooperation of the caring people, soon a hanging basket fell quietly from the wall, and a person who was good at swimming crossed the river with a secret letter to see the direction of the public security on the other side of the river, a fierce son pierced down, the river surface returned to calm, and only a wooden basket slowly sank into the river.

But before this group of well-intentioned people could congratulate each other, a group of defenders kicked open the door of the mansion quite brutally.

"On the orders of Taishou, Master Pan and you, let's go together."

Pan Jun's face suddenly turned snow-white, this timing was too ingenious, it was hard not to suspect that the servant who was successfully sent out of the city was deliberately released.

And as the group saw Jiang Wan sitting on top of the high hall, Pan Jun's guess became more and more certain.

I saw Jiang Wan's face calm and his eyes were dangerous, how could he look like he was not strong enough to drink?

Liu Zhang, the general of Zhenwei, who had always lived in a simple place in Jiangling City, also sat aside, looking up calmly, as if he was carefully observing the beams of the house.

There was no need for Jiang Wan to speak, Pan Jun had already preemptively said in a trembling voice:

"The official document of Jingnan that I have seen with my own eyes in the past month ......"

"Half of them are fakes." Jiang Wan said lightly.

At this point, there is no need to say anything more, Pan Jun laughed weirdly twice, and took a step forward to look at his distant brother:

"Jiang Wan, do you have to cut yourself off from the countryside?"

Jiang Wan, who was sitting upright, didn't say a word, staring at Pan Jun's eyes as if he had a thousand words, but in the end he just sighed in disappointment and waved his hand.

The cronies no longer gave Pan Jun a chance to make a big statement, and even dragged these people down.

Trying to get rid of his cousin's influence on him, Jiang Wan also raised his head and said dryly:

"After Lu Meng receives the secret letter, he should be able to divide the troops, not only to aid Jiangdong, but also to seal Jiangling, and to attack Hanshou."

"In this way, the siege of Gangneung will be relieved, and there will be an opportunity for a counteroffensive."

Jiang Wan's dry voice echoed in the high hall of the mansion, but Liu Zhang didn't say a word.

Jiang Wan was not discouraged, and his tone softened and said:

"Recently, a lot of glass ornaments have been fired in the glass workshop, and General Zhenwei ......"

Liu Zhang, who seemed to be speechless, laughed for the first time:

"If you keep too much, how dare you refuse?"

Seeing Liu Zhang leave, Jiang Wan rubbed his head, relived what he had just said in his mind, and was ready to check and fill in the gaps at any time.

As for this cousin...... It's better to leave it to General Guan at disposal.

Obviously the talent is good, why only the one-third of the acre of land in his hometown? Jiang Wan couldn't figure it out.

Gan Gui, who was going down the river, didn't know the complicated and trivial things that happened behind him.

The breakthrough of Jiangxia has depleted the boats among the sailors, which has made the speed of the sailors even faster.

The boats were small, narrow, sailless boats, which could only be reached at the speed of arrows in wartime by rowing desperately by the sailors.

But when it is not at war, the boat naturally does not have such a fast speed, and most of the time it is towed behind a large ship, and then goes up when needed.

Now these boats are gone, and the Jingzhou sailors who are going down the river are smooth sailing.

In order to expand his influence as much as possible, Gan Gui ordered his subordinates to hang up all the banners that could be played, such as the Hanzi flag, such as the Liu Ziqi, and the Guanzi flag of General Guan.

No way, Gan Gui never thought that he could lead a division alone, so he didn't have his own flag, but it didn't matter.

The giant boat was already eye-catching, but now a huge silver bell fell at the front end, and a small sail in front of it was replaced by a rather eye-catching brocade sail, which was enough to explain the identity.

These two simple arrangements aroused the excitement of Gan Ning's eight hundred old departments, as if they had returned to the carefree years of crisscrossing the Bashu waterway, and even their bodies were a little lighter.

However, there are also stable objections from the old department: what if Jiangdong saw these two things, and Sun Quan cut General Lao Gan in anger?

But more people scoffed: how could General Gan be in such a situation with his keen alertness?

The opinions of the minority faction were suppressed, so the group continued to march directly towards Jianye happily, and even lined up to shake the silver bell, which made Gan Gui even more vigorous, and only hated that his father did not see this scene with his own eyes.

Gan Gui and the others were very happy, but the riots caused by this water division also spread behind this water master.

From Chaisang to Pengze, from Nanling to Wuhu, the cities along the river can be seen clearly, and there is a naval division under the banner of General Guan rushing downstream!

Although Jiangdong will not publicize his betrayal of the alliance, countless gossip has been spreading in Jiangdong since the siege of Jiangling for half a month.

Now seeing that Jingzhou Sailor Ming Huang is playing the banner and unceremoniously killing Jianye, everyone feels that the previous gossip has been more or less verified.

Everywhere Jingzhou Sailor passed, hundreds of rumors merged into one voice:

General Guan broke through Jiangxia and went to settle accounts with Sun Hou!

What about my previous Jiangdong sailor? Naturally, it was defeated!

General Guan is really a god!

Gan Gui did not have time to inquire about the impact of his own cause, but three days later, Jianye was already in sight.

Shouting, he commanded the fleet to approach, and Gan Gui looked at the peddlers and pawns on the shore with a smile on his face and fled in panic.

When the people were almost scattered, and the enemy troops on the city wall were crowded, Gan Gui grinned fiercely:

"The whole army is on the crossbow, the target is Jianye, say hello to Sun Hou!"

(End of chapter)