Ma Tan marched southward, who was the target?

Naturally, it was Sun Huan, who was confronting Fei Yi, the general of Shu Han Zhenxi, and the 50,000 Eastern Wu army under his command at this moment!

Ma Jian deployed such a big game, and he was forced to hold back in the inner city for half a month, and let Dongwu ride his face for so long, so naturally his appetite was not only Lu Xun's 30,000 people.

What he wants is to eat most of the military strength of Soochow in one go. If you want to fight down, you will be afraid to beat Sun Quan to the west, and you will be as afraid of him as Zhang Liao in your lifetime.

If you want to do this, you have to bleed Sun Quan once, in which Sun Huan and the commander Wu Jun are the focus of Ma Tan's plan.

Ma Tan negotiated with Xiang Chong, and then Xiangyang was replaced by the general Xiang Chong's troops, and blocked the Han River channel with Wu Ban, who was stationed in Xinye. In this way, Zhu Ran's troops, who were still trying to attack Danshui upstream, could be completely blocked in Nanyang, so that they could not advance or retreat.

Lu Xun is now defeated and returned to Jiangling, the loss is so huge, and he is not able to threaten Xiangfan in a short time.

The entire rear of Nanyang was quickly consolidated again, and it was not leaked by the deployment of pets. Then Ma Tan led 500 cavalry and 5,000 infantry to march southward, and rushed straight to Yidao.

It is worth mentioning that there is no direct highway from Xiangyang to Yidao. If Ma Tan wanted to rush to Yidao, he needed to take Jingxiang North Road to Jiangling first, and then gallop west along the Yangtze River.

Among them, the road is long, and there are layers of defense from Soochow, which is very unfavorable for the army.

However, such a big disadvantage can't support the crotch pull of the Eastern Wu army at all. So far, the Eastern Wu has been under Sun Quan's rule for 30 years, and the powerful tribal system has penetrated into every inch of the Eastern Wu army.

In the highly powerful army of the army, coupled with the fact that there were almost no veterans who could fight well, the combat effectiveness of the Soochow army seriously declined. Ma Tan led thousands of soldiers and horses all the way south, and successively encountered the passes of Eastern Wu in Yicheng, Dangyang, Qingni and other places.

In more than ten battles of this size, Ma Jian was broken, and all of them ended quickly.

Ma Jian relied on the convenience of Jingxiang North Road, and in just a few days, he returned to Nanjun and came to Jiangling City.

The generals defending the city saw that the Shu army was small, and they were contemptuous and wanted to go out of the city to face the battle. Fortunately, his personal guard grabbed him and pointed to the white-robed general led by the Han army,

"This is the general of the Western Shu Expedition to the North!"

After being reminded by the people below, the guards were shocked, and they were afraid that they would not dare to say anything about going out of the city to face the battle.

Gangneung held on and did not dare to move forward, watching the Han army bypass Gangneung, and then quickly marching westward along the Gangneung gallop road. In the end, when Ma Jian seemed to be running with all the members, thousands of people rushed to Xie Dong City in just a few days.

This city was built by the prime minister in the past, but in order to lure the snake out, he deliberately let the Eastern Wu capture it. At this moment, Ma Tan came all the way, just to recapture this place before Sun Huan withdrew his troops, and block Sun Huan's tens of thousands of troops in the Three Gorges!

It was already dusk when Ma Tan's army reached the city, and the soldiers were exhausted from the high-intensity march.

Under such circumstances, the deputy general Ma Zhong suggested to Ma Jian that he rest for the night before launching a fierce attack on the city the next day. It's all here, and it doesn't seem to be bad for this night.

But Ma Tan groaned, but directly refused,

"Our troops themselves are small, and we are naturally at a disadvantage to the Wu army, so we don't have time to rest at all!" Ma Yan's expression was serious, and his eyes were full of determination.

"We came by surprise on a rapid march, and now we just caught Soochow off guard. If we rest for a night and let the Wu army be on guard, it will be even more difficult for us to do this! ”

"What's more, if reinforcements arrive in time from the direction of Yiling, we won't be able to block Sun Huan's army in Yiling!"

"So today we must attack with all our troops! I have to take Xie Dongcheng down desperately! ”

After speaking, Ma Jian personally jumped off the horse and personally led the troops to attack the city with a blade in hand.

The timing of Ma Tan's selection was indeed good, and the Han army raided all the way too fast to report at all. The Wu army at the head of the city saw that it was like a divine soldier descending from the sky, killing a large group of Han troops from the east, and the army was in chaos.

Especially when he saw Ma Tan's banner fluttering at the front, the soldiers of Eastern Wu were all panicked. Some soldiers even began to speculate whether Jiangling had fallen, and the main force of Shu Han had come south to clean them up?

Under such hesitation, Ma Tan led the Han soldiers to use the flying ladder as a siege weapon, and the ants attached to the siege city. Ma Tan took the lead, threw away his helmet, and climbed to the top of the city first with a steel knife in his mouth.

If this scene were known to the prime minister, he would have to whip him twice. But it is undeniable that Ma Tan ascended so first that such a tired Han army soldier made him high. Even if he is tired, he still struggles to move forward, showing the most courageous momentum of the big man.

This crazy style of play completely frightened the defenders of Soochow. After Ma Tan personally ascended to the head of the city and stabbed dozens of people, the defenders of Eastern Wu were defeated, and no one dared to resist.

The two sides fought fiercely until late at night, and the Han army successfully captured the city and successfully recaptured Xie Dongcheng.

However, to Ma Yan's surprise, Xie Dongcheng's guards were rarely extremely tenacious. After most of the Eastern Wu was defeated by Ma Yan, this defender insisted on fighting to the death with dozens of guards and retinue.

However, under the blow of Ma Tan's strength to lower the ten, it is meaningless to use the mantis arm as a car. This defender was finally killed in the battle of his own guards, and was captured by the Han army after his strength was exhausted.

Since then, Ma Tan and the Yidao on the other side of the river have been connected again, and tens of thousands of Sun Huan have been completely blocked in the Yiling area.

At dawn, a large number of Eastern Wu soldiers and horses appeared in the west of Xie Dongcheng, and reinforcements from the direction of Yiling arrived. But seeing that the banner of the Han army was already fluttering on the city, the Wu army was in a panic.

Sun Huan marched westward because Zhuge Liang's newly built Xie Dongcheng was here. The Shu army in the direction of Wuling could not cut off its retreat, and the waterway and grain route were extremely smooth.

Now Xie Dongcheng has fallen inexplicably, and the Han army has connected Yidao Xie Dong into one. Even if the Dongwu naval army is strong, it will definitely not be able to forcibly cross the two cities to rush to the aid of Sun Huan!

This also means that Sun Huan was shut down and beaten as a dog!

After a period of confusion in Yiling's reinforcements, the main general led his troops back to Yiling to report to Sun Huan.

And at this moment, Ma Jian in the city also figured out the name of the young general of Dongwu who resisted stubbornly.

"Zhu Ji? You are Zhu Ran's son? Ma Jian looked at the young general who was pressed to the ground, but still insisted on kneeling on the ground, and raised his eyebrows and asked.

"General of Eastern Wu, don't descend to the small country of Western Shu! Kill me! Compared with his father, Zhu Ji is a little less sleek and a little more upright. He stared at Ma Yan, who was sitting on the top seat, and said proudly.

Ma Jian frowned slightly, glanced at Zhu Ji, and began to ponder.

This seems to be a general in the late period of Eastern Wu in history, why did he appear under Sun Huan?

I remember that Zhu Ran and Sun Huan didn't deal with each other, right?

(End of chapter)