Shu Chen

Chapter 223
Autumn and September, Luoyang.

Wei Tianzi Cao Rui stayed in Sikong and Chen Qun to guard the capital, and personally supervised the [-] forbidden troops to the Huainan battlefield.

Among them, Guanqiu Jian, who resigned from the governor of Jingzhou and became the governor of Yuzhou because of the Liaodong War, had led other troops to Lu'an County three days ago, and together with Runan prefect Tian Yu resisted the Quan Cong tribe of the Eastern Wu.

The reason why Cao Rui decided to go to the imperial conquest was not only because he wanted to imitate Wei Wu Cao Cao's martial arts in whipping Yu Nei, but also because Wei Jun won on the battlefield but lost in planning.

The victory on the battlefield was due to Man Chong ambushing Sun Quan's main force.

However, Sun Quan said that after Sun Quan led his army into Nanfeishui, he saw that the city of Hefei was [-] miles away, so he hesitated for more than [-] days without deciding whether to go ashore and attack the city.

But this battle was, after all, his first personal conquest after proclaiming himself emperor.

If you keep standing still and stagnate, it will be a heavy blow to the morale of the army and to your personal prestige.

Therefore, he still chose to lead the army ashore.

I plan to slowly advance to the city of Hefei, show off my might, and then retreat.

It's just a pity that Man Chong had expected him to have this mentality long ago, and had previously ambushed six thousand pacers in a hidden place outside the city.

When Sun Quan led the army to arrive, he rushed out suddenly, unstoppable, beheading hundreds of heads before the battle, and even trampled each other to death.

Fortunately, Jiangdong now also has an established cavalry.

A few years ago, Zhuge Ke was sent as an envoy to the Han Dynasty, and returned with two thousand war horses from trade.

It also allowed Sun Quan to have [-] personal guards.

When Zhang Ying, the guard of Hefei under Man Chong's command, led [-] ambush soldiers, Sun Quan, who was in the rear, let his guards ride forward against the battle, and he was able to stabilize his position.

After all, the Wei army had few soldiers. Seeing that it was no longer possible to drive away the rout soldiers and cover up the killing, they retreated into the city.

However, their purpose was achieved.

As soon as Wu Jun landed, he was defeated for a while, and his morale was inevitably low. In desperation, he had to return to the ship to rest.

Sun Quan was also distressed.

War horses are extremely expensive, and cavalry cannot be trained overnight.

His well-trained personal guard cavalry lost more than [-] cavalry in this battle in order to prevent the whole army from being killed by Wei Guo.

Therefore, after returning to the ship, he was caught in the battle between heaven and man again.

He thought of retreating.

But remembering that in the Han Guoshu, Prime Minister Zhuge cryptically mentioned "Don't be anticlimactic", he was unwilling.Although Han and Wu were allies, they never stopped comparing each other. He didn't want Jiangdong to be inferior to Bashu in the future.

Coincidentally, good news came from Pianshi Quan Cong at this time.

Quan Cong attacked Lu'an County, the prefecture of Lujiang in Wei Dynasty.

The route is that after the navy enters Chaohu Lake, they turn westward and enter Longshushui from Shukou;

Jiangdong has also used troops on this route.

More than 20 years ago, Sun Quan led the army to Shukou, preparing to meet Chen Lan and Meicheng who rebelled against Wei.

However, the rescue was not successful, and he was attacked by Zang Ba instead, and returned in a disastrous defeat.

With such a past, Jiangdong dispatched troops and never took this route again, Wei Guo also did not pay attention to it, and Lu'an County, which is not near the water, was even more lax in defense.

Therefore, he was defeated by Quan Cong's side teacher in one fell swoop.

After the Wu army burned the city of Lu'an, more than a thousand Wei army prisoners and more than [-] Li Shu households were taken back.

Moreover, good news came from the Liaodong battlefield.

Of course!

The main force led by Sun Quan was claimed to be [-], but after the division of Quan Cong, only [-] cavalry remained.

Because before sending out troops, he accepted the suggestion of his concubine Yang Yu (a Nanyang native, not the father of Yanghu), and appointed the former general Zhu Huan as another army, and the two generals Sun Yi and Zheng Zhou led more than [-] people to advance to Liaodong.

Yang Qin thought that after the fall of the Gongsun family in Liaodong, the main force of the Wei state would inevitably retreat and return.

And just as the Wei State was aggressively attacking Longyou, and our own side attacked Wei in three ways, it was even more impossible for Liaodong to have many troops to defend.

It is a good opportunity for a surprise attack.

Sun Quan, who had already lost countless soldiers in Fuhai Liaodong and couldn't calm down, was very happy when he heard this plan, and immediately put it into practice.

Also harvested a lot.

Wei Guo's generals staying on the coast of Liaodong did not expect that Soochow would come to rob across the sea at this time.

Caught off guard, Zhu Huan rushed in from Liaoshui, and he was like a broken bamboo, almost repeating Sima Yi's record of breaking Xiangping City.

Not only captured countless ships of the Liaodong Navy of the Wei State, but also took the opportunity to seize countless assets and luggage, more than a thousand war horses, and more than 30,000 people to return.

The two good news made Sun Quan suddenly feel that it is not unacceptable to lose at the city of Hefei.

It is also high-spirited again.

He continued to stay in Nanfeishui, threatening the new city of Hefei in the state of Wei.

Moreover, Zhu Ran's headquarters was separated, and Zhu Ran was sent to lead the army to join another division—Sun Shao and Zhang Cheng's divisions who entered Guangling County through the small and medium-sized Dushui Canal, and entered the Huai River Basin to plunder.

The battlefield was transferred from Yangzhou to Xuzhou.

Even Qingzhou.

After Zhu Huan's tribe returned to Jiangdong with a full load, they set sail again and searched for Qingzhou's defensive loopholes along the coast.

That is to say, under the dazzling feats of the two generals Quan Cong and Zhu Huan, Sun Quan finally let go of his obsession with the city of Hefei, and finally realized the essence of war of "using his own strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses".

Relying on the elite of the navy, they began to plunder people and assets everywhere.

Man Chong, who was in charge of the war, heard the news and went to Luoyang to state the military situation, left Zhang Ying to guard Hefei City, and led the army to Huaiyin County, Xuzhou to resist.

This is the reason why Cao Rui made up his mind to conquer in person.

Not many years have passed since the Battle of Shiting, which cost Qing, Xu and Yang three states heavy losses.

Whether it is a sergeant or Li Shu, the memory is still fresh.

Wei Guo's troops deployed on the southeast front were not many. Now that Jiangdong is being looted everywhere, only his personal conquest can stabilize the morale of the army and the people.

Different from the past, this time Luoyang's reinforcements no longer sneaked lightly, trying to block the Wu army by attacking suddenly.

Cao Rui accepted the suggestion of Liu Shao, a regular attendant on Sanqi, and took Qin Lang, who had just returned from Bingzhou, as the former governor, leading five thousand infantry and three thousand cavalry to Hefei New City with more drums and drums prepared along the way.

And let the cavalry directly detour to the back of Wu Jun, making a move to cut off his food supply.

In order to surrender without fighting, force the Wu army to retreat——After supporting the great Sima Cao Zhen to leave Longyou, Cao Rui did not want to get into a long-term battle with Wu.

As for, will Sun Quan see through the truth and fight to the death without retreating?
Not very likely.

First of all, Wu Jun's coming to fight this time has already gained a lot of benefits.

From the last battle of Shiting, it can be inferred that the offensive of Soochow's soldiers cannot last long.

Once you gain a profit, you will worry that if you continue to fight, it will become "turning victory into defeat".

Therefore, if Sun Quan learned that Cao Rui led the army personally, the two sides were evenly matched, or his own side fell into a disadvantage, he would take the initiative to retreat.

The other is that it has been several months since Soochow sent troops.

Li Shu suffered from corvee labor such as transporting food, fodder and supplies, not to mention, those soldiers will gradually lose their vigor after going out for a long time, and need to rest urgently.

With Jiangdong's war background, Sun Quan did not dare to fight against Wei's Luoyang elite with exhausted troops.

And if Sun Quan retreated, the Lu Xun tribe who threatened Xiangyang City in Jingzhou would also retreat.

Both the eastern and southern fronts of Wei State will usher in the elimination of wars.

Well, the war in Jingzhou is not lukewarm.

The troops under the supervision of Lu Xun and Zhuge Jin were no more than [-], and they were supposed to support them.

With Sima Yi already rushing back to Wancheng and dispatching soldiers and horses from various counties and counties to guard, the Wu army could not take advantage of it.

Anding County, Yongzhou, Gaoping City.

Zhao Yan, the military commander of Wei Da Sima, leaned on the crenel of the city wall and looked at the barracks outside the city.

There used to be more than [-] troops gathered there, but now there are only more than a thousand people surrounding the camp.

Cao Zhen has already supervised and led various ministries, and set off to Longyou one after another.

Instead, the soldiers marched in three ways.

Xia Houru, who was promoted to a former general because of the Battle of Pingcheng in Yanmen County, was appointed as the former governor by Cao Zhen as soon as he came from Luoyang, and supervised the attack on Zuli County with [-] cavalry.

The one who took the same responsibility as him was Guo Huai who led more than ten thousand soldiers from Jincheng County.

With the current situation, it is impossible for the Han army to attack Jincheng County.

Therefore, Guo Huai, who had always been valued by Cao Zhen, was naturally transferred to help in the battle.

General Wei Yan before Nishu and Guan Xing after Yuanxun guarded the city, and it was doomed that the opponent would not be able to surrender even if the last soldier died in the battle.

But for Wei Guo, Zuli City, the hub connecting Hexi and Longyou, must be captured no matter what.

Therefore, Cao Zhen asked Xia Houru and Guo Huai, the two generals who knew Liangzhou best and hated Nishu the most, to join forces to attack day and night at all costs and pull him out!

The other army was led by the rear general Fei Yao.

Three generals, Hu Zun, Xia Houba, and Xu Gai (Xu Huang's son), led an army of [-], and came to attack Nishu's camp in the tributary of Changli River, Scar Pu and the rebel general Jiang Wei.Those who supported them were the three thousand Han cavalry under the supervision of Zhang Xiong (the son of Zhang Yun) and the six thousand Hu cavalry under the supervision of Liu Bao, the Zuoxian king of the Southern Huns.

These cavalry will cruise between Longyou Pingxiang City and Ayang City.

Intercept Nishu Gaoxiang and Wu Banbu's troops to rescue Changlishui tributary camp, and the two cavalry movements guarding Nishu Ma Dai and Zhao Guang.

The last road is the 20,000 people led by Cao Zhen himself.

It was more than [-] miles in front of Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Nishu, who set up camp to prevent him from attacking the grain roads of various troops and horses.

With [-] against Prime Minister Zhuge's [-] army, it seems that Cao Zhen is a little bit arrogant.

In fact, he is fearless.

In other words, Cao is really trying to lure the prime minister into battle.

Prime Minister Zhuge's camp is located along the hills of the tributary valley of Wushui River, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

If Cao Zhen attacked it with a large army, it would be difficult to make meritorious deeds.

Therefore, he chose his camp in an open place, which made the prime minister in a dilemma.

If the prime minister gave up his geographical advantage and came out to attack his barracks, he would be cut off from his way back to the valley——Zhao Yan, who stayed behind in Gaoping City, still controls more than [-] rear troops; and the cavalry of Zhang Xiong and Liu Bao came here to help , but only two days.

In a mere two days, the prime minister, who has the superiority in military strength, could not capture Cao Zhen's camp.

But if the prime minister still stood firm, Cao Zhen would have restrained Ni Shu's main force with [-] soldiers, making Ni Shu, who was already few soldiers, even more difficult to dispatch.

For example, it is impossible for Bashu to have reinforcements for the defenders guarding the counties.

And this is a conspiracy.

It was Cao Zhen who relied on Wei's strong war background and made a decision based on local conditions, which is basically unsolvable.

As for Shuyinsai, Cao Zhen asked Wei Ping, the governor of Hexi, to make up for his mistakes.

In other words, when the Wei army entered Longyou in a large scale, the Shuyin Fort far away in Hexi became irrelevant.

If Xia Houru and Guo Huai can capture Zuli City, Quyinsai will be reduced to an isolated city. The Wei army only needs to send troops to camp on Hanpingchuan, and then wait for the Han army in the fortress to run out of food and die.

But Wei Ping still led the army to attack.

On the one hand, Yuyinsai was taken away right under his nose.

If he doesn't take it back, he feels ashamed of his true trust in Luoyang Temple and Da Sima Cao, and he also feels unable to face his own heart.

He is also older.

Already carrying the regret of losing Xiaoguan, I don't want to die with the regret of losing Yuyinsai again.

Another reason is that time cannot afford to be wasted.

Given the situation in the Hexi Corridor, Wei Guo was not allowed to lose Shuyinsai for too long.

The Qianghu tribe, who had no profits from the Silk Road trade, would have the will to betray Wei because of the delay.

Similarly, after the implementation of the policy of "ruling the border by people from the border", in order to consolidate their own power, the prefects and Haoyou of the counties in Hexi expanded their private soldiers or recruited apprentices; Part of it is relying on the profits of Silk Road.

They can't afford to wait either.

Shuyinsai is a small town without Li Shu.

The grain and hay that has been stored in the past is at least enough for a year, or even longer.

They don't know whether the Han army will run out of food after a year; but they know that their reserves of food, fodder and assets will definitely not last for a year.

Due to the ambition of the separatist regime, it is impossible for them to dismiss the private army.

The only way is to tear up Wei Guo's tacit understanding of conniving with their power, and stop supplying food, fodder and supplies to Wei Guo's soldiers guarding the Hexi Corridor.

Only in this way, they who have lost the protection of the authority of the Wei state will also welcome the coveted eyes of others.

Those ambitious people who have not benefited from the policy of "governing the border" will unite to overthrow them and re-establish the rules.

Therefore, due to the consequences that both sides tried their best to avoid, Wei Pingdu came with an army of [-].

There were no more than [-] soldiers belonging to the Wei State, and the rest were all private soldiers of the prefects of the four prefectures in Hexi and Haoyou of the Xiangxian County, as well as the profitable Qianghu tribe.

However, the Han army guarding the fortress of Yuyin was not afraid.

Whether it's the Piaoxi Army led by Liu Yin, or the Yan Yu Division separated from the later general Yuan Wei, they are all veterans who have experienced battles.

No matter how many Wei troops come, they will be limited by the terrain of the fortress of Tanyin.

The attacking surface of the fortress can only accommodate three or four hundred soldiers shoulder to shoulder!
Even if the river freezes after winter, making the city more vulnerable to attack, it still cannot accommodate thousands of people to attack.

After all, it was Jiang Wei who attacked the fortress the night before, and it is impossible for the Han army to forget to make up for it.

Liu Yin, who led the warlord and was a miscellaneous general, stood on the city wall and looked at the enemy's situation. When he saw the Wei army approaching in a big way, he couldn't help but clapped his hands and laughed, and said to Zhang Bao beside him: "I have a sigh , I don’t get every battle at the right time, and it’s hard to find military merits of any size throughout the year. I don’t want to, but today is here unexpectedly!”

(End of this chapter)