Shu Chen

Chapter 351 Ups and Downs
Both Sun Jian and Sun Ce are famous for their bravery.

As for Sun Quan, he can be praised as having the strangeness of Goujian or the ability to keep his career under the imperial court, but no one has ever praised him for being like a father and brother.

Even though he usually enjoys shooting tigers.

But now, Wei Tianzi Cao Rui feels that Sun Quan seems to be a little bit like his father and brother this time.

He supervised the Luoyang Central Army to Jiangxia for nearly two months, followed the advice of General Wang Chang who conquered the South and attacked many times. The total number of casualties on both sides was nearly [-], but Sun Quan still had no intention of retreating.

In the past, the bandit Wu, who had heard of the arrival of reinforcements, stopped in a hurry, why is he so evil now?
Cao Rui was puzzled.

Ask all the ministers, and you can't get any answers.

Among them, there is an explanation that faintly hits the current situation.

But a minister claimed that Nishu and the thief Wu had been allied for many years, so this time the thief Wu saw that Nishu had taken the land of Liangzhou, so he attacked Jingxiang regardless of casualties, so that the two families could cooperate with each other.Gaiyin said that if the army of Nishu will send out in the future, it must be in Guanzhong, and if the thief Wu captures Jingxiang, the power of their lips and teeth will be stronger.

But after Cao Rui heard this, he was even more puzzled.

The Jiangdong rats are capricious, and they forget righteousness when they see profit, like the sons and grandsons of thieves, so they are willing to sacrifice their soldiers and horses for the benefit of Shu!Shouldn't it be judging the situation and waiting for the frequent wars against Shu and Wei before thinking of sending troops?

When Baisifu released it, it happened that Sima Yi, the governor of Yongliang, came forward, claiming that he wanted to send Du Xi and Niu Jin to lead [-] Guanzhong elites to listen to Yugai, so that the war in Jingxiang would end as soon as possible.

There was no need to discuss this matter with other important ministers, Cao Rui agreed directly.

In fact, even if Sima Yi did not come forward, he would still ask Ji Yuchen if he wanted to mobilize the troops in Guanzhong.
There were not many soldiers from Yanyu and Yuzhou counties who came from Houzhao and their combat power was not strong. Most of them were used to protect food and supplies in the back. Can keep the offensive unabated.

After all, Thief Wu has nearly [-] troops here.

What's more, it took the opportunity to choose high ground in advance, and it is dangerous to fall into the camp and contain roads, high forts and deep ditches to defend.

There are obvious advantages and disadvantages between offensive and defensive.

The army of Wei lost 10,000 taels, while the thief Wu lost about [-]!If there is no further action to break the situation, I am afraid that even if Shiyang City, which has not been relieved for a long time, will not collapse due to the lack of food, it will surrender due to the loss of morale of the soldiers.
Because there is a law in the state of Wei: "Those who have been attacked for a hundred days and cannot be rescued will not stay at home even though they surrender."

Coincidentally, Shiyang City has been trapped for nearly a hundred days.

Therefore, when Cao Rui approved Sima Yi's promise, he also gave Du Xi and Niu Jin the right to act cheaply - that is, after entering Jingzhou, they can decide where to attack.

There is no other way, more than [-] troops from Wei and Wu have gathered in the south of Anlu County. Du Xi and Niu Jin have come here, and they are also limited by the terrain and it is difficult to use them.

It has to be said that Cao Rui's move became a game-breaking move.

After Du Xi, the main reinforcement army, got the order, he went to the bank of the Han River and gathered at Lankou, the garrison of Zhu Ran in the state of Wu.

And when it came, he wrote a letter and sent someone to Hu Zhi, the governor of Jingzhou, to let him attack Zhu Ran's camp regardless of casualties.Afterwards, when the two sides fought fiercely, they suddenly attacked from the other side of Zhu Ran's camp.

There are only more than [-] people in Zhu Ran's department.

Again, the army had been out for a long time, and all the soldiers wanted to return, and they were suddenly swept by the elite of the [-] passes of the Wei State, so everyone was panicked and it was difficult to resist.

Fortunately, Zhu Ran has a great prestige in the army, and he has been in Jiangling for a long time, and there are quite a lot of soldiers under his command who dare to die.

Nai immediately burned the camp, and personally led the soldiers who dared to die, and returned to Jiangling City relying on the boats prepared on the Han River.

Inevitably, more than [-] soldiers died.Counting the loss of supplies such as food, fodder and supplies by the soldiers this time, it can be regarded as the loss of all the previous gains from the previous captivity of Zhongyi King Meifu.

But Du Xi, who made great achievements in one fell swoop, did not pursue Zhu Ran's tribe.

It's not about returning to the teacher.

It's that the [-] pass elites led by him and Niu Jin were too exhausted.From the time he heard the order to go out to fight here, he has been adhering to the speed of the soldiers, and the soldiers have little time to rest.Now that the enemy was defeated in the first battle and the bandit Wu's partial division was repelled, the soldiers must be given a day or two to celebrate and rest.

It was Jing Xiang's soldiers and horses who went to pursue them.

General Pu Zhong led [-] soldiers in front, and Jingzhou Inspector Hu Zhi led [-] soldiers behind, and hurriedly pursued him.

After chasing, Pu Zhong saw that Zhu Ran had only led 2000 people to kill the rear himself, and with Wei Fu's morale of a big victory, he had more soldiers and horses to overwhelm him, and fought Hu Zhi before he could lead his troops.

Then, it was a thousand miles away.

After only half an hour of hand-to-hand combat, nearly a thousand Wei troops were beheaded in front of the battle, their morale collapsed, and the soldiers fled in a hurry.

Wu Bing chased him back, and Kang Ge followed, like driving cattle and sheep.

Lai Huzhi led the army to arrive, Zhu Ranfang stopped his troops and retreated slowly again.

Perhaps, at this moment they will think of Zhu Ran's past achievements.

And he is from Danyang, who has always been one of the few generals from Jiangdong in the state of Wu who can be called the hero of the "Jiangdong children" in the old days when Chu and Han were fighting for supremacy.

Naturally, the Jingxiang soldiers and horses who won first and then lost can no longer pursue them.

Du Xi and Niu Jin, who let the soldiers rest for a whole day, turned their way to the east and traveled from Yunshe County to Lulin Mountain to Anlu County in Jiangxia.

This move finally led to Sun Quan's strike and return.

Now that Zhu Ran's troops returned in defeat, Sun Wu's army here will face the danger of being flanked.

Moreover, Jiangdong soldiers have been out for a long time, and the soldiers are exhausted.With the help of Wei Guoguanzhong's elite, if the battle continues, Jiangdong may lose more soldiers.

However, even if Sun Quan's strike was not a time for Cao Rui to breathe a sigh of relief.

It is like mending a prison after a dead sheep.

The defense of Jiangxia County must be increased.

However, in this battle, Wei Guo lost more soldiers and lost more troops. Once the Luoyang Central Army returned, the defense of the Jingxiang front appeared to be stretched.

Gein's scouts found out that Sun Quan stayed in Wuchang after his retreat, and did not return to Jianye.
In other words, with the strength and convenience of the Jiangdong Navy, if Sun Quan attacks Jiangxia County again in the future, it will happen overnight.

There are also barbarians living in the valleys of the counties south of Xiangyang, whose hearts are in turmoil after this war.

The fact that Meifu, the king of the barbarians, survived in name only and the state of Wei could not help him avenge him must have made them feel self-protective. Even if they did not rebel against Wei, they would start attacking Wu Yi, a friendly thief at both ends.

Therefore, when he appeased Jingxiang's heart and discussed with his officials the deployment of troops and horses, he also thought of the advice from time to time that he should not fight on two fronts if he is full of favors.

Sima Yi claimed that the arrow had to be fired on the string.

But what if you slowly retract the bowstring?
Early winter is at the end of October.

Wuwei County is already chilling, the sky is gloomy and everything is depressed.

Although the first snow has not yet arrived, the whimpering wind from the north is like a knife, and from time to time, a burst of dust will be rolled up from the desert and barren valleys, covering the sky and the sun, which is very annoying.

Jiang Wei, whose beard, hair and face were all covered with dust, was stationed on a hill with his eyes like a falcon.

Horse against horse, confronting head-on, the Han army finally waited for the opportunity.

(End of this chapter)