Shu Chen

Chapter 556 No More

Huo Yi fulfilled his promise.

After the general of the Jiangdong garrison in Panyu led Kaesong to surrender, he ordered the soldiers entering the city not to disturb Li Shu, or to plunder or blackmail Haoyou's family or merchant caravans.

However, the previous hoarding of the Jiangdong government will naturally be searched and exhausted.

Not only the food and supplies in the arsenal and mansion, but also many extravagant ornaments such as tortoiseshell, coral, pearl, rhinoceros horn, ivory, biscuit and spices ready to be sold to the Central Plains.

Originally, Huo Yi didn't care about these items.

When marching and fighting, food, fodder and supplies are the most important.

If these things are taken, they will slow down the marching speed and make the soldiers tired, so it is better to burn them.

But looking back, it seemed that the prime minister had rewarded the leader of the Qianghu tribe in the northwest with the treasures from Nanzhong, and in exchange for a lot of cattle, sheep and war horses, so he felt that it was a pity to burn them all.

Simply, I picked some soft and easy-to-carry items to take back.

The rest were used as rewards, half sold and half given to local tyrants and merchants in exchange for grain and fodder, and then distributed to Li Shu and native barbarians, to the delight of all the people in the city.

The right is to be generous to Wu Guo, so as to win the hearts of the Han people.

After all this was done, it was already three days later.

The soldiers who drove all the way also relieved the exhaustion of the march, and Huo Yi, as he said before, "just transiting", led the army to transfer the grain and supplies, escorted the Wu army prisoners to the port to meet Wu Dang's troops, and sailed out to sea to look at Jiaozhi County. go.

The strategic goals of this trip have all been achieved, and it is time to go back and besiege Lu Dai's tribe and bring the three western counties of Jiaozhou into the territory of the Han Dynasty.

As for Shi Bao, who stayed in Lingfang County, he didn't need to worry.

Before leaving, he only asked Shi Bao to guard the city for half a month, and restrain Wu Jun, Nie You and Liu Zuan's troops.According to the calculation of time, it has now embarked on the journey back to Xinggu County, and turned to join Ma Zhongbu.

But when Liu Zuan, who was not aware of it, arrived, the Han army had already left for three days. Looking at the empty inventory in the city, he felt as if he was mourning.

Because if there are no accidents, the Lu Dai tribe may be more ominous; the war between Han and Wu in Jiaozhou will end with the loss of troops in Jiangdong.

In other words, the Han army entering from Yulin County did not seem to have caused much trauma to Jiangdong.

However, it was just an attack on Qian Bo's department, the captain of western Gaoliang, captured less than a thousand garrison troops in Panyu County, and swept away the money, food and luggage of the two counties.
With his strength still remaining, he can gather the troops from the four counties in the east of Jiaozhou and set sail to go to Jiaozhi County to support Lu Dai's tribe!

Why be so pessimistic?
But Liu Zuan knew that he was powerless.

Without the grain and fodder hoarded by Nanhai County, even if he summoned soldiers and horses and waited for the grain and fodder to be transferred from various places before dispatching troops, the port on the other side of Jiaozhi County would have been occupied by the Han army long ago, leaving them no chance to land on the beach.

It is also impossible to find a hidden place to land from the long coastline of Jiaozhi County or the adjacent Jiuzhen County.

The opportunity was already lost, and the time it took to raise food and fodder and search for a landing place had to be accommodated. Can Lu Dai's department hold on until they arrive?

Taking a step back, even if they arrived as scheduled, they would not be able to change the situation of the battle.

Gain Jiaozhi County was previously a place where the Shi family had ruled for decades.

It is also the place where Lu Dai went on a killing spree, and the Jiangdong government spared no effort to liquidate and suppress dissidents!
Those Haoyou and barbarian tribes who have been suppressed for many years, seeing Lu Dai who has a blood feud stepping into a precarious predicament being pinched by the Han army from the north to the south, how could they not collude with each other and rise up!

Let all the counties of Cochin no longer belong to Jiangdong!
Perhaps, at this time, Liu Zuan raised food and fodder and dispatched warships from Hepu County to go to Jiaozhi for rescue.

Alas, do your best to obey the destiny.

After carefully asking the generals under his command and the suggestions of the lieutenants, Liu Zuan sighed in his heart.

Regardless of whether they can successfully support Lu Dai's department, they still have to have an attitude.

After the details of the battle here were recorded in a book and passed to Jingnan, he began to actively prepare for the deployment of the march, but he also sent several warships to Jiaozhi County to spy on the situation first.

If Lu Dai's department still insists, he, who is responsible, can only forcibly land on the beach without hesitation.

I don't expect to change the situation of the battle, but at least some generals and soldiers such as Lu Dai must be rescued.

And if Lu Dai's tribe was destroyed early, then he would guard the four eastern counties of Jiaozhou and wait for Sun Quan's disposal.

However, what he didn't know was that when Lingfang County was successfully attacked by the Han army and the messengers sent by him and Nie You rushed to Jiaozhi, Lu Dai knew that he was in danger.

Without him, the battlefield consciousness of conquering veterans is the result.

Because people of the younger generation such as Liu Zuan have never experienced the process of Sun Ce and Sun Quan opening up territories and establishing the foundation of Jiangdong, nor did they know that they would lead their lives to serve the country when they started their business.

In other words, with the passing away of Wu's entrepreneurial veterans one after another, there are very few generals in Jiangdong who would sacrifice their lives to serve the country.

Therefore, they could not judge others by themselves, and they could not predict that after the Han army attacked Lingfang County, they dared to ignore the supply roads, did not leave a way for themselves to retreat, and put all their eggs in one basket to win the battle with a desperate heart.

Therefore, Liu Zuan and others certainly did not expect that the Han army would attack Nanhai County.

Not to mention the insight into the opportunity, the strategic intention of the Han army this time is still to attack Jiaozhi County!
On the battlefield, only by living to death can we welcome the favor of God; at the tactical level, only by putting to death and then living can we welcome the favor of the dawn of victory.

Few people in Jiangdong now understand this.

Or people who understand are often unable to do this because of many concerns.

Lu Dai, who used to have the courage to drive deep into Jiaozhi County with only [-] soldiers, and wiped out the influence of the scholar family, is undoubtedly this kind of person, and he is not lacking in decisiveness.After receiving the report from the messenger and inferring that Liu Zuan was bound to make a mistake, he made a last-ditch effort to see if there was a chance to turn the tide of the battle.

Instead, two deployments were made.

One is to urgently order the Ministry of Ququ to rush to the coastal ports, so that the warships stationed in the water villages can go to sea, and rush to join the navy of Hepu and Nanhai counties, so as to stop the attempt of the Han army to cross the sea.

The other is that he changed his previous tactics of high fortification and deep ditch, waiting for work with leisure, and the whole army came out to fight Ma Zhong's decisive battle.

This is planning for the worst.

In case the few sailors can't stop Huo Yi's troops from crossing the sea, then he can only enter the city and wait for the chance of rescue if he defeats Ma Zhong's troops or loses both.

Yes, he wants to let the Haoyou and barbarian tribes in the county know that Wu Jun still has the heart to fight to the death!
Still have the strength to level any Haoyou!
Make those Haoyou and barbarian tribes dare not bet easily with their wealth and lives, and turn to join the Han army.

Just, it's a pity.

(End of this chapter)