Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2284: Wang Jian advances into Dabie Mountain, Jiaozhou falls into the hands of Jin

It was not until this time that Zhu Di truly began Zhu Yuanzhang's policy of recruiting all the nation's soldiers, and he drafted all the men in the Jianghuai region who were taller than the wheels of the car into the army.

This time, Zhu Di opened the treasury and took out a lot of weapons and equipment to equip these able-bodied men.

But where did he get so much inventory?
Therefore, only a small part of them are equipped.

The vast majority of the remaining tools are still sickles, axes, hoes and the like.

Although the move of mobilizing all citizens to fight has caused endless troubles, it has finally allowed the Jianghuai region to burst out the last bit of resistance.

At that time, Guo Ziyi wanted to take advantage of the emptiness of Jianghuai and march lightly to Shouchun.

But he did not expect that he was still one step slower than Zhu Di and suffered a small loss here.

At that time, Guo Ziyi had only a few thousand cavalrymen with him. When he found that he failed to achieve his goal, he retreated directly to the western part of Xuzhou.

At that time, since Guo Ziyi's light cavalry surprise attack had failed, he was ready to mobilize the main force to sweep across the Yangtze River and Huai River from the direction of Xuzhou.

However, during that period of time, the troops under Tian Rangju in Runan were in turmoil.

By the time Guo Ziyi and his main force arrived, Xie Ai's troops had already entered the Jianghuai area.

However, the good news is that not long after this incident, the remaining troops of Tian Rangju in Runan had surrendered to Jin from top to bottom.

From then on, Guo Ziyi led the army to attack Jianghuai from the direction of Xuzhou, and Hulugu also ordered the troops of the Hanzhong camp to move south from the north to the south towards Jianghuai from the direction of Runan.

Hulugu's troops attacked Shouchun directly, but Guo Ziyi, who attacked from Xuzhou area, was quite far away from Shouchun.

This time, Guo Ziyi led the large army to advance steadily. Of course, it was impossible for him to go around the middle city with light cavalry and directly attack Shouchun as he did before.

Then, with huge advantages in all aspects, Guo Ziyi still captured Zhongli, Dangtu, Dongcheng, Yinling successively. It was not until he reached Qu'a that he was blocked by Lu Kang, the general of the Yangzhou army.

Although Lu Kang was blocked by Chen Deng in Xuzhou and became one of Chen Qianzhi's stepping stones in Yangzhou, these two defeats cannot erase the fact that he is also a famous general.

Moreover, he had the help of Wang Jian, the former general of the Xuzhou Army.

In fact, Wang Jian was originally under the command of Tian Rangju in Runan, and he made considerable contributions in the early stages of the war. He used an isolated city to fight against Wang Ben's 40,000-strong army, allowing Tian Rangju to repel Zhang Liao first and reorganize the Runan defense line.

At the very beginning, his defense line was basically built in the direction of Nanyang.

However, because the Central Plains War was defeated so quickly, no one expected that Yuzhou had lost several important places in succession so quickly that Zhang Liao could cooperate with Hulugu to attack the Runan area from both sides.

For this reason, Tian Rangju, who was promoted on the front line, rebuilt the Runan defense line as his first thing after taking over the military affairs of Runan.

However, Wang Jian, who had made great contributions in the early stages of the war, was also gradually weakened by Zhao Kuangyin. As for the reason, it was almost the same as Zhou Yu who was on the Yangtze River at that time.

Wang Jian was also one of the generals who left with Xie Ai. Although Wang Jian was treated unfairly by Zhao Kuangyin, after they entered the Jianghuai region, when Zhu Di learned that such a famous general as Wang Jian was among the many generals this time, he also showed interest in Wang Jian.

At the same time, Zhu Di was not polite to Xie Ai's troops.

Although he did not directly annex them to prevent the opponent from rebounding at this critical moment, he still firmly took over the command of this army. At least, even Xie Ai had to accept his command in name.

Xie Ai certainly didn't want to hand over the command so easily, but he had to bow his head. After all, if it weren't for Zhu Di, he wouldn't even be able to provide food for the 40,000 troops under his command.

Therefore, as Guo Ziyi's troops continued to advance, Zhu Di directly transferred Wang Jian to Lu Kang to serve as his deputy, bypassing Xie Ai, in order to block Guo Ziyi's troops from advancing into Shouchun. He also successfully temporarily stopped Guo Ziyi with only 12,000 troops on the Qu'a line.

Shouchun is located in the northernmost part of Jiujiang, almost right next to Yuzhou.

It was precisely because the distance was so close that Xie Ai was able to retreat so quickly at that time.

But precisely because of this, after Hulugu led the troops of the Hanzhong camp and captured Xiacai, his troops pressed towards Shouchun in a mighty manner.

Xiacai is the gateway to Jiujiang. If this area is in control, it can at least serve as an outpost for Shouchun. If this place can be defended, Zhu Di will naturally be very happy.

But at that time, he had limited military forces, so he could only temporarily choose to give up this area and concentrate all his forces in the important areas of Shouchun and Hefei.

Hulugu's offensive was extremely fierce. Even though Zhu Di had an important city like Shouchun as a barrier, it was still extremely difficult.

Under such circumstances, Zhu Di had to change his previous idea and mobilize the troops of the aristocratic families in Yangzhou in advance.

As for Wang Jian, he sent troops from the direction of Jiangxia. At the beginning, he was unstoppable, like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. He swept through important places such as Jinlan and Shangcheng, and led an army of 50,000 to advance into the Dabie Mountains with great momentum.

As long as you cross the Dabie Mountains, Shouchun and Hefei are within sight.

The one stationed on the Dabie Mountains was Xie Ai, a former famous general in the Central Plains and a well-known Confucian general in Zhao Kuangyin's army.

Xie Ai had never fought with Wang Jian before, but he gave due attention to this famous general and gave it his all when he attacked.

However, when Xie Ai deployed his troops, his main strategy was to win by strategy, while his opponent Wang Jian also focused on winning by strategy, and he did so by strategy while making steady progress.

Therefore, Xie Ai's first battle did not achieve the expected results. Instead, he lost General Zhong Shiheng, who was shot dead by Hou Yi in the army.

At this time, the Jianghuai region, where everyone was a soldier, made the three Jin army commanders very distressed. They were just waiting for the three armies to join forces in victory, but Zhu Di's move at this time still added a lot of variables to them.

However, even so, they still have enough confidence to win this battle.

However, before they could come to a conclusion, the news that Jiaozhou had fallen into the hands of the Jin army quickly spread to both the Jin and Yang armies.

(End of this chapter)