Emperor Road of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 264 Lujiang War ([-])

Xu Shu was still in Yangquan Jinghou Jiling, Chen Dao and Wei Yan had already led their troops into Huainan, like a wolf entering the grassland and a dragon returning to the sea.

There were no powerful generals in the west of Huainan, and there were not many soldiers and horses, so Wei Yan was able to kill the west of Huainan with blood, and his own reputation was greatly shaken.But Chen Dao, who sent troops with him, was not so lucky.

Let's say that Chen Dao led 3000 troops, starting from Yangquan, and fighting all the way to Lujiang County.The counties and counties along this route were empty of troops, not to mention counterattacking Chen Dao, even relying on the city to resist, even the guards of many counties and counties directly opened their doors and surrendered.

In this way, Chen Dao fought all the way to Lujiang County, and his troops did not decrease but increased.However, Chen Dao also knew that the number of soldiers was good, not many, so he didn't recruit more soldiers, only two thousand.

At this time, Chen Dao was also winning steadily, his speed was only faster than Wei Yan's, but Chen Dao did not relax because of this.On weekdays, he was indeed very steady, but now that he was marching into Huainan with Wei Yan, he couldn't be steady.In his opinion, he is a veteran in the army, so he should naturally complete the task one step faster than a young general like Wei Yan.

Although that guy Wei Yan is really good at martial arts, he shouldn't be faster than him.This is what Chen Dao is thinking now, and it is this thinking that almost made him lose Lujiang County.Of course, this is something to do later, let's not mention it for now.

At this time, Chen Dao had already led his army to Shucheng, the prefecture of Lujiang, and according to his style of behavior in the past few days, he first asked the soldiers to persuade him to surrender.Normally, this step would complete the task, but this time it failed.Not only failed to complete the task, even the soldiers sent by Chen Dao to persuade them to surrender were also beheaded by the Lujiang prefect.

It's fine if they beheaded, but the prefect actually ordered someone to throw the heads of the soldiers who persuaded him to surrender into Chen Dao's barracks.Seeing that head, how could Chen Dao not be angry?
Sure enough, his face turned cold immediately, his eyes flickered coldly, and he ordered sharply: "Come on, beat the drums and march, I want to destroy this city of Shu."

The general issued an order, and the soldiers naturally had to obey, and hurriedly assembled and rushed towards the city gate.

It has to be said that Chen Dao was dazzled by the victories these days, and also a little confused by Wei Yan's stimulation, so he ordered the siege just like that.How could the siege battle be that simple, especially when Shucheng was being attacked.

Lujiang County, located in the remaining range of the Dabie Mountains and on the shore of Chaohu Lake, is the place where the tug-of-war between Wu and Wei of the Three Kingdoms was fiercely contested.This place is extremely important, otherwise it would be impossible to compete so fiercely.The geographical location of this place is very good, otherwise it would be impossible to build a city here, and the competition was fierce.

In addition, the city wall of Shucheng is strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the soldiers are elite, the prefect is quite extraordinary, so it is not so easy to break through.

Speaking of the prefect of Lujiang County, I have to mention it.This prefect is called Liu Xun. In history, Jian'an served as prefect in Lujiang for four years. I don't know how it has been two years now, maybe it was influenced by Liu Yu.But even if Liu Yu is influenced, he must be able to seize this opportunity.In this way, one can roughly see Liu Xun's level, at least he is also a talent of the county.

Sure enough, this Liu Xun was no different than ordinary people. When he received the news that Chen Dao had led his troops to several cities, he cut his wrists, resolutely withdrew his troops, gave up some unimportant places in Lujiang County, and prepared to stick to Shucheng.At the same time, he also fortified the city and prepared defense equipment.

Therefore, when Chen Dao attacked the city because of his anger, he was hit in the head. Not only did he fail to capture Shucheng, but he suffered heavy losses.It is also fortunate that Chen Dao woke up early, otherwise I am afraid that the loss will be even greater, and there is no need to continue to attack the city.

In fact, he has only four thousand or a few hundred people in his hands now, and he can't attack Shucheng at all.It's just that he was unwilling, so he waited hard outside the city and refused to leave for a long time.However, this is of no use. If you can't advance, you can't retreat, and you don't want to retreat. It's just a waste of food and grass.

Xu Shu also concentrated on dealing with Ji Ling, and he was also relieved of Chen Dao, so he ignored him.Otherwise, if he knew about Chen Dao's situation, he might have ordered him to move and return.

In this way, Chen Dao, unwilling to retreat, set up camp outside Shucheng, secretly waiting for the opportunity.Of course, he occasionally sent troops to attack Shucheng, but the result was just leaving some corpses outside the city, and it had no other effect at all.It's also fortunate that the soldiers he used to attack were not the more than 4000 elites, otherwise the losses would have been heavy and heavy!
After several trials, Chen Dao was finally a little discouraged, and the idea of ​​retreating appeared in his mind.But when he was hesitating, the turning point came quietly.But this turning point was not good, because it was Liu Xun who led the army out of the city to attack Chen Dao.

Generally, the side defending the city goes out to attack the side that is attacking the city.Naturally, Liu Xun didn't need to burn the boat, so he just underestimated Chen Dao.It's fine if you just underestimate it. The key is that Liu Xun personally led the army out of the city to sneak attack, and the sneak attack was really successful, causing Chen Dao a lot of losses.

If it wasn't for Liu Xun's caution and not daring to attack with an army, it is very likely that Chen Dao would have led the remnants of the defeated army back to Yangquan.Not to mention capturing the Lujiang River, I am afraid that all the counties and counties captured along the way will be lost.

It's a pity that Liu Xun was too cautious, or lack of courage, so that Chen Dao escaped.Liu Xun was also very upset about this.However, he comforted himself, saying that Chen Dao was already like this, as long as he fought a few more games, he would be defeated.

Ever since, after the sneak attack was successful, Liu Xun hardly waited for Chen Dao to attack the city, and every time he took the initiative to go out of the city to provoke Chen Dao.Although Chen Dao had suffered a lot since the start of the war, he did not avoid the battle when he was provoked, and directly fought Liu Xun in more than a dozen small battles.However, the result was not ideal. The two sides were invincible, but there was a stalemate.

Speaking of fighting, Chen Dao also wanted to invite Liu Xun to fight, take the opportunity to kill him, and then easily capture Shucheng with his army.This method is not impossible, it is still possible to capture the thief first.It's a pity that Liu Xun knew that his martial arts skills were mediocre, and he also knew that Chen Dao's martial arts skills were excellent, so he didn't want to challenge him one-on-one.

As a result, Chen Dao had no choice but to wait for Liu Xun's provocation every day, and then choose to fight or avoid the fight, with no autonomy at all.

For such a deadlocked battle situation, Liu Xun's patience is almost exhausted, and he is very slack in provocations every day.Not only him, but the soldiers under him also felt proud and complacent, and dismissed Chen Daojun.

On the contrary are Chen Dao and his soldiers.Let's talk about those soldiers first, they have been traveling smoothly, and they have long been light.Now that he was hit in the head, he finally got his feet on the ground again, not daring to be arrogant anymore.

As for Chen Dao, he was completely awake. With the stalemate in the battle, he became more and more stable, and he became more and more experienced in using troops.Of course, he has been thinking about ways to defeat the enemy, and it seems that he has already figured it out.

(End of this chapter)