The last three kingdoms

Chapter 237 The Battle of Fu City ([-])

Lu Kang captured Fucheng without any effort, but he did not take advantage of the victory to attack Chengdu, but stationed in Fucheng.

The battle line was getting longer and longer, and Lu Kang was deeply aware of the lack of troops. One hundred thousand troops entered Sichuan and robbed the city pass along the way, but they had to send troops to garrison. An army of [-] to [-] can reach Fucheng.

And the next step is to attack Chengdu. The difficulty of attacking Chengdu can be imagined. Fucheng is the transit point for Wu Jun's water and land transportation. , you have to go by land.Fucheng, as a transit point, must not be lost, otherwise the entire advancing Wu army will inevitably fall into the predicament of having no food.

The importance of Fucheng is self-evident, so the number of troops stationed in Fucheng must not be small. Now the troops in Lu Kang's hands are already stretched. If about half of the troops are allocated to garrison Fucheng, then the attack on Chengdu The army will shrink to 3 to [-], and it is almost a joke to attack the capital of Shu with such a small force.

Therefore, before arriving in Fucheng, Lu Kang had already realized the shortage of troops, and wrote to Sun Xiu, Lord Wu, asking him to send another [-] to [-] reinforcements to Sichuan.Although it is difficult to mobilize the first-line main force, at least Wu Guo still has the defenders of the second-tier cities in the hinterland. In terms of combat effectiveness, it may not be comparable to the first-line main force, but it is more than enough to serve as a defense mission.

Sun Xiu, the Lord of Wu, quickly returned the decree, agreed to Lu Kang's request, and allocated [-] first-line field soldiers and [-] second-line garrison troops to Lu Kang.Obviously, Sun Xiu had great expectations for Lu Kang, which was also closely related to Lu Kang's current achievements. Although their monarchs and ministers were thousands of miles away, this tacit understanding was the same.

Sun Xiu has the great ambition to expand the territory, and Lu Kang has the great ambition to make contributions. In the war of conquering Bashu, they have common interests, so Sun Xiu will do his best to support Lu Kang.

When Lu Kang received the edict, he was very touched. With such a sage monarch, he had the opportunity to leap to the dragon's gate. Lu Kang secretly vowed not to take all of Yizhou, and vowed not to return Jiangdong.

Lord Wu's edict was delivered in advance, and as for the allocated troops, it will naturally arrive later.Lu Kang understood that it was truly commendable for Sun Xiu to draw another 2 troops from the already scarce front-line main force.If possible, Sun Xiu would definitely deploy 2 first-line soldiers to help without hesitation, but the entire Jingzhou and Jiangzuo, the long line of defense cannot be without soldiers. Wei Guo has always been eyeing Soochow. Soochow's entire Yangtze River defense line never dared to slack off.While Sun Xiuneng gritted his teeth and gave Lu Kang the [-]-line garrison, he once again mobilized [-] troops from the Yangtze River defense line. He really supported Lu Kang from the bottom of his heart.

While waiting for reinforcements from Jiangdong, Lu Kang was not idle. He cleaned up the defenses of Fucheng and strengthened the defense of Fucheng. considerable attention.

Sending the letter of persuasion to Jiang Wei was the result of Lu Kang's deep thinking. Although the letter was written with sincerity and promises, Lu Kang himself did not think that Jiang Wei would be moved to vote after receiving the letter. Lu Kang is also approaching his forties, so he will never be so childish.The main purpose of his letter is to stabilize Jiang Wei, and it can also be regarded as a relationship with Jiang Weila, laying a foundation for Jiang Wei's stay after the death of Japan and Shu.

As for some generals worried that Jiang Wei would send troops to attack Fucheng, Lu Kang just laughed it off.Jiang Wei had 5 troops stationed in the Jiange. You must know that there are 10,000+ Wei troops outside the Jiange.What's more, Fucheng's terrain is dangerous and the city is strong. Even if Jiang Wei's whole army comes to attack, it may not be able to capture it.

Lu Kang believed that as long as Jiang Wei was clear-headed and rational, he would never send troops to attack Fucheng.I have plenty of time to send troops to the south and take Chengdu directly.And Jiang Wei was dragged in the Jiange by Zhong Hui, unable to move at all.If Chengdu is captured, after the fall of Shu Han, on behalf of Lord Wu, he generously promised to Jiang Wei’s Hanshou King and allowed him to separate himself from the four counties in northern Shu (Zitong, Guanghan, Wenshan, Brazil) and the favorable conditions may be able to impress Jiang Wei. Wei's heart, after all, it is impossible for Wei Guo to offer such generous conditions.

But what Lu Kang never expected was that Jiang Wei would abandon the Jiange and leave, handing over the most important pass in northern Shu to Zhong Hui.

This made Lu Kang puzzled. Jiang Wei's move was too unexpected. It was just that Fucheng was lost, and Jiange was still hundreds of miles away. Why did Jiang Wei abandon the pass and leave when he was attacked by the enemy?

In fact, Lu Kang didn't know that it was because of him that Jiang Wei was forced to leave. Taking Fucheng was equivalent to cutting off the Jiange Shu army's food supply, and Lu Kang never expected that Jiange's front line had only ten days of food reserves.In order to avoid the food shortage, Jiang Wei resolutely abandoned the Jiange.

This is actually difficult for Lu Kang to understand. Jiange is an important pass in the middle of Sichuan. Even if there is no food and grass for a year, it should be guaranteed for three to five months.However, the situation of each country is different. Lu Kang still has a serious deviation in judging others by himself. This may be regarded as the national conditions with the characteristics of Shu.

However, Jiang Wei's seemingly unimaginable actions completely disrupted Lu Kang's deployment.According to Lu Kang's plan, the Wei army outside the Jiange would be blocked by Jiang Wei, and it would be easy to attack Chengdu by himself.But now that the Wei army entered the pass in a big way, the situation suddenly changed. Lu Kang's opponent changed from Shu to Wei in an instant, which caught Lu Kang by surprise.As for someone proposing to negotiate a peace with Wei and conspire with Shu, Lu Kang even sneered, not to mention the old enmity between Wu and Wei, the land of Yizhou alone is far from something that Wu and Shu can share.

Yizhou is like a peach that is about to ripen. The people of Wei stretched out their hands to pick the peaches, but Jiang Wei blocked them from the garden, and they couldn't reach them. Climbing over the wall and wanting to eat this peach for himself, this undoubtedly made the Wei people very angry. Now that the people watching the garden have run away, there are only two peach snatchers left. It's strange to fight hard.

Lu Kang received a report from the scouts, saying that Wei Jun Zhenxi General Zhong Hui had led an army southward from Jiange and headed straight for Fucheng. What Lu Kang had to face was the extremely hostile eyes of the Wei people.

In order to preserve Wu's vested interests in Shu, the battle in Fucheng was already on the line and had to be launched.

(End of this chapter)