Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 79
Jiang Qin and Tai Shici were still one step too late.

On the way they mobilized 3000 troops to support Sanshan Town, they happened to run into a few defeated soldiers who fled from there.In fact, Jiang Qin had expected this result quite closely. After all, he only left 500 people to guard it. Even if they were all elite naval forces, the outcome was self-evident when facing tens of thousands of Zhang Liao's troops.

"The fall of Sanshan Town is all my fault!" Jiang Qin felt ashamed and indignant when he heard the words, his heart skipped a beat and he pulled out the sword from his waist to kill himself.Tai Shici had sharp eyes and quick hands, and quickly grabbed his sword-holding right hand. "General Jiang, right now Sanshan Town has been lost, and Niuzhu and Hulin Dazhai cannot be protected. We need to return to the army as soon as possible, and then plan later!" Tai Shici said in a deep voice, while Lu Meng was also persuading him.

"The lord ordered us to stick to the north bank, but now the Xuzhou army took advantage of it, how could I go to see the lord!" Jiang Qin blamed himself. "General Jiang, I can't blame you for this matter. It's not that General Jiang is incompetent, it's because Zhao Feng is too cunning! We'd better rectify the army and return to Wu County first!" Tai Shici turned his head and led the army to Wu County regardless of whether Jiang Qin agreed or not. set off.Lu Meng glanced at Jiang Qin, moved his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything, just drove his horse to catch up with Tai Shici.Jiang Qin was stunned for a while, but followed them to Wu County.It's just that the three of them left in a hurry, but forgot to send troops to inform He Qi in Hulin.

"Wen Yuan, Wen Da, the two of you have really done a great job this time!" Following the first wave of soldiers successfully crossing the Yangtze River through Sanshan Town, Zhao Feng also cheerfully told Zhang Liao and Li Tongdao.Except for Guan Ping who led 1 people to stay on the Lujiang River, and Gan Ning who led the navy to the Ganjiang River to help in the battle, the remaining nearly 10 troops took almost two days to cross the Yangtze River.With these [-] people in Jiangdong, Sun Quan's life will not be easy.

Before all the army had crossed over, Zhao Feng ordered Zhang Liao to garrison Sanshan Town, and Gao Lan and himself led a team to attack He Qi in Hulin to the west.At the same time, Li Tong and Wenpin were ordered to lead a team to attack Wancheng from the southwest first, and then attack Hulin.At this time, there were more than [-] Xuzhou troops crossing the river, and the superiority in numbers was more obvious than when they were facing each other across the river.On the premise that He Qi didn't get a timely warning from Tai Shici, when he discovered that Zhao Feng's group was attacking from the west, the Xuzhou army was less than twenty miles away from his camp.

"Prepare to retreat!" He Qi was also quick to respond. Although he couldn't figure out how the Xuzhou army crossed the Yangtze River, he knew that once the Xuzhou army came over, it would be difficult for his 5000 men to hold the Hulin village, so he immediately ordered to evacuate the water village. , Withdrew to Wancheng in the south to defend the city.It's just that in this way, it just so happened that they fell into a trap and ran into Li Tong and Wenpin's team.

"General, the Jiangdong army is going to run!" When there were still five or six miles away from the Hulin water village, a sharp-eyed soldier vaguely saw a group of people rushing out of the Hulin water village and heading south in the night ahead. "It seems that He Qi wants to slip away, General Gao, you lead your troops to occupy his water village first, and I will lead people to chase after him!" Zhao Feng briefly divided the tasks, and led his army to chase after him.The Jiangdong army has few horses, and the [-] soldiers stationed in Hulin this time have less than fifty horses in total.Excluding the generals and scouts, there is almost nothing left.If Zhao Feng had a cavalry soldier in his hand, he would be able to step forward and entangle the opponent in at most one stick of incense. Now that he is a top rider, his soldiers can only rely on two legs for distance.

"General, a chaser is coming from behind!" Although He Qi was running, but he had been through the battlefield for a long time, he naturally arranged a corresponding number of sentry cavalry, and found Zhao Feng's pursuit after a while. "About how many people are here?" He Qi asked in a low voice.

"About seven or eight thousand!" The sentinel gave an approximate figure.In fact, it was almost the same strength. Zhao Feng and Gao Lan led two divisions of 6000 people to go this way. Just now, they assigned a division of 8000 people to Gao Lan to occupy Hulin Water Village, and he himself led 8000 people to chase He Qi deserted all the way.He knew that there were only seven thousand defenders in He Qi Hulin Water Village, so he was not afraid of being bullied by others.

"It's only eight thousand. The enemy army is coming in a hurry, and they are exhausted all the way. It's better to go back to the army by surprise and then retreat to Wancheng. Although I have a small number of people, my chances of winning are not small." Thinking of this, He Qi immediately sent an order to go down and the army changed to the front Army, ready for battle.

"Stop!" Zhao Feng saw that the Jiangdong army in front of him also stopped, and he immediately understood that the opponent wanted to charge and kill him, so he could take the opportunity to drag him here, and then completely annex this army, and immediately ordered the whole army to prepare for the battle.

"Common name!" The distance between the two armies was less than half a mile, and He Qi was secretly startled when he saw Xuzhou's army line up so quickly.But at this time, he couldn't afford to hesitate, so he rushed out first.

"Xuzhou Zhao Feng!" Zhao Feng saw a general who looked like a general calling from the opposite side. Gao Lan was not there, but he did his part.In the past, he always called himself Xuzhou Zhonglang General Zhao Feng, but now he called himself Xuzhou Zhao Feng.Although Liu Bei had named him General Zhengnan, he was still not used to this title for a while.

"It turned out to be him?" He Qi was also terrified when he heard the words, he knew that Zhao Feng was the commander of Xuzhou's attack on Jiangdong this time, as long as defeating him was better than killing anyone, he immediately rushed forward without answering.Zhao Feng had never seen such a person before, he would kill him immediately after asking for his name, and he didn't even report his own name. "Could it be that I'm some kind of enemy of yours, so that I'm so jealous?" Zhao Feng wondered in his heart, but he was not slow at all, and stepped forward to meet him with a pat on the horse and gun.

After a few moves, Zhao Feng had a preliminary understanding of He Qi's strength: Although his martial arts were not bad, he was obviously inferior to himself.Now even if I ran for a while, I was still undefeated in the battle with him.He Qi was not as confident as Zhao Feng, and he was taken aback as soon as he fought: this Zhao Feng is so young, why is he so good at martial arts, he is almost on par with the former master Sun Ce.

Although Zhao Feng caused Sun Ce to die in a one-on-one duel that day, the process was quite tortuous.Sun Ce was shot with two arrows and one shot. All Jiangdong generals who had never witnessed the battle thought he was hit by an arrow in the back first, and Zhao Feng took advantage of it. They never expected that Zhao Feng would return his carbine and give Sun Ce a hard blow first.He Qi also didn't expect this, and when he realized that he was definitely not Zhao Feng's opponent, it was too late to get away.I panicked, and my skill was even more compromised.

"Hey!" Zhao Feng saw that the opponent's flaws were becoming more and more obvious, and finally made a sure move. Taking advantage of the two horses' wrong pedaling, he shot He Qi on the back, and directly pulled him off the horse. "Tie it up!" Zhao Feng pressed the point of his gun against He Qi's chest, and a few soldiers behind him quickly took the rope and tied it up.

"Go!" It was the soldiers under He Qi's command who saw him being captured and prepared to step forward to rescue him.Zhao Feng swung his gun, and the [-] Xuzhou army behind him rushed forward to fight with a shout.All of a sudden, there were shouts of killing, and swords, swords, and swords flew all over the place.

Although He Qi was bound tightly, his head was still clear. As a result, he only took a look at the situation on the field, and immediately understood that he had lost but not won today.There is no other reason, the land combat capabilities of the Jiangdong soldiers are not at the same level as the Xuzhou Army.

Since Zhao Feng and others practiced the military reform last time, the coordination between the various arms in the melee has gradually become more important to the generals.Seeing the melee between the Xuzhou Army and the Jiangdong Army at this moment, the soldiers in Xuzhou finally kept the sword and shield soldiers and the pike soldiers fighting together as much as possible.When the weapons of the Jiangdong Army swung over, the sword and shield soldiers first used their shields to resist, and then the pike soldiers assassinated from a distance.Such cooperation cannot be said to avoid casualties, but it did reduce a lot.

Moreover, there is also a gap in the personal combat effectiveness of the soldiers on both sides. I often see the Jiangdong Army being blocked by the opponent's shield, and the weapon in my hand is smashed far away, and then I can only watch the opponent's weapon piercing into myself chest.Coupled with the fact that He Qi lacked a commanding officer after he was captured, and the number tended to be at a disadvantage, the Jiangdong Army would undoubtedly lose in this battle.

At this moment, there was another uproar behind the Jiangdong army. It turned out that another Xuzhou army came from behind them at some time.In less than two hours, nearly 3000 of Jiangdong's [-] soldiers were wiped out, and the rest were captured.The ones who really ran away were dozens of people who were extremely fast and lucky.

"Wenda, thank you for your hard work!" Zhao Feng had already seen clearly that it was a group of troops led by Li Tong who came from behind the Jiangdong Army.At this moment, after Gao Lan discovered that the Hulin Water Village was completely empty, he quickly left 3000 people to garrison, and led [-] troops to help the battle, but he failed to catch up with the battle, and only had time to help clean up the battlefield up.

"General Zhao, General Gao, Wancheng has also been taken, and then the counties south of Lujiang River can be pacified." Li Tong couldn't hide his excitement, and only then did he notice He Qi who was tied up on the ground .

"That's very good, I think, the army will rest in Wancheng tonight, and start to quell the Lujiang counties tomorrow!" Zhao Feng also had a preliminary plan.Looking up at the sky, Zhao Feng slightly estimated the time: If everything goes well, it will be winter when the entire Lujiang River is conquered.In general, it is difficult to fight any big battles in winter, so the top priority is to lay down a few cities in the south of the Yangtze River so that the soldiers can have a stable winter.

"It's so good!" Gao Lan and Li Tong didn't think there was anything wrong with it. The three of them left thousands of troops stationed in Hulin that night, and the rest of the army went to Wancheng to join Wenpin.On the way, Li Tong told Zhao Feng about the capture of Wancheng. It turned out that Sun Quan and Zhou Yu didn't expect the Xuzhou army to cross the river so quickly to attack, and the defenders of Wancheng had only [-] county soldiers.Wenpin didn't play any tricks, he directly attacked the city and took it in less than an hour. The captain who defended the city was hacked to death by Wenpin, and the rest surrendered.

"General Zhao, the strength of the Jiangdong Army is as good as my Xuzhou Army's." Li Tong said that Wancheng was so easily won, and he also had some disdain for the Jiangdong Army. "Wen Daxiu should be careless. What we have encountered right now are Jiangdong navy and county soldiers. We haven't seen the real Jiangdong elite yet." Zhao Feng couldn't help but look east when he said this. Before Lan knew it, Li Tong knew that it was Danyang County. He couldn't help thinking of the famous Danyang elite soldier, and his heart shuddered.

After resting overnight, Zhao Feng left Li Tong to garrison Wancheng, while he and Gao Lan led the troops to pacify Shu, Lu'an and Jing counties respectively.Among them, except for Shu County, the prefecture of Lujiang County, which is guarded by three thousand decent soldiers, the rest are invincible.The guard of Shu County was Jia Hua, who was also Sun Quan's confidant, and he was determined not to surrender in the face of the overwhelming army, and defended the city to the death.However, Zhao Feng knew that he would be such a die-hard guy, so he deliberately brought five hundred soldiers with him when he captured Shu County.In the end, under Jia Hua's disbelieving eyes, the trapped camp rushed to the head of Shu County like a whirlwind, and then the Jiangdong defenders were defeated in a chaotic battle. Jia Hua himself was hacked to death by Zhao Feng, and the rest were all invincible.At this point, with Shu County, the seat of the South Lujiang River, also taken down, Zhao Feng finally pacified the entire Lujiang County before winter began.

(End of this chapter)