Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 80 Don't be idle in winter
Looking at Tai Shici, Lu Meng, and Jiang Qin who were kneeling in front of him lined up, Sun Quan was speechless for a long time.Especially Jiang Qin, who almost pressed his face to the ground. This posture of pleading guilty is called a "standard".

After a long time, Sun Quan said calmly: "Zhao Feng is too cunning in this battle, and our army is not strong enough. You have done your best, so there is no need to blame yourself, get up!"

Tai Shici and the others burst into tears of gratitude when they heard the words, and quickly got up and stood by the side to wait for orders.At this moment, Zhang Zhaohu stepped forward and asked, "Did you inform General He Qi in Hulin when the three evacuated?"

"This?" Tai Shici and the other three remembered He Qi's matter, and their expressions changed drastically.Seeing them like this, Sun Quan knew that He Qi could not rely on them, so he hurriedly ordered someone to go to Hulin to inform He Qi to evacuate.

"My lord, General He Qi is proficient in the art of war, so he will definitely withdraw back to Wan City in time." Zhang Zhao tried his best to comfort him.Sun Quan forced a smile when he heard the words, but his expression was distorted.But on the second day, bad news came back one after another.

"Jia Hua was killed in battle, He Qi was captured, and the whole county of Lujiang was lost." These three news made Sun Quan feel overwhelmed and panicked. "Send someone to tell Gong Jin quickly, and he will decide everything!" Sun Quan waved his hands weakly.After a pause, he ordered Sun Yi and Gu Yong in Danyang to guard the city carefully and not to act rashly for the time being.At present, the Xuzhou army has nearly 10 troops across the river, and the Danyang garrison is only [-], of which [-] are soldiers from the county. No matter how angry Sun Quan is, he will not expect his brother to regain Lujiang with this little force.

"What?" Zhou Yu was also taken aback when he heard the news in the Jiangdong navy camp in Yuzhang County on the west bank of the Ganjiang River. "I didn't expect that He Gongmiao, Jiang Gongyi and Taishi Ziyi could not defend the north bank. It seems that Zhao Feng is really good at using troops!" Zhou Yu murmured, and couldn't help but recall the young general who bargained with him in Shouchun City that day.

"Great Governor, what should we do now?" Zhou Tai who was on the side asked hastily.He lost a county all at once, and no one knew that the loss was really not small.At this time, the whole army should fight again to regain the lost ground, but now the Jingxiang navy is also eyeing the opposite side, how can they escape?
"Reporting to my lord, let Jiang Gongyi lead the army to guard Chaisang, and General Taishi to guard Poyang. As long as these two strong cities are guarded, and with Danyang's General Shubi, Zhao Feng's army will be restrained in Lujiang. It is already winter, Xuzhou Army We can't march, so we'll try our best to defeat the Jingxiang navy on the opposite side as soon as possible, and then return to the army to face the Xuzhou army." Zhou Yu thought about it, and quickly drew up a countermeasure.

"That's great!" Cheng Pu, the deputy governor beside him, also nodded in agreement.Since his disastrous defeat by the Xuzhou Navy, Cheng Pu's original arrogance has been greatly reduced.Seeing Zhou Yu's deployment properly recently, with more than 2 Jiangdong naval forces beating [-] Jingxiang naval forces helplessly, Cheng Pu also secretly admired him, and no longer displayed his seniority in front of Zhou Yu.At that moment, Zhou Yu was sending people to report back to Sun Quan, and at the same time, he was thinking hard about how to break the Jingxiang navy on the opposite side.

In the middle of winter, the roads were not smooth, and the Xuzhou army had no choice but to continue marching by land.But on this big river, as long as the river is not completely frozen, they can fight.Just as Zhou Yu expected, Zhao Feng did not continue to march after occupying the entire territory of Lujiang County, but he was not idle this winter.

After the counties in South Lujiang were pacified, Zhao Feng took advantage of this winter to consolidate the newly laid base. After all, Lujiang is the connection point between his team and Xuzhou. Then my own team will become a complete lone army, so this bridgehead must be properly kept.

The first is to deploy troops.From Sun Fu's mouth, Zhao Feng learned that Jiangdong's military system is quite different from other places.Since each family has its own private soldiers, ranging from hundreds to thousands, Sun Quan not only depends on them politically and economically, but also needs them to provide the most basic soldiers in the military.At present, the population of the entire Jiangdong + Jiaozhou is said to be nearly 200 million, but Sun Fu estimates that counting the tenants and private soldiers of the aristocratic families who are not included in the total population, it should exceed 200 million.In terms of the army, Sun Quan's front-line combat troops + county soldiers should be almost 20.Among them, there are about 12 front-line combat troops, who are Sun Quan's direct descendants.The remaining 8 county soldiers are mainly composed of the private soldiers of the major families, and their combat effectiveness is uneven, but their generals are generally members of the major families themselves. Driven by the motivation to defend their hometown, these people have the will to fight Often more tenacious.As for the distribution of troops, Jiaozhou had just been pacified, so in order to stabilize the situation, Sun Quan specially placed [-] troops there.Among them, [-] front-line combat troops and [-] are new troops recruited from the local area, and are managed by his uncle Sun Jing and Zhuge Jin.

"Then what is Jiangdong Navy?" Zhao Feng asked after thinking about it.If this front-line combat force does not include the Jiangdong navy, then Sun Quan's combined land and water troops in Jiangdong would add up to 13.

"Jiangdong Navy can be regarded as the lord, ah no, the army directly under Sun Quan." Sun Fu still habitually called Sun Quan the lord, although he changed his words soon, with a panicked expression on his face.Zhao Feng waved his hand to signal that he would not be in the way, and immediately calculated carefully.

Jiangdong’s 13 front-line fighters were really killed by themselves, and there were more than 1 people from Cheng Pu + He Qi before, and the rest were less than 12, except for the [-] led by Zhou Yu, who played against Jing Xiang in Ganjiang People and horses.The remaining [-] to [-] were mainly to cooperate with the county soldiers from various places, stationed in Danyang, Wujun and Kuaiji three counties.

"By the way, General Zhao, when I was stationed in North Lujiang, most of the [-] soldiers from the county were the private soldiers of the former prefect of Wu County Xu Gong and his former troops, who were transferred by Sun Quan to garrison Lujiang." Sun Fu suddenly Thinking of something, I added another sentence.

"So that's how it is!" Zhao Feng was also stunned when he heard the words, Xu Gong had tens of thousands of people under him, and he was the former prefect of Wu County, no wonder the Sun family was so worried about him, so they sent his people to accompany Sun Fu to his death.Thinking about it again, Xu Gong probably really turned his back because of this. After all, his military power was completely emptied. No wonder his attitude changed so resolutely a while ago.

"I know all about the matter here, it's winter now, we can't use troops, we'd better consolidate the Lujiang River first!" Zhao Feng thought for a while, and decided to redeploy his troops first.How can I have nearly 10 people stationed in Wancheng?Immediately ordered Zhang Liao and Li Tong to lead [-] troops to station in Ruxukou, where Sun Quan defeated Cao Cao twice in history, and let them build a dock there for the winter, which can not only echo with their own army in Wancheng, but also Threatening Wujun and Danyang, while taking care of Niuzhu and Sanshan Town.Zhang Liao and Li Tong also set off immediately upon hearing the news, digging earth and burning bricks to build a dock at Ruxukou.

For the rest of the troops, Zhao Feng himself led the army to station in Wancheng, and Xu Sheng led [-] troops to station in the Hulin water village to prevent the Jiangdong water army from sneaking in from the waterway.Although the Hulin water village has been set up quite skillfully, Zhao Feng still feels that it has some flaws.There is no other reason, this water village is designed to defend against the outside but not the inside. Specifically, it can calmly resist the attack from the river, but it is difficult to resist the threat from the land behind. Because of this, He Qi was attacked by himself For a surprise attack, he simply ran away without even defending.Now that he occupied this place by himself, Zhao Feng didn't want someone to do the same one day, so he ordered to strengthen the defense behind Hulin Water Village.

"General, building the city will cost a lot, and I'm afraid it can't be completed in one winter!" Lu Hao, who just arrived at Lujiang that day, learned that Zhao Feng was planning to build the city, and somewhat disagreed with him.

"I'm not building a city, I'm just building a few docks to strengthen our defenses." Zhao Feng laughed.There is still a difference between the so-called cities and docks. In addition to being used in the military to prevent aggression, cities are also used to provide housing for urban residents.And this dock is basically a fortress specially used for defense, basically only troops are stationed, but there are no residents.Of course, the size is different. If you want to say that the big one belongs to Dong Fatty's Meiwu, it is simply a replica of Chang'an City.As far as small things are concerned, I have built a lot here, which is almost as good as the little devil's gun tower.According to Lu Hao, Cao Cao also ordered Xia Houyuan to build a lot in Guandu.Of course, those of his are all piled up with loess.

There is no other reason for the construction of these city docks: after all, the defensive effect of this thing is much better than the camp of wooden fences and felt tents.Since Zhao Feng and Lu Hao developed the earth-burning cement method, Liu Bei almost doubled the entire city walls of Xuzhou and Yuzhou.Fired bricks and then cement walls are much stronger than the original city walls built directly with large bricks.In view of this, Zhao Feng specifically suggested that Liu Bei deploy a special craftsman soldier in the army, and instead of fighting battles on weekdays, just build tools and build cities.During his expedition to Jiangdong this time, there were nearly a thousand artisans accompanying the army. The last time Wei Yan built the raft was carried out by the artisans accompanying the army. Now he wants to build the city without laboring others.

"By the way, Lu Hao, what happened to what I told you to do?" Zhao Feng came back to his senses and hurriedly asked about what he told you that day. This is a top priority.

"Back to the general, Lu Hao already knows how to build a thunderbolt car, how about I build one first, and the general will watch it before making any plans?" Lu Hao also said confidently.

"Alright, how long will it take you to build one?" Zhao Feng asked.

"I build it by myself, it takes five days at most, and three days at least." Lu Hao thought for a while and replied.

"It shouldn't be too late, build it quickly. After I finish it, I'll improve it and build more. Now it's the middle of winter, and it's ready to be built as soon as possible, so that it can be used in the spring battle." Zhao Feng didn't hide it in front of him, and directly said himself idea.

"That's right!" Lu Hao nodded when he heard the words, and then he said goodbye and went out to build a Thunderbolt car without mentioning it.At the same time, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, who were facing each other in Guandu, had to suspend the confrontation after staring at each other for several months, and each curled up and retreated to the camp for the winter.

(End of this chapter)