Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Sun Quan, who returned to the Wu territory a few months ago, immediately assembled all the soldiers and almost all the Yangtze River navy to intercept Liu Bei after Liu Bei invaded Wu.The [-] to [-] troops of the two sides confronted each other for a long time here.But this stalemate was broken with the large-scale invasion of Wu by Cao Wei's army.

Sun Quan, who was caught in a two-front battle, lost consecutive battles, and finally lost in a decisive battle on Pengze Lake. Nearly half of his warships were lost, and he retreated into the Yangtze River waterway in a panic.Unexpectedly, the waterway leading to the Yangtze River was blocked by the Wei army attacking from the east.Sun Quan had no choice but to flee to the south of Pengze Lake with the remnants of the defeated soldiers and the remnants of the warships.

At this time, Liu Bei's naval warships were searching for the remaining traces of the Wu army in Pengze Lake.Liu Bei himself was also standing on the prow of a large boat, with his eyes half-opened and half-closed, his hands leaning on his sword, and his head held high.

A walking boat was approaching his building like an arrow. Liu Bei was overjoyed, and thought to himself, "Could it be that the main force of the Wu army has been discovered." But there was no expression on his face, even his eyelids. Did not lift it.

The soldiers hurriedly boarded the deck and reported to Liu Bei: "My lord, there is an urgent message from Guan Yu, the general of Yicheng! Liang Jun sent tens of thousands of troops, claiming to have [-] armored troops, and went south along the Mian River to invade our country. When the message was sent , Fancheng has fallen, and General Guan is confronting Liang Jun at Tiger Claw Mountain!"

Liu Bei was terrified when he heard Liang Jun's aggressive attack, but on the surface he remained calm and calm.While they were talking, another boat approached, and the soldiers on board reported: "My lord, our army's defense line at Tiger Claw Mountain has been breached by the Liang army, Yicheng has also fallen, and there are no more soldiers in the hinterland of Jingzhou." It can be defended. General Guan is retreating to Jiangling."

At this time, Liu Bei couldn't hold his ground any longer, and exclaimed, "How did Liang Jun march so fast!"

Zhang Fei also roared beside him: "Your Majesty, what are we waiting for, hurry up and gather the troops, and go back to the division to meet the second brother and save Jingzhou."

Liu Bei didn't answer right away, but fell into deep thought.Wu Jun and Sun Quan saw that defeat was imminent, and withdrawing troops at this time would be a failure.Sun Quan, who got a respite, only needs a little rest and redeployment to gain a firm foothold in Jiangdong, which has been in business for a long time.

Even if Sun Quan can be destroyed by Wei Guo later, then Liu Bei will not be able to do anything good.Yuzhang will definitely be taken away by Wei Guo, and in the end it means that Liu Bei is completely helping Cao Cao in this battle.But if the troops are not withdrawn now, the entire Jingzhou lair will be occupied by others.The more than 3 soldiers and horses around me lost their logistical supplies, and they became water without a source and grass without roots.At the same time, Liang Jun may attack him from behind, and he will inevitably end up defeated in the end.

Just as Liu Bei was pondering the plan carefully, another walking boat approached Liu Bei's building boat.Liu Bei's heart tightened, thinking that there was another bad news.Unexpectedly, what the soldiers brought was news related to the remnants of the Wu army. On the lake more than [-] miles southwest, the warships of the Liu Bei Navy found several figures of the Wu army.

This news made it even more difficult for Liu Bei. Seeing that the war goal of destroying Wu and annexing Yuzhang was close at hand, he didn't have any spare time to achieve this goal.

Wei Yan on the side saw Liu Bei's dilemma, and said to Liu Bei: "Your Majesty, if we withdraw now, we will surely fall short and make wedding dresses for others. But if we don't retreat, Liang Jun will definitely wipe out our Linjiang country. Even attacking Jiangxia behind us. At that time, if Wei Guo is in a bad mood, then I will be in danger for Jiangxia. But Yan Yan has a strategy to achieve both."

Wei Yan paused when he said this, and Liu Bei quickly asked, "Speak quickly to Gu Listen to Wen Chang's strategy."

Wei Yan immediately volunteered and continued: "In the northwest of Jiangxia County, as long as the Lushan City where the Mian River enters the river is not lost, Liang Jun's inland river navy will not be able to enter the Yangtze River. Long-distance transportation of grain and grass. Then they will not be able to capture Jiangxia temporarily, let alone threaten the rear of our army.

Therefore, as long as Lushan can persist for ten and a half months, our army can safely wipe out the remaining Wu army in Yuzhang, consolidate Yuzhang's defense, and after reaching a partition agreement with Wei, we can turn around and deal with Liang army with all our strength.The king can allocate three thousand white-eared elite soldiers to Wei Yan.Wei Yanding Baolu Mountain is not lost! "

Chapter 555 The Law of Restraint

After hearing Wei Yan's words, Liu Bei was about to answer when he heard a cheer: "Wenhe is worthy of both civil and military skills. This strategy is wonderful."

Everyone turned their heads and saw that it was Xu Shu who came over at some point and yelled.Liu Bei smiled slightly and said: "Since even Yuan Zhi thinks this plan is feasible, then let's act accordingly. I will give you three thousand white-eared elite soldiers to go to support Lushan City. You only need to stick to it for ten days, and you will be successful."

After accepting the order, Wei Yan kowtowed and wanted to go to prepare, but was stopped by Xu Shu: "Wen He wait a minute, I have something to tell you." Wei Yan was stunned, not knowing what else Xu Shu had to say to him.Xu Shu had already opened his mouth and said: "The general has dealt with Liang Jun before, do you know what they are very powerful?"

Wei Yan replied: "Mr. Yuanzhi, of course this person knows a thing or two. They claim that the ballista is the sharpest tool, and no one in the world has been able to imitate it. This thing can launch a deflagratable fire bomb, and it can also eject heavy guns. Stone bullets weighing tens of kilograms. And the hits are extremely accurate. Finally, they also have a kind of object that can be suspended in the air. Although this object cannot move around and needs to be pulled by a pack horse on the ground, it can be used to detect the enemy's situation from above. , and sometimes it can also be used as a stronghold for crossbowmen. Uh, speaking of crossbowmen, their crossbowmen use a longbow that is higher than a human head, and can shoot heavy arrows hundreds of steps away, and the power of the heavy arrows Incomparable, it can even penetrate heavy armor from a hundred steps away."

Xu Shu asked again: "Wenhe knows the methods they often use to attack the city."

Wei Yan nodded and said: "I know a thing or two about this. They also mainly rely on ballistas and longbows to attack the city. First, use the ballista and longbow to cover the top of the city with fireballs, stone bullets and heavy arrows that can explode all over the ground. , Let the defenders at the top of the city have no place to stand, and then command the infantry to take the opportunity to quickly climb to the top of the city. Even if the defenders hide behind the walls, they will inevitably be burned by the flames after the detonation of the fire bombs."

Xu Shu nodded and said, "That's right. I've heard about Liang Jun's tactics earlier, so I've been thinking about how to deal with them. It's just that these methods haven't been verified on the battlefield..."Wei Yan listened carefully to Xu Shu's narration before leaving.

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Under Lushan City, Zhao Yun persuaded the defenders in the city to surrender several times but failed, so he had to set up an army formation and start attacking the city.Liang Jun repeated the old tricks, using their unique classic siege tactics.The difference is that this time Liang Jun also cooperated with the siege ship, which is even more powerful.

Because Lushan City is far away from Tiger Claw Mountain, several cities are separated, so Wei Yan, who entered Lushan City very early, had enough time to make preparations in advance.

With Zhao Yun's order, a fireball was fired, and the stone bullets covered the head of Lushan City.The top of the city suddenly collapsed, and the flames rose up, shaking the earth and shaking the mountains.However, the Linjiang Army soldiers at the head of Lushan City are hiding on a temporary plank road behind the city wall.

The plank road was five feet wide and was suspended behind the city wall at a height of four feet from the top of the city, completely within the blind spot of the opponent's ballista.So even though the top of the city was covered in flames and gravel flew everywhere, the soldiers of the Linjiang Army hiding on the plank road did not suffer any casualties.And they can immediately re-mount the city by stepping on a low stool.

Zhao Yun, who was observing in the airship, quickly discovered the secret.He immediately sent an order to mobilize the "flying troops" of each legion to help out.But the longbowmen on the airship couldn't shoot the beacons onto these plank roads.This is because the height of the airship is limited, and the plank road is always in the shooting blind spot.

Even if the airship can be raised infinitely so that the plank road can be seen by the people in the airship's gondola in the end, it will definitely be impossible to accurately shoot the arrow with the beacon on the plank road because the target is too far away from the longbowman.

Therefore, these Qiang eagles carrying hot bombs just dropped hot bombs aimlessly near the head of Lushan City, and the Haster Giant Eagle delivered a fatal blow to random targets in the city.Whenever they swoop down, there may be arrows shooting at them in the city.This proves that there are a large number of crossbowmen in Lushan City.In less than half an hour, several eagle eagles screamed and fell from the sky.Zhao Yun saw that the gains outweighed the losses if things went on like this, so he had to recall these eagle eagle "flying troops".

In order to hurry up, Zhao Yun didn't have time to think of better tactics, and immediately ordered a general attack.In Liang Jun's army formation, the sound of drums and horns suddenly broke out.

The first ones to advance to the base of the city wall were the catapults and the trapped camp of the Gaoshun Legion. The operators of the catapults pushed the ballista-like device down the city, and the short Pegmi catapults followed in small steps. Tracks of a catapult.The soldiers trapped in the camp accompanied the catapult, and most of them carried the ladder to the city in their hands.The siege ships in Mianshui were also heading towards the north gate of the water gate of Lushan City.

Zhao Yun saw that the soldiers attacking the city had reached the base of the city wall, and the gun shield soldiers of the Gaoshun Army had erected the ladders high, so he made a gesture, which meant that the ballista and longbowmen stopped shooting, so as not to hurt himself people.

There was another special rhythmic sound of drums and horns in the army formation of Liang Jun, and the rows of crossbows stopped firing. The spear and shield soldiers trapped in the camp held their first knives in their mouths, held their shields in their right hands, and climbed up the ladder with their left hands to attack. .At the same time, those catapults boomed, bouncing the short Pygmy catapults high.

Except for a very few of these Pegmi ejection soldiers who were accidentally ejected onto the city wall, and their skulls shattered and fell to the bottom of the city and died on the spot, most of them were successfully ejected to the top of the city.

But as soon as they stood still on the top of the burning city, the white-eared elite soldiers who were ambushing on the plank road behind the city wall appeared together and shot cold arrows from behind the inner battlements.It is impossible for these Pegmi ejectors to be equipped with heavy armor, and the dense arrows pierced their bodies mercilessly.They fell down in pieces amidst screams and wailing.

Immediately afterwards, the spear and shield soldiers rushing up the ladder received the same treatment.However, their casualties are much smaller than those of catapult soldiers, after all, they have ring armor and shield protection.Rows of white-eared elite soldiers jumped up from the plank road to the top of the city, and charged at these spear and shield soldiers.

With a bang, one of the Liang soldiers used his shield to block the spear that was coming straight at him, and the other two spears went to his left and right, stabbing at his left and right ribs respectively.He swayed and dodged the spear on the left, but the spear on the right pierced through his ring armor and penetrated deeply into his right rib.

This Liang soldier was worthy of being an elite soldier trapped in the camp. He gritted his teeth and broke free from the spear, took two steps to one side, and sent the dagger into the body of another white-eared soldier who didn't notice him.

The white-eared soldier who stabbed him also fell on the top of the wall, because a seriously injured Pegmi ejector suddenly straightened up and sent the dagger into his belly.

At the head of Lushan City, where the fire was still extinguished, there was a lot of killing sounds, and the two sides fought with red eyes...

Chapter 556

The number of Liang soldiers at the head of Lushan City itself is smaller than that of the defending white-eared soldiers. In order to facilitate climbing the ladder, they all hold short knives, but many of the white-eared soldiers hold spears and spears.Therefore, at the head of the city, the white-eared soldiers had a great advantage over the Liang soldiers.

The two sides fought fiercely at the top of the city for a while, and the number of Liang Jun who climbed to the top of the city lost far more than the number of newly climbed up.Liang Jun at the head of the city became less and less, and in the end there were not many left.Some of the white-eared soldiers who had freed their hands hacked at the climbing beam soldiers with steel knives several feet long, and some tried to pry over the ladder with their guns.The land attack on Lushan City from the west gate was disintegrated.

In the Mianshui, just like Ximen's offensive, the Liang Army ships moored in the Mianshui also fired at the wall with ship-mounted ballistas, causing landslides and rocks to crack, followed by raging flames.Liang Jun's siege ship came forward and lowered the ladder on the wall of the north gate.Groups of soldiers of the Liang army rushed out from the ladder, among them were many giant ape soldiers.It is almost impossible for the Linjiang army to stop them with white-eared soldiers.

Liang soldiers quickly rushed out of the flying ladder. The strange thing is that unlike Ximen, Linjiang soldiers did not jump from the plank road to the top of the city to fight fiercely with Liang Jun.

In fact, the North City Wall does not have plank roads like the other three walls.Even the stairways leading to the city were cut off, leaving only one stairway leading to the Wengcheng.But if Liang Jun really entered the Wengcheng through this stairway, he would really be the turtle in the urn, because the other three walls of the Wengcheng were still in the hands of the Linjiang Army.

Standing on the gate tower of the inner city gate of Wengcheng, Wei Yan had a clear view of the battle situation at the north gate, and immediately ordered: "Snapshot plans to cut off the corridor, and the enemy must not be allowed to enter the corridor."

Since it was an established plan, the Linjiang Army was naturally well prepared.Several "wooden walls" appeared in the sight of Liang Jun soldiers rushing towards the wall of the urn city.These "wooden walls" are movable, and rows of sharp knives are fixed on the wooden walls.If you collide with it, you will be stabbed into a funnel.In fact, these things are the Saimen knife carts invented by the craftsmen of Linjiang Kingdom.Each car is eight feet high and has a wide range of close combat. It takes more than [-] soldiers to push one car.

At this time, a row of four saber carts pressed on the rushing soldiers of the Liang army.Some soldiers of the Liang army were caught off guard. Even though they were protected by large shields and ring armor, they were stabbed into honeycombs by the chaotic blades on the knife cart and fell to the ground.The knife cart passed over their bodies, and some were crushed into two sections by the huge diameter wheels of the knife cart.

The soldiers of the Liang Army did not dare to charge forward any more, and took out the spears on their backs one after another and threw them at the Linjiang Army.But these spear guns had little effect.Some of the spears stuck on the wall of the Saimen knife cart, and some collided with the sharp edge of the knife cart and fell to the ground. A very small number of spears crossed the wall of the knife cart and shot some of the soldiers behind the Linjiang army. soldiers.

The same is true for the portable ballistas erected behind the soldiers of the Liang Army, because the baffle of the knife cart is too tall, forming a large projectile blind spot in the rear.The explosive shells fired by the portable ballista either hit the baffle, or fell far behind the Linjiang Army formation.

These soldiers were not responsible for pushing the knife carts, so the Saimen knife carts still moved like razors on the corridors of the city wall, constantly pushing the soldiers of the Linjiang Army to the ground.

Suddenly there was a roar from the top of the city, and a huge figure appeared in front of the already chaotic crowd of Liang Jun.The giant ape soldier straightened out its broad long knife and stabbed at the knife cart.

With a muffled bang, the long knife pierced through the baffle of the knife cart abruptly. After the knife rod rubbed against the thick wooden board violently, there was a smell of burnt wood.The long straight blade pierced through the bodies of two Linjiang Army soldiers one after another, and then stopped.

The tiger's mouth of the giant ape soldier was shattered, and blood dripped down the blade.But the giant ape was still clutching the long knife tightly, panting heavily.The Linjiang soldiers behind the knife cart were yelling, blushing, pushing the knife cart forward with all their might.

The knife cart finally moved, and the entire body slammed into the giant ape warrior at an extremely fast speed.The blade and baffle creaked again.Even the thick armor on the giant ape soldier's body couldn't stop the sharp spear blades on the knife cart and the huge kinetic energy of the knife cart.There were more than a dozen blood holes on its body in an instant.

But at this time, because the plug-door knife cart in the middle was blocked, there was a big gap with the rest of the knife workshops.Earlier, those portable ballistas that were set up fired several "fireballs" without losing time. The fireballs passed through the two staggered gaps and fell not far behind the knife cart, flying up several columns. A foot-high flame.

These flames quickly spread and connected into a sea of ​​flames.The soldiers of the Linjiang Army behind the knife cart hurriedly dodged.Seeing the effect of this move, a Liang Jun led simply grabbed two hot bombs from the basket on the back of the ballista, ran to the knife cart, and threw the hot bombs directly into the burning flames.The rest of the soldiers also imitated his actions, throwing explosive bombs to the rear of the knife car baffle with their bare hands.

Those soldiers of the Linjiang army who were pushing the knives and carts could not stand such a scorching fire. They were on fire or not, and they all screamed and ran to the rear.Several samurai carts were thrown into the fire and left to fend for themselves.

Liang Jun quickly used long weapons such as spear guns and long knives to push the ignited knife cart away.A large number of soldiers that followed surged through the fiery city wall corridors, and rushed to the top of the Wengcheng.

Seeing this, Wei Yan turned pale with fright, shouted and ordered the soldiers to send orders quickly to call the soldiers from the other walls to come to support.

But time was running out, and Liang Jun's spear and shield soldiers stood up rows of shield walls, like a forest of spears, and quickly charged towards the gate tower of the inner city gate from both sides.Among these Liang army soldiers, there were more than [-] tall giant ape soldiers mixed in.

In addition, on the siege tower boats in Mianshui, there was a steady stream of soldiers from the Liang army climbing up the top of the city along the flying ladder.In addition to fighting towards the Wengcheng, they also fought towards the other two walls along the corridor at the head of the city.

The soldiers of the Linjiang Army who blocked Liang Jun on the corridor all died under the stabbing of the opponent's javelins, long knives, and spears.When Liang Jun was approaching the gate tower, there were only a few dozens of soldiers around Wei Yan, and the rest of the soldiers were sent by him to block Liang Jun's attack.

"General, we can't hold back anymore, let's retreat!" a lieutenant beside Wei Yan said eagerly.Without saying a word, Wei Yan ran into the city from the stairs of the gatehouse.His personal soldiers followed him and evacuated from the gatehouse.

A quarter of an hour later, Liang Jun completely controlled the outer city gate of the North City Gate and the inner city gate of Wengcheng.There was still a fierce battle on the east and west walls, but a large number of longbowmen appeared on the top of the city wall that had been occupied by Liang Jun. They were condescending and kept shooting at Lushan City.The two city gates opened one after another, and a large number of Liang Jun soldiers and horses poured in from the north gate. In addition to infantry, there were also a large number of heavy cavalry.The fall of Lushan City is a foregone conclusion...

Chapter 557

On the surface of Pengze Lake near the mouth of the Ganshui River, overlapping sail shadows appeared.Looking at the flags, these are all warships of the Wu Army Navy, and there are about [-] ships.They are the last bit of capital in Sun Quan's hands.

After the Wei army invaded and plundered most of the land in the six counties of Jiangdong, and the Wu army was defeated by Liu Bei several times in a row, Sun Quan was so angry that he couldn't afford it.Now he is lying on the sickbed, but he is still struggling to turn the tide.

These days, the only good news he got was that Wu Guotai and his Sun clan members, their concubines had not yet fallen into the hands of the Wei army, but had withdrawn from the mountain trail to the remote Jianning County.

The day before yesterday, Sun Quan and several civil servants and military generals who went out with him calculated that it was impossible for the six counties in Jiangdong to get it back with the strength of Wu Jun, at least in a short period of time.Here in Yuzhang, not to mention the predicament of being encircled by the Cao and Liu families, even the supply of grain and grass loaded on the ship would not be able to last for a long time.Wu Jun had to find a new base to rely on.

Huang Gai offered advice to Sun Quan and said that the only territory in Wu State that has not been captured by the enemy is Jianning, the second county of Nanhai, and several counties in the south of Yuzhang County.

Among them, Nanhai County is located in Lingnan, which can rely on its dangerous mountains and rivers to resist the Cao Liu coalition army.Where the Yushui flows into the sea in Nanhai County, the land is fertile and suitable for farming, and more importantly, in the South China Sea, you can also benefit from sea traders. 400 years ago in the troubled times at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Zhao Tuo separated the South of the Five Ridges and formed the Nanyue Kingdom, which centered on Panyu in Nanhai County and lasted for more than a hundred years.It is very appropriate to use Nanhai County as the ruling center of Wu State at the moment.

Most of the generals agreed with Huang Gai's proposal, but the traditional route from Jiangdong to Nanhai was to enter Jianning from membership, and then enter Nanhai County by sea boat or mountain road from Jianning.But now that Wu Jun is trapped in Pengze Lake, how can he retreat to Nanhai County thousands of miles away?

Regarding this question, Huang Gai smiled lightly: "Your Majesty, you may not know something, but in fact, [-]% of the way we go to the South China Sea is by water!"

Sun Quan was stunned when he heard this, and asked instead: "Could it be that the old general Huang wants our army to enter the Yangtze River, go down the river and finally enter the sea, and then reach the South China Sea by sea? But the old general must not forget that the mouth of Pengze Lake is now closed. It was blocked by the Wei army. How can we sail into the Yangtze River? Besides, even if we can enter the Yangtze River like no one’s land, and no one intercepts us along the way. But if we make such a big circle to the South China Sea, the food and grass on this boat will not be enough. Besides, the coast is controlled by Cao Jun, where can we go to raise food?"

Huang Gai quickly explained: "Your Majesty, don't be in a hurry, just listen to the old minister. There is a river called Ganshui in the south of Yuzhang, and the Ganshui flows northward into the vast and smoky Pengze Lake. Our fleet can Going south along the Gan River, when you reach the end of the waterway where you can no longer move forward, you will see a Wubao castle. Here, our army abandoned the boat and walked. After our army has turned over several mountains, we can reach another Wubao Castle Pool next to the river, this river is called Zhenshui. From here, we can go down the Zhenshui and reach Panyu in a few days."

Sun Quan raised his eyebrows and said, "Why is General Huang so clear about this? In addition, when our army arrived at the Wubao city you mentioned, how could we go down the river and arrive at Panyu without ships? Could it be that we have to build ships now? We can't do this in time." Too late."

Huang Gai suddenly said solemnly: "Your Majesty, this route was also used by Emperor Wu. The general Yang Pu of the Louchuan attacked Nanyue by this way. In addition, these Wubao were built secretly when the former king was there. .Maybe because the king took the throne not long ago, he has not read the confidential defense materials, so he didn't know about it. The previous king built these to facilitate the communication between Lingnan and Yuzhang, and to facilitate the mobilization of the army. There are There are plenty of ready-made ships, and although these small ships are not suitable for water warfare, they are more than enough to carry troops."

After hearing Huang Gai's speech, Sun Quan's mood improved greatly, and he decided to withdraw the whole army to Nanhai County along the Ganshui waterway.

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At this time, Sun Quan, who was lying on the sickbed, was thinking about his mother Wu Guotai, those members of the Sun clan and his concubines.The voice of a commanding soldier woke him up from his thoughts.

"My lord, our fleet is about to arrive at the mouth of the Ganshui River. In about a quarter of an hour, our army will be able to enter the Ganshui River."

Sun Quan struggled to sit up, and asked: "After entering the Ganshui waterway, our army has no way to turn back, so we must be extremely cautious. Did Liu Bei's tail that followed us the day before yesterday be dealt with? Are there any tails behind us? If the enemy army knows that our army has entered the Ganshui River in time, they will set up ambushes on both sides of the Ganshui River, and in that case, Wu Guo will be alone.”

Among the generals waiting at the side, Huang Gai went out and clapped his hands and said: "Don't worry, your majesty, those tails that followed the day before yesterday have been dealt with by our army. They probably wouldn't have thought that our army would enter Ganshui. In addition, Nanchang County on the banks of the Ganshui River is still in our hands. After our army enters the Ganshui River, they will step ashore and march on land and water. It is not so easy for the enemy to set up an ambush to encircle and wipe out our army."

Sun Quan nodded and said: "So, Gu can rest assured, you can follow the established strategy."

After more than half an hour, the mighty Wu army fleet finally sailed into Ganshui.But when the last Wu army warship entered the estuary of the Ganshui River, shadows of sails appeared on the skyline south of Pengze Lake.Nearly a thousand warships of Liu Bei's Navy came one after another!

Liu Bei still kept his eyes slightly closed, his hands lowered, standing motionless on the bow of the boat.But in the end, after seeing a shadow of land appearing on the endless lake, he still couldn't help asking Xu Shu beside him: "Yuan Zhi, can Sun Quan and the remnants of the Wu army really enter the Gan River? If our judgment is wrong, But let the cooked duck fly."

Xu Shu laughed and said: "If the king is worried, Xu Shu can make a military order and put Xiang Shang's head here."

It turned out that the day before yesterday, shortly after the Linjiang army's scouts discovered the Wu army's fleet, they were ambushed by the opponent's water scouts in the water.Liu Bei immediately lost the trace of the Wu army fleet again. He hurriedly sent new scouts to investigate, but was stopped by Xu Shu.

At that time, Xu Shu said that based on the direction of travel of the Wu army fleet and the current situation of the Wu army, the retreat route of the Wu army could be judged.Nanhai County is the only retreat for Wu Jun at the moment.And to Nanhai County, Ganshui is the only way for them to pass.The general direction of Wu Jun's previous advance also confirmed this point.Now that the retreat route of the Wu army has been guessed, there is no need to send out scouts to scare the snake, but to prepare for an ambush and annihilation of the Wu army in the Ganshui River.

Not long after, Liu Bei's navy also approached the mouth of the Ganshui River.Several scouts who went ashore in advance also sent back the news that they had just inquired about. Wu Jun really entered Ganshui, and it was only less than an hour ago.

Chapter 558 The Death of Lu Xun

In the Ganshui, hundreds of warships of the Wu army meandered like a long snake.Sun Quan, who was standing on the deck of the bow, was informed that Yu Fan, the prefect of Yuzhang of Wu State in Nanchang City, was waiting at the pier by the river.

Sun Quan thought for a while and said: "The army is in a hurry, so we won't go to Nanchang City to rest. Tell Yu Fan that he only needs to do two things. One is to provide food and grass for the army fleet as much as possible, and the other is to strengthen the army. Guard the city, and beware of the enemy going up the Jiangxi River and chasing our army!" After the soldiers got the order, a fast boat left Sun Quan's building and went away.

Not long after, Sun Quan's flagship also sailed past Nanchang City by the Ganshui River.Sun Quan saw that a lot of grain and supplies had been piled up on the wharf. At the same time, some warships of the Wu army also docked one after another to load supplies on board.The prefect of Yuzhang, Yu Fanzheng, was paying homage to his boat from afar.Only then did Sun Quan feel relieved.

The entire fleet of Wu Jun quickly sailed past Nanchang City and continued to sail southward against the current.After the waterway of Ganshui passed through Nanchang City, it narrowed rapidly.Many of Wu Jun's large-scale warships can no longer sail in parallel in the river, and can only walk in file.Walking at the forefront of the fleet are several scouting boats.They not only monitored the situation on both sides of the strait, but also kept shuttling back and forth in the middle of the river to check the bottom of the water.

Wu Jun soldiers on one of the walking boats suddenly felt that the hull of the boat was shaking.Several people standing on the board of the boat fell suddenly, and one of them fell into the river with a thud.The soldiers of the Wu army who came back to their senses yelled: "There is something wrong in the water!" Several soldiers with good water skills jumped into the water to investigate carefully, and soon discovered the reason. "There are iron chains in the water!" Someone exclaimed.

Their leader hurriedly ordered: "Send someone to check the river bank along the iron cable, and report to the rear army quickly." As soon as the words fell, they walked along the looming iron cable in the river to the bank. , the other walker turned around and sailed quickly to the rear of the fleet.

The walker sailing towards the river had just entered the reeds when he heard the sound of arrows piercing the air. Before he could react, several people standing on the boat were shot down by random arrows.Only two or three oarsmen survived. They lay on the bottom of the boat and did not dare to move. They just shouted loudly: "There are enemy ambushes on the shore! There are ambushes..."

Before they finished speaking, more than a dozen figures emerged from the reeds. They waded to the side of the walkway, and stabbed the remaining Wu soldiers on the boat with knives, guns, swords and halberds, beheading them all in an instant. do.Seeing this situation, those Wu troops on the Ganshui River all turned around and fled backwards.

Sun Quan was shocked when he heard the news.But he immediately comforted himself and said, "Maybe it's just a small group of Liu Bei's troops who fled here and set up iron chains on the Ganshui River to harass the Wu army. As long as we send troops to go ashore to clear them, the passage will be opened soon."

Sun Quan made up his mind, and immediately ordered the young general Lu Xun and the veteran Wei Wen to land on both sides of the Gan River with [-] infantry each, and wipe out all the wandering enemies on both sides of the Gan River.Afterwards, a large number of ships in Wu's army docked, and the two generals each led a group of troops and hurried to the upper reaches of the Gan River.

Lu Xun led his men and horses, led by several scouts who had been to the scene, and quickly approached the location of the iron chain blocking the river.

Lu Xun was not as optimistic as Sun Quan. He believed that since the enemy army was able to set up iron chains across the river, they must have come prepared and must not be taken lightly.At this time, he raised his hand, signaled the whole army to stop and ordered: "Send a certain military order, the whole army is in a defensive formation, the trees are dense in front, advance carefully, and beware of enemy ambushes!"

Following Lu Xun's military order, his 2000 troops immediately changed their formation, from a marching formation to a defensive formation. Before the transformation was complete, there were dense whistling sounds in the air.Hundreds of arrows shot towards Wu Jun from the reeds on the right and a small forest on the left.

Wu Jun's defensive formation is like an onion, with a circle of sword players surrounded by a circle of spearmen or crossbowmen, and the latter is surrounded by a layer of sword players.Such staggered advancement can achieve the best protective effect when encountering enemy bow and arrow raids.

At this time, the Wu Jun sword players in the army raised their shields, and the spearmen among them squatted down halfway, and the crossbowmen shot back at the groves and reeds from time to time.In the random shooting of arrows, although Wu Jun suffered some casualties, because Lu Xun changed his formation in time, the casualties were minimized.

Seeing that Wu Jun had stabilized his position, Lu Xun snorted coldly, and ordered the army to move towards the small woods and reed marshes to wipe out the small enemy troops hiding inside.Lu Xun judged that their number would not exceed a thousand at most.

But when Wu Jun's formation had just divided into two square formations and marched towards the woods and reeds, there was a muffled thunder-like sound from the distant forest.Lu Xun's heart skipped a beat and he looked over there.Sure enough, it was found that hundreds of war cavalry had emerged from the forest.

Moreover, Lu Xun could clearly see that these war cavalry were not ordinary war cavalry. Each cavalry was equipped with pitch-black armor, and the blades of the spears and spears in the riders' hands gleamed coldly.He knew in his heart that Liu Bei's army did not have such a cavalry unit, they must be tiger and leopard cavalry from the Wei army.

"Quickly, draw back the troops!" Lu Xun wanted to withdraw the phalanx that was going to attack the two sides, but he was so flustered that he couldn't express his words.

But it was too late for Wu Jun to form a phalanx of ordinary cavalry, and even if they could be formed, it probably wouldn't have much effect on these tiger and leopard cavalry.Thousands of tigers and leopards rolled forward in an instant, rushing into the Wu army crowd from the side and rear of the two phalanxes.The standing lances stabbed at Wu Jun's soldiers indiscriminately. Amidst the tragic shouts, Wu Jun fell to the ground in batches, and then turned into fragmented wreckage.