Lu Kang entered Xiangyang City, and while achieving great success that Eastern Wu could not achieve in decades, he also completely lost his mobility. As a result, the front lines of Jin and Wu in Jingzhou became quiet: the Wu army was unable to advance north, and the Jin army was unable to attack the city. Everyone could only stand stalemate here, waiting for the result of the east and west fronts.

At this time, the Eastern Front battlefield had become a Shura hell.

"Clang!" As the sledgehammer hit the counterweight pole hard, the trencher's cannon holds a huge stone bullet and jumps up quickly. The huge inertia urges the stone bullet to draw a bright tail belt in the sky, and then hits heavily on the roof of a house in the city. The wooden house, which had originally collapsed half of the roof, creaked sadly, and turned into rubble in a bang.

"Sharp!" The officer's command knife was quickly unsheathed, and then he pushed forward hard. Countless Wu soldiers wearing brown and yellow battle robes held up ladders, pushed the towers and siege hammers, and once again rushed towards the tall city walls of Hefei.

"Brothers, Wu Gou is here again, the trencher is launched! Archers are ready!"

"Wow~~~!"

Hefei City Pass was really beaten very badly.

As the price of the Eastern Wu sending troops, Shu Han exported the technology of a winch trench to the Eastern Wu. The Eastern Wu also had skilled craftsmen. After taking it, he not only immediately made a small winch trench and installed it on the ship. He also combined the pulleys with the lever principle by drawing inferences, and found a counterweight trench. Therefore, in the Hefei War this year, the Eastern Wu's trench completely overwhelmed the trench of the Jin State.

However, Jin State also continued to learn in the war. For example, less than half a month after Guan Zifeng completed the bastion in Mei County, the relevant drawings were sent to Luoyang. After that, Luoyang immediately transferred to Jingyang Corps. Yangzhou immediately organized civil servants to improve the Hefei city gates. Although due to limited time, it only had time to build bastions at various city gates to protect it. Even so, it caused great trouble to the attack of the Eastern Wu.

One side's attack methods were improved, and the other side's defensive mode was improved. In addition, one side insisted on taking this place, and the other side had to defend it in order to survive. The tragic level of the war immediately escalated rapidly.

The Wu army besieged Hefei City for three months. The outermost wall of Hefei, which originally had a three-level city wall, was almost impossible to see. Among the broken walls everywhere, stone bullets of different sizes were densely piled up. Although the second wall was complete at this time, the city wall, which was originally as high as fifteen meters, was now at most thirteen meters in height. The two missing meters were not that the top of the city wall was flattened, but that too many corpses were piled up at the bottom of the city wall.

Unlike Mei County, Anguo City's defense system is extremely perverted. The enemy cannot see any hope of breaking the city at all. The commander did not want to fight the second time after fighting once. Although the Hefei City Bulletin was solid, it did not have time to build a complete body of the bastion, so it seemed to have hope of breaking the city. So Ding Feng completely ignored the crying and bloody begging of various families and kept urging the various troops to attack in turn. In two months, the number of Wu army killed more than 20,000. The Jin army in Hefei City also killed more than 3,000 people.

Not only that, because the war was too fierce, the casualties were too high, and the siege lasted too long. Neither side had any time to deal with the corpses under the city, and it was summer. This led to the accumulation of corpses, which also attracted a large number of mosquitoes and flies to breed here.

...

Amid a weak shout, the Wu army soldiers approached the city wall again. Some soldiers began to clear the broken bricks and scattered stone bombs on the way forward, trying to clear a way for the slow siege towers and siege hammers behind. Some soldiers bit their lips tightly and carried the long ladder with other comrades and charged as much as possible.

"Baji", a soldier with a pale face, thin body and empty eyes, stepped on the reddish-brown mud, splashing indescribable liquid, and then his body slipped.

His face fell into the mud, and a piece of pink intestine suddenly appeared in his sight, with a lot of soil stained with small intestine. However, his face did not change at all. Instead, he stretched out a hand and pressed it heavily on the small intestine. He supported it, quickly got up, and continued to run towards the city wall.

After he continued to run forward for a few more steps, a dark tide suddenly appeared out of thin air, and the huge buzzing sound accompanied by it wrapped him up. But this did not slow down his pace. The countless mosquitoes and flies who were feasting on the rotten meat were also very helpless in the face of such numb and firm warriors. They had to stop eating and flew into the air.

However, his progress ended here, because at this time, countless arrows on the top of the city had fallen from the sky. Although he instinctively raised the large shield in his hand to block it, it was obvious that such a move was futile. Soon, he heard a burst of puff sound, and then, with a look of relief, he fell forever in the reddish-brown mud.

As he fell down, the buzzing sound made a louder sound again, and the dark tide in the air suddenly surged down. Then it spread all over his body, quickly covering his body until he could no longer see it...

This was July 15, 268 AD. It had been three months since Ding Feng led an army of 150,000 to surround Hefei City and attacked him.

In March, given that Shu Han had achieved its initial strategic goal: to capture Longxi and Liangzhou, he was afraid that Shu Han would withdraw his troops at any time. Therefore, Ding Feng, who was in the Luoyang Central Army of Jin, would march southward in large numbers, drove the Wu army to launch a powerful attack on the Hefei city gates in turn without interruption.

At this time, Wei Guan and Wei Boyu, the new commander of the Yangzhou Legion of Jin State, was not in the Hefei City Centre. It was not that he was timid and unwilling to be in a dangerous place, but that he really couldn't catch up.

On April 5, the Jin court received a report of the upcoming invasion of the Eastern Wu, and then issued a transfer order to the guards in Youzhou. By the time he arrived in Shouchun, it was already early May. The Hefei city blockage further south was surrounded by Ding Feng. He could only use Shouchun as his command center to deal with the attack of the Eastern Wu in a difficult situation.

Ding Feng's side was 150,000 Wu troops. There was no difficulty among them. The three armies were all around the tent, with a total of up to 20,000. Among the remaining 130,000 people, there were 90,000 soldiers from the Wu Empire. The total number of private soldiers from the Jiangdong family was 40,000.

In the Weiguan side, there were 80,000 Yangzhou Corps in Jin State. They were basically veterans and their combat effectiveness were quite good. In addition, Xuzhou supported 20,000 people, but these 20,000 people were still farmers working in the fields last month, so they could not count on combat effectiveness. In the end, the Luoyang court gritted their teeth and supported the 10,000 central army. All of these 10,000 central army were cavalry. The commander was Meng Guan, who was only 21 years old.

Unlike the 150,000 troops of the Eastern Wu army gathered under the city of Hefei. The 110,000 people in Wei Guan's hands were distributed a little bit scattered.

Shouchun is the largest city in the State of Jin in Huainan, with 50,000 troops stationed (including 20,000 new soldiers supported by Xuzhou).

Sixty miles south of Shouchun is Chengde County. Next to this county is a huge lake (Shaopi Lake) and a gentle river (the famous Feishui in later generations). This is the assembly headquarters of the Yangzhou naval army in Jin State. Of course, since Jin State did not even touch the edge of the Yangtze River in Yangzhou at this time, the Yangzhou naval army was extremely small, with only 20 or 30 warships and more than 2,000 people, which were basically just a seed of a naval army and did not have the ability to fight independently.

Chengde walked a hundred miles south and was Hefei City Pass. There were 30,000 troops here.

More than twenty miles east of Hefei is Junqiu County. There are also 17,800 Jin troops stationed here, and the commander of this army is Huan Hao.

Eighty miles west of Hefei is Lu'an County. Ten thousand Luoyang cavalry led by Meng Guan are temporarily stationed here.

Simply put, the strategy of Jin State in Yangzhou is very clear: using Hefei as a millstone to destroy the sharpness and flesh of the Wu army. When the Wu army is exhausted, the Jin army from the east, west and north will join forces to fight against the Wu army.

This is the method that Cao Wei has been using in the face of the Eastern Wu's attack on Hefei for decades. Of course, Jin State also followed this routine.

The method is correct, but for the soldiers and generals trapped in the Hefei city barrier, every minute and every second here is a torment.

At this time, the Jin garrisons who were guarding the Hefei city barrier were Jiang Ban and Jiao Yi.

These two were originally subordinates of Zhuge Dan. When Wuqiu Jian launched the second rebellion of Shouchun, they followed Zhuge Dan to attack Wuqiu Jian. Jiang Ban also killed Liu Zan, a famous general from the Eastern Wu who came to support Wuqiu Jian in this battle. Later, Wuqiu Jian was destroyed. Zhuge Dan took over Yangzhou and then launched the third rebellion of Shouchun. These two advised Zhuge Dan: Now the families of these soldiers in Shouchun are in the north, and Sun Qian of the Eastern Wu have no ability or ambition at all. They are unreliable. So if you want to accomplish something, your only hope is to take the initiative to attack the north while your morale is still a little bit now. If you want to survive in death, if you can win one or two games, maybe the situation will be possible.

As a result, Zhuge Dan did not dare to take the initiative to attack. Instead, he suspected that the two of them wanted to turn against each other (the pressure was too great, and they were naturally suspicious of being suspicious, which was normal for humans), and wanted to kill them. So the two were forced to climb out of the Shouchun city wall and surrender to Sima Zhao.

These two men have been around for many years and still have the ability. Moreover, Sima Zhao is someone who can even tolerate Wen Yang, so how could he not tolerate them? So he accepted their surrender very happily. After that, the two men continued to stay in Huainan. Before Wei Guan went south to take over the command, the King of Langya Sima Yichang arranged the two of them on the front line of Yangzhou and served as the guardian of Hefei City Pass.

The reason why they dared to do this was of course not to be afraid that these two people would surrender to the Eastern Wu: As Kuaiji clan, Liu's family has a good say in the Eastern Wu court. Zhuge Dan's youngest son Zhuge Liang is now a famous general of the Eastern Wu. Do they dare to surrender to the Eastern Wu? Apart from the three tribes left in Jin State being destroyed, they themselves cannot survive.

Because they dared not surrender, although they were beaten very badly, the two of them had to try their best to comfort the soldiers guarding the city, and try their best to defend. But no matter how hard the two of them worked, the Wu army outside the city was five times more than them. So they had no idea of ​​counterattack except for defending in the city.

Moreover, as the siege of the city grew longer and longer, more and more mosquitoes were nourished by a large number of corpses. Inevitably, the soldiers in the city were more or less infected with various diseases. Although there were only more than 3,000 killed in Hefei, the soldiers who were unable to fight due to malaria were close to 10,000!

Of course, Ding Feng's army outside the city would also receive harassment from mosquitoes, but they were stationed outside the city. The density of troops distribution was much lower than that in the city. Therefore, Ding Feng's staff was only more than 3,000 due to illness.

If this continues, the soldiers in Hefei will either die in battle or all die of illness!
Chapter completed!