The war started for more than a month, and the Han army's central and western fronts were both advancing rapidly. However, on the eastern front, Ma Long fought more depressedly.

First of all, the imperial court assigned him the least force, but he was facing Zhong Hui, the commander of the current highest level in Eastern Wu. Moreover, the Yangzhou Corps, as the Weiwu Corps, which guards Jianye, has the strongest combat power.

But Ma Xiaoxing didn't take this seriously: So what about Zhong Hui? So what about the enemy's strongest troops? If not, we cannot show our Ma Long's ability!

Unfortunately, the wars on this front are full of strange things.

At the beginning, Ma Long swore an oath to march in early October, and Zhong Hui carried out a strong blockade in the direction of the Huaihe River. The Han army was not progressing smoothly.

Then, Ma Long bypassed the Huaihe section where Shouchun was located and went to the other end of the Huaihe River to cross the river. At this time, Zhong Hui ignored him. Then, the Han army on the east line successfully crossed the Huaihe River.

After crossing the Huai River, Ma Long led his army back to Shouchun City. Zhong Hui first led his army out of the city to fight a field battle with Ma Long. After the Wu army was slightly down, Zhong Hui entered Shouchun and began to defend.

In November, after Zhang Zun started to send troops on the western front, Zhong Hui sent someone to send a letter to Ma Long: I don’t want Shouchun anymore, I want to go to Hefei, please give it to me.

Of course, Ma Long sneered at such a letter: Want to leave? It’s not that easy. I’ve wiped out you all here, and Hefei is still easy to get behind.

Unfortunately, at this time, General Luo Xian, the guard, brought a handwritten letter from General Cheqi and Cavalry.

"What? General Guard? Did the Xiaguan read it wrong? General Cheqi and Cavalry actually asked the Xiaguan to let Zhong Hui go south?"

"Shh! Stop the sound." Luo Xian hurriedly covered Ma Long's mouth: "Zhong Shiji has already lost sincerity to the Grand Sima. So there are more concerns in the battle in Yangzhou."

"Ah?" After a habitual audacity, Ma Long quickly reacted. Then he lowered his voice and asked, "When did it happen?"

"In the Eastern Expedition, after Jin State lost Bingzhou, Zhong Shiji had already lost to Grand Sima. It was precisely because of his reasons that the Eastern Wu supported Luoyang's food was not qualified, almost none."

"Hey! Long was in Luoyang City in the past, but he witnessed the food shortage in the city with his own eyes. Hey... I won't say that anymore. Then General Wei, since Zhong Shiji is already ours, why don't he raise the flag and join forces with me and go south to Jianye directly?"

"Haha..." Luo Xian smiled slightly and said with shame: "When Xian was a court official in Chengdu, he didn't know anything. He only knew to write a letter to impeach Chen Shangshuling (Chen Qi). Later, when he became General Wei, he realized that the affairs of the government were really complicated. Many memorials were wrongly blamed Chen Zhonghou... Xiaoxing, now there is a Grand Sima on it. Many of us can be pure military generals. However, people are in the situation and have to consider things outside of war."

"Please make clear statement to General Guard."

"You talk about why Zhong Shiji didn't raise the rebellious flag directly and join our army to go south together. For the Yangzhou Legion itself, Zhong Shiji could not respond to the response. Raising the flag directly would not cause internal strife or division in the Yangzhou Army. If one is not dealt with properly, the entire Huainan would fall into destruction. For Zhong Shiji himself, he still needs a little reputation. In this way, the Grand Sima will arrange his position for him after the war. After all, he was the minister of Sun Yuanzong, from a defeated general who was wanted by the Sima family to today's General of the Eastern Wu. All of this was given to him by Sun Yuanzong. His direct rebellion would only make the world despise him."

"Hmph, this is a shameless villain!"

"Haha, the shameless villain also has another title, and the one who knows the current affairs is a hero."

"Well, this Junjie is unwilling to raise the banner of rebellion for his reputation, so how should the officials cooperate with him?"

"Haha, Xiaoxing, you should understand this. The main task of our Eastern Army is to firmly restrain the Yangzhou Corps of the Eastern Wu with the cooperation of Zhong Hui, so that it cannot go west to support its Jingzhou Army, laying a solid foundation for Lingxing and Yuankai's smooth advance. The Yangzhou Corps under Zhong Shiji is the largest heavy army group in Wu Gou now, 70,000 infantry and 20,000 naval forces. If it can be restrained here, the resistance of our army in the upstream will be much smaller... So, Shouchun must be taken down, and then we will advance the front to Hefei. In this way, whether it is the Yangzhou Corps or Sun Hao's most elite 30,000 personal guards in Jianye, they are unable to move. When the battle situation in the upstream is clear, the Yangzhou Corps will naturally collapse."

"…The Xiaguan understands. It's just that this arrangement is done, and I should have told Xiaguan earlier."

"Haha, for this, Grand Sima and General Cheqi also asked me to apologize to you. A secret scholar like Zhong Shiji is too high in level. I have to protect him carefully. I only told him calmly before setting off from Wancheng this time."

So, on November 15, Zhong Huijun "broken" and Ma Long only symbolically chased after him. After that, the Yangzhou Corps, which had not been damaged, had about 60,000 infantry soldiers retreated to the Hefei City Cliff. Ma Long led the Eastern Army to follow him.

The city of Hefei is blocked, and the straight-line distance is only more than 200 miles from Jianye. After receiving the news, Sun Hao of Jianye not only gave the most elite tent in his hand, but also helped 30,000 people to hold the trouble tightly in his hands and dared not send out. He also sent Prime Minister Wan Yu to Kuaiji and other southeastern counties, and forced 20,000 civilians to enter Jianye. Each of them gave a knife to enhance their courage.

At the same time, Sun Hao first sent an urgent message to Tao Huang from Jiaozhou: My dear, hurry up and take your 10,000 Jiaozhou soldiers to the north! Jianye is in danger!

Then he wrote a letter to Zhong Hui in Hefei: Northern Jingzhou is in ruins, I really misread Zhang Zheng. Although Zhong Qing lost Shouchun, he could still keep the situation from collapsing in the face of the enemy's heavy troops. It was very good and good. It was indeed worthy of being my minister in the secret residence. But now the war situation is urgent, do you see if you have drawn 20,000 to 30,000 infantry and the last 20,000 naval troops to me for unified dispatch?

As a result, the sender came back and reported that Hefei was surrounded by the Han army and could not enter.

Helplessly, Sun Hao had to cross Zhong Hui directly and issue an order to the 20,000 naval troops stationed on the north bank of the Yangtze River: raise an anchor, go west to Xunyang, and support General Sun Zhen.

Less than two months after the war started, Sun Hao, who was originally full of confidence, had already lost a lot of weight. However, at the age of thirty-five, his temples were almost all white.

It was because Jingzhou's defense line collapsed too quickly. Almost every morning, Sun Hao received news that he had lost and surrendered again.

In the early years when Ji Han fought against Jin in the east, Sun Hao kept complaining to his ministers about the waste of the Sima family. But now it seems that his family is worse than the Sima family. After all, the Sima family has been with Ji Han in Bingzhou and Youzhou for more than a year. Not only did the entire Eastern Expedition take Guan Yi for two years, but he also lost a large number of casualties and a general Jiang Wei.

But now? Guan Da Sima didn't even have the interest to take charge of Nanyang. And even so, Ji Han swept across the Northern Jingzhou with extremely weak losses...

"Tao Qing, I will hand over the last naval army of the country to you. Please give me everything."

Tao Qing here is not Tao Huang, the governor of Jiaozhou, but Tao Jun, the younger brother of Tao Huang. The Tao family is from Danyang and has passed down his family through military studies. As the Jiangdong and Huaisi families are getting worse and worse, the Tao family has become an indispensable general in the Eastern Wu.

"Please rest assured that my Majesty will not say much about success or failure of this battle, but I will definitely let the Han army know that there are still men who can fight in Eastern Wu! But your Majesty, I have a request."

"Please speak Tao Qing."

"Please send orders to the generals in Xunyang, and let the navy troops there temporarily retreat, and then join me in with my navy before making other plans. Your Majesty, I will say afterwards that the navy of the Han Dynasty is only Yizhou. Our army should not divide the navy into three branches at the beginning. Instead, we should concentrate in Xiling. The vein of our Great Wu is the Yangtze River. As long as the Yangtze River is in hand, the Han Dynasty will be powerless to take advantage of our Great Wu. However, due to the mistake of the temple calculation before the war, our country divided the 80,000 navy troops into three troops. As a result, Zhang Zizhong was outnumbered in Jingzhou. The subsequent two navy troops were already in short supply in the Han army that had not been damaged. If they were not concentrated together and used..."

"Uh... Tao Qing, the arrangement of this navy was made by Shi Ji. What he said makes sense. In Yangzhou, the Yangtze River must be kept unobstructed."

"The general is from the northern world and is not familiar with water wars, so... in short, Your Majesty, I will do my best to your Majesty. But please ask Your Majesty to give an order to the Xunyang naval army as soon as possible."
Chapter completed!