When the Jiangdong army came, it was like a tide and it was like a tide, but it was just a tide.

In mid-March, around Jiangling City, there were no more Wu troops in the establishment of the entire Nanjun. The Jiangdong naval army also evacuated one after another. Then the Jingzhou naval fleet quickly returned and reoccupied Jiangjin Port.

At this time, Guan Ping's troops were entangled with Le Jin for several days, and the losses were severe. However, after Zhang Liao led the cavalry team to the north and brought news of Sun Quan's defeat, Le Jin immediately withdrew his troops. So Guan Ping's troops returned to the county and rectified the subordinates.

In this way, Pan Zhang and Xu Sheng, who were alone in Jingcheng, were equal to Dangyang, were attacked by Guan Yu, Guan Ping and his son from north to south, but it was very difficult. Xu Sheng had organized more than a thousand elite soldiers to try to cross the Yunmeng Daze eastward and return to Jiangdong, but as soon as he crossed the Han River, he was intercepted by the Jingzhou naval fleet led by Zhao Lei, and then lost hundreds of people before retreating in a panic.

Two days later, I heard that the Cao army had sent an envoy to invite them to surrender with generous rewards from high officials. Guan Yu immediately sent a notice, allowing them to wait for the result of the subsequent negotiations between the Sun and Liu families. If the peace agreement is reached, they will be sent back to Jiangdong.

Since there is still a chance to return home, who will go to the north to ask for food? So Pan Zhang and Xu Sheng could only guard their own camps and wait for fate to be arranged. Fortunately, Jiangdong made great preparations for this attack. Each of them had more than ten daily food and fodder to accumulate in their camps, and they would not starve to death in a short period of time.

Compared with them, the prisoners of the Wu army around Jiangling City had much harder to live.

Excluding the dead and seriously injured, more than 20,000 prisoners worked day and night under the command of the Jiangling defenders. They had to clean up the battlefield, dig pits and bury corpses, repair city wall buildings, level roads, and rebuild dock facilities. Some slightly injured prisoners turned seriously injured after high-intensity work and died; some prisoners resisted because they were unable to bear the drive and were killed.

Once, Jiangdong prisoners connected hundreds of people with the intention of rioting, and almost kidnapped Wen Si who was patrolling the camp that day. As a result, their intention was discovered by the barbarians of Shamoke's troops. The barbarians immediately started killing and cut two or three hundred heads in one breath.

Duke Xuande has always held high the banner of benevolence, and the Jingzhou army did not intend to treat the prisoners harshly. However, after the Jiangdong army attacked Jiangling City, the killing and wounding were very fierce, and many of the Jingzhou soldiers' families were lost in the army. Therefore, the soldiers could not suppress their anger and attacked the prisoners more and more fiercely.

This unstoppable revenge sentiment of the entire army is difficult to control even the chief general.

Later, this sentiment spread more and more, leading to several consecutive revenge killings. After learning that his family was killed, a soldier even broke into the shelter of the wounded soldiers on guard by the Jingzhou Army's own soldiers and horses, and killed Song Ding, a seriously injured and captured Wu army captain.

The military law team immediately captured the soldier, and the rest of the soldiers shouted and praised him, treating him as a hero.

This situation may be a bit difficult for Guan Yu, who always stands on the side of the grassroots soldiers and must ensure military discipline.

On that day, Lei Yuan had been summoned by Guan Yu and went to the General's Office to discuss military affairs. For this reason, he went out a little later, hoping to wait until Guan Yu finished handling this military affairs.

When he stepped into the gate of the former general's mansion around Si Shi, he saw more than a hundred Wu army prisoners kneeling in the yard in front of the main hall. Judging from their clothes and appearance, they seemed to be all intermediate officers. These people all looked pale, as if they were uneasy, and were very frightened by their fate.

When Lei Yuan stepped past them, another cry of crying and wailing came from the main hall. The sound was like lightning falling on the captives, making them tremble involuntarily.

Many prisoners saw Lei Yuan passing by, and some people recognized that this was Lei Yuan, the left general of the governor of the governor of Jiaozhou, who was the second only to Guan Yu in Jiangling City. So everyone looked at Lei Yuan with a begging for mercy, hoping that Lei Yuan could bring some different solutions.

Lei Yuan took a few more steps towards the lobby and saw Zhou Cang pushing a man who looked like a Wu army general and walked out, and walked to the front of the prisoners. One of the soldiers raised their feet to kick the Wu army general and overturned the soldiers, and another soldier waved his knife and slashed his head.

Lei Yuan took a little step back to avoid the splashing blood.

The soldiers raised General Wu Jun's head out, probably to hang it somewhere to show the public. A soldier dragged the headless corpse away and threw it into the corner of the yard. Only then did Lei Yuan notice that blood was flowing in the corner, and fifteen or sixteen corpses were piled up.

At this time, Zhou Cang saw Lei Yuan and bowed to Lei Yuan.

Lei Yuan followed Zhou Cang to the stairs of the main hall and asked casually: "Is this?"

"The Lord and Hou have an order to destroy the Wu army in Jiangling City. If there are any acts of killing the people and harming women and children, they will be killed once they are verified." Zhou Cang said in a muffled voice: "The Lord and Hou said that the benevolence and etiquette of Duke Xuande can be used for enemies, but not for animals."

Lei Yuan nodded slightly.

Zhou Cang said again: "I guess you have to kill more than a dozen people with great sins to appease our own soldiers."

Lei Yuan agreed and said, "That's what it should be."

At present, these Jiangdong generals and schoolmen all acted honestly and obediently, but when Lei Yuan was fighting in Jiangling City that day, he saw that each of them had the desire to kill, as if they were not a group of people, but a group of evil wolves who could eat people at any time.

Lei Yuan knew that this was Guan Yu's kindness and had to take action with conclusive evidence. The purpose was to appease the angry soldiers. If he were a more violent general, he would be afraid that he would not have to kill 3,500.

Thinking of this, he stepped into the hall, met Guan Yu, and the host and the guest took a seat.

Guan Yu asked someone to give the cold soup, then picked up a few military newspapers on the case, and ordered Zhou Cang to hand it over to Lei Yuan: "Please read Xuzhi."

The military newspaper said that General Yangwu, the prefect of Changsha, led the elite troops of the headquarters to lurk by land near the Baqiu camp of the Jiangdong Navy. He launched a surprise attack at night and captured three docks and five docks in one fell swoop. Due to the fierce war, the Jiangdong ships who retreated with Wu Hou did not dare to go to Baqiu. Thousands of large ships and tens of thousands of soldiers on the ship went straight to the Lukou, and Sha Xian went.

The Baqiu defenders then fought back and fought against Li Yan's troops for several days. Later, the Jiaozhou Army and Lingling County troops arrived and took over Baqiu with their superior forces.

Seeing this military newspaper, Lei Yuan felt very relieved.

First, after Baqiu changed hands, the water surface of more than 700 miles east of Jiangling was no longer threatened by the Jiangdong Navy. Pan Zhang, who was still stationed in the north of Jiangling, and Xu Sheng's two troops completely became fish swimming in the pot. No matter what happened to the Sun and Liu families in the future, Guan Yu's Jingzhou Army headquarters or Lei Yuan's main force in Jiaozhou Army arrived, they could destroy them all. What to consider was that the battle was good-looking or not.

Secondly, controlling Baqiu is equivalent to communicating with the four major rivers of Xiang, Xiang, Zi and Yuan in Jingzhou. From then on, the Jingzhou navy has become like fish jumping and dragons, and will never always wander in the upper reaches of the Han River and the river, and will be restricted everywhere. The so-called natural danger of the river is no longer owned by the Jiangdong family.

"Li Zhengfang has the talent of civil and military affairs, and it is indeed good." Lei Yuan praised: "We are breaking the enemy under Jiangling City, which is certainly the key to victory; Li Zhengfang's ability to seize Baqiu immediately is the beginning of a greater victory in the future."

Guan Yu nodded: "After Li Zhengfang captured Baqiu, he sent someone to send a secret letter, suggesting that I leave ten thousand people to guard Jiangling, gather the two armies of Jingzhou and Jiaozhou, go down the river, break through Chaisang, and seize Jiangdong."

Lei Yuan was stunned: "Snatch Jiangdong?"

"Li Zhengfang believed that when he was fighting in Baqiu, his troops were only 5,000. However, the main force of the Wu army's Zhoushi did not dare to land on the shore against the war. It can be seen that the generals below Sun Quan had no intention of fighting. At this time, the Jingzhou army gradually gathered, and the Jiaozhou army continued to arrive on the battlefield one after another. The two families could gather at least 50,000 elite troops. As long as we seek a small amount of support from Yizhou, we are likely to seize the opportunity of the Wu army being scared, and we will drive in one go, occupy Jiangdong, and win two points of the world for the king."

Speaking of this, Guan Yu stared at Lei Yuan: "What do you think Xuzhi thinks?"

Lei Yuan picked up the pottery bowl containing cold soup and dipped it in his lips, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

After a while, he asked back, "What do you think about this?"

Guan Yu pondered for a while and said slowly: "The morale of the army is available, but..."

In contemporary wars, it is very difficult to command a large number of troops and fight within a broad range. Due to the lack of observation and communication means, even the most outstanding generals cannot truly grasp the situation between the enemy and us. Therefore, in many cases, the more they defeat the generals, the more they rely on intuition, they can make judgments with intuition, and there is no way to discuss with others.

Guan Yu asked Lei Yuan for his opinion, although this matter was very important, and he was really unsure of it.

After a while, Lei Yuan said in a deep voice: "Judge, this time Pan Jun rebelled, so that the Wu army entered the city and Jiangling was almost lost. Although he eventually expelled the people of Wu, many of the relatives and families of the soldiers were not in the army, so there was such a scene of anger. It is true that the morale of the army was available. However, such military and national affairs involve many factors, which not only depend on the morale of the army. Although I am not talented, I know that those who defeat the battle but do not lazy in their merits are in danger."

Lei Yuan means that at this time, he may be able to win a few battles and capture some land and cities; but the strength of Jingzhou and Jiaozhou is limited after all, and there are strong enemies in the north at any time, so it cannot consolidate the results of the battle, but will turn victory into defeat at any time.

The hall was quiet for a moment, and Zhou Cang came from the outside to the steps and coughed lightly.

"What's the matter?" Guan Yu asked majesticly.

"June, Shuzhong urgently reported."

Guan Yu opened the wooden box of the city defense documents and took out the urgent report to watch it. The document read: The King of Hanzhong was unfavorable to take the battle in Guanzhong, and he had already withdrawn his troops and returned. The military advisor General Pang Tong and the generals were killed in battle, with dozens of soldiers defeating him, and 30,000 soldiers were defeated.
Chapter completed!