Chapter 456 I am a hero of faith in Jiangdong, who dares to kill me
Chapter 456 I am a hero of faith in Jiangdong, who dares to kill me?
Author: Playing with Basilisk
Chapter 456 I am a hero of faith in Jiangdong, who dares to kill me?
In the evening of October 16, Cao Jun had already arrived outside Hefei City.
Guan Yu stood on the top of the city and frowned.
Behind him, a middle-aged scholar put his hands in his sleeves and bent his waist slightly, making a gesture of humility.
The evening breeze blew gently on their faces, causing their robes to flutter in the wind.
Guan Yu said in a deep voice: "I fought hard to conquer Hefei City. You are asking me to give up like this. Lu Boyan, are you kidding me?"
Lu Xun said with a smile: "The princes should understand a truth. This is always the case in this world. Only when you give up can you gain. If the late emperor could not give up the north, how could he dominate the world in the south? Give up first, and then take.
For the right path.”
Guan Yu felt that Lu Xun was talking nonsense, so he shook his head and said: "In my life, I have never thought that I should give up first and take it later. If it is for victory, it is not a bad thing to give up for a short time. But what I want to ask you is,
What should we do if Cao's army goes south and only captures Hefei without continuing the pursuit?"
Ever since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Guan Yu has followed Liu Bei in the north and south for many years. It’s not that he doesn’t understand the concept of strategic abandonment. What he is afraid of is that the enemy will not fall into the trap at all. If he withdraws his troops and they only occupy Hefei, then he
Wasn't it a waste of effort to conquer Hefei after a year of fighting?
Lu Xun said softly: "Don't worry, Lord, I will give the enemy a reason that they can't refuse. What's more, if Lord is worried, it would be easy. Just set a fire and burn the Hefei City when you leave. Anyway,
Aren’t you also planning to build a new city?”
"Burned Hefei?"
A trace of surprise flashed across Guan Yu's old face. After a moment, he turned around and said slowly: "Then do what you want. If it doesn't work, I will chop off your head."
"yes."
Lu Xun still had his hands wrapped in his sleeves, raising his head and looking at the sky.
October is the beginning of winter.
It didn't snow in Huainan. The rainy season has passed, and the weather is actually as dry as in late autumn.
The breeze blew the willows on the banks of Shishui River, and the surface of Chaohu Lake in the distance reflected the setting sun like a mirror.
Under the sunset, the mountains have withered yellow autumn leaves, the maple leaves are as red as the February flowers, and there are water birds soaring in the sky.
It's a good weather to set fire to.
Lu Xun thought to himself.
Outside Hefei City, in the camp of Cao Jun.
Cao Xiu sat on the main seat, and below him Lu Qian, Zang Ba, Xue Ti and more than ten people were seated.
In addition to them, Liu Ye and Jiang Ji were also sent as staff officers.
During this raid on Huainan, Cao Wei transferred the Youzhou cavalry from the north to Henan. Once reinforcements arrived from Nanyang, the cavalry would raid the Nanyang Basin.
Therefore, even if this plan fails to recapture Huainan and does not allow Sun Quan to accomplish anything big in the rear, it does not matter.
The worst result is that they withdraw, and then the main force of Cao Jun in Henan turns Nanyang upside down.
But the good news came.
Sun Quan's side had already burned down Jianye's granary. According to their intelligence estimates, Guan Yu only had less than two months' worth of military rations left at most.
"This is a letter sent by Sun Quan's general Gu Li. Our scouts have also detected that there is indeed a fire in Jianye Taicang."
Cao Xiu threw the official document in his hand on the table, looked around and said: "According to careful investigation, Guan Yu has one year of grain and grass in Hefei, but this year's spring rice harvest has been delayed, and the autumn rice has just been harvested. The grain transportation should be in ten
Arrive at the end of the month.”
"But last year the food was transported in December, does that mean that Guan Yu only has two months of food and grass now?"
Lu Qian asked.
"good."
Cao Xiu nodded: "Since Guan Yu's attack on Hefei, our detailed operations in Yangzhou have been closely observing their grain transport ships. We know everything about every time they transport grain on a large scale. In December last year, Guan Yu had just captured Hefei.
, our workers saw with our own eyes the grain transport fleet sailing into the city of Hefei."
The 80,000-strong army consumes 300,000 shi of food every month. When Guan Yu first attacked Hefei, the food and grass were not concentrated in his camp, but were placed separately. The food was stored in Chaoxian County in the south.
Leave food and fodder for two months.
It's not that I don't want to put food in the camp, but it's just for safety reasons.
Just like Yuan Shao would store grain in Wuchao. When besieging the enemy, if it is placed in the headquarters camp, once the warehouse is attacked, the risk will be greater.
Therefore, in history, neither Yuan Shao nor Cao Cao often chose to store food in the military camp, but found another place.
Yuan Shao chose to stay in Wuchao.
Cao Cao, on the other hand, chose to put food on the water.
For example, every time Cao Cao attacked the enemy, he mostly used water to transport food. He besieged Yecheng and dug Baigou. When Yuan Tan, Yuan Shang, Yuan Xi and others were pacifying, they dug Pinglu Canal and Quanzhou Canal, and then went south to attack.
The Battle of Chibi, the dredging of the Feishui River, etc. were all for the purpose of transporting food and grass.
In this way, when attacking the enemy, he does not need to store too much food and grass in the headquarters camp. Each time he relies on shipping to transport food, he does not have to worry about the food route being robbed, and secondly, he does not have to worry about the fortress being breached and the food being burned.
It was the same when Guan Yu besieged Hefei. The grain was stored in the area from Ruxukou to Chaoxian in the rear. The grain was transported by ship through Chao Lake and water supply to the camps outside Hefei.
Cao's army had no fleet, so it naturally could not threaten his food security.
But later on, after the city of Hefei was conquered and the city was established, this method must be abandoned. The cost of transporting grain one after another was too high. It was obviously much easier to transport grain to the city for storage at one time than to continuously transport grain back and forth.
Therefore, Guan Yu now changed the way of transporting grain.
The main reason is that the city is built like this. When besieging others, you can rely on water transport.
However, if you are besieged by the enemy when defending the city, the water canals may be cut off. Therefore, if there is a city where food can be stored, it is natural to focus on city defense.
The current situation is that Guan Yu captured Huainan with 80,000 troops. The troops and horses were not all concentrated in Hefei City, but along Ruxukou all the way to Hefei City. Moreover, Han troops were still dispersedly stationed in Jiujiang, Lujiang and other counties in the Huainan region.
, resulting in his soldiers and horses not being able to gather together.
On the other hand, Cao Jun gathered all the soldiers and horses from Runan, Guangling, Peiguo, etc., and a total of 120,000 troops marched southward to surround the city of Hefei. When the number of enemies was large, they set up camp out of the city and used water transportation to transport grain.
Obviously not suitable.
The only problem is that the new grain was burned before it was delivered, so this would be a huge blow to Guan Yu's army, which had two months of grain left.
Zang Ba said: "If this is really the case, wouldn't Guan Yu be about to withdraw his troops soon?"
"No."
Jiang Ji shook his head and said: "Guan Yu would have been furious when he first heard about the grain fire in the south, but the city of Hefei that he finally captured would not be lost so easily, so I thought he would definitely hold on for a while and urge the rear to transport grain."
"Well."
Cao Xiu thought it made sense, so he said: "But Guan Yu has a navy stationed on Chao Lake. If we want to rob the grain road, our navy may not be able to defeat them."
In addition to the 30,000 garrison troops in Hefei City, the Han army also built floating docks and docks on Chaohu Lake in the south, with an army numbering about 20,000.
The Wei army had sent men and horses to harass, but it could not prevent their navy from entering Shishui or retreating into Chaohu Lake. Especially since the city of Hefei was right on the edge of Shishui, the fleet could completely enter Shishui to meet Guan Yu's troops.
Although Cao Wei also prepared some ships for this raid, they could go south along the Shishui River from Shaopi Lake. The problem is that Cao Wei's navy is basically at the level that can help the army cross the river. If they want to go to Chao Lake,
Fighting against the Jiangdong Navy is unthinkable.
This was also proved later in Zhuge Ke's Battle of Dongxing. Cao and Wei both fought as far as Dongxingti. As a result, Zhuge Ke only sent Ding Feng and thousands of men to raid on boats and defeated Cao's army who had built a camp on the water. Cao's army was inundated in order to fight for the pontoon bridge.
The dead are countless.
Therefore, it is indeed a relatively recognized thing that Northerners are not good at water fighting.
Liu Ye said: "If you want to defeat Guan Yu, you must attack Ruxukou in advance and block his retreat route."
"It's not that easy."
Cao Xiu shook his head and said: "Guan Yu will not withdraw his troops immediately now, and our naval forces cannot get through and intercept him."
Jiang Ji smiled and said: "There are other ways. If Jiangdong is at risk of being breached, then Guan Yu is eager to return reinforcements and will definitely evacuate. As long as our army crosses the river, we may even capture the entire Jiangdong."
"Will Guan Yu let us cross the river?"
Cao Xiu laughed at himself and said: "I won't be so stupid as not to put a naval force on the river to intercept it."
Jiang Ji said: "That's why Guan Yu has to retreat. The lack of food and grass is only the first step. The second step is to cut off the retreat."
"Are you talking about Sun Quan?"
Cao Xiu sneered and said: "This guy has been silent. He said he has fled back to Jiangdong from Xiangyang, but there has been no uprising in the south. We agreed to send troops together before, but it's a pity that this guy is as timid as a mouse."
"Report!"
At this time, the messenger from outside the door hurried in and shouted: "Sun Quan has sent a letter, saying that he has launched an attack in Linhai, Kuaiji, conquered the county seat, and occupied the land of two counties."
"oh?"
Cao Xiu said in surprise: "I didn't expect that he would actually take action."
Liu Ye immediately said: "General, let's march. If Guan Yu hesitates and does not choose to withdraw his troops, then we can just surround him. As long as we break the Ruxukou and build iron locks on the Ruxu water to intercept their fleet, Guan Yu will be able to intercept their fleet."
Nowhere to escape!"
"March tomorrow!"
Cao Xiu waved his hand and told him that it was getting late today and he could only take action tomorrow.
However, at night, fire broke out all over the city of Hefei.
By dawn, the entire city had been burned down, and Guan Yu's main force had fled to the ship and left south.
Seeing this situation, Cao Xiu knew that it was Sun Quan from behind who had put pressure on Guan Yu. He immediately stopped hesitating and ordered the three armies to pursue him. Even if Guan Yu had already crossed the river, their main force must cross the Yangtze River.
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October 21st, Wujun, Qiantang County.
At lunch time, Sun Quan's army in the distance had already crossed the Qiantang River and arrived outside Qiantang City.
At this moment, Sun Quan was riding on horseback. In addition to the general Gu Li, there were also several young generals who were brave and good at fighting, all of whom were descendants of aristocratic families.
Liu Bei was not very friendly to the Jiangdong gentry, so during Sun Quan's restoration, a large number of Jiangdong gentry contributed. Although they barely managed to gather 20,000 people, after they launched an uprising, they captured several buildings in just over ten days.
The county seat occupies Linhai County and Kuaiji County.
There are not many garrison troops in the two counties, and they are no match for them. Liu Shen, the governor of Wu County, is from a wealthy family in Shu County. He previously served as Liu Bei's Yizhou biejia and was now transferred to Wu County. When he heard that Sun Quan had returned, he hurriedly mobilized thousands of counties.
Soldiers came to Qiantang to take precautions.
On Qiantang City, Liu Shen saw Sun Quan's army crossing the river from a distance, so he said to the soldiers around him: "Sun Tzu Marching Chapter" said: "When a guest comes from afar, do not welcome him into the water.
And attacking them will be beneficial. Now that the enemy is crossing the river, we should go out of the city and attack before they have completed crossing the river."
So he led thousands of troops out of the city.
When Sun Quan saw the gates of Qiantang City opened and the enemy coming over to attack, he also said to the people around him: "This battle is about whether Gu can regain his foothold in Jiangdong. You must think clearly. After Gu comes back, what will happen to your clan?"
The land and population will all go back, and we must go all out for the sake of the clan."
"only!"
Gu Li and several young generals responded.
At that moment, Sun Quan said again: "The army is crossing the river now. We cannot let them attack halfway across the river. You follow me to fight with them and cover the troops coming from behind. As long as we occupy Wu County and cooperate with Cao's army to annihilate Guan Yu, we can revive Jiangdong."
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Then he rode his horse and went out to fight in person.
Sun Quan is actually very courageous, and he likes to be alone in front every time he fights, but he does not have the strength of his father and brother, so he has made a lot of jokes.
However, this time is the key battle for his restoration, so even if he knows that his force value is insufficient, he still has to go into battle personally.
Soon thousands of soldiers were crowding and running towards the Han army in the distance.
The two sides quickly approached.
Both sides lacked bows and crossbows, so after getting close, they immediately began to form military formations, intending to start close combat directly.
Liu Shen rode out, saw Sun Quan from a distance, and cursed: "Sun Quan, you repeatedly broke the covenant and attacked the late emperor. Even though you were captured later, the late emperor was kind and did not treat you badly. Why did you escape from Xiangyang and rebel again?
?”
"Hahahahahaha."
Sun Quan laughed and said: "Jiangdong is the foundation of my father and brother. Why should I give it up to others? Liu Xuande is a common man, a man who weaves mats and sells shoes. How can he be worthy of being a lonely master? What a dream!"
Liu Shen sneered and said: "It is in vain that your father and brother were heroes, but you have such an unbelieving and unjust son of the Sun family. Sun Quan, listen, if you want to seize Jiangdong, it is easy to seize my Wu County. If you dare to fight on horseback,
Say three times that I am a hero of faith in Jiangdong, whoever dares to kill me! I will admire you and give up the seal of arms and horses to you."
"oh?"
Sun Quan laughed and said: "Liu Shenpifu, do you want to humiliate me?"
Liu Shen sneered, "I guess you don't have the face either."
"Hahahahaha."
Sun Quan looked up to the sky and laughed: "I am a hero of faith in Jiangdong, who dares to kill me!"
"I am a hero of faith in Jiangdong, who dares to kill me!"
"I am a hero of faith in Jiangdong, who dares to kill me!"
The voice was so loud that everyone around him, who knew that Sun Quan always liked to be treacherous, silently lowered their heads.
A young general seemed completely unable to bear his shamelessness, which was thicker than the city wall. He raised the knife in his hand and said angrily: "You are a dishonest and unjust rat, I dare to kill you!"
Before he finished speaking, he raised the knife and dropped it.
Whoosh!
Heads flying into the sky.
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