Shu Chen

Chapter 483
Under the pressure of fighting on two fronts, Wei Guo was actually more eager for a decisive battle than Wu Guo.

This is the reason why Manchong gave up the defense line of Lijiang water.

It was also his thinking that after the state of Wei destroyed the canal from Shaopi to Huaikou, he still guarded Yangyuan with inferior troops.

It's all to make Wu Jun feel that Shouchun City is difficult to break, and he wants to break through the reinforcements outside the city first, so that the guards inside the city will lose their will to defend.Otherwise, he could transfer to Anfeng County to be stationed, relying on the guarding of the city to reduce the number of deaths and injuries of the soldiers of the Wei army when they were in battle.

Yes, he is taking risks.

He didn't hesitate to use his body as bait to trap himself to death.

Yangyuan is bordered by Huai River in the north and Shaobei in the south. In this kind of place, camps were guarded, and they were defeated by front and rear attacks, and even had no way to escape.

In fact, he was opposed to this approach when he presented it to Luoyang Cao Rui.

Last year, when Cao Rui passed Xia Houxuan's strategy of "luting the thief Wu into Huainan" with Xia Houxuan, he also attached the loss of Gaoping City and Sima Yi's defensive tactics in Guanzhong. There is no delay in breaking the thief Wu, but if you have a good word, you can write it in a letter, and I will obey it."

Therefore, Man Chong no longer insisted on the previous advice that "the opportunity to break Wu will be broken in a few years".

In order to make up for the fact that the soldiers in Huainan were not yet ready to fight back, he had no choice but to formulate a tactic of using himself as bait to make Jiangdong come to besiege.

At that time, Cao Rui couldn't bear him to take risks, so he wrote a book to persuade him.

He went back to the table to argue, saying: "The time of the old minister is not long, if you can break the thief Wu, you will die!"

Cao Rui was deeply moved, and he stopped persuading him, and everything was done according to his arrangements.

For example, first three thousand tiger and leopard riders and more than ten thousand Luoyang Chinese troops entered the pass through Wuguan, passed through the two states of Jingyu and went down the Huai River, and hid in Shouchun City in a way of crossing the sea without knowing the sky.

Yes, the Luoyang Chinese Army has already arrived at the Huainan front!

And all the ministries of the Wu Kingdom are still silently calculating the time when Luoyang Cao Rui gets the news and gathers troops to arrive in the future; they are still hoping to use the time difference to defeat the Manchong Ministry first.
As everyone knows, Wei Guo's bloodthirsty sharp blade has already been unsheathed.

But he said that after Wu Jun made up his mind, he advanced in three ways.

As a check, Zhuge Ke and Chen Biao made no progress along the way.

Ding Fengbu, who was guarding them, encountered two thousand Wei cavalry who had been stationed in the north of Huaishui before they arrived in Anfengjin, so the two sides began to chase and fight.

It's just that the cavalry of the State of Wei had no intention of engaging in battle, and kept harassing them from the side. Ding Feng, who was responsible for the army's eyes and ears, did not dare to ride deep in pursuit. For a while, no one could do anything to anyone.

In other words, the two cavalry are temporarily unable to cope with the war.

After Zhuge Ke and Chen Biao arrived in Anfengjin, they looked at the opposite bank, and saw the Wei army's banners and banners, and the continuous barriers.With heavy rewards, more than a hundred soldiers who are well versed in water skills were recruited, and they were ordered to swim to find the weak defenses on the other side. In the water, only more than [-] people survived to return.

The same is true, so that Zhuge Ke and Chen Biao gave up their thoughts of forcing the crossing.

Following Quan Cong's orders wholeheartedly, he set up camp to guard the ferry to block reinforcements from the Wei State in Huaibei.

And Quan Cong's progress along the way was even more difficult.

Relying on the convenience of the Jiangdong navy to transport troops by boat, he sent troops to Linyangyuan earlier than Lu Xun's troops, but he did not launch an attack immediately.

Because there is also a river on the west side of Yangyuan—the Bishui (now Pihe River) winding north from the Dabie Mountains, and it is also the valley where the Wei State dug a canal to connect Shaopi and enter the Huaishui River. 【Note 1】

Although the canal between Shaopi and Bishui is still destroyed, Bishui is still a barrier for Yangyuan's defense.

In order to force the crossing, Quan Cong prepared for two days, dismantling the wooden city that had fallen into the camp and dismantling several small boats as materials for building the pontoon bridge.

The vanguard is naturally the [-] daredevils under the supervision of Ren Du and Zhang Zhen.

However, although these two men were not afraid of death and the [-] people who dared to die did not back down from Wei Guo's locust-like crossbow arrows, but after the strong attack overnight, nearly a thousand corpses were eaten by fish and turtles. Did not touch Wei Jun's camp.

Naturally, Quan Cong was not discouraged.

At least tonight, the Wu army has broken through nearly half of the defensive barriers on the other side of the Bishui River.

If we don't count the casualties and make a strong attack for one day, we can let the whole army cross the Bishui and attack the Wei army's camp.

Yes, in order not to give the Wei army the opportunity to repair the barriers and replace the guards, he chose to attack day and night without stopping.

It's just that sometimes, bloody bravery alone can't make meritorious deeds.

Man Chong soon let him know why he was called "Wu's important weapon against thieves" by Luoyang Cao Rui.

All the barriers set up by the Wei Army along the bank were completely destroyed, and after the pioneers who dared to die occupied the opposite bank, there was a sudden change before they had time to cheer.I saw more than a dozen walking boats suddenly rushed from the water, hitting the pontoon bridge with lightning speed, and many Wei soldiers with big axes rushed out to destroy the pontoon bridge; Kill out.

It turned out that Man Chong didn't expect the barriers along the coast to resist the Wu army for a long time, so he made preparations early on to break the pontoon bridge and surround and kill the Wu army's pioneers crossing the river.

Quan Cong was unprepared for this.

And at this time, it is too late to order all the soldiers to rush across the other side.

The pontoon bridge is not wide at all, such a maneuver will only make the soldiers push each other into the water or step on it.

Fortunately, he made six floating bridges this time.

In a hurry, no matter whether they were killed by knives or axes or set on fire with ointment, the soldiers of Wei State who came in walking boats could not be completely destroyed.

But it was unavoidable to pay the price of another loss of nearly [-] soldiers.

Counting the casualties of the forced crossing attack, the [-] people who dared to die have already lost more than [-]!
Even the general Zhang Zhen died in battle
Quan Cong was furious at this.

But Sun Tzu said, "Your vigor is sharp, day energy is lazy, and evening energy returns." After a while of defeat, he also had to order the soldiers to rest for a whole day before fighting.

Three days later, he had learned his lesson.

Many sergeants were sent along the coast to guard against the Wei Guozhou boats entering the Huaikou, and three more pontoon bridges were added, and they personally led the trilogy to force the forerunners to cross.

This time, he was fine.

Wei Jun had already retreated into the camp.

Because on the other side of Yangyuan, Lu Xun sent his predecessor Liuzan, and he had already led his army to arrive and began to attack Wei Guoying.

The same tactics were adopted regardless of casualties.

It was ordered by Lu Xun when he was about to leave.

Regardless of Lu Xun or Quan Cong, they all hoped to capture Man Chong's camp with superior force before Luoyang's Chinese army arrived.

No matter how bad it is, the Man Chong Department must be disabled!
When Wu Jun went to fight fiercely against Luoyang Central Army, the Manchong Department was unable to respond.
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[Note 1: The Bi River originates from the Dabie Mountains, flows through Yun County and Liu'an, and flows northward into the Huai River. "Hanshu Geographical Chronicles": "Jianshan, Lujiang County, from the water."]

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