Shu Chen

The blocked water that runs through the Wudang Mountains flows into the Mian River between Xi County (Baihe County) and Wudang County. The east bank of the estuary is flat and open while the west bank is rugged and cramped.

The camps of the Han army also faced each other from west to east.

Among them, Zheng Pu personally supervised more than [-] soldiers to guard the east bank, while there were only [-] soldiers from Pang Hong's troops in the West Camp.

But Wu Jun had no plan to attack Xiying.

The terrain over there is too steep!
Although the garrison force is small, it is more difficult to be captured than the camp on the east bank.

Yes, Zhu Ran and Zhang Liang, who were uneasy, still started to let the soldiers fight hard.

As for the fact that they could not find traces of Zheng Pu's possible conspiracy, they also dispatched scouts to guard against unknown dangers while supervising the attack.

Similarly, they have been attacking for several days without seeing the slightest glimmer of victory.

It just added many corpses to the already desolate water-blocking valley, telling the sadness of the cold winter.

However, Zhu Ran's hope of rescuing Tang Zibu did not rest on breaking the Han army's obstruction, but wanted to give him a chance to save himself.

Gein Zhuran knew that it was impossible for him to break through the Han army camp.

At the southern end of the Dushui River Valley, there are still more than ten thousand people from the Prime Minister's Department stationed there!
Even if he attacked Zheng Pu's troops in a precarious situation and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, the prime minister could definitely dispatch two or three thousand soldiers to help in the battle.

The casualties of the soldiers on the offensive and defensive sides were disparate.

With a force of over [-], he attacked Zheng Pu's troops, which had more than [-] troops. How could there be any hope of breaking the camp!

Knowing that he couldn't do it, he did it not because he didn't spare the lives of his soldiers, but because he wanted to contain Zheng Pu's troops here and prevent the Prime Minister's troops from leaving the Dushui River Valley calmly.

Because he has sent his confidants to Shangyong City and Ziwu Valley respectively.

He sent people to Shangyong because he knew that the siege of Shangyong by the Han army was in the direction of the west gate. If the Tang Zibu broke through, they could pass through the west city and return from the South Qinling Road to join him.

In this way, the strategic goal of Zhu Ran's Ministry has changed from attacking the fortress to supporting it, and it will naturally be easier to achieve.

The only concern is how Tang Zibu can get rid of the pursuit of the prime minister's department.

This is also the reason why Zhu Ran sent people to Ziwu Valley to find Wei Jun.

He wanted to ask Xia Houba to send two or three thousand soldiers to the abandoned Xunkou garrison, set up banners in the mountains and forests, and make big propaganda, pretending to be the illusion that the Wei army came to meet them, so as to let the Han army pursue them. Staying there for a while will make it easier for Tang Zibu to break through.

As for the distance from Shangyong to Xicheng to break through, how many soldiers are needed as the army to break through, then it can only be left to Tang Zi to play by ear.

The only guarantee Zhu Ran can give is that as long as the Tang Zibu enters the South Qinling Road, even if he exhausts all the soldiers in his headquarters or even dies in battle, he will definitely let the Tang Zibu go back to Jiangdong unscathed.

After receiving such a message, Tang Zi was filled with emotion.

He has been in Jiangdong for many years, of course he knows that Zhu Ran must do what he says; he is also very grateful to Zhu Ran for saving his own life at the expense of his subordinates.

Therefore, he did not have much hope of breaking through, but he was still willing to give it a try.

If the breakout fails and you die during the journey from Shangyong to Xicheng, it is inevitable that "the general will die in a hundred battles".

However, it's a pity.

He has the idea of ​​dying, but Xia Houba is unwilling to fulfill the good story of him and Zhu Ran who sacrificed their lives to support each other.

Xia Houba rejected Zhu Ran's request.

He claimed that the general order he had obtained was to harass the golden siege of Hanzhong County and to curb the possible repatriation of soldiers and horses from Hanzhong County, not to be suspicious of the Tang Advisory Department and put his soldiers in danger!
For example, he sent troops forward as Zhu Ran wished. What if the prime minister of the Han army directly abandoned the Tang counseling department and came to attack the Wei army instead?
Two or three thousand suspicious soldiers, how to resist!

And these suspicious soldiers were defeated, and the Han army came after them, how could he hold the camp in Meridian Valley?

Besides Xia Houba refused, he also questioned the person sent by Zhu Ran.

Said: "The five thousand soldiers in Shangyong County of your army can't be abandoned, so they regard the lives of our soldiers as nothing!"

Such a reply was brought back by the envoy, and Zhu Ran was furious immediately after hearing this.

Gein Xiahouba is making unreasonable words.

With two or three thousand soldiers as suspects, if the Han army turns to attack, just turn back and go back!
How can the Han army catch up!
Why come the accusation of "helping the Wu army break through at the cost of the lives of Wei army soldiers"!

This is clearly because the Wei army is unwilling to contribute, and wants to see Han and Wu attack and kill each other in order to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

However, even though he knew that Xia Houba was trying to evade, he couldn't refute anything.

The State of Wei had no obligation to contribute to the State of Wu.

The repatriation envoy negotiated in the past, but it was just asking for humiliation.

However, his lieutenant general Zhang Liang proposed the next best thing—seeking for others is better than asking for himself. He wanted to lure more than [-] people from the headquarters to the west city to welcome the return of the Tang Advisory Department.

Zhu Ran was quite moved by this.

He couldn't capture Zheng Pu's camp, but he could still contain Zheng Pu's troops with his headquarters.

Even if the Prime Minister of the Han Army learned of their intentions in advance and directly led the troops to join forces with Zheng Pu's troops, he was confident that he could hold them back for a while and prevent Tang Zi and Zhang Liang's return from being cut off. .

But sometimes, the world is often a wave of ups and downs, and another wave.

When Zhu Ran dispatched people to Shangyong City and informed Tang Zi of Zhang Liang's support, Tang Zi did not intend to break out.

The reason also made Zhu Ranbu unable to refute.

Tang Zi felt that such a breakout would inevitably cause Wu Jun to suffer heavy casualties; even if he was a little careless, he was buried with Zhang Liangbu!
After all, there were more than Zheng Pu and the prime minister's troops in the Han army in the three eastern counties.

However, if the Han army dispatched five or six thousand soldiers from the Guanxing tribe guarding Bashan North Road to block the water valley, break through the blockade of Zhu Ran's tribe and cut off his return with Zhang Liang's tribe, Lu Xun's tribe would not be able to stop it.

Moreover, the journey of the Han army to deploy troops is not too far away.

At least it is much closer than when he broke through from Shangyong City to Xicheng, and took the Qinling North Road to Dushui River Valley!

Therefore, Tang Zi was unwilling to break through.

He felt that it was not advisable for Zhu Ran to let more soldiers die for the sake of Shangyong's five thousand soldiers.

Ok.

In desperation, Zhu Ran had no choice but to continue attacking Zheng Pu's camp.

He also began to think in his heart, Sun Quan and Lu Xun included the [-] soldiers in Shangyong City as the "price", maybe they had already anticipated his current embarrassment?

He has no answer.

I just try to use this speculation to comfort my helplessness in not being able to rescue Shangyong.

The deceased is like a husband who does not want to leave day or night.

Before I knew it, the time had come to the first month of the sixth year of Shaowu (243).

And the Wu army, who had attacked for more than a month, also stopped fighting as expected.

Among them, Zhu Ran's department, which had suffered heavy casualties, suffered more than [-] casualties; but Lu Xun, who was able to advance and retreat freely, achieved jaw-dropping results.

More than ten thousand people were killed!