I seek economic hegemony in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 277 The collapse of one hundred thousand

"Report! Good news!" The messenger rushed all the way to Jiangling City, and his voice spread throughout the city.

The people who were still in the house couldn't help but poke their heads out after hearing this.

Another good news?

Won again?

Many people on the road were surprised.

The messenger rushed to the top of the city quickly.

"General, the Wu army has been completely defeated!"

Dong Hong received the battle report, but Li Heng was still standing at the top of the city looking into the distance.

Wu Jun's warships have begun to retreat, and a large number of Wu Jun's main forces have broken away on the shore.

This would be the most humiliating day in Lu Xun's war career.

But this three-party competition in Jingzhou is not over yet. The Han army that lost the Wu army and retreated is like a runaway horse.

The large families in Jiangling were incorporated by Li Heng, and the implementation of the land equalization system further deepened the foundation of the Han army in Jiangling.

"Yes."

"Is Bu Zhao still surrounded in Xiling?" Li Heng asked suddenly without reading the victory report.

General Zhengnan's rank is not low, he can be said to be the boss of a military region.

Li Heng changed his past strategy of taking a steady approach and issued multiple military orders in succession on the afternoon of April 22.

"It's time to tell him the current situation. Tell him that I value him very much. If he is willing to surrender, I will report to the court and make him a general in the southern expedition."

Of course, he didn't want to think too much about Sun Quan.

After that, the Wu army could only build a defense line in Wuchang and did not dare to advance westward.

"Is the offer too high?" Dong Hong asked doubtfully.

"Not high. We have just obtained Jiangling now. Nanjun, Jianping County, Wuling County, Liangping County, and Lingling County will all be taken back one after another. Our army is very unfamiliar with these places. If we leave it to Bu Zhi, we will get twice the result with half the effort."

Zhao Yun and Jiang Wei both received this military rank.

Because Wu Jun's defeat indicates that a new war situation has begun.

"Thank you." After saying that, Li Heng immediately turned around and went down, followed by everyone.

Dong Hong realized it immediately: "I see, I'm going to Xiling."

"Du Jun, reorganize your troops immediately, we are going north to Xiangyang! Give Cao Rui a surprise!"

Lu Xun's defeat indicated that Wu would no longer be able to control Jiangling in the short term.

Li Heng didn't know what Lu Xun was feeling when he retreated, but he knew that Sun Quan would burst into tears when he learned of the consequences.

Almost all the main force of the Wu Army in Wuchang was sent to the shore seven or eight miles away from Jiangling City.

"Here!"

Back then, when Wei Yan was successful in the Third Northern Expedition, he was given the title of General Zhengxi, who was on the same level as General Zhengnan.

Its content roughly includes the following points:

1. Mobilize 50,000 troops and march north to Xiangyang.

The tactical goal this time was to take advantage of Xiangyang's emptiness and quickly defeat all of Cao Wei's defense lines in Xiangyang.

2. Recruit 30,000 local soldiers and civilians in Jingzhou to go north and cooperate with the engineering battalion to build a walled city.

Eighty thousand people in total.

In ancient times, an army of ten thousand was already a large army.

The actual 80,000-strong army belongs to the group army.

The purpose of this was to quickly build a defense system hundreds of miles deep before Luoyang mobilized its army to go south, turning Xiangyang into the front line of the Han Dynasty against Cao Wei.

3. Comprehensively restore the commercial order in Jiangling, order Du Yu to stay in Jiangling, and rectify agriculture, planting, manufacturing, etc.

This includes organizing officials to resume production in an orderly manner and strictly ensuring the normal operation of the land equalization system.

Production and manufacturing of cloth, farm tools, daily necessities, etc.

The most important thing is to increase the number of government officials to maintain public security. The war has impacted the order of Jiangling and surrounding counties, shaking people's hearts, and there will inevitably be monsters, demons and snakes swarming out.

After the order was issued, in the evening, Li Heng gathered the first batch of about 10,000 troops and set off quickly.

Time is life now!

If we can't win Xiangyang this time, we will have to pay ten times or dozens of times to win it in the future!

On April 23, just as Lu Xun retreated to Wuchang and Li Heng traveled north to Xiangyang under the stars, the battlefield on the eastern front, which originally seemed to be settled, suddenly experienced an imperceptible change.

Located on the edge of Shishui, a group of Wei troops suddenly appeared in the originally peaceful Hefei City.

Moreover, he appeared on the morning of the 23rd without anyone noticing.

Hefei New City was built when Man Chong was here. When it was built, the strategic center of southeast Cao Wei had already moved to Shouchun, so the area of ​​Hefei New City was not large.

A large number of Wu's main forces were stationed outside the city, and some soldiers were engaged in reclamation.

No one expected that Wei Jun would suddenly come over at this time.

After appearing, they attacked the Wu army stationed outside the city without warning.

And they first used cavalry to attack, and a large number of cavalry spread out on the plain like a flood in an instant, roaring with rolling iron hooves, crushing the Wu army like a frightened bird.

When Sun Quan heard the sound and hurriedly went to the city to check, a large number of Wu troops' temporary military formations collapsed in panic, and the defeated troops fell thousands of miles away and fled across the plains.

Sun Quan was completely stunned.

Before this, Sun Quan was still obsessed with his achievements in the Northern Expedition.

Especially these days, he has received letters from Sima Yi many times.

Sima Yi did not hesitate to praise him in the letter, expressed the highest respect for Sun Quan, and said that Hefei was what Sun Quan should get.

This operation made Sun Quan stunned for a while.

In the face of the huge fruits of victory, the Wu army unanimously believed that Wei had really compressed the front to Shouchun.

In fact, this illusion is also related to the shift of Wei's southeast strategic center in the past few years.

In addition, the Wei army had been silent for almost a month, and even Chengde simply threw it away.

This is Sima Yi's usual method of operation.

Historically, whether he was pacifying Meng Da or dealing with Wang Ling, Sima Yi first expressed a friendly attitude to paralyze the other party.

Then appear in front of the other party when the other party is unprepared.

In doing so, Sima Yi was able to beat the enemy to the point of questioning his life, both in terms of psychology and military organization and defense.

Regarding this, his eldest son Sima Shi learned the essence.

"Where are my elites?" Sun Quan roared crazily.

But no one responded to him.

"Your Majesty, the main force of our army is being defeated rapidly!" Zhu Ju rushed over and shouted loudly.

"Quickly mobilize the soldiers and horses stationed in Chengde!" Sun Quan's eyes were red and he said angrily, "Surround the Wei army and kill them without leaving a single piece of armor behind!"

"Your Majesty, why don't you retreat first, and I will come and stop the rear?"

"Go and mobilize the troops and horses quickly! Go quickly!"

Sun Quan roared crazily, like a wounded beast.

"Here! I'll send someone right now!"

An hour later, Wu Jun's soldiers ran away and paralyzed two horses, and an emergency troop deployment order was sent to Chengde.

Zhu Yi hesitated after hearing about the raid in Hefei North.

Because this is obviously an organized conspiracy by the Wei army. If you act rashly, you will easily be caught off guard by the well-prepared Wei army during the march.

But now Sun Quan urgently mobilized his troops, but Zhu Yi did not dare to disobey.

(End of this chapter)