The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 487
The fire in the reed marshes on the edge of Huyatan burned for three full days. For a time, the edge of the Yangtze River was full of flames and thick smoke billowed in the sky.The raised ashes are flying around like groups of words on the edge of a stinking pond in summer, which is really annoying.

After the reed marshes were completely burned, it took more than two days before the fire finally cooled down.A big fire took a full six days.

During these six days, Xiong Ping's army fought fiercely with Zhu Huan's army every day.Zhu Huan was very cunning in using troops. He just took advantage of the favorable location and his troops had rich experience in field battles. He just hid in the woods, and only after Xiong Ping's troops entered, they would attack.

The battle between the two sides is actually very stalemate.Even, sometimes Xiong Ping will suffer.

In fact, it's not that Xiong Ping didn't think about using fire to attack, but how could Zhu Huan be unprepared?Therefore, after Xiong Ping's army tried two failed fire attacks, they completely gave up on this strategy.

It's just that now that the reeds can pass, Xiong Ping immediately sent the cavalry to stand ready, but he didn't let them go forward to attack.After all, the cavalry is suitable for fighting on the plains, and now they are attacking mountains.Therefore, Xiong Ping immediately allocated 2000 troops, using the cavalry as a delay, to prevent the Soochow navy from suddenly coming ashore to support Sun Huan's troops.

Thus, the full-scale offensive and defensive battle of Huya Mountain finally officially started.

At this time, the surface of the Yangtze River is not so peaceful.

When Zhang Fei's army came down the river from Jiangzhou, one of them was in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River; the other was that the morale of the Jiangzhou army was at its peak at this time, so they arrived at Yiling City along the way, and the Wu army took the initiative. It is not easy to engage in battle with the Jiangzhou Army.

It's just that Zhang Fei's army has landed now, and Fan Jiang, the deputy general in charge of the navy, has received a letter from his son Liu Chan.In the letter, the son asked Fan Jiang to immediately lead the Jiangzhou army's water army to expel the Dongwu water army from Huya Mountain, at least to the section of the Yangtze River north of Huya Beach.

In other words, Liu Chan asked Fan Jiang to seize the section of the Yangtze River at Huya Beach and cut off the support of the Soochow Navy to Huya Mountain.Liu Chan's move was really a drastic measure. Now the land roads of Huya Mountain were completely sealed off by the two armies of Xiong Ping and Liao Hua.

How could the navy of Soochow not know this truth?Gan Ning immediately led hundreds of warships to attack, and the two sides immediately fought on the Yangtze River south of Huya Beach.So far, the outcome of both sides has not yet been determined.But one thing is clear, the navy of Soochow now is indeed a bit overwhelmed, and has almost no strength to support the Shuanghuan troops in Huyashan.

Wu Jun's Zhijiang camp is actually the most important part of the entire Nanjun battlefield!
Faced with the strong advance of the Jingzhou army, Zhuge Jin first adopted an absolute defensive retreat strategy, and did not attack at all.

But Zhuge Jin also knew that his strategy would not last for a few days.After all, he is not like Huya Mountain and Jingmen Mountain. His big camp is mainly used to guard the main road leading to Jiangling City, and there is no danger to defend at all.

Therefore, in desperation, Zhuge Jin had no choice but to allocate 2000 troops to guard Zhijiang County.Although Zhijiang County is dilapidated, it can only be used for defense.

Then, Zhuge Jin immediately sent a letter to Sun Quan on the outskirts of Jiangling City, asking him for reinforcements.In fact, Sun Quan was short of troops, but the Zhijiang camp was absolutely not allowed to lose.In desperation, Sun Quan had no choice but to add another [-] troops to the Zhijiang camp.

Therefore, after receiving reinforcements, Zhuge Jin became more courageous and began to lead the army out of the camp to fight the Jingzhou army.

At this time, the number of Liao Hua's troops still had an absolute advantage.Therefore, according to Shi Guangyuan's plan, the Jingzhou army took turns attacking with part of the cavalry as the main force every day, and equipped with part of the infantry as assistants to continuously attack Zhuge Jin's army.

Shi Guangyuan did this, as long as he saw through Zhuge Jin's weakness of being relatively slow and not fast enough to plan and make decisions.

After the Jingzhou Army did this, it did achieve considerable results.Facing such a strong and crazy enemy army, although Wu Jun has rich experience in fierce battles with cavalry, after so many days, the army's fighting will and morale have declined sharply.

What's even worse is that Zhijiang County has almost been breached by the Jingzhou Army twice in a row.Fortunately, the Wu army in the city fought to the death to prevent the city from falling.

It is also thanks to Zhuge Jin's ability to use soldiers, and he and the soldiers can share joys and sorrows, and won the trust of the soldiers, so that he was able to persist in this battle.But no matter how you say it, Zhuge Jin's battle has been very difficult until now.

After Sun Quan received Zhuge Jin's report, he immediately remembered it like an ant on a hot pot.While secretly praising Shi Guangyuan as a formidable opponent in his heart, he also knew that the Zhijiang camp was his flanking barrier.Whether his army can continue to stay in Nanyang County, whether the army can continue to siege Jiangling City, really depends on whether it can hold the Zhijiang camp.

Therefore, under Zhang Zhao's persuasion, Sun Quan left Zhang Zhao to preside over the besieging army outside Jiangling City.He himself just brought Ling Tong and a few hundred people, and hurried to Zhuge Jin's camp.

Sun Quan's approach has indeed played a certain role.When Wu Jun saw that the lord actually came to the front line to risk his life and die with them, the morale of the army suddenly became strong, and the combat effectiveness also improved a lot.

Faced with such a Wu army who suddenly seemed to be reborn, and now the two armies have entered the truncation of relying on soldiers to charge head-on to determine the outcome.The two armies fought in formations on the vast field, relying on the general's ability to form troops and the morale of the soldiers to fight.Ingenious design to win this thing, there is really not much room for development now.

Therefore, Shi Guangyuan also lamented Sun Quan's boldness in his heart. He really dared to come here to boost the morale of the army, and he could only say nothing in his heart.

On the tenth and eleventh day of the battle, Suinan General Quan Cong and Anxi General He Qi arrived with reinforcements.They were supposed to rush to the battlefield of Jiangling City according to the order.But now the situation has changed. Sun Quan temporarily changed the call-up order and dropped all the troops of the two to the battlefield in Zhijiang County.

With the sudden entry of Quan Cong and He Qi with 6000 troops, the situation on the Zhijiang battlefield suddenly changed significantly.If the ratio of casualties between the two sides in the early stage is taken into account, the casualties of the Wu army must be higher. After all, the Jingzhou army uses the cavalry as the main combat method.

That is to say, now on the Zhijiang battlefield, the troops invested by both sides have suddenly become equal—although the cavalry of the Jingzhou Army has an absolute superiority in numbers, it is stronger in terms of combat effectiveness.

However, no matter how you compare it, even if Wu Jun's combat effectiveness is slightly weaker, the Jingzhou Army's desire to defeat them will not be accomplished overnight.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, after Zhang Fei conquered the front camp of Zhu Ran's army, he immediately marched strongly into the rear camp of Zhu Ran's army.He originally thought that the rear battalion had fewer troops than the previous battalion, so the difficulty of attacking would be much less.

But when Zhang Fei arrived at the designated location, he realized that what he had thought before was completely wrong.The big camp set up by Zhu Ranjun is absolutely perfect. Not only is the terrain extremely dangerous, guarding the only trail leading to the outside of the mountain, the entire camp has been built into a stone fortress!
But no matter how strong the fortress is and how dangerous the terrain is, it is always flawed—Zhu Ran's army does not have many troops.Zhang Fei felt that even if his army was exhausted, he had to exhaust it to death!

So in the following days, Zhang Fei's army launched a crazy attack on Zhu Ran's rear camp day and night.But although Zhang Fei looks reckless, he is actually very good at fighting.While sending troops to attack, he also did not forget to send local guides into the mountains to find a way around the back camp of Zhu Ran's army, trying to break Zhu Ran's army from behind.

But it should be said that Zhu Ran is indeed a general who is very good at fighting.Under his command, the front of the camp was never breached by Zhang Fei's troops.

Moreover, as Lu Meng went south, he took over Xu Sheng's command and sent some additional troops to Zhu Ran.

With the news that the three battlefields were in a stalemate one after another, Liu Chan couldn't help feeling a little anxious.

After his own detailed analysis, Liu Chan felt that even if there was no progress in the battle at Huya Mountain, it didn't seem so serious now, as long as they were surrounded, it would be almost the same.

As for Zhijiang Daying, it was necessary to break through no matter what.If they don't break through, the Jingzhou army will never be able to reach the base of Jiangling City. How can we talk about breaking the siege of Jiangling City, and how can we talk about regaining Nanjun?
As for Jingmen Mountain face to face, Liu Chan feels that he is almost powerless now.It is impossible for him to direct Zhang Fei how to fight. He has neither the qualifications nor the power.

Therefore, regarding the progress of the war on the south bank of the Yangtze River, Liu Chan can only place his hopes on Zhang Fei and Zong Yu who has already reached Wuxi Man.Liu Chan hoped that Zong Yu could negotiate the terms of sending troops with Sha Moke, the barbarian king of Wuxi Man, in the shortest possible time, and let him send troops immediately.

(End of this chapter)