The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 602

Zhang Fei's troops took action immediately after Zhang Fei's order was issued.Immediately, he unscrupulously launched a fierce attack on Xiajun City from the east, south, and west directions.

However, when Lu Xun led his army to break through the siege earlier, he had already issued a death order to those generals and soldiers who stayed in the city: they were required to guard Xiajun's city defense until the last person in the battle.

In other words, this order issued by Lu Xun completely cut off Zhang Fei's plan to "encircle three and one" enemy troops in Xiajun City. The possibility of their ambushes and encirclement is gone.

Of course, even though Lu Xun issued a death order, this does not necessarily guarantee the possibility that the enemy troops in the city will ignore Lu Xun's order and choose to flee through the north gate at the most critical moment.

But in fact, the possibility of this is still very small.First of all, the generals that Lu Xun chose to defend the city were definitely people he could trust; secondly, if those people dared to break through the siege against orders, then what was waiting for them would not only be the individual soldiers to be punished, but the whole family would suffer.It can be seen that it is almost impossible for the soldiers to disregard the life and death of their family members for their own lives.

Anyway, now that the situation is so unfavorable to Jiangdong, Lu Xun can already be said to be unscrupulous. As long as he can use the method, he will not mind taking it to try.At least, those who achieve great things, regardless of small details, are always full of blood behind their backs. They are people who have achieved success and fame, and they are just a cover to hide how many little people they have betrayed.

Lu Xun is a scholar who has read a lot of poetry and books, so he should have a better insight into this point than anyone else.

As a result, the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army in Xiajun City felt ashamed in the face of the incoming Zhang Feijun, but Lu Xun left them with only one choice: use their deaths to protect the lives of their families.They, the group of people who were abandoned by Lu Xun, had no choice but to take up arms, shed tears of unwillingness, and climbed to the top of the city to start a desperate struggle with Zhang Fei's men.

It was precisely because of the desperate resistance of the Jiangdong Army in the city that the effect of Zhang Fei's three-sided encirclement disappointed Zhang Fei.The human army besieged for three full days. Although many defenders were wiped out, they were still unable to take the city or force the defenders to abandon the city and flee.

Faced with such an unsatisfactory result, Zhang Fei was really furious.But he doesn't have any good solution now. If his army storms the city, the loss will definitely not be much less than that of his hands, and his endurance is not unlimited.Therefore, Zhang Fei wanted to stop attacking Xia Jun.

However, since Zhang Fei has been in the army, whenever he fights, his luck is not too bad.This time was no exception, God did send him another unexpected surprise.However, Zhang Fei is still furious in his camp, and he still needs a little patience to wait for the gift to arrive.

On the other hand, let's talk about Lu Xun's side.

After Lu Xun successfully broke through, he did not appear too surprised by it.On the contrary, his performance is actually very calm.This battle to break out of the siege was the result of several days of planning and operation. In his opinion, there was no possibility that it would be unsuccessful.What's more, such a small victory is naturally impossible for him, the governor of Jiangdong's three armies, to take it seriously.

Then, Lu Xun immediately issued an order to Hu Zong, the chief general of the Jiangdong Army in Liling.Lu Xun asked Hu Zong to lead his army to set out immediately, and attack the flank of Zhang Baojun who had been confronting Liu Yang and Xu Sheng's army at the fastest speed.

The reason why Lu Xun issued such an order is nothing more than two reasons:

For one thing, Hu Zong's army lurking in Liling has never been moved, and it is extremely secretive, and it is almost impossible for the enemy to detect their existence.

Now, when all Zhang Baojun's attention has been attracted by Xu Sheng's Liu Yang, Hu Zong led the army to suddenly appear on the flank of Zhang Baojun and launch a surprise attack, which can still play the role of a surprise soldier.At that time, Zhang Baojun will inevitably be in chaos.

Lu Xun believed that with Xu Sheng's ability to judge, it would be absolutely impossible for him to have such a good opportunity to defeat the enemy.He will definitely lead Liu Yang's defenders out of the city without hesitation, and attack Zhang Bao's army inside and outside.Otherwise, Zhang Bao's army has no possibility of retreating from the enemy, and all they are left with is defeat.

Then, Xu Sheng and Hu Zong will join forces and turn north to attack the flank of Deng Ai's army.Zhu Ran can also go out of the city in the same way to attack Deng Ai's army inside and outside, and defeat Deng Ai's army again.

The three troops continued to join forces in one place, and continued to attack Zhang Fei's troops in the north to break Xia Jun's encirclement.

In fact, at this time, the combined forces commanded by Xu Sheng, Zhu Ran, and Hu Zong had completely surpassed Zhang Fei's.

In this way, it actually means that almost all the troops that Lu Xun led to attack in this battle have been regrouped, and almost no major losses have been caused-Lu Xun was arrested by Zhang Fei because of the communication. The people and horses were deliberately isolated, so now I don't know that Han Dang's army was almost completely wiped out by Liu Chan, otherwise I probably wouldn't have such a proud idea.

Having said that, the strength of Xu Sheng's troops is indeed enough to fight Zhang Fei's troops again at this time.If they defeated Zhang Feijun, that would of course be the best result.However, if they can't defeat Zhang Feijun, the problem is not very big. Lu Xun just asks them to continue to attack.

Because when the time comes, it will be the time for him, Lu Xun and Lu Boyan, to enter this war again.

The goal of Lu Xun's breakout this time was in Yichun, where he still had a 4000-man force that he used as an emergency.Therefore, he will lead this force through between Liu Yang and Wu Chang, and take the most aggressive posture to directly attack the original landing site of Zhang Fei's army along the Xiangshui River.In this way, Lu Xun also showed Zhang Fei's army that he was trying to control the Xiangshui line and cut off Zhang Fei's retreat.

Plus a little more.At that time, Deng Ai's troops, who were used to protect the flanks of Zhang Fei's army, had failed and retreated——Didn't Huang Quan give Deng Ai another task at that time, asking him to support Zhang Fei's army according to the situation?After all, he will know that the advantage he maintained before has been completely lost, and the situation has tilted to the side of Jiangdong Army.

Therefore, under the strong coercion of Xu Sheng and others, Zhang Fei must have no choice but to retreat to the west bank of the Xiangshui River in the end.Xiajun's siege was naturally released, and the army in the city that was desperately resisting the enemy was saved.

Then, in this way, the situation seems to have returned to "before the Anti-Japanese War" all of a sudden.The entire area on the east bank of the Xiangshui River that Lu Xun deliberately gave up in order to induce Zhang Fei's army to go deep into the encirclement circle was successfully recovered through this series of actions.

However, Lu Xun still feels that it is a pity that he gave up such an important place as Xiangtan too easily in order to design the encirclement.Now Xiangtan has almost become the stronghold of the Shu Han in the south of Jingzhou, and it is also the strategic fulcrum for them to maintain all the occupied areas in the south of Jingzhou, which once again shows the extreme importance of its strategic position.

However, Lu Xun felt that being able to achieve such a result after the success of this battle was really the best he could do. It could almost be said to be "turning the tide and helping the building to collapse".It would be too thick-skinned to say that it was a tie with Zhang Fei, but Lu Xun still has a clear conscience when he asks himself.

At this time, Lu Xun once again demonstrated his outstanding military skills.This kind of enemy that can survive from desperation is like a leech in a rice field. Even if you cut it into dozens of pieces, it will still be immortal, and it may even give birth to a dozen new leeches...

Therefore, after setting up such a counterattack strategy again, Lu Xun immediately led his army straight to Yichun, and arrived at the destination two days later.

Two days before Lu Xun arrived in Yichun, Gu Shao, the supervising army, had received a message from Lukou Port, saying that Han Dang's army was almost wiped out by the Jingzhou Army outside Yiyang City, and now he has returned to Lukou port.

In fact, this battle report was intended for Lu Xun who was besieged in Xiajun City at that time.But because Zhang Fei's troops were able to seal off the area between Puqi and Xiajun, the battle report hit Lu Xun several times, but they couldn't be delivered to Lu Xun at all.Therefore, this fate was quite ill-fated, and he had to be sent to the supervisor Gu Shao.

After Gu Shao read the battle report, he felt something bad was going to happen.Therefore, he used his power to supervise the army, and sent the information to Sun Quan in the form of a secret letter instead of a post station, asking Sun Quan to make a final ruling on the current occupation.

Moreover, Gu Shao's approach is also cautious, to avoid Jiangdong's officialdom, so there will be too much fluctuation again.After all, I don't know how many pairs of glasses are staring at Lu Xun's position as the governor.

However, the news of Lu Xun's successful breakout surprised Gu Shao.He never imagined that Lu Xun would be able to trick Zhang Fei with such a small force, and then defeat one of Zhang Fei's troops and escape calmly.

(End of this chapter)