The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 624
Two days later, Gai Meng's army entered Yuzhang County with the [-] Jiaozhou righteous men from Buzhi, and the strength of both sides has undergone tremendous changes.

Gai Meng's army temporarily withdrew hundreds of miles away, and set up camps between Yichun, Luling County, and Liling.Their approach is actually more cautious.Moreover, in this way, you can also prevent your rear from being cut off by new enemy forces that may come from Luling County.

However, judging by the current situation, Gai Meng's cavalry could only choose to retreat from Jiangdong's mainland and return to the border of Jingzhou.

Therefore, at this time, it actually means that Liu Chan's previous strategy of using the high-speed maneuverability of the cavalry to cut off the two enemy troops, Zhu Ran and Xu Sheng, has ended in failure.

Of course, Lu Xun's small victory in this battle was not enough to make up for the previous series of defeats.

Sure enough, after receiving Gai Meng's latest information, Liu Chan immediately and decisively issued an order for Gai Meng's cavalry to withdraw from Yangzhou immediately.

But Liu Chan is still a little unwilling to give up. Since the detour strategy has not succeeded, the only way to make a breakthrough is to make a frontal breakthrough.

Therefore, under the onslaught of Zhang Fei and Deng Ai's troops, Zhu Ran had no choice but to abandon Wuchang City, and retreated into Liuyang City with less than [-] troops to join forces with Xu Sheng's army.

At this time, Zhang Fei's army broke away from Deng Ai's troops again, and went north to join Zhang Fei's troops, and together they launched an attack on Puqi again.

On the other hand, Liu Chan sent Deng Ai to send his troops back to the west to join forces with Zhang Bao's army. The two armies, Ya'ao and Ao, launched a more violent attack on Liuyang City, striving to take Liuyang City in the shortest possible time.

For a while, the combatants of both sides in Liuyang City suffered heavy losses.Many of the siege equipment used by Zhang Bao were also damaged in the battle.

However, under the desperate command of Zhu Ran and Xu Sheng, although the Jiangdong Army's defense has yet to collapse, it is considered precarious.According to Deng Ai's prediction, under their onslaught, the coalition forces of Zhu Ran and Xu Sheng would not be able to last for ten days.

But these ten days are enough for others to do a lot of things.For example Lu Xun.He carefully inspected the current war situation, and with the help of two support armies on hand, the number of troops on hand once again exceeded 5000, which was enough for him to use his skills again and regain control of the current situation that's it.

Therefore, Lu Xun sent Lu Dai to lead his death-death army to raid Liling City along the original marching route of Gai Meng's cavalry, regaining control of Liling, the key point entering Luling County, and completely blocked it. Liu Chan wants to send troops to raid the possibility of entering the Yichun area again.

Then, Lu Xun led Jiaozhou righteous men and his own more than 3000 horses, a total of more than 3000 people, into the Liuyang area.Lu Xun's men immediately fought a four-day battle with the coalition forces of Zhang Bao and Deng Ai.

Both Zhang Bao and Deng Ai's armies have been fighting for days, and their physical strength and fighting will have dropped a lot.Facing the newly joined troops like Jiaozhou Martyrs, their combat effectiveness is obviously inferior.

Therefore, Zhang Bao and Deng Ai had no choice but to temporarily withdraw their troops [-] miles away, approaching Liu Shui and set off again.In other words, their siege of Liu Yangcheng was lifted.

At this time, Lu Xun's army no longer took the initiative to challenge the coalition forces of Zhang Bao and Deng Ai.In addition to asking Xu Sheng and Zhu Ran to reorganize the team, Lu Xun sent half of his troops to attack Wuchang City, trying to take Wuchang City down again.

Of course, Lu Xun did not do this because he wanted to continue the original strategy of encircling the Jingzhou Army and the Jiangzhou Army.Lu Xun's army can only get Zhang Fei's headquarters and force Zhang Fei's headquarters to withdraw from Puqi only when Wuchang City is captured.

Of course Zhang Fei knew about Lu Xun's plan.He immediately sent some troops to support the defenders of Wuchang City, and the offensive and defensive postures of the two sides changed positions immediately, and Lu Xun's troops launched a fierce attack on Wuchang City.

Seeing the situation, Zhang Bao and Deng Ai couldn't be idle anymore.In such a small area, the two sides have invested more than [-] troops in a fierce battle, and there is almost no possibility of using any tricks.All that is left for the two sides now is to fight to the death.

Therefore, under Deng Ai's suggestion, Zhang Bao led his army to attack Liuyang City again, and launched a five-day fierce battle with Lu Xun's army outside the city.

Lu Xun's military strength at this time was not even half of the total number of Zhang Bao and Deng Ai's troops. After all, he could not withstand the counterattack of the Jiangzhou Army and the Jingzhou Army.In desperation, Lu Xun had no choice but to issue an order to retreat to the troops attacking Wuchang City.

At the same time, the other person was not idle. Liu Chan sent all the available infantry units in Xiangtan, a total of about 4000 people, to Liuyang to participate in the battle.Liu Chan's move greatly increased the strength of Zhang Bao and Deng Ai's coalition forces, and their combat advantages became more obvious.

Faced with such a predicament, Lu Xun could only choose to re-enter Liuyang City and use the walls of Liuyang City to block the enemy's attack.

Since then, Lu Xun's efforts to save Puqi from the siege ended in failure.He could only pray in his heart that the troops of Han Dang and Lu Kai in Puqi City could withstand the onslaught of Zhang Fei's troops.Even if they couldn't stand it in the end, at least they should try their best to delay the time so that he could seek more military support from the lord.

At this time, Lu Xun, who had gone crazy from fighting and was almost suffocated by all kinds of pressure, seemed to have forgotten one thing: the purpose of the war he was fighting now was to find an opportunity to eventually Return to peace with the Shu Han.

And Lu Xun's original purpose was that when he returned to Moling that day, he used his eloquence, persuaded Sun Quan, and was the main reason why he was able to serve as the governor of the three armies in Jiangdong.In other words, it is actually Sun Quan's current wish to coexist peacefully with the Shu Han again.

However, judging from Lu Xun's current actions, not only did he not bring a glimmer of peace to Sun Quan, but he kept asking Sun Quan for various military and material support.And with the continuous investment of these things, the war between the two sides will only become more and more protracted.Even, this war is about to affect the defense of Jiangdong in the north of Yangzhou and south of Huaisi.

Therefore, this is also the reason why Sun Quan will now begin to distrust Lu Xun less and less, and even skip Lu Xun directly and start mobilizing a large number of troops to Linchuan County, north of Yuzhang County.

Of course, the reason why Sun Quan did not send more troops to Yuzhang County, Changsha County, Jingzhou, which is next to the main battlefield, but instead gathered a large number of troops like Linchuan County, which is next to Jiangxia County, is that the main purpose is to see the goals of Jingzhou Army and Jiangzhou Army. Not Yangzhou itself, but Jiangxia County in the north.

If Lu Xun can stop the enemy and continue to invade Jiangxia County, that would be great.Because Jiangdong is absolutely unwilling to lose control of Jiangxia County. After all, the strategic position of Lukou Port is too important.Therefore, once Lu Xun failed to stop the attack, the Jiangdong army assembled in Linchuan County would immediately cross the various passes of Luoxiao Mountain and enter Jiangxia County to repel the enemy.

Moreover, because Luo Xiaoshan was blocking Jiangxia County and Linchuan County, it was very difficult for the enemy to cross the mountains and find out that the Jiangdong Army had assembled on a large scale.Therefore, Sun Quan assembled a large army in Linchuan County, and the secrecy can be easily maintained. It is also a very powerful strategy to catch Jiangzhou Army and Jingzhou Army by surprise.

Just when the situation changed again, Gai Meng's cavalry team received an order from Liu Chan, and wandered around Liling for some days, trying to retake Liling from Lu Dai's hands, but failed, so they had to return to Xiangtan. Liu Chan gave the order.

Liu Chan did not intend to blame Gai Meng and others for their failure in the battle.After all, the strategy of the surprise attack was planned by his side, and Gai Meng and the others did not make any mistakes in the implementation process, which can only be said that the action plan was not in place.

Moreover, Zhuge Qiao's intelligence collection was also responsible. They did not find out that Lu Xun was also hiding a team in Yichun.Then, even the whereabouts of the two supporting troops of Lu Dai and Bu Zhi, they did not detect them either.

(End of this chapter)