The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 840 The Final Battle ([-])
Immediately after the day's battle ended, Liu Chan and Shi Guangyuan continued to discuss the current battle overnight, preparing to discuss tomorrow's offensive method based on the situation of the battle between the two sides that day.

Therefore, the next morning, the two sides attacked again and continued the fierce battle that was not completed yesterday, but the two sides still did not decide the winner.

As for Zhang Fei, after his failure in crossing the river, he did not cross the river forcibly the next morning, but only sent a small number of troops to confront Zhuge Jin's troops.

The rest of the troops are all resting and reorganizing. Although the overnight battle last night was not hard, it seems that their enthusiasm for crossing the river is not high enough.

Perhaps, Zhang Fei was actually waiting for the arrival of Deng Ai's men before launching a full-scale attack on Zhuge Jin's army together.

But the problem is, more than a day has passed now, Deng Ai's men have already received Liu Chan's order, and the distance is not very far, so why hasn't it arrived now?

This question remains unresolved until now.

Fuchun County, Yuhang County, and Qiantang County in Wu County, although an unusually large-scale war is breaking out in the north of them, there is something unexpectedly calm here.

Of the three counties captured by Deng Ai, although Yuhang County in the north directly faces Wu County, most of Wu County's troops have been transferred to Sun Quan's command, so Wu County has no troops at this time. The South launched a counterattack against the three counties.Therefore, Yuhang County should be very safe now.

Therefore, after Deng Ai handed over the defense of the three counties to his deputy Zhou Tao, Zhou Tao was stationed in Qiantang County in the east, and Fuchun County in the west was handed over to Zong Yu.

In this case, the two county towns constituted a line of defense against Kuaiji County to the south.Yu Fan, Wei Teng, and even Zhu Yi, if they want to go north to support Sun Quan who is fighting, they have to break through this line of defense, but it is actually not easy.

But in fact, the peace in Fuchun County and Qiantang County is just a self-evident illusion.

Ever since Liu Chan met Sun Quan's army in Jing County, Zhu Yi had foreseen that in order to deal with Sun Quan's troops, Liu Chan's side would need to draw troops from Deng Ai to fight.In this case, the troops in the three counties must be reduced by at least half.

Therefore, even though Zhu Yi was made things difficult by Yu Fan and Wei Teng, he only gave half of the army they formed to Zhu Yi to attack the cities of the three counties, but Zhu Yi still accepted it.

The reason is actually not complicated, but Zhu Yi seems a little helpless. Zhu Yi is still confident that he can conquer the three counties one by one with the help of more than 8000 troops in his hand.

In fact, Zhu Yi's mind is actually quite vicious.At the same time, he made a plan in his heart, that is, after capturing any city in the three counties, he would directly break through the defense line and head north into Danyang County.In that case, his sudden appearance will definitely catch Liu Chan by surprise.

If he is lucky enough, Zhu Yi even fantasizes that he can defeat Liu Chan's troops in one fell swoop, and then the lord Sun Quan's troops will follow and kill them, then the protracted war between the Jiangdong Army and the Shu Han Army can be completed in one battle .

The next thing left is to quickly regain the Yangzhou territory captured by the Shu Han army.Even if possible, Zhu Yi is very willing to continue to capture the territory of Jingzhou, and use it to coerce the Shu Han army to send their father Zhu Huan back to Jiangdong.

Therefore, under the current calm performance of the three counties, there is actually a strong murderous intent hidden, and this murderous intent, of course, comes from Zhu Yi and the army he is currently commanding.

After the previous investigation, Zhu Yi quickly selected the first target for his army to attack based on intelligence: Fuchun County.

Fuchun county was the westernmost of the three county towns captured by Deng Ai's army.There should be 2000 defenders here, but it’s actually not that many. They can only be used to defend the city, and they don’t have the ability to go out of the city to fight back against the enemy. In addition, the person in charge of the defense here is Zong Yu.This is an eloquent scribe, not good at leading troops to fight.

Therefore, based on the above two points, Zhu Yi decided to take Fuchun County first.As for whether to continue to attack Qiantang County and Yuhang County in the future, that is a later story, because Zhu Yi has not yet decided whether to lead the army to venture into Danyang County and catch Liu Chan's army by surprise from the flank.

Moreover, after the plan was finalized, Zhu Yi himself made very careful arrangements for the next actions.His men and horses didn't rush on the road at all during the day, but hid themselves to rest, and waited until night fell before they started to march in a hurry.

It's winter now, even in a place like Jiangdong, it's actually quite cold in winter.On nights like this, people in this era usually hid in bed early and slept soundly, so although Zhu Yi's army had a large number of people, it was considered a large army, but the secrecy work was still guaranteed.

Therefore, on the night of the second day of Liu Chan's battle with Sun Quan, Zhu Yi's men finally came to the outskirts of Fuchun County without anyone noticing.

Since Zhu Yi's men and horses came rushing over, all of them came lightly, so the army did not carry tools for attacking the city.Therefore, Zhu Yi had to order people to rush to build some simple siege equipment such as ladders overnight.The rest of the troops are resting in place.

So, when it was just dawn and the mist was rising in the morning, Zhu Yi's men and horses all appeared under the city of Fuchun County, and they were ready to attack the city.

The city gate of Fuchun County was still closed at this time, and the patrolling soldiers at the top of the city seemed to be a little drowsy.However, due to the actions of the army of more than 8000 people during the day, even if they walked carefully, the sound of their steps was still very loud.

Those Shu Han troops guarding the city turned around and looked down the city, and suddenly found countless figures appearing in the mist.Due to the mist, even though they couldn't see far away, the figures under the mist kept shaking slightly, and the number of them would definitely not be small.

And, who might show up at this hour?This is clearly the enemy's sudden attack!
As a result, all the Shu Han soldiers at the top of the city were frightened and became energetic.Immediately above the top of the city, countless sirens sounded, some were calling for enemy attacks, while others were beating gongs and drums vigorously, making this cold winter morning suddenly seem much more lively.

(End of this chapter)