Farmer of Shu Han

"Wang, General Wang, I, my lord, I mean, General Zuo Hussar, where are you?"

Seeing that the person in front of him didn't answer immediately, but had a complicated expression on his face, Wei Chang suddenly felt that something was wrong.

I don't know why, it just sank, and at the same time I was a little flustered.

Although Wei Chang has been with Wei Yan for a long time, his talent is really not very good, it can only be said to be ordinary.

It can be said that abandoning Gaodu City and withdrawing troops from Gaoping Pass may be the biggest decision he has ever made in his life.

Moreover, he had to have Wei Rong's instigation and promotion before he could make such a move.

But Wei Chang knew that it was impossible for the military newspaper he sent over to hide from his lord.

He was even ready to be beaten to death by an adult—the kind with only one breath left at most.

Wang Han was originally very dissatisfied with Wei Yan.

Because of Wei Yan's impulsiveness, the engineering battalion had to accompany him, hovering on the verge of annihilation.

It's just that the somewhat simple and honest little general Wei in front of him saved the people in the engineering battalion in one fell swoop.

Thinking of Wei Yan's last move again, Wang Han couldn't help but sighed, and said in a low voice:

"Little General Wei, Old General Wei told us to retreat first, and he himself led the army to cut off the rear..."

"My lord, will you personally lead the army?"

Wei Chang's face changed, and he subconsciously raised his eyes to look behind.

The continuous team is retreating towards Gaoping Pass.

It could be seen that the soldiers looked a little sluggish.

This kind of depressing atmosphere is rare in the Han army over the years.

"Little General Wei, where are you going?"

Seeing Wei Chang get back on his horse and pull the reins, Wang Han hurriedly stepped forward to stop him and asked.

Wei Chang looked anxious:

"I'm going to meet the adults."

"Young General Wei can't do it!" Wang Han became impatient when he heard this, "Old General Wei has something to say, all the retreating soldiers will be under the command of Little General Wei, guard Gaoping Pass closely, and there must be no mistakes."

"Little General Wei's current task is to gather the soldiers as soon as possible and regroup to prevent the bandits from taking advantage of the vacancy. What if Gaoping Pass is lost at that time, what can we do?"

"Old General Wei asked me to bring the Command Talisman and Command Sword, and hand them over to General Wei, so that General Wei can lead the army..."

It's good that Wang Han didn't say this, but when Wei Chang heard it, his heart sank!

Before Wang Han could finish speaking, he interrupted Wang Han's words extremely impolitely:

"What? Is that what your lord ordered?"

"Of course, how dare I speak nonsense about such an important matter in the military?"

After Wei Chang saw that Wang Han really took out the command talisman and command sword, he only felt that the sky and the earth were spinning suddenly.

He gripped the reins tightly to keep himself from falling off the horse.

"grown ups……"

Wei Chang knew Wei Yan very well.

Others don't know, but Wei Chang knows that as an adult, he attaches great importance to military power.

There is a very important reason why adults must compete with Zhongduhu, that is, they want to dominate one side alone, lead an army alone, and prove themselves.

During the Northern Expedition, the prime minister incorporated the army of Hanzhong, and at the same time brought the adults into the prime minister's mansion.

Since then, the adults have lost the opportunity to lead the army alone.

Over the years, this matter has almost become an obsession in the hearts of adults.

Especially the soldiers of Shangdang, but they were brought out by him personally.

Under what circumstances will the adults hand over the military power?

Wei Chang was in a trance, his mind was already in a mess.

Then I remembered that I disobeyed my lord's order and retreated to Gaoping Pass without authorization, which made my lord have no choice but to retreat and cut off the rear...

Wei Chang couldn't sit still on the horse anymore, his body wobbled, and finally turned over and fell off the horse.

"Little General Wei?"

"Little General Wei!"

Wang Han and the others were shocked, and quickly stepped forward to help Wei Chang up, shouting anxiously.

Wei Chang's physical fitness is good, after all, he has been practicing his ability to fight and fight all year round.

This fall just made him feel angry, and after being massaged by Wang Han a few times, he woke up again.

As soon as he woke up, "Wow", he just cried out:

"My lord, the child is not filial, it is the child who harmed you!"

He cried a few times, probably because he was still out of breath, coughed a few times, and then struggled to stand up, and got on the horse again.

Wang Han hurriedly shouted: "Little General Wei? You are..."

Hearing Wang Han's words, Wei Chang seemed to remember something, and turned around:

"General Wang, the talisman and the sword are under your temporary control. When you arrive at Gaoping Pass, gather up the withdrawn soldiers as soon as possible and guard Gaoping Pass..."

Wang Han was taken aback for a moment, then became anxious.

No, isn't this what I relayed to Wei Chang?

Why did Wei Chang repeat this to himself?

Seeing that the tears on Wei Chang's face were still wet, Wang Han knew what he wanted to do, and quickly persuaded him:

"Little General Wei, Old General Wei asked you to guard Gaoping Pass, so you must have thought about it long ago."

"If you don't listen to Old General Wei's orders, and ruin Old General Wei's arrangements then, wouldn't it be a waste of old General Wei's painstaking efforts?"

Wei Chang shook his head:

"General Wang, my lord was forced to cut off the heir myself because of my willfulness. Now that your lord is in danger, if I just sit back and do nothing, how can I be a son of man?"

He took a deep breath and looked at Wang Han seriously:

"General Wang, I know that you have been with the Central Guard for a long time, and you have been instructed by the Central Guard. Your ability to lead the army is far superior to mine."

"So in my opinion, you are more suitable than me as the person who guards Gaoping Pass."

After he finished speaking, he bowed deeply to Wang Han and saluted:

"General Wang, I entrust everything to you!"

After finishing speaking, he got on his horse, called his personal guards, and ordered to bring all the parts of the Wei family, as well as the army battalion trained by the adults over the years.

After the gathering of troops and horses was completed, Wei Chang led the two thousand people and headed retrogradely towards the eldest son.

Wang Han couldn't persuade him, so he could only let him go.

As Wei Chang said, he had followed the Central Guard for many years, so he naturally learned a lot.

With the current situation in Shangdang, the importance of Gao Pingguan's status is self-evident, how could Wang Han not see it?

Coupled with the important task of protecting the engineering battalion, he couldn't help but refuse Wei Chang's request.

The military situation is urgent, and it's hard to say about the eldest son, but the Wei bandits in Gaodu City may arrive sooner or later.

Both Wei Yan and his son were absent, so Wang Han had to take on the important task of guarding Gaoping Pass.

Whether it was intentional or not, Wei Chang took all Wei Yan's old subordinates away.

It saved Wang Han a lot of trouble.

But there are pros and cons.

Wei Yan's cronies are basically the elite in the army.

Their departure made the combat effectiveness of the remnant soldiers in Gaopingguan a bit worrying.

While deploying defenses, Wang Han sent people to notify Chang'an and Hedong respectively as quickly as possible.

Just as the situation in Bingzhou was changing, the battle situation in Jingzhou far to the south also changed.

Lu Xun first asked Zhuge Jin to lead the army to attack Weizhong, and then wrote a letter to Feng Yong, attracting the main force of Jingzhou governor Wuqiu Jian.

It was only at the end that I unexpectedly led the Wu Guoshui army to go up against the Han River, and cut off the connection between Xiangyang and the north of the Han River, making Xiangyang an isolated city in the south of the Han River.

Although Zhuge Jin was dead, Lu Xun gave in to Zhi and continued to lead the army, storming the south of Xiangyang.

Xiangyang, which lost contact with the north of the Han River, was broken into the water village outside the city overnight by the Wu army.

In the end, all the troops had to be shrunk to the city.

There is no way to send reinforcements to support the Wei army in the middle.

Lu Xun came too fast, causing the defenders of Xiangyang City to be at a loss at the very beginning.

Even the water village in the moat can be lost overnight, let alone cooperate with the Wei army in the middle of the river.

Although the Wei army in the middle of the battle tried its best to prevent the Wu army from crossing the wild water to the north, Bu Zhi used the superior force to pretend to forcibly cross the water.

On the other hand, surprise soldiers were sent to go downstream, cross the water where the Wei army was out of reach, and then outflank them.

Facing the siege of the Wu army, although the Wei army resisted tenaciously, they were still outnumbered in the end.

Most of them either died in battle or were captured, and only a very small number fled back to Xiangyang.

After Bu Zhi captured Suizhong, he continued to lead the army northward and pushed towards Xiangyang.

Xiangyang City is surrounded by water on three sides, and the only land route is to the south.

Now that Baozhong was lost, Buzhi led the army from the south and began to form a comprehensive siege of Xiangyang City.

When the news of Buzhi's capture of Jingzhong reached Lu Xun's ears, even a quiet person like Lu Xun couldn't restrain his ecstasy, and couldn't help clapping his hands and laughing:

"Xiangyang will finally fall into our hands!"

The reason why Baozhong is the southern barrier of Xiangyang lies in its special geographical location.

This area is a hilly landform, and there are Yishui and Manshui as its support.

It happened to be stuck on the west side of the Jianghan Passage, which is the main road between Nanjun and Xiangyang.

After Chibi that year, Guan Yu once had a little-known battle of green mud with Le Jin and Wen Pin of Cao Wei in the north.

The battle took place in the Qingni area.

In the seventeenth year of Jian'an (212 A.D.), Cao Cao marched into Ruxukou and attacked Jiangdong. Sun Quan asked Liu Bei for help.

Guan Yu, who was guarding Jingzhou, sent Su Fei to the north, intending to harass Xiangyang and contain the Wei army in Jingzhou, so as to prevent the Wei army in Xiangyang and Jiangxia from going down the river and attacking Sun Quan.

Unexpectedly, Su Fei was defeated by Le Jin, Guan Yu then personally led the army to resist Le Jin in Qingni.

Jiang Xia's Wenpin also led the army to attack Guan Yu.

Guan Yu had no choice but to retreat to Nanjun.

Le Jin took the opportunity to attack Linju County and Jingyang County near Jiangling, and won both.

The scale of this battle is not too large, and it can even be said that it has nothing to do with the situation at that time.

Guan Yu did not lose any land, and the actual results obtained by Le Jinwenpin and others were nothing more than letting "the barbarians in the valleys of the southern counties advance and surrender."

In other words, the Battle of Qingni caused the barbarians in the north of Nanjun to completely fall to Cao Wei.

But it was this innocuous small-scale battle that had a certain impact on the Battle of Xiangfan seven years later.

Because this area in the middle of the tree is the place where the barbarians occupy.

After the Battle of Qingni, Cao Wei got the support of Jingman, and easily controlled the strategic place on the edge of the Jianghan Pass in the middle of the river.

If you want to go north from Nanjun to attack Xiangyang through the Jianghan Passage, you can't go around the middle of the river, otherwise the road ahead will be worrying.

In the battle of Xiangfan, Guan Yu failed to capture Xiangyang in time, except for the lack of troops and the strong city of Xiangyang.

There is another important reason, that is, he failed to completely surround Xiangyang, but only surrounded Xiangyang on three sides with the Han River.

There are not even enough troops to completely cut off the Han River and cut off the connection between Xiangyang and the north of the Han River.

Not to mention sending troops to attack the southern barrier of Xiangyang, such as Zhongzhong, so as to completely surround Xiangyang.

This gave Xiangyang enough room to maneuver.

With the cover of the scorpion, the counties in the Jianghan Passage to the south of Xiangyang can continuously send supplies and personnel to Xiangyang.

Coupled with the inability to cut off the connection between the north and the south of the Han River, and Fancheng could not be attacked for a long time, Xiangyang City naturally refused to surrender.

Xiangyang, which is surrounded by water on three sides from the water, has no way to attack the city.

Guan Yu blindly attacked Fancheng, but did not attack Xiangyang. It wasn't that he didn't want to fight, but that he couldn't fight at all.

This is also the reason why Lu Xun still forcibly gave way after Zhuge Jin's death and led the army to continue to attack the army.

Knowing that Bu Zhi was approaching Xiangyang City from the south, it meant that Lu Xun's arrangement had been more than half successful.

Naturally, he couldn't hide his excitement.

"The thieves saw that my relatives came leading the army, cut off the north and south of the Han River in a swift manner, and broke through the water fortress outside the city without being able to hide their ears. I must say that I want to attack the city from the north!"

Lu Xun slapped the crude map made of silk, his face was slightly flushed, showing his extremely excited mood at this time.

Even compared to the battles of Yiling and Shiting, his emotions did not fluctuate so much.

After all, although this World War II was a great victory, it was nothing more than a battle to defend the territory.

But if he can win Xiangyang in this battle, then he will be the third person to open up the territory for Great Wu after Zhou Gongjin and Lu Ziming.

Not to mention taking Xiangyang, it is equivalent to breaking the shackles imposed on Wu by the Wei thief, which is of great significance.

Zhu Ran and the others couldn't help being surprised when they heard what the Great General said:

"The Great General means that we are going to attack Xiangyang from the south?"

"Of course! How difficult it is to attack Xiangyang from the water!"

Lu Xun's tone was sonorous and forceful:

"We did not cross the Han River to attack Xiangyang from the north, but attacked the north from the south. Why did we abandon the south and go from the north?"

Guan Yu had no choice but to capture Fancheng back then.

Because Fancheng cannot be taken down, there is no way to cut off the connection between Xiangyang and the north.

Similarly, if the northern army went south and wanted to capture Xiangyang, they had to capture Fancheng first, so as to break Xiangfan's horns.

"Now that we have taken it by surprise, we have completely cut off the Han River. Whether we can take Fancheng or not is of little significance to us."

Lu Xun clicked on the location of Fancheng:

"Of course, I'm not saying that Fancheng is not important, but at the moment, capturing Xiangyang is the most important thing."

Right now, the Great Wu Shuijun, which has an absolute advantage, controls the Hanshui River and temporarily minimizes Fancheng's impact on Xiangyang.

But this situation cannot last long.

After obtaining Xiangyang, they must find a way to take Fancheng again.

Then take advantage of Wu's naval force to travel between Xiangfan and Xiangfan.

In this way, the Xiangfan defense line is completely completed.

Hearing Lu Xun's plan, Zhu Ran couldn't help being surprised and delighted:

"The last general has been thinking about how to break the city these days, but he has never had a clue. It turns out that the general has already made preparations!"

Lu Xun looked at Zhu Ran with a smile on his face:

"General Zhu already guessed?"

Zhu Ran's breathing also became heavy, subconsciously lowered his voice:

"The great general is using himself as a bait, but actually intends to send another general to lead elite troops from the south to attack the city?"

What it means to win Xiangyang is self-evident.

Zhu Ran can be regarded as an old man in Wu's army.

Before today, he had been thinking about the strategy of breaking the city, but found that there was no other way except to follow the route of Guan Yu's Xiangfan battle.

Now when he heard the words of the great general, he seemed to see the sun suddenly.

Lu Xun couldn't help laughing out loud. After laughing, he nodded to the south side of Xiangyang City:

"Fancheng and Xiangyang City can indeed be horns of each other, but that's what the Northern Army said."

"But for us, attacking Fancheng is not as good as occupying Xianshan!"

Xian Mountain surrounds Xiangyang and is also the last barrier to the south of Xiangyang City.

According to Xianshan, you can overlook the whole city of Xiangyang.

If you attack it from a high position, it will be broken.

"Now that the infantry generals have captured Pingzhong, they can attack Xiangyang from the south at any time, and I am here to continue attracting Xiangyang bandits to send heavy troops to the north."

Lu Xun looked around the crowd with piercing eyes:

"In addition, I will pretend to attack Fancheng in a few days, so that the bandit army north of the Han River will think that I want to imitate Guan Yu's old affairs and have no time to take care of Xiangyang."

"I need a general to cooperate with the infantry general and lead the elite soldiers to attack Xianshan. Who can go?"

As soon as the words fell, Zhu Ran couldn't wait to stand up before anyone could speak:

"The general wishes to go!"

"Okay! I also mean that it belongs to General Zhu."

Lu Xun solemnly told Zhu Ran:

"General Zhu, whether you can take Xiangyang depends on whether you can take Xianshan. The key to this battle lies in the general. I only hope that the general will not disappoint me."

Zhu Ran looked excited and said loudly:

"Please don't worry, the great general, and listen to the news of the last general."

Without further ado, Lu Xun dispatched some of his elite troops to join Zhu Ran's headquarters, took a boat on the Hanshui River, and made a secret detour to Mount Xian.

Lu Xun, on the other hand, made great fanfare and announced that he wanted to attack Fancheng.

Just when the armies of Wu, Wei and Wei were all nervously preparing for the battle, Lu Xun stood on the bow of the building, his gaze was deep, but he was not looking at Fancheng, which was within sight.

Rather, the northwest, the direction of Wuguan Road...