Chapter 250 Have to fight

Huainan, Yingkou.

Yingshui originates from the Funiu Mountains in the east of Yingchuan County, descends to the east, passes through Linying, Ruyang and Ruyin counties, crosses almost all of Yuzhou, and converges in the Huai River in Yingkou to the south.

Xudu is not far east of Yingshui, and Yingchuan County, where Xudu is located, is connected with the hinterland of Henan, where Luoyang is located. It can be said that Yingshui is the most important water system connecting Huainan and the Central Plains.

In the past, when Cao Qian sent troops to Hefei and marched to the Eastern Wu in the south, the army often came from Xudu, entered Huai through Yingshui, turned to Shaopi, and then entered Hefei through Feishui into the outpost base.

Because of the existence of Yingshui, Cao Jun's grain transportation and the transfer of soldiers are quite convenient.

Half a month ago, Sun Quan used Zhou Yu's plan to set up 70,000 troops in Jiangdong, from Hefei and entered Huainan in the north.

At this time, in terms of Shouchun, Zhang Liao's serious illness was not healed. Li Dian died in battle, and the responsibility of guarding Shouchun's important town fell on Lejin's shoulders.

In order to prevent Dongwu from taking advantage of the void, Cao Qian specially increased Shouchun's army to 50,000 before leaving Huainan.

This also means that Wu's army attacked with 70,000 people, and Lejin defended the city with 50,000 people. In terms of military strength, Lejin did not lose much.

Although the grain output of Huainan Tuntian District was greatly reduced due to the decision of Shaopi, in order to ensure the supply of grain and fodder in Shouchun, Cao Qian earlier ordered to transfer a large amount of grain and fodder from several Tuntian districts such as Xudu and Liang Guo, so that the valley accumulated in Shouchun could be enough for several years.

In addition, Lejin also learned the lesson of Hefei's failure and made sufficient preventive measures against the possible "yin trick" of the Eastern Wu side.

However, when Lejin was full of confidence and ready to fight a Shouchun defense war, the latest trend of Wu Jun surprised Lejin.

After the Eastern Wu army arrived in Huainan, it did not follow Lejin's idea to go straight to Shouchun City and blockade and besiege Shouchun City. Instead, the army seized Yangquan County, 50 miles west of Shouchun.

This Yangquan city is located on the south bank of Huaishui, and the opposite Yingkou is the intersection of Yingshui and Huaihe. That is to say, the Wu people control the most important water traffic line between Shouchun and Xudu.

At first, although Zhou Yu's move seemed to have the intention of cutting off the connection between Shouchun and Xu Du, its effect made Le Jin quite disapproving.

Although the Yingshui waterway is important, it is not the only traffic line from Shouchun to the north. A hundred miles east of Shouchun, there is still a Qiaoshui, which is connected to Xudu through Qiao County, Chen County and Chen Liuguo, and then through dozens of miles of land. Although the distance is hundreds of miles away from Yingshui Waterway, because it is a waterway, it is hundreds of hundreds of miles more. The voyage is nothing.

That is to say, even if the Wu people control Yingkou, it will not pose a fatal threat to the capture of Shouchun.

Zhou Yu's method of using troops seems to be suspected of empty labor and military power.

However, when Lejin was suspicious about this, the information from Jingzhou surprised Lejin.

The intelligence claimed that after Liu Feng's army surrounded Xinye, it had the intention to avoid Wanye Avenue and attack Xudu by Runan.

Originally, the front line of Jingzhou was not in Lejin's defense zone. After Lejin received this information, it was useless to worry, but when he thought of Wu Jun's previous strange behavior, he could not worry about it.

On the day of receiving Jingzhou's intelligence, Le Jin sent a wide range of reprimands to closely monitor the Wu army stationed in Yangquan, but the latest information immediately frightened Le Jin.

A large number of Eastern Wu warships arrived in Yangquan through Shaobei. A large number of grain and fodder from Hefei were all stored in the Ancheng area south of Yangquan, and many reconnaissance ships were sent to the north of Yingshui to explore.

All kinds of traces show that the Wu army has the intention to attack Xudu from the north along the Ying River.

Traveling thousands of miles to cross the whole of Yuzhou to capture Xudu in the hinterland of the Central Plains. Such an adventurous and radical military plan, if put in peacetime, Lejin will only laugh.

But now, combined with the intelligence of Jingzhou, Lejin immediately determined that the Sun and Liu families had reached an agreement to attack Xudu from the east and west.

Now Prime Minister Cao's army is all in Tongguan. After the separation of the two families of Sun and Liu's soldiers, there are not many, but if they join forces together, there will be 150,000 or 16 thousand people. With this army to attack Xudu, the situation will be extremely unfavorable to their own side.

Considering this section, Le Jin can't ignore the soldiers of Eastern Wu, and he must take action.

........................"Cough~~" Zhou Yu's throat on the bow of the boat was itchy, and she couldn't help coughing a few times.

The wind in the evening is not strong, but perhaps because this place is close to the Central Plains, there seems to be a chill from the north in the wind. Zhou Yu instinctively wrapped the cloak tightly.

Looking at the warships going north against the water, the broad blueprint in his heart seemed to appear in front of Zhou Yu.

He recalled the ** years when he fought side by side with Sun Ce and opened up the territory. At that time, the two of them worked together, and there was almost no disadvantage.

In many sleepless nights, Sun Ce once had a long talk with him, outlining the ambition to take the Central Plains in the north and unify the world.

Zhou Yu once believed that the person who ended the troubled world was right in front of him.

It's just that an unpredictable accident overturned Zhou Yu's overall blueprint.

Zhou Yu is determined to realize Sun Ce's dream for him.

However, what made him feel helpless was that the successor of Jiangdong Jiye, both in terms of vision and courage, was far inferior to his brother.

Once upon a time, Zhou Yu almost thought that the great cause he and Sun had formulated would no longer be realized in this life.

But now, Mei Zhoulang's heart has once again ignited a strong hope.

He has an indescribable foreboding, as if Sun Ce's spirit in heaven is helping himself, and the hands in the dark are pushing this deviated future back on the right track.

"Governor, there is news from Yangquan. Lejin can't stand the loneliness, and there is movement in Shouchun City."

Behind him, he rushed to the bow of the ship, which was Zhou Yu's most valued general Ling Tong.

Zhou Yu turned around, and the expression on his face was not surprised. It seemed that he had already expected it.

He just asked, "If I'm right, the army of Shouchun should come along the south bank of the Huai River towards the Yangquan."

Ling Tong couldn't help but show his strange light: "How does the governor know this?"

"If Lejin wants to prevent us from attacking Xudu, he naturally wants to take back the Yangquan and live in Yingkou. In this way, we not only solved the danger of Xu Du, but also trapped our fleet in Huaibei. And if you want to seize Yangquan, where can you go if you don't take the South Bank Avenue?

Zhou Yu understated, expected the enemy to take the lead, and easily saw through Le Jin's attempt.

Ling Tong showed admiration and said, "We marched into Xudu with great fanfare in order to force Le to enter and leave the city to fight. Now that Le Jin has been led out, shall we immediately return to the army Yangquan and fight with Le Jin there?"

Ling Tong is eager to try.

Zhou Yu shook his head and said with a smile, "The riders of Lejin are all elites in the north, and our number of soldiers and horses does not have an absolute advantage. If we land and fight against the enemy on land, we may not have a full chance of winning, and..."

Zhou Yu said "and", the following is not said, but his tone is a little strange.

"Governor, do you think it's not as simple as intelligence to enter the Yangquan?" Ling Tong immediately noticed Zhou Yu's voice.

Zhou Yu looked in the direction of Shouchun and said meaningfully, "He is happy to enter this person. He has a lot of strategy. If Cao Shen dares to use this person to control Shouchun alone, he must have something outstanding. Think about it, since we can guess Lejin's intention, will he not expect this person's strategy?

Ling Tong's expression became solemn and hurriedly said, "The governor's meaning is that Le's attack on Yueyangquan is just a spretense attack, but secretly there is another intention?"

Zhou Yu smiled and said nothing, and his slightly pale face was a little strange and sneer.

..............................The night is deep, and the moon is like a boat, sailing in the vast ocean of the vast sky.

Under the moonlight, a silent army is rushing on the muddy road.

Le Jin looked up at the bright moon in the sky and shouted in a low voice, "If the order goes down, the whole army will speed up a little more."

This area, located between Huaishui and Shaopi, was originally a fertile and flat Tuntian area.

During the Battle of Hefei, the Wu people dug the embankment of Shaopi and submerged this fertile field. Later, although the dam was repaired, most of the fields were not yet restored, and they were still muddy.

More than 20,000 riders, under the cover of the night, quietly walked in this uninhabited muddy place and marched in the direction of Shaopi.

A few hours later, Le Jin and his soldiers arrived north of Ancheng.

Ancheng is just a small town belonging to Yangquan County. It is located in the north of the embankment of Shaopi. It is just an inconspicuous town with less than a thousand people.

But just half a month ago, this small town suddenly became lively.

The Wu people's transport ship, after entering Shaopi from the fertile water, unloaded the grain and grass here, and then passed through the transit and transported it to the Yangquan front line. The Wu people used this Ancheng town as a logistics supply station for the attack on the Xudu water army.

As early as a few days ago, Le Jin secretly scouted An Chengjing. When he knew that hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and fodder had been accumulated here, he decisively drew up a battle plan for tonight.

The supply capacity of food and fodder of the Wu people is not strong. As long as he can burn up the food and fodder in Ancheng, it can not only shatter Zhou Yu's plan to attack Xudu, but also the whole Wu army on the front line of Huaishui has to withdraw troops to the south.

In order to confuse the eyes and ears of the Wu people, Lejin earlier sent a team of fake troops to walk on the south bank of the Huai River, creating an illusion of equipment attacking Yangquan.

Now, Le Jin leads the main force to cross this muddy land far away from the waterfront and unexpectedly launch a surprise attack on Ancheng.

Burning grain is the trick that Cao Jun is best at.

Not far away, Ancheng, silent, and the firelight flashed. Several teams reprimanded the reconnaissance, saying that there were only more than 5,000 people in the Wu army around Ancheng, and they did not notice the approach of the enemy at all.

It is a good opportunity from God.

Le Jin's blood was boiling. With an order, more than 20,000 Cao Jun, who was holding dry firewood, shouted like a devil out of hell, and killed the quiet town from the darkness.

(to be continued)