In November of the 22nd year of Jian'an, Lu Meng secretly returned to Lukou from Jianye.
Lu Meng not only regained control of the troops at Lukou, but also brought 20,000 Chinese troops directly controlled by Sun Quan to cooperate with the 20,000 defenders at Lukou, as well as more than 20,000 soldiers led by Sun Huan and Sun Yu who had retreated to Jiangxia to rest. , a total of 60,000 people, prepared to attack Jingzhou.
The first outpost was launched in Wuling.
Under Lu Meng's secret instigation, the six barbarians of Wuling revolted at the same time and besieged the counties of Wuling County together. Some barbarians even attacked the northern part of Lingling County because of the geographical relationship, and defeated Lingling County's army led by Fan Miao. Suppress the army.
After the Wuling barbarian uprising, Lu Meng decisively ordered Lu Dai to send five thousand troops from Guiyang to attack Lingling County in conjunction with Jiaozhou Shixie, who was persuaded by Sun Quan.
The battle between Wuling County and Lingling County has officially begun.
As for Lu Meng, at this time, he also officially began to implement his plan to stab Jingzhou in the back.
First, a small-scale warship was sent out to pretend to be a merchant ship, and most of the soldiers were hidden in the cabin. The clever soldiers were ordered to pretend to be merchants and go to Jingzhou to do business.
It is also known as "crossing the river in white".
As an aside, in fact, the "white clothes" in "white clothes crossing the river" does not mean wearing white clothes or wearing a white cloak, but means not wearing armor and wearing plain clothes.
In other words, Lu Meng asked some of his soldiers to dress in the clothes of ordinary merchants and pretend to be merchants in order to deceive Guan Yu from a series of beacon towers set up along the river.
There is a saying, this move is actually very dangerous, and it is also very clever. The dangerous part is that as long as a beacon tower detects something is wrong, Lu Meng's sneak attack will turn into a strong attack, and the clever part is that Lu Meng really did it He deceived all the beacon towers and sent troops to surrender the guards on these beacon towers.
I really don’t know how this person did it, it’s hard to imagine.
All in all, Lu Meng pretended and broke through all the way, making the beacon tower set up by Guan Yu to guard against Jiangdong useless, and he quickly marched towards the police.
As the police approached, Lu Meng stopped pretending because there was no point in pretending anymore.
The public security guard is Wenpin. This is a hard nut that must be chewed down.
Lu Meng knew Wenpin's abilities and character very well. He was a man who was both strategic and cautious. No matter how he tried to "cross the river in white", he would be easily seen through.
Therefore, Lu Meng did not intend to play tricks with Wenpin. He simply used his strength to overwhelm others and sent all the troops at hand to launch a siege against the police.
Lü Meng now has 40,000 troops under his direct control, leaving 10,000 as a reserve force, and the remaining 30,000 will attack the public security forces.
As for Wenpin, there were only 5,000 men in his hands, and he still rushed to fight.
Wenpin was indeed startled by Lu Meng's sudden appearance, but it was only a shock.
Wenpin was stationed in the public security position. He knew very well who he was guarding against. He also knew that sooner or later he would encounter Jiangdong's army in the public security. Therefore, Wenpin was not frightened by the appearance of Jiangdong's army.
What really surprised Wenpin was that Jiangdong's army suddenly appeared at the police station without any warning, and the beacon tower defense system along the river had no effect at all.
But, so what, just come and fight, am I, Wenpin, still afraid of you Jiangdong children? !
The Jiangdong Army's surprise attack quickly occupied the ferry where the Public Security Bureau belonged, and Wenpin had no navy left. Most of the navy had been transferred north by Guan Yu to fight against Xiangfan. Therefore, Wenpin knew that if he insisted on fighting with Jiangdong, If you seize the ferry, you will definitely suffer a loss. It is better to shrink your troops and defend the public security city.
Wuling County was behind the police. As long as Xu Shu could free his hands to support him, Wenpin really didn't worry about the police being surrounded.
Of course, Wenpin at this time did not know that Xu Shu's Wuling County soldiers were temporarily held back by the barbarians and would not be able to support them for a while.
After Lu Meng led his army ashore, he launched a fierce attack on Gong'an City.
Lu Meng is a person who is very good at using mind attacks. He knows that the current police have soldiers and food. Although they are at a disadvantage with five thousand against thirty thousand, they have a city.
All we need to do is defend the city to delay, waiting for the Sifang prefectures and counties to react and rescue in place, then we will win.
Therefore, when he first defended the city, Wenpin was still energetic and could not choose to surrender. After all, he was a veteran of Jingzhou. He had no confidence at all. How could he survive for such a long time in this troubled world? !
Only by waiting for the siege to put enough pressure on Wenpin, and then telling Wenpin that he is now isolated and helpless, and Xu Shu from Wuling County has no chance of coming to support him, can we possibly force Wenpin to surrender.
Of course, Lu Meng also knew that this possibility was still not very high, but it didn't matter, he still had a backup plan.
Therefore, Lu Meng first ordered 30,000 Jiangdong troops to surround the public security forces, and then began to command the generals in the army to build siege equipment and prepare to attack the city.
Lü Meng himself led 10,000 troops to guard the central army as a general reserve force. The remaining 20,000 soldiers were assigned to Zhu Huan, Ding Feng, Xu Sheng, Quan Cong and other generals, allowing them to attack the four gates with all their strength.
Wenpin only had 5,000 men and left a reserve of 1,000 men to guard the north gate and secure the east gate. He handed over the defense of the west gate and south gate to Zhang Ren, who was responsible for commanding the defense.
Wenpin knew very well that if you defend for a long time, you will lose. Therefore, Wenpin planned to use this reserve of a thousand people at critical moments to go out of the city and burn down the siege equipment, or to interrupt the enemy's siege rhythm.
Now, the traditional defensive walls are still the main ones.
But the Jiangdong Army commanded by Lu Meng attacked the city, which really made Wenpin feel uncomfortable.
Lü Meng did not build any complicated siege equipment. He just asked his soldiers to build some hook ladders and ladders, such as rams, wells and other powerful siege equipment. Lü Meng did not build any of them.
Then, Lu Meng gathered two thousand crossbowmen from nowhere. Regardless of the arrow consumption, he used crossbows to suppress the arrows of the city wall defenders and fought back. At the same time, he ordered the soldiers to quickly advance to the bottom of the city wall while the top of the wall was suppressed, and climbed up Climb and siege the city.
Yes, Lu Meng is not static. He will also develop the methods used by Zhou Yu when he attacked Hefei. Lu Meng learned them and attacked the police.
Although Wenpin could still command the soldiers to quickly organize a defense while the arrows were suppressed and drove Jiangdong's siege soldiers off the city wall. But after so many times, Wenpin really didn't know if he could still hold on. .
At this time, Wenpin felt somewhat fortunate that Lü Meng only had a total of two thousand crossbowmen, and they were all left at the north gate where Lü Meng was personally in charge.
If there were two thousand crossbowmen in each of the four gates, then the city would not be defended. It would be impossible to defend it.
The crossbowmen must operate in groups of at least three people. The number of people Jiangdong attacked this time should not exceed 30,000, and there should not be so many crossbowmen.
Just when Wenpin was rejoicing, Lu Meng suddenly changed his tactics.
Lu Meng ordered his five thousand soldiers to secretly move to the east gate of Gong'an City under the cover of night and put them under the command of Xu Sheng, who was attacking the east gate.
Then during the day, Lu Meng continued to launch crossbow suppression operations at the north gate as before.
Just when Wenpin commanded the soldiers to fight hard and fight hand-to-hand with Jiangdong's army at the north gate, Xu Sheng from the east gate suddenly sent an additional 5,000 soldiers to attack in one fell swoop and scale the east gate's city wall.
Jiangdong Army's attack was carried out by four gates at the same time, so the public security defenders were defending all four gates.
Wenpin himself was restrained at the north gate and could not escape for a while. Zhang Ren was commanding the defense at the west gate and could not worry about the east gate for the time being. Although there were still a thousand defenders at the east gate, only Wenpin remained. A school lieutenant is in command.
Outside the east gate, in addition to the 5,000 soldiers originally led by Xu Sheng, there were also 5,000 additional soldiers supporting him.
In other words, Lu Meng created a partial numerical advantage at the east gate through his own mobilization, attacking in the east and west, and this advantage ratio reached ten to one.
Under such circumstances, it would be very difficult even for Wenpin to defend himself, let alone just a school captain.
When Wenpin saw that the situation was critical, he had no choice but to directly call in the reserve team of 1,000 people.
Let's talk about the attack later. If we can't drive Jiang Dongjun off the city wall at the east gate today, there will be no chance to attack in the future.
Thousands of reserves went into the battle at the east gate, and Wenpin also went to the east gate to take command after the situation at the north gate stabilized a little. Finally, he reluctantly drove Jiangdong's army off the city wall at the east gate.
When night fell, the two sides stopped fighting. After counting the losses, Wenpin frowned.
After being besieged for five days and besieging the city for three days, Wenpin had lost nearly 700 people.
Although we can still hold on, if we continue to hold on like this, it will not be a way out after all.
But Wenpin had few soldiers. Facing the tens of thousands of Jiangdong troops outside, Wenpin would not take the risk and choose to go out of the city to rob the camp. He could only hope that reinforcements from Wuling or Jiangling would arrive in time.
Lü Meng, who also withdrew his troops to the camp, did not care about the nearly 2,000 people he lost during the three-day siege.
One means that Lü Meng has more soldiers and will suffer losses; the other means that Lü Meng has achieved his goal.
There are a total of five thousand people in Wenpin City, and Lu Meng has long known about it through detailed work.
However, in the past few days of siege, only 4,000 people were found. Therefore, Lu Meng judged that Wenpin had hidden a back-up force of 1,000 people.
The two days of continuous siege and extravagant tactics finally forced Wenpin's backhand out, and then the next thing would be easier to handle.
Wenpin's backup plan was gone, and it was Lu Meng's turn.
And Lu Meng's back-up man was Liu Zhang.
As early as half a year ago, Lu Meng had secretly established contact with Liu Zhang, and at the same time asked Sun Quan, in the name of General Chariot and Cavalry, to recognize that Liu Zhang was still the shepherd of Yizhou.
Now, it's the "Yizhou Mu"'s turn to contribute to Jiangdong.
Lü Meng asked people to contact Xizuo in the city, and asked Xizuo to see Liu Zhang as his emissary, and told Liu Zhang that as long as Liu Zhang led the tenants to cause riots in the city, he would respond to Lü Meng's siege.
After defeating Guan Yu, Lu Meng could make the decision and lend troops to Liu Zhang, allowing him to fight back to Yizhou and regain the power of Yizhou.
Lu Meng didn't believe that Liu Zhang would be unmoved by this proposal.
(End of chapter)
