In the public security war, the pressure on both the Han and Wu sides was a bit high.
Although Zhang Xi consciously lowered the level of this war and limited it to border friction, judging from the actual development trend, it is really possible that it will escalate at any time and become a large-scale war between the two countries.
This is not a good thing for both countries. A hasty war without all preparations has been completed, and there is a high probability that it will only lead to a lose-lose outcome.
Zhang Xi repeatedly asked Shi Bao to stabilize his mentality and stop marching towards Wuling. At the same time, he immediately ordered Li Qiu and Zhou Tai to quickly conquer the public security and end the border war.
The pressure immediately came to Li Qiu and Zhou Tai.
To be honest, the current situation of Li Qiu and Zhou Tai is really not very good.
In fact, both of them were generals who were promoted and appointed when Zhang Xi was in charge of Jiangling in the early years. However, their career development in recent years has been very unsatisfactory.
Because of his identity as a Yizhou native, Li Qiu, like Zhang Yi, was severely marginalized in Jingzhou. In addition, the Han Dynasty had always had the strategic thinking of "conquering Sun Quan in the east and attacking Cao Wei in the north" in recent years, which led to Li Qiu being always suppressed. Trapped in Wuling County in Jingnan.
Although later, Xi Hong transferred back to Xiangyang to take office, and Li Qiu was able to take charge of a county. However, the problem was that Li Qiu's position was still Wuling Commandery.
It's not even comparable to Zhang Ni who guarded Fancheng. Although Zhang Ni was also crucified in Fancheng these years and his rights have been restricted, his official position has been rising.
After the last Northern Expedition, Zhang Ni was responsible for guarding Fancheng and transporting grain and grass, and now he has the position of general against the captives.
This is a relatively high-ranking military position among the miscellaneous generals. If you have more meritorious service, you can even work hard to win the position of a Quartet General.
But Li Qiu couldn't do it. He had been the captain of Wuling for more than ten years.
As for Zhou Tai, he is actually only a little better than Li Qiu. Zhou Tai is now a partial general in the military. This is also due to the fact that Zhou Tai is mainly stationed in Xinye.
But the problem is that Zhou Tai has been living in Jingzhou for almost ten years. His greatest authority is to lead three thousand troops to guard a county. He has very few opportunities to go into battle to kill the enemy, and he feels just as frustrated.
Therefore, this battle is a battle for two people to clear their names. Both of them are holding back their breath and want to prove to Zhang Xi that their abilities are really no worse than Shi Bao and Deng Ai.
Therefore, as soon as the two received the attack order from Zhang Xi, they immediately let go and launched a fierce attack on the Public Security City.
Then they get even more stressed.
Twenty thousand people attack a city guarded by five thousand people. The attack ratio is four to one. Is this an advantage? !
have!
Is it a big advantage? !
Really not big! ! !
According to the interpretation of the art of war, if it is doubled, it is divided, and if it is doubled, it is surrounded. Their current military strength is just the advantage of being able to siege the city. If they want to defeat it, they have to use other methods.
Of course, the art of war is to a large extent only a reference item and not the complete truth. Otherwise, Huo Jun's battle example of defending Jiameng Pass should not exist.
That was an example of a battle in which less than 2,000 soldiers killed 20,000 people.
On the actual battlefield, there are many factors that affect the outcome of a war. It is not just the number of troops, but also external conditions, internal conditions, and even whether the coach makes mistakes. These may affect the outcome of the entire battle.
Therefore, while Li Qiu and Zhou Tai stepped up their attacks to inflict damage and pressure on the defenders, they were also waiting for fighters to appear.
For example, the enemy commander would make wrong choices under the pressure of such a siege.
But the problem is that the general of the Soochow Army is not given in vain!
This is Lu Kai.
Although his reputation is not obvious now, his ability is there! ! !
After all, he is also the prime minister of Soochow in history. Although the level of the previous prime ministers of Soochow is uneven, Lu Kai still belongs to the category of relatively good level.
In his early years, he conquered Shanyue and was a bandit. This also gave Lu Kai a lot of battle experience. He also had good strategic skills and guarded the public security. Although he was at a disadvantage, Lu Kai still persisted.
But Lu Kai is also under great pressure.
After all, he was the weaker side and faced four times the enemy's siege. It was okay to hold on for a while. Lu Kai didn't know how long he would hold on.
If people really risk more than half of the casualties to fight you, then this public security city will not be able to defend it.
Furthermore, the external environment is not very good for Lu Kai.
Five days have passed, and there are still no reinforcements arriving from the south side of Gong'an City. It is obvious that the reinforcements from Wuling County were most likely repelled by the Shu thieves, and there will be no reinforcements arriving in a short time.
And the city itself is really not that strong.
More than half a year ago, Gong'an City had already suffered a devastating blow, and the people who caused such a blow at that time were the Soochow army.
Now it's better, the Soochow army is defending the city, and the Shu army has attacked the city outside. The recovery situation of the city defense is not very ideal.
What Lu Kai is most worried about now is that the Shu thieves will transport the trebuchets that hit the warships across the river and use them to deal with the police wall. If this is the case, Lu Kai must consider the breakout route in advance.
Therefore, Lu Kai was under great pressure.
In addition to the police battlefield, there is another place where there are people who are under greater pressure than these people.
That is Zhu Ran from Lukou.
Since the last successful attack on Gong'an, threatening Jingzhou and forcing the Jingzhou army to return, Zhu Ran was named General of the Northern Expedition, Marquis of Yong'an, and Governor of Jingzhou by Sun Quan, and was stationed at Lukou.
Other official positions don't matter, Zhu Ran really doesn't lack this, but the governor of Jingzhou gives Zhu Ran the right to control the four counties in Jingnan, and even initiate an attack on Jingzhou.
This is an important task.
Zhu Ran's promotion route is really like Lu Meng's promotion route back then.
First he guarded a place, then became the governor, and finally became the commander-in-chief of the army. Lü Meng's end was not good. He returned defeated and died in depression. But from the perspective of his official career, Lü Meng at that time was indeed at the forefront of the military. The second person's position.
The first person is Zhou Yu, an unassailable Jiangdong general.
Zhu Ran is now replicating this route. Even if Zhu Ran can break Lu Meng's limit and really capture Jingzhou, even if he cannot compare with Zhou Yu, he can at least be on an equal footing with Lu Xun of Huainan.
But Zhu Ran knew that this matter was too difficult.
Now that he can't even hold back the Jiangling navy, why bother going north to attack Jiangling, or even Xiangfan, and finally take over Jingzhou! ! !
Who the hell is telling me now that Zhang Yuanchang doesn't know how to fight with water? Zhu Ran was the first to rush to him. The method of fighting with water that someone who didn't know how to fight with water came up with, but the Soochow Navy was helpless? !
Really, Zhu Ran really had no way to deal with the turtle formation set up by Zhang Xi.
Let's fight head-on. The threat from the two Mengchong battleships is too great.
Taking advantage of Zou Ke's mobility and flexibility to launch an attack, it was impossible to break through the Zou Ke defense line set up by Jiangling Navy in front of Mengchong in a short period of time. However, Jiangling Navy could use Meng Chong to throw stones to disrupt Zou Ke's offensive formation as much as possible. .
Using the Mengchong battleship to take the lead in attacking Jiangling Navy's Zuke defense line is effective, and it can also attack and kill some Jiangling Navy Zuke, but the problem is that Zhu Ran can't accept the cost of doing so.
The Mengchong battleship is not fast enough, and its steering is not flexible enough. The trebuchets of the Jiangling navy on the opposite side not only have a long range, but also have high shooting accuracy. The hit rate of defeating Ke is a bit miserable, but it is difficult to defeat a large ship like the Mengchong battleship. Targets are always accurate.
In two active attacks, Zhu Ran had sunk two and disabled three Mengchong warships. He really couldn't afford the losses.
These days, the cost of building a Mengchong warship is very high. Zhu Ran led 20,000 naval troops to garrison Lukou. There were no less than 300 large and small warships. However, if there were only eight Mengchong warships, they would all be destroyed if they were destroyed. .
As for a brainless subordinate who came up with a plan, he said that he could imitate the Battle of Chibi and use fire to attack him. Zhu Ran almost gave him a big mouth on the spot.
Why, they are upstream and you are downstream, and now is the time when the northwest wind prevails. Fire attack? ! Who are you burning? !
Besides, Zhang Xi also experienced the Battle of Chibi. He was still in the military camp of the Governor at that time. Does he know how the Governor used fire to attack? !
He's not that good-for-nothing like Cao Cao, who would join the warships to seek death by himself! ! !
Believe it or not, if you dare to use fire to attack, Zhang Xi can even add some fish oil to you. Anyway, it is not his Jiangling navy that is being burned, so he is afraid of something.
Okay, so far, all the frontal battlefield tactics, Zhu Ran can't solve the turtle formation deployed by Zhang Xi.
What's even more annoying is that the initiative on the battlefield is completely in Zhang Xi's hands.
When it was time to send military supplies and supplies across the river, Zhang Xi led the navy to take the initiative and set up a turtle formation to wait for the Soochow army to attack. However, if supplies were not sent across the river, Zhang Xi would simply shrink into the water stronghold and not come out.
Zhang Xi has the final say on when to fight, where to fight, and how to fight. The Soochow navy does not even have the opportunity to create its own fighter jets.
There is nothing we can do, they just guard the passage across the river and remain motionless.
As for encircling and attacking the water stronghold of the Jiangling Army, and blocking the Jiangling Army in the water stronghold, Zhu Ran tried it, but the effect was very bad.
The location of Jiangling Army's water village was obviously consulted by experts. The location was very good and it was located in a place that was easy to defend but difficult to attack. Although the defensive layout is not too clever, it is still strict. It is really the last resort to attack such a water stronghold head-on.
In addition, Zhang Xi also mobilized eight crossbows from the top of Jiangling City, which were distributed in all directions of the water village. There was also a catapult stationed on the high ground near the shore. How could we attack the wall? !
A strong bow, a crossbow, and stones were thrown down. Before they even got close to the water village, the Soochow army was beaten to pieces.
After Zhu Ran only launched a tentative attack, he gave up the idea and could only continue to suffer with the Jiangling navy.
But continuing to suffer like this is not an option.
Lu Dai wrote a letter to inform Zhu Ran that he had led troops to rescue Wuling County. He said it was a letter to inform him, but in fact, it was somewhat of an accusation, but it was difficult to say clearly due to his official position.
Lu Dai's meaning was obvious - how come Wu's mighty navy of 20,000 couldn't defeat the Jiangling navy of 7,000 improvised troops? !
Not to mention Lu Dai, Sun Quan probably also had this question.
If things continue like this, let alone re-opening the Yangtze River waterway and cutting off the grain and grass supply lines of the Shu army besieging the Public Security Bureau, even Wuling County may be lost to the sneak attacks of Shu thieves.
Zhu Ran was really stressed.
At this time, Zhu Ran received a letter from Jiangxia County, General Zhou Yu.
In the letter, Zhou Yu only said one thing - the police! ! !
(End of chapter)
