Shi Bao's brain is really very flexible.
In these days, the minds of foreigners are relatively straightforward and simple.
So, after Shi Bao figured out Wuxi Man's actual needs and Wuxi Man's attitude towards Soochow, his mind became more vivid.
Shi Bao began to think about how to incite the Wuxi barbarians to lend troops to him so that he could have enough troops to fight back to Wuling.
In fact, Wuling County is basically no different from being undefended now.
Zhou Yu has already led his troops to attack Jiangling. The main army of Soochow has also moved forward, and Lu Dai, a difficult guy, has now gone to Gong'an City to garrison. In Wuling County, there are only one Lu Zhi and one Lu Kai, leading A total of less than five thousand troops were garrisoned.
Among them, Lu Kai led 2,000 troops to garrison in Lingyang, and Lu Ju led 3,000 troops to garrison in Wuling County. They were also responsible for coordinating the deployment of the four counties in Jingnan to provide grain and grass logistics to the front line.
This opportunity is really great.
In Shi Bao's hands, there are still more than 2,500 Dahan County soldiers. If he can borrow 10,000 soldiers and horses from Wuxi Man, he will fight back to Wuling County and cut off the food and grass of the Soochow Army on the front line. Supply is not impossible.
And once the supply of grain and grass provided by the four counties in Jingnan to the Jiangling front line is cut off, Soochow's main army will not be able to stay under Jiangling City for long.
For this reason, Shi Bao began his own work of lobbying Wuxi Man.
On the one hand, Shi Bao is indeed very eloquent and quick-thinking. He can always find suitable reasons to persuade the leader of the Wuxi Man tribe.
On the other hand, the stone bracts are really beautiful.
To a certain extent, this is an era where faces are judged. Even in a foreign land, what a handsome person says does not give people the same level of trust as what an ugly person says.
In addition, Shi Bao was also willing to go out of his way. He actually agreed to the marriage request of the leader of the largest tribe in the Wuxi Barbarians and took the daughter of the leader of the tribe as his concubine. This was unimaginable in this era.
After the accumulation of foreign wars during the Han Dynasty, to put it harshly, the Han people today are superior to others and look down on the so-called barbarians at all.
If the Han people can barely regard the Huns as human beings because of their early influence and achievements, then Nanman, Shanyue, and Wuhuan are not even human beings in the eyes of most Han people.
Basically equivalent to livestock.
From this we can see what kind of sacrifice Shi Bao made when he was willing to take a Wuxi barbarian girl as his concubine.
Well, although Shi Bao is actually quite happy with it, after all, apart from her darker skin, this Wuxi barbarian actually looks pretty when she grows up.
Shi Bao knows everything. As long as she is a beautiful woman, he really doesn't care about other statuses.
Otherwise, his reputation in this era would be so bad? !
It is precisely because of this that Shi Bao gained the support of the largest Wuxi Barbarian leader in Wuling County. Under his leadership, Shi Bao was able to lobby within the Wuxi Barbarian and persuade these Wuxi Barbarian leaders to lend troops to him. .
Of course, just lobbying is not enough.
Wuxi Man is the name of a group of people. In fact, they all have their own tribes, and each tribe has different demands.
It is not a problem to be friendly to the Han army, and it is okay to hope that the Han government will kill them back. But it is not okay to let them lend troops to the Han people and let their own troops work for the Han people at no cost.
To this end, Shi Bao came up with his second trump card.
Shi Bao promised these Wuxi Barbarian tribal leaders that after Wuling County was captured and the Soochow Army's rations were seized, these tribal leaders could be given priority to take the food they needed.
As long as you have enough manpower to move the military rations, you can move as much as you can, and Shi Bao will never stop you.
This condition is enough to make all the tribal leaders of Wuxi Man's eyes glow green.
Wuxi really wants a lot, but it’s really not much. They just want to have enough food to keep their tribes alive. In the past, there was no way, they didn’t know how to grow, and they didn’t have the conditions to grow it. Now they have ready-made food for them. Who wouldn't want to get a little more of them.
Therefore, Shi Bao originally thought that it would be good if he could borrow about 10,000 troops. As a result, in just half a month, these Wuxi barbarian leaders arbitrarily raised 20,000 troops for Shi Bao. People come out.
Of course, there are only about seven or eight thousand people who can actually go to the battlefield as soldiers. The rest are people waiting to move food after the war. Even the elderly, women, and children come together.
Shi Bao suddenly felt dumbfounded. With such a group of gadgets going to war, could there really be any good results? !
But, time waits for no one.
Shi Bao didn't have enough time to wait for more Wuxi barbarians to send him troops. He had to send troops as soon as possible to counterattack Wuling County. If he hesitated again, he would wait until the Soochow Army captured Jiangling. Then no matter what he was doing in Jingnan, Whatever it becomes, it will be meaningless.
In this way, Shi Bao took more than two thousand soldiers from his headquarters, plus seven or eight thousand barbarians gathered by Wuxi Man, and walked out of the Wuling County group again. The first goal was to counterattack Lingyang County.
Capture Lingyang County and cut off the connection between Wuling County and the Public Security Bureau first, so that you can take the next step.
Lingyang County's guard Lu Kai was caught off guard.
To a certain extent, Zhou Yu's worry is indeed correct. There are really not many second-generation generals in Soochow who are successful.
At least Lu Kai, Lu Dai's son, is not the kind of person who has enough ability and courage.
If it can be said that Lu Kai did not expect that Shi Bao could still fight out of the mountains and forests of Wuling County, then after so many days, Lu Kai did not reinforce and repair the city defenses of Lingyang County. It was purely Incompetent.
At first, Zhou Yu and Lu Dai led troops to besiege Lingyang, and Shi Bao defended with 5,000 troops. At the end of the battle, when Shi Bao broke through, the city wall of Lingyang County was already in tatters.
After Shi Bao broke through the siege, Lu Dai had no time to stay and repair the city wall. He handed Ling Yang to Lu Kai and directly followed Zhou Yu to the police. However, during this period of nearly a month, Lu Kai had not yet responded. The Lingyang city wall was effectively repaired.
Shi Bao could not believe it when he saw the dilapidated city wall from a distance.
Originally, Shi Bao thought that he would lead a group of barbarians who were not good at attacking cities and attack the city head-on. Unexpectedly, God was going to help Shi Bao achieve a shocking feat.
As the original defender of Lingyang County, who else knows the weaknesses of Lingyang County's city defense better than Shi Bao? !
Following his own memory, Shi Bao moved to the weakest defense point of Lingyang County. Shi Bao used more than 2,000 county soldiers under his command as attack arrows, supplemented by barbarians to create momentum. In one fell swoop, he climbed to the top of the city of Lingyang County. , and at the same time, after a not too fierce battle, the city gate was opened.
Lingyang City was simply defeated by Shi Bao.
On the one hand, Shi Bao had enough understanding of the damage to the Lingyang city wall and knew where to attack. On the other hand, it was true that Lu Kai was too useless. Not only did he not repair the city wall defense in time, he even hesitated to command on the battlefield. Indecision and procrastination.
In the final analysis, Lu Kai did not expect that the current Lingyang City would still be attacked by the enemy.
After the city was broken, Lu Kai once again made a very bad response error.
He did not choose to retreat toward Wuling County to remind Lu Zhi in Wuling County to strengthen his defenses. Instead, he chose to flee toward Gong'an City in the north and seek refuge with his biological father.
And when Lu Dai learned about the incident in Lingyang County behind him, he wanted to slap his stupid son to death.
I have nothing to tell you here. The important place for grain cultivation in Wuling County is the most important existence. Really, it means that this son is really his biological son, otherwise Lu Dai would have ordered military law to engage in it.
But things have come to this, and Lu Dai can't do anything.
On the one hand, he quickly wrote a military report and reported this matter to the general on the front line. On the other hand, he quickly notified Cheng Zi who was guarding the public security ferry to lead his troops back to guard the public security. He took three thousand soldiers and immediately returned to Wuling County to aid. .
Lu Dai has already made his best efforts to make up for the mistakes his son made.
But the question is, can Shi Bao stay obediently in Lingyang County and wait for Lu Dai to come and attack? !
Obviously, even Lu Dai did not dare to have such extravagant hopes. If he were Shi Bao, he would definitely march quickly to attack Wuling County.
The only thing Lu Dai can pray for now is that Lu Ju, who is guarding Lingyang County, can be a little more vigilant and not let Shi Bao take advantage of him.
At this time, Shi Bao was already leading troops on the way to attack Wuling County.
After capturing Lingyang County, Shi Bao did not stay in Lingyang County for even a quarter of an hour. He directly ordered the eight hundred soldiers under his command to change into the uniforms of the Soochow Army. Under the banner of the Soochow Army, He personally led this army and went straight to Wuling County.
Shi Bao's purpose was to pretend to be Lu Kai's defeated army, falsely open the city gate of Wuling County, capture Wuling County, and completely control the Soochow army's food and grass here.
As long as there is not enough food and grass supply, the Soochow Army's attempt to conquer Jiangling is just a dream.
And because of this, he, Shi Bao, will inevitably become famous in one battle and be known all over the world. He will be able to achieve success and become a prince soon.
(End of chapter)
