He sent Lu Su to capture Changsha, Guiyang, and Jiangxia, then stationed troops at Lukou, sent Lu Meng and Gan Ning to return, and then went to Yuhang to recall Ling Tong. In less than a day, Lu Meng and Gan Ning arrived first. Lu Meng offered his advice: "Now Cao Cao has sent Zhu Guang, the governor of Lujiang, to station troops in Wancheng, build rice fields, and harvest the crops in Hefei to pay for the army. Now we can take Wancheng first. Let’s attack Hefei again.”
Sun Quan said: "This is a good idea." So he let Lu Meng and Gan Ning be the vanguard, followed by Jiang Qin and Pan Zhang. Sun Quan personally took Zhou Tai, Chen Wu, Dong Xi, and Xu Sheng as the middle army. At that time, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and Han Dang were stationed in various places and did not go out together.
After the troops crossed the river, they quickly took Hezhou and headed towards Wancheng. After the prefect Zhu Guang learned the news, he sent soldiers to Hefei for help while holding on to the city.
Sun Quan led his soldiers and horses to the city to take a look, and found that bows and arrows were shot from the city wall, hitting Sun Quan's commander. Sun Quan had to return to the camp first.
After returning, Sun Quan asked: "How to capture Wancheng?"
Dong Xi said: "We can let the soldiers build a mountain to attack."
Xu Sheng said: "Attack the city directly with ladders, then build bridges, cross the city wall, and enter the city to attack."
Lu Meng said: "The methods you mentioned are too time-consuming. Once the rescue troops from Hefei arrive, we will stop attacking like this. Now our soldiers have just arrived here and their morale is at its peak. We can take advantage of this opportunity to attack vigorously." , we will increase our attack intensity tomorrow, and by around noon, we should be able to break through the city!"
Sun Quan listened to this suggestion and made food at the fifth watch. The three armies advanced quickly. The stones on the city fell together with the bows and arrows. Gan Ning held the iron chain in his hand and braved the bow and arrow. Zhu Guang sent archers to shoot arrows. Gan Ning Pushing away the arrow, he knocked Zhu Guang down with a chain. Lü Meng beat the drum himself, and the soldiers rushed forward and hacked Zhu Guang to death with random swords. Seeing that the prefect was killed, the other soldiers lost their fighting spirit and surrendered one after another, and soon captured Wancheng. By the time of Chen, Zhang Liao and his soldiers were halfway through the journey. When they heard that Wancheng had fallen, they withdrew their troops and returned to Hefei. .
Sun Quan entered Wancheng, and Ling Tong also arrived with his troops. Sun Quan rewarded Lü Meng, Gan Ning and other generals, and held a celebration banquet. Lü Meng and Gan Ning were seated at the table. Everyone praised their achievements and the wine was over. Halfway through, Ling Tong suddenly remembered the revenge for killing his father. Seeing Lu Meng and the others constantly praising him, he felt unbalanced and very angry. He stared at Gan Ning for a long time, then suddenly pulled out his sword and stood in the middle of the banquet. Said: "There is no music during the banquet, so it can't add to the fun. Let me do the sword dance."
Gan Ning noticed this action, pushed away the food in front of him, took two halberds with both hands, walked to the middle of the banquet, and said, "Let me use the halberds."
Lu Meng felt the strong hostility between the two, so he held a shield in one hand and a machete in the other, stood between them, and said: "Although you are powerful, you are not as clever as me!" After saying this, he waved the knife and cards. Get up and separate the two.
This matter soon reached Sun Quan, who quickly mounted his horse and rushed over. Everyone saw Sun Quan arriving and put down their weapons.
Sun Quan said: "I often say that you two should let go of your previous hatred. Why is it like this again?"
Ling Tong cried and knelt on the ground. Sun Quan persuaded him again and again, and then his mood recovered a little. On the next day, he raised his troops to attack Hefei, and the three armies were dispatched.
Zhang Liao was depressed because he lost Wancheng and returned to Hefei. Suddenly someone reported that Cao Cao had sent a wooden box with Cao Cao's personal letter on it. So he looked at it and it read: If thieves come to attack, open it. .
On that day, Sun Quan came with an army of 100,000 to attack Hefei. Zhang Liao opened the wooden box and read: If Sun Quan arrives, two generals, Zhang and Li, will go out to fight and Le will come in to defend the city.
Zhang Liao handed the letter to Li Dian and Le Jin looked at it. Le Jin said, "What does the general think?"
Zhang Liao said: "My lord is on an expedition outside. The Wu army must think that they can defeat us easily. Now they can send out troops to fight us, fight back with all their strength, destroy their spirit, and appease the people's psychology. Then Hefei can be defended."
Li Dian and Zhang Liao usually had a bad relationship, so they kept silent after hearing Zhang Liao's thoughts.
When Le Jin saw that Li Dian was silent, he said: "There are many enemies and few of us. It is difficult to resist. It is better to hold on like this."
Zhang Liao said: "You all have your own ideas and don't care about the public affairs. I will go out to fight on my own now." So he asked the left and right to prepare the horses.
Li Dian was a little moved, stood up and said: "The general can do this, how dare I, Li Dian, delay the official business because of personal matters?" You can obey the general's command.
Zhang Liao was very happy and said: "Since you are willing to help me, tomorrow I will lead a group of troops to ambush in the north of Xiaoyaojin. When the Wu army comes over, we can cut off the small bridge. Le and I can come in and attack." Li Dian accepted the order. , took the soldiers and horses to arrange an ambush.
Sun Quan sent Lu Meng and Gan Ning as the front, with himself and Ling Tong in the middle. The rest of the generals advanced one after another to kill Hefei.
Lü Meng and Gan Ning met Le Jin at the front. Gan Ning rode out to fight Le Jin. The two fought for several rounds. Le Jin pretended to be defeated and left. Gan Ning called Lü Meng and rushed over with his troops. Sun Quan was there. The second team heard that the front was victorious and urged the army to go to the north of Xiaoyaojin. Suddenly they heard the roar of cannons. Zhang Liao's army on the left and Li Dian's army on the right came over to kill them. Sun Quan was very surprised and hurriedly sent people to find Lu Meng. He and Gan Ning came back to rescue. At this time, Zhang Liao had arrived with his troops. Ling Tong only had more than 300 cavalry, which was too weak compared with the attacking Cao army.
Ling Tong shouted: "Lord, why don't you cross the Xiaoshi Bridge quickly!" As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Liao led two thousand cavalry and came over to kill him. Ling Tong returned to fight to the death. Sun Quan rode his horse onto the bridge, but the south side of the bridge was broken. There are many, and there is no connecting place.
Sun Quan was very panicked and didn't know what to do. At this time, Yajiang Guli shouted: "My lord, you can back off the horse first, and then jump over."
So Sun Quan took his horse back a short distance, then whipped it up quickly. The horse jumped deeply and crossed the broken bridge.
Sun Quan jumped to the south of the bridge, Xu Sheng and Dong Xi sailed a small boat to meet him, and Ling Tong and Gu Li resisted Zhang Liao's attack. Lü Meng and Gan Ning came back with their troops to rescue them, but they were attacked from behind by Le Jin. Li Dian intercepted them and fought, and the Wu soldiers suffered many losses. All three hundred cavalry led by Ling Tong were killed. Ling Tong himself was shot many times. He reached the bridge, but the bridge was broken, and he escaped around the river.
Sun Quan saw this situation on the boat and quickly sent Dong Xi to sail over to rescue him, and then rescued Ling Tong. Lu Meng and Gan Ning both tried their best to escape from Henan. Zhang Liao's attack killed the soldiers in Jiangnan so that everyone was afraid. , as soon as they heard that Zhang Liao was famous, the children did not dare to cry at night.
Everyone protected Sun Quan and returned to the camp.
