Qu Dazhong pondered for a long time, but it was still difficult to determine Lu Wu's whereabouts, but one thing was certain, even if Lu Wu abandoned Tonghe City, he would never abandon his army of more than 400,000 people.
No soldier in his right mind would do this—or even think about it.
Therefore, as long as the two armies face each other and put enough pressure on the other side, Lu Wu will definitely show up.
Of course, the greater possibility is that Lu Wu himself is in charge of the army. After all, except for him, no one in the southern part of Chu has enough prestige to unite this army.
"Come here, tell me to go down and set up camp early tomorrow morning and head to Tonghe City."
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"Come here, tell us to go down and get ready tomorrow. We will set up camp and head to Tonghe City the day after tomorrow."
An order almost identical to Qu Dazhong's was issued in Mengtong County.
Luo Gan, the general of Wu State with a head full of white hair mixed with some black hair and a body as strong as a mountain, sat in a secret room behind the lobby and gave orders. Lu Wu left behind one of his registered disciples, Ma Ling, who assisted Lin Ji in commanding the army, and obeyed his orders. Then go out and deliver the general order.
Luo Gan looked at the map spread out on the stage, the killing intent in his old eyes almost burning up, and the expression on his face was cold.
Luo Gan is sixty-four this year.
Thirty-three years ago during the great battle between Wu and Chu, Luo Gan was in his prime.
At that time, Shi Yan, an extraordinary general of the Chu State, led an army of 300,000 to besiege the city of Tonghe for reinforcements. He defeated the two armies of the State of Wu, totaling 600,000 men, by using tactics such as suspecting soldiers from all sides and setting fire to the camp. He also died in battle.
The elite of the Wu Kingdom were lost, and then Shi Yan led his army to break through thirty-nine cities. The local wealthy families of the Wu Kingdom fell upon the wind and almost drove the Wu royal court to the sky and the ground, and almost killed them all.
During that period, bad news spread frequently, and the blood of Wu's general disciples spread all over the earth.
Luo Gan's father, two uncles, three cousins and younger brothers all died in the continuous war. Among them, Luo Gan's uncle died in front of Luo Gan.
Luo Gan himself did not know how many times he crawled out of the dead.
To be honest, he survived not because he was the most outstanding among Wu's generals, but because he was the luckiest.
Not only the Luo family, but also almost every family member of the Wu Kingdom was in a state of isolation. Many families even lost their family martial arts and military books.
The State of Wu had five prefectures south of Lanshui. In order not to forget this humiliation, the new King of Wu, Ke Chu, redivided the five prefectures into seven counties, among which Zhenjiang County and others corresponded to Zhenjiang Prefecture (the Chu State divided them into seven counties). The name of the county named "Nanhe Prefecture" is to remind myself that sooner or later, I will have to fight back to regain my homeland.
(The redivision of counties and counties at that time was also to disrupt the local forces and completely control the five prefectures south of Lanshui.
After all, the center of gravity of the King Wu's court was originally north of Lanshui. It fled to the south of Lanshui and lost its foundation. If the local forces were not suppressed, they would have to sleep with one eye open. For details, please refer to Chiang Kai-shek's Escape to Taiwan. Later, the process of suppressing local indigenous forces in Taiwan. )
The reason why Luo Gan is so famous in the Wu State military is that he integrated the children of Wu State generals who escaped from Lanshui, defeated and suppressed the local forces, collected the inheritance of various military strategists, broke down the sectarian opinions, and educated the underage children of each family. Tong Zhi waited for this generation of military strategists to appear.
Luo Gan's military prestige in the Kingdom of Wu was second only to that of Wu King Kechu. Even Wu King Kechu had to marry him in order to feel at ease. Luo Gan reciprocated his love. Neither of his sons joined the army, but stayed in their own fiefdom to avoid offending the King of Wu. Poor sensitive nerves.
Luo Gan can be said to be a very human minister.
When dreaming back at midnight, Luo Gan would often dream of his uncles and brothers dying in battle, so he was at odds with the Chu state.
He originally thought that the Chu State was so powerful that he would not be able to cross the river in his lifetime. He even made a will, ordering his family's descendants to move his tomb back and bury him in the Luo family's ancestral land if the Wu State regained its homeland.
But he never expected that Lu Wu's temperament was a hundred times more violent than he thought. Because Chu soldiers killed Lu family generals for extortion, he single-handedly broke into Nanhe City and killed Nanhe government officials.
When the news came, because the Lu family was a nouveau riche and Lu Wu, the most capable fighter, had left his hometown, the noble children of the Wu Kingdom who wanted to take a piece of meat from the Lu family were all silent and couldn't wait to see the deer. The family all took a long way around.
Luo Gan originally thought that this man was just messing around, but he actually stood firm and dug out a large piece of meat from the Chu State. At that time, the civil and military officials of the Wu State analyzed it for a long time, and they just couldn't figure it out. How did Lu Wu gain a foothold in Chu State?
When Luo Gan came this time, he shaved off his company commander's beard in order to remain anonymous. He originally wanted to serve as Lu Wu's adviser, but he was afraid that Lu Wu was not good at commanding large armies and would miss this good situation.
When the results came back, they found that all the people in Luwu were gone. They just appointed Lin Ji as the commander-in-chief of the entire army and asked Lin Ji to confront the Chu army head-on.
When Luo Gan saw Lin Ji, Lin Ji was overjoyed - if it had been anyone else, Lin Ji might have been reluctant to command the army, but Luo Gan was the number one person in the Wu military. In addition to his outstanding record, he was also Lin Ji's immediate boss. The boss has always been highly respected.
So Lin Ji stayed with Lu Wu and discussed with the twelve disciples who helped him coordinate and command the army, hoping to give up the command to Luo Gan.
Those twelve named disciples were all promoted by Lu Wu from among the lower-level officers, and they had planted the demon seeds. They were the most loyal to Lu Wu. I don’t know what means they used to get in touch with Lu Wu, but they agreed anyway.
However, Luo Gan did not go directly to the front desk, but asked Lin Ji to continue to bear the name of commander-in-chief. He wanted to hide behind the scenes and gather enough energy to give Chu State a hard blow.
If Luo Gan hadn't been in charge of the overall situation in the army, how could Lin Ji, as the commander-in-chief of the army, dare to leave the army and go to Tonghe City with only a hundred people?
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Tonghe City.
Since the day before yesterday, the business travelers traveling to and from Tonghe City on the official road have disappeared, and not even a single dog is left in the surrounding villages.
To the north, the Chu army came over.
First, sword and shield bearers walked on both sides of the official road, with a mixed battalion of spearmen and crossbowmen walking in the middle. In the middle were cavalry leading horses, then a small group of baggage carts and shield carts used to block arrows, and then Behind them are the spearmen and crossbowmen. This mixed formation of a brigade carries six flags, which means that there is a general and five lieutenants among them.
Such teams come one after another, and someone will guide them to the designated location to set up camp.
There is a certain distance between the camps and the camps are scattered in the form of plum blossoms. They are separated by shallow ditches and wooden walls. Only certain places have passages.
Lin Ji, Meng Yang and others had been staying at the top of the city from morning until night, but there was an endless stream of Chu troops, and they had not yet seen the end, and the camp they had set up stretched for ten miles.
There were hundreds of thousands of people, overwhelming the place.
Meng Yang, a strong martial artist with an iron will, and generals like Lin Ji, who once commanded cavalry across the battlefield, could not help being shocked when they saw the Chu army's momentum, although their faces were not as pale as earth.
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