Chapter 494
Lu Lan hurried into the tent, his voice trembling: "General..."
Lu Xun lay in the quilt, his eyes half open and half closed, and he did not respond to Lu Lan for a long time. Lu Lan stood there, not even daring to let out his breath. But he couldn't hold his breath, and the sound of gasping in a bellows was clearly heard.
"Is there a body coming down?"
Lu Lan nodded.
"How many are there? Have you counted it?"
"I have counted it. Since the war started yesterday, there have been a total of 651 people."
"Not many." Lu Xun sighed softly, held the couch and slowly sat up. Lu Lan hurried forward to support him. The injuries on Lu Xun's leg were not yet cured, and walking may be affected in the future.
"Have you checked the injury?" Lu Xun slowly walked to the side of the case and sat down. When he sat down, the wound on his thigh seemed to have cracked again, and the heart-wrenching pain made his forehead sweat.
"General, you don't have to sit so hard, just lie down."
"It's okay, the pain helps wake up." Lu Xun gritted his teeth and sat down, and asked again: "Have you checked the wound of the body?"
"I checked. Most of them died of drowning, and some were shot to death by arrows and hit by hard objects."
"Has anyone ever been cut by a sharp blade?" Lu Xun grinned, and his hands holding the neck were white.
Lu Lan shook her head: "No discovery yet." He paused and said: "General, the two sides have not yet fought hand-to-hand combat, how could there be a sharp blade slashing his throat and dying?"
Lu Xun tilted his head, glanced at him, was silent for a moment, and slowly said: "Although Wei Ba robbed Xupu's food, he also had a large number of people to eat. I guess he would not kindly keep the prisoners and increase the consumption. Zhongshan. Send someone to contact Pan Jun to see how many people he lost yesterday."
Lu Lan took a deep breath: "Kill prisoners? No way?"
Lu Xun did not understand his surprise and greeted calmly: "Arrang to wash, and then ask Fei Yi to play chess."
Lu Lan glanced at him and bowed to take the order.
Fei Yi held his hands in front of his abdomen and stood quietly on the shore, looking at the neatly lined up corpses on the shore, with an expressionless face. He glanced roughly and found that the bodies were about five or six hundred. If the captured and missing ones were added, the losses of Wu Jun yesterday were at least more than one thousand.
There will be a thousand casualties in a day. As long as Wei Ba can last for ten days, Pan Jun and Lu Dai's army will be wiped out. Judging from the data he has obtained so far, the results of this war have far exceeded the prime minister's most optimistic estimate. After this battle, the Wu State's control over Jingzhou will be greatly weakened, and it is impossible to have the strength to launch an attack on Yizhou within two or three years.
Wei Ba was indeed a very sharp sword. This sword made Wu people covered in bruises and blood. It seemed that it was right to decide to let him complete this task. Ma Su really knew Wei Ba very well.
When he thought of Ma Su, Fei Yi couldn't help laughing and shook his head. Ma Su's vision was unique. But he might not have any good results when he went to Guanzhong. Wei Yan was not a person who knew tolerant. If he wanted to divide part of his power and eventually give up control over Guanzhong, Ma Su faced a lot of difficulties. He still had a long way to become the first general of the Han Dynasty. Fei Yi didn't quite understand Zhuge Liang's arrangement. He felt that it would be feasible to arrange Ma Su to Yong'an to replace Chen Dao than to let Ma Su replace Wei Yan.
Could it be that the Prime Minister hopes that Ma Su will make contributions in Guanzhong so that he can be promoted?
"Fei Jun, are you free?" Lu Lan walked over calmly and bowed to Fei Yi.
"What can I do?" Fei Yi smiled without comment: "General wants to see me?"
"Yes. The general said that if Fei Jun is nothing, he wants to talk to Fei Junshou." Lu Lan laughed, but he was a little reluctant to smile. He didn't sleep well all night, and there were hundreds of corpses waiting to be put into the coffin and restrained. He really couldn't really relax.
"Okay." Fei Yi rubbed his hands and said excitedly: "I happened to have learned some new chess paths recently, and I happened to compete with General Lu."
"That would be great." Lu Lan turned sideways and invited: "Please follow me."
"please!"
Fei Yi followed Lu Lan to Lu Xun's tent. Lu Xun had already finished his meal. Although his face was a little pale, his eyes were very calm. Hearing the footsteps, he put down the book in his hand and waved to Fei Yi. Fei Yi sat opposite him, and the two of them started playing chess one by one.
The chess was played for a whole day, and the two seemed to have a close relationship. No one mentioned the war outside, but just focused on playing chess. There was peace in the big tent, and no one could imagine that a fierce battle was taking place just five miles away that concerns the life and death of tens of thousands of people.
When the guards lit the lights, Lu Xun scattered the chess piece in his hand on the board and smiled helplessly: "Fei Jun Gaoming, I lost."
Fei Yi glanced at him lightly: "The general's chess is also good, but he's a little anxious."
Lu Xun laughed silently, crossed his hands, held them in front of his abdomen, and looked at Fei Yi calmly. Fei Yi kept silent, slowly picked up the chess pieces on the table, picked up his white pieces one by one, and then he gave an invitation with his eyes: "One more game?"
"No, I said, I'm not Fei Jun's opponent. If I lose eight games in ten games, why bother to humiliate myself?"
"The way of chess is to cultivate one's own character, so why should the general care too much about winning or losing?"
"You are the winner, of course you can be more generous. I am the loser, so I can't help but feel a little short of breath." Lu Xun asked someone to take the chess, wash his hands, bring wine and food, and raise the wine glass in his hand at Fei Yi: "Fei Jun, please drink this glass all over, and then have a good rest, we will talk tomorrow."
Fei Yi's face was still calm, but he just took a sip of wine glass, took a sip. He came here because Sun Quan gave in to Zhuge Liang, was willing to agree to Zhuge Liang's conditions, reaffirm the alliance, and guarantee the interests of Shu Kingdom, but he asked Zhuge Liang to withdraw Wei Ba from Wuxi. Fei Yi came here to implement Zhuge Liang's orders and end the war. Now that Shu Han is dominant and Wu Kingdom is in a dilemma, he can of course face Lu Xun calmly. Lu Xun wants to fight for more benefits for the subsequent negotiations through psychological interference, how can Fei Yi let him do what he wants?
After the two of them finished drinking, Fei Yi stood up, bowed and said goodbye, and left. As soon as he left, Lu Xun's face darkened. His hand holding the wine glass was almost crushed. Lu Lan walked in and looked at him with a pale complexion.
"How many more died today?"
"So far, there are 1,121 people, and there are probably some at night, with a total of about 1,500 people." Lu Lan lowered his head, "Pan Jun sent a message. The total casualties yesterday were 1,173."
Lu Xun could no longer hold it back and swept all the cups and plates on the table to the ground with a "wow" sound. He blushed and cursed loudly: "Is Pan Chengming crazy? Is three thousand people killed in battle in two days, how many more can he die?"
Lu Lan bit his lip and said nothing. This result also shocked him very much. So far, Wei Ba's position on the cliff was still intact. There was no sign of any impact. Pan Jun was so reckless that his army would be wiped out in a few days and he would not need to be rescued.
Lu Xun was so angry that he gritted his teeth. He stood up, his thighs suddenly hurt, and his heart and lungs were heartbroken. He screamed involuntarily. Lu Lan hurriedly stepped forward to support him. Lu Xun grabbed his sleeve tightly and said word by word: "Please tell Pan Jun, don't be anxious, you must not be anxious. You must drag it as much as possible. The longer the delay, the more beneficial it is to us. He has no spare food, and Wei Ba is not much better. Persist...
He stretched out a hand and shook it hard in front of Lu Lan: "Five days, hold on for another five days. We can gain some capital for negotiation."
"But……"
"I know, I know." Lu Xun's forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat: "If you ask him to tell him that in five days, I will definitely deliver the food to his hands. I will find a way. I beg him, I beg him, don't fight like this again. After the fight is over, we will definitely lose."
"But, how can we deliver the food?"
"Don't worry, just say to Pan Jun." Lu Xun panted, as if he might die at any time: "Fighting is not only on the battlefield, but also in the court, so that he can look farther and farther away."
Lu Lan nodded: "Here, I'll send someone to see him now."
"Go quickly, go quickly!" Lu Xun pushed Lu Lan and said hurriedly: "You must bring my words to you."
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Pan Jun paced back and forth in the cabin, stopped from time to time, and looked at the bridge in the distance. There were torches on the bridge, swaying in the night wind, like the stars in the sky. The bridge was like a bridge covered with stars, built in the sky.
Pan Jun didn't know why Wei Ba built this bridge, just to connect with the two sides of the Taiwan Strait? He didn't know that he only knew that this bridge was like a battle flag, which was constantly showing Wei Ba's strength. Only such an incredible overpass can be worthy of his reputation as a god general. If it weren't for a god general, who could build a bridge at such a high place?
People cannot fight against gods. Pan Jun knew that after two days of fierce fighting, the morale of the Wu army, which suffered heavy damage, had fallen to a low point. In addition to the threat of food outage, rumors that Wei Ba was the reincarnation of the god of heaven began to spread in the army. The concept of reincarnation and rebirth was the barbarian belief in the Indians. Many people in the southwest believed it, especially those barbarians from the mountains, and those Jiaozhou people under Lu Dai also believed it.
Pan Jun was very uneasy. He was worried that if he continued like this, he might collapse if he couldn't hold on. The rumors about the gods were like the overpass, condescending, lying in everyone's heart and blocking Pan Jun's heart.
How can we destroy the overpass? Pan Jun narrowed his eyes and was silent for a moment: "Come on, invite Mr. Lu."
"Here." The guard turned around and left. Pan Jun paced again in the cabin. After a while, heavy footsteps sounded outside, and the withered Lu Dai appeared in front of Pan Jun. In the past two days, the people in charge of clearing obstacles mainly joined Lu Dai's subordinates, and the losses were very great. Lu Dai only had more than a thousand people. As a once powerful general and a veteran in the Sun Quan shogunate, he felt very bad when he fell to this point.
"General Pan, is there anything wrong?"
Chapter completed!