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It was noon, and the heat wave swept across the lake like fire. Although the ground was scorching and sultry, the low sound of the horn was still blew south of the estuary.

The black Han army appeared on the east bank of the Wucheng River in the distance. This battle was crucial to both sides. Although the Han army planned to bypass Wu County, it was discovered by the scouts of the Jiangdong Army and intercepted by the Jiangdong Army.

In fact, the ownership of Wu County is no longer important. Even if the Han army seizes Wu County, it will not have a decisive influence. The key is that the Han army will break through the Jiangdong Army's blockade and head north. As long as the Han army appears north of the lake, Sun Quan will not dare to participate in the Hefei War any more.

The Han army had nearly 8,000 people. Under Lu Xun's leadership, they were arranged on the flat river bank. Ten miles behind it was Wucheng County, and about Bubu was the Wucheng River. The river was shimmering and shining under the scorching sun.

In summer when the water is abundant, the Wucheng River can travel a thousand stone ship, connecting Zhejiang water and lakes. It is actually a branch of Zhejiang water. Zhejiang water injects into the sea, while the Wucheng River flows into the lake to the north.

The two armies were less than one mile apart, and the five thousand Jiangdong troops arranged into gun and arrow formations on the Gobi Desert, that is, there were two thousand crossbowmen in front and thousands of spear infantry behind.

The two thousand crossbowmen were actually also spearmen, but they could pull the crossbows and had a long range. When the Han army was close, the spear infantry would fight back. The crossbowmen would change their spears and join the infantry spear formation.

Although the Han army had more than 8,000 troops, the two armies did not have much difference in strength. It can only be said that the Han army had a slightly superior number, but the Jiangdong army had the advantage in terms of weapons, especially the Jiangdong army's crossbows were sharp and were the most elite equipment of the Cao army.

However, the predecessor of this Han army was the Kuaiji Army, which was slightly inferior to the Jiangdong Army in terms of weapons and equipment, but the number of troops was superior.

The chief general of the Han army was Lu Xun. Although he was young, he was very experienced in combat, and was especially familiar with the terrain of Jiangdong. According to the plan, this time, the Han army only brought dry food for light clothes and only ten days to pass through the lake. After passing through the lake, they could reach Piling County and obtain food from Piling County.

Lu Xun knew very well the importance of this battle. If they could not win this battle this time, or the soldiers were killed or injured, their battle in Jiangdong would likely end in failure.

Lu Xun looked at the scorching sun in the sky. He knew that in this kind of weather, it would be difficult for soldiers to maintain strong energy. At most one hour, the soldiers on both sides would not be able to bear the heat of the earth and their combat effectiveness would decline sharply.

Lu Xun looked at the Jiangdong army in the distance silently, and turned around and ordered: "Sword and Shield Soldiers attacked"

The five thousand Han sabers and shield troops were launched. They held their shields high, held the battle swords in their hands, rolled up rolling yellow dust, and murderous aura filled the banks of the Wucheng River, sweeping towards the Jiangdong Army.

The Jiangdong Army was ready for battle, and Jiang Qin whispered hoarsely: "Bound Bowman is ready"

Two thousand Jiangdong soldiers were holding military crossbows in their hands and archers on their backs. They lined up in line. Under Jiang Qin's order, they stepped forward and opened the distance. The range of Jiangdong's hard crossbow was about two steps, and the effective killing range was 10 or 20 steps.

When the Jiangdong Army approached ten steps, the crossbowmen would quickly retreat and take over the formation by the spearmen behind. Within ninety steps of the Han army's killing range, ordinary soldiers could fire two arrows, while trained crossbowmen could fire arrows.

In a blink of an eye, the Han sabre and shield army rushed into the range. Two thousand crossbowmen raised the crossbow high, and the enemy was approaching at ten angles. The yellow dust stirred up everywhere, covering the sky and the sun. The figure of the Han army was completely invisible. With a drum sound, the first row of Jiangdong Army's six arrows rose into the air and roared into the diffuse yellow dust. Immediately, the first row of arrows was loaded, the second row shot out, and then the row shot out, a row of arrows, and two thousand crossbow arrows were like an arrow net, shooting at the Han sabre and shield soldiers.

Screams suddenly erupted in the yellow dust. Despite the shield guards, soldiers were still caught in arrows and fell to the ground. The powerful crossbow arrows pierced through the shields of many Han soldiers and shot into the soldiers' faces and chests.

But at this time, the Han soldiers were already red in their eyes, and they rushed forward regardless of life and death. The Han army's bows and arrows were shot out from behind, with arrows pouring like rain and arrows flying like locusts. A cruel blood-devouring battle was created.

Two rounds of four thousand arrows shot over nearly four people, and the Han soldiers swept over. The Jiangdong army crossbowmen quickly retreated, and the Jiangdong soldiers behind them also raised their guns to meet them, getting closer and closer. Both sides had even seen the anger on each other's faces clearly, but the soldiers at the front changed their faces and became extremely frightened, but they could no longer stop. They closed their eyes desperately amid the screams.

There was a loud bang in an instant, and the two armies collided. The countless people in the front died tragically in the collision, their bodies were broken, and their helmets and broken spears flew into the sky, and a fierce battle began.

The soldiers fought each other, bayonets and slashed, screamed, screamed, cracked bones and cracked, and clattered throats before death.

Jiang Qin, the chief general of the Jiangdong Army, was extremely brave. He held a 60-pound sword in his hand and fought fiercely. The one who fought against him was a young Han general. He had insufficient experience and had no match for many battles. Jiang Qin used a backhand to cut the Han general into two pieces in half, rolled out his internal organs and spurted blood arrows out of the way.

The Han army commander Lu Xun on the other side was furious. He carried a spear and rushed forward quickly. At this time, the deputy general of Jiangdong Army Pan Long shouted and rushed out. He was Pan Zhang's brother, holding a big axe in his hand. He had always had a bad relationship with Lu Xun. When he saw Lu Xun today, he could no longer help but kill him.

"Lu Ni eats my axe"

Pan Long slashed out with an axe in front, with a strong force. Lu Xun sneered and stabbed him with a gun. The two fought together and fought fiercely for about a dozen rounds. Lu Xun discovered Pan Long's loophole. The two horses intertwined, and Lu Xun shot Pan Long's left rib with a backhand.

This is Pan Long's loophole, and Jiang Qin also saw that something was wrong and shouted, "General Pan returns to the left to defend."

But it was too late. Lu Xun's shot was as fast as lightning. He stabbed Pan Long's fish scale armor with one shot. The tip of the gun came out from his right rib. Lu Xun roared and pushed Pan Long high in the air. Pan Long faced down, and his big copper bell eyes stared at Lu Xun with his eyes open, and he used his last strength to chew his tongue and sprayed it at Lu Xun.

It was already afternoon, and the scorching sun blew the flames towards the ground, as if it had burned the earth and melted the heat. It was like a steamer, making people breathless.

On the banks of the Wucheng River, the fierce battle between the two armies continued. The fierce battle had been going on for two hours, but the physical strength of both sides quickly decreased, and sweat and blood were mixed. The soldiers of Kuaiji were not as physically strong as those of Wujun soldiers, and began to gradually fall into a disadvantage. Many soldiers fainted due to overdrawing of their physical strength.

The soldiers of Jiangdong also reduced their physical strength. Although they were slightly stronger than the other party, they were difficult to continue fighting. They were just unable to get rid of the other party in the melee, and they didn't know when the battle would end.

At this time, a scout cavalry came to negotiate under the order of Jiang Qin and shouted: "Governor Lu, my general said that the two armies temporarily stopped fighting. Can Governor Lu agree?"

Lu Xun also knew that his soldiers could not fight anymore, and he was about to agree, but at this moment, a loud horn sound suddenly came from the east. The horn sound was like a strong wind blowing away the rushing heat wave, and also chilling the hearts of the soldiers in Jiangdong.

I saw a Han cavalry of about 2,000 people rushing towards the river from the east, and a large flag waving in the wind embroidered with a big Chinese character. This was the arrival of the Han army in Xindu County. For two thousand cavalry, there were also thousands of infantry soldiers. Under the leadership of the chief general Zhao Yan, they arrived at the Wucheng battlefield in time.

The morale of the Jiangdong army quickly collapsed. They no longer had the fighting spirit and rushed to the cargo ship. However, less than two thousand people were on board, and the Han cavalry arrived. They killed Jiangdong soldiers like chopping melons and vegetables, causing countless casualties and injuries.

Jiang Qin knew that the soldiers could no longer be rescued, and if they did not leave, they would wipe out the entire army. He shouted anxiously: "Drive the ship quickly into the lake."

The soldiers rowed desperately, and large ships sailed towards the lake. The soldiers of Jiangdong who were not too late to board the boat on the shore were desperate and looked at the ships in the distance and cried loudly. At this time, the cavalry arrived. The soldiers of Jiangdong did not retreat, and they knelt down and surrendered, begging for mercy.

Jiang Qin had tears in his eyes, and he couldn't help but sigh. If they had five thousand barrels of turmeric oil, they wouldn't have been defeated in such a miserable way.

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The sudden arrival of the five thousand Han troops really surprised Lu Xun. He immediately turned his head and greeted Zhao Yan, the chief general of the Han army who came to help.

"Thank you, Envoy Zhao for killing him in time, so that Lu Xun could be spared the humiliation of defeat." Lu Xun sincerely expressed his gratitude to Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan was a high-ranking official when he was in the Cao army, and his military status was even higher than that of Zhang Liao and Xu Huang. However, he was a high-ranking official and fought for wars for a few days, so he was relatively low-key.

However, Zhao Yan has always been arrogant. After surrendering to Liu Jing, he also had a hard time getting along with other Han generals such as Gan Ning and Wei Yan. Liu Jing then transferred him to a positional official and served as the governor of Changsha and Nanjun.

During this Hefei battle, he was temporarily appointed as the logistics governor and supervised the food and supplies of various counties in Jingzhou. However, Zhao Yan still couldn't help but want to go out to fight and volunteered to Huang Zhongying to fight in Lu'an, but was defeated by Xu Huang and almost wiped out the entire army.

Zhao Yan was also heavily chased by Huang Zhong and rushed back to Chaisang to serve as a logistics officer. The defeat in Lu'an became an indelible shame. Fortunately, King Liu Jing of Han was humble and gave him another opportunity to cleanse the shame, causing him to lead 5,000 troops, including two thousand cavalry, from Lu to Xindu County to assist Lu Xun in Wu County.

In his letter to him, Liu Jing explained that Wujun's strategy should be mainly Lu Xun, and he only went to reinforce Lu Xun, not replace Lu Xun.

Of course, it was also because of the miserable defeat in Lu'an. This time, Zhao Yan lost his former arrogance. He smiled at Lu Xun with a modest smile: "I just happened to be the right time, and it was up to Governor Lu's efforts."

Zhao Yan's modesty won Lu Xun's favor, and Lu Xun also smiled and said, "Frankly speaking, it may be difficult to win with the help of my army alone. But with the help of Zhao Envoy, we will win this battle."

Zhao Yan nodded, pointed to an open space next to him and said, "Let's sit down and talk."
Chapter completed!