Chapter 607 Breaking Jiangling (1)(1/2)
The large army of the Yangzhou army began to act again, and before dawn, hundreds of warships from the Shiyang Water Army camp left Shiyang and headed towards Jingzhou Nanjun. Which state is the richest state in the world? It is Jingzhou. Liu Biao entered Jingzhou and reused the Kuai family and the Cai family and the brushed gentry. Therefore, Jingzhou was basically not damaged except for the Wang family and the Deng family in Nanyang. Liu Biao got a complete Jingzhou. After that, in the Central Plains, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao and the Yellow Turban Remnants fought and circled in the Central Plains. Countless people were wandering around. In order to survive, they could only flee, and Jingzhou was the best place for these people to escape.
With the Yangtze River as a natural barrier, Jingzhou has rich fields and can be said to be a land of fish and rice. Gradually, Jingzhou has a population of millions, which is not the case that the generation of gentry in Yangzhou, Yuzhou is also fleeing. They also came to Jingzhou, bringing rich assets to Jingzhou. Business naturally became more developed in places with a large population. Jingzhou has been peaceful for a long time, and the merchants in Jingzhou traveled around the world.
Cao Cao and Yuan Shu, and even Yuan Shao from Hebei, had business with Jingzhou. After a while, Jingzhou made a lot of money in war.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to Jingzhou be the richest state in the world.
What is the richest place in Jingzhou? That is Xiangyang. Xiangyang is the political center of Jingzhou and has gradually become an economic center, cultural center, Lumen Academy's prefecture and merchants all do business in Xiangyang.
The luxury of Xiangyang indirectly drives the prosperity of a place, that is, Jiangling.
Although Jiangling is not as smooth as Xiangyang's waterways, it has an incomparable place in Xiangyang, that is, Jiangling not only has the Yangtze River as a barrier. He also has the hundreds of miles of swamps on Huarong Road as a support.
With such geographical advantages, this is the best defense route. Beware of danger in times of peace. No matter which prince of the family, he will leave a way out for himself. Tao Qian's capital was Pengcheng, but Cao Cao came to attack Pengcheng, but he was able to resist Cao Cao in Xia Pi, because Xia Pi was his retreat. Yuan Shu's capital was originally Runan, but later moved to Shouchun, and Gongsun Zan and Beiping in Hebei were also his retreat.
This Jiangling is Liu Biao's retreat, in Jiangling. Liu Biao stored a large amount of military supplies, which is convenient for Xiangyang to retreat to Jiangling and wait for the retreat once it can't defend.
So if you want to get Jingzhou, you need to get Xiangyang and Jiangling. Xiangyang is too far away and cannot reach it, but Jiangling is close to you. It’s just that with the blocking of Huarong Road, the Yangzhou navy has no choice but to deal with him. Now there is such a person who came to Lu Xun to tell Lu Xun that there is a way to pass Huarong Road. Can Lu Xun be excited?
Tens of thousands of troops quickly took action and landed from Hanyangkou to the territory of Jingzhou Nanjun. After half a day of action, the army finally arrived at the endless Huarong Road entrance, which was full of swamps. They sucked in in one breath and were all decayed. This is a natural barrier. If you know how to walk on the road, if you don’t know how to walk on Huarong Road, then what is waiting for you after entering is to fall into this endless swamp.
"Is this general reliable?" Huo Jun spoke to Lu Xun on the side. Looking at Huarong Dao in front of him, Huo Jun felt a sense of fear, because he sent hundreds of personal guards to spy on the other day, but in the end he went back, more than a dozen people were all swallowed up by the swamp and could not even find a body. It was precisely because of his personal experience of Huarong Dao that Huo Jun was even more worried about this strange scholar in white.
This man mysteriously came to Shiyang City a few days ago and found Lu Xun. As soon as he spoke, he had a way to pass Huarong Road. As for what method should be said, he did not mention a word, but just said that he knew it when he arrived at the place.
Huo Jun originally wanted to take down this person and torture him and ask questions again, but Lu Xun stopped him. Not only did Lu Xun believe this person, but he also brought the army.
Lu Xun did not reply to Huo Jun but turned his head, "How should we move now!" Lu Xun asked to the white-clothed scholar next to him.
"There are two ways to choose!" The scholar in white said calmly.
"Two?"
"Yes, two!" The scholar in white nodded, "One is to mow grass and pave the ground. Although Huarong Road is full of swamps, as long as you use grass to spread it on it, you can naturally pass through it!" The most frightening thing about swamps is that the ground is soft and easy to fall into it. If you use turf to spread the swamps for him, you can naturally pass through the army.
This is a solution, but Lu Xun frowned. It is very simple to say, but the workload is huge. The whole Huarong Road has hundreds of miles in total. If this is done, it will take at least a year to reach Jiangling. It is also necessary to ensure that there is no heavy rain season.
Not only does Lu Xun and his team have not only insufficient time, but the consumption of these food and grass is also a problem.
So Lu Xun rejected this method without thinking. "What about the second way?" Lu Xun continued to ask.
"I really don't think about the first road. Although the first road is complicated, as long as you bring tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of farmers, you can definitely fill the Huarong Road within a few months!" The scholar in white asked again.
"No!" Lu Xun shook his head. The hundred thousand farmers were easy to say, but it was very troublesome to do. Moreover, winter was about to pass, and spring was the season for spring plowing. If you bring out the hundred thousand farmers, the fields would be abandoned.
"Then it's the second road! This second road is a small road. I told in advance that he will be in a life of death!" The scholar in white continued to say to Lu Xun.
"A lifetime of death?"
"Yes! When you enter this swamp in Huarong Road, you may die if you fall into the swamp. Even if you don't fall into the mud, you will die if you inhale too much poisonous gas. Without the poisonous gas, there are some beasts in the swamp that will also make you die. At night, the poisonous insects and snakes in the swamp are all invisible," said the white-clothed scholar one after another to Lu Xun.
Lu Xun frowned when he heard this. He knew that the Huarongdao was dangerous, but he didn't expect it to be so dangerous.
The swamps, poisonous gas, poisonous insects, and beasts are all things that humans cannot compete with. Huo Jun next to him rarely didn't speak because Huo Jun has encountered these things.
"None of these are the problems! As long as you can point out the road correctly!" Lu Xun had to take Jiangling, he had to go on Huarong Road. He could have attacked from the waterway, but there were capable people in Liu Biao's army in Jingzhou who deliberately sank the warships on the Yangtze River in the river channel of the Yangtze River on the waterway, which blocked the entry of the Yangzhou naval army's warships, making it difficult for the Yangzhou naval army to attack Jiangling from the waterway. "There is no one who can die in wars. As long as it can pass!"
The scholar in white nodded, "The most important thing in the end is to pass this path, because the road is small, you can only pass with two thousand men!"
"Two thousand men? What a joke!" Huo Jun next to him finally spoke. If there was a swamp in front, poisonous gas and insects could still deal with it, then Huo Jun would be dissatisfied with these two thousand men.
Because they went to Huarong Road to visit, but went to fight and capture the city. Two thousand people passed by Huarong Road and would have many casualties. It would be nice to have a thousand people left when they arrived in Jiangling. It was just a joke to rely on one thousand people to attack Jiangling City. Even if they took Jiangling City and still had to defend him, how could they fight this battle? They were going to die.
"It depends on your own whether to go or not!" the scholar in white next to him said without caring at all.
"General, I see that this person is not honest and doesn't tell the truth. Let's take this person down and torture him!" Huo Jun was dissatisfied with the scholar in white. He had long had doubts about the identity of the scholar in white. Their Yangzhou army had just fallen into the doubt that Huarong Road could not pass, and the scholar in white appeared here. This happened a little coincidental. If it was a trap, what should we do?
"If you believe me, I believe it. If you don't believe me, then say goodbye!" The scholar in white also looked angry and clasped his fists at Huo Jun and Lu Xun. He was about to shake his head and leave, but his heart was very bitter. What year was it to take revenge?
"I want to leave? You can leave as soon as you say it! Take it for me!" Huo Jun was about to instruct his subordinates to take down the scholar in white.
"What do you want to do!" The scholar in white made a wary look.
"What do we do? Who sent you here!" Huo Jun said with a profit margin of sex, and he was about to take down the scholar in white and question him first and then speak other words.
"Stop!" Lu Xun spoke over there.
"General?" Huo Jun looked at Lu Xun in confusion. This scholar in white was too strange and the suspicion was very serious.
"Let go of this female gentleman." Lu Xun said to Huo Jun next to him.
"But General." Huo Jun was about to retort, and suddenly he was stunned for a moment, "Mr. Female?"
"Hehe, this female gentleman, do you still have to pretend?" Lu Xun came to the white scholar's face and said with a smile at the white scholar.
The scholar in white neither admitted nor denied it, just said, "How could you know!"
"Haha, female sir, before pretending to be a man, you should change the Adam's apple first!" Lu Xun said to the scholar in white, no, it should be the woman in white now.
"So it's Adam's apple!" Bai Yi then realized that Lu Xun probably had realized that he was not a man.
"Haha" Lu Xun smiled. When this scholar in white came to Lu Xun for the first time, Lu Xun was confused. Because this scholar in white was so beautiful, Lu Xun had seen a beautiful person. For example, Jiangdong Mei Zhou Lang is a handsome man, and even Lu Xun is the same. If Jiangdong Zhou Lang wears women's clothes, he will definitely not be much worse than some beautiful women. Even this way, Lu Xun will not discover it. The reason why Lu Xun discovered is that the scholar in white was not moving at all when he spoke, in other words, he did not have an Adam's apple.
As a result, Lu Xun fell in love with the scholar in white. After Lu Xun talked to the scholar in white, the scholar in white exposed more. In the end, Lu Xun really determined that the scholar in white was a woman or because he admitted it himself.
Before this, Lu Xun was just suspicious. There were all kinds of strange things in the world, and there were also men without Adam's apples.
Lu Xun's point-out for this woman was to know what the woman really wanted.
The woman in white saw that her family was discovered, so she simply stopped covering it. She took off the bun on her head and dripped her long hair off. Her handsome face and her flowing long hair were fascinating.
"So it's a woman!" Huo Jun couldn't help but curl his lips. The woman should have embroidered flowers at home. Even the female medical officer in the army was very disdainful.
"Girl, what do you want?" Lu Xun put away his smile. "There is no joke in the army. The girl has no supplies for Lu. It is hard for Lu to let the girl go directly!" Lu Xun pulled out the army. If he just went back like this, it would be difficult to explain to the army. If Lu Xun learns that this woman was a ill-gotten plot, then Lu Xun might be ruthless.
"You can give me what I want!" The woman said with a cold expression.
"If you don't say it, how can we know we can't give it to you!" Lu Xun believed that this woman would not deceive her and others into Huarong for no reason. This would have no benefit to her. If Lu Xun hadn't stopped her just now, she would probably have been taken back by Huo Jun for severe torture. In the end, it would be difficult to tell whether she could be life or death, and she would even be humiliated. Even so, this woman still came, which shows that what this woman wanted seemed to be similar to their Yangzhou army.
"I want Dong Zhi's head, can you give me?" The woman said to Lu Xun without any shame.
"Dong Zhi's head?" Lu Xun was stunned for a moment. Who is this Dong Zhi?
"Are you talking about Jiangling Prefect Dong Zhi?" Huo Jun next to him helped Lu Xun resolve his questions. No matter what, Huo Jun was once a member of the Jingzhou Navy. So I still remember some officials that Dong Zhi was the prefect of Jiangling. Huo Jun once received military rations and supplies from Jiangling.
"You want to kill Jiangling prefect for Ha?" Lu Xun asked in confusion.
"You don't have to worry about this!" The woman condemned, "I just ask you if you want Jiangling City. If you want Jiangling City, then you have to listen to me. If you don't want it, then you don't want to do it. Let's part with you!"
To kill Dong Zhi, the prefect of Jiangling! The truth of this woman's identity is revealed. It is not Wu Mi, one of the two brothers and sisters who did not die in the Wu family. After burying the relatives at home, Wu Mi left Jiangling and came along the Yangtze River in a boat. He did not go directly to ask the Huang family for help, but came to the Shiyang garrison of the Yangzhou navy. Because the ones who killed his whole family were Jiangling prefect Dong Zhi and the second son of Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou, Liu Pan, so he knew that even if he went to Changsha, he would not be able to do anything to Dong Zhi.
After all, it is impossible for Huang Zu to attack Jiangling. Even if Huang Zu would seek justice for their Wu family, it would be the year of the monkey and horse month.
The most direct and convenient one is the Yangzhou Army.
"Our general asked you why you are so ungrateful"
"Zhong Miao, please step back!" Lu Xun waved his hand and didn't want Huo Jun to have a conflict with this woman in white. Although Lu Xun didn't know why this woman in white wanted to kill Jiangling prefect Dong Zhi, Lu Xun could see that the hatred covered by the woman in white was not fake. This woman and Jiangling prefect Dong Zhi might have some blood hatred.
"Are you going or not?" the woman in white continued to choke at Lu Xun.
"The general's origin is unknown, you should not believe it!" Huo Jun next to him continued to speak.
"Go!" Lu Xun did not listen to Huo Jun's persuasion and looked at the woman in white.
"General!"
"You just trust me so much?" The woman in white next to her looked at Lu Xun in confusion.
"It's not that I trust you, but I believe you won't joke about your life!" Lu Xun said to the woman in white with a smile. In fact, Lu Xun also had great doubts about this woman. Why did he kill the prefect of Jiangling Dong Zhi? How did he know that there are small roads on Huarong Road? These are all problems. Lu Xun wants to know, but Lu Xun doesn't have time to think about it. There is another way to go besides believing in this woman!
They came out to capture the Nanjun of Jingzhou by military orders. As long as they took down Nanjun, they would not be in vain for this expedition.
If you don’t believe this woman’s words, then Jiangling will not be able to capture it. With Jingzhou’s recovery speed, it will be more than enough to pull up a 100,000 army in a year and a half. At that time, it will be a big deal to fight with Jingzhou. This is not what the Yangzhou army wants. Now what the Yangzhou army wants is to support you and cause your life to be sick. Xiangyang will be no big deal, but Jiangling must be captured. If Jiangling takes away Jiangling Jingzhou, half of his life will be lost. With Jiangling’s military resources, the Yangzhou army can expand its army and grow stronger, so Jiangling must be taken down.
However, with Huarong Road, it seemed like a roadblock blocking the Yangzhou army. The woman in front of her was the only possibility. So Lu Xun could not give up.
"Zhong Miao. Send the order to allocate two thousand elite troops to me, prepare dry food for several days, and we are ready to set off at any time!" Lu Xun said to Huo Jun beside him.
"Do you want to lead your troops to the battle yourself?" The woman in white next to her looked at Lu Xun with big eyes and asked.
"Otherwise!" Lu Xun smiled.
"General, no!" Huo Jun, who was beside him, refused without thinking. "General, you are the commander of the first army. If the army leaves, you will be without a leader." Huo Jun dissuaded. "Let the last general go!"
"Zhong Miao, although I am the commander of the first army, you are the one who is most familiar with this army!" Lu Xun said to Huo Jun next to him. Huo Jun is much older than Lu Xun. There is no reason for Lu Xun to do this. He would not be unaware of the danger ahead, Huarong Road, the hundred-mile swamp, and the poisonous gas Hang Seng. If you accidentally sleep here, you will be very important. This battle is important. There must be a person with a single commander and understand military strategy. The only person in the Yangzhou Navy Army can command troops alone are two people. One is Huo Jun on the side and the other is himself.
Although Lu Xun is the commander of the entire division, to be honest, the one who understands the whole new Yangzhou navy is really Huo Jun, because most of the current Yangzhou navy are the original Jiangxia navy, and Huo Jun is the commander of them.
Therefore, Huo Jun is more suitable to stay here than himself to command the entire army. Otherwise, if Huo Jun leaves, Lu Xun will have less than a bridge to communicate with these Jiangxia naval armies. After all, these individuals have been recently surrendered. Without Huo Jun, Lu Xun is really afraid of a mutiny in the army.
"But!"
"Nothing but!" Lu Xun shook his head at Huo Jun, "That's all!"
Soon the two thousand soldiers gathered together, and all of them were elite soldiers from the Yangzhou navy. Lu Xun looked at these subordinates and nodded with satisfaction.
"What medicine do girls have to prepare?" Lu Xun asked the woman in white next to her. The woman in white was guided by the woman in white. They brought a lot of cowhide and some ropes.
"No more, let's go!" The woman in white nodded and spoke to Lu Xun and others.
"Okay, the army set out!" Lu Xun waved his hand and shouted at the soldiers and horses under his hands. Soon, under the guidance of the woman in white, the army slowly entered the Huarong Road with a bloody mouth.
"Zhong Miao, if I can't come back, you can take the army and wait for the orders sent by Lujiang before doing it!" Lu Xun told the matter and followed the large army to plunge into Huarong Road.
To be continued...