Chapter 61: Turning against one another

As soon as the news that Xu Huang led his army to Fancheng reached Sun Quan, Sun Quan knew that this was Cao Pi's intention to defend Fancheng. If Cao Pi gave up Fancheng, Sun Quan would think that Cao Pi did not intend to jointly wipe out Gan Ning with Jiangdong. On the contrary, the time for Jiangdong to fight was ripe. {" }

Immediately, Sun Quan decided to order Zhou Yu of Jiangxia, and Zhou Yu led Lu Meng, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Lu Fan, Ding Feng, Lu Xun and others to rush to the west. The vanguard troops were led by Lu Meng into business travelers from the river surface to the outside of Jiangling City in Nanjun via waterway.

Crossing the river in white!

Lu Meng, who was dressed as a merchant fleet, brought only hundreds of Jiangdong Army vanguards wearing white brocade robes. When he arrived outside Jiangling City, the gate was closed and someone in the city asked who came.

Lu Meng sent a gentle subordinate to come forward to reply. The Taiping Army soldiers on the front of the city saw that they were dressed up and were not suspicious, but they were about to enter the city at midnight. This matter was quite serious. They went to ask the city garrison Jiang Qin to get the order to open the city gate to find out the other party's identity.

The closed city gate had just opened a gap. After a creaking sound came, a cold light suddenly appeared in the night light. Lu Meng pulled out a long sword from behind and rushed forward with a step forward. He inserted it into the gap of the city gate that had fallen down the gate gate and was about to open. When the blade flipped, the city gate opened even bigger. The soldiers in white all pulled out the long sword hidden behind him, bravely rushed forward and opened the city gate, and entered one after another, giving the Taiping Army soldiers who were guarding the city below the city a fatal blow.

Blood splattered everywhere, screaming and killing pierced the night sky, and the world was silent and noisy in a flash.

Jiangling City has only nearly 3,000 defenders. As the rear dispatching base for Ganning to attack Fancheng in the north, the only threats around the Taiping Army are the counties of Jiangdong and Jingnan. When the counties of Jingnan did not form a joint force, they did not have the courage to invade Jiangling. The Taiping Army and Jiangdong are allies. In order to mobilize the maximum force to conquer Fancheng, Ganning did not take Sun Quan seriously, and half was not defended because of the relationship between allies.

The three thousand defenders had to guard the city gates on all sides and were responsible for the security of the city. With the alternating shifts, the defensive power of the city gate on one side was naturally pitifully small, and they were killed by the white soldiers led by Lu Meng in just a moment.

However, the screams and fighting sounds seemed to break the tranquility of Jiangling, and the news that was spread with the wind would surely alarm the defenders in the city.

Lu Meng didn't care at all that Jiangdong's 100,000 troops would arrive in Jiangling within an hour under Zhou Yu. As long as he guarded the city gate for an hour, he could ensure that Jiangdong would not have any effort to capture Jiangling.

Under the cold moonlight, Lu Meng suddenly turned his eyes and saw dozens of horses tied to the inside of the city gate. These horses were used by the city gate to convey information to the city government office as quickly as possible. He left 300 soldiers to guard the city gate, and then brought hundreds of people himself, riding horses and running without horses, and followed him to kill them to the city government office.

Capture the king first to capture the thief!

Now the Taiping Army is coming to the south gate, and Lu Meng goes back on his way and goes into the heart of the enemy, taking the city's government office, and will surely kill the guard Jiang Qin and the Taiping Army's military advisor Pang Tong.

Da da da da da

The streets were unobstructed during the moonlit night. Even when the people heard the movement outside, they dared not go out to watch. Lu Meng led a hundred soldiers along the main road to Jiangling Prefecture.

The horse's hooves flew over, and Lu Meng felt suspicious. It was incredible that he had not even encountered an enemy army along the way.

Even if the defenders on the east and west side were at odds with him and did not meet him, at least if the defenders on the north opposite to the south came to rescue the lost South Gate, they would definitely meet him on a narrow road, but there was not a single defender, and there was not even a patrol guard!

The strange encounter was answered when Lu Meng rushed to Jiangling Prefecture.

Outside the government office, on the main road leading to the city gate to the north, the Taiping Army gathered together, with more than 2,000 people, and each array was evacuated in an orderly manner.

"Don't leave!"

Lu Meng completely ignored the situation of the enemy being too few, and angrily rushed forward and fought.

Jiang Qin, who led the retreat, did not look back and asked two hundred soldiers to meet Lu Meng's rear and continue to withdraw his troops calmly.

Pang Tong had a good time to turn around and watch as Lu Meng, a white-clothed Lu Meng led a hundred Jiangdong troops to fight with the Taiping Army, with a faint sneer on his face.

Dog thief?

I don't know who it is called?

hehe.

Lu Meng rode a horse and chopped over one person. With the Taiping Army breaking the rear, under the moonlight, Pang Tong and Jiang Qin evacuated and moved away gradually. Lu Meng was unwilling to give up. He saw Pang Tong's sneer for a moment, and didn't know what this smile meant, but it made Lu Meng feel scared.

The other party seemed to have been attacked by a sneak attack, but he was still fearless!

However, the other party is indeed retreating!

After all, the Taiping Army stayed in Jiangling was a logistics force, and its combat power was hard to compare with the elite troops in the army. After a fight, they all died in battle under the elite swords of the Jiangdong vanguard led by Lu Meng, and there were less than thirty people left beside Lu Meng.

It is good to chase the enemy with the remaining bravery. Lu Meng is extremely brave. He dares to chase Jiang Qin and Pang Tong's two thousand troops with less than 30 people, but he chases him all the way to the city gate north of Jiangling, and the endless dark night is only visible.

Lu Meng sighed to the sky and felt very regretful.

After all, the other party escaped.

The feeling of loss was quickly packed up, and Lu Meng rose again, turned around and walked towards the city with great strides, full of determination.

Jiangling, succeeded!

From Jiangxia County, he led his army to attack Jiangling. Zhou Yu and the generals in the army rode their horses and ordered the entire army to march in a hurry in the dark.

It was a stuffy summer night, but Zhou Yu's face was cold and his heart was cold.

The positive conversation with Guo Jia has been replaying in my mind.

"One day, I will lead my troops to flatten Jiangdong!"

This sentence is like a nightmare lingering in Zhou Yu's heart.

In fact, Zhou Yu disagreed with Sun Quan's betrayal of the alliance because it was a breach of trust in the world.

However, compared with the world of breach of trust, Jiangdong's survival is obviously heavier.

If Gan Ning conquers Fancheng, even if Guo Jia loses Guanzhong and turns his strategic focus to the south, the one who suffers will be Jiangdong.

Life and death are at the forefront, and Jiangdong has reached the point where he has to betray the covenant for self-protection.

The purpose of this surprise attack on Nanjun is not only to capture Jiangling, but also to eliminate the 100,000 Taiping Army led by Ganning.

In front, there is a 100,000 army of Cao Wei in Fancheng.

In the rear, Jiangling, the supply land of the Taiping Army, was lost, and there were also 100,000 troops from Jiangdong.

Gan Ning on the Xiangfan front line will be in a dilemma, and you must not advance in front or retreat in the back. To the east is the territory of Jiangdong and Cao Wei. If you go, you will seek death. The only way to retreat is Xincheng and Shangyong in the northwest direction.

However, the person guarding the new city was Wu Yi, a pair of dark enemies who were already in the same power as Gan Ning, and might even want to kill the other party.

Zhou Yu expected that with the relationship between Gan Ning and Wu Yi and Gan Ning's arrogant arrogance, he would probably not surrender to Wu Yi. He would bet on his own, either attacking Fancheng or attacking Jiangling.

However, the 100,000 army had no food supply. Whether it was Fancheng or Jiangling, as long as it was persistent, it would be able to consume Gan Ning to death, making his 100,000 troops defeated him without attacking.

When Gan Ning was defeated, Guo Jia was like a broken arm. In addition, Ma Chao of Guanzhong rebelled, cutting off the connection between Zhang Liao's 100,000 troops and Guo Jia at Hangu Pass and Wu Pass. Guo Jia, the world's number one prince, will decline in prosperity in an instant!

After leading his army to Jiangling without stopping, Zhou Yu ordered the army to take over Jiangling in full, and asked Lu Fan and Ding Feng to re-arrange the city defense matters, and then entered Jiangling Prefecture with others to listen to the rewards in all aspects.

The government office was brightly lit and everything was neat and orderly, and it seemed that there was no striking chaos.

Zhou Yu paced back and forth in the hall. When he heard Lu Meng entering the city, he immediately went to capture and kill Jiang Qin and Pang Tong, but found that the other party led his army to retreat. He frowned and had an ominous premonition in his heart.

Why did Jiang Qin and Pang Tong react so quickly?

Why did my first reaction after learning that an enemy was coming to attack was to flee without resisting? And I could also organize more than 2,000 troops in an instant.

It seems that the removal is prepared.

There is a reluctant explanation, perhaps Jiangling has weak defense, and once the city gate is lost, Jiang Qin and Pang Tong also know that it is unrealistic to send troops to rescue, so it is better to escape directly to make plans.

But, these two people escaped too calmly and too weird.

Lu Xun was frowning and said in public: "This Jiangling is not captured by our army, but was offered by the enemy."

No one likes to hear these words, and it sounds like it has wiped out the contributions of Jiangdong Army.

The generals in the army disdained Lu Xun and believed that he was just a scholar. As Sun Quan's aide, he could do it. It was obviously not his qualification to make trouble for him in marching and fighting.

When Ding Feng entered the hall to inform Zhou Yu of the situation in the city, Lu Meng said to Lu Xun with disdain: "If the enemy army intends to send a Jiangling City to our army, will it be even food, grass and supplies?"

That's right, there are a large amount of food and grass stored in Jiangling, many of which are the follow-up resources prepared for Ganning to attack Xiangfan in the north, and these have been taken into account by Jiangdong.

If Jiang Qin and Pang Tong really deliberately gave Jiangling to Jiangdong, would it be necessary to give away food, grass and supplies?

The generals in the hall thought about it and thought that Lu Meng's words made sense.

Only the matter where Jiang Qin and Pang Tong can withdraw calmly is regarded as the other party's reaction is quick.

But Lu Xun sneered in his heart: If the other party is willing to give away such an important city, would he be stingy with food and grass?

However, although Lu Xun was suspicious, he could not understand the other party's intentions.

So he couldn't tell a reason that could be explained, so he could only put his doubts in his heart.

Zhou Yu pondered for a moment. Since he had already attacked Jiangling and turned against Guo Jia, it became a fact.

"Lu Meng, please order the soldiers to recuperate quickly and accumulate strength for two days, and then you will lead a 10,000 army to me to quickly capture Yidu County and Jianping County."

Lu Meng looked excited and held his fists to take the order.

Zhou Yu got up and left, and he had to rest and rest. Next, he would be very likely to face the most intense counterattack of Gan Ning's dying struggle.

Within five days, Jianping County, Yidu County, which was captured by the Taiping Army in Jingzhou for less than a year, was declared to be invaded. The three counties in Jiangnan in Jingzhou were fed with flags from Jiangdong.

Jiang Qin and Pang Tong, who had withdrawn from Jiangling, came to the Xiangfan front under the escort of two thousand soldiers and informed Gan Ning of the news of the fall of Jiangling.

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Chapter completed!