Chapter 292: Capture of Kuimen
Sun Jian was stunned for a long time before he came to his senses. He quickly looked at Zhou Yu, "Gongjin, what should we do now?" Zhou Yu said, "Lord, don't worry. Now we should immediately order the 50,000 troops to go north to reinforce to visit Fancheng. At the same time, we will immediately send heavy troops to defend the Xiangjiang line. It will be difficult for Lu Bu to advance. At the same time, we will immediately send an envoy to ask Cao Cao to send troops to help. As long as Cao Cao sends troops, the lord can rest assured!" Sun Jian frowned and said, "Will Cao Cao send troops?" "He will definitely do it." Sun Jian immediately issued a series of orders according to Zhou Yu's plan.
On the other hand, after capturing Nanyang, Zhang Lang left the War Bear Army to defend Nanyang. He led the Longtao Army's Cavalry Army to quickly move south and arrived at the city of Fancheng a few days later. The army set up camp, and every day the generals of each army took turns to challenge the city. At the same time, the camp was speeding up the siege equipment such as the rushing car ladder, and was ready to attack Fancheng.
Sun Jian had returned to Xiangyang, and the continuous military information from the front line made Sun Jian extremely uneasy. He ordered the navy to block the river surface and ordered 100,000 troops to cross the river to reinforce Fancheng. In order to prevent the people of Fancheng from colluding with the Lu Bu army, all Fancheng people were forcibly moved to Jiangnan.
At this time, the nearly 300,000 army led by Zhuge Liang had also turned into defense to offense, and the army was actively preparing, and Ma Chao led his army to the city to challenge every day.
This situation lasted for several days. Zhou Yu muttered that although the Lu Bu army on both sides had a lot of fanfare, in a few days, except for the generals coming out to challenge, there was no real attack on the city. Zhou Yu doubted whether the other party was playing any conspiracy.
At this moment, a detailed report came from a detailed report saying that a large number of cavalry teams were seen passing Hanzhong to the south.
Zhou Yu's heart moved and immediately came to the map. His eyes moved eastward to the south of Hanzhong, to the edge of the Yangtze River, and then moved down the Yangtze River, and his eyes fell on the Kuimen Gate. Zhou Yu was shocked. He finally knew the next intention of Lu Bu's side. He rushed to Sun Jian's lobby and said to Sun Jian urgently: "Lord, I suspect Lu Bu's side is trying to seize Kuimen Gate!" Sun Jian was stunned, "How is this possible! Kuimen has 20,000 soldiers guarding him and the natural danger of the cliff. How can they capture the Leopard Army, which suffered heavy damage and the barbarian army, who did not understand the tactics at all? Once they launch an attack, we have time to rush to help!"
Zhou Yu hurriedly said, "According to the detailed report, a large number of cavalry traveled south through Hanzhong. I suspect that Ma Chao's Canglang Army had been transferred away! If I had a good estimate, the Leopard Army and the Barbarian Army should have launched an attack on Kuimen at this moment. The Canglang Army's purpose of going south was not to attack Kuimen, but to seize Kuimen and quickly go east to seize Yiling and even Jiangling!"
Sun Jian was shocked, but he said in confusion: "How can the Baotao Army and the Barbarian Army quickly seize Kuimen?"
Zhou Yu shook his head, "I haven't figured it out yet, but we must take action, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable."
Sun Jian said nervously: "But there are not many troops that can be mobilized now!" After a pause, he said decisively: "Order the defenders in the direction of Chaisang to move to Jiangling immediately, and mobilize all the young and middle-aged people in Xiangyang." Zhou Yu clasped his fists and said, "I'll do it immediately!"
The entire Jingxiang land and Chaisang took action, and the people of Jiangdong felt an unprecedented tension. Sixty thousand infantry and 30,000 navy troops quickly rushed to Jiangling to help, and more than 200,000 Jingxiang people who were urgently mobilized stepped up training in the Xiangyang area.
The fast horse messenger sent by Sun Jian rushed to Kuimen day and night, and the four horses were as if they were scattering cymbals.
In the evening that day, the messenger walked up to a hill in Linjiang not far from Kuimen with Sun Jian's handwritten letter. Looking into the distance, he saw that the steep Kuimen Pass stood not far ahead, very quiet, and the messenger couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. At this moment, the messenger suddenly heard the earth-shaking sound of killing coming with the wind. The messenger was shocked and quickly looked at Kuimen Pass and saw the shadows of Kuimen Pass. Lu Bujun seemed to suddenly emerge from the underground.
As if he had done, he launched an attack on the unprepared defenders in the city. The messenger quickly widened his eyes, not knowing what to do. At this moment, the west city gate opened and tens of thousands of troops rushed in. There were soldiers of Lu Bu's army wearing strong and held sharp edges, and many of them were barbarian warriors wearing oil paints, wearing leather armor and wielding barbarian swords. Sun Jian's army was defeated and the defeated soldiers hurriedly fled to the east. The messenger did not dare to stay for a long time, so he quickly turned his horse and ran away.
The Lu Bu army quickly occupied the extremely important Kuimen Pass.
Zhu Rong led a brigade of female soldiers into the Kuimen Gate. An officer rushed in and reported: "Queen, Zhu Biao led 10,000 troops to chase out of the city." Zhu Rong frowned and shouted angrily: "Although he was pursuing?" The officer could not answer. Zhu Rong ordered: "Send him an order immediately and ask him to come back immediately to deal with the violation of the military law!" The officer Ying Nuo ran down.
At this time, Zhu Biao was leading 10,000 barbarians to chase Sun Jian's troops who escaped from Kuimen. Zhu Biao and Zhu Rong were the same clan nephews of Zhu Rong's clan, and they were young and brave.
The messenger sent by Zhu Rong caught up with Zhu Biao and asked him to turn around immediately. Zhu Biao did not accept the order and said to the messenger: "When I enter Yiling, I will naturally return to the army!" Then he ignored the messenger and urged his army to chase him at full speed. The messenger had no choice but to repay Zhu Rong quickly. Zhu Rong was both angry and worried, and immediately led five thousand barbarians to leave Kuimen to chase Zhu Biao.
Zhu Biao led his army to chase Baidi City. The team chased after him for a day and a night, tired and hungry, and the entire team was no longer in shape. Zhu Biao looked at Baidi City ahead of him and was excited and ordered: "Invade Baidi City and rest!"
Suddenly, a shout suddenly came from the hillside on one side. Zhu Biao and ten thousand barbarians were all shocked and hurriedly looked up the hillside. They saw that the hillside was full of Sun Jian's army.
Before they could react, arrows on the hillside were raining, and rolling stones and wood poured down like mountain torrents. The barbarian army, caught off guard, was exhausted and hungry, immediately suffered heavy losses and accumulated as mountains of corpses, and the entire army was in chaos. Zhu Biao quickly led the army back. At this moment, the gate of Baidi City suddenly opened, and a thousand cavalry in Jiangdong rushed out, like a tiger out of the box. The barbarian army was killed and turned over and over and failed. Zhu Biao was killed by random knives in the chaos.
When Zhurong arrived at the battlefield, the battle was over. Zhurong was shocked to learn that Zhu Biao had 10,000 soldiers and horses were wiped out. At this moment, the Jiangdong Army came to fight with the power of victory. Zhurong quickly led the army to fight. In a big battle between the two sides, Zhurong lost to the enemy and suffered heavy losses. He led less than two thousand soldiers and horses to retreat to Kuimen.
Chapter completed!