Lu Meng described sitting coldly outside the city, with a heavy face as deep as water.

What he saw was Dangyang City.

The road from Xiangyang to Jiangling is 470 miles long. To the south of Dangyang is Jiangling; to the north of Dangyang, passing through Jiashi, Qingni and other passes, arrive at Lankouju of Zhuan County. To the north of Lankouju is Yicheng and Xiangyang. The day before yesterday, thousands of soldiers and horses from Cao's general Lejin arrived in Qingni, and yesterday passed by Jiashi. Now it is only more than seventy miles away from Dangyang City, which can be reached every day.

If Lu Meng would not have time to organize defense at the speed of Cao Gong chasing Liu Bei with light cavalry before, and Lu Meng would not have time to organize defense, and Dangyang should have fallen into the enemy. Fortunately, Cao's army was very cautious in advancing this time. It took them six days before they arrived at Dangyang. In this way, Lu Meng felt that he could die in a heroic battle.

It’s not that it will definitely not be able to stop Cao’s army, but it is really difficult.

Dangyang City had been abandoned for two years, and the people fled and became a dead city. The rammed earth wall also collapsed due to lack of maintenance. Judging from the location where Lu Meng was, the city wall on the left collapsed for more than ten feet and almost disappeared. The right side was slightly better, with a small gap, but it was enough for two or three people to go in and out side by side.

There are also trenches... This city originally had trenches, but it was later filled. Lu Meng arranged manpower yesterday and tried to scrape the trenches again, but had to give up. Those that were filled in the trenches were not soil, but human corpses. No soldier dared to dig them, even if the officers scolded them harshly.

This is the city, what about the soldiers who are trying to rely on the city to fight?

Everyone was low in morale. Because they learned about Zhou Lang's death and his previous painful failure in Jiangnan, rumors spread in the army. Such an army was like a dog with a broken spine, and could not be used to fight at all.

Lu Meng had seen such an army before. Some of them forced to recruit troops composed of mountains and rivers, which was even more outrageous than this. But at that time, such troops were only used to shake flags and shout and fight with the wind. Real tough battles, ruthless battles, and real elites to fight. Now, these are their only army, and their family background to save their lives?

When Gan Ning's troops collapsed, Ling Tong happened to arrive at the battlefield to stop. In order to avoid becoming a defeated general like Gan Ning, Lu Meng spent a lot of effort to swim across the river. He first controlled the at a loss on the river, and then gathered some of the defeated soldiers who fled to the river and finally turned to Jiangling.

This move made him the only one among the three Jiangzuo generals in Jingbei who had never lost his opponent. He also maintained the situation in Nanjun after the defeat and was praised by Wu Hou's book, which seemed to be of great use. For this reason, even if he lost all the parts that he had been in conjunction with for many years, it was worth it.

He thought again: His helpless documents had been sent out long ago. When will the reinforcements arrive? Seeing that Cao's army was approaching, if he still stationed tens of thousands of people in Baqiu, Chaisang and other places to confront Liu Bei... that would be too ignorant.

In Baqiu, Sun Zhongyi is now leading the army, Lu Zijing assisted them. It would be fine if these two people didn’t know how to fight. Wu Hou was surrounded by elite troops in Chaisang and many counselors and generals. He should have arrived as soon as possible, right?

If reinforcements are short of the countryside, the situation in Nanjun will really not be maintained. Alas, is it safer to stay in Nan'an and Gan Ning's companionship?

Lu Meng felt a little ridiculous.

He suppressed his anger and pointed to the completely collapsed wall: "Didn't you say yesterday that you should set up a wooden fence to block it? Where is the wooden fence?"

An officer who could not name Lu Meng came from behind and said carelessly: "It's coming soon, it's coming soon. I've been working all night yesterday. The soldiers are tired now. Let's take a little rest and it will be fine soon."

He sounded like a native of Lujiang. He was probably the old man who had followed Sun to fight against the south to Jiangdong before. Lu Meng knew that there were many such veterans in the army, who had the experience of following Sun Polu and Sun's fight against the rebellion, but his talents were limited and they were useless. Later, they were successively sent to the local garrison troops to hold some insignificant positions.

Lu Meng was a meritorious person who followed Wu Hou to fight with him and had no good feelings for these old people. He frowned: "Last night, did you arrive in Dangyang last morning?"

"I arrived yesterday afternoon. After all, this time the troops were too urgent, and the soldiers were a little tired. I passed by Wufuyi halfway and could not let my brothers plunder some? So it was too late."

Lu Meng didn't know what to say for a moment. Indulging soldiers to loot is the norm in troubled times. Soldiers are tigers and wolves. If they are not greedy and bloodthirsty, wouldn't they become sheep? However, elite troops all plunder after victory to prepare for their merits; like these miscellaneous soldiers, it seems that plunder is more important than combat.

No, no. Such miscellaneous soldiers probably didn't think about fighting at all. When they saw that the situation was wrong, they would probably surrender to Cao's army immediately. Anyway, they were in the army under the command of Wu Hou and Cao Gong, so there was no difference.

When fighting against Lei Yuan, Lujiang on the south bank, the same was true for those soldiers who immediately fled when they saw that they were attacked at night. It was because there were too many such mediocre generals and soldiers that although the Marquis of Wu had 100,000 people, they were forced by Cao Gong in the north and blocked by Liu Bei in the west!

Lu Meng looked at the officer and then the other generals and schoolmen behind him.

"So that's it." He nodded and took a few steps to the officer: "This time, Cao's army suddenly moved south, and the Nanjun garrison was insufficient, so he combined the garrison forces in various places. Thank you very much, everyone, it's really hard!"

Several generals and schoolmen behind him laughed and said, "It is the duty to kill the enemy and repay the rewards, so there is no hard work."

These generals and school leaders each brought hundreds of people, all of whom were temporarily gathered from Ji Nan, Huarong and other places. Lu Meng knew that these people were nice to say, each of them was **, and they were all hob meat. He was usually only responsible for managing the elite troops directly under Zhou Lang and dealing with them. If he didn't use some fierce means today, he would probably not be intimidated.

"I am willing to kill the enemy and serve him, and I am the loyal minister of the Marquis of Wu, very good." Lu Meng nodded and suddenly drew his sword.

As the sword light flashed, blood appeared and a head flew high.

No one would have thought that Lu Meng would start a sudden attack on such an occasion! No one would have thought that this general who looked a little depressed would be so fierce and violent!

The perfunctory officer still had an indifferent smile on his face until his head was lifted by Lu Meng. This smile, coupled with the blood vessels and muscles twitching under his neck, seemed particularly terrifying.

The other generals and schoolmen took a few steps back together. Someone screamed in surprise and forced himself to hold it back.

Lu Meng said in a deep voice: "Zhou Lang handed over Nanjun to my hands, but now it's like this. This is my incompetence, Lu Ziming, and I am ashamed of Zhou Lang and Wu Hou. But this is all for the future. Now that Cao's army is invading, I hope you will help me retreat with all your heart. Anyone who is arrogant to the military orders will be like this. Everyone, I can kill people in Nanjun, and Wu Hou can also kill people in Jingkou."

Jiangdong became an example, the generals were appointed outside the government, and the clans were appointed in the capital. Lu Meng said this, no matter who was lazy or weak, the military law was not only for himself, but also for the family to harm him.

The generals and schoolmen were shocked and said one after another, they would do their best to fight against Cao's army to the death.
Chapter completed!