From Hanyang to Ezhou, take a big boat down the Yangtze River and arrive there in one night.
Lu Fu curled up in the bilge and slept until he was woken up by someone.
"Wuna man, let's go."
He saw someone standing at the hatch and waved, not knowing who the person was or where he was going, so he followed him in a daze.
He had been a deserter for only a few days, and the mental energy he had honed in the army was actually worn away by these repeated encounters.
But Lu Fu must still have a different energy from ordinary refugees to be appreciated by Lu Wenfu. He vaguely understood what would happen to him without this appreciation.
Walking onto the deck, he was taken to the side of the ship to wait as the dignitaries were disembarking.
At this time, it was just dawn, and I saw a group of women following the disembarking team in the distance, all dressed in cotton embroidery and holding musical instruments in their hands.
It turns out that Lu Wenfu just went to Hanyang to pick up someone and brought so many beautiful young ladies with him.
Lu Fu was stunned when he saw it.
When he was a child, he also saw the old husband-in-law in the village interacting with a certain courtesan lady, talking about music, chess, calligraphy and painting. When the court lady's sedan arrived, he took a look at the entrance of the village and felt that it was a god from the sky descending to earth.
coming.
The awe of "study and becoming an official" was deeply ingrained in Lu Fu's heart from then on. But later when he joined the army in Huaiyou, only civilian officials could command the war. In the past two years, under the rule of King Qin, he did not do much
Have you ever seen an official with such elegance and nobility?
Even Gao Anfu from Chongqing never went out with much pomp, and only today did he see such a scene again...
After waiting for a while, the team of dignitaries left, and the rest of the guards followed. Only Lu Fu and his team were left on the boat, as well as the boatmen who were hanging anchor on the shore.
"Let's go."
"By the way, where's A Mao?"
Lu Fu turned around and looked around and found that he had not seen the young boatman since he got up from the bilge.
"We don't know any Amao A Chou, let's go."
Lu Fu was pushed and turned around to look around, but could not find the thin figure. He only saw a trace of blood on the side of the ship that had been wiped but not wiped clean.
There seemed to be something stuck in the cracks in the wooden board next to the blood stain.
Lu Fu wanted to walk as slowly as possible and squinted hard to see.
It was a duck leg bone that had been sucked clean...
"Plop!"
A body was thrown into the Yangtze River.
The warship sailed from the edge of Jiangling City to the center of the river again.
"Damn, who told you to litter the corpses?!"
"That's the enemy soldier who jumped on the boat..."
"I don't care if he is an enemy soldier! It's so cold, what if there's a plague? I'm trying to fool you."
Amid the curses, the warship arrived below the warship.
Masilong, who was covered in blood, glared at Jiangling City again, took the rope, and climbed onto the main battleship with all his strength.
"General! Why did you retreat? Let the last general attack for half an hour and we will definitely enter Jiangling!"
As soon as he jumped onto the deck, Ma Shilong strode towards Jiang Cai, becoming more and more anxious as he spoke.
"General, didn't you see it?! The defenders of the western section of the city wall have been scared off by us. How can we call it gold at this time?!"
After saying this, he took a closer look and clearly saw Jiang Cai holding a telescope in his hand, so he couldn't help but feel strange, secretly thinking that his general was becoming less and less good at fighting.
Jiang Cai didn't explain much and said with a cold face: "Just follow the orders and continue to attack the city tomorrow."
Masilong had no choice but to wipe the blood from his face and loudly replied: "Yes!"
At this moment, I actually felt as frustrated as when I fought with Sun Huchen in the war.
Jiang Cai observed for a while and then turned around to talk to a messenger.
"It's time for the reinforcements to come over. I'm sure Masilong will also provide support soon..."
"Understood, the reinforcements have arrived in Chongqing after the final departure. They will arrive soon along the river..."
Masilong walked away silently and scratched the back of his neck, feeling quite uncomfortable.
When he followed Jiang Cai to fight against the invaders in Huaizuo, Jiang Cai was known for his bravery and was the best among the Huaiyou troops. Unexpectedly, Jiang Cai was so timid when fighting in Jiangling City that he had lost all his prestige.
When I turned around again, I saw that the defenders who had just escaped from the Jiangling City Wall had come back again.
Today's opportunity was missed. Lu Wende's reinforcements will arrive soon. Even if Jiangling is captured later, they will only be able to confront the Yangtze River, and the entire battle will fall into a passive position.
If you might have a chance to win if you take a risk, it will definitely become more and more difficult in the future.
"If we are not determined to attack the Song Dynasty, we might as well guard the Three Gorges..."
Ezhou.
It has been more than ten days since I received the Jiangling battle report. Thousands of sails are waiting on the Yangtze River to prepare for the western expedition against Li Ni again.
This is not the first time. In the past few years, Lu Wende ordered the army to be reorganized twice, but once the court withdrew the order, and once Li Xia defeated Sun Huchen before Lu Wende could set out.
Many of the Jinghu Navy officers and soldiers were still holding on to expectations, hoping that they would not succeed this time.
Sure enough, Lu Wende didn't seem too anxious. On the eighth day of April, he had not yet left Ezhou...
"I can't understand what Li Ni was thinking. Without 100,000 naval troops, he would never be able to break through our army's defense line, but he only sent more than 10,000 men."
After noon, in the Jinghu Marshal's Mansion, the generals and staff talked about the war in Jiangling Mansion, and they all felt a little confused.
"Li Xia can't send more people. Troops need to be stationed in the area and defense lines need to be set up at the border to resist Meng Yuan. In addition, he has just captured Xingqing Mansion and is still confronting Meng Yuan in Hetao."
"That's right, not to mention that the navy is not easy to come by. Most of Li Xia's troops are cavalry and infantry, and there are not enough naval forces. If we are full, we will have at most 30,000 naval forces and 5,000 ships."
"Thirty thousand naval troops is already overestimating him. Deducting the troops guarding the Han River and reinforcements, we can only dispatch more than 10,000 naval troops."
"You really dare to send troops, you are so arrogant."
"News from Jiangling Mansion has arrived... saying that Li Ni's offensive is fierce. If there are more reinforcements, I'm afraid we won't be able to defend it."
"You won't be able to defend it so soon?"
"What is Chen Yi, the prefect of Jiangling, doing? He is neglecting his duties and eating nothing..."
"..."
"enough!"
Lu Wende, who was sitting at the top, suddenly shouted loudly and cursed: "Wow, I'm so annoying. It's just nonsense, not even a single sentence is useful!"
He slapped the battle report on his watch under the case, and there was a loud "pop" sound.
"A group of pure scholars, I think I am easy to coax! Have you read the battle report carefully? Can't Jiang Cai capture Jiangling Mansion? There are defenders who dedicated the southwest corner to the rebels, and Jiang Cai still can't capture Jiangling. I look at his mother
It was intentional, who got my salary from me and said why?"
After saying that, Lu Wende's eyes swept around the hall and finally landed on his most trusted aide, Chen Yuanbin.
"Tell me something."
"Yes, Shaobao."
Chen Yuanbin bowed, walked behind the map, thought for a moment, and then started talking.
"You gentlemen are right. Li Xia should have between 20,000 and 30,000 naval troops and more than 5,000 ships. Students speculate that he divided half of his naval forces to attack Jiangling, not with the intention of going down the Yangtze River to attack Ezhou, but with the intention of destroying Jinghu.
All the troops were attracted to Jiangling..."
A handsome young soldier wearing armor stepped forward and followed Chen Yuanbin's instructions to move the Ezhou war chess set downstream to the Jiangling Mansion.
There is also a big flag with the character "LV" in it, which was also planted in Jiangling Mansion.
"Shaobao, please see, if this happens, Ezhou will be depleted of troops."
Sure enough, Lu Wende stood up, walked to the map, glanced at it, and cursed: "Donkey ball."
Chen Yuanbin added: "And Li Xia still has ten to twenty thousand naval troops."
The handsome soldier picked up two black war chess pieces, placed them in Chongqing, and slowly pushed them to Jiangling.
"Not there." Chen Yuanbin said: "Follow the Han River from Hanzhong and break through the Xiangyang defense line."
The two black war chess pieces were slowly pushed to the position of Xiangyang.
"Continue." Chen Yuanbin said, "Keep pushing."
The handsome soldier looked confused and turned to look at Lu Wende.
Lu Wende then waved his hand and asked him to go away.
This meeting hall has not been used for a long time, so he arranged for such a few soldiers to be on duty here. It is too difficult for them to understand the map.
Li Chen Yuanbin then stepped forward, picked up the two black war games with his own hands, and followed the Han River, from Xiangyang through Qianjiang and Jiangchuan, into the Yangtze River at Hanyang, and then along the Yangtze River not far east, to Ezhou.
At this time, there were three red war chess placed in Ezhou. Chen Yuanbin wanted to push them down with two black war chess, but he hesitated and explained in a low voice.
"More protection... those 10,000 or 20,000 people may be conquered by Li Ni himself."
"Um."
Chen Yuanbin added: "And Shaobao has gone to Jiangling in person, and the generals who stayed in Ezhou to garrison are far less capable than Shaobao."
After saying that, he took a deep breath and exerted a little force on his fingers.
The deduction at this point means that it is time for Li Xia to capture Ezhou.
"Fuck you bitch!"
Lu Wende kicked Chen Yuanbin away and cursed loudly.
"I gave you glory and wealth, but you think I can still let the hozens take Ezhou with a small army of 100,000! Damn your mother, Kublai Khan didn't take Ezhou back then."
Chen Yuanbin stumbled and deliberately threw himself to the ground, but did not dare to respond.
But Lu Wende's temper came and went quickly. It didn't take long before he lost his temper and looked at the map again.
I saw only two black war chess pieces standing in Ezhou, and on the way to Lin'an, I didn't even display any of my own war chess pieces.
Although it was just a deduction, he seemed to be able to see the panic among the monarchs and ministers in the Great Song Dynasty.
For a while.
"Have I guessed what Li Ni was thinking this time?" Lu Wende laughed out loud, "Having come this far, he still dares to take such a risk?"
In the past, Li Xia always liked to go deep into battle alone and win by surprise. Now more and more people can guess his fighting style. Do they really dare to take risks?
Lu Wende had this question in his mind, but he soon got the answer.
Later that day, Lu Wenfu sent someone over there to say that he had received Tarup Man, and at the same time, urgent messages came one after another.
"Report! Jiangling Mansion has sent another request for help, saying that Li Tie's rebel army has increased its troops to 30,000, and asks Shaobao for support..."
Lu Wende did not answer and drove Jiangling's messenger away with a cold face.
He recruited Chen Yuanbin and wrote a letter to Lu Wenhuan. While he was still writing ink, Lu Wenhuan's urgent letter also arrived.
Lu Wende could not read, so Chen Yuanbin still read to him.
"Shaobao, General Lu from Xiangyang reported urgently that Li Ni has arrived in Hanzhong in person. He will lead the navy to attack Xiangyang in the near future. Please ask Shaobao for support."
"You dog and monkey, if you dare to act clever in front of me, it's time to die..."