It’s not that Zhou Yu didn’t pay attention to the issue of food and grass, on the contrary, he took it very seriously.
At the grain camp on the north side of Chaohu Lake, Zhou Yu sent an army of up to 20,000 people to be stationed here. It was led by two generals, Ling Cao and Lu Meng. The defense was very tight.
A general surprise attack would not be able to do anything to this grain camp. Even if it were a larger-scale attack, the 20,000 people stationed in the grain camp would be enough to delay the attack for a while, waiting for Zhou Yu's troops to return for reinforcements.
It can be said that there is basically no possibility that this grain camp will fall. On the contrary, the troops who come to attack this grain camp are very likely to fall into the end of annihilation.
But after repeated consideration, Lu Xun finally decided to build this grain camp.
Those who use troops should attack unexpectedly. It is true that Zhou Yu did a good job in the defensive arrangement of the Chaohu grain camp, but it was precisely because of this that he ignored the possibility of the grain camp being breached.
Lu Xun asked Zhang Liao to leave Hefei overnight with 40,000 people and lurk in the mountains and forests. When Jiangdong's army left Hefei and continued to march north to capture the city, he then headed south to Chaohu to launch an attack on the enemy's grain camp.
Of course, if Jiangdong's army launched a detailed search near Hefei, the whereabouts of these 40,000 people might be discovered. But Sun Jianshi was too eager. He couldn't wait to break into Xuchang City, and didn't want to put too many people behind him.
Most of the time was spent on other things, so they only conducted a rough and random search, and then hurriedly led the army to continue marching to the north.
Since there were 20,000 heavily guarded troops, Zhou Yu was very confident in the defense of the Chaohu grain camp, and subconsciously had the idea that the grain camp was safe, which led to omissions. Zhou Yu had always been wary of Zhang Liao's 40,000 troops attacking his own army.
Surprise attack or other means, but they did not expect that the food camp might be in danger.
Even if there are 20,000 heavily guarded troops, if they are suddenly faced with an all-out attack by 40,000 troops, how can they withstand it?
What's more, these 20,000 people have no support like city walls.
Lu Xun's plan was to abandon Hefei as a premise, and then devote all the troops he could command to Chaohu to burn the Jiangdong Army's granary.
Of course, Lu Xun was very cautious. After lurking his army, he did not rush to attack Chaohu. Instead, he waited until Jiangdong's army captured Ruyin before resolutely going south to attack Chaohu.
At this time, Jiangdong Army's front line was still stretched. Even if Zhou Yu got the news that the grain camp was attacked, it would be too late to return to the army for rescue.
Although Zhang Liao's army's attack on the Chaohu Grain Camp was not entirely smooth, it did not suffer major setbacks.
After all, the number of his own troops was twice that of the opponent's. With Cao's army not losing to Jiangdong's army in terms of individual combat strength or teamwork, such a huge numerical advantage allowed Cao's army to have an absolute upper hand from beginning to end in the field battle.
In the end, the Chaohu grain camp was destroyed. Cao's army broke into granaries and set fire to them. Only hundreds of thousands of grains and grains were seen, which were quickly burned to the ground.
Of the 20,000 Jiangdong troops who died in battle and those who fled, the total number was about 15,000, and the remaining 5,000 were all prisoners of Cao's army. General Ling Cao died in the battle, and Lü Meng escaped with the best protection of his remaining troops.
She was born, but she was already seriously injured.
As for Cao Jun's side, although the casualties were not as severe as those of Jiangdong's army, they were inevitable. The number of Cao Jun's dead in battle was about 6,000, and the total number of casualties was 8,000. Even Li Dian was killed in the chaos.
He was stabbed once, but fortunately the injury was not serious. However, the casualties were expected in advance. After all, Jiangdong Army knew the importance of this granary and would fight to the death with all its strength. Even if it was at a disadvantage, it would fight back to the death. Therefore,
The damage caused cannot be underestimated.
After burning down the Chaohu granary, Lu Xun used the prisoners of Jiangdong Army as his front troops and successfully deceived the gates of Hefei City into opening, and regained the city that had once been lost to the enemy and had been massacred.
The person assigned by Sun Jian to guard Hefei was his third son Sun Yi, who was only nineteen years old this year. Sun Yi, like Sun Ce, also had a father-like style and was fierce and resolute. Although Sun Jian was not as kind to Sun Yi as he was to Sun Quan.
She is extremely doting, but the degree of love is not light either.
After Sun Quan was captured by Cao Jun, all he wanted was to save his own life, and he even surrendered to Cao Cao because of it. Unfortunately, Cao Cao didn't give him this chance, and he didn't want to give him this chance, so he killed him directly. But Sun Yi was different.
, Sun Yi's character is similar to that of Sun Ce. They both belong to the type who would rather be straight than bend, and would rather die than surrender. He will not allow himself to surrender to the enemy at all. That is the greatest humiliation for him, even more terrifying than death. See
After Hefei changed hands again, Sun Yi still led his bodyguards to fight to the death. Finally, after his bodyguards were all killed one after another, he abandoned his spear and drew his sword, and committed suicide in front of Cao Jun.
Seeing Sun Yi being so staunch, Zhang Liao couldn't help but feel sorry for him, and ordered him to be buried lavishly.
In any case, Lu Xun's plan is finally complete. Jiangdong's army has burned all its food and grass, and its defeat has been determined. There is no way to recover!