Chapter 200
Five days later, a section of Dianchi Lake located south of Guchang County and north of Dianchi County, hundreds of soldiers camped here to rest, and flowers bloomed in autumn.
Li Su, who has been troubled by the unacceptable environment of the tropical rainforest, can finally change the environment and enjoy the comfort of the spring city.
Just two days ago, Guchang County on the north bank of Dianchi Lake had been captured by Li Su and Zhang Fei. Then Zhang Fei found the best environment along the lake, with the most convenient transportation, and the most suitable for remote control of Zhou Tai and Wang Ping's troops who had just captured Kunze in the east, and helped Li Su to treat and recuperate.
As for Zhang Fei himself, of course, he continued to rush south along the lake shore. He estimated that he had already taken Dianchi County, which had only two high earth walls and only more than a thousand people defended. Then he ran to the southeast to grab land and recovered Yuyuan County (Chengjiang) where the warm water flowed into the mouth of Fuxian Lake.
This is the geographical situation of Jianning County. In remote mountainous areas, the two counties may be separated by more than 100 miles or even hundreds of miles. However, there is a small county town within thirty or forty miles of the fertile land around Dianchi Lake and Fuxian Lake. The nearest Dianchi County and Yuyuan County are only more than 20 miles away. Being attacked is simply a waste of money.
The success of Zhang Fei and Li Su was almost the same as when Zhuge Liang first went out of Qishan, the sentence "Three counties fell by looking at the wind and falling by looking at the wind." However, when Li Su's place, it was changed to "Dianchi Lake, six counties around Fuxian Lake fell by looking at the wind and falling by looking at the wind."
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Dianchi Lake in the late Han Dynasty was not a tourist attraction, and not many Han people came here to see the scenery. The local Kunming Yi had been tired of seeing it every day, and they didn't think there was any beautiful scenery here.
In Kunmingyi's eyes, Dianchi Lake or Fuxian Lake a little south are just water sources for irrigating farmlands and can nourish fertile farmlands within a radius of hundreds of miles. This is the essence of Jianning County.
The natural greening by the lake is perfect, with mixed peanut trees and wild camellia blooming, but it is not very good to plant, so I can only see the flowers, which are not suitable for picking tea leaves. In addition to camellia, there are seven or eight dense flower bushes, and Li Su can't name them. If there are 21st century artists who will definitely be able to roll around the ground when they see all this.
Unfortunately, Li Su had to make some unscenic decisions. After choosing a generous terrain, he ordered the construction of a private hospital here to recuperate the disease, he asked his personal soldiers to cut down all the flowers and trees within a radius of hundreds of steps, even digging away the soil, but backfilling the yellow sand.
During the more than ten days of advancing along the Jinsha River and Niulan River, Li Su had already suffered from the suffering of the tropical rainforest, and had seen enough greenery for the rest of his life! He just wanted to keep all the plants that breed mosquitoes away from him! He just needed to face a lake of water purification and a golden beach, pretending to expose the sun and kill sterilization and remove dampness like a beachfront holiday!
At most, add a large parasol with thick linen. Anyway, the sunshine in Kunming at the end of September is not very strong, so it will not be damaged. If you have enough sun, go to Dianchi Lake to cool down.
The personal soldiers spent two days rushing to work to dig out some silt at the bottom of the Dianchi Lake in front of Li Su's temporary camp, laying green stone slabs to raise it, making it a semi-enclosed swimming pool with fishing nets around it. Li Su can go down to swim at any time without worrying about big fish or dirty mud, and can stand at the bottom of the lake to rest.
In the future, the temporary tent will have to be converted into a permanent villa and nursing home. Maybe Li Su will have to come to Nanzhong for business in the next winter and can stay here again.
After enjoying sunbathing for a whole morning and drinking some freshly squeezed Yunnan tropical fruit juice to nourish the body, Li Su suddenly received a report from a messenger.
"Report! Governor, Deputy General Zhou Tai reported urgently! This morning, Jing Yi's men came from Wei County and arrived at the north of Kunze City. Zhou Duwei guarded the city, and Wang Sima guarded the camp on the east side of the city. He had repelled the enemy's first breakthrough. Please tell me what to do next."
After hearing the military situation, Li Su took back his mind. As soon as he raised his hand, a personal soldier helped him put on a linen bath towel. Then he was like a big boss in Hong Kong films, drinking juice and talking about major events in the beach outfit, and just a pair of sunglasses:
"Did Zhou Tai say how many troops came to Jing Yi? Before the war, Jing Yi's coalition forces had no more than 40,000. Even if they found that our army had seized the retreat, they had to keep heavy troops on guard against Yun Chang in a hurry. It was impossible for the main force to be transferred to the south to break through. There was no need to worry if there were few people. Stay stable for two or three days, and when Yide stabilized the counties in the Dianchi Basin, they would naturally reinforce them."
The message brought by the messenger was obviously not comprehensive enough, and he said in embarrassment: "Emperor Zhou Du's name doesn't know how many soldiers there are... He said, about 10,000 or 20,000."
Li Su: "They have more than 2,000 people relying on the city camp, but they can't block the 10,000 or 20,000 barbarians who lack heavy equipment? Forget it, tell Yide and ask him to come to Kunze within three days. I will help him go to the front line to supervise the battle and block Jing Yi."
The last sentence was said to the primary school where Zhang Fei stayed by him.
Then, Li Su packed up and went to Kunze to help block the enemy. Although he had only a few hundred personal soldiers around him, he was not short of helping with him, but with Li Su here, Zhou Tai's morale would be much more stable and he felt that our army would win.
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Let’s talk about it, let’s look at Jing Yi. Two days ago, when Jing Yi received a Pegasus probe from Kunze in Zhiwei County, Jianning County, saying that Kunze was captured from the sky by an enemy from somewhere, Jing Yi was stunned.
At that time, Jing Yi was surrounded by E Shun, the general under Gao Yi, the commander of the pseudo-Yue Li County Magistrate, Meng Xin, the younger brother of the Qin Zang Man King Mengchang, and the chief generals of the three parties of the coalition forces were all present, so this unexpected bad news made Jing Yi lose face in front of his allies.
"This is impossible! What fell from the sky! Kill this thief who is talking nonsense and disrupts our morale!" Jing Yi almost thought that the messenger was to deceive his morale.
Fortunately, E Shun and Meng Xin both persuaded: "No! Even if the Kunze defenders investigated the enemy's situation, how can the city be taken away? It's better to quickly divide the troops back to help and find out the situation."
The two of them pulled each other, and Jing Yi did not impulse to kill the messenger who reported the military information, but his anger was not gone, and he cursed and asked: "Who is the enemy under the banner? What direction should the Yong County Commander know about this? If he didn't even figure out this before sending the military information, he would definitely be killed afterwards!"
The messenger added with a bitter face: "I only know that the enemy came from the west and from the north, and it was very fast. The banner I used was Zhou, Wang, and the county magistrate only knew that there was Zhou Tai in Liu Bei's army. The king really didn't recognize who the king's name was. Yong County magistrate also said that the enemy came from behind, and I am afraid that the counties in Dianchi Lake would no longer be protected..."
"Ah..." Jing Yi roared hysterically and smashed a wooden paperweight on the shore. "Liu Bei dog thief! Why can it be like this? This is impossible! Don't we have nowhere to go and can only stay in the lonely county? This is impossible!"
The other two reinforcements were secretly disappointed after seeing Jing Yi's virtue, and regretted that their lord/brother believed such a foolish saying of "the lips were dead and the teeth were cold" to rescue Jianning?
I was still tempted by the promised interests, otherwise I should listen to the propaganda of the Han army directly. "The Han army's battle was only to crack down on the business road to Yongchang, and intercept Jing Yi, the business traveler, and the rest would not ask." How good is it to obediently submit to the Han army to do business?
Of course, they thought about it for a moment, and they were not yet at the point where they really wanted to turn against Jing Yi and surrender to Guan Yu.
After Jing Yi calmed down for a while, E Shun, who came from Yueji, was more familiar with the geography of the road to Dian in the west, and asked in a hypothetical tone: "Since the Han army has come from the west, it must have taken a road that you have not been prepared for. Could it be that they really crossed the Lu River and arrived in the water?"
After saying this, Jing Yi only realized that the Changshi around him had also reminded him to pay attention to other paths and smuggling through other paths. Of course, Changshi Su Yun did not target a specific path, nor did he guess "tushui", but he just said it in general.
Jing Yi was still a little incredible and asked E Shun: "When General E led the Yueli army to come, was it because he was also leaving Lushui?"
E Shun: "When Yueli reaches this point, of course, we have to choose a shallow and slow place to cross the river. However, the waters in the Lu Branch are very wet and poisonous. They have many diseases after a long time of navigation. We lack ships, so we crossed for a while and then walked on the mountain road.
But the Han army came from Zhuti, and if they wanted to leave Tushui, they could only sail the entire journey. Could it be that they are all gods who are not afraid of poisons?"
When the thought of this possibility, the morale of the superstitious barbarian generals suddenly became wild. At least the Han dynasties had the fine tradition of "the son did not speak strange powers and confusing gods", but the barbarians believed in ghosts and gods in particular. If the Han army could ward off poison, it would be a god's help, and they would also make some yarn.
Jing Yi quickly stopped their thoughts: "Don't talk nonsense! How can there be people who are helping God in the world? Since the two generals are afraid, why don't you keep your troops here to defend Guan Yu. I will take the soldiers of Jianning County to Kunze, and be sure to open up the passage of the mountain and recover the counties of Dianchi Lake with gentle water!"
After temporarily stabilizing his allies, Jing Yi did not dare to delay for a moment. Anyway, he was shocked enough, and no matter how shocked he was, it would be useless. It would be better to use busyness and rushing to drive away the fear in his heart.
Wei County is on the banks of the Wenshui River, so it can flow into Fuxian Lake after flowing downstream for 200 miles. The attack from the upstream to the downstream was still very fast. Jing Yi collected all the ships and floating things in Wei County, just to transport his nearly 20,000 troops to the Kunze battlefield quickly.
Unfortunately, as a mountainous county, Wei County, even if a small river passes, who would prepare so many boats? Jing Yi requisitioned all the large wooden basins and the wood that could be cut down into the river to release, and could only transport more than half of the troops.
But he could not wait any longer and ordered all soldiers with floating objects to go down the water immediately. The soldiers without boats and floating objects rushed on their way on two legs. When the front army arrived at the destination, they would row the extra boat back to pick up people.
As for the troops being dragged into a long snake formation that stretched nearly a hundred miles in the valley, he no longer cared about it.
There is only one thought left in his mind: rush on the road crazy! The enemy will rush around thousands of miles away, and the troops will definitely not be large. He will even smash the ants with his fists and kill the opponent!
Chapter completed!