As a fortress, the Wu Kingdom has always sent troops to garrison in the two cities of Dongxing, all of which were stationed in Xiguan, and Liuluo to garrison in Dongguan, waiting for the battle.

According to Sima Shi's plan, it was originally planned to avoid the high heat and humidity of Huainan summer, and in autumn, he launched an attack on the Wu Kingdom. However, due to various reasons, the march was delayed again and again. The battle was not completed until the end of October. It was not until the winter months that he was ready and formally entered the attack.

This is actually impossible. After all, such a large-scale military operation has not been prepared in advance. It is a temporary intention and hastily taken place. There are many things to prepare, so it is helpless to delay until winter.

Because not only the troops from Huainan, but also the troops attacking Wuchang and Jiangling must be in place. Although these two troops are just feint attacks and play a role in hindering, if they cannot even restrain the Wu army, the troops from Huainan will go deep alone, it will be a lot of danger.

Therefore, after Sima Zhao arrived in Shouchun, he had no way to march immediately. He had to coordinate with the other two groups of people to confirm that Hu Fen had launched an attack on Wuchang, and that Wang Chang had advanced towards Jiangling, and that Wu's troops in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River could no longer be mobilized downstream. Sima Zhao and Zhuge Dan led their troops to leave Shouchun and advance towards Dongxing.

Logically speaking, the weather in Huainan in November is still relatively warm, unlike the cold winter in the north where there is already a snowy winter that is frozen thousands of miles away. Under such weather conditions, there is no problem with marching and fighting.

But the weather this year is a bit abnormal. After Sima Zhao arrived in Huainan, he had never seen the sun. The sky was often covered by haze. It was light raining from time to time, which was wet and cold, which made Sima Zhao quite uncomfortable.

Zhuge Dan told him that this is the weather in Huainan. When winter comes, rainy rain is common. Although it rarely freezes, the wet and cold here seem to be more unacceptable than the dry and cold in the north.

No matter how capable Sima Zhao has, he cannot change God's temperament. All he can do is to finish the battle as soon as possible and quickly withdraw from this ghost place. Now Sima Zhao especially misses the warm pavilion in Luoyang. He lights a pot of red charcoal fire and drinks a pot of warm old wine. When he has nothing to do, he can watch the beautiful singer singing and dancing. That day is truly comfortable.

In such a wet and cold weather, it feels uncomfortable to wear any clothes, let alone wearing thick iron armor. If you cover it too thickly, you will easily sweat. Once you sweat, you will be covered with cold sweat and stick to your body wet, making it even more uncomfortable.

Most of the people in the Wei army came from the north, and they were obviously not used to this wet and cold weather. They all complained and had a low morale.

Logically speaking, in this state, it should be a quit and march again after the weather improves, but Sima Shi couldn't wait. After all, they wanted to take advantage of the time when the Wu Kingdom was in a state of mourning. In fact, it would be a bit late to launch an attack. If the Wu Kingdom government and the people will recover from the grief of Sun Quan's death next year, the opportunity for attack will be completely lost.

Therefore, Sima Shi, who was far away in Luoyang, repeatedly ordered and urged them to take over Dongxing and seize Ruxuwu before the cold winter month, and create a favorable condition for entering Jianye next year.

The arrow is on the string and has to be fired.

The Wei army advanced along land and marched south along Chaohu Lake. However, the naval forces were not the strength of the Wei army, so this time the attack on Dongxing was still the infantry and cavalry. The naval forces were only responsible for escorting food and grass and military equipment. The main infantry forces launched an attack on Dongxing second city through Hefei New City.

The two cities of Dongxing were built against the mountains, and the terrain was very dangerous. The Wu army built a large embankment on the Ruxu Water. In this way, the Wei army's naval fleet became difficult to move forward after arriving in Dongxing. Only by breaking the two cities of Dongxing and destroying the Ruxu Dike could the Wei army continue to advance.

Zhuge Dan stationed his troops in Chentang, north of the East Pass, and sent the front governor Han Zong and Le'an prefect Huan Jia to lead 5,000 troops to attack Dongguan and Xiguan respectively.

The two cities of Dongxing were surrounded by mountains and water, and the terrain was dangerous. If the Wei army wanted to attack the city, they had to cross the Ruxu River. Zhuge Dan ordered a floating bridge to be built on the water to directly connect the newly built embankment of the Wu army. After snatching the embankment, they would attack the connected Dongguan and Xiguan along the embankment.

The army of Wu was originally stationed on the embankment, but the number was limited. When the Wei State built the floating bridge, they frequently shot arrows at the Wei army, which to a certain extent blocked the Wei army's speed of building the floating bridge.

Zhuge Dan saw that it was not possible. It was so difficult to build a floating bridge. It was the year of the monkey and horses of Dongxing. The 70,000 troops of Wei State were crowded in Chentang. The terrain was narrow and it could not be implemented at all. The floating bridge must be built as soon as possible and the embankment can be seized to form an offensive against Dongguan and Xiguan.

So Zhuge Dan mobilized dozens of warships, each of which was loaded with archers and concentrated his firepower to shoot arrows on the embankment to suppress the Wu defenders on the embankment.

This move worked. The Wei army fired thousands of arrows at once, so that the Wu army could not even lift its head when defending the dike. In this way, the progress of building the floating bridge was no longer affected. Soon, the Wei army built four floating bridges on the Ruxu River. The infantry followed the floating bridge and quickly attacked the dam.

The Wu army was alone and could not resist, so they could only give up the embankment, retreat to Dongguan and Xiguan, and defended by danger.

After the Wei army seized the embankment, they attacked Dongguan and Xiguan along the embankment.

Although this embankment is built wide and thick, it is just a dam and cannot become a wide road. The widest part of the embankment can only accommodate four carriages. In this way, although the Wei army has many soldiers and generals, it can only be crowded together due to the influence of the embankment, and the intensity of the city siege becomes much more limited.

Liuluo is in the East Pass, and the entire end is in the West Pass, and the two sides can be seen from afar. The two fortresses built by Zhuge Ke can be regarded as iron walls and complete defense facilities. Even if such a strong city is limited in the number of defenders, it will be difficult for the Wei army to conquer it in a short period of time.

Zhuge Dan ordered a strong attack. The army was unable to launch a narrow terrain, so the intensity of the attack was increased, so that the Wei army would launch an attack for twelve hours a day and take turns to attack day and night. Anyway, because there were too many Wei soldiers, the people in front were injured and injured, and the one behind immediately came up.

This kind of attack method is to make the defenders exhausted, so that they can find out the loopholes in the Wu army's defense and take down the second city of Dongxing.
Chapter completed!