Zhuge Dan did not intend to recapture Xia Cai. This time, the one who attacked Xia Cai was Hu Lie's cavalry. With the current combat power of the Huainan Army, he could not compete with Hu Lie's tens of thousands of cavalry. Even if all the Huainan Army were put in, he might not be able to defeat Hu Lie.

Even Zhuge Dan was not prepared to go along the Huaihe River to block the Sima Army's crossing. Originally, the Huaihe River defense line was a good defense line for the Huainan Army. The Sima Army was not good at water battles, so Zhuge Dan could use the Huaihe River to block Sima Lun in the land of Huaibei.

But the latest news I just received gave Zhuge Dan the idea that Wang Chang, who was stationed in Pingchun, was also active and defeated Yiyang and Lu'an, who were unguarded, and came straight to Shouchun from the west. After Wu Gang withdrew, the three counties in the western part of Huainan were in an unguarded state. Wang Chang advanced eastward, and was expected to arrive at the city of Shouchun by tomorrow night at the latest.

Sima Lun arrived in Huaibei and Wang Chang advanced along Huainan, which made the Huaihe River defense line suddenly lose its meaning. If Zhuge Dan sent troops to station on the Huaihe River line, he would probably suffer from enemies from both sides. Therefore, when Zhuge Dan heard the news that Wang Chang came, he immediately gave up the idea of ​​blocking the Huaihe River.

As for retreat, Zhuge Dan probably has no place to go. If he can continue to maintain an alliance with the Eastern Wu, Zhuge Dan will at least have a way out to Jiangdong. However, now the two sides are in a bad situation and have the same power. Zhuge Dan's last way out is gone. Therefore, Zhuge Dan has no place to stay in the world except to stick to Shouchun.

Zhuge Dan is not without confidence in sticking to Shouchun. You should know that in Zhuge Dan's initial plan, the entire Huainan defense system was carried out around Shouchun. Shouchun City reserves more than 80% of the Huainan army's food and grass. Even if it is besieged by the Sima army for a year, there will be no shortage of food and grass.

Before, Zhuge Liang could hardly defend Shouchun because Zhuge Liang had few soldiers. When Zhuge Dan left Shouchun, there were only 10,000 troops left for Zhuge Liang. After a few days of hard work, only a few thousand people were left. It is natural to imagine how difficult it is to use thousands to defend such a huge Shouchun City.

Now Zhuge Dan's troops in Xia Cai have all retreated to Shouchun, and Wu Gang's troops have also returned. In addition, the original defenders of Shouchun City are almost nearly 50,000. With so many troops, Zhuge Dan is still confident in defending Shouchun.

Of course, there is no way out. Zhuge Dan, who has no way out, must defend Shouchun, otherwise he will be killed and killed and all three tribes will be killed.

Zhuge Dan knew clearly how Wang Ling died at the beginning. The Sima family had never been ruthless in dealing with political enemies. From Cao Shuang to Wang Ling, from Wuqiu Jian to Zhang Jili Feng, are there few people who died under the butcher knife of the Sima family?

If Zhuge Dan did not want to follow their footsteps, he had to guard Shouchun, otherwise once the city was broken and all jade and stones were burned, no one could escape the Sima family's butcher's knife.

The Eastern Wu side was completely unable to rely on it. Originally, Zhuge Dan wanted to make friends with the Wu Kingdom by cede land and forming an alliance, so that they could help them to do their part. However, the Eastern Wu people were too scheming and too ruthless in their plan, but they were used by Sima Lun, which eventually led to the disastrous consequences of the Wu army's besieging Shouchun.

Sima Lun was young, but his wrist was so high that he easily played Zhuge Dan and Sun Jun in his palms, not only letting them kill each other, but also cutting off Zhuge Dan's last escape route. Even if he died, he would have to die in Shouchun and nowhere to go.

However, Sun Jun failed to steal chickens and lost all the rice. Shouchun did not make any plans, but instead lost his troops and generals, losing nearly 20,000 troops, and also taking Tang Zi's life. Although they retreated to the new city and were safe, the losses of these soldiers were irreparable.

More importantly, they had a feud with Zhuge Dan this time, and the alliance was disintegrated and the ice disappeared. Next, the Sima army would attack Shouchun in large numbers. Once Shouchun was captured, the Sima army might lead the troops south to take the new city. Whether the last benefit Wu State gained from this battle can be defended is still unknown.

Sun Jun was probably in deep regret at this moment. In order to deal with the errand, he only led 50,000 troops to the new city. Unexpectedly, this would be the case in the end. If he had known this, he would have been better than to transfer more troops from Jiangdong to ensure that Shouchun would be captured.

Once Shouchun is in hand, the situation will be completely different, and Wu Jun will not be as passive as he is now.

Unfortunately, there is no regret in this world. Even if Sun Jun regrets his intestines, it will be useless. Next, what he should consider is the issue of how to preserve the new city. As for Zhuge Dan's life and death, it has no meaning to Sun Jun.

Now that Zhuge Dan wants to save himself, he has no power to rely on. It is better to rely on himself than rely on the heaven and earth. He first ordered that all the Huainan army stationed outside the city immediately enter the city. Even Jiang Ban, who was ordered to pursue Sun Jun, was urgently summoned back by Zhuge Dan. At this moment, he must integrate all the forces of the Huainan army and devote all his strength to the defense of the city, and strictly guard against it. He must never allow Sima Lun to easily break through Shouchun City.

If it was at the peak of the Huainan Army, Zhuge Dan had enough confidence in defending Shouchun. However, in the last battle, the Huainan Army suffered heavy damage and almost half of its troops were lost. Shouchun was besieged by Sun Jun, causing the Huainan Army's troops to be damaged again and again, while the Sima Army's strength was almost unscathed. Sima Lun also had at least 100,000 troops under his command. In addition, Wang Chang's 50,000 troops, the total army of Sima Army besieged Shouchun reached 150,000, and the total force was three times that of the Huainan Army, which also put Zhuge Dan endless pressure.

How can Shouchun be defended? To be honest, Zhuge Dan is not sure enough. He can only mobilize all his strength to defend the city. With his background in Huainan for many years, he has been dealing with Sima Lun. Persistence is one day. If he can persist until the world changes greatly, perhaps Zhuge Dan has a chance.

However, after fighting with Sima Lun for several times, Zhuge Dan finally did not dare to have any contempt for Sima Lun anymore. At the same time, Zhuge Dan also secretly regretted that if he had paid more attention to Sima Lun, he would not have lost as badly as he is now.

Zhuge Dan was a little worried because no one knew what Sima Lun would do next.
Chapter completed!