If the anger can really burn, then Lu Kang's rage at this moment will definitely turn the Yong'an small city, also known as Baidi City, into ashes.

If hatred can be turned into a sharp blade, then Lu Kang's hatred of Yong'an and Luo Xian at this moment will definitely cut every defender in Yong'an City into powder!

Amid the earth-shaking sound of war drums, pushing and carrying various siege weapons, the Eastern Wu soldiers in green uniforms attacked the Yong'an city wall again, and arrows and stones were intertwined in the sky again. Flying ladders forced to hit the city head. A warrior of the Eastern Wu bit his weapon and climbed up the ladder. The city car hit the city gate and thumped the hook truck crazily hit the female wall on the city. Another stone catapult waved his arms violently, smashing the stones on the city. The shouts of killing echoed endlessly on the river.

Unfortunately, it is still useless. The space under Yong'an City surrounded by water is too narrow. The Yong'an defenders can use crossbows to cover the entire battlefield from the beginning. Yong'an City, which is directly built as a military fortress, is too solid. Various fortifications are dazzling and endless. It can not only effectively protect the soldiers of the defenders, but also provide countless conveniences for the soldiers of the defenders to use various weapons to kill and block the enemy. It often makes the Eastern Wu soldiers unable to understand where they hit the ground even if they hit arrows and shoot them to death.

At the same time, the Yong'an defenders, who had changed to attack the Jin army's flag, were too tenacious. Just like more than two years ago, they had always fought to the death in front of the Eastern Wu army that had repeatedly attacked the alliance. They refused to retreat from the front line after being injured. They always stood firm in key areas everywhere, fighting with the soldiers of the Eastern Wu with swords, guns, crossbows, stone fists and even teeth. The slogans of killing all Wu dogs have always echoed on the battlefield.

When encountering such city defense and terrain, and such a tenacious defender, no one can guarantee that even the Jin army or the Han army can capture Yong'an City, let alone the Eastern Wu army, which is famous for its attack ability. Even when the fierce battle was slightly dark, no Eastern Wu soldier could stand firm on the city and break the deadlock that he could not capture for a long time. On the contrary, the city was still covered with the bodies of Eastern Wu soldiers and the wreckage of siege weapons.

Seeing that the attack was still unstoppable, the casualties of the self-armed army were too heavy, and the soldiers also lost their physical strength very significantly. Although they were extremely reluctant, Lu Kang could only order the Jin to retreat to the Yong'an Palace camp in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River with the Eastern Wu fleet, leaving the Yong'an defenders to cheer again on Jiangxin Island, mocking the Eastern Wu army for another failure in siege.

After returning again in a defeat, the Eastern Wu army was of course depressed. The fierce generals of the Eastern Wu, including Lu Yan, Zhang Xian and Liu Lu, also had a gloomy face. Only Lu Kang still maintained a gentle smile on his face and praised at the post-war meeting: "The battle was not bad today. Although he failed to capture Yong'an City, no matter which army went to the battlefield, all soldiers rushed up the city wall, which made great progress compared to the previous few times. I hope you will continue to work hard, inspire the soldiers to fight bravely, capture Yong'an City as soon as possible, and open the door for our Eastern Wu to enter Shu."

"Master-in-chief, shall we continue to build siege weapons and wait for another strong attack in the future?" Lu Yan asked.

"Of course, the weapons of the siege must be continued, but whether to continue to attack forcefully needs to be considered carefully for the father." Lu Kang replied with a smile, then turned to his general Yu Zan and asked: "General Yu, has the scout from Jin who caught yesterday spoke? Have you ever told me how much food and grass there are in Yong'an City?"

"Reporting to the governor, it's open to speak." Yu Zan replied truthfully: "I opened my mouth. The man confessed that Luo Xian claimed more than once in public that the food in Yong'an City could last at least eight months. However, the last doubt that Luo Xian's penis might not have told his subordinates the truth, claiming that there should be enough food and grass. It should be just a means for Luo Xian's penis to appease the morale of the army."

"It is absolutely impossible to have so much food and grass." Lei Tan, the prefect of Yidu who went to the expedition with the army, rushed to say: "We have confirmed the detailed work we placed in Yong'an before. Chengdu has not provided Yong'an once since the beginning of spring. The Yong'an Jin thieves must have relied on last year's autumn grain to maintain military supplies. This year, we have sent troops before the autumn harvest and have not given the Yong'an Jin thieves the opportunity to harvest autumn grain. The food in Yong'an City must have not been able to last long."

"If this is true, that would be great." Zhang Xian said: "As long as we siege Yong'an for a period of time, the Yong'an Jin thieves will have their food to collapse, so that we can take down Yong'an City without fighting."

"Master-in-chief, just do this." Lu Yan suggested: "We might as well siege the city and divide our troops westward to seize the upstream Qunin, Yangqu and Linjiang cities, seize the autumn grain there to supply our army, and starve Luo Xianpian to death in Yong'an City."

As mentioned earlier, this year was a year of drought, and the drought in Eastern Wu was the most serious. The grain production in various parts of Eastern Wu was generally reduced. In addition, Sun Hao wasted his efforts and moved the capital to Wuchang and then back to Jianye, which added a lot of unnecessary money and grain expenses to the Eastern Wu country, wasting a lot of national strength, which led to Lu Kang's military rations being very nervous. Therefore, after hearing the eldest son's suggestion, Lu Kang was inevitably a little moved. After thinking about it, he asked: "What is the situation with the partial division of the pseudo-Han thief army? Where did he fight?"

"Reporting to the governor, the last message I received was to hit the vicinity of Jiangyang County." Yu Zan, who was in charge of intelligence, replied immediately.

After staring at the map and thinking for a long time, Lu Kang nodded and said, "You can consider dividing troops to advance westward to seize grain. Although Xiang Tiao, the prefect of Jiangyang of the Jin people, was once the censor of Shu Kingdom, according to the rules of the Jin people, his wife and children were all hostages in Luoyang and would definitely not surrender to the pseudo-Han thief army easily. Moreover, even if Xiang Tiao surrendered to the pseudo-Han thief army regardless of his children, Hu Zhi, a native of Qingzhou, would definitely defend Jiangzhou to the death and give us time to sief Yong'an and advance westward to seize grain. We not only have enough time to divide troops to seize grain, but also rely on the restraint of the pseudo-Han thief army, and we don't have to worry about threats from the upstream."

"Father, the boy asked for an order to lead an army to seize the food and grass from Quren, Yangqu and Linjiang cities."

Lu Yan quickly bowed and volunteered, but Lu Kang smiled slightly and said, "It's enough to take down these three small cities? Only these three small cities have much food. How many days can our 40,000 army support?"

"Father, where are you going to take it?" Lu Yan asked in surprise.

"At least we must take over Zhixian (Fuling)." Lu Kang replied lightly: "If we take over Zhixian, we can go south along the Yanjiang River and seize the entire Fuling county. With the food and grass supply from Zhucheng Fuling, we can focus on Yong'an for a long time and starve Luo Xian's wife to the city."

"Governor Gao Ming." The generals of the Eastern Wu quickly praised: "The thieves in Jiangzhou are now being attacked by the enemy, and they know that our Eastern Wu navy is invincible on the river. Even if we receive the news that our troops are divided into westward, they will definitely not dare to send a navy to fight. They will only concentrate their troops to defend Jiangzhou and wait for reinforcements."

Lu Kang was about to arrange for general Zuo Yi to lead the troops westward, but he suddenly ran in outside the tent, saying, "Report to the Governor, we sent a detailed report to Jiangzhou. Three days ago, the governor of Jin Jiangzhou, Hu Zhi, summoned the soldiers and civilians in the city, announced in public that he would lead the entire city to surrender to the pseudo-Han thief army, and handed over the prefect seal to Su Ding, the county magistrate of the pseudo-Han Shu County who went to persuade him to surrender. Now Jiangzhou has changed its flags and returned to the Han Dynasty. The Jin navy, who had been trained in Jiangzhou, had also changed to the pseudo-Han flags."

Before the personal soldiers finished their reports, Lu Kang opened his mouth wide. Lu Yan, Zhang Xian and other Eastern Wu civil and military officials were all dumbfounded, all of whom suspected that they had heard the wrong ears. Then after a long time, Lu Kang said to himself in disbelief: "I am not dreaming, are you? That ordinary man Hu Zhi chooses to surrender to the pseudo-Han thief army?"

"How is that possible?" Lu Yan also jumped up and shouted: "How could Jiangzhou surrender to the pseudo-Han thief army? What about Jiangyang City? Why did Jiangzhou surrender before he received the news from Jiangyang?"

"Reporting to the Major General, we have reported our detailed work, and Jiangyang also surrendered to the puppet Han army." The personal soldiers who entered the tent reported truthfully: "We sent a detailed work report to Jiangzhou, saying that he had only found out about Jiangyang's surrender in the morning and had not had time to report to the governor, but in the afternoon, Hu Zhi announced his surrender to the puppet Han army in public."

Lu Yan opened his mouth again and murmured for a while: "So quickly? Our Seizure just found out that Jiangyang surrendered, and Jiangzhou surrendered in the afternoon. Who is the envoy of the pseudo-Han thief army? Is it too capable of persuading surrender?"

Lu Kang's face was gloomy, he thought nervously for a while before he quickly said, "Zuo Yi, please feel free to prepare immediately. Tomorrow, you will lead 10,000 troops westward, travel day and night, and directly attack Zhixian County. Be sure to take down Zhixian before the pseudo-Han thief army arrives, control the inlet of Yanjiang River, and cut off the connection between the pseudo-Han thief army and Fuling County!"

"No!" Zuo Yi and Liu Lu immediately clasped their fists and sang No. , and then Zuo Yi naturally had to ask quickly: "Governor, what should we do if the pseudo-Han army arrives in Zhixian first, or after we seize Zhixian, the pseudo-Han army sends troops to seize it again?"

"Fight resolutely! Siege the city when it is time to attack, and take action when it is time to take action. No need to worry about the consequences. All consequences will be borne by the Governor! Yong'an is too strong. Our Dongwu has encountered drought this year, and grain production has been severely reduced. Only by taking over the grain from Badong and Fuling counties can we have the hope of destroying Luo Xian through the grain consumption tactics!"

Lu Kang answered decisively and turned to Yu Zan and said, "Yu Zan, you should also prepare immediately. Tomorrow, you will set out westward and go to Jiangzhou to meet Cuan Gu, the commander of the partial division of the pseudo-Han thief army. He argued with him and clearly told him that the reason why their pseudo-Han army was able to successfully capture the two cities of Jiangyang and Jiangzhou was entirely because our Eastern Wu army sent troops to help and forced the Jin people in Yizhou to the desperate situation, so they were allowed to reap profits. They also had to ced the land and city east of Zhixian to our Eastern Wu as a reward!"

After saying that, Lu Kang added another sentence and said, "Don't worry that the pseudo-Han thief army will be unfavorable to you. They have not yet established a stable foothold in Yizhou. The Jin people's rear army will definitely move south in a large scale in the near future. At this time, the pseudo-Han thief army dare not offend us."

In addition to back-sting allies, extortion and nonsense were also the secret skills of the Eastern Wu army. So after hearing Lu Kang's orders, Yu Zan also did not even blink his eyelids, and immediately clasped his fists and sang his promise, and asked again: "Governor, what if the Cuan Gu male servant refused to agree?"

"Then let's tell him clearly that we have to pay. If he is not convinced, he will speak on the battlefield. All the consequences will be borne by the Cuan Gu Pufu!" Lu Kang said coldly: "Also, let's tell him the news that we sent troops from Jiaozhou to protect their families from the pseudo-Han thief army, and also tell him the Cuan Gu Pufu to know the consequences of turning against us!"

Yu Zan sang a promise again, but Lu Kang personally wrote a letter to Cuan Gu, using the excuse that Dongwu sent troops to help the Han army successfully captured Jiangyang and Jiangzhou and other places, forcing Cuan Gu to agree to cede the land and city east of Zhixian to Dongwu. At the same time, he also clearly told Cuan Gu about the situation where the Eastern Wu army sent troops to "protect the Han army's family" to Cuan Gu, in order to force Cuan Gu and Zhang Zhi behind Cuan Gu to give in.

Extortion did not count, Lu Kang quickly began to think of killing people with a knife and to go with the flow. While writing a letter to Shi Bao, a veteran Jin army who was leading the Jin army south, he took the initiative to tell Shi Bao about the advance of the Eastern Wu army's army to Nanzhong, and indirectly encouraged Shi Bao to go south with peace of mind and restrain the main force of the Han army for him. While sending envoys into Yong'an City, he told Luo Xian that the Han army had seized Jiangzhou, so that Luo Xian knew that the Eastern Wu army would soon usher in the attack of the Han army, and urged Luo Xian to open the city and surrender, and sacrifice Yong'an to enjoy the glory and wealth of the Eastern Wu.

In order to successfully persuade Luo Xian to surrender, Lu Kang also listed the example of Huang Quan surrendering to Wei in his letter, pointing out that the Han army is now the mortal enemy of the Jin army. Once Luo Xian surrendered to Han, his wife and children who were sent to Luoyang as hostages would definitely die without a burial place. Only by surrendering to the Eastern Wu, which currently has envoys with the Jin court, and putting the Eastern Wu army into the hinterland of Yizhou disgusting the Han army, Sima Yan could choose to go out and forgive Luo Xian's wife and children.

After writing the letter of persuasion to Luo Xian, Lu Kang, who was already quite tired, threw his pen to the ground and rubbed his temples and sneered: "Zhang Zhi, you are so powerful that you can take down two important cities in Jiangyang and Jiangzhou without any effort. But don't be too happy too early. If you don't hand over the two counties of Badong and Fuling east of Zhi County, this time, the governor will let you fight on both sides, which is difficult to deal with!"

"Oh no, it's wrong, it's a third-line battle."

Thinking of the Jiaozhou Eastern Wu army that must have entered Nanzhong, Lu Kang quickly corrected it, and then seemed to see the three fronts of the Han army in an emergency at the same time. Zhang Zhi was in a panic and cursed, but he could not helpless.

Zhang Zhi's previous conservative order also gave the Eastern Wu army the opportunity to take advantage of the situation. Although the Han army's partial division arrived at the city of Jiangzhou first, it was necessary to recruit Jin army naval divisions and take over important facilities such as the city shipbuilding office. In addition, Zhang Zhi did not force the Han army's partial divisions to cross Jiangzhou as soon as possible and continue to advance westward, so the Han army did not rush to send troops to Zhixian County, which took the initiative to surrender. Then, on the same day that the Eastern Wu envoy Yu Zan arrived in Jiangzhou, the Han army received an urgent report from Zhixian County, knowing that the Eastern Wu army had divided its troops to attack Yanjiangkou.

Fortunately, the county magistrate of Zhixian County, Wang Zai, who was ordered to change his banner, was still loyal. He immediately opened the city to surrender without seeing the Eastern Wu army. He also chose to lead the entire city to defend the city. At the same time, he asked the Han army for reinforcements and made it clear that he would never surrender to the Eastern Wu. This was also related to the fact that Wang Zai was a native of Yizhou. The old Shu Han hated the Eastern Wu for the Jin army and Cao Wei.

The extremely difficult problem was also placed in front of Cuan Gu. On one hand, the Eastern Wu fraud and nonsense were made, while the military and civilians in Zhi County who were in urgent need of rescue were also placed in the power of the Navy. At the same time, the power of the navy was far inferior to that of the Eastern Wu. Zhang Zhi had not authorized Cuan Gu to decide whether to go to war with the Eastern Wu before. All these problems were placed in front of Cuan Gu, forcing Cuan Gu to look forward and be in a dilemma.

Of course, some people suggested that Cuan Gu ask Zhang Zhi for instructions before making a decision. The frustrated Cuan Gu immediately roared: "What should I do in Zhi County? The county magistrate of Zhi County Wang Zai only has hundreds of county soldiers in his hands, and he can defend the city for a few days. After the general gave a reply, Zhi County had long been taken down by the dog thief of the Eastern Wu!"

"But General Cuan, if we start a war with the Eastern Wu rashly, who will bear the consequences?" Yan Ji reminded: "The Jin thieves are already on the way south, and at this time they are ripped off with the Eastern Wu dog thieves. We will be attacked on both sides in Yizhou."

Zhang Zhi did not choose the wrong commander. Although he knew the consequences were serious, after weighing the pros and cons for a long time, Cuan Gu still shouted: "Fight! I will be responsible for the consequences! Since the Eastern Wu dog thieves have sent troops to the Nanzhong, no matter how we swallow our anger, we cannot avoid going to war with the Eastern Wu dog thieves! Instead of swallowing our anger, it is better to fight back firmly and let the Eastern Wu dog thieves know our strength! Send troops in Zhixian and fight with the Eastern Wu dog thieves!"

"Although it makes sense, if we do so, we will be like three fronts going to war at the same time." Yan Ji sighed.

"I believe that the general will make the same choice as me." Cuan Gu said coldly: "In the future, the general's hatred of the Eastern Wu dog thieves will definitely not accept the extortion of the Eastern Wu dog thieves, nor will he tolerate the Eastern Wu dog thieves gaining a foothold in the hinterland of Yizhou!"

It was indeed three fronts that started the war at the same time, because on the same day, the Jin Ting Grand Sima Shibao led the main force of the Jin army with a number of 120,000 people, and passed the Jiange Pass and arrived at the edge of the Chengdu Plain. He rushed towards Chengdu as if Mount Tai was pressing down. To the south of Shibao, there were more than 20,000 Jin troops led by Huangfu Yan, the prefect of Zitong of Jin Ting, and joined forces with Shibao to form an absolute military advantage against the Han army. Zhang Zhi had no choice but to personally lead the main force of the 40,000 Han army to head north and prepare to fight the Jin army in the Mianzhu area.
Chapter completed!