The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 300

Now everyone knows that Zhang Wu has an unparalleled ability in understanding people. He is absolutely unmistakable when he says who is talented.Now Zhang Wu is definitely much more famous than Zhuge Liang. He said that Zhuge Liang was comparable to Zhang Liang, and even Cao Cao believed it.

What excites Zhuge Liang the most is that under the leadership of Zhang Wu, Jingzhou's power is booming. Not only has it defeated Cao Cao's invasion many times, completely eliminating the danger in the north, but now it is going to completely defeat Jiangdong, and finally occupy the natural danger of the Yangtze River.

If this battle can be successful, then the south of the great river will become Zhang Wu's territory, and Zhang Wu is still secretly deploying Yizhou. !
Before the start of the battle to destroy Wu, Zhang Wu had discussed with several military divisions the development plan after occupying Jiangdong.Zhang Wu said at the time that after completely defeating Sun Quan and occupying Jiangdong, and eliminating the threat behind Jingzhou, he could concentrate on planning the affairs of Yizhou.When the time comes to confront the north across the river, it will take a few years to completely digest Jiangdong and Yizhou, and then the Northern Expedition will begin.

At that time, the Zhangwu Group will attack Cao Cao from three directions.The first direction is to send troops from Yizhou to take Hanzhong first, and then use Hanzhong as a base to attack Guanzhong; the second direction is to send troops from Xiangfan to attack Wancheng, and after regaining Nanyang, go straight to Xudu; the third direction is from Jiangdong Send troops, first capture Hefei and Shouchun, and after occupying all of Yangzhou, confront Cao Jun across the Huaihe River, and then seek Xuzhou.

According to this plan, someone needs to be in charge of these three directions. Zhang Wu once had a private conversation with Zhuge Liang and asked Zhuge Liang how much he knew about the situation in Xuzhou, and whether he had any old friends in Xuzhou.

Although Zhang Wu didn't say it clearly, Zhuge Liang vaguely felt that Zhang Wu might let him take charge of the strategy of Huainan and Xuzhou, which made Zhuge Liang very happy.Xuzhou is his hometown. Back then, his Zhuge family was one of the most famous families in Langya, Xuzhou. Although it has declined now, once he leads the army back to his hometown, the Zhuge family will become the top family in Xuzhou.

Zhuge Liang lost his mother at the age of three and his father at the age of eight. He and his younger brother traveled around with his uncle since he was a child. In fact, his life was quite hard.Later, after his uncle died, the important task of restoring the family's glory fell on the young Zhuge Liang, and the pressure must be the boss.

In order to gain the support of other aristocratic families, Zhuge Liang's two sisters married into the Pang family and the Kuai family successively, and he himself married Huang Yueying from the Huang family.No matter in the official history or the novel, Zhuge Liang is a handsome guy, but Huang Yueying is indeed not very good looking, which is really too much effort.

Therefore, in fact, Zhuge Liang is very eager in his heart to have an opportunity for him to display his skills, to make contributions, and to revive the glory of the family.

Just when Gan Ning led the Jingzhou navy to defeat the Jiangdong navy and Guan Yu also led his army to occupy Wancheng, Zhang Wu had resisted the Cao army's attack for nearly ten days in Wuguan.

Cao Cao knew that if he did not take Wuguan back, he would not dare to leave Guanzhong for a day, and he could not return to Xudu to help Sun Quan. Then the main force of the Jingzhou army might completely defeat Sun Quan and occupy Jiangdong.

If there is no Jiangdong to contain Zhang Wu, then Zhang Wu will not only greatly increase his power by occupying the six counties of Jiangdong, but also free up his hands to make trouble with him, such as sending troops to attack Wancheng or Hefei while he is attacking Hanzhong.

Therefore, Cao Cao sent soldiers to attack Wuguan regardless of casualties, and those who dared to take a step back were killed on the spot.

Xia Houen knew that he had caused great trouble to Cao Cao because he did not defend Wuguan well. In order to make up for his mistakes, he personally led the troops to charge, but was seriously injured by the powerful firepower on the pass wall.Fortunately, the armor Xiahouen wore was relatively thick, and the key parts were not injured, and he was rescued by the soldiers.

Even so, after so many days of fierce attacks, Cao Jun still didn't climb the wall once. The Jingzhou Army's defense was really resolute, and the firepower was too fierce.

Later, Xun You, Cheng Yu and others also thought of many ways, such as climbing to the cliffs on the left and right sides of Wuguan and then jumping onto the wall, or shooting Jingzhou soldiers with bows and crossbows from a condescending position on the cliffs.But the cliff was too steep, and it was difficult to climb up. Even if they climbed up, not many people could stand up, and they were shot to death one by one by the Jingzhou army's crossbowmen, or Zhang Wu would have people throw oil on it and ignite it.

Due to Zhang Wu's adequate preparations in advance, and the fact that Xia Houyuan did not dare to take the initiative to attack and transported a large amount of defense materials from the rear, so until now, the Jingzhou army's defense is still very easy.

Because the Wuguan road is too narrow, no matter how many Cao soldiers there are, they can't all attack. They have to wait for the people in front to die before the people behind can go forward. This is the so-called "refueling tactic", which can only take a lot of lives To consume the opponent's arrows and stones.

Moreover, it is Zhang Wu himself who is guarding the pass now, and there are two generals, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan. Cao Cao also expected the difficulty.

Sima Yi suggested: "It's better to order General Yuan Rang to send troops from Wancheng to cut off the Nanyang exit of Wuguan Road. The Jingzhou army will be short of logistics supplies, and they will be in chaos. Maybe they can capture and kill Zhang Wu in one fell swoop."

Cao Cao was overjoyed, and hurriedly sent orders to Xiahoudun in Wancheng. Although it would take a long time to wait for Xiahoudun to send troops, it was better than losing a large number of soldiers like this and having no effect.

It is really difficult to attack such a dangerous pass on the main road of the valley.When the Eighteenth Route princes attacked Dong Zhuo, they were blocked for a long time before Hulao Pass.In the original book, Huo Jun only led a few hundred people to guard Jiameng Pass, while Liu Zhang sent more than 1 generals to fight for a year without defeating it.

Therefore, Cao Cao felt that if he continued like this, he might not be able to regain Wuguan in a year.

In the next few days, although Cao Jun was still besieging the city, it was not as strong as the previous few days, and most of them were shooting arrows and throwing stones. Few of Cao Jun's soldiers crazily climbed up the wall as if they were not afraid of death.

After Zhang Wu discovered this situation, he said to Huang Zhong and Wei Yan: "We will have to retreat in ten days at most."

Wei Yan asked puzzledly: "Master, why?"

Zhang Wu said: "If you don't leave, you will be blocked here. Cao's army's offensive strength has suddenly decreased in the past few days. There must be other conspiracy. There are also powerful masterminds in Cao Cao's army. They must have suggested that Cao Cao send troops to block our rear." Road, when the time comes, we will be attacked from both sides, and there will be no reinforcements, so we will not be able to leave even if we want to.”

Xiahou Dun, who was stationed in Wancheng, immediately led an army of [-] troops to the south to block the exit of Wuguan Road in Nanyang after receiving Cao Cao's order. This would not only prevent the Jingzhou army from supporting Zhang Wu, but also block Zhang Wu inside. Attack from both sides.

Therefore, Zhang Wu predicted that it was almost done, so he ordered to pack up and prepare to evacuate.

Wei Yan asked again: "Master, if we leave, what will Ma Chao do? Can he beat Cao Cao?"

Zhang Wu said with a smile: "Ma Chao will definitely not be able to defeat Cao Cao, but what does this have to do with us? We are not here to rescue Ma Chao, and I am not Ma Chao's father. I don't care what he does, anyway, he is useless, love What the hell!"

(End of this chapter)