"The Cao army is all elites, and there is a group of 300 cavalrymen in iron armor. They almost scattered our front with a single charge, and we really couldn't hold them back.”In just an hour, Zhou Tai returned with wounds and blood.
"Is it the Tiger Leopard Cavalry?" Lu Meng asked.
"The iron-armored cavalrymen ran into the tiger cavalry of the tiger leopard cavalry this time," Cheng Pu said helplessly.”
"Tiger cavalry is heavy cavalry, leopard cavalry is light cavalry. Where there are tiger cavalry, there will definitely be leopard cavalry.
How many cavalrymen are there?" Lu Meng looked at Zhou Tai.
"With a thousand people, it's hard to stop them.”Zhou Tai said.
Lu Meng couldn't help but ponder." They have more than a thousand cavalrymen. They can completely use their cavalrymen to break our formation and then press in with their infantry. What are they planning to do by staying put with us now?"”
Cheng Pu also fell into silence. Lu Meng thought for a moment and said to Cheng Pu,""General Cheng, is there something wrong?”
"There's nothing wrong. It seems that the Cao army has already found out that we have a backup plan.
" This group of reinforcements wants to preserve their strength to the greatest extent, so they chose to confront us.
We're in a situation where we can't back down.”Cheng Pu said helplessly.
In order to lure the Cao army out of the city, Cheng Pu had used 5,000 men to face a possible pincer attack from both sides. This plan was to gather all the remaining troops and break through one of Jiangling's walls.
Unfortunately, the Cao army did not fall for it and chose to defend.
"What should we do now?" Lu Meng asked.
"Retreat," Cheng Pu said helplessly.
We can't stop Li Tong and Man Chong's army from building their camps. After they build their camps, they will coordinate with the Cao army in the city. If we want to take down their camps, we will need to spend even more.”
"Once we retreat, it will be even more difficult to break through Jiangling.”
Cheng Pu shook his head." We can't use the morale of the soldiers anymore. With the death of Gong Jin and a year of war, the soldiers have lost their morale."”
Many of the soldiers had been fighting for a year. Such high-intensity battles had long caused the morale of the army to be low. It was already a rare miracle that they could last until now.
"Could it be that the efforts of the past year have been wasted just like that?”Lu Meng said anxiously.
"Ziming, you know what's going on in your heart." Cheng Pu looked at Lu Meng.
There were more than ten thousand Jiangdong soldiers in the army, and their lives were not to be trifled with.”
Lu Meng was dejected. In the end, he still struggled and said,"But the general's last words were for us to attack River East!”
"Times are different now. If Cao Cao's reinforcements hadn't arrived, we would have definitely taken Jiangling. Now that the reinforcements have arrived, it will be very difficult for us to take Jiangling.”Cheng Pu said with his eyes closed. He didn't seem willing to accept this result.
Lu Meng sighed heavily. His eyes were filled with unwillingness. All of this was really hard to accept.
The alliance army slowly retreated. Even during the retreat, the Cao army, which had mobile cavalry, did not send any cavalry to harass them. It was as if they did not care about the alliance army's retreat at all.
When Liu Bei returned to the army, Liu Chan was already waiting in the tent.
"This time, we'll just have to wait for Sun Quan's orders. The Jiangdong retreat is already set in stone.”Liu Chan said excitedly to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei took off his armor and put on his ordinary clothes. He sat down to rest for a moment and said to Liu Chan,""After we retreat from Jiangdong, it will be very difficult for us to take down Jiangling alone.”
"Using the plague." Liu Chan said.
Liu Bei couldn't help but wonder, How can such a natural disaster be used?”
" Decaying corpses can cause plagues," Liu Chan said." It can also happen in a densely populated and unsanitary environment."
During the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao had created a Thunderbolt Chariot. This Thunderbolt Chariot is a type of catapult. We use this catapult to throw corpses and feces into the city. The weather is still hot, so it's a good time to cause a plague in the city before the temperature drops.
Also, if I observe the weather at night, an earthquake is about to happen. At that time, it's even easier to cause a plague.”
When attacking a city, one would throw corpses into the city to cause a plague. This method was first used by Genghis Khan, and later Zhu Yuanzhang also used this method when fighting Zhang Shicheng.
Before this, although there were hundreds of years of chaos like the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period and high-intensity wars like the Qin Dynasty's unification of the six countries, such despicable and shameless methods had never been used.
Liu Bei could not accept this.""Isn't this too outrageous?”
"Father, how many people have you killed? The heavens didn't punish you, did they?" Liu Chan asked.
Liu Bei was speechless. Indeed, he had killed countless people in his life, but the heavens had not struck him with lightning.
"There are no more ordinary citizens in Jiangling City, we can rest assured.”Liu Chan said.
"The plague is merciless. So what if our army is infected with the plague?”Liu Bei thought of this crucial question.
" I've thought of this a long time ago," Liu Chan said with a grin." Otherwise, I wouldn't have come up with such an idea."
When I was in Linxiang, I gave General Huang Zhong a manual on disease prevention. I'll write it out later. Dad, you just need to ask the whole army to strictly follow it. Whoever doesn't follow it must be punished with the strictest military law.”
……
The Jiangdong army retreated back to the camp and began to defend the camp. The Cao army in Jiangling City also quieted down. The Cao army outside the city used the cavalry to cover them and successfully transported a large amount of grain out of the city.
This peace lasted for five days. Sun Quan's decree was quickly delivered through the light cavalry scouts, ordering the entire Jiangling army to retreat and carry Zhou Yu's coffin back to the capital (Zhenjiang).
Seeing the white sails outside the city and the Jiangdong Army retreating, Cao Ren heaved a sigh of relief. The war was finally over.
"It's over." Chen Jiao, Niu Jin, and the others were all extremely excited.
When the soldiers on the city wall saw the retreat of the Jiangdong army, they were overjoyed and laughed loudly. The end of the war meant that they could return to their hometown that they had not been to for a year. They could reunite with their wives, children, and parents, and have a good rest for a while.
The top of the city was happy, but the bottom was sad. Countless soldiers of River East cried as they boarded the navy's ships and went down the river. With regret and unwillingness, they brought Zhou Yu's heroic soul back to Wu County.
Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, and Liu Chan stood at the dock. Cheng Pu and the other Jiangdong generals stopped. Cheng Pu said,""Xuande, there is no need to send me off. Please go back.”
Liu Bei looked worried and sighed,""Demou, is Marquis Wu giving up just like that?”
Sun Quan inherited Sun Ce's title and was appointed General of Rebel and Marquis of Wu.
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