Chapter 498 Visiting Wuling in Person

"Is this really Lu Xun? Why did this ten thousand-year-old bastard take the initiative today?"

Seeing the battle report passed to Xiang Chong, Ma Su was a little stunned for a moment.

In my impression, Lu Xun has always been a cautious and defensive person who would not take the initiative to fight if he could. Especially when he was in Jiangling before, he captured Xu Sheng's son alive in front of the generals of Soochow, and even stabbed him and sent him back, so Lu Xun could not hold back from fighting.

This kind of performance, the overall image should be more like meeting the Prime Minister Sima Xuan Wang, who is like a tortoise that has shrunk for thousands of years. But today Lu Xun suddenly changed his mind. Instead of shrinking back, he took the initiative?

This is like Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang confronting each other in Guanzhong, and then Sima's senior official came to the prime minister to fight.

"It seems that Soochow has figured out that we plan to attack Wu and plan to strike first." Compared to Ma Su, Li Mu could see more clearly. He squinted his eyes and analyzed calmly.

"Strike first? Just them?"

"Yes, I guess Lu Xun is even prepared to return with a big defeat in this battle." Li Mu shrugged, seeing that Ma Di was still curious, so he explained patiently.

"My Han Dynasty has gone through the Northern Expedition for eight years, and now it will take another three years to move the capital. The entire Han Dynasty is in urgent need of recuperation from top to bottom, and it is impossible to sustain a large-scale war in a short period of time."

"In contrast, although Soochow has also been opening up borders one after another in the past few years, they have almost never won. But with Jingyang's richness, even at this point, they still have enough food."

"So in this case, Soochow has little need for recuperation. Therefore, Lu Xun most likely wants to disturb our recuperation and force us to send troops to resist by sending troops to invade."

Now the entire Yizhou is implementing tax reduction and exemption laws, and the war mobilization force has been reduced to a certain extent. The remaining taxes have been given priority to the capital relocation project and Guanzhong, and not many resources can be used to fight the war in a short period of time.

At this time, Soochow suddenly invaded, and it was almost stuck when Ji-Han's war mobilization ability was at its weakest.

Moreover, according to Xiang Chong's report, Soochow's troops were directed towards Yi Dao this time, and they were likely to break through the Yangtze River Pass and take advantage of the opportunity to enter Shu.

Such a plan seemed to Lu Xun to be based on the overall situation, but to Ma Su it was completely cerebral thrombosis.

"What does Lu Xun want to do? With just a few people like him, how many people do I need to use?" Ma Di scratched his head, somewhat unbelievable that Lu Xun would be so brave.

Although there is no problem with this strategy, with the combat power of Soochow, how much energy can the Han army be involved in? He didn't even need anything else. He, Ma Su, personally brought two to three thousand people to the front line, which was basically safe.

"Since Sun Boyan is so brave, I naturally have to risk my life to accompany the gentleman!" Ma Su nodded slightly and made a decision quickly after pondering for a while.

Lu Xun had already adopted this attitude. It would be rude if he didn't go.

What's more, Ma Su has been overwhelmed by the affairs of Yizhou for a long time. He has been thinking about where there is a war from morning to night. Lu Xun took the initiative to come to the door at this time, as if he was specially here to solve Ma Su's problems.

Is there any reason not to go away?

"Shijun, you're not going to leave all the work in Yizhou to me again, are you?" Seeing Ma Su making such a straightforward decision, Li Mu quickly had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, he saw Ma Su turning to look at him, with a kind smile on his face.

"Ziwen, you have a bright future. You are the material to be a minister. But unfortunately, your qualifications are still young and you still need more experience. Otherwise, I'm afraid you won't be able to become a minister."

"But after all, you and I are friends. This time, I will give you such an important opportunity to experience Yizhou Mu!"

"Do a good job, I'm very optimistic about you!"

After saying that, Ma Su patted Li Mu on the shoulder, turned around and left. Li Mu was left alone and messy in the wind,

"Your Majesty! You are really not a human being!"

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Thanks to Lu Xun, after serving as Yizhou Shepherd for three months, Ma Su finally got rid of zero and seven blessings. After harvesting a wave of people in Yizhou, he immediately became a hands-off shopkeeper.

After leaving all the affairs of Yizhou to Li Mu, Ma Su went straight to Yong'an in the resentful eyes of his old partner.

Ma Su did not plan to dispatch a large army this time, but only planned to dispatch Yong'an's new naval forces and some local government troops recruited from Bazhong. After all, Yizhou is indeed exhausted. Even if Ma Su wants to send out a large army, Shu will not be able to support it.

But one thing is that Lu Xun's choice of this time also helped Ma Su a lot. It happened to be the slack season in November. After Ma Su arrived in Bazhong, he could immediately recruit the soldiers for military service.

After arriving in Yong'an, we had three thousand soldiers in less than ten days. Then Ma Su pulled up Guan Xing, who had just prepared the Han navy navy, and joined forces to rush to support Xiang Chong.

At this moment, Guan Xing had just prepared the naval army for less than two months. Guan Xing was worried when he was recruited by Ma Su. Only after Ma Su's strong request did he cautiously agree to join the expedition.

Both sides combined a force of 6,000 troops and came eastward along the Yangtze River waterway. In just a few days, Ma Di arrived at the Yiling line.

At this time, the Yi Dao front line was in the midst of fierce fighting.

Lu Xun had a clear goal this time, which was to fight a tough battle. Under his deployment, tens of thousands of Wu troops divided into two groups to invade the Han territory.

Commanded by Ding Feng, the army set out from the public security bureau and headed south. The army went straight to Linyuan, the headquarters of Wuling. The other route was led by Lu Xun himself, advancing from the Jiangling Waterway, with the troops directed towards Yidao City.

After Xiang Chong received the news, he quickly gathered all the naval forces behind Yidao. Passing through the two passes of Xie Dongcheng and Yidaocheng, they tightly guarded the river surface.

There is no way, Ji Han's navy has invested too few resources so far. Xiang Chong had been in charge of Jingnan for several years, and he didn't even have a building or ship in his hands, so he could only let the Soochow navy provoke him.

After Lu Xun's army arrived at Yidao City, the army quickly set up camp. After a short rest for two days, Wu Jun launched a fierce offensive.

It was the first time Xiang Chong saw Soochow's decisive offensive, and he was caught off guard. Fortunately, Soochow La Kua's combat power gave Xiang Chong time to react, giving him the opportunity to adjust his deployment and re-stabilize the battle line.

After two days of fighting, the two sides soon reached a stalemate. On the other side, Ding Feng also led Dongwu soldiers and horses to invade Wuling and started fighting with the Wuling Han army.

Overall, Lu Xun's first phase of the offensive went very smoothly. When Xishu was poorly prepared, he basically opened up the situation.

But his success ended there, because at this time, Ma Di finally arrived at the Yidao front line.