After receiving the order, Lu Kang immediately deployed his army and sent the generals Zuo Yi, Wu Yan, Cai Gong and others to lead the army to Xiling. After the Wu army surrounded Xiling, Lu Kang did not rush to attack the city, but let everyone build camps and high walls outside Xiling, besiege Xiling internally, and use it externally to resist the Jin army.
Many generals did not understand this practice of land resistance, and they proposed one after another, saying that now that our troops are strong and strong, as long as we step up our offensive steps, before the reinforcements of the Jin State arrived, Xiling had already been conquered, so why build so many walls, soldiers and people are tired, and there is no use!
Lu Kang patiently explained to everyone that this city, the terrain is dangerous to be strong, the bujia has been operating here for many years, the grain and grass in the city are sufficient and the people are obedient, and there is a point, the fortifications here are all designed and arranged by me, and its firmness I know very well, but I did not expect to attack here today. Today, even if we attack with all our might, we will not be able to conquer it for a while and a half, and if we delay until the arrival of the Jin army, at that time we have not yet done a good job of prevention, and we will be caught between them inside and outside, and there will be great trouble.
Listening to Lu Kang's explanation, everyone was no longer able to oppose the construction of the wall, but everyone was still a little skeptical about the fortification of the city in front of them, so the generals asked for an attack. At first, Lu Kang resolutely refused everyone's request, but then there was a Yidu who was too defensive of Lei Tan, who was very resilient in his request, and Lu Kang also agreed to let them attack once in order to convince everyone. Sure enough, as lu kang expected, this attack had no effect at all, and everyone no longer fought for it, and the construction of the defensive wall was also completed in a timely manner.
At this time, Lu Kang, sitting in Lexiang, was planning to rush to the Xiling front to supervise the battle. I heard that the General of the Jin Dynasty, Yang Hu, led an army of 50,000 to attack Jiangling, which was the core of Jingzhou, and everyone thought that Lu Kang should go to Jiangling to rescue, not to Xiling.
Lu Kang also gave you an analysis and explanation, Jiangling City is the center of my Wu kingdom, where the city is strong and has sufficient troops, it is not so easy to be attacked, take ten thousand steps back, even if Jiangling is attacked, the Jin people can not defend, so no matter what, our losses will not be too big. Xiling is different, if the connection between Xiling and the Jin State is opened, then the ethnic minorities around Nanshan will cause riots, which is an internal problem, and the possible consequences are not something we can imagine, so I would rather give up Jiangling to support Xiling.
To say that this land resistance is really powerful, although people have gone to Xiling, he is not worried about the affairs of Jiangling at all. In the past, the terrain in Gangneung was flat and wide, and the roads were very smooth, so lu kang let The Governor of Jiangling, Zhang Xian, build a promotion downstream and flood the road with water to block the enemy's footsteps to Xiling. But Yang Hu of the Jin Dynasty was also a master, and he judged the situation and wanted to use the river in front of him to transport grain and grass to Jiangling in a large boat, and also threatened to destroy the embankment and then rescue Bu Xiang.
After Lu Kang received the news, he made a decisive judgment and ordered Zhang Xian to immediately destroy the embankment to block the jin army's water transportation grain route. Many people did not understand it again, and they advised Lu Kang not to use the strategy of Zhongyang Hu, but Lu Kang still insisted on his own opinion. When the Yanghu army arrived, it found that the embankment had been destroyed, so it had to use vehicles to transport grain and grass, which was certainly not a good boat, so the Yanghu army was delayed here for a long time.
By November, Yang Zhao's army had arrived at Xiling, and Xu Yin's water army had also arrived in Jianping. Lu Kang ordered Zhang Xian to hold jiangling city firmly, sent Sun Zun to patrol the south bank of the Yangtze River to prevent Yang Hu's army from moving south, ordered Liu Wei and the general Zhu Huan to intercept Xu Yin's water army descending eastward, and Lu Kang himself led a large army to confront Yang Zhao's army with the built wall.
One day, two generals of the Wu army, Zhu Qiao and Yu Zan, surrendered to the Jin army, which did not seem to be a big problem, but Lu Kang was very alert, Yu Zan stayed in our barracks for a very long time, very familiar with our defensive reality, I have always been worried that the Yi soldiers are not well trained enough, the next time the enemy attacks us, it will definitely start from the place where the Yi soldiers are defending. That night, Lu Kang made a new defensive deployment, replacing the area defended by yibing with good warriors, and the next day, the Jin army launched another attack, and indeed concentrated its forces to attack the original weak point of the Wu army, but this time they encountered trouble, here not only was it not weak enough, the firepower was also unusually fierce, flying arrows and stones fell down like raindrops, and the Jin army suffered heavy losses.
In this way, Yang Zhao attacked outside Xiling City for a month, but there was no progress at all, there was really no way, he chose to withdraw his troops overnight. Lu Kang originally wanted to personally lead the troops to pursue, but he was worried that Bu Xian would go out of the city to attack, so he ordered the drums of war to be beaten tightly and made a look of pursuit, and Yang Zhao's troops were afraid after hearing this, and they fled for their lives in a panic by throwing away their armor. By this time, Lu Kang had sent another light cavalry to pursue, and the Jin army was defeated.
The purpose of the Jin army going south this time was to rescue Xiling, and now that Yang Zhao had run away, Xiling had not been saved, and The armies of Yang Hu and Xu Yin had to retreat. Without the support of the external Jin army, Bu Yan's inner defensive line in Xiling City was loosened, and Lu Kang concentrated all his forces to attack the city, and finally took Xiling, Bu Yan's family was destroyed, and Xiling returned to the hands of wu.