After the victory of Dongxing, Taifu Zhuge Ke was rewarded by Sun Liang, the lord of Wu, and entered Zhuge Ke as the Marquis of Yangdu, and added the title of Prime Minister, Jing, Yangzhou Mu, supervised the Chinese and foreign military, and gave 100 catties of gold, 200 horses, and 10,000 pieces of cloth.

This Dongxing victory is another brilliant victory of Wu since the Battle of Shiting, Wu people look forward to this victory, has been waiting for twenty-five years, these twenty-five years, Wu has fought with Wei many times, repeatedly defeated, so that Sun Quan is regretful.

It's just that what everyone didn't expect was that Sun Quan had just died, Zhuge Ke won a big victory in Dongxing, beheading more than 20,000 levels, what made Zhuge Ke happiest was that he killed the rebel general Han Zong, and finally corrected the law on the spot who Sun Quan still remembered until he died, which is probably the best way to sacrifice Sun Quan.

This victory also made Zhuge Ke's prestige reach its peak, originally there were still some people in the Eastern Wu Dynasty who were not satisfied with Zhuge Ke, after this battle, admired the five-body throw, and there was no doubt in the court.

It is no wonder that the people of Dongwu have been waiting for this victory for too long, and after the news of the victory came back to Jianye, the people were completely boiling, singing and dancing to celebrate the victory, and at the same time, they also praised Zhuge Ke for his merits and praises.

After a lot of praise, Zhuge Ke will inevitably become fluttering, and he will not be as cautious as he was before when he treats the Wei army, and gradually underestimate the enemy, thinking that the Wei army is nothing more than Erer, and he can defeat them once and defeat them twice.

Therefore, after the victory in Dongxing, Zhuge Ke stayed in Dongxing and did not return to Jianye, and has been raising troops and horses here, actively preparing for war, and preparing to launch a counteroffensive against Wei.

Zhuge Ke's intention to go on the expedition was opposed by the ministers, who believed that they had just experienced a big war, the national strength was not strong, and the soldiers were tired, so they should rest and recuperate, and should not use swords and soldiers, so they wrote to dissuade Zhuge Ke.

Zhuge Ke was already preparing to cut Wei with one mind at this time, how could he still listen to the advice of others, he specially wrote an article to tell everyone, the article said that there are no two days, the people have no two masters, do not take advantage of this time to cut Wei, will leave a long-term regret.

Danyang Taishou Nie You and Zhuge Ke have always had a relationship, and wrote a letter to dissuade him, Zhuge Ke sent the article he wrote to Nie You, and inscribed on the back: "Although what you said is also reasonable, but you don't see the long-term overall situation, take a closer look at my article, and you will understand." ”

At this moment, Zhuge Ke's self-righteous character is undoubtedly revealed, coupled with the fact that he, as the first auxiliary minister, has monopoly power and insists on going his own way, and there is no one in the entire Eastern Wu who can stop him.

By March, Zhuge Ke had raised an army of 200,000, but it was only claimed to be 200,000, in fact, the troops of the Eastern Wu country were only more than 200,000, if Zhuge Ke was all transferred to conquer Huainan, then the other fortresses would not be empty, so among the 200,000 people, nearly half of them were people, and the real combat effectiveness was only 80,000 or 90,000 people.

Zhuge Ke claimed to be 200,000 to the outside world, mainly to scare the defenders of Huainan of Wei, after the battle of Dongxing, the Wei army suffered heavy losses, Huainan army's heart was floating, morale was low, if Wu attacked at this time, just in momentum, it could overwhelm the Wei army.

At the beginning of May, Zhuge Ke swore an oath in Dongxing and officially sent troops to attack the Wei State.

After Zhuge heard the news, he did not dare to respond to the battle easily, and ordered the troops from all over the country to stick to the cities and fortresses everywhere, and then urgently reported to Luoyang for help.

After the defeat of Dongxing, the strength of the Huainan army suffered a great loss, and when Sima Zhao returned to Beijing, he took away the Chinese army, so the defensive strength of Huainan was not as good as before, and it was difficult to recover in a short time.

After Zhuge Ke sent troops, he wanted to go to all parts of Huainan to drive the people to show off his strength, and the general Ding Feng advised: "The master led the troops deep into Wei, but I am afraid that the people will all flee, and our army will work in vain, so it is better to stop and besiege the new city, the new city is the important place in Huainan, if the new city is besieged, Zhuge Dan will inevitably send troops to rescue, and the Taifu will send troops to attack it halfway, and it will be a complete victory." ”

Ding Feng's plan is the most typical plan to besiege the city and send reinforcements, Zhuge Ke heard it, thought it was good, so he led his troops to attack Xincheng, surrounded Xincheng, and launched a large-scale siege, on the other hand, the main force was deployed north of Xincheng, ready to ambush reinforcements from Shouchun.

The defender of the new city was Zhang Te, the general of the Yamen, who was ordered by Zhuge Dan to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to garrison the new city to resist the Wu army.

Hefei New City was built by Man Pet when he served as the general of Yangzhou Governor Zhengdong, at that time Man Pet thought that the advantage of the Wu army was in the water army, and the old city was too close to Chaohu Lake, and the Wu army could launch an attack after landing on the shore, and the new city was more than 30 miles away from Chaohu Lake, and the Wu army had to walk another 30 miles after going ashore, and the advantage of the water army was greatly reduced, and the supply difficulties would also increase.

The Wei army can go straight to Shouchun along the Wabu water system, which is convenient for water transportation and is conducive to improving combat effectiveness.

Later, Wu launched two attacks on Xincheng in an attempt to destroy the newly built fortress of Wei, but as Man Zhong expected, Xincheng had a geographical advantage, and Wu's army repeatedly attacked, and finally could only return with a feather.

Don't look at the new city only 3,000 defenders, but the city is strong, the defense facilities are complete, heavy equipment such as bed crossbows, trebuchets are readily available, and the siege has always been the weakness of the Wu army, so Zhuge Ke surrounded the siege for more than a month, and never conquered the new city.

In fact, Ding Feng also knew the difficulty of attacking the new city, so the most important thing in this proposal was to send reinforcements, and the siege of the city was just to induce the defenders of Shouchun to come for reinforcements.

But Zhuge Dan ignored the siege of Xincheng, and did not send reinforcements at all, making it clear that he was leaving the defenders of Xincheng to fend for themselves.

Now Zhuge Ke is a little difficult to ride a tiger, he besieged Xincheng with an army of 200,000, and the defenders only had 3,000 people, but he couldn't help it, and his face was really a little unbearable.

At this time, the voice of Dongwu demanding the withdrawal of troops rose again, thinking that he could simply withdraw his troops if he couldn't take Xincheng, but Zhuge Ke thought that withdrawing troops at this time would be fruitless, wouldn't it make everyone in the world laugh at him, so he decided that if he couldn't take Xincheng, he would never withdraw his troops.

Zhuge Ke gave a death order to the troops on the front line, asking them to launch a strong attack at all costs, and be sure to take Hefei New City.