The decisive battle in Xiangyang was fought from the water.

The Jiangxia Navy and the Jingping Second Army fought to the death on the Hanshui River.

The strength of Jingping's Second Army was insufficient.

Whether it is the size of the warship, or the strength of the warship, or the tactics of water warfare, it is not a little worse than the Jiangxia Navy, but at least one grade.

Therefore, Jingping's second army won fewer and lost more.

For most of the past half a month, more than 1,000 soldiers have been lost, and less than half of the warships have left.

But even so, on the bright side, it can be regarded as a life-and-death situation with the Jiangxia Naval Army, at least flattening the battle situation on the river, and avoiding the possibility of being opened by the Jingzhou Army from the river in the war.

It's just that this doesn't satisfy Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao stood on top of a fighting ship, looking into the distance, looking at the calm river in front of him, with a touch of gloom on his face, just yesterday, he lost two soybean milk, thirteen ships, and hundreds of soldiers on this battlefield.

It was the biggest casualty of these days.

"Why didn't the scout ship discover the Hunjiang Trail?"

He asked coldly.

The reason for the defeat was not that he couldn't fight, but that he lost on the terrain, and he didn't expect that a force would be killed on the small waterway next to him, but the defeat was like a mountain.

"General Zhonglang, our scout ship has done its best, but here in the waterway, I am indeed not as familiar as the people of Jingzhou!"

Jun Sima Hou Cong said with a wry smile.

"That's not the reason!"

"General Zhonglang, I am responsible for this matter, and I am willing to accept the guilt!" Zhang Shi pleaded guilty.

"What's the use of asking for sin!"

Zhang Liao said coldly: "What I want is to make amends, Zhang Shi, from now on, you will personally serve as the captain of the scout battalion, and order all the scout ships to reorganize the waterways around here, know yourself and the enemy, and be invincible, I don't want this situation to happen again!" ”

"No!"

Zhang Shi received the order.

"General Zhonglang, our battle damage is too serious, the warship has not been in the line of fire for half a month, and the high-load operation will not last long, so it is better to withdraw from this area of water first!" Hou Cong suggested.

"No way!"

Zhang Liao shook his head: "Beiyue Bay is a rare bay mouth on the Han River, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if you give up this waterway, it is equivalent to giving up the initiative on the Han River, this time we will make the unfavorable battle situation even more unfavorable, we can send reinforcements to attack, but we must defend here!" ”

"I'm afraid that someone won't let us guard!"

Hou Cong said: "If the Jiangxia Navy pulls up the main force of Tanxi, we will definitely not be able to hold it!" ”

"If you can't hold it, you have to defend it!"

Zhang Liao said: "After so many battles, I know that my navy is not as good as them, but if you want to defeat us, they can't do it, we go out wide, and have a firm will to fight, I don't believe it, he Huang Zu is willing to consume all his main forces here!" ”

He is always a novice in water warfare.

I've been fighting with Huang Zu for so long.

He gradually got the hang of some water warfare.

He was naturally unwilling to give up the battlefield like this.

Moreover, Mu Jing has already given him the authority to fight the war, and he has also given him the power to do everything he can, so this battle, no matter what, he can't withdraw it.

"I'll go to Xishan to see the lord and report the news of the past few days!"

Zhang Liao stood up and said: "Hou Sima, please keep an eye on the affairs of the big camp, although this water village is temporarily built, but no matter what, you must not give up!" ”

"Understood!" Hou Cong nodded.

………………………………………………

In the afternoon, Xishan.

Pastoral army in the battalion.

Mu Jing knelt on the top seat, listening to Zhang Liao's report, and by the way, he flipped through the battlefield records of these battles, and in each battle, there were scribes who accounted for the battlefield records, who were responsible for recording the real-time battle situation and also responsible for evaluating the merits.

"There was a bit of progress before, but it was the battle of the past few days, as if you were seen through by others!" Mu Jing said.

"That's true!"

Zhang Liao said: "After all, my methods in water warfare are too simple, and Huang Zu has figured it out, so I have suffered a lot of losses in the past few days!" ”

"Huang Zu is a person, you can't underestimate it!"

Mu Jing instructed.

"Don't worry, my lord, I will pay more attention to this person in the future!" Zhang Liao squinted: "He's looking for my flaws, and I'm also looking for his flaws!" ”

"I don't ask much of you on the water!"

Mu Jing smiled and soothed Zhang Liao's mood: "As long as it is stable, I never thought that I could fight them to the death on the water, and hit their strengths with their shortcomings, this is not a point!" ”

"The last general understands!"

Zhang Liao nodded.

He didn't expect to be able to compete with the Jiangxia Navy on the water, after all, the strength of the Jingping Navy was too low, and this was an asymmetrical duel.

"Lord, the news from the north is urgent!"

Jingwu Si's Jingzhou Flag Envoy walked in and handed him the secret letter in his hand.

"Got it!"

Mu Jing directly opened the secret letter.

His pupils instantly condensed, and his expression changed slightly.

"Lord, what's wrong?" Chen Gong and Zhang Liao both noticed Mu Jing's expression.

"The conjecture has become a fact!"

Mu Jing handed the secret letter in his hand to the two of them.

"What an emperor!"

Chen Gong and Zhang Liao looked at the secret letter and couldn't help but gasp.

The news said that on May 19, Huangfu Song led the Guanzhong army to capture three cities in Yingchuan County in one day.

Just when everyone thought that the Guanzhong army would fight Yuzhou with the Yuan army.

On May 22, Huangfu Song led the main force of Guanzhong to Wancheng in the south, ran for a long time, defeated Lei Bo's army in a battle, and captured Wancheng on May 24.

Within five days, first descend the three cities of Yingchuan, and then raid Wancheng.

This soldier made everyone confused.

"Yingchuan is an introduction, he wants Nanyang!" Chen Gong said.

"Hmm!"

Zhang Liao also nodded, and then a hint of admiration appeared on his expression: "But his strategic deployment, everyone is not aware of it, even if we have guessed before, he intends to go south, when he attacks Yingchuan, he will give up his guess, but I didn't expect that his troops are as fast as lightning, and the courage is extraordinary, leading the main force to go deep alone, not breaking a city, straight into Wancheng, Lei Bo's main force is approaching Nanxiang, but it has become his opportunity, Wancheng in one fell swoop, Wancheng as soon as it is taken, Nanyang is at his fingertips, In the territory of Nanyang, there is no main force that can be compared with his Guanzhong army! ”

"A certain family has never underestimated Huangfu Song, but now a certain person has found that a certain person still does not pay enough attention to this person, this person is on the battlefield, there are ghosts and gods, and with the ability to command the army, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the contemporary Marquis of Huaiyin!"

Mu Jing sighed softly.

Huangfu Song did not leave much of a name in history, so Mu Jing has always been a little contemptuous of this person, even if it was in their hands at the beginning, they only thought that they were down, if the strength was symmetrical, they could fight.

But now he can feel that Huangfu Song is definitely an undefeated god of war on the battlefield.

If you want to deal with him, I'm afraid you can only find a way from outside the battlefield.

"Lord, what should Nanxiang do?"

Chen Gong asked.

"Give up!"

Mu Jing said in a deep voice: "We have no second way!" ”

Now the three armies are preparing for a showdown with Xiangyang.

He simply did not have the ability to go north.

It is only strange that Huangfu Song picked a good time, if it was earlier, he would still be in the mood to go north to fight, and now, he will definitely not give up Xiangyang and go north.

"Lord, Yiling news!"

It was another voice outside the camp.

Things all rushed together, first the news came back from the north, and then a quick herald crossed hundreds of miles of territory and brought back the news of Yiling at the same time.

Mu Jing didn't say a word, just opened it and looked at it.

"Good guys!"

Some of the depressed mood in Mu Jing's heart was soothed slightly: "Yiling is broken!" ”

"Yiling is broken?"

Chen Gong and Zhang Liao glanced at each other, hurriedly cleaned up the bad news from Nanyang, picked up the news from Yiling and looked at it.

On the evening of May 22, that is, the night before.

The Yizhou army sent troops to attack Yiling.

First attack Yidao, then attack Yiling Wharf, and then start to attack the city, one attack feint, two attack feints, the third 100,000 troops poured out, three hours in a row, at noon on May 23, broke through the city.

In fact, this battle did not consume too much of Jingzhou's main force.

In particular, the Jingzhou Navy was not injured at all.

So it's not a big win.

But the defense line of the Jingzhou army was torn apart.

After Yiling City was breached, Cai Mao also made a decision immediately, knowing that the Yiling defense line would collapse completely, and immediately gave up Yidao, Yiting, Maicheng, all the defensive cities, and the whole army retreated to Jingzhou City.

Zhang Yun of Jingzhou City sent troops to respond, so he saved a lot of vitality.