Yiling City.

In the city, the county government mansion.

Backyard.

Cai Mao was awakened by a sudden sound of footsteps, he sat up, put on a robe, opened the door, walked up the corridor, looked up at the sky, and asked, "What time is it?" ”

"Zi Shi!"

A long attendant outside the door replied.

"Child?"

Cai Mao squinted: "What happened?" ”

"Report to the Metropolitan Governor, Yidao is in a hurry!" The footsteps were made by the heralds, who came in a hurry, so they stepped very hard, and some of the planks were stepped on loudly.

"Yidao?"

Cai Mao's pupils opened suddenly, and a sharp light burst out from his eyes, and he shouted: "Come on, change clothes, put on armor!" ”

"No!"

The two attendants immediately changed his clothes and put on his armor.

He hurried to the main hall of the front hall.

The main hall is brightly lit.

The captains of the Jingzhou Army have already gathered.

Jingzhou has as many as 30,000 soldiers and horses in the Yiling defense line, not counting Zhang Yun's troops in Jingzhou City.

Zhang Yunbu recruited tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang counties, and stationed them in Jingzhou City, which was to do the final integration training.

"What's going on on the road?"

Cai Mao knelt on top of the head, his face was tense, and he asked coldly.

"Report to the Metropolitan Governor, Yidao is in the south of the river bank, the situation is not very clear now, and the wind and waves on the river are very urgent tonight, it is not easy for our warships, unless a large fighting ship is dispatched!" An adjutant general replied: "Now that we know the situation, Yidao has been besieged!" ”

"Attack Yidao at this time?"

A middle-aged scribe beside Cai Mao said in a low voice: "Governor, be careful of the Yizhou army's old tricks!" ”

"Boan, you mean that their goal is not to destroy the road, but to have other plans!"

Cai Mao frowned slightly.

The Yizhou Army had already done such a thing once before.

They attacked Yiling, but detoured to Yishan, directly attacked Yiting, if it wasn't for his adequate preparation in advance, in Maicheng to deploy troops, Yiting would definitely be lost, once Yiting was lost, Yiling defense line would have lost its back.

The entire line of defense will crumble.

"Dadu Governor, they don't have enough warships, attacking Yidao, even if they take it, if they want to cross the river, it will take time!"

The middle-aged scribe is named Li Qi, the word Bo'an, is a well-known Confucian in Jingzhou Shilin, under the command of Liu Biao, he is valued by Liu Biao, and he is a strategist, but as a poor family, he has always been not very harmonious with Cai Mao Kuailiang, but now in Jingzhou, they are facing foreign enemies, and their position is the same, so they will let Liu Biao send to assist Cai Mao.

"Attacking Yidao is not simple, it will inevitably cause them heavy casualties!"

Li Jue carefully analyzed and said: "They have made such a big noise, most of them are to attract our attention and have other plans!" ”

"But what if they just want to take down Yidao?"

Someone retorted: "Yidao is our only stronghold on the south bank, and without Yidao, our warships will not be able to dock from the south bank, but can only press on the north bank, which will also force us to tear apart our own defense line step by step!" ”

"Now who can tell me what the hell is going on in Yidao?"

Cai Mao patted the stage and said coldly.

Having said all this, he still didn't know the situation of Yidao.

"Report!"

A herald rushed in outside and bowed his head: "Report to the Governor, Yidao is in an emergency for the second time, and Captain Cai Song pleads for reinforcements!" ”

"Cai Song asked for help?"

Cai Mao's eyes widened: "Then you can't ignore it!" ”

He was able to sit still before, it was because Cai Song did not ask for help, Cai Song was his nephew, he was the leader of the young people of the Cai family, and he did things calmly, and he would not ask for reinforcements unless necessary.

"Luo Min!"

"In!"

A big general stepped forward.

"Order your troops, immediately cross the river and reinforce Yidao!"

"Yes!"

Luo Min controls a fleet, with more than ten fighting ships, more than 30 ships, and thousands of soldiers, and is one of the main forces of the Jingzhou Navy.

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on the river.

"General, they're moving!"

The scout reported: "A lot of warships were dispatched, and they went in the southeast direction, and they were going to Yidao!" ”

"It seems that Yidao has already started fighting, and we will fight too!"

Zhang Ren did not doubt Xi Zhicai's strategic deployment at all, of course, he would still doubt Xi Zhicai's mind, but now, nothing is more important than breaking through Yiling: "Pass my military order, all warships will go down with the wind, and the battle will be resolved quickly!" ”

"No!"

The ships of the various divisions were moving.

This night, the northeast wind.

The wind is blowing towards the north shore.

On the north bank, on the bank of the river only five miles from Yiling City, the most powerful main force of the Jingzhou Army is moored, which is the water village of the Jingzhou Water Army, and the water village company camp.

The water village is very strong, relying on the wharf, half water, half land, both sides of the defense, nearly 10,000 soldiers stationed, one by one warships moored, led by a huge warship is a building ship.

Huhuhu!!!

On the surface of the river opposite the water village, a group of flames suddenly appeared.

"Enemy attack!"

"Alert!"

"Hurry up the bar!"

"Archers, stop the enemy ships on the rivers and mountains!"

The whole water village quickly alarmed.

"Hurry!"

Zhang Ren pointed ahead: "Rush in!" ”

"Rush!"

"Kill!"

There are not many warships in the Yizhou army, they are all here, and there are very few troops on the warships one by one, but they have a lot of fire oil, which is a way of fighting that ends together.

"Boom !!!"

One of the warships was loaded into a small water village in a declinted corner.

Ships are like fireballs.

This water village also quickly ignited.

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Yiling County Ya.

"Report to the Governor, Yiling Wharf was attacked, and the Yizhou thieves hit our water village with a fireboat!" The herald quickly returned the message.

"Damn it!"

Cai Mao did not immediately go to reinforcements, he was still very calm, he led a hundred generals to the top of the city, looking at the direction of the river, there was already a raging fire, and some water villages could be seen on fire.

"Governor, the wind is not in the right direction tonight!" A naval captain said: "It doesn't matter if the water village is burned, if it affects our warship, it will be troublesome!" “

"What then?"

Cai Mao's face was gloomy.

"Retreat downstream!"

Li Jue said in a deep voice: "The most powerful of our Jingzhou army is the navy, as long as the rivers are not lost, Yiling is not broken, and the most important thing is to keep our warships, once the warships are damaged, even if we keep our troops and lose our support on the water, we can't hold Yiling!" ”

"Bo'an, you guard Yiling instead of me!"

In his opinion, as long as the navy is kept, then Jingzhou's strength will be kept and will not fail.

He said in a deep voice: "I will personally preside over the water army and withdraw from the wind and fire area!" ”

"Governor Dadu, Yizhou is attacking Yidao and attacking our water village at the same time, obviously coming towards Yiling, are we withdrawing the troops of Yiting and Maicheng a little!"

Someone suggested it.

Yiling's troops are insufficient, because the troops are scattered at several points, as long as the troops of Yiting are pulled up, Yiling will be foolproof.

"No!"

Someone objected: "It's hard to ensure that their Yizhou army is not a false shot, maybe they are just waiting for us to pull our troops back, so that they can take advantage of it, once the Yiting can't hold it, we will lose the rear support!" ”

Cai Mao thought for a while and said: "All parties are stubbornly defending, the troops must not be moved, we can't give them the hearts of the people to be brilliant, so as to respond to all changes with no change!" ”

"No!"

The generals nodded.

Cai Mao went out of the city and personally went to preside over the water army, the water village was sneak attacked, in fact, the casualties were not large, and even the warships were not injured, but the wind direction was wrong tonight, so that the Yizhou army attacked like this, but the water village became a raging fire.

Cai Mao had no choice but to personally lead the navy, drive the warship, break away from the water village, and pull a distance in the direction of the downstream to prevent being involved in the fire, causing damage to their warship.

But when this distance also widened the distance between Cai Mao and Yiling City, he couldn't control Ruyi's situation in Yiling City.

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On the mountain.

Liu Yan was watching the battle, and the red dots that appeared in the distance made his spirits particularly uplifted.

"Yidao has moved!"

"Yiling Water Village has also begun!"

He said faintly: "At this time, I'm afraid the Jingzhou army is a little panicked!" ”

"Sima, then why don't we make the play more realistic!" Huang Quan said suspiciously: "At this time, we sent a bunch of partial divisions to attack the Yiting, wouldn't it be better to cover our intentions?" ”

"It's too much!"

Xi Zhicai said indifferently: "Don't treat the people in Jingzhou as stupid, they will also guess our strategic intentions, if we do everything too smoothly, it will not be beautiful, at this time, the pavilion does not move, it is their biggest fear!" ”

"Got it!"

Zhao Wei's pupils flickered, and he said softly: "Xi Sima has a very delicate grasp of people's hearts, if we don't move the Pavilion, the more they think that our goal is the Pavilion, even if they attack Yiling, they also think that it is a feint, true or ......false, true or false."

When everyone heard this, they looked at Xi Zhicai's eyes with a touch of horror.

This man is too shrewd.

"Xi Sima deserves to be the most important military strategic talent!" Liu Yan laughed and said, "When are we going to move?" ”

"Wait!"

Xi Zhicai said in a deep voice: "Before dawn! ”

When the day is about to dawn, people will think that the darkness is over, but in fact, this is the darkest time.

"But now you can make a feint to attack Yiling!"

Xi Zhicai said.

"I'll go!"

A general stood up and arched his hand.

He is Pang Xi.

Pang Xi looked at Xi Zhicai's eyes with a knife, when Xi Zhicai went north and held him hostage, he didn't forget it, if it weren't for the same position now, he would have done it to Xi Zhicai a long time ago.

He didn't like the man.

But Liu Yan can trust this person's ability, and he won't say anything.

Pang Xi's main force was originally guarding the Sword Pavilion.

It is Hanzhong who is on guard.

But Hanzhong almost poured out, and there was nothing to guard against, so his main army was also dispatched to the Jingzhou battlefield.

In this battle, Liu Yan can be said to have poured out of the nest, in order to draw Jingzhou in one battle, thus making a name for himself, sitting on the territory of Jingzhou and Yizhou, and pushing his prestige to the highest.

"Good!"

Liu Yan nodded: "General Pang, remember, it's just a feint!" “

"No!"

Xi Zhicai shook his head: "General Pang, you must attack with all your strength, and you can't spare the slightest hand!" ”

"Why?"

"Because it's too fake, people will see through it!" Xi Zhicai said: "In this battle, you will fight as hard as you want, regardless of casualties, but the attack is divided into two stages, the first attack, you lead 10,000 soldiers, fight for half an hour, and then withdraw, half an hour later, you launch a second attack, lead an army of 20,000, attack for half an hour, according to the time, this battle is fought, it is almost dawn!" ”

"Do as he says!" Liu Yan said.

"No!"

Pang Xi obeyed.

He led 10,000 soldiers from Yishan, went straight to the northern suburbs of Yiling, rested for half an hour, and directly attacked the northern city of Yiling.

"Kill!"

"Attack!"

"Charge!"

"Sons, go up the ladder!"

"Archer, cover!"

Pang Xinai is a great general in Yizhou, with extraordinary ability, rigorous management of the army, and can be entrusted with important tasks by Liu Yan to defend the northern border, with his own ability, his soldiers, and a bloody attack from the beginning.

"Smash them down!"

"Come up and kill one!"

"Never take half a step back!"

The defense of Yiling is also strong, but there are 8,000 elite Jingzhou troops in the city, fighting a defensive battle, even if tens of thousands of troops attack, they can hold it.

"Lord Li, do you need to inform the Metropolitan Governor and let them lead the army back to help?"

At the head of the city, looking at the attack under the city, a captain asked.

"No!"

Li Jue looked at the city, shook his head, and said: "They are simply a feint, it must be to cover their intentions, their goal is definitely not here, you go and tell the Metropolitan Governor, be careful of the Pavilion!" ”

The attack under the city seems to be as fierce as a tiger, but the strength is only 10,000, this is not a feint, what is it.

It's just to attract his attention and let him send troops back to help.

At that time, the strength of the pavilion was empty, so it was natural to attack it.

"Withdraw!"

Half an hour after the attack, Pang Xi withdrew his troops.

In just half an hour, he suffered more than 500 casualties, which shows the ferocity of the attack.

"Withdrawn?"

Li Qi at the head of the city sneered.

Half an hour later, Pang Xi once again waved his troops to attack, this time he doubled his troops, and 20,000 soldiers pressed on.

"Don't give up!"

The corners of Li Qi's mouth raised slightly, and he thought that he had seen through the plot of the Yizhou army: "If you want to force me to withdraw the main force, I don't want it!" ”

Half an hour later, Pang Xi withdrew his troops for the second time.

At this time, it was already past the ugly hour, and it was less than an hour before dawn.

After the war, Yiling City was somewhat quiet.

On the Yi Mountain, it moved quietly.

"Scouts from all sides, have you found Jingzhou soldiers and horses to reinforce Yiling?" Xi Zhicai is very cautious about every step of the strategy, and before finally attacking, he has to confirm a fact.

"Didn't find it in the south!"

"I didn't find it in the east!"

Two waves of scouts answered.

"Lord Envoy, it's time to attack with all your might!"

Xi Zhicai gave up his hand and said: "Can you break the tomb and fight here!" ”

"Where are you?"

"The end will be here!"

The generals bowed their heads.

"Attack!"

Liu Yan pointed to Yiling City in front of him, shouted, and said.

"Kill!"

The 100,000 soldiers of Yishanzang, like a awakened lion, suddenly burst out, and a queue of soldiers and horses stepped on heavy steps, from the west, north, and east, quickly surrounded Yiling......