Chapter 187: Baling Night Fire

Talking and laughing, the canopy was in ashes. ---------Northern song dynasty. Su Shi's "Nian Nu Jiao. Chibi Nostalgia

It is said that Chen Long's special forces were elusive, disguised as Huang Zujun's army patrol force, and successfully took over the patrol task of the water army camp shore. The hundreds of soldiers on night duty of the navy slept peacefully in the tents, and no one noticed that a force of nearly 100 men had infiltrated the bottom of the docked warship.

Chen Long left a few soldiers guarding the gate to confuse the enemy, and waited in the dark bottom warehouse for dark to set sail. After closing his eyes and taking a nap, Chen Long's brain was running extraordinarily, thinking about how Liu Biao's troops could suddenly send Zhang Yun's army to attack Changsha downstream, could he have no fear?

Now the rear of Lingling is Jiaozhou, Shixie is already his strong backing, Guiyang and Changsha are in his hands, and Liu Yan of Yizhou used to be his strategic ally, but he and Liu Biao are both Han clan relatives after all, I don't know if it will be the object of Liu Biao's conspiracy?

To the east of Changsha, Chaisang's Jiangdong forces have not yet taken shape, and the warlords in Lujiang and other places are not worth mentioning, and even Huang Zu is unwilling to get involved in the war between himself and Liu Biao, and other small forces should sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. As for Yuan Shu, Cao Cao and others, I am afraid that the enemies of the Central Plains will not be able to take care of them, and Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu are even more imaginary allies.

The more Chen Long thought about it, the more frightened he became, it was indeed very possible for Liu Yan to betray him. First of all, his strength has obviously surpassed Liu Biao, Jingzhou is tightly choking the gateway of the Yangtze River in Yizhou, if he occupies Jingzhou in the future, he will naturally be Liu Yan's henchman; Secondly, his descendants have already controlled Chang'an, and they have choked the gateway of Yizhou to the Central Plains in the north, and at the same time controlled the current Han royal family, who knows that these Han clan relatives will not regard themselves as the number one enemy?

The Yizhou naval army, which has always been training and cruising near the White Emperor City, is likely to go down the river and take over the water defense of Jiangling, or send Yizhou soldiers to Jiangling. In this way, Liu Biao dared to let Zhang Yun's warship go down the Han River with peace of mind, seek to seize Changsha, and sabotage Chen Long's overall strategy.

Thinking of this, Long Chen's heart jumped for a while, if this was really the case, what was waiting for him in Jiangling City would definitely not be tens of thousands of Jiangling defenders in Jingzhou. If you can't know yourself and your opponent, and run to the Jiangling trap with your troops, I'm afraid that what awaits you is the coalition army of more than 100,000 Yizhou and Jingzhou.

If Liu Biao knew that Zhang Yun's troops were moving along the river, Chen Long would guess his cooperation with Liu Yan, and he would definitely regret letting Zhang Yun's army attack. In fact, Liu Biao has been in close contact with Liu Yan since Zhang Lu captured Hanzhong, and Liu Yan was also afraid after seeing that Chen Longjun was super strong, so he agreed to cooperate with Liu Biao.

Chen Long thought in the dark, and couldn't help but be anxious, hoping that Zhou Budo and Guo Jia could see the battlefield situation and not easily gather Huang Zhong's troops and rush to Jiangling before he returned. I also hope that Xi Zhi can explore more and wait and see, and intercept the intelligence of the troops sent by Fuzhou before attacking Gangneung. Alas, I don't know if Zhang Ning and Liu Xian's spy troops in Xiangyang can intercept this important information.

I don't know how long it took, when Chen Long was in a daze, the hull of the ship shook and set sail. The team members instantly became energetic and drew daggers in their hands. Chen Long lifted the bottom warehouse cover to observe, and saw that the upper layer was also dark and could not see, so he ordered his subordinates to wait, only took Lu Chang, personally turned over the first layer of the warehouse, and reconnoitred along the gangway.

After going up a few floors, I finally saw some torch light reflected in the door of the long corridor, and some noise was faintly heard. Chen Long and the others did not dare to slack off, found an empty cabin, climbed up through the open porthole, and showed their heads on the deck to observe. Because the anchor had just been lifted, the sailors on the deck were busy, sailing, pulling ropes, carrying weapons and equipment, and patrolling, it was simply bustling. Chen Long took a closer look and saw that there were about 100 sailors in the navy, and there was another warship not far behind, and the harbor was already full of warships returning from training and patrolling during the day.

The hull of the ship was originally very stable, but suddenly trembled slightly, Chen Long looked left and right, it turned out that he had already left the port and entered the Yangtze River. The two patrol warships parted ways at this time, one went upstream, and the warship where Chen Long was located, raised its sails and went straight downstream.

Chen Long was pleased, first, this ship patrolled alone, and there was no auxiliary boat, which was convenient for robbery; Second, this direction of the ship is convenient for him to grab the boat and go ashore and rush back to Changsha.

Using the cover of darkness, Long Chen returned to the bottom warehouse and arranged all the actions to grab the ship. Although the number of special combat personnel is less than that of the navy army, the special forces have been tempered and tried to find all the people they find or stunned, and finally touched the deck unconsciously.

The busy deck has passed, and many sailors are relaxed around the deck chatting and farting. Chen Long's special forces poured out from the back deck, shouting and waving their iron palms for a while, and in less than five minutes, they knocked over hundreds of Huang Zu sailors to the ground and took control of the front deck in one fell swoop. Chen Long had already led people to control the cockpit, and all the heads of the soldiers were tied up, and he didn't even have time to send out a signal arrow.

Chen Long ordered all the enemy troops to be tied up and locked in the bottom warehouse, and by the way, the whole ship searched, and after confirming that there were no enemy troops on the whole ship, he only brought a soldier of Huang Zujun and led the ship to the opposite bank.

The boat was stable, Chen Long took out a dagger, cut off the rope at the head of the Huang Zu army, and said softly: "You go to the bottom warehouse to release the people." Returning to General Huang Zu, he said that Chen had no choice but to borrow a boat and borrow the road this time, and if he was offended, he would return it in the future. As he spoke, he led the people into the darkness of the shore.

The special combat team members took turns carrying Tang Zhou on their backs, regardless of the terrain, and quickly headed south and rushed to Changsha. Fortunately, they are all men who have been tempered for thousands of years, and no one is left behind, Chen Long also jumped up and down in person, exploring the road, the water system here is developed, and I don't know how many big rivers have been swam, the sky is gradually brightening, and I see a big lake blocking the road in front of me.

The big lake was boundless, and everyone looked around blankly, and finally stared at Long Chen for instructions. Fortunately, Chen Long had a light brain in his brain, and when he called up the map for comparison, he knew that the direction of progress was slightly deviated, and this big lake should be Quanhu near Xianning, an important town in Jiangxia.

Chen Long adjusted the direction and went west along the lake, so that he could reach the vicinity of Xiangshui, and then see if he could rent a civilian boat. However, it would not be good if he ran into Zhang Yun's warship, and Chen Long still wanted to continue to return to Changsha by land.

In this way, he continued to explore, and finally encountered a larger town, Chen Long ordered people to buy a few simple carriages, which could finally hide Tang Zhou, and the soldiers also took turns to guard Tang Zhou and rest. Stop-and-go, the road twists and turns, inevitably changed the ferry several times, and finally in the evening of the next day, arrived near Xiangshui, a inquiry, it turned out that it was not far from the entrance of Dongting Lake Baling.

This land journey was very difficult, and Chen Long once again realized the importance of a strong naval army in Jingzhou, Jiangnan, and Jiangdong, even if it was an army battle, ships were also an indispensable and important means of transportation. Otherwise, you have to die walking, there are rivers, lakes, mountains and rivers everywhere, and the land route is too difficult to walk.

Chen Long didn't know whether Baling was controlled by Huang Zhongjun, so he let everyone sleep and rest, and sent more than 20 people to scatter to find out the news of Baling. In the middle of the night, Hao Pu returned with a few people and reported a bad news, it turned out that the entrance to Dongting Lake in Xiangshui was full of warships, and there was no trace of merchant ships and civilian ships at all.

Chen Long nodded and said, "It turns out that Zhang Yun's troops are assembled in Dongting Lake, which can be regarded as advancing or retreating. But I don't know that Baling City was broken by him? ”

Hao Pu shook his head and said, "In Baling City, it was Zu Lang who led the team to investigate. We observed the waterway, spotted Zhang Yun's army, and quickly returned. ”

Chen Long nodded, and then asked, "How many people and how many boats are there?" Although he asked this, he also knew that Hao Pu's simple shore reconnaissance was in the dark of night, and it was estimated that he could not see how many ships and soldiers there were.

Unexpectedly, Hao Pu replied very simply: "I look at the size of the ship, and the number of people in each ship should be about 1,000 people." The boats were parked neatly along the river, and the number could barely be counted, probably around forty. There are several oversized building ships, I don't know if they are command ships. ”

Chen Long asked, "Aren't there any boats in the lake?" Hao Pu said: "There are strong winds and waves in the lake, and they usually don't anchor directly in the lake, so I guess most of the warships are here." ”

Chen Long muttered: "That Zhang Yun's water army is about 40,000 people. "Thinking about Huang Zhong's troops, it is estimated that the naval army will never be able to compete with Zhang Yun, and can only defend the city.

waited until the second half of the night, and Zu Lang finally came back with the team. Chen Long hurriedly asked, "Zu Lang, whose troops are in the city?" ”

Zu Lang said: "Baling City is heavily guarded, but I finally found someone to find out, so I naturally went into the city to contact, and finally contacted the guard general Sun Da." Zhang Yunshui's army did not attack Baling, so Baling was still guarded by Sun Da, the general of Huang Zhong's army, but the strength was only 2,000, and it was completely defensive. ”

When Long Chen heard this, he had an idea, and said, "In this case, let's talk about it first, I have my own plans." ”

To put it simply, Chen Long entered Baling, and Sun Da was waiting at the city gate. As soon as Chen Long entered the city gate, he helped up Sun Da, who was bowing down, and asked directly: "General Sun, how much oil is there in Baling City?" ”

In a word, there is a division of teaching, and Baling fire dyes the banks of the Xiang River. Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.