Chapter 521. Straw boat borrowing "cheap"
When Wang Hou played "full of flavor" in Xiangping City in the far north, on the edge of the Yangtze River, Cao Cao also entered the peak highlight moment of his life.
It is not as exaggerated as the 800,000 Cao army in the romance, but there are 30,000 soldiers and troops in Qingzhou, more than 60,000 Yuan people surrendered in Jizhou, and 60,000 in Yanzhou's own old troops, plus Cai Mao and Zhang Yunshui who surrendered in Jingzhou, a total of 200,000 troops.
Coupled with the people who transport food and salary behind them, there are indeed hundreds of thousands.
In fact, Wang Hou has always had a question, the Southern Song Dynasty was quickly destroyed after being defeated by the Mongols in the Battle of Xiangyang, before the Battle of Chibi, since Cao Zongdu had already taken Fancheng in Xiangyang, why not transport troops to the south of the Yangtze River, take the land route to fight a decisive battle with Sun Liu, and have to confront Sun Liu in Wulin north of the Yangtze River.
But if this time he then presides over logistics with the army, he can know a rough idea!
The largest and most convenient mode of transportation in this era is still water transportation, Cao Cao got Xiangyang, the main supply came from the savings of Xiangyang Liu Biao for many years, and the northern army did cross the Yangtze River, but the Yangtze River is a tributary of the Yangtze River, Hanshui, and the main road of the Yangtze River has to go south for another one or two hundred kilometers.
And at this time, the main target of Cao's army was still Liu Huangshu, so he was divided into two routes, and he led the army to chase south of Hanshui, but still north of the Yangtze River, Cai Mao, Wen Ping and Yu Ban Cao Ren led the main force of the naval army to march directly along the Hanshui to the east, and the two roads converged violently to Liu Bei's last stronghold, which is also the confluence of the Han River and the Yangtze River.
But at this time, an unexpected change occurred, Zhuge brother went east to Sun Wu, persuaded Sun Quan and Liu Bei to join forces, Zhou Yu sent troops from Chaisang to go upstream, and the Chibi in the upper reaches of Xiakou happened to hit the main force of Cao's army advancing along the Yangtze River, and in the face of the interception of Sun Wu's army, Cao's army was stuck in Wulin.
And the second reason for Cao Cao's defeat in history was because the Battle of Jingzhou was fought too smoothly! Now he has an army of more than 200,000 troops, and the combined army of Sun and Liu on the opposite side is only 50,000, which gives Cao Cao the illusion that he can still easily defeat.
And if the Sun-Liu coalition army is annihilated in Chibi, then the south will be captured, and he can go all the way east along the Yangtze River to take Wu County, and no longer have to fight annoying guerrilla attacks with Sun Quan in the dense river network water fork in the south of the Yangtze River, which is really a fatal temptation for Cao Cao, who is already in his fifties and eager to dominate the world and change the dynasty with this glory.
In the early morning, there are three or four miles, the spacious Yangtze River surface, filled with a layer of vast river fog, a piece of buildings and boats locked together, forming a water village, just like a city on the river, eyeing the south, here Wang Hou estimated that it should be proud, because even if the battle is like this, Cao Cao still carries a set of bone china tea set in his hand, holding the white blue and white teacup of the plum blossom dotted with the drawing, while walking and tasting tea, he is also carrying a telescope to look at the Yangtze River.
"Prime Minister! General Cao Ren led the water division to Daze between Xiakou Wulin, but was intercepted by the Wu people's water division and confessed to the prime minister that he could not meet the division as scheduled! ”
"I know it! Let's go down! ”
There was a zigzag turning point between Xiakou and Wulin, Cao Ren and the others were the main sailors of the Cao army, and Zhou Yu naturally didn't want him to join him! This narrow zigzag, Cao Jun wants to pass through, and it will take some arms.
However, Cao Cao is still not worried at all, because in Cao Ren's army, there are not only Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, who are comparable to the Jiangnan Water Division, but also the Qingzhou Water Division, which can be regarded as his main force, the two are one, and he doesn't believe that with a small Zhou Yu, he can stop these two elites.
It's really a coincidence, this has just sent the heralds, in the vast foggy south of the Yangtze River, a burst of rapid war drums suddenly sounded fiercely, and suddenly, a small boat in Dongwu was full of sergeants, in the sound of the rushing water, directly approaching the Cao Army Water Village, less than 100 meters outside the Water Village, began to line up, causing the Cao Army soldiers to rush to the deck on the edge of the Water Village.
There are times when the telescope is not good, the martial arts are too thick, and there is no thermal imaging in these years, squinting his eyes, Mr. Cao can only see the dense Wu Jun standing on the canopy boat provocatively clamoring.
"Prime Minister, the Wu people are so arrogant, the last general is willing to lead the naval army to fight, and teach these rude people a hard lesson for the prime minister!"
There is no shortage of men in Jingzhou Sailor, looking at this scene, Feng Kai, the captain of Liu Biao's Yangtze River Sailor, came out of the crowd full of anger, and took the lead in hugging his fists and asking for battle.
However, holding the binoculars, he couldn't see clearly and looked at it, but Cao Cao shook his head solemnly.
"The Wu people are proficient in water warfare, and now the Yangtze River is foggy again, I don't know if there are ambushes behind the fog! Just shoot them off with arrows, and you can't take any chances! ”
"The last general obeys!"
It is worthy of the well-trained Northern Army, the military boots stepped on the deck and made a nice and neat crackling footsteps, a stick of incense time, the dense archers have rushed to the deck, Wang Hou has to be proud again, at this time the Cao army archers are equipped with all sunshine pulley bows, the pulley creaks, the heavy steel bow is neatly opened, and then in the crackling sound, a cluster of arrows rain is overwhelmingly shot out.
However, at this time, facing the overwhelming rain of arrows, in the thick black canopy, under a lone lamp, it was the two of them who were elegantly drinking Jiangnan sake.
Looking at the scarecrow on the bow of the boat, there was a layer of thick arrows on his body, and the heavy arrows pressed the boat to tilt to one side, full of surprise, Lu Su really couldn't help but smile bitterly and hugged his fists.
"Mr. is clever, so easily he can get along with Cao Cheng and raise many arrows, I admire it!"
"Use the prime minister's arrows, and then shoot back on these northern captives, if the prime minister knows, I don't know what a wonderful expression it will be!"
But this time, Brother Zhuge is not as handsome and free as in the TV series, but he is a little uneasy, and after taking a sip, he couldn't help but put a cup to mention it again.
"Zijing! Now Wu Hou and my lord are both losses and glory! Three years ago, the battle of Wu County, what was going on? Can't you talk to someone yet? ”
"Mr. Kong Ming, it's not that you can't, but you really don't know! In that battle, Su served Wu Hou in Jianye, and only saw the captives outside the city, on the Yangtze River, and those who should fight in the north were all Zhou Yu's governors! In this battle, most of the governors returned to the dynasty to say a lot. ”
"But Mr. Kong Ming can rest assured, even if that Guangling Chen Yuanlong is just like that, he will still be ...... by the Metropolitan Governor."
Bang!
"What a sound!"
Before Lu Su's boastful words were finished, a misty thunderbolt had already burst out, and then in his incredible gaze, in front of his canopy, the flat boat that had been filled with arrows on one side snapped from the center of the ship.
The splashing sawdust pierced the bow of the boat, and Wu Jun, who was shaking his face, fell into the water in a blur, and then in the screams of the Wu people, the whole boat was like the Titanic, the bow of the ship rose up, and the gurgling sank into the water.
"What the hell is this? Black art? ”。
Brother Zhuge also stood up suddenly, and in his ears, after the thunderbolt, there were bursts of whistling and heavy, and the sound that was completely different from the flying arrows came over intensively.
Cracking sound~