Chapter 645: The battlefield is not in Changsha
Under the repeated attacks of Cai Mao and Gan Ning, the secret water army used by Zhou Yu for the raid was completely wiped out before it could even make a splash.
Maybe it was because the previous surprise attack had a good effect, which made him a little light. But it is estimated that he didn't expect that the previous embarrassment, excluding Cai Mao's unfamiliarity with spells, was mainly due to his deliberate weakness of the enemy.
Only then will the opponent reveal all his hole cards. But seriously, it was still a little too early to be exposed, and some of the backhands prepared by Cai Mao were not even used.
It's too easy. The problem is that Cai Mao herself does not like to challenge headwinds.
When there is a headwind, it is more suitable to let Gan Ning go first and create a tailwind game, and he will play at this time. From this point of view, Gan Ning is indeed a good choice to be the main general.
With Gan Ning's fight, the Luo Guoshui army was completely one-sided. During this time, Cai Mao also interrogated the captured Luo Guoshui army by the way, and asked them if they had a follow-up team.
After confirming that there was none, I suddenly felt bored, and the follow-up preparation of my own backhand was useless.
Then he looked at the position, which was about to be broken through by Lu Bu.
If you want to say that the biggest threat over there is probably the trebuchet. It's just that as Lu Bu gradually recommended it, the trebuchet slowly lost its effect. After all, the fleet in front of it can't be smashed, and the range that is too close can't be attacked.
The more LΓΌ Bu advanced, the more the ranks on the Han army's side advanced, and these trebuchets began to gradually turn into ornaments.
"I'm curious why you haven't moved." Until Lu Bu reached the trebuchet, looking at Zhou Yubu who was not moving in the distance, he couldn't help but ask.
"If you kill here, it means that the first line of defense led by me has failed." Zhou Yu sighed, "As the main general, I must take full responsibility!" β
He has used up all the means he can use, but this feeling of being violently broken by others is really helpless.
It's like preparing a hundred methods, a thousand means to defeat the enemy. As a result, the other party pushed all the way over, and it seemed that no means would lose their effect in the end, how big was the shadow in his heart?
Zhou Yu felt that in the face of the group of big Han people, they relied on the immortal family spells and ignored the existence of strategy and tactics...... I really can't stand it.
"Take responsibility and fight us to the death?" Lu Bu said disdainfully.
"No, no, even if I fight with you, it is impossible to win, and it is not even possible to kill or injure you." Zhou Yu sighed, "We surrender, that's it!" β
"Surrender?" Lu Bu was suddenly a little caught off guard, why did he surrender after a fight?
Zhou Yu had his considerations, or rather, this was Sun Ce's order. In order to resist the Han army, Sun Ce prepared two lines of defense, but at the same time, he also ordered that if any one was breached, then the defenders of this line would surrender.
If both lines of defense are broken, then basically Luo Guo has no way to continue to resist the Han Dynasty, only to surrender completely.
At the same time, Zhou Yu's side took the lead in surrendering, and it could also allow Cheng Pu and others in the second line of defense to deal with the Han army with all their might, lest the Han army pursue Zhou Yu and others, so that Cheng Pu's team had to help their own people evacuate before they could go to battle with the Han army.
If they succeed in blocking it and repel the Han army, then Zhou Yu and the others can naturally be rescued again.
Take 10,000 steps back and say, if you still fail in the end, then there is no difference between surrendering early and surrendering later.
"If you want to surrender, you surrender." Zhou Yu spread his hands, "If you feel cheating, that's your business." β
Of course, Lu Bu was not afraid, and personally went over to collect these hundreds of people. Yes, by this time, there were only 500 people left under Zhou Yu's command, and the rest were either killed or captured. A small number of routs fled, which is also a common occurrence.
To this extent, it is reasonable for Zhou Yu to surrender. Although Lu Bu couldn't quite accept this result, he couldn't help it. Could it be that you don't accept the other party's surrender and then kill the last person on the other side?
It's true that he's belligerent, but he's not brutal, and he won't do anything beyond the general's part. I remember that Bai Qi was too brutal back then, so he gave Qin Guo an excuse to kill him.
He is good friends with Chen Gong, and Chen Gong will also persuade him a little bit in private. After all, he is not Liu Tao's descendant, but he has gradually become the top general of the Han Dynasty. The more this is the case, the less we can be proud, but we must be conscientious and self-denying.
After resting for a day on the side of Shuizhai, Lu Bu also began to gradually conquer the counties of Changsha County.
Perhaps it was because Zhou Yu's surrender was too sudden, and he had to be cautious, even not dividing his troops. In the three counties around Dongting Lake, their county commanders saw the arrival of the Han army and surrendered one after another.
The presence of the Han army here also means that the naval army sent to intercept them has failed. At this time, there are three or five hundred of them, and there is no point in resisting again. At least, they are not loyal enough to die for the country.
"There is no ambush...... the deeper Lu Bu went, the more strange he felt, and he didn't see any trace of the enemy at all. The spies sent out also didn't find out, which made him very strange.
Did Luo Guo completely abandon the four southern counties? Judging from the current situation, Lu Bu feels that it is very possible! It is safer to concentrate troops to defend the four counties of Yangzhou than to continue to waste troops on the side of the four southern counties.
"Did Gan Ning find anything over there?" Lu Bu still asked, in the end, he still had to confirm.
"No trace of the enemy was found, and if it was found, it would be reported as soon as possible." The adjutant general Fang also replied.
Zhang Liao sat in Lujiang, Xiahou Yuan sat in Jiangxia, Fang Yue sat in Jiangling, and only Song Xian, Hu Muban, Fang Ye and Huo Jun followed Lu Bu south this time.
Among them, Fang Yue is not a member of Fang Yue's clan, but a civilian from Yanzhou. In his early years, he was a ranger, and he was exiled to Luoyang, where Liu Tao joined when he expanded the army, and later fought in the east and west, and became a deputy general.
It's just that he is usually low-key, and if it weren't for Lu Bu taking the initiative to ask, he would not usually take the initiative to speak. However, the tasks assigned can be completed very well. This kind of subordinate who doesn't talk nonsense and is firm in his work, Lu Bu likes it very much.
Therefore, Zhang Liao and Fang Yue can not be brought, but there is a place for Fang Ye in the quota that goes south with him.
"It's strange and ......," Lu Bu was a little puzzled, "Luo Guo gave up the four southern counties like this?" β
Fang didn't speak, just like what he said before, unless Lu Bu explicitly asked him, he wouldn't take the initiative to talk. Maybe it's because of the relationship between the commoners, who haven't received much education, and who knows the truth of 'saying too much and making too many mistakes', so they chose to do this, right?
"General, we have only conquered a few counties in Changsha County, and the four southern counties have not been completely conquered." He didn't speak, of course Song Xian, an old subordinate, wanted to come forward to talk.
Otherwise, Lu Bu talked to himself alone, which was obviously a little too embarrassing.
"The subordinates also feel that the real battlefield selected by Luo Guo may be somewhere else!" Huo Jun stepped forward and said.