Zhou Yu worked hard to prepare, but in the face of the strong deterrence of the Wei army, the Wu army still showed symptoms of Weiphobia.

The Wu army's troops, who were facing the Wei army head-on, inevitably thought of the previous fiasco and Sun Ce's death, and feared war.

Over time, there were even cases of desertion in the major military camps.

In response to this phenomenon, in addition to killing deserters in the major military camps, Zhou Yu also came up with a way.

The generals of the various armies showed the suicide notes written by themselves to their families to the soldiers, and then burned the suicide notes in front of the soldiers and gave a passionate speech to boost morale.

Then Lü Fan arranged for people to spread rumors in the army, saying that Guo Peng was going to usurp the throne and become emperor, and if this battle was lost, the Han would be gone, and the Wu army, as the defender of the Han Empire, would definitely be settled by Guo Peng.

If he loses the battle, Guo Peng will slaughter everyone in Jiangdong and will never accept surrender, which Guo Peng swore before sending troops to the north.

All their private property, all their families, will become Guo Peng's, they will be stripped of everything and become pathetic slaves.

At the same time, Lü Fan ordered all the "Wu" banners in the army to be replaced with "Han", preaching that the Wu army was fighting for the Han Empire and defending the Han Empire.

Not to mention, the effect is really there, and a strange mood gradually permeated the Wu army camp along the river.

As a result, the number of deserters decreased, and the Wu army's will to fight became high, and they were not so afraid of the Wei army, so they would not flee before they had even fought.

Only when the morale of the army is stabilized can there be hope for victory.

During this period, Zhou Yu never gave up asking Liu Biao for help, and he always asked Liu Biao to send troops to help, otherwise once the Wu State perishes, the next one will be Liu Jingsheng.

Although Liu Biao was afraid of Guo Pengbing in his heart, he thought about it and felt that what Zhou Yu said made sense.

The relationship between the two sides is cold, if Guo Peng kills Sun Wu, won't he be even more dangerous?

At that time, Jingzhou will face the enemy on three sides, and once Guo Peng launches an attack, he will almost be defeated, so how can he be the emperor of the soil?

It would undoubtedly be best if the current situation could be maintained.

Now that the Wei army has decided to destroy Wu, Liu Biao must be dispatched to counter the Wei army.

So in this case, in mid-June, Liu Biao ordered to guard Huang Zu in Jiangxia, and let Huang Zu wait for the opportunity to lead the army to attack the Lujiang side, so as to share the pressure on Sun Wu's side.

Huang Zu has been unhappy with Guo Peng for a long time, and he has always been a staunch anti-Guo faction, but now that he has the opportunity, he is very happy, and he feels that he must behave himself well no matter what, so he reorganized the army and prepared to go down the river to support the Wu army.

And just when Huang Zu was almost preparing and was about to leave, Liu Biao's backyard caught fire.

Three of the four counties of Jingnan rebelled against Liu Biao's rule under the leadership of Zhang Xian, the commander of Changsha County, and announced that they would recognize Guo Peng's rule over them and return to the banner of the Han Empire, not under the banner of Liu Biao.

Lingling County and Guiyang County responded to Zhang Xian, and the three counties gathered more than 30,000 troops, and Chen soldiers were in Changsha, preparing to cross the Yangtze River and attack Jiangling in the north, so as to take refuge in Guo Peng.

This incident happened very suddenly, disrupting Liu Biao's overall plan, Liu Biao hurriedly ordered Huang Zu to stop acting for the time being, he had more important things to do.

He couldn't afford to fight at both ends.

And it just so happened that at this time, the fierce battle to destroy Wu officially began.

On June 28, the second year of Jian'an, Zhang Liao sent people to cross the river to Moling to send the final persuasion document to Sun Quan and Zhou Yu, persuading Sun Quan and Zhou Yu to surrender, but they sternly refused.

Previously, Zhang Liao also sent a persuasion form to Sun Quan and Zhou Yu twice in accordance with Guo Peng's order, persuading them to surrender, but they also refused.

After the third refusal, there is no room for negotiation.

On the first day of the seventh month of the second year of Jian'an, Zhang Liao issued an order, and the three armies of Yu Ban, Xu Huang and Zang Ba launched an attack at an agreed time and almost at the same time.

They ordered the navy mixed with large ships and small boats to cross the Yangtze River and start a fierce attack on the Wu army, and the battle to destroy Wu officially began.

The conscience of heaven and earth, Changsha Taishou Zhang Xian's rebellion was really not instigated by someone Guo.

Guo himself only later learned that Zhang Xian was in trouble, but he didn't know why Zhang Xian had a head cramp and wanted to resist Liu Biao at this time.

And under his banner.

Are you courting him?

Even the local Linzi camp spies in Jingzhou were confused by this, and they didn't know what Zhang Xian's brain circuit was about.

In fact, it is a well-known thing for Jingzhou people to deal with Zhang Xian and Liu Biao, and the delicate relationship between the four counties of Jingnan and the three counties of Jingbei is also a well-known thing for the locals.

But no one knows why Zhang Xian would raise troops at this time.

Maybe it's because the two often have conflicts and often hate each other, so this kind of behavior makes everyone think that even if Zhang Xian rebels, it's a normal thing, right?

But in any case, Zhang Xian can be regarded as helping Guo Peng.

Because of his rebellion, Liu Biao's reinforcement plan was stranded, and Liu Biao had no choice but to mobilize a large number of troops to gather in Jiangling, preparing to go south to quell the rebellion.

The battle to destroy Wu started at this time, which was really a coincidence.

After the previous battle in Hefei, Zhang Liao also began to train his soldiers for combat effectiveness on the water.

After occupying the land of Huainan, a large number of water systems in the land of Huainan could facilitate the training of the water army, so Zhang Liao used these water systems on a large scale to practice the army's water combat effectiveness, and also paid attention to accepting local people with good water ability to join the army to enhance the combat effectiveness on the water.

The effect is still quite good, at least for now, the Wei army can also use a fairly large-scale and decent water offensive.

And this time, the Wei army still has an advantage.

In the face of the fierce water offensive of the Wei army, the Wu army decisively counterattacked.

The armies of the Wu army had been straining for a long time, and now that the Wei army had finally launched an attack, the Wu army immediately resisted.

The generals of the Wu army ordered the army to meet the enemy in boats and ships, and counterattacked the Wei warships with high-speed and mobile warships.

In ancient times, the main methods of water warfare were bow and arrow shooting, impact warfare and gang hopping warfare, and before the popularization of hot weapons, water warfare was mainly based on bows and arrows.

The sailors on board are divided into brawlers, archers, and captains, the fighting soldiers are responsible for defense and jumping gang fighting after the ship approaches, holding swords, shields and spears, and the archers are responsible for long-range attacks, holding bows and crossbows, while the captain is in charge of the advance and retreat of the ships, and presides over the ramming battle through skillful ship maneuvering techniques.

Before gang jumping, it was generally a gangside ramming battle, and in the ramming battle, the large ship had an advantage.

In this battle, because he was afraid that the Wei army's trebuchets would strike at the Wu army's warships, and even more afraid that the Wei army would install the trebuchets on large building ships, Zhou Yu gave up using large, slow ships for the battle, and switched to small, high-speed ships.

In this way, the trebuchet was really useless, but the Wu army also lost the advantage of a large ship.

The Wu army did not dare to use it, but the Wei army dared to use it.

In ramming battles, the big ships have an advantage.

Zhang Liao trained a group of capable ship-manboarders, recruited Ding Zhuang, who was good at boat-maneuvering, in the Huainan area, and then set up a large armed warship to ram the Wu army's boat.

It is definitely advantageous for a large ship to hit a small boat, and when it hits the past, the Wei soldiers will also use crossbow arrows to shoot the soldiers on the Wu ship, causing them great damage.

At the beginning, the large ships of the Wei army caused great trouble to the small warship group of the Wu army, and sank many small ships of the Wu army.

However, soon, the front-line generals of the Wu army carried out a temporary response and began to give full play to their advantages in speed, not playing ramming battles and broadside battles with the Wei warships, but using the speed to constantly carry out arrow rain attacks around the Wei ships.