At about midnight, the two armies of Lu Zhao and Feng Kai retreated back to Zhang Liao's camp, and at this moment Zhang Liao had set off with the Chinese army, leaving behind the escort army Xue Yi and the supervising army Wang Ling to supervise the rear team.

Wang Ling really stood up: "Jiangdong, the fence of the country." The state consumed money and food to bring our army here, with the intention of sheltering the vassals and promoting the prestige of the country. If you withdraw the army easily, it will be a trivial matter for the vassals, and if the vassals are defeated and the country will be destroyed, it will hurt the dignity of the country. ”

"I want to help the vassals of the war to promote His Majesty's kindness, and after the war, I can return to Guangling with the sailor. Would you like to go with you? ”

Lu Zhao and Feng Kai saw that Xue Yi did not speak, and the generals who stayed behind also looked at them silently, so they had to bow their hands together: "Obey the orders of the king." ”

At the fourth watch of July 15, when the sky was dark, 16,000 troops of Wang Ling and Xue Yi arrived at 30 miles on the east bank of Lishui.

Thirty miles downstream of the Hankou camp is the mouth of the water, the original Guanyu camp has been occupied by Zhu Ran, the camp is on the west bank of the river, and the Wu army is camped and spent the night on both sides of the river.

On the Jiangzhu downstream of the mouth of the water, Jiang Qin inspected the water village when the river fog was filled in the morning, this is Zhao Lei's water village, where there are dark piles, where the water is shallow, it is clear to Zhao Lei's water division, and he can take advantage of the river fog to attack and kill, and he is not afraid of the ship running aground.

There is no need for Zhu Ran to make detailed arrangements, since the fourth watch, each army has a full meal, each army marches forward with elite soldiers in armor, and the rest of the army acts as an auxiliary army, or dismantles the wood for camping and loads the ship, or carries sun-dried reed bundles to follow the army.

If you want to cross the Han River by force, you don't have to break through the Hankou Dazhai, as long as you have tied the reed bundle to make a raft, you can easily cross the Han River.

A reed crosses the river, probably like this.

Also at the fourth watch, in the drumbeat of the Hankou camp, the soldiers of the whole army left the camp with dry food after a full meal.

Feng Xi's 7,000 people from the upper reaches also appeared twenty miles away on a bamboo raft, landed in formation, and slowly marched towards the place of the decisive battle.

Nan'an Buqi persuaded He Qi that he wanted to make peace with Huang Quan and let Huang Quan lead the army to retreat, but Huang Quan naturally refused.

Seeing that he refused, the Wu army was immediately divided into three, part of which defended Wuchang, the main infantry army bypassed the camp to attack Xiakou, and the other Zhu Huan's naval division went out of Fankou and took the Yangtze River to go upstream to participate in the battle.

On the north bank, Tian Xin and Li Yan arrived early at the place suitable for the decisive battle between the two armies, which is seven or eight miles wide from north to south, the Yangtze River in the south, and the lakes and swamps in the north.

This is a barren land, and when heavy rains and floods spread, they are often flooded by the vast river along with Jiangzhu.

"Today it is still a northwest wind, which is good for our army."

"I want to arrange suspicious soldiers in the west of Huze, and when the infantry army fights and stalemates, light fire and smoke to obscure the vision, and I will break through the formation to disrupt the enemy formation, at that time, our army of 4,000 knights is divided into eight teams, which can break the enemy army!"

Tian Xin pointed to the west side of the reeds in the north and said, and then pointed to the frontal battlefield and said: "The land here is narrow, and the so-called narrow road meets the brave wins, not the one with more soldiers wins!" ”

Li Yan looked at the reed lake on his left flank: "Junhou, if the suspicious soldiers are arranged here, the enemy soldiers will come to search." ”

"Don't be afraid, Feng Xi's army will march here, if the Wu army divides its troops and comes across the lake, most of them are stragglers and light soldiers, not Feng Xi's opponents."

Tian Xin said and turned his head to look at his right flank, where was the Yangtze River, and it was the place where Guan Yu's sailor and Jiang Qin's sailor fought a decisive battle.

This battle must be won, Li Yan, Huang Zhong, Liu Min, Mei Fu, and Zhao Yue's armies were defeated, losing most of their iron armor, heavy equipment, and bows and crossbows, and the south bank was also the same, and the army that withdrew to the north bank was almost all unarmed.

Just the lost iron armor, it is currently estimated that there are at least 30,000 sets.

Now I am not afraid that the Wu army will come to fight, I am afraid that the Wu army will hold each other after calming down, and after the Wu army digests the captured Han army equipment, the battle will be more difficult.

The entire Jingyi Erzhou is in full production, and it will take a few years to produce 30,000 sets of iron armor?

Without iron armor, how can you go on a northern expedition to the Central Plains?

Against the Wei army, the fight is the hoplites.

An important reason for the defeat of the Wu army against the Wei army is that the armor rate of the Wu army's land infantry is far inferior to that of the Wei army, and if the Wu army retreats now and reorganizes the army well, it will have the capital to confront and fight with the Wei army on the battlefield in the Central Plains.

Whether it is a killing and capture, or a prisoner surrender to the army, the lost iron armor must be recaptured as much as possible.

A faint river fog filled this tidal flat, Zhu Ran stood on the chariot and slowly advanced, and on the left and right sides were the Wu army infantry arrays lined up in a phalanx.

From the generals to the soldiers, they were excited, and in a few days they got tens of thousands of iron armor from the north shore.

What is Iron Armor? It is much more useful than the talisman, even if it is a captive converted Shanyue soldier, let him choose between iron armor and god talisman, he will choose iron armor!

Pan Zhang's headquarters was even more fully armored, appeared on the left flank of the Han army, and stepped on the sparse reeds by the lake to advance.

The eight-mile-wide battlefield was crowded with the array of Wu Jun's infantry army, and the white horse under Li Yan's seat was uneasy, snorting: "Junhou, why don't you temporarily retreat three miles?" ”

Tian Xin squinted at the Wu Army's front that broke through the light fog three or four miles away and pressed the Wu Army's front like a torrent and black line: "The enemy is four miles away, and our army is five miles away, why be afraid?" ”

Li Yan had no choice but to hold back and watch the Wu army's front move forward, and in about a moment, the Wu army advanced to two miles away, and he could already hear the Wu army's steps like the tide, and Tian Xin's side was quickly building a command wooden tower, and the four-zhang high wooden tower was assembled in a splicing way.

The Wu army scouts out of the whole line, and the Han knights chase and expel them, and they drive back and forth in the open space two miles wide, and after a slight loss, the Wu army scouts and cavalry retreat back to their own formation.

"Stop!"

One mile apart, Zhu Ran gave the order, the drumbeat changed, the array of the Wu army stopped one by one, the big shield stood in the front row, and the lightly armed auxiliaries in the rear carried the wood from the gap in the square formation, and built a simple fence in front of the shield array.

When the fence was about to be completed, Wu Junjia sat on the ground to rest his strength.

At this time, the sixteen Han army thousand-man phalanx arrived, Tian Xin's troops also arrived under the Sizhang command tower, and Feng Xi's troops also moved towards the left flank position, and it was difficult for the Wu army to put the army into the left flank position, but the left flank was very important.

With the limited width of the battlefield, no matter how many troops the Wu army has, it will not be able to exert itself, and at most the infantry phalanx will take turns to participate in the battle.

Therefore, the left flank position is the fastest breakthrough point for the Wu army to open up the situation, as long as it firmly grasps here, the Wu army can only shake the Han army's infantry formation.

At about three o'clock in the morning, when the orange sun had just hung in the sky, the naval divisions of both sides appeared on the battlefield on the right flank of the Han army, and the battleships moved and formed an attack group.

If the Wu army's naval division wants to break through, it must take the initiative to attack; The Han Army's naval division is located in the upper reaches, and with the help of the northwest wind, it is natural to take the initiative to attack with the wind and water.

At four o'clock, Zhu Ran drove out of the battle, slowly approaching the Han army command tower, Zhu Ran grabbed the guardrail with his left hand on the car, held an apricot yellow flag in his right hand, and was dressed in gilt silver bright light armor, and there were only two royal hands in front of the car.

The Han infantry also sat on the ground to rest their strength and wait for the fight, and Tian Xin rode his horse out of battle, followed by Liu Beixin's new pre-assigned to him.

Seeing that he was approaching, Zong Yu spoke: "Junhou, there is no doubt that the person who came is Zhu Ran himself." ”

"Okay, I'll see what he has to say."

Tian Xin drove forward, and Zhu Ran was the first to speak, with a loud voice: "It's Tian Xiaoxian?" ”

"Exactly...... Somebody! ”

Twenty steps away, I saw Zhu Ran holding a silk book in his left hand: "My lord Marquis Wu admires the general, and I want to show the general as the Mu of Jingzhou and the Marquis of Chu." ”

"Could it be that Sun Quan only has this means left?"

Tian Xin took out the meteor hammer from behind and checked it in his hand: "I advise you to return to the battle early and lead the troops to fight with me, otherwise you will be killed on the spot." ”

Through the mask on Tian Xin's face, Zhu Ran couldn't see anything: "I see each other with sincerity, why don't the generals show their faces?" ”

"When you become my prisoner, you will look good."

Tian Xin raised his hand and wanted to fight, but Zhu Ran endured it and didn't move, seeing that Tian Xin didn't hit the meteor hammer, he turned the horse's head and went by himself.

"Hoo ......"

Zhu Ran grinned, and the apricot yellow flag in his hand was also randomly planted on the beach, and he waved his arms loudly: "Return to the battle!" ”