Jingzhou, Jiangxia County, Huangzhou, General's Mansion.

After Yuan Yao's army captured Huangzhou, he temporarily rested here to replenish casualties and reorganize soldiers and horses, and Pang Tongtong sent people to inquire about the news of Xiakou and Sanjiangkou, and sent elite scouts to inquire about the news of Jiangdong soldiers and horses and Jingzhou's army.

After the scout returned to report the news, Pang Tong hurriedly came to see Yuan Yao and said, "Lord, the scout has just sent back the news, Sun Ce's army has already sent troops, and 50,000 Jiangdong soldiers and horses are heading straight to Xiajun County. Chen thought that Sun Ce should be in a hurry, he must have wanted to have a decisive battle with Liu Pan's army first, after all, Wen Ping is leading an army of 30,000 yuan to rush over, and the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for Jiangdong. ”

Yuan Yao had just received information from Mao Sui, and nodded in response: "Since Sun Ce has already sent troops, then we should also speed up our actions, and the situation in Xiakou and Sanjiangkou can be investigated clearly?" Is my army reorganized? ”

As for the situation in Xiakou and Sanjiangkou, due to the heavy security of these two defenders, the minister only found out part of the news for the time being, according to the scout's report, Jiangxia general Su Fei led 10,000 troops to garrison Sanjiangkou, and Huang Zu personally led 30,000 troops to garrison Xiakou City."

Although Yuan Yao did not personally lead the scouts to inquire about the news, he also knew that the danger of the scout front was no less than the bloody siege of the city.

Yuan Yao nodded and replied: "Since the defenders are heavily guarded and can't find out the situation, then it's okay, the terrain of Sanjiangkou and Xiakou City is dangerous, and it is indeed not easy for scouts to act, so don't rely on vain to lose manpower." The order was sent down, and the army pulled out the camp tomorrow and went to Sanjiangkou, and ordered Wei Yan to transfer 2,000 soldiers and horses from Exian County to garrison here. ”

Pang Tong bowed down and said, "No, the minister takes the order!" ”

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Early the next morning, Yuan Yao led the 20,000 naval troops under Zhang Dingbian's command, the 15,000 Longxiang army under Wei Yan's command, and the 2,000 personal guards under the command of Yang Zaixing, the 4,500 dead soldier battalion and the 300 rui soldier battalion, a total of 41,800 soldiers, known as the 60,000 army, and went straight to the Sanjiangkou.

Sanjiangkou is adjacent to Xiakou City, located slightly downstream of Xiakou City.

This is where the remnants of the Jiangxia Mountains are located, the Yangtze River waterway passes through the valley, the waterway is complex and relatively narrow, the waterway is on both sides of several high cliffs, the terrain is extremely steep!

The Jiangxia Mountains are overgrown with trees, the mountains are steep, and there are no avenues connecting the mountains, so it is extremely difficult for the army to pass through the mountains, and Su Fei led the army to camp in the mountains to occupy the terrain, which can be said to have stuck Yuan Yao's route of attacking by land.

If Yuan Yao's army wants to attack Xiakou, the only way to open up the Yangtze River waterway is to capture the Sanjiangkou, as long as the Yangtze River waterway is opened, Yuan Yao's army can go directly from the waterway to the rear of Su Fei's army, and then if Su Fei doesn't want to be trapped in the mountain, he can only evacuate from the inside.

In this way, Yuan Yao's army could directly force Su Fei to evacuate from the mountain without fighting.

Huangzhou is only dozens of miles away from Sanjiangkou, Yuan Yao's army arrived here in one day, Yuan Yao ordered the army to set up a large camp in front of Sanjiangkou, and he took Pang Tong and others to climb a small hill and personally came to see the topography of Sanjiangkou.

The terrain of Sanjiangkou is dangerous, and it is also the most dangerous place in the seven counties of Jingzhou (under popular science, Jingzhou County has not been divided at this time, and there are seven counties in total: Nan County, Nanyang County, Jiangxia County, Changsha County, Wuling County, Lingling County, Guiyang County; The nine counties of Jingxiang all came out of Xiangyang County and Zhangling County, and they have not yet been divided; Pang Tong has great ambitions and ambitions, and this Jingzhou land is the best place for him to make contributions.

After everyone climbed the mountain, Pang Tong stepped forward to introduce everyone: "Lord, there is the Jiangxia Mountain Range ahead, the Jiangxia Mountain Range has complex terrain and dense trees, and it is difficult for the army to pass. Now the Jiangxia general Su Fei has a heavy army stationed in the mountains, if our army forcibly attacks the mountain, I am afraid it will be difficult to move an inch, and it will be difficult to gain anything after the Jiangdong soldiers and horses and the Jingzhou army are decisive; If our army wants to pass through this place, the only way to break through and capture the Sanjiangkou is to break through by water, and then Su Fei's troops and horses can retreat without a fight! ”

However, the terrain of Sanjiangkou is also extremely steep, the valley of Sanjiangkou is more than ten miles long, and the waterway is surrounded by cliffs on both sides of the waterway, where the water conditions are complex and the waterway is narrow, and it is difficult for ships to pass; Now Su Fei has stationed thousands of soldiers and horses on the cliffs on both sides of the waterway, prepared countless bows, crossbows, arrows and rolling logs, and stones, and our army will definitely suffer heavy casualties in a hasty attack; ”

In addition, Su Fei built three pairs of simple water villages fixed on the mountain wall with six warships at the exit of the valley, and each pair of water villages was connected by an iron cable, and the three iron chains across the water surface had locked the Yangtze River waterway; In this way, if our army wants to break through the mouth of the three rivers, it must brave rolling logs, stones, bows and crossbows and arrows to capture these six water villages and cut off the iron chains. ”

Yuan Yao didn't even need to go to check the fortifications built by Su Fei in person, just after listening to Pang Tong's description, Yuan Yao thought about the scene of the soldiers of the army taking a warship and attacking the enemy's water village under the attack of the enemy's rolling wood and stones, bows and crossbows and arrows, and felt a little chill in his back.

No wonder in history, it took Sun Quan five years to attack Jiangxia and kill Huang Zu, and this was when he attacked three times in succession within five years, and finally succeeded by luck; During this period, Sun Quan even suffered a small defeat several times, and even Jiangxia general Ling Cao died in the battle against Jiangxia, and if he remembered correctly, Ling Cao should have died here!

Tsk, it seems that this should not be all due to Sun Quan's 100,000 leading skills, and it should also be related to the dangerous terrain of Sanjiangkou and Xiakou.

After all, the danger of risking the arrows and stones to climb the village first is not just talking, this is to take the lives of countless soldiers!

Hey, but now it's my turn to have a headache.

Historically, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu have no choice but to make the soldiers fight to the death to break through this place, it seems that this battle can only be fought to the death, and this is also the time to test themselves!

Yuan Yao thought of this, laughed a few times, and said: "Hahahaha, even if the terrain is dangerous, it depends on people to defend it!" I believe that the ability to fix the edge will be able to break through this place for me, I don't know if you can have confidence in the edge? ”

Before, Zhang Dingbian had always watched others attack the city and build meritorious deeds, but now it is finally their turn to go out with the navy!

Zhang Dingbian stepped forward without hesitation and bowed, and said: "Back to the lord, the last general is not familiar with the enemy's situation and does not dare to say that he is sure of victory, only to fight to the death!" ”