When Lu Xun heard Cai Mao's words, he smiled slightly, and said: "The strategy under the plan is nothing more than to show strength with weakness, first deceive and defeat for a while, and then surround and annihilate the enemy after 'luring' it deep."

It sounded simple, and it was the kind of strategy that had been used by people before, and there was nothing new about it. However, this kind of strategy of 'luring' the enemy into the depths is often effective, and even some wise generals will sometimes be ambushed. And for the current scenario, this is very suitable.

In the eyes of Jiangdong generals, the land combat capability of the self-army may not be as good as that of the Cao army, but the water combat capability is invincible in the world.

Although it cannot be said that the Jiangdong generals are complacent, they are indeed quite confident in their water warfare capabilities.

In the eyes of the Jiangdong generals, there is no army in the whole world that can win in a water war with the Jiangdong army. If the Jiangdong naval army 'engaged' with another naval army and defeated it, it would be a normal thing in the eyes of those generals, and they would not necessarily suspect that it was the other party's deceit.

Of course, if Zhou Yu was in the Jiangdong Army, he should be able to distinguish whether the enemy was defeated by fraud or by real defeat. However, this was just an outpost battle, how could Zhou Yu, as the governor of Jiangdong, personally command an outpost battle?

Cai Mao followed Lu Xun's plan and took 40,000 sailors to fight against the Jiangdong navy.

The remaining 10,000 Cao troops in the Sanjiang Estuary were ambushed in the water village with bows and arrows, and as soon as the Jiangdong army entered the water village, they fired 10,000 arrows in unison to deal a severe blow to the opponent.

Originally, Cai Mao didn't plan to take 40,000 people to battle, he thought that this number was too much, and if he arranged some more people to be ambushes, the ambush effect would be better after he could 'lure' the Jiangdong Army into the ambush circle of Shuizhai. However, Lu Xun knew that there was a gap between the self-army and the Jiangdong naval army, and according to common sense, as his own general, he would definitely fight with all his strength in this situation.

The fleets of the two armies approached rapidly on the river, and the battle was imminent.

In water combat, bows and arrows are indispensable weapons, when the two sides are still more than 20 zhang apart, the archers on the front row of the two armies began to bend their bows and arrows, and 'shoot' towards the enemy in front.

However, this kind of long-distance 'shooting' attack can cause limited damage after all, not to mention that as a sentinel battle, there are not many archers arranged on both sides, and after a few rounds of arrow raindown, there are more than 100 casualties on both sides.

Soon, the boats in the front row of the two armies collided one after another, and the soldiers set up planks on the hulls of the ships, raised their weapons and slaughtered the enemy.

If it is on flat ground, the hand-to-hand combat of the Jiangdong army is not as good as the Cao army, but now the place of the fight is on the boat, the hull of the ship sways with the undulation of the water surface, and the rest of the factors are very different from the land battle.

Although Cai Mao has been training the navy for a period of time, there is a gap between him and the Jiangdong navy, and the more important problem is that the navy under Cai Mao, in addition to the original surrender army in Jingzhou, the newly trained navy has no actual combat experience at all.

Therefore, it did not take long for the 'exchange' to fight, and the Cao army was suppressed by the Jiangdong army. On the boat, the corpses of Cao Jun's soldiers continued to fall into the river.

"Withdraw!" Cai Mao smiled bitterly, although he had planned to defeat from the beginning, the gap between the strength of his own navy and the Jiangdong navy was even bigger than he imagined.

With the issuance of Cai Mao's order to withdraw his troops, Cao Jun turned the bow of the ship and withdrew to his own water village. When retreating, the Jiangdong army took advantage of the situation to kill again, and many Cao soldiers who had not had time to withdraw were killed one after another.

"General, the enemy army has retreated, and it is the right time to pursue at this time, maybe we can capture the opponent's water village in one fell swoop and annihilate all its 50,000 pioneers, if so, it will be a great achievement! And if the vanguard of the Cao thief is destroyed, it will also lose its sharpness, and it will be difficult to break its army at that time! Seeing the retreat of Cao's army, the deputy general Chen Wu proposed to the main general Tai Shici to pursue the victory.

When Tai Shici heard this, he didn't immediately agree, but still didn't say anything.

Tai Shici's 'sexual' personality is not a very reckless type, although it is not calm and calm, but it will eventually be considered.

Although the Zi army had the upper hand in the battle, for the Cao army, it was not to the point where it could not be supported, and the timing of their retreat seemed to be a little faster.

"I'm afraid there's an ambush......" Tai Shi Ci said in a deep groan.

"The enemy is cowardly and fleeing, where is the ambush?" Another adjutant general, Ling Tong, said indignantly. His father Ling ** was in the hands of Cao Jun, and he naturally hated Cao Jun to the core, wishing he could annihilate him.

"General, Cai Mao has just brought out a large number of troops, and there must be no spare strength to set up an ambush. What's more, our army's skill of sailing and sailing is unparalleled in the world, even if there is an ambush, our army can quickly retreat, and the enemy army will not be able to keep us. Chen Wu also continued to persuade Tai Shici to pursue.

"Okay, then according to the words of the two, pursue Cao Jun!" Seeing that the two of them were in this mood, Tai Shi Ci also made up his mind and issued an order to the whole army to pursue.