On the evening of September 14, the fifth year of Chuping, when the main force of Dong Zhuo's army led by Kang Peng was still preparing to set off, Dong Zhuo's two divisions had already forced into the mouth of Poyang Lake, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry led by Lu Bu, Zhao Yun and Wei Yan was the fastest, running all the way, occupying the north of Hukou before the unitary time, and Liu Bei's army troops reinforcing Sun Quan's army had arrived less than 100 miles northeast of Hukou. The three generals discussed, Zhao Yun meant to stick to the mouth of the lake according to Kang Peng's order, wait for Zhang Xiu to rush to the south of the Yangtze River to assist Zhang Xiu in blocking the river, and wait for work to meet Liu Bei's reinforcements; However, Lu Bu proposed to divide his troops to stay at Hukou, and then take the initiative to attack, giving full play to the surprise attack characteristics that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is good at to meet Liu Beijun, and master the tactical initiative; Wei Yan, who was eager for meritorious service, agreed with Lu Bu's decision, and Zhao Yun also understood that Lu Bu's suggestion to take the initiative was not unreasonable, and did not insist on his own opinion, and the three of them decided to follow the old rules to lead the troops to stay at Hukou, and Lu Bu and Wei Yan each led 10,000 iron cavalry to move to the northeast to find Liu Beijun's main force for a decisive battle.

After Lü Bu and Wei Yan led the army away, Zhao Yun immediately began to arrange the defense along the Yangtze River, while sending soldiers to collect small boats to cross the river, and pull thick ropes on the river surface to facilitate the towing of iron locks; On the one hand, in the shallow docks and other areas that are easy to land to pull up dense barbed wire, Kang Peng deceived the scientific genius Huang Yueying, because of the relationship between technology and productivity, the musket has not been made, the production line of the wire has been made first, in the past six months Yongzhou produced and accumulated a large amount of wire, Kang Peng unceremoniously copied the barbed wire technology of later generations, and used it for position defense.

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At the same time, Ma Chao, Zhang Xiu, Pang De, Gao Shun, Yan Yan and Zhang Ren's six-member generals led the 80,000 Dong Zhuo army has made a detour to Chaisangkou, Gao Shun led the trap camp to raid the unprepared Chaisang, Sun Quanjun's Chaisang guard general He Qi suddenly heard that Dong Zhuo's army was attacking the city, and he almost couldn't believe his ears, and when he was in a hurry to order the troops, the invulnerable camp in ring armor had rushed into the city gate Chaisang City, which was not closed yet, and ran all the way to the official hall, He Qi was caught off guard and was personally killed by Gao Shun, Sun Quanjun's old and weak soldiers in the city, who were less than 1,000, did not dare to resist, and all surrendered to Dong Zhuojun, and Gao Shun successfully took over the city defense. A moment later, Yan Yan led his army to the city and arranged the defense along Poyang Lake with Gao Shun overnight.

At three o'clock, Dong Zhuojun rushed to the entrance of the Ganjiang River into Poyang Lake, Dong Zhuojun quickly recruited civilian boats to cross the river with ropes, pulled up several iron cables on the surface of the Ganjiang River, and built a pontoon bridge with wooden planks and civilian boats carried by the army. An hour later, three simple but sturdy pontoons were built, Dong Zhuojun left Pang De to continue to blockade the Ganjiang River, and other military horses quickly passed through the Ganjiang River.

At two o'clock, Dong Zhuojun divided his troops again, Zhang Ren led 5,000 men and horses to raid Yuzhang overnight, Sun Quanjun Yuzhang guard general Zhang Cheng has arrived at the news that Dong Zhuo's army broke through the Ganjiang River, Zhang Cheng immediately led 1,500 soldiers to the city to defend, Zhang Ren saw that Yuzhang had been prepared, and had a plan, and ordered the deputy to lead 4,000 soldiers to attack the West Gate with all his might, and led 1,000 men and horses to carry spades and other climbing tools to ambush outside the East Gate. Lai Min attacked very urgently at the west gate, because Sun Quanjun had transferred the vast majority of troops to Wuchang, Zhang Cheng's troops were insufficient, seeing that the other three gates had no pressure, he gradually transferred the other three troops to the west gate for reinforcements, and when it came to the ugly, there were only less than 100 defenders at the east gate of Yuzhang, Zhang Ren's troops took the opportunity to climb the city from the corner of the wall, and threw the rope from the city wall, so as to facilitate the rear army to go to the city, after climbing more than 100 people, Zhang Renjun made trouble together, killed all the defenders of the east gate, the north and south two gates were not in a hurry, Zhang Renjun opened the city gate, Zhang Ren took the opportunity to kill into the city, After Dong Zhuojun's brigade entered the city, Sun Quanjun had no power to fight back, and was surrounded on the West Gate Tower, Zhang Cheng sighed, drew his sword and killed himself, the rest all surrendered, and Yuzhang fell into the hands of Dong Zhuojun.

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On the other hand, Lu Bu and Wei Yan's troops had already met with Liu Beijun's forward, and the local heavy rain suddenly fell, extinguishing the torches of the two armies, and he couldn't see his five fingers, because the intelligence showed that Dong Zhuojun was still in Jiangxia, and Liu Beijun's forward Zhou Cang and Wang Fu, who were camping to avoid the rain, began to mistakenly think that the opposite army was Sun Quanjun, and did not take too much precautions, Wang Fu also wanted to go out to answer Dong Zhuojun, Zhou Cang grabbed him, and said suspiciously: "No, the opposite side is full of cavalry, Jiangnan does not produce horses, Sun Quan Xiaoer even if he loses his pants, I can't afford to raise so many war horses. ”

Wang Fu looked into the distance again, and saw that in the pouring rain, the black shadow on the opposite side was riding a horse, Wang Fu exclaimed: "Yes, except for Yuan Shao and Dong Thief, no one in the world can afford to raise so many war horses, it is likely to be Dong Thief's army!" Zhou Cang and Wang Fu knew how terrifying the cavalry was on flat ground, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to set up their horse repelling pistols and line up to meet the enemy. But it was too late, the red rabbit horse carrying Lu Bu had already rushed to the front of the two, Lu Bu shouted, Fang Tian's halberd slashed head-on at Wang Fu, Wang Fu hurriedly raised his knife to fight, but there was a parry, a loud noise, the steel knife was broken, Wang Fu's hands were bleeding, Lu Bu shouted again, Fang Tian's halberd broke through the air, Wang Fu was churning in his chest at the moment, and he couldn't even make a dodge action, he was stabbed by Fang Tian's halberd, fell off the horse and died, Lu Bu's speed was so fast, Zhou Cang next to Wang Fu didn't even have time to make any rescue actions.

Lu Bu stabbed Wang Fu to death with two halberds, and Wei Yan behind him was already anxious and shouted, "Wen Hou, say that one person is good, and the enemy next to you will give it to me." Lu Bu laughed, casually set up Zhou Cang's steel knife to stab him, and stabbed Zhou Cang's left rib with a halberd with his backhand, the difference in credit, learned enough of his honorary father-in-law, Zhou Cang was unavoidable, Fang Tian painted the halberd in the ribs, but Zhou Cang was only splashed with blood in his chest, took a few steps back, and did not fall off the horse on the spot as Lu Bu imagined, Lu Bu was startled at first, and then suddenly realized, and laughed: "Good guy, it turned out to be a natural rib, no wonder I can still not die if I am hit by Lu Bu's halberd, come on, let's fight again." ”

"You're Lu Bu?" Zhou Cang covered his ribs that were punctured by Fang Tian's halberd and exclaimed, hearing Lu Bu's name, Liu Beijun's soldiers behind him were almost so frightened that they peed their crotch, and they didn't wait for Zhou Cang's order, they only hated their parents for giving birth to two legs for themselves, and ran for their lives with their legs spread, seeing that the enemy was so afraid of him, Lu Bu laughed even more arrogantly.

"Can you hear Yiyang Wei Wenchang?" Wei Yan rushed forward, the spear danced out of the spear, and slanted at Zhou Cang's chest, but unfortunately Wei Yan and Lu Bu both made the same mistake, Zhou Cang's natural ribs blocked Wei Yan's steel spear, but only stabbed Zhou Cang, but it was not fatal. Although Zhou Cang had never heard of Wei Yan's name, but just now he was shot again, Zhou Cang already understood that he was not Wei Yan's opponent, and he didn't dare to put it back anymore, so he ran back to the horse, but unfortunately the red rabbit horse was as fast as lightning, Zhou Cang escaped less than ten zhang, Fang Tian's halberd had already slapped the back of his head, Zhou Cang screamed, ** collapsed and died, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry behind surging up, and in an instant he dispersed Liu Beijun's forward troops, in Wei Yan's complaints, Lu Bu smirked and gathered the troops, led the way with the captured prisoners, and continued to advance forward.

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Yin Shizheng, Ma Chao and Zhang Xiu's troops rushed to Poyang City, Zhang Xiu bypassed Poyang City according to Kang Peng's prior order, and went straight to the mouth of Poyang Lake, leaving Ma Chao to attack the last city to complete the siege of Poyang Lake tactics, because of the remoteness, Poyang guard general Bian Hong never dreamed that Dong Zhuojun would be interested in Poyang, a small border city, and asked the soldiers to close the city gate early, and went home to sleep, and there were only a few patrol teams patrolling back and forth in the city, and they did not take much precautions.

Ma Chao used a telescope to observe Poyang City in the distance, and concluded that his army could capture this small city, but his own soldiers were already very tired, if they attacked, the loss of their own army would definitely be not small, Ma Chao pondered for a moment, called more than ten soldiers from Jiangnan, explained to them and encouraged them, promised to reward them after the fact, and more than ten soldiers were overjoyed to take the order.

In a moment, the more than ten Dong Zhuojun soldiers from Jiangnan changed into the clothes of Sun Quanjun's soldiers, deliberately made their bodies wet, and rolled on the ground a few times, and then stumbled towards Poyang City. Why did the third watch come to Poyang in the middle of the night? ”

"Don't shoot arrows!" A soldier from Jiangnan Dong Zhuojun shouted, "We are the direct subordinates of the Metropolitan Governor, and our army suffered a defeat at Sanjiangkou, and the Metropolitan Governor sent us to inform General Bian and tell him to tighten his guard and be careful of the enemy's sneak attack on Poyang." The soldiers of Sun Quanjun in the city looked at the people carefully, and saw that they were covered in dust, all wearing Sun Quanjun's military uniforms, and they had a Jiangnan accent, and they still came to inform themselves to be careful about their defense, and no longer suspicious, so they opened the city gate and prepared to let them into the city to meet Bian Hong.

In a moment, the city gate slowly opened, the drawbridge fell to the ground, and a patrol of Sun Quanjun also came out of the city, and the patrol leader asked the more than ten Dong Zhuojun: "Seeing that you have decayed like this, it is very difficult for us to lose the battle in Sanjiang?" Where did the enemy hit? ”

"The enemy has already hit here!" Began to shout that Dong Zhuojun soldier shouted, the knife fell, the patrol captain head fell to the ground, the other Dong Zhuojun rushed up, the patrol soldiers chopped melons and vegetables like chopping over, Poyang City was shocked, about to release arrows, outside the city has been killing the sky, Dong Zhuojun cavalry swept in, quickly cut the rope of the drawbridge, occupied the city gate, the infantry behind poured into the city, Ma Chao personally led an army to kill the official hall, Poyang guard Bian Honggang climbed out of the quilt wearing a single coat, went to the door to check, saw Ma Chao riding a white horse rushed to the front, Bian Hong didn't say a word, quickly knelt down and shouted: "I surrender, don't kill me." ”

"Wreck! What's the use of keeping you? Ma Chao raised his hand and shot Bian Hong to the ground, and Ma Chao's younger brother Ma Tie reminded: "Big brother, the king doesn't allow us to kill the prisoner, why did you kill him?" ”

"Oops, I forgot!" Ma Chao patted his head and exclaimed, and a junior colonel next to him patted his ass and said: "General Ma, we didn't see you deliberately kill prisoners, it was General Ma who was so brave that he couldn't stop to nail the enemy." The other Ma Chao soldiers immediately flew into the air, praised Ma Chao's martial arts, and said that what they saw was that Ma Chao was too late to kill Bian Hong - it was also Bian Hong's bad luck that made Ma Chao laugh.

The sky is light, the Xiliang iron cavalry led by Lu Bu and Wei Yan has been killed to the periphery of Liu Beijun's camp, Liu Beijun's scouts are not as bad as Sun Quanjun's army, when Lu Bu and Wei Yan's army is still ten miles away from Liu Beijun's camp, Liu Beijun's military division Zhuge Xuan has received the news that Dong Zhuojun's iron cavalry is approaching, Zhuge Xuan did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly found Guan Yu and Tai Shici, and said to them Liu Bei's warrant: "General Yunchang, General Ziyi, since the Dong thief army can advance to this point, Sun Quan must be more auspicious, the lord means, If Sun Quan's army is defeated, the Dong thieves will definitely attack Jianye, and Wuchenghou's family will also be poisoned by Dong thieves, we should immediately turn to Jianye and take back Wuchenghou's family, so as not to be brutalized by Dong thieves. "Zhuge Xuan said very well, and he protects Sun Quan's family in honor, but what the real purpose is, everyone should also know it.

Although Liu Bei and Zhuge Xuan's abacus played well, Guan Yu looked down on Zhuge Xuan's indiscriminate methods, Guan Yu said proudly: "The military advisor's words are wrong, our army has formed an alliance with Sun Quanjun, no matter whether Sun Quan's army wins or loses, our army must fight with Dong Thief to fulfill its responsibilities as an ally." What's more, the army of Dong thieves has already been killed in front of our military camp, and we will inevitably be laughed at by the world if we flee without a fight. "Among Liu Beijun, Guan Yu is undoubtedly the most talkative, even Liu Bei has to give him three points, usually Zhuge Xuan doesn't dare to speak to Guan Yu in a commanding tone, as for Huang Zhong and Tai Shici, Guan Yu doesn't pay attention to it.

If it was in normal times, Zhuge Xuan would definitely compromise, but tonight Zhuge Xuan didn't dare to let it go again, and argued: "General Yun Chang can't be impulsive, this is the lord's order." ”

"Will be outside, the king's order will not be affected!" Guan Yu raised his arrogant head and said to Tai Shici: "Ziyi, you and I quickly raise our troops and horses and go out of the camp to meet the battle. Tai Shici was also a little moved, and he didn't want to run away without a fight, but he was a standard soldier, everything was order-oriented, and he didn't echo Guan Yu's impulse, but turned his gaze to Zhuge Xuan.

Zhuge Xuan coughed, and was about to persuade Guan Yu again, but outside the tent, a soldier of Liu Beijun, who was covered in blood, rushed in front of Guan Yu and cried, Guan Yu recognized him at a glance as his confidant Zhou Cang's personal soldier, and shouted: "What happened?" Where did Zhou Cang go? What happened to our strikers? ”

That Zhou Cang's soldiers cried loudly: "Tell Guan Junhou, General Zhou, he and he are dead, General Wang is finished, and our forward army is completely annihilated!" ”

"Zhou Cang!" Guan Yu let out an earth-shattering roar, grabbed the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, strode out of the big tent, and shouted to the military horses of the headquarters that had been assembled outside the tent: "Xuzhou's son, go with me to kill the enemy in front of the battle!" As the first general of Liu Beijun, Guan Yu does have the capital of pride, Liu Beijun's soldiers treat him as a god, Guan Yu's order, 10,000 soldiers and horses in the headquarters immediately went out of the camp and went in the direction where Dong Zhuojun came. And Zhuge Xuan and Tai Shici stood stunned for a long time, Zhuge Xuan still gritted his teeth and said: "General Ziyi, General Yun Chang is too impulsive, I'm afraid there is danger, you quickly order 20,000 horses to meet General Yun Chang, I will organize the army to pull out the camp and start the village, no matter whether our army wins or loses, we must turn to Jianye." ”

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At the same time, the exhausted Zhang Xiujun finally rushed to the east of Poyang Lake by the river, Zhao Yun had already pulled up countless arm-thick hemp ropes on the river, just waiting for Zhang Xiujun to tie the iron rope to the hemp rope, Zhao Yunjun and then pull across the river to nail strong, you can complete the prevention of Sun Quanjun from escaping downward, but at this moment, Zhang Xiujun, who had been on the road for two days and two nights in a row, was tired and hungry, and there was still the strength to nail the heavy iron rope and tie it to the hemp rope.

"Whew!" Zhao Yunjun on the other side of the river sent out fireworks urging action, Zhang Xiu lay on the back of the horse and gasped for a moment, seeing that Hu Che'er was still jumping and munching on beef jerky, Zhang Xiu didn't come out of his anger, and scolded: "Hu Che'er, you idiot!" After a while, eat beef again, and first tie the iron lock to the hemp rope. ”

Hu Che'er vaguely agreed, quickly stuffed a piece of beef jerky of at least half a catty into his mouth, jumped up, picked up a ball of seven or eight hundred catties of iron rope from the car that could only be pulled by four horses, flew to the river, tied the iron rope to two hemp ropes, pulled the hemp rope, and began to drag the iron rope across the river. Fortunately, Kang Peng considered in advance that Dong Zhuojun only needed to temporarily stop Sun Quanjun for a few hours this time, and the iron cables used were relatively thin, each ring only weighed about one catty, if the iron lock was really built according to the specifications of thirty catties and one ring, Dong Zhuojun transported such a long and heavy iron lock by land, even if he used more war horses, it was impossible to transport the iron lock to the mouth of Poyang Lake in time.

Seeing that the iron cable was gradually pulled to the opposite side of the river, Zhang Xiu breathed a sigh of relief, even if he pulled an iron cable first, Zhang Xiujun would have enough time to rest, recover his strength, and pull more iron cables to complete the tactical order to block the river.

"Enemy!" Hu Che'er, who was closest to the river, suddenly roared, Zhang Xiu was startled, and hurriedly stood up on the horse, and a Sun Quanjun fast boat came from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, hanging a full sail, and it was less than five miles away from Zhang Xiujun's department.

"Quick, nail the ropes!" Zhang Xiu shouted, since the first ship of Sun Quanjun's defeated escape has appeared, it means that Sun Quanjun's defeated brigade is about to arrive.

"Whew!" Hu Che'er roared, usually not very bright head suddenly became a lot more flexible, three steps to two steps to the carriage, picked up more than ten iron drills weighing twenty pounds, and quickly rushed back to the riverside, Zhang Xiujun's tired soldiers did not know where to come out of strength, and Zhao Yunjun cooperated to pull the iron cable tight, Hu Che'er inserted an iron drill into the iron cable ring, shouted, the iron rod smashed down, sparks splashed, and smashed again, the four-foot-long iron drill was nailed into half of the riverside rock, Hu Che'er grabbed the second iron drill and concocted it in the same way, "Dang!" While! While! When the fifth iron drill was smashed, the Sun Quanjun clipper sailing with full sails had already hit the iron cable, and with a muffled ping-pong sound, the tail of the Sun Quanjun clipper was thrown parallel to the bow of the ship, and it was fixed on the river and did not move.

"Hooray!" Dong Zhuojun on both sides of the Yangtze River let out earth-shattering cheers at the same time, which was naturally mixed with Hu Che'er's signboard roar, "My beef finally didn't run away!" Zhang Xiu promised before the war that every time he stopped a Sun Quanjun fast boat or a big ship, he would reward Hu Che'er with a cow, although Dong Zhuojun's Liangzhou prairie was rich in cattle and horses, and the price of beef cattle was relatively cheap, but after the war counted the accurate figures, Zhang Xiu still cried bankrupt and tried every means to repay the debt......