On the eighth day of November in the fourth year of the Han Dynasty, when Dong Zhuojun was still helpless against the Jingzhou army cowering in Xiangyang City, the fleet led by Zhou Yu had arrived at Chaisang, the garrison of Sun Quanjun's navy.

The ship arrived at Chaisang, Zhou Yu did not rest, and went straight to the sails of the navy, Sun Quanjun had just withdrawn from Jingzhou, and Dong Zhuojun had a feud, the army has been on high alert, so although the assembly was hasty, but the preparation was still very sufficient, the ordnance and grain were all thorough, and the large and small warships were as many as more than 800, almost three times that of Dong Zhuojun, and all of them were skilled in water, all of them were veterans of the navy who had experienced water wars, far from being comparable to those half-baked recruits in Dong Zhuo's navy.

Three days later, Sun Quan's navy has approached the entrance of the Xiangjiang River to the Yangtze River, because after the fleet turned into the Xiangjiang River, the navy can only go against the wind and the water, so Zhou Yu convened the generals of the whole army to the flagship to discuss the military situation, at the meeting, Zhou Yu introduced to the generals: "Gentlemen, our army is about to enter the Xiangjiang River, because of the monsoon, our army can only face the wind and go upstream, please you must organize the soldiers to draw awards, to ensure the supply of food for the oars and sailors, and shall not be deducted, and those who violate the order will not be spared." "In this era, it is very common for officers of various forces to withhold the rations and salaries of non-commissioned officers, including Dong Zhuojun, who has the best treatment for non-commissioned officers, and also cuts off the heads of dozens of middle and low-level officers every year, so Zhou Yu first vaccinated each officer so as not to affect morale.

The generals agreed loudly, and Ling Cao asked again: "Governor, our army is going north to reinforce Jingzhou, and in the face of the natural enemy cavalry mainly of our naval army, how should this battle be fought?" Please ask the governor to command? After Sun Jian's death, Ling Cao was the first person to ask to go to Yong'an to find revenge for the Xiliang Army, this time Sun Quanjun went north to unite Jingzhou to deal with the Xiliang Army, Ling Cao volunteered to be the vanguard of the army, Zhou Yu and Ling Cao's son Ling Tong became friendly, so he handed over the vanguard to Ling Tong's father and son.

"Yes, our army's strength is not as good as Dong Thief, and its combat strength is not as good as Dong Thief, how to fight this account, the Metropolitan Governor should come up with an idea." It was Cheng Pu who said this, he was also a veteran of the Jiangdong Army, Ling Cao asked out of concern for the military situation, Cheng Pu deliberately ridiculed because he was dissatisfied with Zhou Yu climbing on his head at a young age, and other Jiangdong Army veterans such as Han Dang and others also echoed out of the same mentality.

In the face of the veteran's reproach, Zhou Yu remained silent, unfolded the map of Xiangyang and said: "Gentlemen, please see, this is the Jingzhou army stationed in Xiangyang City, the Jingzhou army and army are all in the city, and the south, west and north directions are surrounded by Dong Thief's army, but the east Xiangjiang River where the Jingzhou Navy is stationed is still in Liu Biao's control, and the weak Dong Thief of the Navy is unable to block the river, which means that Liu Biao can get supplies and soldiers from all over Jingzhou through the Xiangjiang River, as long as the Jingzhou Navy is still there, Xiangyang City can hold on indefinitely, And Dong Thief went deep alone, and there was no logistics at all, so he could only survive by collecting the grain and grass from various states and counties in Jingzhou, and he couldn't last long. Speaking of this, Zhou Yu couldn't help but let out a smug smile, "According to the information provided by Liu Biao, I have analyzed the situation of grain storage in various parts of Jingzhou, Dong Thief's army can hold out for half a month at most, and if he can't defeat Xiangyang, he has only one way to retreat." ”

"What does the Metropolitan mean? We don't have to do it at all, and the Dong thief will be defeated without a fight? Cheng Pu said in a strange manner: "Could it be that the Metropolitan Governor has forgotten?" Dong Thief's Yong and Liang Sanzhou is now rich in the world, and the grain and grass are piled up like a mountain, won't Dong Thief transfer grain and troops from the three states to reinforce it? ”

Zhou Yu smiled, "Dong Thief is going to transfer food and troops, his three states are rich, but Yizhou is still a ruin, most of the money and grain have to fill the bottomless pit in Yizhou, not to mention, the war in the north has stopped, Dong Thief has Yuan Shao's position beside him, Dong Thief does not dare to attack Jingzhou with all his strength, is worried about Yuan Shao's threat, Dong Thief's lone attack on Jingzhou is a gamble, the bet is a quick battle to defeat Jingzhou, otherwise, he will face the world's corps Lin Qun attack. Zhou Yu's analysis was very thorough, and although Cheng Pu didn't say anything, he secretly admired it in his heart.

"Since Dong Thief wants to fight quickly, then we will drag him!" Ling Cao nodded and said, "Drag it until he runs out of food and grass, and is forced to withdraw his troops, and then take the opportunity to chase and kill." ”

Zhou Yu shook his head, "There is no need to drag, and there is Xiliang Tie riding on the land, Dong Thief can easily escape, and Dong Thief's army is far from our opponent, we can make great use of this." Zhou Yu pointed to the map and said: "You see, Dong Thief's water village is located in a river bay forty miles downstream of Xiangyang, surrounded by land on three sides, and there is only one waterway, which is obviously afraid that the Jingzhou army will attack his immature water army, so he borrowed the army to protect the water army. As early as yesterday, I have written a letter to Liu Biao, asking him to send a naval army to block the harbor where Dong Thief's naval army is stationed, and when our army arrives, I plan to immediately seize the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang River, rush down the river with a fire raft into the harbor, and burn Dong Thief's naval army, and when Dong Thief's army reinforces the naval army, then the Jingzhou naval army will drag the reinforcements, and our army will suddenly land in the upper reaches, and jointly attack the camp of Dong Thief's Chinese army with the Jingzhou army, and capture and kill Dong Thief in one fell swoop! Even if this plan fails, Dong Thief's army will have to be wiped out, and Dong Thief can only retreat all the way, and it will not be too late for our army to pursue and kill. ”

Ling Cao and other generals were overjoyed, and they all looked at Zhou Yu with admiration, only Cheng Pu admired it in his heart, and said unconvincedly: "Is the Jingzhou army willing to listen to the governor?" Willing to help the Metropolitan Governor take advantage of this battle to make a name for himself? Don't they want to kill Dong Thief's miraculous feats? ”

Zhou Yu laughed, and was about to say that he just wanted to kill Dong Zhuo to avenge Sun Jian - and avenge himself, not trying to be famous, but a small colonel stumbled outside the cabin, and pounced in front of Zhou Yu and reported breathlessly: "Governor, the big thing is not good, the water surface of the Xiangjiang River is blocked and blocked!" ”

Zhou Yuteng, who was still complacent just now, stood up and said in a lost voice: "It's blocked!?" Even with the broken ships that have not yet been built, can the Xiangjiang River be blocked? Speaking of this, Zhou Yu glanced at Cheng Pu suspiciously, because this small school was Cheng Pu's subordinate, Zhou Yu almost thought that Cheng Pu was deliberately making trouble for himself, and said sharply: "In detail, there is no joke in the army, if there is a little falsehood, it will not be spared!" “

The little colonel said with a sad face: "Back to the Metropolitan Governor, the villain does not dare to falsely report the military situation, the enemy is not blocking the Xiangjiang River with warships, but with their cavalry!" This time, even Cheng Pu couldn't help it, and scolded: "Nonsense, the cavalry blockaded the Xiangjiang River, will their cavalry fly?" ”

"Iron lock Yokoe!" Zhou Yu reacted at the first time, and said in a lost voice: "The enemy cavalry is blocking the river with iron locks!" ”

"The Governor is wise." The little colonel, who was already sweating profusely, kowtowed and said: "The enemy has used dozens of chain iron cables of more than 300 zhang long to block the river, and large and small ships are not allowed to get on or off, and both sides of the Xiangjiang River are heavily guarded. ”

After the little colonel finished speaking, Zhou Yu's complexion changed greatly, Cheng Pu and the other generals were already colorless, Zhou Yu stood for a long time before he shouted: "The army speed up, hurry up and rush into Xiangjiang!" Don't put more chains on the enemy! ”

The time was already late, when Zhou Yu's fleet turned into the Xiangjiang River, hundreds of cast iron cables as thick as beams had been pulled up on the water surface of the Xiangjiang River from Hanyang in the west to Shiyang, each ring weighed more than 30 catties, which could not be shaken by manpower, and the two ends of the iron cable went deep into both sides of the Xiangjiang River for nearly 100 zhang, and had been out of the bow and arrow cover range of Sun Quanjun's warships, and in the upper reaches of the iron cable, several pontoon bridges had been erected, so that Dong Zhuojun could rescue each other on both sides of the strait, and the passage was unimpeded.

Zhou Yu stood on the flagship, looking at these endless and high or low iron cables in a daze, although he knew that Dong Zhuo ordered Zhang Xiu to seize Hanyang and Shiyang before attacking Jingzhou, but Zhou Yu never dreamed that Dong Zhuo would come to such a shameless move, blocking the river with iron cables to prevent his own naval army from entering the Xiangjiang River.

At this time, Dong Zhuojun's neat voice came from the banks on both sides of the Xiangjiang River, "Zhou Lang Zhou Lang, you will die!" Zhou Lang Zhou Lang, I am not busy if I lose my wife! The voice is earth-shattering, and extremely mean, it is naturally the masterpiece of Dong Zhuojun's first scolding general Zhang Xiu, who scolds people and exposes shortcomings and slaps people in the face.

Zhou Yu was furious and shouted: "The army landed on the shore, rushed to the shore and cut the chains!" ”

Han Dang hurriedly admonished: "Governor, the shore is full of cavalry, and our navy is at a loss on the shore." ”

Zhou Yu didn't understand this truth, but the more he scolded on the shore, the more outrageous it became, and someone had already pulled out the relationship between him and Xiao Qiao, "Zhou Lang, Miss Xiao Qiao asked us to tell you, she thinks you are too thin, she still likes strong Taishi!" Zhou Yu's face turned pale, and he shouted: "Don't say much, go ashore!" ”

The warship quickly turned its sails and quickly approached the west coast, where the most unpleasant scolding, and at this time, Zhou Yu's warship suddenly shook, Zhou Yu stood unsteadily, and almost fell, and the sailors under the ship shouted, "Oh no, there is an iron drill underwater, and the bottom of the ship is punctured!" It turned out that Dong Zhuojun not only pulled the iron cable on the water, but also inserted a large number of iron drills underwater, and the small boat could get away with it, but the big boat had to break when it hit it.

On Dong Zhuojun's side, Zhang Xiu was very proud on the shore, constantly pondering sentences viciously cursing Zhou Yu, and waited for the Jiangdong Navy to come ashore. Long before Kang Peng went north, he gave him an idea of locking the Hengjiang River, ordered him to collect iron tools in Shiyang, Hanyang, and cast iron ropes, and ordered Yong'an and Fuling to send him a large number of iron cables, fortunately, iron was produced in Sichuan, and the Panzhihua Iron Mine also began to be put into production two months ago, and Kang Peng hoarded a large amount of steel in Yong'an Fuling, so that Dong Zhuojun could complete the feat of blockading the Xiangjiang River in less than a month.

After being smashed more than ten big ships, Sun Quanjun changed to a small boat to land, although finally able to send the soldiers ashore, but each time can only transport a little, Zhang Xiu is not in a hurry to attack, when Sun Quanjun landed more than 1,000 soldiers, Zhang Xiu waved his big hand, the sound of war drums shook the sky, five thousand iron horsemen roared to the shore of the group of lambs to be slaughtered, Sun Quanjun's naval army did not practice land warfare, and was rushed to the ground by the Xiliang iron cavalry in an instant, Zhou Yu's warship was afraid of the ambush under the water, and did not dare to get too close to the shore for reinforcements, I could only watch as the Xiliang Iron Cavalry slaughtered the own sailors who landed on the riverbank, and only a few sailors swam back to the warship, and the blood stained a large part of the Xiangjiang River.

The sailors who went ashore were lost in an instant, and the Xiliang iron cavalry was still on the shore, and Zhou Yu did not dare to send the sailors ashore to die. Zhou Lang's clever plan to settle the world, he lost his wife and broke his soldiers! This is not Zhang Xiu's original, it was Kang Peng who specially told Zhang Xiu to let Zhang Xiu take revenge on his rival.

More powerful than in history, Zhou Yu's sister of Sun Quan lost in history, and she didn't feel very distressed if she lost it, but this time she lost her real lady, and no matter how big her belly was, she couldn't hold it, not to mention the cautious Zhou Yu. Sure enough, Zhou Yu's handsome face was distorted when he heard it on the handsome boat, and he shouted frantically: "Landing on the shore, the whole army will land on the east shore!" Slaughter them all! ”

This time, Sun Quanjun's hundreds of small boats came out together, and Ling Cao's father and son, who were good friends with Zhou Yu, took the lead, paying the price of more than 30 small boats being punctured by iron drills, and sent more than 7,000 soldiers to the east bank at one time. But Ling Cao's father and son were wrong, to some extent, Dong Zhuojun on the east bank was even more difficult to deal with than on the west bank.

In the roaring Xiliang Iron Cavalry, a nine-foot-tall bald man actually ran with his legs in front of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry with all his legs, and what was even more outrageous was that this bald man was actually carrying a five-foot-long iron rod with a diameter of one foot at the thickest point, and the big iron rod was more than 100 catties to say the least, and ordinary people were afraid that it would be difficult for both hands to move, but in the hands of the bald man, it was easier than carrying a straw at will, and he could run like flying.

Waiting for the bald man to run in front of him, Sun Quanjun found that his estimation was all wrong, the bald man's big iron rod was definitely more than one or two hundred catties, poor Sun Quanjun as long as he was smashed by the terrible big iron rod, there were no broken tendons, and he was directly smashed into meat sauce even if he had to be armoured, even if it was a weapon parry, it was useless, the steel weapon in their hands was in front of the big man, it was more fragile than a paper toy, it would break when it was touched, it would crack if it was touched, and there would be no one who would be together.

"Hu Che'er, you idiot!" Zhang Xiu saw that his partial general Hu Che'er could only kill small soldiers on the west bank, and scolded angrily: "Go and kill the generals wearing armor, that is, those two generals wearing red tasseled helmets, kill them, and you will have beef to eat tonight!" The general wearing the red tasseled helmet that Zhang Xiu refers to is naturally Ling Cao Lingtong's father and son, and Hu Che'er is a strange person found by Zhang Xiu after he arrived in Jingzhou, who can carry 500 pounds of weight and travel 700 miles a day, but his IQ is not very high, and he loves to eat beef the most, and he was deceived by Zhang Xiu with half a head of beef to be his deputy general.

"There's beef to eat." Hu Che'er heard Zhang Xiu's scolding, smirked, brandished an iron stick and rushed directly to Ling Cao's father and son, the speed was so fast that the frightened Sun Quanjun didn't even have time to dodge, and was beaten out of a flesh-and-blood road by Hu Che'er, and Ling Cao's father and son were stunned and looked at Hu Che'er who was getting closer and closer, and didn't react until they were in front of him, Ling Cao hurriedly raised his gun to stab Hu Che'er, and Ling Tong's steel gun also pierced Hu Che'er's ribs like a poisonous snake, but Hu Che'er's stupid body was not stupid, his left foot kicked up a large piece of sand and stones, and turned around like a wind, flashed two stabbed steel guns, the big iron rod smashed on the two steel guns, poor Ling Cao's father and son's four hands were cracked at the same time, blood flowed, and the steel guns flew out suddenly, and what was even more terrifying was that when the two steel guns flew out, the body of the gun with the thickness of chicken eggs had been smashed into a half-moon shape.

"There's beef to eat." In the stunned eyes of Ling Cao's father and son, Hu Che'er's big iron rod was waved at the waist, Ling Cao was not in a hurry, his waist was beaten, and with the terrible sound of bones breaking, Ling Cao's waist completely turned into a mass of meat like sauce, but he couldn't die immediately, and the scream shattered his eardrum.

"Father!" "There's beef to eat." Ling Tong rushed up with red eyes, but Hu Che'er was still smirking and waving a big stick, seeing that he was about to hit Ling Tong's shoulder, but his feet were mixed, looking down, it turned out that only his upper body could still move Ling ** hugged Hu Che'er's legs, Ling Cao shouted hoarsely while vomiting blood: "Tong'er, go, go, he's a monster!" ”

"Father!" Ling Tong still wanted to get close to Hu Che'er, but Ling Cao shouted desperately: "Hurry up, unfilial son, do you want our family to be the last?" At this time, a group of frightened Sun Quanjun soldiers quickly set up Ling Tong and fled into the water.

"My beef, don't run." Hu Che'er shouted, but his legs were hugged by Ling **, and he couldn't catch up, Hu Che'er was furious, and hit Ling Cao's shoulders with two sticks in a row, beating Ling Cao's shoulders into meat puree, and then he got rid of the shackles, but Ling Tong had already escaped from the Xiangjiang River, and Hu Che'er didn't know how to water, so he could only vent his anger on the poor Sun Quanjun soldiers, "My beef." Every time Hu Che'er read a word, there was always one or even more Sun Quanjun soldiers turned into a dead soul, and the soldiers of Sun Quanjun who were lucky enough to be alive only hated their father and mother for having two legs and fled to the water for their lives, and a few Sun Quanjun soldiers who dared to resist stubbornly on the shore were also wiped out by Hu Che'er and Xiliang Tieqi.

"Zhou Lang's clever plan to settle the world, lost his wife and broke his soldiers! Zhou Lang's clever plan to settle the world, he lost his wife and broke his soldiers! Dong Zhuojun began to stimulate Zhou Yu on the shore again, but Zhou Yu was also frightened by Hu Che'er's almost terrifying power, and he didn't dare to go ashore to fight in close combat, and the two armies were deadlocked on the Xiangjiang River.

In the night, a large number of Dong Zhuojun sneaked up on the pontoon bridge across the river, and began to quietly dump a black liquid on the river......

"The general said, this is oil, you can't fry beef." Hu Che'er walked onto the pontoon bridge with a bucket of hundreds of catties of black liquid in each hand, and poured it into the river with words in his mouth, "Therefore, I don't eat this kind of oil that can't fry beef, and I have to pour out the oil that I don't eat." ”