The south of the Yangtze River is good, and the scenery is old. The sunrise river flowers are red, and the spring river is as green as blue, can you not remember the south of the Yangtze River?

Time is like an arrow, in the blink of an eye, Dong Zhuojun has completely embezzled Yizhou for half a year, the first batch of potatoes planted in the fields of Yizhou has been harvested, although the climate in Yizhou spring and summer this year is not good, the average yield of potatoes per mu in Yizhou is only more than 800 catties, but for the people of Yizhou who have suffered repeatedly, it is already the best gift given to them by God, not to mention that the people of Yizhou know that the auspicious god seed can only grow well in the place ruled by Dong Taishi, and in the first two months of the fourth year of Chuping, Yizhou was under the rule of Liu Yan, so the god seed was reduced, It's all the scourge of Liu Yan, who should kill a thousand knives - even the government has posted notices at various city gates to say so. Thanks to Dong Taishi, the output of Yizhou's divine fruit can be guaranteed to be more than 800 catties.

In the past six months when Dong Zhuojun's army was recuperating, in addition to the heavenly Yongzhou where big businessmen and big landlords gathered, the more prosperous Bingzhou and Liangzhou and the relatively calm Yizhou were still full of smoke and war. Because there is still a little bit of use value, the compassionate Dong Taishi is still supporting the grain, grass and weapons for the already crumbling Shouchun Yuan Shu, so that Yuan Shu can drag Liu Bei to death, and not give Liu Bei a chance to develop and grow, of course, the war between Huainan and Xuzhou has involved countless innocent people dying in the war. Peacefully, at least Dong Taishi once gave a table to the court, asking Emperor Han Xian to issue an order to let the two families truce - unfortunately it was disrupted by the Feng eunuch brothers, and the old ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were in favor of this piece of music was refuted by Emperor Han Xian, but the news spread, and the people of Huainan and Xuzhou, who were looking forward to peace, still thanked Dong Taishi from the bottom of their hearts.

Not only is the fight between Huainan and Xuzhou lively, Yuan Shu's eldest brother Yuan Shao also performed quite well, first with Tian Feng's strategy, in the beginning of February of the fourth year of the first peace to break through Gongsun Zhan's last city Fan Yang, Gongsun Zhan's army was defeated, Yuan Shao completely pacified Ji and Youerzhou, Dong Zhuo, the great master of the Han Dynasty, heard the news, sent a gift to Yuan Shao to celebrate, and went to the imperial court, for Yuan Shao to ask for the title of Qingzhou Gong, in recognition of Yuan Shao's great achievements. Dong Taishi also personally revised a letter to greatly compliment Yuan Shao, and Dong Taishi was selfless and selfless, did not forget the soldiers who died in Yuan Shao's army, and repeatedly mourned for their sacrifice in the letter, including Yuan Shao's henchman Yan Liang, who died at the hands of Guan Yu at the civil and military conference, and Dong Taishi cried bitterly for him in the letter.

Regarding Dong Taishi's letter, Yuan Shaojun's strategist Tian Feng immediately pointed out - Dong Zhuo is a weasel greeting the New Year of chickens, and he is not good! Yuan Shao also saw the mystery of Dong Taishi's request for a knighthood for himself, and he did not have a plan. But although Dong Taishi did not directly control the imperial court, but the imperial court still respected the meaning of Dong Taishi, under the instigation of the Feng eunuch brothers, Emperor Han Xian really gave Yuan Shao the title of Qingzhou Duke, when the will arrived, it coincided with Yuan Shao's brother Yuan Shuxiu Shu asked the eldest brother for help, and asked the eldest brother to go south to attack Liu Bei and rescue Huainan, Yuan Shao's unwilling to be lonely began to stir, and the main force was not arranged to the front line of Taihang Mountain to threaten the rear of Dong Zhuo's army, but put the army in the area of Jibei and Fancheng, At any time, he is ready to recover the land in Qingzhou, which is already famously owned by him but occupied by Cao Cao, and go south to save his brother by the way.

At this time, Dong Taishi suddenly remembered the people of Yanzhou in the Yellow Flood Area, and generously sent a batch of high-yield grain varieties to the Yellow Flood Area where Yuan Shao and Cao Cao didn't want anyone, and also sent Zao Yi to take over Chen Liutaishou, and let him organize the remaining people in Yanzhou to cultivate the fields in Chenliu. In the memory of Dong Taishi, the fourth year of the first peace is 193 A.D., in history, Zao Yi was also in this year in Chenliu Tuntian to raise the people, in one fell swoop to solve the problem of insufficient military food for Cao Cao's army, that is to say, this year Yanzhou must be a good year with good wind and rain, and the grain will definitely be harvested. The kind-natured Taishi Dong didn't believe that such a large piece of fat could not be moved if they were placed in front of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, who were very short of food and grass?

After planting the root of the bane in the north, our Dong Taishi finally turned his attention to the south, Dong Taishi's future in-law Sun Jian has completely pacified the eight prefectures of the nine counties in Jiangdong, and the power is in full swing, and the Huang Zujun is fighting in the Jiangxia area, although our benevolent Dong Taishi for the first time did not interfere with the war between Liu Biaojun and Sun Jian's army when he spoke to the princes for the first time, but only verbally expressed support for Sun Jian, but Sun Jian's army still won one after another, and the Jingzhou army was defeated and completely gained the upper hand.

After the potato harvest in Yizhou in mid-June, Yizhou gradually got rid of the dilemma of relying on the three states of Yongliang for food, and after the corn harvest, the situation in Yizhou was completely stabilized. Our Dong Taishi also freed his hands, leaving Lu Bu, Zhao Yun and Xu Shu to guard Chengdu, and took a group of civil and military generals to Fuling, an important town on the Yangtze River, to inspect in person, while Chen Gong and Gan Ning had already built warships and trained sailors in Fuling, and all the work was in full swing.

Kang Peng and his entourage went south by boat, Kang Peng, who had never been on a boat, was seasick very badly, so faint that even jaundice spit out, although Hua Tuo gave him several seasickness decoctions, but others took some effect, but it had no effect on Kang Peng, Kang Peng had no choice but to give up the boat and take the horse, and Pang De took a team to protect him to take the land route to Fuling, Jia Xu, Lu Su, Wei Yan and Pang Tong and others led the army to still take the waterway.

There is Pang De with a group of loyal soldiers to take care of it, and it is not very hard to eat and sleep in the open along the way, but Kang Peng is full of sadness, like Dong Boss who has never been on a boat in his life, I don't know how many Xiliang iron cavalry warriors, there are many rivers in the south of the country, and the boat ride is as common as the horse ride in the north, if you want to conquer the south of the Yangtze River, you must take the warship as the main force, and the northern soldiers are on the ship, I don't know how much combat power will be lost. A chain of warships is a solution, but if the enemy attacks with fire, how can it be resisted?

After thinking about it, Kang Peng decided to make two preparations, one is to quickly build a large number of warships, train sailors diligently, and let the northern soldiers become familiar with the water as soon as possible; The second is to let Sun Ce, who stayed in Chang'an, marry Dong Wei as soon as possible, let Sun Jian die at the appropriate time, and then let Sun Ce take over Jiangnan and strive to capture Jiangdong without blood.

In September of the fourth year of Chuping, Kang Peng and his entourage arrived in Fuling, Jia Xu and others arrived early by boat, and Chen Gong, Gan Ning and others went to the city gate to meet Kang Peng, Kang Peng was not in a hurry to enter the city, and went straight to the dock and other places with the generals to inspect. When he arrived at the riverside, Kang Peng saw that the large and small warships in the river hugged the river and plugged the river, and the building ship that was as high as more than ten zhang was the city wall, and there were countless small ships shuttling among them, coming and going endlessly, there were still warships that could not be seen at a glance and had not yet been completed, the big trees on the shore were piled up like a mountain, and countless boatmen nailed wooden pavilions on the boat, so a busy scene.

"Each ship can carry 200 troops, of which one hundred and three have been completed and two hundred and forty-seven are in the process of being built. Each cargo ship can carry 3,000 grains, 160 have been built, and 440 are under construction," Chen Gong, who was in charge of the shipwright, told Kang Peng: "Each small boat can carry 50 soldiers, and each clipper can carry 20 soldiers, and each ship can carry 200 soldiers, and each has more than 600 ships that have not yet been completed. ”

"Very good, the public station is well prepared." Kang Peng couldn't be dissatisfied, so many military warships could be built in just half a year, and Kang Peng was no longer satisfied, so he could only ask Lu Ban to resurrect to build warships.

Kang Peng turned to Gan Ning again and asked, "Xingba, how is the training of the sailors?" Kang Peng is more concerned about the training of sailors, and if there are no qualified sailors who are familiar with the nature of the water, no matter how many warships there are, it will be in vain.

"Back to the Taishi, the situation is very bad." Gan Ning was not as happy as Chen Gong, and replied dejectedly: "I have trained them very gorgeously, but the northern soldiers are ugly and unfamiliar with the water, as soon as they get on the boat, the world spins, the ugly big vomit, at the beginning, there are even northern soldiers vomiting to death, after half a year of training, they can only stand ugly on the ship, and the vomiting situation is still very serious." Except for the young fishermen recruited locally, almost none of them can fight flashy water battles. ”

"Is it that serious?" Kang Peng's ugly face frowned, the situation of sailor training was even more difficult than he imagined, and going south to Jiangdong, at least to fight a decisive battle with the Jingzhou Naval Division, although the Jingzhou Naval Governor Cai Mao and Zhang Yun were similar in character to himself, but they were first-class good at leading the sailors, and using this unskilled sailor to fight a decisive battle with the Jingzhou Naval Division, the fierce was less.

At this time, a gust of wind blew, the river waves suddenly rose, the large and small ships swayed in the wind, the sailors of Dong Zhuojun on the ship stood unsteadily, and from time to time some sailors fell, and more sailors were lying on the side of the ship and vomiting, so anxious that Gan Ning scolded, "Ugly thing, lower the sail, lower the sail quickly!" But Gan Ning's order was always late, the two small boats full of sailors were blown crooked by the strong wind, and Dong Zhuojun's sailors did not know how to control the balance of the boat, so they rushed to the side of the inclined boat together, and plopped and plopped, and the two small boats with open sails overturned into the water, and the rest of the boats were busy fishing for the sailors, embarrassed. Seeing this scene, Kang Peng shook his head and sighed, feeling disappointed, and he was not in the mood to watch it any longer, so he returned to the Fuling military camp with everyone.

That night, Kang Peng convened all the civil and military generals in the big tent to discuss the training of sailors. Kang Peng got straight to the point and said: "Zhugong, Benxiang saw the first naval army of our Xiliang Army today, to be honest, Benxiang is very dissatisfied, it's been half a year, why are our sailors still so bad?" Gan Ning bowed his head deeply, he was responsible for the training of the sailors, and the sailor Xiong Cheng was like this, and he could not escape the blame.

The good old man Lu Su saw Gan Ning's embarrassment, and explained for him: "Taishi, the progress of sailor training is indeed slow, but you can't completely blame Xingba, the northern soldiers are good at horse warfare, not water warfare, and it is difficult for the northern soldiers to fully master the essence of water warfare in half a year." ”

"Brother Zijing is reasonable." Pang Tong, who was already Dong Zhuojun's deputy military division, also advised: "Taishi Mingjian, the southerners have been exposed to river boats since childhood, and they are familiar with the nature of the water, so they are easy to train. The soldiers in the north have never seen a few small rivers and streams since they were young, and it is too difficult for them to become familiar with water warfare in a hurry. ”

"You misunderstood, Benxiang is not blaming Xingba's training ability." Kang Peng shook his head and said: "The prime minister asked the generals today, Xingba usually trains sailors to do his duty, eats and lives on the warship, and only sleeps two hours a day, in order to familiarize the soldiers with water warfare as soon as possible." Kang Peng praised Gan Ning first, and suddenly the tone of his words changed, "But he can't train the law, the first time the northern soldiers came into contact with the big rivers, he forced these landlubbers to swim in the water, resulting in drowning as many as 100 soldiers, and also made the soldiers afraid of water from now on, and panicked when they saw water." And in peacetime training, he often drank and scolded the soldiers, and often applied military law, too harsh, although this is for the good of the soldiers, but he does not know Huairou, blindly only forcing the soldiers, and in the long run, the morale of the navy will inevitably be low. ”

Gan Ning was still a little dissatisfied with Kang Peng's accusations at first, but after listening to the facts that Kang Peng said now, Gan Ning's face was flushed, and he lowered his head and said: "What the Taishi said, every sentence is true, Gan Ning is guilty, please punish the Taishi." ”

Kang Peng was very satisfied with Gan Ning's attitude, nodded and said: "Very good, remove you from the position of governor of the Xiliang Army and the navy, and change to the deputy governor, are you convinced?" ”

Gan Ning dared to disagree, and immediately nodded yes, but Dong Zhuojun and everyone were taken aback, and Lu Su hurriedly said: "Taishi, only Xingba and Bofu are good at water warfare in our army, Bofu is far away in Chang'an, you withdraw Xingba, who can still be in this big position?" What's more, he ....... Lu Su can't go on talking about this, among Dong Zhuojun's strategic subordinates, Jiangdong can be taken by skill, and if he can't be taken by force, Sun Ce is Sun Jian's eldest son, Dong Zhuojun naturally will not let him serve as the governor of the navy and go to kill his father.

"Master, please think twice." Jia Xu also persuaded Kang Peng: "Although Xingba has made mistakes, just correct them, and our army no longer has a general who can take on the responsibility of supervising the navy." ”

"Yes." Kang Peng picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea and said: "In this tent, there is a person who can serve as the governor of the navy, and Benxiang believes that he will definitely be able to train an invincible sailor for Benxiang." As soon as Kang Peng's voice fell, everyone looked at each other, Jia Xu, Pang Tong and Lu Su in the big tent were all civil officials, Pang De, Wei Yan and Wu Yi and others were all landlubbers, except for one Gan Ning, I really couldn't find a second general who could bring sailors.

"Dare to ask the Grand Master, who is this general?" Lu Su asked cautiously.

"That's you." Kang Peng replied casually with understatement: "You Lu Zijing can take on this great responsibility." ”

Everyone was dumbfounded, and the most surprised person was Lu Su himself, Lu Su muttered: "Taishi, are you joking?" Although Lu Su likes to read the art of war, and has lived by the river since he was a child, he has some understanding of water warfare, but he has no experience in leading troops, so let Lu Su lead the troops, is the Taishi not afraid that Lu Su will be the second Zhao Kuo? ”

"Soldiers are trained, and generals are also trained." Kang Peng said lightly: "Benxiang will give you a year and a half, materials, ordnance, money and food will be given priority to support you, and then let Xingba and Bofu assist, you must build an invincible sailor for Benxiang in eighteen months, can you be confident?" ”

Lu Su opened his mouth wide, but seeing Kang Peng's firm gaze, Lu Su made up his mind, got up and replied with four words, "Lu Su takes the order." ”

Kang Peng was overjoyed, "Very good, from today onwards, you will be dismissed from the post of deputy military division and young commander, and serve as the governor of my Xiliang Army and Navy." The prime minister sent a letter to Bo Fu, saying that he would come to train the navy army to help his father fight Jingzhou, and I believed that he would definitely fly to Fuling. ”

For Kang Peng's appointment, Jia Xu and Pang Tong and others are all up and down in their hearts, including Lu Su's heart is also excited and nervous, only Kang Peng is confident, in history Lu Su served as the governor of the Eastern Wu Navy and Army for seven years, although he did not win a battle, but left a naval army in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to break through Jingzhou, an army that lacked cavalry but burned the joint camp in Yiling, and a whole generation of undefeated iron army that continued to take the main attack on Wei in ten years!

Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements.