The fire in the water village on the west bank burned all night, and Jiang Qin did not sleep that night. He was worried that the water village had been lost, and if Zhou Tai landed again to attack Guan Yu's camp. In this way, he has been guarding the open space a mile away from the west shore of the lake. Knowing that the sky was bright, he took the men and horses back to Guan Yu's station.

"Gong Yi? How's the battle going? ”

"As soon as Zhou Tai's house came up, he set fire to the village, the fire was too big to save ......"

"That's fine! That place can't be held anyway. Once the fire is burned, Zhou Tai will not be able to garrison troops on the west bank, and the threat to us will be smaller. Guan Yu comforted.

"That's true, but from today onwards, you need to send more sentry spies from the station to the mouth of the lake!"

"Well, Gongyi, you have to rest at the station for a day, today Guan Mou will definitely break through the mouth of the lake and enter the inner lake. If you succeed, the effect of your victory will be revealed! Guan Yu listened to Jiang Qin's story about last night, but he didn't have many regrets, Zhou Tai was so nervous, and the whole army was dispatched, which can only show that the camp that Jiang Qin captured yesterday was very important.

There are camps on both sides of the lake, if you don't take the west bank, in addition to being easy to be attacked at night, Guan Yu will also be easy to be attacked when Guan Yu breaks through the lakemouth and enters the inner lake to attack Zhou Tai in the future. Jiang Qin didn't sleep all night, so he had to obey Guan Yu's arrangement and rest at the station. And Guan Yu set off with the whole army after breakfast early, and the station was only four or five miles away from Sangluozhou, and it was down the river again, and it arrived soon. At this time, Zhou Tai also finished lining up at Hukou early, and a fierce battle began again......

…… In this way, during the day, Guan Yu led people to attack from Sangluozhou to the mouth of the lake. At night, Jiang Qin was stationed on the west bank of the lake with his men and horses to prevent Zhou Tai from attacking Guan Yu from behind from the land. The two also cooperate tacitly.

But Zhou Tai's side couldn't support it, although it was the home field, and the wind direction helped. However, the troops were too small, and more than 1,000 people were killed by Jiang Qin when Xu Sheng led people to garrison the west bank. And every day he fought against Guan Yu on Sunday, there were nearly 1,000 casualties. In four or five days, the combat effectiveness of Zhou Tai's troops had dropped by more than half. And Guan Yu paid even more than Zhou Tai every day. But it's still the same math problem.

Guan Yu has nearly three times as many men and horses as Zhou Tai, even if Guan Yu loses 10,000, Zhou Taizhi's loss of 5,000 will become 5,000 to 20,000, and the ratio becomes 1 to 4. If there is another loss, 2,000 people will be exchanged for 4,000 Guan Yu, then it will become 3,000 against 17,000...... At this time, Liu Cong's 50,000 army was attacking Chaisang, and Liu Pan's 30,000 army was also under the city of Nanchang!

Except for Cheng Pu, who was coming, it was impossible for Zhou Tai to have other reinforcements! And Guan Yu saw this, so he attacked fiercely every day, just to take the mouth of the lake as soon as possible. The two sides fought fiercely for five days, and after the team was assembled at dawn on the sixth day, Xu Sheng said to Zhou Tian worriedly: "General Zhou, in another day or two, General Cheng Pu will not arrive again, and I am afraid that this lake mouth will be ......."

"General Cheng wants to raise warships, grain and grass, and he is going upstream, so he will naturally march slowly, but I believe that he will be able to arrive soon. Today's battle must be very difficult. You stay in the camp, and if our army is defeated, you will send people to deliver letters to the governor and the general Cheng respectively!" ”

"General Zhou, what do you mean by this?" Xu Sheng heard the meaning of Zhou Tai's words, and now it is very difficult to stick to Hukou in this situation. Therefore, Zhou Tai is going to prepare for four battles without exception, so let Xu Sheng stay in the camp to report to Lu Su and Cheng Pu.

"You and I were ordered to garrison Hukou, but the enemy was outnumbered and outnumbered, and Zhou Tai was unable to return to the sky, but if Guan Yu occupied Hukou and did not notify the governor in time, it would definitely be a big mess of the governor's deployment! So I'll leave this matter to you! “

"General Zhou, now that our army has many wounded soldiers, it is not advisable to fight hard, it is better to stick to the camp from today onwards! Strive to delay the ...... for a day or two"

"No, if Guan Yu sees that our army does not attack, he will definitely let people bypass Sangluozhou, land from the east, and attack our army's camp from the east! It will be more passive when the time comes, but don't forget how the West Bank camp was lost. Of course Zhou Tai knew what Xu Sheng meant, there are a lot of wounded soldiers in the camp now, and if they defend the camp, these people can still be useful, but if they continue to confront each other on the river, these wounded soldiers will not be able to leave the camp.

But as Zhou Tai said, he was worried that once he retreated, Guan Yu would definitely send someone ashore. Although the fortress was stronger and much better fortified than the one on the west bank, this did not mean that it could not be breached. The key is to attack from both sides, which is easy to cause chaos on your side.

Although his own number accounted for an absolute disadvantage, Zhou Tai still insisted on taking the soldiers out of the camp to the opposite shore of Sangluzhou a mile away, and grandma blocked the mouth of the lake! This is already the sixth day, and Guan Yu now finally understands why Liu Cong sent himself, if he is replaced by an ordinary general, there is no way to suppress Zhou Tai.

But even if it is attacking every day, Zhou Tai has no sign of rout! Obviously, the enemy has been very strong, and of course it has something to do with Cheng Pu's imminent arrival. The lord Liu Cong sent someone to inform him last night that Cheng Pu might arrive at Hukou within two days, and if he couldn't break through Hukou today, Liu Cong asked Guan Yu to collect his troops and return to the Chaisang camp, so as not to suffer the enemy on his back!

Although Liu Cong did not have any evaluation of the progress of the war, this was a blow to Guan Yu when he came, and it was even a very serious blow! If he withdraws his troops at this point, I am afraid that he will only be able to follow the lord to make suggestions in the future, which is obviously not what he is good at, nor is it what he wants. So before setting off today, he asked Jiang Qin to set off with all the soldiers who were on duty at night!

"Gongyi, we must break through the Zhoutai camp in Hukou today, otherwise you and I will face the lord speechlessly!" After Guan Yu finished speaking, he handed the letter sent by Liu Cong last night to Jiang Qin, and Jiang Qin immediately understood whose letter he had read!

"General Guan, it is decided that you should follow the general into the enemy camp, and never return to the army if you don't take the camp!"

"Good! Let's go! "Guan Yu has already passed the order, and there is only one goal today, Hukou Water Village!

One side is eager to take it, and the other side is stubbornly resisting! As you can imagine, the battle was even more fierce than the previous five days. Soldiers on both sides were constantly wounded, and warships were constantly fighting and drifting in the river. From dawn to evening, the blood of the soldiers on both sides turned the entire river into a red sauce jar! There are even corpses of soldiers who sank to the bottom of the river earlier to the surface of the water!

As the sun sets, it was originally the time when the two sides tacitly agreed to withdraw their troops, and today is indeed an exception! Guan Yu even came to the flagship's war drums, snatched two big copper hammers from the drummers, and struck them hard! As the saying goes, the east wind blows, and the war drums beat!

Guan Yu's nearly 20,000 soldiers received an order in the morning that they must take Hukou Shuizhai, and at this time, there were still four or five hundred steps away from Shuizhai, so they naturally knew that they could not retreat. And the drums on the warship were beating higher and higher, and the speed of the warship was getting faster and faster! All the ships are pointing in one direction: the mouth of the lake!

Many warships crowded together, almost next to each other, and the powerful current even forced the warships of the Soochow Navy to retreat!

"General Zhou! Withdraw! Guan Yu on the other side is afraid that he is crazy! ”

"Haha, the more this is the case, it means that General Cheng is coming, he can't relax at this moment, and he can hold on for a moment!" Zhou Tai also threw down his weapon at this time and came to the side of the war drum, and shouted to the drummer: "Give me strength!" Hurry up! ”

"Go away! I got it! Zhou Tai didn't hold back in the end!

This is an unconventional battle, in the past, on land, as long as any side suffered more than three or four percent casualties, either the initiative to retreat, or the soldiers scattered and fled! And today, it is almost impossible to count how many people have died. But neither side retreated, because the goals of both sides were so clear! And on the river, if you escape without permission, you can only jump into the river, which is afraid that it will be a dead end!

Although Xu Sheng repeatedly dissuaded him from the side, Zhou Tai did not retreat, but he did not hold on either. In the end, Guan Yu even used a warship to push Zhou Tai and others into Poyang Lake! Seeing that there were more and more enemy troops entering the lake, in order to avoid being surrounded, Zhou Tai had no choice but to follow Xu Sheng's advice and retreat into the Hukou camp with the remnants!

And Guan Yu didn't stop there! commanded the whole army to continue the pursuit, until he came to the Hukou Water Village, only then did he temporarily stop and rest for a while, and then launched an attack on the camp! At this time, Zhou Tai guarded the 10,000 people at the mouth of the lake, and only two or three thousand people were left to fight, and Guan Yu was not optimistic, but it was much better than Zhou Tai. The strength of the army is already five or six times that of Zhou Tai!

When the battle came to this, Guan Yu naturally refused to give up! While ordering people to bring the wounded back to the station, and at the same time sending Jiang Qin to look around for the landing site, while commanding the warships to surround the entire water village, it is obvious that Guan Yu is not counting Zhou Tai and Xu Sheng and others to escape from the water!

The battle continues, and the sun has long since sunk into the sky! The two sides continue to fight at night! With the defense of the camp, the casualties of Zhou Tai's troops were reduced a lot, while Guan Yu completely ignored the casualties of his soldiers and commanded the flagship to rush into the camp, and then began to enter the camp to fight! Soon, the battle gradually moved from the river to the Hukou camp.

After an hour, the river was almost silent, but the battle in the Hukou Water Village filled every corner. Once he entered hand-to-hand combat, Guan Yu also had no weapon advantage, and Zhou Tai's defensive advantage disappeared completely. And the advantage in numbers was shown at this time!

"General Zhou! If you don't withdraw, it's too late! ”

"According to what I said before, you quickly bring someone to deliver a letter to the governor!" Zhou Tai knew that the Hukou camp could not be held tonight, and he had to try to inform Lu Su. But as the main general, Hukou is lost, and he is duty-bound! So Zhou Tai has already made up his mind at this time, determined to stick to the end!

Xu Sheng saw how to persuade and pull, Zhou Tai refused to leave, so he had to quietly withdraw from the battlefield with a few entourages, ready to send a letter to Lu Su!

An hour later, Guan Yu had completely occupied Hukou Water Village, and Zhou Tai and hundreds of his men were forced to the shore! Seeing the enemy generals covered in blood and blurred flesh, Guan Yu also secretly admired! If you change to a slightly softer enemy general, it won't be so hard to bite!

"Lay down your arms and surrender immediately!" Guan Yu paused and said to the last enemy.

"No more nonsense! If you have the courage to come and fight to the death! Zhou Tai was willing to surrender, and the soldiers behind him were also the most elite and combat-ready in the Wu army. Guan Yu persuaded him to surrender, but none of them reacted, and they all looked at Zhou Tai in unison!

"Youping, surrender, sooner or later when our army sweeps Jiangdong, why do you bother to fight with your body?" Zhou Tai was about to give some encouragement to the dead soldiers behind him, but Jiang Qin didn't know where to get out.

"Shameless boy, the lord has taken you a lot, why do you want to surrender Jingzhou, and now you are seizing my camp, killing my soldiers, and persuading me to surrender?" Although Zhou Tai was also very angry in his heart, he also knew that it was useless to scold, so he beckoned to Jiang Qin: "Come here, let me cut you with a knife!" Relieve the hatred of the lord and Jiangdong! ”