It wasn't until the Jingzhou soldiers rushed into the water village one after another that Huang Gai understood why three-quarters of the water army in Jiangdong gathered in Chaisang, and the commanders and fierce generals basically went to the front line except for his old guy and Wujun Taishou Zhu Zhi, but they still did not stop Liu Cong, in just two months, Cheng Pu, Zhou Tai and others died in battle, and Chaisang and Nanchang fell successively! Don't blame Lu Su, don't blame Cheng Pu, these Jingzhou people are too cunning!

First, they deceived the arrows, and then used fishing boats to get close to the water village, so that the defending soldiers had to abandon the outermost wooden fence of the water village to rely on, and instead went down to the boat to entangle with the enemy. With the influx of Jingzhou naval troops, the battle entered a white-knuckle battle, Huang Gai had arrows, but the enemy was close! After getting close, what is fought is the bravery of the generals and the usual training of the soldiers. And the Jingzhou Navy played a triumphant song all the way, and the morale was booming at this time! In addition, there is an absolute advantage in numbers, so he shouts and rushes into the water village.

This battle lasted for two hours, until both sides were exhausted and the east was white, and Guan Yu withdrew his troops! The water village was burned, hit by boats, and slashed, the periphery was already in tatters, and there was no longer a defense, and the warships in the entire water village were also damaged a lot, and the most terrifying thing for Huang Gai was that there were more than 3,000 soldiers killed in a bitter battle alone, and there were even more wounded!

The defenders could have relied on the fortifications to engage the attackers, but the defense of the water village was largely ineffective that night, for the simple reason that they were reluctant to send arrows. And Guan Yu's Jingzhou Navy Army charged inward regardless of losses. Although they also paid the price, Guan Yu and Liu Cong's troops together were 25,000 people! Even if it's one-to-one, it's a great deal!

After the two sides collected their troops, Huang Gai personally circled around the water village a few times, and now the arrows were enough, because Guan Yu was not stingy before leading people to charge, but there were not enough people to release the arrows, and there were only 7,000 people left to guard the water village, and 2,000 were temporarily transferred from Lujiang. If it weren't for Huang Gai's usual strict leadership of troops, I am afraid that the water village would have fallen into the hands of Guan Yu long ago. Huang Gai also didn't understand why Guan Yu wanted to withdraw his troops.

I heard that at the beginning of the bloody battle at Hukou, Guan Yu began to attack as soon as it was dark, until he took down Zhou Tai's head and killed the last few hundred dead soldiers who insisted on not wanting to completely occupy Hukou. Huang Gai knew in his heart that if Guan Yu was like this last night, he would only have one way to escape! Then after waiting for a detailed inspection of the water village, Huang Gai decisively gave up the wet beard! This is the only naval army camp that can stop Liu Cong's army from continuing to advance eastward! With his subordinates, he hurriedly walked towards the Lujiang River.

It turned out that there was heavy fog and night cover last night, and the Jingzhou soldiers actually sent people to destroy the outermost wooden fence of the water village, and it was impossible to repair it quickly, although the enemy troops on the river were likely to attack! And today it was still a foggy day. In the early autumn season, there was a lot of fog, and in addition to last night's battle, more than 10,000 scarecrows and hundreds of fishing boats lit countless wooden fences and burned for two hours. Such visibility is very bad for the defenders!

Because Liu Cong and Guan Yu can rely on their own people to move forward bravely, and if Huang Gai can't find and kill the enemy before he enters the firing range, once the enemy gets close, he will be outnumbered and face a situation of being surrounded. Cheng Pu is dead, and Zhou Tai is also dead! Although Huang Gai was willing to give up his life for Jiangdong. But he felt that even if he died, he should return to Lujiang City and use the city walls of the county town to deal with the enemy!

Huang Gai's abandonment of the Whisker Water Village made Liu Cong and Guan Yu also wonder for a while, and then soon the whole army entered the Whisker Water Village after resting for four hours. Then he sent people to the south bank of the Yangtze River to deliver letters to Liu Pan and Yu Ban. Let Yu Ban come to prepare to lead the army to attack Lujiang! According to the information, the county seat of Lujiang was only 5,000 defenders at this time, so Liu Cong planned to leave 12,000 men and horses for Yu Ban, in addition to holding the wet beard, but also to drag Huang Gai, so that he could not return to Jiangdong. And Liu Cong planned to continue eastward with Guan Yu to join Gan Ning.

In this way, the entire Yuzhang is Huo Jun guarding Chaisang and Zhang Jaw guarding Nanchang, each leading 5,000 troops. Remove the loss along the way, and then subtract the Yu Ban who was dragged by the yellow cover. At present, the Eastern Expeditionary Army still has 30,000 infantry in Liu Pan's hands, and among the 25,000 naval troops, Gan Ning has 10,000, and Liu Cong and Guan Yu have 15,000 people.

After Yu Ban arrived in Weisu, Liu Pan had already followed Liu Cong's instructions to the south to prepare to attack Xin'an County (present-day Qu County). Sun Quan moved south, although Wu County was still heavily guarded, but Liu Cong estimated that after he and Gan Ning converged, Xu Ming could boldly send troops to cooperate with him to attack Wu County, so that Liu Pan's purpose of attacking Xin'an was to occupy the upper reaches of the river again, and then go down the river to Qiantang, and go north to encircle Wu County, just like when he encircled Chaisang. The south is approaching Shaoxing, so the defenders of Wu County must be restless!

After a few days of his stay, Liu Cong finally confirmed that Cao Cao did not claim the throne immediately after capturing Hanzhong, but prepared his troops and horses to prepare to attack Baishui Pass in the south. This is also an attempt by Cao Cao, before which he had made several expeditions to the south, but each time he returned in vain, some people attributed the reason for the defeat to the fact that the waters of Jingzhou and Yangzhou were too wide and unfavorable to the northern soldiers. From Hanzhong to the south, mountains and plains are connected. Plain and mountain warfare was Cao Cao's specialty, although he held back Zhanglu for a considerable period of time in northern Hanzhong.

Although Zhang Lu also suggested to Cao Cao after the surrender, saying that Baishui Pass was easy to defend and difficult to attack, but now that Liu Cong is far away in Jiangdong, the movement is so big, Cao Cao certainly doesn't want to stand still, and sees Liu Cong getting bigger and not moving. Even if he really can't break through Baishui Pass in the end, he has to try! Now that Cao Cao decided to join the war, Liu Cong really couldn't organize Cao Cao except to speed up. With Wei Yan and Zhang Ren stationed at Baishui Pass, plus Huang Zhong's support, it was no problem for him to persist for a few months. Moreover, in recent years, Yizhou and Liangzhou have been supported by the efforts of Jiang Wan and others, and it is not difficult to recruit troops on a large scale.

But it is not good news that the Huanggai turtle shrank to the Lujiang River, on the surface Lujiang is a lonely city, but because it is in the north of the river, and the west is a mountain, Zhang Liao in the north is afraid that he has already been instructed by Cao Cao to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight! Huang Gai must hold on to the city when he enters the city, if he doesn't pull it out, he may cross the river south to attack Liu Pan, and even go west to Hukou to make trouble!

But if it drags on for another month or two like Chaisang and Nanchang at the beginning, then Wei Yan on the Western Front will have to complain. So Liu Cong decided to let Yu Ban deal with Huang Gai. He and Guan Yu continued to go east along the river with the navy.

Xu Ming was so excited at this time that he learned that Liu Cong had finally come over in Qu'a, and he ambushed Sun Quan halfway last time, and gained a lot of benefits, and after returning to Qu'a, he was recruiting new recruits, and now there are nearly 7,000 people, of which 5,000 have been trained for several months and initially have actual combat ability.

Gan Ning's troops finally resisted after entering the Moling Realm, and the person who commanded the troops was none other than Zhu Zhi, the Taishou of Wu County! Sun Quan actively expanded his influence in Jiangdong, and in the sixteenth year of Jian'an (211), he moved to Moling and changed Moling to Jianye. In the following year, the city was built on the basis of Jinlingyi, and "used to store military rations and equipment", which was the famous Stone City (also known as Shishou City). Stone City is near the river to control Huai, relying on danger, and is the river defense fortress and city defense stronghold of the Dongwu Navy Army.

Zhu Zhi is a veteran, of course he knows the importance of Jianye, if he gives up Jianye, then Wu County and Shaoxing behind him will soon be exposed to Liu Cong. Gan Ning was the 'One Piece' who practiced the navy on the Yangtze River all the year round, and when he saw the location and defense of Jianye City, he immediately stopped moving forward, but retreated twenty miles, camped in Jiangbei, and then sent someone to meet Liu Cong.

It's not that Gan Ning is timid, but Jianye's position is too good, which reminds Gan Ning of Xiangyang. The Yangtze River bends here, and the northwest, northeast and entire north of Jianye City are surrounded by the Yangtze River. If the two sides break up a big battle on the river, Gan Ning will naturally not be afraid.

But if Gan Ning wants to attack from the surface of the river to the shore and then brave the arrows and boulders thrown from the shore, it is a very risky thing in this season when the river is abundant. And what Liu Cong asked was to reduce the losses, and at this time, Zhang Liao, not far from Jiangbei, was closely watching everything that was happening in Jiangnan, and Cao Cao was already preparing to go south from Hanzhong. If the Jingzhou Navy fights with Zhu Zhi in Jianye, it is obviously not worth it.

Although Gan Ning was brave, he did not dare to be strong in the face of such a situation, and he even planned to ask for orders to attack Jianye after the arrival of the lord Liu Cong, so that Guan Yu would make a detour south to threaten Wu County, and disrupt Zhu Zhi's deployment, as for the lord Liu Cong, he should return to Xiangyang as soon as possible to preside over the overall situation of dealing with Cao Cao.

Guan Yu heard that Gan Ning in front of him was deflated, and his mood was very complicated! Glad that Gan Ning was finally not allowed to steal the credit this time, what he was worried about was that he knew that Gan Ning was by no means weak, and he must have encountered some big difficulties.

"My lord, Xingba's suggestion is very reasonable. Now that most of the main forces in Jiangdong have been wiped out by our army, the remaining remnants are extremely widely distributed, and it will take a lot of time to clarify them one by one. ”

"Zhu Zhi is Sun Quan's last barrier, and only by defeating Zhu Zhi can Sun Quan be truly deterred. The reason why Sun Quan decided to move the capital was that he still had luck in his heart, thinking that Cao Cao would participate in this war after capturing Hanzhong, and Shaoxing was far away from the river, and there were mountains in the southwest as a barrier, and when Sun Jing led the troops back, there were 20,000 or 30,000 people stationed in Shaoxing. In addition, the number of defenders in Wu County and Jianye will even be as high as forty or fifty thousand! And Lu Su and Lu Meng must soon return to Wu County to set up defenses, so to say that the rest are just some remnants, that is, some light enemies. "Liu Cong didn't want Guan Yu and his soldiers to underestimate the enemy at this time.

In fact, Sun Quan has been operating in Jiangdong for fifteen years, which is twice as long as his time in Jingzhou! In addition, there were Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao in the past, and later there were Lu Su and Lu Meng. Although Chaisang was defeated, his troops were lost and his morale was greatly reduced! But if he is blocked by Zhu Zhi, Sun Quan will be able to turn over immediately! So at present, in addition to pinning hopes on Liu Pan to speed up the march, the first thing is to find a way to break Zhu Zhi and capture Jianye!

Zhu Zhi was defeated, no one in Jiangdong could lead the troops, and Jianye was broken, so Xu Ming's Qu'a was trained with himself, and he could press all the way from north to south. Although Xu Ming's number is small, he has a special identity and has a certain appeal in Jiangdong! As for how to break Zhu Zhi, Liu Cong was quite familiar with Jiang Qin, and thought of Han Dang and Xu Sheng, who had already returned to Shun!

It's just a pity that he didn't catch Zhu Ran when he captured Chaisang and Nanchang, otherwise he would swing this kid forward in front of the battle, and I am afraid that Zhu Zhi would have to scruple three points!