Gan Ning danced the Jiaolong Bahai Hook like a propeller, spinning and attacking Sun Ce, and the soldiers of Sun Ce, who were not long-eyed, were swept away by this attack and flew out. Sun Ce held his spear and kept resisting, but it couldn't match the speed of Gan Ning's double hooks, so he had to retreat again and again.

Seeing this, Cheng Pu hurriedly waved the Iron Spine Snake Spear to help Sun Ce, and as soon as Cheng Pu came, Gan Ning immediately couldn't parry. Gan Ning retreated while fighting, retreating to the end of the sampan, seeing that there was no way out, suddenly the hull of Sun Ce's big ship shook violently.

"Knock knock......" A rapid sound came from the bottom of the boat, Sun Ce's hull gradually tilted, and the bottom of the cabin began to flood.

Sun Ce and his subordinates were so shaken by this violent shaking that they almost fell to the ground, and Gan Ning smiled evilly and jumped into the river.

It turned out to be Gan Ning's Jinfan thieves, who took advantage of Gan Ning's fierce battle with Sun Ce to swim to the bottom of Sun Ce's army and chiseled the bottom of the ship with tools such as hammers and iron drills. Ganning knew they had succeeded when he felt the hull tilt of the ship, and jumped into the river to fight them.

Gan Ning and they fled on a boat, and the soldiers on Gan Ning's Mon also cut the ropes and sailed the ship away from Sun Ce's ship.

Huang Gai saw that the ship was about to capsize, so he hurriedly said to Sun Ce: "Lord, you go first." I'll break it off. ”

Sun Ce rushed to a plank that was about to fall into the water as the two ships separated, and Sun Ce jumped on it. stepped on it with one foot, and jumped onto Gan Ning's big ship with the force of the recoil.

Sun Ce swung the ancient ingot knife and began to kill the Han Xuan soldiers on the ship, and when Han Xuan's soldiers saw Sun Ce coming alone, they surrounded him. Although Sun Ce was brave and unmatched, he was outnumbered and forced to the side of the boat.

Sun Ce saw Gan Ning jump into the river before, thinking that he would return to the Mong, so he wanted to chase Gan Ning. As a result, he didn't find Gan Ning on it, and seeing that his Mong was about to sink, he couldn't kill so many Han Xuan soldiers in front of him.

Is there really no way back? The river is so wide, and Sun Ce can't swim back. Seeing that the ship was about to sink, Sun Ce's sergeants rushed the boat, and Huang Gai killed several soldiers who had robbed the boat with him, and drove the boat to Ganning to pick up Sun Ce.

"Lord, get on the boat quickly!" Huang Gai shouted at Sun Ce. Sun Ce was deeply moved when he saw Huang Gai risking death to pick him up, and turned around and jumped on the boat.

Huang Gai hurriedly drove the boat to the shore, and the Han Xuan sergeant on the Meng Gong fired arrows at Huang Gai and Sun Ce, Huang Gai was hit by an arrow in the chest, fortunately he had armor to protect himself, but he was seriously injured.

Sun Ce used the ancient ingot knife to open a few arrows, and seeing that the arrows were raining down, Huang Gai dropped the oars and held a big shield to block the dense rain of arrows.

Huang Gai hurriedly shouted at Sun Ce: "Lord, row the boat quickly, I'll block the arrows!" ”

Sun Ce hurriedly grabbed the oars and drove the boat away from Gan Ning's Mong, Huang Gai raised his shield to cover the left and right in front of Sun Ce, and Huang Gai's shield was hit by arrows in the places where the shield did not cover. Huang Gai gritted his teeth and endured the pain, standing firm, and finally escorted Sun Ce out of the range of Gan Ning's Mong.

Huang Gai breathed a sigh of relief, and slumped on the boat, Sun Ce helped Huang Gai up and said with tears in his eyes: "A person who is alone in danger, if it weren't for the public to save me, I would have died in this river today!" ”

Huang Gai was seriously injured, and he couldn't pay attention to his words, he pointed behind Sun Ce: "Lord...... Gong, Han ...... The ...... of the Righteous Fathers Boat. ”

It turned out that Han Dang's ship had arrived, Sun Ce beckoned to Han Dang, and Han Dang led people to rescue Sun Ce and Huang Gai. Sun Ce's navy still repelled Ganning's navy, and Ganning's navy retreated to Hengjiang to hold on.

Sun Cejun recaptured Danglikou, Sun Ce held a banquet to thank the soldiers for their hard work, Sun Ce raised his glass to Dong Xi and said: "Today's banquet here is thanks to the Yuan Dynasty's work in cutting ropes." ”

Dong Xi thanked Sun Ce, drank this glass of wine, and sighed: "It's a pity that General Ling Cao can't drink with us!" ”

When the generals heard this, they couldn't help but feel very sorry, in this battle, Sun Cejun lost ten ships, Ling Cao, the general of Xiandeng was killed, Huang Gai was seriously injured, and nearly half of the casualties of the navy army.

Sun Cejun can be said to have won a miserable victory, Sun Ce and the others are deeply jealous of Gan Ning, the governor of the naval army under Han Xuan, Sun Ce raised his head and sighed: "Why is Han Xuan so fateful, he has such a capable person as Gan Ning to assist!" ”

The generals remembered Ling Cao, who followed Sun Ce to climb first in every battle, but was unfortunately shot by Gan Ning. Sun Ce raised his glass and said, "This glass of wine, General Ling Cao." ”

Sun Ce spilled the wine on the ground and sighed: "General Ling Cao is good, I will kill Han Xuan and capture Gan Ning to avenge you." ”

Zhu Zhi said to Sun Ce: "My lord, General Ling Cao has a son named Ling Tong, who is only seven years old. I would like to take him as my adopted son and let him practice literature and martial arts with Ran'er, so that he can avenge his father in the future. ”

Sun Ce acquiesced to Zhu Zhi, and Zhu Zhi asked Ling Tong to take him to his mansion and let him study with Zhu Ran and be called brothers.

Sun Ce was anxious to fight Han Xuan in his heart, although Zhou Yu and Zhu Zhi and others persuaded him to fight a protracted battle with Han Xuan, Sun Ce did not think so, because he knew that when developing his strength, Han Xuan developed faster than him.

This Gan Ning is an example, Sun Ce doesn't know how many talents like Gan Ning can be recruited by Han Xuan, although he has a lot of relatives, like Sun Ben, Sun Fu and the like, he can defend one side by pulling one out at will.

But Sun Ce knew that he couldn't drag it out, and he would drag on with Han Xuan for a few more years, and he didn't know how far he could develop.

Sun Ce then asked his subordinates to beat drums to gather generals, Zhu Zhi, Han Dang and others rushed to discuss the matter, Sun Ce said: "Our army has just won the victory, and the morale is greatly boosted, at this time, it is advisable to take advantage of the victory to pursue and defeat Han Xuan in one go!" ”

Zhu Zhi persuaded: "The lord can't, our army won a crushing victory in this battle, and the morale of the people is greatly boosted." At this time, it is time to recuperate, and when our army consolidates the foundation of Wu County, General Gongjin captures Huiji. At that time, it is not too late to fight Han Xuan again! ”

Cheng Pu also supported Zhu Zhi, but Sun Ce felt that they were too conservative and insisted on sending troops to fight Han Xuan.

Sun Ce immediately ordered Zhu Zhi to hand over Xu Yi's naval army to Dong Xian's command, and Dong Zhai led the naval army to attack Hengjiang and fight a decisive battle with Gan Ning. Sun Ce led Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Sun Fu and others to lead 20,000 troops to attack Han Xuan by land.

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In Shicheng, Han Xuan received the news that Sun Ce's whole army was attacking, and hurriedly summoned everyone to discuss. Chen Wu said: "Big brother, if Sun Ce wants to fight a decisive battle with us, then fight him." I don't believe that our 30,000-strong army will be afraid of them, so let me be the vanguard, and see if I lead the army to kill them and turn them on their backs! ”

Zhang Zhao rushed ahead of the strategists and said: "Lord, General Chen Wu is brave and brave, but Sun Cejun and our army are evenly matched. Our army should preserve its strength, Jingzhou still has Liu Du and Liu Biao, and Lujiang still has Yuan Shu, if our army and Sun Ce's army are both defeated, they will inevitably benefit from it. ”

Han Xuan nodded at Zhang Zhao: "What Zibu said is reasonable, our army should not fight hard with Sun Cejun." Since Sun Ce's whole army attacked, our army naturally had to face the battle. Chen Wu, order you to lead 3,000 elite soldiers as the vanguard to meet the enemy......"

Chen Wu took the military order and was just about to go down, when Han Xuan stopped him and said, "Slow down, this battle is only allowed to lose, not to win!" ”

Chen Wu muttered in his heart, what kind of medicine is sold in Han Xuan's gourd, how can he still learn Zhuge Liang's set. Han Xuan said again: "When our army was defeated and retreated, we burned all the grain and grass in the city. ”

"What?!" Everyone shouted out in surprise, and Chen Qun stepped forward and asked, "What do you mean, my lord, it's the middle of winter right now." If we burn out the grain, grass, winter clothes, and other baggage, where will our army get supplies? ”

Han Xuan said with a smile: "If Sun Ce comes to attack Shicheng, our army will burn the baggage and retreat to Wuhu to join Jiang Qin's army. ”

(End of chapter)