Chapter 260: All the way to the east

The 50,000 Dongwu sailors who went south to rescue Nanchang were disabled and driven to Poyang Lake under Huang Xu's serial blows. The area of Poyang Lake is huge, like a small ocean, and when you come here, it is the world of the Eastern Wu Navy, and the Shu army without the navy has to stop the pursuit.

Now it is simple for Huang Xujun, as long as these tributaries are held and the Dongwu Navy is not allowed to enter the main trunk of the Ganjiang River from Poyang Lake, the reinforcement plan of the Dongwu Navy will become a complete joke.

However, the estuaries of each tributary (let's call it that way, in fact, refers to the mouth of the Gan River flowing into Poyang Lake) are relatively wide, and the range and power of long-range weapons in this era are very limited, so it is not realistic to hold them here. The more the tributaries branch out at the back, there are more than a dozen estuaries that enter Poyang Lake at the end.

With the Huangxu army, it is impossible to hold more than a dozen estuaries at the same time, so the Shu army can only return, back to the vicinity of Nanchang, and still in Yangzizhou, where all the tributaries converge into two. Huang Xu set up some trebuchets on the opposite bank of the island in the middle of the lake and the two tributaries of Yangzizhou to hold the two tributaries.

In addition, use some civilian boats, load **, and scatter them in these two sections of the river, if they encounter the Dongwu Navy to go and return, let them taste the ** again.

In this way, if the Dongwu Navy still wants to enter the main trunk of the Ganjiang River to reinforce Nanchang, it must first go through the baptism of these trebuchets and **. But apparently Huang Xu's worries are a bit redundant.

Xu Sheng's army had already been frightened, the troops had suffered heavy losses, their morale was low, and they were facing the risk of collapse, if it weren't for Xu Sheng's strong bullet pressure, I am afraid that there would have been a large-scale desertion long ago.

In addition, Xu Sheng and his staff couldn't think of a way to deal with the Shu army for a while, so they had to keep floating in Poyang Lake, unable to advance or retreat.

Let's turn our attention to the north of the Yangtze River, the southern line of the Huang Xu Army, the central line of the Guansuo Army have achieved impressive results, the northern line led by Zhang Bai, he led the fourth brigade all the way to the east. Among the three-way army, he is the easiest way.

Zhang Bai's troops were the main firearms force of the Shu army, and they were strong. The situation in Jiangbei is complicated and abnormal, because Guan Gong has been sticking to Jingzhou, so that many cities in Jiangbei also have a place in Shu, in this place where the three kingdoms meet, the forces and territories of the three kingdoms are intertwined, and the dogs and teeth are intertwined.

This place has long been a place where the soldiers and horses of the three kingdoms compete with each other, and the soldiers and horses of the three kingdoms have conflicts here almost every day, and there are constant wars and small battles, today you occupy a town, tomorrow I occupy a village, and the day after tomorrow he occupies another li.

The people who live here can best feel the artistic conception of "endure watching new friends become old ghosts, and the city head changes the king's flag", of course, in the place where the fighting takes place so intensively, most of the people have long since fled.

The rest are almost all old, weak, sick and disabled who can't run, or some villains who want to take advantage of the opportunity to fish in troubled waters. However, in such a chaotic and intricate place, the offensive momentum of the Northern Route Army is the easiest, why?

The reason is very simple, the Shu army has been too powerful recently, on the contrary, the armies of Wei and Wu have been disabled, and people of insight can see that the death of these two countries is imminent, and the day of the revival of the glory of Shu Han is not far away.

In this case, the person who does not want to change the door and hug a thicker thigh again is a complete fool. As it turns out, few people who can survive this chaotic land have bad brains.

Specifically, many places can be "passed on to the table". Zhang Bai acted in accordance with Sima Yi's strategy, sent countless envoys in advance, and took the appeasement decree given by Liu Hou to recruit various forces everywhere.

Everything was as Sima Yi expected, and all the forces in Jiangbei surrendered one after another and joined Shu. They know that if they don't do it now, they won't have a chance in the future, especially when they learn that Wancheng was broken and Cao Pi ordered the relocation of the capital, they have long lost their backbone and are in fear.

As soon as the appeasement decree of Shu arrived, those magistrates opened the city gates one after another to offer the city, and each one was more active than the other.

The towns in the Dongwu camp also have some surrendered, although now Dongwu has dispatched 100,000 sailors to attack Jingzhou, but there are still many people who can see that Dongwu is already a strong foreign power, and these horses are already the last elite of Dongwu, and now they have the opportunity to switch to the Ming Lord, how can they not seize the opportunity?

However, there are still some people who don't know each other, or rather, the so-called loyal people. Of course, Zhang Bai would not show mercy to these stubborn and unrepentant reactionaries, and launched a swift attack on them.

The attack power of the firearms unit is not something that can be withstood by the defensive measures of this era, and the Fourth Brigade has been invincible along the way, truly embodying the essence of Sun Tzu's art of war: "It is as fast as the wind and invades as fire."

Sima Yi's surrender measures enabled Zhang Baijun to avoid most of the battles, greatly speeding up the march, coupled with the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Fourth Brigade and the rapid speed of advancement, they advanced hundreds of miles east in a short period of time, quickly occupied Wulin, and faced Chibi from north to south.

This Wulin is the place where Cao Cao stationed the naval army when the Chibi War took place, and it is also the main battlefield of the Chibi War. This place is a natural harbor, which can moor a large number of naval ships, and because it is far away from Chibi Town, it can easily echo with the Guansuo that occupies Chibi Town.

If the Shu army has enough strength, the two sides of the strait can work together to block this section of the Yangtze River and block the back route of the Eastern Wu naval army attacking Jingzhou, even if there is no way to wrap them in dumplings, at least they can cut off their grain route and trap them upstream.

It's a pity that all this has to be built on the strength of a strong naval army. The surface of the Yangtze River is too wide, like a moat, and if you want to block such a wide river, even if Liu Hou has accumulated knowledge for more than a thousand years in later generations, he can't think of a way for a while.

Although the Shu army had artillery, their range was short, the rate of fire was slow, and the lethality was not large enough, and it was not very realistic to expect them to block the river. What's more, it is not an easy task to build a large number of artillery batteries on both sides of the strait.

Since it can't be blocked with firearms, it can only be blocked by the water army, which goes back to that problem, the difference in the strength of the naval forces of the two sides is too great, and the naval army of Shu cannot stop the naval army of Eastern Wu at all.

Therefore, the capture of Ulin was of little significance to the Shu army, so Zhang Bai, after leaving a small number of defenders, led the Fourth Brigade to continue eastward, preparing to attack Hanyang. Hanyang is across the river from Xiakou, the base camp of the Soochow naval army, and for such an important place, the Soochow people will certainly not take it lightly, and there are 20,000 horses stationed here to ensure safety.

20,000 horses and horses are simply not worth mentioning for the firearms troops of the Shu army, and if they fight head-on, it is estimated that they can be defeated in a quarter of an hour. Even if you stick to the city, you won't be able to hold out for long.

Lu Xun also knew that the more than 20,000 people in Hanyang could not defend the city, so he had to send reinforcements from nearby to support Hanyang.

ps. I had another party today, drank a lot of alcohol, and finally rode a bicycle for an hour and walked for half an hour before returning home. I wanted to continue to ask for leave, but I remembered that I had already asked for a day yesterday, and I was really embarrassed, and I wrote about 500 words at noon, which was a bit of a foundation, so I gritted my teeth and rushed a chapter out.