Cao "sex" held the knife in pain:

"Without the manor and industrial support we have established in the north and the sea, we would be rootless trees, seemingly tall, but in fact not far from withering!"

Speaking of this, every word is roaring: "Jiangxia can't be lost, the homeland can't be broken, soldiers, follow me north to kill thieves!" ”

"Kill the thief! Kill the thief ......"

The mobilization meeting went very smoothly, and if it was said that all the people present on the battlefield in Jiangxia would not be afraid of war, Cao also believed that those who had constant production had perseverance, and people could run, but the fields could not run, and if they put down the fields and ran, they would become displaced people who could starve to death at any time.

A quarter of an hour later, looking at the soldiers who were shouting a little hoarsely, Cao "Xing" ordered on the spot:

"Chen Yang, Li Gan, and Wang Kai led 5,000 regular soldiers and 40,000 tunding, and stayed in Zhenyang, with Chen Yang as the mainstay."

"No!"

The three of them came out to answer.

"Cai Yang led 3,000 regular soldiers, 3,000 positive white flags as the vanguard, a certain leader led 5,000 regular soldiers, 2,000 eight banners, 20,000 tun soldiers in the middle of the road, Su Shuang, Han Zhong was in charge of logistics.

Let's go! ”

"Cao Jun wins! Cao Jun wins! ”

Immediately, the pioneer Cai Yang led the 3,000 regular soldiers under his command and the 3,000 banner soldiers of Cao Ying with the white flag, and set off with the baggage prepared in the morning.

Cao "sex" said to Li Gan, the main general who stayed behind: "I have entrusted my back and my home to General Li!" ”

"Zhenyang is here, the end will be, Zhenyang will be broken, the end will die!" Li Gan, who didn't expect to be so trusted, made a promise on the spot.

Cao "Xing" shook his head, and Li Qian immediately became nervous, thinking that he had made a mistake.

"General Li, you are more important in my heart than these two million acres of land and the vast Zhenyang! So, at special times, you can be allowed to abandon the city and move! A certain will not be investigated! ”

"Lord!" Li Gan clenched his hands into fists, and his voice was choked.

Cao "Xing" looked in the direction of his house, Yan'er had just met with him a few times, and he had to be separated again.

The army was launched, Zhenyang, the war machine was fully activated, and truckloads of grain and grass materials were transported from the newly built official road to Chi'er Port, and then turned to the waterway.

Zhenyang is located in the Nanling Mountains, there are too many land mountain roads, Cao Jun's army took a boat from Zhenyang Chi'er Bay, went south along the Xiangjiang River, passed through Dongting Lake, arrived at the river, and continued to flow down the river to the east, but more than ten miles, it was Jiangxia Shaxian County.

The waterway has been in the hands of Cao Jun since Cao 'sex' went south, and when he was close to Dongting Lake, Cao 'sex' was still worried, and now he was still a Jinfan thief, but with a top martial arts master, a top naval commander, and a top double top Gan Ning, he would lead his army of water thieves who dominated Dongting Lake and the upper reaches of the river to sneak attack him.

The rivers are not as vast as the sea, and the waterways are extremely complicated, so Cao "Xing" hereby handed over the inland river fleet to Jiang Qin, who recognized himself as his master and showed great loyalty after observation, and appointed him as the governor and promoted to the army.

Only Jiang Qin, who is also the commander of the top naval army, can be sure to defeat or draw Ganning with the advantage of numbers.

Fortunately, this incident did not happen, and Cao Jun successfully entered the territory of Jiangxia Shaxian.

Sha Xian has fallen into the hands of Zhao Ci, as a Shanyue judge, he has no decent sailors, and the rebel defenders of Shaxian City are only 2,000, and in the face of the Cao army that covers the sky and the sun, the guards only dare to defend the city.

The pioneers led by Cai Yang, without a trace of obstruction, landed on the beach, occupied a natural port, and it was an extremely famous red cliff in later generations, and built a water village here.

The Shaxian Shanyue rebels only probed from a distance, and when they saw that the other side was three times as large as their own, they saw that the other side was in full swing to cut down trees and build a village.

Cao's Chinese army arrived at Chibi Water Village half a day later, and they also met with the 20,000 tunding sent by various manors in the western part of Jiangxia.

Since then, with the addition of 10,000 sailors of the inland river fleet, the entire Cao army has gathered more than 60,000 troops in this new water village.

All the rebels of Zhao Ci added up to more than 10,000 people.

Despite this, Cao "sex" did not dare to be careless, most of his subordinates were stationed soldiers, although they were young and strong, and they had also experienced the suppression of bandits, but they had never participated in the real hard battle.

The main force is 8,000 regular soldiers and 5,000 eight banners, the eight banners are Shanyue and some Xianbei, Wuheng, Qiang and so on, the people are strong and strong in the area, and the actual combat experience is more than that of 8,000 regular soldiers.

However, the experience of the war was not as good as the 3,000 personal guard battalions in the regular soldiers of the army, and even less than the 200 tigers and leopards.

The 60,000 army was divided into five battalions and stationed, and the Chinese army camp occupied the most vast area, and was directly stationed in the water village that was still being improved.

Caiyang pioneers, who have the idea of not leaving, began to cut down trees early in the morning, and now 20,000 soldiers have started construction together, and built a wooden wall more than two zhang high for this water village, which is also the current Chinese army barracks.

The wooden wall is three rows of wood side by side, and it cannot be defended by people like a city wall, so there is an arrow tower every 20 meters, and in the future another circle of wooden walls will be added, and the rammed earth wall will be built with wood on the outside and sand on the inside.

The camp tent of the 30,000 Chinese army was placed like a "labyrinth" palace, and in the commander's tent, a map of Jiangxia was placed on a large square table, and the generals of the Cao army surrounded the map.

Cao Xing, who was on the main seat, opened his mouth and asked, "Sha Xian is right in front of you, what kind of insight do you have to take it at the least cost of casualties?" Before that, General Cai first introduced the information that Sha Xian had discovered. ”

Cai Yang pointed to the location of Sha Xian on the map: "Lord, Sha Xian City is next to the river, the city wall is one zhang eight feet high, it is a rammed earth wall, a few days ago, Zhao Ci with the help of Nei Ying, Sha Xian was taken, and now he has led the army across the river, and went to the county to govern Xiling City, leaving two thousand rebels, in addition to more than 10,000 people in the city......

After the introduction, Cai Yang continued to offer advice: "In such a small city, the last general is willing to ask for battle, and only 6,000 soldiers in the vanguard can be taken!" ”

"Good! Tomorrow, leave 10,000 troops to continue to build the water village, General Cai will lead the vanguard to attack the city, and bring 40,000 troops to press the battle for you! ”

Judging from the numbers, the small army defenders in this small city are unpopular with the people, and Cao "sex" feels that he is a little too serious, if it is not for the lion fighting the rabbit with all his strength, by the way, he can also let the army practice siege warfare.

Cai Yang had just arrived in Shaxian City, the city gate had long been closed, and the Shanyue rebels went to the city wall to defend it, and watched the rebel handsome flag come to the city gate tower.

Cai Yang looked at Cao Ying and said politely to this veteran general of the Cao army: "The sentient Cao Banner Lord stepped forward to call for the battle and rubbed his morale!" ”

Cao Ying, who became more and more reticent, nodded, and only took Wang Zhong and more than a dozen personal soldiers and knights to the next arrow of the city.

Cao Ying stopped the Dawan horse that was sitting down, put the broadsword and the scabbard on his shoulder, squinted his eyes, and shouted in a cold and loud voice:

"Cao Ying of the Western Regions is here, rebel boy! Who dares to step forward and engage in battle! ”