On the Yangtze River, the offensive and defensive battles between Chen and Zhou against Wuzhou lasted for several days, and each time it ended in the defeat of Chen's army.

Chen Jun's commander, Changsha King Chen Shujian was very dissatisfied with the battle situation, this time he was named as the commander, and the actual command of the operation was in charge of the deputy marshal Fan Yi, but the slow progress of the war also had to be responsible, although Chen Shujian was not good at water warfare, but the truth was still understood: the morale was vulnerable to the strong city.

Attacking Wuzhou for a few days has now affected morale, and the army of Chen Guo set off from Jiankang downstream, and traveled thousands of miles up the river to fight the first tough battle was Wuzhou, and the result was such a result, which made Chen Shujian unable to sit still.

The army goes out to fight outside, and the daily people eat horses and chew a huge consumption, but the most important thing is morale, thousands of miles of trekking, there is a "strong crossbow at the end of the momentum, can not wear Lu Mian" worries, now for a Jiangzhongzhou, so that the morale is frustrated, it is really not possible.

It is not a way to spend it like this, the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for Chen Guo, and the Zhou army will have more time to strengthen the city defense of Xiakou that has been taken, and the casualties of the Chen army will be greater when the siege of the city will be greater, and under the supervision of Chen Shujian, the generals adjusted their strategies.

Chen Jun did not go with Wuzhou anymore, but took the Zhou army abandoned Yanji by land, Yanji is located more than 20 miles east of Wuchang, for the only way to attack Wuchang, with Yanji in hand, the main force of the Chen army advanced steadily to the west, and finally came to Wuchang City.

Specifically, a few miles east of Wuchang City, because the Zhou army had dug several ravines outside the city to connect the lake to the southeast of Wuchang into a ditch, Chen Jun and Zhou Jun confronted each other at the east and west ends of these ditches, and the other way Chen Jun marched west from Yangxin and then turned north to march to the southern suburbs of Wuchang, but he also stopped in front of the ravines a few miles outside the city.

The two Chen armies are considered to be soldiers in Wuchang City, so they have a clear understanding of the situation on the river. With Yan Ji in hand, Chen Jun can also observe the situation in Bakou, Jiangbei. After confirming that there was no Zhou Guoshui army in the Yangtze River waterway below Wuchang, the time was ripe for Chen Guo's navy to go north to force the enemy army for a decisive battle.

"What will happen if you directly attack Xiyang City in Jiangbei?" Chen Shujian asked. After passing Wuzhou and Bakou on the north bank, it was the Bazhou Prefecture of the Zhou State to govern Xiyang, and the south bank was the Wuchang City of Yingzhou of the Zhou State.

Bazhou Prefecture Zhixiyang is the nest of the second son of Yuwen Liang, the second son of Daxingtai Yuwenliang in the southeast of the Zhou Kingdom, 'one-legged bronze man Yuwenwen', Chen Shujian feels that although this fang has killed his sworn enemy Chen Shuling, the king of Shixing, it is still extremely hateful, if it can, it will be saved, maybe it will have a miraculous effect.

"Is the king going to attack him and save him? It's just that although Xiyang City is adjacent to the big river, but its river bank is not very good to stop the boat, if the army wants to land, it has to berth at Bakou, not to mention that Bakou is some distance from Xiyang City, and Naba River City alone is not easy to deal with. Deputy Marshal Fan Yi spoke much more tactfully, flattering Chen Shujian and soft-hearted, vetoing the other party's idea.

His younger brother Fan Meng last year as a deputy marshal to assist Shixing King Chen Shuling in attacking Jiangling, and finally fell short, one of the culprits is the Zhou general Yu Wenwen who burned Jiangjin Shu, although the story of the 'decisive battle at the top of Xiyang' has spread to Jiankang, he has also heard of it, but he will never think that 'one-legged bronze man Yu Wenwen' is an idiot.

If the other party has not controlled the river and attacked the north bank, it is easy to make chickens fly and eggs to fight, so "attacking it must be saved" is a bad idea, and it must be vetoed. Of course, this kind of talk should be tactful to avoid making Chen Shujian unable to get off the stage.

"In that case, what if the Zhou army has been avoiding the war?" Chen Shujian asked again, he was most concerned about how to solve the main force of the Zhou army, Fan Yi replied that as long as it approached Wuchang, then the Zhou army would definitely come out for a decisive battle, otherwise they would either be blocked in Fankou or flee back to Xiakou, and then they would be attacked by the upstream Bazhou navy and their own side, and there would be no chance of winning at all.

"Don't worry, the king doesn't worry, the Wuchang River is the place of the decisive battle!" ……

To the south of Wuzhou, the dense Chen Guoshui warships on the river set sail north, and when the front approached Wuzhou, the beacon fire was lit in the camp, and then the beacon tower on the north bank of the river began to transmit the news to the north.

Fan Yi, deputy marshal of the Chen army, looked at the beacon smoke from the ship, and disagreed, Wuzhou was more than 20 miles away from Wuchang and Xiyang upstream, and the beacon smoke on the other side could only warn at most, and could not help much.

The waters on the west side of Wuzhou in front of it are the main channel of the Yangtze River, so Chen Jun's warships are tracing up the river from here, the river is about two miles wide here, in order to avoid Wuzhou on the northeast bank, so the fleet has to rely on the southwest bank to advance, from Wuchang downstream, the south coast of the Yangtze River is under the control of Chen Jun, so the fleet is not afraid that someone on the southwest bank threatens itself with artillery carts and crossbows.

When the fleet passed through the five continents, Fan Yi looked at the wasteland on the northeast side of the continent. I saw the remains of Chen Jun's soldiers lying scattered among the weeds, and many broken warships leaning against the shore at the southern end of the continent, most of which had been burned beyond recognition.

He looked at the mess left behind by these Chen troops who had been attacking Wuzhou for days, and shook his head with a wry smile. The Zhou army made great efforts to strengthen the defense in Wuzhou, and it was indeed a stinky and hard stone, which made his side grit his teeth.

"General, the forward warship has sent a signal that there are no enemy warships on the Wuchang and Xiyang rivers upstream!!"

All the generals were stunned when they heard this, the warships of the Zhou army were neither in Wuzhou, nor in Bakou in Xiyang, nor in Fankou in Wuchang, where would they run, although the forward warships had just turned across the Yangtze River and could not see too far, but if the warships gathered on the Fankou River, they could also see a clue.

"They should be in Zhengrongzhou." Fan Meng said that as a veteran of the army for decades, he knows the sandbanks on the Yangtze River waterway well, Wuchang and Xiyang, the lower reaches of Wuchang and Xiyang, and the Zhengrongzhou upstream, all of which are places where a major war may break out.

"Zhengrongzhou, then they will be unlucky!" The generals knew Zheng Rongzhou and also knew the allusions of Zheng Rongzhou, so they sneered at Zhou Jun.

Zhengrongzhou, located in the northwest of Xiyang, north of Wuchang in the Yangtze River is a sandbar formed by sediment siltation, and the most famous water battle in its waters is the battle of Zhengrongzhou in the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

At the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the power minister Huan Xuan abolished the Jin Emperor and established himself as the Chu Emperor, the generals of the Beifu Army, Liu Yu and Liu Yi raised troops against Huan and drove them out of Jiankang, and the Qinwang army pursued and killed Huan Chu all the way along the river, first defeated the opponent's first blockade in Sangluozhou, Jiangzhou, and then fought again with the Huan Chu Naval Army in Zhengrongzhou in the northwest of Xiyang.

In the battle, the number of Huan Chu troops was several times that of the Qin Wang army, and it was Huan Xuan who personally commanded it, but Liu Daogui, the general of the Qin Wang army, took the lead in rushing into battle, and then Liu Yi, He Wuji and other main generals also took advantage of the southeast wind to set fire to the Huan Chu army.

Huan Xuan took a flat boat upstream, and fled back to Jiangling in embarrassment. Huan Chu suffered a heavy blow after this battle, and it didn't take long for it to fall apart, and Huan Xuan was also in a different place. Now Chen and Zhou are also facing each other in Zhengrongzhou. Chen's army traced the river downstream, and the attack was blowing, and the southeast wind was blowing.

Providence wants to finish Zhou Jun, this is Providence!

"General, the forward warship has sent a flag, and the Zhou warship is in Zhengrongzhou!!"

"Order, the whole army adjusts its formation on the Yanji River and prepares to meet it!!" ……

Zhengrongzhou, dense Zhou army warships are all over the river, a big ship with a handsome flag, Zhou Fashang, the head of the Zhou State Navy and the assassin of Hengzhou, is holding a clairvoyant mirror to look at the Chen army fleet that is becoming more and more obvious in the east.

"It's really exciting." Bazhou Thorn Shi Yuwen Wen Wen said on the side. He also looked east with a clairvoyant mirror.

"Yuwen envoy, look at the number of Chen Jun's warships, there are still about some of them that have not arrived." Zhou Fashang directly said his judgment, in order to avoid Yu Wenwen, a 'layman' who did not understand the water war, he also specially explained that the river is wide, but there are so many warships of the two armies lined up, and the space that can be accommodated is limited, and it is impossible for Chen Jun to send all the warships, otherwise he will not be able to use them, and he is prone to accidents.

The most important thing is to keep the reserves, the number of warships of the Chen army is sufficient, so if the reserves are left, if they win the battle, it is nothing, if the front army is defeated, then the reserves can still come up and turn defeat into victory.

"In other words, Chen Shujian, the king of Changsha, may be in the rear and not in the group of warships in front? It's a pity" Yu Wenwen began to tease again, of course, he was teasing the Zhou envoy next to him.

Sure enough, as soon as the words fell, Zhou Fashang held the clairvoyant mirror's hand tightly, and then relaxed and said lightly, "Maybe", Chen Shujian mentioned by Yuwenwen is his enemy, and he is also the culprit who caused the great change in the Zhou family.

Zhou Fashang's father, Zhou Jiong, once served as the governor of Jiangbei Province of Chen State, guarding the six states of Jiangbei, which is now the governor of Huangzhou of Zhou State, under the jurisdiction of seven states, six years ago in Dingzhou, one of the six states of Jiangbei (now Dingzhou in the south of Zhou), after the death of the eldest son Zhou Fa Seng succeeded to the post of Assassin History, and the second son Zhou Fashang inherited the trilogy and carried the Zhou family.

Zhou Fashang once served as a soldier of Chen Shuling, the king of Shixing, and joined the army, after the death of his father, he led the Zhou family to make many military exploits, and the original future was bright, but he was involved in the open and secret struggle between the king of Changsha and the king of Shixing.

It is true that he once held a military position under Chen Shuling's account, but it does not mean that he is the other party's person, but Chen Shujian, the king of Changsha, has not been able to win over Zhou Fa, so he thinks that he is Chen Shuling's sworn friend, so he insisted in front of Emperor Chen that Zhou Fashang was still going to rebel.

Emperor Chen sent troops to arrest Zhou Faseng, and then he wanted to arrest Zhou Fashang, who was bent on serving the country, and in desperation, he gritted his teeth and took his clansmen, tribesmen, stepmother and third brother Zhou Faming to Zhou three years ago.

For no reason, he was wronged, his future was ruined, and his eldest brother was killed in prison. Zhou Fashang and Changsha Wang Chen Shujian are already incompatible.

"Zhou Envoy, this battle is very important. Please. Yu Wenwen put away his thoughts and said solemnly, this time he crossed the river to the south in the big battle, he insisted on going his own way, made a military order in front of his father, and strongly recommended Zhou Fashang to be the head of the navy and lead the main force of the navy.

"Where does Yuwen make you say, this is what Zhou should do." Zhou Fashang also replied solemnly, he was a little confused about this Yuwen Erlang, who was a few years younger than his younger brother, because he really didn't understand why the other party wanted to lift him.

After Zhou Fashang led his troops to defect to the Zhou State, Yu Wenyun, the Tianyuan Emperor of the Zhou State at that time, was very happy to grant him the title of Kaifu and appointed him as the Shunzhou Assassin under the Anzhou Governor's Office, but just over a year later, he was involved in the matter of Yuwen Liang, the governor of Anzhou, raising troops against Yang.

As a rebel general of the Southern Dynasty, he has no foundation in the Northern Dynasty and does not want to be involved, when the war is about to start, no one on Yang Jian's side will come to woo him, and Yuwen Liang is not suspicious of him, Zhou Fashang went with the flow, fortunately, he did not stand on the wrong side, but it was impossible to be reused, until his younger brother met the Yuwen Erlang in front of him, and the situation began to change.

In May last year, Zhou Fashang was transferred to Hengzhou Assassin Shi, he knew that he was being guarded and used by the governor of Anzhou, because he might be co-opted by Yang Jian, but it was impossible to defect to Chen again, but now the second son of the governor of Anzhou tried his best to let him serve as the commander of the navy, and commanded the main force of the Zhou State naval army to fight against the Chen army.

The main force of the Zhou State Navy is composed of the Xiangyang Navy as the backbone, there is originally a set of systems, it is said that it is not his turn to be an outsider to dictate, but Yu Wenwen's determination is also amazing, not only persuaded Yu Wenliang, but also persuaded Du Shijun, the governor of Xiangzhou, to directly support him.

The battle of Parrot Island outside Xiakou City was under the full command of Zhou Fashang, and Du Shijun, the governor of Xiangzhou, was on the same ship as a 'supervising army' at that time, but he did not interfere in the command at all, but was responsible for pressing the formation, so as not to let any naval general disobey the order.

With this kind of trust, then Zhou Fashang, who was originally good at water warfare, was naturally like a fish in water, plus those two strange warships, and finally defeated the Xiakou Chen State Navy in one fell swoop in Parrot Island, and now he is leading the Navy Army and Chen Guo's army to fight again in Zhengrong Continent.

This time, Yu Wenwen served as the supervisor of the ship, and Zhou Fashang was worried in advance that this one was commanding indiscriminately, so he was in a dilemma, but depending on the situation, the other party really let him play.

Du Shijun, the governor of Xiangzhou, is now in Xiakou, Yu Wenwen boarded the ship this time to survive and die together in the naval army ship formation, which greatly increased the morale of the Zhou army soldiers, and no one dared to blow up the thorns, and the other party did this to the point that he trusted himself extremely much.

Zhou Fashang thought of this, he and Yuwen Wen had no intersection, but his younger brother had a few interactions with each other by mistake, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, he sent troops to 'help suppress' the friendship formed by saying that it did not reach this point.

Is it because of Zhou Faming's relationship? Zhou Fashang thought of this and denied it, according to his intuition, he felt that the other party was 'fanciing' himself, but it was unknown why the other party was so confident in him.

Just as he muttered in his heart, he heard the general remind him that the enemy army had lined up on the river outside Yanji and marched forward in the wind, Zhou Fashang shook his spirits and looked at it with a clairvoyant mirror for a while, and then ordered the whole army to prepare for battle.

The Zhou army's warships had already lined up in formation, waiting for the commander's order, and saw the dense Chen army's warships approaching the downstream, with full sails approaching, and the drums sounded like raindrops, igniting the fighting spirit of the soldiers.

"Yuwen envoy, please order." Zhou Fashang said that although the other party has given himself full command, after all, he is a prison army, so he still has to walk through the motions to show respect.

"The wind to the southeast is not in my favor, but the victory or defeat of the army is in this battle, and the generals must fight hard to attack and break the enemy against the wind!!" (To be continued.) )