"Former general, we should divide our troops next."

"Oh? What does Zhennan mean is that we will continue all the way down the river to the east, and all the way south to harvest Jingzhou and Jiaozhou? ”

"Yes, yes. I'm ashamed to say that I am not used to water at all, and I can't do anything other than seasickness and vomiting while sitting on the boat. So, I want to ask the former general for an easy errand. Let the pre-lead army to take Nanjingzhou and Jiaozhou. ”

"Hehehe~~" Zhang Zun smiled slightly: "Brother Yuan Kai doesn't have to be like this, everyone wants the merits of Jianye, but in a war, there is always someone who has to take on the branch work." For example, a few days ago, I left General Wei's son to be a jailer in Xiling. However, when the time comes, after the success of destroying Wu, who dares to say that Zicheng has no credit? ”

"I am never afraid that I will not be able to get meritorious service and not be recognized by the imperial court. On the contrary, if the former general can make the pre-take on the affairs of the south. It is believed that in Nanjingzhou and Jiaozhou, there will be no strong resistance in advance. At that time, I am afraid that it will sweep away thousands of armies, and the credit is indispensable. ”

"That'...... Okay, let's divide the troops. How many people does Brother Yuan Kai need? ”

"30,000 is enough."

"Hmm...... According to Si Wencao's intelligence, Wu Gou basically did not form a large corps in Southern Jingzhou, and there were only 10,000 or 20,000 people in Jiaozhou. So, yes. ”

On 20 November, Du Pre and Zhang Zun divided their troops in Jiangling. After that, Zhang Zun led more than 230,000 troops, divided into land and water, and marched towards Jiangxia.

On the 22nd, the fleet arrived in Jiangxia, and the Jiangxia guard was Sun Xin, the great-grandson of Sun Qiang, the eldest brother of Sun Jian, of the Eastern Wu clan. His official position was extremely high: the hussar general was nominally the supreme commander of the Jingzhou Front of Eastern Wu, but he had almost no powerful troops under his command. Seeing such a huge enemy army, and Gu Qian's army, which was stagnant in Xunyang and would never advance no matter how he called, did not come. Sun Xin was also very happy to surrender Kaicheng.

"Shizhi, now the speed of our army's naval army is too fast, and the infantry on both sides of the strait can't keep up. Shall we stop for a moment and wait for the infantry behind? ”

"Former general, before answering your question. The Admiral wanted to ask the former general a question. ”

"Shizhi, please speak."

"In this attack on Wu, the former general sent troops from Yizhou and swept along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River within a month, which can be said to have made outstanding achievements. Next, does the former general want to continue to win the great merit of defeating Wu alone, or should he restrain himself a little, so that other friendly troops can also gain merit. In this way, it is not so conspicuous? ”

"Hmm...... Shizhi, to be honest, over the years, because the elder brother is on top, those of us who are younger brothers are doing things below, and we almost never have to think about these issues. Therefore, Ben Jiang didn't think about whether he wanted to be obscure at first. ”

"The last general understands, the former general, the last general also has a heart to you. The last general is seventy-one years old this year, and this should be the last battle of the last general. Therefore, the last general only wanted to leave the martial name in the history of Banbanqing, and never thought about whether to consider the feelings of his colleagues. ”

"Ben will understand what Shiji means. That is to say, we don't have to care about the situation of Xiaoxing's march on the eastern front as follows, we just need to hit Jianye as soon as possible and achieve the great achievement of destroying Wu, right? ”

"Yes, yes. The former general, according to the information sent by Si Wencao, now Xiaoxing has taken Shouchun, and Zhong Shiji is trapped in Hefei Cage City. There is no possibility of threatening Jianye in the short term. But Zhong Shiji's 60,000 army was also pinned down by Ma Xiaoxing and couldn't move. So at this time, it can stand between us and Sun Hao, but it is only forty or fifty thousand Wu dogs. The general should go down the river in one go. Break through all obstacles and arrive at Jianye as soon as possible! ”

"Good, just this infantry?"

"This can be done in the simplest way, with money! Former generals, people from Eastern Wu, can be said to be proficient in water and good at boating. Our army can scatter a lot of money and food, and let the people take out their own various boats to help transport our army down the river. The cities along the way, if they want to surrender, they will surrender, and those who do not want to surrender will not care except for the extremely important strongholds. At this time, it was the dry period of the Yangtze River, and the water flow was generally stable, and it was an ordinary boat, and there was no danger of capsizing under the control of the people of Eastern Wu. Ordinary infantry can quickly follow our naval army eastward as they get on board! ”

"Good! My brother always said that we should give full play to the power of the people and improve the relationship between the local people. Shizhi's method can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone! Then let's do it, quickly issue an order to go down, and recruit all kinds of ships from the people of Jingzhou and Yangzhou, and the family. According to the price of ten dollars a day for a soldier of our army to take a boat, if it is damaged in the middle of the war, our army will compensate in full! ”

The great man once said that the power of the people should never be underestimated. This statement is the absolute truth.

With the issuance of Zhang Zun's ship requisition order, in just three or five days, all the tributaries, ditches and ponds, and all wetlands and grasses along the Yangtze River seemed to be turned over in a unified way.

At the beginning of countless wars, all kinds of ships hidden by the people of various places, as well as the families and wealthy families, were driven out one after another by men, women and children in different clothes. These boats, of different sizes, converge in various streams to tributaries, and then from each tributary to the main stream of the Yangtze River. Finally, on November 28, Zhang Zun was pleasantly surprised to find that his 230,000 troops, not to mention soldiers and equipment, had been transported by water. It is millions of stone of military rations, all of which are carried by special grain ships!

"Hahahaha~~ The so-called more help for the righteous and less help for the unjust, this Dongwu is dead! Order, the whole army set off! ”

"Huh~~!"

……

This large-scale campaign of Ji Han against Wu began in October, while Zhang Zun's troops were dispatched in November. And now, at the end of November, the entire Northern Jingzhou of Soochow has been completely lost.

The development of the war was so fast that the schools in Soochow were dizzying.

Ji Han's side is fast, while Dongwu's side is very slow. Among them, the most outstanding performance is the 20,000 Yangzhou naval army led by Gu Qian.

As a big family with close economic ties with the Fuxing Society, the Gu family didn't want to fight. However, in the end, this is the 20,000 national naval army of Eastern Wu, and it is impossible to surrender directly based on Gu Qian's words. Therefore, what Gu Qian could do was to suppress the speed and deliberately prevent him from meeting with the Jingzhou Navy upstream in time.

But the speed was so slow that even Sun Hao, who was in the rear, felt that something was wrong. On November 23, after Wang Cheng's report made it clear that Gu Qianjun's speed was so slow. The furious Sun Hao sent the clan Sun Zhen overnight, and the general Zhang Xiang set off from Jianye. He arrived in Xunyang on the 28th, relieved Gu Qian of his post on the spot, and temporarily imprisoned him in a cell in Xunyang County.

On the 28th, this was the day when Zhang Zun ordered the whole army to go south collectively after receiving many civilian ships from Eastern Wu.

Prior to this, Gu Qian blindly suppressed the advance speed of the Yangzhou Navy Army, and the middle and lower-level officers in the army were not without questioning voices. But when he arrived in Xunyang, he came into contact with the remnants of the Jingzhou Navy that came downstream. The voices of advancing and seeking battle in the Yangzhou Navy were all gone.

"In this way, the navy of the Han State is already very powerful, and the other party is upstream, so it naturally has an advantage. It's still winter, and it's all northwesterly winds. Our army is not strong enough, and the location and timing are not on our side. If the Han army comes, how should this battle be fought? ”

"Hey, it's not just the right time and place. Have you heard that the Han Kingdom has issued a ship order? The imperial court had already ordered all local families, wealthy families, and common people to hide or bury their ships. It is not allowed to be used by the Han army. As a result, the other party's ship requisition order, it is reported that thousands of large and small ships were requisitioned in a few days. This person is not on our side! ”

"The right time, the right place and the right people are in the hands of the enemy, how can this battle be fought? Originally, I wore this skin, but I never thought that I would be able to live in bed for the rest of my life. But to die meaninglessly, Ben will still be a little unwilling. ”

Outside Xunyang City, in the camp of the Eastern Wu Navy. After Sun Zhen and Zhang Xiang took over Gu Qian's command on the 28th, they issued strict orders, requiring all armies to immediately reorganize, and the whole army should be mobilized by the 30th at the latest. As soon as this order was given, the Liwu general Chen Dai, the Pingyu general Zhu Ming, and the Yamen general Kong Zhong in this army gathered together to sigh for a long time, full of worries and despair about the future.

"Everyone, if you want me to say, General Gu was right to hold down the speed at the beginning and not let us go up. At this time, we still have to ask General Gu what to do! ”

“…… It makes sense, it's just that General Gu is now behind bars......"

"Hey! We've been stationed here for a few days, and everyone is familiar with the mayor of Xunyang, right? Just ask him to arrange it. Ben will believe that he is in a hurry more than any of us at this time! ”()

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