On the south bank of the Yangtze River, in the Xisai Mountain, at the foot of the mountain, there are densely packed Chen naval warships, which have been stationed here since they were defeated by the Zhou naval army at Zhengrongzhou on the Yangtze River north of Wuchang more than a month ago.

Xisai Mountain is a waterfront stone mountain on the Yangtze River, since ancient times, it is an important place for river defense, at the end of the Three Kingdoms, the Jin State Yizhou Thorn History, Longxiang General Wang Jun led the water army out of Sichuan to attack Wu, the Jin army marched all the way along the east of the river to break through Xiling, Xiakou, Wuchang, break through the Xisai Mountain that pulled up the Hengjiang iron cable and stationed heavy troops all the way to the stone city of Wudu, and finally the Eastern Wu perished.

Although Chen Guo's naval army was defeated in Zhengrongzhou this time, it effectively 'deterred' the Zhou naval army by guarding Xisai Mountain, holding important places and not allowing the enemy army to invade Jiangzhou along the river, so it can be regarded as atonement for their sins, and after recuperating for more than a month, they finally had movement and were ready to dispatch.

The southeast wind rose, the warship rowed along with the horn sound above the camp, left the water village and slowly sailed towards the river, after entering the river, the formation was completed, and set sail, with the power of the southeast wind to advance to the upstream five continents.

Jiangbei Zhou re-entered Kouyingzhou, it is rumored that 'burning, killing and looting' did all kinds of evil, captured Wuchang twice and dug trenches at Yanji, built a fortress and set up a fortress with the intention of defending to the death, Chen Jun concentrated his forces after several attacks on Yanji to no avail, and wanted to uproot the only stronghold of Zhou in Jiangnan in one go.

There are more than 40 miles of waterway from Xisai Mountain to Wuzhou, and the Chen army's fleet rode the wind and the forward warships were the first to reach the lower reaches of Wuzhou, and the Zhou warships anchored in Wuzhou at this time somehow did not dispatch.

Even the clippers that often come out to intercept Chen Jun's warships on weekdays are moored on the edge of the continent, and in order to prevent Chen Jun from spying on the situation on the continent, Zhou Jun's clippers are as ferocious as a female dog guarding cubs, and they go crazy when they see the movement.

Not only that, but a large number of warships stationed in Wuzhou actually sailed towards the waters on the north side of Wuzhou, and if the soldiers of the Chen Army were not conscious, they really thought that the other party was scared away by their own small boats.

In view of this, they had the courage to approach the southern tip of the five continents to observe, and this was the first time they approached the five continents to explore, and the result was as expected: the defenses on the five continents were indeed much stronger.

Wuzhou is located in the middle of the river, the Yangtze River waterway is the left and right waterways, the left waterway is the north side of the Yangtze River and the right waterway is the main channel of the Yangtze River, and the ships go back and forth from the west side of Wuzhou, that is, the right waterway.

The left waterway is narrower and slightly shallow, if it is a dry season, even a large area of tidal flats is exposed, now the Zhou army stationed in Wuzhou, the left side of the port as a naval warship docked and built a pontoon bridge to connect the north bank of the river, with the pontoon bridge can easily transport personnel and materials to and from the two places, Chen Jun soldiers confirmed that since the last battle of Zhengrongzhou more than a month after the five continents have changed dramatically.

The original Wuzhoushu north and south camps are now larger in scale, and the wasteland between the two also has one more camp, and now it is the south, middle and north three villages, and the outer walls of the camp have been all stones, and they are much taller than before.

There are a few more arrow towers in the south village, it should be a solid and abnormal masonry structure from a distance, the waterway on the east side of Wuzhou is full of camps and guarded by arrow towers, it seems that the water village is correct, and the tidal flats on the west side are obliquely inserted with sharpened bamboos, like the thorns on the hedgehog's body, facing the outside.

They saw that the Zhou army on the east side of Wuzhou finally 'floated' out of the water village, a few warships quickly turned around, turned to the east, but ran to the southeast of Wuzhou near the Jiangbei Xikou to investigate, the Zhou army set up a camp in Xikou to guard them, they had also reconnoitred before, and now it is reconfirmed.

Xikou is the mouth of the Yangtze River for Xishui, from Xikou into Xishui upriver for dozens of miles, you can go to Qizhou Yong'an County to govern Xishui City, Zhou army in order to prevent Chen's fleet from entering Xikou to attack Xishui City, so set up camps on both sides of Xikou to guard, not only stationed heavy troops but also pulled up the iron cable on Xishui as an interception.

It's just that the Zhou warships berthed in Xikou today did not rush out to drive away the snoopers as quickly as in the past, they seemed to be lazily 'floating' over like no one rowing, and the Chen army warships did not delay after confirming the situation in Xikou, put away their sails, rowed their long boats, and went down the river to get closer to the approaching main fleet.

However, even if the main force of Chen's naval army arrived at the south of Wuzhou, there was no expected Zhou army's warships to dump their nests, and this abnormal performance even made the Chen generals stunned for a moment and thought that the Zhou army stationed in Wuzhou had not woken up yet.

Don't you see so many ships of our army crowded on the river?

"Could it be an empty city plan?" Chen Shujian, the commander of the Chen army, was a little incredulous, he stood on the tower of a ship and looked at the empty river near Wuzhou, and it was unexpectedly that Zhou Jun was so 'sluggish'.

Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms, the prime minister of Ji Han Zhuge was approached by the Wei army but did not have many troops to defend the city, so he resorted to the 'empty city plan', he deliberately opened the city gate and posed as an invitation to enter the city, but this unbelievable strategy really made the Wei army retreat, Chen Shujian suspected that the Zhou army was also this kind of plan.

Then there was a fury in my heart: does Lone look so stupid!

"King, is the Zhou army avoiding the battle and protecting the ship?" The generals also found it strange.

According to the previous discussion of the generals, Chen Jun is going to have a decisive battle with the Zhou army that poured out of the nest in Wuzhou this time, so the relevant countermeasures have been discussed in advance, and they have also made some preparations to deal with the Zhou army's resistant turtle ship and domineering car and boat, but now the other party has avoided the battle.

They also expected this situation for the Zhou army, but everyone thought that the possibility of it was very small, and now the arrogant Zhou Guoshui army really became a turtle with a shrunken head!

"Do they think that our army will stupidly attack Wuzhou and send them to death?" Some people have put forward a new view, their own side will often send clippers to Wuzhou every few days to investigate the military situation, although each time they are stopped from a distance, but you can vaguely see a large group of warships moored on the right side of Wuzhou, yesterday was the same, so today the Zhou warships have run to the north of Wuzhou, it is really disappointing.

"I think the Zhou army wants to lure our army to the north of the river, and wait until most of the fleet passes through the west side of Wuzhou before going all out to intercept the arsonist boats, it must be so."

"Is it the same as last time to be a fool in the army?" Some people remembered the embarrassment of the previous battle and fled, and couldn't help but grit their teeth.

If Xikou is taken by the Chen army, then you can trace the water to attack Xishui City, cut off the back road of the Zhou army on the Qichang side of Qizhou Prefecture, and the matter is very important, and I don't believe that the Zhou army's warships will not come out.

But after listening to the reconnaissance of Xikou by the soldiers of the forward sentinel, it can be seen that Xikou is as difficult to talk as a hedgehog, let alone Wuzhou, if it is really to attack this big hedgehog-like Jiangzhongzhou, there is no point in increasing casualties.

Today's Chen Guoshui Army is like an orphan who has been wiped out, bent on revenge, and it is easy to practice his skills to find the enemy to take revenge, only to find that the enemy has been dead for many years, full of anger turned into endless melancholy, for a while, many generals only felt empty in their hearts, looking at the Wuzhou River, they didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

"That's it, I think Zhou Jun saw through our army's intentions, so he didn't take the bait." Chen Shuling sighed and said, "The front team is the back team, and the back team is the front team, and slowly retreat." ”

"King, this" The generals finally shook their heads and carried out the order, and now their intention to provoke the Zhou army to fight a decisive battle has failed, and if they stay on the river, sooner or later, things will change.

They will never attack Wuzhou, nor will they risk crossing the Wuzhou Zuo Shui Waterway up the river to let people intercept halfway, since the Zhou army is unmoved, then they can only retreat, and today it will be regarded as a drill.

Uncle Chen looked at the empty river on the other side of Wuzhou and turned his head to look in the direction of Yanji: "But you can't help it on the shore." (To be continued.) )