"Mr. Zirou, what should I do now?"

Kuai Liang looked at the same as himself, who was also the former Liu Biao's sinking Wen Ping, his brows furrowed, and he said lightly: "Sun Ce sent troops to Jiangxia at this time, just to see that the lord has no time to look east for the time being. The Lord commanded us to act cheaply, and perhaps there was something else to do. ”

Wen Ping, who was dressed in armor, nodded, and asked with some confusion: "What does Mr. mean, the lord's ambition is not in Jingzhou?" ”

"Although Jingzhou is a place where soldiers must fight, it is also a place of four stations." Kuai Liang squinted at Jingzhou on the map, and said lightly: "Maybe it's time for us to relocate the children of the clan." ”

"Migration?" Wen Ping was slightly stunned, and asked in surprise: "Mr. means that the lord may give up Jingzhou at any time?" ”

Kuai Liang nodded with a calm face, and sighed slightly: "General Wenpin, it's better to make some preparations early." Regardless of whether the lord wants to abandon Jingzhou, Jingzhou will inevitably be in the future. There was Sun Ce first, and then Cao Cao, maybe Xiang Ao of the Northern Yan State would also intervene here. ”

Wen Ping thought about it and felt so.

"Sun Ce's army has been dispatched from Jiangxia, sir, how can we not know about military defense?"

Kuai Liang thought for a while, and asked Wen Ping: "Does the general have any ideas?" ”

"With the help of Yun Mengze's natural danger, Sun Ce's army was temporarily kept out of Nanjun. As for Runan..."

Kuai Liang smiled lightly and said: "Runan doesn't need to worry, even if Sun Ce wants to recover Jingzhou, I'm afraid he doesn't want to border Xiang Ao for the time being, just send a large army to take a little precautions." ”

"It's the direction of Changsha County, we still have to pay attention."

The two looked at each other with a slight wry smile.

Only two days later, Sun Ce's army had already felt Jiangxia.

"Who is the commander of the enemy army?"

"General Yu, judging from the banner, it seems to be Wu Guoling Cao and Xu Sheng!"

Ling Cao is a person, Wen Ping has also heard of it. Light and courageous, he followed Sun Ce to Jiangdong in his early years. Every time you go on a campaign, you always take the lead. Garrisoned in Yongping (now Liyang, Jiangsu), Pingzhi Shanyue, the people were subdued, and they moved to the captain of the thief.

Xu Sheng is not idle, when Liu Biao was alive, Xu Sheng fought against Huang Zu in Jiangxia. When Jingzhou was in civil strife, Xu Sheng took advantage of the chaos and beheaded Huang Zu in Jiangxia.

Wen Ping looked at the vast Yun Mengze and frowned slightly.

"Where has the army of Wu arrived?"

"Jiangxia soldiers and horses have arrived in Jingling (now north of Qianjiang, Hubei), and Changsha soldiers and horses have reached Dongting!"

"Two ways together?" Wen Ping muttered to himself in a low voice, then raised his head and said loudly: "Order!" Ordered Lei Bobu to defend Xiaoling (the county seat is located in Chailin Street, Gong'an County, Hubei Province). Ordered Li Yan's troops to be stationed in Lankouju, and not to let the army of Wu go upstream. ”

"No!"

"Order the three armies, follow the general into the river, and be on call at any time!"

"No!"

The entire southeast of Nanjun, under the order of Wen Ping, moved violently.

At this time, in the cave court, thousands of warships were moving slowly under the command of the generals, arranging troops.

Dongting Lake is named after Dongting Mountain (now Jun Mountain) in the lake. Dongting Lake is connected to the Yangtze River in the north by Songzi, Taiping, Lotus Pond and Tuanxian, and is connected to the south and west by the small tributaries of the Hunan River, Zi, Yuan, Li Sishui and Miluo River, which flows into the Yangtze River from Chenglingji in Yueyang City.

Dongting Lake is to Jingzhou, what Jingzhou is to Kyushu, and it is naturally a strategic place.

Although Dongting Lake has beautiful scenery, it is located in a critical place, which makes Dongting Lake and Yunmengze always full of wars. Sun Ce raised troops and made many people around Dongting Lake begin to migrate independently, some to Wu State, and some to the north into Liu Bei's southern county.

Before the war started, the reaction of the people filled Yunmeng and Dongting with an atmosphere of slaughter.

"General!" Ling Cao's personal guards hurriedly came to Ling Cao's side and clasped their fists.

Ling Cao looked at the army in Dongting Lake that kept changing formations, and then looked at the people around Dongting Lake who were walking on foot with large and small packages on their backs, sighed slightly, and turned around and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"The scout came to report that Liu Bei's army has been stationed in Xiaoling." The guard Zhengse returned: "General Xu Sheng also sent a message, Hanshui entered the ferry west, and there were thousands of Liu Bei's defenders in Lankouju. ”

"Huh!" Ling Cao said with some disdain: "You can't fight the water war, and you want to rely on the city to defend?" ”

"General, it's not." The guards interrupted Ling Cao and said, "In Jiangling, the Nanjun Governance Office, tens of thousands of troops have already been launched, and it seems that they are ready to fight our army in Yunmengze. ”

"Who are the generals?"

"Wenpin!"

Ling Cao frowned slightly, and said lightly: "Wen Ping is a veteran under Liu Biao in the past, not to mention the geographical advantages of Yunmeng, and he is also a good hand at water warfare. ”

"That's true." The guards nodded solemnly and continued: "Before the general set off, the governor had already reminded us that we were only an advance force, and it was not suitable for a decisive battle with Liu Bei, and I asked the general not to be impulsive. ”

Ling Cao clenched his jaws, looked at the guards with a displeased expression, and said lightly: "Ben will know, there is no need to wait for more mouths." ”

"The last will be convicted!" The guards were stunned for a moment, then returned with a look of fear, and quickly stood aside and stopped interjecting.

Now that it has just entered the summer, floods may break out in the Yunmeng area at any time, how could Ling Cao not know that this matter is not suitable for casual war. However, he chose to send troops at this time, so he naturally had ideas, Ling Cao didn't think that the governor let him Chen soldiers Dongting, just to train the army.

"It's better to send troops according to the governor's arrangement first." Ling Cao muttered in a low voice, and then said loudly: "Order the three armies, enter the west of the river!" ”

"No!"

The guards took the order and left.

Above the vast Yangtze River, microwaves are sparkling. The seemingly calm surface of the river, the surging river underneath is indeed flowing without stopping.

At this time, more than 100 miles downstream of Xiaoling, two teams of warships appeared. The warships on both sides could not be seen at a glance, just building ships, and there were two or three on both sides, and there were countless warships, red horses, and fighting ships.

"Who's on the other side?"

"King Wu's Zhonglang will Ling Cao is also!"

When Wen Ping heard this, his face was indifferent, and he continued to shout: "The well water of my subordinate country Lu and Wu State does not interfere with the river water, why does King Wu want to fight each other?" ”

Ling Cao also smiled faintly, and said loudly: "King Wu is the lord of Jiangnan, so he naturally has to think about the people of Jiangnan. I heard that King Lu could not bear the heavy pressure of Yan and Chen, and wanted to retreat west to Yizhou, for the sake of the people of Jingzhou, Wu naturally had to send troops to share the worries of King Lu and resist Yan and Chen. ”

"Haha... Amusing! Wen Ping laughed disdainfully, and said in a deep voice: "Jingbei is the world of Lu country, why should you interfere?" ”

"Xiang Ao of Yanguo is the common enemy of the Han people in the world, my lord King Lu and King Chen of Chen State are fighting against Xiang Ao, and you can't help Wu Guo, what does it mean to make evil behind it?"

"Who said that King Yan of Yanguo is the common enemy of the Han people?" Ling Cao also laughed and said: "It doesn't matter if Yan King Xiang Ao is Han or not, just look at what King Yan did in Hebei, which point is not for the good of the Han people?" ”

"You and others covet the rich land of Hebei and besiege King Yan, which is the unkind teacher!" Ling Cao shouted fiercely: "King Wu and King Yan have already formed a bloody alliance, and if they don't help at this time, won't they fall into the reputation of Wu Kingdom?" ”

Wen Ping was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't think that Wu Guo would take out the alliance again. Before the world condemned Xiang Ao, he thought that Sun Ce and Yanguo had broken up.

"Humph! In the end, who is ambitious, the people of the world will naturally judge. Wen Ping roared fiercely: "If you want to fight, you will fight, and you must pretend to be benevolent!" ”

Ling Cao's face was also ruthless, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned and roared: "Then let's fight!" Honk! ”

Woo... In an instant, the horn of the army of Wu in the lower reaches of the river was raised, and tens of thousands of sailors, when the horn was remembered, launched a charge against the Wenpin navy.

"Command the three armies! Kill! ”

Wen Ping was also unconcerned, and with a flick of the long sword, he shouted. The army also rushed towards Ling Cao's sailors.

Even if Wen Ping and Ling Cao wanted to use strategies to calculate each other, there were too many water systems in Yunmeng and Dongting, and if they didn't pay attention to it, they would be the ones who were punished.

The two tacitly did not use too many strategies, and directly pressed the territory with a large army, competing for their respective positions as overlords on the Yangtze River.

The charge of the navy, although there was no cavalry that shook the earth. However, the fire in the sky and the boulders thrown at each other either shot on the opponent's warship, causing a sea of fire, or the boulders smashed directly into the warship or the river, splashing monstrous waves.

Soldiers kept falling into the river, and warships were smashed out of holes and slowly sinking into the river.

In the blink of an eye, the two major naval armies were fought.

The soldiers of both sides boarded the enemy's ship along the side of the ship and began hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

Water warfare is different from land warfare, the hull of the ship is shaking all the time, and it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to stand firm, let alone raise their swords to fight.

However, the navy of Wu and the original navy of Jingzhou are rare elites in the world. As soon as Bu came into contact, the two armies entered a frantic fight.

Wen Ping and Ling Cao are both veterans of the navy, not to mention rich combat experience, and their armed forces on the warship are also unique in the world.

"Kill!"

I don't know how many soldiers on both sides were killed by the way, and Ling Cao and Wen Ping finally collided together. Both of them turned red, raised their long knives in their hands, and fought on a warship between the two military buildings.

The personal guards of the two on the ship were forced to jump into the river by the fight between Ling Cao and Wen Ping, so as not to be injured by mistake.

The guards who jumped into the river were not idle, relying on their superb water nature to start a life-and-death struggle in the river.

or pinch, or strangle; Or kick, or kick. The dozens of guards in the river did not stop for a moment.

The soldier, who was hit by the key point and suddenly couldn't breathe, slowly sank into the river. The Yangtze River lowers the undercurrent surge, as long as it sinks a few feet, there is no need for external force, and it will be swept downstream by the turbulent undercurrent.

is wrenched into the undercurrent, whether it can survive or not depends on the destiny of heaven.

Above the river, there were fires emitting black smoke everywhere. On the deck of the warship, the soldiers kept fighting, and the soldiers kept falling into the river.

The shouts of killing, the blasting of burning planks never stopped. The billowing smoke and flames made the faces of the people on both sides of the strait change dramatically, and they accelerated their escape from the Dongting and Yunmeng areas.

The casualties of water warfare are not comparable to those of land warfare. In just two hours, the two sides combined with more than 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers and horses, and nearly 30% of them have been lost.