Cai Mao sent an envoy to see Wen Ping and told Wen Ping that Zhang Yi's army was very powerful. Although Cai Mao is a little proud, she still knows the overall situation. Having defeated a foreign enemy, he is not wrong to be proud. But he can't win the battle, he can't be proud of himself.

Li Bao and Zhang Shun also arrived outside Xiakou, but they did not attack directly. It's already midnight, and after a day's battle, the soldiers also need to rest. The navy army needs much more physical strength than the infantry army, and the infantry army is a leg drain, and the arms of the navy army, people's thighs are more developed than arms!

Li Jing set out from Xiling, with 20,000 people, and Zhang Yi sent Qin Qiong to Li Jing. Li Jing took Qin Qiong straight to Anlu County, and just when Li Bao and Cai Mao were fighting, Li Jing also launched an attack on Anlu County.

Jingzhou is the land of the four wars and a place of refuge. The reason for this is also related to the topography of Jingzhou. Jingzhou is mountainous inside, so it is not the center of the development of Chinese civilization, so it is excluded from the Central Plains. The reason why the Central Plains is called the Central Plains is mainly because it is mostly plains, which is conducive to farming. There are really not many places in Jingzhou that are conducive to farming, and Nanyang County and Nanjun are the few places that use farming. But the other five counties are not very conducive to farming, especially Jiangxia.

As mentioned before, the central part of Jiangxia is Dabie Mountain, and the southwest is a swamp, and this swamp is also famous, called Yunmengze. And in the south of Jiangxia, is Tianyue Mountain (modern called Mufu Mountain), Tianyue Mountain across Jiangxia and Yuzhang, historically was the garrison of Tai Shici.

A county has two mountains and one Daze, and the area of cultivated land can be imagined. But that's it, Jiangxia County is still feeding millions of people in this era of low labor. However, it has also caused an obvious phenomenon, that is, the four counties in the north have relatively large populations, and the counties in the south of Dabie Mountain have less populations, and only in the areas near the rivers such as Xiling, Yi County, and Exian County have the largest population.

Although there is also a water in the vicinity of Anlu, the population of the county is not very large, and the city is not a big city. Qin Qiong led his troops to attack the city, first landed at the head of the city, and conquered Anlu.

Di Qing set out from Exian and led an army of 10,000 to the west to besiege Shaxian City.

Zhang Yi used Pang Tong as the agent of the Taishou, temporarily stayed in Xiling to govern the place, and after the arrival of the new Taishou, he went to meet Zhang Yi. Jiangxia County's new Taishou, Zhang Yi chose Zhuge Jin. The reason why he chose Zhuge Jin was that Zhang Yi still had considerations, he wanted to use Zhuge Jin to recruit his younger brother Zhuge Liang to come to Jiangxia, and he also wanted to recruit his brother-in-law Pang Shanmin. Even if neither of them comes, they can stabilize the people of Jingzhou, at least they can run to Zhuge Jin's side to run the door, so as not to fight Zhang Yi to the end.

Wei Rui's body needs a few months of recovery, so he can't count on him for the time being. Zhang Yi didn't want to be too anxious about Xiling immediately, but he had to leave because he saw an opportunity to take Jingzhou in one fell swoop.

Now facing Liu Biao, he has an absolute advantage, not only is the soldiers strong, but the generals are also very good, and he is very hopeful that he will be able to capture Xiangyang in a month or two.

Faced with such an opportunity, how could Zhang Yi hold back. He is also afraid of long nights and dreams, in case Cao Cao has something wrong with any string, and he will have to fight him to the death if he stops the war in Jizhou, it will be troublesome.

The whole Jingzhou is not comparable to Huang Zu, speaking of which, before Zhang Yi occupied Yangzhou, Jingzhou's development was much better than Yangzhou.

Once you get into a tug-of-war with Liu Biao, the situation is not good. Even though Zhang Yi's soldiers are many generals, Liu Biao's subordinates are not wastes, Wen has the Kuai brothers, and Wu has Huang Zhong and Wenpin, which really forms a tug-of-war, and it will definitely not be able to capture Jingzhou in a year or two. After Cao Cao pacifies the north, it will be equivalent to making him a wedding dress for nothing.

Therefore, Zhang Yi resolutely took 10,000 troops out of Xiling, leaving the remaining nearly 10,000 troops to Pang Tong, and Xia Luqi also left.

The day after Cai Mao retreated to Xiakou, Zhang Yi's army appeared on the other side of the Han River. Li Bao's attack plan this time was linked one by one, and Zhang Yi's 10,000 troops appeared in order to put pressure on Cai Mao, so that Cai Mao would not enter the Han River, but retreat to Jiangling.

When Zhang Yi arrived at the edge of the Han River, he let people set up more flamboyance and attract Cai Mao's attention.

Cai Mao really saw Zhang Yi's army, because of the perspective, Cai Mao saw that there were no less than forty or fifty thousand troops on the other side.

Cai Mao was also stunned, he didn't expect so many enemies to emerge at this time. Originally, he couldn't defeat Li Bao and Zhang Shun's naval army, but now that there are 40,000 or 50,000 enemy troops, he can't beat it even more.

However, Cai Mao did not abandon the defense now, and without Xiakou's defensive measures, he couldn't beat Li Bao and Zhang Shun. So unless it is absolutely necessary, Cai Mao will not give up Xiakou.

However, Cai Mao did not have the confidence to successfully defend Xiakou at this time. He called Zhang Yun, "Send someone to ask Wen Ping for help, let him quickly bring troops to reinforcements, if our army fails, Jiangling will be undefended." If Zhang Yi captures Jiangling, Jingzhou will be in danger! ”

Zhang Yun hurriedly sent someone to inform him, and on the other side, he asked people to step up the defense, and repair the warship, if they really couldn't hold it, they would leave and abandon Xiakou, break through and return to Jiangling.

Cai Mao has a lot of military talents, but he is far from being outstanding. He is more about preserving his army, which is a knee-jerk idea. He only thought that if he lost the army, then Jiangling would be lost, but he never thought that if Wen Ping lost the army, what would happen to Xiangyang?

This is his limitation, the limitation of the family, more thinking about himself. In fact, he did not suffer much losses in the battle with Li Bao and Zhang Shun, and he could have returned to Jiangling, increased the supply lines of Li Bao and Zhang Shun, and dragged them down.

Li Bao and Zhang Shun thought exactly so, so they arranged Su Fei's fire attack. As a result, Cai Mao stayed in Xiakou, and Li Bao waited for two days to find that Cai Mao did not move, and he was dumbfounded.

Li Bao said to Zhang Shun: "Cai Mao actually saw through our plan? ”

Zhang Shun was also curious, but he didn't think Cai Mao had this ability, "According to intelligence, Cai Mao doesn't have this ability!" Are we overestimating him, and he's just scared by our ballista? ”

Li Bao also wondered, "Won't it?" Cai Mao is so timid? His casualties weren't huge! Just a small defeat and scared? ”

Zhang Shun said: "Maybe I'm afraid of death!" You must know that Cai Mao is from a big family, and dying on the battlefield is an insult to him. ”

Li Bao is from a strong background, and he knows a lot more about the family than Zhang Shun. "That's not right, the battle of the family is much more dangerous than the battlefield. On the battlefield, you don't know who the enemy is, and in the battles of the family, you don't know who the enemy is. ”

The two guessed for a long time, but they didn't come up with a reason, so they had to send the doubts in their hearts to Zhang Yi.