Yuzhang County has four counties of Ai County, Liling, Haidu, and Chaisang on the west bank of Pengli Ze, which are now controlled by Zhuge Xuan.

There is a ferry under the rule of Chaisang County, called Jiujiangkou, and Zhou Yu, the governor of Eastern Wu in history, has stationed troops here.

At this time, there were also a bunch of warships moored at Jiuyangkou, but they seemed to be disorderly and chaotic, looking like deserters, it was the remnants of Jingzhou's army that had just retreated!

No one thought that Cai Mao would pass through the entire Peng Lize and flee directly to the west bank. Wen Ping also followed Cai Mao to run here, otherwise he would probably return to Peng Lijin by himself, and he would be caught in the urn.

Wen Ping couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when he thought of this......

Cai Mao looked at the embarrassed sailors with a gloomy face, this defeat was enough to discredit him, but this is not serious, and what is more serious is that the Cai family's status in Jingzhou will be implicated.

The Cai family's foothold in Jingzhou is based on the naval army, and now the naval army has lost most of it, which is not only difficult to deter Xiaoxiao, but even Liu Biao may take the opportunity to withdraw military power.

No state pastor will let the military power be controlled by others all the time, and Liu Biao had previously compromised with the local family in order to ride Jingzhou alone, but he would not miss any opportunity to regain the military power.

This defeat of the navy army is a great opportunity for Liu Biao, and Cai Mao must find a way to survive this crisis.

Kuai Yue frowned and came from a distance, Cai Mao saw that he was refreshed, and then put on a smiling face to greet him, "Mr. is hard, I lost control of my emotions before, and I said some nonsense, I hope Mr. will not blame." ”

Cai and Kuai belong to a strategic alliance, the Cai family controls the military power, and the two brothers of the Kuai family control the pastoral government, so they can support each other for many years, Cai Mao wants to survive this crisis safely, the first thing to do is to smooth out the rift caused by the defeat with Kuai Yue just now.

Kuai Yue is the military division of this battle, and he is in the same situation as Cai Mao, so he naturally will not put up any shelf at this time, "Most of the governors are serious, this battle was defeated because of me, how can I blame the governor!" ”

Cai Mao hurriedly shook his head and said: "Sir's words are wrong, the defeat in this battle is because the battleship is beyond common sense, and it is not a crime of war." ”

Kuai Yue was stunned for a moment, and understood that Cai Mao wanted to reach a consensus with him in order to shirk his responsibility, so he said with gratitude: "The governor is wise!" ”

Seeing that Kuai Yue had no objections, Cai Mao's heart was slightly relieved, and she hurriedly helped Kuai Yue up and said, "What should we do now, please teach me." ”

It's not enough to just shirk responsibility, and if you can't beat people and there is no way, you still have to be replaced, so the top priority is to find a solution.

Hearing this, Kuai Yue strengthened his spirit and said: "General Wen Ping boarded the battleship that Yuan Jiazi ran aground, and found that it was a fake that was transformed from a warship to defraud us, so the firepower is much smaller than that of the battleship. I didn't find out before, and that's why we fell for it...... But it also got me thinking of a way to deal with battleships! ”

"Oh? What's the solution? Cai Mao's eyes lit up when she heard this.

Kuai Yue said with a little excitement: "Since they can modify it, why can't we change it?" It's just a ship and a siege engine! ”

Cai Mao was surprised: "You mean, learn Yuan Yao's tactics?" ”

"Exactly! Since his tactics have proven to be powerful, we can only learn them. Kuai Yue nodded helplessly, and said with confidence on his face, "Moreover, although our ships and fighting ships were completely lost in this battle, the Metropolitan Governor was wise and resolute, and he was able to bring all the ships back, which shows that even the heavens do not want to see us perish." As long as we recruit craftsmen here and convert all these ninety ships into battleships, then why fear the twenty or thirty ships of the Yuan family! ”

Cai Mao frowned and said, "I heard that the Yuan family spent nearly half a year building the battleship, are we in time?" ”

Kuai Yue bowed his hand and asked: "Please leave this matter to me, and I will not disappoint the governor again!" ”

Cai Mao felt that it was a solution, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then there will be Mr. Lao!" ”

"Thank you to the Governor for trusting ......"

When the two of them discussed this, Wen Ping suddenly ran over from the dock and shouted: "Governor Qiyu, the Lujiang Navy is chasing after you!" ”

"What?" Cai Mao was shocked when she heard this, "Found here so quickly?" This Yuan family is going to be wiped out? ”

……

Approaching dusk, a major battle on the Yangtze River lasted for nearly three hours before it could be over, because the military generals after Jingzhou was broken would rather die than surrender, and it was not until they died in battle that the remaining Jingzhou soldiers hung up the white flag.

When Yuan Yao got the news, he almost vomited blood, because in his eyes, the broken general was still "Chen Heng". He really couldn't figure out why a guy who was annexed by force by Zhenrong could have a break and die unyielding after the bitter meat plan and the deception plan!

This is a neurosis, and no matter how loyal the ancients are, there should be a limit...... Yuan Yao was puzzled.

In the few hours of waiting for the results of the water battle, Yuan Yao also led Lu Meng to occupy Pengze County, because there was a Jingzhou naval army nearby, so there was no one to defend the city at all. When Yuan Yao found out the situation, he unceremoniously led a thousand people to rob the city, and he got a surprise, but he didn't expect that this city was actually a grain cantonment for the Jingzhou land and water army, and the city was hoarding two months' rations for the 100,000 army, a total of nearly 400,000 hu.

This grain picked up for nothing not only made Yuan Yao overjoyed, but also cut off the supply of Zhuge Xuan and Zhenrong's 40,000 allied troops, so that Yuan Yao only needed to solve the difficulty of Tai Shici's siege, and he could sit back and wait for the enemy army to collapse without food, and he didn't have to attack strongly, and he could avoid a lot of unnecessary losses!

40,000 people is not like Tai Shici's thousands of people, and they can be replenished by finding a county seat......

"Lord Qi, the scouts are coming to report, Yuan Hong and they are rushing back." Liu Ye came to Yuan Yao's side to report.

"Oh, come with me!" Yuan Yao anxiously picked up Liu Ye and ran to the dock.

Yuan Hong and Chen Wu went to pursue Cai Mao, Yuan Yao was anxious to know the result, so he didn't bother to sit and wait, and ran directly to the dock to greet him.

"Subordinates, etc., see the lord." As soon as Chen Wu and Yuan Hong got off the boat, they ran to Yuan Yao to salute.

Yuan Yao helped the two of them up and asked, "What is the result?" Have you ever chased Cai Mao? ”

Yuan Hong replied: "The subordinates chased Cai Mao at the mouth of the Jiujiang River in Chaisang, but they were repelled by their joint efforts and Chima, and failed to complete the task, please surrender the lord!" ”

"Please condemn the lord!" Chen Wu was also ashamed to plead guilty.

"......" Yuan Yao was very disappointed when he heard that he had not done his full work, but it was not easy to show it, so he forced a smile and said, "It's no wonder you, I didn't expect those Red Horse Clippers to still get in the way, but it's a pity that ......"

Liu Ye frowned and said: "Lord, the Jingzhou Navy still exists, I'm afraid we can't wait for Zhuge Xuan and them to run out of food and collapse, we must solve it as soon as possible, otherwise they will be supplied by the water, or flee back to Pengli Zexi by water, then this battle of Yuzhang may be fought." ”

"Yes, Peng Lize is too big, I'm afraid we won't be able to protect it thoroughly......" Yuan Yao sighed, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he hurriedly said to Liu Ye, "Ziyang, did you say that after Cai Mao just repelled our battleship, will he let down his vigilance and think that we will not attack again?" ”

Liu Ye's eyes lit up, "What does the lord mean ......"