The Compass technology was still 2 days away, so Yuan Yao was not in a hurry, and he ordered the fleet to sail along the coastline, taking in the scenery while inspecting the terrain.

Because the seaport built this time is a seaport for shipbuilding, it is necessary to choose a deep-water port, and the province will have to change places when the ships are getting bigger and bigger.

Every time Yuan Yao found a suitable place, he ordered someone to measure the depth of the water, mark it on the map if there was no problem, and then find the next place, and wait for tomorrow to check it together from the land to confirm whether both sides of the water and land are suitable, and the day after tomorrow he can choose the best site to start the construction of the Shanghai port.

Although the location chosen by Yuan Yao is not related to the Shanghai Fengma Niu in later generations, but who made the current Yangtze River estuary in this location, Yuan Yao really couldn't find a more appropriate place name than this name, so he had to move the place to Shanghai!

The future Shanghai is still under the sea, and has not yet formed a landmass......

After sailing on the sea for most of the day, the three-oared warship withstood the test of the East China Sea, and also confirmed a few good locations, Yuan Yao looked at the sky and decided to return, in order to facilitate the supply of materials when building the harbor, he did not go too far, so he quickly returned to Dantu.

The next day, I kept along the coastline, checked the marked places, and after selecting a few suitable locations, I was ready to take advantage of the few hours when the "Compass" was not good, and then carefully screened it.

But what Yuan Yao didn't expect was that when he returned to Dantu at night, he was greeted outside the city not only by Dantu Chang and Qu Achang, but also by Liu Ye, who had just been absent from Lujiang for a few days......

"Ziyang? Why are you here? Looking at Liu Ye in the dust, Yuan Yao was surprised, he never imagined that Liu Ye would appear here!

"My lord, Yuzhang has changed." Although he tried his best to hide it in front of people, Liu Ye still couldn't hide the sadness on his face.

Yuan Yao's heart tightened when he heard this, but he immediately pretended to be casual and said, "Oh, Ziyang has worked hard all the way, let's go back to the city." ”

"No." Liu Ye bowed, and then stood aside and stopped talking.

Although Yuan Yao didn't know what happened to Yuzhang, it was definitely not a good thing to make Liu Ye come in such a hurry. Not long after Dantu County returned to Shun, people's hearts were uncertain, and it was better not to let them know about bad things, so although Yuan Yao was already impatient in his heart, he still had patience and didn't say much.

Yuan Yao, accompanied by local officials, quietly entered the county seat of Dantu, and after entering the county government and sending the outsiders away, he couldn't wait to pull Liu Ye and ask: "What happened?" ”

Liu Ye's face at this time suddenly became gloomy: "Lord Qiyu, General Taishi has been defeated!" ”

"What?" Yuan Yao said with a look of disbelief on his face, "You said that Tai Shi Ci can't beat Zhen Rong?" ”

"Definitely!" Liu Ye hurriedly shook his head and explained, "We have fallen for the Jingzhou Army's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain!" ”

Yuan Yao was stunned when he heard this, and said strangely: "What do you mean?" Didn't we see through Zhuge Xuan's strategy to divert the tiger from the mountain and raid Huaxin before? What's wrong with it? ”

Liu Ye nodded and said: "We sent General Zhang Xun to Nanchang, which did destroy Zhuge Xuan's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, but I didn't expect them to use it for two purposes, we only saw through the first step, but not the second step!" ”

Yuan Yao's face also became gloomy when he heard this: "What do you mean? ”

Liu Ye patiently explained: "Although Zhuge Xuan did not transfer all our soldiers and horses to the riverside and did not achieve the goal of raiding Huaxin's territory, it was equivalent to transferring 10,000 of General Taishi's 25,000 soldiers and horses to Nanchang to support Huaxin.

As a result, now, the Jingzhou Navy has returned to Zhuge Xuan's 20,000 troops, from the territory of Zhuge Xuan on the west bank of Pengli Ze, to the territory of Zhenrong on the east bank, and when General Taishi attacked Zhenrong, he raided General Taishi's back road!

Now Zhuge Xuan and Zhenrong's army has really become a coalition army, with more than 40,000 people, and General Taishi is only 15,000 people, and he was successfully attacked by a sneak attack, so he will be defeated, and now he is surrounded in the Poyang area, unable to advance or retreat, and the situation is unknown. ”

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Yuan Yao was dumbfounded, he couldn't have imagined that the previous battle situation had taken a sharp turn and suddenly became such a field! So much so that after Liu Ye finished explaining, he was stunned for a long time before he suddenly asked angrily: "How can this be?" What does Zhang Xun eat? The target of his mission is Zhuge Xuan, why did he let him run to Zhenrong's side? ”

Liu Ye explained: "It's no wonder that General Zhang, the Jingzhou army colluded with Shanyue to attack Nanchang, so General Zhang gave up Zhuge Xuan and retreated to Nanchang to defend, but he was exploited." ”

"Yamagoe? What the hell are they colluding with Jingzhou! Yuan Yao was shocked when he heard this, and continued to ask, "How many people are there in Shanyue?" Is it just to fight Nanchang? Are there any people in other counties? ”

Liu Ye said with a sad face: "There is no news about this, at first it was General Zhang who reported that there were more frequent activities in Shanyue near Nanchang, and then there was news from Xizuo, saying that the Jingzhou Navy had transported 300,000 grains to Zhuge Xuan, which was specially used to buy Shanyue and send troops to attack Huaxin's territory, and these grains were enough to buy a few Shanyue leaders with tens of thousands of troops, so General Zhang did not dare to slack off and immediately returned to Nanchang. ”

"300,000 grains? Just give it away? Damn, Jingzhou is really special! Yuan Yao scolded angrily when he heard this, but immediately realized that now was not the time to vent, and hurriedly asked Liu Ye, "What should we do now?" Ziyang, do you have any countermeasures? ”

Liu Ye immediately said: "We must rush to the aid of General Taishi, if he is wiped out by the combined forces of Zhuge Xuan and Zhenrong, then we will only have a few thousand men and horses left in Wanling County in the entire Danyang County, and it is almost impossible to hold Danyang at that time."

If Danyang is lost, Sun Ce in Wu County and Zhang Xun in Yuzhang will be divided, and it will be easy to be broken by each one, so that our previous efforts will all be in vain, and the land of Jiangdong will be completely lost.

If you want to gallop to the aid of General Taishi, Wanling Zijing's soldiers and horses are not only few, but also far away; Sun Ce's soldiers and horses were farther away in Wu County; In addition to General Zhang Xun in Nanchang, the most suitable is only our soldiers and horses in Lujiang!

Therefore, the subordinates thought that we now had two choices, one was to give up the territory of Huaxin in 14 counties such as Nanchang, and let General Zhang Xun's 10,000 soldiers and horses go north to support Tai Shici. If we lose, then Danyang will not be guaranteed, then we will only have Sun Ce all the way in Jiangdong, and with Sun Ce's ambition, I am afraid that it will no longer be used by us;

The second is a decisive battle with Cai Mao on the Yangtze River, if we win, not only can we land to help General Taishi, but even the battle of Yuzhang will no longer be suspenseful, and even the entire Jiangdong will be invincible!

But if we are defeated, Cai Mao's army will completely cut off the Yangtze River and land on both sides of the Yangtze River at will, and Jiangdong will also have no chance with us!

These two options are, one is land warfare; The second is a water war, you can choose one of the two, or you can go hand in hand, how to choose, please decide! ”

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