The chief general of the Sui army on duty on this day was named Shi Xiang, an official hussar general, and he was actually a powerful general.

He stayed in the water camp overnight, and in the early morning, he received a fire alarm from the Jiangxin rejects, so he gathered all the main warships in the Jiangling water camp and sailed out of the water camp to meet the battle.

Shi Xiang took a Qinglong warship, and as soon as he sailed out of the water camp, he saw two enemy main warships near the Jiangxin Oasis in the southwest, which were encircling there to carry out an attack, and in the distance, there were nearly twenty enemy warships heading towards the north of the river.

Shi Xiang immediately ordered four Qinglong warships to quickly rush to the aid of the Jiangxin Oasis, separating the enemy's two vanguard warships from the main fleet, and he himself led more than 30 Qinglong warships to fan-shape to outflank Nanchen's main fleet.

Zhou Luoyu was bent on quickly rescuing the two vanguard warships led by Chen Ji and retreating back to the Jiujiang Naval Army camp, but he didn't know that while his division was moving forward, the way back had been cut off by the Sui army.

The Sui army surrounded the north and south sides of the main fleet led by Zhou Luoyu with twice the number of warships of the Nanchen army, and after a fierce battle between the two sides, the Nanchen army finally could not parry after losing four golden-winged warships, and retreated all the way to the east.

The two Nanchen vanguard warships that were cut off by the Sui army near the oasis in the center of the river saw that the main force of the party was still surrounded by the Sui army, could not support it, and retreated to the east.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and Shi Xiang was unwilling to let go of the Nanchen fleet led by Zhou Luoyu easily because of Yang Jun's military order to fight for Chen Shougong, so he chased all the way to the east.

Zhou Luoyu led the army down the river, retreated to the east, when the boat did not go long, he saw a small city standing on the south bank of the Great River, looking back and seeing dozens of warships of the Sui Dynasty chasing closer and closer, Zhou Luoyu did not want to lead the Sui army to Jiujiang, so he abandoned the ship and landed, and the Sui army chasing behind him had the idea of a duel on land, and immediately ordered the whole army to turn the bow of the ship, dock nearby, and resist the Sui army according to the city.

Seeing that the Nanchen fleet in front of him suddenly turned around and headed south, heading towards the small city on the south bank, Shi Xiang was eager to make a contribution, and regardless of the fact that although the naval army led by himself on the river maintained an absolute superiority in military strength over Zhou Luo's throat, once it reached the south bank of the river, it entered the territory of Nanchen, and became a lone army, and immediately ordered the whole army to follow closely and turn around and sail south.

In this way, Zhou Luoyu led thousands of Nanchen sailors to abandon the ship and land first, and entered the small city on the shore to defend it, while Shi Xiang followed closely and led most of the Sui Dynasty sailors to abandon the ship and land, and then launched a fierce attack on the small city called Jiangzhou.

Although the methods of land warfare and water warfare in the Middle Ages were very different, the long-range offensive weapons used were bows and arrows and stone machines, so the offensive firepower of the army led by Shi Xiang to Jiangzhou immediately after abandoning the ship and landing on the shore was not weaker than that on the river.

Zhou Luoyu originally thought that if the two armies faced off in Jiangzhou for a long time, Chen Shushen of Jiujiang would definitely get a military report and send troops to reinforce him, and at worst, he could resist the attack of the Sui army together with the defenders in Jiangzhou City, and he would never lose the city.

How do you know that when you enter Jiangzhou, you find that there are less than 500 garrisons in this city, and the thousands of sailors who abandoned the ship and landed with them were defeated all the way, and they were in a hurry when they abandoned the ship and landed on the shore, and more than half of them dropped their bows and arrows on the warship.

Even so, after entering Jiangzhou, he commanded the remnants of his defeated army to carry out a tight defense, repelled the first few attacks launched by Shi Xiang's troops, and killed and wounded more than 100 Sui troops.

Since he has returned to the south bank of the river, and Jiangzhou is not very far from Jiujiang, which is stationed with heavy troops, Zhou Luoyu reasoned according to common sense that once Jiangzhou is engaged with the Sui army, the news will soon reach the ears of Chen Shushen in Jiujiang City, as long as Chen Shushen is willing to send 10,000 soldiers and horses to relieve the siege of Jiangzhou, and then he will join forces with the reinforcements, it will not be difficult to turn defeat into victory, and the Sui army that recklessly crossed the river to fight will be annihilated in one fell swoop.

But think about it, the actual situation is that Chen Shushen did get the news of the Sui army's attack on Jiangzhou soon after the battle in Jiangzhou began, but this king of the Southern Chen Domain, who was not yet fifteen years old, only cared about fun and pleasure every day, entrusting all military affairs to Zhou Luoyu, and he was leisurely and leisurely as the prince who shook his hands, so when he got the military report that the Sui army crossed the river to attack Jiangzhou, he not only did not dare to send a soldier or a pawn. However, he hurriedly sent an urgent military report to Jiankang that the Sui Dynasty had attacked Chen on a large scale, and ordered 50,000 Jiujiang garrisons to hold the city, and they must not leave lightly, and lost the important town of Jiujiang.

In this way, by mistake, Shi Xiang led 5,000 sailors to launch a fierce attack on Jiangzhou City in the land of projectiles using the stone machine carried down from the Qinglong warship, but Zhou Luoyu, the general in Nanchen, missed the opportunity to annihilate the Sui army across the river in one fell swoop, and after holding the city for most of the day, he led more than 2,000 remnants of the defeated army to withdraw from the city under the cover of night and returned to Jiujiang.

Shi Xiang did not expect to lead the water army out of the camp to meet the battle, but the result was to capture a city in Nanchen on the south bank of the river, and immediately after leading the army into Jiangzhou, he immediately sent people to return to Jiangbei by fast boat to report to Wang Shiji, and asked to send a large army to cross the river to attack Jiujiang.

After receiving Shi Xiang's report, on the one hand, he strictly ordered Shi Xiang to lead the whole army to withdraw from Jiangzhou to Jiangling quickly, and on the other hand, he sent an army report to Yang Jun, the king of Qin, who was still in Chang'an, to report the victory, and truthfully reported the details of Shi Xiang's army crossing the river and capturing Jiangzhou in one fell swoop.

Yang Jun was overjoyed after receiving the report, and immediately entered the palace to meet Yang Jian to report his merits. Yang Jian was deeply satisfied that the war against Chen could get such a good start, and on the one hand, he issued an edict to promote Shi Xiang to the rank of Shangkaifu, and at the same time ordered Yang Xiong, the king of Guangping, and Yang Yue, the Shaoqing of Dali, to replace Yang Guang and Zhang Heng as Yongzhou Mu and Yongzhou Beijia respectively, urging Yang Guang to lead Zhang Heng to leave Beijing and go south to Shouchun to unify the command of the three-way army to attack Chen.

Yang Guang from the governor of the state also served as the Yongzhou pastor, before and after a total of more than a year, because he led Zhang Heng and Qu Tutong and others to investigate the case of Nanchen "Wild Goose's Nest" by the Sui Gaozu Yang Jian, this time was canonized as the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses of the three-way army to attack Chen, Yang Jian even sent the two prime ministers of the dynasty to him as his right and left hands, which can be said to be out of the limelight.

Even so, Yang Guang still remembered the repeated teachings of his mother and eldest sister, and after receiving the order to dismiss Generalissimo Chen at the imperial meeting, the first thing he did was to go to the Splendid Palace to meet with Yang Yong, the crown prince who had not yet been allowed to participate in the imperial meeting, and reported the news to him.

Although Yang Yong felt sour in his heart that Yang Guang was appointed as the commander of the whole army of Chen, he also understood that the first thing Yang Guang thought of after receiving the order was to report the news to himself, which was undoubtedly to make it clear to himself: no matter how much credit he made, he would not covet the position of the East Palace, please rest assured. Therefore, Yang Yong was still grateful to Yang Guang at this time, and insisted on keeping Yang Guang to eat together in the Splendid Palace, and then let Yang Guang return to the Jin Palace's mansion to deal with the aftermath in Beijing. 10