Chapter 201: A Delicate Situation
Cao Cao was a little surprised to see Zhang Liao coming back in Xinye City, because he had already ordered Zhang Liao to lead the 200,000 Jingzhou troops from Anzhong County to quickly withdraw to Xiangyang. He himself also planned to go south along the east bank of the Yushui River and rush to Xiangyang after reorganizing his military horses.
However, Cao Cao is also worthy of Cao Cao, he listened to Zhang Liao's report, and heard Zhang Liao calmly tell him that it was really difficult for him to fight to the death with Liu Yi of the New Han Dynasty, and seeing Liu Yi on the battlefield made him feel ashamed, so he asked to return to Xu Du and ask him to surrender his guilt.
Cao Cao was a little angry in his heart, because Zhang Liao was now his general, so he should follow his orders and not take care of the old relationship with Liu Yi. However, Cao Cao also knew that the reason why he admired Zhang Liao was that he liked Zhang Liao's loyalty and talent. If Zhang Liao was an unfaithful and unrighteous person, then he beheaded Zhang Liao at the Baimenlou in Xiapi.
Therefore, he could only follow Zhang Liao's wishes, however, he did not send Zhang Liao back to Xudu, but sent Zhang Liao to Yangzhou, he wanted Zhang Liao to replace Zhang He to lead the army to lead the blank in Yangzhou, let Zhang Liao sit in Yangzhou for him, and stabilize the eastern and southern regions of his power territory for him.
In addition, Cao Cao also knew in his heart that the Jingzhou Army was the Jingzhou Army, not his direct Cao Army, and Zhang Liao was in the Jingzhou defense line, although he had seized the military power of the Jingzhou Army on the surface, but if he really wanted to lead the Jingzhou Army to fight with the New Han Army, I am afraid that it would also be defeated, and it was unlikely that he would be able to defeat the New Han Army. This time, the loss of the Jingzhou defense line was not Zhang Liao's fault, but the Jingzhou army's inadvertence.
Cao Cao showed Zhang Liao his tolerant and generous side, so that Zhang Liao had nothing to say. can only honestly obey Cao Cao's orders and lead his headquarters to Yangzhou.
At this time, Liu Yi, who was in Anzhong County. But there was no anxiety at all. There was no worry at all that the Jingzhou army retreating from Anzhong County to Xiangyang would be able to reach Xiangyang and join the Jingzhou army in Xiangyang.
According to Liu Yi's estimate, his own water army is almost ready to make achievements at this time.
In fact, just as Liu Yi thought, the navy of the New Han Dynasty at this moment has been riding the wind and waves, crushing all the way. From the Yangtze River to the Xiangjiang River.
Originally, after obtaining Changsha and other southern areas of Jingzhou, Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, Huang Xu, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin and other generals. It intends to continue its attack on the southwestern region and seize the territory in the southwestern part of Jingzhou, which is occupied by a few foreign races. Because if they attack those areas again, it is possible to go hand in hand with the Jiangdong direction under the command of Sun Ce, who launched an attack on Lingnan. To achieve the strategic goal of seizing the vast area in the southeast of the Han Dynasty.
But. Those few alien races are quite resistant and hostile to the Han people, and the resistance is very fierce. After Cao Yin's dissuasion, the generals temporarily gave up the plan to lead the army to the southwest.
In fact, the current conditions are not very mature, and Cao Yin believes that the matter of foreign nations is not a simple matter of conquest. If you want real long-term peace and stability, you have to put your fists together. It is necessary not only to use the threat of force, but also to win the policy of Huai Rou, to make them accept the rule of the Han people as much as possible, and to complete the assimilation of the Yiren and the Han people. This is not something that can be done in a short period of time. At present, the main force of the New Han Army is not to be entangled with foreign peoples, but to concentrate its forces, first eliminate the princely forces of the Central Plains of the Great Han Dynasty, and unify the entire Han Dynasty, so that they can gradually take over the territory of the forces entrenched by those foreign nationalities under the condition that they have a stable rear.
Cao Yin's ideas were also sent to Liu Yi as early as possible for Liu Yi to see. And Liu Yi will not doubt Cao Yin's talent, he has such a proposal, which should be formulated based on some actual conditions. Therefore, Liu Yi also agreed with Cao Yin's opinion.
It is precisely because of this that a group of naval troops and generals, they can still stay in Dongting Lake Xinzhou, and now they can cooperate with Liu Yi and send troops to seize Jingzhou together.
In Jingzhou, Liu Yi originally retained a little Jingzhou naval army, about the appearance of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the two armies. This is mainly because Liu Yi wanted to make Liu Biao feel at ease, so that Liu Biao could have a little bit of his own naval force, which could ensure the safety of his Xiangjiang waterway, so that Liu Biao would not feel that he was always under the threat of Liu Yi's new Han Dynasty.
Liu Biao's tens of thousands of Jingzhou sailors were in Jiangxia, Hanyang, Wulin and other places, in fact, the entire Jiangling surrounded by the Yangtze River and Xiangyang, like a peninsula terrain, there were Liu Biao's sailors. His tens of thousands of sailors are stationed in those places, and their troops are quite weak.
Liu Biao obviously knew this situation, and understood that with his tens of thousands of Jingzhou naval troops, if one day he turned against the New Han Dynasty, he would definitely be wiped out by the New Han Army's naval army, and it would not be able to protect its power territory at all, and it would not be able to play the role of defending the Xiangjiang River.
It's a pity, who called his water army to lose to Liu Yi's water army at the beginning? Defeated by someone in a few strokes? Let him have to accept Liu Yi's somewhat hegemonic and domineering opinion, and can only keep tens of thousands of Jingzhou sailors?
At that time, it was not until Liu Biao disagreed, because he was the defeated side, if he didn't agree, Liu Yi would really wipe him out, what could he do?
After the incident, Liu Biao felt that there was no guarantee of safety at all, so he asked Cai Mao, Huang Zu, Zhang Yun and other generals to secretly form a naval army, with more than 100,000 people.
In this way, even if Liu Biao is dead now, there are still about 150,000 military horses in Jingzhou's naval army.
However, how can Liu Biao's small actions be hidden from the New Han Dynasty? In terms of Dongting Lake Xinzhou, he had long known that Liu Biao had another 100,000 naval army, but he had been coming, and Liu Yi couldn't take care of Jingzhou's affairs, so he asked Liu Biao to secretly build a ship and set up a naval army. Otherwise, before he formed an army, the naval army of the New Han Army directly destroyed his water villages in the Yangtze River and Xiangjiang River.
Now, there are actually not as many as 150,000 sailors in Jingzhou. Because Jiangxia has been captured by the New Han Army, and the water village on the Yangtze River has already been broken by the New Han Army, which has caused Jingzhou to lose 300,000 sailors. At this moment, the Jingzhou naval army that remained in the Xiangjiang River to guard the river was at most only 1120,000 horses.
But this is a hundred thousand sailors. How could it be the opponent of the 200,000 or 300,000 naval forces of the New Han Dynasty?
Even if the Xiangjiang River can't let the huge warships of the New Han Army sail in, it has countless warships the size of the original Ganning Jin Sailing Boat. You can also be invincible across the Xiangjiang River.
It's really brutal, like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves.
The Jingzhou naval army in the Xiangjiang River, they could not resist the attack of the New Han Army at all.
The warships of the New Han Army drove into the Xiangjiang River along the mouth of the Yangtze River and the Xiangjiang River, and set up trebuchets to bombard all visible targets frantically. The Jingzhou army on the shore did not dare to approach at all. And most of the Jingzhou warships on the river were directly sunk by the New Han Army's naval army, their water village. It was also directly destroyed.
As a result, the Jingzhou Navy Army, which originally thought that it could deal with the New Han Army and at least be able to resist the New Han Army for a period of time, was like a piece of paper. It broke at the touch of it. was killed by the New Han Army and the Navy.
The defeat of the Jingzhou Navy made Cai Mao of Xiangyang frightened. Because, his biggest reliance is to use the Jingzhou Navy to resist the attack of the Xinhan Army, and only by attacking the Xinhan Army can his Jingzhou be firmly defended. Now, his Jingzhou navy. Only by resisting the attack of the New Han Army and the naval army can he now defend Cao Cao's arrival. Only then could Cao Cao's Cao army cross the Xiangjiang River and enter Xiangyang.
However, now that the Jingzhou Navy has been defeated on all fronts, the control of the Xiangjiang River has fallen into the hands of the New Han Army, and the New Han Army's Navy can land and attack Xiangyang at any time, how can Cai Mao not be surprised?
In fact, it's not just Cai Mao who is shocked, but who is not shocked by the entire Jingzhou civil and military?
Suddenly, in Xiangyang City, everyone's faces were as pale as dirt, and there was a sense of precariousness.
No one could have imagined that the attack of the Xinhan army would be so swift and so ferocious, and it would not give the Jingzhou army a way to live at all.
At the same time, the Jingzhou army, which had retreated south from Anzhong County, finally rushed to the north bank of the Xiangjiang River near dusk.
However, when they rushed to the bank of the Xiangjiang River and prepared to let the Xiangyang Jingzhou army on the opposite bank meet them to cross the river into Xiangyang, what they saw made Xiahoudun and Xu Huang and all the Jingzhou soldiers who were as tired as cattle all stunned.
Because, the Xiangjiang River they saw was full of messes, and there were some broken wooden planks and debris floating everywhere on the river, as well as corpses, drifting along the river, ups and downs. Under the shadow of the setting sun, the river seems to be still red.
In addition, some ships that have not completely sunk are still burning with fireworks.
Also, what made Jingzhou, who had fled back from Anzhong County, sink directly to the bottom of the river was that on the river, countless warships, one after another with flying flags, were patrolling back and forth on the river, and some warships were fiercely dropping stone bombs on the embankment of Xiangyang, and the loud roar was transmitted far across the river and shocked their ears.
Obviously, looking at the embroidered gold flying dragon on the battle flag on the ship fluttering in the wind, you can confirm that these are the military flags and dragon flags of the New Han Army, and these big war ships are undoubtedly the warships of the New Han Army.
Obviously, there must have been a fierce water battle on the Xiangjiang River, and the Jingzhou Navy has probably been defeated by the Xinhan Army, and at this moment, the target of the Xinhan Army's Navy has turned to the direction of Xiangyang.
How is this possible? Isn't there still a Jingzhou army of hundreds of thousands of Jingzhou sailors? Why is this about to be wiped out by the New Han Army?
At present, they still have more than 100,000 or 200,000 military horses withdrawn from Anzhong County, and they are still preparing to withdraw to Xiangyang, but now the Xiangjiang River is full of the warships of the New Han Army, so how can they cross the river and how can they return to Xiangyang?
What's going on? What do they do?
This is to make them have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth. You must know that Xiahoudun and Xu Huang also know that behind their army, there are a large number of New Han troops pursuing, if they can't cross the river into Xiangyang at this moment, then they will be caught up by the New Han army.
What can I do? Is it to tell them to fight to the death against the pursuers of the New Han Army? However, the river is full of the New Han army's navy, and if the navy also attacks them from the river...... This, the consequences are really unimaginable.
At the same time, it was not only Xiahoudun and Xu Huang who were stunned that Jingzhou soldiers were stunned, because there was another direction. At the confluence of the Xiangjiang River and the Yushui River, Zhang He led about 300,000 Cao troops, and they marched all the way. It took three days for Fang to rush all the way here from Yangzhou. It was possible to cross the Xiangjiang River and enter the Xiangyang army, but at this moment, seeing the situation on the Xiangjiang River, it was obvious that the Jingzhou Navy had been wiped out by the Xinhan Army, and the Xiangjiang River was in the river. has fallen into the control of the New Han Army's naval army.
With such a rolling river interception, what way can Zhang He cross the river and enter Xiangyang?
Not to mention Zhang He's current 300,000 Cao army, even if he has a million military horses? Can't cross the river. It was all in vain.
At this moment, it is not necessary to say that one person can stop the river with a horsewhip. The river is in danger, and Zhang He is helpless at the moment.
Zhang He also saw that the New Han Army was attacking the defenders of Xiangyang on the opposite bank, but. He's now. can only stare dryly, and there is nothing you can do to help.
Of course, what made him even more anxious, and what made him so anxious that he almost vomited blood was that he also saw the Jingzhou army led by Xiahoudun and Xu Huang who were heading south along the north bank of the Yushui River. And, he saw that behind this Jingzhou army, it was black and pressing. A cavalry army roared in.
The shape at this moment is really very subtle.
At the confluence of these two rivers. The land is divided into three parts by a wide river, and on all three places, there are countless military horses.
On the south bank of the Xiangjiang River, it is naturally the Jingzhou army in Xiangyang, and at this moment, they are desperately resisting the attack of the New Han Army in the river.
On the north bank of the Xiangjiang River, there are more than 200,000 Jingzhou troops who have fled from Anzhong County, and to the north of their army, a New Han army is pressing up, and a big war is about to break out.
On the east bank of the Xiangjiang River, there were more than 300,000 Cao troops led by Zhang He. And this Cao army, although it is the most combat-effective, whichever side they join, they can instantly turn the tide of the war, but now, they can only be in a hurry, separated by rivers, they can't do anything.
Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, Huang Xu, Zhou Tai and other generals, they were each on their own ships at this moment, and they also noticed the Cao army and the Jingzhou army on the east and north banks of the Xiangjiang River.
However, they didn't pay attention to it, they only needed to completely suppress the Jingzhou army on the Xiangyang side, so that they could not accept the Cao army and the Jingzhou army.
They now have a very high level of mobility, and they can attack the enemy on the three banks of the Xiangjiang River at any time. It's up to them to decide which side of the army they need to attack.
There was no time to panic Xiahoudun and Xu Huang, because the cavalry of the New Han Army had already been killed like the wind.
Xiahoudun and Xu Huang were really unwilling and unconvinced.
They are not willing to let this be the case. Looking at the rolling Xiangjiang River, they knew that there was no hope of crossing the river, even if the 300,000 Cao troops on the other bank were close at hand, but at this moment, they could not count on them at all, and they could not expect them to rescue their more than 200,000 Jingzhou troops.
Suddenly, Xiahoudun and Xu Huang made a sudden decision, knowing that at this moment, they had no choice but to fight to the death against the Xinhan army.
"The whole army obeys the order! What is the New Han Army afraid of? At present, we have no boat to cross the river in front of us, and although we have 300,000 Cao troops on the east bank, it is difficult to cross the river to support at this moment. Therefore, if you still have a little manhood and don't want to be slaughtered by the New Han Army like pigs and dogs, then follow me Xiahoudun to kill the enemy, meet the brave on the narrow road and win, give me back to the army, kill! ”
Xiahoudun let out a loud shout and turned his horse back.
The generals who followed him did not hesitate at all, and suddenly agreed, and in an instant, a powerful murderous aura burst out, and they rushed back with Xiahoudun and Xu Huang and other generals as if they were at home.
However, this is limited to the Cao Cao generals brought by Xiahoudun and Xu Huang and others, the real Jingzhou army, but they don't have too many people. It's like a mourning examiner, a person is depressed, and he can't lift his spirit at all.
They are not Cao Jun, let alone the military horses that Xiahoudun and Xu Huang have been commanding. The orders of these Cao generals are really difficult to mobilize these Jingzhou troops.
Seriously, if the soldiers of the Jingzhou Army really dared to fight with the Xinhan Army, why did they flee here from Anzhong County in a hurry like a lost dog like now?
The military horses of the New Han Army in Wancheng were only 200,000 horses. At most, there were 170,000 or 80,000 military horses, leaving 30,000 or 20,000 military horses to guard Wancheng, and no more than 150,000 horses were dispatched.
And 150,000 horses, including 100,000 military horses, were led by Qin Jie and attacked the county seat of Jiaxia. In other words, the Xinhan army that attacked Anzhong County before was only tens of thousands of horses.
In the county seat of Anzhong, there are more than 200,000 men and horses, even if 100,000 horses are divided to fight against Qin Jie's military horses, there can be 100,000 military horses and tens of thousands of military horses of the New Han Army.
The number of troops, no matter how they are counted, is the Jingzhou army that has the advantage.
However, did the Jingzhou army really dare to fight the Xinhan army head-on? Dare to fight the New Han Army?
Therefore, if the lost dog fled back to the Jingzhou army on the other side of Xiangyang, and now they are asked to fight against the water, how many sergeants will dare to turn back and fight?
No, very little.
At this moment, in the Jingzhou army, Han Xuan's Jingzhou army.
There was a sturdy sergeant, with a suffocated face, looking at the dejected soldiers around him, like a soldier who could not live in fear, his face was flushed, his beard was hair, and he was not angry.
"Phew! It's all fucking good! I have never seen such a mother-in-law army, is the New Han Army really so terrible? We still have more than 200,000 military horses, and we are still afraid of the pursuit of the New Han Army? Forget it, just shrink your pants and wait for death like a Confucian man. Wei doesn't want to do this anymore, even if he dies, he has to die vigorously, phew! What a dog thing! ”
He spat at someone in the distance, picked up his knife and quickly chased in the direction of Xiahoudun and Xu Huang and other Cao soldiers. (To be continued......)