The battle does not stop because of death, and the river does not become warm by the reflection of fire.

As the battle continued, the northeast wind blew stronger, the flames swirled around the soldiers' bodies and spread from one ship to another, the smoke was so thick that people could not open their eyes, and the soldiers surrounded by the smoke fought and died, killed by arrows shot from nowhere.

The howls from the firelight, the shouts from the icy water, and the cessation of the bursts, slowly switched to the cries of tens of thousands of ghosts, and tens of thousands of soldiers fell into this endless darkness for the benefit of careerists. Death continued, the battle lasted from morning to noon, and by this time the victory had already been revealed, Sun Ce's arms flew into the wind, bows and crossbows rode the wind, and the huge rain of arrows was extremely powerful under the influence of the wind. As the right flank fleet of the Jingzhou Navy Division was broken apart by Zhou Yu's fleet, the main ship of the Yellow Shot was rammed and sunk, and the balance of victory was tilted towards Sun Cejun, although Gan Ning struggled to destroy hundreds of enemy ships, but the right wing of the navy collapsed, and the left wing of the navy was in danger.

An hour later, the left wing of the Su fleet collapsed, Su Fei's main ship was merged into Huang Zu's fleet of the Chinese army, and more than seventy percent of the soldiers of the Jingzhou Navy had been buried in the ice water and flames, but Huang Zu did not order a retreat, because he knew that whether he withdrew or not, the whole army would be annihilated, and it was better to fight some more enemies. The battle lasted from noon to afternoon, when the Jingzhou army was close to annihilation, Huang Zhu was killed, and Su Fei, Gan Ning, and Huang Zu fled with the remnants of the fleet.

"Ma Hong, where should we retreat at this time?" Huang Zu turned his head to look at the pursuers on the river and asked, at this time, Huang Zu was completely stunned by this failure, no matter how shrewd a person was in the face of the failure of the sudden incursion, he would become dizzy, Huang Zu was defeated, and his head was already dizzy.

"I suggest that Taishou give up Shaxian and retreat to Jiangxia County, now that the enemy has won a decisive victory, if we retreat to Shaxian, once the enemy breaks through Shaxian City, we must retreat." Ma Hong gritted his teeth and finally said his thoughts, although Ma Hong and Gan Ning worked hard for Sha Xian's defense for five months, but now this water battle Jingzhou Navy no longer has the ability to fight, if he retreats, Sha Xian will die. Although Ma Hong now knows that Liu Hu is guarding Shaxian with the army, if he retreats, Liu Hu will die, Ma Hong and Liu Hu have had a friendship for many years, but in the face of war, how thin the friendship is, it will be broken if it is stabbed.

Huang Zu listened to Ma Hong's words and made up his mind to retreat, and his retreat meant abandoning Han Xi and Liu Hu's army. On the other hand, the 5,000 pikemen led by Liu Hu and Han Xi fought a decisive battle with the army led by Sun Ben and Sun Fu and 50 miles north of Shaxian City, Han Xi was killed in battle, and Liu Hu led 2,000 remnants of the army to retreat to Shaxian. The next day, Sun Ce's army launched a general attack on Shaxian City, Liu Hu fought to the death, led 2,000 soldiers to rely on the defense outside the city to fight, held on for two days, the city was broken, Liu Hu committed suicide.

Sun Ce's face was very bad after occupying Shaxian, although he wiped out 30,000 Jingzhou naval troops in one fell swoop in the water battle, he also lost a total of 17,000 men and horses, plus the soldiers killed by Sun Ben and Sun Fu's army lost a total of 22,000 men. But Huang Zu left him an empty city, the people inside and outside Shaxian City had already withdrawn, and when Sun Ce broke through Shaxian City, the city was empty except for some grain and grass and the Jingzhou army. What made Sun Ce even more angry was that when he had just broken through Shaxian City, he received a report from a messenger from Lujiang that the Shanyue people of Lujiang had attacked Lujiang County, and that night he received a letter of help from Danyang, and the Shanyue people of Danyang had attacked Danyang County and besieged Danyang City.

Jingzhou has the ability to fight with Sun Ce for manpower and material resources, but Sun Ce at this time has no ability to consume it with Liu Biao. Sun Ce knew that after this Shaxian battle, he could no longer launch a large-scale campaign against Liu Biao in recent years.

The word war is sometimes righteous and sometimes evil, but this word is ugly at all times, and this ugly word has displaced countless people, left countless soldiers in different places, and made people's hearts extremely desolate.

More than half a month has passed since Sha Xian's first battle, and it will be the New Year soon, Ma Hong sat in his seat and looked at the old man sitting on it from time to time, Huang Zu is old, the years have left too many things on his face, and the years have taken away too many things from him, especially after Huang Jie left, Huang Zu will always sit in a daze, as if he is thinking about something.

Huang Zu squinted his eyes and held a teacup, drinking warm tea, and he recalled the scene when Liu Jingsheng first entered Jingzhou ten years ago. Liu Jingsheng is a very charming man, that man went to Jingzhou single-handedly, entered Yicheng, Huang Zu thought that the man would die in less than ten days under the hands of Jingzhou Haoqiang, but Huang Zu was wrong, that man not only got the support of the Ma family, the wealthy family of Yicheng, but also the support of the two major families of the Cai family in Xiangyang and the Kuai family in Nanjun. Huang Zu's family and the four major families in Xiangyang, the Cai family, the Yang family, the Pang family, the Xi family, and the Nanjun Kuai family and the Yicheng Ma family are the seven strongest families in Jingzhou. If Liu Biao wanted to get Jingzhou and control Jingzhou, he had to get the support of more than half of the seven families, and that man had the support of all the families except the Pang and Huang families in less than a year.

Huang Chengyan did not support Liu Biao, but Huang Zu wanted to know what kind of person Liu Biao was, whether it was a fox or a wolf, and finally he met Liu Jingsheng, Liu Jingsheng treated him cordially, and he and Liu Jingsheng talked for a long time all night but never saw what kind of person Liu Jingsheng was. Liu Jingsheng is a Confucian student, but you can't say that he is a sour Confucian, if he is a sour Confucian, how can he take advantage of the situation to eliminate dissidents and stand on the land of Jingzhou in the midst of talking and laughing; In comparison, he is more like a chivalrous warrior, but you can't say that he is a chivalrous warrior, because Huang Zu has never seen such a polite, modest, and scheming chivalrous; If he is said to be the overlord, but Huang Zu always feels that there is something missing in his body, and Huang Zu can't think of what it is.

What kind of person is Liu Jingsheng? Huang Zu remembered that when Huang Chengyan asked him, he replied like this, Huang Zu said: "Liu Jingsheng looks like a docile goat on the surface, but if you want to pluck the goat's feathers, his mouth will grow wolf steel teeth, and if you want to deceive him, you will find that he has grown a fox's tail." He has the quietness and grace of a sheep, the cruelty and patience of a wolf, the wisdom and scheming of a fox, and the sight and claws of a goshawk. ”

Huang Zu has been guarding Jiangxia for Liu Jingsheng for ten years, and he is willing to continue to defend it, because Liu Jingsheng is his friend.

"Taishou." Ma Hong saw that Huang Zu had been holding the teacup in a daze, and he still had something to ask Huang Zu, so it was not a way to keep watching Huang Zu in a daze, and finally opened his mouth to Huang Zu.

Suddenly, Huang Zu was interrupted by Ma Hong's voice, he raised his head to look at the childish young man, and asked, "Ma Hong, what's the matter with you?" ”

"Tell Taishou, Hong has been away from home for half a year, and it will be the New Year soon, Hong wants to ask Taishou to approve Hong to go home to visit his parents." Ma Hong said sincerely.

Huang Zu nodded and said, "You kid is really filial, I promised." ”

"Thank you, Taishou." Ma Hong got up and saluted Huang Zu and was about to turn to leave, but was stopped by Huang Zu again.

Huang Zu handed Ma Hong a letter and motioned for Ma Hong to read the letter, Ma Hong opened the letter, and the messenger Liu Qi wrote it, Liu Qi first expressed his respect to Huang Zu's uncle in the letter, and then subtly expressed his current situation and borrowed someone from Huang Zu, the person who borrowed it was naturally Ma Hong, of course, Ma Hong wrote to Liu Qi first.

"Liu Qi is my nephew and your best friend, you can call me uncle with Liu Qi. My nephew will need your help in the future. Huang Zu took Ma Hong's hand and said cordially.

"Does Taishou mean to let Hong return to Xiangyang to assist the eldest prince?" Ma Hong asked knowingly.

"You can also see from the letter the present situation of my nephew, and besides, my nephew has already asked me for someone." Huang Zudao.

"Taishou rest assured, Hong will definitely not live up to Taishou's expectations and do his best to assist the eldest prince." Ma Hong said respectfully.

Huang Zu patted Ma Hong's shoulder and signaled that Ma Hong could go out, and Ma Hong said a word of respect to Huang Zu and left.