When the battle of Youzhou was reversed, the battle on the Kanto side also underwent a huge change.

In the entire Kwantung region, more than one million soldiers of the Wu army and the Wei army participated in the war, and after the outbreak of the battle between the two sides, it was directly divided into a three-party battlefield, the first battlefield was the Qingzhou battlefield, the second battlefield was naturally the Jiujiang battlefield, and the third-party battlefield was the Nanyang battlefield.

The first to break through the stalemate was the Qingzhou battlefield.

Zhou Yu used a naval fleet led by Zhou Tai to drag Cao Wei's navy to Laizhou Bay.

There were three main large battle fleets under the command of Cao Wei's navy, of which the third fleet was directly sunk by Zhou Yu in the misty bend of Laizhou Bay by means of a surprise attack.

Only the First and Second Fleets remained.

Cai Mao personally commanded the First Fleet, and Zhang Yun commanded the Second Fleet, and fought with the Soochow Navy in the strait of Laizhou Bay.

"Ironclad battleships?"

Standing on the deck of a building ship, Cai Mao looked at the tattered Wu Army warship moored in front of him, and the green tendons on his forehead were bumpy.

This is the Soochow warship that they brought with them when they were fighting.

Originally, I thought that their Cao Wei Navy and the Eastern Wu Navy had narrowed the distance a lot, and with the terrain, they definitely had the strength to fight, but the result was unsatisfactory.

In a head-on confrontation, the Eastern Wu army directly sank one of his main fleets, nearly 20,000 people, with small casualties.

They could never have imagined that now Soochow had already used ironclad warships.

A warship made of a mixture of wood and iron.

As soon as they clashed, they suffered a big loss, and the Soochow warships had already sunk many of their warships just by rampage.

"Grand Duke, the Wei army's ironclad battleships are too strong, what should we do?" The generals couldn't help but feel a trace of despair in their hearts.

"Are you scared?"

Cai Mao's eyes were cold, and he swept away.

"We vow to fight to the death for Great Wei!"

The generals trembled. Hurriedly said with firm determination.

"Governor Dadu, we have been luring the ship back by the Wu army navy, and the Wu army has a fleet close to us!" The scout master will go up to the deck and say, "It's less than an hour away from us!" ”

"How many troops?"

"A division of the Wu army has 10,000 troops, and the main combat ships have as many as four building ships. There are also twenty fighting ships, all ironclad battleships! ”

"It's good to come!"

Cai Mao's eyes burst with a cold essence: "Swallow this force first, Zhang Yun, can the fleet under your command be in place?" ”

"Grand Governor, all in place!"

"Pass on my military order to rely on these four small islands, a long snake formation!" Cai Mao spread out the battle map and said: "This sea area, with a radius of twenty miles, is very windy and waves. As long as we surround them here, we can annihilate them! ”

The combat effectiveness is inferior to others, and Cai Mao can only rely on his familiarity with the waters of Laizhou Bay to dismantle the Wu army to deal with it.

In the fog bend, in the heavy fog, the main fleet of the Wu army docked.

"They're hooked?" In the cabin of the main ship, Zhou Yu looked at the sea navigation chart, his eyes flickering.

"Huh!"

Zhou Tai smiled. nodded and said, "Zhou Dashangshu, you guessed all right this time." Cai Mao really wanted to eat us little by little, so one of our divisions scattered and took the initiative to fall into it, so he naturally fell for it, and the news just came back is here! ”

Zhou Tai pointed to the location on a pair of charts: "I never thought that they would actually use these four small islands as the main base." After looking for more than half a month, right under our noses, the sea route is less than a hundred miles! ”

"Exactly!"

Zhou Yu's eyes burst with a strong battle intent: "We'll clean them up in one go this time, Cao Wei Navy, I don't know what to say." On this sea, no one can compete with our Great Wu Navy! ”

"At this time, He Qi also landed in Qingzhou!" Zhou Taidao.

"It's not landing, with He Qi's ability, it's right to take Qingzhou!" Zhou Yu said: "Ju Yi is dragging Zang Ba of Mount Tai, if he can't take Qingzhou, then I'm sorry for his position as Commander of Flames!" ”

Qingzhou.

As Zhou Yu said, He Qi led the main force of the Flame Legion to land from Dongmu City, and fought all the way to the belly of Qingzhou, sweeping invincible, comparable to each other, and all the cities fell into his hands.

At the beginning of May, He Qi had quickly completed complete control of Qingzhou Donglai, which means that no matter Cai Mao's success or failure at sea, Qingzhou is basically the territory of Eastern Wu.

But they don't have such a small appetite.

After taking Donglai, He Qi immediately captured Beihai.

When He Qi was attacking Beihai, Ju Yi also started a strong attack on Taishan Zangba.

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When the Qingzhou battle was in full swing, the Wu army on the Jiujiang side also drove straight in, broke through Shouchun City, and directly entered Runan, Yuzhou.

Ruyin City.

The defenders on the city are the remnants of the Wei army's right yang guard, the general Zhang He, with his hands on his back, standing at the head of the city, his eyes are deep, staring at the distance under the city, and he can vaguely see that the battle flag of the Wu army is approaching.

"General, the vanguard of the Wu army has arrived, and Zhao Zilong, the general of Eastern Wu, has personally led the troops, and has swept away the surrounding cities, leaving only Ruyin City!"

Cao Zhen returned to the city with the scout and said in a report.

"They are coming sooner or later, but this speed is too fast, and they don't sit firmly in Jiujiang and go north, this momentum is really strong!"

Zhang He said in a deep voice: "Our current strength, this Ruyin City may not be able to hold it, Cao Zhen, do we have any news for reinforcements?" ”

"General, the prince himself is in charge, and he has already led the main force of soldiers and horses to enter Xudu!"

Cao Zhen thought that Zhang He was a little too pessimistic, and he hurriedly said: "But if they want to go south for reinforcements, it will take at least ten days and half a month, and we still have 30,000 combat strength now, and we should be able to hold Ruyin!" ”

"Huh!"

Zhang He smiled slightly bitterly: "Defend Ruyin? Do you have this confidence? I don't have this self-confidence, when we had enough troops, we could lose Shouchun in one night, a Ruyin City, with our current strength, how long can we keep it! ”

In words. His mind suddenly went back to five days ago.

Five days ago, he was still in Jiujiang Shouchun, Shouchun City is a solid city, he has tens of thousands of elites in his hands, he is well prepared, and he has no problem after fighting for three or five months.

But in fact, to his surprise, Wu Jun only took one night. Shouchun has already been defeated.

Zhang He has seen how to call it a god soldier from heaven.

The methods shown by the Wu army made him, a veteran who had experienced a hundred battles, stunned, and did not even react for a while, followed by the city gate opened, and the commander of the Eastern Wu army drove straight in.

If it weren't for his quick reaction, his quick decision, and the immediate withdrawal of his soldiers and horses from Shouchun, I'm afraid that they would have been wiped out by now, and they wouldn't even have a chance to escape from Jiujiang.

But even so, the right Yangwei under Zhang He also suffered heavy casualties. Losing the city wall as a foundation, they collapsed quickly in the face of more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in the Central Army of the Eastern Wu Army.

In the end, he could only lead less than 30,000 remnants of soldiers, like a lost dog, and fled from Jiujiang in a hurry and went north to Runan.

And the Eastern Wu army occupied Jiujiang, so naturally it would not hide it.

Zhao Yun personally led his cavalry to pursue them, and in this case, Zhang He fled all the way north. In the end, it was not until he relied on the walls of Ruyin City that he could barely stand on his feet.

But Zhang He's heart is very clear. Once the main force of the Eastern Wu Army caught up, they could not be stopped.

"General, as long as we strictly guard against their air force means, we should be able to hold Ruyin City!"

Hearing this, Cao Zhen clenched his fists slightly, and said in a deep voice: "The reason why Shouchun City will be attacked. The biggest reason is that we are not vigilant against sneak attacks from the air, so that they can succeed! ”

"They came from heaven, how can we keep them?"

Zhang He sneered and said, "From what we originally learned about the military situation, their air force must rely on high mountains and mountains. can fall from the sky, but there are no mountains around Shouchun City that can cover the city wall, so we have no defense at all, I'm afraid I can't figure out how they fell from the sky! ”

"I can't figure this out either!" Cao Zhen said: "But we are not without defense!" ”

"Say!"

"General, I've seen the weapons they vacated, and we were angry and drew our bows and arrows, and we shot down several of them!" Cao Zhen said carefully: "I found that as long as the arrow breaks through their cloak, their aerial weapons will fall directly, and the soldiers they carry will be thrown to death instead of falling slowly!" ”

"It's also a great find!"

When Zhang He heard this, his eyes lit up slightly, and he thought in his heart: "That's it, Cao Zhen, a certain family orders you, you lead all the archers in the army, day and night air defense, as long as there is a situation in the sky, as soon as you enter the range, ten thousand arrows will be fired!" ”

"No!"

Cao Zhen nodded.

"In less than a few days, a certain family lost Shouchun and Jiujiang, and now Ruyin is the north pass city of Runan County, and there must be no more mistakes!"

Zhang He took a deep breath, his expression became firm, and his eyes became sharp: "Defending Ruyin is equivalent to guarding Yuzhou, Yuzhou is related to the life and death of our entire Kanto, no matter what, even if you die in battle, you can't retreat!" ”

"The last general understands!"

Cao Zhen's eyes also flashed with this resolute essence.

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Outside the city, the vanguard cavalry led by Zhao Yun stopped in front of the moat, he stared at the head of the city, and then gave an order: "Pass my military order, all the soldiers, start moving immediately, and fill in this moat!" ”

"No!"

The generals took orders and began to command their respective soldiers to fill in the moat and prepare for the offensive and defensive battles in Ruyin.

In about two days, the Eastern Wu army from the direction of Jiujiang to the north entered Ruyin City one after another, and the main force led by Pan Feng personally joined the vanguard army of Zhao Yun and began to launch a siege meeting on Ruyin City.

In a makeshift tent, the crowd gathered.

"Commander Shaye, you have contributed a lot to the battle of Shouchun!"

The coach of the Northern Expedition, Pan Feng, stared at the sand field with a pair of bronze bell tiger eyes, and said loudly.

"The first one has won the prize!"

Hearing this, Sha Ye hurriedly stood up, smiled slightly, and said modestly: "This battle can go so smoothly, and it only depends on the power of this hot air balloon, which is the work of Your Majesty!" ”

This is the second battle of the Tianpeng Army, and this battle is very outstanding.

The hot air balloon allowed the Air Force to truly get out of the terrain, take off from the flat ground, and then land in the city.

In the siege of Shouchun City, the Wu army broke through the city in just one night with a ratio of 1 to 3 casualties, which was the credit of the Tianpeng army.

Such examples of battles are enough to be recorded in the textbooks of the lecture hall.

"It's your military exploits, it's yours, you don't have to be humble, I will personally ask Your Majesty for your Tianpeng Army!"

Pan Feng returned to the topic and said, "But now I want to ask you, can you use the Tianpeng Army to break through Ruyin City!" ”

"Lord Shouzun, I'm afraid this is a bit difficult!"

Sha Ye thought about it, shook his head, and said in a low voice: "In Shouchun City, we can succeed in one blow, but the enemy is completely defenseless, but think about it, the enemy army has a lot of defense, although the Tianpeng army has a great effect, but it is difficult to break the city overnight, after all, they have long-distance weapons in their hands, strong crossbows and bows and arrows are the great enemies of our Tianpeng army, the hot air balloon is broken by arrows in the air, and our soldiers are smashed into pulp!" ”

"Lord Shouzun, in fact, before the army arrived in Ruyin City, I had already asked the commander of the Shaye army to try it once, but the losses were heavy, and hundreds of soldiers were thrown to death!" Zhao Yun said.

"In this way, Ruyin City can only be attacked!" Pan Feng squinted slightly.

The Air Force is not omnipotent, Shouchun City they can succeed, it is a suddenness, now that the Wei army is on guard, if you want to succeed, it will not be easy.

"So far, it does!"

Chief of Staff Xu Shu said: "Ruyin City is also a rare fortified city, if we want to take this city, it seems that it will take a little more effort!" ”

"Lord Chief, I ask for battle!"

Gao Shun stood up, his hands arched.

"Let's fight!"

After watching Gao Shun ask for battle, the army commanders immediately stood up and asked for battle to attack the city.

"Good!"

Pan Feng looked at Gao Shun, there was a touch of satisfaction in his eyes, this morale was very helpful for the siege, he thought about it, and said: "Commander Gao, tomorrow your first army will tentatively launch an attack on Ruyin, let me try how much combat power he Zhang He still has!" ”

"No!"

Gao Shun nodded, and quickly left the Chinese army camp with the generals of the First Army, and went down to prepare for the attack.

"Zilong, do you think our main force can bypass Ruyin?"

The meeting in the camp continued, Pan Feng looked at the detailed marching map of Runan, and suddenly asked: "Entering Yuzhou from Shangcai and going north to Xudu is also a road, and taking Xudu is equivalent to capturing Yuzhou!" ”

"No!"

Zhao Yun didn't speak, but Xu Shu spoke first, he objected to the rejection, and said: "Lord Shouzun, Zhang He's force is pressed to the death in Ruyin, which is equivalent to pressing the throat of our northward head, we can indeed make a detour, but his tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are pressed here, which will make our back road unguaranteed, and even logistics cannot be guaranteed, then it is equivalent to a lonely army going deep, once the battle situation is unfavorable, we will be in trouble." ”

"Lord Shouzun, what Chief of Staff Xu said is very true, at this time, we really can't be in a hurry, the main force of the Wei army is in Yingchuan County, we can only take it step by step!"

Zhao Yun said approvingly.

"It seems that I'm a little impatient, I want to take Runan before the Wei army reacts, which will make our future battle situation much more favorable, but now it seems that we still have to take it step by step!"

Pan Feng raised his head, sighed, and said in a deep voice: "I don't know how the battle situation is on the Nanyang side?" ”

Jiujiang and Nanyang are the routes of the two armies of the Northern Expedition.

The main force attacked Jiujiang, and now that Jiujiang has been taken, they can be regarded as entering the realm of Yuzhou, but their troops have entered Yuzhou all the way, and some of them are weak.

At this time, if Nanyang can respond and break through Nanyang to the north, there will be enough momentum to crusade against Yuzhou.

"The news two days ago was still deadlocked!"

Xu Shu replied: "Zhang Xiu is not an easy person to deal with, Commander Lu Bu wants to lead the Flying Tiger Legion to break through Nanyang, I don't think it's so easy!" ”

"I don't think so, Lu Bu doesn't have so much patience to fight a tug-of-war!"

Zhao Yun squinted slightly, his eyes flashing with a strange light: "Once this stalemate situation is presented, according to what I know about Lu Bu, he is likely to make a dangerous move." (To be continued.) )