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In just three days, Han Lie personally led the Red Flame Army of 23,000 men and horses to conquer this fortified city. Deng Dang, the commander of Chaisang, was killed in battle, and 7,000 temporarily conscripted people surrendered. Han Lie, who originally thought that he was going to experience a fierce battle, immediately convened a meeting of the generals when he led the crowd into the Chaisang Governor's Mansion.

"Chaisang Jiancheng, our army will capture it in only three days, do you think there is a problem in it?" Han Lie, who was sitting on the ground, swept his eyes over the civil and military officials on the left and right, and asked slowly.

"I think Sun Ce was scared and fled first, so this defender is naturally vulnerable." Dian Wei saw that everyone was pondering, so he said with a big grin.

"No, I went to the prisoner camp just now and asked, although there are 10,000 defenders in the city, there are actually only 1,000 county soldiers, and the rest are all young and strong people who have been temporarily recruited, to put it bluntly, they are a group of people, so naturally they have no combat effectiveness." Xu Huang shook his head and objected.

"General Komeito, what news do you still ask?" The right army division Xun hurriedly asked.

Xu Huang nodded and said: "There is indeed one thing, that is, when I sent someone to receive the treasury just now, I found that the treasury had been emptied, and the money and food were less than what I needed for a month. ”

"In this way, all this is deliberately arranged, if I expected it to be true, Sun Ce also predicted that it was not our opponent, so he strategically chose to avoid it, but I am afraid that now his main force has now left Yuzhang." After Xun You learned about Chai Sang's situation, he immediately guessed Sun Ce's intentions.

"What Brother Gongda said, I'm afraid that it won't be far away." Guo Jia nodded and agreed: "If I were Sun Ce, in the face of my crusade of 100,000 elite soldiers, I would definitely not fight to the end, and any general with a strategic vision should be able to see the importance of Yuzhang to us, now the lord is not only the general of the dynasty, but also the pastor of Yangzhou, whether it is righteousness or power, taking Yuzhang County is in line with the will of the people, but Yuzhang has a vast territory and rich people, Sun Ce will naturally not give up easily, so he will forcibly recruit people to defend the city in various places, and at the same time garrison the naval army in Poyang Lake, The ultimate goal was to stall for time and buy time for his victory in the south. ”

After listening to Guo Jia's supplement to Xun You, Han Lie immediately saw the situation in front of him thoroughly, and said: "In this way, most of the cities in Yuzhang are empty cities at the moment, which is good news for us, since Sun Ce thinks that Liu Biao is a soft persimmon and uses his main force to fight in Jingnan, we can't let him succeed too easily." ”

Subsequently, Han Lie wrote a handwritten letter, asking Ding Feng to hand it over to Diao Chan, who was acting with the army, and sent a letter to Cheng Yu, who was sitting in Jiangling and assisting Liu Biaojun, with a sparrowhawk, informing him of the news of Yuzhang, and asking him to remind Liu Biaojun not to rush forward, and it was best to advance steadily and step by step, so as not to let Sun Ce have a chance.

"Lord, since Yuzhang is empty, and the enemy army in Poyang Lake is hanging up the battle exemption card, why don't we plan and order the naval army to enter Pengze, and take advantage of the situation to capture Pengze, Poyang, Liling, and Luling The surrounding counties, my army will take Nanchang directly, and seize Haidu, Jianxin and other places, so that within a month, Yuzhang will inevitably fall into my hands." Guo Jia then said again, he has always been surprisingly victorious, and he likes to take risks in his arms.

Han Lie thought about it, and saw that Xun You did not agree, so he asked, "How about the public agreement?" ”

"Although this move can quickly capture Yuzhang, but what you get is only the city, if the main force of our water army goes ashore, once the enemy water army of Poyang Lake is attacked, then our water army is likely to face a crisis, I think our main army drives directly to Poyang City, and the main force of the water army is on both sides to attack the enemy water village of Poyang Lake, as long as the enemy's water army is eliminated, Yuzhang is still at your fingertips." Xun Yu thought about it, but raised objections.

Faced with the different opinions of the left and right military advisors, Han Lie couldn't help but be cautious for a while, it can be said that the strategies of Guo Jia and Xun You have a certain amount of truth. After hesitating, Han Lie looked at the three generals Xu Huang, Zhao Yun, and Tai Shici who were below, his purpose was very clear, he wanted to hear their opinions.

"I heard that the fortification of Poyang Water Village is not weaker than that of the city, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses stationed there, and the casualties are really difficult to estimate if they are attacked, I think that Guo Junshi's words are reasonable, and the top priority should be to capture the whole county of Yuzhang, as long as we take Yuzhang, even if Sun Ce wins in Jingnan, with our strength, he will not want to recapture Yuzhang." Xu Huang was the first to say.

"There are 60,000 sailors, and 30,000 troops ashore are enough to take on the great task, leaving 30,000 garrisons to monitor the movements of the enemy's navy." Tai Shi Ci thought about it, but put forward a compromise method, according to Guo Jia's intention, is to transfer 50,000 sailors ashore, and strive for the fastest time to sweep the 21 cities of Yuzhang.

Yuzhang County has a vast territory, under the rule of 21 counties, all over the land of thousands of miles, across Ganshui, Luoxiao Mountain and Wuyi Mountain, in this era, just to walk again has to be more than a month, but Guo Jia proposed to divide the troops to attack, January to set Yuzhang, is indeed a risky move.

"My lord, I also agree with General Ziyi's proposal, but I think that in order to play the role of troops, I propose to transfer a group of men and horses from the Lujiang River to garrison Chaisang, and at the mouth of Poyang Lake, station a naval army and horses, and lay down the chain of the Hengjiang River, as well as hidden piles to prevent the enemy from escaping in chaos." Zhao Yun then also put forward supplementary opinions.

Just as the so-called three stinkers are Zhuge Liang, this is true at all, just when Han Lie listened to everyone's opinions and was about to issue a military order, Pegasus came to report: "Lu Dudu sent a battle report. ”

"Bring it in." The pro-soldier team under his account led Ding Feng to immediately deliver the battle report sent by Lu Su to Han Lie.

Unfolding the silk silk, Han Lie couldn't help but smile after looking at it: "The hero sees the same thing. Ladies and gentlemen, the battle report sent by Zijing said that Zhou Yu's 30,000 water troops in Poyang Lake could not shrink, and he had sent an army to seize Pengze County, and learned that Yuzhang County was now empty, and now he had relied on the city to build a water village, one was to monitor Zhou Yu's department, and the other was to paralyze the enemy, and asked if he could send 30,000 soldiers and horses to attack the county to govern Nanchang. ”

"Governor Lu is now on the front line, and since he thinks it is feasible, we have no opinion." Xun Yu is no longer insisting on his opinion.

Han Lie immediately ordered: "Order Lu Dudu, let him send 30,000 horses to act according to the plan, and mobilize another 10,000 horses to go to the mouth of the Sanjiang River to arrange the Hengjiang chain to prevent Zhou Yu from escaping." In addition, Liu Ye, the commander of Lujiang County, was transferred to Chaisang Order, and led 5,000 soldiers from Lujiang County to immediately rush to Chaisang to station. ”

"Whoa." Ding Feng immediately took Han Lie's military order and sent it out of the government office to the messenger governor who was responsible for transmitting information.

"Zhao Yun, Xu Huang, Tai Shici, you, each lead the men and horses of the headquarters, advance as planned, seize Haidu, Luling, Jiancheng and other places on the periphery of Nanchang, and then join the naval army in Nanchang."

"Whoa." The three of them took the order.

"Xu Chu and Dian Weiru immediately reorganized the soldiers and horses in the city, and then led by Zhong Kang to go to Sanjiangkou to garrison and cooperate with the naval army to garrison." Han Lie then ordered Xu Chu Dianwei and the others, who were in charge of the guards of the Chinese army.

"Whoa."

"Gongren, the affairs of the city's affairs will be handled by you for the time being." Han Lie then pointed out that Dong Zhao was in charge of government affairs, as for Guo Jia and Xun You, and he was naturally in charge of the overall strategic affairs at the moment.

In just half a month, most of the 21 counties in Yuzhang have fallen, and the remaining counties that have not been attached are all remote places, because the road is far away, and the front and power of the troops have not yet been conveyed.

Zhou Yu of Poyang Water Village also knows a lot about this bad news, in order to appease the army, he did not announce this news to the public, of course, for this matter, in fact, he has already made arrangements. Most of the 30,000 sailors under his account were the children of the five counties of Chaisang, Pengze, Poyang, Luling, and Yanyang, so at the beginning of the war, he moved most of the families of the soldiers into Poyang City.

The agreement between Zhou Yu and Sun Ce was a month, if Sun Ce failed to deliver accurate news when the month was up, Zhou Yu would lead the naval army to break through and advance to Yunmengze in Changsha, and Sun Ce would send someone to meet in Yunmengze in Jingnan regardless of success or failure.

In the lobby of the Governor's Mansion of Chaisang City, Han Lie stood in front of the geographical map of Yuzhang County, combined with the battle reports sent by various departments, and said with a smile: "Twenty-one counties, now only the three counties of Yandu, Gan County, and Nanye in the south are left, as well as Poyang, where Zhou Yu is entrenched, it seems that this battle will end earlier than we expected." ”

"Lord, the south of the city is connected with Jiaozhou, all relying on Ganshui and Zhangshui as the traffic road, there is no post road along the way, and now Zhou Yu's army is blocking Poyang County, and the three counties in the south of the capital seem to be the only way to send a naval army to capture Poyang." These days, Xun You has become familiar with the situation in the counties under Yuzhang's rule with Han Lie, Guo Jia and others.

Today's three counties in the south of the capital have a combined population of less than 10,000, which can be described as extremely weak, but in the vast area around these three places, there are at least 50,000 Shanyue people entrenched, so Han Lie categorically cannot give up the people of the three counties.

"Immediately send an order to Lu Zijing, let him pull out the camp and approach Poyang Water Village, and order all departments to move closer to Poyang City, since Yuzhang's recovery is imminent, then it is time to eliminate Zhou Yu's living force." Han Lie put his fingers together, clenched them into a fist, and placed them in the position of Poyang, showing his determination to annihilate Zhou Yu's troops and seize Poyang.

When Han Lie led the 5,000 men and horses of the Chinese army to leave Chaisang and go to Poyang, Zhou Yu of Poyang Lake Water Village finally made the decision to break through, because although there were still five days before the agreed one-month period, he expected that the news did not come, but a letter of help sent by Sun Ce, saying that the battle with Liu Biao in Changsha was very fierce, and it would be difficult to win for a while, hoping that he would give up Yuzhang and lead the naval army up the river to help him, and if possible, take Jiangling by chance.

It was also after receiving Sun Ce's letter asking for help that Zhou Yu issued an order to retreat overnight.

In December, the wind and waves on the surface of Poyang Lake are gusting, and there is no peace for a moment, and on the vast and open river, even if thousands of boats compete for the current, as long as you don't have the intention to explore, you can't find it.

Zhou Yu had already prepared to retreat, so when he issued the order to retreat overnight, when thousands of large and small ships in Poyang Water Village quietly sailed away along the south bank, Lu Su's headquarters on the north bank, which was twenty miles away, did not notice it at all, so that at dawn, when Lu Su sent Xu Sheng and Ling Tong to fight, he found that the water village was empty.

"Immediately hurry back to the lord, Zhou Yu's army has fled, let them intercept them at the mouth of the Sanjiang River, and order all the troops to turn around immediately and march towards the mouth of the Sanjiang River." When Lu Su received the news reported by Xu Sheng and Ling Tong, he was taken aback, and immediately took a speedboat to Zhou Yu Water Village to inspect it personally, and after confirming this fact, he immediately issued an order to pursue it to all departments.

When Han Lie and his troops had arrived in the territory of Yanyang, he met Lu Su's messenger, and when he learned the news that Zhou Yu had led his troops to flee, Han Lie summoned Diao Chan who was with the army to the front of the army and said: "Now that there is an emergency, you immediately use the sparrowhawk to send this letter to the Dong raid camp at the mouth of the three rivers." ”

"Whoa." Diao Chan joined the army this time, mainly responsible for probing intelligence and summarizing information sent from all over the country, and now although she and Zhang Yao are under the guise of spreading the Heavenly Master Sect, they have actually become Han Lie's veritable secret agents.

After Diao Chan left, Han Lie then said to Guo Jia, Xun You and the others: "Chaisang is now weak, once Zhou Yu's attack on Sanjiangkou is frustrated, he will inevitably attack Chaisang to open a passage, so it is imperative that we go to the aid as soon as possible." ”

"What the lord said is reasonable, this place is only two days away from Sanjiangkou, you can send General Dian Wei to set off immediately, we will sit here, and it will not be too late to meet all the departments and return to Chaisang." Xun Yu echoed.

"The subordinate seconded." Guo Jia immediately took the lead.

"This proposal is invalid, I asked the Ding Feng brothers to leave five hundred soldiers here to escort them, I and Dian Wei set off immediately, only I can ensure that nothing goes wrong now." Han Lie categorically vetoed.

"Although Chaisang is important, but the lord is the body of a king, how can he stand under the dangerous wall? I also ask the lord to take back his fate. When Xun Yu heard this, he hurriedly bowed down and prayed.

"Please take back the general's order." Guo Jia also threw himself to the ground, knelt down and pleaded in front of Han Lie.

"What are you doing here? Since I am a general, I naturally know my duties, so how can there be any reason why a general should not go to the battlefield? Han Lie hurriedly stepped forward to hold up the two of them, and argued with a straight face.

"The lord's words are wrong, the general is a commander who makes decisions on the spot, strategizes, and decides for thousands of miles, how can there be a reason to go into battle shirtless in person?" Guo Jia retorted.

"Feng Xiao's words are reasonable, and I also ask the lord to immediately appoint General Dian Wei as a general, and lead the Chinese army to Sanjiangkou immediately." Xun You also said without backing down.

"It's too boring, it's boring." Han Lie glared at the two of them angrily, so he had to succumb and said: "Dian Wei, you will lead your troops to Chaisang immediately, Ding Feng will go with you, if Chaisang is safe, you can divide three thousand troops to go to Sanjiangkou to meet Xu Chu, remember not to act blindly." ”

"Whoa." Dian Wei and Ding Feng replied in a deep voice.

The two of them were drinking wine in the barracks to keep out the cold, when suddenly a sparrowhawk landed at the door, and the soldiers at the door were startled, and when they saw that it was a half-sized rooster-sized sparrowhawk, a sergeant couldn't help but shout happily: "Hurry up and catch it, just roast and eat." ”

"Bastard, this is the sparrowhawk of the lord's message, do you want to die?" The leader of the team knew the origin of the sparrowhawk, and hurriedly picked up the sparrowhawk before the sergeant who was about to pounce, and hurriedly sent it into the barracks.

"What, Zhou Yu has led his troops towards Sanjiangkou." Dong Xi, who was originally a little drunk, was so shocked that he scared away the strength of the wine when he read the letter brought by Sparrowhawk, and he was shouted: "Order all departments to prepare for battle, and order the warships to go to the ten-mile waters for inspection." ”

(Alas, it was too busy, and I came back late...... (To be continued.) )