Cao Hong racked his brains, thinking that he would have a plan, but the New Han Army easily cracked his plan unintentionally, so that almost all of his plan failed at once.

Speaking of which, it really made Cao Hong vomit blood, the army that didn't seem to have really clashed with the New Han Army, and his more than 200,000 Cao troops in Jiangdu City disappeared all at once, almost equal to the annihilation of the entire army.

It seems to be too child's play, but this is the gap between ideals and reality.

If Cao Hong was determined to defend the city of Jiangdu, even if he could not escape the result of the annihilation of the entire army in the end, it would inevitably cause heavy losses to the New Han army under Sun Ce.

Now, Cao Hong wanted to use the people of Jiangdu City to cause conflict and chaos to the New Han army, so he took the opportunity to lead the Cao army in Jiangdu to break through and leave. It's easy when you think about it. However, in terms of actual execution, it is impossible for his more than 200,000 Cao troops to all pour into the city at once, and all of them will withdraw from the same side. The Xinhan army was not so stupid, and would watch them flee with blank eyes.

Therefore, after deliberately opening a gap and letting them escape some of the men and horses first, they suddenly closed the gap, so that all the Cao soldiers who failed to escape in time were intercepted in front of Jiangdu City.

And Cao Hong had already left at the first time, and the remaining Cao army, they were leaderless, and in the face of the New Han army, they did not dare to attack the New Han army.

When the New Han army first guided the evacuation of the people of Jiangdu who poured out of the city, the army immediately moved, except for Sun Ceqin led a cavalry army to pursue the fleeing Cao Hong, the rest of the New Han army quickly captured the Jiangdu City, which was completely defenseless.

In this way, the Cao army, which was intercepted in front of Jiangdu City, could only surrender to the New Han army. At this time. There is no point in them dying anymore. Therefore, the New Han Army also got more than 100,000 Cao army prisoners in vain.

As for how to remediate the Jiangdu City. Let's not talk about this, it's nothing more than to confirm the identity of those Jiangdu people first. Distinguish the Cao soldiers who are mixed with the people, and then let the people of Jiangdu City register and make a register, and let them each return to their own homes in Jiangdu City. There is no need for the New Han Army to deal with it at all.

If the New Han Army did not treat the people of Jiangdu, then the people of Jiangdu, they could not have nothing to do, and they had to get along with the New Han Army. Moreover, in the notice posted by the New Han Army, it was also very clear that the people of Jiangdu City would be under the rule of the New Han Dynasty in the future. There will be more preferential policies than they used to, and the people of Jiangdu City will only have a better life than in the future.

Let's talk about Sun Ce, he led the cavalry all the way to pursue the fleeing Cao Hong's Cao army, rushed all the way and captured a lot of people.

However, Cao Hong still escaped with a military horse. fled all the way to the mountains and forests in the north, and fled to Hongze Lake.

Originally, Sun Ce planned to bite Cao Hong's defeated army tightly. I want to follow and chase into Hongze Lake.

But considering that his own military horses were only cavalry, if they were pursued by some simple bamboo rafts, as Cao Hong's fugitives did, then their horses would have to stay on the shore. But the cavalry was not good at water warfare. Therefore, Sun Ce did not chase him into Hongze Lake as Cao Hong expected.

Realistically. Sun Ce took into account his own New Han Army, which had a stronger and more conducive warship for water warfare. With a more elite naval army, why should he rush to lead the cavalry that is not good at water warfare deep into the endless Hongze Lake to pursue Cao Hong's defeated army?

Plus. The Cao army, which fled with Cao Hong into Hongze Huze, is no longer many, and it will not exceed 50,000 men and horses. For Sun Ce, the tens of thousands of Cao soldiers were no longer a threat to his own army, so he was not in a hurry to destroy them.

In this way, Sun Ce immediately flew into the horse, let his navy quickly drive to Hongze Lake, and let the navy search for the military horses that pursued Cao Hong's department.

At the same time, he also ordered his army to be ready, take a warship at any time, drive from the waterway, pass through Hongze Lake, and attack Shouchun.

The naval army of the New Han Army, in addition to the naval army of the New Han Dynasty of President Gan Ningsuo, Sun Ce also formed a naval army in Jiangdong. It's just that Sun Ce's navy is under the command of Sun Ce, and it is not included in the order of Ganning's navy.

Sun Ce's army has no more than 200,000 people. Sun Ce thought that Cao Hong's tens of thousands of military horses that flowed into Hongze Lake were enough to solve it with his own 200,000 sailors. Therefore, he first ordered his own naval army to enter Hongze Huze first to search for the defeated army attacking Cao Hong.

And Ganning's naval army, which he had helped Sun Ce to capture Jiangdu earlier, had already driven to the coastline, landed from the coast, and attacked the area around Huai'an. Now, if they want to enter Hongze Lake, they must first go back to the mouth of the Yangtze River, return to Qu'a, and then follow the Huai River into Hongze Lake.

Sun Ce also considered that if he invited Gan Ning's navy to come back, he was afraid that it would take a while, and by that time, Cao Hong's military horses would have already fled from Hongze Huze. Therefore, he urgently ordered his own naval army to enter Hongze Huze to pursue Cao Hong first.

After Ganning's navy returned to Qu'a and Jiangdu, his main army took Ganning's naval warship and went directly to Shouchun City.

But the problem is that Sun Ce's army, they have not fought in the Yangtze River basin, and they are not aware of the dangerous situation of Hongze Huze. Moreover, Sun Ce's order was too urgent, and his naval army did not have time to understand clearly from the naval officers who stayed behind in Qu'a, so they drove their naval army into Hongze Huze to pursue Cao Hong's defeated army.

In this way, it was equivalent to making Cao Hong's plan to lure the enemy barely equal to success, and finally at a great cost, Sun Ce's 200,000 sailors entered Hongze Huze.

Sun Ce also didn't know that in Hongze Huze, not only Cao Hong's tens of thousands of Cao army defeated soldiers, but also Cai Mao's Cao army and navy had always been hidden.

Sun Ce's 200,000 naval army was commanded by his uncle Sun Jing.

Sun Jing is Sun Jian's younger brother, in the early years when Sun Jian raised the army, he gathered hundreds of his clan children to follow Sun Jian to fight in the world, and he was regarded as an old minister of the Sun family's army. When Sun Ce attacked Wang Lang of Huiji, it was Sun Jing's strategy that made a great contribution to it.

Afterward. Sun Ce originally wanted Sun Jing to sit in Huiji for him to resist the Shanyue people. But Sun Jing refused.

Sun Ce entrusted Sun Jing with the task of forming a naval army. In Qiantang, he formed Sun Ce's headquarters naval army.

Sun Jing wanted to die in her hometown, and she didn't want to be an official anymore. It's just that. Now the battle to unify the Han Dynasty and rejuvenate the country has attracted attention, so he couldn't help but respond to Sun Ce's request, and led the Jiangdong naval army he formed and trained for Sun Ce to reach the Yangtze River and participate in the battle to attack Cao Cao and unify the Central Plains.

Qiantang, most people know how imposing the tide of the Qiantang River is, that Sun Jing. He actually dared to train the army in the huge waves of the Qiantang River, in order to train his naval army and let Sun Ce's headquarters naval army form a strong combat effectiveness, he was not afraid of losing troops in training, and his strict requirements for his naval army were very strict.

That, the naval army that was trained with his life, that combat effectiveness is really not covered. Compared with the old New Han Army, it is not inferior.

It's just that the Jiangdong Navy trained in the Qiantang River. They are more suitable for fighting on the sea, and are not suitable for fighting in the shallows of rivers. In addition, an individual's combat effectiveness does not mean that the final attack power can be formed.

The strength of an army. There are so many factors involved.

Among them, the familiar combat environment is also quite important.

It is suitable for the Jiangdong naval army to fight in the wind and waves. When they enter the rivers that crisscross them, some of the rivers and lakes are calm and narrow. and shallow, often allowing their warships to run aground in the environment of fighting. This makes them feel like they have a lot of strength, but they have nowhere to start.

Moreover, in the reeds, the field of view is also very narrow, and after crossing a pile of tall reeds, it may be another environment.

In fact, Mo said that it was the Jiangdong navy, even if it was Ganning's navy, they didn't dare to say that they were completely familiar with the environment of Hongze Lake, and they were only familiar with the vicinity of the channel opened up by the Xinhan army. Let Gan Ning's navy go deep into Hongze Lake and run around, you have to be very careful.

There is also a very serious problem, that is, it is now the season of spring rains, and it is drizzling almost every day, which makes Hongze Lake and Ze equivalent to being shrouded in a thick layer of fog all day long, and if you are a little farther away, you can't see things.

In this way, the 200,000 Jiangdong naval army entered the Cao army led by Cai Mao, who was more familiar with Hongze Huze and Hongze Huze, and it was really more auspicious.

At the beginning, the 200,000 Jiangdong naval army drove into Hongze Huze, and none of them considered the danger of fighting in Huze for a while.

But when they went deeper, they were all dumbfounded.

That, where is Cao Jun? They are going to search for Cao Jun in those complex lakes and in the endless reeds? That, not to mention the search for Cao Jun's attack, they themselves have already lost their way. What made them even more uneasy was that the 200,000 sailors who entered Hongze Lake together, walked in the lake, and found that they were separated from other troops, and each of them did not know where their specific location was.

Luo Xing, a native of the Qiantang River, grew up in the water since he was a child, is proficient in water, and also has brute strength, fighting in the water, he can defeat the combined attack of several ordinary soldiers of the New Han Army.

He was already the captain of the hundreds, and this time, he entered Hongze Huze with the Jiangdong Navy army to pursue Cao's army.

However, after entering the misty Hongze Lake, he obviously ordered the warship he was riding on to follow the large army closely. But they followed, and they were separated from the army. In the vast lake, in the boundless reeds, they were like wandering in a ghost domain, with no shops in front of the village and no shop behind, and he asked the sergeant to shout all the way, but he did not get a response from his own military horses.

Luo Xing was originally a guy with a big belly, but in this Hongze Lake, he was really a little confused.

Moreover, the soldiers of a boatload of 100 people led by him were also quite unlucky, and inadvertently broke into a river channel with extremely shallow water. The boat had not been rowed far before it ran aground again. Fortunately, the rivers in these lakes and the bottom of the lake were all silt instead of stones, otherwise, their warships would not have been as simple as running aground, but had been directly scuttled through their warships, causing them to sink all of them.

And the river they talked about was too narrow, and it was inconvenient to turn around, so they had to bite the nail on and go all the way.

Whenever they ran aground, they had to let the sergeant jump into the water and pull the ship forward.

However, the danger of Hongze Lake is not only the harsh environment, but also a creature called crocodile.

Within a day, Luo Xing's team had three sergeants who were pulled to the bottom of the lake by the crocodiles in the lake.

At first, they thought it was their own New Han Army, but as a result, they were shot indiscriminately by Cai Mao's Army, and more than a dozen soldiers of the New Han Army on the deck were killed on the spot. When Luo Xing was about to launch a counterattack, the Cao army and the navy no longer knew where to hide.

For three days in a row, Luo Xing's men and horses also rode 60 or 70 people. Everyone was quite shocked and exhausted by the harsh environment and the Cao army that suddenly appeared to attack them from time to time.

This kind of invisible enemy makes Luo Xing blind.

More than 200,000 Jiangdong naval troops, in Huze and Huze, more or less encountered the same encounter as Luo Xing.

What's more, if a small group of the New Han army is separated from the large army, it will basically be completely wiped out by Cao Cao's army.

For example, when two or three warships of the New Han Army were together, when they passed through some narrow reeds in the river, they were besieged by the military horses of the Cao army, and first flew countless bows and arrows from those dense reeds, shot and killed a group of soldiers of the New Han Army, and then let the water ghosts of the people break their warships, so that they could not escape.

The team led by Luo Xing, the warship he was on, could still be spared, that was because Luo Ju was more alert, after the first attack by Cao Jun, he himself was not afraid of the cold lake water of the cold spring, led some soldiers, as soon as he encountered a problem, he first hid in the water, and solved the water ghost of Cao Jun in the water, so as to keep the warship, so that he could survive.

However, if this continues, the entire 200,000 Jiangdong naval troops will probably be buried in Hongze Lake.

Lost and unable to get out at all.

If the New Han Army lost 200,000 sailors at once, it would really be a considerable blow to the New Han Dynasty.

Fortunately, after a continuous drizzle, the new Han army, which was already exhausted in Hongze Lake, felt a little desperate. The sky suddenly cleared and the sun was shining.

The sudden better weather dispersed the fog of Hongze Lake, and finally allowed the New Han Army Navy that had been scattered all over Hongze Lake to identify the direction, so that the whole army hurriedly evacuated from the lake. (To be continued.) )