"What, General Cheng was defeated?" In the military tent under Huiji City, Zhou Yu looked at the little colonel in front of him in disbelief, and rarely suspected that he had something wrong with his ears.

"Exactly, it is said that the old general Cheng pursued the Xuzhou Naval Division, but he was ambushed in the Lujiang Water Village, with heavy casualties, and the old general Cheng only escaped with hundreds of people to ascend to heaven." The little colonel bowed his head and replied.

Shocked, absolutely shocked. Hearing the news for a while, the entire Zhou Yu's handsome tent was suddenly silent. Although Cheng Pu is not a famous general who wins a hundred battles, but when it is the turn of the water war, there are few people in the entire Jiangdong who surpass him, and now he is almost wiped out by a group of rookie sailors, which still makes them unbelievable.

"Governor, what should we do now?" The first person to react was Zhou Tai, who was simple-minded and had to ask if he didn't understand. When the rest of the generals heard this, they all looked at Zhou Yu with expectant eyes.

Zhou Yu's brows only furrowed slightly, and then he said with a firm face: "The three generals of Tai Shici, Jiang Qin and He Qi must strictly guard the three water villages, and at the same time let General Shubi in Danyang respond at any time." If the Xuzhou army wants to cross the river, it must take these three roads. There are two generals on the western front, Huang Gongfu and Han Yigong, who can be safed for a while. At present, it is necessary to break through Huiji City as soon as possible, exterminate the traitor Sheng Xian, and then go to rescue them. ”

"The last general understands!" Zhou Tai and the others all agreed with a bang, and then led the crowd to step up the attack on Huiji City. Everyone was secretly glad in their hearts, in case this Sheng Xian launched a rebellion half a month late, and then the main force was all involved in the battlefield on the Western Front, it would be even more passive. However, although Sheng Xian's strategic vision is not very long-term, he still has a certain personal background, and now he has gathered nearly 10,000 soldiers to entrench in Huiji City, and even recruited thousands of Shanyue troops to help in the war. Zhou Yu knows the art of war well and knows that a strong attack is not the best policy, but in order to solve the coercion of this back road, he has to attack as much as he can.

Today is the fourth day of the siege, and the Jiangdong Army has suffered more than 10,000 casualties in these four days, but Huiji City has not yet been taken. Sheng Xian also seemed to know that Jiangdong was facing two strong enemies, so he just gritted his teeth and defended it, but he never went to war. Zhou Yu was worried in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it on the surface. Seeing that the number of soldiers at the head of Huiji City was not much less than at the beginning, Zhou Yu's heart was also a little heavy.

At this moment, there was a sudden confusion on the head of Huiji City, and then the scope of the confusion became larger and more serious, and Zhou Yu could even clearly see that someone was slashing with a knife. Although he didn't know what was going on, Zhou Yu still keenly seized the fighter and ordered Zhou Tai to lead a team of elite soldiers to the city. The already chaotic defenders could not organize too effective defenses, and Zhou Tai was the first to climb the city with a big sword in one hand and a shield in the other. Several of the soldiers tried to stop them, but they were all hacked to death by him. The rest were horrified, and at this time, more and more Jiangdong soldiers also successfully reached the top, and the defenders were finally gone, and the city gate was lost.

"Youping, do you know why the defenders are in chaos?" Just led the army into the city gate, Zhou Yu hurriedly found Zhou Tai and asked. At this time, the defenders were still putting up their last resistance, and the street fighting was fierce.

"Dudu, I just captured a pawn alive and asked. It turned out that the Shanyue army, which was helping the war, clashed with the Han army in the city, so it was in chaos. Zhou Tai also replied with some luck.

"I see!" Zhou Yu also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, this Sheng Xian was just a Confucian after all, too idealistic. Although the arrival of the Shanyue army can enhance their combat effectiveness, they are like a time bomb that may explode at any time. Seeing that although the street fighting was fierce, the defenders were obviously gone, and immediately said to Zhou Tai: "Youping, I will pacify the rebels with your 10,000 elite soldiers, be sure to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and leave 5,000 people to guard the town after the war subsides." I will lead the army to the Western Front to deal with the Jingxiang men and horses first, and then you will lead the army to catch up after you are busy with all this! ”

"Don't worry, the last general understands!" Zhou Tai also knew that the situation was urgent, and it was impossible for Zhou Yu to delay here for too long, so Zhou Tai seemed to remember something, and hurriedly asked while Zhou Yu was still there: "Then how to deal with Sheng Xian?" ”

"Kill!" Zhou Yu drifted away, leaving only one word.

At this time, on the Gan River, the Jiangdong Water Division and the Jingxiang Water Division were also fighting fiercely. "Zifu, you lead ten boats, and then give the north a little ruthless!" Huang Gai carefully stared at the fierce battle on the river, and found that the Jingxiang Water Division in the north had some unbearable trends, and immediately ordered Ling Ying to lead the people to continue to charge and kill.

"The last general understands!" Ling Ying did not delay, and immediately led the army to prepare to continue to charge. "Father, I'll go too!" Ling Ying's sixteen-year-old son, Ling Tong, picked up his blade and followed, Ling Ying looked at it, and nodded in agreement.

"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows, don't let them come!" The Jingxiang Water Division in the north was led by Jiangxia Taishou Huang Zu, who was already a little struggling, and when he saw Ling Ying leading ten ships to kill his ship, he hurriedly ordered to release arrows to stop him. For a while, arrows rained down on the ship, but Ling Ying and the others couldn't kill them. "Father, Huang Zu's arrow is coming too fiercely!" Ling Tongyi waved his knife and hit the arrow, and turned his head to report to his own Lao Tzu.

"Damn, you must attack it!" Ling Ying looked at the south, Han Dang, Ding Feng, Jia Hua and others were leading the army to fight with Cai Mao's brother Cai Xun, and they couldn't send troops to help for a while, it seemed that they were the only ones who won first. Seeing this, Ling Tong gritted his teeth and took a shield to protect himself, and then ordered the sailors to row as hard as they could to rush towards Huang Zu's ship.

"Hey!" Gragging on a cable hanging from the side of the ship, Ling Tong jumped onto the opponent's ship with a single effort. Several Jingzhou soldiers were shocked and hurriedly stepped forward to fight with them, but they were all chopped over with a knife. "Kid Hugh!" Jingzhou general Chen hurriedly raised a knife to fight Ling Tong, and the two fought for only a few rounds, Chen slashed and was blocked by Ling Tong with a shield, and then stabbed Chen in the lower abdomen with his right hand.

"Look at the knife!" Behind Ling Tong, another general in Jingzhou, Deng Long, swung his knife and slashed at him. Not wanting Ling Tong to react with great speed, his right hand just pulled out the knife from Chen Ji's corpse, and the whole person didn't stop for a moment and then turned around and swung the knife and slashed it. As a result, Deng Long's knife cut Ling Tong's head into the air, and he didn't even chop a hair, but he was cut into two pieces by Ling Tong's knife.

"Damn!" After beheading two generals in a row, Ling Tong was not too happy, because he saw that Huang Zu had already escaped back to the west bank in a small boat. However, Huang Zu fled, and the entire Northern Army of the Jingxiang Water Division collapsed suddenly, and for a while, it was defeated and retreated again and again under the repeated blows of Ling Ying and Huang Gai. The northern army was in chaos, and the southern army, which was originally evenly matched, was suddenly in chaos, Huang Gai and Han Dang led the army to kill, although Cai Mao in the center commanded again and again to save the defeat, but the general trend has gone. Huang Gai and Han Dang pursued and killed all the way, and directly killed the Jingxiang Water Division, and then retreated to Shuizhai before retreating.

"Smack!" In the water village of Jingxiang Water Division on the west bank of Ganshui, Kuai Yue, who has always been elegant, couldn't help but slap the table angrily. "Why is my Jingxiang Water Master so poor now? Facing off against the Jiangdong Naval Division, it was a rout? Kuai Yue was a little angry.

"Jing Xiangshui Master has not been practicing for a long time, but he didn't expect that his combat power would fall so quickly." A hook-nosed general on the side shook his head and replied. He is Zhang Yun, who is known as the second person in the Jingzhou Water Army, and of course, the first person is Cai Mao.

"Before, Zhao Feng had already broken Cheng Pu in Lujiang, but now our army has lost more than won in the battle, which is simply a shame for us!" Kuai Yue also shook his head again and again, very helpless. He didn't know that at this time, Zhao Feng of Lujiang was also full of sorrow and had nothing to do.

"Cross the river, cross the river!" Zhao Feng walked back and forth in his military tent, but his mouth kept muttering these two words. Hou Haozhao, the pro-guard soldier on the side, listened to it, and couldn't help but feel some sympathy for his general. Since occupying the Lujiang River and defeating Cheng Pu, Zhao Feng has been busy thinking about how to cross the river. There are only three places on the opposite side that are suitable for the army to cross the river, Sanjiang Town, Niu Zhu and Hulin, and now they are being garrisoned by Tai Shici, Jiang Qin and He Qi. Among them, Tai Shici led an army of 5,000 to garrison Niuzhu, Jiang Qin led an army of 3,000 to garrison Sanshan, and He Qi led an army of 7,000 to garrison Hulin.

There are very few people, but if they want to rely on the Xuzhou sailors to lay down the positions of any of them, they are still a little powerless. Not to mention that these three water villages echo each other, one was attacked, and the other two came to help. In addition, Danyang County in the south also has reinforcements ready at any time, and it is really not easy to cross the river now.

"General Zhao, it's better to wait for the winter to slow down the flow of the river, and then find a secluded place downstream to cross the river." Gan Ning, who was familiar with the water conditions of the Yangtze River, returned from several raids in a row without success, so he had to say so. The rest of the generals such as Zhang Liao and others don't know much about water warfare, and they don't have anything to say.

"It doesn't necessarily need to be like this, Xingba, send an order to go down and build more rafts, and prepare for the army to cross the river." Zhao Feng suddenly had some ideas, but he didn't feel too mature, so he immediately ordered to prepare the raft first, and then make the preparations first.

"Didn't the general want the whole army to cross the river, so that the Jiangdong Army had nowhere to defend?" Gan Ning said with some surprise when he heard this.

"Naturally, that's not the case." Zhao Feng smiled and dispelled Gan Ning's doubts. Although Mr. Mao in later generations adopted this all-round flowering style of play during the battle of crossing the river, he did not have a million troops now, and the defensive front of the Jiangdong Army was not so long, so it was obviously not suitable now.

At this moment, at the foot of Lumen Mountain in Xiangyang, a hundred miles away from the Lujiang River, a group of Confucian scholars were gathering. Two of the older ones were already over half a hundred years old, and the man on the left sighed lightly: "Shiyuan, although you have already left the school, but now the world is in turmoil, and the princes are divided, so you should be cautious to find a master to vote for it." Do not go astray, lest you fall into trouble. ”

"What the teacher says, the disciple understands!" The man known as Shi Yuan was a young man in his twenties, but he was no more than five feet tall, but he had a black skin and crooked mouth, and his appearance was really ugly. After bidding farewell to his mentors and friends, the ugly young man took a simple little burden and headed south.

"Kong Ming, where do you say this Shiyuan will go?" Among the people who saw him off, a Confucian of the same age suddenly asked another young man who was younger than him.

"I think Shi Yuan will go to Uncle Liu Huang, but for now, he still has to go to Lujiang first." The young man replied calmly, but he was still waving a goose feather fan in his hand, but he didn't know what to do with it in this early winter season.

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