"General Gan, do you think Li Taishou can hold it?" At this time, on the Xiangjiang River, hundreds of large and small warships were heading north. On one of the command ships, Su Fei, the deputy governor of the Jingxiang Water Division, asked Gan Ning with some confusion. It has been almost a month since Cai Mao and others launched a coup d'état, and half a month ago, Cai Mao sent his brother Cai Xun to lead an army of 50,000 to attack Fancheng. And Li Yan, the Taishou of Nanyang, actually occupies the counties of Fancheng and Xinye. Among them, except for Fancheng, which is still precipitous, the rest of the counties are not very good. Su Fei himself is a native of Jingzhou, so he naturally knows a lot about the things here.

"Su Dudu don't worry, even if Cai Mao is there in person, Li Taishou will not be weaker than him, not to mention that it is only Cai Xun who comes this time." Gan Ning is quite confident in Li Yan, if Li Yan can't even handle Cai Xun, then how can Liu Bei let him be stationed in Nanyang with peace of mind.

"I hope so!" Su Fei said a little unoptimistically in his heart. At this time, it was already afternoon, under Fancheng City, Cai Xun had just finished a day's attack, looking at Fancheng who was still standing, Cai Xun couldn't help but spit out.

"General, there are nearly a thousand casualties today." After counting the casualties in the army's main book, he stepped forward and played cautiously, and Cai Xun was even more annoyed when he heard this. At this time, at the head of Fancheng, Li Yan looked at the Jingzhou army retreating in embarrassment under the city, and his heart was full of disdain.

"General, these Jingzhou troops are really rubbish!" Fu Tong, who was following Li Yan to guard Fancheng on the side, looked at the Jingzhou army that was retreating in embarrassment, and said with disdain. These days of siege warfare, the Jingzhou army is really full of foreign appearances. The sluggishness of his on-the-spot command and the weakness of the army's combat effectiveness were enough to be "comparable" with Yuan Shu, who was said to be at the time. This is also normal, these are basically new troops recruited after the Battle of Koto. Lack of training and lack of experience at the same time, how can it be compared with the elite soldiers under Li Yan. These days, Li Yan's casualties are only more than 1,000 people, but the Jingzhou army has already suffered more than 10,000 casualties.

"Captain Fu, select five hundred elite brothers, I want to surprise Cai Xun tonight." Li Yan said suddenly. Fu Tong was stunned when he heard this, and then said in disbelief: "General, five hundred? ”

"Five hundred is enough, we don't have that many horses!" Only then did Li Yan tell the reason, and Fu Tong hurriedly responded when he heard this. "General, isn't this too risky?" Fancheng County Commander Liu Mi was also shocked when he heard that Li Yan was going to lead 500 people to attack the Jingzhou army at night.

"It's okay, Cai Xun doesn't know the art of war. I've been sticking to it these days, and he must have thought I wouldn't dare to fight. I see that its camp is not in order, if it is a night attack with light horses, it will be successful! Li Yan said confidently.

Liu Mi didn't say anything anymore when he heard this, and at this time, his nephew on the side, Kou Feng, the lieutenant of Fancheng County, also took the initiative to ask: "General, Kou Feng is not talented, he has been practicing martial arts for many years since he was a child, and he is willing to break the enemy with the general!" ”

"Feng'er, you?" Liu Mi was also stunned when he heard this, but he didn't say anything after all. It was the third watch of the night, Li Yan ordered a good man, and Fu Tong and Kou Feng were preparing to set off, and at this moment they came to report to the horse: "General, the Jingzhou military camp suddenly caught fire, and there was chaos!" ”

"What?" Li Yan was also surprised when he heard this, and hurriedly ordered Tanma to inquire again, and he also hurried up to the city to check. Looking from afar, I saw that the Jingzhou military camp stationed by the Xiangshui was already in flames, and the sound of killing was everywhere.

"It seems that someone attacked Cai Xun from the waterway!" Li Yan understood what was going on after a little thought. In fact, after several days of waterway raids, Gan Ning and Su Fei finally arrived at the lower reaches of Fancheng near evening, and then stopped marching. At night, Cai Xun was defenseless, and then he raided his rear camp. Gan Ning led people to fight on land, while Su Fei intercepted the remnants of the defeated army, trying not to let them escape Xiangshui and return to Xiangyang.

"Cai Xun is really a straw bag, this camp is actually rooted by the river!" Gan Ning still despised Cai Xun's IQ in his busy schedule. His camp was entrenched by the river, and there were fences on three sides, but the side by the river was a flat river. Cai Xun is clever and wants to use Xiangshui as a natural barrier, but in this way, once the enemy army attacks by water, it will be twice the result with half the effort.

"Kill!" Gan Ning stayed up until two watches, and when he saw that the Jingzhou army was already asleep, he immediately led his troops to kill the Jingzhou army camp. The sleeping defenders were caught off guard and were taken by surprise. Cai Xun was woken up in the confusion, and hurriedly put on his armor and went out to command.

"Don't mess up, steady, steady!" Cai Xun was so anxious that he killed a few rebels in a row, but the situation was no longer under his control. At this time, Li Yan of Fancheng also led his troops to kill, Li Yan was in the center, Fu Tong was on the left, Kou Feng was on the right, and the three people were inserted into the camp of the Jingzhou army like sharp knives.

"Bastard!" Cai Xun was caught off guard by the enemy on his back, and immediately jumped on the horse and wanted to lead the army to fight a way out, but he didn't want to be targeted by Kou Feng in the distance. Kou Feng saw that Cai Xun seemed to be dressed as a general, and he was commanding loudly, so he immediately pulled out an arrow and shot it.

"Ahh An arrow hit Cai Xun in the back, and he only screamed and fell off the horse. The Jingzhou army was even more chaotic, unable to organize effective resistance at all, and was either killed or surrendered, and the rest were forced to swim across Xiangshui overnight and flee back to Xiangyang, or flee west to Zhangling. But Su Fei didn't eat white rice, and under his interception, the only people who fled back to Xiangyang in the end were thousands of people with the surname Shui. Cai Xun was lucky, although Kou Feng's arrow shot him off the horse, it did not kill him, and even a few of his cronies still found a small boat to escort him and fled back to Xiangyang.

"Xingba, it's really hard for you!" At this time, Li Yan had already seen that it was Gan Ning who came to rescue him, and he sighed in his heart. After the battlefield was cleared, it was discovered that nearly 10,000 prisoners had been captured. "Zhengfang, you are now alone in Jingbei, do you want to go back to Yangzhou with us?" Gan Ning looked at the surrounding situation and didn't seem to be very optimistic, and hurriedly asked.

"It's okay, as long as there is a ship, it's not difficult to go, I'm still waiting to attack Jingzhou with General Zhao and them." Li Yan smiled, a little meaningful. Gan Ning looked at Li Yan, who was talking and laughing, and sighed after a long time: "Zhengfang is really wise and brave, and he is calm and calm in danger, Gan Ning admires!" ”

Gan Ning is not a person who likes to exaggerate, but now Li Yan's situation is indeed very dangerous. At present, to the north of Fancheng is Wancheng, where Zhang Xiu, who has defected to Cao Ying, led an army of 30,000 to guard it. Although there is no Jia Xu by Zhang Xiu's side now, it is still not to be underestimated. To the west is Zhangling County, and the Zhangling Shou General is Kuai Yue's clan brother Kuai Qi, who is naturally Cai Mao and Kuai Yue's sworn friends. To the east, Runan was originally his own territory, but now it is occupied by Cao Ying, and Yu Ban led an army to guard it. Not to mention to the north, across the Xiangshui is Cai Mao's base camp Xiangyang. In addition to being able to look at Jiangxia Guardian by walking Xiangshui, the entire Fancheng is already embattled on land.

"It doesn't matter, unless it's Cai Mao and Kuai Yue, what is the way to be like Cai Xun's generation!" Li Yan said confidently. Seeing this, Gan Ning couldn't persuade anything more, so he could only ask Li Yan and Fu Tong to be careful, and at the same time leave the boat, so that they could run away as soon as something was wrong.

"Rice bucket! Eater! Cai Mao looked at Cai Xun with a thick bandage on his back in front of him, and he didn't even care about being distressed, so he scolded directly. These days, Cai Xun and Cai He really gave him a long face, one let Liu Biao flee from the sky, the other fought Fancheng and fled, and there was not one out of 50,000 troops. Cai Mao lost his temper for a long time, but Kuai Yue on the side played a round and diverted the topic: "At present, Fancheng is just a disease of scabies, and Li Yan has no more than 10,000 soldiers, which is only enough for self-protection." The top priority at the moment is to solve Liu Biao, who has fled to Jiangxia. It's a pity that Jing Xiangshui Master is in the hands of Su Fei, otherwise why would he be so passive. Speaking of this, Kuai Yue also sighed in his heart, Jingxiang Shui Shi has always been stationed in Jiangxia, and Governor Huang Zu is also Cai Mao's confidant. didn't want this person to die violently for no reason a year ago, Liu Biao only let the deputy governor Su Fei take charge for the time being, and then make a decision after the year, on the grounds that "the New Year is approaching". This Su Fei is Liu Biao's party, and with this trick foreshadowing, Liu Biao's capital in his hands is much stronger.

"Xenomorph, in your opinion, what should you do?" Cai Mao had always admired Kuai Yue's wisdom, and hurriedly asked. "Wait for work, just wait for Liu Biao to come over by himself, and we will take advantage of the situation to annihilate him in one fell swoop." Kuai Yue said in a deep voice. "And what if he doesn't call?" Cai Mao asked with some hesitation.

"He will call, Jingxiangzhi is Jiangling, he has already lost Wancheng back then, and now he loses Jiangling, then he will not be the Jingzhou pastor." Kuai Yue is full of confidence and authenticity. Speaking of which, Liu Biao is really unlucky, or too cowardly. When he was appointed as the pastor of Jingzhou, the governance office should have been located in Wancheng. But at that time, Yuan Shu was the Taishou of Nanyang, but the magpie's nest dove occupied and refused to give way, and Liu Biao had no choice but to move to Jiangling in Nanjun. This matter is indeed embarrassing to say, but it is Liu Biao's face that is lost, Kuai Yue is now deliberately saying it in public, also in order to cut his face and boost his morale.

"Exactly!" Cai Mao and the others' expressions were also much more relaxed when they heard this. "Xeno, where do you think Liu Biao will march from?" Cai Mao unfolded the map and asked.

"There are two roads, one is through Wuling County to Yidu County; The other way was to attack Nanjun from Changsha to the north. Kuai Yue looked at the map and said, Speaking of this, Kuai Yue also smiled and said: "Fortunately, the prime minister has already controlled Runan, otherwise if Liu Bei goes from Runan to Xinye to attack Xiangyang, then our army will be attacked on three sides." ”

"Exactly!" Cai Mao also called it a fluke after reading the map, but then he also remembered a question: "What if Liu Bei intervenes?" ”

"Even if Liu Bei wants to intervene, he can only take these two paths. As for the sailors, I have ordered people to build pontoon bridges over Xiangshui and build water villages to block warships, so that they can no longer be so easily crisscrossed the hinterland of Jingxiang. Deju, you are a water war master, you have to worry about this matter! Kuai Yue instructed.

"That's nature!" Cai Mao knew that the two were already grasshoppers tied together, and no one could do without each other at the moment. Turning his head to look at the map, he said: "Nanjun is where the ancestral business of the Kuai clan is located, so it is naturally up to you to take charge of it." But who should be sent to guard Yidu County? "Cai Mao also knows his own affairs, his two younger brothers are not talented, Kuai Yue's clan brother Kuai Qi guards Zhangling, and the rest of the generals are really difficult to find out who will sit in Yidu County for a while.

"I have a general under my command, surnamed Huo Mingjun and Zhongmiao, a native of Zhijiang in Nanjun, and a lieutenant of my subordinates. This person is good at guarding the city, but Liu Biao does not reuse his people, and in the past he was only treated as a military commander. Now I will promote him to a partial general, and let him guard Yidu County, and he will be safe! As long as it is not lost, Liu Biao will not be able to attack Nanjun for a long time, and when his troops are exhausted, we can take advantage of the situation to counterattack, defeat his army and then go straight to Jingnan, and wipe out all Liu Biao's people. After that, go east to Yangzhou and exterminate Zhao Feng's children, then the southeast land will be owned by my generation! "Kuai Yue is full of pride. Infected by it, Cai Mao also laughed, and he didn't care about the previous defeat at all.

However, whether it was Kuai Yue, Cai Mao, or even Zhao Feng, Liu Biao, and even everyone involved in this dispute, they did not expect that this Jingxiang civil strife would finally catch everyone off guard due to an unexpected emergency. When everyone talked about it afterwards, they could only sigh that God had made people.

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