A cadre of generals escorted Cao Ying and the strategists and rushed to the north dry camp, and after a few steps, Xun You suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said: "Prime Minister, there are still hundreds of scattered warships upstream that have not been burned, should we give an order to let them retreat to Jiangling quickly." ”

Cao Ying waved his hand and said heavily: "Forget it, this series of strategies of the Wu people must have been calculated to this section, and the order of Gu was passed on, so that Cai Mao burned all the warships, and the remaining sailors also withdrew from the land." ”

When Cao Ying had just come ashore, the flagship boat he was on had also been burned, and Cao Ying, with Cao Zhen's support, hurriedly got on the war horse, and when he wanted to leave, he couldn't help but look back.

As far as the eye can see, the water village that stretches for more than ten miles has turned into a sea of fire, and the entire sky and the river within a radius of dozens of miles are illuminated as bright as day, and his soldiers are scurrying in the fire like ants.

On the river, the Wu warships covered the sky and the moon, the sound of shouting and killing shook the heavens and the earth, and the rockets in the sky rained down on the shore.

Looking at everything that was about to be burned, Cao Ying's eyes couldn't help but moisten a little, and how lost he was in his heart.

"I regret not listening to the words of the text and the ......"

Seeing that he was in a trance, all of them were in a hurry, Cao Zhen cautiously persuaded: "Prime Minister, the matter has come to this, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood, it's time to go." ”

Cao Ying woke up from a trance, shook his head and sighed: "This time, I don't know when I will be able to drink the horse Yangtze River again, alas, it's it, it's it, let's go." ”

As soon as Cao Ying spoke, he didn't need to whip himself, and as soon as the civil and military forces hugged him, he looked at the north and hurriedly left.

When the fire had not yet started, in the dry camp, Jia Xu was already packing up his things in advance.

He went out with the army, and there were only a few pieces of soft luggage, but the most was bundles of books, and when Cao Ying and the military generals of Wenchen held a banquet on the boat, he was carrying rolls of bamboo slips on horseback.

"People are old, it's useless, Ah Quan, you go ahead and move, sir, I'll rest for a while."

Jia Xu, who is over sixty years old, although his hair is still completely white, but the years are not forgiving, and he gasps badly after only a few moves, so he has to sit down and drink tea.

"Sir, where are we going?"

Ah Quan asked in confusion while moving the book, this confidant servant who has followed Jia Xu for many years, followed the master and served Dong Zhuo, Li Dao, Zhang Xiu, and now Cao Ying, and has experienced the drastic changes in the late Han Dynasty, but he still can't guess the master's intentions.

Jia Xu waited for his breath to calm down before he said, "Of course, I'm ready to go back to Xudu." ”

Ah Quan stopped halfway through, and said blankly: "Didn't the prime minister say that he would return to Xudu only after Jiangnan was pacified, aren't the Wu people on this side of the river still undefeated, why are they going back so soon." ”

Jia Xu said: "Jiangnan can't be leveled, think about the signs recently, most of the prime ministers have fallen into the calculations of others, and it is only a matter of the past few days that they have been defeated in the north." Let's get ready early, so we don't have to be scrambling. ”

Ah Quan was taken aback and said, "Then why didn't Mr. go and remind the prime minister, just watching Wu Ren's plan succeed." ”

Jia Xu sighed: "Jiangdong has its own masters, I just feel that there is a decisive strategy on the other side, but I can't figure out what the strategy is." Furthermore, the current Cao Gong is no longer the Cao Gong when he was in Guandu, he is too confident, so confident that he thinks that he is invincible in the world, and he can't listen to anyone's advice, and if he persuades, it will be in vain, let's plan to protect ourselves first. ”

Before the words fell, the sudden changes in the southern sky attracted Jia Xu's attention, and an ominous premonition came to his heart.

Jia Xu stood up violently, walked out of the tent, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, only to see that the south was already in flames, and the sound of shouting and killing was getting louder and louder.

"I didn't expect it to come so quickly, alas-"

Jia Xu sighed, but an imperceptible smile appeared on his face, and he brushed his sleeves and said lightly: "Ah Quan, you don't need to move, it's time, let's go." ”

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That thrilling battle, in fact, did not carry out a real sense of the short hand-to-hand contact, Huang Gai's fire burned to death mostly the Jingzhou naval army, when Zhou Yu's army killed Wulin, Cao Ying and his main force of the northern army had already fled, all Zhou Yu could do was to follow and pursue with Liu Bei, more precisely, it was nothing more than to compete with Liu Bei for the baggage left by the Cao army.

The Huarong Road between Yunmengze north of Wulin is muddy and narrow, and tens of thousands of Cao Ying's troops are scrambling to squeeze on this road, and the degree of embarrassment can be imagined.

In this battle, Cao Ying almost took more than 10,000 tiger and leopard horses with him, and the muddy terrain of Huarong Road was extremely unfavorable for the cavalry to walk, Cao Ying of course would not leave the most precious war horse to his enemy, so in order to keep the precious tiger and leopard horse, he had to sacrifice a large number of sick and weak soldiers.

As a result, about 35,000 sick and infirm soldiers were used as paving stones and filled in the swamp pits along the way to ensure the smooth passage of the cavalry. As for the large amount of wealth such as grain and grass, chariots, armour, banners, gold and silver, what can be destroyed will be destroyed, and what cannot be destroyed will have to be discarded along the way.

After three days and three nights of torture, Cao Ying and his soldiers of less than 40,000 people finally walked out of Huarong Road smoothly.

After this defeat, Cao Ying had no intention of staying in Jingzhou, so he left Cao Ren, Xu Huang and others to guard Jiangling, Lejin to defend Xiangyang, and led a large army to retreat to the north.

As Kong Ming expected, in this battle, Liu Beijun almost didn't spend a single soldier, and snatched the mountain of baggage, and escaped by luck, unwilling to follow Cao Ying's return to the north, let alone surrender Cao Ying's Jingzhou soldiers, many of whom were not captured by the Wu people, most of them also surrendered to Liu Bei, and the number was almost 2,000.

The ultimate goal of the Wu army was of course not limited to the Battle of Chibi, as soon as the war ended, Zhou Yu led the army to go up and take Jiangling.

Sun Quan's reaction was also very fast, and as soon as he received the news of Chibi's victory, he immediately appointed Cheng Pu as the Jiangxia Taishou, and rightfully extended his power to the Jiangxia line.

Of course, at this time, there were three people in Jiangxia Taishou, and Cheng Pu led the Jiangxia County Governance Office Shaxian, which is now southwest of Wuchang, Hubei. The Wenpin appointed by Cao Ying, the Jiangxia Taishou Governor, controlled the northern part of the former Jiangxia County. And Liu Qi, the original genuine Jiangxia Taishou, in addition to the north being taken away by Wenpin, and the south was also eaten away by Sun Quan under the pretext of the alliance, and the territory has shrunk to the north bank of the Yangtze River, but the most important Xiakou is still in his hands.

When Liu Bei escaped death again, he suddenly found that Sun Quan seemed to benefit the most, and so far, he still has no official foothold. The so-called Fankou was nominally assigned to him by Sun Quan, and as for Jiangxia, although because of Liu Qi's serious illness, the people he installed were constantly encroaching on Liu Qi's power, but nominally Jiangxia still belonged to Liu Qi. Therefore, according to the previous plan, collecting the four counties of Jiangnan became Liu Bei's most urgent thing.

So, soon after going up the river with Zhou Yu and camping on the other side of Jiangling City, Liu Bei officially proposed to Zhou Yu that he should take the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River by himself.

Zhou Yu's answer was as simple as ever: "Yu can't be the master of this matter, Liu Yuanjun should go and discuss with my lord." ”

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