Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin both held the handle of the knife tightly in their right hands, and the Jiujiang water thieves who had been on the Yangtze River for ten years were surprisingly nervous today. The two of them followed Sun Ce to pacify Jiangdong and experienced a hundred battles, but tonight's stop was a battle that decided Jiangdong.

More than 30 fireboats, taking advantage of the east wind, galloped towards Cao Yingshui Village, and when they reached the center of the river, Zhou Tai put his knife horizontally and said: "Brothers, show up, just like the previous days, just as we are here to scare Cao thief." ”

"Hey!"

In the Cao Jun Water Village on the north bank, the soldiers have ignored the disturbance of the Wu people, and they have come several times a day, not to mention that they only come in the middle of the night. At this time, a soldier found Zhou Tai's fireboat and said, "General, look, the ship of the Wu people. ”

The general in his mouth was actually just a candidate for the surrender of the army in Jingzhou, and the military candidate glanced at the Wu army at the end of the night, frowned, and said: "Why are the Wu people here again, it's really annoying." ”

"Does the general want to report it?"

The soldier scolded: "Tell a fart! The Wu people come every day, and they only show off their might at the entrance of the village, and Yu Dudu is already angry, and Lao Tzu is not looking for death when he goes to tell again? These troops are all not loved by our father, and we don't love our mother, just keep the stockade. ”

This situation happened in countless corners of the water village, and no one went to tell the higher generals. Zhou Tai was originally in a daze there, staring at Cao Jun in the distance.

At this time, the left and right reminded that Cao Ying was near.

Zhou Tai's expression regained his solemnity, he looked at the brightly lit Caoying Water Village, and after a long time, he took a deep breath and issued an order in a deep and majestic voice: "Listen to my orders, all ships are ready to light fires!" ”

The Cao Jun on the original chain warships ignored these Wu ships, and when they were about to reach two miles, suddenly, the first twenty or thirty small boats burst into flames. At this time, Yu Ban, who was patrolling the boat, found that something was wrong, and said, "Quickly order the boat to go out, and you must prevent the thief fire boat from approaching the water village." ”

It's a pity it's too late. At this time, the fire took advantage of the wind, the wind helped the fire, the ship was like an arrow, the flames were monstrous, and more than 30 fireships had crashed into the water village in a blink of an eye. This fire ship was not only loaded with dry firewood and saltpeter and other flammable materials, but also the sides of the ship were also hung with fire oil, so that under the collision, the fire oil splashed everywhere, but everywhere it touched, it was all a little bit.

In an instant, the thirty large fighting ships in the front row of the water village were the first to catch fire, and because of the iron locks, the rest of the fighting ships in series had no time to extricate themselves, and they were ignited by the spreading fire in a moment, and nearly 500 fighting ships were set on fire without a single cup of tea.

And by the momentum of the east wind, the fire quickly spread to the inner layer of the water village, everywhere it passed, there was a raging fire, the soldiers carried buckets to splash water, no matter how hard they tried, the fire could not be extinguished, and because the fire burned too fast, most of the outermost water sergeants did not get off the ship at all, and the whole thousand were engulfed by the fire.

Seeing that the water village and countless warships turned into a sea of fire in an instant, and the rolling waves of fire were rushing towards the inner water village and the dry camp, at this moment, Cao Ying's face that had been woken up was as ugly as ashes, he staggered, and barely stood still under the support of the left and right, and Xun Yu next to him said with a bitter face: "Prime Minister, let's take a plan!" The fire is out of control, and I quickly ordered to retreat north, so I am afraid that my dry camp will not be able to protect it. ”

Cao Ying looked at the raging fire, looked at the figures of those soldiers struggling in the sea of fire, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh: "The general trend has gone, the general trend has gone, alas, withdraw." ”

Everyone was about to help Cao Ying go, but Cao Ying suddenly remembered something, and said urgently: "Quickly order Yu Wenze to burn all the warships, even if you can't get it, you can't get it cheap." ”

A cadre of generals escorted Cao Ying and the strategists to the north of the dry camp, Cao Ying, with the support of Cao Zhen, 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, there is a sea of fire. The water village that stretches for more than ten miles has turned into a sea of fire, and the entire sky and the river surface within a radius of dozens of miles are illuminated as bright as day, and the precious soldiers who he regarded as exterminating Eastern Wu 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.

Cao Ying sobbed and said: "I regret not listening to Wenhe's words......"

In fact, as early as this moment, what he really remembered in his heart was a young man with a thin body and a pale face, and Guo Fengxiao, who was unruly and profligate.

And Wen He in Cao Ying's mouth had prepared his bags three days ago and was ready to run away at any time. It's not that Jia Xu is not loyal to Cao Ying, on the contrary, in Jia Xu's opinion, he has done his best, in Jia Xu's eyes, a qualified strategist only needs to give advice and remind himself of the lord, as for the lord who does not adopt it, it is not something he can control, and when it is impossible to do anything, it is Jia Xu's style to save his life.

"Father-in-law, let's go, Wu Jun has already gone ashore!" Cao Zhen resolutely interrupted Cao Ying's thoughts, and hurriedly arched Cao Ying to the shadow.

Cao Ying, who got on the horse, finally reacted, and regained the spirit of the former hero: "Quickly protect the gentlemen and go first." Zi Dan quickly went to find Pang Tong. It turned out that Cao Ying had already found out that something was wrong, so he hurriedly sent Cao Zhen to find Pang Tong.

Looking at the back of Cao Zhen running wildly, Cao Ying looked at the river red by the firelight for the last time, and sighed: "In this lonely life, I don't know if there is a chance to drink the Yangtze River!" ”

On the side of the Wulin River, Cao Zhen saw that the Wu army was Qiao Ren's department, and Qiao Ren's 10,000 Chinese troops were all carried to Jiangbei by Lou boat, but because Cao Jun's water village was full of fire, he could not land directly, so he walked three miles to the west. I saw Qiao Ren wearing silver armor, holding a long sword in his hand, and said to the soldiers behind him, "This kind of war is rare for ten years, as a soldier, it is your honor to participate in such a big battle, and it is also an opportunity for you." Whether it is a silent life or a meritorious life, in this move, the soldiers are making meritorious contributions in front of them. Come on! ”

"Rush!" Huang Ce, Xu Sheng, and Dai Gang rushed out first, followed by countless soldiers, with momentum like a rainbow.

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This thrilling battle, in fact, the real short-range contact is not too much, Zhou Yu's fire burned to death is mostly the Jingzhou naval army, when the Wu army killed Wulin, Cao Ying and his main force of the northern army have long fled, leaving only a few broken troops, and seriously ill soldiers, but there are less than 10,000 people, and the combat power is still very low. Therefore, all Zhou Yu could do was to follow and pursue with Liu Bei, more precisely, it was nothing more than competing with Liu Bei for the baggage left by Cao's army and the surrender of Jingzhou.

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, nearly 10,000 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 grain and grass, chariots, armour, armour, gold and silver, and so on, those who can be destroyed will be destroyed, and those who cannot be destroyed will have to be lost 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 battle, Cao Ying had no intention of staying in Jingzhou anymore, 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. ------------------------------------------------------------- said the second watch today, asking for flowers and recommending

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