The sixth year of Jian'an, May 5.

Gan Ning transferred Ren Jiang and Deng Long from Exian County, and asked the two of them to lead 5,000 soldiers to garrison Shuizhai, while he himself took Liu Ye as the military advisor, Zhou Tai, Dong Xi, Sun Ben and others as generals, commanded 20,000 sailors, and marched towards Yi County.

There are nearly 40,000 Jingzhou sailors in Yixian County, and Gan Ning dares to take the initiative to fight with only half of the opponent's troops, which can be regarded as a daring artist.

Logically speaking, with the superiority of troops, Jingzhou should not have held on to the fortress, because this would seriously damage the morale of its own army.

But Cai Mao did this, no matter how Jin Fan scolded outside the village, he stood still.

Cai Mao's move is quite a kind of 'he is strong, he is strong, and the breeze blows on the hills.' He is horizontal by him, and the bright moon shines on the river's master demeanor, but unfortunately, what he cultivates is not the Jiuyang True Scripture, but the head shrinking technique of the 10,000-year-old turtle.

The vengeful Huang Zu was angry and scolded Cai Mao for being a gutsless rat, but Cai Mao replied lightly: "The general of the defeated army, how can Lao Tzu's army get you to point fingers?" If you want to go to war, take your thousands of remnants into battle, and if you can win more with less, you will atone for your sins; If you fail, you will die as soon as you die, and you will not be punished by the Lord again. ”

Huang Zu was furious, and almost sprayed a mouthful of dog blood on Cai Mao's face.

It didn't take long for Huang Zu, who didn't want to stay angry, to retreat to Yixian County with the seven thousand Jiangxia soldiers under his command, so that even if the water village was broken by Jinfan, they would have at least one city to defend in Jingzhou.

On the surface of the river, Gan Ning saw that Cai Mao was reluctant to fight. was very helpless, so I had to ask Ji Liu Ye: "Ziyang, right now, this Cai Mao is clearly going to be a shrinking turtle." What can I do? ”

Liu Ye smiled bitterly: "No matter what reason Cai Mao made this choice, but it is indeed very wise, in a sense, the timid Cai Mao is actually more difficult to deal with than the hot-blooded and impulsive Huang Zu, because he never dares to take risks!" ”

Gan Ning's eyes were solemn: "Can you only attack?" ”

If it is precipitous, the water village in Yixian County is far inferior to that of Exian County. But this time, Jingzhou has obviously learned a lesson, and a lot of broken ship debris has been piled up in the river in front of the water village. In this way, not to mention the large building ship, even the small ship may not be able to pass, if it is rashly approached. The opposing crossbowman was condescending. Jinfan doesn't know how much it will cost him.

Liu Ye thought for a while and proposed: "Let's use the thunderbolt directly, as long as we can smash the gate and fence of the water village, it will be easy for us to break into it!" ”

Gan Ning dispatched a total of ten building ships this time, and each building ship was equipped with a thunderbolt car, but because the thunderbolt was huge and the boulder was very heavy, the 'ammunition' was extremely limited. Only four or five of them were placed in each ship.

Originally, these thunderbolts were specially prepared by Gan Ning for the attack on the county seat of Yixian. But now, they can only be allowed to appear in advance.

Soon, with Gan Ning's order, Jinfan began to change formation, the warships in front gradually retreated, and the ships scattered around converged in the middle and were pushed straight to the front line.

In the water village, Cai Mao, who was looking from afar, frowned, not knowing what Jinfan's intentions were.

Zhang Yun, who was on the side, saw through Jinfan's purpose, and his face changed greatly: "Dudu, it's not good, Jinfan plans to use a thunderbolt!" ”

"What!? Thunderbolt!? Cai Mao was shocked when she heard this, and a chill rose in her heart.

You must know that the defense of this water village is not as good as the city wall, if it is bombarded by the opponent's thunderbolt repeatedly, it is estimated that the surrounding fence and arrow tower will be smashed to pieces.

"So what do we do now? Can I use a catapult to fight back? ”

Zhang Yun shook his head and said, "No, Dudu, the range of the stone-throwing cart can't reach so far!" ”

"Damn it!" Cai Mao was extremely emotional, grabbed Zhang Yun's collar, and roared, "Quick, quickly give me a plan to deal with the enemy!" ”

For Cai Mao, defeating the battle is actually not terrible, but before that, he had just degraded Huang Zu to worthless, if he was defeated so quickly, he might be sneered at by Huang Zu afterwards, which was absolutely unbearable for him.

Zhang Yun blushed and said: "Governor, there are only two ways to do it today, one is to directly abandon the forward defense line and retreat to the village to fight in close combat with Jinfan, who came forward; The second is to take advantage of the fact that they will lead the army to kill before they attack, and the formation after the opponent changes is not conducive to combat, and we may be able to attack them by surprise! ”

Cai Mao scolded: "Idiot, the aisle in front of the village has been blocked, and by the time we clean it up, those stones will already hit our heads!" ”

"......" Zhang Yun was very aggrieved in his heart, damn it, you didn't order this road to be blocked, what's the matter with Lao Tzu?

"Retreat, the whole army retreats a hundred steps back, and give up the gate to Jinfan!" In order to save his life, Cai Mao's order was very decisive, and in fact, he had no other way.

However, things are obviously not as simple as Cai Mao thought.

"Governor, let the Thunderbolts pause their attack!" Liu Ye pointed to the water village in front of him, and chuckled, "Cai Mao took the initiative to withdraw his troops and let go of the village, if we don't accept this big gift, won't we live up to his kindness?" ”

"This idiot, thinking that he can escape by retreating to the rear, is too naïve!" Gan Ning laughed and ordered, "Come on, pass on my order, the whole army will maintain the formation and slowly march towards the water village, I want to see where they can retreat!" ”

In the "......" water village, Cai Mao didn't wait for the bombing of the Jinfan Thunderbolt for a long time, but vaguely, he saw that the other party's ship seemed to be getting closer and closer to him, "What's going on?" ”

Zhang Yun said in shock: "Dudu, Jinfan's target doesn't seem to be Zhaimen, but us, what should we do now?" ”

"Are you pig's head!?" Cai Mao pointed at Zhang Yun and scolded, "This is the clever plan you came up with? ”

Zhang Yun said aggrievedly: "Du Du, the last general doesn't want to, who knew that these Jinfan thieves were so cunning?" ”

At the moment, the thunderbolt that Jinfan has never started is like a sharp sword hanging over the head of Cai Mao's army, no one knows when it will fall, all they can do is to hide, either run back to defend the gate of the village, or ...... Keep retreating until you are out of range of the opponent's Thunderbolt.

However, for Cai Mao, these two options are obviously not a good solution, so he intends to combine the two into one.

"You ......" Cai Mao pointed at Zhang Yun and said, "Is there a problem with the order of the Governor of Pontus to lead an army of 5,000 to defend the gate of the water village for me?" ”

"Huh?" Zhang Yun's face instantly turned bleak without a trace of blood, Cai Mao's order was clearly using him as cannon fodder to attract Jinfan's firepower. (To be continued.) )