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Just when Jia Xu turned into a demon, swept away the opposition forces of the entire Sanfu, subdued the neutral forces, and created all kinds of prophecies and auspiciousness. When they tried their best to prepare for the change of dynasty, the war situation in the south had also entered a white heat.

In March, after urgent consultations with the three major strategists and senior generals such as Tai Shici and Le Jin, Ma Han resolutely decided: While the imperial court's obituary envoy had not yet arrived, the southern expedition would be carried out to the end, and it must not fall short.

At the beginning of April, the dragon wolf army of 20,000 land and water, hundreds of warships, along the waterway and on both sides of the Yangtze River advanced into Jiangxia. For a time, I saw that the river was like a thousand sails, the flags on both sides of the bank covered the sun, thousands of horses galloped like a dragon, the team was winding like a snake, the smoke was in the sky, and the momentum was extremely huge.

What Ma Han didn't know was that it was precisely because he temporarily withdrew his troops, stopped the march, and discussed with his advisers the countermeasures for the death of the Son of Heaven, as well as the end of the southern expedition. It was delayed for five or six days, which caused unexpected drastic changes in the entire southern expedition.

Upheaval, appeared on the battlefield of Xiakou.

In the fierce battle at the end of March, the two armies fought extremely fiercely, the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and even the commanders of both sides rolled up their sleeves and went into battle.

Dong attacked and broke the cable, Su Fei counterattacked, Guan Yu shot in time and threw Su Fei, and one of the two generals of the Jiangxia Army died.

The ship is hooked, and the tenacity is across the river. With the cliff and the rock, it is the defense system of the Jiangxia army to block the combined forces of Sun, Cao and Liu. When all six ropes were broken and the ship overturned, a corner of the defense system collapsed. Su Fei's death in battle dealt a serious blow to the morale of the Jiangxia army. If it weren't for the fact that it was getting late and it was difficult to fight at night on the river, the coalition forces would have been able to completely break through the water gate, climb the cliff, and pull out the nails that had finally stopped the army.

The news of the disastrous defeat of Jiangxia's army during the day reached Shaxian. Panic. Huang Zu had already sniffed out the crisis, and that night he summoned the Huang clan to discuss and make a plan to flee back to the north.

Early the next morning, Huang's grandfather and son took only a team of servants and personally took a boat to the Xiakou military camp to inspect and comfort the soldiers. He also made a generous statement on the stage of the general, accusing the bandits of the alliance of Sun Cao and Liu, and promoted the meritorious soldiers in the fierce battle the day before yesterday to be promoted, knighted, given gold, and rewarded the house.

Huang Zhu even patted his chest and swore an oath, and their father and son watched the battle at the head of Shaxian City. Never backing down.

For a time, the morale of the three armed forces was high, and the voice of defending the township was like a tsunami.

I have to say that both father and son have the potential to be politicians. He knows how to say one thing and do another, and swear is like eating rush.

After the flickering, the father and son didn't even spend the night in the barracks, for fear that the camp would be stolen by the enemy. Back to Shaxian. Grandfather Huang immediately cleaned up, selected good horses and strong followers, and was ready to pull out his legs and slip away at any time.

Three days later. After the allied army rested, the soldiers were full of horses, the war drums beat again, and the Jiangxia army fought again. This time, the goal is to focus on the Rock Cliff, and if this is broken, the army can safely sail across the river and launch a general attack on Shaxian, the old nest of Huang Zu.

The battle was even more tragic, the Jiangxia army relied on its condescending superiority, with a rainstorm of arrows and stones, smashed a number of coalition ships, in just one hour, the Jiangxia army suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, and the casualties of the coalition army also reached 1,000. In the end, even the main general Chen went into battle. After fierce fighting until dusk, the coalition forces were never able to conquer the village, so they had to lead the army back.

That night, Zhou Yu, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and the generals of the coalition army discussed late at night.

Finally, he concluded with a heavy sentence from Zhou Yu: "Gentlemen, the Dragon Wolf Army has occupied Chaisang and will march into Jiangxia at any time." If we can't break through the summer pass and attack Shaxian within a few days, then there will be wolves in front and tigers behind, and we will die without a place to be buried! ”

The generals were all terrified.

The next day, in order to turn the tide of the battle, Zhou Yu ordered Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Dong Xi, and Lü Meng to lead a hundred soldiers to die first, each wearing double armor, holding a leather shield, wearing three knives, and charging with arrows and stones in a big boat. Cao Liu's army all boarded the boat, and they also had to brave the arrows and rocks to break through the water gate from under the cliff to divide their troops and create an opportunity for the 400 first dead soldiers.

The coalition army really broke out this time, and the four hundred dead soldiers, like mad tigers, rushed up the slope in front of the cliff wall. The big shield was smashed, and the shield was thrown and continued to rush; The thick armor was full of arrows, shaped like a hedgehog, and it still rushed non-stop.

The Jiangxia army, which was defending the barricade, had to fight back against the charge on land and attack the ships on the water, and its strength was diluted, and it was a loss for one or the other. The end result is that both ends can't stand it.

When more than 300 dead soldiers rushed into the village, these elite soldiers, armed with the best equipment of the coalition army, became the "sharp knives" that pierced the last defense of the Jiangxia army.

In the melee, Lü Meng led a few dead soldiers to break through the enemy encirclement and rushed towards the center of the village, just in time to meet Chen Zhuo.

The two sides have been fighting for so long, and they have long been familiar with each other, and they will face each other and immediately draw their swords against each other.

Chen slashed with a knife, and Lu Meng raised his shield to block - Chen's scalp was numb, and it was broken! I don't know if he cut this knife too accurately, or if Lu Meng did it on purpose, so that he couldn't die, but he was actually splitting between the cracks that were smashed by stones in front of the shield, and he was stuck to death, and he couldn't pull it out for a while.

Chen was shocked and hurriedly abandoned the knife, but unfortunately, it was too late......

What kind of skill Lu Meng is, how could he let go of this good opportunity, and the ring head knife slammed forward, stabbing Chen to the heart.

A moment later, on the platform of the Jiangxia military camp, Lu Meng raised half a spear, on which he picked up Chen's head, and shouted hoarsely: "Chen is dead, the head is here." Kneel down to avoid death, stubbornly resist and kill corpses! ”

When the Jiangxia army saw that the main general was dead, the army's morale was disheartened, and the soldiers had no will to fight, so they asked to surrender one after another, or ran over the wall.

At this point, after nearly a month of fierce fighting, Xiakou was finally broken by the combined forces of Sun Cao and Liu.

Zhou Yu got the good news from the front, and only said to Cao and Liu: "The end of Huang Zu has come." ”

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In mid-April, Tai Shici finally completed the handover with Lü Dai, led the Left Route Army of nearly 20,000 people (collected and surrendered thousands of Jiangdong Army), traced the river, entered the Yangtze River from Zhejiang, and joined the Middle Route Army and the Right Route Army of the Southern Expedition. The dragon wolf 50,000 troops gathered, marched westward, all the way like a bamboo, even under Xunyang, Xiapheasant, Exian.

Cheng Pu resisted step by step, retreating step by step, and lost one city after another to the dragon and wolf army. And his own family continued to shrink its forces, and at the same time lengthened the supply of the dragon wolf army and diluted its strength.

Ma Han has a strong army, even if there are one or two thousand soldiers in a city, he still has several times more troops than his opponent, and he doesn't care. On the contrary, because leaving some auxiliary troops and troops with weak combat effectiveness in the rear is tantamount to throwing a burden to the localities, streamlining the troops, and relieving the pressure on transportation, killing two birds with one stone.

Both sides have their own countermeasures, and for the same thing, the two sides look at the problem from different angles and come to different conclusions. Cheng Pu felt that his plan had succeeded, and so did Ma Han.

Just when the Dragon Wolf Army was marching forward and preparing to join forces with the Jiangxia Army to attack the three coalition armies, Ma Han received a battle report that made him speechless.

Huang Zu, it's over.

At the beginning of April, the coalition forces conquered Xiakou and immediately marched south, approaching Shaxian.

At this time, the Jiangxia army was defeated one after another, and the army's morale was weakened, and the fighting spirit was worrisome. Moreover, thousands of defeated soldiers in Xiakou fled all the way, and were chased all the way by the coalition army, and the defenders of Shaxian saw it and did not even dare to open the city gate, resulting in thousands of defeated soldiers being killed outside the city, or fleeing into the deep mountains and wilderness, becoming missing persons. Seeing his comrades being slaughtered like lambs by the enemy under their noses, let alone rescued, they didn't even dare to open the door, and as a result, the morale of the entire Shaxian defenders fell to a low point.

An army without morale, let alone fighting, can't hold even if it is defending the city. And Huang's grandfather and son abandoned the city and fled, marking the end of this Jiangxia battle.

On the seventh day of the first month of April, Shaxian City was broken, and Ling Tong ascended first. Zhou Tai led the army in pursuit and killed Huang Shot. Huang Zu was chased by Xiahou Yuan and his cavalry, and there was no way to escape, so he fled to Shuize. In the end, he was surrounded by Jiang Qin's fleet, shot with arrows, and showed his head to the public.

It is said that Huang Zu looked up to the sky and howled angrily before he died: "Ma Hu! Dragon wolf! Hu Buzhi? ”

Roaring, ignoring the rain of arrows, facing the east, not blinking to death.

"It's a pity, if Huang Zu can hold on a little longer, or if we are not delayed by the Luoyang incident for a few days, the battle situation in Jiangxia may be completely new...... It's a pity, it's a pity. Xun You read the strike report, shook his head and sighed.

The generals are also choked, it's just a few days late, this day is too good at choosing the time......

Ma Han clapped his palms, reminded the generals to be quiet, and said: "Since the battle situation has changed, the deployment of our army will also change, please join the army to announce the new deployment." ”

Guo Jia and Xun You are equivalent to the roles of chief and deputy chief of staff in the Dragon Wolf Army. Because Guo Jia is free and easy by nature, he can usually give advice, but he doesn't like to command in front of the generals, so Xun You usually comes forward to give orders.

Xun You has long been accustomed to his role, carrying the baton, coming to the screen where the map is hung, and skillfully conveying the new layout.

"A, Zang Ba, Sun Kang, and Sun Guan, the three generals, led 2,500 Langya troops as the vanguard, and forced Cheng Pu to continue to retreat to Xiakou. Note that after capturing Yi County, you can't continue to pursue, Sun Cao and Liu Zhuwei will definitely have heavy troops in Xiakoutun, and there will be accidents if you advance rashly. ”

"B. General Lejin led 10,000 cavalry, General Li Dian led 3,000 sailors, and General Zhang Liao was the grain supervisor, a total of 13,000 men and horses, both land and water, attacking Xiling in the north and capturing Sun Quan."

"C. With Guo Jia as the line of Yuzhang Taishou, Guan Cheng as the captain, leading 5,000 soldiers and horses, more than 100 ships, stationed in Chaisang, and the governor of the whole army grain road."

"Ding, the dragon and wolf in the middle of the road, the left road 30,000 troops, board the boat and raise the sails, send troops to Xiakou, and fight with Sun Cao and Liu San in a decisive battle against Jiangxia."

Ma Han pressed his sword and rose: "Gentlemen, with Huang Zu here, we will attack together from east to west; Without Huang Zu, we would have pushed all the way. In short, the three reverse coalition forces were either caught to death or crushed to death, and the way of death was different, in short, they must die! ”

The generals stood up on the ground: "The three adversaries will die, and the dragon and wolf will win!" (To be continued......)