On the tower of the north gate, all the troops gathered around a general, standing proudly, but it was Zang Ba, the deputy governor of the second army of the Jing army. Zang Ba had been stationed in Xiakou, and at the time of the Battle of Chibi, Zang Ba received a military order from Liu Ze, so he led his troops to cross the Yangtze River south and attacked Jiangdong's advance base in Jingzhou - Exian. After Sun Ce's defeat in Jiangxia, he was unwilling to return to Jiangdong and stayed in Exian, since Sun Ce's death, Zhou Yu built Exian County into a bridgehead for Eastern Wu to attack Jingzhou, stationed heavy troops, rectified military affairs, and actively prepared for war. However, since Zhou Yu entered Chibi, the garrison of Exian County has been relaxed, perhaps Zhou Yu feels that the strategic center of gravity has moved forward to Chibi, and it is meaningless to deploy heavy troops in Exian County, so the number of defenders in Exian Liao Liao, Zang Ba led the army to attack, and almost broke through the city without waste.

Zang Ba laughed on the city tower and said, "Zang has been waiting here for a long time on the order of my lord. Liu Ze expected that Zhou Yu would go to Exian after the defeat, so he sent Zang Ba to secretly take Exian County and cut off Zhou Yu's back road.

Zhou Yu was so angry that his eyes were on fire, and he was extremely angry, so he ordered the sailors to abandon the boat and land on the shore and launch an attack on the head of Exian County. Lü Meng, Pan Zhang and other generals received orders and led the army to attack Exian.

Zang Ba smiled contemptuously, and ordered the soldiers defending the city to open their bows and release arrows, and for a time the arrows rained down on the city, and the Eastern Wu soldiers suffered countless casualties, and they couldn't even attack under the city wall.

Zhou Yu was also depressed, most of the infantry cavalry army of Eastern Wu had been damaged in Chibi, although the navy was unharmed, but only with the navy, there was no effective siege equipment, and it was not easy to break through the city heavily defended by the Jing army?

I saw that the navy army was blocked under the city of Exian. Lu Su persuaded Zhou Yu: "Our army is newly defeated, morale is low, the defense of Exian County is strong, and it is difficult to conquer under urgency. ”

"Back to Chaisang?" Zhou Yu was stunned, Lu Su's mention was not that he hadn't thought about it, but Zhou Yu was very unwilling and sent troops to Jingzhou at the beginning of the year. Zhou Yu is so full of spirit. Pointing out the country, keeping the world in mind, thinking about how to gallop all over the world and taste the wish of life. But the ideal is too full. The reality is skinny. The Battle of Chibi. After the defeat, all Zhou Yu's dreams were wiped out in an instant, and now he can't even keep his last base in Exian. Returning to Chaisang means that Dongwu is in Jingzhou, and there is no more land to be gained. Exian is Sun Ce's place of death, Sun Ce has a last word, no matter what, he can't abandon Exian lightly, once he gives up Exian, Jiangdong may no longer have the possibility of getting involved in Jingzhou. Sun Ce saw this very clearly, Zhou Yu didn't understand, but now that Chibi has been defeated and Exian has been lost, Zhou Yu still wants to gain a foothold in Jingzhou, and there are many difficulties.

Pang Tong said: "What Lu said in the army is extremely true, the governor must not be rash, Exian has been based on the Jing army, with my tired division, resolutely conquered, if it is blocked under the city of Exian, Liu Ze's army will chase after it, it is bound to be dangerous, it is better to return to Chaisang as soon as possible, and then try a good strategy." ”

Zhou Yu sighed secretly, knowing that the situation was inviolable, so he ordered Lu Meng and Pan Zhang to collect his troops and sail east.

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Back to the Wulin Water Village, it is already full of burned warships, half-burned warships everywhere, sinking or floating in the river, individual boats, smoke curling, as if to tell the people that this place has just experienced a baptism of fire, there is a wolf trail on the water, and there is no boat that can be taken at all.

Gan Ning, who accompanied Liu Ze back to the water village, sighed, this should have been a scene of clouds and thousands of sails, but now it is a mess and dilapidated, Gan Ning, as the deputy governor of the water army, how can he not be sad about the image in front of him.

"Hey, it's a pity that all the warships of the Jingzhou Navy were burned, and the cost of this big battle is inevitably too great."

Liu Ze smiled lightly and said: "If there is no fire, how can Zhou Yu take the bait lightly and exchange thousands of warships for the total annihilation of Jiangdong Infantry Cavalry, this deal is also very cost-effective." Willing to give, no to give where to get it, the knowledge between this willingness is very deep. ”

Gan Ning seems to understand whether he understands or not, Gan Ning was born poor, and he lived a life of licking blood and rice on the Yangtze River when he was a child, and he never read much books, although Liu Ze said that he understood a little, but he was more distressed by the thousands of boats.

"Lord, although this battle annihilated the Jiangdong cavalry, but the Jiangdong Navy was unharmed, now our warships are destroyed, on the Yangtze River, it is difficult to compete with the Dongwu Navy, if Zhou Yu comes again, how will our army fight?"

Liu Ze said lightly: "Don't worry, Xingba, Zhou Yu was hit hard in Chibi, his vitality is difficult to recover in a short period of time, there is no foot and horse to complement him, even though the Jiangdong Navy can run rampant on the Yangtze River, but it can't land and fight, just like a fierce shark, it is extremely vicious in the water, but once it leaves the water, even a pig may not be comparable." Therefore, in a short period of time, Jiangdong will definitely not be able to attack Jingzhou again, and we can rest easy. What's more, the loss of our army this time is only a few warships, and the loss of sailors is not large, as long as there are people, it is not difficult to rebuild the navy. Xingba, you have arranged for a few days to transfer all the sailors to Baqiu, and I have requisitioned all the shipbuilders in Jingzhou to rush to Baqiu, and all the materials needed for shipbuilding are also being allocated. Eight hundred miles of Dongting Lake, boundless, boundless, is a rare place for the navy to train soldiers, Xingba, I want you to train an elite sailor who is enough to match the Jiangdong Navy within a year, can you be confident? ”

Gan Ning was stunned and arched his hand: "The last general will definitely live up to the high expectations of the lord." ”

Liu Ze nodded and said, "Very good, I will leave all the affairs of the navy to you to take care of." In addition, Ma Jun of the Construction Division will soon rush to Baqiu to participate in the development of the new warship, and you must work with him to ensure the smooth manufacture of the new warship. ”

"Ma Jun?" Gan Ning has also heard of Ma Jun's reputation, in Xuzhou, he is the only craftsman who has been knighted as a craftsman, and his current official position is Zheng Sipin, which is one level higher than Gan Ning with the rank of deputy general. Gan Ning didn't know Ma Jun's exploits, even if he knew, most of them didn't think so, in his eyes, only the merits of the battle were worthy of rank and title, naturally he didn't have a good impression of Ma Jun, but because of Liu Ze's face, he casually responded: "The last general will obey the order of the lord." ”

Liu Ze knew Gan Ning's thoughts very well, and said with a slight smile: "Xingba, don't underestimate this Ma Deheng, he alone is worth 100,000 elite soldiers." You may not believe it now, but in the near future, you will be able to see the value of Ma Jun with your own eyes. ”

At this time, the Chinese military officer came to report: "Enlighten the lord, the king's tent has been set up, please move the king's tent." ”

Just when Liu Ze and Gan Ning inspected the remnants of the water village, the camp on the shore had been set up, Liu Ze nodded, and returned to the camp with Gan Ning.

All the generals have returned to the king's tent to resume their lives, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Xu Rong, Zhang He, Gao Shun, Zang Ba and other legions of the chief and deputy governors have arrived, listed on the right side, and on the left are a group of ministers: Jia Xu, Xu Shu, Chen Deng, Yi Yi Zhu.

Liu Ze returned to the tent, all the generals and strategists bowed their hands together, Liu Ze pressed it with his hand with a smile, sat down on the throne, and said: "Today, I am fortunate that all the generals are united in their lives, so that there is this great victory, everyone is indispensable, and later this king will be rewarded for his merits and deeds, in order to show his merits." ”

All the generals bowed and said: "The lord is far-sighted, strategizing, luring the enemy to go deeper, please enter the urn, if it is not for the lord's plot, how can he win today, if the first merit, he is undoubtedly the lord, and the last general will dare to take credit." ”

Liu Ze smiled and said: "If it weren't for the concerted efforts of all the generals to kill the enemy, even if this king planned well, it would be difficult to speak alone, this king has always rewarded and punished clearly, it should be your credit, and you can't run a single one." ”

All the generals were happy and reported the results one by one. In this battle, Zhang Fei's Third Army can be said to have built a great miracle, the battle of Jutie Mountain, the whole annihilation of more than 50,000 people in Jiangdong Cavalry, due to the rampage of the Lei Cavalry, strong crushing, in the battle of Jutie Mountain, there were almost no wounded prisoners, even if it was a corpse, there were few intact, and finally the soldiers who cleaned up the battlefield points could only be counted according to the head, and a head was counted as a kill, and those stumps and broken arms could not be counted. Zhang Fei not only annihilated 50,000 enemies, but also beheaded Han Dang, the general of Eastern Wu, Han Dang was one of the best generals in Eastern Wu, and he was also the pioneer officer of the Jiangdong Army before.

The second is Gan Ning, who shot Huang Gai. Huang Gai used bitter meat to deceive him, thinking that he had a plan, but he didn't know that he had already fallen into Liu Ze's plan to invite you into the urn, and based on this alone, Huang Gai died unjustly. Dongwu successively lost Huang Gai and Han Dang two generals, the so-called thousands of troops are easy to get a general is hard to find, compared to the loss of 50,000 foot cavalry, the death of Huang Han two generals to the Eastern Wu hit harder, especially Huang Gai Han Dang is the old minister of the Sun Jian era, followed the three generations of the Sun family, in the Eastern Wu army has a huge influence, the loss of these two generals, the Eastern Wu army will be a long time to collapse.

In terms of meritorious deeds, Gan Ning was promoted from the title of third-class viscount to third-class earl, and was promoted to the rank of general. Although Zhang Fei's title was only promoted by one level, he was also promoted from a first earl to a third-class marquis, and was promoted to the Marquis of Xinting, becoming the second general to be a marquis after Guan Yu. Zhao Yun was also promoted to a first-class earl, with the rank of general, Xu Rong, Zhang He, Gao Shun, Zang Ba and others were promoted to second-class earls, and the generals and colonels below were also promoted.

The generals were overjoyed, but they all bowed their hands and gave thanks, and dispersed.

At this time, Pan Feng hurried in, but when Liu Ze saw Pan Feng, he said happily: "Ziyi, is it done?" ”

Pan Feng arched his hand and said: "I am fortunate to be humiliated. (To be continued......)