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Jiangxia is a pot of porridge, and Jiangdong will naturally not be peaceful.

At the beginning of February, shortly after the Battle of the Pheasant, a little white sail appeared on the bay outside San'in County, Huiji County, Jiangdong. Immediately, the siren of Sanyin City sounded. Sun Jing of Huiji County and Sun Ben, the commander of the capital, ascended to the head of the city one after another, issued commands, and the whole city entered a state of combat readiness.

The one who came was the 2,000 Bohai Navy in charge, and most of them were Yuzhou Mountain pirates, both strong on land and water. The Bohai Navy was not intercepted from the sea, and it seems that the Jiangdong Army intends to hold on to the city.

After Guan Cheng landed on the shore, he led more than ten soldiers to reconnoiter close to Shanyin, and found that the enemy army was prepared, all kinds of defensive equipment were complete, the surrounding pavilions had been fortified and cleared, and the morale of the army and the people was relatively high.

Of course, as a pioneer officer, Guan Cheng naturally would not do nothing, just sit and wait for the army to come. On the one hand, he sent more than ten teams to reconnoiter the garrison, population, grain and grass situation of the five counties near Shanyin, and on the other hand, he gave full play to the specialties of the pirates of Yuzhou Mountain, and used harassment tactics to constantly attack and harass the cities of Shangyu, Yuyao, and Juzhang in addition to Shanyin. The distance between these cities is very close, but only tens of miles, and they watch and help each other, and if one city is attacked, the other city can send troops to attack it. Under normal circumstances, pirates do not dare to attack. But the situation is different now, and this former pirate army is a regular army. And the number of troops is greater than the sum of all cities. The troops can be divided into two places and besiege the city for reinforcements.

After suffering one or two losses. I don't want to go out of the city anymore, and let you make a fuss outside the city, and I don't care.

In mid-February, Zang Ba's 3,000 Langya army finally arrived in She County and began to cut off the Zhejiang water, and as soon as the Zhejiang water was broken, the army of Sun Jing and Sun Ben's uncle and nephew would become the turtle in the urn. Ten dead and lifeless.

In late February, Tai Shici led the main force of the Left Route Army into Zheshui and went downstream. Advance into San'in.

At the end of February, the vanguard fleet was intercepted by a naval army led by Sun Ben at the foot of Fuchun Mountain, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides. Sun Guan, the vanguard general of the Dragon Wolf Army, was not suitable for water warfare when he broke into the enemy ship by boat. Falling overboard. caused chaos in the army, and was broken by Sun Ben, burning more than ten ships and returning.

Sun Guan was defeated and returned to the camp, and was heavily punished by Tai Shi Ci with fifty military sticks, demoted and punished. Subsequently, Tai Shici accepted the advice of Sima Li Fu of the march, took Sun Kang as the vanguard, and continued to sail to lure the enemy. Zang Ba and Sun Guan led 500 soldiers through the mountains on the left side of the river, waiting for an opportunity to attack.

When the pioneer fleet traveled to Fuchun. Sure enough, he was blocked by Sun Ben again. Sun Kang immediately stopped the ship and docked, taking the defense as the attack, never daring to advance, and the eagle slave who followed the ship immediately sent an eagle message.

Seeing the Eagle News, Zang Ba, Sun Guan and other 500 soldiers who were fighting against mosquitoes, flying insects, snakes and rats in the wilderness and grass were pardoned. Half an hour later, the Langya army, which rushed out of the mountains, swarmed out with a breath of breath, and vented all their anger on the Jiangdong army led by Sun Ben.

Sun Ben did not expect to be attacked from behind, and many soldiers near the river bank were swept into the river. The Langya army burned the ships with fire arrows and torches, among which Sun Guan was the most ferocious, with more than ten people with a lame foot and hand, burning three ships in a row, and finally Sun Ben was defeated and fled, and Sun Guan was also avenged.

At the beginning of March, 18,000 ships of the Left Route Army appeared under the castle of San'in. Thousands of sails and suns, hundreds of boats compete for the current, spears and halberds are open, and the war drums are like thunder, which opened the prelude to the battle of Huiji.

The main target of the army is Shanyin, and the rest of the cities are blocked by Zang Ba and a partial division, and if the enemy dares to go out of the city to rescue, they will be annihilated on the spot.

To everyone's surprise, this siege battle with a huge disparity in strength and a truncated retreat was fought for a whole month, and the Dragon Wolf Army paid more than 2,000 casualties, and Guan Cheng and Sun Kang were wounded successively. And the defender of Shanyin, Sun Ce's important general and brother Sun Ben when he started the army in his early days, was also wounded in the battle to defend the city and died of his injuries.

The battle was so fierce that Tai Shici was really surprised. It wasn't until the interrogation of the wounded soldiers who fell into the city during the battle that they did not die that they knew that among the 3,000 "miscellaneous soldiers" guarding the city, 1,000 were hidden soldiers of the Sun clan, and ninety percent of them were surnamed Sun, no wonder......

At the beginning of April, heavy rains struck, and the devastated section of the southern city wall of San'in collapsed with rainwater bubbles. Tai Shi Ci commanded the dragon wolf Xu Linjun to attack in the rain, swarming in from the collapse, and finally broke through Shanyin.

Sun Jing led more than 100 people from the remnants of the clan to retreat to Zhuji, and then retreated to Wushui, and finally absconded along the valley water by boat from the end of the day, and finally fled back to Yuzhang after a lot of hardships, with only dozens of people left around him......

Tai Shi Ci of the Left Route Army fought hard, and Gan Ning, the vanguard of the Middle Route Army, and Li Dian, the pioneer of the Right Route Army, were also very difficult. The difference is that Tai Shici is a real knife and a real gun, while the opponents faced by Gan Ning and Li Dian are like swimming fish in the Yangtze River, slippery and difficult to intercept.

Gan Ning and Li Dian joined forces, with nearly 10,000 troops, hundreds of warships, and fought the Jiangdong Navy in their early 2,000s, which was full of group fighting. However, the Jiangdong Navy did not engage in the battle, but went around in circles and fought guerrillas in Peng Lize.

Gan Ning had searched many places before, but Peng Lize was so big, and there were so many reed forests, that thousands of people and boats threw them in, and they couldn't even hear the sound. How difficult it is to intercept two convoys of about 1,000 people in this place.

Li Dian also tried to attack Peng Ze to lure the Jiangdong Navy out, but the opponent was never fooled. Li Dian knew that there was only one circumstance that the Jiangdong Navy would rush out of that big lake and fight for their lives, and that was when Peng Ze was in danger. It's a pity that his 3,000 soldiers and Gan Ning's more than 1,000 soldiers alone are not enough to pose a threat to Peng Ze, who has 3,000 defenders, in the absence of siege equipment.

As the clock moves forward to mid-February, an army that can really pose a threat to Peng Ze will appear, and the tide of the war will change.

In mid-February, the main force of the Right Route Army, the Dragon Wolf Fire Raider Army, officially moved south and arrived at Pengze. Ten days later, the commander of the Dragon Wolf Army, the commander of the Southern Expedition, and the main force of the Central Route Army led by the general Ma Hansuo also arrived one after another. The 20,000 dragon and wolf army was stationed in the water village thirty miles away from Pengze, and for a time the flag was unfurled, and the people were screaming, boiling and the sky was boiling, and it was hopeful.

This water village was originally built when the yellow shot invaded Jiangdong, and was later invited by Cheng Pu and Han Dang, and after the defeat, the water village was owned by the Jiangdong Army, and Han Dang's water army was stationed. When the Dragon Wolf Army went south, due to the needs of guerrilla warfare, Han Dang decided to abandon the water village, and after emptying the village of various materials and grain storage, he planned to burn the water village to avoid the enemy. But not long after the fire was lit, Gan Ning came over, and the Jiangdong soldiers who set the fire fled in a hurry. After Gan Ning seized the water village, he immediately extinguished the fire and saved most of the facilities, which basically did not affect the use. After a period of expansion, a large-scale camp that can accommodate 20,000 troops was built.

At the end of February, with the arrival of Ma Han, the commander of the Southern Expedition, the key battle of the Southern Expedition, the Battle of Pengze, was about to start.

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At the beginning of March, Ma Han held a pre-war military conference, which was attended by the following generals: Le Jin, Guo Jia, Xun You, Li Dian, Gan Ning, Zhang Liao, Zhang He, Gao Lan, Cheng Lian, Lu Xun, etc. Well, there is also a new general, Liu Xun.

As a general under Yuan Shu, Liu Xun is not very capable, but his qualifications are very old, and the entire Jiangdong Army, including the late lord Sun Ce, directly or indirectly, was once his subordinate. Take this person and do some persuasion and inducement work, but make the best use of people.

Ma Han waved the two battle reports in his hand, with a solemn expression: "This is the battle report of the Jiangdong Army and the Jiangxia Army, one old and one new." The old monarchs must have known that the Jiangxia army was defeated miserably, the main general Zhang Shuo was killed, and Su Fei abandoned the city, hmm...... Xunyang was also lost. Huang Zu had moved the county to Shaxian, and the armies of Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu entered Exian and fought with the defender Su Fei, each with a victory. The Jiangxia Army was far inferior to the Jiangdong Army in terms of strength and morale, and it was only a matter of time before Exian County was lost. ”

It has been nearly a month since this battle happened, and Liu Xun was present, and the dragon and wolf generals basically knew about it, and it was just a routine report.

At this time, Ma Han shook another battle report: "This new battle report has just been sent by Flying Eagle message. Seven days ago, on the western front of Jiangxia, the Cao and Liu coalition forces broke through the Chen Zhushui Village and wounded Huang Jie. Chen Zuo and Huang Jie were defeated and fled one after another, and Jingling had fallen into the hands of the Cao and Liu coalition forces. ”

As soon as these words came out, there was a commotion in the military tent.

Liu Xun was the first to shake his head and sighed: "Huang Zu has been the overlord of Jiangxia for too long, his soldiers lack training, and their combat strength is worrying, I know the battle of Xunyang that day, I know ......" Liu Xun has always wanted to find a fig leaf for his defeat in Xunyang, now it's okay, and there is no need to cover the fig leaf. The fact that the Jiangxia Army suffered heavy defeats on the eastern and western fronts is enough to show that this is not a problem of a certain general, but a problem of the overall combat strength of the Jiangxia Army.

Guo Jia stood up from behind the case, walked quickly to the large map behind Ma Han, looked at it carefully for a while, stretched out his fingers and tapped, and his face was grim: "As soon as the tomb is lost, the Cao Liu coalition army will go down the river, and it can jointly attack Su Fei with the Jiangdong army, and cut off the connection between the defenders of Exian and Yi County and Shaxian." If my prediction is correct, the day when the Cao-Liu coalition army appeared on the Yangtze River was the time when the defenders of Hubei and Yi were defeated and retreated. ”

The generals below Le Jin nodded again and again, the situation is very clear, and once the tomb is lost, there is no defensive significance in the two cities of Hubei and Di, and no matter how many troops are put down, they can only send food to the Jiangdong Army and the Cao Liu Coalition Army. As long as Huang Zu does not make a mistake, he will definitely order the troops, grain and grass of the two cities to withdraw to Shaxian, and then concentrate his forces to confront Cao, Sun, and Liu in Xiakou.

"The battle of Xiakou will be the key to determining the survival of Huang Zu. This battle will break out as early as this month and later next month. Gentlemen, if we don't act again, once Huangzu is destroyed, the three families will unite and occupy Jiangxia, and the southern expedition will add variables. Ma Han slammed the two battle reports, pointed to the east, and his eyes were cold, "Peng Ze, thirty miles away, is the first checkpoint set for us by Sun Quan and Zhou Yu. I don't know how long Sun Quan and Zhou Yu want to use this level to stop us, I just know that I'm here, I see it, I must smash it! (To be continued......)