Chapter 144: Red Cliff Fierce Battle
"Kill people~" A pig-like scream resounded in the sky over the entire Jiangxia City.
"Kill~Kill~" It seems that in order to confirm the screams like killing pigs just now, the entire Jiangxia City wall suddenly burst into flames, and countless black-clothed armor soldiers continued to climb up along the rope. The soldiers of the Cao army, who reacted from the shock, finally woke up and took their weapons to fight these invaders to the death. However, the incident happened suddenly, the Cao army could not find a general, and the general could not find a soldier, and although the chaotic Cao army had an advantage in numbers, it was quickly dispersed by the invaders.
"Boom~" Jiangxia's east city gate was slowly opened by someone who slowly opened it, and the Cao army guarding the gate had already been killed by the black-clothed armor soldiers.
The city gate was finally opened, and a black-faced man and a prancing horse rushed in first, followed by a large number of black-armored soldiers. The momentum is like a rolling torrent, unstoppable. I saw that he was the first general, with a leopard's head and a swallow's forehead, tiger eyes and round eyes, and a tiger and tiger who had been playing with eight spears in his hands. Needless to say, everyone also knows that this person is Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide, the fierce generals under General Liu Xuande of Zuo.
Zhang Fei rushed all the way with 500 cavalry and went straight to Cao Zhen's general's mansion in Jiangxia.
Seeing that he was about to rush, he said that it was too late and that it was too fast, only to hear a drum in his ears, ambushes around the General's Mansion, and countless Cao soldiers rushed out of the darkness, with the help of Cao Jun's torches, Zhang Fei saw clearly that the roofs around the General's Mansion and the walls were actually full of countless black-clothed crossbowmen.
"Oh no, fooled!" Zhang Fei screamed.
"Hahaha, Zhang Yide, you know it's too late!" A general flashed out of Cao Jun's formation, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, heroic and straight, and he looked like he was in his thirties.
Zhang Feiyuan opened his tiger eyes, glared at this person angrily, and shouted loudly: "Who is coming?" ”
The man reined in the war horse, smiled slightly, and asked, "Pifu, didn't you rush here in a hurry to catch me?" ”
"Are you Cao Zhen?" Zhang Fei was taken aback.
"Exactly! Zhang Fei, how did you and Zhuge Xiaoer's carving insect skills fool the eyes of this general! Today, this Jiangxia City is the burial place of your wait! Cao Zhen said with a sneer.
"Ha~ha~ha~ha~" I don't want Zhang Fei to laugh when he hears Cao Zhen's words.
Laughing, Cao Zhen was a little hairy. "Piff, what are you laughing at?"
"Cao Zhen, who do you see who I am?" Zhang Fei stretched out his hand and wiped it on his face, and the beard on his chin was instantly ripped off, revealing the true face of "Zhang Fei". It's actually a young player in his thirties.
"Who are you?" At this time, Cao Zhen's face was full of surprise.
"Zhang Da, the captain under the command of General Zhang, came to meet with the general on the order of my general, and by the way, I will pass a message to the general, your Xishan camp has been captured by my General Zhang! Haha Zhang Da looked at Cao Zhenqi's pale face with a smug expression.
"Ah~ Zhuge Xiaoer, Lao Tzu has fallen for your tricks again! Kill me~" Cao Zhen had an epiphany at this time, it turned out that Zhuge Zhan's target was not Jiangxia City at all, but the Xishan camp, the main road from Jiangxia to Wulin, where Zhang Yanbu was stationed. The reason why Zhuge Zhan was in danger alone, and at the same time asked Zhang Fei's subordinates to cooperate in attacking Jiangxia, was to make Cao Zhen feel that he had the intention of plotting Jiangxia. So that Cao Zhen could transfer Zhang Yanbu, who was stationed in the Xishan camp more than ten miles east of Jiangxia, to Jiangxia, so as to create conditions for Zhao Yun to attack the Xishan camp.
Cao Zhen's department is mostly the elite of the Cao army, where will Zhang Da be the opponent, in less than a round, Zhang Da can't support it, and he will flee with his horse.
Cao Zhen is full of anger now, and he was ridiculed by Zhang Da just now, where can he leave safely. Immediately, he took the lead in chasing Zhang Da and left. What did Cao Jun behind him say when he saw this? Naturally, he followed the general to chase after him! Don't say it, Zhang Da's kung fu is not good right away, but this escape kung fu is first-class, Cao Zhen chased this kid out of Erli Land, and he didn't catch up. Just as Cao Zhen was furious and was about to continue the pursuit, he heard a chaotic sound of horses' hooves in the ears of due west. "Could it be that there are thieves and reinforcements?" Cao Zhen thought so, so he didn't care about chasing Zhang Da, turned the horse's head and rushed in the direction where the horse's hooves came from. Seeing that the two teams were only a stone's throw away, Cao Zhen realized that the person who came was not Zhang Da's reinforcements, but Cao Jun's messenger.
The messenger looked embarrassed, his robe was torn, and when he saw that it was Cao Zhen, he hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and knelt down in front of the horse: "Report to the general, on the night of December 28, Jiangdong Zhou Yu's troops attacked Wulin Water Village, burned the boat, our army was defeated, and there were countless casualties. ”
"Ah~poof~" When Cao Zhen heard this, he immediately screamed, spat blood, and fell off the horse. The generals were shocked when they saw this, and they all dismounted to help.
The generals beat their chests again, pinched people again, and after a long while, Cao Zhencai slowly opened his eyes and covered his chest with his left hand. Said slowly: "I thought that Zhuge Xiao'er was trying to take Jiangxia, but I didn't want him to have a big plan, the Xishan camp was lost, and the door to Wulin was wide open, it seems that Liu Bei's main force must have gone to Wulin to chase and kill the prime minister." Now that our army is defeated, there is no point in holding on to Jiangxia, so General Zhang Yan and all the brothers in the Black Panther Battalion were ordered to immediately disperse and break through and rush to Nanjun! The rest of the generals followed me to Nanyiling Road to rescue the prime minister. ”
"Nuo~" The generals heard the words and received orders one after another.
Cao Zhen, with the support of the generals, stood up, looked back at the flaming Jiangxia, was full of grief and indignation, and said hatefully: "Zhuge Xiaoer, Cao Zhen will come back!" ”
Cao Zhen abandoned Jiangxia and went west to Yiling Road to rescue Cao Cao, not to mention it for the time being.
Let's say that after Young Master Zhuge led the Fuxing Society to attack the commander of the Cao Army's water division and captured Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, the chief generals of the Cao Army's water division, Zhou Yu's metropolitan governor was relieved. You must know that in the face of this fierce northern cavalry, the weak coalition army can rely on to compete with it is actually the naval army. With the Yangtze River moat, defending the enemy outside the country is the main theme of the battle against Cao set by Zhou Yu at the beginning. However, Cao Cao's unusual move to appoint Cai Mao and Zhang Yun as the commanders of Jingzhou made Zhou Yu unexpected.
Who Cai Mao is, Zhou Yu naturally knows who he is. At the beginning, Sun Jian, Sun Ce, father and son were all masterpieces of a generation, but they were all planted under the city of Jingzhou, not because Liu Biao had the ability, but because his brother-in-law was too capable of fighting water wars! Although Zhou Yu was rendered by later generations for a while in the water war, in fact, he was still slightly inferior to Cai Mao. Otherwise, relying on hundreds of warships and elite naval forces, why can't Jiangdong take a step beyond the thunder pool for decades?
And the almost dramatic capture of Cai Mao and Zhang Yun quietly reversed the situation that was not conducive to the coalition forces. Of course, Yu Ban and Mao Jue's two goods were good at fighting on land, but Cao Cao asked these two goods to bring the navy to compete with Zhou Yu's Jiangdong sailors, which was purely looking for death. When Zhou Yu's children heard the news that Cao Cao had replaced Cai Mao and Zhang Yun with Yu Ban and Mao Jue, they almost didn't jump up from the couch. The clever plan of how to defeat Cao Cao also came to mind. That is, it is known to later generations as the Huang Gai deception and the burning of the boat. How to burn Chibi, and how tragic the battlefield was at that time, there are many exquisite descriptions by the author, and there is no need for the boy to repeat them one by one. And our Young Master Zhuge in Jiangxia is just a small episode in this tragic war that has been ignored by later generations, and its purpose is to sweep away Zhang Yan, the roadblock, for Liu Bei's main force to enter Wulin in the west! As for liberating Jiangxia and bringing back Xu Shu by the way, it is purely a side effect and not worth mentioning.
Anyway, the glorious Battle of Chibi in history ended so hastily, which was unexpected by Young Master Zhuge ! However, Cao Cao's losses in this battle were certainly not as great as those described in some later romances. In fact, what Cao Cao lost was just some Jingzhou sailor generals who had just been annexed. The impact of the burning of Lianzhou was far less than that of the main Cao army stationed in Wulin. However, Cao Cao still withdrew his troops, not only because the destruction of the naval division made Cao's army's attempt to conquer Jiangnan in a short period of time basically come to naught, but more importantly, this defeat will undoubtedly make those latent pro-Han and anti-Cao forces in the DPRK and China ready to move. Cao Cao needs to go back quickly, otherwise I don't know what kind of chaos will happen behind the road!
Of course, no matter what reason Cao Jun hastily withdrew his troops and returned to the north for what reason, Cao Cao still left after all. This is undoubtedly a great thing for the Sun-Liu coalition army, which is already extremely weak. Not only was the survival crisis resolved, but there was even a chance to inherit the huge property of Jingxiang Nine Counties left by Liu Biao. What an exciting thing to do! But one mountain can't accommodate two tigers, unless one male and one female. For Liu Bei and Sun Quan, the ownership of Jingzhou will undoubtedly become the focus of their future struggles. The fierce battle for Jingzhou began with the end of the tragic Battle of Chibi!