The moon and stars are scarce, and the evening breeze is gentle.

Chen was sitting peacefully on the big boat at this time, slowly drinking the spirits.

Tomorrow morning he will be able to cross the river and stand on the other side.

Gan Ning was sitting opposite Chen Zhi with open arms at this time, drinking wine bowl by bowl, exhaling, the fragrant elixir flowed down the corners of Gan Ning's mouth, turning into a little crystal water droplets sprinkled on Gan Ning's hairy chest, making people sigh like cows chewing peonies.

Chen Zhi knew what Gan Ning was happy about, because the "Lu" horse that was taken from Chen and Sun was indeed extremely miraculous, and Gan Ning galloped for a long time after winning the horse, and the joy in his heart was of course extraordinary.

And what made Chen Zhi relieved was that this Gan Ning in front of him was really quite capable, and he sneaked into Chen Sun's camp with his eight hundred sons, which was simply unstoppable, and Chen Sun and the two of them didn't even have time to get on the war horse, so they were smashed by Gan Ning's iron halberd.

After doing this, Gan Ning took Chen to Shi Shiran and crossed the river by boat.

Of course, this was ordered by Jiangxia Taishou Huang Zu.

Gan Ning's reason for crossing the river was to pursue Chen Sun's deserters, and said that there was definite information that Chen Sun was colluding with Yuan Shu, and those deserters were going to defect to Yuan Shu.

Huang Zu and Yuan Shu were originally incompatible, you must know that Huang Zu was once captured by Sun Jian, and this matter was cited by Huang Zu as a great shame in his life, and Sun Jian was nominally Yuan Shu's subordinate at that time, so Huang Zu's hatred for Yuan Shu is of course understandable.

Therefore, as soon as Gan Ning said this reason, Huang Zu immediately agreed, regardless of how unreasonable this reason was.

". Huang Zu is really a fucking idiot. Gan Ning smacked his lips and said, "As soon as I said that I was going to chase Chen Sun's deserters, Huang Zu agreed. Ha, now Yuan Shu's defeat is imminent. Where is the mood to collude with Chen Sun to seize Jiangdong. But to be honest, Huang Zu is a fool, and the people under him are even more stupid, except for one Su Fei barely looking like a little, the rest of Chen Zhu, Deng Long and others are simply as vulnerable as a chicken and a wooden dog, mother's, such a turtle grandson saw Lao Tzu kill Chen Sun and others, and he didn't say a word of gratitude. Instead, he rolled his eyes at Lao Tzu, and when Lao Tzu returned to Jiangdong in the future, he would smash them to pieces! ”

Chen Zhi took another sip of wine, enjoying the boundless night and Gan Ning's foul words, only to feel that all the fatigue for a period of time had turned into a cloud of smoke with the wine, and after listening to Gan Ning scolding for a while, he only heard him say again: "But I heard that Chen Wu and Jiang Qin under Zhou Yu's hands are all masters on the rivers and lakes, and they must meet for a while if they have the opportunity!" ”

Chen Zhi smiled: "There will be a chance, but our priority now is to go back to the north." ”

Gan Ning said hesitantly: "That's right." It is also very interesting to be able to see with your own eyes how Yuan Shu, the fake emperor, was defeated. Let's hope we'll catch up. ”

Chen Zhi smiled and said: "Xingba, don't worry, Yuan Shu's defeat can be expected, but now is not the time." You must be better able to catch up. ”

Gan Ning has been discussing the world's major events with Chen Zhi for many days, and has benefited a lot, and has learned a lot from Chen Zhi. understood that many of Yanzhou's stupid behaviors that seemed to outsiders were insider stories with deep meanings, so of course he knew what Chen Zhi meant by these words. He said: "If you don't get rid of Yuan Shao this time, won't the lord waste all this effort?" ”

Chen Zhi stretched comfortably and said, "Xingba is reasonable. We cross the river and go north, and we will soon come to the boundary of Yuzhou, and maybe we will catch up with a good show! ”

Gan Ning was slightly stunned, and immediately understood what Chen Zhi meant, and laughed out loud.

Chen Zhi is right, he will indeed catch up with a good show.

However, there are still many good things in the world. In the month that Xu Ji defeated Yuan Shu and Chen crossed the river, a lot of things happened in the world.

First in Jiangdong, Cao Cao went all the way to the south, leading the army to break through, attacking cities and occupying counties, and his power was rapidly expanding.

Cao Cao was originally an immortal hero, but he never got a chance to develop, and now he took advantage of the endless fighting in the north, so he sprung up to dominate Jiangdong.

Of course, Zhou Yu couldn't let Cao Cao get Jiangdong so easily, so he began to deliberately spread rumors in Jiangdong. The people of Jiangdong all call Cao Cao "Cao Hu". But when they heard that Cao Cao's troops were coming, they all left in fear, which made Cao Cao's generals angry.

Without the people, there would be no source of the army, and without the soldiers, what kind of war would there be?

Originally, Cao Cao has been developing in Guangling, and he has already reached the limit of Guangling, but now there is a vast area in Jiangdong, but it has become unoccupied, which is really ironic.

What's more, Jiangdong was originally a barbarian land, with a sparse population and rampant bandits, although the natural resources were extremely rich, but they were unable to develop them, it was not like holding a golden rice bowl and asking for food.

However, Cao Cao has his own way, he conquered Jiangdong itself with the support of Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou, and the beautiful name is that the major departments of Yangzhou are not subject to the control of the imperial court, and must send troops to conscript. Therefore, after the battle with Sun Ce, the people were compassionate to the people, and there were countless voters.

What's more, Cao Cao has a lot of strategists, and Zhou Yu's tricks certainly can't defeat these strategists.

With the development of Zhou Yu's army on the Jingzhou battlefield, Sun Ce's army continued to reduce the strength of Sanshan, Hulin, Hukou, and Jingxian for a generation.

In the face of Sun Ce's army's initial stubborn policy, Cao Cao was cautious and ordered his subordinates to train men and horses day and night, not to rush to attack, and transferred a large number of siege equipment and grain and grass from Guangling, preparing to go south, and training soldiers to take the bandits in the Xuancheng area as the target, and they could pacify the rear, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

By the time Zhou Yu began to plan Jiangxia, Tubaling, and Changsha, Sun Ce's army had already retreated, and it was constantly driving to Jiujiang, Pengze, Chaisang and other places that had fallen into the hands of Zhou Yu, but they were only strictly guarding the area around Poyang Lake, which of course was expected by Cao Cao's advisers, and of course to avoid the battle line being too long.

Sun Ce's subordinates did not have many men, and if he wanted to occupy Jingzhou, he would not be able to concentrate his forces. Sun Ce is a hero, and the courage of a strong man to break his wrist still exists. Compared with these small cities at the moment, Jingzhou is more important, and Sun Ce can understand it. The so-called giving up is giving up, which is exactly this principle.

Therefore, Cao Cao effortlessly occupied some of the cities that Sun Ce originally occupied in Jiangdong, and when occupying these cities, Cao Cao strictly enforced military discipline and did not allow a single person to be plundered. Cao Cao in view of the fact that this place is a foreign people. However, the characteristics of simple folk customs and clear grievances and grievances, so Cao Cao's actions won the appreciation of the local people with the expensive gold silk produced in Yanzhou, and the joy was all over the country for a while. In particular, the old army of King Zulang of Jing County came to defect, and Cao Cao incorporated the strong ones as soldiers, and those who were old and infirm were rewarded and returned to the peasants.

Therefore, the people of Jiangnan all admire. Because of the strength of the army.

Cao Cao, who was strong and strong, was in high spirits at this time, reversing his previous appearance of Taoguang and obscurity, and began the southern expedition under the banner of clearing the place.

The first to bear the brunt was Yan Baihu, the soil emperor of Jiangdong.

Yan Baihu is a very ambitious person who has been looking for an opportunity to dominate Jiangdong. However, some time ago, the two armies of Cao Cao and Sun Ce fought in full swing, and their sphere of influence was even more affected by Sun Ce's forces, and Sun Ce's troops were strong. Of course, I don't dare to provoke, and I have the psychology of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight. So I have been holding back.

Later, when he saw that Sun Ce's army and Cao Cao's army were each guarding the city, they thought that the strength of both sides had been greatly damaged. Seeing Sun Ce retreating, Cao Cao was busy suppressing bandits, and was busy occupying the city vacated by Sun Ce, thinking that no one could hold him hostage, where could he endure it?

At this time, Yan Baihu began to recruit troops and horses, and when he saw Sun Ce's army retreating, he became even more unscrupulous, and did not take Cao Cao in his eyes, and actually proclaimed himself the king of Eastern Wude, using Wu County as a base, and sent his troops to defend Wucheng and Jiaxing early. He also ordered his younger brother Yan Yu to send troops to defend Fengqiao.

Where would Cao Cao take this Yan Baihu to heart, and ordered his eldest son Cao Ang to lead Li Dian, Cao Chun and other generals, with Cheng Yu as his military advisor, to be fully responsible for the conquest of Yan Baihu.

Cao Cao himself personally led his army around Shentingling and attacked Wucheng and Jiaxing.

Although Cao Ang is a middle-aged person, there is no particularly outstanding talent, but the victory is obedient, after coming to Fengqiao, obey Cheng Yu's strategy, and immediately send Cao Chun out of the horse to pretend to challenge Yan Yu, Yan Yu underestimated the enemy, and fought Cao Chun, Cao Chun slandered Yan Yu with evil words, saying that he was a coward, and did not dare to cross the bridge to fight, this Yan Yu was furious, and patted the horse across the bridge to fight Cao Chun, but he didn't know that he had been beaten by Cheng Yu's agitation method, and when Yan Yu led a part of the soldiers to the bridge, Li Dian and the others had already driven a small boat to kill the bridge from the river bank. The indiscriminate arrows shot down the shore troops that Yan Yu had left on the side of his camp.

For a while, Yan Yu's army turned over on his back, Yan Yu was taken aback, and only then did he go back to the rescue, just turned the horse's head, but was caught up by Cao Ang, and slashed Yan Yu's back with a knife in the back, Yan Yu was injured in the back, and he vomited blood, only to flee for his life, Li Dian and Le Jin flew ashore to slash and kill, and Cao Chun's army was united, leading the army to kill directly under the gate, and Yan Yu retreated into the city.

At the same time, Cao Cao had already led and conquered Wucheng and Jiaxing, so he divided his troops and marched by land and water to besiege the city of Wujun.

Cao Cao's army was trapped for three days, and every day Cao Cao sent people to fight the enemy and scold the array, but unfortunately Yan Baihu had been killed by Cao Cao's successive battles, and none of his generals went to fight.

Cao Cao saw that his might had shocked the enemy, so he sent Xiahou Yuan to lead an army to surrender outside the gate. Who knew that Yan Yu was a member of the city, holding the guard beam with his left hand, and pointing at the city with his right hand and scolding. Xiahou Yuan was furious, picked up the bow and arrow is an arrow, the bowstring sounded, the throat of the general was pierced by the carved arrow, and the corpse was carried up by the fierce force on the carved arrow, and everyone in the city and the city saw it, and everyone in the city cheered.

Yan Baihu was completely desperate at this point, knowing that Cao Cao's army was definitely not something he could resist, so he abandoned the city and left. Cao Cao marched into pursuit, and at this time, Cao Cao's army of Xiahou had already captured Jiaxing, and Xun Yu, the military division, had also captured Wucheng, and several states in the south were flat.

Yan Baihu and Yan Yu went straight to Yuhang in desperation, because all the grain and grass were all obtained by Cao Cao, so they robbed all the way, but they forgot that the people here were fiercely implemented, and were defeated by the local local leader Ling Cao and the villagers, and even Fuchun City did not dare to enter, so he went to Huiji defeated.

Later, Ling Cao's father and son came to see Cao Cao, and Cao Cao treated Ling Cao with courtesy, but he valued Ling Cao's son Ling Tong more, Cao Cao himself was a master of martial arts, although his achievements were limited because of his qualifications. It can't reach the point of shocking the world, but there is still vision. He saw that although Ling Tong was young, his eyes were shining. Obviously, he was extremely talented and liked it very much, so he kept Ling Tong by his side and asked the generals and military advisors around him to train him carefully.

As a result, in the future, a wise general in the Jiangdong Cao Cao Army who was not inferior to Xu Chu in martial arts was born.

Ling Tong has become extremely powerful because of the change of history.

Don't forget, one of Cao Cao's most powerful things is the cultivation of reserve talents.

Of course, that's another story.

Cao Cao ordered Ling Cao to be the captain of the conscription, and asked Ling Cao to lead troops across the river to attack Yan Baihu, who was recruiting troops and horses in Huiji, and wanted to make a comeback.

Yan Baihu is distributed in Xijin Ferry. Ordered his younger brother Yan Yu to lead the troops to battle, hoping to buy more time, Ling Cao recently joined Cao Cao's army, eager to make meritorious service, and asked for his life to fight, Yan Yu was defeated in the hands of Ling Cao, so he was beheaded by Ling Cao under the panic.

The group of deserters was leaderless and rushed to Huiji overnight, and at this time. Yan Baihu had already colluded with Wang Lang, the Taishou of Huiji, and led the army to fight with Cao Cao in the wilderness of Shanyin. Cao Cao questioned Wang Lang why he was blocking his crusade against "Yan Baihu, the enemy of Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou"? Wang Lang said that Cao Cao was a fox and a fake tiger, pretending to be benevolent and righteous, but in fact he was seeking personal gain.

Cao Cao was too lazy to talk nonsense with him. Urge the army to attack Wang Lang's army.

Wang Lang commanded the army to meet Cao Cao's army, but who knew that he had fallen for Cao Cao's scheme, and Cao Cao had already set up an ambush to surround and kill him on three sides. Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan led the army to assassinate and kill, attacking back and forth. Wang Lang was outnumbered and killed Yan Baihu and Zhou Xin. Walk into the city, pull up the drawbridge, and close the gates. Cao Cao's army took advantage of the situation and rushed to the city. Distribute the armies and attack with four gates.

Wang Lang saw that Cao Cao's siege was very fierce in the city, how could this arrogant person have suffered such idleness? Then they will send troops to fight to the death. Yan Baihu and Cao Cao fought several times, knowing that Cao Cao's army was brave and fierce, and there was no prestige in a head-on conflict with it, and he also knew that Cao Cao had a lot of strategists, thinking that Cao Cao's troops were strong, and Wang Lang's best choice was to rely on deep ditches and high bases, strong walls and green fields, consume Cao Cao's grain and grass, and then chase after Cao Cao when he retreated, and won a complete victory without a fight. Wang Lang thought so, so he insisted on holding on to the city and let Cao Cao attack the city every day.

Cao Cao had already anticipated Wang Lang's strategy, he knew that Wang Lang was conceited that the city was strong and could not fight down, so he ordered his troops to light flames at the city gates on all sides, bluff the banner, set up suspicious soldiers, and withdraw from the siege to the south overnight. He made the gesture of attacking Chadu in the south of Huiji, but in fact, he had already laid an ambush on the way to Chadu.

Cao Cao's doing this is actually in line with the so-called "attacking the enemy must be saved" in the art of war, you must know that you will check the money and food, and most of it will be in the investigation of the desecration, if the investigation is wrong, then it is like cutting off the baby's milk.

When Wang Lang heard the news, he climbed the tower to watch, and was overjoyed to see Cao Cao's army begin to retreat, and then he was puzzled by the movement of Cao Cao's army.

You must know that Cao Cao's rear is in the northwest of Huiji, and if Cao Cao is defeated and retreats, he should retreat to the north, but now the movement of Cao Cao's army obviously does not look like a retreat.

Seeing that although the fireworks were rising under the city, Cao Cao's army was very orderly when retreating, and the banners were not mixed, so he was even more hesitant.

Zhou Xin, a fierce general under Wang Lang, was simple-minded, thinking that Cao Cao wanted to retreat because of the exhaustion of grain and grass, and set up this plan to confuse himself, so he ordered troops to pursue Cao Cao's army.

Where is Wang Lang willing to listen to him? However, Yan Baihu came to his senses because of Zhou Xin's words, and reminded Wang Lang that Cao Cao was going here, most likely because the city here was tall and difficult, and it was difficult to capture it in a hurry, so he wanted to investigate the desecration, and wanted to lead his army to pursue Zhou Xin out of the city together. and personally led the troops behind the back of the temple.

Wang Lang was shocked by Yan Baihu's words, so he ordered Yan Baihu and Zhou Xin to lead 5,000 soldiers out of the city to chase after him.

When it was almost time for the first shift, Yan Baihu and Zhou Xin had left the city for more than 20 miles, and they were ambushed by Cao Cao's army here.

Wang Lang's general Zhou Xin fought bravely, but he ran into Xiahoudun, Zhou Xin came to greet him with a knife, and was stabbed to death by Xiahoudun, and his soldiers were shocked by Xiahoudun's bravery, and they all knelt down and surrendered.

Only Yan Baihu was left to fight his life to fight his way out, and he did not return to Jicheng, to see that there was no Cao Cao's army in the north, and fled in the direction of Yuhang again.

At this time, Wang Lang heard that the former army had been defeated, and did not dare to enter the city, so he led his subordinates to flee to the corner of the sea.

Cao Cao returned to the army, took the city in one go, stabilized the people, and ordered a reward for the heads of Yan Baihu and Wang Lang, on the morning of the third day, I saw a person holding the head of Yan Baihu to Cao Cao's army to surrender, this person is extremely majestic, eight feet long, with a wide face and mouth, it is a person from Yuyao, surnamed Dong, the name attack, the word Yuan Dynasty.

Cao Cao was overjoyed, with the expansion of the territory, Cao Cao gradually felt that his men were not enough, and now Dong Raid came just right, so he ordered Dong Raid to be the Sima of the other department.

At this point, Jiangdong was swept away by Cao Cao.

Jiangdong talents admired its name and came to defect one after another, including Kan Ze, the word Derun, and the people of Huiji Shanyin; Gu Yong, the character Yuan sighs, is Cai Yong's apprentice; There are also Buqi Buzishan, Xue Zong, Xue Jingwen, Grim, Cheng Deshu and others.

For a time, Jiangdong was at the peak of civil and military affairs.

A force that can really oppose Xu Ji has emerged.

And these are of course under the attention of the shadow, Xu Ji of course does not want to see Cao Cao grow in Jiangdong, according to his heart, Cao Cao will definitely be his biggest opponent in the future, compared to Sun Quan, who is still young and only knows how to keep it, and Liu Bei, who is still living under the roof of others, Cao Cao has shown his sharp fangs.

If it weren't for the inability of Yanzhou and Jizhou to send troops, Xu Ji would definitely not let Cao Cao take the land of Jiangdong so easily, but now, Xu Ji could only sigh. (To be continued......)