Chapter 57: The Decisive Battle of Pingnan?
"Hehe, it turns out that it feels so fun on the boat, I didn't expect to be able to eat fresh river fish every day." Cao Chong sat on the deck, enjoying the food prepared by the leaders and drinking wine, very comfortable.
"Drink less, drink less, Brother Chong, this is very valuable." Lu Rui looked at the wine in Cao Chong's hand distressedly, grandma's, originally only said and took a sip, but he didn't expect to drink so many sips. Wine is a wine that is worth gold! After a bite, Lu Rui's ingot of gold was gone.
"Brother Rui, don't worry, I'll leave you a little." Cao Chong poured out a glass of wine from the gourd and was about to hand it to Lu Rui.
Suddenly, the hull of the ship shook, and the wine in Cao Chong's hand spilled on the ground.
"One of my ingots of gold!" Lu Rui looked at the wine on the deck and shook his head helplessly, although he was very rich, he couldn't stand Cao Chong's way of drinking. You must know that in the Han Dynasty, a pot of wine could be exchanged for a big official!
"It's really unlucky, Brother Rui, tell me why this strange wind suddenly came!" Cao Chong looked at Lu Rui, very puzzled, just now he was driving smoothly and steadily, when suddenly there was a gust of wind.
"Brother Chong, let me tell you why there is such a strong wind." Lu Rui smiled, Cao Chong's diligence and inquisitiveness are good, and Lu Rui will not hide his future knowledge.
The location where Cao Jun is now traveling is a canyon corridor surrounded by two large mountain ranges. According to Lu Rui's speculation, there should have been a large amount of water in this area in ancient times, or it was originally a large river, but the movement of the earth's crust behind it and the elevation of the surface formed land.
Zhou Yu's plan to build a river turned the canyon corridor into a long and narrow river. It's like the Three Gorges in Xichuan. Winding. Continuous. However, the two sides of this canyon are different from the Three Gorges, which are all continuous mountains sandwiching the river in the middle, while the canyon corridor of Cao Jun's current situation is intermittent mountains on both sides, and the distance between the two mountains on the same side is very low, and in some places only a horse-drawn carriage can be driven flat.
In modern times, there is a scientific term. It's called "high-rise wind". It is between two tall buildings, if the wind wants to pass between the buildings, it will inevitably accelerate extremely quickly between the narrow corridors, forming a high-rise wind, which is quite powerful, and sometimes it can even kill people.
Now the two adjacent mountains are two high-rise buildings, forming a high-rise wind, so Cao's big ships will be attacked by strong winds from time to time.
"Brother Rui, you know a lot, even if I read a lot of books, I didn't cover this knowledge. Brother Rui. How exactly did you get this knowledge? Cao Chong looked at Lu Rui longingly, and Lu Rui always had some strange thoughts in his mind. Where did Lu Rui learn about this knowledge?
"Where? This is thanks to the middle father, who came from the tomb robbers. Lu Rui smiled slightly, and replied quite naturally. Of course, Lu Rui would not tell him that he had crossed over, and he could only use the method of tomb robbery to cover himself.
"Captain Touch?" Cao Chong was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that Lu Rui was still using Captain Jin to rob the tomb. Cao Cao, as the prime minister, can no longer do these things. I didn't expect Lu Rui to carry it forward, and he was still stealing other people's cemeteries.
"Yes, Brother Chong, Qin Shi Huang burned books and pit Confucianism, and many classical books have been destroyed, in order to obtain these classics, Brother Rui has worked a lot." Lu Rui has burned all the useful knowledge of crossing into bamboo slips, put them at home, and take them out to exchange with the family in the future, and this future knowledge will remain here.
"Brother Rui, why haven't I read those books of yours in your house?" Cao Chong looked at Lu Rui suspiciously, Lu Rui's study, he often went there, but why didn't he find those books.
"Brother Chong, Brother Rui is also a family, and the revival of the family falls on Brother Rui alone, why do you say?" Lu Rui smiled slightly and patted Cao Chong's head.
"It turns out that Brother Rui is still a businessman, waiting for the price to sell!" Cao Chong soon understood that Lu Rui was collecting his books as treasures, and then exchanging them for different books with the Great Family to enhance the strength of his family.
"Brother Rui, can you exchange those books with me? I have half of the big family's lone book in my hand, do you want to read it? Cao Chong smiled wryly, as if there were really some treasures in his hands.
"Alone? How can you have the lone book of half of the great family? Lu Rui was stunned for a moment, the solitary book was an attractive term in the Han Dynasty, and the solitary book here refers to the highest level of the great family's book collection, that is, the capital that the great family is proud of, these solitary books are generally some lost technology, medicine, the art of war, and so on.
"Brother Rui, don't forget, our Cao family is also a family, and our Cao family will also go to exchange for a lonely book." Cao Chong is right, the Cao family is also a family, so naturally they will use this method to exchange for a lonely book. The Cao family's solitary books are generally some art of war and military strategy, and now as far as Lu Rui knows, the Xun family and the Chen family have exchanged solitary books with the Cao family, but Lu Rui also has the solitary books of these two families. But what Cao Chong said is, half of the great family?
"Brother Chong, don't lie to people, the Xun family and the Chen family are lonely, and Brother Rui also has them, these are not tempting."
"Hahahaha, Brother Rui, you are wrong, not only the lone book of the Chen family and the Xun family, I said, it is the lone book of half of the Han family, and it is in my hands." Cao Chong glanced at Lu Rui and smiled confidently.
"Brother Chong, how did you get these lonely books?"
"Brother Rui, you should know the process of exchanging orphans, I used my head to get it!" Cao Chong pointed to his little head, with a look of do you believe me or not.
"Unforgettable?" Of course, Lu Rui knew the process of exchanging solitary books for the family. Generally, the person who exchanges the solitary book of the family will choose a secluded room, and after bathing and changing clothes, he will start to study the solitary book of the other party to see if the solitary book of the other party is useful to him, and finally decide whether to exchange the solitary book.
In order to protect the secrets of the book, the time allowed to study is only a quarter of an hour, and at most it will not exceed half an hour. Cao Chong's memory shocked Lu Rui, a 10,000-character bamboo slip, Cao Chong only needed about a minute to write it down completely, and it was word-for-word, basically comparable to the scanners of later generations.
"Brother Rui. You are young and intelligent. The memory is also amazing. But compared to the younger brother, I'm afraid it's not as good as it, how about it, Brother Rui, back to Xudu, let's exchange it? Cao Chong took another sip of wine, licked his mouth, and looked at Lu Rui.
"No wonder the Cao family has so many books all at once. It turns out that the roots are here. "Lu Rui has left Cao's mansion, naturally can't copy the Cao family's books at will, but the right to read is still there, recently Lu Rui returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, entered the library, and found a lot of unread books, originally thought it was collected by Cao Cao, it turned out that everything was made by Cao Chong's head.
"Hehe, those stupid people in the family don't know that I have a great memory, and some ordinary books let me study them all. These books will be my Cao Chong's treasures in the future. The treasure of the Cao family. Cao Chong proudly showed off his memory to Lu Rui.
"Brother Rui, how's it going?"
"Okay, go back to Xudu, I'll see what books are suitable for me, and I'll take them out and exchange them with you."
"Thank you, Brother Rui!"
"Well, by the way, bring the flask, you've drunk enough." Lu Rui frowned, as if there was no wine in the gourd.
"Brother Rui, give it back to you!" Cao Chong threw the gourd and slipped back to the cabin like a mouse.
"Brother Chong, you are so shameless, you don't leave me at all!" Lu Rui took the gourd and shook it, only to find that it was not almost drunk, but that there was no drop of wine, and the topic of Cao Chong just now aroused Lu Rui's interest, but he didn't expect that he would just return to the gourd later, and the wine would be gone.
At this time, on the river thirty miles away, Sun Quan's boat was moving slowly, and the water level was insufficient, so the speed of the boat naturally slowed down.
In the main cabin, Sun Quan sat on a tiger skin chair, staring at the envoy sent by Guilin County without saying a word.
The kneeling messenger had been kneeling for a quarter of an hour, but Sun Quan never let the messenger get up, and after the messenger saluted, Sun Quan did not answer, but just let people kneel there all the time, and the messenger's legs were a little weak, but without Sun Quan's order, he still didn't dare to stand up.
Suddenly, the big ship shook violently. The messenger has been on the road for many days, and his body is a little weak, but after this moment, his body is not stable, and he falls directly, and the bamboo slip in his hand actually falls.
"Hmph, presumptuous! Dare to lose your honor in front of this general, a shake will make you so gaffe, how to fight on the water? This is the soldier trained by Gong Jin? Someone came, beat this person with thirty military sticks, and sent him back to Guilin County! General Ben wants to ask Gong Jin how he led the troops. Sun Quan, who was on the throne, was suddenly furious and ordered his guards to tie up the messenger.
Before the messenger could figure it out, the guards moved on. It wasn't until he was about to leave the cabin that the messenger reacted and shouted loudly for Sun Quan's forgiveness, but Sun Quan was unmoved. Then came the screams of the messengers.
Lu Su watched what happened from the sidelines, and it was not easy to persuade Sun Quan, because this was Sun Quan's killing of chickens and monkeys, and he was watching Zhou Yu, and the messenger was just looking for a substitute for the dead ghost.
Sun Quan's anger is for a reason, previously, Zhou Yu concealed Sun Quan and privately mobilized the army to the south, although Sun Quan had a way out, but it still left a thorn in Sun Quan's heart.
After Sun Quan arrived in Luling, he thought that Zhou Yu would come to meet him and admit his mistake, and Sun Quan would naturally give Zhou Yu face, but Zhou Yu not only did not come to meet Sun Quan, but as soon as Sun Quan arrived in Luling, Zhou Yu handed over his battle plan to Sun Quan to Han Dang, and he left Luling early and went to Guilin County to prepare.
When Sun Quan heard the news, he was angry, he was the lord, but Zhou Yu acted privately without reporting the battle plan. He also took away the main force of Luling, so that Sun Quan could not rest for a moment in Luling, because Cao Cao's army was chasing after him.
Sun Quan was hindered by Cao Cao's forces, and on the second day after arriving in Luling, he led the remaining 20,000 troops along Zhou Yu's river-building west to Guilin County. As the lord, but like a puppet, how can this not make people angry?
"My lord?"
"Zijing, you say, what is Gongjin's plan? After retreating to Guilin County, can our army really safely withdraw to Nanzhong? How did Cao Jun deal with it behind him? Sun Quan was in an irritable mood at this time, and Sun Quan had seen Zhou Yu's plan, but to be honest, Sun Quan didn't have much confidence, because Zhou Yu only said in general terms that he would introduce Cao's army into Guilin County, and then severely damage the main force of Cao's army, so that Sun Quan could safely withdraw into Nanzhong.
Sun Quan understands Zhou Yu, in the past, Zhou Yu would list the process and key points of the plan in detail, and the big and small things, no matter how big or small, would be organized. But this time, Zhou Yu only made a general appearance, showing that Zhou Yu's plan was improvised, and it was immature, this was putting himself and the army on the same gambling word!
"My lord, the governor of the capital is full of scheming, and he can also resort to a counter-plan in the case of Shiku's rebellion, so that Shikun retreats to Jiaozhou, which shows that the governor of Dadu has long been confident, and the lord doesn't have to worry." Lu Su has always been very confident in Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu helped Sun Ce to conquer Jiangdong, not just lip service, but quite a military exploit, 3,000 people Dingjiangdong is not only the myth of Sun Ce, but also the myth of Zhou Yu.
"I know that Gong Jin is full of scheming, but now that the Cao army has chased after the rear of our army, what should I do?" Sun Quan threw a battle report to Lu Su. In the morning, the battle report had already arrived, and the vanguard of Cao's army had already met Sun Quan's rear army, and the two sides were engaged, and Sun Quan's rear army defeated Cao Cao's warp. This shows that Cao Jun is not far from Sun Jun. Thirty miles away may be the main force of Cao's army.
"Rest assured, with Bo Yan and Ziming behind the palace, the Cao army is not so easy to break through, and in a few days, it will make the spring rain season, but the river has risen, even if there are more than 100,000 Cao troops behind, it is not necessarily the opponent of our water army." Lu Su had already carefully observed the situation in the river, and in such a long and narrow river, most of the formations of the navy could not be deployed, so the advantage of Cao's navy army was gone.
If Cao's army wanted to break through the defenses of Sun Quan's rear army, the only way to use the tactics of a sea of people was to start a decisive battle on the narrow river. But if the casualties of the two armies are too large and there are too many corpses, it will definitely cause a blockage on this man-made river, and Cai Mao is also a master of the water army, so he will not do such a stupid thing.
After listening to Lu Su's words, Sun Quan nodded, and after exchanging views with Lu Su about Zhou Yu, Sun Quan let Lu Su go down.
In Guilin County, in the dark suburbs, Zhou Yu took a building boat, escorted by several ships, and came to the east of the river.
"Ziyi, everything is ready?" Zhou Yu glanced at Tai Shici, and then at the five ships that had burned on the river.
"Everything is ready according to the orders of the Grand Duke. As long as the Metropolitan Governor gives an order, we can carry it out. ”
"Okay, let me see how Ziyi's archery goes."
"No!"
Tai Shi Ci took his golden bow from his back, then mounted a rocket, and with a whoosh, shot out, and the rocket swooped directly into the cabin of the burning ship.
Bang! As soon as Tai Shici's rocket touched the ship's cabin, a huge explosion occurred. The power of the explosion was so amazing that even the building ship five hundred paces away shook violently. This is more powerful than the huge waves on the Yangtze River.
"Be careful!" Tai Shici held Zhou Yu, the hull of the boat was too shaky, and the golden bow in his hand just now fell.
"Hahahaha! God help me Zhou Yu, the record in the Book of Ancient Odds is true. Cao Cao? If you come to Guilin County, I will let you taste my Zhou Gongjin's karma array! Zhou Yu began to laugh wildly after seeing the huge explosion, with this sharp weapon, Cao Cao's army would definitely be hit hard! (To be continued......)
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