When the soldiers and horses of the Southern Han Dynasty heard that Lü Meng was dead, they followed Huang Zhong to shout and persuade him to surrender. When Wu Jun heard the voice of persuasion to surrender, he saw that Shuai Qi fell, and the three Wu generals were killed and captured, and they did not suspect him at all, so they knelt down and asked for surrender.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Lu Meng had no choice but to lead tens of thousands of remnants of the army to retreat in defeat. Huang Zhong led his troops in pursuit all the way to the city of Xuchang. At this time, there was already no thunderbolt car at the head of Xuchang City, so Huang Zhong said to the generals: "Can Lu Meng's defeated army be able to defend me?" Hugh waited for his rescue to arrive, and attacked it quickly! ”

Wei Yan was eager to make meritorious contributions, and ordered the sergeants under his command to erect a hundred cloud ladders, which can stand more than a dozen people on one ride, and the surrounding area is covered by wooden planks. The sergeants each grabbed a short ladder and a soft rope, listened to the drums in the army, and went up to the city together.

Lü Meng was on the enemy tower, saw the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty loading the ladder, coming from all sides, and ordered 30,000 soldiers to carry rockets and distribute them on all sides, and wait for the ladder to approach the city and shoot it in a salvo.

Huang Zhong thought that the city was unprepared, so when he saw that Wei Yan used a cloud ladder to directly attack the city, he did not stop it, so the three armies marched in a loud and shouting voice. Unexpectedly, the rockets on the city were fired, the ladders were exhausted, the soldiers on the ladders were burned to death, the arrows and stones at the head of the city were like rain, and the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty had to retreat temporarily.

Zhang Liao was furious when he saw that the cloud ladder could not be climbed into the city: "Lu Meng burned my cloud ladder, you can use the method of rushing the car!" ”

The next day, the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty pushed the cart again, and marched in with shouts from all sides. Lu Meng hurriedly ordered the soldiers to transport stones and chisel holes, use ropes to pierce and fly, and the cars were discounted.

Jia Xu saw that the ladders and rushing cars could not break the city, so he asked people to carry soil to fill the moat, and ordered Ehuan and Shamoke to lead 10,000 spade troops to dig tunnels at night and secretly enter the city. Lü Meng dug a heavy trench in the middle of the city and cut it off. In such a day and night attack, the two armies were in a stalemate.

Nan Ye was not anxious when he learned that Ma Chao was blocked in Jinyang and Huang Zhong was blocked in Xuchang, and continued to besiege Jianye and hold on to Sun Quan. In fact, whether it is Nan Ye, Huang Zhong or Ma Chao, if they had attacked the city regardless of losses, they would have won at this time. However, the three groups of people are very tacitly restrained, just because there are still two armies that have not yet arrived.

The sails on the east sea of Xuzhou are full of shadows, and a fleet of ships is coming to Xuzhou from far and near. The building ships that make up the fleet are more than ten zhang high, dozens of zhang long, and the ships are divided into five layers, each carrying 3,000 soldiers and horses. The ship was lined with spears, fluttering flags, and heavily guarded, like a fortress on the water.

Gan Ning stood at the bow of the boat, unspeakably happy and proud in his heart. Looking at the naval fleet behind him, recalling the days of plundering in the river in the past, Gan Ning couldn't help but shake his head. Before he met Nan Ye, Gan Ning felt that it was already great that he could come and go across the river. It wasn't until he led the navy to sea that Gan Ning knew that he was just a frog at the bottom of a well.

"Your Majesty, there is a fleet of Soochow Navy ships ahead." A lookout with a telescope pinned to his waist jumped down from the mast to report back to Ganning, interrupting Ganning's thoughts.

Gan Ning glared at the lookout and pointed to the top of the mast and said, "Boy, see clearly!" Above it is the Hanlong Banner, not the Skull Banner. What should you call me? ”

The lookout scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "General Gan, the little one is called Shunkou." ”

Gan Ning waved his hand and didn't have the same knowledge as him, over the years, Gan Ning was in charge of the privateer fleet, specializing in plundering and attacking the merchant ships and navies of various countries, and had become a feared One Piece on the sea. Fighting as a regular navy today is really unaccustomed to Gan Ning and his sailors.

Seeing that Gan Ning did not pursue it, the lookout continued to ask: "General Gan, have we sunk or captured those Eastern Wu ships?" ”

Gan Ning pursed his lips and said, "It's just a few broken ships, don't bother to capture them, sink them all." ”

When the lookout received the order, he went to inform the flagbearer on the mast, and the flagbearer waved the flag to inform the ships to prepare for the enemy. Guan Hai, Pei Yuanshao, Zang Ba, Zhang Yan and others will see Qiyu each lead a huge ship, and the ships will be lined up to wait for the enemy.

Since the sea route was cut off when Zhou Yu sent troops to Sanhan and Goguryeo, Sun Quan realized the importance of the navy, so he ordered Sun Jing and Zhang Wen to form a navy. The foundation of the naval army of Eastern Wu was not weak, and Sun Jing took over the task without thinking too much. But when the ship arrived at sea, Sun Jing and Zhang Wen realized that the navy and the navy were not the same thing at all, and the wind and waves at sea were much more powerful than those in the rivers. After more than a year of training, the Soochow Navy could only wander around the coastal coast, and could not reach the far sea, let alone exterminate pirates.

On this day, Zhang Wen was training at sea, and he saw a fleet coming from a distance, all of which were under the banner of the Southern Han Dynasty. Zhang Wen had heard that Nanye had raised an army to attack Wu, but he didn't expect that a fleet would bypass Yangzhou and come to Xuzhou.

The Jiaozhou Navy is strong, but it has always been shown as a pirate, so Zhang Wen did not know the strength of the Southern Han Navy, and thought that the Dongwu Navy was the first strong army on the water in the world. At this time, seeing the arrival of Gan Ning's soldiers, Zhang Wen was not nervous, but felt that the newly formed Dongwu Navy had a place to use, and ordered all ships to rush to the Gan Ning fleet, wanting to start a broadside battle.

Gan Ning looked at the largest ships in the Soochow Navy from afar, and was half smaller than the smallest ships under his command, and was very disdainful. The ships were ordered to use the T-head tactic, aligning the ships horizontally with the flanks aimed at the Soochow fleet.

After Zhang Wen urged the ship to approach, he was a little scared when he saw that the Southern Han ships were huge, but when he saw Gan Ning adjusting the formation and facing him with the flanks facing him, he was not afraid, and smiled at the soldiers under his command: "The Southern Han Navy does not know who is in charge of the troops, and it is so arranged, I will go forward as soon as possible and capture its big ship." ”

When the officers and men of the Soochow Navy heard this, they applauded. In their impression, the water battle should urge the boat to step forward and meet the side head-on. Facing the enemy on the flank is like looking for death, and it is easy for the opponent to break through the formation and knock over the ship. At this time, seeing that the ships of the Southern Han Dynasty were all facing them with the weak points on the side, the soldiers of Eastern Wu tried their best to urge the boats, trying to seize the fighters.

Gan Ning couldn't help but smile when he saw the Wu army's ships approaching rapidly. Once upon a time, he fought a water war like this, but now the approach of the Soochow Navy is like a fool who sent himself to death in the eyes of Gan Ning. Gan Ning ordered: "Thunderbolt fire!" ”

With Gan Ning's order, the small improved thunderbolt installed on the deck of the building began to project ballast stones out one by one. Boulders smashed like cannonballs into the Soochow ships.

The soldiers of Eastern Wu were dumbfounded when they saw the boulders flying all over the sky, and Zhang Wen never thought that the ships of the Southern Han Dynasty would fire cannons. "Boom~", a boulder smashed on the mast of Zhang Wen's flagship, the thigh-thick mast broke in response, and the falling sail covered several Eastern Wu soldiers under the sail.

Zhang Wen's flagship, the largest ship in the Soochow navy, was nothing more than a broken sail after it was hit. The smaller ships were miserable, because the boulder hit the deck and hit the side of the ship with a big hole, and the sea water poured directly into the hold, and the whole ship began to sink. The Soochow sailors on board jumped ship and fled for their lives.

"Retreat! Withdraw your troops! Zhang Wen was so anxious that he was about to cry, the Southern Han Navy on the other side had not lost a single person or ship, and he was already about to be wiped out, this kind of contest was simply not the same level.

Gan Ning saw that the ships of Soochow wanted to turn, where would they succeed? The new warships vigorously developed by Nanye are hundreds of times stronger than the Dongwu ships in terms of attack power and speed. Gan Ning waved his army forward and attacked fiercely, and during the Battle of Chibi, the majestic Eastern Wu naval army was completely annihilated, and Zhang Wen sank into the sea with his flagship.

After the collapse of the Soochow Navy, Gan Ning took advantage of the situation to lead his troops to attack the seaside water village of Soochow. In the case of the thunderbolt car, the Dongwu Water Village was smashed to pieces, and the new ship moored in the Water Village was smashed into sawdust before it went out to sea.

The Wu army in Xuzhou was transferred to Yangzhou, Yuzhou, and Bingzhou to resist Nanye, so as soon as the navy army was destroyed, Xuzhou was like a piece of fat on the table to be slaughtered. Gan Ning landed from the east of Xuzhou, and attacked westward like a bamboo, looking at the wind everywhere he went. Soon occupied the entire territory of Xuzhou.

The battle situation in Qingzhou was similar to that in Xuzhou. The navy led by Tai Shici easily defeated the Soochow navy led by Sun Jing, and after landing, it swept through Qingzhou, and captured Qingzhou effortlessly.

Before Nanye sent his troops, there was an agreement that whichever way the soldiers and horses would complete the strategic goal first, they would attack Yanzhou first. Gan Ning and Tai Shici took Xuzhou and Qingzhou almost at the same time, and marched to Yanzhou together.

Gan Ning left half of the soldiers and horses for Guan Hai and Pei Yuanshao to guard Xuzhou, and Tai Shici left half of the soldiers and horses for Yu Ban and Yan Yan to guard Qingzhou, and then the two of them each led a large army to Yanzhou. The two soldiers and horses happened to meet on the border of Yanzhou, so they joined forces and ordered Xu Shu, the governor of Erzhou, to take Lu Xun as a military division to advance to Yanzhou.

Just when Gan Ning and Tai Shici joined forces, Lu Su and his men and horses also met Sima Yi's army in Yanzhou, and marched to Yangzhou together. Before Wu Wei's army arrived in Yangzhou, there was a report from the Malays, Qing and Xu Erzhou had been obtained by the Southern Han Dynasty, and soldiers and horses were coming to Yanzhou.

Sima Yi was shocked when he heard the report, and hurriedly discussed with Lu Su: "Qing and Xu Erzhou were all obtained by Nanye, if we go to Yangzhou, Yanzhou will be lost, and our army will have no way back." ”

Lu Su was also very surprised that Nan Ye could take Qing and Xu Erzhou, and he didn't expect that Nan Ye's soldiers and horses would come by sea. For Lu Su, it doesn't matter whether Sima Yi can return to Yecheng or not, what matters is to defeat Nan Ye. So Lu Su said to Sima Yi: "Governor Sima doesn't have to worry, Jianye's grain storage is enough for the governor's army." It doesn't hurt to cut off the way back, as long as you can retreat Nanye's troops, why should the governor worry about not being able to return to the army? ”

Sima Yi knew in his heart that Lu Su was fooling himself and desperately going to fight Nanye. But Sima Yi didn't dare to agree. Gan Ning and Tai Shici's soldiers and horses fell from the sky, and Nan Ye's troops changed from 300,000 to 500,000, a change that caught Sima Yi off guard.

The so-called impermanence of soldiers, impermanence of water. If the situation on the battlefield has changed, the battle plan must be reformulated, and if the original plan is still carried out, it will certainly lose very badly. What Sima Yi was most afraid of was that the extra two Southern Han soldiers and horses captured Yecheng and killed Cao Pi when he went to fight Nanye, so that even if Sima Yi defeated Nanye, it would be meaningless.

After thinking for a while, Sima Yi said to Lu Su: "Art of War: If you want to win, you must first be defeated. Nan Ye is like a god with soldiers, and it is unknown whether we can retreat from the enemy when we go to Yangzhou, but we fell into a desperate situation first. If we don't win against Nan Ye, won't we be in danger? In my opinion, why not order His Majesty King Wu to abandon Jianye and join forces to defend Yanzhou. It was defeated by Nanye, and it could also retreat to Sanhan and Goguryeo through Weidi. ”