Hearing this, Sun Ce said: "Gong Jin, presumably they haven't gone too far, do you want us to send a cavalry to chase them back?" ”

"No need, the current Wei State is no longer able to threaten us, so let's think about how to deal with the Celestial Empire army that is going to arrive here. Zhang Zhiyuan defeated Cao Cao, and now he is coming to Runan with the victorious army, and what to do to make them stop the army is the most important. I think King Wu's letter can now be sent out. Zhou Yu didn't take the fleeing Cao Ang seriously, not to mention that they didn't have any strength to pose a threat to them, but to say that there was no territory, and it was only a matter of time before they were discovered. But Zhang Chao is here, if he can't prepare properly, once he is allowed to kill in front of him, I am afraid that the situation will be a little bad.

After Zhou Yu's reminder, Sun Ce thought of his father's handwriting, so he picked it up and said, "Is this a letter?" ”

"Yes, it is this letter, please also ask the eldest son to send this letter to Zhang Chao, who is rushing to Runan, maybe you can stop the other party's army from going south." Zhou Yu knew that this letter would not play a big role, but it didn't matter, he didn't think it would play a role, all this was just a reason for them to occupy Runan. The so-called teacher is famous, and even if he makes a move, there must always be an excuse.

Soon after Sun Ce occupied Runan, Xu Sheng and Ding Feng, under the planning of Sima Yi, the division of the Right Army, also occupied Picheng, the seat of Xuzhou.

Since the news of Cao Ren's defeat came back, the people in Xiapi City had long been panicked, and as soon as the Eastern Wu army arrived, they surrendered after only a little resistance. Therefore, Eastern Wu also captured 30,000 Wei soldiers here.

The army went out on three routes, two of which were victorious, and only the last one was left with the waterway army led by Lü Meng and Huang Gai, who were encircling Haixi City, the port of Guangling County.

Haixi, which is also the place where the waterway legion landed, they started from Sanhan, suddenly appeared outside Haixi City above the sea, and then advanced all the way to occupy Guangling, and the corps commander Gan Ning also personally took the deputy corps commander Yan Xing and 300,000 troops to the East China Sea Kingdom, and supported Cao Ren who fled south there.

After 300,000 troops, the rest was a 200,000 navy army led by Jia Xu, the military advisor, and Jia Ni, the deputy commander of the regiment.

Jia Xu did not follow Gan Ning into Guangling, in his opinion, having 300,000 sailors is enough to succeed, so he might as well wait for good news in Haixi City. Of course, one of the main reasons why he didn't leave was because he was defending the Soochow Naval Army.

To say that for Dongwu, Zhang Chao didn't pay attention to anything at the beginning, this is just a Sun family who knows Shoucheng, and the two sides have been married, in a sense, the relationship is still good, so there is no need to do it.

Even Zhang Chao was still thinking that one day after he defeated Wei and Western Shu, presumably Eastern Wu would surrender directly, and at that time he would be able to unify the whole country without blood.

But it wasn't until Sima Yi was taken away by Dongwu that Zhang Chao began to pay attention, and he found that this Dongwu, which looked very gentle and didn't even show anything, had already become a trend.

The Eastern Wu in history is one of the Three Kingdoms, and it was not until the Jin Dynasty surrendered after the destruction of Western Shu that it was like this, how can it be simple?

After finding that he had been ignoring Dongwu a little, Zhang Chao was vigilant, and he also wrote to Jia Xu, telling him to pay attention to the movements of Dongwu, especially the opponent's navy, which is the object that needs to be guarded against.

Zhang Chao has reminded him, where will Jia Xu not pay attention? This time he stayed in Haixi City, just to prevent Dongwu from making any small moves, but he didn't think about it, this incident really happened, when the water scouts of the Waterway Legion sent back the news, saying that they found a large number of Dongwu warships approaching Haixi, he knew that this was the other party to forcibly seize Guangling County.

"Strategist, the other party's navy is here, and we haven't even greeted one beforehand, what are we going to do?" Jia Ni, the deputy commander of the Waterway Legion, asked Jia Xu with a nervous expression.

"Hehe, the soldiers are coming, the general doesn't have to worry. In this way, we can do this and this..."Jia Xu has been holding back his stomach for a long time, just waiting for someone to come to find trouble for him, even if Dongwu is so ignorant, then don't blame yourself for being polite.

Talking about Lu Meng and Huang Gai, the two of them were coming towards Haixi City with a thousand warships and a full army of 300,000.

On top of a huge sea ship, there are two generals, Lu Meng and Huang Gai.

"General Huang, just now our scout ship sent back the news that we found the scout warship of the Celestial Empire, presumably they should have discovered us." Lu Bu spoke very respectfully to Huang Gai on the side.

"Hehe, General Lu, this time you are in charge of the overall situation, this is my king's order, what you have to do just do it, Gai will fully cooperate." Although Huang Gai's qualifications are very old, he is indeed very sensible, this time Sun Jian's order is that the naval army is mainly Lu Meng, supplemented by himself, even if it is like this, of course he will seriously carry it out.

Regarding Huang Gai's answer, Lu Meng said with a very excited look: "In this way, Meng will be supported." ”

"Huh." Huang Gai smiled and nodded, he knew that Lu Meng was a very capable person, and he was extremely famous in the entire Jiangdong, otherwise, King Wu would not have handed over this heavy responsibility of commanding the naval army to this person.

Huang Gai showed great cooperation, and Lu Meng became righteous, he said: "Okay, even if the Celestial Empire Navy has discovered us, then without further ado, there is no need to disguise anything, just attack on all fronts, I want to see if this Celestial Empire Navy really dares to intercept us at sea." ”

There is also a reason why Lu Meng is so anxious, he has learned from the investigation report that there are still 200,000 people in the Celestial Empire's waterway army in Haixi City, and there are thousands of warships, and there is also a military advisor Jia Xu in the array, so with these strengths, if you don't deal with it well, it is likely that you will not be able to take advantage of it.

And if they can appear outside Haixi City as quickly as possible, if they don't give the other party enough time to prepare, presumably even if they want to deploy and prepare, it will be too late, so that they can hit the other party by surprise, so that Guangling City can go down.

Lu Meng's idea was right, under his order, the 300,000 Eastern Wu naval army also began to accelerate its advance, and it only took half a day to come outside the Haixi port, but as soon as they arrived, Lu Bu and Huang Gai were a little confused, because there were hundreds of warships here, and the others had disappeared. And in their line of sight, they can't see a single Celestial Empire Navy at all, what the hell is going on?

If it was because they got the news that the Celestial Empire Navy fled in fear, then Lu Meng or Huang Gai would never believe it. The Celestial Empire is such a powerful existence now, how can it be possible to withdraw without saying anything?

"Is this a fraud?" Huang Gai looked at the somewhat unreasonable scene in front of him, and asked with some uncertainty.

General Huang is right. In this case, I will arrange for some scouts to go down and reconnoitre. Lu Meng was also confused by Jia Xu's posture at this moment, even if it was the other party's real knife and real gun, he would not have the slightest fear, but now this appearance really made his heart feel bottomless.

"Okay." Huang Gai also agrees with this plan, and he also understands the truth that only by knowing oneself and knowing oneself can one win the battle.

Soon, Lu Bu sent thirty scouts into the water and swam to the shore to reconnoiter the movements of Haixi City.

It's just unthinkable that half a day has passed, and it is already afternoon, and none of these thirty people have returned. It is said that when the time comes, there is only one result, and that is that something has happened to these people.

Thirty scouts returned without a single person, which made Lu Meng and Huang Gai have bad intentions, they knew that this was the Celestial Empire's army that had been on guard for a long time, and even if they were prepared, it would be impossible to play the role of a surprise attack.

At this moment, Lu Meng really wanted to send a large army to land directly on the shore, presumably with 300,000 against 200,000, he still had a chance of winning. It's just that the idea was rejected as soon as it appeared. Not because of anything else, just because of those vanished Celestial Empire warships.

The scout originally said that there were a thousand Celestial Empire warships at this time, and now only one-tenth of them are left, so where are the others, will they be staring at their rear, once he is going to land, then these sea ships will be killed together with the soldiers of the waterway army on the shore, so it is a two-sided attack, in that case, wouldn't it be a trick?

Lu Meng was very careful, this was also the first time he led the army to the battle, and he didn't want the slightest problem. It was precisely because of his caution that he lost the best time to attack. "Come on, put down the scout boat, and let them inspect the surrounding sea to see if they can find the sea ships of the Celestial Empire Waterway Legion."

Lu Meng decided that there would definitely be Celestial Empire ships near him, and as long as he could find them and strike them one by one, in that case, while severely damaging the opponent's strength, he would also have less worries.

At the sound of the order, hundreds of short and sturdy scout ships were released, and they began to patrol the nearby seas.

This inspection was a full seven days, and in the seven days, what puzzled Lu Meng and Huang Gai was that they still didn't find a single Celestial Empire warship, this result was too weird, and the two of them had a feeling of being confused about the battle situation.

This is what I am most afraid of in a war, I don't know the reality of the other side at all, and in such a situation, it seems that whatever decisions are made are wrong.

Lu Meng didn't want to lose the first battle, and Huang Gai, as an auxiliary general, didn't want Lu Meng to fail, so he also had to bear a certain responsibility.