Once Yang Qi's army is wiped out in Dongting Lake, the power of the Zhong Chu court in Jiangling Mansion will inevitably collapse.

This gave Lin Yuan a greater opportunity.

Now, Zhuge Liang is sitting in Yingzhou City, eyeing the Zhongchu territory in Jiangling Mansion.

As long as the news of the annihilation of Yang Qi's army came, he would lead the Huben battalion to the south and directly seize important military towns such as Gong'an, Qianjiang, and Zhijiang.

In the territory, Wang Anshi presided over the implementation of the law change.

The territory's top priority at the moment is to assist farmers in spring ploughing.

Some grain crops can be planted in late March, while others will not be planted until April, so we must hurry.

As the saying goes, the plan of the year lies in spring.

Lin Yuan's grain harvest this year will directly determine whether his territory can continue to survive.

These political affairs are all worried about Wang Anshi and others.

Lin Yuan mobilized the cavalry battalion, passed through Anlu City, and entered the territory of Hanyang.

Hanyang County, which is the Jianghan Plain, is the most suitable for cavalry battalions.

Moreover, once the cavalry battalion entered Hanyang, it could reach Shazhouba by land in the shortest possible time, copy the back route of Chen Youliang's sailors, and drive them into the water.

Once Chen Youliang's sailor was in the water, Lin Yuan's decisive moment came.

On March 18, Yuwen Chengdu led a cavalry battalion to cross the border mountains of Hanyang in Suizhou and arrive at Anlu City, where they directly attacked Zhao Pusheng's army.

Zhao Pusheng's army of 20,000 was caught off guard by the sudden appearance of the cavalry battalion and was defeated.

20,000 people were killed and wounded, and food, grass and ordnance were thrown everywhere.

Zhao Pusheng retreated while fighting, organizing soldiers to resist, but until the end, he only gathered less than 10,000 troops.

In the first battle alone, the Hanyang army suffered 10,000 casualties.

"Lin Ziyi's cavalry, why is it so powerful!" Zhao Pusheng sighed helplessly.

How would he know that the cavalry battalion cavalry of today has all advanced to the fourth order.

Moreover, the war horses of each cavalry were selected by the Mulan Military Horse Farm, and the most stubborn war horses were the same.

Well equipped, well mounted!

The combat effectiveness is not weaker than the elite cavalry of the Jin Kingdom of the same rank.

Zhao Pusheng was defeated and could only choose to retreat to Hanyang City.

Who knows, Huang Zu had already led the first battalion of the water division to go around behind him, and fought a beautiful ambush battle on the way to retreat with Zhao Pusheng's army.

Zhao Pusheng lost another 2,000 people, and fled back to Hanyang City in a hurry with a crippled team of less than 8,000 people.

Yuwen Chengdu led the cavalry battalion to chase to the foot of Hanyang City, and seeing that Zhao Pusheng could not hold out, he decisively gave up the siege, but turned south and went straight to Shazhouba.

"What! Zhao Pusheng was defeated and retreated to Hanyang City! ”

"Lin Yuan's cavalry battalion, coming straight to Shazhou Dam!"

After Chen Youliang learned the news, he was so angry that his head was smoking.

"Didn't you say that Zhao Pusheng is a good general with both civil and military skills? How could it be so badly defeated! ”

Stared at by Chen Youliang, a layer of cold sweat broke out on Wang Zuo's forehead.

"Lin Ziyi's cavalry is too strong! If I'm not mistaken, they're a fourth-order class! And he didn't know where to get a batch of stubborn war horses, and prepared gold-level equipment for them, and it was inevitable that he would be fierce in combat. ”

After listening to Wang Zuo's explanation, Chen Youliang calmed down.

"Damn Lin Ziyi, no matter how good things he went, he got them!"

"My lord, the top priority is to think of a good way to retreat from the enemy!" Zhang Dingbian interrupted Chen Youliang's complaints, and calmly analyzed: "Lin Ziyi's cavalry battalion, our sailors are on land, and they are definitely not their opponents!" ”

"What do you mean, is it to drive the fleet of sailors into Yunmengze?" Chen Youliang frowned.

"Lin Ziyi's sailor fleet is waiting outside the Shazhou Dam, he can't wait for us to fight him!"

"Lin Ziyi, this is a conspiracy, forcing our sailor to go into the water to fight a decisive battle!" Zhang Dingbian nodded, with a hint of admiration, but then his eyes were cold.

"If we stay on land, we will definitely be defeated by Lin Ziyi's cavalry battalion, but if we go into the water, it is not known who is strong and who is weak!"

"How sure are you in the decisive battle with Lin Ziyi's fleet?" Chen Youliang immediately asked.

Zhang Dingbian looked confident and said: "There is a thirty percent certainty that it can be defeated, an eighty percent certainty that the two battalions can escape completely, and a ten percent certainty that the lord can be escorted away!" ”

"Good!" A trace of fierceness flashed directly in Chen Youliang's eyes.

"Since we are thirty percent sure, then we can give it a try, even if we are defeated, we can escape calmly!"

On March 20, Chen Youliang's fleet of sailors finally sailed out of Shazhou Dam.

Lin Yuan gathered the strength of the three battalions of the water division and blocked them in the waters of the hundred islands.

The fleets of both sides opened up and engaged in a general battle.

At this time, it was spring and March, and Yun Mengze was blowing a spring breeze.

The wind was blowing from the southeast.

Lin Yuan's fleet was arranged in the south of the waters of the Hundred Islands, occupying a favorable time in advance.

And Chen Youliang's fleet was heading north from Shazhou Dam, and it was headwinding against the wind, and it was already at a disadvantage.

In addition, Chen Youliang's warships, most of which are sail powered, are even worse.

"The time has been lost, and now it is time to do it!" Chen Youliang looked at Lin Yuan's fleet and was a little panicked.

Zhang Dingbian was extremely sure, "Don't worry, my lord, I have calculated that there will be a strong wind today, but after noon, the southeast will suddenly turn to the northwest wind, blowing for three days and three nights, and a heavy freezing rain will come!" ”

Chen Youliang was stunned, a little incredulous, it's spring, how can there be a north wind?

Still, he nodded.

Because he believes in Zhang Dingbian very much.

Zhang Dingbian knows astronomy and geography, and can also do a little arithmetic, he said that if the direction of the wind changes, it will definitely change.

Even Wang Zuo, a strategist on the side, looked at Zhang Dingbian in shock.

Zhang Dingbian didn't have the slightest smugness, and the whole person looked extremely calm.

What he had described to Chen Youliang before was that there was a thirty percent chance of defeating Lin Yuan's fleet, which was a sudden change in the direction of the wind.

"Order the first battalion, arrange a defensive formation, every three hulls are a unit, in the shape of a zigzag, once the enemy warship attacks our formation, remember not to go out without authorization, everyone is only responsible for holding on, waiting for the battle order!"

"Yes!"

Under the command of Zhang Dingbian, the fleet of the first battalion of Chen Youliang's sailors began to put up a defensive formation, and the formation was neat.

Lin Yuan stood three miles away and saw the change in their formation.

This formation is completely different from the last time.

Zhang Dingbian adopted the three-talent formation of infantry combat, and 1 fighting ship and 2 ships were combined as a combat unit, and the three warships were connected by iron cables to form a mobile fortress on the water.

If Lin Yuan wants to send red dragon boats and eagle boats to attack deeply, he may bring about his own destruction.

Zhang Dingbian's three-ship fortress can be condescending, so that the red dragon boat and the eagle boat suffered heavy casualties.

Moreover, in order to prevent his own formation from being disrupted again, Zhang Dingbian also strictly ordered all warships not to act without authorization.

I have to say that Zhang Dingbian is really a handsome talent.

In just half a month, it has directly broken the advantages of Lin Yuan's red dragon boat and eagle boat.