Chapter 676, half of Jiangxia
"Father, you better take a break!" I don't know when, Huang Zhu came to Huang Zu's side.
As Huang Zu's son, Huang Zhu did not live up to Huang Zu's expectations and became one of the few powerful generals in Jiangxia, assisting Huang Zu to firmly control Jiangxia. Before Huang Zu was not there, he led the soldiers and civilians of Xiling City to defend the city, and his prestige in Jiangxia was quite high.
After Huang Zu came back, Huang Zhu was relieved at the same time, but he was also full of worries. These days, he often visited the city to kill the enemy in person, as a morale boost. At this time, Huang Jie had just driven a wave of attacking Jiangdong troops out of the city, covered in blood.
"At this time, my father can take care of rest!" Huang Zu sighed, his voice was gloomy, because the Jiangdong Army suddenly strengthened the attack, he hadn't gone down the city tower for three days, and he hadn't rested, "I'm afraid I really can't survive this time, how is the retreat arranged?" ”
"It's been done in secret, and you can break out at any time. Just, has it really come to this point? Huang Jie's words were full of unwillingness.
"Don't leave it to chance, Jiangdong Liu Feng has invested so many troops before and after, and the loss of millions of people under Xiling City is enough to show their determination. Xiangyang can't come to help, and Xiling will be broken sooner or later. Huang Zu looked at his son and said in a deep voice.
Huang Shot was silent, he may not be clear in his heart, but he was unwilling to give up the territory that he had been operating exclusively for more than ten years. If you withdraw to Anlu, you will have to look at the faces of those people in the clan.
Huang Zu also understood, so he was very resistant to escaping back to Anlu. He is the side of the Anlu Huang family, and his status is not comparable to that of the three high-ranking descendants, and in the patriarchal society, he can only rely on the main family to survive, unless one day the sect is divided. Of course, for Huang Zu, that was impossible.
Liu Biao entered Jingzhou, Nanjun chose the Cai family, and Jiangxia chose the Anlu Huang family. In Nanjun, he was helpless against the Cai family, so he chose the side branch of the Anlu Huang family, that is, Huang Zu to serve as Jiangxia Taishou, and successfully pulled Huang Zu to his side. Huang Zu knew this, but he was still very grateful to Liu Biao, because without this opportunity, he didn't know when he would come out.
As the Taishou of Jiangxia, he naturally has weight in the clan, and over the years, with the strengthening of his rule over Jiangxia, he has gradually despised the clan, which naturally caused many people in the clan to be dissatisfied. If he escapes back in embarrassment this time, I don't know how those who are jealous of him will react.
But he has no way back. The current situation is that Sun Jian and Liu Feng are rushing for time and want to break the city. If one side succeeds, it is likely to trigger a cascade of reactions that will lead to the end of the war. Between the two, Liu Biao chose the more important Wancheng, the main army and materials were concentrated in Wancheng, and Jiangxia had to resist Jiangdong's attack alone. Now, I finally can't hold it anymore.
The fighting on the city walls continued, but it suddenly became dull. After a long time, Huang Jie saluted, said goodbye and left, and went to continue to kill the enemy.
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In mid-October, Xiling City was broken, and Huang Zu left a group of people to break through with millions of the last elites, Liu Feng did not order the pursuit, but stopped, ready to rely on it to digest the newly acquired land.
The army can calmly withdraw, but the navy cannot. Before Huang Zu evacuated, he gave the soldiers of Shuizhai an order to scuttle the battleship and disband it on their own, and in the case that the navy could not be saved, he naturally did not want to cheap Jiangdong. But also because of this order, the morale of the naval army, which was originally decadent due to failure, plummeted, and just took action, it caused chaos, and Zhou Yu found an opportunity to break through the water village, and killed the naval generals left by Huang Zu back to Xiangyang (Xiling City Break), and the Jiangxia naval army was captured.
This is a group of naval forces with combat experience, and if it is subdued, it will be a huge addition to the Jiangdong naval army that has suffered heavy losses. Although the capture of Shuizhai was not enough to make up for the loss, since then, the Jiangdong Navy has won the world, and it is definitely worth it.
Xiling broke the city, Wang Ying and Zhu Huan entered the city first, Dong Xi, Xu Sheng and others fought throughout the whole process, and Zhuge Jin, Buqi and others who stayed behind in the rear to prepare made every effort to ensure the supply of materials on the front line...... A group of historical generals who have taken refuge in Liu Feng for a long time have finally advanced to the 7th rank, and there are also a group of non-historical generals who have advanced, which has greatly alleviated the shortage of high-level talents, and these are Liu Feng's biggest gains in this battle. In contrast, the loot is not worth mentioning at all, far less than the consumption.
This battle can be said to be a battle of more bullying less, Huang Zu's troops are insufficient, there is no strong civil and military under his command, and it is not surprising that he was defeated. If the main forces of Jingzhou are all there, and Liu Feng is in Sun Jian's position, he doesn't know what it will look like. Liu Feng believes that if there is a next time, he will face a large number of historical generals, as well as the strongest army in Jingzhou.
In any case, it was still ended before the Battle of Wancheng, Liu Feng relied on Xiling and began to mobilize materials to restore people's livelihood, and the Battle of Jiangxia, which lasted for half a year, ended.
The end of the battle does not mean stability, and a new test has just begun.
The perennial hostility, coupled with the previous captivity of Jiangdong, the Jiangdong army was not a good bird in the eyes of the Jiangxia people, and lost the support of the people, and Jiangdong was unstable against the territory that had occupied Jiangxia. And Huang Zu is still entrenched in Anlu to heal his injuries and recover his strength, which is a little more variable.
In addition, the county town, which was sold to players back then, has also become extremely desolate.
After the last battle of Jiangxia, Liu Feng knew that he couldn't hold the territory he occupied, so he sold several county towns he occupied to other players, also to block Liu Biao. Now, a few years later, these counties have been recaptured. This time, there was no way he could let go.
However, the players all know Liu Feng's ambitions, and know that he will fight again sooner or later, and the players who bought the city back then did not think about any development at all, and Liu Biao basically didn't care about these counties, so he tried his best to squeeze the people in the territory, resulting in the withering of people's livelihood. When Liu Biao called, those players who had already made enough capital wisely chose to let go, leaving Liu Feng with a mess.
What's more, the county seat purchased by Yunshui City back then began to secretly transfer the population before the outbreak of the war, and when Liu Feng's army arrived, the entire county became a deserted land, and it was unknown when it would have to develop again.
In the past, it was Liu Feng who captured the population from other places to enrich Jiangdong, and this was the first time he suffered such a loss. But Yunshui City is far away in Jiangling, and Liu Feng doesn't want to provoke Liu Biao's fragile nerves at this time, so he can only give up, and keep this loss in mind for the time being, waiting for the future.
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In mid-November, the belated snow finally began to fall, and Liu Feng left Zhu Huan as the Jiangxia Taishou, continued to govern Xiling, guarded the newly acquired half of Jiangxia, and then returned to Wu County. On the way, Zhou Yu's naval army stopped at Chaisang and continued to train troops based on Poyang Lake.
The Battle of Jiangxia is over, but the effects have only just begun.