… It is the backbone of Xuchang City's poetry capital. Only then did the Han have it, but the people in the city also helped the two of them openly or secretly, after all, Kong Rong's reputation was not bad, and he was inexplicably wiped out, and the people felt that Cao Cao was too cruel. If they try to stop them, they can't do it, but if they do a small favor, they can.

Cao Cao only learned about this matter later, but Cao Cao didn't care too much about these little things, and his heart had shifted to preparing for war.

And at this time. Guan Yu and Xu Shu, who followed Cao Cao to Linzi, were discussing in a whisper. Guan Yu's eyes were a little puzzled, and he asked Xu Shu: "Yuan Zhi, what do you think of Chengxiang?" When Kong Shaofu was the minister of Beihai, he went to save him with his eldest brother. He is considered a good official, and the people of Beihai praise him, but he ended up being beheaded all over the house, like,"

When Xu Shu heard this, he shook his head and said, "Prince, you think that between the lord and the prime minister. Which of them is right and who is wrong? ”

When Guan Yu heard this, he frowned and said, "The eldest brother is for the Han family, and the prime minister is also for the Han family." Listen to Big Brother. I think that the eldest brother is right, but listening to Chengxiang's words today, I also feel reasonable.

Before Guan Yu finished speaking, Xu Shu asked: "What do you think is going on between them and Zhang Xiu?" ”

When Xu Shu read the word "Zhang Xiu", Guan Yu unconsciously clenched his fists and said hatefully: "Yuan Zhi, what are you doing with this person?" ”

Xu Shu shook his head and said, "To be honest, before joining the lord, I had been to Zhang Xiuzhi's experience. The people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and their lives were as rich as those of the rest of the states. Zhang Xiu does not have the name of righteousness, but he is the heart of the people. Regardless of whether the lord and the minister are Zhang Xiu, there is no one right or wrong between them, but everyone's beliefs are different. The lord is a descendant of the Han Emperor. Reviving the Han family was something he had to do. Chengxiang is more contradictory, he wants to be a Hanchen, but he knows that his descendants will not let the Han family continue, this is not only known by Chengxiang, but also by the lord. Therefore, the two of them are friends at one time and enemies at the same time. And the means of inheriting the prime minister are diametrically opposed to the methods of the lord, so the prince is confused. ”

When Guan Yu heard this, he sighed lightly and said, "It's a pity that Kong Shaofu is such a loyal and upright person."

Xu Shu nodded and said, "It's just the deceased, the prince should mourn." Guan Yu heard it and nodded, but he didn't continue to ask Zhang Xiu about it.

Seeing this, Xu Shu secretly shook his head and thought, "Junhou, you are still too arrogant. The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent. Invincible. You see Zhang Xiu as an opponent, but you don't know him. "Come to think of it. Xu Shu himself shook his head, and thought to himself: "What's the use of understanding, even I can't find his weakness until now, and the only way to deal with him is to suppress him by force." I'm afraid the prince would have known about this. Thinking of this, Xu Shu stopped thinking.

Cao Cao's side set out to move the capital, and Zhang Xiu's army had already entered the mountains of Yuzhang County. Zhang Xiu discussed with Pang Tong, Fa Zheng, Li Ru and others before the war. The breakthrough point of this battle was to take the city of Chaisang in Yuzhang County before Sun Xiaojian's army could return to defense.

The seat of Yuzhang County is actually in the central Nanchang City, and Chaisang is on the Yangtze River in the northernmost part of Yuzhang County, and across the river is Lujiang County. As far as Zhang Xiu's route to the army is concerned, Chaisang City is more important than Nanchang City. As long as the city of Chaisang is taken, the army can return to attack the Jiangdong army on the south bank of the Yangtze River opposite Xiakou.

This place is the red cliff where the Jiangdong Army and the Cao Army fought at the beginning. As long as this place is taken, if the Jiangdong Army that has crossed the north bank of the Yangtze River wants to return south, it must cross the river from a place that Zhang Xiu did not attack in the east. In this way, there are naturally good and bad, and the advantage is to minimize the risk that the grain road may be cut off, and Zhang Xiu's army can advance eastward step by step. However, the disadvantage is that a large number of Jiangdong soldiers will be concentrated in the important towns in the east, and if they want to fight it, they are afraid that every battle will be a tough battle.

In fact, before the start of the war, Zhang Xiu discussed other offensive routes with Pang Tong, Fa Zheng, Li Ru and others. For example, the army that directly attacked Huiji County from the south was the main force, or took advantage of the fact that the Jiangdong army did not return, and directly attacked the east, advancing quickly, and so on. But after calculation, these strategies are flawed, and Jiangdong will have a chance to counterattack. And Jiangdong's counterattack is based on Jiangdong's powerful naval army and its commander Zhou Yu.

Although there are many civil and military forces in Jiangdong, it is Zhou Yu who really makes Zhang Xiu feel threatened. Historical experience tells Zhang Xiu that you must not be lucky when you fight against these wise men, as long as you have a fluke heart. Then defeat is not far away.

Therefore, Zhang Xiu still decided to use the dignified army to attack step by step, although there were many losses, but to be honest, Zhang Xiu could afford this kind of loss. And although the degree is slow, as long as Jiangdong is taken down, all losses become valuable.

In a dense forest outside Nanchang City, Wei Yan looked at the defenders on the city in the distance, and after looking at it for a while, he came to Zhang Xiu's side in the dense forest, and arched his hand and said: "General, there are not many defenders in the city. In addition to the banner of Wu Hou planted in the city, there are no other flags. There should be no generals stationed in the city. ”

Zhang Xiu listened, nodded and shouted, "Without further ado." Zhang Quan, Ruhe Wang Ping, Zhang Su, Tai Shixiang, Ma Qiuyin, and the Flying Army, attack the city tonight, and be sure to capture Nanchang City! ”

Zhang Quan and several people heard it, and responded in unison: "No"

After nightfall, Zhang Quan took the Yuehua halberd and led the two flying armies of Wudang and Wuqian to quietly kill directly from the dense forest. Wudang, Wuxian and the first two flying armies are wearing rattan armor. The exterior is covered with a wet leather armor for protection. When Zhang Quan led the two flying troops to the city of Nanchang, he beckoned and shouted softly: "Do it!" ”

After finishing speaking, Zhang Quan untied the flying hook on his waist. Throw it vigorously into the city, and climb up the city along the hook. The barbarians of the two flying armies also followed suit, throwing the flying hook into the city and then pulling the flying hook to climb the city.

To Zhang Quan's surprise, those barbarians were extremely nimble, although they started to climb the city later than Zhang Quan. However, he ascended to the city earlier than Zhang Quan. These are just ordinary barbarians, and they have such sharp skills, Zhang Quan began to secretly admire his father. The barbarian troops were equipped with these flying hooks. Plus the invulnerable rattan armor is definitely a weapon for attacking the city!

Zhang Quan saw that he was already behind those barbarians, so he immediately pressed his thoughts and climbed up to the city. Just got to town. Now the torches at the head of the city have been lit, and the barbarians of the two flying armies have passed through Changsha City to fight, and they are no longer too afraid of fire. is constantly rushing forward to fight, with the invulnerability of rattan armor, although these barbarians are not strong in cooperation, but they are engaged in those Jiangdong soldiers

Zhang Quan saw that the battle situation above the city had been controlled by his own side, so he immediately looked for the stone ladder behind the city, and led dozens of barbarians to rush towards the city.

Zhang Quan charged ahead, Yuehua halberd danced wildly, where were those Jiangdong military vehicles Zhang Quan's opponent. Every time Zhang Quan took a step forward, Yuehua Halberd had already taken the lives of several people.

Before long, Zhang Quan had already killed at the gate of the city. However, Zhang Quan saw that there was already a fight at the city gate.

I heard one person laugh and say, "Boss, why are you so late?" Isn't it slow to climb the city! ”

Listening to the voice, Zhang Quan already knew that it was Ma Qiu, so he responded: "Bastard!" What if you're fast, kid. It's not that the gates haven't been opened! ”

Ma Qiu heard this, laughed and replied, "I'm just waiting for you, boss, sons, open the city gate!" ”

"Crunch"

A tooth-sour voice came, but the west gate of Nanchang City was opened by Ma Qiu.

Zhang Xiu, who was outside the city, had been paying attention to the situation in Nanchang City, and saw that the city gate had been opened, so he danced with a golden gun. shouted: "Kill! Zhang Xiu gave an order, and the 20,000 Pofeng battalion and the other 30,000 Yizhou Corps immediately followed Zhang Xiu into the city.

There was a battalion of Breakers who rushed into the city to join the warband, and the situation was completely controlled. In less than half an hour, the entire Nanchang City has been controlled by Zhang Xiu's army.

At this time, Nanchang City was too guarded in the mansion, and all the people under Zhang Xiuzhi were listed.

Fa Zheng was the first to wonder: "Nanchang is the seat of Yuzhang County, and it is also the outpost of Jingzhou to defend Jingzhou. Even if Sun Jian led the army to the north and did not know that Liu Bei had been destroyed, it would be impossible for this place to be undefended. Lord. I'm afraid of fraud! ”

Ma Qiu heard it, but said: "Sir, you can't help but be a little suspicious, although we are attacking the city, we have also been fighting for a while, and although there are not many defenders, the resistance is also very fierce, there can be no deception." ”

Zhang Xiu touched her chin and muttered, "Fraud? ”

While talking, he was thinking about the topography of Nanchang City. The location of this Nanchang city is extremely superior, the west is the direction of Zhang Xiu's army attack is the mountain, and the east is the river, there are ten lakes and one river around the whole Nanchang city, it can be said that Nanchang is a natural water city. At this time, although the scale of Nanchang City was far less than that of later generations, it was only a small city, and the amount of water inside and outside it was more than the Chang'an City deliberately built by Zhang Xiu.

Li Ru next to him smiled slightly and said: "Confucianism also thinks that Jiangdong has fraud, and its most advantageous means should be the navy." But the Jiangdong Navy didn't know that the rattan armor soldiers were not afraid of water, and if they wanted to fight on the water, they were not afraid of the Jiangdong Army. It's just that there are a lot of rivers and lakes inside and outside Nanchang City, so I don't know where the Jiangdong Navy will appear. ”

Zhang Xiu heard Li Ru's words, her eyes lit up, and she said to herself: "Peng Duze! ”

This Peng Duize is actually the Poyang Lake before Zhang Xiu crossed, of course, the scale of the current Peng Duize is much larger than the Poyang Lake in later generations. And Zhang Xiu, who has been here at the end of the Han Dynasty for so many years, naturally knows where this Peng Duze is.

Fa Zheng kept an eye on Zhang Xiu at all times, and saw that Zhang Xiu's expression was different, and hurriedly asked, "Lord, why do you think it's Peng Duze?" ”

Zhang Xiu heard Fa Zheng asking, and said with a light smile: "This Zhang Fool Ze is a place where Zhou Yu trains his navy!" ”

Li Ru and Fa Zheng heard it, and said almost at the same time: "In this way, there is definitely a Jiangdong naval army ambushed in Zhangduze!" ”

At this time, Wei Yan suddenly said in a loud voice: "General, the Jiangdong Navy is ambushed in Peng Duze, which is not a bad thing for our army. The Jiangdong Navy came to attack our army, why can't our army send troops deep into Peng Dunzai and sneak attack the Jiangdong Water Village, so that part of the Jiangdong Navy can be gone" Because Wei Yan This is the first time after the new investment in Zhang Xiu. Zhang Xiu obviously sensed that Wei Yan was a little nervous.

However, Zhang Xiu knew that in terms of leading troops to fight, Wei Yan was definitely a top general, and he was in no way inferior to Xu Huang, Zhang Liao and others. And in Zhang Xiu's opinion, in terms of tactics, Wei Yan is only afraid that it is stronger than Guan Zhang. It's just that Wei Yan has a shortcoming, that is, he is greedy for merit. However, although Wei Yan is greedy for merit, he does things safely, which sounds contradictory, but it is just a fact.

Knowing Wei Yan's temperament, Zhang Xiu smiled and said: "Wen Changxiu should be nervous, what you said is very reasonable." It's just that Zhang Duze is very big, and it is not difficult to lure out the Jiangdong Navy ambushed in Peng Duize, and I don't know who the Jiangdong leader is. ”

Fa Zheng heard it, but said: "Lord, Confucianism thinks that Wen Chang might as well give it a try." If Jiangdong does not see through it, it is naturally the best, and even if it does, the Jiangdong Navy will not be the opponent of our army when it goes ashore to fight. Even if you don't have the best of luck, you can run away. ”

After Wei Yan heard Fa Zheng's support, he was overjoyed, and said: "As long as the general gives the last general 3,000 foot soldiers, the last general will definitely destroy the Jiangdong Water Village and the warships it left here!" ”

Zhang Xiu pondered for a while, slapped the table, and said, "Okay! In this way, Wen Chang led three thousand elites forward! ”

When Wei Yan heard this, he was overjoyed and said, "No! After answering, Wei Yan turned around and ordered his troops.

After Wang Ping saw Wei Yan leaving, he said with some worry: "General, this person is newly surrendered, will it be?"

Before Wang Ping finished speaking, Zhang Quan smiled and said, "Zijun doesn't have to worry. Wei Yannai is a smart man, and now that the situation in the world is clear, the unification of the world by our army is just around the corner. Wei Yan will only fight desperately for credit, how could he defect to the enemy at this time and do such an unwise move. And Zhang Xiu also felt that Wei Yan was smart and knew that the Jiangdong Army would attack Nanchang, and there were many generals in Nanchang City, and it was impossible for him to have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions as a new recruit. So he directly asked for the order to destroy the water village of the Jiangdong Water Army, which may not be a big credit, but it can definitely make Zhang Xiu remember Wei Yan in his heart. More importantly, Zhang Xiu knew that Wei Yan wanted to take this opportunity to show his loyalty, make Zhang Xiu trust him, and let Zhang Xiu's subordinates accept him.

After listening to this, Wang Ping nodded. At this time, Zhang Xiu spoke: "Okay, although Wen Chang's plan is good, he can only strike." And since the Jiangdong Navy is ambushed in Zhangduze, the focus of our defense should be on the Water Gate! ”

Zhang Quan arched his hand at this time and said: "Father, there are many water gates in Nanchang City, with a total of six, of which there are three in the east of the city, two in the north of the city, and one in the south of the city. Only in the west of the city there is no water gate, although our army has a lot of troops, but to divide troops to guard the six water gates, the strength is a little insufficient! ”

At this time, Li Ru in the hall suddenly smiled gloomily and said: "Lord, Confucianism has a strategy, discipline so that the Jiangdong Navy will not come back!" ”

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