Cao Ren commanded the army and soon arrived at Xiakou.

Facts have proved that without listening to Xu Shu's arrangement, Cao Ren's army is still progressing very smoothly.

Liu Beijun didn't dare to face the battle at all, everyone cowered in the small city of Xiakou, which was a big palm, and Cao Ren easily occupied the beachhead, and a large number of siege equipment were carried down one after another to prepare for the attack.

Among the generals of the Cao army, Cao Ren was the best at attacking, followed by Xiahou Yuan, and Xia Kou, who had a big palm, trembled like a kitten in front of the tiger, and could not stop the edge of Cao Jun at all.

Cao Ren was confident that he would break through this place in five days at most, completely eliminating Liu Bei, a strong enemy who had plagued him for many years.

He raised the long whip in his hand with great ambition, and said with a cruel smile:

"Liu Bei, Liu Bei, I see where you are going."

In stark contrast to the high-spirited Cao Ren, Zhang Yun, the deputy commander of the navy, is now in pain.

He knew that if he couldn't move Cao Ren, he could only secretly find the leader of the guards beside Cao Ren, and said in a flattering tone:

"Brother, this battle can't be fought."

The leader of the guards pinched his chin and said disdainfully:

"What does Zhang Dudu want to say?"

Zhang Yun swallowed his saliva and said with a wry smile:

"I said brother, Liu Bei and Liu Qi have more than 10,000 sailors under their command, and there are always 100 warships, but there are ...... on this river."

"Heh, Liu Bei knows that he will lose the battle with us on the river, so he retreats into the river, is there anything wrong with this?"

"yes." Zhang Yunxin said in his heart, "Do you know how to fight, don't you beware of the enemy's ambush when you are fighting?"

He forcibly suppressed the idea of hacking the person in front of him, and said flatteringly, "Brother, this warship is no better than a warhorse, and it can't be hidden in the city." Doesn't this show that Liu Beiding is in alliance with Jiangdong? If we were ......"

"Huh!" The guard sneered, "Zhang Dudu pushed back on the river, could it be that he really had anything to do with Liu Bei?" ”

"No, no, no!" Zhang Yun hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't dare, brother, bah, I, I'll go and discuss the siege." ”

Zhang Yun was so frightened that he fled, and the guard's face was first gloomy, but as soon as Zhang Yun left, his face instantly became gloomy.

That's right, I'll just say that there are no boats on this river, Liu Bei's gang must have formed a Jiangdong alliance, just waiting for General Cao to attack the city, and this Jiangdong naval army is afraid that it will be surrounded.

With Lao Tzu's water nature, if he is caught up, wouldn't he definitely die? Well, then the subordinates will go first and ask Prime Minister Cao Cheng to come to the rescue of you.

Zhang Yun actually didn't get much opportunity to fight when he was under Liu Biao's account, but he really said what he said this time.

Cao Ren had just called for someone to bury the pot to cook at night, preparing to cut down wood and stones to make siege equipment, when more than a hundred warships suddenly appeared on the river, rushing towards Cao's fleet from the rear.

Cao Jun also had patrol ships downstream, and when they found the enemy, they immediately used golden drums to warn Cao Ren, Cao Ren was shocked and found that there were quite a few enemies attacking, and immediately ordered everyone to board the ship. But at this time, the gate of Xiakou was wide open, and Liu Beijun had already prepared, taking advantage of Cao Ren's panic, Liu Bei took the lead and killed him from the city.

"Cao Ren!"

The enemies were very red when they saw each other, Liu Bei roared angrily, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun each waved the weapons in their hands and led a group of soldiers to launch a general attack, and the Wu army's stern also bumped into it without hesitation and strangled with Cao Ren.

As soon as Cao's sailors boarded the ship, they were immediately surrounded by Wu's fighting ships, and Wu's crossbowmen hid behind the women's wall and wooden shed to fire arrows at Cao's soldiers who had hurriedly boarded the ship.

The best weapon used in water warfare is a bow and crossbow, and Cao Jun prepared more than 5,000 large bows this time, which can not be said to be insufficiently prepared.

However, it is well known that the bow should be wound when not in use to prevent the bow from being wound for a long time and causing fatigue of the bow body.

Most of the bows of the Cao army were in the hands of the infantry on the shore, and these soldiers were impacted by Liu Bei's army, and the naval army immediately lost its backbone, and their counterattacks were sparse and lackluster, and they could not pose a threat to those strong Jiangdong naval forces at all.

Cao Ren had never commanded a water battle at all, and when he saw that these warships were crashing into each other one after another, he was a little dazed for a while, Zhang Yun had the intention to command, but he was forced to get off the ship just now in order to prove his determination to attack the city.

For a time, the command of the 30,000 people of Cao's army was out of touch, and they were attacked by Liu Bei and the Jiangdong coalition army by land and water, and there were cries and strange screams everywhere, and everyone was hoarse.

The Wu army calmly harvested the lives of the Cao army under the cover of the rain of arrows from the fighting ships, and the Wu generals Dong Xi and Chen Wu, who commanded the battle, did not expect that the Cao army, which had a superior number of numbers, would be so unbeatable, and they couldn't help but regret why the whole army did not attack.

While the two of them split the boat and went back to call for people, they waved their steel knives to join the battle formation, trying to block the retreat of Cao's army.

Just when Cao Ren was almost in despair, he was stunned to find that in the panic Cao army, there were still many ships that could basically keep the formation intact, and after a moment of panic, those Cao soldiers actually organized themselves and began to counterattack the Wu army with bows and arrows in their hands.

After all, they are all from the Jingzhou Navy, and the basic combat quality of these Cao Army's Naval Army is quite good, and when they saw that someone organized a counterattack, they quickly installed their bowstrings, and fought to the death with the Wu Army driven by the instinct of survival.

Dong Xian didn't treat Cao Jun as a human being before, and his boat had already squeezed away several Cao Jun ships on the riverside at this time, trying to land and cooperate with Liu Beijun to capture Cao Ren. Unexpectedly, Cao Jun, who had no combat effectiveness before, suddenly reacted this time and surrounded the Wu army.

He felt a pang in his heart, and said in his heart that Cao Jun seemed to have already seen through our ambush, and had deliberately lured the enemy deep before, after all, they had more people and would be afraid that it would be detrimental to our army if they continued to fight.

After thinking about it again and again, Dong Xi gave up the breakthrough, and commanded the fleet that had been close to the shore to crash into the surrounding Cao army warships and slowly retreated, Cao Ren was amnesty, and quickly ran to the boat, Zhang Yun also hugged his head and ran away, everyone was afraid that the Wu army would be killed, and they didn't care about face, so they hurriedly rowed away.

In this battle, Cao's army threw down more than 2,000 people, and more than 20 large ships were also forced to abandon it, Cao Ren was distressed and afraid - if there was no army to resist, he was afraid that even if he escaped this time, he would have to lose more than half, and maybe he would not even be able to go back to Jiangling.

He hurriedly inquired and found that this was actually the commander of his own guard, Chang Diao, and couldn't help but be surprised and delighted.

"Giant eagle, you, why are you so prepared?"

Chang Diao, who is twenty-five years old this year, has a rough black face, and although he looks embarrassed, he still forcibly squeezes out a smile:

"I, when I was on the river, I thought that Liu Bei was afraid that he would collude with Jiangdong thieves, there was no boat on the riverside, and he must have hid downstream. When the general attacked the city, he was humble and prepared in advance, but he didn't expect to meet these small children. ”

"Speaking of which, the general has a good plan, otherwise we will all die here."

Cao Ren, like most of Cao's generals, didn't pay attention to Jiangdong's men and horses at all, thinking that they would definitely accept Cao Cao's invitation to jointly destroy Liu Bei, so he didn't do much defense at all. Hearing Chang Diao say this, he felt a cold sweat on his back.

"Hmph, I would have relied entirely on Zhang Dudu for this Eastern Crusade, but I didn't expect it to ...... Hehe. He glanced at Zhang Yun disdainfully, "Why didn't Governor Zhang tell the general about this?" If it weren't for the giant eagle, we would almost all die here! ”

"That's it, how did you command Dudu? Fortunately, General Cao has a good plan, otherwise we would almost die here. ”

Zhang Yun's eyes widened, looking at Chang Diao's innocent face in disbelief, he only felt that everything was burning, and he couldn't believe that there were such brazen people in this world. He killed Cao Ren and Chang Diao's horses indiscriminately in his heart, but he could only grin bitterly:

"What the general taught is that it's all the credit of the giant eagle."

Cao Ren snorted, and said in his heart that he had high hopes for Cao Cao to fight this time, but he didn't expect that the war would be beaten like this as soon as the war began, and he would definitely be ridiculed fiercely after he went back, he was really unwilling.

But he also realized that he really couldn't command the water war, and if he fought again, he would be sent to death, so he could only go back first and understand the concept of the water war first.

Well, how can you throw the pot to Zhang Yun?

Cao Ren pressed the pot and fell into deep thought.