It's really not that Zhang Xi is timid, the main thing is that he can't imagine that if his adjustment is a little slower, then now Jiangdong's naval army may have driven straight down and approached Xiling.

Before Zhang Xi came, Exian County was really lax in armaments, the garrison facilities along the river were abandoned, and the navy army was already lazy to practice as soon as January, let alone go out to patrol.

It was also Zhang Xi who made adjustments after coming to Exian County this time, so that the navy sent an inspection and inventory of the fast boat, which discovered the army entering Jiangdong.

It's really funny to say, the place where the Exian Navy found the Jiangdong Army was actually past the Pheasant Zhang Xi even suspected that if he didn't come to Exian quickly, but stayed in the Pheasant for a few more days, he would have been captured by the Jiangdong Army on the spot.

And the situation of the navy discovering the Jiangdong army is also very strange.

The Jiangdong Army did not use its own banner, but let a small group of troops disguise themselves as the Jiangxia Navy and try to blend into the fleet of the Jiangxia Navy who went out to practice.

At first, it was really successful, and Zhang Shuo, the deputy commander of the Jiangxia Navy, really didn't notice that there were a few more ships in his training team, until the fleet went north along the river and was about to arrive in Exian County.

Originally, he wouldn't have been exposed, because Zhang Shuo was the second-in-command of the navy, and the fleet he led came out to practice according to Zhang Xi's orders, who dared to ask.

But because Zhang Xi gave a death order, every boat patrolling the river must ask, otherwise it will be dealt with by military law.

The chief in charge of patrolling the river had to go up and go through the motions, that is, to ask Zhang Shuo, the purpose of this march, how many boats there were, and whether there were any abnormalities in this kind of formula.

Although Zhang Shuo was very impatient, he didn't want to offend Zhang Xi because of this trivial matter, so he replied casually.

I don't know whether to say that the Jiangdong Navy is bold, or that they are unlucky.

Zhang Shuo went out to practice this time, and brought a total of one Meng Chong and twelve small boats, which had an unobstructed view on the wide river.

However, the patrol army found that Zhang Shuo's fleet, Lian Mengchong brought small boats, a total of sixteen boats, three more boats.

If there is one more boat, maybe the river patrol army will not ask.

In these years, Zhang Shuo is not the only one who uses the convenience of the navy to do business for himself, so the little soldier will not have much to do.

But the problem is that there are three more.

This is a warship, not a fishing boat, and it is not the kind of small sampan that can only stand a dozen people as filmed in the TV series.

Even if it is a small boat in the army, three can fit two or three hundred people. There are three more boats, obviously it can't be what Zhang Shuo used to do business.

After the patrol navy found the problem, he immediately reported to Zhang Shuo, and Zhang Shuo immediately raised his vigilance.

Because Zhang Xi came to Exian County, and he was the first to use chicken feathers as an arrow to rectify the water army, Zhang Shuo discussed it with his boss Chen and decided to suspend the business and wait for Zhang Xi to leave.

So this time Zhang Shuo came out to train the troops, and he really didn't have any private work, saying that there are as many boats as there are boats.

Suddenly there were three more ships, and this thing didn't seem normal no matter how you looked at it.

Zhang Shuo has not yet reached the time when he is old and confused, and it may not be accurate to say how many people he has brought out, but it is impossible for him not to know how many ships he has brought out.

As soon as he heard the report of the water army patrolling the river, he immediately reacted - the water army changed formation.

As long as you don't follow the change of formation, there will definitely be an extra ship, and as for whether it is the enemy or some other person, you can see at a glance.

And soon, the three warships that followed the tail were revealed, and Zhang Shuo was proud of his wisdom, but he found that the three ships rushed towards his Meng Chong without saying a word.

Because Zhang Shuo had just ordered a change of formation, the surrounding boats had moved their positions, losing protection for Zhang Shuo's Mengchong warship, and it was not easy to turn around for a while.

Therefore, the three small boats approached the big ship very quickly, and threw out their hooks to hook the edge of the big ship.

Obviously, this is to land on Mengchong and kill Zhang Shuo.

At this time, Zhang Shuo still did not panic.

These three small boats could not hold many people in total, and all three ships were surrounded by his soldiers, as long as the soldiers of the other small boats turned their bows, the soldiers on these three ships were waiting for death.

As for his personal safety, Zhang Shuo is not in a hurry, he is on the big ship of Mengchong, surrounded by soldiers and personal soldiers, and even if the boat uses a hook to hook the edge of the boat, how many soldiers can climb up? !

The advantages of both sides are on Zhang Shuo's side, Zhang Shuo is really not in a hurry, and even feels that he can't say that he can get a credit back this time.

But what Zhang Shuo didn't expect was that the first person to climb onto the Mengchong battleship was called Ling Tong, and he didn't talk about martial arts and shoot arrows when he got on the boat

Then Zhang Shuo sent it, and was shot in the face by Ling Tongyi's arrow, and fell to the ground and died on the spot.

But Ling Tong didn't get anything good, because he exposed his whereabouts in advance, which caused the vigilance of the Jiangxia Navy on the river, and after a while, Chen in the Jiangxia Water Village had already led troops out to rescue.

In the end, Ling Tong had to make a decisive decision, retreated with the remaining soldiers of the three small boats, and finally retreated under the response of the Jiangdong Naval Army.

It's just this time, thirteen ships against three, and one of them is a big ship of Meng Chong, so he didn't take the enemy, and he also folded his own deputy commander Chen Zhi's face was not to say, Zhang Xi was also quite angry.

And Zhang Xi is really anxious now.

The current Yi County and E County, although they face each other by the river, they can watch and help each other, but there are really not many real soldiers in the county, so Zhang Xi has been sent out to take over the defense of the city along the river.

And the reinforcements from Xiling haven't come yet, but the Jiangdong Navy has come. If Jiangdong defeated the Jiangxia Naval Army, then Zhang Xi really didn't have the troops to defend the city.

Now all hopes are pinned on Chen Zuo's army, but as a result, Chen Zuo's deputy general Zhang Shuo is gone.

Zhang Xi really doesn't understand the things in the water army, and because he doesn't understand, he really doesn't know the bottom of his heart.

In addition to telling Chen not to take the enemy lightly, Zhang Xi still gave Chen the right to act cheaply. Zhang Xi was well aware of the disadvantages of the layman guiding the insider, so he didn't want to cause trouble for Chen to command the navy.

After arranging the affairs of the navy, Zhang Xi hurriedly repaired two letters and sent his guards to Xiling again.

This time not only reported the battle situation to Liu Qi, Zhang Xi also wrote a letter to Chen Zhi privately, asking him to find a way to send reinforcements quickly and survive this time.

Zhang Xi didn't know exactly what was going on in Xiling, but he knew very well that in a few days, the Jiangdong Navy would be on a big attack.

There are really not many strategies that can be used in water warfare, and once the sneak attack is seen through, then what can be done is to attack head-on.

Others don't know, Zhang Xi still knows, his opponent this time is Jiangdong Zhoulang.

Although he was hacked by Luo Guanzhong quite powerful, even if Luo Guanzhong came in person today, he had to admit that in terms of commanding the navy, this Jiangdong Zhoulang is definitely one of the top three famous generals in the world.

Anyway, Zhang Xi didn't think that he could win against Zhou Yu in the water army, and he didn't think that the commander of the water army named Chen Qi could do it.

But. Zhang Xi was shocked.

Three days later, Zhou Yu personally led a large army of sailors up the river, preparing to attack Exian.

As for Chen Qi, he sent two Mengchong warships and nearly 100 small boats, relying on the Exian Naval Army Water Village, to face the Jiangdong Naval Army head-on.

The one-sided situation that Zhang Xi thought did not appear at all, and Chen and the naval warships commanded by Zhou Yu fought back and forth on the river, which was quite stalemate.

Chen used the two Mengchong warships as the main body, echoing left and right, plus the small boat groups around Mengchong, forming a defensive formation like a hedgehog, no matter which direction the Jiangdong naval army attacked from, Chen could react in time and repel the Jiangdong warships.

Zhang Xi wondered at the time, could it be that this Chen was a genius who was not weaker than Zhou Yu in command of the navy, but he was buried because he died early? !

And Zhou Yu's side is a little uncomfortable.

It was not only the hedgehog formation formed by Chen Zhuo's two Mengchong boats that was uncomfortable, but also the rain of arrows shot from the defensive castles on both sides of the river, and the stones thrown from the bed crossbows.

Often, Zhou Yu's side had just launched an attack, and the fleet had to experience a rain of arrows and stones first, and after rushing out of this rain of arrows and stones, the losses of both ships and soldiers were already quite large, so there was nothing to do with Chen's hedgehog array.

Zhou Yu is really a headache, such a defensive system, he has experienced it for the third time in a row, and every time it is very uncomfortable.

Although the enemy army was always defeated in the end, the results were always unsatisfactory, and even if they were defeated, they were unable to pursue and expand the results, and finally had to grab some money and food to retreat.

This time, Zhou Yu originally heard that Huang Zu had been transferred out of Jiangxia, and the new Jiangxia Taishou was a son-in-law, so he thought that this time it would be a little smoother than the previous marches, but he didn't expect it to be like this.

And Zhang Xi was on the upper floor of Exian County, and slowly understood that this was not how capable Chen was doing, but that the defensive measures left by Huang Zu were really useful.

But unfortunately, Huang Zu's original defense system had a total of three layers, and now only one layer is in play.

The Jiangxia Naval Army, which was supposed to take the initiative to attack, can now only rely on Shuizhai as a hedgehog.

The soldiers in the city, who were supposed to rely on the city to defend it, were sent out by Zhang Xi to prepare the defense line of the city along the river.

It was at this level, under Zhang Xi's hurry, that he finally caught up with this battle in a hurry, and cooperated with the Jiangxia Navy to temporarily block the attack of the Jiangdong Navy Army.

But Zhang Xi is now a little worried that if the arrows and stones in those castles run out, without the assistance of the defense line along the river, Chen will still be able to command the naval army and hold the defense line.

And once Chen failed, Zhou Yu defeated the Jiangxia naval army, and the troops were under the city of E, what should he Zhang Xi do to stop Zhou Yu's attack.

In addition to the fifty guards he brought with him, there were only thirty or forty old and weak soldiers and ten county officials left to use.

You can't learn from Zhuge Liang, what kind of empty city tricks are playing, right?!

(End of chapter)