Zhou Yu's attack on Jiangling can be said to have been very smooth in the early stage.

After the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao fled north to Jiangling, but soon, Cao Cao left Cao Ren to guard Jiangling, Lejin to guard Xiangyang, and led his troops north to return.

After Zhou Yu purged the army, he began the Nanjun Attack War, with the purpose of taking all Nanjun and going north to advance Xiangyang.

At that time, Zhou Yu's troops were on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and before they crossed the river, they led the army to take refuge in the attack of Yuzhou.

Although the raid on Su is not a general, and there are only a few thousand people brought, but this represents the impact of Chibi after the First World War, and even the generals in Yizhou have come to defect, so how much determination can the Cao Ren defenders in Nanjun have left? !

This is the first news that makes Zhou Yu feel good.

The second good news is that Zhou Yu sent Gan Ning across the river to capture Yiling, but Cao Ren did not arrange many soldiers to defend Yiling, so that Gan Ning easily attacked Yiling.

Then came the third piece of good news.

Cao Ren was furious when he learned of the loss of Yiling, and sent 5,000 men to attack Gan Ning in Yiling.

At that time, because Zhou Yu had few soldiers, the generals under his account thought that it was not suitable to divide the troops, so he gave up Yiling if he couldn't do it.

Only Lu Meng suggested that Ling Tong should be in charge of the village, and Zhou Yu would go to the rescue in person.

Zhou Yu immediately adopted Lü Meng's suggestion, personally led the army to rescue Gan Ning, broke Cao Ren's 5,000 soldiers under Yiling City, blocked the road with firewood on the retreat of Cao's army, and harvested more than 300 horses.

Although it is a little less, for Jiangdong, three hundred war horses are enough, which is enough to form a cavalry force directly under Sun Quan.

It can be said that the succession of good news made Zhou Yu believe that Cao Ren in Jiangling City was just a mediocre person, and Jiangling City would be obtained by him sooner or later.

Zhou Yuzhi proudly led his army across the Yangtze River and set off towards Jiangling.

Then Zhou Yu was taught by Cao Ren to be a man.

At that time, Zhou Yu sent thousands of forward troops to approach Jiangling City, while Cao Ren sent Niu Jin to lead a few hundred newly recruited people to counterattack. As a result, Niu Jin was surrounded by the Jiangdong army.

Seriously, I can't figure out what Cao Ren's brain circuit thinks, and letting a few hundred newly recruited soldiers attack a forward unit of several thousand people will be sent to death no matter how you look at it.

Zhou Yu originally thought so, but the next development made Zhou Yu's eyes fall to the ground.

Even Chen Jiao persuaded Cao Ren, if you really can't do it, give up Niu Jin, this siege is like an iron bucket, and Zhou Yu probably wants to send troops to rescue us in the city, so that we can come to a siege to help.

As a result, Cao Ren didn't listen, and after saying a lot of high-sounding words, he only led dozens of his own soldiers to go out of the city to save Niu Jin.

When Zhou Yu saw this, he doubted whether Cao Ren's IQ was only in single digits, but later, he doubted whether the force value and command ability of his soldiers were only in single digits.

The encirclement of thousands of people forced Cao Ren to lead dozens of cavalry to retreat more than a hundred steps.

That's not all, Cao Ren then led the army to rush into the encirclement, first rescued Niu Jin, and found that Niu Jin's soldiers were surrounded, and then killed the foot soldiers who saved Niu Jin, and finally led everyone to fight out of the encirclement and returned to Jiangling City safely.

Zhou Yu was so angry that he almost crushed his teeth.

Even if the opponent is cavalry, the impact is strong, and the number of troops is seriously unequal.

5,000 people against less than 400 people, how did this group of generals under his command command, and did his own soldiers all make mud? !

This is even more embarrassing than when he was in the city of Exian, Zhang Xi also used a stratagem to attack the west, this time Cao Ren didn't use any stratagem with you at all, he directly relied on the combat power and command ability of the soldiers to crush you.

It's not that Zhou Yu doesn't know that the Jiangdong Army's land combat level is not good, but he has been trained according to the military law given by Zhang Xi, why is it still so bad? !

Zhou Yu didn't believe in evil, he personally commanded and began to arrange the offensive and defensive battles of Jiangling.

But Zhou Yu found that it seemed that he had no way to take Cao Ren.

Cao Ren set up a walled city in the southwest and southeast corners of Jiangling City, and sent his generals Niu Jin and Cao Yong to guard one wall, while he himself guarded Jiangling City.

If Zhou Yu directly attacked Jiangling, the two wings would be threatened by Niu Jin and Cao Yong, and if Niu Jin or Cao Yong were attacked, Cao Ren in Jiangling City would also lead cavalry to the rescue.

Zhou Yu had a little headache.

It's not a headache for these camps that support each other, attacking the city, it's normal to build camps outside, and Zhou Yu won't have no way to take these camps.

What really gave Zhou Yu a headache was Cao Ren's cavalry.

The restraint of the cavalry on the infantry was too obvious, and if he didn't think of a way to deal with these cavalry, Zhou Yu would not be able to uproot the camp and get close to Jiangling City.

And in this case, Liu Bei led the army to support Zhou Yu.

Now that the two sides are coalition forces, even if Zhou Yu has the intention to consume Liu Bei's strength, but in terms of military intelligence, Zhou Yu will not say that half hides and half hides, so that in the follow-up fight, Zhou Yu is the one who loses.

Therefore, Zhou Yu told Liu Bei about the dilemma he was facing now, and asked Zhang Xi by the way - is the art of war you gave right, why has the Jiangdong Army trained according to the art of war for so long, and the land war is still so weak? !

Zhang Xi that depressed. Blame me for this?!

Even if I didn't give you the Mandarin Duck Formation, but those training methods to train the willpower and cooperation ability of the soldiers are completely fine, God knows how you Jiangdong practiced?!

But Zhang Xi is also very curious, even if the Jiangdong Army is rubbish, it will not be rushed to this extent by dozens of cavalry, the newly recruited soldiers can be understood, these are all veterans who have just finished the Battle of Chibi, what the hell is going on?!

Not to mention that Zhang Xi is curious, even Liu Bei is also curious, what is going on with this Jiangdong Army?!

Then Liu Bei proposed to go to the front of the battle to watch the Jiangdong army attack the city, Zhou Yu thought for a while and couldn't object, so he had to order the soldiers to launch a tentative attack, and he took Liu Bei and others to the heights to watch.

Ascending to the heights and looking into the distance, taking the situation of the two armies into his eyes, Zhou Yu explained on the side.

"The city of Jiangling is strong, the soldiers are good and the food is sufficient, and two villages are set up outside the city, and they are fighting each other. A village was attacked, and every village and city were sent to rescue, which was very difficult. Zhou Yu explained.

Liu Bei hesitated for a moment and said, "Governor, why don't you send someone to contain these two places and concentrate on attacking a village. If one of them is defeated, the horns will inevitably be broken. ”

Zhou Yu nodded and said, "What General Zuo said is very true, but alas!! ”

Zhou Yu didn't continue, but pointed to the battlefield, signaling everyone to take a look first.

At this time, in the middle of the battlefield, the Jiangdong Army had already besieged Cao Yong's camp, and also formed a defensive formation in the direction of Jiangling City and another camp to prevent the enemy from coming to help.

But soon, the gates of Jiangling City and Niujin Camp opened, and thousands of Cao troops rushed out.

Niujin Yingzhai is good to say, they are basically foot soldiers, and they have dealings with the Jiangdong army, so there is no way to go to meet Cao Yong.

And the direction of Gangneung City was uncomfortable, it was the cavalry that rushed out, or a thousand cavalry, and the leader was Cao Ren himself.

In the previous battle, Cao Ren played a fierce general's majesty, leading dozens of cavalry to kill the Jiangdong Army more than 100 steps, and now he has brought out a thousand cavalry, and the Jiangdong Army can insist on resisting the first wave of cavalry impact, which is already considered to be Zhang Xi's effective training in the art of war.

But the result is still no different, in the plain area of the foot soldiers facing the impact of the cavalry is to find death, the Jiangdong army was quickly dispersed by Cao Ren's cavalry, and Lü Meng, who led the army to attack the city, saw this situation, quickly Mingjin withdrew his troops, and slowly retreated.

Cao Ren did not pursue, but retreated after relieving Cao Yong's siege crisis and continued to hold on to Gangneung City.

After about a morning's tentative attack, Zhou Yu smiled helplessly at Liu Bei and the others.

"Several sieges of the city, all of them were damaged by these more than 1,000 cavalry, if you don't go to the cavalry, I'm afraid Jiangling will be difficult to conquer, and Nanjun will be difficult to conquer." Zhou Yu said with a helpless sigh.

At this time, Zhang Xi asked with some puzzlement, "Why don't you take it?!" For example, if you feint to attack the camp, let the army ambush outside the city, and wait for Cao Ren's cavalry to kill it, then surround and kill it?! Once the cavalry is broken, the two villages can be broken. ”

Zhou Yu glanced at Zhang Xi, wondering whether this kid was really not good enough or if he was bad and wanted to send his Jiangdong army to death.

It is true that he commanded more than 40,000 troops, and if he used Zhang Xi's method, he could indeed surround Cao Ren's more than 1,000 cavalry, but that was cavalry, cavalry that came and went like the wind, and if you want to rely on foot soldiers to besiege the cavalry, you are sure that you are not joking.

Well, even if the siege is encircled, but what kind of price will your infantry have to pay to solve this thousand cavalry?!

I am afraid that the worst result is that his own infantry has paid a heavy price, and he still can't completely leave the thousand cavalry, so that Cao Ren can fight his way out of the siege and retreat to the city.

Besides, no one knows how many cavalry there are in Jiangling City, what if Cao Ren still has a thousand cavalry?! Do you want to continue to surround it?!

Don't look back, Cao Ren's cavalry was not besieged, but his Jiangdong Army infantry lost most of it, and it was unable to attack the city.

Zhou Yu thinks that in terms of Zhang Xi's military level in Exian County, he should not be unexpected, so. This person, like that Zhuge Liang, is not a good stubble.

"That Cao Ren and Yuan Chang are quite similar, they only know how to defend the city, and this kind of trick to lure the enemy into an ambush is probably not moved by it!!" Zhou Yu looked at Zhang Xi with an unkind face, and said angrily.

This is a euphemistic rejection of Zhang Xi's suggestion, and by the way, it is ironic that Zhang Xi, like Cao Ren, just wanted to defend the city and be a turtle, so he never thought about breaking the enemy.

Zhang Xi was bored, and he also knew that his little caution had made Zhou Yu see through it, so he immediately lowered his head and stopped talking.

Zhou Yu didn't give Zhang Xi a good look, but when he turned his head to face Liu Bei, he greeted him with a smile and said, "Xuande Gong has not only led strong reinforcements here, but also observed the reality of Cao's army, why not let the general lead the army to attack the city tomorrow, and let me wait for the people of Jiangdong to appreciate the demeanor of Xuande Gong?!" ”

This is quite nice, and Liu Bei didn't think that coming over was just shouting as a cheerleader, and immediately agreed.

It's just that at this time, Xu Shu, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke up and said, "The two families have the righteousness of the alliance, and it is only natural for our army to attack the city, our army has few soldiers, but I don't know if the governor can allocate thousands of troops and horses to help each other to fulfill the feelings of the alliance?!" ”

Zhou Yu thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "This is what it should mean." Tomorrow, I will send someone to help, and I wish Xuande Gongqi a victory!! ”

(End of chapter)