Sima Yi really had no choice but to pin his hopes on Zhou Yu.

But now, after Zhou Yu occupied the four southeastern counties of Jiangling County, after being stationed in Huarong County, he stopped his troops.

It's really not that there is anything wrong with Zhou Yu's ability, there is a reason for this.

Soochow's attack on Jingzhou this time was divided into three routes and marched at the same time.

Although the overall commander is Zhou Yu, each soldier has an actual commander, and Zhou Yu is only responsible for coordinating the overall situation.

In terms of Jiangxia Naval Army, the main general is Zhang Zhao's second son Zhang Cheng, who is the only person in Zhang Zhao's family who is engaged in military positions, and his own ability is also okay, plus his father's aura, he is not bad in the army.

This time, Zhang Cheng was ordered by Zhou Yu to lead 20,000 Jiangxia naval troops to attack Hanjindu, preparing to go ashore at Hanjindu, cutting off the supply route from Xiangyang to Jiangling, and replicating the tactics of Guan Yu in the north of the road.

But the problem is that Zhang Cheng is not Guan Yu in the end, his ability is 108,000 miles behind, and he can't do the same thing as Guan Yu at all.

Even, when Xiangyang's Wenpin reacted, leaving Ma Liang and Xi Zhen to guard Xiangyang, he personally led 20,000 Xiangyang sailors south along the Han River, and after fighting for Hanjindu, Zhang Cheng had to withdraw his troops to guard Hanjindu.

The two sides were at a stalemate in Hanjindu for a while.

In terms of ability, Zhang Cheng is of course inferior to the old general Jingxiang, but in terms of the combat power of the water army, the Xiangyang water army is not as good as the Jiangxia water army trained by Zhou Yu, and the stalemate between the two sides is also reasonable.

The Lukou Navy on the South Road, under the leadership of Zhu Ran, began to march in the direction of the public security, and at the same time, Lu Dai, the Taishou of Wuling County, also sent troops to attack Shibao in Lingyang, and the battle on the South Road around the public security city also started almost at the same time.

However, the advance of the Eastern Wu Army was also not smooth.

In terms of the navy, the 20,000 Lukou naval army led by Zhu Ran could not take any advantage when facing the 10,000 Jiangling naval army.

It was still the turtle formation left by Zhang Xi that played a key role.

Until now, Zhu Ran had not thought of a way to break this turtle formation.

At the beginning, Zhu Ran was only facing a 7,000 sailors, two Meng Chong throwing cars and more than 80 walking cars, he didn't have any way, and now Zhu Ran had to face a turtle formation composed of 10,000 sailors, five Meng Chong throwing vehicles and more than 120 walking cars. He couldn't help it.

Moreover, this time, Zhu Ran even felt that in terms of the command of the navy, the Jiangling navy fought more difficult than last time.

The last time Zhu Ran attacked the Jiangling Naval Army, the Jiangling Naval Army could only defend passively, and only when he took the initiative to attack, the Jiangling Naval Army could have the effect of blocking. It's really just a turtle formation.

But this time, Zhu Ran found that in addition to defense, the Jiangling Navy would also take the initiative to send out a Ke to engage in battle, and lead the Dongwu Navy to take the initiative to lead the throwing key area of Mengchong's cart, and the cooperation between them was quite tacit.

This made Zhu Ran depressed, why is that Zhang Yuanchang not in Jiangling, there are still capable people in the Jiangling Water Army? !

In fact, he is not a capable person, but two juniors, one is called Wen Dai and the other is Zhong Limu.

Wen Dai's ability is indeed inferior to Wen Ping, and his talent for water warfare is also limited, but he still knows the basic water fighting skills.

As for Zhong Limu, although he is young, he is from a navy family, and he has received knowledge of the navy since he was a child, and now he has the opportunity to fight in actual combat, and with Zhong Limu's talent, he has grown very fast.

Of course, you have to really lead the fleet and fight Zhu Ran head-on, these two are not Zhu Ran's opponents now.

But relying on the turtle formation and carrying out some effective counterattacks, these two abilities can still be done.

As long as these two people don't choose to take the initiative to attack and give up the defensive advantage of the turtle formation to confront Zhu Ran head-on, Zhu Ran really can't approach the Public Security City from the waterway for a while.

As for the land route, I have to say that Lu Dai's ability is much stronger than Lu Yi.

Anyway, he is also a person who can be a ten-hall Yama in later generations, although his reputation in history is not obvious, but his ability is really not bad.

Under Lu Dai's strong attack, Shi Bao was trapped in Lingyang City, and it was quite difficult to defend.

After all, Shi Bao only had 5,000 people guarding Ling Yang, and Lu Dai, he had 10,000 people.

Moreover, for Shi Bao, he must guard Ling Yang, but for Lu Dai, he can actually choose to bypass Ling Yang and directly attack the public security.

After discovering that Shi Bud was not easy to mess with, and it was difficult to conquer Lingyang for a while, Lu Dai began to try to temporarily besiege Lingyang, and then divided his troops, bypassed Lingyang, and marched to the public security.

This method is not very clever, so Shi Bud noticed it at the first time.

But Shi Bao is also under great pressure now, and he can't spare his forces to intercept Lu Dai's partial division, so Shi Bao seriously considered whether to temporarily evacuate Lingyang, retreat to the public security, join forces with Li Qiu, and continue to defend.

But in the end, after his own research and judgment, Shi Bao felt that Lu Dai's bias might not be able to shake Li Qiu's defense, on the contrary, once he abandoned Lingyang, it was equivalent to taking the initiative to give up the barrier in front of the public security.

At that point, you can only fall into a situation of being passively beaten.

Therefore, Shi Bao decided to continue to stick to Lingyang and wait for the change of opportunity.

In this regard, Lu Dai really has no good way to divide the troops to bypass Lingyang, it is just a means to attract Shibao to divide his troops to attack, and Lu Dai does not want to directly attack the public security without clearing the threat of Lingyang.

After all, only the opponent knows you best, and Lu Dai has now discovered that this Shi Bao's ability is far more powerful than the outside world rumores, if you really let Shi Bao leave it alone in Lingyang, God knows what trouble he will make.

Last time, Lu Yi guarded Wuling, but he was careless, and let Shi Bao occupy Lingyang, resulting in him now being like a fish in his throat, which is quite uncomfortable.

Therefore, seeing that Shi Bud was not fooled, Lu Dai did not dare to be careless, so he could only pause the detour and continue to come back to besiege Lingyang. There was no progress for a while.

There is no progress on the southern and northern fronts, so the only thing that can be counted on is the middle route army that captured the four counties of Gangneung in World War I, which can pose a substantial threat to Gangneung.

But at this time, after Zhou Yu captured Huarong County, he did not move.

There is a reason for this.

When Jiangdong sent troops, it was the beginning of December, and at that time, God was really helpful.

From the end of October until the end of November, the entire Gangnam area was experiencing intermittent light rain, which looked like a warm winter.

But as soon as December began, a cold wind suddenly came from the north, causing the temperature in the Jiangnan region to plummet, and it instantly took on the appearance of a cold winter.

What made Zhou Yu even more satisfied was that although the weather became cold during this time, it did not snow because of this, but instead froze the muddy road caused by the rain some time ago.

Under this condition, even Sun Quan sighed, "God help me", and then sent troops directly.

And this is also one of the reasons why Zhou Yu can capture the four counties southeast of Jiangling in a row in half a month, although there is a reason why the Shu army took the initiative to shrink the defense, but the cooperation of the time is too appropriate.

However, just when Zhou Yu also thought that this advance might not have the hope of taking Jiangling in a war, the time came to the end of December, and the temperature actually warmed slowly, and then it began to rain again.

Is this unfortunate weather a warm winter or a cold winter this year?!

The road began to become muddy again, and Zhou Yu really didn't dare to rush into the army in this situation, and he must wait until all the ordnance, food and grass were ready before sending troops.

Otherwise, halfway through the march, the grain and grass can't keep up, and that's a big problem.

Of course, if this is just the case, Zhou Yu will be delayed for some time at most, and sooner or later he will still have to march to Yingxian.

What really made Zhou Yu stop in Huarong County was that Zhou Yu was sick.

In the case of continuous and repeated weather, warm winter for a while, severe cold for a while, and suddenly warm up for a while, Zhou Yu, who was in the army, did not bear it in the end and was infected with the wind chill.

And Zhou Yu's body is very susceptible to wind chill in winter, and once infected, it will be much more difficult to recover.

Zhou Yu himself can not care, but the problem is that when Zhou Yu is so sick that he doesn't even have the strength to go out of the camp to inspect. Sun Quan can't help but care.

As soon as Sun Quan heard that Zhou Yu was seriously ill, he immediately sent Sun Sheng to replace Zhou Yu in command of the middle army and take Zhou Yu back to Jianye to recuperate.

Here, Sun Shiwan really doesn't have any crooked thoughts, and he doesn't have the idea of depriving Zhou Yu of his military power, Sun Shiwanwan is really kind this time, he is just worried about Zhou Yu's condition.

A famous player like Zhou Yu is a very important symbol in any country, and it is better not to have accidents if there are no accidents.

A famous general like Zhou Yu, as long as he lives, even if he doesn't lead the troops to fight, it will be a deterrent to other forces. After all, since the Battle of Chibi, as long as there is a battle led by Zhou Yu, the Eastern Wu army can remain undefeated.

The reason why it can't be said to be a complete victory is because of someone's drag, when Zhou Yu and someone sent troops together, Zhou Yu had great ability, and he could only guarantee that he would not be defeated, and he could not win.

Well, whoever doesn't mention it, someone in the province is embarrassed.

Anyway, someone. Uh, no, Sun Quan still cares about Zhou Yu's condition in the end, for fear that Zhou Yu will have something wrong, so he hurriedly took back Chaisang when Zhou Yu's condition was under control, and ordered the famous doctor in Jiangdong to do his best to treat Zhou Yu and let Zhou Yu recuperate.

As for the attack on Gangneung, leave it to Sun Sheng.

Yes, Sun Quan knows very well that Sun Sheng's ability is not half a star worse than Zhou Yu, but now Sun Quan does not require Sun Sheng to capture Jiangling.

Entering Yingxian County, threatening Jiangling, and forcing the Shu thieves to return to the army to rescue this task, if you Sun Sheng can't do it, don't play it.

Zhou Yu has already helped you make a good start, if you can't even attack Yingxian County under such a good starting conditions, then you really can't say it.

Sun Sheng also knew this, so after he arrived in Huarong County, he immediately began to reorganize his army and prepare to send troops to Yingxian County.

And at this time, the land of Jingxiang actually entered the spring rain season in advance.

At the beginning of January, it began to rain lightly, and for several days without stopping.

This may be a good thing for farming. Spring rain is as expensive as oil.

But for the military, it's going to die!!

(End of chapter)