Chapter 976: Temptation and Messenger
When Zhu Ran led the Lukou Navy Army and rushed to Baqiu, what he saw was a mess of the gate of Baqiu Water Village, and a man who was aggrieved to death, but he could only cry without tears.
After listening to Liuluo's return of vomiting blood, Zhu Ran was also furious and took the case.
It's too much of a bully!!
The whole army, went to battle, and went straight to the Jiangling Army Water Village!!
Half of Zhu Ran's anger is true, after all, the Jiangling Army's approach this time is a bit too much. How can there be such a blatant training of troops, if you don't show a little momentum of the Dongwu Navy, how can you mix up on this Yangtze River in the future?!
The troops must be sent out, but the remaining half of Zhu Ran's anger is somewhat pretended.
In fact, Zhu Ran's other purpose in sending troops is also to see if the Jiangling Navy is so bullying this time, will it get carried away after going back, which will lead to the unpreparedness of the water village, and he may be able to break through the Jiangling Water Village in one fell swoop and hit the Jiangling Navy in one fell swoop.
After all, this naval army has caused a lot of trouble to Zhu Ran over the years, and Zhu Ran has long held back the opportunity to get rid of it.
In this way, whether it is to boost the morale of the army or for strategic needs, Zhu Ran must lead the Lukou Navy to suppress Jiangling.
Then, Zhu Ran saw the complete Jiangling Water Village defense again, as well as the familiar turtle formation.
It seems that there are capable people in the Gangneung Naval Army!!
Not only does he have quite excellent tactical command ability in water warfare, but at the same time, he can also be neither arrogant nor rash, who is the enemy plane commanding the entire Gangneung Naval Army first?!
Wen Dai?!
He doesn't have the ability.
If he wants to have this ability, he won't be taken by Wen Ping all the time, and he will have been released to take charge of himself a long time ago.
ZHONG Limu. This is a difficult boy, but unfortunately, he is not experienced enough, and he may be able to think of leading his troops to attack, but the whole set of water warfare strategies that completely suppressed Zhu Liuluo before is unlikely to come from him.
In this way, the Gangneung Navy has a very good commander of the Navy again, can't it?!
Zhu Ran was in a very bad mood all of a sudden, but to a certain extent, he felt that it was not impossible. Zhang Xi, the Jingzhou Mu of Shu Han, in addition to being a famous general in the world, his ability to taste and discover talents is also known to the world.
It is impossible for others to find a suitable commander of the navy in such a short period of time, and Zhang Xi is not necessarily.
But no matter what, he had already led his troops to suppress Jiangling, so Zhu Ran didn't think about it and left.
On the one hand, it is necessary to declare the combat strength of the Soochow Naval Army, and not let the Jiangling Naval Army underestimate it.
On the other hand, Zhu Ran also has to personally try what the quality of the new commander of the Jiangling Navy is.
Take the initiative to attack!!
In the face of the active attack of the Dongwu Naval Army, Yang Wei did not panic at all, according to his own understanding of the Naval Army, he responded one by one, saw the moves, did not take the initiative to attack, and only relied on the turtle formation to defend.
For a while, Zhu Ran had no way to actually threaten the Jiangling Naval Army.
Zhu Ran was deflated in front of the turtle array invented by Zhang Xi, and this was not the first time.
But it doesn't mean that Zhu Ran really has nothing to do with this turtle formation.
When he first encountered the turtle formation invented by Zhang Xi for defense, Zhu Ran was indeed a little caught off guard and had never seen it, and he didn't know what to do.
But when Zhu Ran encountered this turtle formation for the second time, Zhu Ran had already thought of risking casualties, grinding kung fu with water little by little, first clearing the periphery of the turtle formation, and then besieging the tactics of throwing the car Meng Chong.
In fact, this can be done, that is, it will be more wasteful, and its own casualties will be relatively large, but in the same way, as long as you persist, you can break this turtle formation.
It's a pity that Sun Quan's side didn't give Zhu Ran enough time, seeing that the third-line battle was not going well, and Zhang Xi led his troops back to help after capturing Luoyang, Sun Quan could only order the withdrawal of troops, and Zhu Ran had no chance to completely break this turtle formation.
However, in that battle, Zhu Ran still had the upper hand, and destroyed more than 50 ships of the Jiangling Navy Army, which can be said to have cut a large piece of skin on the turtle formation.
Therefore, when he encountered the turtle formation for the third time this time, Zhu Ran planned to repeat his old tricks, so as to destroy twenty or thirty Jiangling Army Walkers to show the combat power of the Eastern Wu Naval Army. He didn't.
Although this is also related to the fact that Zhu Ran did not invest in a large-scale attack, even if Zhu Ran repeats his old skills, he can obviously feel that under the command of the commander of the enemy's naval army, the turtle formation has begun to change more, and it is more reasonable to have more of them.
And the most important thing is that this time Zhu Ran did not find too many opportunities to fight more locally, which not only shows that the command of the enemy commander is in place, but also means that the cooperation between the Jiangling naval army is more tacit than the last battle.
The most direct evidence is that even though the Soochow Navy can destroy some of the warships of the Gangneung Navy, it will also have to pay a similar price to do so.
The two sides fought in the water battle for about an hour, and the Eastern Wu army overturned or defeated more than a dozen Jiangling naval army walkers, but there were also eight or nine of their own walkers that were overturned, or smashed, or had to retreat because of the small number of troops on board.
Zhu Ran looked at this posture and knew that if he continued to fight, there would be no practical significance.
Zhu Ran looked at this posture and knew that if he continued to fight, there would be no practical significance.
Today's Jiangling Naval Army, although it is still not the opponent of the Eastern Wu Naval Army, has already had some strength to fight back, and it has obviously made great progress in the layout and command of the naval army's battle formation.
The new commander of the Gangneung Navy has real materials, even if he is not as good as himself, he will not be too bad.
If it was the war between the two countries, then Zhu Ran would not mind, and seriously broke his wrists with the commander of the Jiangling Naval Army, but now it is rumored that Shu has sent an envoy to Dongwu, at this time, it is better not to make extraneous branches.
Again, this time Zhu Ran sent troops, strictly speaking, it was a hasty dispatch, and he was not prepared for a long-term battle, and in the process of this Baqiu Water Battle, the turtle formation of the Jiangling Water Army also showed a certain ability to attack fortifications, which Zhu Ran was not prepared for.
Now that he has a certain upper hand, he also lets the Gangneung Navy know that the Soochow Navy is not easy to mess with, so . Retire.
The rest of the things are left to those civilian officials, and they should hurry back to Lukou and continue to think about how to suppress this Jiangling naval army.
In this way, with Zhu Ran's withdrawal of troops and return to Lukou, and at the same time strengthening the defense of the Baqiu Water Army, this Baqiu Water Battle is officially over.
But what followed was that Zhang Xi received a messenger from Dongwu to cross the river.
Soochow sent envoys this time, one purpose was to go to Jiangxia to greet Deng Zhi, the Han envoy from Chengdu, and the other purpose was to ask Zhang Xixing for his guilt.
Why did you violate my Bachu border for no reason!!
When Zhang Xi heard this, he wanted to laugh at that time.
I haven't asked you why you have attacked Gangneung and Yangyang again and again, but you have come to ask me why I attacked Baqiu?!
That is, with the envoy sent by Dongwu this time, he is considered Zhang Xi's descendant, Zhang Xi is not good to be angry directly, otherwise he would have greeted him directly.
Well, there is no way, the messenger who came this time is Zhou Yu's second son, Zhou Yin.
Actually, Zhou Yin is not young, he is almost thirty years old, and he is eleven or twelve years old from Zhang Xi.
But the problem is that Zhang Xi is an equal friend of Zhou Yu, and Zhou Yu's son, no matter how old he is, is Zhang Xi's junior.
Zhou Yin actually knew about this, but there was no way, he was on official business.
First of all, he performed official duties, and the righteous and awe-inspiring representative of Dongwu asked Shu Han for violating the boundary, arguing with Zhang Xi on the basis of reason, and arguing back and forth.
But when he arrived in the backyard of the state pastor's mansion, Zhou Yin immediately changed his identity, first visited his aunt Sun Shangxiang, and then gave his uncle Zhang Xi a gift, looking very tutored.
Public is public, private is private, Zhou Yin is very clear.
Therefore, Zhang Xi looked at Zhou Yin, who was so "sensible", had a tutor, and was measured, and he really didn't understand what kind of bad thing he was doing in history that forced Sun Quan to kill him, and even Zhuge Jin's plea didn't work, and in the end, it had to be Quan Cong and Zhu Ju, the two sons-in-law of Sun Quan, who interceded and had to spare him. What's even more strange is that before Sun Quan's forgiveness was issued, Zhou Yin himself died of illness.
What's going on here, but anyone with a little conspiracy theory can make up for an unknown number of episodes of the series.
But at least, in this time and space, with Zhou Yu's current status and influence in the army. No matter how Zhou Yin offended Sun Quan, Sun Quan didn't dare to attack Zhou Yin easily.
After all, Zhou Yu has lived until now, and he has not lived in vain.
However, with the arrival of Zhou Yin, Zhang Xi also seemed to understand one thing.
Soochow didn't seem to be very concerned about Deng Zhi's envoy again.
Otherwise, even if you want to be held accountable, by the way, it shouldn't be Zhou Yinlai.
Yes, Zhou Yin is the son of Zhou Yu, and he is also married to the daughter of the Sun family of Dongwu, he is a relative of the clan, but he is not his famous father, the second is not a famous man in Dongwu, and the third is not in a high position, so he was sent to meet Deng Zhi? !
Even in Zhou Yu's face, Zhang Xi has to say that Zhou Yin is not qualified enough.
And send people who are not qualified at all to meet the envoy Deng Zhi sent by the Emperor of the Han Dynasty. It can be seen that Soochow did not welcome the visit of the Han envoy.
So the result of Deng Zhi's mission to Soochow this time can be said to have been doomed from the beginning.
(End of chapter)