Zhou Yu was trying his best to make up for the strategic time gap, and he took 20,000 Eastern Wu troops to march all the way to Gong'an City.

The purpose is to take advantage of the untimely evacuation of the public security defenders to directly launch a surprise attack, effectively killing and injuring the number of public security defenders, and preventing them from returning to Jiangling completely.

But. Li Qiu is not a novice on the battlefield, he has been in the army for more than ten years.

Even, when he was in his twenties, he was promoted by Zhang Xi from Badong County and brought to Jingnan, where he stayed for more than ten years, and now Li Qiu, may be better than the ability and experience of Li Qiu in history.

Zhang Xi's reaction was not slow at all, and after his military order was transmitted to the public security, Li Qiu did not hesitate at all, and directly complied with the order.

The 15,000-strong defenders, 10,000 of whom quickly rushed to the Gong'an Ferry, while establishing a defensive line, crossed the river in the warships of the Gangneung Naval Army with the help of Yang.

Of the remaining 5,000 people, Li Qiu was very bold in setting up an ambush in the direction of the south gate of Gong'an City, twenty miles away from the city, and caught the forward of the Eastern Wu Army off guard.

The army of 20,000 people is marching all the way, of course, Zhou Yu cannot personally lead the command in the front of the army, and in order to seize the time, the Eastern Wu army must also adopt the routine of vanguard breakthrough and rear army to keep up.

Therefore, even if Zhou Yu was not careless, the forward of the Eastern Wu Army was still firmly ambushed by Li Qiu.

The casualties were not large, only less than five or six hundred casualties, and most of them were caused by hasty response to the battle without checking for a while.

But the problem is that Li Qiu is not stupid, the purpose of his ambush is not to kill or injure many enemy troops, but just to buy time for his troops to withdraw.

Cheng Zhi gathered the formation and fortified on the spot, and Li Qiu did not love to fight, so he directly ordered the withdrawal of the army, and retreated to the public security ferry with the last more than 4,000 soldiers, relying on the simple defense facilities of the ferry, to defend on the spot.

Cheng Zhi originally wanted to continue the pursuit, but considering that he had just been ambushed, if he continued to pursue rashly, it was difficult to guarantee that there was still an ambush waiting for him behind.

Moreover, now that it is not far from the public security city, the Shu army has taken the initiative to evacuate the public security city, in this case, Cheng Zhi decided to adopt a more prudent strategy, occupy the public security city first, wait for the arrival of the main army of the general Zhou Yu, and then make the next decision.

After Zhou Yu led the army to the public security and learned about the ambush battle under the public security city, Zhou Yu felt that . My throat is uncomfortable again, and I always feel like something can't get out.

Cheng Zhike is the son of the old general Cheng Pu, and he is also the eldest of the second generation of the Jiangdong generals, and even followed his father Cheng Pu to participate in the Battle of Chibi. He's in his forties now.

People in their forties are still so naïve in their military skills. Sometimes Zhou Yu is also thinking, what the hell is going on?!

The famous Jiangdong Huchen back then, why did their descendants, one by one, only have this ability? !

A small ambush battle, it scared the main army of the forwards, you are afraid of a fart, chase it directly, even if you are really surrounded like a dead dog, as long as you drag it for a while, I will come from behind, none of these Shu thieves can escape, okay!!

I couldn't even see the situation on such a simple battlefield clearly, and I actually gave up chasing the enemy and ran to occupy this worthless public security city. After Jiangdong, relying on these people, can you really keep this foundation?!

Zhou Yu sighed for a while, and thought of the children in Zijing's family, the children in Lu Meng's family, and . Those two things in my own house.

It's okay if I don't want to, the more I think about it, the more I feel depressed. What the hell is it!!

Brother Zijing and Lu Meng didn't talk about them first, after all, they left early, and it was normal that they didn't have time to educate their children, but the more they thought about it, the more they felt that their throats were itchy.

Forget it, let's think about what to do next.

In fact, there is no other award, and there can only be one choice at the moment, and you don't even have to think about it.

Zhou Yu directly ordered to abandon the Gong'an City and go north, and the whole army approached the Gong'an Ferry.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Shu army had not had time to transport all the soldiers across the Yangtze River, it was better to kill as many wounds as they could.

But when Zhou Yu led his subordinates to the periphery of the public security ferry, they were greeted by two carts docked at the public security ferry, Meng Chong, and stones that kept being thrown from inside the ferry to outside the ferry.

If he wanted to attack at this time, Zhou Yuguang knew how big the casualties would be.

This is actually not much different from a regular siege. At most, the defensive fence of the public security ferry is not as strong as the city wall, and it is not so high, but the arrows and catapults are already similar to the siege of the city.

There is no way, the matter has come to this point, it is impossible to let these Shu troops go back to Jiangling so easily, Zhou Yu gritted his teeth, and decisively ordered the soldiers to take the risk of attacking, and at the same time kept complaining in his heart - is Zhu Ran a dead man?!

Since the troops were dispatched in advance, how come it is that by now, the Jiangling Navy has not been completely defeated and the initiative on the water has been grasped?!

At this time, Zhu Ran didn't know that the general he respected was already in his heart, and he was about to scold him to death, and he was still immersed in the spirit of about to defeat the Jiangling Naval Army.

Zhu Ran's "dispatch of troops in advance", strictly speaking, Zhu Ran did not feel that he had sabotaged the strategic deployment of the general, on the contrary, he also considered himself a staunch supporter of the general's strategy.

If you want to talk about selfishness, it is indeed a little bit that seeing that Lu Xun is still holding his troops when the generals under his command are asking for battle, Zhu Ran is not satisfied at the same time, he is also a little misunderstood.

In today's Soochow military circles, General Shangda is a well-deserved first person, and he is also a person admired by all the generals in the army.

Lu Xun, although after experiencing the First World War in Huainan, he has a certain position in the hearts of the generals in Huainan, but in Zhu Ran's place, Lu Xun can't be compared with the general Zhou Yu at all.

So. The strategic deployment formulated by the general Shangda, why do you Lu Xun dare to continue to stand still here?!

Isn't there some ulterior bad intentions?!

This is Zhu Ran's intuitive opinion.

In addition, Zhu Ran's belief also has a relatively realistic political soil.

Zhou Yu was the first person in the Eastern Wu military, but in the same way, Zhou Yu was also a representative of the Huaisi Military Meritorious Group.

Although Zhou Yu has deliberately downplayed this label on himself over the years, in the eyes of Huaisi Military Meritorious Group, Zhou Yu is still their spokesperson.

And Lu Xun is the Lu family of Wuzhong of the four major families in Jiangdong, and the spokesperson of the proper Jiangdong family.

In recent years, the contradictions between the Jiangdong family and the Huaisi military merit group have not shown much signs of easing, and even under Sun Quan's checks and balances, the contradictions between the two sides have a tendency to intensify.

Therefore, you, Lu Xun, the representative of the family, do not follow the strategic deployment of the great general, but insist on standing still in Jiangxia. What do you mean?!

Zhu Ran is Zhu Zhi's adopted son, his surname is Shi, his real name is Shi Ran, he is a native of Danyang and Zhu Huan, Zhu Ju and others represented by the Zhu family in Wuzhong, he has nothing to do with him, he is a member of the proper Huaisi Military Meritorious Group.

In this case, Zhu Ran, of course, stood on the side of the Huaisi Military Merit Group and invited him to march according to the original plan, so as not to drag Lu Xun, a guy from a Jiangdong family, to drag the general back.

Therefore, in Zhu Ran's view, he is not "sending troops in advance", but acting according to the plan of the general, and he is the one who is maintaining the implementation of the general's strategy.

Moreover, Zhu Ran said in his heart that he also wanted to send troops as soon as possible and clean up the Jiangling Naval Army.

In last year's Baqiu Water Battle, he was slightly aggrieved, and he, the commander of the Lukou Water Army, also had a dull face.

But at that time, in order not to affect the political negotiations between the DPRK and the Chinese and Shu Han, Zhu Ran was forced to swallow this breath first, and now that the opportunity has come, Zhu Ran of course wants to earn this face back.

In the past, there was no good way to take the turtle formation of the Gangneung Naval Army, but now. Although it is not completely certain, Zhu Ran finally found some ways to break the enemy, so why not hurry up and go to the battlefield, what are you doing in Jiangxia? !

In this way, under the leadership of Zhu Ran, the 20,000 naval troops in Lukou, carrying five Mengchong warships and more than 230 large and small warships, went up the river and went straight to the Jiangling naval army's station, near the public security ferry.

And Yang Wei, the commander of the Jiangling Water Army, was also a little frightened by Zhu Ran's formation.

Five Mengchong warships are nothing, but the more than 200 large and small warships, looking at the past, are like covering the sky and the sun, and you can't see at a glance how many people have come from the Dongwu Navy?!

Today's Jiangling Navy has only three Mengchong warships, two Mengchong warships, and more than 130 large and small warships. I feel like the gap is a bit big.

But no matter what, it is impossible for Yang Wei to just sit back and watch the Dongwu naval army come over but not fight, and at the moment also put out a traditional turtle formation, with two car-throwing Mengchong as the core, supplemented by three Mengchong warships and more than 130 large and small warships to meet the enemy.

It's still a familiar recipe and a familiar taste, but the solution of the Eastern Wu Army is different from before.

In the past, when the Dongwu Navy wanted to break the formation, it was to use water grinding to use water grinding to push the stones thrown by Mengchong against the cart, and consume the avant-garde warships and walkers of the Jiangling Navy little by little, and wait until the turtle formation was not protected by turtle shells, and then concentrate on the Mengchong warships to attack.

But this time, what Yang Wei saw first was more than forty high-speed warships, and under the blessing of the southeast wind, they quickly rushed towards the avant-garde warships of the turtle formation.

Halfway through the march, the more than 40 ships suddenly caught fire on the high-speed route, and after the ships were ignited, they rushed straight to the vanguard of the Jiangling Naval Army.

Is this a replica of a fire to burn Chibi?!

(End of chapter)