After the Hongkou Conference ended, Shen Chen took Sun Qian and set off to return to Xiakou.

Originally, Jiangxia's military was mainly concentrated along the Yangtze River such as Qichun and Exian that were connected to Yuzhang, but now half of the main force has retreated to Anlu and Xiakou, and the frontline troops are seriously insufficient.

However, fortunately, at present, Jingzhou and Jiangdong are both holding their troops and not attacking at the same time, as long as they do not attack from both sides, it is still not a big problem to deal with one side alone.

After returning to Xiakou, Shen Chen went to visit Liu Qi and explained the situation, Liu Qi's condition is much better now, and he can walk around the ground recently, but the serious illness at the beginning of the year still damaged the foundation, and his face is not very good-looking.

After learning that Liu Bei planned to break through Jingnan first, Liu Qi was a little worried about whether there would be problems with Jiangxia's defense, and Sun Qian immediately volunteered to stand up and say that he would go to Jiangdong, bitterly explain the benefits, and persuade Sun Quan to quit the army.

Of course, Shen Chen knew that this was not safe, so he still comforted Liu Qi and told him that the four counties of Jingnan were not difficult to take, and as long as Liu Bei's side took Jingnan, he would immediately come north to support.

By the third day of the fourth month, Sun Qian took an important mission all the way to the east, down the river, to Jiangdong, and Shen Chen also personally led 5,000 troops to Xinye in the north.

At that time, the west of Jiangxia was Yunmengze, from the later Wuhan to the west to Hanchuan City, Xiantao City, Jianli City, basically covered by vast lakes and swamps, although there was also exposed land, but it was not suitable for marching.

Therefore, if you attack Jiangxia from Yangyang, you will either go south from the Han River by water, or you will take two land routes.

One is Yunshe, Nanxin, and Anlu, that is, Jingshan City, Yingcheng City, Yunmeng County, and Xiaogan City in later generations rushed to Xiling. The other is to go south from Zhangling, that is, Suizhou City, Anlu City, Yunmeng County, and Xiaogan City.

Therefore, the Jiangxia defenders only need to occupy Xiakou, the port of the Han River to the south, Anlu County in the Han Dynasty, and Yunmeng County in later generations, to hold all the soldiers and horses from Xiangyang by water and land.

At this time, Shen Chen traveled by land, along the Zhuanshui of the Han Dynasty, to the north of Fuhe in Suizhou, Anlu, Hubei Province, and to Tang Township through Suixian County of Zhangling County.

At present, Zhangling is still in the hands of Huang Jie, his troops are not much, only about 8,000 people, and he is also the county soldier of Zhangling County, because Cai Mao Chen soldiers are intimidated by Cai Yang, Huang Jian can not support Gan Ning, and can only hold the traffic arteries to barely protect himself.

After Shen Chen arrived, he discussed some tactical details with him, asking him to pretend to send troops in a few days, wave the flag and shout, and contain Cai Yang's enemy.

Soon on April 8, Shen Chen returned to the Huangmen Pavilion and personally led 2,000 Huangmen soldiers, plus 5,000 soldiers brought from Jiangxia, a total of 7,000 people officially set out for the battle.

Huangmen Pavilion only left a thousand soldiers, but because of the relationship between the back mountains, even a thousand people were enough for them to defend.

The two thousand Huangmen soldiers can be said to be fully armed this time, because the Huangmen Pavilion technology has revolutionized the steel production, resulting in them actually belonging to the same heavy infantry as Gao Shun's trap camp, but they attacked Xudu several times and had to travel long distances, resulting in the inability to bear the armor.

But now that they are fighting at the door of their homes, they naturally bring all their belongings, and the five thousand soldiers are completely like giving them a hand, escorting the baggage wagons and protecting these people all the way to Xinye.

Huangmen Pavilion is only twenty or thirty miles away from Xinye, and Cai Mao naturally arranged a large number of scouts and sentry posts along the line, and when he saw this team from a distance, he immediately signaled.

"Woooooooo

The continuous sound of horns came and went, and the wolf smoke was billowing out, and soon more than 20 miles away outside Xinye City, Cai Mao learned the news.

Cai Mao attacked Xinye and set up the rear base in Chaoyang County, Chaoyang County and Xinye County face each other across the water, each on both sides of the river, and there is only more than ten miles between the upstream and downstream, and he himself is located in the south of Shangzi Township on the right bank of the river.

Shangzi Township is the area of Wuxing Town in the south of Xinye in later generations, where tens of thousands of Cai Mao's troops are gathered, and there are still armies of Han Xi and Lu Jie in the north and east of Xinye.

At present, although Wen Ping was persuaded to respect Liu Cong of Xiangyang, he continued to guard Wancheng in the name of guarding against Cao Cao and refused to send troops.

In fact, he still didn't want to fight a civil war, even if he was liquidated afterwards.

Knowing that reinforcements had come from Huangmen Pavilion, Cai Mao originally planned to summon his Tai Lieutenant Changshi, Sima and several generals in the army to discuss the situation, but when the scouts came to report that there were only thousands of reinforcements, he immediately laughed.

"Hahaha."

Cai Mao laughed proudly: "I thought there were many people, but thousands of people dared to come to Xinye, it's really overwhelming." ”

At this time, there was only Hu Zheng, the chief bookkeeper of the Taiwei in the camp tent, who was the commander of Xiangyang County in his early years, and had always been Cai Mao's confidant, he said cautiously: "Taiwei, Ganning soldiers and horses are not afraid, but the soldiers of Huangmenting are the elite of the world, and they must be guarded against." ”

"What are you afraid of?"

Cai Mao said: "Back then, Shen Chen was able to come to Xudu three times, but he only relied on Cao Cao's army and horses to resist Yuan Shao in the north, and now that my army is fifty or sixty thousand, can't I still wipe out his few thousand people?" ”

Hu Zheng hesitated and said: "I think that I should find out who is in charge of this army and horses, and the rest of the people can say, if Shen Chen is there in person, I'm afraid."

"Hmph."

Cai Mao said coldly: "What is Shen Chen afraid of, it has been rumored in Xiangyang that he is the god of soldiers in Jingzhou over the years, but he is the reincarnation of Han Xin, this is just a means of the first emperor." His thousands of people are not worthy of the army's fanfare, and he sent an order to let Sun Yi and Zhou Bo each lead 5,000 people, and Han Xi's soldiers are united, 20,000 people, should be able to deal with his thousands of people. ”

"Yui."

Hu Zheng originally wanted to persuade him, but after thinking about it, he also wanted to.

No matter what, the enemy is only a few thousand, Cai Mao sent the captain Sun Yi and Zhou Bo to bring 5,000 people each, plus 10,000 Han Xi stationed outside the east of Xinye City, a total of 20,000 people, it should be more than enough to defeat.

To a certain extent, Cai Mao can be regarded as strategically despising the enemy and tactically attaching importance to the enemy.

After all, he despised Shen Chen, but he actually knew that Shen Chen was powerful, so if Shen Chen didn't come in person, he was afraid that it would still be very troublesome, so he decided to send more people, several times more than the enemy, and there should be no big problem.

So the order was conveyed, and the generals Sun Yi and Zhou Bo received Cai Mao's order to immediately reorganize their troops and horses and march to the northeast. At the same time, Han Xi also received an order to lead his troops to the east.

After noon, Heiniuyi, which was located about eight miles outside the eastern city of Xinye, at this moment, Han Xi led an army of 7,000 and lined up.

In the wilderness, there are all the township pavilions and fields around, because it is the civil war in Jingzhou, no one wants to harm their own people, so as not to destroy their own ruling foundation and corrupt their own popularity, so the two sides have nothing to do with the people.

The people also received a notice from Xiangyang, and Cai Mao ordered people to go and inform the people around Xinye, saying that Xinye Ganning was in rebellion and Xiangyang was coming to quell the rebellion, so let the people keep to themselves and not act rashly.

At this moment, although the people around Heiniuyi knew that all the Jingzhou soldiers would not harm them, when they saw the arrival of the army, they also hurriedly fled from the farmland, some ran back to their homes, some hid in the surrounding forests and deep mountains, and some were not afraid of death, so they actually found a place to watch.

These people are really bold.

On a small hill to the south of Heiniuyi, the view is good, and there are more than ten young people lying on their stomachs, the leader of which is about seventeen or eighteen years old, quite sturdy, looking and watching.

"Zhou Tai, you are too bold, this is a battle between two armies, you still brought us here to see, aren't you afraid of death?"

One person complained.

Zhou Tai smiled and said: "You call me big brother on weekdays, but now you don't dare to call you to come to see the excitement, if you are too timid to come, then you can leave by yourself." ”

"I'm not cowardly, I'm afraid that if they kill the red eye, what will happen to me regardless of the enemy."

The man explained.

Zhou Tai pointed to the distance and said: "Now that we are in troubled times, if you want to achieve great things, you must have courage and talent." The Xinye Deng clan has opened a large number of schools, and we can read, but what is the use of just reading, we must also have real talent and learning, and this is the opportunity to learn to fight. ”

"It's coming, it's General Han's team."

"The one on the other side is too far away, but it should be the soldiers of the Deng clan of the Huangmen Pavilion, these people are amazing, the famous Huangmen soldiers in the world."

"I don't know if it's Shen Jun who is in charge this time, if it's Shen Jun in command, then it will be good-looking."

There was a lot of talking.

The reason why they risked their lives to stay was to watch the battle and learn, and secondly, to see if the world-shattering Yellow Gate soldiers were really as invincible as rumored.

Shen Chen has been running around all these years, and he has rarely gone deep into the people, and he has become somewhat detached from the masses, but he doesn't know how high his reputation among the people is now.

In terms of knowledge, his Confucianism was widely spread, especially around Xinye, and countless people were influenced by his teachings.

Therefore, Xinye learned from his scholars and respected him as Shen Jun or Shen Shi.

And outside of Xinye, it's even more remarkable.

Due to the repulsion of Cao Cao, he attacked Henan several times, and joined forces with Liu Bei to break Liu Zhang in the west, and flooded Sun Quan in Jiangdong, not only to stop the night cry of Jiangdong children, but also to enjoy high prestige in Jingzhou.

People say that he is the god of soldiers in Jingzhou, but he is the reincarnation of Han Xin, a soldier immortal, and calls him "unparalleled warriors" and "slightly unborn", so he is deeply loved by the people of Jingzhou.

After Liu Biao's death this time, Liu Qi and Liu Cong turned against each other, which shocked Jingzhou.

Now that Shen Chen is on Liu Qi's side and is at war with Liu Cong, the people of Jingzhou are all sorry that when they are about to start a civil war, some people are interested in wondering whether the myth of the god of war can continue.

Therefore, at a time when life and death were at stake in this kind of war, there were still bold people like Zhou Tai, who ran to the battlefield to watch, just to see how powerful Shen Chen was.

"They're coming!"

"Shen Ziqi, it's really Shen Ziqi."

"Zhou Tai, your eyes are so good, you can see this clearly?"

"It's not the words on it, it's the color, don't you know that in the whole of Jingzhou, only Shen Jun's flag is blue?"

Everyone's eyes looked at it from afar, the army from the east waved its flag, and the huge flag was embroidered with a Shen character in black font, and its background color was blue, which was the color of the sky, and the color of the sea and the morning light!

Shen Chen, the god of soldiers in Jingzhou, is here!

(End of chapter)