The howling wind blew the ashes into the sky, and after annihilating the broken yellow cover, Shen Chen continued to pursue Zhou Yu.

When he reached the bank of the river, Cheng Pu joined the main force of the Jiangdong Army and grabbed a large number of ships.

The general who stayed behind was Zhang Hu, although he fought hard, but his number was too small, relying on a few main ships and hundreds of small ships to resist, but he still did not fight.

The battle situation was at a stalemate, but fortunately, the Jiangdong Army did not stop longer, Lu Meng cried and risked death to carry back Zhou Yu's body, more than 40,000 Jiangdong Army, about 30,000 people barely fled back to the ship, using bows and arrows to cover their own people on the boat, blocking the pursuers behind.

At this time, Shen Chen had already sent someone to inform Huang Zu, asking him to divide 5,000 troops back to his ship, and use Huang Zu's ship to intercept the retreat of the Jiangdong Army first.

It's a pity that Huang Zu's fleet is on the west bank, and he has become a state of going with the water and the wind at this time.

Because if the Jiangxia sailors fight from the south to the north, they will follow the water of the Xiangjiang River and Dongting Lake, plus the southeast wind, it is smooth wind and water, so the speed of the ship is extremely fast, and this can be a successful raid.

However, Huang Zu's position is in the west, playing from west to east, following the water of the Yangtze River, against the southeast wind, the speed of the ship is much slower.

In just over ten miles, you have to sail for nearly two quarters of an hour.

This caused Huang Zu's fleet to delay in coming to help, Zhang Hu relied on the main ship to defend, and Shen Chen's army had no way to shoot at the people on the other ship's ship on land, so they could only watch the Jiangdong naval army escape.

However, fortunately, due to the technical gap between the ships of the Jiangxia Navy Division and the ships of the Jiangdong Navy Army, and the shape and internal structure of the ships are completely different, there are many problems when driving the boats, and they even collide with each other when driving, which is not proficient and delays some time.

In the end, most of the Jiangdong Naval Division escaped, but a small part was still intercepted by the rushing Huang Zu Naval Army and the remaining Zhang Hu Naval Army, and the ships of the Jiangxia Naval Division immediately approached, rushed onto the ship and engaged in a hand-to-hand battle, completely annihilating this Jiangdong Naval Division.

At this time, the east has turned the white of the fish's belly, the vast river surface is rolling with rolling yellow sand, and the green and yellow river water is surging to the north. Only the burning flames on the riverbank still have the light of the sky.

It's dawn.

Shen Chen sent someone to inform Huang Zhong, who stayed in the camp, to come to take over, clean up the battlefield, count the battle damage, and the people of the headquarters who had been busy all night took a boat back to the camp to rest.

After returning to Baqiu, the soldiers went to eat and sleep first, while Shen Chen had to deal with all parties.

For example, arranging the next tasks, judging the future direction of the Jiangdong Army, and waiting for news from all parties to come, so as to make deployments.

"Report, the Jiangdong Army did not stay in Jiangxia and went back to Yuzhang."

"Report, General Huang has counted the battle losses of the enemy and us, please take a look."

"Report, according to the order of the governor, all the corpses of our soldiers have been collected and buried on the spot, and the corpses of enemy soldiers have been burned."

"Report, we interrogated some prisoners of war, and one of the Jiangdong Army officers said that Zhou Yu was dead."

"Zhou Yu is dead?"

On the second day after the war, the Jiangdong Army had withdrawn to Yuzhang, Huang Zhong's side had also cleaned up the battlefield, and all kinds of news were summarized to Shen Chen's side.

And the last news surprised him very much, and he sat in the tent of the main general, and was amazed.

"Yes."

The scout replied: "The officer of the Jiangdong Army said that when he learned that we had raided the riverbank, Zhou Yu suddenly vomited blood, and before he died, he whispered a few words to Lu Meng, and tried to escape, but he himself died suddenly. ”

"How did he die?"

"I heard that it was because of the floods in the battle of Yixian in the early years, and the cough continued every year, and the body has not been well, this time it must be caused by anger and urgency."

"Sure enough, I know, you go down and rest."

Shen Chen waved his hand, Zhou Yu's death really had a deep relationship with him, a few years ago in the battle of Yixian, the lungs were flooded, and they were not effectively treated, and they have been in a weak state, this time compared to the recurrence of the old disease, which made him die suddenly.

However, after Zhou Yu's death, Shen Chen did not have a trace of joy in his heart, but just sighed a little, a generation of people from the country came out, and Zhou Yu was full of spirit in history, and he disappeared while talking and laughing.

But now that he has met himself, he can only hate Baqiu in the end. Just like he was in history, he died of illness on this land.

"Congratulations to the Governor, congratulations to the Governor."

Zhang Nanqu dared to wait for the generals to be overjoyed and said: "Zhou Yu is our fierce enemy, as soon as this person is eliminated, Jiangdong will no longer have an opponent who can be our enemy." ”

Shen Chen said in a deep voice: "I still admire Zhou Yu's personality very much, his death is indeed a good thing for us, but respecting the opponent is also respecting ourselves, just like we should treat Huang Gai's corpse well, don't be so happy, just treat it with a normal heart." ”

"Yes."

Zhang Nanqu dared to wait for the others to look at each other, and nodded busily.

Shen Chen said again: "Although the Jiangdong army was defeated in this battle, our losses were also very large, and the three armies were ordered to rest for two days, and then the navy army went north to Xiangyang to support Liu Yuanjun, and then told General Hansheng to let him stay in Baqiu to prevent Jiangdong from making a comeback." ”

"Yui!"

The soldiers obeyed the order.

At present, the Jiangxia sailor rested in Baqiu and prepared to go north.

Taking advantage of this time, Shen Chen still exerted his subjective initiative, and whenever the war ended, he carried out self-analysis and self-criticism.

This is a habit of his many years of fighting, and since he was eight years old in Xuzhou, he has begun to reflect and deduce every day.

Over the years, it can be regarded as one step at a time, from an ordinary peasant child who only knew the historical process at the beginning, to today, he is full of poetry and books, brave and brave, clever and clever, and a resourceful and brave general who leads troops to fight.

Shen Chen believes that the reason why this battle can be won is not because of how good his strategy is, but because he is familiar with history and can only succeed with God's help.

The troops were stationed in Baqiu, forcing Zhou Yu to be forced to garrison Hongkou is secondary, in fact, even people who do not take advantage of the southeast wind will do this.

Because in the entire Dongting Lake area, there is only such a strategic place as Baqiu, and Sun Quan Zhou Yu later built a city here, which also proves this.

Therefore, the subjective factor of winning is actually that he knew that there would be a southeast wind coming, and he made arrangements in advance.

Zhou Yu will lose, not because of his poor level.

In fact, Zhou Yu was much stronger than Cao Cao, he was not sure if Shen Chen would come to attack at night, but every step was calculated, including the ambush, the preparation of fire prevention, and the deduction of their scouts to find the enemy, and then to the speed of the enemy's killing of the Hongkou, all the expectations were perfected.

The only thing that was missed was that he underestimated the time of day and Shen Chen's manpower, the southeast wind was sometimes big and sometimes small, as a Jiangdong person, Zhou Yu knew very well that the southeast wind in spring was relatively small, and the southeast wind in summer was the most violent.

Therefore, he never expected that after the early rejuvenation, an extremely violent southeast wind suddenly blew, coupled with the appearance of the ship, so that he misestimated the speed of the Jiangxia Sailors, so that all defensive measures were too late to make up for it.

To put it simply, with God's help, Shen Chen launched a blitzkrieg, which caught Zhou Yu off guard.

But even so, Zhou Yu didn't lose too badly.

Because strictly speaking, this battle should be a lose-lose situation, even if the Jiangdong Sailor suffered heavy losses, the Jiangxia Sailor did not take too much advantage.

The troops invested by the two sides were 50,000 in the Jiangdong Naval Division, about 30,000 in the Jiangxia Naval Division, and 40,000 in the later Huang Zhong.

In the battle of Hukou, the Jiangxia Naval Division won a small victory, and later the scouts on both sides fought, and the Jiangdong Naval Division had the advantage.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Yu launched several battles to attack the north bank, and if it were not for the timely arrival of Huang Zhong's reinforcements, the Jiangxia Naval Division was almost wiped out.

Therefore, except for the battle of Hukou at the beginning, the Jiangdong Naval Division pressed the Jiangxia Naval Division at other times, and in terms of battle losses, both sides almost lost thousands of men and horses.

Shen Chen killed and injured more than 4,000 people, and Zhou Yu killed and injured more than 6,000 people.

It seems that Zhou Yu has lost more, but don't forget that Shen Chen's side occupies favorable terrain, Zhou Yu is the side that takes the initiative to attack, such a battle loss is acceptable to Zhou Yu, and he almost won.

So at the beginning, even if he used the iron cable boat at Hukou to resist the attack of the Jiangdong Army, and won a small victory, Shen Chen did not win completely, but was found by Zhou Yu and almost defeated.

In the end, Shen Chen relied on God to complete the turnaround, and even in the battle of Hongkou, Zhou Yu skillfully calculated, so that most of the Jiangdong sailors successfully escaped, 50,000 people went back to about 30,000 horses, and in the whole battle, he only lost less than 20,000.

On the other hand, in the Battle of Hongkou, Shen Chen was worried about the situation in the north and was in a hurry, so he chose to go ashore to attack Zhou Yu, so that he was ambushed and lost a lot of men and horses.

This shows Zhou Yu's toughness.

According to post-war statistics, in terms of troop losses, Shen Chen killed and wounded more than 9,000 people, and Zhou Yu suffered about 20,000 casualties, so it can only be said that this battle can only be said to be a small victory, not a big victory, but only to cripple Jiangdong, but not completely annihilated.

But even so, Zhou Yu's death from illness, coupled with the death of 20,000 Jiangdong elites, was already a big injury to Sun Quan, and he almost no longer had the ability to expand outward.

Therefore, in a strategic sense, the results obtained in this battle have been very large.

"Zhou Yu is worthy of being Zhou Yu, in that desperate situation, he was able to design me so calmly and let most of the Jiangdong army flee back. Otherwise, General Huang Lao has already burned their grain and grass, and if I return to the ship as soon as possible, they will inevitably be wiped out. ”

"Fortunately, we won this battle, taking advantage of the southeast wind and the successful destruction of the steamer Koto. Jiangdong's vitality is greatly injured, it is difficult to pull my hind legs again, and then as long as Cao Cao is repulsed, with the background of Jingzhou, he will be able to sweep the south, first look at the situation, get Bashu or Jiangdong, and then rectify the soldiers and horses, go north to recover the world, and then open a new era. ”

Shen Chen's eyes were resolute, he firmly believed that what he was doing was right, even if Zhou Yu and Cao Ren were once the proud sons of heaven in this era and left a strong mark in the history books, but only he could lead the development of the times, because in his mind, he had the direction to point out the direction of the empire.

In the era of the Han Empire, the whole world was in the age of barbarism, and the Chinese civilization had long been at the forefront of world civilization.

At least if the first industrial revolution can be started within three hundred years after his death, when the global population is only two or three hundred million, countless borderless lands, unexplored ores, resources, oil, and natural gas waiting to be exploited, and constantly feeding the Han, then a global empire will be born in five or six hundred years.

This is more than a thousand years before the new era of the future!

So Shen Chen never felt that he was wrong in killing the pride of these times, history is history, and now is today. Now for him, even the protagonists of the Three Kingdoms era, such as Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Sun Quan, are just roadblocks that block his progress.

"Cao Cao and Sun Quan are just warlords in the feudal era, although I am also helping a warlord in the feudal era now. But at least in terms of personal morality, his morality is much higher. ”

"Liu Bei can be trusted, just like in history he trusted Zhuge Liang unconditionally, and Zhuge Liang also trusted him unconditionally."

"So no matter what the state system becomes in the future, whether the era of feudal monarchy will end, at least in terms of paying more attention to the people at the bottom and eliminating those exploiters and the landlords, gate lords, and powerful national moths, I have a common goal with them."

"So if that's the case, let's forge ahead together, create a better era together, and move towards this goal."

Shen Chen stood on the bank of the Baqiu River, overlooking the south.

Sun quan.

For my cause.

Let's take your first shot!

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December 30, 13th year of Jian'an.

Approaching the end of the year, Jiangdong did not have a trace of joy at this time, but was full of sorrow and desolation.

The peach charms that prevailed in the Eastern Han Dynasty were hung at the door of every house, but strips of white plain cloth, swaying gently in the southeast wind.

The death of 20,000 soldiers in the Baqiu Hongkou means that 20,000 families have lost their backbone, and how many mothers have lost their children, wives have lost their husbands, and children have lost their fathers.

The cry spread throughout Jiangdong, and the wailing followed the wind, making hundreds of people on both sides of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River mourn.

Yuzhang County, Chaisang County.

In this battle, Sun Quan personally supervised the battle, and Zhou Yu personally led the Jiangdong army, rushed to Jiangxia, and directly took Baqiu.

But what Sun Quan of Chaisang was waiting for was not the good news that Zhou Yu defeated Shen Chen, captured Jiangxia in one fell swoop, and went north to Nanjun, and included the entire Jingzhou in his bag.

Instead, he waited for Zhou Yu's corpse and the bad news of the defeat of the Jiangdong Naval Division.

The entire Chaisang County Ya was trembling for the past two days, and Sun Quan experienced disbelief, then rage, then grief, and finally almost collapsed.

It was not until today that under the persuasion of Lu Su and others, he cheered up.

In fact, Lu Su was even sadder.

His relationship with Zhou Yu is like that between Zhou Yu and Sun Ce, not only colleagues, but also best friends.

But now he has to endure the grief of losing his beloved relatives and friends, persuade Sun Quan to come to his senses, and even have to propose a new strategic plan with him that makes him extremely painful.

"What?"

Chaisang County Ya, Sun Quan, who had barely calmed down, still had tears on his face, he was going to give Zhou Yu a funeral, but when he heard Lu Su's words, he couldn't hold back anymore, and roared angrily: "Shen Chen's dog thief killed Gong Jin, killed me 20,000 elites, 20,000 elites!" But you still want me to write to Liu Bei to ask for peace, how can there be such a truth in this world? I, Jiangdong and him, Shen Chen, Liu Bei, will never die! ”

(End of chapter)