On August 7, the 24th year of Jian'an, Shen Chen issued an order to relocate all the people of Xiangyang to the south of Zhonglu and Xiangxiang.

In fact, these two places are the area of Nanzhang, Hubei Province in later generations, which is not very far from Xiangyang.

However, since the west side of Jingshan Mountain is high, although it may still be affected by heavy rain, as long as it is not at the foot of the mountain, it should be temporarily placed on the slope of the plain.

Sun Quan's operation was still besieging Xiakou, and Lü Meng knew that Shen Chen would definitely go south to attack Jiangling in order to open up the road for Yizhou to come to help, so he was stationed in Jiangbei.

Xiahoudun and Yu Ban are still deploying troops and transporting grain and grass in the rear, and the army is still in Fancheng and Xinye, and has not yet attacked Xiangyang.

Now the situation in Jingzhou seems to have come to a standstill, and only Shen Chen's side is still in full swing to migrate the population.

Cao Jun and Jiangdong Jun had actually detected his actions, but none of them, including Lu Meng, Lu Xun and others, noticed anything unusual, because in their eyes, this was a normal thing.

Now Shen Chen was sandwiched between two loaves of bread and was forced to give up Nanyang. Even if only half of the Nanyang army is Nanyang, there are at least more than 120,000 family members.

If he abandons these family members, the soldiers will definitely have no intention of fighting and flee and scatter on their own.

Therefore, it is not a strange move to move the population, they feel that they should be relocating the families of soldiers, and they want to place their families in a safer place so that the soldiers on the front line can fight with confidence.

Not to mention the ancient wars, it was also very common to move the population away before the big war. For example, in history, Cao Cao moved to Huainan, Hanzhong, Bajun, Wudu, Nanyang and other places.

Shen Chen would not tell the people the truth, but only told them that the Cao army was cruel, slaughtered Xuzhou, and moved to the rear to hide for the sake of the safety of the people.

So all things considered, no one doubts.

After all, even if they were 10,000 times smarter, they would never have imagined that in another month, there would be heavy rains for many days, causing the Han River to soar more than ten meters high.

If they could think of it, Shen Chen would have to suspect that there was another traverser.

It's just that when Shen Chen was migrating the people, Yu Banxia, Hou Xuan, Lu Meng, Lu Xun and others also wrote letters and exchanged letters from time to time, discussing how to fight with Shen Chen's army now.

They considered sending troops from the north and south at the same time, and intercepted them while Shen Chen was migrating the people.

But at the moment, it is unlikely that they want to volley.

The main reason is that Shen Chen's army has fully retreated to Xiangyang, Yu Ban and Xiahoudun's troops need to cross the water, and it takes time for them to temporarily build ships, and the main army cannot pass for the time being, and only the Jiangdong army can attack.

And the Jiangdong army seems to be outnumbered, but Sun Quan contained the Yellow Shooting Department in Xiakou, Sun Jiao and Lu Meng attacked, and fought with Shen Chen in the field of Dangyang in Nanjun......

Even if they have the courage to die, they must have the strength to match.

Shen Chen's troops were able to compete with the elite troops of the Cao army in the north, and even 50,000 people fought 80,000 people, and defeated Cao Hong head-on. The Jiangdong Army is an expert in water warfare and a layman in land warfare, and I am afraid that 200,000 people may not be able to defeat the 100,000 men and horses of Shen Chen at present.

Therefore, after repeated exchanges, Lü Meng, Lu Xun, Sun Jiao and others gave up the idea of intercepting the families of the soldiers, and continued to wait in Jiangling for Shen Chen to come outside the city to hit his head and break the bloodstream, while waiting for Yu Banxia Hou to build a ship to attack Nanjun.

At this time, the two sides fell into a brief period of peace.

The Cao army was short of ships and could not pass on the north bank of the Han River for the time being, and the Jiangdong Army did not dare to fight on the north bank of the Yangtze River if it could not fight on the north bank of the Yangtze River, so it could only watch Shen Chen transfer the population and move the people.

It was not until August 10 that Yu Ban and Xiahou saw that Shen Chen's main force of 40,000 people had retreated to Yicheng, and there was only one hairy boy on Yuliang Continent who had not even heard much of his name as the main general, so they began to officially cross the river and attack Yuliang Zhou tentatively.

After several rounds of testing, Zhou Budo was extremely nervous, and every time Cao Jun's ship had not yet docked, he greeted with various bows and crossbows, most of which were shot into the river, and a small part of them hit the boat, not even a single cold hair of Cao Jun was injured.

In this case, Cao Jun quickly tried out the details of Zhou Budo, thinking that this guy was really a fledgling novice, so he arranged a tactical way of playing and launched a fierce attack on Yuliangzhou.

The plan of this attack was due to the forbidden planning, and the army was also under his command.

Seeing that Zhou Budo's tactics were extremely immature, not stable at all, and had a bit of a lack of skill, he felt that the enemy general had no ability and should be able to easily take Yuliangzhou and threaten Xiangyang, so he chose to launch an attack in the early morning of 12 August.

As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, the weather is getting colder, and last night the moon was as round as a silver plate, but unfortunately the sky was overcast these days, obscuring the moonlight and making the Han River surface a thick layer of fog.

Under the shroud of smoke, at the end of the morning and the beginning of the sunrise, about five o'clock in the morning, there will be dark shadows on the surface of the Han River.

It was about a few hundred Cao Jun ships, carrying the first batch of about 5,000 landing soldiers, and began to force their way onto the island.

Ever since the capture of Nanyang in July, Cao's army had been preparing ships to begin crossing the river to attack Nanjun. At present, a lot of spare ships have been built, although they are not big ships, but they are still enough to cross the river.

Therefore, Yu Ban allocated about 1,000 ships, a total of 20,000 Cao troops, to officially attack Yuliangzhou.

Yuliangzhou is actually very large, almost 27 square kilometers, and the area of an ordinary county town in ancient times was only two or three square kilometers, and the area of this Jiangxinzhou is equivalent to ten county seats.

But big doesn't mean it's all on the ground, in fact, most of its area at this time is swampy lakes, and the area near Fancheng is basically flooded by the river. The land is mainly on the east and south sides of Yue Leung Chau, and Pang Degong's residence is on the southernmost island of Yue Leung Chau.

The continent is crossed by the Han River, there are several large lakes connected to the Han River, there are countless small islands on the lake, such as dotted stars, only the easternmost has a long longitudinal island from north to south, where Zhou Budo is mainly stationed.

The Han River is in the north, and the Han River is connected to the Han River in the west, so you can see the enemy's attack position at a glance from the hilltop watchtower in the east.

Unfortunately, it happened to be foggy today.

Taking advantage of the fog, Yu Ban's choice of method was a frontal sheep attack and a flank raid.

Ships were sent from the direction of the Han River in the north, pretending to be a surprise attack from the front, but in fact a small force was sent from the west to sail from the Han River into the big lake in the center of Yuliangzhou, attacking from the west of Zhou Budo, and taking advantage of the opportunity to sneak attack.

The autumn wind howled, the fog drifted away, and by the early morning, when the sun rose three quarters, the sky was bright, and the fog had become thin, and the shore of the island could be seen faintly.

"It's all it, it's all it!"

At this time, a sharp whistle sounded from the north of the large island east of Yuliang Chau, and it was extremely abrupt in the sound of the turbulent water of the Han River.

Yu Ban stood on the ship's board, his face was slightly old, he had been in the army for thirty-five years, he was nearly sixty years old, first followed Bao Xin, and then followed Cao Cao, fighting in the south and north for 30 years, and the combat experience was not only so simple.

As soon as he heard the whistle, his originally tense face quickly showed a smile, and he said to the left and right deputy generals Hao Zhou, Niu Gai and others: "Sure enough, as I expected, that little boy must have gone to the north of the continent to defend." ”

Hao Zhou was Yu Ban's protector in history, and followed Yu Ban to surrender Guan Yu, and said with a smile at this moment: "General Shenshu, it seems that there is no one under Shen Chen's account, and he actually sent a hairy boy to guard Yuliang Zhou." The general is going to lose the island of the continent with a little trick. ”

Yu Ban said: "Sun Quan suddenly attacked Jingzhou, Shen Chen was shocked and immediately withdrew his troops, now his top priority is to return to Jiangling, either choose to return to Yizhou from the river, or open up the river to wait for the incoming army, except for Wen Pingshan to stay in Xiangyang, the rest of the main generals will follow him south, so that Zhou is not undoubtedly the main general, I am afraid it is also a last resort." ”

"Shen Chen can also be regarded as a famous person, he became famous as a young man, known as the famous Confucian general in the world, he was still in Henan a few months ago, and now he will soon be buried in Nanjun."

Fu Fang, the general of the rear department, also said: "The king of Wei once said that if you get Shen Chen's head, you will be rewarded with 100 gold and sealed a thousand households. If it is captured, a reward of thousands of gold, and the marquis of ten thousand households will be sealed. Now Shen Chen is going to Yicheng and going south to Jiangling, such a great merit, isn't it to be obtained by Sun Quan's house? ”

"Huh."

Yu Ban smiled and said, "Sun Quan? Incompetent people, four years ago for Zhang Liao in Hefei 800 people repulsed, in June in Xunyang by Zhao Yun 3,000 people raid, lost the army, defeated and lost, if not Jiangdong relying on the geographical advantage, the navy is acceptable, the last time the King of Wei was in Huai, he has been destroyed, or don't expect him to be good. ”

"Hmm......"

And they were silent.

Yu Ban's qualifications are second only to the Cao family's own generals, and he has followed Cao Cao to make repeated military exploits, and is the head of the generals with foreign surnames, and now he is General Zuo, fake Jieyue, and his official position is still above Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong, second only to the former general Xiahou Xuan, so he is naturally qualified to comment on Sun Quan.

And they are just ordinary miscellaneous generals, although they do not belong to Cao Wei's camp, but now Sun Quan is an ally, if they make vain comments and belittle, spread to Sun Quan's ears, and complain to Cao Cao, they will not be able to eat and go around.

While a few people were talking, the fleet followed the river waves and headed towards Yuliang Zhou. In the distance, the north shore was noisy with gongs and drums, and there seemed to be an unknown number of soldiers making noise there.

Yu Ban heard the sound of various horns, gongs and drums coming from afar, and said with a smile: "It seems that Zhu Ling has led the enemy to the north. ”

Zhu Ling is also a capable person, but he is not reused by Cao Cao, and Cao Cao doesn't like him very much, last year he made an excuse to order Yu Ban to seize Zhu Ling's military power, since then Zhu Ling, the general who originally led an army, has become Yu Ban's subordinate, and now he is aggrieved to obey Yu Ban's instructions to be a sheep soldier to attack Zhoubei.

"General, there is land ahead, and we are on the shore."

The ministry pointed the cow cover ahead.

"Hmm."

Yu Ban nodded, waved his big hand and said, "Go to a team of scouts to go into the forest to investigate, and the rest of the people will gather on the shore." ”

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"Yui!"

Niu Gai gave the order and immediately let the ship wave the flag.

On the river, hundreds of troop carriers that could accommodate twenty or thirty people, such as the Raid, Luhua, and Walker, carried nearly 10,000 soldiers and marched rapidly toward the shore of the island.

Even in later generations, Yuliang Continent is full of forests and forests, swamps and a large number of jungles, it is a good place for Xiangyang people to go to play in later generations, at this time it is trees that cover the sky and the sun, the mountain island is towering, and the greenery is a piece.

There is no forest in the sandy area washed out by the river, but there is a long flat area about 100 steps from the beach.

Boats headed towards the shore and washed aground on the beach, although the Mid-Autumn Festival is not cold, but the water of the Han River has been a little cool.

The soldiers in front could jump onto the beach, while the soldiers behind could only wade through the water, step on the cold river and get to the beach with one foot in a shallow foot, and then quickly gather in the direction of the forest.

Yu Ban knew that after this forest, he arrived at Zhou Budo's camp, and now Zhou Budo's soldiers were entangled with Zhu Ling's suspicious soldiers in the north, and now was a good time to attack.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry."

He whispered to the soldiers around him to gather, then waved his hand repeatedly.

The waves of the river are rippling, and the whistling autumn wind blows the trees, giving off the rustle of the leaves.

The sand obscured the soldiers' hurried footsteps, and it was as if nothing but the water and the wind and the sound of the leaves were intertwined, and nothing else.

It's so quiet.

Yu Ban raised his head and stared at the forest that was getting closer and closer.

His brow furrowed suddenly, and an ominous premonition arose inexplicably, which made his heart rise to his throat. They raised their hands and motioned for the soldiers to stop: "Stop! ”

What's wrong?

Where?

In the shocked eyes of the soldiers, Yu Ban glanced around almost frantically, and even unconsciously took two steps back to watch.

"General......" Sima Zhi Dongligon took a few steps forward and asked, cautiously probing.

And Yu Ban suddenly thought, it's too quiet here!

As a vast primitive and undeveloped jungle island, Yuliang Island must have a lot of wild animals on it, and it is often said that a hundred birds return to the forest, but a hundred birds live in the forest.

Autumn is getting stronger in the north, many migratory birds migrate south, islands like this are the favorite places of migratory birds, the temperature is warmer than in the north, and there are lakes and swamp wetlands, which are convenient for catching fish, and it is impossible that there is not even a wild goose swan on the lake wetlands outside.

However, there was silence all around, no birds, no beasts, not even the birds that were supposed to inhabit the forest.

What scared them away?

Yu Ban couldn't help but shiver all over, he suddenly remembered that even the most mediocre general, at least some sentry posts would be arranged here, and even before he came, he was ready to be discovered in advance.

Since Zhou's army was drawn to the north shore, he thought that even if it was discovered in advance, he could quickly assemble his troops and then launch a surprise attack on the enemy camp.

But there was no warning, no whistle, no neighing of the animals as it should have been, and most importantly the scout he had sent out into the woods had not returned, and everything said one thing—there was a deception!

"Withdraw!"

Yu Ban waved his hand reluctantly and shouted loudly.

He is an excellent general, and it can not be said that he is not vigilant, nor can he be described as unmeticulous.

But, late.

At the moment when he waved his hand, hundreds of arrows shot out from behind the forest, drawing a high arc and landing in the ranks that were rapidly gathering in front of the forest.

Wherever the arrows went, the screams of one after another immediately sounded, some people wailed and screamed, and some people hugged their heads and scurried.

Soon a large number of soldiers rushed out of the forest, screaming and charging at them, and the archers standing high in the forest continued to shoot at the Cao soldiers on the beach.

The shore was a hundred steps away from the forest, and the forbidden army was already close to the forest, completely within the range of the shot, almost like a target.

The dense arrows obscured the sky and the sun, even if many people wore battle armor, they could not stop the rain of arrows, and the crimson blood flowers burst into bloom, and in an instant, a group of people fell, and the blood that flowed out dyed the river beach red.

Yu Ban finally withdrew to the shore boat under the cover of his own guards, and when he turned around, he saw that the beach was already full of corpses, and groups of Zhou Budo's troops rushed over, entangled with their remnants.

Although most of the Cao soldiers had retreated to the shore, their boats had run aground and had to be pushed back into the river before they could go, and even if they returned to the river, it was impossible to increase their speed in a short time, and they would be shot by Zhou Budo on the shore as a live target.

Seeing this tragic scene, Yu Ban knew that if he continued like this, the army would collapse completely, and tens of thousands of people would all die here, so he had red eyes and immediately ordered the guards around him: "Bring a team of people to rush over and tell Hao Zhou to immediately organize a team to assemble into a formation to block the pursuing soldiers." ”

"Yui."

The guards led a group of people, holding shields, and quickly rushed towards the right wing of Hao Zhou in the chaotic crowd.

Yu Ban said to another guard: "You go and tell Niu Gai to let him cover Hao Zhou, try to fight the enemy at close range, and delay the momentum of their bow and arrow." ”

"Yui."

The guard also led a group of men to the left.

Yu Ban said to Sima Dongligon beside him: "You guys immediately drag the boats into the water, quickly!" ”

Dongligon immediately complied.

At this time, tens of thousands of people were not completely crowded together, and the mile-long beach was full of chaotic soldiers.

Many people had already boarded the ship, but because the ship needed to be towed into the river for a short time, a large number of soldiers were forced to stay, which was quite a bit of a retreat from Dunkirk.

Zhou Budo's army pressed forward step by step, shooting arrows indiscriminately, I don't know how many Cao troops died from the arrows, in this case, Yu Ban, who has rich combat experience, knows that he can't mess up, and he must quickly stabilize the situation and organize the soldiers.

Fortunately, there is still a big difference in the quality of the elite Cao soldiers and the Jiangdong soldiers, if Zhang Liao and Zhao Yunchong were Cao Jun at the beginning, it would probably be cold.

After a short period of confusion, Hao Zhou and Niu Gai immediately organized two troops of more than 1,000 people, erected shields from the left and right flanks to cover their teammates, and then quickly intertwined and stopped in front of the attacking Zhou Budo army.

Yu Ban immediately ordered the soldiers to move closer in his direction, some of the soldiers went to the shore to push the boats, and the other part of the soldiers gathered in the central area and began to line up.

In the face of the dense rain of arrows, although Cao soldiers continued to fall, in the whistling whistle and the shouts of the officers, each soldier bent his waist and jumped with his head bowed under the cover of the shield, and he quickly organized a central army of 3,000 people.

Zhou Budo's army in the distance was not overwhelming, the number was far less than the forbidden army, and seeing that the enemy was so stubborn, he immediately ordered to stop archery, and the Yellow Gate pawn was dispatched.

Deng Ai roared, and with the song of Zhou Tai's Yellow Gate Guard, plus more than 3,000 soldiers, he brazenly rushed towards the middle battle.

The timing was very good.

Because Yu Ban has already erected a shield array, the lethality of the archers has weakened a lot, and the most important thing now is not to let the enemy fully assemble the formation, so it is necessary to charge the formation.

In Deng Ai and Zhou Tai took the lead, five hundred yellow gate guards wore steel armor, like heavy armor soldiers in a camp, stepping on a roaring pace, like a steel torrent beast, attacking the middle formation temporarily organized by Yu Ban.

Bang bang bang ~~~~ stab.

The blades of the various blades intertwined, and the spears and halberds of the Cao soldiers stretched out from behind their shields pierced the armor stomach and made a screeching sound of metal grinding.

But this little strength was not enough to tickle the Yellow Gate pawns, and every Cao Jun used the strength to eat milk, but under the collision of the heavily armored foot soldiers, they retreated step by step, and were even knocked to the ground, allowing them to rush into the formation in an instant.

The improvised formation collapsed in an instant.

"Kill!"

Zhou Budo's foot soldiers in the rear saw that the Yellow Gate soldiers had rushed into the formation, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they also followed the Yellow Gate soldiers all the way to slash and kill.

Even the archers threw down their crossbows, drew their swords from their waists, and charged with the soldiers in front of them.

Baizhang outside the shore of the hillside, Zhou Budo and Cai Du looked at the scene below.

I saw that the one-mile-long river beach was densely packed with Cao soldiers, and the two wings plus the center formed a formation of nearly 5,000 people.

But Zhou Budo used the Yellow Gate pawn as the tip of the spear, and fiercely pierced the enemy's middle formation, and the formation that had just been organized was broken for a while, Deng Aizhou Tai took the Yellow Gate pawn, and the generals Li Ying and Huo Yang led more than 4,000 soldiers to fight the Cao army again.

Seeing this, Yu Ban on the ship suddenly felt cold.

He never expected that the enemy generals who thought he was useless had already set up an ambush, and I am afraid that the tension he felt a few days ago was also deliberately done by him to confuse them.

And the enemy's tactics and timing are just right.

First, the bow and arrow were fired indiscriminately, disrupting the formation of the Cao army, and when the Cao army barely stabilized the position and used the shield to resist the bow and arrow, he quickly changed his tactics and tore the opening with heavy armor and foot soldiers.

The overall tactic is very simple, that is, to keep the tens of thousands of Cao soldiers in a chaotic situation and not allow them to evacuate calmly.

The only good news is that after stabilizing the situation for a short time just now, many boats have been towed into the river, and Dongligon pushed Yu Ban's boat into the water, shouting as he pushed hard: "General, you go first." ”

Yu Ban did not speak.

Because he knows that everything is over, and the formation is never organized, then there is only one way out.

He was a man who spared his life, and at this time he could only escape back into the river under the cover of Dongligon.

The Cao soldiers on the shore are still being slaughtered.

A lot of people started grabbing boats and then rowed desperately to escape.

On the contrary, less than 1,000 Cao soldiers were actually killed, and a large number of Cao soldiers were killed by robbing ships, trampling on ships, and falling into the water.

After waiting for more than half an hour, the remaining Cao troops trapped on the shore could only choose to surrender.

The fighting finally subsided.