The general trend of the world is sometimes like playing chess.

Jingzhou was originally a dead end, with Cao Jun in the north and Sun Quan in the southeast, flanked on both sides, and the retreat was also blocked by Sun Jiao, and there was no way to go to heaven and earth, and there was almost no way to live.

Shen Chen's best outcome was only to fight Sun Jiao in Yiling, or flee back to Yizhou from Fangling in Linfang.

But Huang Zhong's appearance is like a god's hand, bringing the entire chess game to life.

After the chess game was alive, it was about to start the clarion call to launch a counteroffensive, and on August 30, the 24th year of Jian'an, Huang Zhong marched into the state tomb, Gan Ning surrounded Shaxian, and Sun Quan was killed.

By September 1, Shen Chen's army began to attack Yiling and Yidao, which coincided with Zhuge Liang sending the last 8,000 people from Jiangzhou, led by generals Liao Hua and Zhao Rong, to take Yidao from Jiangdao and attack Sun Jiao with Shen Chen's east and west.

Sun Jiao's grain route was cut off, Lü Meng's army was annihilated, and the morale of the army was low.

Shen Chen had abundant troops at this time, when 50,000 people attacked Jiangling, Gan Ning took 20,000, and after joining Zhao Yun and Shamoke, there were 50,000, plus Liaohua Zhao Rong had 60,000.

After two days of attack, Sun Jiaojun's army was left with only hard support. In an army of more than 30,000 people, there is not one in ten who has military morale, and there are thousands of people who fled and surrendered overnight.

The sky was still gloomy, and the rain eased a little during the day for the past two days, and at night it rained continuously, and at the beginning of September, the storm struck again, and the thick ink-like clouds covered the sky and the sun, brewing a terrible wind and rain.

Danyangju, located south of Yidao, is currently the station of the Shen Chen Army.

Now Zhao Yunbu occupies Huya Mountain, Shamoke has seized Yaoting, the two of them rushed to attack Yiling, Yiling defenders are not as many as Yidao, Sun Jiao is not in Yiling, the morale of the soldiers and horses here is even lower, and the military camp has been crumbling.

The Liao Hua and Zhao Rong divisions are located in Jingmen Mountain north of Yidao, and Shen Chen's main force against Sun Jiao's troops in Yidao has formed a sandwich trend.

Today, Shen Chen got the news that Zhao Yunbu and Shamoke had captured the stronghold of Yiting within two days, and it had been extremely difficult for the Yiling defenders, so he summoned the generals to discuss the matter.

Many generals under his command gathered, and Shen Chen looked around at everyone in the tent and said, "Everyone, we have reinforcements again. ”

"Reinforcements are coming?"

The soldiers' hearts were lifted, and the already high morale was even stronger, and everyone had a smile on their faces.

"Hmm."

Shen Chen nodded and said, "The king has ordered Meng Da and Kou Feng to send all the more than 10,000 defenders of Shangyong and Fangling from Linfu to the south, and they should be able to reach Maicheng in two days." ”

"Great, we have more troops."

"At the beginning of this battle, everyone was beating drums in their hearts, if it weren't for the general's divine might, I am afraid that the soldiers would have been afraid a long time ago, but now that I look at it, the general has long been clever."

"What are you talking nonsense, we have always believed that the general can lead us to highlight the predicament, how can you not believe the general?"

"Nonsense, I've always believed it, aren't the soldiers under my command a little worried?"

Zhou Jian, Wang Jie, Wu Shuo, Han Hu, Zhao Jun, Li Ying and other generals of the original Jingzhou Army breathed a sigh of relief, and after capturing Jiangling, the haze of the past was swept away.

Even Shen Chen was a lot more relaxed, although this Liao Hua Kou sealed their two reinforcements with few troops, but they came at the right time.

Because Liu Bei attacked Guan Yu and his own main force in Guanzhong, there were very few left-behind troops in Yizhou, and this bit of men and horses were also squeezed out like toothpaste, so in this battle, both sides had done their best.

Shen Chen said to everyone: "Sun Jiao's destruction is imminent, but this fang is still a little capable, Yiling will probably not last long, but he may be able to last ten days and a half months, I don't have time to spend with him in Yidao, I plan to go north with the army and take Xiangyang, where is Zhang Xiu?" ”

"The end will be."

Zhang Xiu's heart sank, and she stood up and arched her hand.

"Let you be the main general, lead 20,000 people to be stationed here, and fight Sun Jiao with Liaohua Zhao Rong."

Am I the main general?

Zhang Xiu was stunned for a moment, he was nearly sixty years old, and he was only a second-tier senior general of Liu Bei's group for many years, and he had been working under Shen Chen.

Now that he has become the main general?

"Zhang Xiu?"

"Yui!"

Zhang Xiu only felt that his heart was surging, and he said loudly: "The last general will not be dishonored." ”

"Hmm."

Shen Chen nodded with satisfaction and said to Lu Chang: "Lu Chang, you lead 10,000 people to take a boat to Xiangyang with me." ”

"Yui."

Although Lu Chang wondered whether it would be too early for Sun Jiao to take Xiangyang before Sun Jiao had been defeated and Sun Quan had no news, he would never question Shen Chen's order.

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"Ladies and gentlemen."

Shen Chen looked around at everyone and said in a deep voice: "In this battle, I not only want to destroy Sun Quan's main force and take Jiangdong directly, but also cut off Cao Cao's claws stretched out to Nanyang, none of his 100,000 people in Xiangyang want to run, and after destroying Sun Jiao, he will immediately go north and go straight to Xiangyang, understand?" ”

"Yui!"

Everyone should give it up.

After the military order was issued, Shen Chen's camp was divided into 10,000 people today and went south by boat.

At the same time, several military orders were sent to other places.

Yiling's Huya Mountain, Yiting, Zhao Yun and Shamoke also received orders, ordering them to quickly dispose of Yiling's defenders and go north to Xiangyang to converge.

And the Wenpin and Zhou Budo departments, who retreated from Xiangyang to Yicheng and Nanzhang, also received Shen Chen's military order two days later.

There are also Kou Feng and Meng Dabu who went to Maicheng, Liao Hua and Zhao Rong who went to Jingmen Mountain, and so on.

Now in the area around Jiangling in the south of Guangnan County, the strength of Liu Bei's group has 80,000 people, and in the area of Xiakou, more than 30,000 people and horses of Huang Shot have also been rescued, plus 70,000 Huang Zhong and 20,000 Ganning, with a total strength of 200,000.

Shen Chen left Zhang Xiu to continue to be stationed in Danyangju, and ordered them to quickly solve Sun Jiao and then go north, while he himself went south by boat, arriving in Xiakou from Xiashui two days later.

At this time, Xiakou's soldiers and horses already had 100,000 people, and surrounded Shaxian's Sun Quanli with three layers and three outer layers.

Although Sun Quan ordered the withdrawal of troops on the same day, how easy is it to withdraw troops in a short time? The wharf was also surrounded by the Jingzhou army, and the river was densely packed with boats.

Shen Chen only glanced at the city from a distance on the periphery of Shaxian, and quickly left.

Sun Quan died or not, he didn't care.

The top priority now is to let Cao Jun die in Xiangfan.

On September 3, in the midst of a raging storm, Shen Chen ordered Huang Jie to be the commander and led 50,000 men to continue the attack on Shaxian, while he and Huang Zhong led an army of 60,000 to take Xiangyang.

The situation is clearly clear.

Shen Chen had a great appetite, not only did Sun Quan have to stay in Jingzhou forever, but Xiangfan's Cao army must not let them escape, this battle must hurt Cao Wei, so that they will not be able to send troops to support them in the battle to destroy Jiangdong.

Soon the fleet went north along the Han River, passing through Jingling and Yunguo, and joined Zhou Budo and the Ministry of Culture and Recruitment in the area of Yicheng, with a total of 75,000 people, and the waterway was carried out at the same time, and it was directly taken to Xiangfan.

On September 6, the sky was thick with clouds, and from the end of August to the beginning of September, it had been raining heavily for seven or eight consecutive days, and Xiahoudun and Yu Ban were in a very bad mood.

At this time, the two were stationed in Xiangyang and Fancheng respectively, and the weather today was a little lighter, but after many days of heavy rain, the Han River had risen by two or three zhang, and many low depressions were submerged, and the grain road in the rear was not very smooth.

Just after the morning eclipse, Cao Jun, who was stationed on Yuliang Island, saw the dense ships on the Han River in the south, and the whining horn soon resounded throughout the sky, and the sound of the enemy attack spread throughout Xiangfan.

Xiahoudun was still in Xiangyang City, and when he got the news, he hurriedly braved the rain to go out of the city, and overlooked the Han River on the small high mountain in the east of the city, and saw that the vast Han River was full of Jingzhou naval troops.

Xiangfan in the Han Dynasty was very small, and Xiangyang was a small piece of old city surrounded by moats in later generations, and Fancheng was directly opposite it, across the river. In later generations, a large part of Xiangyang urban area was in the plain area at this time, and Shen Chen's army was on the triangular river surface of Yuliangzhou, Xiangyang, and Fancheng.

Soon his army landed on the shore of Fancheng, the location of the shore was called Kuangju at that time, and the approximate location in the later generations was in the area of Fancheng Jiangtan Park, which was Xiangyang City in the south, Fancheng in the west, and Yuliangzhou in the east.

Yu Ban was stationed in Fancheng right now, and when he saw Shen Chen's army starting to come ashore, he didn't dare to go out of the city, so he could only stick to the turtle and shrink, which made the original Shen Chen's Moon Array useless.

The so-called moon formation is a semi-circular formation, the chariot is arranged on the periphery, the soldiers take spears and bows and crossbows in the car, and the rear is backed by the river, if the enemy wants to take advantage of the mobility of the cavalry, when you go ashore can not organize a formation counterattack, you can use the moon formation to resist, created by Liu Yu of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Seeing that Yu Ban's courage was smaller than flea droppings, Shen Chen calmly arranged for the army to go ashore and stationed the camp on the high ground of Kuaju, including the slope of Dunsay Mountain in the north, because at this time the river had swelled and flooded the ground, so he could only be stationed on the mountain.

By September 7, Shen Chen's army had already set up camp outside the city, and Xiahou and Yu Ban were so anxious that they sent people to the north to send a message to the north and at the same time stepped up the rectification of military affairs to resist Shen Chen's army attacking at any time.

In the early morning of September 8, Shen Chen ordered Wen Ping and Zhou Budo to hold the camp, while he himself took a boat and led 30,000 people to the Han River and began to attack Xiangyang.

The sky is raining like a torrential rain, Shen Chen is standing on the boat wearing a robe, the Han River is slamming on the shore, the big boat is swaying with the waves, he raised his head to look at the cloudy sky, the raindrops the size of beans continue to fall, so that the Han River splashes countless ripples and ripples.

"General!"

Lu Chang came over and reported: "The soldiers have landed. ”

"Hmm."

Shen Chen looked at the familiar Xiangyang City in the distance and said, "The torrential rain will continue in the next few days, and the water level on the river will still soar, so we must station our troops on higher ground." ”

"Da Xian Mountain?"

Lu Chang looked at the high mountain south of Xiangyang.

If there is any mountain in the surrounding area, it is naturally the highest mountain, and you should not have to worry about being flooded when you are stationed on the mountain.

However, Shen Chen shook his head and said sternly: "Dan Xian Mountain must not be stationed, every time it rains, the mountain flood will break out, and the academy was flooded once that year, so you can only find a small hill more than ten zhang high, if you can't find it, you will build your own soil." ”

"Yui."

Lu Chang was serious in the morning, so he had no choice but to respond.

In history, Lu Chang was the general of Xiangyang, and Guan Yu focused on Fancheng at that time and did not attack him, but he was also choked enough.

A flash flood broke out in Xian Mountain, and he was almost drowned, that is, Guan Yu's main force was only thirty or forty thousand people, and he was concentrating his forces to deal with Cao Ren and Yu Ban, otherwise Lu Chang would probably have to be cold.

Although Shen Chen didn't know about the flash floods in Da Xian Mountain in history, he lived in Xiangyang for more than 20 years, and every time there was a rainstorm in Xiangyang, there would be flash floods in Da Xian Mountain, how could this be a place to be stationed?

In the morning, 30,000 people found a large area of hills and small high slopes to the east of Xiangyang and set up camp.

This is the land of the Pang family, the ancestral house of Pang Tong is in the east of Xiangyang City, there were originally fertile fields for thousands of miles, but the people have migrated to the south, and now it has become an empty village.

After camping, Shen Chen waited for the heavy rain to continue.

Historically, it rained from the end of August, and the torrential rain lasted for more than half a month, so that the Han River soared five or six zhang at its highest, and the height of more than ten meters flooded Xiangfan.

Now that the rain was halfway down, he just had to wait patiently for the right time.

On September 10, the Han River continued to swell to a height of three zhang, and at this time almost half of Xiangyang was submerged, and the water gates in the city continued to discharge floodwater, but to no avail, far from keeping up with the speed of the inflow.

Xiahoudun closed seven or eight water gates in the north and west to slow down the inflow of water into the city and allow water to flow out from the lower east and south water gates.

But this undoubtedly makes the water level of the moats on the southeast side extremely high.

Shen Chen saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and immediately issued an order, and the mighty fleet sailed from the Han River into the Xiangyang moat, which was 100 meters wide, and under the backdrop of the water level, the ships and other ships were actually level with the city.

The Jingzhou navy only needs to drive the boat outside the city, build a ladder with wooden planks, and then walk directly into the city.

After the ship sailed into the moat of Xiangyang, leaning on the female wall on the second deck, the two sides launched fierce bows and arrows, the distance between the two sides was less than 20 zhang, even if the bow and arrow were interfered with, it would not affect the lethality and range.

The fire lasted for a morning, with both sides suffering casualties. In the afternoon, Shen Chen's military ships were lined up with planks, and under the rain of arrows, he ordered the ships to approach the base of the city wall, intending to force their way to the city.

Xiangyang is surrounded by water, and there is no land outside the city, so ships can sail directly under the city walls, relative to the two cities side by side.

Xiahoudun braved the rain to resist desperately, personally went to the city to fight, and fought the enemy with difficulty.

But at this time, the morale of the soldiers was extremely low, even if their number was more than that of the Jingzhou army, they could not stop it at all, and once let the Jingzhou army kill on the city wall and almost broke through Xiangyang.

If it weren't for Xiahoudun's death, I'm afraid that Xiangyang would have changed hands at this time.

It was not until the evening that the sound of the Jingzhou army sounded, and the soldiers withdrew to the ship like a tide, and then the ship swaggered away in front of Xiahoudun.

When the Jingzhou army sailed out of the Xiangyang moat and looked at their departing backs, the worried Xiahoudun raised his head to look at the sky that was still raining, and the mighty river outside the city that had been surging like a flood.

This heavy rain.

When will it stop!