June 2, 25th year of Jian'an, Chaisang County.

Because the rain in the Yangtze River is expected from May to October, it has been raining lightly in the past two days, and mist has risen on the river in the early morning.

In the almost undetectable drizzle, the Jiangdong soldiers who always pay attention to the surface of the river look into the distance.

Due to the serious shortage of troops, Chaisang was abandoned by Sun Quan and no longer became a bridgehead against Liu Bei's group, but as a front-line lookout station.

Therefore, the strength of the Jiangdong Army in the entire Chaisang County is pitifully small, only 500 people in Yiqu, and they take turns to patrol the river defense every day.

There is still some distance from the Yangtze River, so the guard built a watchtower in the Jiujiang Pavilion in the north, and sent two teams of soldiers and 100 people to inspect and monitor the north bank every day.

At this moment, on the watchtower of the Jiujiang Pavilion, a soldier stared intently at the Yangtze River.

The mighty river is endless, except for the occasional protruding mountain islands on the river, under the shroud of mist, only the shadow of the hills can be seen faintly on the north bank, and nothing else can be seen clearly.

After a while, he rubbed his eyes, which were sore from looking at one place for a long time, squatted down from the watchtower, and shouted down, "Oh, Lao Li, it's your turn." ”

Lao Li was still napping under the watchtower, Lao Li pretended not to hear, this drudgery, he could only stare at the water every day, he couldn't do anything, whoever likes to do it, he didn't want to suffer this crime again anyway.

When the soldiers above saw that Lao Li did not move, they scolded and climbed down from the watchtower, pushing and calling Lao Li up.

"Get up, stop screaming."

Lao Li had no choice but to get up from the ground lazily, patted the dust, muttered a few words in his mouth, turned his head, and was about to climb to the watchtower, but suddenly looked into the distance, stunned in place, and did not move.

Seeing that he didn't move, the soldier next to him pushed him angrily and said, "What kind of hysteria do you have, if you let the captain know, it won't be as simple as the Ten Army Sticks." ”

"That'...... Over there......"

Lao Li almost trembled and pointed to the river, and he felt trembling all over his body.

The soldier turned his head to look at it, and his scalp tingled.

I saw that on the vast river, I don't know when countless boats appeared, and the black shadows were in the mist, slowly heading towards the direction of Jiujiang.

In the next second, the soldier let out a heart-rending cry: "Enemy attack! ”

"Woooooooo

"Dongdong Dongdong!"

Suddenly, gongs, drums, and trumpets sounded continuously.

The two teams of Eastern Wu soldiers stationed in the Jiujiang Pavilion on the south bank of the Yangtze River were in a mess.

Soon they retreated into the city, and the general of the city was only a Qu army, in charge of five hundred men, where had they ever seen such a big battle.

Without hesitation, he ordered to abandon the city and flee.

This strategy is the result of Qu Jun's final decision after thinking about it in the past few days.

No way, it's the only way to survive.

Resist?

Dead.

Surrender?

What about Koto's family?

So the only way to do this is to escape.

Anyway, if the tens of thousands of people are running over, Chai Sang can't hold it, and it is normal for Wu Hou to treat them as if they died in battle.

After escaping, first find a place to hide and hide, and hide for three or five months to see what happened afterwards.

If Jiangdong was destroyed, they would take off their military uniforms and run home as civilians, and if Wu Hou repelled the enemy, they would pretend to be defeated and retreat into the mountains and forests, not deserters, but better than dead.

At that moment, Qu Junhou shouted, and all the soldiers in the city fled from the south gate and ran towards the direction of Lushan Mountain in the south, where they had stored some food and could barely survive.

When Guan Yu entered Chaisang and learned that the enemy didn't even dare to shoot a bow and arrow, and Chaisang City was already an empty city, he sneered and said, sure enough, it was Jiangdong rats.

The next day, Guan Yu left 2,000 soldiers, the main force waved eastward, through Pengze, take Wankou, to Zongyang, break Nanling, within a few days, even occupied more than ten walled cities in Jiangdong, for a time the momentum shook the sky, so that Sun Quan of Weixukou was terrified.

If Guan Yu hadn't waited for Zhao Yun and Ma Chao's army to march along the north coast of the river and join him in Linhu County and Xiang'an County, I'm afraid he would have already hit Linhu and Tongguan Township and began to attack Ochre City.

And just when Guan Yu's troops were in their prime, Wei Yan also went south from Peng Lize and entered Nanchang.

The Nanchang defenders did not flee.

They fell.

Pound only besieged the city for two days, and the defenders in the city could not bear the pressure to go out of the city and surrender.

After that, Wei Yan and Pang De formally divided their troops in Nanchang, and Pang De went east to Yuhan County, that is, Yugan County in Shangrao, Jiangxi Province, and then went to Yingtan City, Shangrao City, Quzhou City, Jinhua City, and Zhuji City to enter Hangzhou City.

Wei Yan went northeast into Poyang County, that is, Jingdezhen City in the later generations, and then went deep into the southeast hills, took Huangshan City, and followed the trail of the Hangrui Expressway in the later generations to Yuhang District.

However, compared to the frontal battlefield, the two of them did not travel fast.

After all, it was a long detour, so when Guan Yu arrived at Nanling, they had just set off.

It is expected that it will take at least two months to get to Chantang, and if the weather is bad and the rainy season occurs, this date will be postponed.

On June 17, Zhao Yun's Ma Chao's army, which set out from Xunyang, finally arrived.

It stands to reason that it is only 600 miles from Xunyang to the mouth of the Xukou, and it can be reached in about ten days on a normal march, but they have walked for fifteen days.

The main reason is that the road is still not easy to walk.

Last year's flood not only flooded Xiangfan, but also the lower reaches of the Han River, the banks of the Yangtze River could not be spared.

After the flood passed, countless swampy lakes were left behind, almost submerging the north shore, and the roads were muddy and difficult to navigate, making the soldiers of the three armies miserable.

Fortunately, the transportation of grain and grass is mainly by ship, and the foot soldiers only need to bring a small amount of materials, otherwise it will take at least a month to arrive on such a road.

Zhao Yunma Chao arrived to the west of the mouth of the river, occupying Linhu County and Xiang'an County on the north bank of the Yangtze River, about 20 kilometers away from the mouth of the river.

Guan Yu's department was stationed in the north of Tongguan Township on the south bank of the Yangtze River, facing each other across the river from Zhao Yun's department and Ma Chao's department, and they were each other's horns.

After they arrived, Guan Yu quickly made arrangements and sent Zhao Yun to lead 5,000 men north to Dongxingdi, where Chaohu Lake entered the mouth of the water in order to prevent Cao Wei from sending a small force to attack and disturb.

Then he ordered Ma Chao to sweep the Sun Wu barracks on the west bank of the Misushui River, set up their camps there, and control the entire west of the Misukou and north of the Yangtze River.

By the beginning of July, Ma Chao had completed the task and pressed the camp well, and Guan Yu also completed the construction of the rear camp and built three camps, making Huang Shot and Gan Ning the other two battalion commanders, and then Huang Shot stayed behind and led his army of 25,000 sailors to the expedition.

The mighty river is rolling waves, the Yangtze River is as wide as the sea, and from the south bank of the river to the north bank of the river, you can hardly see the end at a glance.

Countless ships set off from the newly built wharf in the camp north of Tongguan Township, and thousands of large and small ships seemed to fill the entire Yangtze River, and the connected flags covered the sky and the sun, like a brilliant red burning cloud, slowly moving towards the east.

At this moment, the city of ochre on the south bank of the Yangtze River, when this city and the camp on the north bank of the river blocked the army of Huang Zu, how similar was the situation at that time to now?

At that time, Huang Zu had tens of thousands of Jiangxia sailors, plus Mei Gan, Chen Lan, Lei Xu and others defected, with more than 100,000 people.

Moreover, Liu Pan also made a detour from the south to attack Qian Tang.

Sun Quan also felt that the day was precarious, and with the support of Zhou Yu, Lu Su and others, he barely fought.

But now Zhou Yu and Lu Su are all dead, and even Lu Meng is dead.

Jiangdong's talents have become extremely thin, there are few reliable strategists, there are fewer and fewer generals who can fight, and the number of soldiers is far less than at the beginning.

Sun Quan stood on the city of ochre and looked at the river, his heart was full of boredom and all kinds of complicated emotions.

There is regret, there is grief, there is resentment, but there is no guilt.

There is nothing to feel guilty about backstabbing an ally, he is not a moral person in the first place, and even if he regrets it, he regrets why he did not succeed, but failed, that's all.

When Guan Yu's fleet appeared on the river and Ma Chao's army appeared on the north bank, the Jiangdong army in Misukou and Zheqi City all showed expressions of fear.

Because the difference in strength between the two sides is too big.

Now the total strength of Jiangdong is only 50,000 or 60,000 people, but these troops are not all on the front line. Qiantang must be garrisoned, Jianye must also be garrisoned, and people are needed for coastal river defense.

As a result, the front line of Misukou and Zheqi had less than 40,000 troops, and nearly 20,000 had to defend other places.

And what about the other side?

Liu Bei only dispatched 100,000 soldiers and horses in this battle against Wu, less than one-third of the country's troops.

But Guang Wei Xukou and Ochre Qi City have to face 80,000 soldiers on land and water opposite, dense fleets cover the surface of the river, and the banners that cover the sky and the sun and the camps that stretch for more than ten miles occupy the entire north bank of the river.

Just looking at this endless array of enemy flags is enough to make people feel terrified.

Sun Quan was also sad, and said to Kan Ze beside him: "Hasn't Zhang Liao replied yet?" Liu Bei has already hit the mouth of the wet beard. ”

Kan Ze replied: "Zhang Liao said before that the King of Wei had sent the general Cao Chun on the way here, and he is still reorganizing his troops and horses, and the King of Wei has just quelled the domestic turmoil, and he wants to prepare a large army immediately in a short time, it is not so easy, they hope that we can resist for at least a month." ”

"A month?"

Sun Quan muttered, "Reinforcements will arrive in a month?" ”

"That's how it should be."

"That's good, if only for a month....."

Sun Quan exhaled and said, "You must order He Qi Panzhang and Lu Fan to fight and hold out!" ”

Now the generals of Jiangdong have lost everything, and even the candidates who can become the governor are gone.

At this time in history, he chose Lu Xun.

But now Lu Xun is facing such a situation, and he also said that he is powerless, so he can only take He Qi as the main general, Pan Zhang, Lu Fan, Zhu Ran, and they guard the north of the Xukou, and he personally sits in the city of Zheqi.

Soon the order was passed to the camp of Misukou in the north of the river, and the camps closed the gates one after another, held the dock fort, and countless crossbowmen went up to the tower to defend.

After Guan Yu arrived at the mouth of the water, he did not immediately attack, but personally took a boat to the camp to watch.

On top of that huge ship, Guan Yu and Ma Chao looked out to the east.

I saw that the mouth of the water is worthy of being the important land of Jiangdong, the dock fort stretches for more than ten miles, and the periphery is no longer an ordinary camp, but a castle like a water building, a fortress, and a high wall.

As the pass that Sun Quan built for more than ten years, there is a fence on the periphery, an inner city inside, and then a school field, a high turret, an earthen wall, and a water dock fort is built on the river surface near the water and the Yangtze River.

At the same time, its overall internal environment has three layers and three layers outside, like a labyrinth, the upper and lower structure channels are complex, there are high-rise buildings, waterways, baffles, female walls, although the overall structure is the outer rammed earth inside the wood, but it is still as solid as a rock, it can be said that it is more difficult to fight than the city.

And the ochre city on the other side is not easy to attack, because the ochre city was built on the ochre ridge in later generations, it is a city on a small hill, if Guan Yu's army is strong, it has to rush upwards on its back, and the bows and crossbows, rolling stones, and sassal wood on it are by no means vegetarian.

Therefore, unless it is a battle for either the mouth of the mouth or the city of ochre, the difficulty is very high.

It is no wonder that Cao Cao and the entire Cao Wei group in history have returned home four times in the four attacks at the mouth of the water, such an important town is indeed not something that ordinary people can break.

After Guan Yu watched, he said to Ma Chao: "It's not easy to attack head-on, so you should try it slowly." ”

Ma Chao has also been in the war for a long time, so he naturally knows it, and nodded again and again: "Yes, this Suxukou is an important town of Sun Quan, and it has been in business for more than ten years, and it is indeed not so easy to break it." ”

"What does Meng Qi suggest?"

Guan Yu asked.

Ma Chao thought for a while and said: "We should build pontoon bridges, build large engineering equipment, and attack the north side of the mouth from the land on the north bank of the river, so that we can give full play to the advantages of the army." ”

"Not bad."

Guan Yu agreed: "Now that the mouth of the river is on the other side of the river, if the Guangshui army attacks strongly, it will indeed not be able to give full play to the advantage of our large number of troops." ”

On the side, Guan Ping said: "Father, in that case, why don't we cross the river and harass their rear?" ”

Guan Yu asked rhetorically: "Tanzhi, have you seen Jiangdong's naval army?" ”

Koto Water Army?

Guan Ping thought for a moment, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat: "Their navy is ambushing us?" ”

"Hmm."

Guan Yu nodded: "Although we only sent 30,000 sailors in this battle, the Jiangdong Naval Division has been disabled by Xiaoqing, so we definitely don't dare to fight a decisive battle with us on the river, only to ambush and wait for us to show our flaws before attacking." If we cross the river and attack the rear, we will be flanked by them in front and back, and then the grain and grass will not be able to keep up, will it be a dead end? ”

Guan Ping said fearfully: "Fortunately, my father saw through it, otherwise we would really think that Jiangdong was completely empty." ”

Guan Yu looked around and said: "Meng Qi is right, now we should give full play to the advantage of being strong and strong, and just concentrate our forces to break all the way." The city of ochre is easy to defend and difficult to attack on the mountain, and the navy cannot go up, and the army is not easy to come, so it is necessary to break through the mouth of the water and attack from the north of their camp. ”

Ma Chao was a little worried: "I'm afraid that their camp is strong, and ordinary siege equipment is difficult to break." ”

"Hahaha."

Guan Yu stroked his beard and laughed: "It's okay, Kong Ming and Xiaoqing have improved the stone cart before, changing the stone cart from the original throwing to catapulting, and the range and power have been greatly increased. ”

After saying that, he turned his head to look at Ma Chao and said, "Meng Qi." ”

"The last general!"

Ma Chao hurriedly bowed.

"You immediately start building a pontoon bridge in the upper reaches of the water, and lead the army to cross the river, and I will lead the sailors to respond to you."

"Yui."

"Where is Zhao Lei?"

"The end will be."

Guan Yu's account was under the governor Zhao Lei.

"You're in charge of building the equipment and building the rocks."

"Yes."

"Where is Ganning?"

"The end will be."

"Let you lead the sailor to respond to Ma Chao."

"Yui."

The crowd was ordered.

After Guan Yu inspected the mouth of the water, he withdrew his troops and left in the afternoon.

Conventional strong attack, it is really difficult to fight.

Therefore, he must give full play to his advantages, and attack the mouth of the water and land forces at the same time, so that Sun Quan will pay the price of daring to divide troops to guard both sides of the strait!