Three days later.

Approaching dusk, Cao Cao's more than 100 ships finally docked at the edge of Wulin.

As he approached Wulin, Cao Cao was extra cautious, causing the surrounding ships to stare at the situation on the other side of the river.

Fortunately, the Sun-Liu coalition was not found.

The 600,000-strong army in Ulin is now standing on the shore, waiting for the arrival of the prime minister.

Among them, there were many soldiers with yellow faces and thin muscles due to schistosomiasis, but after learning that the prime minister had returned, they all cheered up and looked at the shore.

"I heard from the brothers who came first, this time the prime minister set foot on Immortal Island and met the immortals?"

"What nonsense? Where are there immortals in this world? ”

"But the prime minister has disappeared in the river for so long, how can he return safely if he doesn't meet immortals?"

The most talked about by the soldiers was the news brought by the soldiers who arrived a day earlier.

What they are looking forward to the most is the so-called immortals.

As soon as Cao Cao got off the boat, ten thousand soldiers knelt down to welcome the prime minister back.

Cheng Yu, who came back one step earlier, hurriedly surrendered his hand.

Cao Cao smiled indifferently and said:

"What is the situation in the army?"

Cheng Yu reported in a deep voice:

"Prime Minister, according to what the immortals said, the minister will cook all the Artemisia annua for the soldiers to eat."

"Now the plague seems to have improved, and the infected people have recovered some strength."

Cheng Yuzheng was talking, and Hua Tuo, who got off the boat and treated the soldiers, also rushed over, and said in a deep voice:

"Prime Minister, the soldiers' health is improving, and it is expected that they will fully recover in about half a month!"

"The medicine given by the immortals really works!"

Hua Tuo couldn't hold back his excitement.

As a doctor, Hua Tuo was even more excited to watch the patient gradually improve.

What's more, this plague Hua Tuo couldn't suppress it at all.

Now that he learned that Artemisia annua could cure this plague, Hua Tuo was busy recording it in the Green Capsule Book.

"Zhongde, what is the movement of the Sun-Liu Alliance?"

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and continued to ask.

In addition to the plague, the most important thing is the Sun-Liu coalition.

I've been gone for two months.

In the past two months, it is impossible for the Sun-Liu coalition army not to detect the movement, but now it seems that no troops have been dispatched.

"Back to Prime Minister ......"

Before Cheng Yu's words fell, he was interrupted by bursts of cheers from the front line:

"The Jiangdong Navy is coming!"

"Quick! Protect the Prime Minister! ”

Hearing this voice, everyone hurriedly looked towards the riverbank not far away.

Sure enough, what loomed was the ships of Koto!

planned to capture Jiangdong, and Cao Cao also knew Jiangdong quite well.

The water army of Jiangdong is strong, and the archers are also extremely strong!

After all, Koto is rich in bamboo, and the arrows and bows made are extremely durable and have an extremely long range.

That's about twice as long as a normal bow and arrow.

When I could vaguely see their ships, they were already within the attack range of the Jiangdong archers!

Cao Cao made a quick decision and hurriedly led his ministers closer to the shore.

And Xu Chu, Cao Ren, Xiahoudun and others hurriedly ordered their subordinates to set up a formation, so that the shield soldiers could block, and the archers would fight back.

However, the archers could not shoot at the ships, so they had no choice but to pull the battle line back.

"I'm afraid they have been in ambush for a long time, just waiting for the opportunity!"

"If it weren't for the Prime Minister's return and disrupted their plans, I'm afraid the soldiers on this shore would have suffered heavy casualties!"

Cheng Yu was suddenly shocked in his heart.

As soon as he returned, Cheng Yu hurriedly sent scouts to investigate the movements of Sun Liu's coalition army, but everything was calm and nothing could be found.

In addition, it has been drizzling in Ulin for the past two days, there is no sun, and there is a mist shrouded in mist.

All this is undoubtedly an opportunity for the Jiangdong archers to hide.

"Prime Minister, what should I do now?"

Cheng Yu said eagerly.

"Retreat."

Cao Cao did not hesitate and directly ordered:

"Ambush the archers on the shore, it is necessary to hold the boats, wait until the Jiangdong arrows run out to stop the attack, and let the soldiers carry the grain and other items brought from the fairy island as quickly as possible."

"Then, abandon Jiangdong and go to Jingzhou!"

"Retreat...... Retire?! ”

Cheng Yu's eyes widened, and he quickly ordered to go down.

Withdrawing now seems to be a better approach.

After all, on the fairy island, a large number of crops and so on were collected.

These certainly have no direct effect on the operation, and it is certainly not possible to deal with the Sun-Liu coalition army, which has been gathering momentum for a long time.

Now retreating to Jingzhou is the best way.

At the very least, the fairy grain should be planted first.

The crusade against Jiangdong is not in a hurry.

Under Cao Cao's orders, Cao's army retreated in an orderly manner, ambushing the archers to prevent the Jiangdong naval army from making a surprise attack.

Of course, the Jiangdong Navy didn't know that there were treasures on the ship, but they only knew that now that Cao Cao was back, they could only shoot it with arrows.

Perhaps, Cao Cao can die in the chaos of arrows.

But they never expected that Cao Cao was suspicious by nature, so he did not stay on the shore, but went directly into the camp to check on the soldiers.

After the continuous attack did not work, the Jiangdong naval army finally decided to retreat.

At this moment, Cao Cao gave an order, and 800,000 troops hurried to the ship and began to move.

Although there are many things, after all, 800,000 troops are carried at the same time, in an orderly manner.

In less than an afternoon, everything was removed.

Cao Cao directly ordered all the soldiers to slowly return to Jingzhou with grain and grass.

The most important thing at this moment is to return to Jingzhou first.

Cao Cao also made a decision.

After that, it was necessary to use Jingzhou as a base and began to raise troops.

After all, Jingzhou was the closest to Lin Chuan, and since Lin Chuan couldn't come to the island, Cao Cao simply moved his base camp over.

Although there are still Hanzhong Zhang Lu and Xiliang Ma Teng in the north.

But as long as the troops are evacuated, they will not be able to attack it if they are only defended.

The most important thing now is to win people's hearts with immortal food first.

With the hearts of the people, the follow-up battles can be won.

Although Cao Cao was eager to take Jiangdong, after Lin Chuan's analysis, he found that now was indeed not a good time.

In the round of water warfare, the Cao army, which was mostly northerners, attacked the Sun-Liu coalition army, which was really a loss.

The crusade against the Jiangdong team dispersed like a tide.

Cao Cao immediately ordered all the soldiers to withdraw and hold the existing prefectures and counties.

Based on the seven counties of Jingzhou, he began to plant potatoes and corn and other immortal grains.

Cao Cao's thunderous methods caught all the sergeants off guard.

said that he would attack Jiangdong, but as soon as the prime minister came back, he would stop fighting?

After preparing for so long, waiting for two months, suffering from illness, and just stopping?

All the soldiers were a little unwilling, except for those on the island, of course.

They all knew in their hearts what the prime minister was going to do.

Today's retreat is just to recuperate.

Once Cao's army goes out again, it will inevitably cause a sensation in the whole of China!

From now on, there will be no hunger all over the land of Kyushu, and there will be no more lamentation!

This land of Kyushu is about to change the sky!