When the news of Changsha came, Gao Fuji was overjoyed and immediately ordered the army to prepare for war with Xiao Miao, so that he had no time to send troops to attack Changsha.

When Xiao Mo heard that Zhang Xiu was defeated and Changsha had been lost, he was furious in his heart and scolded Zhang Xiu for being incompetent, but he reported that Gao Buer's army was mobilized, and there were signs of attack, so he had no time to send troops to take Changsha again, and only sent a team of men and horses to guard the mouth of Xiangshui into the lake, so as not to attack the enemy army from Changsha.

As soon as the 30,000 troops returning from Changsha to the north arrived, Gao Buer had 170,000 troops, and the number was more than Xiao Miao.

Xiao Mo saw how this could be done, so he insisted on not going out, and hurriedly transferred 50,000 soldiers and horses from Wuling, Liyang, and Nanjun to help.

During this period, Zhang Xiu also returned to Baling with more than 10,000 remnants of the collected soldiers and met Xiao Miao.

Zhang Xiu thought that Xiao Mo would be kind to each other, but he didn't expect Xiao Mo to do the superficial article this time, and said to Zhang Xiu: "50,000 horses and horses have been lost, why don't you die, you still have the face to come back, the defeat before the battle, disturb the heart of our army, come and drag Zhang Xiu out of the gate and behead the public to show the public, so as to set the heart of the army." ”

Fortunately, all the generals under his command were together as a guarantee, and said that killing the general before the battle was unfavorable to the army, and it took a long time to persuade Xiao Mo to dissipate the anger in his heart, but Zhang Xiu was still pulled down and the staff was fifty.

Zhang Xiu, who was lying in the camp, became more and more angry the more he thought about it: "Changsha lost the first battle, it's not that you Xiao Mill is ignorant, and if it weren't for the fact that there are too many miscellaneous troops under your command, I was caught off guard by being deceived and killed by the enemy. ”

Thinking so in his heart, Zhang Xiu took advantage of the opportunity to recuperate from his injuries and said to his cronies who came to visit him: "This Xiao Mill seems to have a lot of people, but unlike the elite soldiers and strong generals of the King of Chu opposite, his soldiers and horses are all in their own factions, the government decree is not compatible, and they are not convinced by each other, Xiao Mill is a treacherous and unprovoked villain, and he is mean and unkind to the generals under him, but I am afraid that he is not the opponent." ”

"What the adults said is that not only did he deduct our military salaries, but now he can't even eat a full meal, so we don't want to die for him, I don't know if there is a way out for him."

So Zhang Xiu told them about the plan to defect. Xiao Mo didn't know that he had buried a big mine for himself with his own hands, and as soon as the reinforcements from the three counties arrived, he began to dispatch troops, preparing to defeat Gao Buer in one fell swoop and dominate Jiangnan.

Gao Buer saw that Xiao Mo had mobilized reinforcements, so he did not plan to storm Baling County, but ordered Li Jing to lead the naval army to attack Xiao Milling's water army, Zhang Zhongping led the army to attack the enemy army that harassed Baling County out of the city to support, as long as the Dongting Lake was controlled, and then cut off Xiao Mill's land supply, Baling City only had to be besieged but not attacked, and it would be possible to go down without a fight after a while.

Xiao Mo saw that the enemy army only sent a navy to fight, so he ordered his subordinate general Zhou Faming to lead the navy to attack.

Zhou Faming was not a water thief, and he knew that he would make full use of his advantages, and looked at the majority of the giant ships of the Gao Fuji Army on the opposite side, so he ordered his subordinates: "Quickly find dozens of sampans, each boat is equipped with enough flammable materials, and then find some good boaters to control it, and get close to the enemy ship and set fire." "He was ready to attack with fire.

His subordinates understood his intention and immediately went down to make arrangements.

Li Jing, who was standing at the bow of the flagship, saw that there were a lot of empty ships in front of the opponent's formation, and he didn't know the opponent's intentions. The red whisk girl also reminded: "Brother, the other party is going to learn the old things of the Three Kingdoms Chibi and prepare for fire prevention, and the other party's sampan boat is mobile and flexible, so we must pay more attention." ”

Li Jing said: "Don't worry, you have to use the wind to set fire, now the wind on the lake is unstable, it's hard that they will burn themselves, we don't have a short encounter with it, as long as we use the giant ship to rush and kill, we can disperse the opponent's formation, and then rely on the advantage of the fire crossbow, and then destroy the enemy one by one." ”

After that, he waved the command flag in his hand, and ordered the navy to attack at full speed, first the hazy giant ship in front of the full force to attack the enemy formation, first chisel through the enemy formation, and then rush back and forth to kill, the small boat followed behind the big ship, and annihilated the enemy in pieces.

When Zhou Ming saw the enemy army killing, he immediately ordered someone to set fire to the empty boats, each boat was driven by two good hands, quickly rushed towards the enemy, and when the two armies were handed over, he immediately jumped off the ship to escape.

Originally, Zhou's strategy was good, but Li Jing did not learn Cao Cao's chain chain, and the Dongting Lake was wide, and it was not comparable to the water surface of the Yangtze River.

Li Jing's hazy giant ship quickly rushed through the enemy's fire array, and due to its high speed, not a single large ship was set on fire.

Zhou Faming saw that the fire attack was not effective, and immediately commanded the men and horses to prepare to fight by help, but the speed of the enemy ship did not slow, relying on the strength of the ship, and soon chiseled through his own battle formation, and rockets came out all over the way, and many ships on his side were on fire. After that, he circled around the lake and continued to attack his own formation.

Zhou Ming shouted: "Shoot rockets immediately and distance yourself from the enemy." ”

But at this time, Li Jing's rear army still killed, and the two sides were killed together, Li Jing commanded the big ship to blow up the enemy's only dozen big ships with artillery, and then commanded the big ship to pick the place where the enemy army was concentrated to rush and kill. For a time, blood stained the surface of the lake, and black smoke covered the sun.

The two sides fought from morning to evening, and from evening to late at night, each with its own injuries. In the end, Xiao Milling Army was defeated by Gao Bu'er Army due to poor weapons, and was chased by Li Jing to run on the lake, and then all those who did not go ashore fell into Dongting Lake to feed the fish, and of course there were lucky people who swam to shore while lying on broken wooden boards and taking advantage of the night.

After the first battle, Xiao Mill's 60,000 naval army lost 30,000 in the first battle, and Gao Buer only lost a few thousand people due to equipment reasons. Xiao Mo relied on the help of the archers at the head of Baling City to collect the naval army, compared to the loss of numbers, the loss of the warship made him even more unacceptable, there was not one big ship left, the sampan boat was blocked by Li Jing at the gate of the city and could not move, and the food and grass supply of more than 100,000 troops suddenly became nervous.

Xiao Miao's general Lei Changying said to him: "Your Majesty, now that our naval army has lost, Changsha has been lost, Baling is surrounded by enemy troops, and there are no soldiers and horses to mobilize in nearby counties, and the time and place are not conducive to me, if the enemy army is cutting off our army's grain route and besieging our army without attacking, we will be in danger. ”

Not long ago, the scribe Hongyiling defeated Li Xiaogong and stabilized the situation in the north, and now the Huijun Nanjun can also be horned with each other, so Xiao Mo thought about it and agreed to Lei Changying's plan. That night, the troops were hastily withdrawn from Baling.

Gao Fuji was helpless to flee without a fight, and sent troops to follow and pursue. How could Xiao Miao's hundreds of thousands of troops outrun the tens of thousands of cavalry, and they lost troops all the way, and there were only about 100,000 people left in Nanjun, and the rest of the horses either surrendered, or went into the mountains and forests to fall into the grass again.

Gao Buer took advantage of the situation and captured the two counties of Wuling and Liyang, and then because of Li Xiaogong's defeat, he did not move, and waited for Li Xiaogong to attack Yiling again.

Feng Ang on the South Road marched smoothly all the way, because Gao Buer contained almost all of Xiao Miao's men, so he quickly captured the two counties of Cangwu and Guiyang, and was marching towards the two counties of Lingling and Hengshan.

Because the two sides were temporarily locked in a standoff in Nanjun, Gao Buer ordered Chen Guoren to lead 10,000 horses from Changsha to attack Hengshan County in the south to help Feng Ang end the battle on the southern front as soon as possible.

Xiao Mo was not idle, while stepping up the construction of the fortress, he continued to recruit people scattered in other counties to strengthen the defense line of Nanjun, and prepare for the final decisive battle with Gao Buji in Nanjun.