In July, the rainy season is still in the past.

50,000 soldiers and horses from Jiangdong, including 20,000 elites and thousands of warships, entered the flow of the Yangtze River on the south side of the Lujiang River and Guangling.

Within two days, he crossed the defense line where Cao's army was located, entered Jiangxia directly, and attacked the place where Huang Zu's soldiers and horses were garrisoned.

Huang Zu's soldiers and horses had been guarding against Cao's army in the northeast, but they ignored the road of Jiangdong's march, and as a result, they were caught off guard.

Overnight, the Jiangdong soldiers and horses broke Huang Zu, captured the ferry, the military camps along the coast, harvested thousands of warships, and surrendered more than 6,000 soldiers.

At the same time, Cao Jun appeared in the Lujiang area, so he had to retreat dozens of miles, and even went to Xiangyang with his cronies to ask for help.

In the eyes of the soldiers under Huang Zu, at this time, it must be that the Cao army and the Jiangdong Sun clan have allied and want to attack Jingzhou together and take its city.

The situation of this battle must be informed immediately, otherwise it will not be able to deal with it.

On the second day, when Sun Ce was still cleaning up the battlefield and consolidating the camp, Huang Zu's flying cavalry had already arrived in Xiangyang.

Inform Liu Biao of Jiangxia's urgent report immediately, and the ministers were shocked for a while, but they were unexpected, and they were stunned on the spot, and no one could understand why Sun Ce suddenly crossed the two defense areas and directly landed to attack Jiangxia.

Cao Cao and Sun Ce, when did they form an alliance?! You must know that a few months ago, the two sides had just fought two battles, which ended in Sun Ce's defeat and retreat, and those two battles injured more than 10,000 people.

It stands to reason that Sun Ce should feel ashamed and indignant, or turn over the chaos in the country, or advocate internal affairs and armaments, and no longer go to war.

Cao Jun won two battles and took the lead, so he should think further and take the land of Jiangdong.

"Jiangdong soldiers and horses, where did they come from?" Liu Biao's whole person was angry, and his mind was in turmoil, "Won't Cao Jun stop it?" ”

The attendant under Huang Zu shook his head again and again, hugged his fists and said: "General, I don't know what is ahead, but Sun Jun is indeed from the river, and the defense of Guangling and Lujiang may be useless, and it is not blocked at all!" ”

"This, doesn't this mean that Sun Ce has already allied with Cao Jun, and he wants to carve up my Jingzhou!" A scribe shouted on the spot.

Everyone saw that it was Deng Yi who was engaged in Jingzhou Zhizhong, and the word was filial piety.

He had been disliking Liu Biao for a long time, and he was dissatisfied as early as when Liu Biao paid tribute to the emperor and sent a letter to ally with Yuan Shao.

At that time, Liu Biao denied his idea with the words "This is a universally recognized truth in the world without losing tribute internally and without carrying the leader of the alliance outside".

So Deng Yi was depressed for a long time, until Liu Biao decided to break his promise and get fat, swallowing 500 war horses that Zhang Han used for business, which made Deng Yi very opposed.

Although Zhang Han was unrighteous and set up an ambush to rob his own merchants and horses halfway, Zhang Han may not have acted spontaneously, perhaps just got an order, and he was still willing to use his own industry to trade with Jingzhou, and the price was also a lot of concessions, and he intended to make friends.

This shows that Zhang Han is at least a person who is willing to do good deeds on the surface, such a person has a good reputation, and others will know his deeds and have a good impression of him.

And if you betray the letter and use it for a gentleman, you will be disgusted, Deng Yi thought that Liu Biao's move was to offend the gentleman, and he was slightly narrow-minded, because of his bad reputation.

was reprimanded and punished by Liu Biao, and once again dismissed his words, and started with Zhang Han's 500 war horses and merchants, wanting to treat him in the same way as others, and fight back against Xu Du's plunder.

It's not that Liu Biao didn't think of the consequences, but if he endured this kind of thing, his prestige would be ruined and he would be ashamed; Second, the losses are heavy and difficult to recover.

Therefore, when he heard the information that Zhang Han was degraded, he immediately decided to take action to save face.

Who knew it would cause more trouble.

"Deng Zixiao, what do you think, you can speak bluntly, you don't have to sneer and mock in the hall!"

"Hmph, Deng Zixiao, it's time for you to show your ability, you didn't admonish at that time, and you didn't explain your reasoning, it's just speculation, even if you are the master of Cao, you won't come out and bark at this moment!"

"Heh, I happened to be ambitious for a while, and I was proud here," for a while, many people showed a smile, and their words gradually became intense.

Deng Yi's sideburns grew and his eyes were calm, he only sneered a few times after listening to it, and he never clashed and scolded anyone, but in fact, his heart was more irritable.

During this period of time, Liu Biao's disobedience to his words was already a chilling attitude, and now it was even more so that he was ridiculed by everyone at the same time, so he naturally didn't want to stay anymore.

Deng Yi finally stopped his eyes on Liu Biao's body, Liu Biao was also quite angry at the moment, staring at Deng Yi, but out of self-esteem, he didn't say anything.

Instead, he sighed and said, "What is Zixiao's opinion now?" What do you think? ”

"The talent of Ming Gong, far above me, dare not discuss it in the bottom, but the war suddenly broke out, there are strong enemies on all sides, and a large number of soldiers and horses need to be stationed in all directions, if you want to ask countermeasures, you will immediately send troops to meet the enemy Quartet, and you must not let the territory suffer too much, otherwise the people will be in chaos, and it will be impossible to return to the original peaceful scene."

"Well, that's very true," Liu Biao opened his hands and signaled the people present to calm down first, and only after everyone looked at him did he smile: "Life, Liu Hu and Han Xi led the troops and horses of the headquarters to reinforce Jiangxia, and ordered Lingling and Changsha to send troops to aid Nanyang and recapture Xinye." ”

"Cai Mao and Cai He, you can lead 30,000 soldiers and horses into the vicinity of Jiangxia to guard against Liu Xun's soldiers and horses in Lujiang at any time."

The rest of the civil and military forces had to be ordered to leave, but Cai Mao's beard shook, and he stepped forward and said: "Lord, although this Lujiang is Liu Xun as the Taishou, it is actually under the orders of Cao Ang, who is in Qian County, and Cao Ang is Cao Cao's eldest son. ”

"I know!" Liu Biao's beard trembled, his eyes widened, and he said angrily to Cai Mao: "Can't I offend Cao Cao's son?" ”

"Or is it that you Cai Mao actually have Cao?!"

Hearing this, Cai Mao hurriedly retreated, bowed down in a panic, and immediately said: "That's not the case, don't blame the lord, the last general just thinks that he should remind the lord that if he wants to go to war with the Cao clan now, if he has figured it out, then he will naturally fight with all his might, and he must not fall into the name of Jingzhou." ”

"Every battle must be won, the lord gives an order, you can make the three armies die, and everyone is united!"

When Liu Biao heard this, his face was a little better-looking, but he still frowned, and his heart was twisted and complicated.

Now that he is making a small fuss, he is only fighting with Zhang Han, and once he uses troops against Lujiang, it means that he will also have a large army with Cao Cao.

But it's not necessarily a bad time to do so.

Liu Biao's face was pale, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and said in a deep voice: "To start a war, there is no need to worry, he Cao Cao also needs to beware of Yuan Shao's troops in the north, can he still confront us for a long time?" ”

"The lord is right," Cai Mao nodded, and the thoughts in her heart were a lot less.

……

Jiangxia on the way.

Liu Hu and Han Xi's 6,000 soldiers and horses had just arrived at the Jiangxia border, and they were ambushed.

found where Han Xi was, and when he arrived, the ancient ingot knife swung violently, as strong as thunder, and cut Han Xi off the war horse with a knife and fell to the ground.

Then, there was another bloody battle, which was full of blood.

Han Xi and Liu Hu's army were defeated, Han Xi died in the chaos, and Liu Hu was captured by Sun Ce, and the rest of Jiangxia did not dare to resist, so they could only surrender to Sun Ce.

At this time, Sun Ce did something that made all the soldiers and horses of several parties stunned.

He let go of the Shiyang defense line in the north of Jiangxia, evacuated a lot of soldiers and horses, only left a few hundred people, and gathered the soldiers and horses to the south.

Once Cao Jun entered, this Jiangxia land could go straight to Nanjun and enter Jiangling.

Then the battle situation will be simple, Cao Jun is involved in Jingzhou soldiers in Jiangxia North County, Sun Ce can concentrate his forces to go south and capture the Yuzhang he has always wanted!

The soldiers and horses of Huang Zu in the land of Shaxian have been completely driven and killed, and there is no possibility of regaining them.

At the same time that Jingzhou and Lujiang investigated this news, the soldiers and horses on both sides also quickly dispatched, and marched in a hurry to seize the opportunity to occupy the territory, and Cao Ang and Zhang Liao took the lead in entering the north of Jiangxia and garrisoning Shiyang.

Sure enough, as soon as their soldiers and horses arrived, Sun Cejun immediately retreated, leaving an empty pass, so that Cao Angke could directly garrison his troops, so Cao Jun built a number of military camps within three days, and cleaned up and occupied the passes of each road.

At this time, Jiangxia was divided by Cao Ang and Sun Ce, and both sides tacitly stepped into Jingzhou with one foot at the same time.

The flames of war spread to the entire eastern part of Jingzhou, but the threat of Zhang Han in the north still existed, and even began to capture Nanyang in a big way, sheltering the homeless people during the war, and taking them all into tun people.

For a time, the people's grievances arose, the people were panicked, and they couldn't go far to Xiangyang, so they could only rely on Zhang Hanren's name, which they had vaguely heard about at the beginning, and surrendered in fear.

The army from Changsha County was led by two people, the commander was Liu Pan, who was also Liu Biao's nephew, after Liu Biao broke into Jingzhou single-handedly and established his own power, he gradually let his own people lead the troops, so as to expand the influence of power.

The other person is a member of the entourage assigned to his nephew Liu Pan, a fierce general, with excellent martial arts, but he is not good at making friends with people, and he is entangled in everything, and his heart is not on the official career, and his background is not a big family, but he is one of the Huang family.

Named Huang Zhong, the word Hansheng, and now there are nearly forty, good bow and arrow, 100 steps through Yang arrow without false hair, at the same time excellent equestrian, good at dancing long soldiers, its character is strong, heroic, is loyal and upright people.

They listened to the order, led the army to Xinye overnight, after ascertaining the terrain, saw that Zhang Han placed the camp in the south of Xinye thirty miles, along the river against the mountain, can block the road, retreat into the mountain ambush, this terrain is not easy to cavalry raid, for a while helpless, can only retreat.

In the evening, Liu Pan ordered Huang Zhong to come to see, Liu Pan was quite young, but he also had thick hair, his face was full of vicissitudes, and his eyes were quite bright.

Huang Zhong's armor is bright and yellow, wearing a crown and hat, his beard is pale and pale, his face is slightly wrinkled, but the corners of his eyes are slightly raised, his spirit is majestic, his arms and legs are vigorous and powerful, and his beard flutters with his movements, which is quite a general's demeanor.

"General Hansheng, what do you think of going to the camp today?"

"Uncle Zhang often camps, occupies important roads, and is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the garrison is afraid of 10,000 people, among which more than a dozen groups of his black-robed horsemen are scattered everywhere, closely patrolling, it can be seen that his mind is meticulous and cannot be raided," Huang Zhong thought about it, and said all the thoughts in his heart.

They originally planned to come quickly and then raid his new camp while Zhang Han was collecting people everywhere, but they didn't expect to come one step too late, this camp can already be described as "invulnerable", if one person recommends this camp, it can be seen that his vision is high.

If Zhang Han's military forces have always been like this, and they can always find the most suitable location, then it can be described as a famous general's tactics.

Marching, fighting, terrain surveys, etc., can be exhaustive, how can such an opponent not be difficult?

"Yes," Liu Pan also nodded, and sighed: "It's just that the order is urgent, and suddenly there is going to be a war with Cao Cao in the north, and the reason I heard is that it started from this Zhang Bochang, who is aggressive and wants to enter my Nanyang land." ”

"I heard that it was my uncle who had a blood feud with Zhang Han."

Huang Zhong was stunned when he heard this, "Why is this so?" ”

Blood feud? I have never heard of it, if it is said that there is a grudge against Sun Ce, then it is true that most of the civil and military affairs in Jingzhou know, but Zhang Han, although this person is very famous, has made a lot of achievements in the north, and his reputation has gradually spread to Jingzhou and Jiangdong over the years, but he has never been to Jingzhou himself.

Moreover, it is said that he is from Jizhou? Some people also say that it is from Xiliang......

There was never a rumor that he was a southerner.

"How could the general have a grudge against Zhang Han? Did the two of them meet in their early years? Or is it that in the recital sent to Xu Du, there were words that slandered Zhang Han? If there is none, then it must be that this Uncle Zhang often pretends to use this as an excuse to harm me Jingzhou. ”

Although Huang Zhongren is straight, he is also smart and insightful, and he wants to ask the ins and outs of the future, and this battle cannot be fought in a daze, otherwise once there are many defeats, it is not good to suppress the morale of the army when the messages are around.

"I don't know," Liu Pan directly shook his head with a wry smile, "Han Sheng doesn't need to ask, if I knew that I had told you early in the morning, and I had to see his camp today, I should understand that the capture of Xinye was a vicious battle." ”

"The soldiers and horses of Lingling are still on the way, and we should make achievements first." Liu Pan clenched his fists and said in high spirits: "Over the past few years, Changsha County and Lingling County have been in chaos for a long time, and they have been able to fight with such a famous general in Northern Xinjiang, but you can try to see if our long sword is still sharp, can the general be the vanguard tomorrow and call the first battle for me?" ”

Huang Zhong stood up straight, his face was solemn, and he immediately hugged his fists and said, "Naturally, you dare!" Don't worry, general, I'll go to call the battle tomorrow, and let me see what this Uncle Chang is capable of. ”

At a young age, he is already so feathered, he is said to be an all-round talent in civil and military affairs, and there are many capable people under his command, and his reputation is shocking, but he doesn't know whether it is true or not.

……

Early in the morning of the second day.

Huang Zhong really brought people to call for battle, calling and scolding Zhang Han to go out of the camp to fight.

"Zhang Han is a despicable villain, filling his pockets! It's not right! Plague the land of Jingzhou, cause tens of thousands of people to be displaced, and quickly come out to die!! ”

"Zhang Han! Shameless villain, incompetent! I only know the intrigue and tricks, but I dare to come out to fight!! ”

"Hahahaha!!" Huang Zhong saw that there was no movement in the camp, and the horse moved forward dozens of steps, grabbed the reins and pulled up the front hooves of the war horse, and laughed loudly for a while.

"The thief will be rampant! I'm going to fight you! ”

(End of chapter)