On the canal, thousands of warships lined up on the canal's waterways one after another, heading north against the current, preparing to rescue Jianye. Zhou Yu sat on the handsome boat and looked at the map, thinking about the strategy, if there was any weakness of the Praetorian Guards trapped in Jianye City, it was that the number and combat effectiveness were much inferior to the 50,000 naval army in Jingzhou. And these 50,000 Jingzhou naval troops are not so important in the entire battle situation. How to force these Praetorian Guards back is a question that has been plaguing Zhou Yu for the past few days.

"Metropolitan Governor, we will be able to reach the boundary of Jianye tomorrow, do we want to abandon the ship and go ashore?" Li Xiao frowned, they had no chance of winning against the Praetorian Guards of the two legions on land, but at present, the only way to solve the situation in Jianye was to abandon the ship and go ashore and enter Jianye City to assist in the defense.

Zhou Yu shook his head solemnly and said, "No, abandoning ship and landing on shore is to use my weakness to confront the enemy's strongest point, so that we will definitely lose." I'm wondering if I can use these 50,000 Jingzhou sailors as a breakthrough to open the current deadlock, but it doesn't seem to be easy. ”

"Dadu Governor, the Jingzhou Navy is at most the status of an assistant army, and it has no meaning for this war. Their task is mainly to transport part of the Praetorian Guard's grain and grass baggage, even if we annihilate them, it will be a little longer for the Praetorian Guard to transport grain and grass at most. ”

Zhou Yu nodded approvingly and said: "You see, the location where these 50,000 Jingzhou naval troops are stationed, at the intersection of the canal, to the south they can choose to retreat to the military port in Xuzhou, to the west they can retreat to Jingzhou, and a little north they can get the support of the Praetorian Guards on the shore, these Praetorian Guards are far more well-equipped than ours." Siege bed crossbow. There are countless crossbows of large yellow bulls. We were close to the shore and were vulnerable to absolute blows from the Janissaries. ”

"If you don't eliminate these 50,000 Jingzhou sailors, you won't be able to put pressure on these Praetorian Guards, and you won't be able to extend their war supply lines. If I have another elite cavalry at our disposal, we can send a fierce general to wander the border between Jingxu and Xu, our purpose is to delay the other side's supply time, force the other side to send some troops to pursue us, and more troops to return to the defense. We can attack any city along the canal. ”

Since ancient times, soldiers and horses have not moved food and grass first, and in the case of absolute disadvantage in strength and combat effectiveness, Zhou Yu thought of the other party's supply line, but the other party's supply line is not fragile and vulnerable, but very powerful. Jingzhou is broken, they can continue to replenish grain and grass materials from Xuzhou, and they can even directly transport grain and grass materials directly from the imperial capital to support the army to continue fighting, as long as it is surrounded for two months, the Liujia army is bound to collapse.

Cavalry. Cavalry, Zhou Yu felt the shortcomings of the single force in his hands. The generals also frowned. Let them fight on the sea and on the canals, if they call it second, then no one in the empire dares to call it first. But if they were allowed to go ashore, their combat effectiveness would plummet, and it was not that there were no marines in the navy who were responsible for landing, but it was not them, and the navy in charge of land warfare did not follow them to attack and meet the enemy.

"General Li Xiao, you take a large group of men and horses to continue to the north to be waiting for an opportunity to wipe out the 50,000 naval army in Jingzhou, I will draw 20,000 elites from the army, follow me ashore after dark, and attack here. Zhou Yu looked at the map and thought for a while, his face showed a hint of determination, and Zhou Yu's fingers hit a city heavily, which immediately made the generals in the handsome ship gasp.

"Isn't this too risky, Governor, it's just that the march to get here is dangerous, and once discovered by the Praetorian Guards, the Governor doesn't even have a chance to escape. Li Xiao gasped, he did admit that Zhou Yu was definitely a genius in terms of tactical control, but he didn't expect Zhou Yu to be so bold.

"Dadudu, 20,000 troops are simply not enough to capture this fortified city, even if this fortified city is captured by Dadudu, then what if you want to defend it in the future? Dadudu, this kind of battle is too risky, once the Praetorian Guard counterattacks, we will have no chance of winning at all. "Cai Mao is also resolutely opposed to this battle, once Zhou Yu is besieged, it will not be as simple as 20,000 troops, thousands of troops are easy to get, and it is difficult to find, let alone a great talent like Zhou Yu.

"If the Metropolitan Governor must do this, the last general is willing to take the Metropolitan Governor away, and the last general is willing to make a military order, and if it is not successful, he will become benevolent!" Cai Mao stood up, he knew that if Zhou Yu died, they would not have to fight this war, and there would be no chance of winning at all, if there was anyone else here who could lead them to victory, it was Zhou Yu. Cai Mao chose to carry out this military affairs, in his opinion, he could die, but Zhou Yu definitely couldn't.

"No, this operation is only for me, and I am the only one. General Cai Mao, you are a veteran of the battlefield, you are not lacking in courage and wisdom, but you only lack the ability to adapt to changes, and General Li Xiao has a cautious personality, which is not suitable for go. So this task can only be carried out by me, and your task is also very heavy, so you must find a way to slow down the supply speed of the Praetorian Guard under Jianye City and buy me time. Zhou Yu decisively rejected Cai Mao's proposal, none of the generals under his command were suitable for this task, even Gan Ning was only brave and not wise.

"This time, I will take the two generals Gan Ning and Hu Hai with me, Cai Mao, you and Li Xiao will be stationed in the canal, as long as they attack Jianye City, you will immediately beat the drum and make it look like you can land at any time, forcing the Praetorian Guards not to attack Jianye City with all their might. ”

After Zhou Yu arranged everything, he quietly took advantage of the night to quietly go ashore with 20,000 carefully selected 20,000 soldiers, and Zhou Yu's flag was still hanging on the handsome ship, and they would continue to march north to disperse the idea of the Praetorian Guard. They will be responsible for annihilating Jingzhou's naval army, they have no problem with annihilating Jingzhou's naval army, and now all hopes and problems are on Zhou Yu.

The camp of the Praetorian Guard, Pan Bao also felt a headache about the current war situation, the information of the blood drops had been sent to him, and the Liu family army was drawing troops from all over Yangzhou, preparing to come to support Jianye. Pan Bao had a very clear grasp of the current war situation, and took Jianye City as a point to eliminate the Liujia army that was constantly coming to support, and completely pacified the rear of the Liujia army, so that the defenders of Jian'an did not have any support.

"Pan Shuai, what is this Liu Fan's idea? He actually asked Su Lie to take 100,000 troops to support Jian'an's front line, and he only sent most of the recruits to support Jianye? Is he really not afraid that we will capture his Jianye City?" He Changhu, the commander of the Fifth Praetorian Guard, did not understand Pan Bao's way of playing, if he wanted to directly capture Jianye, and then continue to divide his troops to attack the garrisons of the Liujia Army in Yangzhou.

"What have the 200,000 navies going north have done recently?" Pan Bao frowned, the intelligence of the blood drops was very timely to spy on the Liu family's army, but the only thing that had difficulties was the navy in Yizhou, they had been adrift and stationed on the river for a long time, and the intelligence spy was very lagging behind, and the 200,000 navy going north had little impact on the war situation, but Pan Bao always felt that there was something vaguely wrong in this.

"At present, no information has been sent, is Pan Shuai worried that the 200,000 navy will attack Jingzhou and cut off our back route?" Huo Zhang, the military advisor of the battle, looked at Pan Leopard, stared at the march route of the Yizhou Navy on the map, and looked carefully, if the Yizhou Navy went north and directly attacked Jingzhou, it would not have much impact on the Praetorian Guard.

"No, this Zhou Yu is not a simple character, he must be thinking of something that we will never think of, he can defeat the navy of Yizhou with absolutely weak forces, and he can also find a way to deal with us. Pan Bao said in a very resolute tone: "It seems that our army has another strong enemy, and this battle is not easy to fight." ”

"What we can't think of?" Pan Shuai, will Zhou Yu attack here?" Huo Zhang pointed to a city on the map, looking at Pan Bao with a hint of doubt in his tone, everyone gasped after seeing that city, as long as it was a normal person, they would never attack there. (To be continued.) )

PS: I want to sleep, I want to sleep, I'm sorry for the bad writing.