Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 739

Yiling City.

In the city, the county government mansion.

backyard.

Cai Mao was awakened by the sudden sound of footsteps. He sat up, put on a robe, opened the door, walked on the corridor, looked up at the sky, and asked, "What time is it?"

"Zi Shi!"

A follower outside the door replied.

"Child time?"

Cai Mao narrowed his eyes: "What happened?"

"Report to the governor, the barbarians are in a hurry!" The footsteps came from the messengers, and they came in a hurry, so they stepped heavily, and some wooden boards were stepped on loudly.

"Yidao?"

Cai Mao's pupils opened suddenly, and a sharp light burst out from his eyes, and he shouted: "Come on, change your clothes and put on your armor!"

"promise!"

The two long followers immediately changed his clothes, and then put on his battle armor.

He hurried to the main hall in the front hall.

The main hall is brightly lit.

The school lieutenants of the Jingzhou Army have already assembled.

Jingzhou has [-] troops on the defense line in Yiling, and this is not counting Zhang Yun's troops in Jingzhou City.

Zhang Yun's troops recruited tens of thousands of troops from the three counties of Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang, and stationed in Jingzhou City for the final integration training. As soon as the training is over, they will immediately join the defense line of Yiling. Yiling is sure to be safe.

"What's going on on Yidao?"

Cai Mao knelt on the first seat, his face tensed, and he asked coldly.

"Report to the Governor, Yi Dao is in the south of the river bank, the situation is not very clear now, and the wind and waves on the river are very strong tonight, it will not be easy for our warships, unless a large battleship is dispatched!" A lieutenant replied: "Now I know the situation is , Yidao has been besieged!"

"Attack Yi Dao at this time?"

A middle-aged scribe next to Cai Mao said in a low voice: "Governor, be careful of the Yizhou army repeating the old trick!"

"Bo'an, you mean to say that their goal is not to destroy the Dao, but to have other plans!"

Cai Mao frowned slightly.

The Yizhou Army has done this once before.

They attacked Yiling, but bypassed Yishan, and directly attacked Xiaoting. If he hadn't made sufficient preparations in advance and deployed troops in Maicheng, Xiaoting would definitely be lost. Once Xiaoting was lost, Yiling's defense line would lose its backing point.

The entire defense would collapse.

"Governor, they don't have enough warships to attack Yi Dao. Even if they take it down, it will take time for them to cross the river!"

The middle-aged literati named Li Gui, styled Boan, was a well-known Confucian in Jingzhou Shilin. He joined Liu Biao and was highly valued by Liu Biao. They are not very friendly, but in Jingzhou now facing foreign enemies, their positions are the same, so Liu Biao was sent to assist Cai Mao.

"Attacking Yi Dao is not easy, and it will inevitably cause them heavy casualties!"

Li Gui analyzed carefully and said: "But they have made such a big noise, probably to attract our attention, and they have other plans!"

"But what if they just want to take down Yi Dao?"

Someone retorted: "Yidao is our only stronghold on the south bank. Without Yidao, our warships will not be able to dock from the south bank, but will only be pressed on the north bank. This will force us to tear our defense line step by step! "

"Who can tell me now, what is the situation of Yi Dao?"

Cai Mao patted the table and said coldly.

Having said so much, he still doesn't know the situation of Yi Dao.

"Report!"

A messenger rushed in from outside, bowing his head: "Report to the governor, Yi Dao is in emergency for the second time, Captain Cai Song begs for reinforcements!"

"Cai Song asked for help?"

Cai Mao's eyes widened: "Then we can't ignore it!"

Before he could sit still, it was because Cai Song didn't ask for help. Cai Song is his nephew, an outstanding young man in the Cai clan, and he does things calmly. He won't ask for reinforcements unless necessary.

"Romin!"

"exist!"

A general stood up.

"Order your troops to cross the river immediately and reinforce Yidao!"

"Yes!"

Luo Min controls a fleet with more than ten battleships, more than thirty warships, and thousands of soldiers in his hands. He is one of the main forces of the Jingzhou Navy.

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on the river.

"General, they moved!"

The scout reported: "A lot of warships have been dispatched, and they are going in the southeast direction, and they are going to barbarians!"

"It seems that Yi Dao has started to fight, and we will fight too!"

Zhang Ren did not doubt Xi Zhicai's strategic deployment at all. Of course, he would still doubt Xi Zhicai's thoughts, but now, there is nothing more important than breaking Yiling: "Pass my military order, and all warships will sail down with the wind, and speed up." Quick decision!"

"promise!"

All warships moved.

This night, the northeast wind.

The wind is towards the north shore.

On the north bank, only five miles away from Yiling City, the most powerful main force of the Jingzhou Army is moored.

The water fortress is very strong, relying on the pier, half on water, half on land, defended by both sides, nearly [-] soldiers are stationed, and warships are moored one by one. The huge warship headed by it is a large ship.

Hurrah! ! ! !

On the river opposite the water village, suddenly clusters of flames burst out.

"Enemy attack!"

"alert!"

"Quickly vertical bar!"

"Archers, stop the enemy ships on the river and mountains!"

The whole water village was alarmed quickly.

"Quick!"

Zhang Ren pointed ahead: "Rush in!"

"rush!"

"kill!"

There are not many warships of the Yizhou Army, and they are all here. There are very few troops on each warship, but a lot of fire oil has been stored. This is a way of fighting to the death.

"boom!!!!"

One of the warships was built into a small water village at the angle.

Warships are like balls of fire.

This water village was also quickly ignited.

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Yiling County Government.

"Report to the Governor, the Yiling Wharf was attacked, and the Yizhou bandits rammed our water village with fireboats!" The messenger quickly sent back.

"Damn!"

Cai Mao did not go to reinforce immediately, he was still very calm, he led a hundred generals to the top of the city, looked in the direction of the river, there was already raging fire, and some water villages could be seen on fire.

"Governor, the wind direction is not right tonight!" A captain of the navy said, "It doesn't matter if the water fortress is burned, if it affects our warships, it will be troublesome!"

"What should I do?"

Cai Mao had a gloomy face.

"Retreat downstream!"

Li Gui said in a deep voice: "The most powerful of our Jingzhou army is the water army. As long as the rivers are not lost and Yiling is not broken, the most important thing is to keep our warships. Once the warships are damaged, even if we keep our troops , we will not be able to defend Yiling if we lose our support on the water!"

"Bo'an, you guard Yiling instead of me!"

Cai Mao relied most on the navy in his hands, but he could not underestimate anything involving the navy. In his opinion, as long as the navy was kept, then Jingzhou's military strength would be equal to being preserved, and there would be no failure.

He said in a deep voice: "I will personally preside over the navy and withdraw from the wind and fire area!"

"Governor, while Yizhou is attacking Yidao, it is also attacking our water stronghold. It is obviously aimed at Yiling. Shall we withdraw the troops from Xiaoting and Maicheng?"

Someone suggested.

The lack of troops in Yiling was due to the fact that the troops were scattered at several points. As long as Xiaoting's troops were pulled up, Yiling would be safe.

"No!"

Some people objected: "It's hard to guarantee that their Yizhou army didn't make a feint. Maybe they are just waiting for us to pull back the troops, so that they can take advantage of it. Once Xiaoting can't hold it, we Yiling will lose our rear support!"

Cai Mao thought for a while, and said: "All sides are on guard, and the troops must not move randomly. We can't make their hearts shine, so we can respond to all changes with the same!"

"promise!"

The generals nodded.

Cai Mao left the city and went to preside over the water army himself. The water village was attacked by surprise. In fact, there were not many casualties, even the warships were not injured or injured. However, the wind direction was wrong tonight. raging fire.

Cai Mao had no choice but to personally lead the water army, drive the warship, leave the water village, and move a certain distance downstream to prevent being involved in the fire, which would damage their warship. The water army killed and blood flowed into rivers.

But when this distance also widened the distance between Cai Mao and Yiling City, he could no longer control the situation of Yiling City.

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On Yishan.

Liu Yan was watching the battle, and the red dots that appeared in the distance made his spirit particularly uplifted.

"Yidao moved!"

"The Yiling water village has also started!"

He said faintly: "At this time, I'm afraid the Jingzhou army is a little panicked!"

"Xia Sima, why don't we make the trick more realistic!" Huang Quan said suspiciously: "At this time, we send a bunch of partial divisions to attack Xiaoting, wouldn't it be better to cover up our intention?"

"It's too late!"

Xi Zhicai said calmly: "Don't think people in Jingzhou are stupid, they will also guess our strategic intentions, if we do everything too smoothly, it will not be beautiful, at this time, Xiaoting will not move , is to make them fear the most!"

"Understood!"

Zhao Wei's pupils flickered for a moment, and he said softly: "Xi Sima has a very good grasp of people's hearts. If we don't move Xiaoting, they will think that our goal is Xiaoting. Even if we attack Yiling, they will think it is a feint. True or false..."

Hearing this, everyone looked at Xi Zhicai with a hint of horror in his eyes.

This person is also considered too shrewd.

"Xi Sima deserves to be the most important military strategy talent!" Liu Yan laughed and said, "When shall we move?"

"Wait!"

Xi Zhicai said in a deep voice, "Before dawn!"

When the sky is about to dawn, people will think that the darkness is over, but in fact, this is the darkest time.

"But now we can pretend to attack Yiling!"

Xi Zhicai said.

"I go!"

A general stood up and said with cupped hands.

He is Pang Xi.

Pang Xi looked at Xi Zhicai with a knife in his eyes. He hadn't forgotten that Xi Zhicai went north to kidnap him. If he hadn't been in the same position now, he would have done something to Xi Zhicai long ago.

He doesn't like this man.

But Liu Yan believed in this person's ability, so he wouldn't say anything.

Pang Xi's main force was originally guarding the Jiange.

It is Hanzhong who is on guard.

But Hanzhong almost came out in full force, and there was nothing to guard against, so his main force was also dispatched to the Jingzhou battlefield.

In this battle, Liu Yan came out in full force, in order to draw Jingzhou in a single battle, thereby making a name for himself, sitting on the territory of Jingzhou and Yizhou, and pushing his prestige to the highest.

"it is good!"

Liu Yan nodded: "General Pang, remember, it's just a feint!"

"No!"

Xi Zhicai shook his head: "General Pang, you must use all your strength to attack, and you must not hold back the slightest bit!"

"why?"

"Because if you fight too fake, you will be seen through!" Xi Zhicai said: "In this battle, you can fight as hard as you want, regardless of casualties, but the attack is divided into two stages. [-] soldiers, fight for half an hour, and then withdraw. After half an hour, you launch a second attack, lead an army of [-], and attack for half an hour. Calculated according to the time, after this battle, it will be almost dawn. !"

"Do as he says!" Liu Yan said.

"promise!"

Pang Xi obeyed.

He led [-] soldiers, came out from Yishan, went straight to the northern suburb of Yiling, rested for half an hour, and directly attacked the northern city of Yiling.

"kill!"

"attack!"

"charge!"

"Boys, go up the ladder!"

"Archers, take cover!"

Pang Xi is a great general in Yizhou, with extraordinary abilities and strict military management. He was able to be entrusted with important tasks by Liu Yan to defend the northern border.

"Smash them down!"

"Come up and kill one!"

"Never take half a step back!"

Yiling's defense is also solid, there are [-] elite Jingzhou troops in the city, fighting defensively, even if tens of thousands of troops attack, they can hold out.

"Master Li, do you need to inform the governor and let them lead the army back to help?"

On the top of the city, watching the attack below the city, a school lieutenant clasped his hands and asked.

"Need not!"

Li Gui looked down at the city, shook his head, and said, "They are simply feigning an attack, and it must be to cover their intentions. Their goal is definitely not here. You go tell the governor, be careful of Xiaoting!"

The attack under the city seems to be as fierce as a tiger, but the force is only [-]. This is not a feint, what is it.

It is simply to attract his attention and let him call back his troops.

At that time, Xiaoting's troops will be empty, so they will naturally attack for it.

"withdraw!"

After attacking for half an hour, Pang Xi withdrew his troops.

In just half an hour, he suffered more than [-] casualties, which shows the ferocity of the attack.

"Withdrawn?"

Li Gui on the top of the wall sneered.

Half an hour later, Pang Xi swung his soldiers to attack again, this time he doubled his strength, and [-] soldiers pressed forward.

"Don't give up!"

The corner of Li Gui's mouth raised slightly, he thought he had seen through the plot of the Yizhou army: "If you want to force me to withdraw the main force, I don't even want to!"

Half an hour later, Pang Xi withdrew his troops for the second time.

At this time, Chou time has passed and Yin time has entered, and it is less than an hour before dawn.

After the war, Yiling City was a little quiet.

But on Yishan, there was a silent movement.

"Scouts from all sides, have you discovered that Jingzhou soldiers and horses are reinforcing Yiling?" Xi Zhicai was very cautious about every step of the strategy, and before the final attack, he had to confirm a fact.

"Not found in the south!"

"I didn't find it in the east!"

The scouts released in two waves replied.

"Master Shijun, now is the time to attack with all your strength!"

Xi Zhicai cupped his hands and said, "Whether you can break Yiling, let's fight here!"

"Where are you gentlemen!"

"The end is here!"

All the generals bowed their heads.

"attack!"

Liu Yan pointed to Yiling City in front of him, shouted and said.

"kill!"

The [-] soldiers in Yishan Tibet, like a waking lion, burst out suddenly. Groups of soldiers and horses stepped heavily, and quickly surrounded Yiling from the west, north, and east. up...

(End of this chapter)