Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 351 Victory in the First Battle
On August 24, the [-]th year of Jian'an, Shen Chen issued an order to relocate all the people in Xiangyang to the south of Zhonglu and Mixiang.

In fact, these two places are the Nanzhang area of ​​Hubei in later generations, not very far from Xiangyang.

However, due to the Jingshan Mountain to the west of here, the terrain is relatively high, although it may still be affected by heavy rain, as long as it is not at the foot of the mountain and temporarily placed on a plain slope, it should be fine.

Sun Quan's actions are still besieging Xiakou. Lu Meng knew that Shen Chen would go south to attack Jiangling in order to open up the road from Yizhou to help, so he stationed in Jiangbei.

Xiahoudun and Yu Jin are still dispatching troops to transport food and grass in the rear. The army is still in Fancheng and Xinye and has not yet attacked Xiangyang.

Now the situation in Jingzhou seems to have come to a standstill, only Shen Chen's side is still intensively relocating the population.

Cao Jun and Jiangdong Army had actually detected his actions, but none of them, including Lu Meng Lu Xun, noticed anything unusual, because in their eyes, this was a normal thing.

Now Shen Chen was caught between two sides and was forced to give up Nanyang.Even if only half of the Nanyang army is Nanyang people, there are at least 12 family members.

If he abandons these family members, the soldiers will definitely have no intention of fighting and flee by themselves.

Therefore, the relocation of the population, they feel that they should be relocating the family members of the soldiers, and want to place the family members in a safer place so that the soldiers on the front line can fight with peace of mind is not a weird move.

What's more, in ancient wars, it was very common to relocate the population before the war came.For example, in history, Cao Cao moved to Dingkou in Huainan, Hanzhong, Bajun, Wudu, Nanyang and other places.

Shen Chen would not tell the people the truth, but only told them that Cao Jun was brutal and slaughtered Xuzhou, and for the safety of the people, he moved to the rear to hide.

So all things considered, there is no doubt.

After all, even if they were [-] times smarter, they would never have imagined that in another month, there would be continuous rainstorms for many days, causing the Han River to rise more than ten meters high.

If they could think of it, Shen Chen would have to suspect that another time traveler appeared.

It's just that when Shen Chen moved the people, Yu Jin Xiahou Dun, Lu Meng, Lu Xun and others also wrote letters from time to time to discuss how to fight Shen Chen's army now.

They considered sending troops from the north and the south at the same time, and intercepted Shen Chen when they were migrating the people.

But at present, it is impossible to intercept.

The main reason is that Shen Chen's army retreated to Xiangyang in an all-round way, and Yu Jin and Xiahou Dun's troops needed to cross the Mian River. It only took time for them to temporarily build ships.

However, the Jiangdong Army seemed to have a large number of people, but Sun Quan restrained the Huangshe Department in Xiakou, Sun Jiao and Lu Meng attacked, and fought fiercely with Shen Chen in the field of Dangyang, Nanjun.

Even if they have the courage to dare to die, they must have the strength to match it.

Shen Chen's troops were able to compete with the first-line elite troops of the Cao Army in the north, and even 5 people fought 8 people, defeating Cao Hong head-on.The Jiangdong army is an expert in water warfare, but an amateur in land warfare. I am afraid that even 20 people may not be able to beat the current 10 troops of Shen Chen.

Therefore, after repeated exchanges, Lu Meng, Lu Xun, Sun Jiao, and others gave up the idea of ​​intercepting the soldiers' families, and continued to wait in Jiangling for Shen Chen to come out of the city for a bloody blow, and at the same time wait for Yu Jin Xiahou Dun to build a ship to attack Nanjun.

At this time, the two sides actually fell into a brief period of peace.

Cao's army was short of ships and could not cross the north bank of the Han River for the time being, and the Jiangdong army did not dare to fight on the north bank of the Yangtze River due to land warfare, so they could only watch Shen Chen transfer the population and relocate the people.

It wasn't until August 4th that Yu Jin and Xia Houdun saw that Shen Chen's main force of [-] people had retreated to Yicheng, and there was only one young boy whose name he had never heard of on Yuliangzhou as the main general, and they began to formally Jiang attacked and tentatively attacked Yuliangzhou.

After several rounds of probing, Zhou Buyi was extremely nervous. Every time Cao Jun's ships had not docked, he greeted all kinds of bows and crossbows. Most of them were shot into the river, and a small part of them hit the boat. Cao Jun didn't even hurt a single hair. arrive.

Under such circumstances, Cao Jun quickly found out Zhou Buyi's details, thinking that this fellow was indeed a fledgling novice, so he arranged tactics and launched a fierce attack on Yuliangzhou.

This offensive plan was planned by Jin, and the army was also commanded by him.

Seeing that Zhou Buyi's tactics were extremely immature, not prudent at all, and somewhat impoverished, he felt that the enemy general had no skills and should be able to easily take down Yuliangzhou and threaten Xiangyang, so he chose to launch the attack on the early morning of August [-]th. attack.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and the weather is getting colder. The moon was as round as a silver plate last night. Unfortunately, the sky has been gloomy and gloomy for the past few days, blocking the moonlight and causing a thick layer of fog to form on the surface of the Han River.

Smoke cage cold water moon cage sand, under the shroud of smog, at the end of Pingdan in the morning and the beginning of sunrise, around five o'clock in the morning, there are dark shadows on the surface of the Han River.

It was about hundreds of Cao Jun ships, carrying the first batch of about [-] landing soldiers, and began to force their way to the island.

Since occupying Nanyang in July, Cao Jun has been preparing ships, planning to start crossing the river to attack Nanjun.A lot of spare ships have been built right now. Although they are not big ships, they are still enough to cross the river.

Therefore, Yu Jin dispatched more than 1000 ships, a total of [-] Cao troops, to officially launch an attack on Yuliangzhou.

Yuliangzhou is actually very large, about 27 square kilometers. In ancient times, the area of ​​an ordinary county was only two to three square kilometers. The area of ​​this Jiangxinzhou is equivalent to ten counties.

But big does not mean that it is all solid. In fact, most of its area at this time is swampy lakes, and the area near Fancheng is basically submerged by river water.The land is mainly in the east and south of Yuliang Chau, and Pang Degong's residence is on the southernmost island of Yuliang Chau.

The continent is traversed by the Han River, and there are several large lakes connected to the Han River. There are countless small islands on the lake, such as dots, only a large long island in the north-south direction in the east, where Zhou Buyi is the main stationed place.

Therefore, although Yuliangzhou is big, it is not possible to fight anywhere. The Han River is to the north, and the large lake connected to the Han River is to the west. As long as you are on the watchtower on the top of the mountain in the east, you can see the enemy's attack position at a glance.

Unfortunately, it happened to be foggy today.

Taking advantage of the fog, Yu Jin chose the method of feigning a frontal attack and a surprise attack from the side.

Ships were sent from the direction of the Han River in the north, pretending to be a surprise attack from the front, but in fact, a small group of troops were sent from the west, sailing from the Han River into the large lake in the center of Yuliangzhou, and attacking from the west of Zhou Buyi, taking the opportunity to sneak attack.

The autumn wind howled, and the fog drifted away. In the early morning, at three quarters of the sunrise, the sky was bright, and the thick fog had already thinned out, and the shore of the continent could be seen vaguely.

"Doo doo doo doo doo doo!"

At this moment, a sharp whistle sounded from the north of the large island in the east of Yuliangzhou, which seemed extremely abrupt in the turbulent water of the Han River.

Standing on the deck of the boat, Yu Jin looked a little old. He has been in the army for 35 years, and he is nearly [-] years old. He followed Bao Xin first, and then Cao Cao. He fought in the south and north for [-] years.

As soon as he heard the whistle, a smile appeared on his originally tense face, and he said to the left and right lieutenants Hao Zhou, Niu Gai and the others: "Sure enough, as I expected, the boy must have gone to defend the north of the continent." .”

Hao Zhou was Yu Jin's guard in history, followed Yu Jin to surrender to Guan Yu, and said with a smile at this moment: "The general is lucky, it seems that there is no one in Shen Chen's tent, and he sent a young boy to guard Yuliangzhou. The general made a small plan, and he will lose this continent and island."

Yu Jin said: "Sun Quan suddenly attacked Jingzhou. Shen Chen was shocked and immediately withdrew his troops. Now his top priority is to return to Jiangling. He can either choose to return to Yizhou from the Dajiang River, or open up the river to wait for the army. Except for Wen Pinshan who stays in Xiangyang, the rest The main generals will follow him to the south, so it may be a last resort for Zhou Buyi to be the main general."

"Shen Chen can be regarded as a hero for a lifetime. He became famous as a young man, and he is known as a famous Confucian general in the world. A few months ago, he was in Henan Province, and now he will be buried in Nanjun soon."

Fu Fang, the general in the rear, also said: "The king of Wei once said that if Shen Chen's head is captured, he will be rewarded with a hundred gold, and he will be granted the title of Marquis of a thousand households. If he is captured alive, he will be rewarded with a thousand gold, and he will be given the title of Marquis of ten thousand households. Now Shen Chen is going to Yicheng, and then goes south to Jiangling. Wouldn’t it be possible that Sun Quan’s fellow would get the great credit for it?”

"Ha ha."

Yu Jin smiled and said, "Sun Quan? It's just an incompetent person. Four years ago, Zhang Liao repelled 800 people in Hefei. In June, he was raided by Zhao Yun's 3000 people in Xunyang. He lost troops and generals. If Jiangdong didn't rely on the geographical advantage, The navy is still good, the king of Wei had already wiped him out the last time he came to the Huai River, so it’s better not to expect anything from him.”

"Well"

Everyone stopped talking.

Yu Jin's qualifications are second only to several famous generals of the Cao family himself, and he has made many military exploits with Cao Cao. He is the leader of generals with foreign surnames. Naturally, he is qualified to comment on Sun Quan.

And they are just ordinary miscellaneous generals. Although they belong to different camps of Cao Wei, Sun Quan is now an ally. If they criticize and belittle themselves, spread them to Sun Quan's ears, and complain to Cao Cao, they will not be able to eat and walk around.

While the few people were talking, the fleet followed the waves of the river and headed towards Yuliangzhou.In the distance, gongs and drums on the north bank were noisy, and there was a din of people. It seemed that there were countless soldiers making noise there.

Yu Jin heard the sound of various horns, gongs and drums from afar, and said with a smile: "It seems that Zhu Ling has led the enemy to the north."

Zhu Ling is also a capable person, but he is not reused by Cao Cao, and Cao Cao doesn't like him very much. Last year, he made an excuse to order Yu Jin to seize Zhu Ling's military power. Since then, Zhu Ling, who originally led the army alone, has become a general Yu Jin's subordinates are now aggrievedly obeying Yu Jin's order to act as feint soldiers to attack Zhoubei.

"General, there is land ahead, we're docking."

The Ministry pointed the cow cover to the front.

"Ah."

Yu Jin nodded, waved his hand and said, "Go and scout a team to investigate in the forest, and the rest gather on the shore."

"only!"

Niu Gaide ordered the ships to wave their flags immediately.

Hundreds of troop carriers on the river, such as Maotu, Luwei, and Zuoge, which could accommodate 30 to [-] people, carried nearly [-] soldiers at high speed, and headed for the shore of the island there.

Even in later generations, Yuliangzhou is densely forested, with swamps and a large number of jungles. It is a good place for Xiangyang people of later generations to visit.

The place near the shore is a large area of ​​sand washed out by the river. There is no forest, but there is a long flat land to enter the forest about a hundred steps away from the beach.

Ships headed towards the shore and ran aground on the beach. Although it was not very cold during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the water in the Han River was already a bit cool.

The soldiers in front could still jump onto the beach with one leap, while the soldiers behind could only wade across, stepping on the cold river water to the beach, and then quickly gathered towards the forest.

Yu Jin knew that after passing through this forest, he would arrive at Zhou Buyi's camp. Now that Zhou Buyi's soldiers were entangled with Zhu Ling's suspects in the north, it was a good time to attack.

"Hurry up."

In a low voice, he urged the surrounding soldiers to gather, and then waved continuously.

The waves of the Mian River are rippling, and the howling autumn wind blows the trees, sending out the rustling sound of leaves shaking.

The sandy beach covered up the hurried footsteps of the soldiers, and it seemed that there was nothing but the intertwining of water flow, wind and the sound of leaves in the world.

It's so quiet.

Yu Jin raised his head and stared at the forest that was getting closer.

His brows were suddenly frowned, and an ominous premonition arose inexplicably, which suddenly made his heart rise in his throat.He suddenly raised his hand to signal the soldiers to stop: "Stop!"

What's wrong?
where?

Under the suspicious eyes of the soldiers, Yu Jin glanced around frantically, and even took two steps back unconsciously to wait and see.

"General." Sima Dongli Gun followed a few steps forward and asked cautiously.

And Yu Jin suddenly thought, it's too quiet here!
Yuliangzhou is a vast primitive and undeveloped jungle island. There must be many wild animals on it. It is often said that all birds return to the forest, but all birds live in the forest.

Autumn is getting stronger in the north, and many migratory birds migrate to the south. Islands like this are the favorite place for migratory birds. The temperature is warmer than that in the north, and there are lakes and swamps, which are convenient for catching fish. It is impossible to go to the lakes and wetlands outside. Not even a single geese or swan.

However, there was no sound around, no bird calls, no beast calls, not even the birds that were supposed to inhabit this forest.

What startled them?

Yu Can't help shivering all over his body, he suddenly remembered that even the most mediocre generals would at least arrange some sentries here, even before he came, he was already prepared to be discovered in advance.

Because Zhou Buyi's army was attracted to the north bank, he thought that even if he was discovered in advance, he could quickly gather troops and launch a surprise attack on the enemy's camp.

But right now there is no warning, no whistle, and no animal neighing that should have been there, and the most important thing is that the team of scouts he sent out into the forest has not returned yet, everything shows one thing ——There is fraud!
"withdraw!"

Yu Jin waved his hand abruptly and shouted loudly.

He was an excellent general, neither unvigilant nor meticulous.

But, it's too late.

The moment he waved his hand, hundreds of arrows shot out from behind the forest, drew a high arc, and fell into the team that was quickly gathering in front of the forest.

Wherever the arrow went, screams of misery sounded one after another immediately, some people howled and screamed, and some ran away with their heads in their arms.

Soon, a large number of Zhou Buyi's soldiers rushed out of the forest, screaming and launched a fierce charge against them, and the archers standing high in the forest kept shooting at Cao's soldiers on the beach.

The shore was a hundred steps away from the forest, and Yu Jinjun was already close to the forest, completely within range, almost like a target.

The dense arrows covered the sky and covered the sun. Even if many people wore battle armor, they couldn't stop the rain of arrows. Crimson blood flowers burst into bloom. Suddenly, a group of people fell down, and the blood that flowed out covered the river beach. All red.

Under the cover of his personal guards, Yu Jin finally retreated to the boat on the shore. Looking back, he saw that the beach was already littered with corpses, and a group of Zhou Buyi's troops rushed over, entangled with their remnants.

Although most of Cao Jun's soldiers have already retreated to the shore, their boats have run aground and they have to be pushed into the river again to go, and even if they return to the river, it is impossible to increase their speed in a short time, and they will be caught by Zhou Bu on the shore. Shoot as a living target.

Seeing these tragic scenes, Yu Jin knew that if this continued, it would only lead to the complete collapse of the army, and tens of thousands of people would die here, so he immediately ordered to the guards around him with red eyes: "Take a team Rush over and tell Hao Zhou to immediately organize his troops to form a formation to stop the pursuers."

"only."

The personal guard led a group of people, holding up their shields, and quickly rushed towards Hao Zhou's department on the right wing in the chaotic crowd.

Yu Jin said to another guard: "Go and tell Niu Gai to cover Hao Zhou and fight the enemy as close as possible to slow down their bow and arrow momentum."

"only."

The personal guard also rushed to the left with a group of people.

Yu Jin said to Sima Dongligun beside him, "Drag all the boats into the water immediately, hurry up!"

Dong Ligun immediately obeyed his orders and left.

At this time, the tens of thousands of people were not completely crowded together, and the mile-long beach was full of chaotic soldiers.

Many people have already boarded the ship, but because the ship needs to be towed to the river in a short period of time, a large number of soldiers are forced to stay, which is a bit like a retreat from Dunkirk.

Zhou Buyi's army pressed forward step by step, shooting bows and arrows indiscriminately. I don't know how many Cao Jun died under the arrows. In this case, Yu Jin, who has rich combat experience, knew that there should be no chaos. .

Fortunately, there is still a big difference in the quality of the elite Cao Jun soldiers and Jiangdong soldiers. If Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun rushed Cao Jun, it would probably be cold.

After a short period of confusion, Haozhou and Niu Gai immediately organized two troops of more than 1000 people, erected shields from the left and right wings to cover their teammates, and then quickly intertwined to stop the attacking Zhou Buyi's army.

Yu Jin immediately ordered the soldiers to move closer to him. Some soldiers went to the shore to push the boats, while the other soldiers gathered in the central area and began to form a formation.

Facing the dense rain of arrows, although soldiers of Cao Jun kept falling down, amidst the whistling whistle and the shouts of the officers, every soldier bowed his waist, lowered his head and sprinted under the cover of the shield. Organized a central army of 3000 people.

Zhou Buyi's army in the distance was not dispatched in full force, the number was far smaller than that of the imperial army. Seeing that the enemy was so tenacious, he immediately ordered to stop shooting arrows, and the Huangmen soldiers were dispatched.

With a roar, Deng Ai led Zhoutai's Huangmen pawns, plus more than 3000 soldiers, and brazenly charged towards the center formation.

The timing was very good.

Because Yu Jin had already set up a shield formation, the archers' lethality had been weakened a lot. The most important thing now was not to allow the enemy to fully assemble the formation, so they had to charge into the formation.

Deng Ai and Zhou Tai took the lead, and the five hundred yellow guards wore steel armor, as if they were trapped in a camp. With roaring steps, like a giant steel torrent, they attacked Yu Jin's temporary formation. .

Bang bang bang~~~~ stab and pull.

All kinds of weapons were intertwined, and the spears and halberds protruding from the shields of Cao Jun soldiers made collisions and harsh metal friction sounds on the armor.

But this amount of power was not enough to tickle the Huangmen soldiers. Every Cao soldier used all his strength, but under the collision of the heavy armored infantry, he retreated step by step, and was even knocked to the ground, allowing them to rush forward in an instant. into battle.

The temporary formation was disintegrated in an instant.

"Kill!"

Zhou Buyi's soldiers in the rear saw that the Huangmen had rushed into the formation, their morale was greatly boosted, and they followed the Huangmen to hack and kill.

Even the archers dropped their bows and crossbows, pulled out the knives around their waists, and charged forward with the soldiers in front.

Baizhang away on the hillside near the bank, Zhou Buyi and Cai Du looked at the scene below.

I saw that the mile-long river beach was densely packed with soldiers of Cao Jun, and the two wings and the center formed a formation of nearly 5000 people.

But Zhou Buyi used the Huangmen pawns as the tip of his spear, and pierced the enemy's center formation fiercely. The formation that had just been organized was shattered in no time. Leading more than 4000 soldiers and soldiers, Cao Jun was smashed to death again.

Seeing this, Yu Jin on the boat felt chills all over his body.

He never expected that the enemy general, who thought he was useless, would have set up an ambush long ago. I am afraid that the nervousness of the previous few days was also deliberately caused by him, so as to confuse them.

And the enemy's tactics and timing are just right.

First, the bows and arrows were shot randomly, disrupting Cao Jun's formation. When Cao Jun barely stabilized his position and used his shield to resist the bows and arrows, he quickly changed his tactics and used heavy armored infantry to tear open the opening.

The overall tactic is very simple, which is to keep tens of thousands of Cao soldiers in chaos and not allow them to evacuate calmly.

The only good news is that after stabilizing the situation for a short time just now, many boats have been dragged into the river. Dongli Gun pushed Yu Jin's boat into the water, and shouted hard while pushing: "General, you first Walk."

Yu Jin didn't speak.

Because he knew that everything was over, and the formation could not be organized, so the only way was to be defeated.

He is a man who cherishes his life, so he can only escape back into the river under the cover of Dongli Gun at this time.

Cao soldiers on the shore were still being slaughtered.

Many people began to snatch the boats and then rowed desperately to escape.

The number of Cao's soldiers who were actually killed was less than 1000. A large number of Cao's soldiers robbed ships, trampled on them, fell into the water and died.

After waiting for more than half an hour, the remaining Cao troops trapped on the shore had no choice but to surrender.

The fighting finally subsided.

(End of this chapter)