Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

The battle lasted from morning to evening at three o'clock in the evening.

When the bank of Jiangling City burst and the foundation collapsed, just after Huang Zhong came, Lu Meng was already in a desperate situation.

When they retreated to the pier, less than half of the people on board were on board. Lu Meng and Xu Sheng were blocked by Huang Zhong. One was beheaded and the other was captured alive. The navy completely collapsed.

The half on the land was not much better. Shen Chen and Huang Zhong surrounded each other, and the pier was full of Jiangdong soldiers running around.

Shen Chen's general Gan Ning took the lead and beheaded Yu Fan in the rebellious army. Finally, before dark, all the tens of thousands of Jiangdong troops surrendered, and only a few people took advantage of the chaos and escaped from the encirclement.

The sun has not yet set, and the sky is still full of leaden gray thick clouds.In the fierce north wind, the waves were raging, mixed with the slanting wind and drizzle that caressed the face.

On the surface of the vast lake in Yunmengze, hundreds of boats were lined up one by one. The soldiers were cleaning the battlefield, some were cleaning the deck, some were carrying corpses, and some were heading towards the shore in different directions.

Huang Zhong kicked the corpse of a Jiangdong soldier into the lake, and ordered his subordinates to gather up our soldiers and temporarily place them in the cabin, waiting for them to be transported and buried after landing.

The Liu Bei Group followed Shen Chen's regulations on cleaning up the battlefield, and the corpses of the enemy and ourselves must be properly placed.But in this case, Jiangdong's corpse obviously couldn't get the respect it deserved, so it could only be thrown into the lake to feed the fish, because they had other things to do.

After Huang Zhong's ship docked, he disembarked quickly, and under the guidance of the soldiers, he came to a small hillside near the east pier, where Shen Chen's flag of the left general was planted, which was the command center of the Jingzhou Army.

"General Left!"

Huang Zhong threw Lu Meng's head on the ground, stepped forward and bowed his hands and said, "Fortunately, the last general did not disgrace his life. This is the head of that fellow Lu Meng."

Shen Chen had met Lu Meng a few times, of course he knew him, nodded and said: "Okay, Lord Sheng of the Han Dynasty showed great power in this battle, captured Xu Sheng alive, beheaded Lu Meng, and showed his prestige for the king of Hanzhong. He is really a talent in the country."

"It's because the general commanded well, Huang Zhong didn't dare to be greedy for credit."

Huang Zhong replied.

"The general will grow stronger when he is old, and Lian Po will live on."

Shen Chen looked around and said: "The general should be the first in this battle. I will play the king of Hanzhong and ask for the title for the general."

"Thank you General Zuo!"

Huang Zhong's expression was neither sad nor happy. He only had one son, Huang Xu, who died of illness early in his life, and now he has no descendants.

Seeing his expression, Shen Chen probably knew the reason, but he didn't mention it, he just said: "Jiangling's offensive is going well, now is the time for our counterattack, can the generals still fight?"

Huang Zhong said in a deep voice: "You should be able to fight."

"it is good."

Shen Chen issued a military order: "General, set off immediately and go straight to Shaxian."

"only!"

Huang Zhong took the lead.

"Where is Gan Ning?"

"The end is here!"

Gan Ning, who beheaded the enemy's spearman Yu Fan in the rebellious army, came out.

Shen Chen said: "I order you to lead 2 people to seize the ships of the Jiangdong Navy, replace them with our army's flag, and go with General Huang to take the state mausoleum directly. Don't run away from Sun Quan."

"promise!"

Gan Ning left at the sound.

Now the two lead the army, set off in the starry night, and go straight to Xiakou.

Jiangling is the city of Jingzhou in later generations, and Xiakou Shaxian area is the city of Wuhan in later generations. The straight-line distance is only 400 kilometers by land, but if you take the Yangtze River by water, you have to walk more than [-] kilometers. Although it is still faster than land, it is also more detours. Far.

But there is a shortcut. At that time, there was a large piece of water in the middle of Yunmeng Lake. In later generations, the area from Jiangling County to Jianli City was a large lake, and many places south of Qianjiang City were already land.

Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, it was divided into Xiyunmengze and Dongyunmengze. Dongyunmengze was to the north of Honghu Lake in later generations, to the north of Xiantao City, Hanchuan City, Hannan District and Hanyang District of Wuhan.

For example, Huarong County in the Han Dynasty was located on the land to the east of Xiyun Mengze. After Cao Cao’s defeat in the Battle of Chibi, he retreated there from Honghu Lake. This area was basically a swamp lake at that time. Huarong fled back with the bodies of old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers.

But the two great lakes of Yunmengze are not completely unconnected. There is a river named Xiashui that connects the two lakes and finally flows into the Han River. Therefore, if you sail from Xiyunmengze and take Xiashui, you can go directly to the state. Mausoleum and Sha Xian.

In this way, it would take five or six days to travel by land, and two or three days to travel by water, which is greatly reduced.It only takes one and a half days to travel from Jiangling to Wuhan in later generations.

Huang Zhong and Gan Ning left Xia Shui. After they entered Dongyun Mengze, they split into two groups and attacked Zhouling and Shaxian respectively.

And Shen Chen led the rest of the army, also divided into two groups, one way was to attack Yidao with the ships of the Jiangdong Navy, and the other way was to let Zhao Yun and Sha Moke go straight to Yiling.

At this time, Sun Jiao's army in Yiling and Yidao was in chaos. In the early morning, the sentry on the riverside in Yidao discovered the fleet in the heavy rain.

Although Sun Jiao had a boat, he couldn't stop it or catch up.

The second is that his strength is also insufficient, with only 3 people, it is impossible to compete with it.

Therefore, they could only watch Huang Zhong's fleet swagger away in front of him.

After Huang Zhong left, the scouts quickly reported the news to Sun Jiao. Sun Jiao learned that hundreds of warships were heading south from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. He was very anxious and planned to take a boat to rescue Jiangling immediately.

But his disadvantage was that the soldiers were divided into two groups.

Because the number of Sun Jiao's troops was the smallest, at the beginning 3 troops started from Jingnan, and more than 1 to [-] troops from aristocratic families joined along the way. As a result, Zhao Yun and Sha Moke raided Zhijiang, and all these aristocratic forces dispersed.

In order to block Liu Bei's marching route from Yizhou, just like Lu Xun stationed troops in Yidao and Yiling in history, he dispersed his main force on the north and south banks.

Although it can effectively prevent the army from Yizhou, the Yangtze River, which is two or three miles wide, is difficult to defend against. Coupled with the dispersion of troops, it will be very difficult for him to defend the camp if he wants to rush to help.

Even so, after noon, he organized a force of 2 people, led by Ding Feng and Song Qian, and rushed to Jiangling for rescue.

Yiling is only more than 100 kilometers away from Jiangling. The speed of the fleet traveling down the river is very fast. In addition, in the afternoon, the wind and rain are much lighter, and they should arrive in less than three hours.

But just after they arrived in Jiangling, the battle in Jiangling had already ended. When they met Shen Chen's fleet head-on, it was too late for Ding Feng and Song Qian to change their course. Light, the two sides began to fight.

The battlefield only lasted less than an hour, because it was getting dark soon, and they couldn't see anything clearly. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ding Feng and Song Qian immediately left Shen Chenbu, some went straight to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and some turned back.

Shen Chen originally wanted to go north by boat, to Zhijiang to meet with Zhao Yun and Sha Moke first, and then send troops to attack Sun Jiao in the daytime tomorrow, but Ding Feng and Song Qian interfered, it was already dark, obviously it was not good to go upstream again.

So he ordered to go back to Jiangling. Jiangling was flooded and he definitely couldn't go back, so he temporarily stationed at Yunmengze Wharf. The soldiers all slept on the boat and waited until tomorrow morning to send troops again.

But that night, Huang Zhong and Gan Ning galloped starry night, heading straight to Zhouling and Shaxian. The next afternoon, Zhouling was besieged. Sun Quan was besieged in Sha Xian.

"what?"

In Shaxian County, in the evening of the second day, Sun Quan received a shocking news in the county government mansion.

Lv Meng's army was wiped out, only a few thousand people escaped in the chaotic battle.

At that time, the battlefield was extremely chaotic, and some small boats took the opportunity to escape into Yunmengze, followed Xiashui into Dongyunmengze, and successfully returned to Shaxian.

Among them are Quanzong and Zhu Ran's troops.

Now Zhu Ran arrived first, covered in mud, and said to Sun Quan in the county government mansion in a state of embarrassment: "Marquis Wu, Huang Zhong suddenly rushed out from the Yangtze River waterway, with hundreds of warships and no less than [-] troops. It happened just as Jiangling's city walls collapsed due to heavy rain. , Shen Chen and Huang Zhong took advantage of the rain to attack fiercely, the governor had to retreat to the pier, and was flanked by them, tens of thousands of troops, almost all died."

"boom!"

Sun Quan sat back on the table, his eyes were dull, and he no longer had the spirited and bright look when he sent troops.

Lu Xun quickly asked, "How about General Sun?"

"Not yet known."

Zhu Ran replied: "They came out of the rain suddenly, and they must have been in ambush for a long time."

"How could this be, how could this be."

Sun Quan muttered to himself: "Liu Bei's main force is still in Hanzhong, even if there are troops behind him, how could he have so many big ships?"

"I'm afraid they have premeditated."

Zhuge Jin thought of a possibility, and immediately said shudderingly: "Could it be that they had guessed that Marquis Wu was going to attack Jingzhou a long time ago, so they arranged it early?"

"Is there an internal response?"

Sun Quan's eyes suddenly burst out with a murderous intent, he swept towards Zhuge Jin viciously, and said through gritted teeth: "Zhuge Jin, isn't your second brother the prime minister under Liu Bei's account?"

Zhuge Jin was stunned for a moment, and then he just felt chilled. After a while, he said silently: "If Marquis Wu thinks it was me who leaked the secret, please kill me. But what I want to tell Marquis Wu is that this matter has always been a secret. Only Marquis Wu, Zijing, and Ziming know about it, and I don't know the specific plan."

"Forehead"

Sun Quan calmed down for a while, noticed the strange eyes of Gu Yong, Kan Ze, Sun Shao, Yan Yan, Lu Xun and others, and hurriedly said: "Of course Gugu trusts Ziyu, Gugu is just impatient, so it's no wonder that you still hope Ziyu .”

"The top priority now is to think about countermeasures."

Gu Yong quickly changed the topic.

"Zi Ming. Lonely Zi Ming"

Sun Quan didn't hear Gu Yong's words at all, because he suddenly thought of Lu Meng and the tens of thousands of troops lost, he was very sad and kept making complaints.

Yan Jian persuaded: "Wu Hou, now is not the time to be sad, let's think about countermeasures."

"What countermeasures can be taken?"

Sun Quan's face was ashen, and his face was already full of painful expressions.

Lu Xun immediately said: "For the present plan, first, withdraw the troops immediately, and then submit a letter to Liu Bei for peace, there is still a glimmer of life. Second, defend Shaxian and Zhouling to the death, waiting for Cao Cao's reinforcements."

"Cao Cao reinforcements?"

Gu Yong snorted and said: "They came yesterday to say that it was raining heavily and there was not enough rain gear to send troops. If they really wanted to come, they would have come a long time ago. Why bother to make such an excuse? Nanyang has a population of one million and lacks rain gear? "

Sun Shao said: "I'm afraid this is Cao Cao's strategy of fighting between the snipe and the clam for the fisherman's profit, but the premise of this strategy is that we are evenly matched. Now that the general governor is defeated and Jiangdong is overthrown, Cao Cao will definitely send troops."

"But how long can Shaxian and Zhouling last? Shen Chen and Huang Zhongbu, plus Huang Shebu, probably have more than ten troops and nearly 20 troops. Right now we only have 5 horses, and most of the governors were defeated. When the news comes, morale will inevitably drop, and it cannot be stopped at all.”

"Then should we withdraw our troops?"

"Naturally, we have to withdraw. The most urgent thing now is to withdraw our troops to defend, and lead Cao's army to go south. Only by making them fight each other can we preserve our strength."

"That's right, Marquis Wu, let's withdraw our troops immediately, the fight can no longer continue."

Many counselors talked about it.

Some people advocated immediately contacting Cao Jun to come south to help, while others advocated withdrawing troops.

Everyone has a point.

Sun Quan asked in a daze, "Are you going to withdraw your troops? Why did it happen?"

Lu Xun sighed and said, "It's because the heavens didn't bless Jiangdong, and the heavy rain caused the city wall to collapse. Otherwise, even if Liu Bei had laid an ambush, the governor would have held out until the reinforcements arrived."

"Then what should we do now? Even if Ziming is defeated, what about Sun Jiao? Isn't Sun Jiao going to rescue him?"

Sun Quan asked loudly, almost crying.

Lu Xun sighed: "If Shen Chen is not stupid, he will definitely go straight to Yiling and Yidao. We are far away in Shaxian, and we are already too late for rescue."

"Lonely Jiangdong sons, just watch them die?"

The emotions in Sun Quan's heart were sad and angry, he wanted to cry but couldn't cry, he wanted to vent but didn't know how to vent, and more of it was panic and fear. He didn't know what his future fate would be, nor did he know Jiangdong's future. What will be the fate.

Sun Shao said: "Marquis Wu, if the governor is defeated, Shen Chen will definitely go down the river and take Shaxian directly. We should retreat immediately."

"Yes."

Kan Ze also said: "The current situation is reversed. Once we are besieged by Shen Chen, Liu Bei will send troops to continue to come. At that time, Jiangdong will be at stake."

"solitary"

Sun Quan was already feeling hopeless at this moment, with a splitting headache, waved his hand, and said with difficulty, "Let Gu. Let Gu think about it."

As he spoke, he put his hands on the table and forced himself to get up and go to the backyard.

But just when he stood up, he was already on the verge of falling.

This sudden news hit him hard, and his legs were already weak.

He really couldn't afford to lose this battle. If he lost, Jiangdong's three generations of foundation would be ruined, which made him physically and mentally exhausted and deeply saddened.

"Marquis Wu."

Zhu Cai, the guard next to him, hurriedly supported him.

"Marquis Wu, the overall situation is the most important thing. Don't hesitate. If you don't withdraw your troops now, I'm afraid Sha Xian will be surrounded by Shen Chen."

"Marquis Wu, we should immediately send envoys to the north to ask for help, and let Cao Jun go south to help."

"Yeah, it's better to make a decision as soon as possible."

Everyone persuaded.

At this time, Jiang Qin came to report outside the door: "Report, Marquis Wu, something is wrong. Huang Zhong surrounded Zhouling, and the Gan Ning fleet also arrived at Xiakou. They took care of Huang She, and now they are attacking Sha Xian. .”

Sun Quan felt his eyes darkened, his feet softened, and he almost fainted.

"Marquis Wu."

"Marquis Wu."

"Marquis Wu."

Everyone was shocked and rushed to lift it.

"solitary"

Sun Quan said with difficulty: "It's nothing to do, withdraw troops, withdraw troops, withdraw troops!"

He yelled three times, exhausting all his strength.

Now I can't care about Sun Jiao anymore, Lu Meng's main force has been wiped out, and he only has 5 people on hand, and then besieged by Shen Chen, all the soldiers and horses in Jiangdong will be wiped out, and Yangzhou will have no troops to defend, only need to send tens of thousands, It will be able to capture the entire Jiangdong.

Today is just one chapter, my cousin came over and played games with him all day.