Overlord!

Chapter 187 Brilliant Victory
The counterattack in Chaisang City caught Liu Biaojun by surprise.

Tai Shici deliberately announced in public that he wanted to withdraw from Chaisang with the intention of quieting the flags and drums, in order to convince the people that the army had withdrawn and confuse the enemy attacking the city.

Then the defenders hid their flags and hid the crowd, as if they had escaped.

Liu Biao's army rushed forward with clamor from all sides, but Taishi Ci took advantage of his slackness and sent his troops to fight hard, thus smashing them.

In this battle, the defenders rushed out of the city, thousands of people chased and fought fiercely against the defeated soldiers, the enemy did not dare to block the front of the soldiers, and the army retreated chaotically, invincible.

But after all, the enemy army has a large number of people, and it still has the power of a navy.

Liu Biao saw nearly ten thousand of his own army running wild and fleeing all over the mountains and plains. He was furious and shouted: "The enemy army is pouring out of the city. If they want to finish their battle, the defense must be empty. Let Huang Zu send troops to seize the city by boat. Cut off the way back! Today I will besiege the defenders and destroy them all!"

The advantage of the Jingzhou Army's navy is too great. No matter how defeated they are on the shore, the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army will have nothing to do with the ships on the water.

However, due to the constraints of the times, the navy still mainly carried soldiers to fight in hand-to-hand combat. Watching the densely packed friendly troops on the shore being beaten all the way to collapse, the soldiers of the navy inevitably panicked.

After landing near Chaisang City by boat, they also looked around, lest the enemy suddenly return and catch their own side by surprise.

The more than five thousand soldiers led by Huang Zu are already the last batch of fighters of the Jingzhou Army!

If they are also defeated, the entire army will be in complete chaos, and no one will be able to rescue them, and they will be unable to reorganize the situation.There were only more than ten thousand sailors left, and they had to rescue the rout, salvage the soldiers, and defend the water fortress, and it was already a mess.

Huang Zu is the general of Jingzhou. He personally put on his armor and jumped off the bow of the ship. He shouted to the soldiers with courage: "The enemy army is in chaos. Chaisang City can be slaughtered in one battle. All the soldiers are ready to line up and follow them. I will break into the city and seize the enemy camp!"

Huang Zu knew the art of war very well. The situation of this battle was completely similar to that of Han Xin's Jingxing battle. One's own side lined up against the water and the enemy came out in full force.

As long as you can take down the enemy's camp, even if the enemy has 20 people and is rampant on the battlefield, you can defeat it in one battle!

Huang Zu's subordinate Sima Gan Ning anxiously persuaded: "Duke Ming, at this time, the military struggle should be the top priority, and there is no need to form an array! I will lead the [-] soldiers of the headquarters to gallop through the city and take the city. If there is a slight Procrastination, delay leads to change."

Huang Zu reprimanded: "It's a bunch of nonsense. Those who want to attack Sun Jian and retreat Yuan Shu. Those who rely on them are all in good order, with bows and crossbows firing all at once, and arrows covering the ground. Therefore, they can alternately advance and retreat. Advance can destroy the enemy army, and retreat can form formations. No chaos. How can a crowd of five thousand be invincible if they don't form an array, like Liu Hu, and march forward with clamor?"

In fact, it wasn't just Liu Hu's troops who rushed forward, Huang Zu's troops also rushed forward under the command of Huang She.There are a large number of Huang Zu's troops among the routs all over the mountains and plains.

So with this lesson, Huang Zu will never repeat the same mistakes, what if there are still ambushes in the city?The five thousand army, with no formation, marched with clamor, and was suddenly attacked by the enemy's bravery. Wouldn't it be defeated?

Gan Ning's temper exploded, and he immediately roared: "The ancients were honest and simple. Therefore, the army was divided into front and rear, and the general was in the middle. The three armies hoped that they would advance and retreat together. Now the east of the river is rushing forward. Can you stick to the situation? If you don’t take Chaisang quickly, with a crowd of five thousand, there is no hope of victory inside, and there is no army to help outside. Once encountering disaster, even if the formation is formed, how can they stand in line and stand firmly on the shore?"

"Trouble?" Huang Zu was very dissatisfied with Gan Ning's arrogance, and angrily said: "I have been in the field for a long time, how can I get you, a vulgar person, to tell me what to do? Immediately line up and march into Chaisang!"

After finishing speaking, Huang Zu snorted heavily, turned and left.This kind of vertical piece deserves not to be reused.Is this the proper attitude to remonstrate with the lord?
But Gan Ning was trembling with anger, clenched his fists tightly, gnashed his teeth and cursed: "You man, you should die here! I will suffer in vain."

But the more people worry about something, the more things will happen.

Gan Ning gritted his teeth and urged the soldiers to disembark as soon as possible. When they were ready to line up, in the east of the battlefield, the sound of high-spirited drums suddenly sounded majesticly!

The soldiers who were lining up looked east in horror, only to see thousands of sails racing across the river under the morning light, and warships blocking the river!
The entire river is full of mighty Jiangdong Navy, densely packed ships cover the entire river, and the stretching sails are boundless and boundless, covering the sky and the sun.

The soldiers immediately made a terrified voice: "It's Jiangdong reinforcements!"

"Jiangdong's main reinforcements are here!"

"It's Jiangdong Navy, we have been blocked in Jiangnan!"

This is the most frightening thing for the Jingzhou navy. They have always relied on their own navy across the river for their courage to move forward.

But right now the navy is in chaos, thousands of enemy warships are coming endlessly along the river for more than ten miles, and our own navy has no time to protect the shore, so the landing army will be completely blocked, and there will be no follow-up help!
Just at this time, the rumble of horseshoes rumbled like thunder!With the galloping momentum of thousands of cavalry, the entire ground was trembling, as if the earth was shaking and the mountains were shaking, coming from the east.

Have the soldiers of Jingzhou ever seen such a majestic momentum swept by thousands of horsemen?
Countless people turned pale and looked towards the east where the sun was rising.

Under the red light of the rising sun, the mighty iron cavalry of Zhu Qixuanjia also came overwhelmingly, and the Zhu Qi fluttered, as if covering the sky and covering the sun, the armor was bright and dazzling!
The mighty cavalry team galloped their horses, like a red tide sweeping across, turning the sky and the earth pale.

What made the soldiers of Jingzhou even more frightening was that the vermilion banner clearly indicated that the leader of the army was none other than Sun Ce, the famous general who shocked Jianghuai!

The Lord of Jiangdong personally led the army to help!

This is Marquis Wu!The world famous general who is invincible and invincible!He was the overlord of Jiangdong who defeated Lu Bu and destroyed Yuan Shu.

All Jing people are afraid of his majestic appearance and fear his martial arts.

Especially at this moment, the formation of soldiers has not yet been formed, and they are crowded on the shore, which makes the whole army panic and everyone is terrified.

Huang Zu's eyes were cracked, and he ran and shouted: "Spread out all units at a high speed, line up left and right! Stabilize the formation, crossbowmen move forward! Where are the crossbowmen? Go forward quickly, spread out the formation!"

But it would take so long just for his verbal scheduling, not to mention the execution by the soldiers.

The disciples held their spears in chaos and spread out with all their strength, intending to spread the phalanx for several miles, and the crossbowmen had to move forward.

However, it takes a quarter of an hour for fully armed armored soldiers to run for a few miles. How can they quickly complete their formation in front of the swift iron cavalry?

When the armored dragon and sparrow cavalry approached, only two Jingzhou strong crossbowmen ran to the front of the line panting and drew their bowstrings.

The guard turned pale, and roared hysterically: "Quick! Let the arrows! Let the arrows!"

But more than a hundred arrows flew by sparsely, and they couldn't stop the mighty armored cavalry at all.

Chen Wu pulled down his neck guard and took the lead. He held up his long spear and shouted: "Soldiers, follow me to break through the enemy's formation!"

Hundreds of costumed dragon sparrows roared immediately, leaped on their horses with their spears raised, and marched forward with flags raised!

At this moment, the iron cavalry stepped into the formation, it can be said that it illuminates the sun and the moon, and the mountains and rivers are majestic!
In an instant, the enemy line was invincible, and the elite armored cavalry directly broke through hundreds of meters, driving straight in all the way, and those who took the lead were all smashed.

The battle is so fierce that there is no shouting or dispatching to control it. At this moment, the fight is about the bravery of the soldiers of both sides, and the comparison is which side is more elite and good at fighting!

Obviously, Jiangdong's dragon sparrow cavalry has an absolute upper hand in all aspects.

They not only smashed the Jingzhou army's large number of phalanxes directly like long knives breaking bamboo, but also rode horses and galloped across the battlefield with dazzling banners.

In the place that was attacked by Jiangdong iron cavalry, the Jingzhou disciples could not hold on to it at all. Ordinary soldiers looked around, and saw the enemy's red flags flying around, and Jiangdong flags flying in all directions.

Dozens of soldiers standing guard, all they saw were enemy troops, not a single friendly soldier.As for the remaining dozens of people, they will still be attacked by the enemy's cavalry one after another from all directions.

And as long as a few armored cavalry gather in twos and threes and charge suddenly from the rear, the phalanx of disciples will suffer heavy casualties, and nearly ten people will be killed instantly.

The Jingzhou soldiers who were soon besieged by the iron cavalry completely collapsed and fled in panic.

The rout occurs, and it will soon be irreversible, and the defeat is like a mountain. The thousands of soldiers who landed frantically fled backwards, or dozens of people took a warship with their hands, or were directly driven into the water, and a large number of troops became organized and died. drop.

Huang Zu gritted his teeth with hatred, fled in embarrassment to a warship under the protection of his personal guards, and left the army.

As the prefect of Jiangxia, his flag and flag are too obvious, and the target of Jiangdong's cavalry is him.

If he left without abandoning the army, in the chaotic situation, there would be no reinforcements to come to support the Chinese army. He would only rely on dozens of personal guards around him, and he would be surrounded by Jiangdong cavalry regiments swarming in.

As Huang Zu fled in embarrassment, there was no longer any organized resistance on the entire riverside.

All over the mountains and plains for more than [-] miles, there are Jingzhou's defeated soldiers, and there are red-robed Xuanjia Jiangdong soldiers galloping all over the place, chasing and killing them with all their strength.

There was chaos along the river.

But the naval division, who was pointed out by the Jingzhou Army as a life-saving straw, is even more embarrassed at the moment!
Today they rushed out of the camp to cover their own soldiers who were defeated by Chaisang's defenders. All the warships dispersed to pick up the defeated soldiers from various places and salvage the soldiers who were driven into the river.

Another large army was dispatched to transport the soldiers under Huang Zu's troops to land, but they were beaten by the Jiangdong iron cavalry and the whole army broke down.

At this time, nearly a thousand Jiangdong warships and walking boats escorted several building ships, and hundreds of boats and boats came to cover up and kill them. The Jingzhou Navy, which hastily responded to the battle, could hardly gain the upper hand.

The Jiangdong Navy took advantage of the momentum of the great victory, and the three armies fought hard, unstoppable!One after another, fighting ships dared to rush into the Jingzhou navy and board the ships to seize them.

How dare the defeated soldiers on the ship dare to continue fighting?What's more, they throw away their helmets and armor, and they are not the opponents of the Jiangdong Navy who have recharged their batteries!

The flustered Jingzhou navy only felt that there were Jiangdong warships everywhere on the river, and thousands of enemy warships surrounded one's own side. Looking in any direction, one's own ships were being besieged by several Jiangdong warships.

Looking at the situation, it is entirely our own side with a brigade of people to fight against the army of Jiangdong, leading the exhausted soldiers, and being a brave soldier.

The frightened and frightened Jingzhou navy was completely unable to summon up courage and fight to the death. They just wanted to lead the army back and temporarily avoid the edge.

But the situation was already so difficult that the water army barracks in the north of the river was rushed into by nearly a hundred warships from the east of the river.

The empty fortress could not stop Jiangdong's brave army at all. There was a great chaos in the camp, and Jiangdong soldiers burned the barracks again.

At this time, the three armies in Jingzhou urgently need a general to stand up and reorganize the army, lead an elite division, block the enemy's offensive, and then reorganize the situation.

However, Liu Biao, the general of Jingzhou, was a Confucian. Seeing the raging flames, the chaotic situation had already lost its order.

He does not practice military affairs, so that the three armies are neat and moving forward, and he can barely command.

But the tens of thousands of troops were in a mess, fighting everywhere, all relying on blood and bravery.

At this time, what is needed is a fierce general, with bright banners, and fighting for the front, so as to gather together and re-establish the situation.

It's not his Liu Biao's ability!
In particular, dozens of Jiangdong warships drifted to where his flagship was in the chaos, which made him even more terrified.

So he made the same decision as Tao Qian when he faced Cao Cao.Retreat and walk away to avoid the edge.

The Jingzhou navy in the melee was shocked beyond measure when they saw the flagship of their admiral leaving without a fight.

Jingzhou's land and water armies were completely defeated.

All Jiangdong officials cheered and pursued bravely.The fire is on the upper hand, the soldiers are raging in smoke, the bows and crossbows are firing concurrently, and the arrows are raining down. After several hours of fierce fighting, the war is finally completely ended.

Only in this battle, cut by the sharp edge and burned by the fire, there were no bandits before, only Liu Biao, Huang Zu and others fled in haste under the escort of their personal guards.

The Jiangdong Army captured Liu Hu and other seven wives, men and women in just one battle, beheaded more than [-] ranks below Han Xi and Deng Long, and drowned more than [-] of them!
Zhuge Xuan, Gan Ning, etc. all led their troops to surrender, and Jingzhou had tens of thousands of soldiers, and the army was full of weapons.

More than [-] ships were obtained, and the property was piled up.

In the midst of the flames of war, Tai Shici walked up to Sun Ce with a big smile, and said to Sun Ce, "General, we are lucky enough to not disgrace our fate. We have defeated the enemy army! We captured thousands of enemies and captured thousands of ships. Although Liu Biao was not captured, his Family trilogy, sweeping away everything! Liu Biao alone, a lonely captive, turned into ghosts and walking corpses!"

Sun Ce laughed loudly, stroked Tai Shici's back with his hand forward, and praised: "Goodness! Gu Zhizi's righteousness will live up to Gu's trust, and he can accomplish great things together with Gu!"

After finishing speaking, Sun Ce pointed to the burning Jingzhou navy ship on the bank of the river in awe-inspiring manner, and said: "The enemy's three armies have been broken, and the remnants of the enemy are frightened. Now it's time for us to counterattack! You may be loyal and brave again, and fight for the lonely Going down to Jiangxia?"

Tai Shici immediately cupped his hands heavily, and said: "Ci is willing to serve death!"

When the enemy army was defeated, the morale of the Jiangdong Navy was naturally high, and they continued to chase and kill the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

Tai Shici personally led the soldiers, with Zhao Yun as the vanguard, led two thousand elites and more than ten thousand sailors, and stormed Jiangxia City, all the way like a broken bamboo.

Defeating Jiangxia is an exaggeration, but when the enemy was defeated, people's hearts were shaken, and the officials abandoned the city one after another.

It only took Tai Shici a few days to conquer three places in the south of the Yangtze River, Xiazhi, Exian, and Shaxian.

Here are the three places in Jiangxia south of the Yangtze River. The water potential of the Yangtze River in Jiangxia has undergone a great change. After cutting into Jiangxia from the southwest, it suddenly turned to the southeast. This formed a triangular area, which is the three places of Shaxian in the south of Changsha. .

And its corner is Wuhan, the thoroughfare of nine provinces, which is famous in later generations!

Here you can go to Bashu in the west, go to Wuyue in the east, trace the Han River in the north to Henan and Shaanxi, and reach Hunan and Guangxi through Dongting and Hunan.

Jiangdong's army is in control of this place, like a wedge driven into the heart of Jingzhou!

Even today, here is Jiangxia in the north, Nanjun in the west, Changsha in the south, and Yuzhang in the east.

Contain and control Jing Yang's lifeline!
In history, Sun Ce, Marquis of Wu, and Sun Quan also used troops here many times, so they occupied some counties and states in Jiangxia before the Battle of Chibi.

Liu Qi, the prefect of Jiangxia, only owned some counties and counties north of the Yangtze River.

This is an important place for military strategists to seize as long as the Jiangdong forces become stronger, and they can form layers of defense with Chaisang.

Only by controlling these two places can the upper reaches of the Jingzhou Navy be prevented from going downstream and destroying Jiangnan in one fell swoop.

From here, if you continue westward, you will enter Dongting Lake or Huarong Road. If you go south, you can take the four counties of Jingnan via Dongting Lake, and if you go north, you will take the route in Cao Cao's history and enter Jiangling via Huarong.

However, Sun Ce has no intention of continuing to attack Jingzhou for the time being. Although Liu Biao lost a game, he still has the strength to defend.

The Jiangdong army is already at the end of its strength, and if it attacks again, with thousands of exhausted troops, it may win first and then lose.

Therefore, after Tai Shici defeated Sha Xian, Sun Ce ordered him to withdraw his troops, stationed in Sha Xian, and deployed defenses along the river to prevent Liu Biao from counterattacking.

However, the possibility of this happening is extremely low.

The most important reason why Sun Ce dared to attack the three counties in Jiangxia and Jiangnan with his exhausted army was that Liu Biao's navy was almost destroyed in this battle.

The main force did not dare to stay in the south of the Yangtze River, and they all withdrew to the north of Jiangxia.

As long as the Jiangdong Navy defends the river, the Jingzhou Army is completely powerless to invade Jiangnan.

Neither Liu Biao of Nanjun nor Huang Zu of Jiangxia could break through the blockade of the Jiangdong navy and mobilize the masses to harass Sha Xian.

The only thing to worry about is Changsha, where the army can go down the river to the east, and it will be able to approach Sha Xian.

If the prefect of Changsha came with tens of thousands of troops, it would be difficult for Taishi Ci's exhausted troops to resist.

But fortunately, Changsha prefect Zhang Xian and Liu Biao have always been at odds.

In the past, he was still afraid of Liu Biao's military might and was forced to submit in awe.

But now Liu Biao and Huang Zu have lost a big battle, losing tens of thousands of soldiers, and countless losses of food, grass and equipment.

The counties in Jingnan may no longer be able to hold back any longer and want to start a rebellion.

But all this remains to be seen.

Sun Ce can't just hope for internal chaos in the enemy's army, he must also strengthen his defense. While transporting food and grass to Sha Xian, he also selects soldiers and adds two thousand elite soldiers to Sha Xian.

These elite soldiers were mainly drawn from the anti-insurgency army in Yuzhang County.

The most important reason for being able to mobilize the counter-insurgency army is that the strength of the cavalry in Sun Ce's army has further increased significantly!
In this battle, Jiangdong captured more than [-] horses from the Jingzhou army!These are the most precious treasures in the hands of Liu Biao and Huang Zu, and the First World War belongs to Sun Ce.

(End of this chapter)