Sanguo: Banzi Shengtian, you call him Yanque?

Chapter 25 The end of the road!
  "These old foxes all have good calculations. They are all loyal when nothing happens. Once something happens, they want to surrender. They are simply rotten!"

Sun Quan cursed those clan officials who did not want to resist, but the generals under his command were loyal and wanted to fight against Cao's army.

Unfortunately, it was not easy for Jiangdong to gather the remaining troops at this time. After all, they were all scattered throughout Jiangdong.

Although Huang Gai, Cheng Pu and other generals have gone, they will definitely not be able to come back in a short time.

"Now I can only believe that Gongjin can come back... Gongjin, please don't let me down!"

Sun Quan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and the same was true in other officials' mansions, especially the clan members.

"We shouldn't have agreed to send troops in the first place, otherwise how could we end up in this situation?"

Zhang Zhao felt very regretful and should not have agreed to deal with Cao Cao in the first place.

"If Cao Jun really comes, the Sun family will be the first to be liquidated, but then it will be our turn. What should we do?"

While he was worried, one of the disciples walked out and said, "Sir, I would like to go to Cao Cao's camp and plead with Cao Cao. I think if Cao Cao wants to annex Jiangdong, he will also need our help, so he will not refuse."

Zhang Zhao's eyes lit up: "Yes, that's right. To us, Cao Jun seems to be no different from the Sun family."

He smiled and immediately asked the retainer to go to Cao Ying.

Even the veteran Zhang Zhao is like this, not to mention other officials, especially officials in the clan. For the sake of their own families, they also have to send people to Cao Ying.

Although this is a betrayal of Sun Quan, but for the sake of his own family, what does the Sun family mean?
  For a time, many people crossed the river with tasks.

On the other side, the situation with Cao Cao was completely opposite to Jiangdong.

All the strategies had taken effect. Liu Biao was dead. Regardless of whether he died of illness or was killed secretly, he was still dead.

Even his eldest son Liu Qi died.

Zhou Yu's attack on Jiangxia was unsuccessful and he retreated in disgrace.

Liu Bei was ambushed and almost died, so he no longer posed a threat.

Cao Cao couldn't help laughing when he thought of this.

"Prime Minister, we are facing Jiang Xia!"

Xun You came to Cao Cao's chariot at this time and reminded him in a deep voice.

Cao Cao stepped out of the chariot and looked around. In front of him was the majestic Jiangxia City. The city wall was ten feet high. Although it had just experienced the war, it was still as majestic as a mountain.

No wonder Zhou Yu didn't attack for several days.

At this time, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun were opening the city gate and standing on both sides of the city gate to welcome Cao Cao's arrival, with flattering smiles on their faces.

"Haha, it's all thanks to these two villains this time."

Cao Cao was also very unhappy with these two people. They had no ability and were treacherous, but this time these two people really made a contribution.

"My lord, no matter whether they are villains or gentlemen, as long as they are controlled in the right way, they can become useful chess pieces in my lord's hands."

Cheng Yu said in time.

After hearing this, Cao Cao was overjoyed: "Haha, well said!"

Later, the army entered Jiangxia. It was indeed the place where most of Jingzhou's money and food were gathered, and it looked very prosperous and lively.

In the few years since Liu Qi came here, it seems that he has managed the place pretty well.

In the city lord's palace, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun knelt in front of Cao Cao.

"I have always admired the Prime Minister before, but now I finally meet him, and I understand my wish." Cai Mao said very flatteringly.

Cao Cao waved his hands with a smile and said: "Two generals, please get up. You are all meritorious ministers and deserve to be rewarded. Your previous positions will remain unchanged. I will go to the emperor and request that these two generals be made marquises!"

Anyone who can be ennobled is a world-famous hero. Of course, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun were overjoyed.

"Thank you, Prime Minister!"

After getting up, Cai Mao said with a pity look on his face: "Prime Minister, I also neglected my duty and let Liu Bei escape. Please punish me!"

This incident was not their fault in the first place. After all, although Liu Bei's army only had a few thousand men, they were all brave and good at fighting. Even if they went out of the city to meet the enemy, they might not be Liu Bei's opponents.

So Cao Cao didn't care, just smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, Liu Bei is at the end of his rope, there is no need to worry."

Then Cao Cao looked at them and got down to business.

"I heard that Jingzhou also has a group of navy?"

Zhang Yun cupped his hands and said: "The Prime Minister is right. Jingzhou has 80,000 naval forces. Although it is not as good as Jiangdong Navy, it is the largest navy besides Jiangdong. Now they are all training on Dongting Lake."

Cao Cao nodded: "I know that you two are good at training the navy, so I will hand over the army to you. You will be the commander of the navy and be responsible for helping me train the navy."

Their eyes lit up. Not only had they received a reward, but they had even gained more military power. Of course they would not refuse.

Cai Mao asked carefully: "The prime minister has trained so many naval forces, must he be to deal with Jiangdong?"

Cao Cao smiled slightly and didn't hide it.

"Of course, Zhou Yu's son actually wants to get involved in Jingzhou. Of course I will not let them go to Jiangdong, and there are two generals Lao."

Seeing how friendly Cao Cao was, the two of them felt important and immediately knelt on the ground.

"The two of us are willing to go through fire and water for the Prime Minister, no matter what!"

……

Cao Cao took control of Jiangxia and drove away Zhou Yu. The nine counties of Jingxiang were already close at hand.

As for Cao Ren, the results achieved were also quite gratifying.

Boom!

The gate of Jiangdong Water Village was finally breached, and Cao Jun's warships rushed into the water village and soon approached the river bank.

There were corpses floating everywhere on the water, and the river was dyed red. Most of them were the corpses of the Jiangdong navy.

In this battle, Cao's army suffered thousands of casualties, annihilated all 20,000 Jiangdong naval forces, broke through Jiangdong's water stronghold, and had already entered the gate of Jiangdong with one foot.

But even after the water stronghold was breached, Zhang Liao and other generals standing on the bow of the warship couldn't help but sigh: "Jiangdong Navy is really well-deserved for its reputation. Not one of the 20,000 remaining troops actually retreated and defended the water stronghold!"

As a general, such an opponent deserves admiration.

Even on the riverside, the remaining hundreds of Jiangdong naval forces were waiting in full formation, preparing for a final fight to the death, their eyes full of ambition as if they were ready to die.

They are Jiangdong's last line of defense!
  On the shore, Lu Su quickly evacuated under the protection of the surrounding soldiers. He looked at the densely packed Cao army on the water from a distance, and his heart was filled with despair.

After resisting tenaciously until today, we are finally at the end of the road.

"It's really over now!"

(End of this chapter)