Soldiers come to the world

"Why?" Liu Jing asked puzzled.

"Her father sent someone to pick her up last month, and at the same time sent a copy of Liu Cong's 'Go Book'. Shaoyu turned against her father because of this."

"Qushu" is a divorce document, which means that the husband and wife dissolve the marriage. This is very common in the Han Dynasty. It is possible for a man to divorce a woman, or a woman to divorce a man. For example, Zhu Maichen's wife despised her husband for being useless, so she asked for a divorce from her husband. However, Cai Shaoyu turned against her father because of the divorce, which made Liu Jing really puzzled.

"This is a bit strange. Could it be that Shaoyu still has feelings for Liu Cong?" Liu Jing asked with a smile.

Cai Jin shook his head, "That's not the case. It was Shaoyu who first received a letter from her aunt, saying that her father sent someone to Yecheng to force Liu Cong to break off the engagement. Later, his father sent someone to pick him up." She also gave her a letter, which said that she was going to remarry Xiahouba, and Shaoyu burst into tears because of this, saying that her father had hurt her once, and he would hurt her a second time, so he planned to take her to Xuchang. The people who drove her away, twisted her hair again, and gave it to her father."

Only then did Liu Jing understand that Cai Mao wanted to use his daughter to curry favor with Xia Houyuan again. Cai Shaoyu's reaction seemed a little too intense. After all, it was her father, so why did he have to twist his hair? But Liu Jing can also imagine what Cai Shaoyu has suffered all these years. torment.

"What about the Cai family's attitude?" Liu Jing asked again.

'The Cai family? Cai Jin couldn't help but sneered, "The Cai family has long ignored her. I told my father about it, and it turned out as if nothing happened."

Liu Jing thought of what happened at the Xiangyang Wharf last time, it was Cai Xun who sent someone to remind him that the Cai family probably did not ignore her, maybe it was just to draw a clear line with Cai Mao. Thinking of this, Liu Jing glanced at Cai Jin , Seeing the dissatisfaction on his face, he smiled and stopped mentioning the matter.

Not long after, they came to the Chibi camp, and saw in the wilderness south of the Chibi cliff, a magnificent camp covering an area of ​​one thousand acres appeared in front of Liu Jing, including Chibi Town, the camp The battalion has a plank wall structure, the battalion wall is as high as one foot and five feet, solid and thick, with twelve observation decks built around it, and the red flag of the Jingzhou Army is hung on the five-foot flagpole.

At this time, the 700 sailors led by Gan Ning and more than [-] warships had already arrived at Chibi. The West Camp was extremely lively, carrying goods and distributing tents. The big tents were bustling and orderly. The East Camp is the garrison of the Jiangdong Navy, and the South Camp is the garrison of the Jiangxia Army.

Liu Jing did not enter the camp, but let Cai go in and arrange for Wei Yan's army to enter the camp. He urged his horses to the riverside. As he expected, a water fortress was also being built on the river near the Red Cliff Wharf, and the water fortress was even wider. , covering more than [-] acres of water surface, stretching for nearly ten miles.

Building a water village is more cumbersome, and it is necessary to lay wooden piles on the periphery, about every five steps, and go deep into the bottom of the river. , and paved with wooden planks, so that the crossbowmen can defend on the ship's circumference.

At this time, Gan Ning had heard the news and rushed over. He stepped forward to salute and said with a smile, "I wonder if the Jiangdong navy would like to settle in the water village we prepared?"

Liu Jing smiled lightly and said: "This is very simple, pull a partition stake from the middle, and then build a water gate on the east and west sides, and they will settle in."

"The state pastor is right, and the humble official will follow suit!"

Gan Ning immediately ordered a few words to his subordinates, and his subordinates rushed away. Liu Jing stared at the river in the distance and said, "I want to see what's going on with Cao Jun. You can arrange a boat!"

"As ordered!"

Gan Ning ordered people to arrange the boats, and after a while, Liu Jing sailed out of the water village in a small boat with a hundred stones, followed by twenty escort warships of the same hundred stones, sailing to the opposite bank.

On the bow of the boat, Gan Ning reported the wind direction to Liu Jing, "The wind direction is not stable these few days. Sometimes it blows from the south and sometimes from the north. After another month of winter, the south wind will disappear."

"Is there still the south wind?" Liu Jing asked.

"Yesterday was the south wind. We came with the wind. Today, unfortunately, the north wind blows. The thousand-stone warship can't cross the other side. We just take a hundred-stone boat and row across."

At this time, several Jiangxia military sentry ships appeared on the river. Gan Ning pointed to the sentry ships and said, "These are the sentry ships sent by the humble official to monitor the Cao army on the north bank. If there is any change in the Cao army's warships, we will know immediately."

"Have you ever found Cao's ships?"

"So far, no Cao Jun sentry ship has been found."

As soon as Gan Ning finished speaking, the watchmen on the mast shouted: "A suspicious ship is found ahead!"

Liu Jing quickly walked to the side of the ship, looked into the distance, and saw a small boat from a distance, very light and flexible, it didn't look like Jiang Xia's sentry ship, it was coming here at high speed.

"Welcome!"

Liu Jing gave an order, and the fleet speeded up, and soon stopped the small boat. There were three Cao Jun soldiers on board, which surprised Liu Jing, "Bring them to see me!"

Liu Jing turned and went back to the cabin. Not long after, the soldiers escorted three Cao soldiers in. The three soldiers were uneasy. When they saw that the general in the cabin was Liu Jing, they knelt down and kowtowed excitedly, "We are all Jingzhou soldiers. I don’t want to serve Cao’s army, so I took advantage of the boat trial and escaped, begging Mr. Jing to take him in!”

Liu Jing glanced at the soldiers, all of them shook their heads, they didn't reveal their identities, Liu Jing asked the three of them a little strangely, "Do you know me?"

An elderly soldier said in tears: "Young Master Jing, have you forgotten? When Young Master Jing broke Cai Zhong's leg, it was because Cai Zhong beat us for no reason. We were all soldiers who guarded the gate of Xiangyang, and we were taken away by Cai Mao. Went to Fancheng."

It turned out to be them, Liu Jing nodded, his eyes softened a bit, but he still felt something was wrong, Liu Jing walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, stared at them sharply and said: "Actually, you There are many opportunities to escape, even when Cai Mao withdrew his troops and fled to Fangling, many soldiers took the opportunity to flee, why didn't you escape then?"

The three of them looked at each other and lowered their heads in shame. Liu Jing sneered, "Why, you have nothing to say?"

The old soldier sighed and said: "To tell you the truth, my lord, the main reason is that our military marquis is quite righteous, we can't bear to betray him, if we are not forced this time, we will not flee."

"Why do you have to?" Liu Jing asked coldly.

"Because someone in the army died of the disease and had to carry the body to be burned. The higher-ups asked us soldiers from Jingzhou to carry it. Some of our brothers were also infected, so we were afraid and we all discussed how to escape. Today is the time to test the ship. We Just take the opportunity..."

"Wait a minute!"

Before they finished speaking, Liu Jing interrupted them, "You mean, is there a disease in Cao's army?"

"That's right. In fact, some people fell ill when they were marching in Yunmengze, but they heard that it was burned, and they thought it was all right. Unexpectedly, not long after they were stationed in the camp, another person fell ill. The person who carried the corpse last time was also a soldier from Jingzhou. .”

This news made Liu Jing both surprised and worried. The surprise was that an epidemic had occurred among Cao Jun's soldiers, which would seriously weaken Cao Jun's combat effectiveness, but he knew that the epidemic had no borders. Once a large-scale outbreak occurred, it would affect the entire Jiangxia and even Jingzhou It will be a devastating blow, and there are 20 soldiers in Cao's army, which makes Liu Jing very worried.

He stood on the bow of the boat with his hands behind his back and thought for a long time, then turned his head and said to his soldiers: "Go to Wuchang immediately and invite Zhang Biejia!"

Zhang Biejia is the new Jingzhou Biejia Zhang Ji. He no longer serves as the prefect of Changsha County. In fact, Jingzhou Biejia is an idle job, which is also Zhang Ji's request. He wants to devote himself to medicine and has no time to be an official, but Liu Jing also I don't want him to resign, let Zhang Ji be Jingzhou Biejia, with a high status and no need to take care of things, it can be said that it has the best of both worlds.

The two soldiers changed to another boat and rushed to Wuchang. At this time, Liu Jing asked the three deserters, "I want to know, where did the boat you take come from?"

"My son, this is the boat that was moved from Yunmengze to the Yangtze River. In the past two days, hundreds of boats have been moved, and this is one of them."

The thing that worried Liu Jing really happened. Cao Jun in Chibi followed the example of Cao Jun in Puqi, dug an artificial canal, and dragged the boat directly from Yunmengze to the Yangtze River. Although this is not a big deal, it means that Cao Jun's warship can Entering the Yangtze River from Yunmengze, then the warships from Fancheng can also pass through Yunmengze.

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20 Cao troops have set up a big camp on the other side of Chibi. The scale and momentum of the big camp is even bigger. It stretches for more than [-] miles along the Yangtze River.

In the middle of the camp, a river canal ten feet wide and two feet deep is gradually being revealed. Tens of thousands of soldiers are digging hard on this canal about three miles long. Watching the canal emerge.

Liu Jing's guess was basically correct. This canal was dug for the warships coming from Fancheng. The wide and deep water surface is enough for a large ship of three thousand shi to sail. into the Yangtze River.

But Liu Jing guessed one thing correctly. This was not Cao Cao's experience in learning from Puqi's Cao Jun. In fact, when Cao Jun's scouts sent by Yujin found that Yunmengze was only three miles away from the nearest Yangtze River, Cao Cao finalized the plan. The warships in Fancheng can be transferred to the Yangtze River.

Cao Cao's army has been stationed in Wulin for three days. During the past three days, Cao's army has been in a state of turmoil. It seems to be gradually calming down, but another epidemic death occurred.

This incident made Cao Cao extremely angry, because it took at least three days from the soldier's illness to his death, but no one reported it to the higher authorities during the three days.

In a fit of rage, Cao Cao killed three generals involved in the incident and five military doctors who participated in the cover-up, and ordered a thorough investigation of the sick soldiers. More than 200 soldiers with diarrhea were found, and most of them were from Jingzhou who surrendered. military.

This incident made Cao Cao feel extremely depressed. On the one hand, he ordered the isolation of sick soldiers, and at the same time, he issued three urgent orders, ordering Hua Tuo, who was returning home to visit relatives, to rush to Jingzhou Camp.

Fortunately, he received another bulletin from Cai He that Cai He had led more than [-] Fancheng warships into Yunmengze and was heading towards Wulin at full speed. expect.

At this time, a guard rushed over and bowed to report: "Prime Minister Qi, there is news from the water village that there is a warship of the Jiang Xia army approaching the water village, and the person on board seems to be Liu Jing."