Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 121 Snatching Xiakou (9)
With the sound of his shouting, in the misty white mist on the river, the outline of a warship suddenly appeared and gradually became clearer.One, two, three, and suddenly the number increased to a hundred, as if rising straight from the bottom of the river.The flag fluttering on the warship's bow was clearly written with a big word "Guan"—as expected, the water army led by Guan Yu arrived at this critical moment.

"Military division—is Yun Chang's boat division arrived?" Liu Bei stared at the sail shadows, his voice hoarse with excitement.

The happy look on Zhuge Liang's face was flashing and then disappearing, calmly waving the goose feather fan in his hand, and said slowly: "Yes, General Yun Chang has indeed arrived in time. My lord, you can have no worries from now on."

Liu Bei turned his head and stared at him deeply: "Military Master, you are truly a brilliant and infallible genius! All the current events are as you expected! It is a great fortune to have you come out of the mountains to help you. !"

Zhuge Liang hastily and humbly thanked him, waved the goose feather fan in his hand, and ordered to the messengers standing aside: "You wait to send orders to General Zhang, General Zhao, and Little General Liu Feng, and let them gather everyone immediately. , with the cavalry arrayed at the rear, all the troops straighten out the order of priority and prepare to retreat and board the ship!"

A flagship led by Jiang Shang threw its anchor and stopped firmly in the middle of the river.The main door of the cabin was wide open, and a burly red-faced man came up from the bow, holding a red rabbit horse in his left hand, and a Qinglong Yanyue knife in his right hand, with his beautiful beard fluttering in the wind, he was staring at the river embankment. Come - it is Liu Bei's number one fierce general Guan Yu.

Behind the fleet behind him, there are one after another warships sailing straight out through the heavy morning fog. The white sails on the top of the ships are fluttering, and the character "Liu" is written in seal script one by one-needless to say, It was the fleet sent by Liu Qi from Xiakou City to help.

Cao Cao saw the boats on the river from a distance in the Tiger and Leopard Camp, and he already secretly felt that something was wrong. Now seeing Guan Yu standing on the bow of the boat, he immediately understood that Liu Bei's naval reinforcements had arrived.For a split second, a vague feeling of being cheated floated in his heart - he led the eight thousand tigers and leopards to hunt down all the way regardless of the cost, and in the end it seemed that he was being led by the nose and ran around. At the last moment, Liu Bei, the big-eared thief, was too coincidental to slip away.Wouldn't this result make him lose face?He hastily issued three killing orders in a row, asking Cao Ren, Cao Chun, Xia Houyuan and others to assemble all the elite tiger and leopard cavalry main forces to break through Liu Jun's defenses and capture Liu Bei directly in the shortest possible time.However, everything seems a bit too late.At this time, many warships on the river had already approached the bank and the embankment, and stretched out their planks one after another. on the ground.Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, Mrs. Gan, Liu Nuo, Sun Qian and other shogunate officials boarded the ship in an orderly manner with teams of infantry.Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Liu Feng and others led [-] or [-] cavalrymen to block the approaching tiger and leopard cavalry while boarding the ship one after another.

By the time Cao Chun, Cao Ren, Xia Houyuan and others fought their way up to the embankment of Hanjinkou River, those warships had already sailed three or four zhang away from the river bank.

From here, sow the seeds of disaster for Cao Cao's Southern Expedition

Cao Cao stared straight at the bank with burning eyes, patted his saddle and sighed, and said bitterly: "This Liu Xuande... is as cunning as a rabbit... Sigh! But where is he going to escape?"

Wen Pin, a general of Jingzhou who was standing by the side, heard the words, and hurriedly replied: "My lord, their ships are going southward with the current, and they must want to escape to Xiakou City, which Liu Qi is guarding..."

"Liu Qi's child's Xiakou City?" Cao Cao frowned, and muttered to himself, "Liu Qi is a mere child, but the truth is not in his eyes. The truth is hesitating at the moment, but he continues to pursue along the river." Should he, Liu Xuande, turn around and go straight for Jiangling City?"

Anyone who is familiar with Cao Cao's temperament knows that when he asks himself this way, he actually leaves the problem to the wise men and advisers around him to think and solve it.At the same time, Cao Cao himself began to think actively and quickly in his mind.On the whole, Jiangling City is actually the headquarters of the Jingzhou navy, with weapons, armor, grain and grass piled up like mountains, and it is also the throat of a great river. If you control Jiangling, you can overlook the south of the Yangtze River.However, this Liu Xuande is actually the most powerful enemy in Zhenxiang's life. If he is allowed to escape this time, there will be endless troubles...

"Jia thought that the prime minister's eyes were so bright that he could see the key to the current situation in Jingzhou at a glance. If he can take the life of Liu Bei, the thief in this southern expedition, he will have achieved the greatest result. Therefore, the current situation in Jingzhou is very important. The core point is no longer in Jiangling City, but in Xiakou City!" Jia Xu's face was serious, and he looked very nervous, and he no longer had the grace and irony he had in Xudu, but stood up and spoke eloquently, "Liu Xuande It is indeed the prime minister's confidant's serious trouble! Today's trick of fleeing east and west and escaping the shell of the golden cicada has already shown his horror, so we must go all out to hunt him down, and don't let him go!

"Prime Minister, please use Cai Mao and General Wenpin as guides immediately, and take the [-] tiger and leopard cavalry under your command as the vanguard, and at the same time fly back to order the [-] troops stationed in Xiangyang to follow south along the Han River, take a shortcut, and go all out. Capture Xiakou City first! In this way, we can quickly seize the waterway on the lower reaches of the river controlled by Liu Qi, cut off the connection between the Jiangdong Sun family and Jingzhou, and force Liu Bei to have no place to stand in Jiangxia County. Otherwise, if our army misses this opportunity, Liu Bei is very likely to go east to Xiakou City to join forces with Liu Qi, and be able to recover from the ashes. The most worrying thing is that Jiangxia County is adjacent to Jiangdong's Echeng and Chaisang City, which gave Liu Bei the ability to lead the Jiangdong Sun family westward. , the opportunity and space for collusion and rebellion... Alas! That will cause endless troubles!"

(End of this chapter)