Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 77

"What, Old General Cheng has been defeated?" In the military tent under the city of Kuaiji, Zhou Yu looked at the small school in front of him in disbelief, and suspected that there was something wrong with his ears for the first time in his life.

"Exactly. A few days ago, old general Cheng pursued the Xuzhou Navy, and ended up ambush in the water village of Lujiang River, with heavy casualties. Old general Cheng escaped with only a few hundred people to ascend to heaven." The schoolboy replied with his head bowed.

Shock, absolute shock.Hearing this news for a while, the entire Zhou Yu's handsome tent fell silent.Although Cheng Pu is not a famous general who is invincible in all battles, when it is his turn to fight in water, there are not many people in the entire Jiangdong who surpass him. Now they are almost wiped out by a group of rookie sailors, which still makes them unbelievable.

"Captain, what should we do now?" Zhou Tai was the first to react, and he had to ask if he didn't understand.After hearing this, the rest of the generals also looked at Zhou Yu expectantly.

Zhou Yu frowned slightly, and then said firmly: "The three generals Tai Shici, Jiang Qin, and He Qi must be ordered to strictly guard the three water fortresses, and at the same time let General Shubi in Danyang respond at any time. The Xuzhou Army wants to To cross the river, you must take these three routes. There are two generals, Huang Gongfu and Han Yigong, on the western front, so they can be safe for a while. Now we must break through Kuaiji City as soon as possible, wipe out the traitor Sheng Xian, and then go to rescue them."

"The general understands!" Zhou Tai and the others agreed abruptly, and then led the crowd to step up the attack on Kuaiji City without mentioning it.Everyone secretly rejoiced in their hearts. If Sheng Xian launched a rebellion half a month later, and the main force would be involved in the Western Front by then, they would be even more passive.However, although Sheng Xian's strategic vision is not very long-term, he still has a certain family background, and now he has gathered nearly ten thousand soldiers to occupy Kuaiji City, and even recruited thousands of Shanyue troops to help in the battle.Zhou Yu is well aware of the art of war and knows that a strong attack is not the best strategy, but in order to solve the coercion from the rear, he has to attack as much as possible now.

Today is the fourth day of the siege of the city. In these four days, the Jiangdong Army has suffered over ten thousand casualties, but Kuaiji City has not yet been captured.Sheng Xian also seemed to know that Jiangdong was facing two powerful enemies, so he just gritted his teeth and defended, but never fought.Zhou Yu was worried in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it on the surface.Seeing that the number of soldiers on Kuaiji City was not much less than at the beginning, Zhou Yu felt a little depressed.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in Kuaiji City, and then the scope of the commotion became larger and more severe. Zhou Yu could even clearly see someone slashing at each other with knives.Although he didn't know what was going on, Zhou Yu still keenly seized the opportunity and ordered Zhou Tai to lead a group of elite soldiers to go to the city.The already chaotic defenders could not take effective defenses, so Zhou Tai was the first to climb to the top of the city with a sword in one hand and a shield in the other.Several soldiers tried to step forward to stop them, but they were all hacked to death by him.The rest were horrified, at this time more and more Jiangdong soldiers also successfully climbed to the summit, after all, the defenders were at their wits end and the city gate fell.

"Youping, do you know why the garrison was rioting just now?" Zhou Yu hurriedly found Zhou Tai and asked just after leading the army into the city gate.At this time, the defenders were still making their final resistance, and the street fighting was very intense.

"Captain, I just captured a pawn alive and asked about it. It turned out that the Shanyue Army who was helping the battle had a conflict with the Han army in the city, so there was a commotion." Zhou Tai also replied with some gratitude.

"So that's how it is!" Zhou Yu also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. After all, Sheng Xian was just a Confucian scholar, too idealistic.Although the arrival of the Shanyue Army can enhance their combat effectiveness, they are wild and difficult to train, like a time bomb, which may explode at any time.Seeing that although the street fighting was fierce, the defenders were clearly at the end of their game, so he said to Zhou Tai, "Youping, I will put down ten thousand elite soldiers with you to put down the rebels. You must kill the grass and roots. After the fighting subsides, leave 5000 people to guard Kuaiji. I will lead the army to go to Kuaiji first." To deal with the Jingxiang troops on the western front, lead your army to catch up after you finish all this!"

"Don't worry, governor, I will understand!" Zhou Tai also knew that the situation was urgent, Zhou Yu couldn't stay here for too long, then Zhou Tai seemed to think of something, and hurriedly asked another question while Zhou Yu was still there: "Then how should Sheng Xian deal with it?" ?”

"Kill!" Zhou Yu drifted away, leaving only one word behind.

At this time, on the Ganjiang River, the Jiangdong Navy and the Jingxiang Navy were also fighting fiercely. "Zi Fu, you lead ten boats, and then come to the north again!" Huang Gai watched the fierce battle on the river carefully, and found that the Jingxiang navy in the north was a little bit unstoppable, so he immediately ordered Ling Cao to lead the men to continue the charge.

"The general understands!" Ling Cao didn't delay, and immediately led his army to prepare to continue the charge. "Father, I'm going too!" Ling Cao's 16-year-old son Ling Tong picked up his weapon and followed. Ling Cao looked at it and nodded in agreement.

"Let the arrows, let the arrows go, don't let them come over!" The Jingxiang navy in the north was led by the governor of Jiangxia, Huang Zu. He was already struggling a bit, but he saw Ling Cao leading ten scorpions to attack his ship. , Hastily ordered to shoot arrows to stop.For a while arrows rained down on the boat, but Ling Cao and the others couldn't kill them. "Father, Huang Zu's arrows are coming too hard!" Ling Tong swung his knife at the arrows and turned his head to report to Lao Zihui.

"Damn it, we must attack!" Ling Cao looked to the south. Han Dang, Ding Feng, Jia Hua and others were leading the army to fight Cai Xun, Cai Mao's younger brother. For a while, there were no troops to help out. It seemed that there was only one left. Let's talk about winning this way first.Seeing this, Ling Tong gritted his teeth and took a shield to protect himself, and then ordered the sailors to row towards Huang Zu's ship with all their strength.

"Hey!" Ling Tong grabbed a cable hanging from the side of the boat, and jumped onto the opponent's ship with a single push.Several Jingzhou soldiers were terrified and rushed forward to fight with them, but they were all chopped off with a single knife. "Don't be crazy, kid!" Chen Ji, the general of Jingzhou, quickly raised his knife to fight Ling Tong. After a few rounds of fighting, Chen Ji slashed at him, but Ling Tong blocked him with a shield, and then stabbed Chen Jiu's lower abdomen with his right hand.

"Look at the knife!" Behind Ling Tong, another general from Jingzhou, Deng Long, slashed at him with a knife.Unexpectedly, Ling Tong reacted so quickly, as soon as he pulled out the knife from Chen Jiu's body with his right hand, he turned around and slashed with the knife without stopping for a moment.As a result, Deng Long's knife cut off Ling Tong's head, not even a hair, but he was cut into two by Ling Tong's knife.

"Damn it!" After beheading two generals, Ling Tong was not too happy, because he saw Huang Zu got off a small boat and fled back to the west bank.However, when Huang Zu fled, the entire Northern Army of the Jingxiang Navy immediately collapsed, and was defeated and retreated under the repeated blows of Ling Cao and Huang Gai.When the northern army was in chaos, the southern army, which was originally evenly matched, was also in chaos. Huang Gai and Han Dang led the army to kill. Although Cai Mao, who was in the middle, tried to save the defeat, the situation was over.Huang Gai and Han Dang pursued and killed them all the way, and the Jingxiang navy was defeated and retreated back to the water village before withdrawing their troops.

"Crack!" Kuai Yue, who has always been elegant, couldn't help but pat the table angrily in the water village of Jingxiang Navy on the west bank of Ganshui River. "Why is my Jingxiang navy so ineffective now? Faced with the Jiangdong navy head-on, it was defeated?" Kuai Yue said a little angrily.

"Jingxiang Navy hasn't practiced for a long time, but they didn't expect their combat power to decline so quickly." A hook-nosed general beside him shook his head and replied.He is Zhang Yun who is known as the second person in the Jingzhou Navy. Of course, the No.1 is Cai Mao.

"Zhao Feng defeated Cheng Pu in Lujiang the day before yesterday, but now our army has been fighting for several days, but we have lost more than we won, it's really embarrassing for us!" Kuai Yue also shook his head again and again, feeling very helpless.But he didn't know that at this time Zhao Feng in Lujiang was also full of melancholy and had nothing to do.

"Crossing the river, crossing the river!" Zhao Feng walked back and forth in his military tent, but kept chanting these two words.Hou Haozhao, the guard at the side, listened, and couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic to his general.Since occupying Lujiang River and defeating Cheng Pu, Zhao Feng has been busy thinking about how to cross the river.There are only three places on the opposite side that are suitable for a large army to cross the river, Sanjiang Town, Niuzhu, and Hulin. Right now, three generals, Tai Shici, Jiang Qin, and He Qi, are stationed respectively.Among them, Tai Shici led [-] troops to garrison Niuzhu, Jiang Qin led [-] troops to garrison Sanshan, and He Qi led [-] troops to garrison Hulin.

There are very few people, but it is still a bit powerless to rely on the Xuzhou Navy to lay down any of them.Not to mention that these three water villages echo each other, one is attacked, and the other two come to help.In addition, Danyang County in the south also has reinforcements ready at any time, it is really not easy to think about crossing the river now.

"General Zhao, it is better to wait until winter, when the flow of the river will slow down, and then find a secluded place downstream to cross the river." Gan Ning, who is familiar with the water conditions of the Yangtze River, failed to return after several consecutive raids, so he had no choice but to remonstrate. .The rest of the generals, such as Zhang Liao, didn't know much about water warfare, and they had nothing to say.

"It doesn't necessarily need to be like this, Xingba, send an order to build more boats and rafts, and prepare the army to cross the river." Zhao Feng suddenly had some ideas, but he felt that he was not too mature, so he ordered to prepare the boats and rafts first, and then start the preparation work first.

"Could it be that the general wants the whole army to cross the river, so that the Jiangdong Army has nowhere to defend?" Gan Ning asked in surprise.

"Of course not." Zhao Feng dispelled Gan Ning's doubts with a smile.Although Mr. Mao of later generations adopted this full-blown style of play during the battle of crossing the river, he does not have a million troops now, and the Jiangdong Army's defensive front is not so long, obviously it is not suitable now.

At this time, a group of Confucian scholars gathered at the foot of Lumen Mountain in Xiangyang, hundreds of miles away from Lujiang River.Two of the older ones were over half a hundred years old, and the person on the left sighed softly: "Shi Yuan, although you have already left the teacher, but the world is in chaos now, and the princes are divided, you should be careful to find a wise master to vote for. Don't be mistaken." Go astray, lest disaster come upon you.”

"What the teacher said, the disciple understands!" The man called Shi Yuan was a young man in his twenties, but he was only five feet tall, but he had black skin and a crooked mouth and protruding ears. His appearance was extremely ugly.After bidding farewell to his teachers and friends, this ugly young man took up a simple little burden and headed south.

"Kong Ming, where do you think this scholar will go?" Among the people who saw him off, a Confucian scholar of similar age suddenly asked another young man who was younger than him.

"I think Shi Yuan will go to Uncle Liu Huang, but right now, he still has to go to Lujiang first." The young man replied calmly, but he was still waving a goose feather fan in his hand, but he didn't know what to do with it in this early winter.

(End of this chapter)