Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 84 Zhou Gongjin Xueye Breaks the Enemy

The snow in the southern country was really heavy, it had been falling for two days, and the snow on the ground was nearly a foot thick.In this bad weather, Zhao Feng also had to order to suspend the training for one day. He also organized soldiers to clear the snow in the docks and camps, and even helped the counties to clear the snow. It won the hearts of many people, and even some common people spontaneously came to reward the sergeants.

"The general wants me to be careful of Zhou Yu's surprise attack?" In the Lujiang Water Village, Gan Ning, who had already retreated to the Lujiang River, was greatly surprised when he saw the urgent military information sent. "If Zhou Yu dared to use troops in such a heavy snow, it would be a dangerous victory!" Guan Ping, who was on the side, also sighed.However, for the sake of safety, the two still spilled the news that the scouts were investigating the Ganjiang River.

"Everyone, I intend to raid across the river tonight and defeat the Jingxiang navy!" On the night when the snow stopped, Zhou Yu suddenly summoned all the generals and issued this seemingly rash plan.

"Great Commander, the heavy snow has just stopped and the river is still frozen, how can we march!" Cheng Pu was the first to object when he heard this, and the rest of the generals were less likely to agree and more opposed. "I don't know the words of the gentlemen, but once the heavy snow has just passed, the Jingxiang navy must be unprepared right now. If they can sneak attack, it will be a good opportunity from God." Zhou Yu said here, his tone was slightly dark, and he said: "What's more The [-] Xuzhou army in Lujiang is also eyeing the tiger, and they will enter the army only when the roads are clear in the spring. If the weaker Jingzhou army is not eliminated first, it will be difficult to sustain the enemy on both sides!"

"Indeed!" At this moment, none of the generals came out to object, but the atmosphere was a little silent, and everyone felt a little heavy about the current situation. "Governor, Zhou Tai is not talented, and is willing to be a pioneer!" After a moment of silence, Zhou Tai was the first to stand up and clasped his fists.

"Okay, five thousand elite soldiers and I will cross the river in a small boat at the second watch tonight. We will first raid Cai Mao's naval camp, and then I will lead the army with all the generals to catch up and break through Kuai Yue's army camp." Zhou Yu looked at it. Looking at Zhou Tai, he nodded slowly and said.

It was the second watch of the night, and Zhou Tai led five thousand elite soldiers to cross the river quietly in a small boat.At this time, although the surface of the river was not frozen into a whole piece, there were still a large number of pieces of floating ice in the river, and the river water collided with each other and rattled.Fortunately, Zhou Tai and his group were able to cross the Ganjiang River quietly.

"There is no sound at all?" Zhou Tai looked at the silent navy camp opposite, and felt that the quietness was a little strange.But at this time, the bow had already been fired and there was no turning back, so Zhou Tai ordered the sergeant to speed up rowing.In fact, without his urging, the soldiers were already rowing as hard as they could.After all, on such a cold day, on the boat in the middle of the night, the river water would freeze when splashed on the side of the boat. If these soldiers didn't move around, they would almost freeze to death.

"Go!" Seeing that the other party's water village was close in front of him, Zhou Tai realized that two Jingzhou sailors were lying there and fell asleep in spite of the severe cold. He quickly signaled his subordinates to come forward and ask about the situation .

"Huh?" The two soldiers were soundly asleep when they were suddenly shaken awake.At first, he thought it was the chief of Cha Gang, but when he opened his eyes, he found that the shining sword and gun were resting on his neck, and he was frightened out of his wits. "Forgive...forgive me!" Both of them begged for mercy stammeringly, but they didn't know whether they were frozen or frightened.

"If you want to survive, obediently tell me what the Jingzhou army is doing tonight?" Zhou Tai asked in a low voice.

"Forgive me, General, it's really too cold tonight, Dudu Cai told everyone to go to bed!" One of the soldiers seemed to have regained his strength, and answered Zhou Tai's words fluently.

"God help me too!" Zhou Tai was overjoyed when he heard the words, and then ordered his people to rush towards the unsuspecting navy camp.

"Kill!" Zhou Tai led hundreds of people to rush into a camp first, facing the big heads that were still sleeping soundly, without hesitation, he chopped off the first knife of Jiangdong Army's night attack.Immediately, the sound of cutting meat and bones sounded one after another, and then gradually began to scream.Quite a few Jingzhou sergeants had gradually woken up, but with sleepy eyes and lack of armor, they had nothing left to do but wait for the five thousand Jiangdong tiger and wolf division.

"Don't just kill people, set me on fire!" Zhou Tai swung his knife to kill two soldiers in disheveled clothes, while beckoning his subordinates to kill and set fire.When the flames came together, more people were alarmed immediately, but it was difficult to organize an effective attack for a while, so they could only grab the things around them and barely resist.Zhou Tai's group of 5000 troops was divided into several small groups, and they rushed back and forth in the Jingzhou military camp to kill and set fire, as if they were in an uninhabited land.

"Hugh is crazy, eat me with a knife!" Zhou Taizheng was so happy that he committed suicide, he didn't guard against a general coming from behind, and he swung a knife at him on horseback. "Hey!" Zhou Tai didn't stop after turning around, holding the big saber tightly with both hands, and facing the weapon in his hand with one saber. "Dang!" There was a loud noise, Zhou Tai abruptly blocked the blow that came with the help of the horse's impact force, and he was also knocked off his horse and fell to the ground.

"Die!" Before he could get up, the man saw that Zhou Tai seemed not to be affected by the blow just now, and he jumped over and slashed at his head.

"Crack!" The man's head was cut in half by Zhou Tai, and the latter hurriedly continued to fight.He still didn't know that the person he killed just now was Zhang Yun, the deputy commander of the Jingzhou Navy.As for the governor Cai Hao, he had no fighting spirit after being awakened, and fled directly to the infantry Dazhai in Kuaiyue on the land under the protection of hundreds of personal guards.Huang Zu, the prefect of Jiangxia in the rear army, and his son Huang She also rushed to Luzhai in Kuaiyue after being woken up.

"The fire has started. It seems that General Zhou has succeeded. Order the three armies, except the left behind troops, to cross the river for me. I will take advantage of the situation and completely send the Jingzhou army back to my hometown!" Seeing this, Zhou Yu also ordered again and again. Board the ship and head towards the Jingzhou army's position on the opposite side of the Ganjiang River.As far as the Jingzhou army is concerned, although Kuai Yue's army is quite strict and orderly, but so many routs came to his camp in a hurry, he couldn't help but feel a little chaotic for a while, so he quickly ordered people to dispatch [-] crossbowmen to go to the riverside to guard , Then rectify the army and horses to prepare for another battle.

It should be said that Kuai Yue's reaction was not slow, but Luzhai was still some distance away from the river.The crossbowmen of the Jingzhou Army had just arrived, and the warships of the Jiangdong Army were only a few dozen steps away from the shore.At that moment, everyone fired arrows at random, trying to force Jiangdong Army back.For a while, arrows rained down like rain, and it was difficult for Jiangdong Army to move forward.

"Ah!" At this moment, a ship on the left of the Jiangdong Army suddenly heard a roar that shook the sky.Then a veteran with a fluttering white beard took off his armor and bare his upper body, holding a knife and shield in his hand, he said sharply: "This is the moment to break the enemy. He who is a hero will follow me!" In the deep river water mixed with ice, blocking arrows with a shield in one hand, while rushing to the shore with all his strength, it was the veteran Cheng Pu.

"Demou!" Huang Gai of the right army and Han Dang of the middle army were furious when they saw this, and they took off their armors and followed suit.Seeing that the three veterans were all so desperate, Ding Feng, Ling Tong and other young men followed up bravely.

"Ah!" A crossbowman who only carries a bow and arrow is absolutely miserable if he is hand-to-hand.The Jingzhou Army was different from the Xuzhou Army. After Zhao Feng implemented military reforms, each of Xuzhou's crossbowmen would be equipped with a single sword, so they would not be too passive even in hand-to-hand combat.The Jingzhou army only had a longbow, and they could only fight with arrows in their hands when encountering melee combat.It's a pity that they are not masters of the Emei sect, they don't know how to use the arrow branch to perform the Emei stab, they were immediately killed and defeated.

"Break down the army's stronghold in one go!" Zhou Yu also personally stepped into the battle to boost morale, and the Jiangdong army rushed towards the Jingzhou army's still somewhat chaotic stronghold like wolves and tigers.Although Kuai Yue responded quickly, he couldn't organize an effective resistance in a hurry, not to mention that his army had been messed up by Cai Mao's previous rout.

"The general trend is over!" Kuai Yue went out of the account and saw that the flames were already raging outside. The Jiangdong Army swung their knives like chopping melons and vegetables to kill the panic-stricken Jingzhou sergeants, and immediately understood that today is a lost day.Immediately he let out a long sigh, and arranged for the troops to retreat southward slowly, towards Jiangxia.

"Governor, the Jingzhou army is retreating to Jiangxia, do you want to pursue it?" Ding Feng, who was dripping with sweat, hurried back to ask Zhou Yu for instructions.Zhou Yu looked at the completely defeated Jingzhou Army in the distance, and immediately said in a deep voice: "Order the whole army to pursue with all its strength!" So Jiangdong Army continued to pursue after burning Kuaiyue's Dazhai again.

"Yidu Gong, Zhou Yu is chasing after him!" Cai Mao ran away in a hurry, looking back at the pursuers from time to time, almost frightened.

"Zhou Gongjin wants to kill the grass!" Kuai Yue also gritted his teeth.The reason why this battle was so miserable by the sneak attack was that Cai Mao was completely paralyzed. He never expected Zhou Yu to cross the river to sneak attack on a snowy night.The second is that after Cai Mao was defeated, he went to Kuaiyue's Dazhai, so that the defeated troops also brought chaos to Kuaiyue's troops.The second is that the Jiangdong Army fought desperately, with full morale, everyone took the lead bravely, and finally became unstoppable.

Of course, the deepest reason is that the Jingzhou army has been out of battle for a long time, lacks training, and has poor combat effectiveness.

"Captain, a group of men and horses have been killed ahead!" At this time, the scouts sent by Kuai Yue to explore the road suddenly returned to the army to report.When Kuai Yue and Cai Mao heard the news, their faces changed greatly: If Zhou Yu also ambushed a group of people here, then today is really a day of bad luck. "Degui, it seems to be the Xuzhou Army!" Kuai Yue took a few steps closer to see that there was indeed a group of soldiers parked by the side of the road, and some of them had white feathers on their helmets. He knew that this was Liu Bei's emperor from Xuzhou. The unique shape of the Beer Elite Soldier.Before Cai Mao could answer, one of the generals came out with a broadsword in his hand and asked loudly: "There are Jingzhou troops ahead, young general Guan Ping is here!"

"It's us, I'm Cai Mao, governor of Jingzhou!" Cai Mao was ecstatic when he heard that, and agreed in succession.Guan Ping stepped forward and looked at Cai Mao and the others who were in a panic, he frowned and said: "Everyone can go to Jiangxia to take refuge first, and wait for the young general to die."

"Thank you very much!" Cai Mao repeatedly agreed, and hurriedly patted the horse and left.Kuai Yue frowned slightly, before leaving he still asked: "I don't know how General Guan Shao is here?"

"I'll come by boat from Lujiang tonight!" Guan Ping said with a smile on his face, and Kuai Yue frowned even more when he heard this.At this time, the pursuers from the rear were menacing, Kuai Yue was quick to think, seeing that the road was narrow here, he ordered the soldiers to take off their armors and shirts, and block the road to delay the pursuers, so that Guan Ping could block the attack and at the same time, he could run more briskly.

"Thank you, Mr. Yidu!" Guan Ping saw Jingzhou sergeants undressing one after another, and laughed so hard that his soul trembled in his body: He didn't plan to return the battle robe and armor to Kuai Yue when the attack was over in the future.After Zhao Feng and Zhen Mi got involved a lot, Guan Ping inevitably became more of a money fanatic.Just when his little calculations were crackling, most of the defeated soldiers in Jingzhou had fled back to Jiangxia from him.

(End of this chapter)