The son of Yuan Shao who traveled through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 273

Liu Bei won a complete victory and fully occupied Xiakou.Immediately send Guan Yu to attack Shiyang City.Shiyang City is also the defense line of Chen Wu and Pan Zhang.There are no more than [-] troops stationed inside, and the biggest official is a school lieutenant.Seeing Guan Yu's arrival, Shuai Jun surrendered.It was still dark at this time.Zhou Yu is still dreaming sweet dreams.

At dawn, Liu Bei's army took full control of Jiangxia County.The soldiers began to clean up the messy battlefield, and the civil servants were responsible for issuing the list and writing notices to calm the people.Liu Bei's follow-up troops also entered the city one after another.

Seeing Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang immediately said: "Jiangxia has been breached, Zhou Tai and Han Dang have lost contact with Jiangdong, and have become a lone army. My lord, you can order Guan Yu and Huang Zhong to attack the city. Send Huo Jun to block Hanjinkou and cut off their way back. The two must surrender to the lord." Liu Bei had long heard that Zhou Tai and Han Dang were strong generals of the Eastern Wu, and he was overjoyed, so he sent Guan Yu and Huang Zhong to command the navy out of Xiakou and go up the Xiangjiang River to attack Jingling.

Zhou Tai and Han Dang are not as bold as Chen Wu and Pan Zhang.Although the Lantern Festival also drinks, the defense of the city has not been relaxed.The two of them also fell into Zhuge Liang's strategy and felt that Liu Bei was decadent.But what they were guarding against was Yuan Jun from Jingzhou.So I don't dare to be too careless.

As soon as Guan Yu's fleet entered the Xiangjiang River, the spies quickly informed Zhou Tai.Zhou Tai ordered to investigate again.As a result, it was reported that Jiang Xia had fallen, and that Chen Wu and Pan Zhang's life and death were uncertain.Zhou Tai protested against Liu Bei and scolded Liu Bei for being ungrateful.

Han Dang is a general with both civil and military skills.After listening, his body shook and he remained silent.It took a long time before he said: "Gather the soldiers quickly, evacuate Jingling, and rush to Sanjiangkou. If it is too late, it will be too late." Zhou Tai was about to give Guan Yu a head-on blow. Hearing his useless words, he said sharply: "You want to flee without fighting. Han Dang said: "Whether this battle is won or not, Jingling will become an isolated city with Yuan soldiers in the north and Liu Bei in the south. If the enemy army besieged the city for a month, the food in the city would be exhausted. The two of us and tens of thousands The soldiers are all dead and have no place to bury them. If you go back to Soochow and defend the Sanjiangkou with the governor, and make meritorious service to atone for your crimes, it’s all right.” Zhou Tai usually admired Han Dang’s insight, and he could still listen to what he said.After stomping his feet, he suddenly lowered his head to pick up the short table on the ground, raised it above his head, raised his knees, and snapped it into two pieces.Howling and thrown out of the hall. "Liu Bei, I, Zhou Tai, swear to kill you."

Guan Yu's fleet went into the city and was completely empty.Han Dang and Zhou Tai had already entered the Yangtze River along the south bank of the Xiangjiang River.At this time, Huo Jun's Fengjiang troops were not in place yet.

Zhuge Liang did not expect that Han Dang and Zhou Tai would abandon the city and flee.

When Guan Yu's fleet set off, the water army led by him and Liu Bei had already marched towards Sanjiangkou.

Sanjiangkou is one of the most important military fortresses in Soochow.The river is tens of miles wide, and the north and south banks are far away as far as the eye can see.The waves on the river are monstrous, and the sound of the tide is like thunder, deafening.The building boat under Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei passed through the waves and flew downstream with the wind and the water.When Zhuge Liang looked out the window, he saw huge waves like high transparent walls.One by one, they slapped the hull of the ship.The hull is bumping and jumping up and down.

Five hundred warships leaped from the trough of the waves to the crest of the tide, and where the water and the sky met, countless boats and boats suddenly appeared.Hundreds of huge warships blocked the river downstream.The countercurrent came to meet him.Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei hurried out of the cabin.Liu Bei was shocked and said: "Zhou Yu is prepared, what's the matter?" Zhuge Liang shouted: "General Guan must have missed the air." It's too late. It is clear that Zhou Lang's navy is only a hundred warships, and the main fleet must be stationed at Chaisangkou and Wuchang. No matter how strong it is, it is no match for our army's five hundred warships. This man came here with great fanfare. We scare away. I just do the opposite, rather than force it."

Liu Bei thought to himself, Zhou Yu is used to fighting in water, if he fails to win, there is not even a place to escape in the blue waves.Persuading: "Military division, I think it's better to have a long-term plan."

Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "Our warships are not as good as Soochow. If we turn around and sail against the wind, we will be captured." Liu Bei raised his eyebrows: "I have already made up my mind. I vow to deal with Zhou Lang to the end and never back down. He said that those who retreat will be killed without mercy." Pointing to the generals under him, he said, "Did you hear that?" The generals, including Guan Yu, rolled their eyes behind his back, saying to themselves, no one called to retreat except you.Who else said that#

Zhuge Liang's prediction was exactly right.Zhou Yu only had eighty warships in his hands.These include [-] light fast boats for sneak attacks, [-] medium-sized warships, and [-] iron-clad destroyers.Including the [-] warships brought back by Zhou Tai and Han Dang, there are a total of [-] ships, which cannot stop Liu Bei's army at all.

Under such circumstances, Zhou Yu used the tactic of being suspicious, and filled some communication fishing boats with flags, and distributed them among the warships across the river. From a distance, it seemed that the Eastern Wu navy had come out in full force.

Liu Bei was fooled, but Zhuge Liang was not.

Huang Zhong had fought in water battles, and when he saw the situation, he came over and said, "My lord, military adviser, give me fifty boats and five thousand soldiers, and I will go and disrupt the enemy's formation. My lord will lead the troops to cover up and kill, Zhou Yu will definitely lose."

Zhuge Liang pointed in the direction of Zhou Yu's fleet and said, "The enemy's ships have set up suspicious soldiers. I expected that there must be countless communication boats among them. Han Sheng can avoid his warships and destroy the small boats in between. Wu's army has more obstacles. Losing contact with the flagship will inevitably lead to chaos. My lord and I will come to the commander-in-chief to respond later. Sanjiangkou is at your fingertips."

Zhuge Liang's calculation was too accurate, Huang Zhong was a little skeptical, he even guessed that he used a communication ship as a disguise?Suspiciously went to the command tower to wave the flag to mobilize the ships.

Seeing that Liu Beijun was not fooled and that he sent a large number of warships to fight, Zhou Yu hesitated.The rescuers at Chaisangkou will not be announced until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest.Can a mere hundred warships withstand Liu Bei's powerful fleet?There is no way to retreat anymore, even if the entire army is wiped out, Sanjiangkou must be kept.

Huang Zhong's fleet was full of sails, and rushed towards the opposite side like an arrow off the string.Zhou Yu narrowed his eyes, sneered and said to Ding Feng behind him, "Take a team of 'water ghosts' to dive down and scuttle these boats for me." Ding Feng held a team similar to underwater special forces, It is composed of diving masters selected by Sun Quan in the territory of Soochow.The level of these people, after training, how to put it, has basically reached the level where they can sleep underwater.These people have two main tasks, one is investigation.Reconnaissance includes reconnaissance of the enemy, detection of underwater undercurrents and reefs, and opening up waterways.Another task is what Zhou Yu said just now, 'scuttle those ships for me. '

Cruelty flashed across Ding Feng's eyes, his stern face was expressionless: "It's the governor." He turned and left.Zhou Yu said: "Jiang Qin and Xu Sheng, each of you will bring ten warships around the enemy's flanks. When you see the enemy's warship sinking, immediately drop your spears." Very heavy.When shooting arrows in normal times, if there is a strong wind in the river, the arrows tend to be biased and the lethality is greatly weakened, so they use spears instead.

Huang Zhong saw the Eastern Wu navy coming out in two directions, so he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to bend their bows and set up arrows, and stand on the left and right sides of the ship, to guard against the attack from the left and the right.Huang Zhong, with a fluttering white beard, was majestic and majestic. Standing on the bow of the ship with his sword pressed, he shouted to Jiang Qin, the general of Dong Wu who was on the enemy ship seven or eight feet away: "Have the bandits come down sooner?" The two ships approached quickly like arrows facing each other. .At six feet and five feet, Jiang Qin bent his bow and set up an arrow, shooting at Huang Zhong.Huang Zhong sneered, and without dodging, he raised the weight of [-] jin on the bow, put on the carved feathers, and roared, "Die." "Whoosh" the feather arrow flew towards the arrow shot by Jiang Qin, "Ding..." Jiang Feng sent a light sound, and the arrow shot by Huang Zhong knocked Jiang Qin's arrow into the air, and it flew towards Jiang Qin without stopping, with the same angle. "Peng" shot through Jiang Qin's heart with an arrow.Jiang Qin looked down at the transparent hole in his chest, with a hint of horror in his eyes, and fell to the ground.Huang Zhong ordered to beat the drums, and advanced quickly, approaching Jiang Qin's fleet, and immediately fired ten thousand crossbows.Wu Jun jumped into the water one after another to escape.

Seeing Jiang Qin's fleet being attacked on the right, Xu Sheng rushed to rescue them, lined up on the river, and attacked Huang Zhong's fleet diagonally.As soon as the boat was halfway, more than a dozen Liu Beijun warships sank in the draft, and the river surface was already level with the ship's side.The soldiers above screamed in terror and jumped into the turbulent and icy river one after another.Xu Sheng knew that the 'Water Ghost' must have succeeded.Immediately swiping the army to attack, the soldiers armed with spears, assassinated the enemy troops who fell into the water along the river, and the blood stained the river for a while, scarlet.The waves turned into waves of blood.

Seeing that he had made the first move, Huang Zhong suddenly felt that his feet were not stable, the warship was swaying, and his footing was uncertain.Hastily called out to the soldiers and asked what was going on.The soldiers scrambled and ran across the splint from the rear stern, knelt down in front of him and howled like ghosts and wolves: "General, something is wrong with the general, the stern and the cabin have been cut through more than a dozen one-foot-long openings, and the river is rushing into the cabin. It's sinking. It's already sinking—" Before he could finish speaking, Huang Zhong saw the dark green river flow pouring from the cabin into the deck with white foam. When he rolled his eyes, the water was already up to his knees. .A wave came, and the soldiers who were kneeling at their feet just now were sucked into the rolling river and disappeared without a trace.Unfortunately, Huang Zhong knew what was going on.All the soldiers who hadn't dived pressed on the piercing head, and the bow couldn't bear the weight, so it sank at an accelerated rate.

There are more than [-] steps between Xu Sheng's warship and the sunken ship.Spears on the boat were thrown like rain.Without even thinking about it, Huang Zhong jumped into the icy winter river wearing his armor.Countless spears fell into the water, crackling like a sudden rainstorm.

In less than half an hour, most of the fifty warships led by Huang Gai sank.The remaining twenty or so dragons had no leader, half turned around and fled, and half were attacked and sank or surrendered.

Zhuge Liang found out that Huang Zhong's fleet sank without thinking that it was too late to rescue, and things were developing too fast.Just now it was still a victory, but it turned into a disastrous defeat in an instant.Unexpected.

Seeing that Liu Bei's water army was fleeing, Zhou Yu hurriedly ordered the whole army to pursue him.Zhuge Liang couldn't see Huang Zhong's return, and felt sad. He ordered the warships to throw stones and form a circle on the water, waiting for Zhou Yu's warships to throw themselves into the net.Zhou Yu is not an idiot.Such obviously outnumbered, how could they rush over.Order the fleet to return to Sanjiangkou.He was sure that after today's battle, Liu Bei's navy no longer dared to act rashly.Zhou Yu went back to know that Jiang Qin was killed in battle and was very sad. Jiang Qin was Sun Quan's favorite general. He was extremely brave and unexpectedly died at the hands of Huang Zhong.Sun Quan wept bitterly.Jiang Qin's son, Jiang Yi, was made Marquis of Liehou.Personally lead thousands of warships, and come to Sanjiangkou to fight the despicable and shameless villain Liu Huangshu in my heart.

Seeing Zhou Yu retreating, Zhuge Liang began to worry about Huang Zhong.After finally having a capable and obedient subordinate, he was unwilling to lose it.Lying on the side of the boat, looking out on the vast river.Suddenly, a big hand stretched out in the distance and shook it again and again.Although he couldn't see his face clearly, the armor on his body reflected golden light in the sunlight.It was definitely Huang Zhong.

Zhou Yu was eager for meritorious service, and wanted to show his hand before Sun Quan came, and avenge Jiang Qin by the way, called together the generals under his command, and decided to go to Liu Beishui village to rob the camp at night.

Liu Beijun did not go to the shore to go to the village, but formed a circle on the bumpy river, which provided convenient conditions for Zhou Yu to plot.Zhou Yu ordered Ding Feng to lead the water ghost army to continue diving into the water to dig through.He led Zhou Tai, Han Dang, Xu Sheng, Dong Xi, Yu Fan, Gu Li and other generals without lighting torches, and under the dim starlight, he used a hundred small boats in the army and marched forward.The boat is a communication channel. The hull is small and light. It is like a leaf when driving on the river. It is not easy to be found. It is pervasive, flexible and suitable for sneak attacks.

There are four warships at the gate of Liu Beijun's water village, two horizontally and two vertically.If someone enters and exits, it is enough for the two boats to retreat backwards and get out of the way of a waterway.In addition, Zhuge Liang was afraid of a sneak attack by the Wu army, so he threw one or two hundred stalks on the river in advance, floating on the water faintly.If a fast-moving warship bumps into it by chance, the noise will surely alarm the defenders.But how can all this be hidden from Soochow's "Water Ghost Army".Zhou Yu had already found out.Order hundreds of soldiers in advance, holding seven-meter spears, standing on the bow of the ship, and pushing the wood aside.The fleet is unimpeded.

Hundreds of soldiers on the two boats at Zhaimen rested in shifts.Only a dozen people stand guard in each rotation.Touched by water ghosts holding daggers, he was chopped off from behind and thrown into the river.The brothers below cut through the hull.The warship sank into the water flickeringly.The poor soldiers on the two boats became real water ghosts in a daze.

Liu Beijun's water village was so easy to break through, Zhou Yu couldn't help laughing.Order the soldiers to divide into left and right and start pouring oil and setting fire.Just at this time, a clear and crisp gong sounded suddenly, piercing the night sky, and Liu Beijun's engineers and soldiers lined up on both sides came out together, and quickly pulled up the thick cable in front of the water village.In the center of the water village, a row of more than ten meters long pine trees was immediately erected, only Mi Xu was exposed on the water surface.All of a sudden, Zhou Yu's fleet was cut into two sections.

(End of this chapter)