Zhou Yu said with a smile: "Zhuge Liang is a calculating guy, what he wants must be of great use, and besides, he has super high intelligence, and Liu Biao is a ghost if he doesn't hit the plan." ”Cai Mao asked: "I don't know if General Zhou has a way, I want to take Xinye back" Zhou Yu shook his head and said: "General Cai doesn't have to worry about Xinye, even if he takes Xinye back, he can't hold it, and that place is a waste of troops and energy."
In my opinion, Jingzhou's natural danger in defending the north is still Xiangyang, as long as Xiangyang has 50,000 elite soldiers to defend the city, Liu Bei will be in vain even if he brings 200,000, and he will not be able to attack it for a year. ”Cai Mao thought about it, agreed with Zhou Yu's suggestion, stopped attacking Xinye, and immediately led the army back.Before returning to Xiangyang City, Jiangling's fast horse arrived: "Zhuge Liang led 30,000 naval troops to raid Jiangling, and the defensive front on the shore of Jiangling has been destroyed, surrounding Jiangling City, and General Huang Zu can't defend it. ”Cai Mao was so angry that he scolded: "Nima, Huang Zu's troops in Jiangling are almost 60,000 people, and they are surrounded by Zhuge Liang's 30,000 people, what kind of battle is this Huang Zu still wants to continue to mix" Zhou Yu praised: "Huang Zu can fight, he knows that Zhuge Liang is scheming, if he doesn't take the initiative to fight, he won't fall into Zhuge Liang's plan, Jiangling is safe." ”Cai Mao was reluctant: "Being surrounded by others with less and more, this face is lost." ”Zhou Yu took the opportunity to say: "Otherwise, I will go over to help Huang Zu and fight with Zhuge Liang." ”Cai Mao was overjoyed: "If General Zhou is willing to help, it would be the best." ”Zhou Yu was embarrassed: "It's just that I can't help someone who is not right, and I can't mobilize Chaisang's sailors to support."
Cai Mao understood what he meant, and even though he agreed to form an alliance with Sun Ce, he and Zhou Yu hid in the tent to sign an alliance agreement.Zhou Yu was overjoyed when he got the alliance agreement, Cai Mao fell into the trap properly, and when the time came, he led the army to find an excuse to enter Jingzhou, and then took the opportunity to annex Jingzhou.And Cai Mao was in the dark, and sent a force to escort Zhou Yu to Jiangling.There was a reason why Zhuge Liang suddenly attacked Jiangling, of course he was not for Xiao Qiao, but for Liu Biao.His trick of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger really worked, Cai Mao in Xiangyang was very scruples, and repeatedly postponed his attack on Liu Biao, and Liu Biao's life was worry-free for the time being.However, Zhuge Liang knew that Zhou Yu would definitely help Cai Mao, and he couldn't retreat to Chibi immediately, otherwise Cai Mao would attack Liu Biao when he saw Jiangling lifting the siege.If Zhou Yu came to help Huang Zu, with the strength of 60,000 horses in Jiangling, Zhuge Liang felt a little difficult to deal with, after all, he only brought 30,000 sailors, which was twice as small as the defenders of Jiangling.The 20,000 sailors who remained in Chibi could not move, and Jiang Qin had to strictly guard against Sun Ce's sneak attack from behind by Chaisang.When Zhou Yu arrived at Jiangling, Huang Zu was overjoyed and immediately ordered 50,000 horses to kill out of the city.Zhuge Liang set up a position on the shore and sent four partial generals out to fight a few battles, but three were killed and one was wounded, and the battle was completely lost.Huang Zu took the opportunity to wave his army to cover the kill, but was repelled by the archers who were ambushed by Zhuge Liang, and Zhuge Liang calmly led his army back to the warship and confronted him in the river.Jiangling's naval army was few and weak, and the warships were dilapidated, so they did not dare to sail into the river to fight Zhuge Liang.Zhou Yu saw that Zhuge Liang could not be helpless on the river, so he persuaded Huang Zu to retreat into the city and not to garrison Zhuge Liang's tricks on the shore.After this battle, Zhuge Liang tried out Zhou Yu's reality and knew that Gan Ning, Cheng Pu and Huang Gai were all in Jiangling, and this battle was definitely not so easy to fight.Zhuge Liang knew that the land war could not compete with Zhou Yu, his only deputy general Jiang Qin was guarding Chibi, he didn't even have a strong general around him, and the troops were not as many as Jiangling, so what was the land battle with Zhou Yu Fortunately, the sailors in Jingzhou were not strong, and Zhuge Liang could still be the king on the water.Zhuge Liang repaired a letter to Wen Ping, and if he found that Sun Ce's sailors were coming to Jiangling, he would lead his troops to attack Chaisang's dock and force Sun Ce's sailors to return to guard their lair.Zhuge Liang sent another letter to Jiang Qin, saying that if Sun Ce's army was found to be coming through Jiangxia, he would try to intercept or stop the enemy, or at least fight the enemy army to reduce the number of enemies.For the sake of prudence, Zhuge Liang also sent a small fast force as a sentinel, and once he found that Sun Ce's army had broken through Chibi, he would immediately come back to report.He had already made a plan to counter the sneak attack, and he calculated that Sun Ce's water army was not many, and if Sun Ce dared to bring the water army to come, he would dare to eat it in one bite.In Jiangling, Zhou Yu was discussing with Huang Zu about the navy, and he asked Huang Zu to collect ships and organize a navy army to compete with Zhuge Liang."
Temporarily expand the navy, can't beat Zhuge Liang" Huang Zu was deeply skeptical."
I have already flown the pigeon to pass the book to Chaisang, and my lord's guild led Chaisang's sailors to come to support, and Zhuge Liang will be in trouble at that time."
Zhou Yu is full of confidence.Zhou Yu came with a letter from Cai Mao, in which Cai Mao instructed Huang Zu to follow Zhou Yu's advice on the battlefield, Huang Zu dared to disobey, so Huang Zu personally led his troops to collect ships everywhere, and drew 30,000 men from the army in Gangneung, and asked Zhou Yu to train them in water combat skills.Jingzhou was located in a river basin with many fishing boats, so Huang Zu quickly recruited five or six hundred fishing boats, summoned the original sailors and new sailors together, and barely raised a 40,000-strong sailor army.Zhou Yu placed this naval army in Jiangling Zuoze, and as soon as Chaisang's elite sailors arrived, he went out to attack Zhuge Liang.After Sun Ce received Zhou Yu's letter, he felt a little lacking in confidence, last time Zhou Yu lost more than 20,000 sailors back, and now there are only 30,000 sailors in Chaisang, but Zhuge Liang has 50,000 elites in his hands.Unexpectedly, as soon as Sun Ce arrived in Jiangxia, he received the news that the Chaisang dock was attacked by Wenpin.He was shocked into a cold sweat, once the nest was destroyed, his navy would anchor there in the future, but he looked back and thought about it, now it is probably a little late to return to rescue him, it is better to fight Jiangxia directly, Wen Ping must not have many people staying in Jiangxia, just take advantage of the weakness.Sun Ce had a certain idea, so he led the naval army to fight a landing battle against Jiangxia, but he couldn't attack it.Sun Ce was quite remorseful, he didn't expect that Jiangxia's defenders had at least 5,000 people, and he also saw Liu Qi personally supervising the battle on the position on the bow of the ship.Unable to attack Jiangxia, Sun Ce immediately ordered the troops to return to Chaisang, and it was expected that there would not be many troops brought by Wenpin to raid, and they could encircle and suppress Wenpin's department on the river.Quickly returned to Chaisang, only to see that half of the dock had been destroyed, and Wen Ping had already slipped away, Sun Ce was so angry that he stomped his feet and ordered Ling Cao to lead 10,000 sailors to stay behind to repair the dock, and he led less than 20,000 sailors to Jiangling again
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