The first month of the second year of Jian'an is the season of the first wave of high tide.
Poyang Lake, a huge water village built by the water and covering an area of ten miles, stepped on a wooden water fence, and most of the wine transported from Moling was frozen in the river water.
At this time, the winter cold has just gone, the river water is cold, and when Liu Qi came here, it was already dusk, and Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin were already waiting outside the camp gate.
At this moment, he led a group of generals from the army to follow Liu Qi and came to the general platform where he trained sailors on weekdays.
"Lord, now our army has 80 vehicles and ships, each boat is on the people's 60 people, the soldiers can carry 120 people, if you cooperate with the ship, grasshopper, rash, fighting ship, and the three-story ship of the combat command, our army of 15,000 sailors, can pour out of the nest, now Jiangxia Huangzu along the river stationed troops in Exian, Xiling, Shaxian and other places, the sailor Dazhai is still in Shaxian, but there are many beacon towers along the river, if there is a war, down the river, within an hour, will go to the battlefield on the river."
Zhou Tai followed Liu Qi to the left and said respectfully.
"The meaning of Youping, our army's sailors, this time to attack Jiangxia" Zhou Tai immediately laughed, "This is natural, although Yuan Shu has many soldiers along the river, but the sailor is vulnerable, and now on the water surface of the Yangtze River, only Jiangxia Huangzu can fight with the sailor of the east of the Yangtze River." ” Liu Qi glanced at Jiang Qin, "How about the public will?"
Jiang Qin pondered for a moment, "Since the formation of our water division, it has been more than a year, and now the Poyang water thieves have been exterminated. ” "Poyang grain, grass and ordnance can be sufficient" Liu Qi walked in front, looking at the thousands of ships of different sizes moored on the lake at this moment, his eyes were full of emotion.
"There are 25,000 men and 15,000 soldiers, and they have food and grass for the next year."
Although most of the soldiers and generals present were sailors, on weekdays, in addition to the daytime water warfare training, they also needed tuntian, and most of the rations needed were distributed from the output of the acres of land at home, so the Poyang sailors allocated very little grain and grass from the treasury, and most of them were self-sufficient.
"Where is the fighter?"
asked Liu Qi again.
Zhou Tai immediately stepped forward to answer: "Our army's naval division is in full swing, and the soldiers are good and the food is sufficient, the new vehicles and boats are fast, and the combat is convenient, on the big river, you can come and go at will." ” "And Huang Zu doesn't know the benefits of my Jiangdong Sailors, so he can kill the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in one fell swoop, defeat Huang Zu's Sailors, capture his soldiers, and seize his warships.
Liu Qi touched his chin with one hand, "The land of Jiangxia, if you take it, it is not difficult, with the prosperity of the Ru army, you can defeat Huang Zu in one fell swoop, but you can know that this move is to put my Jiangdong in danger." ” Zhou Tai's face changed slightly, and he glanced at Jiang Qin, and bowed down at the same time, "Please also ask the Lord to publicize it." ” "Huainan Yuan Shu, after the war with Lu Bu, on the grounds of marrying Lu Bu's daughter, temporarily suspended the truce."
As he spoke, Liu Qi glanced at the two of them, "Sun Ce returned to Liyang and eyed the land east of my river. ” "And Xiangyang Liu Jingsheng, although he is a brother and brother with my Jiangdong, he is secretly jealous in his heart, Huang Zu is a Jingxiang clan, the Huang clan, all over Nanyang, Jiangxia, Lingling land, lush branches and leaves, in the land of Jingxiang, great influence.
If our army captures Jiangxia, win for a while, Xiangyang Liu Biao, will definitely send troops to help, when the time comes, the war is stalemate, Liyang Sun Ce, Jiujiang Chen Ji, Lujiang Liu Xun, will all look for this fighter. ” "There is a lot of grain in Jiangdong, but most of it is in the hands of the people, and the government has only two or three hundred thousand stones of grain.
After speaking, Liu Qi met the contemplative gaze of the two, "The Yangtze River Water Division, only Jiangxia Huangzu and Jiangling Cai Mao can see a battle with the Jiangdong Water Division." ” "I don't want to leak the matter of the car and ship."
"Lord, why is this?"
Zhou Tai asked again.
"If you want to take Jiangxia and occupy it, you must send troops to advance by land and water, in order to do your best, but there is Lujiang Liu Xun in the north, and Changsha Liu Pan in the west, if our army wins, it will fall into a heavy siege, and Jiangdong will fight on two fronts, if it is not victorious, in the future, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River will be set up to block the river, although our vehicles and ships are fast, but it is difficult step by step."
"If you want to take Jiangxia, you need to take Yuan Shu first."
Liu Qi pointed to the north, and then returned to the camp with the generals.
More than ten generals sat on the left and right, and behind Liu Qi stood Dong Xi.
"Wu Wei got a report, after the truce between Yuan Shu and Lu Bu, he returned to Shouchun, superstitious Zhang Jiong, a Taishi, and now expanded the palace in Shouchun, prepared an incense altar, and seemed to have a heart of disobedience."
Hearing this, the faces of all the generals in the tent changed.
"Lu Bu is a Hanchen, although he served Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo in the past, he will not be in the company of this chaotic minister and thief, I want to repair a book, I am willing to watch the Son of Heaven, and add Lu Bu as the right general, Xuzhou Mu."
"In this way, Lu Bu and Yuan Shu will definitely go to war."
"I have sent Lu Meng to lead an army of 20,000 to garrison Niuzhu, and Yuan Shu will not dare to mobilize the troops and horses of Sun Ce's troops in Liyang."
Liu Qi stood up and walked a few steps in the tent, "In this way, we can raise the banner of the traitor's righteousness, take advantage of the situation to march north, take the water division as the vanguard, first break the Lujiang Water Village, and then besiege Liu Xunwan County, encircle and suppress Liu Xun's soldiers, and then enter Shouchun." ” "Lord, Yuan Shu has a heart of disobedience, and must be stationed in Lujiang Tun with a large number of soldiers and horses, Lujiang Liu Xun is near Anhui County, and he will garrison 30,000 people in Mabu Army, and our army will go north, and it will be a hard battle."
In Zhou Tai's view, it was a great pity that he couldn't fight with the upstream Huangzu Water Division.
"It's okay, this time I want to divide the army into three ways and take Lujiang, it is Jiujiang Sun Ce, and I can't save him Yuan Shu."
"The fighter plane is fleeting, I am here, one is to report this matter to the two generals, the second is to go to Linru County to inspect the silver mine, and the third is to inspect the sailors."
"Lord, please stay in Poyang for a few days, tomorrow, the two of us will perform martial arts for the lord."
"Very good."
Liu Qi smiled and nodded, before he came, he really wanted to send troops to Jiangxia and ride on Huang Zu's head to show off his might, but since Wu Wei had already sent back a secret report that Yuan Shu was about to die, if this matter was not taken from Lujiang, Jiujiang and other places, when would it be It was night, Liu Qi sent pork and steamed bun wine and water with the battalion generals, at night, the entire Poyang Lake, all lit torches, for a while, the lights were brilliant, the figures were building, and there was a chorus of joy.
In the morning, when a dense war drum sounded, Liu Qi had already stepped forward by the guards, dressed neatly for him, when he came to the tent with the long sword on his waist with one hand, a group of sailors and generals were already each in a small boat, waiting under the general's platform, behind them, there were neatly lined up eighty new vehicles and ships, in the center, was the flagship they prepared for Liu Qi, a three-story high, dozens of zhang long large building ship
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