The Yangtze River enters the sea.
The broad river surface slowly and gently flows into the embrace of the sea, blending into the sea quietly. The sky and earth were all black, with thick mist floating on the sea. The fog was as vast as smoke, and the visibility was only within ten steps.
You can hear the sound of waves crashing against the rocks from time to time. The waves crash onto the beach on the shore layer by layer and then return to the sea layer by layer. In the deep darkness, a huge sea-going ship quietly moved towards the mouth of the Yangtze River, haunting like a ghost in the middle of the night.
With the appearance of the giant sea ship, countless small warships followed around.
Compared with the giant sea-going ship, the small boats following them looked petite and cute. In comparison, the surrounding warships looked like underage children following adults.
Gan Ning, Zhuge Liang, Gu Ming, Wu Song and others stood on the front deck with serious faces, looking at the Yangtze River estuary that was approaching slowly. The cold wind blew in the dark night, but they couldn't care about the warmth and coldness of the sea breeze. They concentrated all their energy. Staring at the coast, there was also bottomless darkness on the other side, shrouded in vast fog.
There were three vanguard ships leading the way, and the Chang'an ship followed behind and approached slowly.
Zhuge Liang and others have received the battle report. The Chu army, led by Liu Bei, launched a surprise attack on Soochow. The war started at midnight yesterday. The Chu army, led by the two tiger generals Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong, was overwhelmingly strong and moved down the river again. They pounced directly on Jianye and prepared to block the Yangtze River.
It was Sun Ce's younger brother Sun Quan who stayed behind in Jianye.
Sun Quan had already been prepared for the Chu army, but was still caught off guard by the Chu army. Fortunately, the Wu army responded quickly enough and made the correct deployment after the Chu army launched the attack, blocking the Chu army at Sanshan Pass and at the same time in the Yangtze River. Iron chains were set up along the coast to intercept, so the Chu army failed to completely blockade the Yangtze River. They only blocked the Yangtze River basin west of Sanshankou.
At this moment, the main force of the Wu army had marched north to the Huaihe River to capture Yuzhou. There were almost only 60,000 naval troops left in the entire south of the Yangtze River to defend the Chu army. However, these 60,000 naval troops were defeated in a battle by the navy led by Wenpin and left from Hukou. After being defeated, they fled all the way to Hulin and then to Sanshankou. They only held their position with the help of the iron rope interception at Sanshankou. Behind them was Jianye.
After Zhuge Liang received the battle report, he was overjoyed and decided to take advantage of the heavy fog tonight. While Soochow's full attention was on guarding against the Chu army, the navy entered the Yangtze River estuary, advanced against the current, and blocked the north bank of the Yangtze River.
Even if Sun Ce, Zhou Yu and Zhang Liang were still alive, they would never have imagined that the Jing army had such a huge fleet.
Can be killed from the sea.
As they expected, the vanguard ship entered the Yangtze River estuary quietly without any obstruction. After the vanguard ship entered the Yangtze River, countless warships filed in. The Chang'an ship led by Gan Ning slowly entered later. Until the Chang'an ship could no longer go deep, the enemy still did not notice the enemy invasion.
Gan Ning ordered Gu Ming to lead five thousand cavalrymen to disembark from the Chang'an ship and occupy the ferry along the Yangtze River at night. Zhuge Liang stayed behind to guard the Chang'an fleet, while Gan Ning personally led a navy of 30,000 to assist Gu Ming in occupying the ferry and covering other cities.
According to later records, Sun Quan inherited his brother's business as early as 200 years ago and became a talker in Soochow.
As Zhang Xiu traveled through, Sun Ce was not assassinated, so it was naturally impossible for Sun Quan to inherit his brother's business. After Sun Ce proclaimed himself emperor, he named Sun Quan the King of Changsha. Sun Ce personally fought in this battle and ordered Sun Quan to stay in Jianye to guard against the Chu army.
Sun Ce knew this younger brother very well. He once commented: To raise the people of Jiangdong, to decide between two Chens, to compete with the world, you are not as good as me; to appoint talents and talents, and to do their best to protect Jiangdong, I am not as good as you.
Quan is good at using troops and knows how to change his strategy when he sees it.
Faced with the Chu army's sudden attack and Liu Bei's personal expedition, Sun Quan quickly made response arrangements. It was expected that the purpose of the Chu army was to block the Yangtze River first to block the reinforcements from the north. When they were slowly moving to Yangzhou, they ordered their uncles Jiang Qin and Dong Xi to lead their troops to Sanjiangkou to build iron ropes to block it, and then ordered Pan Zhang and Han Dang to lead their troops. The horses rushed to Hulin and Yuzhang to block the Chu army from going deep into Yangzhou.
According to later records, among the twelve tiger ministers of Jiang Biao, there were no first-rate generals. However, this was the marginalization of Soochow by later generations, which led to later generations thinking that Soochow had five super-first-rate generals. However, during the Three Kingdoms period, if Soochow did not have a single tiger general How can you stay in such troubled times while sitting in command?
Among the twelve tiger ministers, Gan Ning, Ling Tong and Zhou Tai were the strongest.
Only Sun Ce and Taishi Ci, the little overlords of Jiangdong, were at the level of first-rate generals, and the others were at most first-rate.
In fact, Gan Ning was as good as Sun Ce and Taishi Ci, but unfortunately Gan Ning was taken under Zhang Xiu's account early and became the general of Jingguo. Only Sun Ce and Taishi Ci in Soochow had super first-class standards, and only Ling was the first-class general. Tong and Zhou Tai.
But now in the war, Taishi Ci, Ling Tong and Zhou Tai all followed the army northward. Only four people, Jiang Qin, Dong Xi, Pan Zhang and Han Dang, defended Jiangdong. How could these four people be the opponents of the two top-notch generals Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun? ?
Coupled with the fact that Liu Bei was personally on the expedition, morale was skyrocketing.
If the main forces in Yuzhou and Yanzhou cannot rush back to Yangzhou in time, they will definitely not be able to stop the Chu army. It is only a matter of time before they conquer Soochow. However, the battle between Yuzhou and Yanzhou is at its peak. Sun Ce cannot withdraw if he wants to. If you dare to withdraw, even Xuzhou and Qingzhou will not be able to be taken in. You must retract them all to save Jiangdong.
This is a huge loss for Soochow.
It depends on whether Sun Ce has the courage to retreat across the board, or whether Sun Quan can withstand the pressure of the Chu army. He will quickly fight with the Wei army to capture Yuzhou and then go south from Runan to Jiangxia to attack Liu Bei.
Of course, this is the ideal situation if Jingjun does not take action.
Lu Su of Yanzhou has been targeted by Zhang Liao for a long time, how can he let him leave happily? Moreover, Zhang Xiu personally caused trouble in Xuzhou, making Sun Ce's rear unstable. It is still unclear whether he can defeat the Wei army and occupy Yuzhou.
Gan Ning's troops dispatched as quickly as possible and launched a surprise attack when the Wu army was unprepared. The cavalry used its super mobility to attack hundreds of miles overnight and penetrated directly into the Lujiang River. Lujiang City was poorly defended and fell into Zhang Xiu's hands again.
Since Dongwu only focused on guarding against the Chu army and completely exposed its back, the Jing army was able to quickly penetrate deep into the Yangtze River. From the mouth of the Yangtze River to the mouth of the Lujiang River, overnight, the other side of the river was filled with military flags of the Jing army.
For a time, the situation in Soochow became precarious, which was equivalent to going to war with Chu, Wei, and Jing at the same time. In such a situation, not to mention Wu State, even Jingguo would have trouble confronting it.
