Cao Wu originally planned to continue riding alone, but was stopped by A Da. Just in time for Zhang Liao's entire army to leave camp, he simply changed his mind and marched eastward along the Han River with Zhang Liao.
Cao Wu clearly remembered the time in history when Zhao Yan commanded the Seventh Army.
The main force of Cao's army marched eastward along the Yangtze River, and Zhao Yan's force on the Han River was an auxiliary partial force.
But there is no record in any classics about what happened to this partial division after Cao's army was defeated on the main battlefield of Chibi.
However, considering that six generals of the Seven Army are still active in the history books in the later period, only Feng Kai is missing from the history books.
Therefore, this army should have been a blessing in disguise and was not implicated in the fiasco at Chibi. At least Zhang Liao's army must have escaped.
After the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao established his power in the world, and Cao Wu stayed in Beifu to carry out that important event. He rarely left Yecheng, let alone went on expeditions with the army.
Following Zhang Liao's troops this time, it can be seen that the overall quality of Cao's army is already higher than during the Battle of Guandu.
With the addition of 5,000 Qingzhou troops, Zhang Liao had as many as 10,000 men, including 2,000 cavalry and 8,000 infantry. The marching formation was continuous for one mile.
In the original history, when Liu Bei was defeated and fled south, Guan Yu used Xiangyang's large and small ships to take away Liu Bei's elite soldiers, and burned the ships that could not be taken away.
There were no ships in Xiangyang at that time, so when attacking Jiangxia, the newly appointed Jiangxia governor Wenpin could only attack on bamboo rafts. The Seventh Army under Zhao Yan's command had no navy to accompany him.
But now it is different from history. When Cao Wu asked Cao Cao to return to Yecheng to celebrate his birthday, he had already briefly mentioned that he would be defeated. At that time, Cao Cao began to recruit ships from all over the country.
Therefore, each of Zhao Yan's seven armies was assigned a large ship, five stern ships, and many small boats carrying people.
Zhao Yan, the newly appointed governor of Lingling, called together the generals of the Seventh Army. After allocating the ships, he also told them to train the soldiers in water warfare, so that the armies would advance on land and water.
Zhao Yan is not famous in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but he is a famous peacemaker in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. When the three generals Zhang Liao, Yu Jin, and Le Jin clashed, they all relied on him to coordinate and prevent the riots from breaking out.
Now that the seven armies are out and the seven generals have equal official positions, Cao Cao lets Zhao Yan supervise the army to prevent the seven from fighting among themselves.
Zhao Yan himself was very capable, but after all he was not a prestigious general like Xiahou Dun or Cao Ren. Coordinating the seven armies was also very difficult. Finally, Zhang Liao came forward and named Beifu General, and the generals stopped fighting. thought.
Just kidding, they are not those civil servants. The military officers follow the Prime Minister's expeditions to the south and north every day. They know that the Prime Minister is decisive in killing and the Prime Minister is like a god in their hearts. Who would touch the trouble of the Prime Minister's brother.
The final result of the struggle was that the seven armies were separated by three miles, watching and helping each other. Every day, a general would lead his troops as the vanguard, and then the next day this general would be the last to set off and become the rear army, and so on.
The Seventh Army set out from Xiangyang and attacked Jiangxia from the northwest. The main force of Cao's army set out from Jiangling and advanced from west to east. The strategic purpose of both sides was to meet at Xiakou.
Xiakou City, using the regional division method of later generations, is Xiakou County, Jiangxia City, Jingzhou Province. Currently, Jiangxia is governed in Xiakou, which is equivalent to both the city government and the county government in Xiakou.
The original Jiangxia governor Huang Zu, like Liu Bei who was stationed in Xinye, belonged to Liu Biao's feudal official and was the eastern barrier of Jingzhou.
He had a feud with the Sun family of Jiangdong. Sun Jian died in his hands, and Ling Tong's father, Ling Cao, was also killed by him.
However, in the thirteenth year of Jian'an, when Jiangdong's troops attacked Jiangxia again, Zhou Yu led Ling Tong, Lu Meng and others to attack vigorously, cutting off the connection between Huang Zu's flagships, and finally defeated Huang Zu's navy. Huang Zu died in battle. The south and east of Jiangxia County, Basically, all the areas south of the Yangtze River were captured by Sun Quan.
Later, Liu Biao listened to the slander from his wife Cai and his brother-in-law Cai Mao, and decided to appoint Liu Cong, who was related to Cai by marriage, as his successor.
The eldest son Liu Qi was not born to the Cai family and had no backing, so he had no choice but to leave Liu Biao and serve as the chief official of the remaining half of Jiangxia. He was still the governor of Jiangxia.
In addition, several counties in the north of Jiangxia and north of the Han River are in the hands of Cao Cao. Jiangxia is already divided into three parts.
Now Liu Cong wants Jingzhou to surrender, but there are still a few generals in Jingzhou who are loyal to Liu Biao and unwilling to surrender to Cao Cao, occupying their own counties and struggling to support him.
Liu Qi and Liu Bei are the two largest forces.
When Cao Cao went south, Liu Bei first fled south, then changed his route eastward, and joined forces with Liu Qi. Jiangxia became the last hope of the Jingzhou Army.
Xiangyang is about less than 400 miles away from the westernmost city in Jiangxia. Zhao Yan gave him a period of ten days, which was quite sufficient.
On the first day, Zhang Liao was the sixth to set off. At the end of the first day's march, they walked more than forty miles, all the way along the shore.
Small and large boats in the water also followed.
When they set up camp, the soldiers who got off the ship were all sluggish and dizzy.
Cao Wu rode a little red horse and patrolled the camp with Zhang Liao. From a distance, he saw Lu Zhao's troops in front of him and Zhang He's troops behind him also stopped.
Zhang Liao sighed and looked at the many soldiers, and then he truly felt the true situation of the northern soldiers who were not used to water warfare.
Zhang Liao said: "I think among the soldiers, those on the big ships are doing better. Less than 30% are seasick. Most of those on the small boats are fainting. However, our big ships are too few after all."
Cao Wu knew that Zhang Liao was not as down-to-earth as he seemed. Although he was considered a loyal man, he was considered a wise man among the generals.
This sentence was meant for Cao Wu, but Cao Wu did not answer. The seven armies came out together. Zhang Liao's troops had more equipment, and the rest of them naturally had less. This was not necessarily a good thing for the attack on Jiangxia.
Zhang Liao didn't wait for a response, and he didn't feel annoyed at all. He was by no means a stingy person. Fighting for weapons and equipment for his subordinates was an essential skill for every good general. There was no shame in fighting, and it was okay if he couldn't fight.
Moreover, Zhao Yan is a sensible person. Cao Cao's brother is in Zhang Liao's army, so at least Zhang Liao's troops will not suffer.
These intrigues and intrigues made Cao Wu a little upset. The outcome of this battle was uncertain. There were some key issues that he had not been able to figure out. Yesterday, he and Zhuge Kongming were unable to discuss the results.
On the side, the soldiers were making pots of rice. Cao Wu prepared two meals at the level of a captain and returned to his tent.
Now that they were marching in a hurry, the camp was not as big as before. Cao Wu and A Da shared a small tent.
As a woman, Ada couldn't show her face in front of the hard-blooded soldiers, so she wore a helmet and carried armor all the way.
When I got to the small tent, I let my hair down, rubbed my slender feet, and kept oopsing.
Cao Wudao: "I told you to go back, but you didn't listen. Come on, let me help you. I saw a trade called Big Sword in my dream, and I have learned the essence of it."
Ah Da snorted, knowing that he was talking nonsense again, but he still stretched out his feet as usual.
"It's really embarrassing. Are you the general or am I the general?"
Cao Wu pretended to be angry, sat down, picked up his foot and squeezed it casually.
Ah Da turned his face away and clasped his legs tightly. After a while, he couldn't bear it anymore and said, "I'll pinch it for you."
After a while, Ada said angrily: "It stinks to death!"
She put on men's clothes again and went to fetch water to wash Cao Wu's feet.
Cao Wu enjoyed the service of one of the four beauties. He thought that no wonder his brother Cao Mengde liked wives so much. There were so many people in later generations suffering from Mengde syndrome.
I can't say it's comfortable, I can only say it's very comfortable.
In fact, this Diao Chan was different from the Diao Chan he knew. Maybe it was because she had been with him for too long, or maybe she had experienced too many life and death separations.
She claimed that Diao Chan was dead, but she still remembered everything her adoptive father Wang Yun had told her.
As a woman, she was really burdened with too much. She used her youth to complete the most famous strategy in history for a thousand years.
However, everyone knows about Fengyiting, but who knows what Diao Chan is thinking?
Ah Da felt something, rubbed it a few times and said, "Hurry up and go to bed."
"Well, sleep."
Cao Wudao.
Ada rolled his eyes, poured the water, and went to bed.
Cao Wu also lay on the bed.
The two had known each other for more than ten years, and it was not the same time they slept in the same bed. The conditions in the military camp were simple, and there was nothing to fault the two of them.
Cao Wu yawned, hugged Ada's slender waist and fell asleep.
Ada allowed him to hold her without any struggle. She could not break through the knot in her heart and was unwilling to take the final step with Cao Wu, but she did not resist contact with Cao Wu.
She rested her head on her jade arm and listened to the snores from the military tents next to her.
The trumpet company camp during the day has been put away, and in the quiet night, there are only the footsteps of soldiers patrolling the camp.
I don’t know how long I slept, but the military camp suddenly became noisy.
Bugles are blaring, soldiers are shouting, and military tents are shaking.
Cao Wu and Ada woke up at the same time, and vaguely heard someone shouting: "There is an enemy attack, the enemy is attacking!"
Cao Wu suddenly woke up.
There are five military tents with tens of thousands of people in front, and they are the sixth one. Behind them is Zhang He's palace. The enemy is attacking. What a joke!
Can the enemy fly over?
