Zhou Yu's navy retreated to Jiangbei, where there were still many remnants of Xia Houyuan's troops to deal with.
On the south bank, with the raging fire at his back, Zhang Yun seemed to be in a dream. Just now, their more than 10,000 remaining soldiers were facing death, but the Beifu general frightened Zhou Yu's army with just one move to light the fire. Return.
At this time, it was not difficult for him to understand Zhou Yu's mentality. As the saying goes, don't chase the enemy when you are poor. Zhou Yu has few people, so he must cherish every bit of combat power and dare not compete with the number of people. But just now, he racked his brains and could not imagine that he could also light a fire to show his attitude of fighting to the death.
After losing the first battle, the whole army was originally wiped out. Now, being able to escape with more than 10,000 people is already a blessing among misfortunes, and all this is thanks to the help of General Beifu.
Are those rumors all false, and General Beifu is not actually a playboy? Then Xia Houyuan trusted Cao Wu so much. Could it be that Cao Wu had many achievements before this? But I’ve never heard of it!
He stood on the bow of the ship and looked at Cao Wu on the shore from a distance. He only had admiration in his heart. He cupped his hands and said, "General Zhang Yun has met General Beifu!"
Only then did Cao Wu realize that the man standing on the bow of the boat was Zhang Yun, who was accidentally killed by Cao Cao in the novel. Zhang Yun was Liu Biao's nephew. When Cao Cao's army came, he and Liu Biao's brother-in-law Cai Mao encouraged the new young leader of Jingzhou, Liu Cong, to surrender. , can be regarded as one of the culprits of Jingzhou surrendering without a fight.
Cai Mao and Zhang Yun were not good in character, but they were still proficient in the navy. In the letter he sent to Cao Cao before, he also wrote Cai Mao and Zhang Yun an untouchable greeting.
When they met now, Cao Wu just returned the favor and pulled Xia Houyuan aside.
"Brother Miaocai, the war is not over yet, and the fire behind has not been extinguished. What are your plans?"
Xia Houyuan put his long bow on his back and sighed: "Although Zhou Yu retreated temporarily, I'm afraid he will come back to fight. Now I can only take advantage of the opponent's temporary withdrawal and take a boat to go upriver to meet up with the lord's large army." I have thought about it, this battle ended like this because I am not familiar with water battles, and I lost like a loser, which is too embarrassing! I have no words to face my lord!"
As he spoke, Xia Houyuan sighed. He usually called Cao Cao brother, but now he didn't even dare to call him brother. He just felt that his defeat was too embarrassing.
Cao Wu consoled him: "Actually, it's not my fault, Brother Miaocai. Zhou Yu's ability to command the navy is indeed far ahead of ours. No matter who comes in the camp, they will not get any favors from us in this battle."
Xia Houyuan said: "After I go back, being dealt with by military law is the second most important thing. The key is to chill the lord's heart. The lord chose me to be the forward, but I ended up fighting like this. Alas..."
A word "Hey" expressed his regret.
Cao Wu said with a smile: "It's better than this. Let me ask Zhang Yun to take the people to escape. Let's leave five hundred elites behind and follow me to do something to make up for our mistakes!"
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On the river, Zhou Yu looked at the remnants of Xia Houyuan's troops being gradually strangled, without any joy of victory in his heart. The words Xia Houyuan's troops shouted just now kept ringing in his mind.
When you have a son, you should be like Sun Zhongmou, who gave away one hundred thousand people in Hefei.
The first sentence is a mockery of the fact that the leader of Jiangdong is a junior, and the second sentence is saying that this time Cheng Pu attacked Hefei to kill people!
Xia Houyuan came from Jiangling. Even if there were spies who found out the movements of Jiangdong Army, why did they specifically point out that Cheng Pu was going to kill someone? Unless they had already prepared in Hefei to face Jiangdong Army.
The reason why they were prepared was because from the very beginning, it was Cao Jun’s people who asked them to attack Hefei!
Like Pang Tong, Zhou Yu also saw the figure riding the red horse.
The divine red horse was so conspicuous that it reminded him of the man in Chaisang City.
An envoy from Yizhou named Zhang Song cursed the heroes of Jiangdong as rats and then ran away on a red horse. This incident has spread throughout Jiangdong.
Now that Zhang Song appeared here and shouted such slogans, his heart suddenly became cold and even his back was numb.
Even though Lu Meng was the least educated, he figured it out. He clenched his fists and said angrily: "Grand Governor, we Jiangdong heroes have been fooled by that Zhang Song!"
Lu Xun broke into a cold sweat and said angrily: "That person may not be Zhang Song! We don't know his real name! Li Song, Wang Song, Cao Song, it's all possible!"
Lu Meng said: "Then Yizhou sent troops to attack Jiangling. Is it a lie?"
Lu Xun beat the table angrily and shouted miserably: "It's fake, it's all fake! Now that I think about it, this person plotted against us every step of the way as soon as he entered Chaisang City! He attacked Zhang Changshi and others to win the trust of the lord. Compiling nursery rhymes to drive a wedge between the lord and the governor. He lied about sending troops to trick us into attacking Hefei! One after another, one after another, it was all a series of schemes. It is a pity that we are known as heroes, and dozens of civil and military personnel are in Chaisang, but he was One person deceives everyone!"
Lu Meng drew his sword and said: "Shuzi! I should have killed him in Chaisang!"
But who did he draw his sword to kill? There was no Zhang Song here, so he could only stamp his feet angrily.
Zhou Yu was already in a bad mood, but now that he saw the two future commanders he was optimistic about, he was furious and felt even more depressed.
He sighed and said: "This person actually grasped our mentality and used a conspiracy. It's a pity that we didn't discover it."
Lu Meng said: "I heard that when the lord came, he specifically told the defenders to detain this man. How did he get out?"
Zhou Yu didn't know either, so he ordered a messenger to go to Sun Quan in the rear to inquire about the situation, and at the same time informed him about Chai Sang being deceived.
The three of them continued to review the story of Chai Sang. The more they reviewed, the more frightened they became. They felt that so many heroes in Chai Sang were blindfolded. Each of them only focused on the nursery rhyme, but they did not understand that Sun Quan's army had been destroyed. Scamming to Hefei is the ultimate goal of the plan.
The so-called strategy is to follow the current. Letting a mother kill her own child is not a strategy. Letting others see the purpose at a glance is just a simple trick. It is a strategy to cover up one's true purpose through a series of efforts and ultimately achieve twice the result with half the effort. All the powerful men in the six counties of Jiangdong had their own agendas, so they were easily exploited. The other party used every gap to plan everything.
Lu Meng said: "Then should we let Governor Cheng return to the army? But this time, the fighter plane has been delayed. Such a decision is really difficult to make."
Lu Xun shook his head and said: "Instead of worrying about Governor Cheng, it is actually better to worry about our journey. We originally hoped that Yizhou would capture Jiangling and cut off Cao's army's retreat, but now, the retreat is not blocked, and Cao's army has a steady stream of supplies. , it will be difficult for us to attack later."
Lu Meng said: "Our navy is invincible. When Cao Cao comes, just press on!"
"Cao's army is said to be one million, but there are probably only 300,000 capable of fighting. There is a difference between fighting 30,000 enemies and fighting 300,000 enemies. If we fight 30,000 enemies, we can divide them and eat them, but with 300,000 enemies, We were exhausted before we finished the game and couldn’t perform at all.”
Seeing the two people arguing endlessly, Zhou Yu thought for a while and finally finalized the strategy: "No matter what, Governor Cheng's army has already marched towards Hefei. Bringing people back will just waste time. Let's send a letter to Governor Cheng and ask him to be careful. It would be better not to capture Hefei than to fall into the enemy's trap. We must be careful here to deal with the army of Cao thieves."
Lu Meng and Lu Xun nodded in agreement at the same time.
The three of them were on the river and saw that Xia Houyuan's remaining troops on the south bank had set sail again, turned around and fled upstream.
Lu Meng opened his mouth, but seeing that Zhou Yu had no intention of pursuing him, he stopped talking.
In the end, Zhou Yu's army only ate up the remaining troops in the center of the river, and allowed Xia Houyuan's more than 10,000 people to escape.
The three of them were discussing strategy. The soldiers reported that Pang Tong came to see them.
Before Zhou Yu could announce his meeting, Pang Tong had already hurried in.
As soon as he came in, he said: "Captain Zhou, have you heard the enemy's shout? The enemy made the soldiers shout, just to make us mess up the stitches and call General Cheng's troops back. We must not fall into the trap!"
Seeing Pang Tong's pale face, Zhou Yu knew that he had also guessed the truth of the matter. He did not show any airs to this allied military advisor who was his subordinate not long ago and explained his planned strategy.
Pang Tong breathed a sigh of relief and said: "That's good, that's good. After General Cheng knows our information, he will be able to sustain the war in Hefei. The pressure is actually still on our side. The main force of the Cao thieves is the most difficult to deal with."
Zhou Yu nodded and said: "Commander Pang has the same idea as we do. Governor Cheng can only use tactics and tactics."
Pang Tong narrowed his eyes and said bitterly: "Zhang Song is too hateful. He is unkind, so we can't blame our coalition for being unjust. I have a plan, which is to use the epidemic in Jiangxia to make Cao's army sick. With this plan, it's worth it Over a hundred thousand troops!"
The three of them looked at him sharply, and Pang Tong explained his arrangement.
Zhou Yu's eyes were dark, while Lu Xun's eyes were sharp.
Lu Meng beamed with joy and clapped his hands and said: "Master Pang has a good plan! When all the ships with the disease are gathered, we will send them all to Cao's camp!"
Pang Tong looked resentful and said: "Of course!"
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At night, Yang Laosan held the mound and looked at the soldiers who raided another village in the distance, feeling cold in his heart.
These soldiers have collected many corpses of those who died of the disease.
Not far away, a general with a black cloth covering his face was directing the villagers to carry the corpses and transport them all to the boat.
