Xiao Qiao's heart was extremely tangled and confused, but she didn't know how to sort it out. Should she be like this, should she dance? What should be done? She doesn't know it herself, it's just a habit she has developed since she was a child. Once she starts dancing, she can stay focused and forget many things.
I'm just used to being submissive, and in the past few days, I finally saw the sky outside the cage.
Just one dance.
Cao Wu thought for a while and said, "Is it the performance stage now? Then how about I perform a five-animal show?"
Xiao Qiao tilted his head, wondering what Cao Wu wanted to do.
"Just cooperate with my movements."
A night of silence.
The next day, Cao Wu said goodbye to Xia Houyuan, Hua Tuo, and Xiao Qiao. He was contented to ride his little red horse alone and set foot on the westward journey again.
For things like a decisive battle, he still had to be there.
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"Stealing a house?"
Zhou Yu shook his head.
Lu Meng said: "Now Cao's army has blocked the west side of the Yangtze River, and our army has blocked the east side. It is impossible to mobilize troops on a large scale, but General Gan Xingba still has many fast ships. If he is recruited back, he will pretend to be As a businessman, you can avoid Cao Jun's blockade and go upstream to make arrangements."
Lu Xun said: "Pretending to be a businessman is indeed a good strategy, but we don't know how many defenders there are in Jiangling."
Pang Tong said: "Maybe there is no need to attack Jiangling, just cut off Cao's army's supplies!"
In this era, the supply of supplies was not smooth. In order to ensure supplies, merchants were usually allowed to cross the border when the two armies were at war. There have been many years of fighting in the north, but there has never been a sudden attack on the merchants who came to trade in the city, so Lu Meng came up with this plan.
However, Zhou Yu said: "Pretending to be a businessman? Zi Ming, it is true that soldiers are deceitful. But as a general, you must focus on the overall situation! You cannot break the most basic rules. Once you do something like pretending to be a businessman, you will bring It’s a thousand years of bad luck! This plan is absolutely unacceptable!”
The three of them chatted, but they were dissatisfied.
Zhou Yu knew what they were thinking and said calmly: "I have a plan to defeat Cao's thieves. I sent Xingba to harass Zhao Yan's troops, which was somewhat effective, but now that Zhao Yan is already attacking Miangkou, it is really time for Xingba to come back. When General Gongfu arrives to escort Mrs. Sun, and when the time comes, these three generals will take the lead in the battle. They are brave enough and good at water battles. They will definitely win another battle. After two battles, they will be enough to frustrate Cao Jun. With sharpness, the next step is to use less and more ink skills.”
Lu Meng smiled bitterly and said: "I'm afraid Xingba and Gongji still have disputes and are not suitable to be together."
Gan Ning used to serve under Liu Biao. Ling Tong's father, Ling Cao, died at the hands of Liu Biao's general Huang Zu. It is said that Gan Ning also participated in that battle. Somehow, Ling Tong identified Gan Ning as the murderer of his father, and the two People can hardly meet each other, but if they do, they can destroy the whole street.
Zhou Yu smiled and said, "I'm here."
Lu Meng felt at ease now. No matter what, as long as Zhou Yu is here, he can suppress these generals.
Next, Zhou Yu analyzed his strategy in detail for the three of them, that is, he would never engage in a decisive battle with Cao's army, but rely on the Yangtze River to deal with the enemy, concentrate his superior forces, and continuously eat Cao's army. When Cao's army was defeated by 30%, his morale would probably collapse. , this battle will be won by then.
This was an upright duel, and the three audience members were all very resourceful people, but they were still shocked to hear Zhou Yu's style of playing in which the enemy is exhausted and we fight.
Just because Zhou Yu is the only one in the world who can accomplish this kind of strategy.
Because only he can command Ruoding, raise the flag, and coordinate all the armies like an arm and a finger. Only he, with his prestige in the navy and years of training, could accomplish all this.
As long as there is a boat, he can pull endlessly on the river. There is no decisive battle, but there is a battlefield everywhere.
By then, I am afraid that the Yangtze River will be stained with blood, and there will be room for tension within a hundred miles.
In preparation for the upcoming series of battles, they rested in place for a day, and the captured Xiahou Yuan ships were also loaded one by one.
Early the next morning, they waited for Da Qiao and Huang Gai, who was escorting her, but there was no sign of Gan Ning.
The four leaders discussed that they would not wait any longer and fight Cao Jun first before talking about it.
…
Gan Ning let out a "poof" sound and spit out a tooth.
He is only thirty years old this year, but he has already experienced many fierce battles. However, those previous battles were nothing compared to the past few days.
A few days ago, Zhao Yan raised his tent and discussed with the commander-in-chief of the Seventh Army. He decided to abandon Anlu and only attack Miangkou.
As for Miangou, there were only Zhang Fei and three thousand defenders.
Liu Bei's order was to stop him, and if he couldn't beat him, he would retreat, and then go to Xiakou and fight Zhao Yan to the death.
However, what kind of temper was Zhang Fei? How could he accept the order to escape? He decided to fight Zhao Yan's 70,000 men with 3,000 men.
Like Shiyang, Miokou City was also a rear city that Huang Zu had not managed much. It also had waterways. It was surrounded by land on three sides and the Han River on one side.
Zhao Yan's Seventh Army surrounded the small Miokou City. The Seventh Army attacked the city one after another, while Zhang Fei held on desperately for several days. Today, Zhu Ling's troops are attacking the city.
Zhu Ling was originally a veteran of Yuan Shao's army. He was a general who fought hard on the battlefield. He adhered to the ancient motto of surrounding three and missing one. He surrounded Zhang Fei on three sides of the city, but left the Han River side open.
Gan Ning was carrying out Zhou Yu's secret mission. There were a hundred fast ships, about a thousand soldiers, and thirty fast horses on board.
Over the past few days, in order to contend with the Seventh Army, he has lost most of his men, but these are all his elite men. He had already had the consciousness to fight the enemy to the death during this trip, and actually maintained the formation and came to Hanshui River. downstream.
Now that the enemy has broken through Shiyang and entered the stage of positional warfare, according to the established strategy, it is time for him to leave.
However, Gan Ning, who was supposed to return to the Yangtze River from the Han River, saw Zhang Fei standing on the top of the city and Zhu Ling's troops being beaten so that they could not get up the city wall, and a heroic spirit arose in his heart.
He didn't know what was wrong with him, but he summoned up a lot of courage and ordered the soldiers without horses to leave by boat. He led thirty cavalrymen to land and prepared to join the battle.
In order to cover the departure of his navy, he did not choose to enter the city through the water gate, but rode on land. Thirty cavalrymen killed Zhu Ling's tribe from outside the city and went straight to the city gate.
When Zhang Fei saw reinforcements arriving at the city gate, he was overjoyed and was about to rush out of the city to greet them, but he was caught by deputy general Fu Shiren and advised: "No, general!"
Zhang Fei groaned, broke free, and said angrily: "How can we watch the reinforcements fail to enter the city?"
While talking, Zhu Ling held two big axes and stopped Gan Ning.
Gan Ning held two double halberds and clashed with the two axes.
"Dang-dang" sounded twice, Zhu Ling tried his best, but was still suppressed by Gan Ning.
Twenty rounds later, Zhu Ling hit Gan Ning with a halberd in the face. Gan Ning dodged part of the force, but a tooth was still knocked out.
He turned around and struck again. Zhu Ling was stabbed on the spot and fell off his horse, but was rescued by his soldiers.
Gan Ning turned around to fight again, and found that only twenty of his thirty cavalry were dead, and they were once again surrounded by enemy troops.
The city gate not far away in front of you can no longer pass.
At the top of the city, countless Zhu Lingbu soldiers were still falling, their lives were like grass, and the battlefield was like a copper furnace.
Gan Ning didn't know if he could rush to the top of the city. He mustered up his courage, straightened his helmet that had been knocked crooked just now, and shouted: "I am Jiangdong Gan Xingba! Who will fight me!"
He was answered by the spears of the infantry, but no cavalry dared to get close to him.
"Good man!"
Zhang Fei has already received the news of the alliance between Sun and Liu. Now he hears that the general below is the Jiangdong Army and his allies are trapped. How can he continue to sit on the sidelines?
He went straight down to the city tower and rushed out of the city gate, one man and one horse, to rescue Gan Ning.
Looking at the open city gate, Zhao Yan, who was supervising the battle in the distance, his eyes lit up and he immediately sent an order for Feng Kai's troops to attack the city.
Feng Kai was a good soldier and avoided fighting all the way. His men suffered almost no casualties, died the least, and achieved the least credit.
After all, Miokou City is not big. It is impossible for 70,000 people to attack the city at the same time. Attacking the city with 10,000 people is a bit reluctant. Feng Kai originally thought that it would not be his turn today.
Who would have thought that Zhu Lingbu would be so difficult to kill, unable to capture even one of the three city gates.
Now that a city gate opened, it was the best opportunity. Feng Kai was called, so he had no choice but to mount his horse and go to battle with his full regiment of ten thousand people.
But he didn't know that the reason why Zhao Yan let him go was precisely because he and his ten thousand people had not fought many battles and were waiting for work.
When Fu Shiren saw that the other party had sent fresh troops over again, he felt that everything was spinning, and he felt ready to surrender.
He kept shouting from the top of the city: "General Zhang, come back quickly! Come back quickly!"
However, Zhang Fei wielded a snake spear that was eight feet long and slashed through the enemy army. No one could stop him. No one would listen to him if he wanted to kill.
Zhang Fei's fight ensured the safety of the city gate.
Fu Shiren couldn't help but stare at the movements of Feng Kai's new army, fearing that this new force would rush over.
As expected, Feng Kai was not a vegetarian. Once he decided to attack, he immediately gathered all the cavalry in his 10,000-strong team, a total of 700 people, and charged towards the city gate at the same time.
"It's over, everything is over."
Fu Shiren saw the enemy's fresh force approaching like a whirlwind, and immediately ordered the city gate to be closed. Even if Zhang Fei was left outside, the city could not be breached like this.
He had already planned to escape along the waterway with his direct descendants after closing the city.
At this moment, a puff of smoke suddenly came from the distance.
A big man with a red face, holding a long knife, and riding a red horse arrived.
It was Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang who had been missing for a long time.
Behind him, there were dozens of cavalry and three thousand soldiers. As soon as they came out, they went straight to Feng Kai's rear army.
It turned out that after Shi Yang's defeat, Guan Yu fled north. After several twists and turns, he escaped Zhang He and Zhang Liao's pursuers and returned to Anlu City the day before yesterday.
He waited for a day in Anlu, but Zhao Yan did not come to attack, so he guessed that Zhao Yan planned to abandon Anlu.
When the sentry found out about the battle at Miokou, he simply gave up on Anlu and directly led all the soldiers in Anlu City to support Miokou.
Guan Yu read "Zuo Shi's Spring and Autumn Annals" at night, knowing very well that "the assistants and chariots are dependent on each other, and the lips are dead and the teeth are cold". How could he not come to save his brothers!
Feng Kai's cavalry was running towards the city gate when they were suddenly outflanked. They were frightened and ignored the city gate. The cavalry turned around to fight the red-faced general.
Guan Yu grabbed the red rabbit horse and shot at Feng Kai like arrows.
Feng Kai came forward with a spear in hand.
The next moment, there was only a "crack" sound, and there was only a headless body left on Feng Kai's horse. It was twitching and bleeding, but the head was nowhere to be found.
Guan Yu snorted coldly: "You're just a bidder."
For a moment, the entire battlefield seemed to be still, and everyone stared at this scene blankly.
Fu Shiren quickly ordered the soldiers to lift the city gate again.
Zhao Yan's eyes widened. After Lu Zhao and Zhu Ling were injured, a general in the Seventh Army died!
Gan Ning and Zhang Fei laughed loudly, and they came together to welcome Guan Yu into the city.
Zhang Liao and Zhang He looked at each other from a distance and saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.
If the two of them could let go, this battle would never end.
However, Zhao Yan is only the governor after all, a coordinating figure, not the leader of the holiday. Everything must be discussed by everyone.
A mere Shiyang blocked Wenpin for ten days.
How long will this Miangou have to block their Seventh Army, no, Sixth Army?
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While the bloody battle at Miangkou was in full swing, Cheng Pu's army had already sighted the top of Hefei City.
Zhou Yu's less than 20,000 men finally met the main force of Cao's army on the Yangtze River, an army of 800,000.
However, to Zhou Yu's expectation, Cao Jun only sent one ship to the battle.
A giant battleship that is much larger than a building ship.
The Five-Tooth Battleship finally reached the Yangtze River battlefield.
Cao Asi stood on the big ship and said excitedly: "With a small sampan like yours, no matter how much you come, I will take them all in Beifu!"
