The next day, the Jiangdong Army guard captain found two heads at the gate of the camp as usual. This time the dead were two army commanders.
He was already used to it. For several days in a row, enemy masters came to kill people in the army every day. From the captain to the captain, more than ten people had died, which made people panic.
In the past few days, two generals, Chen Wu and Dong Xi, took turns guarding Zhou Yu's door.
Guard Zuo Dudu's safety day and night. But the mid-level officers had no one to protect them. Everyone was worried when Huang Gai heard about it.
Huang Gai entered Zhou Yu's camp alone, and the two discussed for a long time.
Finally, he volunteered to lead a hundred cavalrymen and was responsible for hunting down thieves late at night.
However, thieves come and go without a trace, and it is extremely difficult to catch someone's head among an army.
Around midnight, the thief arrived again. Huang Gai had already blocked the thief. However, the thief fled in front of the pursuers and hid in a military tent.
The veteran Huang Zhong held a three-stone strong bow, bent the bow and shot at the enemy, and destroyed the military tent with one arrow.
When the soldiers surrounded them, they saw a white lightning flashing in front of them. More than a dozen people were forced back, and three people had their hands chopped off on the spot.
Huang Gai rushed over and slashed with his sword, but the man just raised his sword and moved a thousand pounds, and ran away.
"It's actually a woman..."
Huang Gai's hands were trembling. When the weapons met just now, he clearly felt that the opponent's strength was far inferior to his, but he just couldn't win.
This method of using softness to overcome strength is indeed remarkable, but a bit familiar.
This kind of martial arts is definitely not acquired out of thin air, it must be learned from family.
He recalled in his mind, and at the same time he got on his horse and shouted while chasing: "General Huangfu, who is your family?"
What answered him was two sharp daggers flying past his ears.
Huang Gai chased him out of the military camp and continued to shout: "General Wentai once followed General Huangfu to defeat the moth thieves, and I saw his family and learned..."
Before Huang Gai finished shouting, the woman in white had already disappeared into the forest.
Huang Gai wandered on his horse, thinking of General Huangfu who pacified the moth thieves in ten months twenty years ago. He was such a hero, but he died in depression during the rebellion of Dong Zhuo and Li Guo, and his descendants were also scattered in troubled times.
Nowadays, there are actually descendants left in the world who have learned from home, which is enough to comfort the heroic spirits.
It's a pity that after the hero, he joined the Cao thief camp.
He turned his horse around, only to see the camp entrance was brightly lit, and Zhou Yu stood on a white horse in front of the camp, shouting: "Zhonglang General Huang Gai, because of your old relationship with General Huangfu, you allowed the bandits to escape. The whole army has heard about this. You What else can I say!”
Huang Gai said angrily: "Zhou Yu, son, I have followed my lord for three generations and made great contributions. However, since you became the governor, you have acted arbitrarily and without success, so you want to frame Zhongliang?"
Zhou Yu snorted coldly: "Rely on your old age and act like your old man. Come on, pull him down and beat him! Thirty...no, fifty military sticks!"
Huang Gai looked around: "I am a hero of the third generation, who dares to hit me!"
Ling Tong, Chen Wu, Dong Xi and others looked at each other and did not dare to take action.
Lu Xun's eyes lit up and he didn't know what he was thinking of. He pulled Lu Meng's sleeve and the two of them stepped forward to arrest him.
While Huang Gai was cursing, they were arrested and taken to the Chinese army's tent.
That night, the cry of "Zhou Yu's son" rang out fifty times. In the end, the veteran was beaten until his skin and flesh were torn, and he was miserable.
Ling Tong had been injured on the battlefield and had not yet recovered. When he dragged his sick body in to see him, he could not help but feel sad. He blamed Huang Gai for not using his seniority to suppress Zhou Yu, and also blamed Zhou Yu for being so prestigious in the army that he should not beat people for trivial matters. .
Chen Wu and Dong came and comforted Huang Gai, saying that the army could not win a big victory in a row, and the Zhou governor was also in disarray, so don't worry about it.
Huang Gai just snorted and didn't answer.
The army had already reported this matter to Cao Ying. Then, the next night, a junior high school student swam across the Yangtze River and desperately delivered Huang Gai's letter of surrender to Cao Ying, agreeing to lead his troops to surrender the next night.
This letter of surrender was passed all the way to the camp behind the Chinese army's tent.
This tent was temporarily set up and divided into several layers.
Yang Xiu, the chief clerk, was on the first floor. He collected the letter of surrender and gave it to Zhuge Liang on the second floor.
Yang Xiu was conceited and smart, and was originally very unconvinced by Zhuge Liang, but after receiving the letter of surrender, he finally became convinced.
Yang Xiu put his palms in his hands and laughed and said: "Mr. Kong Ming had a clever plan and knew that Huang Gai would come to pretend to surrender. The Jiangdong Army never expected that we were already ahead. I'm afraid that Huang Gai's beating with the military stick was in vain!"
Zhuge Liang bowed his hands. Although they knew that he was in power as a newcomer, and only a dozen or so senior officials of Cao's army, everyone was unconvinced by him. It was only because of Cao Cao's military orders, and some people were grateful for Cao Wu's prestige. I will listen to his instructions for the time being.
Now that Yang Xiu was impressed for the first time, he didn't dare to say anything, but his heart was like a mirror.
If it weren't for Cao Wu, who was the only one who recognized him as his lord, Zhuge Liang would not have expected this trick at all.
In these days, when princes are fighting, it is really common to fake surrender, but no general can do it so well, and he has done all the tricks to fake surrender. The ins and outs of things, the ups and downs, are all seamless, and everyone in the game can tell the truth. Fake.
Only his lord Cao Wu, like an outsider who transcends the chess game, has already predicted the opponent's actions before anything happens.
It's simply unpredictable.
That night, Zhuge Liang took advantage of his plan and formed an undefended military formation.
Huang Gai led his army over and saw the scene of Cao Ying in the middle of the river. He suddenly lit the haystacks on the boat and the fire boat rushed towards Cao Ying.
The drizzle failed to destroy the oil-burned ships, and his fleet was about to enter Cao's camp.
Suddenly, three five-toothed ships appeared in his field of vision at the same time.
It was a dim moonlit night, and the Five-Toothed Ship had been ambushing upstream without lighting a single light, so he didn't notice it at all.
Now rushing down quickly, like a wolf rushing into a flock of sheep, just one collision knocked away more than a dozen Huang Gai's clippers.
Immediately afterwards, Cao Ying dispatched about 80,000 ships and quickly headed towards the other side.
These 80,000 people are also upstream of Huang Gaichong camp.
When he saw the lights on these ships, Huang Gai knew that he had fallen into the trap, and the other party didn't care about his fifty military sticks at all.
In order to be realistic, his fifty military sticks were all made for real. The back is still bloody, but the force is not that strong.
However, his heart was even more bloody, and he quickly turned his fleet back to help.
The deputy general said: "General, come back to our side now, won't these fires..."
Upon hearing this, Huang Gai stamped his feet angrily, and the wound on his back almost burst again.
The 80,000 people who came out of Cao's camp shouted one sentence, and it took Huang Gai a long time to understand it.
The shout was: "Zhou Yu hits Huang Gai, one is willing to hit, the other is willing to suffer!"
On the other side of the river, Zhou Yu's face was ashen. Fortunately, his troops were always wearing armor and ready to kill, and when they saw the enemy ships approaching, they reacted quickly.
However, despite this, he was still hit by a breakthrough on the flank. During the fierce battle, Cao General Le Jin slashed Jiangdong Army Chen Wu. Fortunately, Ling Tong went into battle with injuries and was able to suppress the position.
Because it was difficult to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy on a rainy night, and it was not suitable for large-scale battles, Cao Jun's army covered up the enemy for a while and then returned.
The Jiangdong Army counted their numbers. In this battle alone, the Sun-Liu coalition lost more than 3,000 people, which was the largest loss in battles in recent days.
After successive battles, the Sun-Liu coalition had only a little over 10,000 troops left, but Cao Jun, after all calculations, had lost 15,000 vanguard troops, plus more than 30,000 main troops.
More than 50,000 people died on the Yangtze River. This battle has not yet reached a decisive battle, which shows how dangerous the battle situation is.
Zhou Yu raised his tent late at night, and Pang Tong scolded him for not listening to him. If he retreated from Xiakou, he could rely on the city and the five-toothed ship to compete. However, now he is trapped here and it is difficult to win.
Zhou Yu was also silent. This bitter plan was obviously the best choice. The timing and operation were perfect, but for some reason, he suffered a huge defeat.
Usually it was Pang Tong and Lu Meng who argued. This time, Pang Tong was really anxious and had already questioned Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu sighed: "I don't know who the enemy's military advisor is, but if it is Xun Gongda and others, it would be really impressive."
Pang Tong snorted coldly: "Zhou Yu beats Huang Gai, one is willing to hit and the other is willing to suffer. The thieves made up a good nursery rhyme, I am afraid it will be sung for thousands of years in the future!"
At the end of the sentence, he suddenly froze, and so did Zhou Yu.
The two looked at each other and saw each other's shock.
"Nursery rhyme, nursery rhyme, could it be the enemy's military advisor? Is that that person?"
Just thinking of the figure riding the red horse made Pang Tong vomit blood in his chest. Since he came out of the mountain, he had been restrained by him many times and could not help his lord.
He almost wanted to eat his flesh raw, but he didn't even find out the other person's name.
Who in Cao's camp has the ability to enter the dragon's pond and the tiger's den and come back!
Lu Xun also knew the inside story. He sighed and said: "The art of war is the combination of right and wrong. This man is really good at using his tactics."
Zhou Yu stared at the oil lamp in front of his seat, thought for a long time and said: "If the first plan fails, it doesn't matter, let's try another one."
