Although the destruction of the navy was unacceptable, it did not reduce Liu Bei's original strength.
If you force Liu Bei to abandon Yuzhang after losing some troops, you may be refuted by Liu Bei!
Xu Shu sighed and kept waving his hands.
"General Auxiliary, the naval army has been destroyed, the north and south sides have completely lost control, and General Zhang Fei of Yi Dao is in danger!"
"If Liu Zhang leads his army to cross south, General Zhang Fei will not even have a way out!"
"Liu Zhang has far more troops than us. If he orders a partial force to attack Jingnan, it will be too late!"
At present, all the soldiers and horses under Liu Bei's army are concentrated in only two places, Nanjun and Yuzhang County.
In addition, there are only more than a hundred county soldiers in the counties in Jingnan, and there are only a few dozen soldiers!
Only Linyuan, the headquarters of Wuling County, had more troops, at 3,000, mainly to guard against the Wuling barbarians who often made trouble.
What Xu Shu was most worried about was that Liu Zhang would send a partial army to attack Changsha!
Once there is a change in Changsha, the food route of Yuzhang's army will be cut off instantly, and the 50,000-strong army will collapse!
At that time, the sky will not respond and the earth will not work!
Fu Kuang was so frightened that he broke out in cold sweat and immediately stopped hesitating.
"Don't worry, military advisor, the general will set off immediately and will definitely convince the lord to withdraw his troops!"
"Wait a moment!"
As soon as Fu Kuang turned around, he was stopped by Xu Shu's shout.
"Military advisor, do you have any other orders?"
Xu Shu thought for a moment, then said in a deep voice,
"Yuan Bi, if my lord doesn't know how to negotiate peace with Sun Quan, tell me to instigate a conflict between the Jiangdong faction and the Huaisi faction."
"I will obey your orders!"
Fu Kuang quickly agreed, then immediately turned around and left the tent.
Not long after, an extremely embarrassed figure walked into the tent. It was Zhang Nan, the navy commander who had escaped from the front.
"Zhang Nan, the guilty general, pays homage to the military advisor!"
Zhang Nan's hair was messy, his armor was completely damaged, and his whole body was soaked by the river water. He was in extremely miserable condition!
Just by looking at this outfit, you can tell how brutal this battle is!
Most of Xu Shu's original angry mood dissipated after seeing such miserable Zhang Nan.
"General Zhang, what is going on!"
"Even if you can't defeat Liu Zhang's navy, don't you still know how to run?"
"I have never heard of such a defeat in water!"
Zhang Nan did not answer immediately, but sighed, stamped his feet and beat his chest, looking extremely regretful.
After a long time, he slowly spoke.
"Commander Xu, General Feng and I led our troops upstream and came into contact with the Yufushui Army in the Yiling waters."
"Both of us wanted to test the combat capabilities of our navy, so we unanimously decided to go upstream to attack the enemy."
"I didn't expect that the enemy's formation was in chaos, and they were completely defeated as soon as they made contact!"
"General Feng and I took advantage of the opportunity to pursue and immediately won a great victory!"
Speaking of which, Xu Shu could probably guess what was going on.
"Did Liu Zhang's navy fake a defeat and lure you two into an ambush?"
Zhang Nan's eyes were red with tears in his eyes, and he nodded helplessly.
"What the military advisor said is absolutely true! The last general felt the same way at that time, so he advised General Feng not to underestimate the enemy and advance rashly!"
"But General Feng felt that the enemy army was neglected in training and was not worth mentioning at all, so he immediately ordered the entire army to pursue it."
"As expected, we were ambushed by the Yu Fu Shui Army. Under attack from the front and rear, our warships were in a mess and collided with each other!"
"The Yufushui Army first surrounded our army and fired a rain of arrows. After the arrows were fired, they began to ram our warships!"
"In the end, the general desperately led the soldiers to evacuate, but in the end he only brought back less than a thousand people..."
After saying this, Zhang Nan burst into tears and kept kowtowing in apology.
"It's all the general's fault. If we could persuade General Feng, we wouldn't be in this situation!"
"It's all the fault of the general, otherwise General Feng wouldn't have been poisoned by the enemy...!"
Zhang Nan kowtowed and kept mumbling about his faults.
In particular, the movement caused by kowtowing is quite loud, making a "dong-dong-dong" sound.
"General Zhang, get up!"
Xu Shu quickly stepped forward to hold Zhang Nan, unable to let him knock to death in front of him.
After all, it's not all Zhang Nan's fault that the matter has developed like this.
Xu Shu had no doubts about what Zhang Nan said about Feng Xi's disobedience.
First of all, the status of the two is different, whether in Liu Bei's personal eyes or in the entire Nanjun.
Feng Xi's Feng family is far superior to Zhang Nan's Zhang family.
Moreover, Feng Xi has always been a radical and often takes the initiative to attack.
Zhang Nan is a conservative and always uses defense instead of offense. It is almost rare to hear him take the initiative to attack.
As for the previous promises made by the two of them in front of him, Xu Shu thought that Zhang Nan was trying to cater to Feng Xi and prevent Feng Xi from having any suspicion against him.
"General Zhang, you have personal contact with Liu Zhang's navy. Do you know what its combat strength is?"
"Had we not been ambushed and faced off head-on, could our army have defeated the enemy?"
Zhang Nan shook his head repeatedly and immediately said it was absolutely impossible.
"Military advisor, Liu Zhang's navy is extremely powerful, especially the soldiers led by the Jinfan thief Gan Ning. Their combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and all of them are brave and invincible!"
"Our soldiers have been estranged from the battle formation for a long time. In close combat, they cannot even defeat three against one..."
After saying this, Zhang Nan stamped his feet and beat his chest again, looking heartbroken.
In fact, Zhang Nan was already sneering in his heart.
No matter who asks, Liu Zhang's navy is invincible!
Zhang Nan doesn’t want to encounter such a terrifying water ghost again!
But when Xu Shu heard these words, he suddenly felt chest tightness and shortness of breath.
Unexpectedly, after a battle, our general described the enemy as invincible!
What an irony!
Xu Shu had to pessimistically believe that after this naval battle, Liu Zhang's navy had left an indelible fear to his own navy!
Especially Zhang Nan himself, Xu Shu could clearly feel the fear in his heart.
Although there are many generals in Jingzhou at present, there are not many who can actually serve as the chief general of the navy.
Zhang Nan and Feng Xi are the two generals that Xu Shu finally discovered.
There is no chance to find a suitable navy commander at this time, so Zhang Nan will still need to lead the remaining navy!
"General Zhang, how many men are left in our navy?"
Zhang Nan lowered his head, and a hint of joy suddenly appeared in his eyes.
He had already guessed Xu Shu's intention, which must be to hand over all the naval forces to his command!
In this way, Zhang Nan will be Liu Bei's only navy general in the future.
"For the information of the military advisor, General Mo and General Feng have brought 10,000 soldiers. There are still more than 2,000 soldiers left in the water village. Counting the escape with Mo General, we estimate that we can collect 3,000 soldiers."
"Only the remaining warships are one stern and more than ten boats in the water village..."
Zhang Nan can only be glad that he still kept a stern boat!
Otherwise, the naval commander would be so ineffective that he wouldn't even have a decent warship.
Xu Shu nodded and could only announce his decision helplessly.
"General Zhang, if General Feng is gone, the navy will fall on you!"
"Reorganize the navy immediately and be sure to restore morale in the shortest possible time!"
Zhang Nan did not dare to show joy and quickly wiped away his tears before accepting the order.
"The final general will definitely live up to the high expectations of the military advisor!"
