Zhou Lang Zhou Lang

Liu Zong surrendered at Kaicheng, the gate of Xiangyang was opened wide, and Liu Bei stationed troops in Jiangling. There was no barrier of rivers and waters, and no dangerous pass to defend. He faced Cao Cao's 20 troops directly.

Cao Cao stationed troops in Fancheng and Xiangyang, looked across the Xiangshui River, took the beacon as his faith, and collected all the Jingzhou navy.

In the water villages in Jingzhou, wooden stakes are driven to the bottom of the river, and the tops are connected with iron cables to form open and close gates.A large warship is parked behind the gate as the wall of the water village. The watchtower on the warship stands high, and there are sentries watching day and night. On the board of the ship, there are teams of soldiers patrolling. The camp above is no different.

At the beginning of Jingzhou's fall, Zhou Yu, taking advantage of the fact that Cao Cao's foothold was not stable and Jingzhou's navy had not yet been fully incorporated, led more than a hundred warships and went northward from Xiakou along the Xiangshui River with Li Mu to "inspect" Cao Ying.

Although it is mid-winter, the south is not as humid and warm as the north, and even if there is snow, the river never freezes.Baishi's warships hit iron on the bows, cut through the waves, sailed like clouds, and appeared outside Cao Ying.

"Cao Cao claims to have an army of one million. In fact, excluding the people who transport food and the old and the weak, the number of people who can fight does not exceed [-]%. Among them, Jingzhou has about [-] navy troops and more than [-] warships. If Cao Cao wants to cross the river, There must be more warships to transport enough troops to the south bank." On the main ship of two thousand shi, Zhou Yu stood on the upper deck of the building ship, overlooking the railing, pointing to the water villages lined up in a semi-arc in the distance, Tell Li Mu how to see the arrangement in the village.

The river wind is hunting, cutting the face like a knife.

Li Mu squinted his eyes to face the wind. The warships in the distance looked like giant beasts trapped in cages. They looked at her eeriely, and as soon as the gate of the water village was opened, they could immediately rush out. .

"Are we... are we getting too close? If Cao Jun goes out of the camp..." The fleet got closer and closer, and she could already see the tall masts on the Qianshi warships in Cao's camp, and she couldn't help but secretly startled.Their big ship is in the middle of the fleet. At this distance, the front ship should be within the range of Cao Ying.

Zhou Yu was dressed in light armor. Hearing this, he raised his eyebrows and smiled, and his gentle and gentle eyebrows suddenly showed a bit of sharpness: "Cao Jun is not out of the camp, how can Cao Cao know that he is far away from the rivers and lakes, and it will be difficult for him to move?"

Li Mu turned his head. At this moment, a high-pitched horn sounded from the Cao camp, and then the sails of the warships in the water village were raised one after another, like giant beasts stretching out their snow-white wings, forming a formation of geese, and came from the gate of the village. Nei drove out with his head held high.

"Set up the formation, let's fight!" Zhou Yu's voice was loud, and the military orders were everywhere, and more than a hundred warships immediately accelerated, gathered into a fast arrow, and rushed towards Cao Ying's water army.

Li Mu became nervous all of a sudden, and couldn't help grasping the hand holding the fence tightly. Zhou Yu saw her, put his palm on her hand, and shook it lightly: "Have you prepared enough wine to celebrate my success?"

Li Mu was taken aback for a moment, only to see that he had sculpted eyebrows and bright eyes, and he was full of high spirits.Youyouran withdrew his hand, took the bow and arrow from the side, and calmly opened the bow and set the arrow. He was wearing light armor, and his white battle robe was dancing in the wind. The smile on his face was bright and bright. Under the sun, he was heroic like an ordinary person.

As soon as the arrow left the string, the tip of the arrow pierced the air, and there was a crackling sound in the ears. The sail of a warship in the distance fell, and the army suddenly rang out like a mountain roar and a tsunami.

The Jingzhou navy has not yet been assembled, and this time Zhou Yu took the initiative to provoke. Among Cao's troops, soldiers from the Northland who practiced in the inland lake drove dozens of thousand-stone warships, majestic and majestic.

However, Jiangxia's navy is composed of soldiers who grew up by the water since they were young and are familiar with water skills. Seeing that the opponent's ship is big, and when the sail is retracted and released, the ship of a hundred stones is like a light fish swimming. Turn around.The formation, which was still in the shape of a sharp arrow just now, immediately dispersed, giving way to the bow of Cao Jun's warship rushing to the front, and then closed up again to hit its unwrapped hull.

The Qianshi warship has a strong hull, so naturally it will not be easily smashed through.But the soldiers on board were all northerners who didn't know how to swim. Five or six small boats with a hundred stones collided in one direction, and under the violent shaking of the hull, all of them couldn't stand firmly, not to mention shooting arrows and knives. They screamed incessantly, and even one of them on the deck was thrown into the water without holding on tight, screaming incessantly.

Baishi's ships were not deep in the water, coordinated flexibly, shuttled quickly on the water, and quickly overturned three Qianshi warships. Zhou Yu laughed loudly, and threw the bow and arrow casually: "Retract the troops and return to the camp."

A slap in the face, clean and tidy.When Cao Cao dispatched the Jingzhou surrender army, Zhou Yu and Li Mu's fleet had only a vague shadow of the boat left. In a rage, Cao Cao beheaded three generals who were training the water army in the inland lake. Zhang Yun, the former commander of the Jingzhou navy, was the commander of the navy, and General Jin was the deputy general, with full authority to train the navy.

Zhou Yu and Li Mu returned to Jiangxia, and taking advantage of the high morale in the army, they held a banquet to celebrate their victory.

At the banquet, the cups were exchanged, and Li Mu's wine was full of spirits until the cup was dry. Although the distilled wine was not too strong, but the taste was like a knife, it fueled the enthusiasm of all the generals until Sun Shaoqing was crisp and clear. A crisp voice sounded from behind everyone: "Second Uncle promised to tell me about today's battle, didn't he say it drunk?"

The generals paused in their voices of coaxing and persuading them to drink, and then moved to both sides, letting out Sun Shaolai, who was not tall enough and was completely blocked by others.

Sun Shao also took the ear cup, but what was in his cup was fruit pulp, and he couldn't help being a little nervous when everyone's eyes were on him.He pursed his lips hard, straightened his back, walked through the crowd step by step, and walked towards Li Mu.

Li Mu did not salute him this time, but blinked and shook the wine cup in his hand: "Ah Shao is so sure that I will be drunk?"

Sun Shao shook his head immediately, and replied seriously: "It was Gong Jin who said that the second uncle would get drunk." He betrayed his teammates cleanly.

Li Mu raised his eyebrows, and finally couldn't help laughing, rubbed his soft forehead hair, and replaced him with a shallow wine cup: "Since you are afraid that I will get drunk, please offer me another glass of wine, and then I will tell you about today's battle."

Sun Shao's eyes lit up, he happily took the wine cup, raised it to the crowd with both hands, "Shao is young and knowledgeable, and it all depends on your life before the battle."

He had never drank alcohol before, so he just poured it into his mouth like Li Mu did. Even if Li Mu had deliberately replaced undistilled wine for him, he still couldn't help being flushed until his throat became hairy, and he suppressed a cough forcibly. His face flushed from holding back.

Li Mu quickly handed him the fruit pulp, lowered his voice and whispered in his ear: "Next time, don't drink wine so honestly. The cup is shallow. When toasting, the movement should be bigger. Shake half of it first, and also move when drinking to the lips. Make it bigger, shake it out halfway, and leave some to stick to your lips."

Is this also possible?

Sun Shao stared at Li Mu with wide-eyed eyes, choked on the fruit pulp he had just taken a sip of, and finally couldn't hold back the cough he had finally suppressed.

Zhuge Liang was also invited to the banquet, and Li Mu has been paying attention to this young man who is about 20 years old since the beginning.He is tall and tall, with a face like a crown of jade, but he is not restrained at all while sitting at the guest table, and he smiles calmly.

With a slight movement in his heart, he patted Sun Shao on the back and toasted to the generals, but his eyes glanced at Zhuge Liang's direction: "There are distinguished guests sitting at this banquet, and Ah Shao and I will take a step ahead. I need to trouble you to entertain distinguished guests for me, don’t wait too long.”

Everyone present didn't like Liu Bei very much, but Zhuge Liang came here in the name of uniting against Cao Cao, and they couldn't drive him out. Hearing this, they all understood, picked up the wine jar and went to him.

Li Mu smiled slyly——Zhuge Liang was instigated by her, she didn't have a verbal battle with the Confucianists here, so she could only have a wine battle with the generals first...

Just as he was about to lead Sun Shao away, he saw Xu Shu's figure flashing at the door.Li Mu frowned slightly, Xu Shu was also a lively person, but he hadn't seen him coming, probably because he had some important military situation.Looking back for Zhou Yu's figure, they saw Zhou Yu also looking towards her. They looked at each other and smiled, then took a moment together and walked out.

"Second Uncle..." As soon as he went out, Sun Shao grabbed the corner of his clothes.

The little guy lowered his head, bit his lip, and tightly grabbed the corner of Li Mu's clothes with one hand.During the past few days in Jiangxia, all the generals saw that he was courteous and respectful, but some words and phrases always drifted into his ears.Then he sneaked around the barracks, revealed his identity when he entered the gate, and told the soldiers guarding the gate not to make any noise. Those soldiers only regarded him as a child who liked to play and had nothing to do with military aircraft, so naturally they would not risk the crime of bumping into him. say what.So the gossip in the barracks and the previous discussions became clear.

It turned out that everyone thought that he was here to limit Li Mu's military power. It turned out that Zhang Zhao simply agreed to him to join the army this time, not to mention that the son of a daughter would not sit down, and he was using him to limit Li Mu's military power.

He wanted to tell Li Mu that he didn't know at all, he wanted to tell Li Mu that he came to Jiangxia only because he really wanted to see her.When he was in Wujun, he dreamed at night that his father dared not tell others that he had to endure the pain when he cut his hand during martial arts practice during the day, and he felt drowsy after listening to Zhang Zhao's lectures. You can say it, you don't need to think about anything.

Everyone treats him as a child, but Li Mu never hides it from him.He knew that Li Mu was a woman, and that Li Mu was the Taishi clan that Zhou Yu was going to marry. Knowing this biggest secret made him both proud and anxious.He is proud that he is a dignified man who can keep his vows, and he is also anxious to grow up immediately, lead the army, open up territories, realize his father's unfinished dream of foundation, and let Li Mu'an marry Zhou Yu with peace of mind.

It's really not about saving face!

Li Mu stroked his hair, and the soft touch of her palm softened her smile.She was really angry at first, but after that battle, she suddenly felt much better.Besides, it would be too boring to be angry with a child.Rather than being angry, it would be more straightforward to go back and slap the face after the battle was fought beautifully.

Xu Shu did receive an urgent request from the military.

"The scouts came to report that the Cao army's strength in Xiangyang is only a thousand, but there is a large group of people operating outside Fancheng."

Xu Shu's voice paused, and Li Mu walked to the map, found the location of Fancheng, and compared in the direction of Jiangxia: "Is Cao Cao going to send troops?"

"Not necessarily." Zhou Yu smiled slightly, "Cao Cao used his troops cunningly. Although he is not good at water warfare, he is not a reckless person. After a battle in the daytime, it is not good to practice the navy army for two months, or find a way to avoid suffering big losses on the river." There is no way, he will not rush to the east."

"Gongjin's expectation is not bad," Xu Shu also laughed, walked to Li Mu's side, swipe on the map from Xiangyang to Jiangling, then followed this direction, and clicked in Wuling County, "When Kong Ming came , I sent scouts to check Liu Bei's movements at all times. Now Liu Bei has moved the people of Jiangling to Wuling to retreat. The first batch of ships have already crossed the river. If there is no accident, these ships will return to Jiangling in two days. , All the remaining civilian soldiers will be carried to the other side of the Yangtze River."

"Wait," Li Mu turned around suddenly, "Liu Bei brought all the people in Jiangling to Wuling?"

Cao Cao's army is mighty, Liu Bei knows that the enemy is difficult, and it is the most sensible move to withdraw southward to cross the river, but to cross the river with the people... Li Mu couldn't help but think of an allusion that was widely circulated in later generations-crossing the river with the people!

Zhou Yu sneered: "Wuling is sparsely populated. If there are not enough people, how can Liu Bei support tens of thousands of troops?"

"But Jiangling's population is only [-]. Even if all the people are willing to move south with Liu Bei, it will not be enough to support the food and grass consumed by tens of thousands of troops." Having said this, Xu Shu sighed softly.

In the past, he heard that Liu Bei was benevolent, righteous and virtuous, and he also felt that he had the style of a hero, and thought of serving him.But now it seems...

Recently, he has seen a lot of people fleeing from Jingling. The winter rain is continuous and the weather is bad. Ordinary people, with their families and children, are panic-stricken by the news of Cao Jun's massacre of the city. They flee wave after wave and leave their homes. , Hunger and cold on the way, countless old people and children fell ill, or lost their footing on the mountain road and died on the way.

Just because of his tens of thousands of troops, he spread messages and forcibly relocated these innocent people from Jiangling to Wuling. With a population of 10, less than half of them can actually reach Wuling safely.

Therefore, when Cao Cao's troops in Xiangyang were insufficient, it undoubtedly gave Liu Bei another opportunity-if he could move part of the population of Nanjun to the south, his army would have an extra support.

Bringing the people across the river is not to protect the people in fear of Cao Cao's massacre of the city. Population is the most important productive force. Cao Cao wants to conquer Jingzhou, but it is impossible to kill all the people of Jingzhou. The Xuzhou massacre of the city was just a prestige at the beginning of the army.Bringing the people across the river is only because the population of Wuling County is too small, and Liu Bei cannot support the army.

Even though Li Mu had known for a long time that in troubled times, there would be no real benevolent and righteous gentleman as a prince, he never thought that... the emperor's uncle benevolent and righteous, crossing the river with the people, traveling ten miles a day... would have such an original intention!

In this way, the people of Nanjun became a big piece of fat that could attract Liu Bei... Slowing down Liu Bei's retreat to the south.

Letting out a long breath, Li Mu only felt terrified.She has also seen the tragic situation of the fleeing people, with a population of more than 30. Except for the special case of Wu Jun who shifted the focus to salt fishing, she has calculated the traditional ratio of raising troops by the people. To raise [-] soldiers and horses, you need The number of [-], such a large-scale migration, fell into Cao Cao's calculations, slowed down Liu Bei's pace, and was rushed by the army-how many people would die?

"Why does Liu Bei believe that Cao Cao's troops in Xiangyang are insufficient?" Even she knew Cao Cao was deceitful, so how could Liu Bei be so gullible?

Speaking of this, Zhou Yu couldn't help but smile wryly: "Did you forget the battle during the day?"

After a battle in the daytime, Cao Cao returned in defeat.Then it is reasonable to dispatch troops and generals at night, and it is reasonable to prepare for the shame. Liu Bei really can't find a reason to doubt, and he is too short of people...

"Cao Cao's military use has always been false. Although most of this trip is aimed at Liu Bei, if we are not prepared, maybe he can really pretend to be true." Xu Shu bowed his hands to Sun Shao, "Please give an order immediately, my lord, to garrison Anlu , lest Cao Jun seize the opportunity to seize the ferry along the river."

Taking advantage of a sudden and disgraceful defeat, he immediately set up such a situation to lure Liu Bei into the urn.If Liu Bei is really fooled, then the morale that was beaten down by the Jiangxia navy before will rise, because the soldiers will think that Cao Cao deliberately lost the battle.

It not only calculated Liu Bei, but also restored his morale, and further strengthened his prestige in the army...

Thinking clearly about the joints involved, Li Mu felt his heart beating violently. Just a little movement of the army outside Fancheng could cause such a reversal of momentum, such turning hands into clouds, turning hands into rain, so cunning, this Cao Cao... ...still not human!