Chapter 446 The decisive battle is right
This Xiakou is located in the south of the Yangtze River. It is the Xiakou built by Sun Quan in the future. It is located on the Snake Mountain in Wuhan in the future. But now this is just a small fishing port, and there are densely packed ships parked inside and outside the fishing port.
At this time, this place was set up as the frontline headquarters, and Liu Feng was stationed here personally.
A large number of camps and tents rose up, relying on the construction of Snake Mountain to build a huge camps that can accommodate tens of thousands of people.
Liu Feng's expedition this time brought enough soldiers. None of the leaders of the leaders are the names of the three nations in the original time and space, and the staff are also big cows such as Zhuge Liang, Dong Zhao, Lu Xun, Yang Xiu.
Soon, Gan Ning's report was obtained by Lu Xun. After reading it, Lu Xun felt that the letter was very important and immediately transferred it to Liu Feng's account.
"Oh? Xingba has taken down Sha Xian?"
Liu Feng was a little surprised: "What did Huang Chengde think?"
"According to General Gan's army, Huang Zu should be the sandy envy that suddenly gave up."
Lu Xun respectfully replied: "When General Gan entered Sha Xian, the port was still burning all kinds of materials, and it can be seen that his withdrawal of troops."
Liu Feng Shen Yin took a moment and asked: "What do you think of this?"
Shaxian is important. Naturally, there is no need to make more words. Huang Zu is extremely abnormal. If you do n’t fight back, you do n’t know the other party ’s intentions.
"Could it be Liu Zhendong's letter to let him retreat?"
Yang Xiu was the first to speak and speculated: "Lu Jie is Liu's cousin general and was assigned to serve under Huang Zu of Jiangxia. He is currently holding firm in Xiakou City. Without Liu Zhendong's order, Huang Chengde'an would dare to abandon him?"
"Liu Biao's reinforcements are coming?"
After Liu Fenggang finished speaking, he denied his opinion: "No, at least not along the Xiangyang route, and Huang Zu did not force his way to Xiakou."
The mobilization speed of Liu Biao's army was much slower than that of Yangzhou. Even if the navy mobilized much faster than the army, after all, the ships not only assembled much faster than the infantry, but also carried a large amount of supplies and could be replenished at ports along the way.
But even so, according to the estimates of Liu Feng's staff, the Xiangyang Water Army had at least eight to twelve days to rush to Xiakou.
Moreover, Huang Zu was retreating towards the upper reaches of the Yangtze River at this time. If he wanted to join forces with the Xiangyang reinforcements, then the best solution would be to attack Xiakou and enter the Han River and go north.
After listening to Liu Feng's words, Yang Xiu's eyes suddenly brightened: "Is Cai Yan reinforcement coming?"
"That's not the case. If Cai Mao's reinforcements are coming, Huang Chengde will not give up on Sha Xian."
Lu Xun shook his head and denied Yang Xiu's speculation. Next, he continued: "Huang Chengde seems to want to gamble the overall situation. General Gan was ordered to attack Sha Xian, and he would definitely bring tremendous pressure on Huang Zu. It is likely that I am worried that I am sticking to my pioneer and cannot get away, so I will give up Shao Xian and get out of contact with our army. "
"That's right, even if you don't hesitate to give up important places like Shaxian, the purpose behind it is by no means superficial."
Zhuge Liang also said: "My lord, in view of Liang, we should have two strategies."
Liu Feng responded: "I would like to hear the details."
Zhuge Liang immediately said: "First, move to Shaxian, wait for work, and wait for the upcoming counterattack of Huang Chengde and Cai Degui. Secondly, gather the army in Shaxian and set off today to force Huang Zu and Cai Mao to fight our army immediately."
Dong Zhao laughed and narrowed his eyes: "Neither of these two strategies is the best strategy."
Although Dong Zhao's words are not good, it is correct.
Choose strategy one, although it seems to be to guard the key points, wait for work, change offense and defense, and wait for the opponent to attack. But actually it also means giving away the strategic initiative to others.
Let's not mention the war of Jingnan, but only Huang Zu and Cai Yan continued to withdraw troops, and concluded that Yue Yue retreated to Nan County.
In this way, Liu Feng will not be uncomfortable, and the pressure will immediately move to Xiakou City.
Although Zhou Yu was besieging Xiakou at this time, with Liu Feng's instructions, Zhou Yu's attack was quite easy. He mainly used siege equipment to weaken the city's defense strength.
But once Huang Zu and Cai Mao retreated to Jiangling in Nanjun, Xiakou would become a breaking point. By then, I'm afraid there wouldn't be such ample time for Zhou Yu.
Likewise, strategy two is not without its shortcomings.
If we gather a large army and continue to pursue westward, we will have to walk one hundred and fifty miles to reach Zhouling City. At the same time, we need to cross a winding channel, which is very dangerous. And if they really chased him to Zhouling, Huang Zu could continue to retreat.
Liu Feng glanced at Dong Zhao angrily and said jokingly: "Does Gongren have some good advice for me?"
Dong Zhao replied with a smile: "Master Qi, although there is no better strategy, Zhao feels that Kong Ming's second strategy is more preferable."
Liu Feng slowly slowly headed his head. From the perspective of the overall situation, Ceyi was actually more cheap in tactics. But while investigating, in fact, it is also closer to Jingbei to conquer the army, which is more strategic.
At this time, Lu Xun was also beside him and whispered: "My lord, what Mr. Dong said is very reasonable, and Xun deeply believes it."
Yang Xiu also nodded in agreement, and everyone's eyes were focused on Liu Feng.
"Well, in that case, let's act according to the second policy and order all the naval forces to assemble in Shaxian City, with Jiang Qin as the vanguard, Huang Gai as the secondary vanguard, Zhou Tai as the main general, Dong Xi and Gan Ning as the deputy generals. Continue westward to look for a decisive battle between Jiangxia and Xiangyang naval forces."
Seeing that everyone was unanimous, Liu Feng followed the good example and said: "Let Ling Cao and Chen Wu stay, one stationed in Xiakou and the other stationed in Shaxian."
"Lord, just two eight thousand people, may not be used enough."
Zhuge Liang made a timely suggestion that although everyone did not know how much the strength of the support of Xiangyang's direction at this time, they would not judge that it would not be less than 20,000.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang reminds Liu Feng.
"Enough."
Liu Feng waved his hand: "Today, there are mounds built on both sides of Xiakou, and there is a castle machine on the top of the Xiakou.
There is a reason for Liu Feng's arrangement. Now the navy has four brigade headquarters, under which there are eight captain divisions, each with 4,000 people, for a total of 32,000 people.
Huang Zu is now withdrawing his troops along the Yangtze River. No matter what his purpose is, he will join forces with Cai Mao in a short time.
In this way, Huang Zu and Cai Yan's naval army will have at least 40,000 people, with a maximum of 50,000 troops.
The Yangzhou Water Army has clearly fell into the wind in terms of the number of people. When it comes to the number of ships, it was thrown behind it.
Although Liu Feng and the Yangzhou navy were fully prepared, Liu Feng wanted more than just defeating his opponent. What he wanted was to inflict heavy damage on the Jingzhou navy to the maximum extent, and preferably annihilate the opponent in one fell swoop.
In order to achieve this goal, the decisive battle fleet must maintain a certain intensity.
The number of twenty-four thousand is the red line in Liu Feng's heart. If it is reduced any further, it will inevitably affect the results of the main battlefield. Lu Xun and Zhuge Liang looked at each other and reminded, "My lord, it's July now, and the flood season is coming, so we must be on guard."
Lu Xun's words reminded Liu Feng that the Han River is the largest tributary of the Yangtze River, and the water volume changes greatly throughout the year.
Take the river surface of Xiakou as an example. During the dry period, the width of the river in the river in the river was only more than 100 meters. Not to mention that the two sides of the strait are resettled by the stone, that is, just arranging the bow and arrow crossbow, which is enough to block the entire river.
However, during the rich water period, the width of this river surface will increase greatly, soaring directly from more than 100 meters to more than ten times to reach more than 1,000 meters. If you catch up with the flood, the width of the river will be doubled by double, and the maximum can even reach five or six kilometers.
However, floods in the Han River have rarely occurred in recent years because the weather has turned colder and rainfall has decreased, so the water volume of the Han River has always been relatively low.
According to Liu Feng's collection of Hanshuikou River width data, which has been collected for nearly ten years, it shows that the richest year has not exceeded one kilometer.
In this way, the castle machine on both sides of the strait is enough to block the river surface, but these situations have to explain with Zhuge Liang, but it is more troublesome.
"You don't have to worry too much."
So, Liu Feng Gang Gang said arbitrarily: "This time is in the west, but it is upstream. If things are not caught, you can go straight down the river and return to Xiakou."
Zhuge Liang and others were a little worried, but they also saw that Liu Feng arranged for a reason, so he could only stop.
Subsequently, Liu Feng adjusted part of his army deployment, reinforced and raised the mounds where the trebuchets were placed. At the same time, he built tall buildings on both sides of the river and placed crossbows on them, threatening the safety of people on board ships.
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At the same time, the naval army in Echeng, Tancheng, Xisai and other places began to gather in Shaxian.
Two days later, except for the naval forces of Chen Wu and Ling Cao, all the other main forces gathered together, then set sail and chased towards the west of the river.
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After Huang Zu retreated to Zhouling, before he could take a breath, he found that the Yangzhou navy had caught up with him. And this time the offense was much more serious than Sha Xian's.
When Shao Xian was, in fact, Gan Ning was just an armed investigation, not really going to fight with Huang Zu, let alone forcing the other party. Including Liu Feng, he did not expect Huang Zu to escape without fighting.
At that time, the only 4,000 people in Ganning were really provoked by investigating and provoking. You must know that Zhou Tai and Dong Du were temporarily stayed in Tancheng and Echeng.
After learning his lesson, Zhou Tai directly pressed forward with his army this time and ran towards Huang Zu.
When Huang Zu saw it, he immediately ran away.
Zhouling City was still left to the defense of the local powerful families, while Huang Zu led the main force of the Jiangxia Navy to withdraw westward again.
When Huang Zu retreated, he actually bumped into Cai Mao's main force coming from the east for reinforcements. When the two sides met, they were both shocked.
Huang Zu didn't expect that he would meet Cai Hao halfway. He was shocked that the other party arrived quickly, while Cai Hao was shocked at how Huang Zu could appear in Zhouling.
After the two parties met, they learned the whole story.
However, Cai Mao's face was not very good-looking. He never dreamed that he would run into the Yangzhou navy head-on. And in this way, the distance between the two parties has almost shortened to five to ten miles. As far as the navy is concerned, this distance can almost be regarded as close, which also means that an all-out war will break out at any time between the two sides.
"Why should you retreat again and again?"
As soon as Cai Yan met, he pointed at: "As soon as Sha Xian lost, how did the Xiangyang Water Army still have a division with us? The morale of Xiakou defending the army will also be frustrated. Once it is obtained for the Yangzhou army, then we and Xiangyang will really be divided into Here comes. "
Huang Zu looked unhappy. Although he admitted that his withdrawal had brought a lot of trouble to Cai Mao, he did not do such things for his own selfish reasons.
Just thinking about the Yangzhou navy behind me, maybe they can catch up with me tomorrow.
He had to suppress the anger in his heart and explained: "Degui, what you said is indeed true, but I have no choice but to do so. If I didn't give up on Sha Xian, the Yangzhou Navy would have forced me to fight, and how could I wait for you to come to my rescue. You Look, even if I give up on Sha Xian, the Yangzhou Navy is still chasing after me. It can be seen that the person they want to capture is neither Xiakou nor Sha Xian, but the main force of our fleet."
After hearing this, Cai Hao became silent.
From the perspective of the Yangzhou Water Army's pursuit of Huang Zu, the other party was really wrong.
The Yangzhou naval army was pursuing such a pursuit, but it was very risky. Being able to make the other party ignore the risk showed how determined they were to destroy Huang Zu.
"Then do you know the reality of the Yangzhou navy?"
Cai Yan is now a teacher with Huang Zu, and the next step is naturally a decisive battle.
Xiakou is now in danger, and the navy from Xiangyang has also arrived in Xiakou in recent days.
Cai Yan couldn't afford to drag.
Seeing that the other party seemed to let himself easily, Huang Zu suddenly felt a lot of anger, half of the guilt, half a display ability, and the other party's intelligence tray collected these days.
After Cai Yan heard it, his heart shocked.
He did not expect that the strength of the Yangzhou Navy was so impressive. In his impression, the Yangzhou Navy had only been established for two years, and it had only been in the past year that it had expanded significantly and increased production of ships.
Huang Zu's information was quite different from what he expected.
"Where did the Yangzhou navy get so many warships? Especially the large ships such as building ships and stern ships. Didn't the other side start large-scale construction after they captured Yangzhou last year?"
Cai Mao couldn't help but ask. He was a little panicked at the moment. Although he was better than Huang Zu in terms of literary talent and military strategy, he was really not as good as Huang Zu in terms of boldness and strategy alone.
Huang Zu frowned slightly and felt that Cai Yan was still struggling with these stupidity.
Fortunately, Huang Zu still remembered that Cai Mao was here to help him, so he swallowed his unpleasant words and explained: "I really don't know, but our army has fought with the opponent several times, and the number of the opponent's ships and sterns is indeed Not under our army. Moreover, the sailors are brave and proficient in water warfare, crossbows, and gang jumping. Otherwise, I would not give up Sha Xian in order to preserve the fleet."
When Huang Zu said this, Cai Mao was immediately speechless.
The other party was talking about this, and Cai Hao could only accept the fact.
"Then how should we respond to this decisive battle?"
The Yangzhou Water Army was menacing, and Cai Yan's heart was false and involuntarily asked Huang Zulai.
Huang Zu was already prepared: "I have prepared the iron cable across the river before, which can come in handy in this battle. However, my big ships are not enough, so you have to allocate some sterns to me."
Huang Zu's original Hengjiang Iron Crop was prepared in Xiakou.
Now it has become the Yangtze River. If there is no way to seal it, we will naturally ask Cai Mao for help.
(End of chapter)