Chapter 445 Taking Sand Eya
The more silent for a moment, he resolutely said: "And withdraw Jiangling first!"
"Gangling!?"
Liu Pan was suspicious: "Can I wait for it?"
In Liu Pan's view, if you want to withdraw troops, the best choice is that after the north to the Yangtze River, he went east with Huang Zu and Cai Yan to join the soldiers. It is the fighting that the battle is the power.
Withdraw the army to Jiangling. Nanjun is to the west of Dongting. Once there, there will be no help for Huang Zu and Cai Mao.
"Most of the navy was taken away by Cai Degui, what are we doing there?"
Looking at Liu Pan's eyes like looking at a fool: "Our army wins. In the past, we might as well return to Linxiang directly. Our army defeated. We used to think that there were not enough captives of the Yangzhou army?"
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Liu Pan was stunned when he heard this. Although he thought Kuai Yue's words were unpleasant, he couldn't think of anything to refute, and he still felt that what the other party said was good.
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After Cai Mao left the tent, he acted very quickly. He sincerely wanted to rescue Huang Zu.
Cai Mao is different from Zhang Yun. His ability and virtue are much stronger than the latter.
Of course, Cai Yan is not completely selfless. The main reason why he is so anxious is not the public's heart, but because he is outside the city of Linxiang.
If Cai Yan is in Xiangyang at this time, although he will also rescue Huang Zu, he will never be as anxious as it is now.
Although Huang Zu was not defeated at this time, Cai Yan knew that the road to returning to Xiangyang had been intercepted.
Because Huang Zu had retreated to Sha Xian, this meant that Xiakou had been controlled by the Yangzhou Water Army.
Entering Hanshui (Xia Shui) channels have been closed at this time.
Of course, the Yangzhou Army could not enter the Han River despite the existence of Xiakou City, and the Jingzhou Army could not return to the Han River before defeating the Yangzhou Navy.
This undoubtedly means that Cai Mao and the Xiangyang Navy must defeat the Yangzhou Navy as long as they want to return to Xiangyang.
Cai Yan knew where he was rescue Huang Zu, and it was clearly Huang Zu's thunder for himself.
Once Huang Zu was defeated, Cai Mao would be the first to bear the brunt. The Yangzhou Army will never march north to Xiangyang with its main force before eating him or forcing him into the water camp of Dacheng.
That's how Cai Yan was so actively raising his strength, and he wanted to go north to help Huang.
Kuai Yue also understood this, so he forced Cai Mao to leave part of his navy behind.
Soon, Cai Mao selected his troops, and then, regardless of the fact that it was already past noon, he directly led the team to set sail and sailed down the Xiang River, heading north towards the Yangtze River.
Cai Mao's concerns were quite correct. He hurriedly and slowly returned to the Yangtze River in only two and a half days, and another three days to reach Zhouling, where he happened to bump into the retreating Huang. Ancestral fleet.
It turned out that while Liu Feng was besieging Xiakou, Liu Feng took Gan Ning as a pioneer, Ling Cao was the secondary, Zhou Tai was the main general, and Dong Xiang was the deputy general.
Don't look at the distance between Sha Xian and Xiakou, but in fact, they belong to the same county, that is, Shaxian County.
At this time, Xiakou was just a fortress city, and it was not built by Huang Zu. It was a castle city built during the Emperor Emperor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Huang Zu migrated Jiang Xia's county to Sha Xian, and he himself lived in Shaxian County and Xiakou City.
Unlike Xiakou City, although Shaxian also has a large number of water camps for ships to stop relying on supply, Sha Xian's city is not the city of the fortress, but a typical Yangtze River port.
Xiakou City is easy to defend but difficult to attack because the city is strong and contains key points, while Shaxian County is difficult to attack and easy to defend because of its geographical advantages.
Shaxian County is not only close to the Yangtze River, but also a rivers named Jinshui River entering the river.
At this time, this river is still called Tushui, so Shaxian County is also called Tukou.
The volume of Tu Shui at this time was not small, enough to accommodate the entry and exit of large ships. This also meant that Huang Zu could ambush the fleet in Tu Shui.
The vast river stretches as far as the eye can see, making it difficult to hide ships. Covering the water can give Huang Zu more tactical options. This shows how much advantage Huang Zu has over this section of the river from Shaxian to Xiakou.
On the battlefield of Sha Xianjiang, it is a area for Huang Zu's decisive battle.
This is also the reason why Huang Zu abandoned Xiakou City and retreated to Shaxian County.
But when the Yangzhou army came over, Huang Zu hesitated.
"My lord, I am willing to be the vanguard!"
Seeing the Yangzhou navy approaching step by step, Huang Zu's generals asked for battle one after another, and Chen Jiu even shouted to be the vanguard.
Huang Zu squeezed two books in his hands, from Xiangyang and Linxiang's reinforcements.
Liu Biao and Kuai Yue both responded to his call for help and sent Zhang Yun and Cai Mao respectively to support him. Both fleets had 25,000 men and thousands of ships, and they could arrive within half a month.
This is precisely the key to Huang Zu's hesitation.
Without these two documents, Huang Zu would probably have decided to fight.
But now, he has been shifting, and he will have a higher chance of winning if he decides how to decide.
This was not Huang Zu's timidity, but because the Yangzhou navy was fierce. At this moment, he surrounded Xiakou City and tried to enter Sha Xiancheng. He had seized half of the opportunity.
Huang Zu had to consider how bad the situation would be if he lost the battle.
If you return at this time, then after a hundred miles away, you can welcome Cai Yi's Ministry of Cai Yi's department.
Once the alliance is successful, Huang Zu's military strength will overtake the Yangzhou Navy.
At that time, Zhang Yun, who came from the north, agreed to attack Liu Feng. Not only will the troops be twice the troops of the Yangzhou Water Army, the battleship is more than four times that of the opponent. Essence
But now the morale of the army is flourishing, Huang Zu is also worried that he has retired to the army, and he may hurt the soldiers with his life.
"Again."
Huang Zu knocked on two cases, and immediately quietly got quiet, and the generals of the generals were concentrated on Huang Zu.
Huang Zugan cough, cleared his throat, and said, "Cai Deyi's department is on the way to help. Within ten days, he will be able to rush to Sha Xiancheng. Zhang Yun comes from the north. To Xiakou now, it is not good for me. "
Huang Zu's words broke the quiet atmosphere on the hall, and the generals suddenly echoed, discussing. After waiting for some time, after letting the generals discussed, Huang Zucai asked: "What do you think of?"
After all the generals in the hall looked at each other for a few times, they all raised their hands and said, "We will listen to your lord's decision."
Huang Zu breathed a sigh of relief, felt very satisfied, and decided: "In that case, let's set sail tomorrow, go up the river, and wait for an opportunity to counterattack after joining Degui."
Just when Huang Zu was about to announce the end of the meeting, Deng Long suddenly stood up, raised his hands and asked: "My Lord, do we still need to divide our troops in Tu Shui?"
The reason why Deng Long asked this question was because Tu Shui was a good hiding place. If a fleet could suddenly come out to flank the Yangzhou navy when the two armies were fighting, they might be able to reverse the situation and win a complete victory. .
But the risk is also extremely high. Once detected by the Yangzhou Navy, there will be nowhere to escape.
After all, Tu Shui is the 20 to 30 miles away from the Yangtze River. There is plenty of water, and the river is deep enough to accommodate large ships such as boats and stern boats. Going further in, the width of the river will naturally become smaller and smaller, and the water depth will also become smaller. It will become shallower and shallower, and even small boats, let alone small boats, will be stranded.
Earlier, Huang Zu, Su Fei, Deng Long and others decided to launch ambush in the water when they decided in Sha Xianjiang. Affected by the reinforcements, Huang Zu intends to temporarily withdraw it, and then Su Fei naturally ask how to make a decision in the water in the water.
Huang Zu pondered for a moment, unable to make a decision, so he wanted to hear the opinions of the audience.
Deng Long and Chen Ju felt that Shaxian was located in a strategic pass, and it was very likely to be a decisive battle area in the future. If a fleet could be hidden, it might have a miraculous effect.
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However, they also considered the possibility of being surrounded and suppressed by the Yangzhou navy first, and suggested ambush small boats in Tu Shui, mostly red horses and walking boats. They did not need too many, just two to three thousand people and hundreds of small boats.
The opponents are mainly Su Fei, Chen Sheng, and Zhang Hu. They oppose for three reasons. First, small boats are easy to block and communication is inconvenient.
Secondly, the decisive battle area is not necessarily in Sha Xian, and no one can guarantee that the Yangzhou navy will not follow them.
Finally, with Zhang Yun in the Han River, he had already threatened the rear flank of the Yangzhou navy, so there was no need to divide the troops further.
But in the end, Deng Long's words were Huang Zu.
"My lord, Governor Zhang is fierce but cowardly, greedy for money and afraid of death. To expect him to pull chestnuts from the fire for us is just a dream."
Deng Long was not only willing to lead the soldiers to ambush in the water, but also persuaded Huang Zu to say: "If he was in a decisive battle, Zhang Yundun would not enter, and he was afraid of the first reinforcement. What should I wait for?"
Huang Zu was finally persuaded by Deng Long. After some discussion, he decided to take Chen Sheng as the main general, divide his troops into three thousand, and have six hundred red horses and four-horse boats hidden in the water, hoping to achieve miraculous results in the future.
In the early morning of the next day, the Huangzu brigade's ship opened, pushing up against the Yangtze River, and retreated towards the prefecture of the state.
Different from Xiakou City, Shaxian was already an empty city at this time.
The food, military weapons and other supplies accumulated in the treasury of Sha Xiancheng have already replenished into the fleet. In the past few days, a number of ships were caught, but there are still many supplies.
Huang Zu decided to burn them all before leaving, but he was worried that they would be discovered by the Yangzhou navy, so he sent the main fleet first. After they evacuated, the rear fleet sent people to take action.
Facts have proved that Huang Zu's worry was not meaningless. As soon as the rear troops of the Jiangxia Navy started burning supplies, the smoke from the burning rose up, and ships on the river more than ten miles away could clearly see them. Chu.
Gan Ning, who served as the forward, made a prompt decision.
While sending someone to pass the military situation behind him, he rushed towards Sha Xian with the soldiers of the soldiers who left the string. Although it is a countercurrent operation, the speed of the ship can still reach more than fifteen miles per hour, far better than the land march.
In just half an hour, Gan Ning had already reached the river outside Shaxian City.
At this time, the Jiangxia Water Army behind the temple was still arson in the warehouse area in the warehouse outside the city to burn various materials.
When Gan Ning saw it, the head of the headquarters was divided into three parts, one hundred vessels were scattered on the river, and it was compiled into ten groups to clean up the scattered breaking vessels of the Jiangxia Water Army.
Another main force of two thousand people, two hundred warships, rushed into the port directly and attacked Jiangxia Shuijun.
The last group of thousands of people jumped ashore directly at the dock, with the purpose of defeating Jiangxia soldiers, rescuing supplies, and occupying Shaxian City.
From this arrangement, we can clearly see how big Gan Ning's appetite is. He didn't make any choice at all.
Obviously, Gan Ning chose to want them all.
After the Jiangxia Water Army was broken, there were only two thousand people. When they saw Gan Ning's aggressive rush, the Jiangxia Water Army, who had no war, immediately responded. They urgently summoned their companions on the shore to board the ship, and then took Akima as the front -drive, supplemented by walking, and rushed directly to the Hong Kong.
The ships of the two sides only fought fiercely at the import and exit of the port.
Sha Xian was the city of Jianggang, and it was completely towards the Yangtze River. The entire port was open. This originally meant that Jiangxia Marine Master could leave Shaxian Port from any angle.
It was just that Jiangxia Water Army was anxious to leave at this time and came directly to the west.
Gan Ning's troops came from the east, and naturally another passage formed in the west that could not be blocked in time.
But even so, Gan Ning's troops were able to flank the Jiangxia navy. Bows and arrows from both sides came back and forth. Although most of them were blocked by shields, there were still many unlucky soldiers who were hit by the attacks and started screaming and wailing. .
Gan Mao changed his formation continuously, trying to block the passage.
But because Jiangxia's navy reacted very quickly, in the end they just peeled off a layer of skin from the opponent's fleet. Moreover, although the Jiangxia navy was eager to escape and had little fighting spirit, it was still quite strong. The gang-hopping battle also caused a lot of casualties to Gan Ning's troops.
In the end, Gan Ning's troops won a small victory, sinking and seizing 11 ships of Jiangxia Navy, beheading more than 60 people, and injuring more than 40 people.
Unlike the waters under the command of Gan Mao, the tribal that followed Ganning's landing was very successful.
There were no soldiers of the Jiangxia Navy on the shore, and the petty officials in Shaxian City also organized hundreds of young men to go out of the city to help put out the fire. In addition, the Jiangxia Navy was a little soft-hearted when they set the fire. In the end, the remaining ordnance, food, tools, and other materials were actually As many as 60% were rescued.
All of this must be attributed to Gan Ning's blood brave. If he hadn't made a decisive time, he immediately moved to see the thick smoke and landed on the beach for the first time. This would have such a beautiful record.
At the same time, without Huang Zu's support, Sha Xiancheng naturally did not dare to resist.
Gan Ning led his troops to first put out the fire and salvage as much supplies as possible, and then entered Shaxian City and occupied the city. By the time Ling Cao arrived, the battle was completely over, and all he saw was Gan Ning's arrogant and proud face.
Gan Ning's message was sent back to Xiakou.
Today, Liu Feng and the brigade ship are stationed in many places, including Echeng, Tancheng, Sisai, and Xiakou.
However, this Xiakou is not Xiakou City, but the other side of Xiakou City.
(End of this chapter)