Chapter 227 Red Cliff (I)

Water warfare requires considerable requirements for wind direction and wind power. Generally speaking, the side in the wind will gain a certain advantage, because before the two armies officially join the string battle, the side with a long range will gain the upper hand if they rely on crossbow arrows to suppress it.

However, this time Cai Mao miscalculated.

The three Fu Tong warships that rushed forward were equipped with more long-range naval guns. Each of the equipment fired by strong elasticity was fired with a "huh" sound. Even if the falling big rocks did not hit the ship, they could stir up huge waves in the sky. The shaking hull made Cai Mao's soldiers fall one by one, and they could still aim and shoot.

"Step ahead and stop the enemy ship!" Cai Mao, who knew Fu Tong's power, saw that the situation was not good, quickly waved the flag. More than ten warships on the left wing quickly stepped forward and tried to block Fu Tong's way. This was a unit that was sent to death. Cai Mao did not expect them to stop Fu Tong's edge, but at least it would make Fu Tong have no time to use naval guns to bomb long-range.

"Strong crossbow—— 150 steps, shot!" With Cai Mao's order again, feather arrows poured out, and shot at Fu Tongjun in the head like a sudden heavy rain. Screams arose, and soldiers on the boat were constantly shot by arrows and fell into the river.

"Hmph, it's not so easy to trap me!" Fu Tong snorted coldly, and waved the flag. The main ship's advancement was faster, while the other two warships turned to face the left wing of the Cai army. He knew the tactics of the Jingzhou naval army clearly. As long as he could successfully approach within ten feet of Cai Mao's fleet, the soldiers who competed for the flesh and blood were no match for the Jiangling naval army that could fight against him.

As for the cover fleet that came to the door, Fu Tong was not interested in tangling with them for more. His target was only one - Cai Mao's main ship of the central army. He knew that if he captured the thief and the king, as long as Cai Mao was killed, the remaining soldiers would scatter into birds and beasts.

Fu Tong's right wing and Cai Mao's left wing, killing sounds shook the sky. A young Fu Tong's soldier first jumped across the river with a knife and jumped to the warship guarded by the enemy. He raised his sword and fell down. A yellow corpse fell into the river, but then he was pierced by two spears and fell unwillingly after leaving two blood holes.

The belief in driving out the invaders to defend their homes made the young warriors not afraid of death. One fell down, and countless others rushed up.

Fu Tong's main ship was getting closer and closer, and Cai Mao's crossbowmen hid in the cabin shot out quickly at high speed. The enemy was so close that they didn't have to aim at the direction. After the sound of bows, blood flowers fell all over the sky.

The flying arrows were raining like a waterfall pouring down. When it was only ten feet away from Cai Mao's warship, Fu Tong's flags and sails were already full of holes. Standing on the exposed deck, he kept roaring angrily, witnessing the soldiers around him falling down one by one, and the surging fighting spirit filled Fu Tong's entire chest.

"Kill!" With a loud shout, Fu Tong flew onto the enemy ship. Facing the Cai Mao soldiers who were rushing up, he had no fear on his face.

As soon as he was short, Fu Tong's big sword pierced through the heart of the soldier from bottom to top. At the same time, he turned his hand and bladed off half of his head. The dirty plasma came out. Seeing that the general was so brave, the other soldiers were also very energetic. They followed Fu Tong to jump onto the enemy ship and fought fiercely with enemy soldiers who were even more numerous than them.

In an instant, there were shouts of killing in the area where the two armies intersected, and bloody killings spread rapidly. In order to curb the momentum of the other party, more and more warships were fighting.

Flashes of arrows rose and fell among the boats, sometimes mixed with roaring cannons. The formation of Cai army in the middle of the river was broken, and the Qingqi, the character "Fu" in Jiangdong, cut straight into it. The waters wherever they passed were immediately dyed bloody red, and corpses fell into the river, and then were rolled downstream by the waves.

After an hour of battle, Cai Mao's army suffered heavy casualties, and the broken Xuanhuang flags covered the river. The formation of Cao's army was broken, and the cruelty of the string war finally made the soldiers of Cai Mao, who had experienced the war for the first time, retreated. Shortly after Fu Tong led the army to jump onto his warship, facing Fu Tong who was rushing up with a knife, the panicked Cai Mao no longer wanted to command the battle. He quickly boarded a scout ship under the protection of several guards to escape.

"Escape-!" The moment Cai Mao boarded the boat, he was so panicked that he had no time to care about the life and death of his subordinates, and his failure could not be changed. Although Cai Mao's army had nearly twice as many warships and soldiers than Fu Tong. The main general was defeated and fled, and the remaining soldiers did not have any fighting spirit. They turned the bow of the boat and fled to the shore. Some soldiers trapped on the boat abandoned their weapons and begged for surrender to the enemy.

Seeing Cai Mao fleeing to the north shore, Fu Tong, who was already very aggressive, stopped when he saw that he was better. He was eager to make contributions and immediately led a team of soldiers to kill him.

It was almost dusk, and the fire was jumping on the shaky weapons, and the red color was stained with darkness.

Under the cover of night, a team of Cao soldiers quickly came up under the leadership of a general, and the defeated soldiers who were walking like loose sand began to turn around to organize effective resistance.

"Cao Hong is here, who dares to fight!" The main flag coming to Fu Tong's sight came into Fu Tong's sight in the fire.

Cao Zilian, who has a black armored iron spear and a fiery battle robe, is one of the "Five Tiger Generals" under Cao Cao's command. Such an opponent made Fu Tong excited. He jumped onto a running horse without a master and faced Cao Hong.

With the blade hitting his face, Cao Hong was not afraid of anything, he made a mistake, circled a horse and spear in one go. This just met, which scared Fu Tong's momentum back.

"The wind and clouds change!" Cao Hong roared and thrust out his gun, and the iron spear swing turned into a few cold lights that immediately enveloped Fu Tong's body.

Fu Tong was shocked. The big sword was dancing so hard that it was not clear. Just now, a knife that he was determined to hit the sky. Just when he was alert, Cao Hong was approaching like a red cloud.

"Clang!" With a bang, Fu Tong tried hard to get Cao Hong's gun move away, but the rapid gun force still swept his shoulder blades. Fu Tong felt a stinging pain and turned over and fell off the horse.

"Save the General!" Behind him, Fu Tong soldiers rushed forward regardless of their life and death, and rescued Fu Tong before Cao Hong returned to his horse.

Cao Hong laughed, tightened his iron spear and shouted, "Why is it so easy to run away?"

They fought and retreated. Under Cao Hong's siege and killed him one after another, Fu Tong's army suffered heavy losses. Seeing that Cao Hong's attempt was about to succeed, suddenly he heard a shout of killing from the river behind him.

"Fu Tong, don't panic, Jiang Qin, Huang Gai is here to pick him up with the order of the general to favor him!" Two loud shouts sounded, and two new forces with green flags were killed from Fu Tong left and right.

When Fu Tong heard the reinforcements arrived, he was energetic. After trying hard to stop Cao Hong from fighting for a while, the exhausted Fu Tong finally retreated safely to the ship, advancing like a tide, and retreating like a tide. Fu Tong, who was not good at land battle, had no choice but to retreat to the ship, and there was the place where he was crisscrossing.

In Sanjiangkou, Fu Tong won first and then lost. Although he defeated Cai Mao's enemy army, he was blocked by Cao Hong. In the end, only about 400 elite soldiers fought successfully.

Jiangxia Outer City Water Camp.

The dejected Fu Tong came listlessly to hand orders Gao Chong under the support of the soldiers.

"People's coach, Tong is greedy for merit and makes great progress, resulting in countless soldiers being injured and injured. I am willing to be dealt with by military law now! But, don't let me leave the military camp." Fu Tong knelt down in front of Gao Chong, bowed his head and was ashamed. When the enemy advances, he leads to defeat in the war. According to the military law, the most slightest crime is to remove his official position and demote him to a soldier. In this way, Fu Tong has the chance to make meritorious service, and the heavier crime is to be exiled to a border county and never be used.

Gao Chong's face was as deep as water, he glanced at Fu Tong who was kneeling down and said, "Fu Tong, you still know that you have violated military law!"

The generals and strategists standing on the left and right wanted to say something nice, but when they saw Gao Chong's bad expression, they were furious, and they had to bow their heads one by one. After a long time, Wen Pin stepped forward and bowed and said, "People are ruthless in military law. Fu Tong made such a big mistake, and it is really unforgivable. Fu Tong is a subordinate of Feng, and his subordinate is now convicted, which is related to the indulgence of Feng's daily teachings. Therefore, Feng requests to be the same as Fu Tong!"

Wen Pin is a trusted first-line general under Gao Chong's account. In terms of his status, he was second only to Gan Ning. Although his words were not pleading, they were better than pleading. At present, the enemy was in the right place, and it was the time to use people. Gao Chong originally wanted to teach Fu Tong a lesson, but he had no intention of really demoting Fu Tong, a tiger general, from the military camp.

Seeing Gao Chong's expression slowed down, Xu Shu, Liu Ye, Ling Tong, Zhu Huan and other civil and military officials who stood on both sides came forward and Qi advised: "Although Fu Tong violated the military law, he was loyal and brave, and he was the only one who defeated Cai Mao's navy with less and more battles. He just had to pay the merits and demerits."

"Fu Tong, for everyone is pleading for you, I will write down this batch of accounts first! Why don't you go back to the camp to treat the dead and injured soldiers?" Gao Chong said in a deep voice.

After Fu Tong's work, Xu Shu stepped forward and said, "People's commander, this time the battle between Sanjiangkou has not yet decided on the victory or defeat of the enemy. Cao Cao will not be willing to accept it. With this Yangtze River barrier, I am not worried that Cao Cao's army will cross the river. But if a small group of Cao's army infiltrates the river, it will be extremely unfavorable to replenish food and grass in the rear."

He was stationed in Jiangxia, and Gao Chong relied on two routes to replenish food and grass. One was to go up from Jiangdong and transport food and supplies through Pengze to Xiakou by ships; the other was to transport food and grass from Changsha, four counties in Jingnan, and transport water and land northward. This route was between Jiangling and Xiakou, which was the weakest area in Gao Chong's military strength.

From the terrain, Jiangxia is extremely important to Gao Chong during the process of resisting Cao Cao. Jiangxia is located on the south bank of Hetao between Yunmengze and Poyang Lake. Once Jiangxia is lost, the connection between Jingzhou and Jiangdong will be cut off. Cao's soldiers can easily penetrate eastward to the hinterland of Yuzhang and take straight to Jinling. At the same time, if Jiangxia is lost, Gao Chong will lose the possibility of acting as a navy in the two lakes. The situation will inevitably return to the state of being haunted and bullied by Huang Zu.

"Have the military advisor discovered something?" Gao Chong looked solemn. Xu Shu was polite and he would not talk nonsense about things he was not sure about. Since he raised it so carefully, Ye Xiao must have discovered some suspicious situation.

"It's like that. Two days ago, county officials in Baqiu and Wuling area reported that they were attacked by unknown bandits in succession. Even the city guards responsible for public security clearance encountered unexpected results. All signs show that the strength of this bandit is certain. Ordinary local security forces are not opponents at all. If it weren't for the Cao army, who else would have such ability?" Xu Shu said loudly.

Gao Chong stood up, thought for a moment when facing the Jingnan map hanging behind him, took a deep breath and said slowly: "Baqiu is only more than 200 miles away from Jiangxia. At the normal marching speed, it only takes three days to arrive. This bandit chose to frequently harass the counties at this time. Could it be that he was raising military rations to plot against Jiangxia?

When this sentence was expressed, the civil and military generals standing beside him all changed their faces suddenly. Due to insufficient troops, Gao Chong's army's defense from Baqiu to Jiangxia was quite weak. If an enemy soldier attacked from this road, Gao Chong would be caught off guard.

"The military advisors received news two days ago. Judging from the enemy's attack on counties and counties, they must have crossed the river lightly and failed to bring enough military rations. When they complete the raising of grain, there will be fierce battles near Jiangxia!" said Liu Ye, the general of the Sijin Central Army.

Liu Ye’s guess was right. After escorting Liu Ba to the Wuling Realm occupied by Wumanxi, Cao Ren, who was crossing the river, rushed his troops all the way eastward, burning, killing, looting along the way, and was extremely rampant. In fact, this was no wonder Cao Ren. He also wanted to unexpectedly reach Jiangxia City, but his soldiers could not withstand the situation of hunger and cold.

It was cold in the twelfth lunar month, and Cao Renjun, who was lightly carrying dry food, only brought seven days of dry food. The dry food was not roasted by fire, and it was hard and hard. At the same time, the tents in the army were not carried because the ferry was loaded. At night, the cold air invaded the armored clothes, which made the soldiers tremble. In desperation, Cao Ren had to order the soldiers to occupy the villages and towns along the way to rest.

"Zhu Huan, He Qi, you two will speed up 10,000 invaders from Jiangxia to search westward. If you encounter an enemy's advance eastward, you will block it; Wenpin, your Jiangling navy will move eastward from now on and completely block the river in Chibi. In addition, I will tell Lu Fan again to speed up the marching speed and must arrive in Changsha within five days." Gao Chong, who saw the situation clearly, did not hesitate anymore, and he ordered in a deep voice.

"No!" Zhu Huan, He Qi, and Wen Pin successively received orders.

These ten thousand soldiers were originally troops guarding the counties in the south of the Yangtze River, mainly responsible for encirclement and suppressing rebellions and bandits. Although they lack the ability to fight on a large scale, they have rich experience in mountain combat. The waters from Baqiu to Xiakou, the mountains and forests, and the distribution of low mountains and stars was just conducive to the performance of Zhu Huan and He Qi.

North bank of Red Cliff, south of Wulin.

The beacon fire was more than twenty miles away, and the military tent was distributed on the edge of the Yangtze River on the other side. Cao Cao, who successfully captured Xiangyang, advanced along the water and land, rode on both sides, and came along the Han River to build a village of Wulin. Wulin is located in the east near Sanjiangkou, west to Jiangling, and south to cross the river to Baqiu and enter the vast Yunmengze. The geographical location is quite important. It is hard to say that Cao Cao camped here.

In the main tent of the central army, the beating lights of the beating lights illuminate everything, and even the flying insects could not escape.

Facing Cai Mao with a look of desolation, Prime Minister Cao Cao was still passionate. He laughed and patted Cai Mao on the shoulder and comforted him: "Degui, victory and defeat are common in military affairs, and there is no need to worry about it. This time, Fu Tong has taken advantage of it. Next time we make up for the loss, don't worry, I have ordered the craftsmen in Xiangyang to speed up the construction of the lost warship. Within a month, Degui will have another mighty army."

Cai Mao was shocked by Pang Ruo and asked disbelief: "Mao didn't lose his talent and returned with his generals. Prime Minister, don't you blame me for losing the spirit of the army?"

Cao Cao laughed and said, "Although Degui lost some people, he did not gain anything at all. The soldiers of Gaopeng are few. If they continue to be consumed like today's battle, do you think we will win, or will he Gaopeng?"

"Prime Minister-!" Cai Mao was so moved that he burst into tears and could hardly speak. He did not expect that Cao Cao would treat him a surrendered general like this, because even a trusted general like Cao Hong and Cao Chun would not dare to run to Cao Cao to cry after being defeated.

"Okay, Degui, hurry back to the camp and rest. I will reorganize the soldiers with me tomorrow morning and build a navy again." Cao Cao's eyes flashed with shame and anger when he watched Cai Mao leave the tent. The first battle was a frustrated. If it weren't for Cai Mao's use of his power, Cao Cao would have ordered Cai Mao's head to be cut off and displayed on the flagpole.

"Brother, Cai Mao escaped before the war, and he was unforgivable. Why don't you do it? Just chop it up with one knife!" Cao Hong said angrily. He had been so angry that he had been stopped by Cao Cao's stern eyes just now, and he barely suppressed his anger. Now that Cai Mao had left the tent, Cao Hong could no longer hold back.

Cao Hong is as fierce as a fire and has a straightforward temper. Cao Ren, who is also a cousin, respectfully called Cao Cao's "lord", while Cao Hong still calls Cao Cao's elder brother by his seniority. He is brave and powerful on the battlefield and never sees people who are greedy and afraid of death the most. Cai Mao's performance today really annoyed Cao Hong.

Cao Cao looked grim and said sternly to Cao Hong: "Random, don't talk nonsense anymore. Now the enemy Gao Chong is in front of you and my fate is all about this battle. If we cannot abandon all personal distractions, we will die soon without a place to bury us! Cai Mao is incompetent, don't I know that, except Cai Mao, most of the talents in Jiangnan have been granted Gao Chong, and we can rely on him now."
Chapter completed!