Chapter 229: The withdrawal route

A gust of river wind blew, which was extremely cool, sweeping away some heat in the air.

Zhang Hu pulled the collar of his clothes with his hand, revealing the black and fluffy breasts inside, and shouted, "It's so refreshing!" After that, he raised the wine pot, took a sip into his mouth, frowned, and cursed, "Who bought the wine? It's so light that it smells like water, where is there any wine?"

Hearing this, Chen Sheng snatched the wine pot from Zhang Hu's hand, raised his neck and took a big mouthful, but he was choked and coughed a few times. Chen Sheng coughed and said, "Okay, you, you still say that such a spicy wine is not smelly? Are your tongue shorter?"

Zhang Hu glared at Chen Sheng, thought about it but didn't say anything. He just looked at the surging river. After a while, he said to Chen Sheng: "This water thief is used to being a water thief, and he is really not very adaptable to being a soldier. You said, if we listened to Brother Xingba and joined Zhou Yu's army, wouldn't we have such a leisurely and comfortable life?"

Chen Sheng stood up, slapped Zhang Hu on the shoulder, and cursed with a smile: "Huzi, why have you become so sentimental? I ask you, we could have had a meal with Xingba and the others on the water. But he was on the lake of Chaohu Lake, and we were on the Yangtze River in Jiangxia. According to the situation at that time, our strength was stronger than him. But look at now, he is a general who commanded tens of thousands of naval troops. How majestic it is! And we..."

Zhang Hu couldn't help but look at his more than a thousand subordinates in a blink of an eye and said annoyedly: "Yes~~ Why did he do so well? We are still wandering around and we have to deal with that guy Cai Mao!"

Chen Sheng studied in a private school for two years after he was a child. Zhang Hu had never read any books since he was a child. Naturally, Chen Sheng was higher than Zhang Hu. Zhang Hu always liked to listen to Chen Sheng's words in big and small matters. Although the two of them had their own subordinates, Chen Sheng was the leader of this army.

Chen Sheng patted Zhang Hu again, but this time his strength was very light. Chen Sheng stared at Zhang Hu's eyes and said in a sincere tone: "How can a man be a real man be peaceful? Besides, we are driven around by Cai Mao's navy every day. What's the point of nostalgia for such a day? Xingba is also nostalgic and is willing to give us a chance to change our faces. We must cherish it..."

"Grandma, I decided to join Zhou Yu! I don't believe that we will do worse than the thief in Chaohu?" Zhang Hu jumped up and said carelessly, "Just use Huang Zu's food as a meeting gift, are you afraid that Zhou Yu won't accept it?"

"Okay!" Chen Sheng praised, "We brothers work together to make a breakthrough! If he has the Jinfan Army, we will have the Jiangxia Army!"

"Haha" the two laughed loudly, and their four hands were tightly held together. The busy Jiangxia thieves suddenly heard their leader's laughter and couldn't help but wonder, how could our leader be so happy? Just for these foods, it wouldn't be!

Qianxian, county government.

According to the progress of the war, Huang Zu's troops had not attacked the city for two consecutive days, and Zhou Yu had moved into the city to command. With the arrival of Chen Wu's 20,000 reinforcements, and Pan Hu's army later arrived in Lujiang. He judged that Huang Zu would definitely choose to withdraw his troops as soon as possible. What he needs to plan now is to bite hard when Huang Zu withdraws his troops, so that he will not dare to invade Lujiang again for at least a year.

While planning how to pursue Huang Zu's troops, Zhou Yu was also worried about the war in Hefei. Fortunately, he had just received news from Lu Su and Chen Gong that Hefei was safe and sound. Although Yuan Shu sent a new military supervisor Sima and transported a lot of siege equipment, strictly ordered Zhang Xun to speed up the siege, under the careful defense of Lu Su and Chen Gong, the enemy suffered heavy losses and did not attack the city wall.

Lu Su did not just defend the enemy. He ordered Ding Feng to lead the Jinfan army to attack the enemy from Shuimen repeatedly, and suddenly cut off the food route, harass his camp, and sometimes burned the siege equipment, leaving Zhang Xun, Lei Bu and others busy, and they were all in a state of turmoil.

However, Liyang was only Pan Zhang's 5,000 men defended, and the pressure was very high. Fortunately, Zhang Xun's main forces were besieging Hefei, and they didn't take Liyang seriously, so Pan Zhang could still support him. Chen Wu sent Deng Li to lead 10,000 troops, and the one who went to help was Liyang first. Seeing that Liyang was in trouble, the reinforcements had arrived, Zhang Xun withdrew the siege troops and concentrated them all under Hefei City, trying to adopt the tactic of center blossoming, but it was unsuccessful. Hefei City still stood high in front of Yuan Shu's army.

At this moment, Zhou Yu was sitting in the study, an oil lamp flickered and darker. With the faint light, Zhou Yu finished reading a small paper roll in his hand, and then placed the paper roll on the light. With a "suddenly", the paper roll was ignited, and the light in the house suddenly became much brighter. You can see the man in black hidden behind Zhou Yu.

As if afraid of the increase in the light, the man in black couldn't help but shrink his body into the corner again.

"Ishikawa~" Zhou Yu whispered, "Your information is very useful, thank you for your hard work! Keep going to work."

The man in black was Ishikawa. He received praise from Zhou Yu. His face was still as calm as water. After hearing Zhou Yu's words, he bent down slightly to say a salute, and then turned around and hid into the darkness.

After the paper roll was burning, the light in the house became dim again. Zhou Yu stood up and paced around the house. Huang Zu actually invited Huang Zhong out again. Zhou Yu didn't know in advance. With Huang Zhong's talent, this pursuit would be more difficult. Fortunately, "Ye Yu" performed well and actually got Huang Zhong's withdrawal roadmap, so he could plan carefully, find the key location, and give the enemy a thunder blow there.

At this moment, the preparations for withdrawal of troops were being carried out in Huang Zu's military camp. In order to prevent the news from being exposed, Huang Zhong strictly ordered officers at all levels to restrain their subordinates and must do it according to the established plan and not make any mistakes.

Huang Zu found Huang Zhong, hoping to let his confidant general Lu Gong and he retreat as a central army. Huang Zhong had no choice but to modify the plan. Originally, he was planning to let Lu Gong lead his troops as a pioneer unit to explore the safe evacuation of the army, but now he had to replace him.

Huang Zu had some selfish thoughts, and he had not had many Jiangxia soldiers left, so he gave them all to Lu Gong to commander. It is safest to retreat with him as the central army. If Zhou Yu wanted to pursue or set up an ambush, the ones who were hit were either the front army or the rear army. Such a job would be done by Huang Zu's men.
Chapter completed!