Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 266 I'm Waiting For The Wind
In the Battle of Yonghu Lake, Zhou Yu, as the active attacker, suffered heavy casualties. He lost dozens of ships and two to 3000 troops, and had to retreat to Hongkou.

Hongkou.

This is a vast land.

To the south of it is Dongting Lake, to the north is Yunmeng Lake, and the Yangtze River passes through it.

The specific locations include Junshan District, Yueyang, Hunan Province, Jianli County, Zhuhe Town, Bianhe Town, Sanzhou Town, Jingzhou, Hubei Province, etc.

However, in the Han Dynasty, because it was a flooded place, it would be submerged every time the Yangtze River flooded, so this place was called Hongkou, and the lakes on the north and south sides were connected, and it was also called Yunmengze.

Zhou Yu ordered the army to garrison in the Hongkou area. Hongkou had become land at that time, with luxuriant water and grass, basil trees everywhere, and dense forests growing on the plain like a black forest.

The Jiangdong army cut down trees on the higher ground and set up camps. They also built docks on the east side of the Yangtze River to accommodate thousands of ships of all sizes.

After a few days of busy work, the camp and the wharf had begun to grow in size, so Zhou Yu summoned many generals to discuss important military affairs in his tent.

At the beginning of the meal, while the soldiers of the three armies were still eating breakfast, the battalion leaders had already gathered in Zhou Yu's commander's tent.

Candles were lit inside the tent, Zhou Yu sat at the head seat, the left governor Cheng Pu, the right governor Huang Gai, and then the general Xu Sheng of the Zhonglang, the general Lu Fan, the lieutenant Ling Tong and the lieutenant Zhechong. Zhu Ran and Lu Meng, the captain of Pingbei.

Although Lu Meng completed the task of raiding the Beacon Tower, he failed to prevent Shen Chen from deploying his defenses in advance. In the end, the mission failed and he escaped from Baqiu and returned to the Hongkou Camp.

The generals were seated separately. Behind Zhou Yu was a large wooden board with a map of the Baqiu area pasted on it. He looked around the crowd and said softly: "Everyone, Baqiu guards the south of Jingbei and the north of Jing. The terrain is extremely favorable. If you want to complete Wu Hou Suyuan, we have to conquer this place."

Cheng Pu pondered: "Shen Chen has chosen a good place. We have occupied this place. We can't advance or retreat. We can't go north from Mianshui to rescue Xiangyang, and we can't attack Jiangling or Jingnan to cut off Liu Bei's retreat. This is a dangerous place. land."

"Humph."

Huang Gai slapped the table angrily and said: "No matter what, I will crush Baqiu, capture Shen Chen alive, and avenge Yi Gong!"

Cheng Pu said: "Gongfu, we naturally want to avenge Yigong, but Shen Chen occupies a favorable location. With Baqiu's land, it is difficult for us to attack by force. We should listen to the plan of the governor."

"Great Governor!"

Lu Fan got up and asked: "The enemy is stationed in Baqiu, why should we station in Hongkou? Although this place is where the great river, Xiangshui River and Yunmeng Lake meet, there are strong winds and waves, and there will be floods every year. Not a good place to camp."

Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "It is a helpless move to station at Hongkou. Around Baqiu, only Weishui has shelter from the wind. However, it is located in the middle of Baqiu and Luo County. Stationed in Weishui, it is Liu Pan Shenchen. Flank."

Cheng Pu nodded and said: "Yes, our victory lies in the strength of the navy. Liu Pan has an army of [-]. If Shen Chen's [-] Jiangxia navy is added, the force will be comparable to ours. And Weishui is on land, so it is easy to be defeated. They are attacking from both the land and the north at the same time, which is not a good place."

Lu Fan said: "But because we don't have a shelter from the wind, the ships can only be tied together with ropes to prevent them from being blown away by the wind. If the enemy attacks with fire like the captain, then shouldn't we?"

Zhou Yu explained: "Hongkou runs through east, west, north and south. You can enter Xiangyang in the north, Qingcao Lake in the south, Jiangling in the west, and return to Yuzhang in the east. Although there is no safe haven here, our ships must be connected with ropes to prevent Blown away by the wind, but fortunately, the north wind is blowing at this time, as long as they are careful, they will not be able to attack with fire."

"correct."

Huang Gai was suddenly surprised and said, "Before the governor used fire attack to crack the serial boats of the Jiangxia navy, why didn't he succeed?"

Captain Zhu Ran of Zhechong said: "Commander, I approached desperately at that time, and I vaguely saw that they smeared something on the ship, and the fire couldn't burn it."

Something daubed on the boat?
Zhou Yu thought about it.

At that time, the two sides were far away from each other during the war, and they mainly shot bows and arrows with each other.In particular, his main ship was a mile away from the battlefield, so he couldn't see the opponent's actions at all.

However, Zhu Ran risked his life and approached a hundred meters away, vaguely seeing something smeared on Jiang Xia's boat.

But because the color of the mud is dark brown, which is somewhat similar to the color of the ship, they don't know exactly what was applied.

What he knew was that the group of death squads who sailed past were wiped out by bows and arrows, so Zhou Yu didn't know that they were smeared with mud.

"silt."

Zhou Yu's eyes flickered and said: "They should have smeared mud."

"silt?"

Everyone was quite surprised.

Zhou Yu nodded and said, "That's right, it can be used to prevent fire, and you don't need to spend too much. There is only mud."

Although they didn't see clearly what the other party smeared, Zhou Yu must have thought of it with his intelligence.

In ancient times, there were almost no fireproof materials, and the most was to wrap iron sheets on the ship to prevent fire.

However, the iron sheet is not very safe. The aircraft carrier made of modern steel can catch fire, let alone the ancient wooden ship.

But if it is temporary fire prevention and does not need too expensive things, naturally there is only silt.And it must be wet silt, and dry silt cannot prevent fire.

"It turned out to be mud."

Cheng Pu slapped his head and said, "It's a pity, I didn't expect that Shen Chen to be so smart, to prepare so much mud on the boat in advance."

Lu Fan asked: "We are also connecting the boats together now, do you want to prepare some mud?"

Zhou Yu rubbed his chin and said in thought: "It is reasonable to say that we don't need this thing, but if this method is useful, we can follow suit in case of fire attack in the future. Virtue seeks justice."

Then he turned to look at Cheng Pu.

Cheng Pu stood up and cupped his hands, "The end is here."

Zhou Yu ordered: "Please ask Mr. Demou to lead a fleet to test the fire-proof effect of smearing mud on the ships."

"only!"

Cheng Pu took the lead.

Zhou Yu said again: "We don't need this silt for fire protection for now, but it's good to test it first, so as not to need it in the future. The most urgent thing now is to find a way to capture Baqiu."

Huang Gai said: "Great Governor, I would like to lead the troops to fight with them on land."

Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "Don't act rashly. We should first investigate the layout of their camp, the terrain of Baqiu and the enemy's fortifications. This time we didn't conquer Baqiu in one fell swoop, but we suffered from the large number of reefs at the mouth of the lake." There are many tall scull arrow towers built on the island."

For the Jiangdong navy, silt fire prevention is actually useless.

Because they are currently stationed in Hongkou, and the north wind blows in winter in the south, mostly northeast and northwest winds. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang's water battle at Poyang Lake is the northwest wind.

Walking on the Yangtze River, going with the wind is more important than going with the water.With sails, even an upstream ship can be very fast.

Now they are downwind and occupying the advantage of Hongkou. Once the Jiangxia navy takes large-scale actions, they will soon be detected by them. Even if the Jiangxia navy uses fire to attack, due to the headwind, the speed will not be fast. It is easy to be intercepted by them.

And with the north wind blowing, the fire will only burn to the south. Even if the fire ship rushed to their fleet, the howling north wind would make it difficult for the fire to spread to the Jiangdong navy ship in the north.

Therefore, it is almost impossible for the Jiang Xia navy to use the fire attack.

After all, the fire attack conditions are relatively harsh.

The first is to make the enemy chained because there is no safe haven.

The second is that there must be a tailwind.

The two are indispensable. Although they are already locked in chains, the Jiangxia navy is in a headwind and has no conditions to set fire.

So Zhou Yu didn't pay much attention to the fire prevention of silt, at most he just sighed for Shen Chen's cleverness.

Not entirely useless though.

Although they don't need it for the time being, it is useful in Jiangdong.

If there is a water battle in the east of the Yangtze River in the future, and it is autumn and winter, when the north wind blows, since the section of the Yangtze River from Jiangxia to Yuzhang travels from northwest to southeast, if there is a water battle in Penglize, there is a high possibility of Jiangxia The sailors have a smooth sailing situation.

At that time, if the enemy is desperately attacking with fire, such a thing may still happen, so Zhou Yu wanted to test the effect of the silt fire prevention, lest it might be useful in the future.

At present, Zhou Yu was stationed in Hongkou, training his soldiers every day, and at the same time sent a large number of scouts to investigate.

December tenth.

At this time, the Jiangdong Army had already laid a net around Baqiu.

There are too many ships to scout every day.

Huang Zu often went to the bank to watch the scouting fleet of the Jiangdong navy. The Jiangdong navy was extremely rampant, and they often came to the shore to provoke him, which made him furious.

On this day, he finally couldn't help it, and gave an order to send light boats and speedboats to chase them out. Unexpectedly, they were caught in an ambush. The Jiangdong navy on the opposite bank suddenly launched hundreds of fast boats and attacked the scout ships of the Jiangxia navy, causing them to lose There are many people.

Shen Chen was very angry when he learned that at this time, but Huang Zu had been kind to him, and he had a high prestige among the Jiangxia navy, so it was inconvenient to punish him, so he had to call him to his chief general's camp to persuade him.

In the camp of the chief general of Jiang Xia's navy, Huang Zu lifted the tent and saw Shen Chen sitting on the chief seat writing something.

"Governor, why did you call me here?"

Huang Zu said lightly.

Shen Chen smiled and said, "Old General Huang, please sit down. I heard that the general sent people to pursue him. He was ambushed and lost some troops?"

Huang Zu stepped forward and cupped his hands and said, "That's right, the Jiangdong water army came to provoke every day, I couldn't be more angry, and I personally led the troops to pursue them, and I almost died."

"Since this is the case, the old general should rest and recuperate."

Shen Chen said casually: "Now is the time to fight, the general should not risk his life, the troops under his command should be led by other generals first."

Huang Zu was furious: "Great Governor, are you trying to seize my military power?"

Shen Chen slapped the table and shouted: "General Huang, I have issued repeated orders not to fight, but you rashly pursued and lost hundreds of people. We only killed 3000 or [-] troops in our big victory yesterday, but your battle caused us such a loss. heavy!"

"I"

Huang Zu's character is quite rough, but this battle was indeed his fault, so he could only say: "Commander, this battle is indeed my fault. But we won a big victory yesterday, why are we so cowardly and can't take advantage of the victory to pursue it? "

Seeing that he softened, Shen Chen said, "Old General, please put the overall situation first. There are many soldiers in the Jiangdong River, and we will be very passive in a direct confrontation, so we have to wait for the right time."

Huang Zu mourned: "Grand Governor, but this stalemate is not an option. Now that they have all entered Jingzhou, can't they fight a decisive battle?"

In history, Huang Zu always focused on defense and seldom attacked in the face of Sun Ce and Sun Quan's successive attacks.

But this time he changed his attitude.

It's not that he is weak in character, but that he has no way in history.

His soldiers and horses are far less than Sun Ce and Sun Quan's, and the strength of his army is far inferior, so naturally he cannot fight head-on.

But now he has experienced the glory of the Jiangxia Navy.

During Liu Biao's period, he owned the Nanyang Basin and had a large population of food and grass. For this reason, he expanded his army a lot. During the heyday of the Jiangxia Navy, there were as many as [-] to [-] troops.

As a result, several wars were fought, especially the two disastrous defeats at Xunyang and Ruxukou. Huang Zu's Jiangxia navy suffered heavy losses, and the number of soldiers and horses was less than half of what it was at its peak.

This psychological gap made Huang Zu extremely unwilling, so he was very angry at the fact that he could not pursue after the victory a few days ago.

Shen Chen has always been a soft eater, and when he saw Huang Zu's attitude, he comforted him and said, "Don't worry, old general, I'm not afraid of that Zhou Yu. It's just that the time has not come yet, and we need to wait a little longer. The old general is patient." With patience, we will surely defeat them."

Huang Zu said in a low mood: "Xiaoqing, you are also my descendant. It's not that I don't trust you, it's just that I and the Sun family are deadly enemies. Sun Jian, Sun Ce, and Sun Quan repeatedly violated me in Jingzhou. They wanted to kill me to vent their anger, and I Why don’t you want to defeat them? Now that I’m old and my health is getting worse, I’m afraid I won’t be able to see the day when I defeat Jiangdong.”

Shen Chen said with a smile: "Please rest assured, the old general. The eldest prince is about to regain Jingzhou, and he still needs the old general's assistance. I have already prepared everything for this battle, and I will definitely annihilate the Jiangdong army!"

Huang Zu said: "Xiaoqing is waiting for General Zuo. Now Cao Cao's army is going south, and General Zuo is going north to meet the enemy. The battle in the north is not good."

"of course not."

Shen Chen shook his head and said: "General Zuo still needs us to help, how can I pin my hope on General Zuo. This time I occupied Baqiu and forced Zhou Yu to station in Hongkou, just for the right time, place and people!"

"The right time, place and people?"

Huang Zu was puzzled and asked, "What's the explanation?"

Shen Chen got up and walked slowly outside the tent.

Huang Zu followed.

I saw Shen Chen raised his head, looked at the sky, and said softly: "The advantage of this location is that we occupy Baqiu, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Harmony means that our army is united as one, and we will fight to the death with the Jiangdong navy! As for this It's time."

He looked at the military flag in the camp, which was fluttering in the north wind, and the flag fluttered to the south.

The north wind is still blowing.

however.

"Soon, the hour that belongs to us will come!"

Shen Chen looked to the north with deep eyes.

"Three Kingdoms" records.

In December of the 13th year of Jian'an, Cao Cao and Sun Liu's allied forces faced off in Chibi.

It was the month, and the north wind that was originally blowing in the south suddenly turned into a southeast wind that only appeared in spring and summer.

So Zhou Yu and Huang Gai set up a bitter plan, and Cao Cao was unprepared. Under the fierce southeast wind, the fire took advantage of the wind and instantly destroyed countless warships of Cao's army in the sea of ​​flames!
This is Burning Chibi!
Zhou Yu!

I'm waiting for the wind, what are you waiting for?
(End of this chapter)