Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 271 Summoning?

The howling wind blew ashes all over the sky, and after wiping out all the broken yellow covers, Shen Chen continued to pursue Zhou Yu.

When he reached the bank of the river, Cheng Pu joined the main force of the Jiangdong Army and captured a large number of ships.

The general who stayed behind was Zhang Hu. Although he fought hard, his number was too small. He relied on several main ships and hundreds of small ships to resist, but he still did not fight.

The battle situation fell into a stalemate, but fortunately the Jiangdong Army did not stop much. Lu Meng wept and risked his life to carry back Zhou Yu's body. More than 4 Jiangdong Army, about [-] people managed to escape back to the ship, using bows and arrows to cover their own people on board. Block the pursuers behind.

At this time, Shen Chen had already sent someone to notify Huang Zu, asking him to send 5000 troops back to his own ship, and first use Huang Zu's ship to intercept the Jiangdong Army's retreat.

It is a pity that Huang Zu's fleet is on the west bank, and he has become a state of going with the current and headwind at this time.

Because if the Jiangxia navy is attacking from south to north, it will follow the water of the Xiangjiang River and Dongting Lake, plus the southeast wind, it will follow the wind and the water, so the speed of the ship is extremely fast, and this is the only way to succeed in the surprise attack.

However, Huang Zu's position was in the west, sailing from west to east, following the water of the Yangtze River and against the southeast wind, the speed of the boat was much slower.

In a short distance of more than ten miles, it took nearly two quarters of an hour to sail.

As a result, Huang Zu's fleet did not come to help for a long time. Zhang Hu relied on the defense of the main ship. Shen Chen's army had no way to shoot at the people on the opponent's ship on land, and could only watch the Jiangdong navy flee.

Fortunately, there is a technical generation gap between the ships of the Jiangxia Navy and the ships of the Jiangdong Navy, and the shape and internal structure of the ships are completely different, which caused many problems when driving the boats. They even collided with each other when they were driving. Skilled, wasted some time.

In the end, most of the Jiangdong navy fled away, but a small part was intercepted by the rushing Huang Zu navy and the remaining Zhang Hu navy. The boats of the Jiangxia navy immediately approached, rushed aboard and fought close to each other, and wiped out all of them. Share Jiangdong Navy.

At this time, the east has turned white, and the vast river is rolling with rolling yellow sand, and the blue and yellow rivers are rushing towards the north.Only the burning flames on the bank of the river still lingered soaring to the sky.

Its daybreak.

Shen Chen sent someone to inform Huang Zhong, who was staying in the camp, to take over, clean up the battlefield, and count the battle damage, while the troops from the headquarters, who had been busy all night, took a boat back to the camp to rest.

After returning to Baqiu, the soldiers went to eat and sleep first, while Shen Chen still had to deal with various affairs.

For example, arranging the next tasks, judging the future direction of the Jiangdong Army, and waiting for news from all parties to make deployments.

"Report, the Jiangdong Army did not stay in Jiangxia, and went back to Yuzhang."

"Report, General Huang has counted the enemy's battle damage, please take a look at it."

"Report, according to the order of the governor, all the corpses of our soldiers have been gathered up and buried on the spot, and the corpses of enemy soldiers have been burned."

"Report, we interrogated some prisoners of war, and an officer of the Jiangdong Army said that Zhou Yu died."

"Zhou Yu is dead?"

On the second day after the war, the Jiangdong Army had withdrawn to Yuzhang, Huang Zhong had also cleaned up the battlefield, and all kinds of news were gathered to Shen Chen.

And the last news surprised him very much, sitting in the general's tent, he was very surprised.

"Yes."

The scout replied: "The Jiangdong Army officer said that Zhou Yu suddenly vomited blood when he learned that we had raided Jiang'an. Before he died, he whispered something to Lu Meng and planned to escape, but he himself died suddenly."

"How did he die?"

"I heard that it was because of the flood in the battle in Yi County in the early years. I coughed constantly every year and my health has not recovered. This time it must be caused by anger."

"Sure enough, I see, you go down and rest."

Shen Chen waved his hand. Zhou Yu's death really had a deep relationship with him. A few years ago in the battle of Yi County, his lungs were flooded with water and he had not received effective treatment. .

However, after Zhou Yu's death, Shen Chen didn't feel any joy in his heart, but just sighed that a generation of talents came out of the country, and Zhou Yu was full of vigor in history, and the mast and scull were wiped out while talking and laughing.

But now that he meets himself, he can only hate Baqiu in the end.Just like him in history, he died of illness on this land.

"Congratulations to the governor, congratulations to the governor."

Left and right Zhang Nanqu dared to wait for the generals to say overjoyedly, "Zhou Yu is our formidable enemy. Once this man is eliminated, there will be no opponent in Jiangdong who can fight us again."

Shen Chen said in a deep voice: "I still admire Zhou Yu's personality. His death is indeed a good thing for us, but respecting our opponent is also respecting ourselves, just like we should treat Huang Gai's corpse well. , don’t be so happy, just treat it normally.”

"Yes."

Zhang Nanqu dared to look at each other and nodded quickly.

Shen Chen also said: "Although we defeated the Jiangdong army in this battle, our losses were also very large. We ordered the three armies to rest for two days, and then the water army went north to Xiangyang along the Mian River to support Liu Shijun, and then told General Han Sheng, Let him stay in Baqiu to prevent Jiangdong from making a comeback."

"only!"

All the soldiers listened to the order.

At present, the Jiangxia Navy is resting in Baqiu and preparing to go north.

Taking advantage of this time, Shen Chen still exerted his subjective initiative, conducting self-analysis and self-criticism every time the war ended.

This is a habit he has fought in wars for many years. Since he was eight years old in Xuzhou, he has started to reflect and deduce every day.

After so many years, it can be regarded as one step at a time. From the beginning, an ordinary farm boy who only knew the historical process, to the present, he has read poetry and books, is brave, clever, resourceful and brave.

Shen Chen believes that the reason why he won this battle is not because of how good his strategy is, but because he is familiar with the history and can only succeed with the help of God.

Stationing troops in Baqiu and forcing Zhou Yu to station troops in Hongkou is the next thing. In fact, even people who do not take advantage of the southeast wind will do so.

Because in the entire Dongting Lake area, there is only Baqiu as a strategically important place. Later, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu built a city here, which also proves this point.

Therefore, the subjective factor of being able to win is actually that he knew that there would be a southeasterly wind and made arrangements in advance.

Zhou Yu's loss is not due to his poor level.

In fact, Zhou Yu has done much better than Cao Cao. He is not sure whether Shen Chen will come to attack at night, but every step has been calculated, including setting up an ambush, preparing for fire prevention, and deducing their scouts to find the enemy, and then to the enemy killing Ben Hong The speed of the boat at the mouth, all expectations have been perfected.

The only omission is that he underestimated the time of day and Shen Chen's manpower. The southeast wind is sometimes strong and sometimes weak. As a Jiangdong native, Zhou Yu knows very well that the southeast wind is generally weaker in spring and the strongest in summer.

So he never expected that after the early rejuvenation, there would suddenly be an extremely violent southeast wind, coupled with the appearance of the general ship, so that he miscalculated the speed of the Jiangxia Navy's ship, making it too late for all defensive measures to make up for it .

To put it simply, with the help of God, Shen Chen launched a blitzkrieg, which caught Zhou Yu by surprise.

But even so, Zhou Yu did not lose too badly.

Because strictly speaking, this battle should be a lose-lose situation. Even if the Jiangdong Navy suffered heavy losses, the Jiangxia Navy did not take advantage of it.

The two sides invested 5 troops in the Jiangdong Navy, about 3 in the Jiangxia Navy, and [-] later Huang Zhong.

In the battle of Hukou, the Jiangxia navy won a small victory. Later, the scouts on both sides fought, and the Jiangdong navy had the upper hand.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Yu launched several battles to attack the north bank. If Huang Zhong's reinforcements had not arrived in time, Jiang Xia's navy would have almost been wiped out.

Therefore, except for the battle at Hukou at the beginning, the Jiangdong navy fought against the Jiangxia navy at other times. In terms of battle damage, both sides lost almost thousands of troops.

Shen Chen killed and injured about 4000 people, and Zhou Yu killed and injured about 6000 people.

It seems that Zhou Yu lost more, but don't forget that Shen Chen's side occupies the favorable terrain, and Zhou Yu is the side that takes the initiative to attack. Such a battle loss is acceptable to Zhou Yu, and he almost won.

So at the beginning, even if he used the iron chain boat to resist the Jiangdong army's attack at the mouth of the lake, Shen Chen did not win a small victory. Instead, Zhou Yu found a loophole and was almost defeated.

In the end, Shen Chen relied on God to complete the comeback. Even in the battle of Hongkou, Zhou Yu cleverly calculated that most of the Jiangdong navy escaped successfully. 5 people went back with about 3 horses. Lost less than [-].

On the other hand, in the Battle of Hongkou, Shen Chen was worried about the situation in the north and was eager for success. He chose to go ashore to attack Zhou Yu, so that he was ambushed and lost many troops.

This shows how powerful Zhou Yu is.

According to statistics after the war, in terms of the loss of troops, Shen Chen killed and injured more than 9000 people, and Zhou Yu killed and injured about [-]. Therefore, it can only be said that this battle can only be called a small victory, not a big victory. , but not completely annihilated.

But even so, Zhou Yu died of illness, and [-] Jiangdong elites died in battle. For Sun Quan, his vitality was already seriously injured, and he almost no longer had the ability to expand outward.

Therefore, in the strategic sense, the results of this battle have been very large.

"Zhou Yu deserves to be Zhou Yu. In such a desperate situation, he was able to plan me so calmly to let most of the Jiangdong Army flee back. Otherwise, General Huang has burned their food and grass, and I returned to the ship immediately. , they will surely be wiped out.”

"Fortunately, we won this battle. We used the southeast wind and the ship to successfully destroy Jiangdong. Jiangdong's vitality was seriously injured, and it would be difficult to hold me back. Next, as long as we repel Cao Cao, with Jingzhou's background, we can sweep In the south, first look at the situation, determine whether Bashu is still Jiangdong, and then rectify the army and horses, go north to recover the world, and a new era will be ushered in."

Shen Chen's eyes were firm. He firmly believed that what he did was right. Even though Zhou Yu and Cao Ren were once the pride of heaven in this era and left a lot of ink in the history books, only he can lead the development of the era. , because in his mind, there is an indication of the direction of the empire.

In the age of the Han Empire, the whole world was in a barbaric era, and Chinese civilization had already been at the forefront of world civilization. If he could unify the country, keep his industrial knowledge, and change the existing oppressive system, let the Han be the first to take root. If you live in this vast and undeveloped world, the people of the Han Dynasty will have a better life in the future.

At least if the first industrial revolution can start within 300 years after his death, in an era when the global population is only 600 to [-] million, there will be countless unclaimed lands, unexplored ores, resources, oil, and natural gas waiting to be exploited. If you continue to feed the big man, then a global empire will be born in five or six hundred years.

This is more than 1000 years earlier than the New Era of later generations!
So Shen Chen never felt that there was anything wrong with killing the proud sons of these times. History is history, and today is today.For him now, even the protagonists of the Three Kingdoms era, such as Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Sun Quan, are nothing but obstacles blocking his progress.

"Cao Cao and Sun Quan are just warlords in the feudal era. Although I am helping a warlord in the feudal era, at least in terms of personal morality, his morality is much higher."

"Liu Bei can be trusted, just like in history he trusted Zhuge Liang unconditionally, and Zhuge Liang trusted him unconditionally."

"So no matter how the state system becomes in the future, whether the feudal monarchy era will end or not, at least I have a common goal with them in terms of paying more attention to the people at the bottom and eliminating those exploiters, landlords, powerful families, and tyrants. .”

"So if this is the case, let's forge ahead together, create a better era together, and move towards this goal."

Shen Chen stood on the bank of the Baqiu River, overlooking the south.

Sun Quan.

For my great cause.

Just take your first knife!
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On December 13th of the [-]th year of Jian'an.

As the New Year approached, Jiangdong didn't have a trace of joy at this time, but was full of sadness and desolation.

Instead of the peach charms that were popular in the Eastern Han Dynasty, what is hung on the door of every household is a strip of white plain cloth, gently swaying in the southeast wind.

The [-] soldiers who died in Baqiu Hongkou meant that [-] families lost their backbones. How many mothers lost their children, wives lost their husbands, and children lost their fathers.

The cry spread throughout the entire Jiangdong, and the howling sound followed the wind, making countless people on both sides of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River mourn.

Yuzhang County, Chaisang County.

Sun Quan personally supervised the battle, and Zhou Yu personally led the Jiangdong army to attack Jiangxia and directly capture Baqiu.

But what Sun Quan waited for in Chaisang was not the good news that Zhou Yu defeated Shen Chen and won Jiangxia in one fell swoop, and that he invaded Jingnan, went north to Nanjun, and took the whole Jingzhou into his pocket.

Instead, they waited for Zhou Yu's body and the sad news of the defeat of the Jiangdong Navy.

The entire Chaisang county government has been in a state of trepidation for the past two days. Sun Quan experienced emotions of disbelief, then rage, then sadness, and finally almost collapsed.

Until today, under the persuasion of Lu Su and others, he cheered up.

In fact, Lu Su was even sadder.

The relationship between him and Zhou Yu, like the relationship between Zhou Yu and Sun Ce, is not only a colleague, but also a best friend.

But now he has to endure the grief of losing his beloved relatives and friends, persuade Sun Quan to be rational, and even propose a new strategic plan to him that makes him extremely painful.

"what?"

In the Chaisang county government office, Sun Quan, who had barely calmed down, still had tears on his face. He was going to attend Zhou Yu's funeral, but when he heard Lu Su's words, he couldn't hold back any longer. Killed my [-] elites, [-] elites! But you still want me to write to Liu Bei to ask for peace, how can there be such a reason in this world? I, Jiang Dong, and him, Chen Chen, Liu Bei, will never die!"

(End of this chapter)