Han Xiang

Chapter 415

Liu Pan was elated when he heard it, and Huang Zu was even more delighted after hearing the report.

He immediately decided to go out to calm the people first, stabilize the situation in Nanchang City, give the soldiers who had worked hard to attack the city two days to rest, and then pack up Xu Kun's remnants.

On the other hand, Zhou Yu led his troops to attack Sha Xian, with the original intention of forcing Huang Zu to withdraw his troops.

Facing the surveillance of Chen Jiu's warship behind him, instead of sending out a navy to drive them away, Zhou Yu allowed the opponent to watch and attack the city.

Without Chen Jiu's eyes, no one would pass on Jiang Xia's dangerous situation to Huang Zu.

Zhou Yu originally only planned to attack the city pretending to be a real storm.

The old team left by Sun Ce once played with confidence and momentum in Shaxian, and played excitedly and confidently in "Revisiting the old place".

Compared with fighting against the elite Cao army, Jiangxia's defenders are nothing in the eyes of Sun Ce's old troops.

Even in a relatively difficult siege battle, Zhou Yu's side still fought against the defenders.

Although Huang She and Su Fei had [-] defenders, the casualties were higher than that of Nanchang, which only had [-] defenders, because Huang Zu chose the old and weak.

After five or six consecutive days of attacking the city, Jiangdong's soldiers became more and more motivated as they fought, as if they were venting their depression in Huainan, while the Sha Xian defenders became more and more desperate as they fought.

Is it a natural mutual restraint?Are the Jiangxia people destined not to beat the Jiangdong people?
Seeing that the defense is difficult, Huang She and Su Fei wanted to send troops for help, but because the waterway was cut off, they could only fight trapped beasts in Shaxian, encouraging the defenders to fight to the end with Zhou Yu.

After all, with the relationship between the Huang family and the Sun family, there is a high probability that they will be slaughtered after breaking the city.

In late November, Zhou Yu withdrew from Sha Xian overnight, leaving Huang She and Su Fei completely confused.

In another ten days and a half months, the city will be destroyed, what exactly is Zhou Yu playing?
In fact, Zhou Yu is not interested in conquering Shaxian. After being swept away by Sun Ce a few years ago, his vitality has not recovered. This time it is to catch ducks on the shelves.

Han Dang, Huang Gai and others were fighting in full swing when all the warships under Chen Jiu's surveillance suddenly withdrew.

Zhou Yu mistakenly thought that encircling Wei and saving Zhao was a success, so he sent a scout ship to follow him, and at the same time asked the frontline soldiers to withdraw and wait.

Until the truce at dusk, the scout ship brought the latest information from Yuzhang.

In order to cover Sun Ben's evacuation from Nanchang, Xu Kun took the initiative to attack Haihun to attract Huang Zu's retreat. As a result, he was killed by two arrows under the city.

Zhang Bo led Xu Kun's remaining troops to evacuate northward. On the way, he accidentally found that the Chaisang water village was empty at this time, so he planned to occupy the water village and seize the boat to return to Wu by water.

When Zhou Yu heard the news, all his internal organs were destroyed, Sun Ben was evacuated from Nanchang, and Xu Kun was hit by an arrow. Each event was more shocking than the last.

Marquis Guangde, you are so confused.

I beat Sha Xian, but Huang Zu didn't care about it cold-bloodedly, you beat Hai Shun, and you still want him to divide his troops to rescue him?
The situation in Yuzhang took a turn for the worse, and it was meaningless for Zhou Yu to fight Sha Xian again, so he withdrew his troops overnight and returned by boat.

He planned to take advantage of this period of time to attack the remaining prestige of the city, first capture Chaisang, block the waterway, and completely trap Huang Zu to death in Yuzhang.

The strategy of besieging Wei and saving Zhao failed, Zhou Yu had no choice but to make up for it.

He wanted to keep Sun Ce's former army, but the ending caused Jiangdong to suffer even greater losses.

If Zhang Bo is allowed to bring the army back to Wu County, Zhou Yu's prestige in Jiangdong will also be affected. He can only integrate Xu Kun's remaining troops by eliminating Huang Zu in Yuzhang.

In order to concentrate his troops on the front line, Huang Zu only left 3000 people in Chaisang Water Village for Chen.

Facing Zhou Yu and Zhang Bo's more than 3 land and water combined attacks, the result is naturally an egg hitting a rock.

The governor of the water army, Chen, was killed by Huang Gai, and the rest of the defenders of the water village were almost wiped out. Only two boats were deliberately released by Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu deliberately told Huang Zu the battle report of Chaisang because the strength of the two sides was almost evenly matched, and it was meaningless to lead troops to counterattack Haihun and Nanchang.

Huang Zu's lone army went deep and the supply line was completely cut off. It was still a burden to win tens of thousands of people in Nanchang.

Zhou Yu calculated that Huang Zu would either continue to go south to Luling to supply supplies, or he would return to the army to face himself in the fight for Chaisang.

Half of Huang Zu's warships were in Chaisang. If he could not regain control of Chaisang, he would berth on the other half of the Ganshui River in Nanchang, and he would not be able to return to Jingzhou safely.

The news of Chaisang's fall and Chen's death spread to Nanchang. Huang Zu and Liu Pan thought of Liu Ye at the same time.

Although Liu Ye didn't have a high sense of presence in the battle of Yuzhang, and he didn't contribute any ingenious tricks to help break the city, but at this time he had to ask advice and wise men.

Huang Zu and Liu Pan rushed to Haihun hand in hand. Liu Pan's army chasing the rest of Xu Kun's army couldn't move forward because they joined forces with Zhou Yu, so they happened to go to Haihun to rest and wait for orders.

Seeing this, Liu Pan said to Huang Zu: "The prefect, please enter the city first. My people have returned from the north. Maybe they know Zhou Yu's situation. I will first ask the general to find out."

"Alright."

Huang Zu nodded slightly, then rode his horse into the city and went straight to Liu Ye's residence.

When I walked to the street, I saw some soldiers in formation, and some soldiers frequently entered and left the courtyard.

There is a feeling of packing your bags on a long journey. These are Liu Bei's trilogy, following Zhao Yun from Xiangyang.

Huang Zu was puzzled, thinking what happened to Liu Ye and Zhao Yun?

Zhou Yu occupied Chaisang, are you planning to run away?

When Huang Zu frowned in confusion, he caught a glimpse of Zhang Shuo, the commander of the rear army and guard of Haihun, coming out of the courtyard gate. He saw Huang Zu strode forward, and quickly saluted, "Prefect, why are you here?"

"What's the situation?" Huang Zu pointed to the surrounding area.

Zhang Shuo replied: "Mr. Ziyang said that the prefect has captured Nanchang, so he packed his bags and prepared to return to Xiangyang to return to his command. The last general"

Huang Zu didn't wait for Zhang Shuo to finish, and interrupted: "You don't know that Zhou Yu captured Chaisang? Now that the Yangtze River waterway is under the control of the Jiangdong Army, how do they plan to return to Xiangyang?"

Seeing that Huang Zu was angry, Zhang Shuo quickly clasped his fists and added: "General Zhao said to go by land, enter Changsha from Jianchang direction, and then return to Xiangyang by water."

"So that's how it is. Liu Ziyang is really smart!"

Huang Zu snorted coldly, walked towards the courtyard with his head held high and his sleeves swung, Zhang Shuo swallowed and followed.

Just after entering the gate, Zhang Shuo found Gan Ning standing aside, and quickly gave Gan Ning a wink, as if saying that the prefect was in a bad mood, and he would naturally reward you later.

Gan Ning is not an ignorant young man, he has already figured out such things as observing words and expressions.

Seeing Huang Zu walking in with a sullen expression on his face, he just stood aside and nodded slightly in greeting, he didn't give credit to everyone he met like Mrs. Xianglin.

Huang Zu didn't pay attention to Gan Ning, he strode into the front hall facing the small courtyard.

Zhao Yun was introducing the marching route to Liu Ye at that time, but was blocked by Huang Zu's fast walking momentum. The two turned to face the door and saw Huang Zu appearing in the door frame.

"Prefect Huang? What are you doing?"

"If I don't come again, Mr. Ziyang may have already left? The war is not over yet, why leave in such a hurry?"

Seeing Liu Ye's innocent face, Huang Zu suddenly felt an unknown fire in his heart, and his words were not so polite, and the words were completely questioning at the end.

Liu Ye calmly asked, "Didn't Nanchang City be defeated?"

(End of this chapter)