Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Even if it is impossible to recruit all of these elite troops afterwards, it will provide Qingzhou, a sparsely populated province, with a large number of available young and strong laborers, which is a much greater achievement than destroying these 20,000 elite troops.

The thousands of elite soldiers led by Zhou Yu were like living targets in the water.

In the unavoidable water, he was constantly shot and killed by Cao's army.

Even though many of these elite soldiers born in Yangzhou are proficient in swimming and can barely hold their breath and dive into the water for a while, they still need to surface to breathe.

At the cost of having their elite soldiers shot dead one by one, the thousands of elite soldiers led by Zhou Yu were constantly closing the distance with Cao's army.

Seeing that the distance with Cao's army had been shortened to a certain extent, in a moment, the elite troops led by Zhou Yu would be able to climb onto the boats and engage in close combat.

"Pfft!"

Another arrow hit Liu Jun who emerged from the water.

"what!"

The person hit this time was Zhou Yu.

The target was still Zhou Yu's right chest.

Zhou Yu felt intense pain. Even though he had been mentally prepared and even aimed carefully in the water before coming out to take the arrow's aim, he still couldn't help but cry out in pain.

Blood quickly flowed out from Zhou Yu's wound.

"Fools, didn't I order you not to shoot that thief?"

Cao Ren, who was watching from afar, couldn't help but curse.

It would be good if Zhou Yu died, but of course he is not as valuable as being captured alive.

Zhou Yu covered the arrow in his chest with one hand, looked sad and choked, and shouted.

"One incompetent general can lead to the death of the entire army! I feel ashamed of my lord and my brother. I can only die to preserve my loyalty..."

"All soldiers, hurry up! Hurry up! Hurry up..."

In the end, Zhou Yu seemed to have lost all his strength, and his head floating on the water slowly sank into the water.

The soldiers who witnessed this scene and the officers and soldiers on the shore were all in chaos.

Upon seeing this, Cao Ren ordered the encirclement and killing of the enemy troops who had fallen into his trap. He also immediately sent three light boats to the place where Zhou Yu sank, trying to salvage Zhou Yu from the water.

However, the soldiers who had followed Zhou Yu into the water were either dead, washed away by the current, or fled back to the shore.

Cao's army still failed to find Zhou Yu's body.

Cao Ren couldn't help feeling a little regretful about this, but he also understood that he couldn't blame the soldiers for not searching carefully.

With the Yellow River water continuously pouring into Jinan State, the underwater situation is extremely dangerous. In addition, the Yellow River water already carries a lot of silt, making it extremely turbid.

Under such circumstances, it was only normal that Zhou Yu's body was swept away by the undercurrent and could not be found.

As for Zhou Yu's identity, Cao Ren confirmed it through some Liu army prisoners who were brought to the front of the battle. The person who was shot by an arrow and sank into the water was undoubtedly Zhou Yu.

Moreover, Zhou Yu's extremely handsome face is a conspicuous symbol.

Zhou Lang of Jiangzuo was so handsome that he could be compared with Li Hou of Jiangyou. Even Cao Ren had heard of his reputation.

Zhou Yu's handsome appearance made it difficult for a group of rough warriors to impersonate him.

Just when Cao Ren came to his senses and wanted to attack Liu's army again.

However, he discovered that while Zhou Yu was delaying with his life, Liu Jun had hastily dragged the remaining wood that Cao Ren had no time to destroy to a place beyond the range of an arrow.

In this case, it was obviously impossible for Cao Ren to ignite the wood from a distance in the water.

In desperation, Cao Ren patrolled around the hill and had to frown and order his troops to retreat temporarily.

This surprise attack killed the enemy's main general Zhou Yu in one fell swoop, and the harvest was undoubtedly far beyond expectations. However, Zhou Yu's life delayed Cao Ren for a while, which also gave Liu Jun the opportunity to drag away the remaining wood.

What made Cao Ren frown was that Liu Jun would most likely flee in all directions tonight, each holding a piece of wood. This made Cao Ren feel unwilling.

The current battle results obviously cannot satisfy Cao Ren.

Especially when the information sent back by Cao's army who were still monitoring the hill, one could faintly hear the cries and noises coming from the hill.

This is completely different from the stability shown by Liu Jun in the past few days.

The commander was dead, food and grass were running out, and they were trapped in the hills...

These changes obviously led to the collapse of Liu Jun's military morale.

"boom!"

Cao Ren returned to the temporary camp on a nearby high ground, threw the water bag in his hand to the ground, and made a decision.

Tonight, we will launch a surprise attack on Liu's army whose morale has collapsed.

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If Liu's army were allowed to flee in all directions, we would only be able to obtain some corpses and prisoners.

Faced with this remnant army with collapsed morale, Cao Ren had already begun to think about swallowing them up completely and forcing them to surrender.

Even if Cao Ren put aside his selfish desire to gain greater merit and fame, he realized that he could not miss this excellent opportunity.

Qingzhou is short of soldiers now, and Cao Cao is even short of soldiers.

As long as they could recruit some elite troops to surrender, the pressure on Cao Cao and Qingzhou would be greatly relieved. This was an irresistible temptation for Cao Ren, who was focusing on the overall situation.

Immediately, Cao Ren once again ordered the troops to be assembled.

After it had completely darkened, Cao Ren once again led 2,500 soldiers and slowly approached the hill by boat.

Unlike the previous situation where many guards were stationed at the arrow towers and watchtowers on the hill, there were no guards to be seen outside the hill at all.

On the contrary, deeper in the hills, the sounds of fierce quarrels and arguments could be faintly heard.

When the 500 soldiers sent to land first successfully reached the shore, and after investigating the surrounding area and confirming that there were no ambushes or dangers, Cao Ren was ecstatic and immediately ordered the entire army to slowly go ashore.

Soon, under the command of Cao Ren, 2,500 soldiers landed quietly and smoothly.

Under the influence of the night, and the soldiers under his command were not elite.

Cao Ren was also unable to order his soldiers to form any formation under such circumstances. He just generally gathered the soldiers together to facilitate the surprise attack, and then whispered something.

"Enter!"

Then, Cao Ren led his soldiers and slowly began to move deeper into the direction of the camp deep in the hills where the sounds continued to come from.

Cao Ren was sure that as long as he could successfully reach the edge of the camp and launch a surprise attack, it would be enough to make the remnants of the army, whose morale had collapsed, lose their ability to resist in a short period of time, and then force them to surrender.

However, when Cao Ren had walked about two hundred steps excitedly, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

No matter how badly Liu's army's morale was damaged, they couldn't have marched more than 200 steps from the shore without seeing even one or two enemy soldiers.

Quiet……

It was unusually quiet.

Cao Ren suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and was about to retreat.

Fires suddenly lit up fifty steps ahead. Zhou Yu's handsome face appeared under the fire and he spoke with a smile.

"The moonlight is beautiful tonight. I have been waiting for General Cao for a long time." (End of this chapter)