Lu Dynasty

Chapter 706 The Water Monster

Cai Mao received my letter with great confidence. Since I agree with Cai Yong to recognize his ancestors, at least I have no hostility towards the Cai family.As for Cai Mao's assassination of Liu Biao, I have nothing to do with it. Since I am not a member of the Han family, I am not a relative of Liu Biao.Cai Mao killed Liu Biao and did me a big favor.Otherwise, with Liu Biao's thoughts, it would not be good news for me to make Liu Bei stronger, or to give way to Liu Bei!Now, although Liu Bei has occupied Jingnan, he has no influence on Jingbei. You must know that the wealth of Jingzhou lies in Jiangling and Xiangyang!Jing Nan?It was just a savage land where no birds shit, money, food, soldiers, and people were all extremely scarce.The only advantage to Liu Bei is that he is close to the Wuximan, and Sha Moke, the little prince of the Wuximan, will not worry about being useless!However, Cai Mao was not happy for two days, and started to feel depressed again!According to reliable sources, Liu Bei prepared [-] troops in Nanjun, and went straight down the river in an attempt to capture Jiangling, open up the road between Jiangling and Jiangxia, and use Jiangling as a pedal to occupy the entire Jingzhou!Cai Mao knew Liu Bei's power very well, and Liu Bei's new mastermind, Zhuge Liang, although Cai Mao despised his background, was quite afraid of his talent!Cai Hao didn't want Jiangling to fall into Liu Bei's hands, so that he would lose part of his advancement, but he was very self-aware and knew that he was not Liu Bei's opponent.The helpless Cai Hao immediately sent someone to Wancheng, hoping that Guan Ping could take action to clean up Liu Bei.

Guan Ping had fought against Liu Beijun just after he arrived in Wancheng, and his life in Wancheng was very dull in the past few years, he could only practice his martial arts well when he was bored.Now that he can play against Samoke and Wei Yan again, Guan Ping is also very well paid.Moreover, Liu Bei violated Jingzhou, and Cai Mao was a person who surrendered to our army. Naturally, our army could not ignore it, so Guan Ping wanted to send troops.But Guo Yi stopped him and said: "Liu Bei sent troops to Jiangling. If he didn't go to Nanjun, he would go to Guiyang. Both of these places have to cross the Yangtze River. With Gan Xingba's character, Liu Bei wants to pass by his territory, and he can do it well." ? General Guan can appease Cai Mao and let him relax!" Gan Ning's skills are well known in Jingzhou, even the name of the Jinfan thief can cure a child from crying at night!Back then, he only used 20 strong men to make Cai Mao's [-] troops hungry and restless at night, not to mention Liu Bei's [-] miscellaneous troops!Even if Liu Bei's current troops are all Jingzhou people, and their water skills are not bad, how can they compare with the elite of Jingzhou army!Cai Mao thought of Gan Ning's protection, so he put his heart into his stomach!

After Cai Mao's men left, Guo Yi invited Xu Shu and Pang Tong.Originally, Xu Shu and Pang Tong were transferred by me to deal with Zhuge Liang, but now that Liu Bei made a move, it meant that Zhuge Liang had made a move. How could Xu Shu and Pang Tong stand idly by?On the day Liu Bei dispatched troops, the intelligence department also sent the news to me.In order to prevent Liu Bei from becoming bigger, Cao took the opportunity to send troops. I asked Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to station troops in Hulao, as if attacking Xudu. Go for a piece of soft armor to prevent the enemy's cold arrows.I also asked Dian Wei to tell him, don't be greedy for merit!Although Pang Tong didn't understand my caution, he was very grateful for my concern.With the two tigers Dian Wei and Xu Chu, Pang Tong sneaked into Jingzhou quietly, ready to help Gan Ning when he was in trouble!Of course, in order to prevent the news from leaking, Cai Mao didn't know that such a force had entered Jingzhou!And Pang Tong took the military orders of Gan Ning and wore the uniforms of the Jingzhou Army!

There is no doubt about Zhuge Liang's ability. Under Liu Bei's high pressure, both Sha Moke and Wei Yan reluctantly obeyed Zhuge Liang's management.In the past few years, I have fought with Yuan Shao, and Liu Bei has lived a good life for a few years.With enough soldiers and food, Liu Bei's ambitions gradually grew.In addition, Liu Qi hoped that Liu Bei would help him avenge him day by day, so Liu Bei ordered Samoke to be the vanguard, he and Chen Dao to be the central army, Wei Yan to escort the food and grass behind, and Zhuge Liang was the military adviser, and Ma Liang was the joining army. It is coming to Jiangling mightily.Liu Bei was full of ambition, but he was slapped severely when he left the house!

Gan Ning was ordered by me to train sailors in Jingzhou in case I conquered Jiangdong or traveled across the oceans. In order to let the soldiers understand the hard work of fighting on the water, Gan Ning took tens of thousands of troops under his command to hide in the reeds every day to train soldiers.On this day, Gan Ning, who was training troops, suddenly received a report from scouts: tens of thousands of troops were approaching him quickly, and their clothes were not Jingzhou soldiers!Originally Gan Ning did not believe that Liu Bei was so bold, until Liu Bei came to the river to prepare boats to cross the river, which made Gan Ning excited.Who is Gan Ning?At best, he is a general of the navy, but at worst, he is a water thief. Isn't Liu Bei crossing the river to deliver meat to Gan Ning?
In order not to startle the enemy, Gan Ning took advantage of the night to transfer the troops away from the reed marsh, leaving only more than a thousand people to deal with Liu Bei.In Gan Ning's view, as long as he was on the water, he could defeat Cai Mao's tens of thousands of troops with 800 men, and he could also defeat Liu Bei's tens of thousands of troops with only a thousand men.

The next day, Liu Bei got his boat ready to cross the river, when he suddenly saw many aquatic plants floating upriver.It is normal to have aquatic plants in the river, so Liu Bei didn't care.As the vanguard marched to the center of the river, someone suddenly heard a strange noise at the bottom of the boat.The ships that Liu Bei recruited were not large ships, so there were dozens of people on board, and as few as a dozen people. Although some soldiers felt a little strange when they heard the noise at the bottom of the ship, they didn't take it seriously because there were no high-ranking officials there!Suddenly, a soldier on the boat shouted: "There's a water leak!" Although the people in Jingxiang didn't say that they were all proficient in water, everyone could splash a few times in the water.When the boat leaked, all these sailors jumped into the river!I thought that jumping into the river would be all right, but the soldiers who jumped into the water suddenly felt their feet sink and were dragged into the water by something.Then the people on the other boats saw a small whirlpool formed in the waves of the river, and some bloody air bubbles turned over, and the soldiers who sank in the water never came up again.

Such a strange scene stunned the soldiers on board.Many soldiers were shouting: monsters, there are monsters in the water.The boats that were supposed to row to the other side and then return all rowed back desperately, for fear of being eaten by monsters in the water.This is also Gan Ning's cleverness. If he pierced all of Liu Bei's ships at once, everyone would know that there was a problem underwater, but he only pierced one boat, causing all the soldiers in Jingzhou to fry!After Liu Bei knew what was going on, he couldn't blame those soldiers. After all, Jingzhou is the land of Chu, and the Chu people were afraid of ghosts and gods, but it existed before the Spring and Autumn Period.Liu Bei tried his best to let the soldiers cross the river, but many soldiers dared not.Some brave people wanted to earn Liu Bei's reward and volunteered to cross the river, but unfortunately there was no boat to reach the other side!
(End of this chapter)