Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 112 Raid on Nanyang
"General Gan, do you think Prefect Li can hold on?" At this time, hundreds of warships of all sizes were heading north on the Xiangjiang River.On one of the command ships, Su Fei, the deputy commander of the Jingxiang Navy, asked Gan Ning with some doubts.It has been almost a month since Cai Mao and others launched a coup, and half a month ago Cai Mao sent his younger brother Cai Xun to lead an army of [-] to attack Fancheng.And Li Yan, the prefect of Nanyang, actually occupied the counties of Fancheng and Xinye.Among them, except for Fancheng, which is still considered steep, the rest of the counties are not very good.Su Fei himself is from Jingzhou, so he naturally knows the things here in detail.

"Su Dudu, don't worry, even if Cai Mao comes personally, Li Taishou will not be weaker than him, not to mention that only Cai Xun is here." Gan Ning is quite confident in Li Yan, if Li Yan even has Cai Xun Uncertain, then how could Liu Bei let him be stationed in Nanyang at ease.

"I hope so!" Su Fei said with some optimism in his heart.It was already afternoon, under the city of Fancheng, Cai Xun had just finished a day of attacking, looking at the still standing Fancheng, Cai Xun couldn't help spitting.

"General, there are nearly a thousand casualties today." The chief bookkeeper who accompanied the army finished counting the casualties, stepped forward and played carefully, Cai Xun felt even more depressed when he heard this.At this time, on the top of the city of Fancheng, Li Yan looked at the Jingzhou army retreating under the city in embarrassment, and his heart was full of disdain.

"General, these Jingzhou troops are really trash!" Fu Tong, who followed Li Yan to guard Fancheng, looked at the retreating Jingzhou troops, and said disdainfully.In the siege battles these days, the Jingzhou army really made a lot of fools.His on-the-spot command was slow to respond, and the army's combat effectiveness was weak, which was "comparable" to Yuan Shu of that day.This is also normal, these are basically new troops recruited after the Jiangdong War.Lack of training and lack of experience at the same time, how can it be compared with Li Yan's elite soldiers.These days, the casualties under Li Yan's command were only more than 1000 people, but the Jingzhou Army had already lost more than [-] casualties.

"Lieutenant Fu, choose five hundred elite brothers, and I will surprise Cai Xun tonight." Li Yanhu said.Fu Tong was taken aback when he heard the words, and then said in disbelief: "General, five hundred?"

"Five hundred is enough, we don't have that many horses!" Li Yan finally explained the reason, and Fu Tong immediately complied. "General, isn't this too risky?" Liu Mi, magistrate of Fancheng County, was shocked when he heard that Li Yan was going to attack the Jingzhou army with 500 people at night.

"It's okay, Cai Xun doesn't know the art of war. I've been sticking to it these days, so he must think that I dare not go out to fight. I don't think his camp is well-organized. If he rides the night and uses light cavalry to attack at night, he will succeed!" Li Yan is confident. Full of authenticity.

Liu Mi didn't say anything when he heard the words. At this time, his nephew, Wei Koufeng of Fancheng County, also volunteered to ask for Ying: "General, Kou Feng is not talented. He has practiced martial arts for many years since he was a child. He is willing to defeat the enemy with the general!"

"Feng'er, you?" Liu Mi was also taken aback when he heard this, but he didn't say anything more after all.It was three o'clock in the night, and Li Yan ordered his men and horses, and was preparing to set off with Fu Tong and Kou Feng. At this moment, he visited the horse and reported: "General, the Jingzhou army camp suddenly caught fire, and it was in chaos!"

"What?" Li Yan was also very surprised when he heard the words, and quickly ordered Tanma to inquire again, and he also hurried to the top of the city to check.Looking from a distance, the Jingzhou army camp stationed by the Xiangshui River was already in flames, and there were killing sounds everywhere.

"It seems that someone attacked Cai Xun from the waterway!" Li Yan understood what was going on after a little thought.The fact is exactly like this, Gan Ning and Su Fei rushed to the lower reaches of Fancheng after several days of raiding by water, and then stopped marching.Cai Xun was unprepared at night, and then raided the subsequent camp.Gan Ning led people to fight on land, while Su Fei intercepted the remnants of the defeated generals, trying not to let them escape Xiangshui and return to Xiangyang.

"Cai Xun is such an idiot, this camp is actually set up by the river!" Gan Ning despised Cai Xun's IQ despite his busy schedule.His camp was pitched by the river, with fences on three sides, but the side next to the river was flat.In all likelihood, Cai Xun thought he was clever and wanted to use the Xiangshui River as a natural barrier, but in this way, once the enemy attacked by water, it would be twice the result with half the effort.

"Kill!" Gan Ning stayed up until the second watch, saw that the Jingzhou army was already asleep, and immediately led his troops to kill the Jingzhou army camp.The sleeping defenders were caught off guard and killed by surprise.Cai Xun was woken up in confusion, and hurriedly put on his armor and went out to command.

"Don't be chaotic, hold on, hold on!" Cai Xun was anxious to kill several rebels, but the situation was beyond his control.At this time, Li Yan from Fancheng also led his troops to fight out, Li Yan was in the middle, Fu Tong was on the left, Kou Feng was on the right, and the three groups of people stabbed into the Jingzhou army's camp like sharp knives.

"Bastard!" Cai Xun was caught by the enemy unexpectedly, jumped on the horse and wanted to lead the army to fight a way out, but unexpectedly, he was followed by Kou Feng in the distance.Kou Feng saw that Cai Xun was dressed like a general and commanding loudly, so he took out an arrow and shot it.

"Ah!" An arrow hit Cai Xun's back, and he fell off the horse with a scream.The Jingzhou army was even more chaotic, unable to organize effective resistance at all, or were killed or surrendered, and the rest were forced to swim across the Xiangshui overnight to flee back to Xiangyang, or fled west to Zhangling.However, Su Fei is not just for nothing, under his interception, only a few thousand people who fled back to Xiangyang in the end were very good at water.Cai Xun was lucky. Although Kou Feng's arrow shot him off his horse, he didn't die. Even a few of his cronies found a boat to protect him and fled back to Xiangyang.

"Xingba, it's really hard work for you!" Li Yan had already seen clearly that it was Gan Ning who came to rescue him, and sighed in his heart.After the battlefield was cleaned up, it was discovered that nearly ten thousand prisoners had been captured. "Zhengfang, you are now alone in Jingbei, do you want to go back to Yangzhou with us?" Gan Ning looked at the surrounding situation and asked quickly.

"It's okay, as long as there is a boat, it's not difficult to leave. I'm still waiting to attack Jingzhou with General Zhao and the others." Li Yan said with a deep smile.Gan Ning looked at Li Yan, who was talking and laughing calmly, and sighed after a long time: "Zhengfang is really wise and brave, and he is calm and calm in a dangerous situation. Gan Ning admires it!"

Gan Ning is not a person who likes to exaggerate, but Li Yan's situation is indeed very dangerous now.Right now, to the north of Fancheng is Wancheng, where Zhang Xiu, who has defected to Cao Cao, leads an army of [-] guards.Although Jia Xu is no longer around Zhang Xiu, it is still not to be underestimated.To the west is Zhangling County, and the guard of Zhangling is Kuai Yue's younger brother Kuai Qi, who is naturally the best friend of Cai Mao and Kuai Yue.Runan to the east was originally his own territory, but now it has been occupied by Cao Cao, and there is an army led by Yu Jin to guard it.Not to mention going north, across the Xiangshui River is Xiangyang, Cai Mao's base camp.The entire Fancheng is already besieged on all sides except for going to the Xiangshui River to be able to face Jiangxia Guardian.

"It's okay, unless Cai Mao and Kuai Yue are close, what's the point of people like Cai Xun!" Li Yan said confidently.Seeing this, Gan Ning had no choice but to ask Li Yan and Fu Tong to be careful, and at the same time leave the boat behind so that they can run away if something goes wrong.

"Idiot! Idiot!" Cai Mao looked at Cai Xun who was wrapped in a thick bandage on his back in front of him. He didn't even care about his heartache, and directly yelled.These days, Cai Xun and Cai He really gave him a lot of face. One let Liu Biao fly away and escape, and the other beat Fancheng and fled. Not one of the [-] troops survived.Cai Mao lost his temper for a long time, but Kuai Yue on the side smoothed things over and changed the subject: "Right now, Fancheng is only suffering from scabies, and Li Yan's army has no more than [-] troops, which is only enough to protect himself. It’s a pity that the Jingxiang Navy is in the hands of Su Fei, otherwise why would he be so passive.” Speaking of this, Kuai Yue also sighed in his heart, the Jingxiang Navy has always been stationed in Jiangxia, and the governor Huang Zu is also Cai Mao’s confidant.Not wanting this person to die suddenly for no reason years ago, Liu Biao used the excuse of "the end of the year is approaching" and only let the deputy governor Su Fei take charge temporarily, and make a decision later in the year.This Su Fei is Liu Biao's party, and with this foreshadowing, Liu Biao has a lot more money in his hands.

"Yie Du, according to your opinion, what should we do?" Cai Mao asked quickly, admiring Kuai Yue's wisdom. "Waiting for work with leisure, we only need to wait for Liu Biao to fight over himself, and we will take advantage of the situation and wipe him out in one fell swoop." Kuai Yue said in a deep voice. "Then what if he doesn't call?" Cai Mao asked hesitantly.

"He will call. Jingxiang is governed by Jiangling. He already lost Wancheng back then. If he loses Jiangling now, he will not be a shepherd of Jingzhou." Kuai Yue said confidently.Speaking of it, Liu Biao was really unlucky, or too cowardly.When he became the shepherd of Jingzhou that day, the government office should have been set up in Wancheng.But at that time, Yuan Shu was the prefect of Nanyang, but the magpie nest Jiuzhan refused to give up his position. Liu Biao had no choice but to move to Jiangling in Nanjun.It is indeed embarrassing to say this matter, but it is Liu Biao's face that has been lost. Kuai Yue deliberately said it in public now, in order to boost his own morale while reducing his face.

"Exactly!" Cai Mao and the others relaxed a lot when they heard this. "Different degree, where do you think Liu Biao will march from?" Cai Mao asked as he unfolded the map.

"There are two roads, one is from Wuling County to Yidu County; the other is from Changsha to the north to attack Nanjun." Kuai Yue looked at the map and said, Kuai Yue also smiled and said: "Fortunately, the prime minister has already controlled Runan, otherwise, if Liu Bei goes from Runan to Xinye to attack Xiangyang, our army will be attacked on three sides."

"That's right!" Cai Hao said he was lucky after reading the map, but then he also thought of a question: "If Liu Bei intervenes, what should we do?"

"If Liu Bei wants to intervene, he can only take these two paths. As for the navy, I have ordered people to build a pontoon bridge on the Xiangshui River and build a water fortress to block the warships. We can no longer allow them to move across the hinterland of Jingxiang so easily. Degui, you are a master of water warfare, you have to worry about this matter!" Kuai Yue instructed.

"That's natural!" Cai Mao knew very well that the two of them were already tied together as grasshoppers, and now they couldn't do without each other.Turning his head and looking at the map, he said, "Nanjun is where the Kuai family's ancestral business is located, so you, Yidu, should sit in charge. But who should be sent to guard Yidu County?" Cai Mao also knows his own affairs, and his two younger brothers are not talented. Kuai Yue's younger brother, Kuai Qi, was incapable of guarding Zhangling, and it was really difficult for the rest of the generals to find out who would sit in Yidu County.

"I have a general under my command. His surname is Huo, his name is Jun, and his style name is Zhongmiao. He is from Zhijiang in Nanjun. Promote him to be a partial general and let him guard Yidu County. He will be safe! As long as the Yi is not lost, Liu Biao has been attacking Nanjun for a long time. When his army is exhausted, we can take advantage of the situation to counterattack, defeat his army, and then go straight to Jingnan. Exterminate Liu Biao's generation. Afterwards, we will go east to Yangzhou and destroy Zhao Feng's son, then the southeast land will be completely owned by our generation!" Kuai Yue said with great pride.Inspired by it, Cai Mao also laughed out loud, not caring about the previous defeat at all.

However, none of Kuai Yue, Cai Hao, Zhao Feng, Liu Biao, or even everyone involved in this dispute would have thought that this civil strife in Jingxiang would end up being caused by an unexpected situation. Everyone was caught off guard.Afterwards, when everyone talked about this incident, they could only lament that God's will tricks people.

(End of this chapter)