King of Liao at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 957

Ma Chao’s defeat was due to Zhuge Liang’s and Zhou Yu’s calculations, and even more due to good fortune. Han Dang’s soldiers and horses happened to be around Jiangxia, but the Yangtze River was originally what attracted Zhou Yu and Liu Bei’s attention. Cai Mao's navy, without knowing what was going on, was suddenly attacked by Zhou Yu's navy on the left flank of his side. Commander Zhang Yun's flank troops were vulnerable and directly defeated, and in the end they even lost more than a thousand sailors ...

The three-way encirclement and annihilation strategy, except for Tai Shici who took down a city of Shiyang that Zhou Yu was going to give to Li Lin, the other two ways...

"My lord! My lord! General Ma Chao is back!"

"Meng Qi and the others are injured!" Hearing the soldier's report, Li Lin, who was sitting on the armchair, hurriedly asked.

"My lord!" Seeing a pungent smell of blood coming, Ma Chao, Pound, Ma Xiu, and Ma Dai walked in from outside, followed by Guo Tu who sent them back.

"My lord! The general is guilty!" The four of them knelt down on the ground together, clasping their hands together. Seeing the bloodstains on their bodies, which were full of traces of fighting, Li Lin nodded and said, "You don't have to do that, you've already done that." Do your best! It's just... I underestimated Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu!"

Of course Li Lin received the joy of Ma Chao fighting in Jiangdong, Li Lin still praised: "Under such a situation, Meng Qi, you still know that sneaking out of Xiakou to attack Jiangxia is really not easy, but it's a pity that God doesn't let us It's just a smooth defeat of the enemy, you guys don't have to worry about it!"

"This..." The four of them were still very ashamed. After all, they lost the battle and lost their generals. Li Lin looked at the embarrassment of the four of them, and waved his hands and said, "You boys, did you lose the battle at the headquarters?" Get used to it! Remember, failure is success, my old lady! I didn’t blame you! Well, go on and rest!”

Seeing Li Lin's appearance, the four of them felt a little better, and said in unison: "My lord... My lord is wise... I'll wait!" Then they backed out.

"Hey..." After the four of them left, Li Lin showed pain on his face. After tossing around and losing so many soldiers and horses, Li Lin was really depressed. Guo Tu stood up slowly. At the side, Kuai Yuezhang stood there with a bitter face, after all, he was the one who came up with such a plan.

"Shiyuan!" Li Lin called out.

"Lord!"

"There is news from Zhao Hu!"

"No!" Pang Tong replied truthfully.

"Eh...it seems..."

"Report...report...report..." An anxious voice suddenly sounded, and a soldier ran into the big tent like flying.

"Lord!"

"Say it!"

The soldier immediately said: "News came from Yangzhou that General Zhao Hu and the Jiangdong Navy fought fiercely on the Eastern Front for several hours. Finally, General Zhao Hu tightly led three sea breeze warships to the Huaishui port and was rescued by General Tian Yu! "

"What!" Hearing Zhao Hu's defeat and Li Lin almost fell off his chair, Li Lin raised his hand swishingly, pointed at the soldier and said, "You...you fucking say it again !"

The soldier trembled all over, and then said: "My lord... General Zhao Hu was defeated..."

"Come here!" Li Lin suddenly roared angrily, pointing at the soldier and said, "This man must be a spy of the enemy army, drag him out and chop him up!"

"Ah!" The soldier screamed, and immediately shouted: "My lord! My lord! I am not! My lord! Here is a letter from General Tian Yu! My lord!"

"Pull it out and cut it! Cut it!" Li Lin waved his hands frantically, and immediately a guard rushed up and dragged the soldier out.

"Ah! My lord...My lord...I..."

After a while, the screams of the soldiers disappeared. Looking at the letters dropped by the soldiers on the ground, Li Lin froze there, his lips constantly shaking, could it be: "Defeated! Zhao Hu was actually defeated, and there are only three left. ……three…………"

"My lord!" Pang Tong suddenly came out and called out, cupped his hands and said, "I still look forward to my lord..."

"I don't fucking understand! How could I lose! How could Lao Tzu's Sea Breeze Warship lose!" Li Lin suddenly roared out, and everyone in the tent was shocked.

"Ah!" Li Lin cried out in pain, covered his waist and eyes and rubbed vigorously,

"Hey..." With a sigh, Pang Tong slowly picked up the letter on the ground, thinking whether to pass it to Li Lin to have a look, Li Lin waved his hand and said, "Shi Yuan, please help me to see it! Then tell me!"

"This... promise!" Pang Tong opened the letter with a look of embarrassment. What Li Lin did was to give Pang Tong an errand. How do you ask Pang Tong to tell you.

But since Pang Tong dared to open it, he just told the truth. After reading the letter, Pang Tong said slowly: "My lord, General Zhao Hu's Yu Jiangdong navy fought against Piling, Nanxu, and the elite navy of General Zhao Hu lost Exhausted, General Zhao Hu was seriously injured, and Jiangdong also suffered heavy losses..."

"... General Chen Wu, General Zhu Ran, and General Cheng Pu were killed, General Huang Gai, and General Gan Ning were seriously injured!" At the Sanjiangkou, Zhou Yu's tent also received the same water battle on the eastern front. news.

"Crack!" After hearing the nausea, Zhou Yu slammed his fist on the table in front of him, and said viciously, "I didn't expect... I didn't expect that Jiangdong would pay the price just to kill the Liao army. Such a heavy price! Li Lin! Zhao Hu!"

Not only Zhou Yu, but everyone in the tent had red eyes. Not to mention being attacked, Cheng Pu was a veteran who followed Sun Jian early in the morning. He followed the Sun family for decades and served three generations of lords. Now he actually fought in a water battle. Death, the remaining Chen Wu and Zhu Ran are also Zhou Yu's key training targets. The serious injuries of Huang Gai and Gan Ning also dealt a heavy blow to the Jiangdong Navy.

"Hey..." Lu Su on the side suddenly let out a sigh, and said sadly: "Old General Cheng has been on the battlefield for decades, but he didn't expect to... eh..."

"Even if Li Lin is really driven away in a big way! It will kill how much hope I have in Jiangdong's future!" Zhou Yu suddenly said angrily, yes, even if Jiangdong wins such a war in the end, it will lose troops and generals, especially Those young generals are Jiangdong's future hope. If they all die here, how should Jiangdong develop in the future!
Speaking of the Yangtze River Water War, why Jiangdong was so active, and even took the initiative to send Lu Su to meet with Liu Bei, so that the alliance between Sun and Liu came into being. Isn't it plotting the world?We all know Zhuge Liang’s Longzhong Duel, but few people know that Lu Su’s version of Longzhong Duel, Lu Su told Sun Quan that if Jiangdong becomes king, he must control the Yangtze River, and Jingzhou Liu Biao is dead. It was when Jiangdong seized Jingnan and traversed the south of the Han Dynasty, relying on the barrier of the Yangtze River, and then agreed to the southern world, and then entered the Central Plains in sorrow. This was the plan that Lu Su made for Sun Quan in the early morning. Sun Quan was a little terrified, and wanted to enter the Central Plains from Yangzhou, but now that the Jianghuai River has been lost, so he still has to rely on Lu Su's strategy, use the Yangtze River as a barrier, resist the north, control the south, and when the time comes, go north and enter the world. So the war is suffocating, Jiangdong is not only for the safety of the present, but also for the future of Jiangdong, but if all these young generals die in this war, then how can Jiangdong talk about the future?

One-way tossing, the ingenious plan of three-way attack, just like this, it can be said that Li Lin and Sun Liu have their own losses. Except for Li Lin's success in taking Shi Yang, the other two ways have all failed, and It was a disastrous defeat, not to mention the lost soldiers and horses, and Jiangdong also lost Shi Yang, and lost a lot of generals.

But there is one thing, because winning Shiyang means that Soochow has been completely forced to the south bank of the Yangtze River. After all, no matter what, Zhou Yu dare not be caught between Li Lin's troops from Jingzhou and Tian Yu's troops from Yangzhou. Ma Zhongzhong continued to station troops at Sanjiangkou, that is to say, on the north bank of the Yangtze River. From Jingzhou, Yangzhou to Xuzhou, the Liao army has already controlled the north bank area, but when it comes to disadvantages, due to Zhou Yu's sudden intervention, Li Lin was unable to take Xiakou. , As for Jiang Xia, she obviously made a wedding dress for Jiang Dong, dispatched troops several times, and got nothing except for one Shi Yang, but accompanied by the lives of many soldiers, obviously the loss outweighed the gain.It was Sun and Liu who were even closer together, and it was obvious that they could not break through one by one.

At the end of July in the sixth year of Chengye, Liu Qi and Liu Bei took into account the alliance between Sun and Liu. They were embarrassed to ask Han Dang, who was stationed in Jiangdong, to return to the city. As a last resort, Liu Bei asked Liu Qi to guard Xiakou and be next to Han Dang, while he himself moved to the Yangtze River. Tunza in the Fankou area on the south bank is adjacent to Zhou Yu who went upstream and set up a water block at the Red Cliff. In other words, the elites of Sun and Liu.The troops have been completely deployed in the south bank of the Yangtze River from Baling to Jiangxia. Several naval camps have been set up here and heavily defended. The number of soldiers patrolling the shore has more than doubled. There are many sentry towers on the shore, and there is quite the momentum not to ask the Liao army to take a step forward. After all, whether it is Zhuge Liang or Zhou Yu, if the Liao army is asked to detour and set foot on the south bank of the Yangtze River like the previous time, for the two of them, that would be a big deal. But it was quite tricky. Fortunately, Ma Chao's sneak attack was counted by Zhuge Liang last time, and Han Dangyou happened to come to the rescue near Jiangxia, but Ma Chao only brought 5000 people with him, but what if it was [-]?

On the other hand, Li Lin followed Xu Shu's suggestion and transferred his subordinates Gao Lan and Li Tong to the Shiyang area, and called Tai Shici to his side. After all, Zhou Yu is currently stationed in Chibi, and Jiangdong's strength has been forced to the south bank of the Yangtze River Shi Yang no longer needs to garrison too many troops......

(End of this chapter)