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Zhou Yu shook his folding fan and the cold wind blew his hair. On his young face, there was a sadness that shouldn't be seen at his age. His red lips parted slightly and he said, "Don't you think we played too smoothly? Although Xuzhou joined Weihai Not long after his name was taken down, Wang Xiu didn't have much energy to train Xiapi and Guangling counties.
But now the combat effectiveness shown by the two counties is too weak, which is not what I imagined the enemy army should be at all.
Especially Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, none of the giants from the Huaishui River appeared.
Donglai's navy has been avoiding the battle, they have a conspiracy. "
"There is a conspiracy. Could it be that the Donglai army expected us to attack and wanted to block our retreat and counterattack." Song Qian asked.
Zhou Shandao: "Could it be that Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin's troops have moved to Pengcheng and Xiapicheng to defend against Yuan Shu, so strategically give up the southern part of Xuzhou temporarily, and the Donglai Army likes to retreat strategically, and then use the lost land to save people?" It is impossible to counterattack in the end, in order to avoid multi-line combat and fully maintain the superiority of troops on one side."
Zhou Yu's eyes were far-reaching, he jumped to the north, and said calmly: "Both are possible, but I prefer the former."
"Captain, what should we do now? Don't we continue to move eastward, the Huaipu will not go down, and the Huaihe River will not be calm." Zhou Shan asked.
Zhou Yu thought for a while and said, "Of course we must continue to attack, but we must also take precautions. If the Donglai navy enters the Huaihe River from Surabaya, which one of you would like to garrison Suiling?"
Zhou Shan clasped his fists and said, "The last general is willing to go!"
"Well, I'll let you go." Zhou Yu nodded and agreed to let Zhou Shan go.
In this way, it is more reassuring. Zhou Shan is a general of the Sun family. He was trained by the Sun family since he was a child. He grew up with Sun Ce and Sun Quan. He is regarded as the direct descendant of the Sun family. It is safer to have him guarding the rear, so there is no need to worry about the generals. He was secretly bribed by the Donglai Army to induce surrender.
Arranging the rear, Zhou Yu led the army to continue the eastward attack on Huaipu.
When approaching Huaipu, news came back constantly.
Huaipu is heavily guarded and there are many warships.
The main force of the Donglai Navy finally emerged.
This made Zhou Yu and others finally stop being confused.
The unknown is always scary.
The most frightening thing is that the enemy cannot be touched and cannot be seen.
Now that he has come out, Zhou Yu's heart is also calm.
The army marched to Huaipu, and before Zhou Yu and others were ready to set up camp, Huaipu City sent a letter of war.
Zhou Yu received the letter of war, and the superiors reprimanded him for starting the war without authorization, destroying the unity and friendship between the two armies and the two regions, and destroying the friendship between Sun Jian and Xu Ding after Weihai.
It also shows that the reason why the Yangzhou navy has been able to advance smoothly is that the Donglai army deliberately retreated, in order to give Sun Jian a thin face and follow the ancient comity of retreating.
The purpose is to hope that the Yangzhou Army can understand the righteousness and take the initiative to retreat, instead of being greedy and continuing to commit crimes.
Zhou Yu and the others disdain all the above, because they think it is too high-sounding.
At the end, there was a sentence that made Zhou Yu raise his eyebrows slightly.
"It's called unpredictable! Those who don't retreat will perish!"
"What a big tone. If Weihai is here, we have to weigh it up. What is Zhou Tai?" Song Qian said angrily:
"Captain, let's go to war. I don't believe that our navy can't take down the small Huaipu. Isn't Zhou Tai just relying on the size of the warship, can he go on a rampage? Our navy is no worse than anyone else, and the small boat can also use its power Wolf tactics, even if you bite him, you will kill him."
"No hurry! No hurry! Zhou Tai's desire to start a war means that he has prepared everything, waiting for us to be fooled, waiting for us to get in." Zhou Yu seemed to see through everything, slightly shaking his head and smiling:
"Zhou Tai is no ordinary future, he is a fierce general among Xu Ding's several navy generals, he is not an unknown and incompetent generation, so don't be careless."
Song Qian was a little dumb, and Zhou Yu had a high opinion of Zhou Tai, so it was too late for him to belittle him.
In terms of record alone, Zhou Tai did have quite a few battles.
Zhou Yu accepted the channel: "Go back ten miles first, set up camp, stand on the Huaihe River, and find out that the attack is on!"
Zhou Yu suddenly became cautious.
I am all small boats, although there are many people and many ships, the Donglai Army is a big boat after all, so I still check it out.
Soon the Yangzhou navy retreated ten miles westward.
The Donglai army did not pursue either, because they did not receive Zhou Yu's reply.
On Huaipu City, Zhou Tai watched Zhou Yu withdraw his troops, raised his eyebrows slightly, held his hand on the hilt of his sword, and murmured: "My lord reminded you rightly, this Zhou Yu is indeed a powerful character, and he didn't turn back or fight, Backing away silently, he must be trying to find out my reality.
But you are not as good as the main character, just wait, I won the time, you can't win anything. "
In fact, with Zhou Tai's personality, he really wanted to fight Zhou Yu, so he used his navy strength to teach Zhou Yu and Sun Ce a hard lesson.
He has absolute confidence that he can defeat Zhou Yu.
But Xu Ding had already stated that if the enemy advances, they will retreat, retreat to Huaipu to fight, and don't take the initiative to attack, let Zhou Yu take action to fight back, and finish the battle at Huaishui in one go.
Give Zhou Yu a painful lesson thoroughly.
That's why Zhou Tai endured the impulse.
The supervisory military judge of the French guard in the navy is there, and it is impossible to let his temper go.
Zhou Yu sent out his troops and searched for news for several days, but did not collect much useful information.
Instead, some people were lost.
I don't know if Zhou Tai's people did it, or other Xu Ding people.
"Captain, do we have to wait?" Song Qian asked impatiently.
If it continues like this, the whole situation will be very unfavorable.
Zhou Yu hadn't replied yet, when a soldier came to report: "Captain, the eldest son sent someone to send a letter!"
"Oh! There's a letter from Bofu. It seems that Guangling City has finished." Zhou Yu showed a smile on his face, and reached out to take the letter.
When he took it apart and looked at it, his brows were tightly furrowed, his expression was dim, and his eyes were dimmed.
"What's wrong with the governor?" Seeing that Zhou Yu's expression was not right, Song Qian suddenly had a bad premonition.
Zhou Yu took a breath and waited for a while before stuffing the letter back into the envelope. Looking at Song Qian who looked curious and worried, he said:
"The battle of Guangling City was not smooth. Zhao Yu defended Guangling City to the death. Although most of the county was taken by us, Guangling City and Jiangdu are still in the hands of the Donglai Army.
Bo Fu and the others used various strategies, but Zhao Yu was not fooled. Lu Chang was successfully lured across Jiangdu. Although he was besieged, he fled back to Jiangdu with his warship.
And Bofu and the others failed to attack Guangling City twice, and Bofu almost had an accident because of the attack, and Ding Feng died of protecting him from slander.
Now the morale over there is low and they are unable to attack. Bo Fu hopes that we can bring some soldiers to help him. "
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