Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 237 Marching into Xinye, the God of Soldiers in Jingzhou

After the Hongkou meeting ended, Shen Chen took Sun Qian back to Xiakou.

It used to be that Jiangxia's military was mainly concentrated along the Yangtze River along the border with Yuzhang, such as Qichun and Exian, but now half of the main force has retreated to Anlu and Xiakou, and the frontline troops are seriously insufficient.

Fortunately, both Jingzhou and Jiangdong are standing still and not attacking at the same time. As long as they don't attack from both sides, it is not a big problem to deal with one side alone.

After returning to Xiakou, Shen Chen went to see Liu Qi and explained the situation. Liu Qi's condition has improved a lot now, and he can walk around in the field recently, but the serious illness at the beginning of the year still damaged his foundation, and his complexion is not very good.

After learning that Liu Bei planned to break Jingnan first, Liu Qi was a little worried about whether there would be problems with Jiangxia's defense, but Sun Qian immediately volunteered to stand up and said that he would go to Jiangdong, complaining about his interests and persuading Sun Quan to strike.

Of course, Shen Chen knew that this was not safe, so he comforted Liu Qi, telling him that the Jingnan four counties are not difficult to obtain, and as long as Liu Bei wins Jingnan, he will immediately go north to support him.

On the third day of April, Sun Qian headed east with an important mission, went down the river, and headed for Jiangdong, while Shen Chen personally led five thousand troops and went north to Xinye.

At that time, the west of Jiangxia was Yunmeng Lake. From the later generations of Wuhan to the west to Hanchuan City, Xiantao City, and Jianli City, it was basically covered by vast lakes and swamps. Although there were exposed land, it was not suitable for marching.

Therefore, if you attack Jiangxia from Xiangyang, you must either take the water route down the Han River, or take two land routes.

One is Yunshe, Nanxin, and Anlu, that is, Jingshan City, Yingcheng City, Yunmeng County, and Xiaogan City in later generations to attack Xiling.The other way is to go south from Zhangling, that is, Suizhou City, Anlu City, Yunmeng County, and Xiaogan City.

Therefore, the Jiangxia defenders only need to occupy Xiakou, a port downstream of the Han River, Anlu County in the Han Dynasty, and Yunmeng County in later generations, to guard all the soldiers and horses from Xiangyang by water and land.

At this time, Shen Chen traveled by land, along the Weishui River in the Han Dynasty, and went up to Fuhe River in the Suizhou territory of Anlu, Hubei in later generations, passing through Suixian County in Zhangling County to Tang Township.

Currently Zhang Ling is still in the hands of Huang Archer. He has only about 8000 troops, and he is still a soldier of Zhang Ling County. Because Cai Mao and Chen Bing were intimidated by Cai Yang, Huang She could not support Gan Ning, so he could only hold on. Traffic arteries barely protect themselves.

After Shen Chen arrived, he discussed some tactical details with him, and asked him to pretend to send troops in a few days, waving flags and shouting, to contain Cai Yang's enemies. Huang She is also Liu Qi's party, so he naturally agreed.

Soon on April 7000th, Shen Chen returned to Huangmen Pavilion and personally led [-] Huangmen soldiers, plus [-] soldiers brought from Jiangxia, a total of [-] people officially set off.

Huangmenting only stayed behind a thousand soldiers, but because of the relationship behind the mountain, even 1000 people were enough for them to defend.

The two thousand Huangmen soldiers were fully armed this time. Because Huangmenting technology revolutionized steel production, they actually belonged to the heavy armored infantry like Gao Shun's camp. They only attacked Xudu a few times and had to march long distances , resulting in the inability to bear armor.

But now that they are fighting at the door of the house, they naturally bring all their belongings with them. The five thousand soldiers are like serving as their helpers, escorting the carriages and protecting these people all the way to Xinye.

Huangmen Pavilion was only [-] or [-] miles away from Xinye, and Cai Mao naturally deployed a large number of scouts and sentries along the route. When he saw this team from a distance, he immediately sent a signal.

"Woooooooooo!"

The continuous sound of horns came and went, and the smoke billowed. Soon, Cai Mao got the news outside Xinye City, more than 20 miles away.

Cai Mao attacked Xinye and set up his rear base in Chaoyang County. Chaoyang County and Xinye County faced each other across the Feishui River. Shangzi Township in the south.

Shangzi Township is the area around Wuxing Town in the south of Xinye in later generations, where Cai Mao's tens of thousands of troops gathered, and in the north and east of Xinye, there were still troops from Han Xi and Lu Jie surrounding them.

Although Wenpin was persuaded to respect Xiangyang Liu Cong, he continued to guard Wancheng in the name of guarding against Cao Cao and refused to send troops.

In fact, he still didn't want to fight a civil war, even if he was liquidated afterwards.

Knowing that reinforcements were coming from Huangmenting, Cai Mao originally planned to summon his Taiwei Changshi, Sima and several generals in the army to discuss the situation, but when the scouts reported that there were only a few thousand reinforcements, Suddenly laughed.

"Hahahahaha."

Cai Hao laughed triumphantly and said, "I thought it was how many people, but even thousands of people dare to come to Xinye, it's really overwhelming."

At this time, there was only Hu Zheng, the head of the Taiwei in the camp. He was the magistrate of Xiangyang County in his early years, and he had always been Cai Mao's confidant. You have to guard against it."

"What are you afraid of?"

Cai Hao said: "Back then, Shen Chen was able to come to Xudu three times, but he relied on Cao Cao's army and horses to resist Yuan Shao in the north. Now we have an army of [-] to [-], can't we still destroy him, who is only a few thousand?"

Hu Zheng hesitated and said: "I think it's better to find out who is in command of this army. The rest of the people can talk about it. If Shen Chen comes personally, I'm afraid."

"Humph."

Cai Mao said coldly: "What is there to be afraid of Shen Chen? It has been widely rumored in Xiangyang these years that he is the God of War in Jingzhou, and that he is the reincarnation of Han Xin. Send an order to let Sun Yi and Zhou Bo each lead 5000 men, and join Han Xi's army, 2 men, it should be able to deal with his thousands of men."

"only."

Hu Zheng wanted to persuade him at first, but he thought so too.

No matter what, the enemy is only a few thousand people. Cai Mao sent school lieutenants Sun Yi and Zhou Bo each to bring 5000 people, plus Han Xi's 1 troops stationed outside Xinye City, for a total of 2 people. It should be more than enough to defeat.

To a certain extent, Cai Mao despises the enemy strategically and pays attention to the enemy tactically.

After all, he scorned Shen Chen on the lips, but in fact he still knew how powerful Shen Chen was, so it would be fine if Shen Chen didn't come in person, but it would still be very troublesome if he did. Nothing serious.

So the order was passed on, and generals Sun Yi and Zhou Bo received Cai Mao's order, immediately rectified their troops and marched northeast.At the same time, Han Xi also received an order to lead the troops to the east.

After noon, Han Xi led a [-]-strong army in Hei Niu Town, about eight miles outside the east city of Xinye, lined up.

Above the wilderness, there are village pavilions and fields everywhere around. Because it is a civil war in Jingzhou, everyone does not want to harm their own people, so as not to destroy their ruling foundation and increase their popularity.

The people also received the notice from Xiangyang. Cai Mao ordered people to go to inform the people around Xinye that Ganning in Xinye rebelled and Xiangyang came to suppress the rebellion.

At this moment, although the people around Heiniu Town knew that they were all Jingzhou soldiers and would not harm them, when they saw the army coming, they also hurriedly fled from the farmland. Some ran back to their homes, some hid in the surrounding forests and deep mountains, and some were not afraid. Damn, actually looking for a place nearby to wait and see.

These people are really brave.

On a small hill to the south of Heiniu Town, the view is good, there are more than a dozen young people crouching on it, the leader is about seventeen or eighteen years old, he is quite strong, looking out.

"Zhou Tai, you are too courageous. This is a war between the two armies. You still bring us here to see, aren't you afraid of death?"

Someone complained.

Zhou Tai smiled and said: "You usually call me big brother, but now you don't dare to ask you to watch the fun. If you are timid and dare not come, then just leave by yourself."

"I'm not timid, but I'm afraid what will happen if they become red-eyed and don't distinguish between the enemy and me."

The man explained.

Zhou Tai pointed to the distance and said: "Nowadays we are in troubled times, to achieve great things, we must have courage, but also talent and learning. Xinye Deng's has opened a large number of schools, and we can read, but what is the use of reading alone, we must have the ability to learn." This is an opportunity to learn how to fight.”

"Here we come, it's General Han's team."

"The one on the opposite side is too far away, but it should be the soldiers of the Huangmenting Deng clan. These people are very powerful. They are the famous Huangmen soldiers in the world."

"I don't know if it is Shen Jun who is in charge this time, but if Shen Jun is in command, then it will be interesting."

There was a lot of discussion.

The reason why they risked their lives to stay was firstly to watch the battle and learn, and secondly to see whether the famous Huangmen soldiers were really invincible as rumored.

Shen Chen has been traveling around in recent years, rarely going deep into the folks, and somewhat divorced from the masses, but he doesn't know how popular he is now among the folks.

In terms of knowledge, his Confucianism was widely spread, especially around Xinye, and countless people were influenced by his theory.

Therefore, Xinye learned from his scholars and respected him as Shen Jun or Shen Shi.

And it's even more remarkable outside of Xinye.

Because he repelled Cao Cao, attacked Henan several times, and joined forces with Liu Bei to defeat Liu Zhang in the west, flooding Sun Quan in Jiangdong, not only stopped Jiangdong children from crying at night, but also enjoyed high prestige in Jingzhou.

People say that he is the God of Soldiers in Jingzhou, and he is the reincarnation of Han Xin, the soldier fairy.

After Liu Biao's death this time, Liu Qi and Liu Cong turned against each other, which shocked Jingzhou.

Now that Shen Chen is on Liu Qi's side and fighting Liu Cong, the people of Jingzhou are all regretting that when the civil war is about to start, some people are eager to know whether the myth of the God of War can continue.

So at a time when life and death are at stake in this kind of battle, there are actually people as daring as Zhou Tai who come to the battlefield to watch, just to see Shen Chen's strength.

"They're here!"

"Shen Ziqi, it's really Shen Ziqi."

"Zhoutai, you have such good eyes, can you see clearly?"

"It's not the words on it, it's the color. Don't you know that in Jingzhou, only Shen Jun's flag is blue?"

All eyes looked at it from a distance, and the army from the east was waving its flags. On the huge flag was a heavy word embroidered in black letters, and its background color was blue, which was the color of the sky and the sea. With the colors of morning light!
Shen Chen, the war god of Jingzhou, is here!

(End of this chapter)