Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 311
"Child Cai Mao! If you dare to fight, I will beat you ten times!" Sun Ce roared angrily from the bow of the boat.

However, the opponent has already pushed the driftwood along the coast, and at the same time the warship retreated back into the water village...

The opponent no longer has naval cover, and Sun Ce can choose to land. However, in this way, the Jiangdong Army after landing will not have naval cover. In an area with rich water systems, pure infantry is simply a moving target, and if the navy is required to advance, the water stronghold must be forcibly removed. It’s not easy either, especially since Cai Hao also chose the obscene driftwood decompression tactic.

When encountering a small group of naval forces, Cai Mao would still fight. When he discovered that Jiangdong's army was intent on a general attack, he immediately retreated.

It can be said that "except for sending waves without pushing forward, if you jump, I will squat and punch hard." If there is no clever strategy, Cai Hao may be able to hold on for a long time!

The northern part of Jiangxia is the only way for Jiangdong Army to enter Nanjun - although theoretically, Nanjun is to the west of Jiangdong Army, but there is Yunmengze in the middle!
At this time, Yunmengze has begun to shrink and is not as big as it was in the pre-Qin period, but... it is also at an embarrassing time.

In the pre-Qin period, waterways could at least be traveled, but now many waterways have shrunk into swamps, such as the Huarong Road where Cao Cao was defeated in Huarong, which is part of Yunmengze. The road is rugged and muddy.

To enter Nanjun from the south of Jiangxia, you can only take a detour to the north.

As for the other side, the Wancheng Army led by Zhang Xiu and the Yiyang Army led by Zhao Yun are both based on land combat forces and cannot be of much help in Xiling. They are now mainly cleaning up Nanyang, although they have not yet touched Liu Biao's true strength. His hometown is on the edge of Nanjun, but his wings are gradually clipping.

"Okay, people have entered the water village." Zhou Yu persuaded Sun Ce to come down while gently waving his feather fan.

"Gong Jin, do you have any evil ideas? As long as we have a head-on battle, I will beat him to the point of killing him!" Sun Ce slapped the mast angrily.

The Jingzhou navy is really not weak. It even surpasses the Jiangxia navy before last year's change of uniforms due to its superior numbers of generals, armaments and military strength...

Cai Mao is indeed good at training and commanding the navy, and he is quite flexible - he can't imitate the crossbows of the General's Mansion, but the rackets with lower technical content have been gradually installed on the ships of the Jingzhou navy. .

But even so, Sun Ce was still confident of defeating the enemy frontally!
"Good idea? Have you forgotten the previous order from the General's Mansion?" Zhou Yu rolled his eyes. At the same time, when he heard Sun Ce's words, he had automatically thought of "ghost idea" as "good idea". This has been happening for many years. The tacit understanding is cultivated.

When Sun Ce heard this, he was like a frosty eggplant - indeed, the current strategic goal is to "fight steadily".

"What are you thinking, brother? Are you worried about casualties? But if this continues, won't it have a greater impact on Jingzhou? Now Cai Mao has almost stopped spring plowing in northern Jiangxia in order to defend himself." Sun Ce was helpless. said.

"Not necessarily...he will not understand this kind of reason, there should be some other reason." Zhou Yu squinted his eyes as he said, and the appearance of Huang Jijiu from the Ministry of Industry had already appeared in his mind.

Bai Tu only informed the front line to "fight steadily" without explaining the reason - we can't just go around shouting that Huang Chengyan will incite his sister-in-law to surrender, right?
Not even a word of horoscope is written, it may not be possible, let alone say it, and now it is publicized everywhere, isn't it causing trouble for Huang Chengyan?

If the purpose is revealed now, not only Liu Biao, but also Kuai and Cai will not agree!

But it seems that people like Zhou Yu and Jia Xu can vaguely guess something even if there is no evidence or basis.

Of course, even if Zhou Yu guessed it, he didn't say it out loud. Jia Xu only tested Zhang Chunhua as a "private lesson" topic and did not tell him the answer.

"What 'him' is called eldest brother?" Sun Ce corrected him straightforwardly after hearing this.

Zhou Yu: ...

After glaring at Sun Ce, Zhou Yu continued: "But it's not impossible... 'Playing slowly and steadily' is just a strategy to avoid using dangerous tactics, but it doesn't mean that you can't use tricks!"

"Oh? Is there any way? Can we make him have to fight?" Sun Ce's eyes lit up.

"Not necessarily, but it will naturally have an effect." Zhou Yu shook his feather fan gently, with a look of (wo)ran (chao) contented (li) (hai) on his face.

In late April of the fifth year of Jian'an, Jiangxia suddenly became quiet.

The Jiangdong naval forces changed their previous attitude of fierce and unstoppable attacks. Although they advanced a little by land, it was innocuous, and there was no large-scale war. They even... encouraged caravans to travel in Jiangxia and across the north and south of the Yangtze River.

Rumor has it that Jiangdong's army was so relaxed that they held bonfire parties at the front line every day. With plenty of food and wine, the sergeants were often alone and drunk.

What's more, some people witnessed that in the area where the two sides faced each other on the front line, Jiangdong Zhan deliberately sang folk songs across the river and teased the Jingzhou army, creating a harmonious scene!
At first, Cai Mao thought it was Zhou Yu who wanted to lure him to attack, so he still sat firmly in Xiling and remained motionless - not pushing forward except to make waves!

Later, when Zhou Yu didn't respond, he began to speculate again. Was Zhou Yu trying to make him relax and then launch a sneak attack?
Therefore, Cai Mao became more vigilant and doubled the number of scouts and vigils - if you jump, I will punch you hard!

However, two months later, it became clear that the other party not only had no intention of taking advantage of the laxity to attack, but even became more "unbridled". Those who didn't know it thought that the General's Mansion and Jingzhou Mansion had reconciled.

This can also be seen that Cai Mao is only very organized in training and commanding the navy. If he really wants to fight with wits, he is definitely not Zhou Yu's enemy.

In fact, Zhou Yu's plan was not planned after he mentioned it to Sun Ce, but was already being prepared after he vaguely realized something after receiving Bai Tu's strategic instructions of "playing it steadily".

All kinds of waiting for opportunities with Cai Mao in front are part of the strategy.

The huge difference between before and after makes the current battle even more eye-catching.

In July, there were already some rumors about Jiangxia in Xiangyang City, Nanjun...

It is simply said that Cai Mao secretly colluded with Jiangdong's army and responded to each other. Others said that Cai Mao intended to control Jiangxia and was too tired to fight. Some exaggerations even said that Cai Mao intended to surrender to the general's mansion and would join forces with Jiangdong's naval forces and enter. Lord Nan County!
When this rumor first appeared, the Cai family, the Kuai family, the Pang family, and the Huang family... all followed suit to suppress this "evil trend". They even banned false discussion of the matter in Xiangyang City and spoke favorably of it in front of Liu Biao. .

However, by July, there were suddenly more rock sugar and white sugar on the market, and white glazed utensils even appeared on the market frequently!

Jiangdong salt is just that. After all, it is of high quality and low price. Many of them are sold in various places through the channels of agent families. And like ironware and horses, Jingzhou Prefecture will not prohibit the circulation of salt, but will encourage it.

Salt is also considered a strategic material, and it is not too much to exchange for it with grain, but rock sugar, white sugar, etc. are obviously not among them. As for white colored glaze... some people call it "soft colored glaze" because of its fragile characteristics. Now everyone Everyone knows that this is also a "specialty" of the General's Mansion. Where do these come from?
Reminiscent of the previous rumors, Liu Biao finally broke out after he discovered that the cook's cooking was getting sweeter and sweeter recently, and even the Jingzhou Mansion purchased a batch of white glass vase ornaments...

(End of this chapter)