A military officer in his thirties was standing on the tower on the top of Diaoyu Mountain with a cold and serious expression, overlooking the Jialing River surging across the distance, and his worries remained unshakable for a long time.

He is Liu Mao, the third son of Liu Yan, and the only son Liu Yan has with him.

Liu Yan had four sons, the eldest son Liu Fan and the second son Liu Dan were all officials in the court, and were grassroots men and censors. Previously, because the court secretly asked Liu Bei to bring Liu Yan back, he did not officially break up, so he did not do anything to them. He just stayed idle and secretly monitored them as hostages threatening Liu Yan.

Liu Fan and Liu Dan were promoted quickly during Dong Zhuo and Li Jue's tenure as a result of the promotion of the post-level general and the censor of the Book of the Book of Li Jue. But that was all because of the violent depreciation of the official positions during the later period of Dong Zhuo and Li Jue. They were both still small officials in the first year of the first year of Emperor Xian.

The fourth son, Liu Zhang, had to return to Yizhou after Liu Mao died of illness in history. Before he returned, he served as the commander of the imperial court. However, in the first year of Chuping, he was still a ignorant and stayed in Sili and was not as surveillance as his two brothers.

After Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, his mastery of Liu Yan and his sons became loose. Anyway, Dong Zhuo and Liu Yan had no hatred, so he wanted Liu Yan and Liu Bei to bite the dog and restrain each other. Therefore, Liu Yan's other three sons who were in Beijing were more secure than when the Shao Emperor was reigned.

In contrast, Liu Mao, who followed Liu Yan into Shu, failed to catch up with the inflation that Dong Zhuo was granted official title after he took office, so his official position is still just a "Sima from another department".

However, because Liu Yan actually became the local emperor of the four counties in Shu and the four counties in Nanzhong, everyone knew that Liu Mao was actually treated as the crown prince.

The civil and military officials next to him who had a higher official position than Liu Mao, both in Diaoyu City and in Jiangzhou a little south, were only in Liu Mao's head. The order from a Sima of another department could make the prefect of a county obey the order, and Liu Yan had already appointed the defense of half of the eastern part of the country to his son.

There is no way, who let Liu Bei on the opposite side hold the imperial edict? The appeal of the imperial edict is too great. Liu Yan was a little frightened. He could not believe in the loyalty of any of his subordinate prefects, but could only believe in his own son, even if the ability of this son is far inferior to that of those prefects and famous generals.

At this moment, another day, the offensive and defensive battle of the East Wall of Diaoyu City ended. To be precise, it was the second wall. Because the first one had been lost three days ago.

The Dongzhou soldiers who rushed out of the city to fight back at dusk also captured several precious Han army cannons, who could provide some precious information about new weapons such as counterweight catapults. Therefore, Liu Xu, the deputy general in charge of defense in the city, quickly interrogated the prisoners and immediately informed the young master after asking for details.

After listening to the description of the new weapon quietly, Liu Mao said thoughtfully: "So, it is not worth worrying to use this kind of 'Hanzhong Cannon' to break through the city defense of Diaoyu City on a high place. By the way, have you asked why they suddenly strengthened their offensive recently? Is it because they rely on this new weapon?"

Liu Xun told truthfully: "After asking, there should be no falsehood - Guan Yu, the siege general and Hanzhong prefect Guan Yu, was transferred by Liu Bei and went to Shangyong to negotiate with the latter general Yuan Shu of Nanyang, as if to fight against Dong Zhuo, the traitor of chaos."

"Dong Zhuo? When did it happen? Isn't Dong Zhuo a former general or the governor of Bingzhou?" Liu Mao and Liu Yan were indeed separated from Shu Road and knew nothing about the outside world.

Liu Xi offered treasures to tell everything he asked about. Liu Mao nodded frequently after hearing this: "I didn't expect that Dong Zhuo had deposed the emperor for several months. This is a good thing. Since the young emperor who ordered the father to recall his father was deposed, although the imperial edict might not be taken back, there was no force to investigate and execute it. This news was not good for Liu Bei, and they would definitely not fabricate it, so it would be absolutely true."

Liu Xi continued to report: "We separated the prisoners and asked separately. They all said that Guan Yu was not there, and the navy was transferred to the Shangyong Han River area. The Han army was afraid that there would be loopholes in the siege, so they knocked on the mountain and shook the tiger. They wanted to take the initiative and scare us completely. When Guan Yu came back and had enough troops, they could continue to surround us..."

Liu Mao's eyelids twitched.

Since February, he has been considering the issue of "if he is surrounded, the food in Diaoyu City will be eaten sooner or later in more than a year." But he didn't want to take the risk of sending food immediately, not because he felt that the navy in Jiangzhou could not defeat the navy of the Han army.

First, the enemy had just arrived and was in full force of strength. The military strategy was full of strength, and then it was declining and exhausted. It took him several months to fight again, which was more certain than fighting immediately.

Secondly, Diaoyu City was just built last year and all aspects were not perfect. The grain was built and stored at the same time. The granaries in the city were stocked up and built again. Therefore, the granaries at that time could only store 150,000 stones of grain.

After the battle began, we could not go outside the city to pick wood, and the trees in the city were basically cut down as construction wood when the city was built, so it was difficult to build a large-scale construction. Even if we squeeze out some of the building materials, we had to spend it on the blade to repair the fortifications. Therefore, there was no plan to continue to expand the granary in the city. We had to wait until some of the food was eaten and the warehouse was vacated before we could transport it again.

But now, the siege has been siege for more than three months. The army has eaten food for three months and consumed about 20% of the total inventory. Guan Yu has left temporarily because of arguing with Dong. This seems to be a good opportunity to bring back the Jiangzhou navy's grain transportation.

Once successful, the siege will be extended for another three or five months in the future, which will also be a huge morale blow to the siege. With the variable of seeking Dong, maybe Liu Bei will be unable to continue to siege Diaoyu City because he has to deal with foreign enemies in the north for more time? Wouldn't this help Liu Yan's army recover?

At that time, we will further rectify and train the Dongzhou soldiers and narrow the gap between the war-torn Liu Bei's army in terms of military quality. If we continue to farm in time, relying on five times the manpower and material resources of Liu Bei, and people's hearts, we will turn the tables.

Time stands on the side of Liu Yanjun!

Liu Mao thought about it more and more beautifully, and immediately ordered: "Tonight, the warriors and the Clippers in the city will go down to Jiangzhou in the middle of the night, and ask Zhao Wei and Zhang Su to prepare food and grass, and escort them with the main force of the navy. They will start transporting within five days. After seven days, the defenders in the city will meet the navy.

If Guan Yu is not here, Liu Bei and the navy are even worse than our opponents. They live in the upper reaches of the Jialing River. The water is shallow and fast. There are no large ships. If you want a ship, you have to start a temporary new construction last winter. There must be no good ships. Our army will still be very stable to transport grain through the blockade."

Liu Xun: "Abide by the order! I will arrange the messenger now."

That night, the news was successfully sent out. The county magistrates such as Zhao Wei, Zhang Su, and civil servants such as the chief and generals such as Yang Huai and Gao Pei in Jiangzhou City all followed Liu Mao's orders and immediately began to prepare.

Seven days later, Gao Pei led the navy to escort the pseudo-Ba County prefect Zhao Wei supervised the battle and the grain team to reinforce Diaoyu City, intending to add 30,000 to 40,000 shi of grain to Diaoyu City.

For this reason, only nearly 200 ships were dispatched, of which 100 were grain ships that warships played passengers, with a minimum of 400 shi of grain transported by each ship, and a maximum of 800 shi.

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"Liu Mao was indeed unable to hold back because he knew that Yun Chang was not here and was afraid that he would be even more lucky in the future. Do you have the confidence to intercept the rescue navy outside Diaoyu City and prevent a ship of food from entering the city!"

On the eve of Gao Pei's fleet heading upstream to Diaoyu City, it was discovered by the land scout of the Han army. The fast horse rewarded Li Su. Li Su knew that his temptation of the enemy had been successful and immediately attracted Zhou Taiganing to question him.

In order to ensure the successful seduction of the enemy, the Han army's military strength advantage on the front line was not very obvious, because no matter how many people there were, the enemy would be scared away. But Li Su had kept it with one hand, that is, Liu Yan's army still didn't know how many naval warships there were on the battlefield on this battlefield. He didn't know that Liu Bei distributed wood to collect wood in Jiameng and Langzhong last winter, concentrated on building large ships, and built large ships through water.

This is a secret card that Guan Yu has never played and there is no need to play. Now we have to expect Gan Ning and Zhou Tai to defeat the enemy with their advantage of excellent warships with less force.

Gan Ning indeed took a breath after half a year of jail and asked for his ambitions: "Don't worry, Zhonglang! I would rather be the vanguard in the front and swear to destroy the enemy fleet. Although our army was few in this battle, the warships were not inferior to the rebels. Moreover, our army was in the flow of the river and came and went like the wind. As long as we acted quickly enough and entangled with the enemy with the elite troops in the vanguard, we would definitely cause chaos in the entire enemy army!"

Li Suxin nodded: "Okay, I'll order Xingba to be the vanguard in the front, leading more than ten fighting ships, and the troops in the headquarters, adding some Jiujiang soldiers to form a thousand elite troops, rush into the enemy formation and disrupting them. Then Youping led the main force to steadily tie the knotted ship formation and fight.

I have calculated the boat process. Gao Pei will not be able to reach Diaoyu City tomorrow, so you will quietly pass by Diaoyu City at the fourth day of the day, so as not to be blocked by the falling rocks on the top of the city to injure the warship. Once Xingba and Gao Pei's army are strangled together, even if Gao Pei's army continues to force northward and the battlefield is close to Diaoyu City, Liu Mao will not be able to throw a stone to smash the boat, because he will be afraid of accidentally hurting many more friendly troops."

Gan Ning's mission is like rushing up to fight with the enemy for bayonets, forcing the enemy to give up the suicide squad covered by artillery bombardment.

But for a desperate person like Gan Ning, he didn't think there was anything wrong with such a task, and he accepted it happily.

After returning to the water camp, he immediately drank with his hundreds of brothers who were Jinfan thieves, each of whom he had been drinking and walking with three bowls. Then he assigned the combat mission, got up at the third update, and passed Diaoyu City at the fourth update.

No words all night.

On the fourth day of the next day, Gao Pei's army had been sailing against the current for half a night, and finally arrived on the Jialing River, which was less than ten miles away from Diaoyu City. Seeing that the task of escorting grain transport was about to be completed, Gao Pei was always alert and was about to relax his vigilance, but found that the enemy still did not intend to let him worry.

"Prince, I found a small number of enemy warships approaching quickly! Very fast!"

In the darkness before dawn, the vision was very poor, and Gan Ning's ship had no torches, so it was discovered by the vanguard of Gao Pei's army after approaching within a hundred steps.

Gao Pei's army quickly set off a torch and prepared to form a formation to fight.

"Those Han army sailors hit the gang directly and jumped! Keep it for me! Take arrows! The back ship shoots arrows to stop them!"

The Dongzhou soldiers under Gao Pei were stunned when they saw this scene. Gao Pei's grain fleet was escorting warships, with a total of more than 5,000 people. There were only a dozen ships on the other side, and they rushed in and fought together, not even keeping a distance and firing arrows.

Is there such a battle in the water war? Didn’t it be agreed that “bows and arrows are the first in the river”?

Why do these guys have a lot of guerrilla bandit habits and don’t talk about military tactics at all?

"Kala——" With a sharp sound, Gan Ning's ship rushed down the current, and the corner of the collision directly penetrated into the side of a rebel warship. Then, a device on the bow of the ship that looked like a nail-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-pad-
Chapter completed!