With Sun Ce's serious injury falling into the river, the remaining battles on the front battlefield were completely over in less than a quarter of an hour.

After all, Huang Zhong's basic military qualities are still good. When Sun Ce fell, no matter whether Sun Ce was actually dead or not, Huang Zhong would ask his soldiers to shout immediately to spread the news of Sun Ce's death.

After all, the troops in Jiangdong are not those who directly loyal to the emperor, but private soldiers of warlords. For a warlord unit, what else can I fight if the loyal princes themselves die? The disintegration of morale is basically a matter of momentum.

The reason why it takes more than half of the incense stick is that the battlefield is too noisy, the fighting is too loud, and the news of death will spread for a long time.

This battle started from the early morning when Taishici and Dong Xi took over the enemy. At the time of Si, Dong Xi was defeated. After more than two hours of repeated tug-of-war, Taishici was once too big for the big move, and was pushed back by Sun Ce and Zhou Yu on a small scale. Fortunately, Huang Zhong followed up and helped the victory in time.

When Sun Ce died in battle, it was already three minutes later. The battle was completely over on the main battlefield, which was the time when the war was over (nearly five o'clock in the afternoon).

Li Su, who was in the rear, heard from Huang Zhong, the sending a sentry ship in front that he had killed Sun Ce. Li Su then ordered Dian Wei to drive the ship, and sat on the 800-ton iron-packed flagship that had not been recovered today to participate in the acquisition of the disabled enemies.

When Li Su arrived at the battlefield, the battle had been over for several minutes. The specific casualties and captured prisoners had not been calculated yet, but the large warships had roughly sunk and captured several prisoners. These rough numbers could be pointed out with a glance.

The total damage of the Han army included two five-tooth warships, that is, the two that Taishici did not break out at the time. The soldiers on it were chopped and killed and seriously injured and disappeared from the river. The total number of 1,500 people was tragic.

After all, in this battle today, tens of thousands of main forces of the Wu army were annihilated, and at the center of the battlefield where the fiercest battle was fought, this level of casualties was inevitable.

Especially when the battle was at its most difficult time, more than a thousand remaining soldiers and wounded soldiers had to put down their weapons and announced that they would temporarily surrender to the Wu army to avoid killing them all in vain. However, their surrender lasted for more than half an hour. Later, as Huang Zhong defeated Sun Ce, the Wu soldiers who captured the Han army surrendered also surrendered to Huang Zhong, so the Han army captives were anyway.

According to military law, such surrender to the enemy in front of the formation must be punished. But Li Su also knew that these soldiers had indeed fought for a long time, suffered huge casualties, and were indeed trapped in a heavy siege at that time, and the ship was damaged on the river and had nowhere to break through.

Therefore, Li Su reduced the punishment as appropriate. For soldiers who died in battle and were injured and disappeared in the river, he said that the court would definitely give good care of their families and upgraded them to another level according to their military pay during their lifetime, and would give them three years of remuneration.

Anyway, any soldier who is injured will not be punished and will receive one year's military pay. Those who surrender if they are not injured will also be given appropriate rewards if they have a record of killing and injury.

Only those who surrender without any results and surrender without any injuries will be punished. Those who take the lead in surrendering without any results will be punished with additional punishment for military sticks, and will be punished with salary as appropriate and demoted, with a maximum of fifty military sticks.

In any case, this has been much easier than traditional army law.

The hulls of these two five-toothed warships were indeed too damaged. One main keel had cracks, and the other had broken many side keels and ribs. The superstructure was completely unrecognizable and had no maintenance value.

As a result, Zhou Yu and Lu Meng's breakthrough troops lost nearly half of their troops and lost more than a dozen fighting ships. None of the main ships of the Wu army at the level of fighting ships above the level of the fighting ships escaped.

Because it was already night and it was hard to search again, Huang Zhong chased after him all night and entered Hanyang with Zhou Tai. The Wu army had originally monitored Zhou Tai's small number of surrounding troops outside Hanyang City, but they had already seen that the situation was wrong and retreated in advance and ran across the river.

Zhou Yu only brought seven or eight thousand remaining soldiers back to Xiakou. In this battle, 60,000 people eventually lost 52,000, which was tragic.

There was no way to escape this in the end. After all, it was a light boat, and even 60,000 pigs scattered everywhere. Huang Zhong and Taishi Ci could not catch up with them all.

It is a very glorious victory to wipe out all the large ships that can ride more than 500 people.

...

After Zhou Yu fled into Xiakou City in the middle of the night, he and Lu Meng were also frightened. It was hard to settle for a night. Zhou Yu was so tired that he woke up in a hurry after lying for less than an hour. He forced himself to greet Lu Meng and other civil and military officials in Xiakou City to discuss countermeasures together.

Fortunately, during the time when Zhou Yu was sleeping, the people below had already figured out the situation ahead, so Zhou Yu himself didn't have to talk too much. Everyone knew that Sun Ce should be dead. Thinking about those meaningless things was just a waste of energy. Now we should focus on looking forward and how to stabilize the situation.

Lu Meng asked anxiously: "Governor, are we going to continue to defend Xiakou for the moment? How can the rear be stable after the lord is suddenly affected by the lord? Will there be a large Jiangdong family who are suppressed by the lord take the opportunity to respond to Li Sunei? Although the lord has rectified them in a relatively reasonable way in recent years, the lord is gone, alas..."

Zhou Yu's face turned pale: "Xiakou must be defended, but it is estimated that it will not be able to defend for a long time. Forced defending for a long time will only make us more passive, and the remaining little combat power will be destroyed by each one. If Bo Fu is not here, Yuzhang and Luling will definitely cause chaos everywhere.

The place was under Bo Fu's command for less than a year, and there was no time to rectify the local aristocratic family. Huang Zu was just transferred to guard the situation last year. He Qi only dared to deal with Shanyue, and had never dealt with the Jiangxi tribe for more than half a year after taking office. Many of those people were Zhuge Xuan's old officials a few years ago, and Li Su was Zhuge Xuan's nephew's mentor, so he must have a strong appeal in the local area.

If Xiakou is lost, I guess even Chaisang cannot defend it, otherwise I will definitely be submerged by Li Su's army, the powerful family in Jiangxi who responded to Li Su's response, and the Shanyue people who were suppressed by He Qi before, responded to the joint attack, and our Chaisang defenders would only be submerged in the vast ocean.

By then, Jiangxia, Yuzhang, Luling, Poyang and other places will inevitably fall. Even if our army, according to Bofu's last words, rely on Cao Cao and stationed in Jiangbei with Cao's troops, would probably be able to defend the Jiangdong area east of Ankou at most."

Wankou is the later Anqing Anhui Province. The name of Anhui Province was taken from the two prefectures of Anqing and Huizhou. It can be seen that Wankou is also a military important place. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Wankou, as the name suggests, was the estuary of the Anhui River where the Anhui River flows into the Yangtze River, and it is also the estuary of the Anhui City, which is dominated by Lujiang County.

The reason why Zhou Yu estimated so was obviously because he did not dare to try to hold Chaisang, the four battles at the mouth of Poyang Lake. He was afraid that the locals and Shanyue people in the Poyang Lake Basin in Jiangxi in the south would unite to change their minds and attack him with Li Su.

Since this is the case, it is better to give up Hukou. It also means completely giving up the entire Ganjiang River Basin south of Hukou, and it is impossible for the entire Jiangxi to take it.

Lu Meng is a pro-war faction. After hearing what Zhou Yu said, "Xiakou must be defended", he was willing to persevere.

However, at this moment, Zhu Ran, another important civil and military official in Xiakou City, noticed Zhou Yu's words "You can't keep it for a long time but you have to keep it." He couldn't help but ask some advice:

"Governor, since you know that even Chaisang cannot be guarded, isn't it even more dangerous to delay more in Xiakou?"

Zhu Ran is only sixteen years old this year, and his status is relatively low, so he is not qualified to ask questions. However, because he was the adopted son of his old minister Zhu Zhi, Zhu Zhi was appointed as the governor of Lujiang County, Jiangbei before Sun Ce sent troops, so Zhu Zhi sent Zhu Ran to assist in the defense of the northern part of the Yangtze River in Xiakou.

Zhou Yu had no choice but to analyze: "Of course I know that Xiakou is more dangerous than Chaisang, but it is still necessary to persist for ten days and half a month. First of all, if Chaisang is not allowed, we must withdraw the supplies to Lujiang County, the north bank in advance and to the east of Ankou. All the officials and soldiers must be withdrawn, which will take time.

Secondly, during this expedition of 100,000 troops in the west, the Yangtze River line on the south road was 60,000 or 70,000 yuan, but on the Hanshui side of the north road, 20,000 General Huang's 20,000 people are still there. If we do not defend the Yangtze River-Hanshui River estuary, how can we respond to General Huang's retreat?

I have only 150,000 troops in Jiangdong, and Bo Fu brought 100,000. There are only 50,000 mobile troops left behind, so I have to defend such a large area. The 20,000 General Huang's 20,000 troops are now an extremely important help to consolidate the three counties of Wuhui. Han Dang guards Jiangling City, and he must try his best to save them, but I don't think I have a great hope, so I can only think that he is gone first.

General Huang would probably be able to intercept Li Su later when he was on the waterway, but as long as General Huang abandoned his ship and landed on the shore, walked on the north shore of the Han River, and marched along the mountain through the edge of the Dabie Mountains, he would probably still be able to escape. It was nothing more than that the warship would be completely lost and the baggage would be lost, alas."

After hearing this, Lu Meng and Zhu Ran also had a heavy expression and said nothing.

Zhou Yu slowed down and ordered: "Zi Ming, you are tired and take care of the relationship. Your responsibility is to guard the Xiakou City until the retreat of Old General Huang successfully, and the troops and supplies of Chaisang, and civil and military officials, also retreat to Wankou, before they can abandon the city.

I will leave you the fastest-speed cruising boats. Before you abandon the city, I will pick a moonless night. Today is the thirteenth day of the first lunar month. I will let you guard it for about half a month. At that time, it will probably be almost the end of the moonless night. I will secretly take advantage of the enemy's precautions.

Zhu Ran, you take your headquarters to the water village on the north bank of Hanshuikou. Your pressure is less than Ziming. Li Su's offensive is mainly for Ziming to carry you. You just need to make sure that the enemy does not land on the north bank of Hanshui and cut off the marching route of the Old General Huang by land.

Whether it is the Yangtze River or the Han River on the waterway, it has nothing to do with you. After General Huang arrives, you can join forces with him and go back to Lujiang by land via Qichun. If the time is inconvenient, you will temporarily station in the Dabie Mountains in Qichun to block the entrance. Li Su came along the waterway, and his ship also has advantages. He will attack the south side and will not give up the benefits of the Yangtze River to search for you in the Dabie Mountains."

Lu Meng and Zhu Ran both nodded, and Lu Meng asked, "The governor, you..."

Zhou Yu sighed helplessly: "It's not that I'm afraid to fight, but I have to go back to Jianye immediately to help Zhongmou stabilize the rear. Bo Fu's death had too much impact, and there was no one in the rear, so the power could never be transferred. This was a last resort.

Moreover, I have to be responsible for blocking the news on the river surface. I cannot let Gan Ning, who is roaming on the Yangtze River, know that our main force was annihilated by Li Su. Otherwise, Gan Ning would not have plundered and fled down the river. He might have plundered the courage to spread the news of Bo Fu's death behind us, and at the same time, he was crazy about luring and forcibly landing in the rear counties.
Chapter completed!