On May 27th, the day Huang Gai, Zhu Ling, Lu Zhao and others were just annihilated.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, the Nanlinggang Water Village, a hundred miles downstream of Anhuikou, Zhou Yu and Cao Cao's naval army chief Yu Jin have not had a good time these days, and are living a life of hardships and guarding the year.

When the navy did not dare to take the initiative to launch a decisive battle, it was a very painful thing to rely solely on the small troops to rely on layers of water camps to delay and lure the enemy into depth.

Yu Jin was very dissatisfied with Zhou Yu's concession from the beginning, and felt that this concession was meaningless. If he could beat him, he would fight him. If he couldn't beat him, he would retreat to Jiangbei.

What kind of power comparison can be changed by retreating and shrinking? Can you beat us now if you can’t beat it after retreating for a few hundred miles?

For this matter, Zhou Yu has been patient in explaining the strategic principle of water war to these generals from the north in recent days: if the defensive side with weak troops is not sure, the direct decisive battle will only be given in vain.

The value of retreat lies in leaving a portion of warships that can be abandoned in each water village and soldiers who can retreat deeper by land. As long as these water villages are sticking to each other, they can harass Li Su's retreat everywhere.

In this way, Li Su either chooses to spend three or five days preparing siege equipment before each water camp that was abandoned by Zhou Yu, and attacking these water camps on the water and land, or he has to leave more troops than the water camps to block the opening of these water camps into the Yangtze River channel.

If Li Su chooses to attack the camp one by one, then the troops left by Zhou Yu will decisively retreat after being surrounded by land and go to the inland tributary, and then cross the mountains by land to meet with the main force.

In this way, the deeper the attacking party goes, the more nails left behind. The attacking party's force will be weaker than the defense party. However, the defense party can only give up a portion of the worthless ship, and the living force can regroup.

Once the attacking party divides too much troops and does not provide enough fatigue, it is the time for the defensive party to turn to counterattack.

What's more, Zhou Yu had long thought of taking advantage of the heat and southeastern winds of the dog days. The typhoon weakened the ships and the heightened center of gravity of Li Su Shuijun.

Now it has been delayed, and there are only seven or eight days left before the scorching heat of the slums. After two more rains, the weather will be detrimental to Li Su. Of course, the plan must be implemented to the end. Give up two layers of water villages and shrink back, and the time will be almost enough.

Therefore, even if the defense loses a little blood every time he takes a step back, he still has to retreat. This is a life of survival in death. If he does it, he will still be in vain. If he does not do it, he will give it to you for nothing.

(Note: A book friend in the previous article questioned that Zhou Yu could not use the typhoon to set fire. Let me clarify that Zhou Yu had never expected to set fire on the typhoon to set fire on the typhoon. He was expecting that Li Su's ship would be overturned.

In history, the five-tooth warship has a high center of gravity and poor wave resistance, and is the most likely type of ship to overturn because the rod is too heavy, the head-heavy and the foot is light. The steeding ship with a relatively low center of gravity is smaller, but it is more stable.)

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Zhou Yu didn't want to explain these words, but who had to join forces with Yu Jin and use Yu Jin's water army to keep warm.

Yu Jin temporarily accepted Zhou Yu's explanation, but as the delay and delay tactic entered the fifth day, Yu Jin became impatient again.

He felt that Nanling might be attacked by Li Su from land and water. Should he consider letting Li Dian lead the army backwards, further filling the landing grounds on the two wings of Nanling Port, preventing Li Su from landing and annihilation of the enemy at the beach. At the same time, Zhu Ling and Luzhao have not retreated for a long time, which is also a little wrong.

At noon, Yu Jin finally couldn't hold back his anger and rushed straight into Zhou Yu's central army tent with impoliteness and showed up directly:

"Governor Zhou! Zhu Ling of our army, Luzhao, two lieutenants, will be sent to you to support Huang Gai to advance and retreat together, staying in Hulin to delay Li Su's harassment. It has been several days now.

We agreed at the beginning that if Li Su divided his troops to attack the village, they should have abandoned the village and retreated by land two days ago! It would not be Huang Gai's risk of seeking credit and he has been reluctant to implement the plan!"

Zhou Yu was under the short eaves, and he was short of troops and could only suffer from this kind of slight aura. He forced himself to smile at his friendly forces who supported him:

"General Yu, you should know that General Huang is a long-time general of the water war, Lingling, who has been in charge of the navy for more than ten years. He has rich experience and will definitely notice the danger. If he has not retreated, he may have really caught a good opportunity to attack Li Su's troops. As long as there is a little movement upstream and the time is right, I will definitely help you with your army and get out of here."

Yu Jin wanted to curse a few words, but he didn't hit the smiley person. Zhou Yu was so sincere, so he had to warn him:

"Anyway, if something happens this time, don't expect us to believe you next time! You must implement this tactic of resisting step by step, splitting troops and harassing, and at least ensure that the rear-end harassing troops that were left behind in the previous time can really retreat safely!

General Xiahou and General Cao entrusted these tens of thousands of naval troops to me, so I must be responsible for my brothers! Now my lord has completely eliminated the remnants of the bandits who fled Yuan Shu's army. There is no war elsewhere. He has been entrusted by Yuan Gong to be fully responsible for the war against Liu Bei on the southern front.

Our Lord was invited by Mr. Yuan to take Xun's envoy, Guo, to station his main force to Xuchang. He heard that Gao Shun expanded his army in Wancheng and I mainly helped Mr. Yuan to defend Yingchuan. In addition, our Lord also sent his adviser Cheng Zhongde to temporarily serve as General Xiahou to join the army, and Man Boning as General Cao to join the army.

These two gentlemen are both very intelligent. After they arrived, they asked Governor Zhou to negotiate with us and listen to the opinions of our army's advisers, even in water battles! Don't blame me for being rude. Governor Zhou, although you have strong water battles, you can be defeated repeatedly, which is enough to show that you are negligent in your wisdom!"

Zhou Yu was so angry that he was so angry that he heard these warnings.

Some people in this world criticize him for being negligent in his wisdom?!

Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin were also negligent in wisdom. How many people in the world can be considered wise? Is Cheng Yu more intelligent than him?

Of course, Cao Cao was slightly frustrated because the people who supported Sun Quan on the southern front were not trusted by the IQ of friendly generals and only trusted his own advisers. This is no problem. It is normal for human nature. Even if Zhou Yu is more intelligent than Cheng Yu, Cao Cao must have trusted Cheng Yu.

But it is still unacceptable to slap people in the face like this.

Zhou Yu was almost furious: I have been defeated several times in battles! But you don’t look at who my opponent is! Every time I meet Li Boya, I will be defeated! If the world changes to a naval commander, Zhou Gongjin has never been afraid of anyone!

If Li Su didn’t grasp the overall strategic situation, would these generals rather than coaches be his opponents?

Born at the wrong time! I kicked the hardest iron plate every time.

Anyway, Yu Jin's attitude is already very obvious:

If the troops left behind were delayed and unable to retreat, then you will fight Li Su steadily next time! You Wu people will join our Cao army to fight the second battle first! Or we will retreat directly into Ruxukou, go back to Chaohu to station and preserve our strength, and will not wading through the quagmire of your Jiangnan defense zone!

If Zhou Yu is willing to join Cao, you will give up Wu and come with him. He will work under Cao Gong's command. Cao Gong will definitely welcome you!

If you don’t want to come, your lord Sun Quan is already Cao Gong’s son-in-law, so you should die for yourself! Anyway, Cao Gong will guard his son-in-law’s land in Jiangbei and Huainan!

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Zhou Yu spent a whole afternoon to stabilize Yu Ban.

Unfortunately, no matter how good he promised verbally or how perfect the big pie he drew, he instilled Yu Jin's mission, vision and values, in the end he could not resist the persuasiveness of the facts.

Because in the evening, Li Su's army on the river approached again with great might, which made Zhou Yu and Yu Jin think that Li Su was going to launch a new wave of water attacks. They went up the enemy tower and watched, and commanded the catapults and crossbows in the water camp to prepare.

The Flying Fire God Crow, whose gunpowder quality is poor, can only burn jets but cannot explode, is also ready to take his seat and use bed crossbow to launch an approaching enemy ship.

Not to mention, in these few days, Yu Jin also became the first senior general in the Cao army to recognize this gunpowder weapon, and also observed the samples and used them at close range.

Of course, Yu Jin also wanted to tell this story about Liu Bei that it was known last year. Zhou Yu just copied something tangible and insane from a dud and introduced it to his lord Cao Cao. However, Yu Jin also knew in his heart that this kind of thing was not very useful in army combat.

At most, it is in the dry and rainy season. When robbing the camp, you can set fires, or cross the city walls to burn the houses in the city to create chaos. There are really no other use scenarios, and field battles are completely useless.

After the two armies set off, they did not wait for Li Su's attack. Li Sujun just lined up the five-tooth warships three or four hundred steps away, and each bow was lined up with hundreds of people shouting in unison, and used wooden rolled horns:

"Zhou Yu, my son, Yu Jin, listen, you stay in Hulin to defend, want to harass Huang Gai, Zhu Ling, Lu Zhao, I wanted to take advantage of the sky to break through the sky and fire last night, and I was ambushed by our army, and the entire army was wiped out!

Zhou Yu's fire plan is the best in the world! Unfortunately, he only burns his own people! Do you think you will have a chance to turn the tables when the dog days are in full bloom and when the strong winds are completely beneficial to you? Don't dream! Li Sikong's fire prevention ability is unparalleled in the world. Don't let Shu dogs bark on the sun, show off your skills!

I’m afraid you don’t believe it, so now I will follow the deputy generals around General Huang Gai, Zhu Ling, and Lu Zhao’s two captains who were captured. Fangshe will come back to let you know the truth!”

As he said that, Li Su's fleet actually put down two boats. One was full of the captives of Huang Gai's confidants, and the other was the captives of Cao's army. The captives were all disarmed, but they were given oars and rowing to them, and they asked them to row back by themselves.

"This... this is impossible!" Zhou Yu's face was ashamed, as if he was a ghost. He didn't even expect how Li Su could almost wipe out Huang Gai on the river.

If it is annihilated, there must be some escaping from the boat, right? The Yangtze River is so wide that there is no fish that can escape at night!

Or is it that Li Su came so quickly that the news he received was faster than the escaped soldiers who went downstream to find the main force of the army to return to the team.

Yu Jin was also surprised and shocked: "Zhou Yu?! You said that Huang Gai was a long-time general who fought over the years. Even in the Battle of Hanjin half a year ago, he was surrounded by the enemy and crossed the Dabie Mountains and retreated! How could such a thing happen now! Is the five or six thousand soldiers I left for Zhu Ling to kill to die in vain!"

Zhou Yu's mouth was dry: "Calm down! You have lost 6,000 people, but I have lost 10,000 people! Besides, it's not certain. Maybe Li Su made a fraud to shake our army's morale."

Yu Jin pointed to the river: "The captured soldiers who were released are also fake?"

Zhou Yu: "General Yu! Regardless of whether these people are fake or not, you must be isolated after you come back. We will tell the soldiers that these are fake! We cannot shake the morale of the army!"

Zhou Yu was actually incredibly surprised and surprised, but Yu Jin was so panicked that he could only resist the urge to vent his emotions, hold everything in his heart, and give his friendly troops a reassurance first.

Zhou Yu felt so sad. Yu Jin was so crazy that he tried to calm the morale of the army. He was so crazy that he had internal injuries. Who would persuade him?

He felt blood pressure soaring, and blood was overflowing from his nose, but he had to turn his face and not let others see it. He secretly wiped it with the corner of the battle flag flying upstairs, pretending that nothing had happened.
Chapter completed!