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Chapter 724 The first defeat

Yesterday morning, Sun Jian suddenly launched a raid on the Qin army's water camp with his navy. Although the Qin army's water camp has never been careless, because Sun Jian had been planning for a long time and the offensive was fierce, the outer water camp was broken shortly after the battle. Immediately afterwards, Zhou Tai took the fire ships as the leader, and the fast ships stayed behind and launched a strong attack on the Qin army's core water camp.

The Qin navy fought to the death, but the defense line of the core water camp was about to be broken. At this most critical moment, Gan Ning personally led the most elite death-killing man in the navy, and suddenly opened the gate of the core water camp and came out. Sun Jian's army did not expect that under this situation, the Qin navy would launch a counterattack, so it was unprepared and was killed in a mess for a while. Gan Ning took the opportunity to counterattack, but the counterattack momentum was quickly curbed by Zhou Tai. Gan Ning, Zhou Tai, the two most powerful generals in the navy led their elite troops to fight fiercely in the Qin army's outer water camp. The sound of killing was shocking the sky; the entire river surface was like boiling water; one after another warship rose a fire, and the flames reflected the river surface into blood red.

While the naval forces on both sides fought bloody battles, Xiahou Dun led 5,000 Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and Huang Gai led 50,000 infantry and cavalry to cross the river from a rather turbulent area outside Tu Tang in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Although this is the water surface of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the water flow is quite turbulent due to the sudden narrowing and drop of the river channel. Therefore, Zhang Liao and Xu Shu did not arrange many defensive troops here, and only two thousand infantrymen of the Fourth Corps stationed here.

After the 55,000 Sun Cao coalition army crossed the river, they immediately launched a strong attack on the infantrymen of the 2,000 Fourth Army guarding here. Although the Qin army had only 2,000 people, they still fought to the death and the battle went on quite fiercely. When the remaining two hundred people of the Qin army were surrounded by groups, they did not show any fear. They were calm in the face of the other party's persuasion to surrender. When the last Qin soldier fell down, more than half an hour had passed since the Sun Cao coalition army launched an attack.

Immediately afterwards, nearly 60,000 Sun Cao's coalition forces launched a strong attack on the infantry camp stationed on the left side of Hengjiang camp. The 18,000 soldiers of the Fourth Left Battalion were stationed in the left camp.

The Sun Cao coalition used an oil tank that had been prepared long ago to open the outer fence of Zuoying several places. This oil tank was recently developed by craftsmen under Sun Jian. Sun Jian, considering that the Qin army's sky-bombing thunder is amazing, he ordered craftsmen to develop weapons that can balance the sky-bombing thunder. After nearly a year of research, although the craftsmen failed to understand the sky-bombing thunder, they created this oil tank that although the bombardment power is inferior to that of the sky-bombing thunder but the combustion power is far stronger than that of the sky-bombing thunder. This oil tank is made of the stored fish oil and sulfur and saltpeter mixed in a certain proportion and then packaged in a closed pot.

The Sun-Cao coalition used this powerful oil tank to blast open the outer gate of the Zuoying camp. Immediately afterwards, the most elite tiger and leopard cavalry took the lead in the camp, and a large group of people followed. The Cao army's tiger and leopard cavalry roared, and their voices were extremely horrifying. They seemed to vent all the depression of losing again and again in the past six months.

The soldiers of the Left Battalion of the Fourth Army of the Qin Army fought to the death to resist the attack of the Sun Cao coalition. Although the number was far inferior to that of the opponent, they stepped on the bodies of their comrades to bring back the initial unfavorable situation; the elite tiger and leopard cavalry wielded long swords and ran around the camp, but they could not tear open the line of the Left Battalion soldiers.

Just as the war entered a stalemate stage, countless spherical objects flew over the heads of the soldiers on both sides who were fighting and fell into the Qin army's front. Then balls of fireballs rose up in the Qin army's front. The originally rigorous Qin army's front was soon full of holes. Sun Cao's coalition took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack, and the elite tiger and leopard cavalry broke through the Qin army's front in one breath from both left and right directions. The Qin army fought and retreated, and it was very difficult to resist.

Seeing that the situation was over, the general of the Zuoying camp ordered a unit to intercept the enemy, and then led the remaining 5,000 soldiers to retreat towards the Hengjiang camp.

Xiahou Dun led the five thousand tiger and leopard cavalry to get rid of the intercepted Qin army and fought to the Qin army that was retreating to the Hengjiang camp. At this moment, these remaining soldiers of the Left Camp of the Fourth Legion no longer had their previous momentum, and many of them seemed a little panicked. If the general of the Left Camp led his troops to stay in the camp to fight to the death, then these Left Camp soldiers might not show any fear until the moment they died in the end. However, the general of the Left Camp ordered a retreat, which removed the momentum of the death battle. Therefore, the soldiers of the Left Camp were instinctively scared.

The general of the Zuoying camp was no longer able to escape, so he had to order his subordinates to stop retreating and arrange the array immediately. However, it was too late to arrange the array at this moment.

Before the five thousand soldiers of the Left Camp had time to set up the formation, Xiahou Dun arrived first and danced a mace. Several Qin soldiers on the head were knocked away. Xiahou Dun urged his horse to enter the Qin army formation, which immediately caused a huge rain of blood. Five thousand tiger and leopard cavalry followed and crashed into the Qin army's unformed front, instantly crashing into the Qin army's front. Five thousand tiger and leopard cavalry were like a mountain collapse and tsunami tsunami tsunami. Five thousand tiger and leopard cavalry were like a tsunami sank.

Killed into the Qin army formation. Five thousand Qin army infantry could not resist such an attack at all. The Qin army infantry under the iron hooves fell down like wheat in the strong wind. Although the Qin army soldiers fought back to death, they could not save the defeat at all. The remaining Qin army infantry finally collapsed, and more than two thousand people fled in the direction of Hengjiang camp. Xiahou Dun led his iron cavalry to chase after him, and the scene showed a one-sided massacre.

Just as the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was chasing the defeated soldiers of the Zuoying Camp, the Right King led 20,000 Xiongnu cavalry to appear. The two sides launched a battle on the plains, with tens of thousands of iron cavalry running around, with iron hooves rolling, and the sound was like thunder. Finally, the cavalry battle ended with the voluntary withdrawal of the Cao army's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

The Right Xian King rode his horse to the general of Zuoying. At this moment, the general of Zuoying was injured, but his injuries were not very serious and he seemed a little embarrassed.

"Youxian King, has General Zhang Liao already learned the news here?" asked the General of Zuoying.

The Youxian King said: "If I don't know, I won't be here anymore! General Zhang Liao has an order to order Zuoying to withdraw to Juchao County immediately!"

The general of Zuoying glanced at the hundreds of people who had just been terrified by his side and smiled bitterly: "There are only so many people under my Zuoying!"

The Youxian King said: "Military information is urgent, let's talk about it on the road!"

The general of Zuoying nodded and stepped onto the war horse led by a Hun cavalry. Then the remaining hundreds of people from Zuoying followed the Hun army towards Juchao County.

"Youxian King, although this Sun-Cao coalition army came suddenly, the number was less than 60,000. Why did the general order the entire army to retreat?" asked the general of the Zuoying in confusion.

The Youxian King said: "You don't know that when our navy was suppressed, Sun Jian concentrated 150,000 troops to launch a strong attack from the front!"

"Did our army not hold it?"

The Right Xianwang shook his head and said, "No! Sun Jian's offensive has been suppressed by our army. However, at this moment, the scout heard that Chao County, the important logistics area, was captured by the Sun Cao coalition, and the logistics baggage turned into ashes!"

"How could there be 10,000 soldiers stationed in Chao County?" The general of Zuoying seemed very surprised.

The Youxian King frowned and replied: "Sun Jian's army used something similar to our army's thunder. Our army did not expect this and was blown up by the other party. Then 30,000 Sun Cao's coalition forces entered, and 10,000 soldiers of our army were basically killed!"

The general of Zuoying frowned and nodded when he thought of the weapon he had encountered before that similar to the thunder bombardment he had encountered.

Zhang Liao and Xu Shu had already led the Fourth Army and most of the Xiongnu Army to leave the Hengjiang Camp and then retreated to Juchao County. The Ganning navy broke through the encirclement of Sun Jian's navy and entered the Yangtze River. Then they went up the Shuo River and finally retreated into Juchao Lake. This was Xu Shu's suggestion.

At noon that day, Zhang Liao led all troops to retreat to Chao County. However, the Sun-Cao coalition did not pursue the victory.

"Lord, why don't we pursue the victory?" Huang Gai asked unwillingly.

Sun Jian smiled and said, "Although the Qin army was defeated, the strength did not suffer much loss. Our army should not be greedy for merit and advance recklessly!"

"What the lord said is very true!" A man next to Sun Jian with an ugly literati looking up at the sky smiled. This person did not seem to have appeared around Sun Jian before. Who is he

Huang Gai was not a reckless person. When he heard the two of them say this, he nodded and stepped back into the line.
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