Liu Bei said solemnly: "This last wave of attacks is the most dangerous. If I were Thunder Lord, I would take advantage of the current high morale to seize Jiujiang County, Lujiang County, Nanyang County and other places, and push the battle line to the Yangtze River. , to lay the foundation for the next attack on Jiangnan. So now is also the most dangerous time for us. Only by resisting this attack can we be considered safe."
The fall of the territory north of the Yangtze River is not what Liu Bei wants to see, because all the land north of the Yangtze River has fallen, and the natural dangers of the Yangtze River are jointly owned by them and Dagan. And if it is a general northern regime, the navy is their natural flaw, and Liu Bei will not I am so worried, but it turns out that Daqian is completely different from other northern regimes. Not only is the cavalry powerful and numerous, but it also has an extremely powerful and powerful navy. In terms of combat effectiveness, this navy is not inferior to Liu Bei's hard work in cultivating it. If the north bank of the Yangtze River, which has been serving the Jingzhou Navy for more than 10 years, falls, the benefits of the Yangtze River will be shared between them and Da Gan. This is an extremely dangerous thing for Liu Bei.
Yuan Jidao: "Now our army has to divide its troops to garrison Jiujiang County and Jiangxia County, and the number of troops in Nanyang County must be reduced. If our army still wants to defend Nanyang County, it must give up some insignificant places, concentrate its forces on Wancheng, and rely on us. The superiority of the army and navy is at war with the large army!"
Liu Bei also had the same idea. Shortly after the news of Cao Cao's surrender reached Jingzhou, Liu Bei immediately ordered the Nanyang battlefield to shrink the defense line, abandon some unimportant strongholds, and concentrate his forces to defend those places that were easy to defend and difficult to attack. At the same time, Liu Bei ordered from Nanyang battlefield Deploy 50,000 troops to support Jiujiang County and Jiangxia County respectively!
At the same time, news of Cao Cao's surrender reached Huang Long and Yang Feng's troops.
Yang Feng said with great joy: "The entire Central Plains has been in the hands of our Da Gan Army. Now only Liu Bei is left in the entire Han Dynasty. As long as we defeat Liu Bei, the whole world will belong to my Da Gan Army. Huang Tian, the great virtuous teacher The promised land can finally be realized in our hands."
What Yang Feng said was extremely exciting. He was the boy next to Zhang Jiao back then. It can be said that he was raised by Zhang Jiao and could be regarded as Zhang Jiao's adopted son. Yang Feng also regarded Zhang Jiao as his father. For Zhang Jiao's He naturally wanted to realize his ideal, but he didn't have the ability to realize Zhang Jiao's ideal before. He gave up at first, but he didn't expect that after joining Xu Wei, his original ideal would actually shine. More than ten years later, Time has passed, and the great virtuous master’s original ideal will finally be realized in their hands.
But Zhang Baiqi said cautiously: "It's not the time to celebrate yet. Liu Bei still has half of the country in his hands, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops resisting us. And in the south of the Yangtze River, most of my army's cavalry has been destroyed. Well, in the past few months, although our army has occupied a lot of places with fierce attacks, our losses are still not small, especially the cavalry, which consumes a lot of money and cannot exert its strength at all."
What makes Zhang Baiqi most helpless at this time is that the cavalry is the sharpest spear in Daqian, but after arriving in Nanyang County, it is completely useless. Liu Bei has suffered too many losses from the cavalry over the years. This time Daqian's army After arriving in Nanyang County, Liu Bei's army either built fortifications on the hillside or stationed itself in the city. In short, they did not engage in field battles with the cavalry of the Daqian Army.
Zhang Baiqi had no choice but to retain 5,000 cavalry, and the rest of the cavalry was used by him to support the Xuzhou battlefield. Compared with Nanyang County, Xuzhou can exert the power of the cavalry even more!
Huang Long also looked helpless and said: "The battlefield in the south is indeed completely different from that in the north. Unexpectedly, our soldiers did not fall on the battlefield, but fell to disease. The weather in the south of the Yangtze River is very different from that in the Central Plains. Our army has too many
Those who are acclimatized, we must make more preparations next time. Otherwise, the land of Jiangnan will not be so easy to conquer."
Since Yang Feng, Huang Long, and Zhang Baiqi joined together, they have more than 200,000 troops, nearly twice as many as Liu Bei. Their equipment is superior, the number of artillery far exceeds that of the Han army, and the combat effectiveness of the Han army is also great.
However, the result of the battle here in Nanyang County was not very good. It can even be said that the difficulties were completely beyond their expectations.
Liu Bei established an extremely strong defense system in Nanyang County. Even if they conquered a city and destroyed a fort, it would be difficult for them to cause great damage to the defense system of Nanyang County. Of course, these are nothing, a big deal.
They just use artillery to attack slowly, and when it comes to logistics, their cadres are always much stronger than the big guys.
However, the climate in the Jiangnan water town greatly weakened their combat effectiveness, which was something Zhang Baiqi and the others did not expect.
Originally, Zhang Baiqi thought that attacking Jingzhou in winter would be a clever plan. He would not have to experience the rainy season between spring and summer in Jiangnan, but could also avoid the plague in spring and summer.
Most of the soldiers brought by the Daqian Army were from the north, and their winter cold tolerance was definitely better than that of Liu Bei's Jiangnan Army, not to mention that they also had clothes made of cold-proof fabrics like woolen cloth. How do you think they would be used on the battlefield?
He is always on their side.
But reality slapped Zhang Baiqi hard. Although the winter in the south of the Yangtze River is not cold, it is heavy with moisture. Compared with the dry and cold in the north, the cold and wet in the south is even more unbearable. Zhang Baiqi and his 200,000 troops attacked
During this period in Jiangnan, it rained nearly half of the time. The rain was not heavy, but it made it difficult for them to attack Liu Bei.
Moreover, after it rains in winter, the land is difficult to dry and muddy, and every time it rains, a large number of sick soldiers will appear in the army. Under such circumstances, it is obviously extremely difficult for the attacking side, so they
Every attack was extremely embarrassing.
After Zhang Baiqi experienced two months here, he had to admit with difficulty that the winter in the south of the Yangtze River was actually colder than in the north. At first, he thought it was an illusion, but as one of his northern Han soldiers fell ill, he finally
I have to admit that the winter in the south of the Yangtze River is more difficult than in the north. Many soldiers cannot afford to fall ill. It can be said that in the past two months, the number of soldiers who fell on the battlefield in the world is not as many as those who were knocked down by the cold wave.
If it weren't for the large number of doctors in Daqian's army and the fact that these soldiers were immediately quarantined after falling ill, Zhang Baiqi would have been worried that the plague would appear among his army.
Fortunately, the logistics supplies were relatively timely. Their army had a large number of herbal medicines and doctors to treat these diseases. They controlled the outbreak of the disease at the very beginning and prevented these sick soldiers from becoming a plague. This made Zhang Baiqi
He was so lucky, because a plague broke out in Jingzhou a year ago. If the plague broke out in his army, he would die without mercy.