The battle lasted from morning to evening until midnight.
When the embankments of Jiangling City burst and the foundation collapsed, which coincided with Huang Zhong's arrival, Lu Meng was already in dire straits.
When they retreated to the dock, less than half of the people on board the ship were blocked. Lu Meng and Xu Sheng were blocked by Huang Zhong. One was beheaded and the other was captured alive. The navy completely collapsed.
The half on land was not much better. Shen Chen and Huang Zhong were outflanking each other, and the docks were full of Jiangdong soldiers running around. Even if Yu Fan continued to command and even fought with a spear in person, the decline could not be restored.
Gan Ning, the general under Shen Chen, took the lead and killed Yu Fan in the rebellious army. Finally, before dark, all tens of thousands of Jiangdong's troops surrendered, and only a few took advantage of the chaos to break through the encirclement and escape.
The sun has not set yet, and the sky is still covered with thick lead-grey clouds. In the fierce north wind, the waves are rolling into the sky, mixed with the slanting drizzle that caresses the face.
On the vast Yunmengze Lake, hundreds of ships were lined up in order. The soldiers were cleaning the battlefield. Some were cleaning the decks, some were carrying corpses, and some were changing directions and sailing to the shore.
Huang Zhong kicked the body of a Jiangdong soldier into the lake, and then ordered his men to gather up our soldiers and temporarily place them in the cabin, waiting for them to be transported and buried after they docked.
The Liu Bei Group followed the battlefield cleaning regulations customized by Shen Chen, and the corpses of both the enemy and ourselves must be properly placed. But in this case, Jiangdong's corpse obviously could not get the respect it deserved, and could only be thrown into the lake to feed the fish, because they had other things to do. To do.
After Huang Zhong's ship docked, he quickly disembarked and, under the guidance of his officers, came to a hillside near the east dock, where Shen Chen's flag of General Zuo was planted, which was the command center of the Jingzhou Army.
"General Zuo!"
Huang Zhong threw Lü Meng's head to the ground, stepped forward and saluted with his hands in his hands: "Fortunately, I have lived up to my command. This is Lü Meng's head."
Shen Chen had met Lu Meng several times, and of course he recognized him. He nodded and said, "Okay, Duke Sheng of the Han Dynasty showed great power in this battle. He captured Xu Sheng alive, killed Lu Meng, and showed his power to the king of Hanzhong. He is really a talented person in Sheji."
"This is all because the general commanded well. Huang Zhong did not dare to be greedy for credit."
Huang Zhong replied.
"The general will be strong and strong, and his integrity will still be alive."
Shen Chen looked around and said: "The general should take the lead in this battle. I will report to the King of Hanzhong and ask for the title of general."
"Thank you, General Zuo!"
Huang Zhong's face was neither sad nor happy. He only had one son, Huang Xu, who died of illness in his early years. Now he has no heirs. He no longer cares about his merits or demerits.
Seeing his expression, Shen Chen probably knew the reason, but he didn't mention it. He just said: "The Jiangling offensive is going well. Now is the time for our counterattack. Can the general and soldiers still fight?"
Huang Zhong said in a deep voice: "I should be able to fight."
"good."
Shen Chen issued a military order: "General, set off immediately and go straight to Shaxian."
"only!"
Huang Zhong took the order.
"Where is Gan Ning?"
"The end is here!"
Gan Ning, who killed the enemy spearman Yu Fan in the rebel army, came out.
Shen Chen said: "I order you to lead 20,000 people, seize the ships of Jiangdong Navy, put on our flag, go with General Huang, and take the state mausoleum directly. Don't run away from Sun Quan."
"promise!"
Gan Ning responded and left.
At that moment, the two men led the army and set off at starry night, heading straight for Xiakou.
Jiangling is the city of Jingzhou in later generations, and the Shaxian area in Xiakou is the city of Wuhan in later generations. The straight-line distance is only 200 kilometers by land, but if you take the Yangtze River by water, you have to walk more than 400 kilometers. Although it is still faster than the land route, it also takes a detour. farther.
But there was a shortcut. At that time, there was a large area of water in the middle of Yunmengze. In later generations, the area from Jiangling County to Jianli City was a large lake, and many places south of Qianjiang City were already land.
Therefore, it was divided into Xiyunmengze and Dongyunmengze during the Han Dynasty. Dongyunmengze was the area north of Honghu in later generations, to Xiantao City, Hanchuan City, and Hannan District and Hanyang District of Wuhan.
For example, Huarong County in the Han Dynasty was located on the land east of Xiyun Mengze. After Cao Cao failed in the Battle of Chibi, he retreated there from the Honghu Lake area. This area was basically swamp lakes at that time. Historical records record that Cao Cao almost relied on stepping on
Huarong fled back carrying the corpses of old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers.
But the two Yunmengze lakes are not completely connected. There is a river named Xiasui that connects the two lakes and eventually merges into the Han River. Therefore, if you sail from Xiyunmengze and take the Xiasui, you can go directly to Zhouzhou.
Mausoleum and Shaxian.
As a result, the time that originally took five or six days by land and two or three days by water was greatly reduced. It only took one and a half days to reach the Wuhan area from Jiangling in later generations.
Huang Zhong and Gan Ning left Xia Shui. After they entered Dongyun Mengze, they divided their troops into two groups and attacked Zhouling and Shaxian respectively.
Shen Chen led the remaining troops and divided them into two groups. One group used the waterway to attack Yidao with the ships of Jiangdong Navy, and the other group sent Zhao Yun and Samoko directly to Yiling.
At this time, Sun Jiao's army in Yiling and Yidao was in chaos. In the early morning, the riverside sentry in Yidao discovered the fleet in the heavy rain.
Although Sun Jiao had a boat, he could not stop him or catch up with him.
Secondly, his strength is also insufficient, with only 30,000 people, he is simply unable to compete with him.
Therefore, they could only watch Huang Zhong's fleet swaggering away in front of him.
After Huang Zhong left, the scouts quickly reported the news to Sun Jiao. Sun Jiao learned that there were hundreds of warships heading south from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. He was very anxious and planned to take a boat to help Jiangling immediately.
But he suffered a disadvantage because his army was divided into two groups.
Because the number of people in Sun Jiao's tribe was originally the smallest, 30,000 people originally raised troops from Jingnan, and more than 10,000 and nearly 20,000 troops from aristocratic families joined along the way. As a result, Zhao Yun and Samoko raided Zhijiang, and all the forces of these aristocratic families dispersed.
In order to block Liu Bei's march route from Yizhou, just like Lu Xun stationed troops in Yidao and Yiling in history, he dispersed the main force on the north and south sides.
Although he could effectively prevent the army from Yizhou, the Yangtze River, which was two to three miles wide, was difficult to defend. In addition, the troops were scattered, which made it very difficult for him to defend his camp if he wanted to rush for reinforcements.
Even so, after noon, he organized a force of 20,000 people, led by Ding Feng and Song Qian, and rushed to Jiangling for rescue.
Yiling is only more than a hundred kilometers away from Jiangling. The fleet goes down the river very fast. In addition, the wind and rain are much lighter in the afternoon, so it should arrive in less than three hours.
But they had just arrived at Jiangling, and the battle in Jiangling had already ended. They met Shen Chen's fleet head-on. It was too late for Ding Feng and Song Qian to divert. As the sun set in the evening, they took advantage of the faint remaining light.
Soon, the two sides began to fight.
The battlefield only lasted less than an hour, because it soon became dark and nothing could be seen clearly. Taking this opportunity, Ding Feng and Song Qian immediately threw away Shen Chen's troops, some went straight to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and some diverted back.
Shen Chen originally wanted to take a boat to go north to Zhijiang to meet Zhao Yun and Samoko first, and then send troops to attack Sun Jiao during the day tomorrow, but was interrupted by Ding Feng and Song Qian. It was already dark, so it was obviously not easy to go upstream again.
So he ordered to return to Jiangling. Jiangling was flooded and he would definitely not be able to return, so he temporarily stationed himself at Yunmengze Pier. The soldiers slept on the boat and waited until early tomorrow morning to send out troops again.
That night, Huang Zhong and Gan Ning galloped through the starry night and headed straight for Zhouling and Shaxian. On the next afternoon, Zhouling was besieged. Cheng Pu, the defender of Zhouling, resisted with difficulty. Ganning's troops went to Xiakou to join forces with Huangshe's troops. Besieged Sun Quan in Shaxian.
"What?"
In Shaxian County, at dusk on the second day, Sun Quan received a piece of news that shocked him in the county government mansion.
Lü Meng's army was completely wiped out, and only a few thousand people escaped in the chaos.
The battlefield was extremely chaotic at that time, but some small boats took the opportunity to escape into Yunmengze, followed the Xia River into Dongyunmengze, and successfully returned to Shaxian.
Among them were the troops of Quanzong and Zhu Ran.
At present, Zhu Ran arrived first, covered in mud, and said to Sun Quan in the county government residence in a state of embarrassment: "Marquis Wu, Huang Zhong suddenly burst out from the Yangtze River waterway, with hundreds of battleships and no less than 50,000 troops. It happened that Jiangling's city wall collapsed due to heavy rain. , Shen Chen and Huang Zhong took advantage of the rain to attack fiercely, and the governor had to retreat to the dock. They were attacked by them, and nearly all of the tens of thousands of troops were killed."
"Bang!"
Sun Quan sat back on the table, his eyes dull, no longer as high-spirited and bright as when he sent out troops.
Lu Xun quickly asked: "How is General Sun doing?"
"It's not known yet."
Zhu Ran replied: "They came suddenly from the rain. They must have been lying in wait for a long time."
"How could this happen? How could this happen?"
Sun Quan murmured to himself: "Liu Bei's main force is clearly still in Hanzhong. Even if he still has troops and horses behind him, how could he have so many big ships?"
"I'm afraid they have already planned it."
Zhuge Jin thought of a possibility and suddenly shuddered: "Did they already guess that Wu Hou was going to attack Jingzhou, so they arranged it early?"
"Is there an insider?"
Sun Quan's eyes suddenly burst out with murderous intent, he glanced at Zhuge Jin fiercely, and said through gritted teeth: "Zhuge Jin, isn't your second brother serving as prime minister under Liu Bei's account?"
Zhuge Jin was stunned for a moment, and then he felt chilled. After a moment, he said silently: "If Marquis Wu thinks that I leaked the secret, please kill me. But what I want to tell Marquis Wu is that this matter has always been Only Wu Hou, Zijing and Ziming know about it, I don't know the specific plan."
"Forehead"
Sun Quan calmed down for a moment, and noticed the strange looks in the eyes of Gu Yong, Kan Ze, Sun Shao, Yan Zhen, Lu Xun and others, and hurriedly said: "Gu Gu naturally trusts Ziyu. Gu is just impatient for a moment. I hope Ziyu won't blame him." .”
"The top priority now is to think about countermeasures."
Gu Yong quickly changed the topic.
"Ziming. The lonely Ziming"
Sun Quan didn't hear Gu Yong's words at all, because he suddenly thought of Lu Meng and the tens of thousands of troops he lost. He was filled with grief and continued to complain.
Yan Zhen advised: "Wu Hou, now is not the time to be sad, you should think of countermeasures."
"What countermeasures can be taken?"
Sun Quan's face was ashen, and his face was full of pain.
Lu Xun immediately said: "For the current plan, first, withdraw the troops immediately, and then send a letter to Liu Bei asking for peace. There is still a chance of survival. Second, defend Shaxian and Zhouling and wait for Cao Cao's reinforcements."
"Cao Cao's reinforcements?"
Gu Yong sneered and said: "The envoys they came yesterday said that it was raining heavily and there were not enough rain gear, so they could not send troops. If they really wanted to come, they would have come long ago. Why bother to make such excuses? Nanyang has a population of one million and still lacks rain gear? "
Sun Shao said: "I'm afraid this is Cao Cao's snipe and clam tussle to get a profit, but the premise of this plan is that we are evenly matched. Now that most of the governors have been defeated and Jiangdong has been overthrown, Cao Cao will definitely send troops."
"But how long can Sha Xian and Zhou Ling hold out? Shen Chen and Huang Zhong's tribe, plus Huang She's tribe, may have more than 100,000 and nearly 200,000 troops, but now we only have 50,000 troops, and most of the governors have been defeated. When the news comes, morale will definitely be low and there is no way to stop it."
"Then should we withdraw our troops?"
"Of course we have to withdraw, but now the most urgent task is to withdraw our troops to defend and lure Cao's army south. Only by making them fight can we preserve our strength."
"Yes, Marquis Wu, we should withdraw our troops immediately. We can no longer fight."
Many counselors talked about it.
Some people advocated immediately contacting Cao's army to come south for reinforcements, while others advocated withdrawing troops.
Everyone has a point.
Sun Quan said blankly: "Are we going to withdraw our troops? Why is this happening?"
Lu Xun sighed: "God did not protect Jiangdong, and the heavy rain caused the city wall to collapse. Otherwise, even if Liu Bei had an ambush, the governor would have been able to hold on until reinforcements arrived."
"Then what should we do now? Even if Ziming is defeated, what about Sun Jiao? Will Sun Jiao not go to save him?"
Sun Quan asked loudly, almost crying.
Lu Xun sighed: "If Shen Chen is not stupid, he will definitely go straight to Yiling and Yidao. We are far away in Shaxian and can no longer rescue him."
"The lonely Jiangdong sons and daughters, are you going to watch them die?"
The emotions in Sun Quan's heart were sad and angry. He wanted to cry but couldn't. He wanted to vent but didn't know how to vent. What was more, he was panic and fear. He didn't know what his future fate would be, nor did he know the future of Jiangdong. What will be the fate of .
Sun Shao said: "Marquis Wu, as the commander-in-chief is defeated, Shen Chen will definitely go down the river and take Shaxian directly. We should retreat immediately."
"Yes."
Kan Ze also said: "The current situation is reversed. Once we are besieged by Shen Chen, Liu Bei will send troops to continue coming. By then, Jiangdong will be in danger."
"solitary"
At this time, Sun Quan already felt desperate and had a splitting headache. He waved his hand and said with difficulty: "Let me, let me think about it carefully."
As he spoke, he put his hands on the table and forced himself to get up and go to the backyard.
But as soon as he stood up, he was already shaky.
This sudden news shocked him so much that his legs had already become weak.
Really, he couldn't afford to lose this battle. If he lost, the foundation of three generations of Jiangdong would be destroyed in one fell swoop, leaving him mentally and physically exhausted and extremely sad.
"Wu Hou."
Zhu Cai, the guard next to him, quickly supported him.
"Marquis Wu, the overall situation is our top priority. We cannot hesitate. If we don't withdraw our troops now, I'm afraid Shaxian will also be surrounded by Shen Chen."
"Marquis Wu, we should immediately send an envoy north to ask for help and let Cao's army go south to help."
"Yeah, it's better to make a decision as soon as possible."
Everyone tried to persuade him.
At this time, Jiang Qin came to report outside the door: "Report, Wu Hou, something bad has happened. Huang Zhong has surrounded Zhouling. Gan Ning's fleet has also arrived at Xiakou, met Huang She, and is now attacking Sha Xian." .”
Sun Quan felt his eyes go dark, his feet went weak, and he almost fainted.
"Wu Hou."
"Wu Hou."
"Wu Hou."
Everyone was shocked and rushed to lift it.
"solitary"
Sun Quan said with difficulty: "Gu Wuxiao, withdraw your troops, withdraw your troops, withdraw your troops!"
He shouted three times, using all his strength.
Now Sun Jiao can no longer be taken care of. The main force on Lu Meng's side has been annihilated, and he only has 50,000 men on hand. Then he is besieged by Shen Chen, and all the troops in Jiangdong are wiped out. Yangzhou has no troops to defend, and only needs to send tens of thousands. Then we can capture the entire Jiangdong.
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