The news that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were captured alive was amplified by Gao Fei, and soon the news spread to the south of the Han River.
In the main hall of Xiangyang City, Liu Bei had just received the battle report. Only Du Xi, one of the 50,000 Han troops, had returned unscathed. The rest were drowned, captured, and beheaded, too many to count.
Before he could even recover, the 50,000-strong army was gone.
The defeat of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei shocked all the civil and military officials in Xiangyang City. For a while, the sky above Xiangyang City was covered with rain. The original movers who moved the capital immediately turned into surrenderers, and they all advised Liu Bei to surrender to the Huaxia Kingdom to avoid disaster in Jingzhou.
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Liu Bei has been in Jingzhou for several years. Although he has promoted many young people to work for him, among the complex factions in Jingzhou, the big families who have already reconciled with each other and changed to support Liu Bei will naturally choose how to protect themselves once danger comes.
If they surrender, they can continue to serve as officials. If they resist, they will probably be killed.
"Report——"
The Weiwei broke in from outside the hall, with a look of panic on his face. As soon as he entered the hall, he immediately knelt on the ground and shouted loudly: "Report to the Emperor, the General, the Chief Sima and the others..."
Liu Bei panicked and seemed to have an ominous premonition. He asked, "What happened to them? Tell me quickly!"
"General, Grand Sima and the others... they surrendered..." The guard finally told what he saw.
"What did you say?" Liu Bei was surprised, "But you saw it with your own eyes? Second brother, third brother and the others..."
"It is indeed what I saw with my own eyes. This morning, at dawn, I inspected the defense along the river in accordance with His Majesty's imperial edict. Suddenly I saw more than a dozen large ships lined up in the middle of the river. The general and the commander were standing on the flagship, calling.
They lured our army to surrender, but I couldn't believe it, so I boarded the ship to take a closer look, and found that the two men were indeed the General and the Chief Sima, so I quickly ran to inform Your Majesty."
After hearing this, Liu Bei frowned. In his heart, he originally didn't want to believe that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei would surrender to Gao Fei easily because they had a deep brotherhood. However, when he thought about it, Gao Fei had three times.
Let Zhang Fei go four times
, and Zhang Fei was at loggerheads with him because of the poisoning incident on his Zhangba Snake Spear last time. He could roughly predict that Gao Fei should have used sweet words to deceive Zhang Fei's trust, and then Zhang Fei
He also tried to persuade Guan Yu, but both of them surrendered together.
"It can't be wrong...it must be like this...Second brother, third brother, you are really going against me?" Liu Bei thought about it for a while, and he slumped on the emperor's throne. Without Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, he just
It was like losing his two arms, how could he remain unmoved by it.
"Your Majesty! I believe that this is a trick by the enemy to confuse the truth with lies. Although I have not seen it with my own eyes, I can be sure that given the friendship between the General, Chief Sima and Your Majesty, they will never surrender to the enemy so easily.
.If the two of them really want to seek refuge, they should
They brought 50,000 troops to surrender together, so that they could have the confidence to speak in the Huaxia Kingdom. You can't believe everything. Your Majesty, General, knows the appearance of the Great Sima best. Why don't you board the warship and go
You can tell by looking at the north bank." Zhuge Liang said from the side.
After hearing this, Liu Bei felt that what Zhuge Liang said was very reasonable. He glared at the Weiwei and said loudly: "The Weiwei lied about the military situation and should be punished for his crimes. He should be pushed out and beheaded in public!"
The guard had a chill in his face and hurriedly shouted for mercy.
When Zhuge Liang saw this, he begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, Sir Weiwei was just temporarily confused. The crime will not lead to death, so it is better to be dismissed temporarily."
Liu Bei said angrily: "No! Come here! Push the guard out and behead him in public. If anyone dares to surrender lightly, I will definitely kill him!"
Killing chickens to scare monkeys was originally a beautiful trick. Unfortunately, it was not the right time for Liu Bei. At this time, the enemy was facing the enemy. It was not how to kill chickens to scare monkeys to show the majesty of the emperor, but to win over people's hearts and strive to impress every official present.
, risking one's life to protect one's home and country.
Zhuge Liang saw that Liu Bei had mishandled the situation and refused to listen to him, so he just shook his head helplessly. He saw a panic on the faces of the ministers, as if everyone was in danger, and secretly thought in his heart: "Could it be that... I
Is it really wrong to choose Liu Bei? Pang Shiyuan, where are you now? If you were here, maybe we could put aside our past grudges and fight side by side. As long as we block this military front, the world will begin to change..."
Before the court was dismissed, officials from the Prime Minister's Office were seen entering the main hall wearing filial piety, crying and shouting: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty the Prime Minister has already gone to Hexi..."
Blessings never come in pairs, and misfortunes never come alone. Xu Shao, the prime minister of the Jing and Han Dynasties, finally couldn't resist the disease and passed away just now.
After Liu Bei heard this, he was deeply shocked and immediately announced a national funeral for Xu Shao.
After the court meeting ended, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang rode out of Xiangyang City together and went straight to the navy camp on the south bank of the Han River.
When the navy commander He Qia heard that Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were coming in person, he hurriedly lined up to welcome him. It was still snowing in the sky and the snow on the ground was deep. He Qia asked people to clear a road and lay out a red carpet for Liu Bei's arrival.
After Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang entered the navy camp, they had no time to go into the tent to warm up, so they ordered to summon twenty warships, boarded the ships in person, and left the shore under the protection of the guards.
In order to keep a low profile, Liu Bei did not fly the imperial flag, but only used the harmonious banner as a guide. He himself hid in the cabin and looked out through the gaps.
At this time, heavy snowflakes were falling. Although the Han River was not frozen, the visibility on the river was very low. Under the hazy sky, the whole world was white.
The beacon smoke rises in the northern country, and the sky and the earth become vast.
On the north bank of the Han River, the Huaxia army was busy building a dock. The cold weather still couldn't hide the Chinese army's enthusiastic spirit. In yesterday's battle, the Huaxia army won the first battle, sweeping away the bad luck of the past month and a half. It was considered a victory.
To avenge my brother who died before.
On the north bank of the Han River, patrol teams alternated. There were still thirty patrol small warships on the river. On each warship, there were twenty soldiers holding shields, forming a chain on the river. Once
When any abnormality was discovered, gongs and drums were immediately sounded to alert the troops on the shore.
Gao Fei was still making plans with the civil and military officials in the tent. Because of the cold weather and the poor ability of pigeons to withstand the cold, there was no convenient and fast way to communicate with Wu Jun, and he could only travel through scouts. For this reason, Bian Xi
He personally led his army of scouts to the front line. In addition to paying close attention to the movements of the Han army, he also always paid attention to the movements of the Wu army, because the previous actions of the Wu army's four armies to capture the four counties in Jingnan made Gao Fei even more worried.
"This is the entire topographic map of Jingzhou. When I was under Liu Biao's tent, I traveled all over Jingzhou and was very familiar with the geographical location of Jingzhou. Now the Wu army has occupied the five counties of Jiangxia, Guiyang, Lingling, Wuling and Changsha.
land, and surrounded Jiangling, the county seat of Nanjun, with a large army.
Once Jiangling is captured by the Wu army, I am afraid that the biggest beneficiary of the capture of Jingzhou will be Soochow." Huang Zhong pointed to the preview map of Jingzhou's surface that he carefully made, made of sand and soil, with small flags in three colors.
It can be seen at a glance in different places.
After hearing this, Gao Fei said slowly: "It seems that Soochow is not as easy to deal with as I thought. I thought Soochow would follow my routine, but I overlooked one problem. Soochow's army is not our Chinese country's."
The army, I have no right to order them to do anything. For example
If Liu Bei is destroyed, our army can only occupy one county of Nanyang. Even if it captures Xiangyang and moves quickly to push the front line to the Yangtze River, it can only occupy half of Nanyang County. After hard work of conquering the city and seizing the land, it is still impossible.
I really feel unwilling to make a wedding dress for others."
"Your Majesty, you don't have to be like this. This may not be a bad thing. The battle plan formulated by our army is not wrong, but we did not estimate at that time that the Han army would make a desperate move and adopt the strategy of sticking to two cities and abandoning a large number of counties in Jingzhou.
.Although our army occupied a small area, it occupied relatively fertile land with sufficient water resources and fertile farmland.
More than half of the food in Jingzhou is produced in the Jianghan Plain. Before Soochow launched a war, they went to capture the city first. It can be seen that Soochow aimed to seize the city rather than attack the city. Although Jiangling was surrounded this time, the officials
It is speculated that the Wu army will not attack rashly, but will wait for our army to attack first and then profit from it." Sima Yi analyzed.
After hearing this, Gao Fei said: "You continue talking."
Sima Yi nodded and said: "It's freezing cold today, and the communication of messages is very slow. This is also where our army can take advantage. As long as we take a strong attack and break through the Han River defense line of the Han army, we can then surround Xiangyang, but secretly send troops to attack
Jiangling, and then outsmart Jiangling and occupy Jiangling before Soochow. Soochow will inevitably return without success."
Gao Fei glanced at Jia Xu and asked, "What do you think?"
"Having said that, how to break through the Han River defense line is the key now. I think..."
At this moment, the whole camp was roaring with gongs and drums, warning sounds came from the river, and the soldiers on the shore immediately sounded the alarm to prepare for war. Gao Fei immediately dismissed the meeting and took all the generals and ministers out of the tent.
Go and see what's going on.
Arriving at the shore, Zhang Qian, who was in charge of patrol, immediately reported: "The Han army suddenly launched an attack, and most of the patrol boats on the river were attacked..."
While he was talking, Gao Fei saw the patrol boats on the river retreating back. There were also many fewer people on board the boats, and some even had arrow wounds.
"Bring the binoculars!" Gao Fei couldn't see clearly what was happening on the river, so he casually reached out and ordered.
Gao Fei took the telescope handed over by his subordinates and looked towards the river. He saw twenty medium-sized warships surrounded by a huge fighting ship floating over from the river. The big flag hanging was "He"
He knew that this was He Qia, the commander-in-chief of the Han Navy navy, coming in person.
"Level 1 combat readiness!" Gao Fei immediately shouted loudly after confirming the danger.
(ps: The update time of this book has been adjusted during the day for a long time, so it is almost no longer updated in the early morning. In the future, you don’t have to stay up late anymore. This is also for the sake of everyone’s work and rest habits, as well as your health.