The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 236 Cao Zhang Must Have a Battle

Since Jiangdong failed to capture Hefei last year but lost troops and lost generals, it has not recovered until now, and now it is mainly defending.

When it comes to defense, Jiangdong is more difficult than Jingzhou.As long as Jingzhou guards Jiangxia, it can keep Jiangdong out; as long as it guards Xiangyang, it can prevent the invasion from the north.Although Yizhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is not easy to figure it out, so we can only harass Jingzhou occasionally.Zhang Jiaozhu in Hanzhong is busy preaching and enjoying, so he usually doesn't take the initiative to beat others.

In addition to guarding against Jingzhou in Jiangdong, the biggest trouble is guarding against Cao Cao in the north.Although there are natural dangers in the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River is too long. There are basically no mountains on the north bank of the Yangtze River in the entire Jiangdong territory. Most of them are plains. Cao Jun can cross the river from many places.

If the Jiangdong Army deployed defenses along the river, 20 troops would not be enough, so they could only deploy defenses in a few key places.Fortunately, Cao Cao didn't have a navy, and he didn't dare to send a large army to sneak across the Yangtze River. Otherwise, the transportation of grain and grass could not keep up.

That's why the Jiangdong Group is so persistent in taking Hefei and pushing the line of defense northward to the Huaihe River. As long as they keep Shouchun, they can occupy the whole of Yangzhou.

But the reality is always very helpless. It is very easy for the Jiangdong army to replenish the navy. The people of Jiangdong can swim in boats. After a few months of casual training and some water thieves in actual combat, they will be a qualified navy.But as soon as the Jiangdong army left the ship and went ashore to fight on foot, it became a battle scum.

Another reason is that there are many generals in the Jiangdong navy, but there is a lack of land warriors.In the original book, there are Gan Ning, Tai Shici, Zhou Tai, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang and others who can fight land battles in Jiangdong, but now Gan Ning is the general of Jingzhou, and Tai Shici is not used by Sun Quan because he is Sun Ce's old army , Huang Gai died in battle, Han Dang was ashamed and left home, leaving Zhou Tai and Cheng Pu alone.But Cheng Pu was old, and Zhou Tai was Sun Quan's bodyguard.

Zhou Yu said to Sun Quan again: "My lord, Cao Cao must be more afraid of Zhang Wu than we are. He must not give Zhang Wu time to slowly develop his strength. I predict that this winter, Cao Cao will conquer Jingzhou again."

"Cao Cao just experienced a big defeat last year. It is said that the water army he trained was basically lost. How dare he come again? How did he cross the river?"

"My lord, have you forgotten the chained boats? Zhang Wu used the chained boats to stop our Jiangdong navy, and Cao Jun also used the chained boats to repel De Mou on the Huai River, so as to cross the Huai River. Do not withdraw from Shouchun. With Cao Cao's strength, it is not difficult to build iron chains and ships. When the north wind blows in autumn and winter, it will be the time for Cao Cao to attack Jingzhou."

Sun Quan was too impressed with Tiesuo Lianchuan, it was a good thing that he was ruined by Tiesuo Lianchuan twice, otherwise he would have won Jiangxia or Shouchun a long time ago, and in the end he made a fool of himself and lost money, not only died in vain Many soldiers, even veteran Huang Gai, joined in.

With Cao Cao's strength, he got more than a dozen large iron chain ships and took advantage of the wind in winter to attack aggressively. How could Jingzhou resist.

"Then Jingzhou is doomed this time!" Sun Quan said gloatingly, telling you what to do with an iron chain boat if you have nothing to do, you are shooting yourself in the foot with a rock!
Zhou Yu felt that things were not that simple. After dealing with Zhang Wu so many times, Zhou Yu knew Zhang Wu quite well. This guy didn't look like a martial artist at all, his appearance was too deceptive.

Which warrior can invent blank paper and books, and which warrior can speak the words of a sage like the "Four Sentences of Lumen"!Zhou Yu is also a scholar, and when he heard the "Lumen Four Sentences", he was shocked beyond words.To be honest, Zhou Yu still admires Zhang Wu in his heart. The blank paper and printed books he made are enough to change the whole world.

No matter what achievements Zhang Wu will make in the future, just relying on his two things of printing books to spread knowledge and uttering the "Four Sentences of Lumen" are enough to make him famous in history.

Would such a person create a chained ship, let the enemy imitate it, and then destroy him?He must have some countermeasures.

Therefore, Zhou Yu said: "My lord, Zhang Wu should not be underestimated. Moreover, there are resourceful men like Pang Tong and Xu Shu in Jingzhou. It is impossible not to expect this. I think they may have a countermeasure."

Sun Quan also knew how powerful Zhang Wu was now, but what puzzled Sun Quan the most was that such an awesome character hadn't moved at all before.If Huang Zu could reuse this person when he was still alive, maybe even his brother Sun Ce would not be able to get cheap.

Just like the general named Huang Zhong in Jingzhou, he was born in his 50s, and his appearance became famous all over the world. Others such as Wei Yan, Ding Feng, Xu Shu and others are similar.

How many talents were buried in Jingzhou before!Liu Biao, you can't live, so many people don't want to use it, why don't you want to use it, let me do it!
But what countermeasures can chained ships have?This thing is a cheating tool in water battles. If you want to turn a water battle into a land battle, how can you deal with it other than using fire?

Just like on land, the best way to deal with cavalry is to use your own cavalry to deal with it. The best way to deal with chain ships is to build your own chain ships.Otherwise, people will directly bump into it, what should you do?
If both sides dispatched a chain boat, it must be the upper reaches to take advantage of it, and can set fire to the boat along the water.But if the two sides confront each other across the river, just like Cao Jun on the north bank of the Han River and Jingzhou Army on the south bank of the Han River, then whoever has the upper hand will take advantage.

At present, everyone knows that the iron chain ship is most afraid of fire attack due to its large size and inconvenient movement. There is really no other good way.

From this point of view, Jiangdong is really at a disadvantage because it happens to be in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.In the historical Battle of Chibi, Cao Jun was in Wulin, north of the west bank of the Yangtze River, and the Sun Liu coalition army was in Chibi, south of the east bank of the Yangtze River, just to avoid the disadvantages of being downstream.It was also December in the cold winter, and the north wind was always blowing, which was beneficial to Cao Cao, but who knew that there would be a southeast wind in the winter, which made Cao Cao miserable.

Sun Quan couldn't think of Zhang Wu's countermeasures, because Cao Cao's army was strong and he had the upper hand. Even if he exchanged two of his soldiers for one of the opponent's soldiers, the Jingzhou army would not be able to withstand it.

Zhou Yu explained: "My lord, although the northwest wind prevails in winter, we have lived here for a long time and occasionally encountered a southeast wind on a certain day. Most of Zhang Wu's advisers and generals are from Jingzhou. , how can there be no one who is familiar with astronomy and geography, I'm afraid this is a variable."

Sun Quan grew up in Jiangdong since he was a child. Of course, he is very familiar with the climate here. Although the northwest wind blows in winter, there will indeed be a day when the southwest wind suddenly blows.

But that kind of situation is very rare, can't it be such a coincidence?Could it be that Cao Cao has assembled his army here and does not attack, but has to wait for the wind direction to change before attacking?Is he a fool!
(End of this chapter)