Chapter 8 Raid on Nanyang

"General Gan, do you think Li Taishou can hold on?" At this time, hundreds of large and small warships were sailing north on the Xiangjiang River. On one of the command ships, Su Fei, the deputy governor of Jingxiang Marine Division, asked Gan Ning with some doubt. It has been almost a month since Cai Mao and others launched a coup, and half a month ago, Cai Mao sent his brother Cai Xun to lead 50,000 troops to attack Fancheng. Li Yan, the governor of Nanyang, actually occupied the counties of Fancheng and Xinye. Except for Fancheng, which is still dangerous, the other counties are not very good. Su Fei himself is from Jingzhou, and he naturally knows a lot about this.

"Su Dudu, don't worry, even if Cai Mao is close to him, Li Taishou will not be weaker than him, not to mention that only Cai Xun is coming today." Gan Ning is quite confident in Li Yan. If Li Yan can't even deal with Cai Xun, how could Liu Bei let him be stationed in Nanyang?

"I hope so!" Su Fei was a little unoptimistic in his heart. It was already afternoon. Under Fancheng City, Cai Xun had just finished a day's attack. Looking at Fancheng, who was still standing upright, Cai Xun couldn't help spitting.

"General, there are nearly 1,000 casualties today." After counting the casualties in the main book of the army, he stepped forward and played carefully. Cai Xun was even more bored when he heard the words. At this time, on the head of Fancheng, Li Yan looked at the Jingzhou army retreating awkwardly under the city, and his heart was full of disdain.

"General, these Jingzhou troops are really rubbish!" Fu Tong, who followed Li Yan to guard Fancheng, looked at the embarrassed Jingzhou army and said with disdain. In the siege of the city these days, the Jingzhou army is really full of fools. Its on-the-spot command is slow to respond to changes, and the army's combat effectiveness is weak enough to be comparable to the current Yuan Shu. This is also normal. These are basically new troops recruited after the Battle of Jiangdong. Lack of training and inexperience, how can it be compared with Li Yan's elite soldiers? These days, there are only more than 1,000 casualties under Li Yan's command, but the Jingzhou army has suffered more than 10,000 casualties.

"Captain Fu, choose 500 elite brothers. I'm going to surprise Cai Xun tonight." Li Yan suddenly said. Fu Tong was stunned when he heard the words, and then said in disbelief, "General, five hundred?"

"Five hundred is enough. We don't have so many horses!" Only then did Li Yan say the reason, and Fu Tong quickly responded when she heard the words. General, isn't this too risky? Liu Bi, the magistrate of Fancheng County, was also shocked to hear that Li Yan was going to lead 500 people to attack the Jingzhou Army at night.

"It doesn't matter, Cai Xun doesn't understand the art of war. I keep sticking to it these days, and he must have thought that I didn't dare to fight. I don't see the rules for the stationing of its camp. If you take advantage of the night to ride the night attack, you will succeed!" Li Yan is full of confidence.

Liu Bi no longer said anything when he heard the words. At this time, his nephew, Fancheng County Wei Kou Feng, also took the initiative to ask, "General, Kou Feng is not talented. He has been practicing martial arts for many years since he was a child. I am willing to break the enemy with the general!"

"Feng'er, you?" Liu Bi was stunned when he heard the words, but he didn't say anything more after all. It was the third update of the night. Li Yan ordered a good man, and Fu Tong and Kou Feng were preparing to set out. At this time, he explored the horse to report: "General, the Jingzhou army camp suddenly caught fire, and there was chaos!"

"What?" Li Yan was also surprised when he heard the words. He quickly ordered the horse to inquire again, and he quickly went to the city to check. Looking from afar, I saw that the Jingzhou army camp stationed by the Xiangshui River was full of fire and killings everywhere.

"It seems that someone attacked Cai Xun from the waterway!" Li Yan thought about it and understood what was going on. This is exactly the truth. After several water raids, Gan Ning and Su Fei finally rushed to the lower reaches of Fancheng near the evening, and then stopped marching. At night, Cai Xun was unprepared, and then he raided the next camp. Gan Ning led people to fight on land, while Su Fei intercepted the defeated generals and tried his best not to let them escape from Xiangshui and return to Xiangyang.

"Cai Xun is really sloppy. This camp is actually stuck by the river!" Gan Ning still despised Cai Xun's IQ in his busy schedule. His camp is punctured by the river, with fences on all three sides, but the only side of the river is flat. Nine times out of ten, Cai Xun is smart and wants to use Xiangshui as a natural barrier, but in this way, once the enemy raids by water, he will get twice the result with half the effort.

"Kill!" Gan Ning stayed up until two o'clock. Seeing that the Jingzhou army was already asleep, he immediately led his troops to kill the Jingzhou army camp. The sleeping garrison was caught off guard and was caught off guard. Cai Xun was woken up in chaos and hurriedly put on his armor to make an account.

"Don't mess up, hold on, hold on!" Cai Xun was so anxious to kill several chaotic soldiers, but the situation was no longer beyond his control. At this time, Li Yan of Fancheng also led his troops out. Li Yan was in the middle, Fu Tong was on the left, and Kou Feng was on the right. The three-way people and horses were inserted into the camp of the Jingzhou army like sharp knives.

"Bastard!" Cai Xun was caught by the enemy. He jumped on the horse and wanted to lead the army to find a way out, but he was targeted by Kou Feng in the distance. Kou Feng saw that Cai Xun seemed to be a general in his clothes, and he was commanding loudly. Now he pulled out an arrow and shot it.

"Ah!" An arrow hit Cai Xun's back, and he just screamed and fell off the horse. The Jingzhou army was even more chaotic. It could not organize effective resistance at all, either killed or surrendered, and the rest were forced to cross the water overnight to escape back to Xiangyang, or flee west to Zhangling. However, Su Fei was not a free man. Under his interception, only thousands of water surnames who finally fled back to Xiangyang were particularly good. Cai Xun was lucky. Although Kou Feng's arrow shot him off the horse, he did not kill him. Even several of his cronies found a boat to protect him and fled back to Xiangyang.

"Xingba, thank you for your hard work!" At this time, Li Yan had seen that it was Gan Ning who came to rescue him, and he sighed in his heart. After the battlefield was cleaned up, it was found that nearly 10,000 prisoners had been captured. Zheng Fang, you are alone in Jingbei now. Do you want to go back to Yangzhou with us? Gan Ning looked at the situation around him and seemed not optimistic, so he asked quickly.

"It doesn't matter. As long as there is a boat, it's not difficult to leave. I'm still waiting to attack Jingzhou with General Zhao." Li Yan smiled and said something meaningful. Gan Ning looked at Li Yan, who was light between talking and laughing, and sighed for a long time, "Zheng Fang is really wise and brave. He is in danger and calm. Gan Ning admires!"

Gan Ning is not a person who likes to exaggerate, but Li Yan's situation is indeed very dangerous now. At present, to the north of Fancheng is Wancheng, where Zhang Xiu, who has defected to Cao Qian, led 30,000 troops to guard. Although there is no Jia Xu around Zhang Xiu now, it is still not to be underestimated. To the west is Zhangling County. The general of Zhangling is the younger brother of Kaiyue. Naturally, he is the best friend of Cai Mao and Kaiyue. Runan to the east was originally his own territory, but now it has been occupied by Cao Wei, and there is a forbidden army guarding there. Not to mention to the north, across Xiangshui is Xiangyang, Cai Mao's base camp. In addition to being able to look at the guardians of Jiangxia in Xiangshui, the whole Fancheng is already besieged on land.

"It doesn't matter, unless Cai Mao is close to Kai Yue, what's the way for Cai Xun!" Li Yan is full of confidence. Seeing this, Gan Ning couldn't persuade him any more. He could only ask Li Yan and Fu Tong to be careful, and leave the boat at the same time, so that they could run away as soon as there was something wrong.

"Rice bucket! Rice bucket!" Cai Mao looked at Cai Xun, who was wrapped in a thick bandage on his back in front of him. He didn't even care about his heartache and cursed directly. These days, Cai Xun and Cai He really gave him a long face. One let Liu Biao fly away from the sky and escape, the other beat Fancheng and fled, and 50,000 troops did not exist. Cai Mao lost his temper for a long time, but Kuai Yue, who was beside him, turned the topic and said, "At present, Fancheng is just a disease of splepsy. Li Yan can only hold more than 10,000 soldiers, which is enough to protect himself. The most urgent task is to solve Liu Biao, who has fled to Jiangxia. Unfortunately, Jing Xiang's sailor is in the hands of Su Fei, otherwise why would he be so passive? Speaking of this, Kai Yue also sighed in his heart that Jing Xiang's sailor had always been stationed in Jiangxia, and the governor Huang Zu was also Cai Mao's confidant. Unexpectedly, Liu Biao died for no reason before the Spring Festival. At that time, Liu Biao only let Deputy Governor Su Fei take charge of it for the time being on the grounds that "the end of the year is approaching" and make a determination after the New Year. This Su Fei is Liu Biao's party. With this foreshadowing, Liu's performance is much more powerful.

"Didnance, in your opinion, what should we do?" Cai Mao has always admired the wisdom of Kiao Yue and asked quickly. Waiting for work, just wait for Liu Biao to call by himself, we will take advantage of the situation to annihilate him in one fell swoop. "Kou Yue said in a low voice. What if he doesn't call? Cai Mao asked hesitantly.

"He will fight over. Jing Xiangzhi's place is Jiangling. He had lost Wancheng in those years. Now he has lost Jiangling again, then he will not be a herdsman of Jingzhou." The more confident and authentic. Speaking of which, Liu Biao is really unlucky or too cowardly. When he became the pastor of Jingzhou, the governor should have been located in Wancheng. However, at that time, Yuan Shu, as the governor of Nanyang, refused to give up his seat, and Liu Biao had no choice but to move to Jiangling in Nanjun. This matter is really embarrassing to say, but it is Liu Biao's face. Kiao Yue deliberately said it in public now, also to boost his morale while cutting his face.

"Except it is!" Cai Mao and others were also much more relaxed when they heard the words. Yidu, where do you think Liu Biao will march from? Cai Mao unfolded the map and asked.

"There are two roads, one is from Wuling County to Yidu County; the other way is from Changsha to attack South County." Kiao Yue looked at the map and said that, Kiao Yue also smiled and said, "Fortunately, the Prime Minister has controlled Runan. Otherwise, if Liu Bei takes the new field from Runan to attack Xiangyang, our army will be attacked on three sides."

"Except it is!" Cai Mao was also lucky after reading the map, but then he also remembered a question: "If Liu Bei intervenes, what should he do?"

"Liu Bei can only take these two ways if he wants to intervene. As for the sailors, I have ordered people to build a pontoon bridge on Xiangshui and build a water village to stop the warships. I can no longer let them so easily cross the hinterland of Jingxiang. Dekui, you are a water warlord. You have to pay so much attention to this matter!" Kou Yue told him.

"That's natural!" Cai Mao knew that the two were already worms tied together, and now no one could leave anyone. He turned his head and looked at the map and said, "Nanjun is where the ancestral business of the family is located. Naturally, you sit in the town by yourself. But who should be guarded in Yidu County? Cai Mao also knows his own affairs. His two younger brothers are not talented. Kaiyue's younger brother, Kaiqi, is unable to guard Zhangling. The rest of the generals really can't find out who will sit in Yidu County for a while.

"I have a general under my command, surnamed Huo Mingjun and Zhongmiao, a native of Zhijiang, Nanjun, and a lieutenant of my subordinate. This man is good at guarding the city, but Liu Biao does not use his people. In the past, he only treated him as a military Sima. Now I will promote him as a partial general, so that he can guard Yidu County, and he will be foolproof! As long as it is appropriate, Liu Biao will not attack the southern county for a long time. When his army is exhausted, we can take advantage of the situation to fight back, defeat his army and then go straight to Jingnan to kill Liu Biao's people. After that, he will enter Yangzhou in the east and wipe out Zhao Feng's children, and the southeast place will be all for our generation!" The love is so bold and authentic. Affected by it, Cai Mao also laughed. He didn't care about the previous defeat at all.

However, whether it was Kuai Yue, Cai Mao, even Zhao Feng, Liu Biao, and even everyone involved in this dispute, they did not expect that this Jingxiang civil strife was finally caught off guard by an unexpected situation. When everyone talked about this matter afterwards, they could only sigh that God's will played tricks on people.

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