CIATB Chapter 140
Chapter 140
Chapter 140
Kou Feng held Han Hao's head and came to Fu Xun excitedly and said, "General Fu, the enemy general has been killed by me. I heard that this guy is Han Hao, and he is Xiahou Dun's deputy!"
"Good job, I will ask the governor for your credit, you gather the soldiers and arrange for someone to salvage the corpse, we should go!"
"Yes, General Fu!" Kou Feng went to work happily.
Fu Xun gathered the captives, confiscated their weapons, and then assigned them to various boats to row. After Kou Feng's work was done, they followed Zhang Wu's prior instructions, escorted the looted grain, grass, and luggage, and went down the river to Xinye. .After a short rest in Xinye, we traveled from Shuishang to Xiangyang.
Zhang Wu and others also escorted the prisoners back to Rangcheng. He knew that after this battle, Cao Jun would not come again in a short period of time, so he left Huo Jun and five thousand soldiers to guard the city, and led the rest back to Xiangyang.
After Xiahoudun led his army to Nieyang, he joined forces with Xiahoulan and waited for the arrival of the supply fleet, but the fleet did not come, and some routs came back, bringing the sad news that the entire supply fleet was wiped out.
Xiahoudun was so angry that he almost vomited blood. Unexpectedly, Zhang Wu dared to pursue him from two directions, and defeated his two retreating soldiers respectively.Originally, Xiahoudun thought it should be easy to attack Rangcheng this time. He has a [-] army on his side, and they are all elites who have fought for many years, and they are especially good at foot combat and siege.Even if the damage was greater, it should be no problem to win Rangcheng in the end. Unexpectedly, the opponent had such powerful catapults and no large siege equipment to assist in the battle.
It was not considered a failure at first, and it lost less than 5000 soldiers, but it also killed many Jingzhou soldiers, and found out the reality of the opponent.But when the retreat was well arranged, who would have expected that Zhang Wu would come up with another unexpected poison gas bomb, defeating the broken Yu Jin, and losing more than [-] soldiers and horses.
Now the train team retreating from the water was completely annihilated by the opponent, and even the deputy general Han Hao was killed in battle, which made Xia Houdun heartbroken.
Xun You also felt a little regretful. He felt that he was a little careless. He didn't expect that fighting Jingzhou would be so dangerous on the water.When fighting Yuan Shao before, they often used water to transport food and grass, because it saved time and effort, and they were never attacked by surprise, because Yuan Shao didn't have a navy either.It seems that if we fight against Jingzhou or Jiangdong in the future, we must pay attention to guarding against the opponent's navy and try to transport food, grass and supplies by land.
Xun You planned to advise Cao Cao to speed up the training of the navy when he returned to Xudu, otherwise he would suffer a lot if he went to the south to fight.In fact, Cao Cao and his advisers also realized the importance of the navy. The rivers in the south are crisscrossed, and the Yangtze River is naturally dangerous. Without the navy, it is impossible to fight.But there is no place in the north that is suitable for training naval forces. Although the Yellow River is not inferior to the Yangtze River in reputation, the Yellow River is not deep enough, has many shallows, rapid currents and many waterfalls, so it is not suitable for training naval forces at all.
Moreover, the Yellow River freezes every winter, which cannot prevent the nomads in the north, so no navy has been stationed on the Yellow River in the past dynasties.So Cao Cao dug an artificial lake in the south of Yecheng to train the navy, but how can the navy trained in the big pool compare with the navy trained on the big river.
Xiahou Dun had no choice but to lead his army back to Xudu and report to Cao Cao the entire battle of Rangcheng.
Cao Cao didn't expect Zhang Wu to be so difficult to deal with. First, he defeated Cao Ren and wiped out Cao Ren's [-] troops. Even Cao Ren was captured alive. Now he blocked Xiahou Dun's [-] troops from attacking in Rangcheng, and defeated Cao's army in two ways while chasing him. .Adding up the back and forth, Cao Jun lost as many as [-] troops in Zhang Wu's hands!
It's not that I don't know, it's a shock, and I didn't suffer such a big loss when I beat Yuan Shao. It seems that this person should not be too careless.When Zhang Xiu surrendered without a fight during the crusade against Wancheng, Cao Cao drifted away for a while. As a result, he not only lost a large number of troops, but also lost his eldest son Cao Ang, nephew Cao Anmin and his beloved general Dianwei.Now that he has defeated Yuan Shao and ruled the north, he feels that he is invincible, but he did not expect to be hit in the head by Zhang Wu again.
"Gongda, is there a way to crack the catapult?" The siege of the city is all about equipment. If you keep killing people, how many people will not be enough!If the problem of catapults cannot be solved, besides Rangcheng, Jingzhou also has Fancheng, Xiangyang, and Jiangling, and there are four counties in Jingnan to the south. Does it mean that [-] to [-] soldiers will die every time a city is attacked?
"Prime Minister, the catapults used in Jingzhou must have had improvements that are not known to outsiders. If my predictions are correct, Sun Quan's defeat in the siege of Jiangxia should also have suffered a great loss from this kind of catapults. But since it has been around for so long Well, I think someone knows its structure at least, and if we probe carefully, we should be able to find out. And the poisonous smoke is the same."
Cao Cao said to Cheng Yu again: "Zhongde, send more people quickly, we must find out the secret of the catapult and the poisonous smoke."
"Yes, Prime Minister."
"By the way, how is the training of the water army in Xuanwu Pool going?"
"Returning to the Prime Minister, almost [-] people have gone into the water in batches to adapt, and have learned how to maneuver the boat. Now they are training in formation and fighting on the water. It's just that most people in the north dare not go into the water, and there are still a few people who can swim. .”
"That Zhang Wu is so rampant, and he colluded with Liu Bei. It's a real worry, and it must be eliminated. If I raise an army to attack Jingzhou, I wonder if the water army in Xuanwu Lake can stand up to a battle?"
Xun Yu said: "I am afraid that the water army trained by the lake will not be able to compete with the water army on the river. If a large army conquers, the small town of Rangcheng is not a problem. The terrain between Wancheng and Fancheng is flat, and there are no large rivers. Jingzhou water The army is not a big threat to our army. Fancheng is located on the north bank, and our army will be able to take it after a long siege. The most important thing at present is to find out the powerful catapults, and then build them in large quantities. The advantages of the city will be more obvious. The navy cannot be trained in a short time, as long as Jingzhou is conquered first, the local people can be recruited and the river can be used to train the navy."
"Okay, let's follow Wenruo's policy. In today's world, I have wiped out those who are not ministers one by one. The only ones I worry about are Jingzhou and Jiangdong. The rest are not of concern. All the troops are ready, and when the spring is warm next year, a large army will be launched to conquer Jingzhou, wipe out Jiangnan."
Just when Cao Cao was full of pride, Kong Rong, a doctor of the Taizhong, suddenly said: "Liu Qi and Liu Bei are both clansmen of the Han family, so they should not be attacked lightly. Sun Quan is entrenched in Yangzhou, and there is a big river in danger, so it is not easy to take. Teacher of righteousness, fear of losing the hope of the world!"
Cao Cao was furious, and said: "Liu Bei, Liu Qi, Zhang Wu, and Sun Quan are all ministers who rebelled against fate, how can we not punish them?"
So he reprimanded Kong Rong and ordered that anyone who dares to remonstrate again will be executed without mercy.
(End of this chapter)