The Han Navy, led by Lu Yan, Gan Ning and others, entered the Yangtze River from the mouth of the Yangtze River between Guangling County and Wu County!
Gan Ning looked at the familiar Yangtze River and said with emotion: "Finally we've come in again!"
Su Fei also had mixed feelings. This was the place where he lived and realized his ambitions and ideals. Although his feelings were complicated, in the end he just shouted, "Yangtze River!"
The navy entered the Yangtze River, and the feeling of being bumpy and ups and downs on the sea seemed to be much lessened.
Sima Yi, who looked slightly pale and was thinner than before setting off, came behind Lu Yan and asked: "Teacher, what should we do next?"
Lu Yan was admiring the scenery along the way. After hearing Sima Yi's question, he came back to his senses.
After thinking for a moment, Lu Yan said: "Sun Quan has deployed many military strongholds in the Yangtze River Basin. We do not have enough troops to capture Jiangdong now, but we can destroy these military strongholds along the way and make some preparations for future attacks."
Sima Yi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this and said to himself: "It seems that the teacher is still very conscious. I thought he wanted to use these 100,000 people to invade Jiangdong..."
Lu Yan suddenly sighed and said, "What a pity..."
"What's a pity?" Sima Yi asked subconsciously.
"If Zilong, Ziyi, Hansheng and their troops are here, I might be able to capture Jiangdong in one fell swoop!"
"..."
The wind on the river is not strong, and the fleet is moving in the opposite direction. The ships can only rely on oars to sail, and the speed is not very fast.
Such a huge fleet suddenly appeared in the Yangtze River, and the people from Jiangdong who were working on the shore in Wu County also discovered their existence one after another.
The people looked in amazement at the hundreds of huge warships in the river that were nearly twenty feet long and five feet wide, moving slowly in the Yangtze River like they were covering the sky and the sun.
Some people pointed at the warships and said, "Those...those ships look so strange and scary!"
"With such a huge fleet, could it be that Sun Tuulu is going on an expedition?"
"That's not right. Sun Tuulu and Governor Zhou have already led the Northern Expedition. How can they still have the troops to control so many warships?"
At this time, some sharp-eyed people saw the words embroidered on the flag and asked: "Which of you can read? What is written on it?"
The literacy rate of people in Jiangdong is generally low, but there are still some people who can read.
After a while, someone finally recognized him.
"The flag on the warship seems to say 'Cao'!"
The sound of 'Cao' made everyone extremely confused at first, but when they reacted, they were panicked and the souls of the dead were in panic!
"Cao! It's Cao Cao's fleet!"
"Look at the biggest ship in the middle. The flag on it seems to be embroidered with the word 'land'!!!"
"Cao! Lu! My mother! It's Lu Yan!!! It's the Cavalry General Lu Yan here!"
The common people were panic-stricken and discussed one after another. The excited common people rushed to report the situation discovered in the Yangtze River to the guards in the county town.
The guards in these cities obviously did not believe the "nonsense" told by these people, and even laughed at them, asking them if they were making too much of a fuss when they saw the water thieves.
However, as more and more people came to report the situation, these guards finally could no longer stand.
Some soldiers rushed to Wu County to report the situation reported by the people in the city.
But when the news was sent to Wu County, it was already evening.
Although it felt a bit unbelievable, Zhang Zhao still summoned everyone to the Prefectural Mufu Mansion to discuss matters for the sake of caution.
Being summoned so late at night, this group of literati and military generals felt very unhappy.
Now when they heard again that some soldiers were reporting that Cao Jun's warships had appeared in the Yangtze River, their first reaction was: "Absurd!"
"Nonsense!"
"The most ridiculous thing in the world!"
Although Cao Jun was training his navy, the problem was that they had only trained for more than a year, and they were far away from the Yellow River. How could they reach the Yangtze River?
"Is it really a long voyage from the sea?" Among everyone present, only Lu Su attracted attention.
So, Lu Su stood up and said, "Chang Shi, I heard that Lu Yan built a strange-looking ship that was said to be able to sail long distances in the sea. My subordinates were thinking that he could not really lead the Yellow River Navy to come from the sea.
Yangtze River, right?!”
Although Zhang Zhao was a little skeptical, he couldn't help but be careless, "In any case, we need to find out the identity of that fleet first. If it is really Cao's warship, then my lord and Gong Jin may be in a worrying situation."
Lu Su also nodded and said: "Chang Shi, I think whether it is Cao's warship or not, we should send people to send the news to the lord and Gong Jin as soon as possible so that they can prepare for defense."
"Yes, you can make arrangements now."
"Here!"
Lu Su left in a hurry, and the atmosphere in the meeting hall was a bit dull.
Zhang Zhao looked at Han Dang, the only veteran general left behind in Jiangdong, and said: "General Han, I leave all the coastal defense to you. Although there are not many soldiers left behind, we have a strong city and the people's support, so we should be able to hold it."
Han Dang successively served as officials for three generations, including Sun Jian, Sun Ce and Sun Quan. They followed three generations of monarchs to conquer all directions and made outstanding achievements.
This time, all the Jiangdong army was sent out, but Han Dang was deliberately left behind to defend and stabilize various places in Jiangdong.
Han replied confidently: "Don't worry, I'm here, I won't be able to stand up for a while!"
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At the same time, Lu Yan's fleet had arrived at the Yangtze River area outside Moling City.
Speaking of Mo Ling, I have to introduce it a little bit.
Before the Eastern Wu Dynasty established Moling as its capital and renamed it Jianye, Moling was not even a city, and was more commonly known as Stone City.
At first, the King of Chu built a city for it, called Jinling City, but after some people came to see it, they all said that this place has the aura of a tiger perched on a dragon's side, and an emperor's aura.
Later, when Qin Shihuang passed by Jinling on a tour, someone told Qin Shihuang that this place was called Jinling. It had the aura of tigers and dragons, and emperors would be born in the future. Qin Shihuang was very angry after hearing this, so he dug a river and introduced the water into the city.
, trying to break through this imperial aura.
At the same time, Qin Shihuang also changed the name of this place from Jinling to Moling.
Why change it to Moling?
"Mo" refers to the fodder for livestock. Qin Shihuang meant that this place does not have the aura of an emperor, and this place is only worthy of being used as a place to feed livestock...
However, changing the name and cutting the river did not really make Moling lose its momentum. After Lu Su, Pang Tong, Zhuge Jin and others came to Jiangdong and saw Moling, they all said that there was an imperial atmosphere here and persuaded Sun Quan to move his seat to Moling.
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The capital was moved to Moling not only because of the momentum here, but also because it is close to the north and has the Yangtze River.
In ancient times, unlike modern times, it took a lot of time to deliver orders, so the closer the command post is to the battlefield, the better.
Sun Quan had the most powerful naval force among the princes, and also controlled the natural dangers of the Yangtze River. He built many military bases along the Yangtze River, which could transport food along the Yangtze River, and his defense was complete.
For more than a year, Sun Quan has been expanding and strengthening Moling. Now, looking from a distance, it seems that there is already a prototype of a capital here.
Lu Yan completed the popular science of Moling to Gan Ning, Su Fei, Sima Yi and others.
Gan Ning and Su Fei both suddenly realized.
"You can win a hundred battles only if you know yourself and the enemy. The teacher has been on the battlefield for more than ten years and has never been defeated. I'm afraid it's because of his understanding of the enemy." While Sima Yi was shocked in his heart by Lu Yanbo's strong knowledge, he also secretly vowed to learn from Lu Yan more often.
Study, learn to understand the enemy more deeply and thoroughly.