"Bang!" Sun Ce slapped the tables on the map. When he was shocked, Sun Quan shouted: "Ling Tong is dead!"
Sun Quan fell back on the stool behind him, and then choked and started to cry. Ling Tong was not only Sun Quan's friend, but also the youngest general under Zhou Yu's navy. Unexpectedly, their father and son died on the same day. This hit Sun Quan with a heavy blow. When people in this hall heard that the front line had lost three generals in a row, they couldn't help but feel sad, and many people were wiping their tears.
However, after being silent in the grief of the crowd for a while, Sun Ce ignored the tear-jerking Sun Quan amid the laughter full of hatred, and said sinisterly: "Cao Zhi wants to play the trick of stalking the cicada oriole behind. If Cao Zhi is that mantis, then I am the oriole! Dong Xi, Ling Chao and his son cannot die in vain. Zhang Hong immediately issued an order to ask Cheng Pu to retreat. Sun Quan, hurry up and prepare, prepare to set off..."
Just as Zhang Hong had just sent the soldiers who had finished the order to run out of the pavilion, holding the military order issued by Sun Ce, the sound of a newspaper was heard outside the building.
"Report to...Governor Zhou and Governor Cheng's secret letter!"
Sun Ce and others were stunned by Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu's secret letter, and then Sun Ce immediately took it and started to take a look.
After reading the secret letter quickly, Sun Ce murmured to himself: "That's right, I actually thought of it together with me!" Then he swept away the anger just now, handed the letter in his hand to Zhang Hongshi and said, "I will reply to them and agree to Zhou Yu's new plan. I will do my best to cooperate with him!"
At the same time, he turned to everyone and said, "Everyone is ready, we must act quickly, try to use the lightest luggage and the fastest means of transportation, and detour to the back of Sanjiangkou!"
"Abide by the lord's order!" After everyone responded to the order, Sun Ce led the crowd out by Sun Quan and whispered to him: "Don't worry, I will follow you quietly afterwards. Don't worry, I won't really let you command the army alone!"
After hearing this, Sun Quan was relieved, he was about to remind Sun Ce, who had turned from anger to excitement, about the question that Zhou Yu had already gone deeper. But it seemed that what would happen to Zhou Yu's fate, the "cicada", would be no longer within his consideration of Sun Ce.
So Sun Quan, who was dragging the group at the end of the group, muttered: "Isn't this clear that Brother Zhou is going to be the bait?"
This is the case with war. There are always people who have to sacrifice, die in the battlefield, there are always people who have to fail, and there are always people who have to win. But in the process of this pursuit, there are always people who have to be sacrificed.
####### Sun Ce understood the laws of war, and Zhou Yu also understood it.
"Hurry, Zhou Tai, let them get faster!"
Amid the sound of the snatching hands of the boat, Zhou Yu couldn't help but hold the fence on the side of the boat tightly and issued an order to speed up the subordinates again. Zhou Yu understood the principle of taking Li in the fire, and he was willing to make this bait. Even if Cao Zhi was prepared, so what if he discovered Cao Zhi's conspiracy was very early, which gave him a chance. As long as he took the lead in capturing the favorable terrain in Sanjiangkou, Zhou Yu could break through Cao Zhi's encirclement net at any time, and then restrain his main army, thereby giving Sun Ce time to cast a larger anti-encirclement net to win the battle.
The only rule of war is to surround and counter-encircle. Even if Zhou Yu is surrounded, he has the opportunity to "burn the center".
"Governor, our army is moving against the current. The brothers have not had a good rest day and night. The enemy has not yet..." Zhou Tai bent and fought for some basic treatment as his subordinate.
"No, we must speed up. The previous scout reward, the main force of the Jingzhou Navy has arrived in Junshan, and the speed is no slower than us. We must seize the Sanjiangkou area before them!" Zhou Yu cut off the railway. Then he sighed and turned his back to Zhou Tai firmly, "Our army must win this battle!"
As the name suggests, Sanjiangkou should be the intersection of three rivers and rivers, but whether Xiakou is closer to these Sanjunkou or Sanjiangkou is closer to them, until more than a thousand years later, scholars still have difficulty debating. But no matter what, it must be a section of the river, and it is between Fankou and Chibi. The rivers in this area were once intertwined with networks, lakes were dense, and the terrain was extremely complex. There was a rolling undercurrent, and the whirlpools were connected to the whirlpools, making it difficult to understand the direction of the water flow.
"Yes!" Zhou Tai turned around and walked away, and ordered the sergeant who was holding the "looking flag".
After a moment, I saw that the yellow "Looking Flag" of the main warship in the center of the entire fleet began to make a large forward pressure action, and from the top to the bottom, it continued to continue from one point to another. At the same time, the drummers under it also began to step up the drum, and then the sound of the oars on each ship's "Hey, Hey" sounded significantly faster and heavier. When looking around, the flowers aroused by all the warships increased significantly than before, and the mountains and woods on both sides began to retreat...
Zhou Yu didn't know that when he was stepping up his march, Cai Mao's 43,000 naval troops had already divided 10,000 people and more than 1,000 warships. He had the same rich experience in naval troops and had just been appointed as the right governor by Cao Zhi. He had already jumped out of the Junshan army and had been walking on other tributary channels for three days and three nights. He was doing all his efforts to get ahead of Zhou Yu to Sanjiangkou, an important stronghold above Chibi.
Zhou Yu, who had sent out multiple scouts, ignored Zhang Yun's surprise troops because he focused his attention on every stronghold in the main channel of Dajiang.
Zhang Yun and Cai Mao were also experienced naval generals. After they understood Cao Zhi's combat plan, they then set out from Xiangyang. If Zhou Yu woke up or noticed Cao Zhi's real intentions one or two days later, they would not have to hurry up. But the fact is that Zhou Yu showed up to the surprise troops and appeared in Xiakou, and from Cao Zhi's dispatch, they realized Cao Zhi's ambition and real purpose.
This has to cause Cai Mao and Zhang Yun's rapid advance. Whoever can reach Sanjiangkou as soon as possible can set up an ambush there first to catch the opponent off guard. It can also mobilize, defend, and arrange the troops behind, and gain more time to provide more control for the victory of the entire battle.
Cai Mao and Zhang Yun were not both new recruits. They were not only very familiar with the various waterways in their prefectures, but also widely scattered scouts, and kept paying close attention to Zhou Yu's movements of the navy in central Jingzhou. When Cao Zhi was willing to seize the favorable terrain in Sanjiangkou before Zhou Yu, their scout reward also arrived. Zhou Yu was also advancing towards the Sanjiangkou area at an extremely fast speed. At this time, Zhang Yun had just arrived at Junshan. After he and Cai Mao discussed, he decided to keep Cai Mao in the back and continue to arrange the arrangements. He kept transferring 10,000 subordinates from the army that arrived one after another and advanced quickly.
At this time, Zhang Yun's strange soldiers abandoned the super-large ship building on which their Jingzhou navy relied for their fame, and only carried a small number of boats. Most of the others were small and medium-sized sea falcons, Mengchong boats and other light and flexible warships. The purpose of his trip was not to hit Zhou Yu head-on, but to stop their speed of traveling, so that Cai Mao would make more arrangements on the main battlefield designated by Cao Zhi, the one designated by Chibi.
In fact, their plan was also disrupted. They were expected to have at least three days to prepare, but they didn't expect Zhou Yu to come so quickly. But they still have advantages now. First, they had plans earlier than Zhou Yu, and Zhou Yu was just a temporary response, and the new combat plan was temporarily formulated. Second, they were going downstream and sailed faster and more labor-saving. At this time, Zhang Yun was even more advanced in a light and fast boat. Moreover, Zhang Yun and his troops appeared here many times in the past, and they knew the terrain of this area and the underwater conditions. They were the local snakes in this area, and Zhou Yu was a crossing river dragon after all.
What Zhang Yun and Cai Mao were grateful to Cao Zhi was that Cao Zhi did not send a confidant to command and supervise them. At present, the head of this huge navy is still them. Cao Zhi also granted the title of second position of governor of this army, and was fully responsible for this huge navy, so that they could command the most important water battle independently according to Cao Zhi's plan.
Looking at the information sent back by his scout again, Zhang Yun's expression became extremely exciting in an instant. Compared to Zhou Yu's "arrogant and self-admiration", Zhang Yun was in his command cabin at this time. His fingers kept moving on the map, and finally stayed at a point, turned to the deputy general on the right and said, "We set up an ambush in this place at Sanjiangkou!"
"Yes! Please rest assured to the governor. With the wise command of the two governors, our army will definitely win!" The speaker was Su Fei, the general of Zhang Yun.
Zhang Yun was not complacent because of his subordinates' flattery. Instead, he looked out of the cabin with a solemn expression and said quietly: "We must win this battle and we cannot disappoint our lord!"
While both sides were trying their best to win, fate began to be unfair to Zhou Yu. Needless to say, this battle was unfair to Zhou Yu who had not been fully prepared in advance in the real historical environment that disappeared. Even Zhang Yun and Cai Mao's efforts to do everything they can are also an unfair to Zhou Yu.
When Zhang Yun's naval army successfully entered the Sanjiangkou waterway on the second day, his subordinates captured a scout of Zhou Yu. According to the scout's confession, Zhou Yu's naval troops had not yet entered Fankou. This made Zhang Yun feel relieved. He had at least one more day than Zhou Yu.
After beheading the scout in half to commemorate them with victory in this battle, Zhang Yun set up a cross-strait winch cable in a narrow main channel of the river, preparing to surprise the enemy.
After Zhang Yun's navy was lurking in the adjacent branch waterways at Sanjiangkou for a day and a night, Zhou Yu's navy finally drove into Sanjiangkou in a mighty way.
After Zhou Yu arrived in Fankou, considering that he might be about to enter a state of fighting anytime and anywhere, he had a brief rest in Fankou and had recovered the soldiers' physical strength. It was already evening when Zhou Yu's navy entered Sanjiangkou.