When Lu Xun heard Cai Mao's words, he smiled slightly and said: "My strategy is nothing to say, it is just to show strength with weakness, to deceive defeat for a while, then to lure the enemy deep, and then encircle and annihilate them.
Although this strategy sounds simple, and it is also a strategy often used by predecessors, there is nothing new about it. However, this kind of strategy of luring the enemy deep is often effective, even for some generals who are very resourceful.
Sometimes you will fall into a trap and be ambushed. And for this situation, this strategy is very suitable.
Jiangdong's navy has been running across the Yangtze River for a long time and has no rival. In the eyes of Jiangdong's generals, their army's land warfare capabilities may not be as good as Cao's army, but their water warfare capabilities are unrivaled in the world.
Although it cannot be said that Jiangdong's generals are arrogant and complacent, they are indeed quite confident in their water warfare abilities.
In the eyes of the Jiangdong generals, there is no army in the world that can win a naval battle with the Jiangdong Army. If the Jiangdong Navy fights and defeats another navy, it is considered normal in the eyes of those generals.
There may not be any doubt that the result is a fraud on the part of the other party.
Of course, if Zhou Yu was in the Jiangdong Army, he should be able to distinguish whether the enemy was a fake defeat or a real defeat. However, this was just an outpost battle. How could Zhou Yu, as the governor of Jiangdong, personally command an outpost battle?
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Cai Mao followed Lu Xun's plan and led 40,000 naval troops to fight against the Jiangdong navy.
The remaining 10,000 Cao troops in the Sanjiangkou were ambushing the water stronghold with bows and arrows. Once Jiangdong's army entered the water stronghold, they fired thousands of arrows to severely defeat the enemy.
Originally, Cai Mao did not plan to lead 40,000 people into battle. He thought that this number was too many. If more people were arranged to serve as ambushes, the ambush would be more effective after luring Jiangdong's army into the ambush circle in the water village. However, Lu Xun knew that since he
There is a gap between the Jiangdong Navy Army and the Jiangdong Navy Army. According to common sense, in this situation, as your own general, you will fight with all your strength. If you are too reserved, the opponent may see it as a trick to lure the enemy when you fake defeat.
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The fleets of the two armies were approaching quickly on the river, and the battle was about to break out.
In water battles, bows and arrows are indispensable weapons. When the two sides were still more than twenty feet apart, the archers on the front row of the two armies began to bend their bows and nock arrows to shoot at the enemy in front.
, all of a sudden, there was an endless stream of arrows coming and going on the river.
However, the damage that such long-distance shooting can cause is limited after all, not to mention that as an outpost battle, there are not many archers on both sides. After several rounds of arrow rain, both sides only suffered more than a hundred casualties.
Soon, the boats in the front row of the two armies collided with each other one after another. The soldiers set up wooden planks on the hulls, raised their weapons and started to kill the enemy.
If it were on flat ground, Jiangdong's army would not be as good as Cao's army in a close-quarters fight, but now the place of fighting is on a boat. The hull of the boat sways with the ups and downs of the water. All other factors are very different from land battles.
As soon as they met, Cao Jun was at a disadvantage.
Although Cai Mao has been training the navy for some time, there is still a gap between the navy and the Jiangdong navy. The more important problem is that the navy under Cai Mao has no actual combat experience at all, except for the original surrendered troops in Jingzhou.
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Therefore, not long after the battle, Cao Jun was suppressed by Jiangdong Army. On the boats, corpses of Cao Jun soldiers continued to fall into the river.
"Withdraw!" Cai Mao smiled bitterly. Although he had planned to fake defeat from the beginning, the gap in strength between his navy and Jiangdong navy was wider than he thought.
Following Cai Mao's order to withdraw, Cao Jun turned around and retreated to his own water village. While retreating, Jiangdong Army took advantage of the situation and started killing again, killing many Cao Jun soldiers who were too late to evacuate.
"General, the enemy has retreated. Now is the time to pursue the enemy. Maybe we can capture the enemy's water stronghold in one fell swoop and annihilate all 50,000 of their vanguards. If so, we will accomplish a great feat! And the Cao thieves vanguard
If they are completely destroyed, they will also lose their vigor, and it will be difficult to defeat his army by then!" Seeing Cao's army retreating, deputy general Chen Wu proposed to the commander-in-chief Tai Shici that he should take advantage of the victory and pursue it.
Upon hearing this, Taishi Ci did not immediately agree, but remained silent.
Taishi Ci's character is not a very reckless type. Although he is not calm and calm, he will always consider things when encountering problems.
Although his own army had the upper hand in the battle just now, it was not yet to the point where Cao's army could no longer hold on, and their retreat time seemed to be a little faster.
"I'm afraid there's an ambush..." Tai Shici said thoughtfully.
"The enemy fled in fear, where was the ambush?" Ling Tong, another deputy general, said angrily. His father Ling Cao died at the hands of Cao Jun, so he naturally hated Cao Jun and wished he could annihilate it.
"General, the troops Cai Mao just brought out are so large that there must be no room left to set up an ambush. What's more, our army's sailing skills are unparalleled in the world. Even if there is an ambush, our army can retreat quickly and the enemy will not be able to stay.
We." Chen Wu also continued to persuade Taishi Ci to pursue.
"Okay, let's follow your advice and pursue Cao's army!" Seeing that the two of them had this intention, Taishi Ci also made up his mind and issued an order to pursue the entire army.