"Why is this?" Liu Jing asked in confusion.

"Her father sent someone to pick her up last month and also sent a copy of Liu Cong's 'letter'. Shaoyu turned against her father for this matter."

"Retrieve the book" means a divorce letter, which means that the couple has terminated their marriage. This is very common in the Han Dynasty. You can divorce men or women, or women. For example, Zhu Maichen's wife dislikes her husband for uselessness and takes the initiative to ask for divorce from her husband. However, Cai Shaoyu actually turned against her father for divorce, which made Liu Jing really puzzled.

"This is a bit strange. Could it be that Shaoyu still has feelings for Liu Cong?" Liu Jing asked with a smile.

Cai Jin shook his head, "It's not that. Shaoyu first received a letter from his aunt. The letter said that her father sent someone to Yecheng and forced Liu Cong to terminate the engagement. Later, his father sent someone to pick her up and gave her a letter. The letter said that he was going to let her remarry Xiahou Ba. Shaoyu cried for this, saying that his father had harmed her once and wanted to kill her for the second time. He drove away the people who were going to pick her up to Xuchang, and tucked her hair again, and gave it to her father."

Only then did Liu Jing realize that Cai Mao wanted to use his daughter to curry favor with Xiahou Yuan again. Cai Shaoyu's reaction seemed to be a little too intense. After all, it was her father, so why did she sniff her hair? However, Liu Jing can also imagine the torment that Cai Shaoyu suffered over the years.

"What about the Cai family's attitude?" Liu Jing asked again.

‘Cai family?’ Cai Jin couldn’t help but sneer, “The Cai family has long ignored her. I told my father about this, but it turned out to be like nothing happened.”

Liu Jing thought about the last time at Xiangyang Wharf, and Cai Xun sent someone to remind him that the Cai family should not ignore her, perhaps just to draw a clear line with Cai Mao. Thinking of this, Liu Jing glanced at Cai Jin and saw that there was dissatisfaction on his face, so he smiled and stopped mentioning this matter.

Soon, they came to Chibi Daying. In the wilderness south of Chibi Stone Cliff, a magnificent camp covering an area of ​​1,000 acres appeared in front of Liu Jing. Even Chibi Town also included the Daying. The camp was made of a board wall structure, with a wall of 10,5 feet high, solid and thick. There were twelve gazebos around, and the red flags of the Jingzhou Army were hung on the five-meter flagpole.

At this time, the 30,000 naval troops and more than 700 warships led by Gan Ning had arrived in Chibi. The Xidaying was particularly lively, transporting items and allocating camp tents. In front of the tents, it was lively and orderly. It was the place for the Jiangxia Navy, and the Dongdaying was the place for the Jiangdong Navy, and the Nandaying was the place for the Jiangxia Army.

Liu Jing did not enter the camp, but asked Cai to arrange Wei Yan's army to enter the camp. He urged the horse to come to the riverside. As he expected, the water camp was also built on the river surface near the Chibi Wharf. The water camp was even wider, occupying more than 5,000 acres of water surface and extending nearly ten miles.

Building a water village is more cumbersome. It requires laying wooden stakes on the periphery, and about every five steps to drill one wooden stake deep into the bottom of the river. At the same time, thousands of 100-stone ships must be connected to the head and tail, and parked close to the wooden stakes to form a boat encirclement and lay wooden boards, so that the crossbowmen can defend the siege.

At this time, Gan Ning had already arrived after hearing the news. He stepped forward and smiled and said, "I wonder if the Jiangdong Navy Army is willing to enter the water camp we prepared?"

Liu Jing smiled faintly and said, "This is very simple. Pull a partition wooden stake from the middle, and then build a water gate on each side of the east and west, and they will settle in."

"The state governor is right, and the humble servant will do it!"

Gan Ning immediately ordered his subordinates, and his subordinates ran away. Liu Jing stared at the distant river and said, "I want to see the situation on the Cao army. You can arrange the ship!"

"Abide by the order!"

Gan Ning ordered people to arrange the ships. Soon, Liu Jing sailed out of the water camp on a small boat of 100 stones, followed by twenty guard warships with the same 100 stones, and rushed to the opposite shore.

On the bow of the boat, Gan Ning reported the wind direction to Liu Jing, "The wind direction is unstable these days, sometimes with south winds and sometimes with north winds. After another month of winter, the south wind will not be there again."

"Is there still a south wind now?" Liu Jing asked.

"Yesterday it was the south wind, and we came with it. Unfortunately today, the north wind happened to blow. The Thousand Stone Warship could not pass the other shore, but just took a small boat of hundreds of stones and rowed over."

At this time, several Jiangxia army sentry ships appeared on the river. Gan Ning pointed at the ship and said, "That is the ship sent by Beizhi, responsible for monitoring the Cao army on the north bank. If there is any abnormal movement in the Cao army's warship, we will know immediately."

"Have you ever discovered Cao Jun's ships?"

"So far, no Cao army's whistle ship has been found."

As soon as Gan Ning finished speaking, he heard the lookout soldiers on the mast shouting: "A suspicious ship was found ahead!"

Liu Jing hurried to the side of the boat and looked into the distance. He saw a small boat from afar. It was very light and flexible, and it didn't look like the Jiangxia army's whistleboat, and was sailing towards this side at a speed.

"Come on!"

With Liu Jing's order, the fleet speeded up and quickly stopped the small boat. There were actually three Cao army soldiers on the boat, which surprised Liu Jing, "Take them to see me!"

Liu Jing turned back to the cabin. Soon after, the personal soldiers escorted three Cao army soldiers in. The three soldiers were uneasy. When they saw that the general in the cabin was Liu Jing, they were so excited that they knelt down and kowtow, "We are all soldiers in Jingzhou and are unwilling to serve Cao army. They took the opportunity of the test ship and escaped and asked Mr. Jing to take the shelter!"

Liu Jing glanced at the personal soldiers, and all of them shook their heads. They did not reveal their identities. Liu Jing asked the three of them strangely: "Do you know me?"

An older soldier cried and said, "Did Mr. Jing forget it? Mr. Jing broke Cai Zhong's leg back then because Cai Zhong scolded us for no reason. We were all soldiers who guarded the Xiangyang city gate and were taken to Fancheng by Cai Mao."

It turned out to be them. Liu Jing nodded, his eyes softened a little, but he felt something was wrong. Liu Jing walked a few steps behind his back, and suddenly stared at them with a sharp look: "In fact, you have many opportunities to escape. Even when Cai Mao retreated to Fangling, many soldiers took the opportunity to escape. Why didn't you escape at that time?"

The three of them looked at each other and lowered their heads in shame. Liu Jing sneered, "What, I have nothing to say?"

The elderly soldier sighed and said, "I'm not hiding it from the young master. The main reason is that our military marquis is quite righteous. We cannot bear to betray him. If we had not had to do so this time, we would not have fled."

"Why is it forced?" Liu Jing asked coldly.

"Because some people in the army died of the epidemic and wanted to carry the bodies to burn them. Their bodies were asked to carry them, such as Jingzhou soldiers, and some of our brothers were infected. So we were afraid and discussed escaping. Today we were just taking the opportunity..."

"Wait a minute!"

Before they could finish speaking, Liu Jing interrupted them, "Are you saying that an epidemic occurred in Cao's army?"

"That's right. In fact, some people got sick when they marched in Yunmengze. But they heard that they were burned and thought it was okay. Unexpectedly, not long after the camp, someone fell ill. Even the person who carried the body last time was a soldier in Jingzhou."

This news made Liu Jing both surprised and worried. The surprise was that an epidemic occurred among Cao's soldiers, which would seriously weaken the combat effectiveness of Cao's army. But he knew that the epidemic had no boundaries. Once it broke out on a large scale, it would be a devastating blow to the entire Jiangxia and even Jingzhou. Moreover, there were 200,000 soldiers in Cao's army, which made Liu Jing very worried.

He stood at the bow of the boat with his hands behind his back and pondered for a long time, turned around and said to his personal soldiers: "Go to Wuchang immediately and invite Zhang Biejia!"

Zhang Biejia means that he is the new Jingzhou Biejia Zhang Ji. He no longer serves as the prefect of Changsha County. In fact, Jingzhou Biejia is a free position, which is also Zhang Ji's requirement. He wants to devote himself to medicine and has no time to become an official, but Liu Jing does not want him to resign and let Zhang Ji be a Jingzhou Biejia. He has a high status and does not have to be in charge. It can be said that the best of both worlds is.

Two personal soldiers transferred to another boat and rushed to Wuchang. At this time, Liu Jing asked the three deserters and said, "I want to know where the small boat you are riding comes from?"

"Report to the young master, this is a small boat that moved from Yunmengze to the Yangtze River. Hundreds of small boats have been transported in the past two days. We are one of them."

What Liu Jing was worried about happened. The Cao army in Chibi was imitating the Cao army in Puqi and dug an artificial canal and dragged the boat directly from Yunmengze into the Yangtze River. Although this was not a big deal, it meant that Cao's warships could enter the Yangtze River from Yunmengze, and then Fancheng's warships could also come through Yunmengze.

...........

Two hundred thousand Cao troops have set up camps on the other side of the Red Cliff. The camps are even more massive in scale and momentum. They stretch along the Yangtze River for more than 30 miles, with flags like clouds. In the fine autumn rain, a large tent can't be seen.

In the middle of the camp, a canal that is ten feet wide and two feet deep is gradually showing. Tens of thousands of soldiers are digging hard on this canal about three miles long. Cao Cao stood under the high valley with his hands behind his back, staring at the appearance of the canal with his eyes gloomy.

Liu Jing's guess was basically correct. This canal was excavated for the warships coming from Fancheng. The wide and deep water surface was enough to allow a large ship of 3,000 stone to sail. Once the warship came, it could slide into the Yangtze River through pre-arranged roller tracks.

But Liu Jing was not right. This was not Cao Cao's experience in learning from the Cao army in Puqi. In fact, when the Cao army scout sent by Yu Jin found that Yunmengze was only three miles away from the Yangtze River, Cao Cao decided on this plan so that the warships from Fancheng could be transferred to the Yangtze River.

Cao Cao's army has been stationed in Wulin for three days. For three days, Cao's army has been in a mess. As they gradually settled down, an epidemic and death occurred.

This incident made Cao Cao extremely angry, because it took at least three days from the time the soldier fell ill to death, but no one reported it to the top for three days. It was not until the soldier died of illness and could not hide it anymore that the general was forced to report to the top.

In a furious state, Cao Cao killed three generals involved in the incident and five military doctors involved in concealment, and ordered a thorough investigation of the sick soldiers. More than 200 soldiers with diarrhea and ill were found, most of which were surrendered Jingzhou troops.

This incident made Cao Cao extremely depressed. On the one hand, he ordered the quarantine of sick soldiers, and also issued three urgent orders, ordering Hua Tuo, who had returned to his hometown to visit relatives, to quickly arrive at the Jingzhou camp.

Fortunately, he received another quick report from Cai He. Cai He had led more than 700 Fancheng warships into Yunmengze and was heading towards Wulin at full speed. This made his mood slightly better and he had expectations in his heart.

At this time, a guard rushed over and reported: "Reported to the Prime Minister, news came from the water village that a Jiangxia army warship was approaching the water village, and the person on the ship seemed to be Liu Jing."
Chapter completed!