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Ten days passed in a flash, but Jiangdong still did not reply, and Sun Quan remained silent. It was obvious that he did not accept Liu Jing's conditions. The acceptance condition was death, and there might be a glimmer of hope for resistance, so why didn't he resist to the end?

Although Sun Quan was silent about Liu Jing's conditions, he secretly informed Princess Wu to Huang Gai, ordering him to prepare for the battle with all his might and prepare for the bloody battle to the end. At the same time, he also secretly replied to Han Dang not to fight to the death for Jingkou. Once the enemy navy attacked Jingkou again, he could give up Jingkou and preserve his strength to withdraw from Piling.

On the eleventh day, the river was still calm, and the Han army did not take any action, but at night, under the cover of night, the Han army finally dispatched, and nearly a thousand warships sailed towards Jingkou inside and outside.

This time it was no longer Gan Ning who sent troops to Jingkou, but Liu Jing's main force launched an attack on Jingkou.

The Jingkou Wharf was particularly quiet. On the fifteen mail towers less than a foot from the wharf, soldiers kept patrolling back and forth, monitoring the dark river surface. There were only ones on the Jingkou Wharf, but Han Dang believed that the mail tower was easily attacked and removed by the Han army.

In order to ensure that the movements of the Han army could be discovered at night and not be attacked by the Han army, Han Dang built a sentry tower every step, so that the fifteen sentry towers on the dock could reach fifteen.

At this time, Han Dang was also inspecting one of the sentry towers. He was very nervous. Liu Jing gave ten days to go. The deadline had passed yesterday. Today was the eleventh day. There was no news of military mobilization from Jianye, although most people thought that the Han army would go west to Wuhu and enter the hinterland of the lake from Lishui.

But Han Dang had an intuition that the Han army would probably land from Jingkou, head south from Jingkou to Piling, or go west to Jianye. After nightfall, this intuition became stronger and stronger. This was the intuition accumulated by his decades of war experience, and he never made any mistakes in judgment.

Han Dang believed in his intuition and had deployed five thousand troops near the dock to ambush the Han army and land.

On the sentry tower, Han Dang looked at the movements on the river. A patrol report just now, dozens of Han army vanguard sentry ships were found, which made Han Dang very nervous. The dense appearance of sentry ships is a sign of the docking of naval warships.

"General, look!" a soldier whispered to the river.

Han Dang looked in the direction of the soldiers' fingers, and he also saw that on the other side, the outline of more than a dozen thousand-stone warships appeared. Han Dang immediately turned around and looked at the ambush of the Jiangdong Army. Just behind the sentry tower, five thousand Jiangdong Army soldiers were hiding in a forest. They learned the lesson of the last time they had no effort to fight, prepared a lot of tinder oil, and prepared to burn the Han army's warships when they ambushed the Han army.

Han Dang turned back to the river and looked at the surface of the river. After the outlines of more than a dozen thousand-stone warships appeared, no warships appeared again. Just when Han Dang was a little confused, the Han army's warships appeared again, with as many as they were anchored on the dock.

Han Dang's palms were covered in cold sweat, and he secretly told himself that he had to wait and endure and attack halfway through the Han army's landing, but strangely, no Han army soldiers landed.

Han Dang had no choice but to wait. Time passed little by little. Nearly half an hour had passed, and the Han army warship was still anchored in the river and showed no sign of landing.

Judging from the experience of the navy, this phenomenon often occurs because of the huge size of the enemy fleet. The vanguard fleet needs to wait for the rear fleet to arrive one after another, but it will not wait for long, because the vanguard must first occupy the dock, clear out the enemy troops on the dock, and create conditions for the soldiers on the warships behind to land.

Han Dang was puzzled in his heart. Did the Han army have discovered itself? Otherwise, why would he have waited in the river for so long? At this time, a general couldn't help but run to the sentry tower and said to Han Dang: "General, you can't wait any longer. The other party must have discovered us and is taking countermeasures. You can't give the other party time to prepare."

Han Dang pondered for a moment and asked again: "Is there any news at the canal estuary?"

The canal entrance is at about a lie east of the pier. Han Dang deployed five soldiers at the canal estuary, and there were also beacon towers. Once something happened at the canal estuary, news would come from the beacon towers or soldiers.

"General, there is no news on the river mouth!"

Han Dang suddenly felt something was wrong. Even if there were no Han army warships at the entrance of the canal, someone would report it. How could there be no news? He immediately turned around and said to his general: "Take a scout cavalry to the entrance of the canal to see what happened?"

"Abide by the order!"

The general got off the sentry tower and after a moment, he led a team of cavalry toward the canal estuary. Time gradually passed by half an hour, and the Han army warships were still anchored in the river without any movement. Han Dang could not hold back. He knew that something must have happened, but he didn't know where the matter was.

Could it be...

A thought came to his mind. Could it be that the remaining warships near the dock just flicked a shot? To confuse himself, Han Dang looked back at the estuary and began to understand that he had been fooled.

At this moment, the sound of horse hooves came from a distance, running on the dock, regardless of being discovered by the Han army. He was a cavalry scout. He ran to the mat where Han Dang was and turned over and fell off the horse. Han Dang hurriedly ran down the mat and ran to the cavalry, and found that he was hit by two arrows, covered in blood, and was no longer able to do it.

Han Dang helped him up and shouted, "What's wrong?"

The soldier said in a low voice: "General, the Han army warships are all...at the mouth of the river, all the brothers... are killed!"

If a basin of cold water poured on his head, Han Dang was stunned and he was indeed fooled. The Han army used warships to attract their attention, but the main force entered the canal from the mouth of the river.

Thinking of the word "main force", Han Dang suddenly realized that something was wrong. The Han army had at most warships landed, and there were already warships here. How many warships would be there at the mouth of the river?

He asked anxiously again, "Tell me quickly, how many warships are there in the mouth of the river?"

"Thousands of ships..." The soldier squeezed out his last sentence and closed his eyes and passed away.

Han Dang slowly stood up, and he was extremely frightened. The Han army attacking Jingkou was not the last navy, but the main force of the Han army, and the main force of the Han army really landed in Jingkou.

"General, what should we do?" a tooth general asked in a low voice.

Han Dang clenched his fists and saw the warships anchored on the river outside the dock begin to leave. Obviously, the other party knew that they had seen through it, whether to fight or not. The other party was the main force of the Han army, but if he retreated, he could not bear the disgust.

At this moment, a scream suddenly came from a distance. Han Dang was shocked, and turned his horse over and urged the horse to run towards the scream. At this time, the screams and the sound of killing sounds were heard, and countless soldiers from Jiangdong fled out of the ambushing woods.

"General Han!"

A military marquis shouted: "The Han army raided us from behind, and the brothers were killed and injured!"

Needless to say, this must be the Han army that was circling from the canal. Han Dang asked anxiously: "How many sneak attacks the enemy?"

"I don't know, the number of people is several times that of us!"

As soon as he finished speaking, countless Han troops rushed out of the woods and chased the fleeing Jiangdong Army behind him. He was a general holding a double halberd. It was Gan Ning, the commander-in-chief of the navy. He was extremely brave. His two halberds danced like flying, killing dozens of people in a row.

Han Dang was furious and rushed forward with a swing of his spear, "Gan Zhexiu wants to be rampant, take me a shot!"

When the sound came, Han Dang stabbed Gan Ning with a spear and a long spear thrust straight into Gan Ning's throat. Gan Ning sneered, rode his horse to avoid the gun, and slashed the halberd. The two of them came out of their guns and fought fiercely.

After all, Han Dang was over 60 years old and was exhausted. Gan Ning was only over 40 years old. He was in his prime and became more and more brave. After more than a dozen rounds of fierce fighting, Han Dang couldn't support him and found a gap. Han Dang rode his horse and flew away. He ran less than a dozen steps. Gan Ning's short halberd flew out of his hand and stabbed in like lightning. Han Dang couldn't dodge. The spear pierced his back heart. Han Dang screamed, turned over and fell off the horse, and died under Gan Ning's halberd.

Since the Jiangdong Army's chief general died, the remaining thousands of soldiers were unintentional, and they were surrounded by the Han army. They had nowhere to escape. They knelt on the ground and surrendered, begging the Han army for their lives.

In just a moment, the Han army killed Han Dang's personal soldiers who refused to surrender. The war gradually stopped on the battlefield. Thousands of surrendered soldiers left their weapons and took off their armor. The Han soldiers ordered them to go to the dock to line up.

At this time, King Liu Jing of Han, under the escort of several cavalry, came to the battlefield of the dock. The battle had all stopped. The soldiers of several Han were packing up their weapons and armor on the ground. Teams of surrendered Jiangdong soldiers raised their hands and lined up to the dock. Thousands of Jiangdong soldiers had gathered on the dock, all of whom were squatting on the ground.

At this time, Gan Ning clasped his fists to Liu Jing and reported: "Your Highness, the enemy's chief general has been killed, with more than 4,000 surrendered soldiers, but no one escaped."

Liu Jing nodded, "Thank you for your hard work, General Gan."

He urged the horse to come to Han Dang's corpse. The corpse was wrapped in a roll of mat and placed in front of a big tree. Liu Jing turned around and said to Gan Ning: "This person is also a famous general in Jiangdong. It was also the work of a real man who died on the battlefield. Give him a good coffin and buried him with great strength."

"Abide by the order!"

Gan Ning arranged for his subordinates to bury Han Dang. At this time, Liu Jing came to the prisoners of war and whispered to thousands of prisoners of war: "I am Liu Jing, the King of Han. I believe many people have seen me!"

Thousands of prisoners of war looked at the King of Han silently, and Liu Jing asked again: "Since you have chosen to surrender, the Han army will treat you well. I want to know how many people have been in the army for more than a year, so I will get up and let me see it."

After a while, several people stood up one after another. Liu Jing waved his hand and asked the soldiers to sit down. He said to everyone: "Not five people yet. It seems that you are all civilians who have been forced to join the army this year. Your parents, wives and children are all looking forward to you at home. They have no food, have been tortured by hunger, and have even fled from their homes and wandered in a foreign land. Why don't you go home to take care of your parents, wives and children, but to serve a ruthless king who cruelly exploits you?"

Liu Jing's words made many soldiers cry. More than a dozen soldiers knelt in front of Liu Jing and cried: "We all want to go home and don't want to fight again. I beg your highness to let us go!"

There was a burst of crying on the dock, Liu Jing nodded and said to everyone: "I treat you with kindness and righteousness, and I trust you to no longer be enemies with the Han army. I will let you go home, you will farm well, and take good care of your parents, wife and children."

Liu Jing immediately ordered: "Give each of them a bucket of rice and let them go!"

Crying and cheers were heard across the night sky, and thousands of people kowtowed to Liu Jing for thanking each of them, and each of them brought a bag of rice to their homes. At this time, the morale of the army had collapsed, and no one was willing to serve Sun Quan anymore. They just wanted to rush back to their homes as quickly as possible and reunite with their parents, wife and children.

Gan Ning looked at the backs of the soldiers in Jiangdong and sighed: "Your Highness is indeed very kind to them!"

Liu Jing smiled and said, "The difficulty in seizing Jiangdong is not the land, but the hearts of the people. Sun's family has been operating Jiangdong for generations and has a stable heart. If Sun Quan had not been trapped by national strength in recent years and destroyed his reputation in the past few years, I might not have made up my mind to seize Jiangdong."

"What Your Highness said is, I want to know, will we go west to Jianye or south to Piling?"

Liu Jing looked south and said lightly: "After seizing Piling and Wujun, Sun Quan will become a turtle in the jar."
Chapter completed!