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A wise man will have a mistake, not to mention that Xu Sheng is far from being a wise man. He did not even think about using the cover of the night to cross Chaisang and attack Xiazhi County to obtain the information they had always dreamed of.

He was actually just a brave general with a little strategy. His eagerness to make contributions blinded his eyes and made him devote himself to seeking Chaisang, but he forgot the safety of his home.

For ten thousand Jiangdong Army stationed in Pengze, Xu Sheng took away eight thousand people, leaving only two thousand people to guard Pengze Water Village. Two thousand people may be able to deal with, but it is far from dealing with the five thousand elite Jiangxia Army who attacked from afar.

"boom"

The 4,000-stone heavy ship used its huge hull to break the iron chain across the gate of the water village and rushed into the Pengze water village. Jiangxia archers on both sides of the ship fired arrows together, and dense arrows shot at Jiangdong soldiers on the mail towers on both sides.

Pengze Water Village used deep water pile driving method to surround a tens of thousands of acres of water on the west bank of Pengze Lake. The dense wooden piles made it difficult for small boats to enter. The gate was about twenty feet wide, and it could be used to drive thousands of stone warships in parallel. Usually, iron chains were used to block the water gate. There were a huge mail tower on both sides, and there were fifty soldiers on the mail towers.

At this time, the meditation bell rang on the whistle tower, and the rapid meditation bell sounded throughout the water camp. The soldiers on the whistle tower used their shields to block the dense arrows. Some people kept getting killed by arrows, and the meditation bell sounded gradually stopped.

At this time, another Jiangxia warship of thousands of stones rushed toward the bow. The bow was loaded with pig iron and hit the head, and violently hit the wardrobe. Amid the screams, the wardrobe was broken and fell down with a bang.

Large ships sailed into Pengze Water Village. Several Jiangdong Army warships were moored on the wide water surface, but there were no soldiers on the warships. It was obvious that the Eastern Wu battle flags hung by the fleet also confused the defenders in the Water Village, making them unable to get on the ship to defend.

The Jiangxia navy was not resisted at all. Dozens of heavy warships sailed towards the dock one after another. The sound of the news finally made the Jiangxia army wake up as if they were dreaming. A thousand five Jiangxia soldiers, led by Sima Huang Bing, rushed to the front of the dock, fired arrows, and blocked the Jiangxia army from landing at the dock with dense arrows.

Huang Bing is the veteran Huang Gaizhi, about ten years old, and is Xu Sheng's deputy general. He was entrusted by Xu Sheng with an important task to guard Pengze Water Village. He thought it was Wu Hou's fleet to arrive, but he never expected it to be a surprise attack by the Jiangxia army.

At this time, Huang Bing was anxious. Although he knew that Jiang Xia might land from other places, he lacked enough troops and was difficult to deploy in dispersed ways. He could only concentrate his troops to stop Jiang Xia's army from the dock, and another part of the army was used to protect the warehouse camp.

The Jiangdong Army built fortifications on the pier, filled soil with sacks, and built a wall of earth about two miles long dozens of steps away from the pier. One thousand five Jiangdong soldiers hid behind the earth wall and shot arrows. The dense rain of arrows suppressed the Jiangxia army's landing, making it impossible for the Jiangxia army on the boat to get off the boat.

At this moment, dozens of burning fireballs flew out of the big ship and roared towards the earth wall. This was the Jiangxia army's counterattack. The fireball rolled on the ground and hit the earth wall. The smoke rolled. Although the momentum was amazing, it was not strong. It could not hurt the Jiangdong soldiers hiding behind the earth wall, nor could it stop the Jiangdong soldiers from firing arrows.

The two sides seemed to be in a stalemate. One side could not get off the ship to land, and the other side could not leave the battlefield. They could only use bows and arrows to block the attack of Jiangxia's army. At this time, the main general Huang Bing was a little confused. He felt that the real purpose of Jiangxia's army was not to land, but to drag them down.

“Is it….”

Huang Bing looked back at the direction of Cangying uneasy. He felt that the Jiangxia army must have other intentions. They might have come ashore from other places and attacked the most important Cangying. At this time, there was a shout of killing in the distance. Huang Bing was shocked. He heard that it was coming from the direction of Cangying, which immediately made him anxious and immediately ordered: "First Battalion comes with me."

He led the five soldiers out of the dock and ran towards the camp in the distance.

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Pengze Cang Camp is located southwest of the military camp on the shore, covering an area of ​​several acres, consisting of more than six large tents, filled with grain and weapons stored by the Jiangdong Army in Pengze Water Village.

Among them, the four large tents stored the benefits that Liu Jing distributed to the Jiangdong army after the Red Cliff War, including money, grain, tents, weapons, flags, war drums and other materials. Sun Quan did not transport the materials back to Jiangdong considering the need to attack Jingnan.

At this time, Huang Bing's guess was not wrong. Chen Mi used the strategy of fighting east and west, and used dozens of warships and a small number of troops to attract Jiangdong soldiers at the dock. He led 4,000 troops to land elsewhere and attacked Cangbaung. They had strong troops and directly rushed into the Jiangdong army camp, quickly surrounded several soldiers guarding Cangbaung, and concentrated their forces to annihilate them.

There were only five soldiers in Jiangdong guarding the Cang Camp, and they were far from able to compete with the 4,000 elite army. In just a moment, nearly half of them were killed or injured, and the rest of the soldiers knelt on the ground and surrendered.

Shen Mi took down Cang Camp. At this moment, Huang Bing led five soldiers to reinforce. Shen Mi couldn't help but sneer and shouted: "Brothers, fight me."

Thousands of Jiangxia soldiers shouted and killed each other, waving their swords and spears, like a rushing craze, facing Huang Bian and the five soldiers he led to kill.

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This was a battle with almost no suspense. Two thousand Jiangdong defenders were far from the opponent of the five thousand Jiangxia elite army. They were divided and annihilated one by one, killing and injured more than six people, and more than one thousand were captured. Only dozens of patrol patrols outside were able to escape. Even the deputy general Huang Bing became a prisoner of the Jiangxia army.

Shen Mi did not waste time. He took over more than five warships of the Jiangdong Army and ordered the soldiers to carry all the supplies and tents onto the ship. He was busy until the evening before he transported the money, grain and materials in the Pengze military camp completely, leaving only an empty camp surrounded by wooden fences.

Shen Mi immediately ordered the camp to set fire, and together with the water village, all the fires were burned. Amid the fire and the thick smoke, several warships formed a huge fleet and left Pengze Lake and returned to Jiangxia in a mighty manner.

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In the confrontation between the Jiangdong Army and the Jiangxia Army, the Jiangdong Army did not have a strategic advantage. On the contrary, Jiangdong was still at a strategic disadvantage. Its troops were mainly concentrated in the east of Wuhu, and the vast land to the west had always lacked troops to guard it.

Especially Qichun County and Jiujiang County, which are close to Jiangxia, can only rely on the troops of Pengze Shuizhai to garrison, which makes the defensive forces of the two counties very weak, but they directly face the powerful Jiangxia County.

Many years ago, after the Jiangdong Army was defeated in the Battle of Chaisang, Sun Quan immediately sent Lu Su to seek peace, but in fact he was worried that Liu Jing would directly occupy Qichun County and Jiujiang County. Liu Jing did not continue to attack Qichun County and Jiujiang County in the long run, but reached a settlement agreement with Sun Quan, which also laid the foundation for the final alliance of Chibi.

But at this time, the Battle of Red Cliff had ended, and the strong enemy from the north retreated back to the Central Plains, which brought back a case that had been resolved many years ago to the surface again. After six years, Liu Jing once again turned his attention to Qichun County.

This time, he no longer hesitated and directly ordered the army to attack Qichun County on a large scale, pushing the land battlefield to the east side of Jiangdong. Twenty thousand Jiangxia army landed in Qichun County. These 20,000 were the elite selected by Liu Jing from more than 100,000 Cao's prisoners of war in the Battle of Chibi. A total of ten thousand were handed over to veteran Huang Zhong for training and command.

With his outstanding commanding ability, Huang Zhong successfully turned this army into the elite army of the Jiangxia Army in less than half a year. Of course, the officers above the army's garrison command were all served by soldiers of the Jiangxia Army, which is a necessary condition for firmly controlling this army.

Outside Qichun County, a group of soldiers walked down from the large ship and quickly gathered on the dock. Twenty thousand troops marched eastward, while the Qianjiang Xia army rushed to all directions and occupied various counties in Qichun County.

Liu Jing did not fully adopt Jia Xu's plan. Jia Xu suggested that all the people of Qichun County be driven to Jiangxia and make Qichun County an empty county. However, Liu Jing gave up this plan considering the burden of Jiangxia, and turned to occupy Qichun. Xiang Lang was appointed as the commander of Qichun County and was also in charge of government affairs.

In the afternoon, Liu Jing's boat slowly docked on the dock of Qichun County Wharf. Liu Jing stood at the bow of the boat and looked coldly at the county town in the distance. Just last year, in this county town, he and Sun Quan had a final alliance negotiation. Less than a year later, their covenant seemed pale and powerless in the face of interests, and were torn to pieces for the dispute over interests.

This made Liu Jing deeply understand what politics is. There is no friendship and only each other's interests.

At this time, Jia Xu smiled from the side and said, "I guess Sun Quan could never have thought of the determination of the provincial governor. Before the war started, he threw Qichun first."

"But he didn't suffer any loss."

Liu Jing sneered and said, "Isn't it true that he has occupied my Chaisang, and he needs to pay the price for it. Qichun is just the first step, and then Jiujiang County. If Sun Quan is completely defeated this time, I will never let him go."

Jia Xu pondered for a moment and asked again: "Why didn't the governor of the state take back Chaisang first?"

Liu Jing sighed slightly and said, "Caisang is my place of uprising. I have put a lot of effort into the defense of Chaisang. I only need five thousand people to defend the attack of 40,000 people. Although I can take Chaisang back, I have to pay a heavy price. I don't want to pay such a big price for Wei Yan's stupidity. As long as I can defeat the main force of the Jiangdong Army, under the general trend, the Jiangdong Army will have to give up Chaisang."

Jia Xu nodded and said, "Have the provincial governor considered the threat behind Cao's army?"

"Of course I've considered it"

Liu Jing laughed, "Xiangyang has a recruit to guard the army. I am not worried about the Cao army's actions. The Cao army may put pressure on Anlu, but they do not have warships and cannot pose a real threat to me. The biggest possibility is that the Jiangdong army warships head north to help Cao army cross the river. This will be my key precaution."

Jia Xu stroked his beard and pondered for a moment: "The governor of the state is very considerate, but I guess Prime Minister Cao will not really send troops to help Sun Quan, but he will fund the Jiangdong army on the other hand. For example, he will give the Jiangdong army a batch of tincture oil, so we should not be careless."

A sentence reminded Liu Jing that Cao Cao was indeed very likely to provide kerosene to the Jiangdong Army, and he really needed to take this into consideration.

At this moment, a soldier looked out on the mast shouted: "Zhouzhu, a fleet is coming on the river."

Liu Jing walked quickly to the stern of the boat, and a small black dot appeared in the distance. Liu Jing stared at him for a moment, and he laughed, "I think this should be a full return."
Chapter completed!