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Lu Xun pondered for a moment and said, "I will not hide it from Zhao Envoy, General Lou Fa walked into the sea and was preparing to enter Wujun from Songjiang. If nothing unexpected happens, they should have entered Songjiang now."

Speaking of this, Lu Xun smiled bitterly again: "I stationed in Qiantang County. I thought Huang Gai would lead the army to move south in large numbers. In this way, Wu County was empty, so that General Lou would give General Lou a chance, but Huang Gai always held his troops. If it weren't for my troops in Wucheng County this time, he would still refuse to send troops. I guess General Lou Fa's plan to attack Wu County would be disappointed."

Zhao Yan thought for a while and said, "It's okay. The Jiangdong water network is densely packed. If Huang Gai always sends troops without fighting, General Lou Fa can turn around and go north to Piling County. The Jiangdong army only traps an isolated city in Wu County, which is actually meaningless."

Lu Xun looked back at the Han cavalry and smiled and said, "But there are cavalry here, I have a plan to attack Wu County."

Lu Xun whispered to Zhao Yan a few words, Zhao Yan nodded and smiled, "This plan is very good. Even if Huang Gai knew there was danger, he would still drill into the bag. I think it is feasible."

Jiang Qin counted the number of escaped subordinates in the lake, and there were only more than 1,800 people, and more than a thousand people were lost in Wucheng County. This made Jiang Qin feel sad and began to shake the future of Wu County.

The next night, Jiang Qin's fleet arrived in Wuxian along the Xushui River and slowly entered the city from Panmen Water City. Huang Gai heard that Jiang Qin had returned from defeat and rushed to the Water City.

Jiang Qin felt ashamed and stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, saying, "I failed to withstand the attack of the Han army, resulting in the loss of troops and generals, and returned from a great defeat. Even General Pan Long was killed by Lu Xun. This is the fault of Wu Shi, and I am willing to take the blame from the general."

Huang Gai quickly helped him up and comforted him, "Don't blame himself. I heard that the reinforcements of the Han army came. No matter who it is, he will be defeated in this battle, and it has nothing to do with Duke Chiang."

Jiang Qin sighed, "Actually, we have the possibility of winning this battle. If the turmeric oil was real, I would have defeated Lu Xun and captured Wucheng County. Even if the Han reinforcements arrived, I could still hold on to the city. Half of the failure of this battle was caused by us."

Huang Gai was shocked, "Mr. Jiang said that tinea oil is fake."

Jiang Qin smiled bitterly and said, "Has the old general not tested it?"

"This is not usually open for a bucket inspection, who would have thought there was a false one."

"The veteran general should test it."

Huang Gai urgently ordered his men to go down to check the turmeric oil. He was still worried and rushed to the warehouse himself. In the huge warehouse, several soldiers pried open several buckets of turmeric oil and inspected them one by one. Huang Gai's face changed and he had already seen something was wrong.

At this time, an officer came forward to report: "Report to the old general, we opened a bucket of tincture oil, and only ten barrels of tincture oil are real, and the rest are mixed with water and oil, and a bucket of 50 kilograms of tincture oil, but the actual tincture oil is probably only five kilograms, and a lot of it is mixed with water and tung oil."

Huang Gai's face turned pale, and after a while, he said angrily: "It's a shame to do this."

Jiang Qin had already come from his anger and regained his rationality. He said to Huang Gai: "Of course, Wu Hou would not do such a thing, I'm afraid that Cao Cao was secretly making trouble. These ten thousand barrels of turmeric oil came from Cao Cao. At the beginning, Cao Cao had no good intentions. We believed in the Sun Cao alliance."

"You're right. I still expect these five thousand barrels of turmeric oil to defend the city. Now Cao Cao has cut off all my hopes." Huang Gai sighed long, feeling really angry in his heart.

At this moment, a military marquis rushed over and knelt down on one knee to report: "Report to the old general, the scout on the eastern front found a Han army fleet in Songjiang forty miles away, about fifty warships, all of which were thousands of stone warships."

This news made Huang Gai and Jiang Qin stunned. The two looked at each other. How could the Han army fleet come from Songjiang and Huang Gai react first? I'm afraid that this is the Han army retreating from Wujun to the sea from the east. Wu Hou asked them to be prepared again. Now they are actually back from the sea.

"This should be the initial strategy of the Han army. Lu Xun lured me to the south in Qiantang County. This Han army took advantage of the situation to attack Wu County. Fortunately, I stopped moving, and there was indeed a fraud here."

Huang Gai was secretly grateful, and he immediately said to the military Hou: "Order the scout to observe this fleet closely. If there is any situation, report it to me immediately."

Huang Gai was very worried. Now that the Han army is coming from several directions, there are probably 20,000 troops, and they have occupied Wucheng County. It seems that it is not a solution to defend Wu County by himself. Once the Han army crosses Hubei from Wucheng County, the problem will be serious.

But if he went out of the city to defend the enemy, he was not sure and did not conform to his strategy. For a moment, Huang Gai was a little embarrassed.

Before dawn the next day, Huang Gai received an urgent report from the scout. After continuing to move west for twenty miles, the Han army fleet that appeared yesterday turned north and followed the Loujiang River toward Piling County.

Huang Gai was shocked. The less than a thousand troops in Piling County were garrisoned, but it was a heavy land for military rations, which was related to the safety of the entire Jiangdong. If the Han army occupied Piling County, the Wu Hou would have to give up the Battle of Hefei, which was exactly the result that Liu Jing expected.

Although he knew the danger of the Han army in the south, Huang Gai could never allow the Han army to enter Piling County. He immediately ordered Jiang Qin to lead 5,000 troops to defend the city. Huang Gai personally led 5,000 troops out of the city and chased northeastward. The Han army fleet only walked dozens of miles at most, and he could catch up with the Han army in one day.

The Jiangnan region has a low-lying terrain, dense water networks, and numerous lakes, making it very easy to dig canals. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Wuyue Period, the Jiangnan region has excavated a simple canal water system connecting the Yangtze River and Qiantang River.

After Sun Quan moved the capital to Jianye, in order to strengthen the connection between Wujun and Jianye, he began to re-dilege the ancient canal and formed the early Jiangnan canal. It was not until Emperor Yang of Sui that formed a barrier between the north and the south due to the long confrontation between the Southern and Northern Dynasties that Emperor Yang of Sui began to dig the canal on a large scale that the Jiangnan canal was officially formed and is still in use today.

The Han army warships headed north and walked along the canal that had not been dug yet. The canal only reaches Piling County, and can sail thousands of stone warships. Fifty warships sailed like clouds, and headed north in a mighty way.

At dusk, Lou Fa stood at the stern of the last big ship and stood with a knife. At this time, the sun was no longer vicious, and the sunset was like fire, burning half of the sky red. Lou Fa turned back to the west bank from time to time. He only received a sudden letter from Lu Xun yesterday, hoping that he could cooperate with the southern Han army to lure troops and lead Huang Gai's army out of Wu County.

Lou Fa happily accepted Lu Xun's suggestion and ordered the fleet to divert the way to Loujiang River, enter the Jiangnan Canal northward, and fight straight towards Piling County. At this time, his fleet had already left Wu County for sixty miles. In terms of time, Huang Gai's pursuers should have arrived soon.

At this moment, a lookout soldier shouted on the mast: "General, the enemy is chasing him on the west bank."

Lou Fa walked to the port side and stared at the south. Soon after, he saw a black army coming quickly to the north. This should be Huang Gai's pursuers. Lou Fa immediately ordered: "Tell me my order, the fleet will moor on the right bank and the army will land."

Lou Fa did not dare to underestimate the enemy. The canal was narrow. Once the Jiangdong army attacked with turbulent oil, his fleet would fall into a situation of burning the river with fire. The Han army fleet slowly considered it and boarded the board. The Han soldiers on the ship rushed off the ship one after another, lined up on the east coast to form a crossbow formation, with arrows tense, and thousands of military crossbows aimed at the enemy on the west coast.

Soon, Huang Gai led 5,000 troops to catch up with the fleet. At this time, Huang Gai also found that the other party had already arrived and was waiting for the crossbow. He waved his hand and ordered: "Stop chasing."

Five thousand Jiangdong Army stopped running, and one thousand soldiers raised their shields and slowly approached the shore to test the facts and reality of the Han army. Just as the soldiers of Jiangdong arrived at the shore, a sound of crossbows came from the other side, and dense arrows shot out from the gaps of the warships, roaring towards the enemy troops on the other side.

The canal is only more than ten steps wide, and it was changed from a small river channel that is not wide. The Thousand Stone Warship is almost feasible because of the depth of the river channel. Although there were fifty warships between the two armies at this time, the distance between them was actually less than fifty steps, which was within the maximum range of killing, which means that the strong power of the military crossbow is enough to break the shield.

The dense and powerful arrows shot through the shields of the soldiers in Jiangdong. A scream suddenly broke out on the west bank. Several soldiers were shot down by crossbow arrows that shot through the shields. The rest of the soldiers were so scared that they lay on the ground, waiting for the arrows to be bye bye. They got up and ran away to the distance without any life.

Lou Fa did not get off the boat. He stood behind a huge mast and observed the movements of the Jiangdong Army on the west bank. He found that the Jiangdong Army was walking lightly and did not carry bags, nor did he see them carrying turtle oil barrels or carrying turtle oil leather bags with them.

Lou Fa immediately realized that perhaps the thing he was most worried about would not happen. The other party had no intention of burning the warship, and judging from the other party's tactics, it was a typical preparation for seizing the warship, first test the reality, and then the army rushed forward and swam to seize the ship.

Lou Fa saw the other party's intentions and immediately ordered: "Send the whole army to board the ship."

The harsh bells echoed in the sunset, which was a signal to board the ship. The soldiers of the Thousand Han Army rushed towards their respective warships like a tide. They rushed onto the warship and immediately squatted on the side of the ship. Military crossbows aimed at the soldiers of Jiangdong who were one or fifty steps away.

At this time, Huang Gai also issued an order to seize the ship. One thousand soldiers held heavy shields and sharp spears in their hands and slowly walked up. This heavy shield was also invented by the Han army. It can withstand the powerful penetration power of the yellow crossbow within two steps. The Han army had conducted experiments. It can even resist the penetration power of the bee crossbow within one or fifty steps, and ordinary military crossbows are even more difficult to shoot through.

However, it is not easy to manufacture this heavy shield. It takes at least one year to create a heavy crossbow. This is because it takes half a year to dry the heavy shield. The craftsmen of the Cao army also made such heavy shields. They built five thousand heavy shields in a year. After Zhang Liao assisted the Jiangdong Army in capturing Wu County, he left behind a thousand heavy shields and equipped one thousand heavy shields. This time Huang Gai also brought out this heavy shield army.

The heavy shield soldiers held up their large shields and moved closer to the river step by step, less than fifty steps from the shore. At this time, a sound of clamor sounded, thousands of arrows on the warships were fired at the same time, and thousands of arrows shot towards the Jiangdong soldiers on the west bank.

This time, the heavy shield successfully resisted the powerful arrows, and no soldier was caught. Lou Fa looked at the soldiers coldly, and he whispered: "Stop shooting, prepare for the turbulent tank."

Han soldiers took out thousands of tincture oil pots from the cabin. The neck of this pot was slender and tincture oil, and weighed only two kilograms. It was very suitable for soldiers to throw away. Generally, soldiers could throw them out ten steps away.

But at this moment, a muffled thunder sound came from a distance, and the earth began to shake. It was difficult for the soldiers in Jiangdong to understand this movement, but the Han soldiers were very familiar with it. Some soldiers shouted, "It's a cavalry."

Sure enough, a black line appeared in the south. The black line was getting closer and closer, turning into a galloping war horse, stirring up rolling yellow dust. Although there were only two thousand cavalrymen, the momentum it caused was still earth-shaking.

Huang Gai's heart suddenly sank. What he was most worried about was still happening. Before sending troops, he was worried that the Han army in the south would take the opportunity to come to fight, but he could not tolerate the Han army's warships heading north to Piling County, so he had to go out of the city to pursue it. This made him feel a little lucky. Perhaps the Han army would not have time to go north.

But the cavalry that came in front of him shattered his luck, and he kept shouting: "Line in line, prepare for the battle."

At this time, it is definitely not a wise decision. It is a wise decision to retreat north immediately and then evacuate in a swimming manner, so that the Han cavalry would be blocked by the canal. Huang Gai did not choose this plan, and Lou Fa no longer gave him a chance. He immediately ordered the army to get off the warship again and lined up to prepare for the war, preparing to cooperate with the cavalry to attack the Jiangdong Army from behind.

The sound of war drums rumbled, and the cavalry entered the Jiangdong army with unstoppable force. At this time, Lou Fa led the Thousand Han troops to launch an attack on the Jiangdong army from behind.

Due to the existence of two thousand cavalry, the Han army's breakthrough in Wu County was accelerated. Huang Gai's army was defeated and suffered heavy casualties. Huang Gai was unable to return to Wu County, so he had to lead the remaining troops to evacuate to Piling County.

When Lu Xun led 15,000 troops to Wuxian, thousands of civilian men in Wuxian called the city outside the city. For a moment, the people in Wuxian responded, and the army was shaken, and the soldiers took off their armor and fled. In just one hour, most of the five thousand troops fled. Jiang Qin knew that the situation was hopeless, so he ordered the army to open the southern gate to surrender to the Han army. Lu Xun led a large army to occupy Wuxian. At this point, all Wuxian fell.

The fall of Wu County means that the Han army broke through the entire line within Jiangdong, and the Sun Wu regime fell into an unprecedented passive position. Sun Quan ordered the Liyang army to return to Jianye immediately. He wrote a letter to Cao Cao, explaining to him that Jiangdong was in danger and that he had to withdraw his troops to help Jiangdong. At the same time, Sun Quan secretly wrote a letter to Liu Jing, expressing that he was very willing to make a ceasefire with the Han Kingdom and that Jiangdong would never participate in the war between the Han and Wei. At this point, the Jiangdong army officially withdrew from the Hefei War.
Chapter completed!