The day dawned, and a round of morning sun was like a rainbow, pouring gentle light, reflecting between heaven and earth.

Tanxi Lake.

The surface of the lake was covered with countless wrecks of warships, and even some floating corpses could be faintly seen, and the blood had been diluted, but the blood-colored light could still be felt, as if it was as tragic as an infernal hell.

A building boat, slowly sailing by.

On the bow deck, a middle-aged man stood with a brocade robe and a jade crown, and his momentum was cold.

He is Huang Zu.

Jiangxia is too guarded, in charge of the military administration of a county, although he is under the command of the Jingzhou Prefecture Governor's Office, but his position is very important, even Liu Biao does not dare to be too rude to him, after all, he holds the military power and is considered a prince.

Next to Huang Zu, on the cold deck, it was Chen Yu who knelt on his knees.

"Chen, you want to tell me that when we fought the Jiangdong Naval Division, we never lost a building boat, and we lost a building boat when we fought a group of landlubbers, right?"

Huang Zu's voice was neither yin nor yang, with a suppressed killing intent.

How difficult it is to build a ship.

Even in the whole Jiangxia, there are only three building ships, one of the old building ships is now staying at home, vigilant of Jiangdong's movements, dispatched two elite building ships to the north, bringing most of the main force of the sailors, in order not to let out the lips and teeth cold, once Xiangyang is lost again, Jiangxia is the main battlefield, he doesn't want to bring the war to Jiangxia.

It's just a war.

He lost a ship.

This was something he couldn't believe.

In fact, even if he loses this battle, he will not be surprised, the reputation of the herdsman is outside, it is indeed as fierce as a tiger, and now the Ming Hou is the Ming Hou who fought out, not to mention the only son of the violent bear Mushan, a small violent bear, fierce and terrible.

But he never imagined that he would be the first to suffer from the sailor he relied on the most.

"The last general will be guilty, and the crime deserves death, please punish Lord Taishou!"

Chen bowed his head and pleaded guilty respectfully.

This battle, he can be regarded as winning, even in the dark night of last night, under the heavy rain, he left at least one-third of the herdsman warship, killing more than a thousand enemies, but the loss of a building ship made all his achievements lose their light.

Xia Jiao was crushed by the other party's trebuchet, and now it has sunk under the bottom of Tanxi Lake, even if you want to salvage, it is difficult, Tanxi Lake is not deep, but there is no shoal, it is also difficult to salvage.

Even if it is salvaged, with the tragedy of last night's battle, whether the building ship can be repaired or not, is still a matter of words.

"The sin deserves death, and so-and-so will behead you now!" Huang Zu drew his sword violently.

"Lord Taishou forgives your sins!"

"Please think twice!"

"This battle is not the crime of the captain, it is the disadvantage of our supervision, and I ask Lord Taishou to punish it!"

The people who will come out will be protected.

"Lord Taishou, the battle general, is detrimental to the morale of the army!"

A man grabbed Huang Zu's hand.

He is another member of Huang Zu's favorite general, Zhang Shuo.

Zhang Shuo is a fierce general, with a thousand catties of strength, and he stubbornly grabbed Huang Zu's sword-wielding hand.

"Let go!"

Huang Zu took a breath of relief, looking at his beloved general, after all, he was reluctant to slash with a sword, otherwise no one would be able to stop him from swinging his sword.

Zhang Shuo and the others hurriedly stepped aside.

"Tell me about last night's battle!" Huang Zu stared at Chen Zuo coldly.

"No!"

Chen just told him in detail about last night, without adding the slightest.

"Every warship, even the stern, has a trebuchet?" Huang Zu squinted, and there was a touch of coldness in his eyes: "The level of weapons in Hanzhong is so powerful?" ”

He paused and looked at Chen Zuo: "But just like that, you can't hurt Lou Chuan!" ”

"The sinking of Xia Slogan is because they have a giant trebuchet, such a trebuchet, even if it is used in siege, it will be effective, on the river, I have never seen it!"

"No way, they don't have a building ship, with the carrying capacity of a fighting ship, even if it is empty, it is impossible to carry a trebuchet that can sink a building ship!"

"It's a fighting ship!"

Chen said: "But it's not one, it's at least four, I don't know how they got it, use these fighting ships together, build a position shape, and then build a trebuchet on it, at least a hundred catties of stone bullets can be thrown, very accurate, very terrifying!" ”

"There is such a Mohist craft in Hanzhong?"

Huang Zu gasped.

He now understands why Chen will be defeated, even if he comes in person, I am afraid that he will not be able to go anywhere, is this Hanzhong's weapon ability too strong.

He calmed down and looked around: "Chen Qi, do many people know about the sinking of the ship?" ”

"It was so dark last night that only we could see it on the battlefield!"

"From now on, give a gag order!" Huang Zu said: "Send the order out, this battle is a big victory, defeat dozens of warships of the herdsman, and kill three thousand enemies!" ”

"Lord Taishou, but the shepherd army will know!"

"Then if you don't admit it, who can believe that they can sink our ship with a fighting ship!"

Huang Zu said coldly: "We in Jingzhou need a big victory to boost the morale of the army!" ”

"No!"

Chen nodded.

"Shepherd Dragon Map!" Huang Zu raised his head, looked at the north, and crossed Zhenwu Mountain, as if he wanted to see the young man Minghou in the main camp of the herdsman: "I really can't underestimate you!" ”

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The northern suburbs of Deng County, Xishan.

Pastoral battalion.

Mu Jing squinted, looked at Zhang Liao, who was kneeling on one knee in front of him, and only after half a sound did he say quietly: "Lost?" ”

"Lost!"

Zhang Liao replied calmly.

"Get up and speak!" Mu Jing waved his hand.

"No!"

Zhang Liao stood up, he was still wearing battle armor, his hair was a little messy, obviously he had just left the battlefield, and he came directly to see Mu Jing.

"If you lose, you lose!"

Mu Jing didn't expect his sailor to compete with the Jiangxia Army, it was not on the same level, he was just a relationship, what did Zhang Liao gain from this battle: "Let's talk about it, how did you gain from this battle?" ”

"Sink a ship!"

Zhang Liao arched his hand and said.

"What?" When Mu Jing heard this, his eyes widened suddenly.

Even Chen Gong next to him couldn't help but question a little: "General Zhang Liaozhonglang, are you sure you sank one of the other party's ships?" ”

"See it with your own eyes!"

Zhang Liao nodded: "It was they who commanded the building ship, and it was also our target, how could we be mistaken, we saw with our own eyes that the building ship had begun to sink, so we ordered to withdraw from the battlefield!" ”

"Awesome!" Chen Gong said admiringly.

"Hahaha!"

Mu Jing laughed: "Then this battle is not a defeat, but a big victory, why do you say defeat!" ”

"We have indeed lost!"

Zhang Liao's face was a little gloomy: "This battle is the casualties that my Jingping Second Army has never suffered since it was established!" ”

"On the battlefield, we all have to learn to face casualties!"

Mu Jingchang sighed: "Let's talk about it, how are the casualties!" ”

"Last night, taking advantage of the heavy rain, it was a fluke, so that we could kill out in the night, and we broke through in separate ways, and the other two roads have not yet returned to converge, but according to the casualties before escaping last night!"

There was a hint of bitterness on Zhang Liao's face: "Losing warships, at least more than fifty, this has already cost us one-third of our combat effectiveness, and the casualties are more than 1,000 soldiers, these are all soldiers we are familiar with, and it is very difficult to train one!" ”

"Our herdsmen have swept the world, fought from Runan to Guanzhong, and then killed from Guanzhong, after the battle on horseback, the battle of siege, the battle of surprise attacks, whether it is a war on horseback, or a war on land, it is all easy!"

Mu Jing said softly: "But the war on the water, we are crossing the river by feeling the stones, we will inevitably be knocked down by the stones, since you dare to fight this battle, you have also thought about the casualties in your heart, you are a veteran of the battlefield, I don't have to comfort you, what I want to say is that some things can't be rushed, everything can be slowed down, and it is still too cruel to train the soldiers with war!" ”

"This battle is the last general's anxious!"

Zhang Liao admitted this, he still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Jiangxia Naval Division, otherwise he would not have suffered such heavy casualties after such a precise deployment.

"Next, Jingping's Second Army will rest, but you still have to keep an eye on the waterways of Hanshui, we attack Xiangyang, and we can't be raided by people on the water, this time let us fall into passivity!"

"No!"

Zhang Liao nodded, and he replied: "Rest assured, my lord, after this battle, my Jingping Second Army will take defense as the attack and give up the attack for the time being, but it will definitely defend our position, they dare to come, we dare to fight, I can still crush their building ships when attacking, and I am more confident in defense!" ”