In fact, Cai Mao really ignored Zhou Yu, he didn't have the idea of going ashore to fight Zhou Yu's army with a naval army.

To be honest, Cai Mao also has a little selfishness of not wanting to consume too much Jiangling Navy in Jiangdong, so although Cai Mao has discovered Zhou Yu's movement in the division of troops, and also discovered Zhou Yu's movement in Wuxi, Wuxian and other places, Cai Mao was completely unmoved, but still stayed on Wucheng's side to maintain the so-called offensive against Yan Baihu.

Anyway, Cai Mao knew that Zhou Yu did not have a navy river boat, but his water village camp was built directly on the islands in Zhenze Lake with the help of large and small warships and river boats, so that any enemy who dared to go into the water to attack his water village would come to find death by himself.

But he will never land easily and go to war with others on land.

Therefore, Cai Mao did not give Zhou Yu a chance to seize the warships of the Jiangling Navy through the war, Cai Mao was like a turtle and just shrunk in the Zhenze Lake, preserving the strength of the Jiangling Navy Army.

In fact, Cai Mao also received a military order from Wang Yuyan before, telling him to be careful of Zhou Yu's sneak attack and carefully preserve the warship or something, so Cai Mao also has a more legitimate reason to preserve his strength.

Of course, at this time, Cai Mao also discovered that the waterway leading from Zhenze Lake to the Yangtze River seemed to be blocked by Zhou Yu's army, but this problem is not very big, anyway, Zhenze Lake also has enough water to stop his water army.

Therefore, Cai Mao just sent a part of the navy back to dredge the waterway, and then stepped up the patrol and monitoring of the Yangtze River waterway, and then sent people to monitor the movements of Zhou Yu's army, and sent a message to Wang Yuyan's side in time.

As a result, Zhou Yu fought all the way from Biling County to Wu County, but he still failed to lead Cai Mao's army to fight, so he could only put his target on the side of Qiantang County.

This is what Zhou Yu did during the period that Sun Ce helped him delay, but soon Zhou Yu got the news that Zhu Wei's army had entered Wu County, that is, Pang Yan's Xionglu camp also followed his previous route and once again recaptured Wuxi, Wu County and other places that Zhou Yu had fought before.

To be honest, it was easier for Pang Yan's Xionglu battalion to attack these places this time, because after Zhou Yu had conquered these places before, he also adopted the method of sweeping and looting, almost engulfing the local young and strong population into his army, and also attacking and plundering the grain stored in the dock fort of many wealthy families in the local area.

In this way, Zhou Yu can be regarded as making his army angry and resentful in these places, and it also caused many local sergeant clans and powerful families to gather private soldiers to resist.

But before Zhou Yu's army was huge, even if these local forces wanted to counterattack, they would hit a stone with an egg, so the most they could do was to hide and fight guerrillas to resist Zhou Yu's plundering of their family's population, grain, grass, and property.

When Pang Yan's Xionglu battalion came to these places, it was like a long drought and a rainstorm, and they were welcomed by all directions, and there were teams coming to take refuge from time to time, wanting to help Zhu Wei's army deal with Zhou Yu together, and some of them followed Zhu Wei's army to rescue the family members who were coerced by Zhou Yu.

Such a huge Xionglu camp naturally advanced all the way, and recovered Wuxi, Wuxian and Louxian counties and other places in one day.

Well, in fact, Zhou Yu didn't leave troops to guard these places, so Pang Yan's Xionglu battalion chased Zhou Yu's army all the way, rushing in the direction of Youquan and Qiantang.

Of course, Zhou Yu knew very well that what he had done along the way had completely lost the hearts of the people on Wu Jun's side.

Therefore, although he didn't know what the situation of Sun Ce who stayed in Danyang City was, he learned that Zhu Weijun, who entered Wu County, was actually Pang Yan of the Xionglu Battalion, and he didn't dare to fight against Pang Yan easily, so he didn't leave any troops to resist in Wuxi, Wu County, Lou County and other places before, because Zhou Yu's current military target was still Qiantang County.

Therefore, Zhou Yu only took an army that had swelled to nearly 50,000 all the way, and swept through the young people of Youquan County, before stopping in Youquan County and began to build defenses, as if he was preparing to fight against Pang Yan's Xionglu battalion army here.

At the same time, Zhou Yu also divided a part of his forces to kill in the direction of Qiantang County, and the defense of the Fist County was just to delay the attack on Qiantang County.

At this time, Qiantang County naturally had already received the news of Zhou Yu's army's attack, fortunately, Zhou Xin and Kan Ze, who had gone out to attack Wucheng, had returned to Qiantang County with more than 8,000 Huiji troops, so Wang Lang could be regarded as sending heavy troops to guard Qiantang County.

But relatively speaking, at this time, the army controlled by Zhou Yu is also a little imposing, and it is no longer an ordinary new army that has no combat effectiveness at all.

Now there are more than 50,000 troops under Zhou Yu's control, although more than 20,000 of them are young and strong recruits from Wuxi, Wu County, Lou County, and the land of boxing that Zhou Yu has brought in, these recruits are uncertain, and many people are looking for opportunities to escape, but they are originally ready to be used as cannon fodder in Zhou Yu's hands.

This time, Zhou Yu coerced the local people in the southeastern counties of Wu County, and did not bring with him the old and weak women and children who would slow down his march, but only pulled all the young men between the ages of fifteen to forty-six and seven into the army in a Latin way.

After all, these people are all powerful young and strong, even if they are unwilling to fight for Zhou Yu in their hearts, they can be driven by Zhou Yu as cannon fodder to attack the city, which is naturally more effective than the cannon fodder composed of old and weak women and children.

In addition, in the hands of Zhou Yu, there are also six or seven thousand elite soldiers of the Sun clan trained from Guangling County, these soldiers are the core troops of Sun Ce's attack on Jiangdong this time, and their combat effectiveness is definitely comparable to the first-line elite soldiers in the hands of various forces today.

With the existence of this elite main force, Zhou Yu also dared to fight with Zhu Wei's army.

In addition, Zhou Yu still has about 20,000 new troops from Danyang City, but these new soldiers have been in the previous expedition from Wuxi to Youquan, under Zhou Yu's deliberate indulgence, it can be regarded as completely letting go of the bottom limit and making a lot of robbery, raiding and plundering, and many soldiers have been cultivated into a bandit and murderous spirit.

Although Zhou Yu didn't have time to train these recruits, he discovered the beastly nature in the hearts of these people, almost every soldier was already contaminated with a bit of murderous blood, and he was naturally different from ordinary recruits when he went to the battlefield.

This method of military training is also a helpless measure, but it is indeed an effective method.

In this way, in addition to those elite soldiers of Guangling County, Zhou Yu's subordinates can be regarded as cultivating an army with combat effectiveness, and they are no longer newcomers who have never been on the battlefield, so now Zhou Yu has some confidence in the army under his command.

It can be said that if Pang Yan hadn't entered Wu County in time with the Xionglu camp this time, and chased Zhou Yu's army to support Qiantang County, I'm afraid Zhou Yu would have easily captured Qiantang County, and then led his troops into Huiji County.

That is really the situation that Wang Yuyan is worried about......