This time, Zhu Wei attacked Jiangxia, and he only needed to go west along the Yangtze River. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After taking Jiangxia, continue along the Yangtze River to the west is Chibi, and then Zhu Wei can enter the territory of Nanjun to face Jiangling City in Jingzhou, and may face the Jingzhou naval army controlled by Cai Mao.

Of course, Zhu Wei could also cross the Yangtze River on the Chibi side of Shaxian County, and after landing on the north bank, he could directly kill Xiangyang City, Liu Biao's old nest in Jingzhou.

It can be said that Jiangxia is Jingzhou's first line of defense against Jiangdong.

In history, after Sun Jian defeated Huang Zu through Jiangxia, he killed all the way to Xiangyang, but later when he attacked Xiangyang, he was killed by the men and horses ambushed by Lu Gong under Liu Biao's subordinates, and it is also said that he was killed by Huang Zu's soldiers with hidden arrows, so that Liu Biao re-settled in Xiangyang.

After Sun Ce captured Jiangdong, he also attacked Jingzhou through Jiangxia many times, so Huang Zu had to set up a defensive line in Shaxian County (that is, the Xiakou area) to prevent Sun Ce from entering the hinterland of Jingzhou along the Yangtze River.

And now Huang Zu doesn't have to worry about Jiangdong Sun or anything, Jiangdong Liu Xuan is not as aggressive as Sun Ce, and Zhu Wei has recently won Yuzhang, Huang Zu never thought that Zhu Wei would attack him so quickly.

To be honest, Huang Zu has a bit of covetousness for Jiangdong, give him some time, maybe he will secretly attack Yuzhang, who let Zhu Wei take the initiative to give up those marginal counties in Yuzhang.

In Huang Zu's eyes, these can be regarded as empty cities that are unguarded, and they can be occupied without spending many troops.

Well, let's not talk about Huang Zu's thoughts, just say that Huang Zu's county seat in Jiangxia County is Xiling County, which can be regarded as a big city located north of the Yangtze River.

But there is a tributary of the Yangtze River, Xiashui, which can go directly to the Yangtze River, so Zhu Wei can use the fleet to kill directly under Xiling County through the Yangtze River.

There are 13 other county towns in Jiangxia County, among which the county towns along the Yangtze River facing Jiangdong mainly include Chaisang, Qichun, Exian (later Wuchang) and Yi County.

Originally, in order to prevent the invasion of Jingzhou by Jiangdong Liu Xuan and Huainan Yuan Shu, Huang Zu set up two water camps in the waters of the Yangtze River to which Qichun County and Exian County belonged, which can be regarded as constructing two defense lines on the river to block the enemy forces in Jiangdong and Huainan from attacking through the Yangtze River.

This water village located in Qichun County is only the frontier guard post of Huang Zu to defend Jiangdong and Huainan, and the water village located in Exian County is the water river defense fortress that Huang Zu is more assured.

With these two Jiangshang defense lines, Huang Zu was able to block the enemy's direct threat to him in Xiling County, Jiangxia's old nest.

Therefore, Zhu Wei's war against Jiangxia this time was mainly a water battle against Huang Zu's two Jiangshang defense lines on the Yangtze River, and finally a siege battle against Xiling City, Huang Zu's old nest.

However, it is indeed difficult to break through the Jiangshang defense line located in Exian County, which Zhu Wei is also very clear about.

Therefore, this time Zhu Wei attacked Jiangxia, that is, he simply carried out a ceremony to sacrifice troops to the gods in Poyang Lake Water Village, and told the reason why he sent troops, and then he entered Jiangxia with a lightning speed.

Zhu Wei's purpose was to sneak attack, before Huang Zu was unprepared and reacted, break through Huang Zu's two river defense lines on the Yangtze River, and directly kill Huang Zu's nest in Xiling County.

Judging from the current situation, Huang Zu would never have expected Zhu Wei to suddenly attack Jiangxia, and he may not even know the news of Zhu Wei's dispatch to Jiangxia now, and he was completely caught off guard.

According to Zhu Wei's investigation of Jiangxia County through real-world scouts and spies, Huang Zu's main focus is now on Xiling City.

As for the two defense lines in Qichun and Exian on the Yangtze River, they are actually under the control of Huang Zu's son Huang Jie.

But now the combined strength of these two water defense lines is only more than 5,000, of which 3,000 soldiers are stationed in the water village on the side of Exian County, and 2,000 soldiers are stationed in the water village in Qichun County.

Therefore, before Huang Zu noticed Zhu Wei's surprise attack on Jiangxia, the strength of these two Jiangshang defense lines was not much.

In fact, the two Huangzu water villages in Qichun and Exian, which constitute the defense line on the river, mainly do what they do in peacetime are to inspect and collect transit taxes and fees for merchant ships, so it is enough to release these troops.

This transit tax on the Yangtze River to and from ships can be regarded as a good financial benefit in Jiangxia.

Because he didn't expect Zhu Wei to attack suddenly, Jiangxia is now in a state of comfort, so Huang Jie, the chief general in charge of the two defense lines, usually does not often stop at the two Jiangshang defense lines, and occasionally often returns to Xiling County to live his son-in-law life.

The actual management of these two water defense lines was actually handed over to Huang Zu's generals Zhang Shuo, Chen Zhuo, and Deng Long, but the command of these two river defense lines was still controlled by Huang Jie himself.

So on the surface, it seems that Huang Jie is not in the two Jiangshang defense lines, but Zhang Shuo, Chen Qi, and Deng Long can only be regarded as the stewards of the two Jiangshui villages temporarily, and the soldiers directly under him are only two or three hundred, not even a song, and the other troops are led by the military marquis under the direct Huang She.

Therefore, when Zhu Wei checked the intelligence of Jiangxia County, he saw that there were 4,000 soldiers under Huang Jie, and Zhang Shuo, Chen Qi, and Deng Long combined were only more than 1,000 troops, which was actually a flaw.

As for the remaining Su Fei and Gan Ning in Jiangxia, they were stationed in Shaxian County by Huang Zu, which was actually far away from the main Yangtze River area in Jiangxia.

They were not qualified to collect taxes and fees from ships traveling on the Yangtze River, so they could not get any oil and water to supplement the military, and they could only rely on Huang Zu to get military supplies.

Of course, this time Zhu Wei attacked Jiangxia, and the two of them were lucky to get out of the battlefield that Zhu Wei had planned.

Okay, Su Fei and Gan Ning won't mention it for the time being, just say that the two Huangzu Jiangshang defense lines in Qichun County and Exian County, which are located in front of Xiling County, are actually in a state of lack of defense.

This also gave Zhu Wei a chance to make a quick sneak attack and forcibly break through these two Huangzu River defense lines, as long as he broke through these two Jiang Shang defense lines, Jiangxia could almost be regarded as within reach.

The main body of Zhu Wei's fleet of ships transporting troops on the Yangtze River consisted of 250 large river boats that could carry 3 to 400 people, and there were also more than 1,000 small boats guarding the periphery to prevent a surprise attack by enemy warships.

But the scale of such a fleet is not small, so Zhu Wei's fleet sails on the surface of the Yangtze River, but it is also almost covered by the entire river.

Along the way, Zhu Wei requisitioned all the ships encountered on the Yangtze River and wrapped them into Zhu Wei's fleet, on the one hand, to increase the number of ships on his side, and on the other hand, to raid the secrecy of Jiangxia.

With Zhu Wei's unexpected troop action, coupled with the speed of the water march, it can definitely be regarded as a blitzkrieg-like sneak attack on Jiangxia.

After all, on the Yangtze River now, there is no river defense beacon tower set up by Guan Yu later, even if someone sees Zhu Wei's army fleet, they can't immediately send an early warning signal to Jiangxia......