Almost a day, the northern part of Jingzhou was full of war.

On the northernmost Xiangyang battlefield, Gan Ning surrendered to the enemy, and easily buried a lieutenant department of the Jingzhou Army, Yingshui East, most of the six and eight ships went into the hands of the Yan family, and the remaining half were also sent to the river god to sink to the bottom.

However, the loss is only a school captain's department, not to mention that there are nearly a thousand Ganning headquarters, this kind of loss is nothing in Liu Biao's opinion, but the loss of Ganning means that the Jingzhou army will fight with the Yan army again.

The land war depends on Wen Ping, if Wen Ping leaves Liu Biao at this time, it will be a real disaster.

On the other side, on the river, the fleet of the commander of Xuezhou and Zhang Yun's troops in Jingzhou were in close hands, and the methods used by the pirates on Cao Cao in the past were now used on the Jingzhou army as usual, but they could not reap all the results...... Their opponent is not the unfamiliar Yanzhou army of the Cao clan, but the Jingzhou sailors who grew up on the north bank of the river since childhood, whether they are on the side or colliding, the two sides are nothing more than equal, not to mention that the number of warships of the Jingzhou Navy far exceeds that of the Xuezhou Division, and there is a building ship and a large fighting ship to help, which cannot be matched from a distance.

Xuezhou's only advantage is not in the hard encounter, but in the fact that their strong crossbows are more accurate, more stable, and faster than the Jingzhou army.

In addition to the Jingzhou army carrying the entire school captain department on the building ship, it is very difficult for the sailors on other small boats to gain a firm foothold in the melee, and the strong crossbow and crossbow arrows are falling one by one, so the number of bows and arrows in the Jingzhou army is far better than that of strong crossbows.

But the Xue Zhou Department did not have such a risk, because most of his subordinates were pirates, and the opportunity to use bows and crossbows in the past was limited, so the bow skills were generally poor, so when receiving the armaments, Zhang Liao simply allocated them a full 1,500 strong crossbows, counting the previous long-range shooting power of the bow and crossbow has reached more than 2,000 people, not to mention that the Yan Army's strong crossbow equipment is pressed, even on a shaking warship, the crossbow will not be shaken off due to shaking, so it is more stable and faster.

Realizing that the hand-to-hand encounter would bring greater casualties to his side, Xue Zhou ordered the fleet to fight in a loitering battle, firing at the enemy ships with strong crossbows, and trying to avoid direct engagement with the enemy ships. However, this kind of thing does not mean that it can be avoided because it is really avoided, and the ships that rushed into the enemy position before will inevitably be besieged and cut off by the enemy due to the lack of follow-up support.

This meant that the merchant ships they had worked so hard to add to the striking wood would be useless, and the decks of these merchant ships were too low to have an advantage in the battle of the sailors, but they had arranged a large number of samurai who were ready to engage in the battle before the battle, which was tantamount to wasting a lot of troops.

Xue Zhou did not have the characteristics of wealth and wealth shared by the generals of the Yan clan, and he was used to having one soldier in his hand, and he could not tolerate any loss, which made him very anxious.

In the blink of an eye, the flotilla of four ships and seven ships were completely lost in the broadside battle, and most of the enemy ships took the building ship as the central army, and each side deployed fighting ships, and then a large number of ships charged towards the Xuezhou Department with great momentum.

Xue Zhou fought and retreated all the way, relying on the speed advantage of many clippers to circle around the water with the enemy ship formation, but this still inevitably caused intermittent ship losses. For Lu Ke, if they are touched by those big ships, it will be the fate of the ship's destruction and death, not to mention that they do not have an advantage in the shooting against the Jingzhou army.

The situation in the water is so unfavorable, but the fighting on the road is much better. To tell the truth, although Zhang Liao's boss was reluctant at the beginning of the war, Gao Shun and the others still had their minds, after all, the enemy was Jingzhou, and Chen Dajun was coming to meet the battle, who could be as calm as water?

But when the two sides engaged, Gao Shun didn't think so.

Jingzhou deserves to be like this.

The Jingzhou army actually did not stick to the Huarong Valley Road, and led the army out of the Valley Road to meet them.

This is not to blame Cai Mao, Cai Mao led an army of 20,000, and earlier occupied the dangerous place in Huarong Valley Road, and prepared for the defense of Zhang Liao wholeheartedly, but the speed of Zhang Liao's army was far lower than their expectations...... It's too slow.

The Yan army only traveled forty miles a day, even if it was a slightly brisk forward army, it was only fifty miles a day, and the road would rest when it was tired, and stop when it was thirsty, not at all like an army that was in a hurry to set foot on enemy land and was eager to fight for profit, but as if it was patrolling in its own territory.

It makes Cai Mao feel that this is like a bait, luring them to pay attention here, but in fact they have to go somewhere else. And this 'other place', for Jingzhou today, is Jiangling and Zhijiang.

Cao Cao!

Cai Mao suddenly had a bold idea, has the Yan family made peace with the Cao family and plotted with the Liu family?

Cai Mao's speculation is not groundless, Jingzhou from top to bottom has been quite complaining about Cao Cao's entry into Changsha before informing the Liu family, which is really a great enemy, otherwise this move alone can make the two sides enter a protracted war. Now Cao Cao's generals cut off Liu Biao's back road, and the Yan clan forced Ganning to surrender in Jingbei, seeing that Wen Ping would have to give up Xiangyang and retreat into Yicheng if he was defeated by Zhang Jaw Liu Biao, but the back road was cut off by Cao Cao's soldiers and horses, if Yicheng could no longer be defended...... Whether he can retreat or not is Cao Cao's final say, who can not worry about this situation?

So at this time, the first thing Cai Mao imagined was that the Yan clan and the Cao clan would join forces, and they wanted to annex the Liu clan first and then make other considerations. It is also said that Cao Cao escaped from the land of Peiguo to Jingzhou like this, and he could still participate in some fleets after being defeated on the water?

The people of Jingzhou did not know that Cao Cao had collected civilian ships along the coast, and had robbed some warships from the Yan's navy in Runan before he organized enough sailors to arrive in Jingzhou.

Cai Mao's first thought was to take advantage of this opportunity, the Yan army must not have thought that they would take the lead in sending troops to meet the battle, so they were caught off guard, eating this army of soldiers and horses and then doing other thoughts.

The Yan army really couldn't imagine that the Jingzhou army dared to lead the army to attack, but unfortunately Cai Mao was facing Gao Shun, but unfortunately the reason why Gao Shun was moving slowly was to create opportunities for Zhang Liao behind, and Zhang Liao was looking for a way...... The road from Huarong South to Huarong North has not been found, and the Jingzhou Army actually took the lead in killing, which caught everyone off guard.

Cai Mao stormed Gao Shun's humble camp for three days in a row, attacked with 8,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 10,000 troops swept the formation, and forced Gao Shun to kill 8,000 soldiers and horses.

When Cai Mao realized that something was wrong, he was horrified to find that the news could not be transmitted, and no matter which direction the scouts came from, they would eventually sink into the sea, and they would be surrounded.

Surrounded, he has an army of 20,000, how many troops can surround them?

Cai Mao didn't dare to think about it!