Chapter 279: The Verge
"Liu Jingsheng is too burying people, what are these two things sent?" Zhang Liao listened to the information that the scout brought back to Huarong to meet the enemy army, and the boss reluctantly squeezed his eyes, "Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, have they fought?" ”
Zhang Liao felt that Liu Biao didn't pay attention to him at all, so he sent Wen Ping and Gan Ning to come, these two guys were the happiest in the north, and they were also the real powerful people in Jingzhou in Zhang Liao's heart.
There is no way, Jingzhou basically has never fought against the north, whether it is to fight Dong or Yan, there are no outstanding wars, and there are no famous generals. But since Liu Biao rode into Jingzhou, Jingzhou is still there, and even when others are gone, Liu Biao has become one of the best princes in the world, and there is nothing in his hand that can be handled, Zhang Liao will definitely not believe it.
The princes in the world count one Yanbei, and it will be Liu Biao's turn to count two. After all, Liu Bei's foundation in Yizhou is unstable, is it a real prince, Cao Cao fled into Jingzhou, as for the Sun family...... Who doesn't know that Yanbei has never taken the Sun family seriously.
After all, he is the one who calls Sun's father a brother!
Don't care who is in charge of the Sun family, do you have to call the uncle with a smile when you meet?
If you don't do it to call your uncle Yanbei, you have to call it uncle, who makes it the eldest brother of Yanbei's butt who really calls Sun Jian a brother.
So no matter how strong the Sun family is, in the eyes of the Yan family, it is about a 10,000-year-old child.
Now Liu Biao sent Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, two little-known generals, to lead the troops to Huarong to block Zhang Liao, although there were a lot of soldiers and horses, or the kind of outflanking before and after the land and water march, but for Zhang Liao, he always felt that something was missing.
Jingzhou's general, Zhang Liao knew a literary appointment, and Gan Ning, who made a lot of trouble in Yingshui at the end of last year, cleaned up Zhang Xiu, if Liu Biao sent these two people over, Zhang Liao should feel that he was complete.
"Generals, Cai and Zhang, are generals in Jingzhou, and when Jingbei is attacked, Liu Jingsheng's first thing is to urgently recruit the two of them to lead troops to help the north." Cheng Lian said beside Zhang Liao: "Later, he was blocked by General Jiang and defeated by General Zhang, who was on the verge of defection. ”
"General Zhang? Which General Zhang? Zhang Liao frowned suddenly when he heard this, General Zhang of the Yan clan ...... Too much, right? "Zhang Junyi? What did he turn to, I heard that he had defected in Liaodong in his early years, and was blocked by General Tian, why did he still defect at this time? ”
Cheng Lian shook his head and said, "It's General Zhang Xiu." ”
"Zhang Xiu?"
Zhang Xiu, Zhang Liao knows, that was the son and nephew of Dong Zhuo's subordinate generals before, like Li Li's nephew, that is an invisible person!
Liu Biao actually defeated Zhang Xiu's subordinates and sent them to beat him?
Zhang Liao was stunned.
Isn't this an angry person?
To tell the truth, now Zhang Liao thinks very highly of himself, there is no way, the whole world has high expectations for him, and he cleaned up Cao Cao and his gang alone, collected the mountains and rivers under the command of Yanbei, and pacified Yanzhou and Yuzhou, which was equivalent to sweeping the kingdom during the past division period. Especially in the case of Luyi pacifying Qingzhou and Xu Huang pacifying Xuzhou, he pacified Erzhou alone without the intervention of others, and this feather is extremely dazzling.
Whoever faces such an enemy should send his strongest warrior to fight against him in order not to fail.
But Liu Biao is doing the opposite, what's the matter with sending Cai Mao and Zhang Yun?
But if he is uncomfortable, he will not be uncomfortable, and Zhang Liao will not give the enemy a chance to indulge in arrogance. It was not him who was wrong in this matter, but Liu Biao. Using the 'unknown' 'unknown young general' Cai Mao Zhang Yun to deal with him Zhang Liao is a huge mistake in itself, and if you make a mistake, you will inevitably be punished.
Zhang Liao will not be punished, his defeat of Cai Mao and Zhang Yun is just a matter of duty, the real punishment is to make Liu Biao's power change from rich Jingzhou to only Xiangyang and Yicheng, which is Zhang Liao's strategic goal.
As for Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, Zhang Liao still has to take full precautions to deal with it.
"Prepare for the battle, General Gao led the second lieutenant to the front and attacked Huarong. The road to Huarong is dangerous, and there are many ambush places, so you must be careful when setting up camp. As for Zhang Yunshun's sailors going south of the river, Captain Xue led the fleet to deal with it, although you have many warships, but you lack big ships such as fighting ships and building ships, and it is inconvenient for Zhang to make more instructions about the water war, you don't have to defeat them, as long as you can complete the containment, so that they can't form an encirclement of our department is the first achievement, Zhang will let Captain Cheng assist you. ”
Zhang Liao said, turned his gaze to Cheng Lian, and said: "When the two armies and naval divisions are fighting, you need to lead your headquarters north along the coast to go around to the Jingzhou naval army, and rush down the river mouth with driftwood and other objects to attack the enemy ships. ”
Since then, the three-way soldiers and horses have been arranged, and Zhang Liao's headquarters only has more than 10,000 troops left, and his plan is to act when Gao Shun and the enemy army are fighting in Huarong, in order to win and give Liu Biao a fatal blow.
and it is rumored that Cai Mao is on the back road.
"Hurry up and march!"
The army poured, and the troops marched from the west bank of the river to the army of Jingzhou. Gao Shun's army was decent, with his usual characteristics, the most steady, straight towards Huarong; Cheng Lian led the cavalry and infantry to the north along the riverbank, observing the water along the way to find a way to ambush the Jingzhou naval army behind him; Xue Zhou refurbished his ships in the water village, preparing to fight a great victory that would rival the defeat of Cao Cao after his allegiance to the Yan clan.
As for Zhang Liao, the mission of Zhang Liao's headquarters is extremely heavy, they have to take a farther and more difficult path, and use a shorter time to achieve their goal of attacking the enemy's food route and cutting off the enemy's rear road!
In the blink of an eye, the battle clouds on the river were once again thick, and Zhang Yun led a huge army consisting of a building ship, four fighting ships, eight large merchant ships that were hurriedly renovated, and hundreds of warships to rush towards the previously discovered waterway of the Yan army. On the opposite side of them was the Xuezhou Division, which had three fighting ships, two large ships, and dozens of ships carrying more than 4,000 soldiers, and the two fleets looked at each other from a distance on the river, and neither of them took the lead in launching an attack.
Zhang Yun did not attack because the waterway was blocked by the enemy, indicating that their intention to march had already been known to the enemy, and he was busy looking for other roads, and informed Cai Mao on land of the news as soon as possible.
In this regard, the Jingzhou army has enough advantages over the Yan army, and their army's ability to fight together is better and stronger.
The Yan army's ability to coordinate operations is weaker, because the Yan army's navy has always been an independent army, and the water pawns serve as the combat force for both land and water attacks, and there are very few battles in which the water pawns are used in many battles to pacify the north.
However, Zhang Yun could not do his wish, because the riders he sent were robbed and killed by the cavalry infantry of the Chenglian Department at the beginning of the landing, and then disappeared without a trace.
In the south of Jingzhou, a big war is about to break out.