"Send a message to Your Majesty and the General at once! Our army has broken through Xiakou at noon today! Please give us the next step! The adjutant general of the Wei army stood on the tower of the city gate and ordered in a spirited manner.

Soon after, Cao Cao and Cao Ren received a flying pigeon from the lieutenant general of the Wei army.

"Good! Give it a big credit! ”

Cao Cao smiled very happily, and then asked Guo Jia with some excitement: "Fengxiao, the battle situation is much better than we expected!" Is it possible to simply take advantage of this to cross the Yangtze River? ”

At this moment, Cao Cao's location was not the Chibi camp, but the front-line command camp on the bank of the Yangtze River near Hanyang.

Guo Jia shook his head and said, "No! Although the main force of the Chibi Naval Division of the Wu Army was still entangled in the Chibi River, they would soon be able to defeat the rabble! Our army simply cannot guarantee the smooth passage of the river! A rash and large-scale attack will only put our army in danger! ”

Guo Jia loves to take risks, but in fact, Guo Jia's adventure is completely proportional to the effort and the gain, and there is a large success rate, Guo Jia will take risks!

Under such a situation at this time, if Guo Jia instigated Cao Cao to send troops to Yangzhou in a big way, it was not called an adventure, it was called sending to death, and the Wei army that did not control the Yangtze River, once it entered Yangzhou, under the situation that the Yangtze River was blocked by the Wu State Naval Division, how many Wei troops entered Yangzhou would eventually die!

Guo Jia's analysis was very thorough, and although Cao Cao was unwilling, he still nodded.

Cao Cao turned his head to Cao Ren and said, "Zixiao, order the Wei army in front to continue to advance to the Xiang'an area according to the original plan!" ”

"No!" Cao Ren clenched his fists and retreated.

"Fengxiao, let's go to the river to have a look.

"No." Guo Jia promised.

The two left the tent. Escorted by more than 100 Imperial Forest Army led by Xu Chu, Cao Cao looked at the middle of the river. I saw that the ships of both sides were fighting back and forth, and it was very lively.

The number of ships of the Wei army was more than twice that of the Wu army. However, due to the natural disadvantage of civilian ships and the low combat effectiveness of the Jingzhou army, the situation on the entire battlefield turned out to be only half a catty and eight taels, and it was obvious that no one could take advantage of it.

Cao Cao couldn't help but shake his head, "The combat power of this Jingzhou army is really not good!" I used to have high expectations for them! ”

Guo Jia nodded and said, "The Jingzhou army has not been trained for a long time, and it has been under the management of a villain like Cai Mao for a long time, so it is not surprising that the combat power is so great!" ”

"By the way, what is the reaction after Cai Mao was cut to the people?" Cao Cao asked.

Guo Jia sneered: "It is said." After Cai Mao was demoted, she often spoke disrespectfully! ”

"Oh? What did they say? ”

"Cai Mao said that His Majesty is ungrateful, and the rewards and punishments are unfair"

Cao Cao was angry: "I can't see that he still has the guts!" ”

Guo Jia smiled and said, "Every time I say this, it's when I'm drunk. And as soon as he woke up, he was scared like a human face! ”

Cao Cao laughed: "It's been a long time, the rats are still the rats!" ”

"Your Majesty, what are you going to do with Cai Mao?" Guo Jia took the opportunity to ask for instructions.

Cao Cao thought for a moment and said, "There's no need to punish Cai Mao too much, but you can't just let him go." In this case, send a messenger to rebuke me on my behalf, and ask him to think about it behind closed doors. How is it? ”

Guo Jia nodded and said, "Your Majesty is wise!" ”

Cao Cao's attention returned to the battlefield in front of him, and he frowned. asked Guo Jiadao: "How many warships have been produced in Hongze Lake?" How many can be put into use? ”

"Five hundred warships, large and small! As for the ones that can be put into service, there are only about a hundred! ”

The use of this place is not to say whether it can be put into the water. Rather, it can be equipped with non-commissioned soldiers who are good at water warfare, and it will be down for several years. The Wei army did not lack warships, but lacked soldiers to fight on the water!

After all, most of China's population, which specializes in water warfare, is under Sun Jian's control. As for Jingzhou, it has already been raised by Cai Mao and others, and there are only a few left who have not become veterans.

Hearing that only a hundred ships could be put into use, Cao Cao frowned, "Too few!" Let the person in charge of the Hongze Lake Shipyard speed up as much as possible! At the same time, speed up the recruitment and training of sailors, not only in Jingzhou, but in the whole world, all those who are familiar with water will be recruited under the pretext of recruiting! ”

"Wechen takes orders."

Cao Ren came to Cao Cao, clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, the order has been issued!" ”

Cao Cao nodded.

Soon after, the order reached the Wei generals in front, but by this time he had already led nearly 10,000 elites of the First Army to Xiang'an City.

Another 3,000 people defended Xiakou City that they had captured before, and there was still smoke outside the northern city of Xiang'an City, and there were many corpses lying on the ground in the wilderness, and the city walls were also mottled with blood stains and the color of gunsmoke.

It turned out that not long ago, the Wei generals had led 2,000 men to try to take advantage of the chaos in the city to capture Xiang'an in one go, but they almost succeeded.

The elite of the Wei army landed in the direction of Xiakou, and then captured Xiakou in one go, and then attacked Xiang'an, which surprised Sun Jian, who was in Jianye, Sun Jian immediately decided to personally lead the army left behind in Jianye to reinforce the north, but Pang Tong raised objections, Pang Tong thought that the number of Wei troops who landed in Xiakou must not be much, and Xiang'an has 50,000 troops, even if it is attacked by the main force of the Wei army, it can hold on for a period of time, and there is no need to mess up because of this!

More importantly, they firmly grasp the advantage of the water division, and in this case, even if the main force of the Wei army crosses the river, it is very likely that it will eventually become a turtle in the urn.

Sun Jian couldn't help but nodded, at this time Zhang Zhao and others strongly opposed Pang Tong's analysis, Zhang Zhao believed that the Wei army was accustomed to dangerous moves, and it was entirely possible for the Wei army to support the war after crossing the river, and the Wei army had done this when it was in foreign wars, and finally Zhang Zhao suggested that Xiang'an should be rushed to the aid immediately, and the Wei army would be defeated as far as possible before the Wei army achieved its strategic intentions.

Sun Jian couldn't help but hesitate, seeing that the two sides were arguing with their own opinions, Sun Jian couldn't help but feel a little headache.

"That's it! Shut up!! Sun Jian shouted in a deep voice.

The two sides of the quarrel immediately stopped arguing and saluted Sun Jian.

Sun Jian thought for a moment and said categorically: "The whole army will not move for the time being, and we must figure out the scale of the Wei army across the river for Gu in front!" ”

"Your Majesty, what about the reinforcements that the prince asked?" Zhang Zhao asked.

Sun Jian hesitated for a moment, frowned, and said, "Now that the enemy situation is unknown, don't act rashly!"

Pang Tong on the side couldn't help but have a faint premonition.

When Sun Jian finally figured out the size of the Wei army across the river, it was already noon the next day, and at this time, the Fifth Army led by Zhao Yun and the Second Army led by Dian Wei and Tai Shici had already stormed Jiaozhou City for a day and a night.

The city of Jiaozhou was full of smoke, layers of corpses spread out under the wall, gathering into small mounds, the entire city wall was stained mottled red with blood, and the broken Wuzi battle flag was flying in the wind. (To be continued.) )