Chapter 142 Chapter 23 Complacent and Compassionate

At this time, Cao Mengde misses the passing Guo Jia even more. How much he hopes that someone among the counselors can put forward a different opinion from his own, and convince himself with very sufficient reasons.However, after arriving in Jiangling, I almost thought of my own ideas, and almost no one refuted the views I put forward.Although people like Cheng Yu, Jia Xu, and Lou Sheng have strategies, they still need people like Guo Fengxiao when it comes to major events.Cao Mengde suddenly felt very lonely. "Prime Minister, someone is talking about you behind your back." Lou Sheng reported to Cao Mengde.

"Who is it, and what do they talk about?" Cao Mengde asked calmly. "The surrendered generals Cai Hao and Zhang Yun instigated among the sergeants, saying that the prime minister disregarded the life and death of the sergeants in order to seize the world. How to punish them?" Lou Sheng said. The four people around Cao Mengde were about to put on a posture of sending someone down. Unexpectedly, Cao Mengde waved his hand lightly, signaling Lou Sheng to retreat. After more than a month of hard work, more than 3,000 warships have been strung together as a whole, and the entire fleet is connected hundreds of miles from end to end.There are twenty-four ships on each side of the parallel fleet, which looks like a great wall on the water, very majestic, and hundreds of small boats patrol around to avoid enemy sneak attacks.Due to the unprecedented scale, it took more than a month just for reorganization.

135 In this short month, what is the situation in Soochow? What Lu Ji said made Kong Ming a shadow in Zhou Yu's heart. Although Zhou Yu was resourceful and good at managing the army, he was especially good at managing the water army, and was appreciated by Sun Ce and Sun Quan brothers. His jealousy, short-temperedness and other problems intensified step by step. After much deliberation, Zhou Yu still felt that Kong Ming's existence was so annoying.It's like a high mountain, which is supposed to be alone on the river, looking at the whole world, but suddenly a high mountain suddenly appeared in front of it, blocking one's sight for a while, wouldn't it make people feel hateful?

After Zhou Yu, Lu Ji and others went upstream along the river to conduct some on-the-spot investigations, they decided to lead the army north to meet the enemy.Sun Quan said: "The governor will go first, and I will follow." Zhou Yu said to Kong Ming: "Sir, do you have the courage to fight Cao Cao's army with me?" So Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu, Lu Su and Kong Ming boarded the command ship together, unfurled the sails, and sailed towards Xiakou. Fifty or sixty miles away from Sanjiang Estuary, Zhou Yu ordered the fleet to berth one by one and set up camps on the shore.Zhou Yu went to the central camp as a temporary command center.Kong Ming settled down on a small boat.For Zhou Yu, Kong Ming's understanding is comprehensive and objective. He knows that Zhou Yu can't tolerate him, but because of the current situation, he won't harm himself.

Kong Ming was resting in the cabin of the boat on his back when he heard that Zhou Yu had invited him to discuss military affairs in his tent.Kong Ming straightened his clothes and habitually picked up the feather fan.The heat is severe and the cold is severe; this feather fan is always in his hand, which is his eccentricity. Kong Ming still entered Zhou Yu's tent with a leisurely gait.After the two saluted, Zhou Yu said: "The war is about to begin. The art of war says: 'Food war is better than military war'. I suddenly remembered Cao Cao's burning of Wuchao in the Guandu battle. Today, Cao's army is more than 800,000. We The coalition forces are only 80,000 to 90,000, and the situation is the same as in the Guandu War. I have found out that Cao Cao's army rations are stationed at Jutieshan. You should be very familiar with that area. I would like to trouble you to take a thousand elite soldiers to cut off the enemy's ration road. "

Kong Ming thought for a while, and then he knew what kind of medicine was in Zhou Yu's gourd: It was nothing more than using Cao Cao's hand to kill me. If I don't go, I will definitely be ridiculed by Zhou Yu, who will alienate the relationship between the two armies.There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, so let's promise it first.Kong Ming readily agreed. After Kong Ming left, Lu Su asked Zhou Yu: "What's the idea of ​​the governor sending Kong Ming to rob Cao's army of food and grass?" Zhou Yu said, "It's very simple. Kill people with a knife to avoid future troubles." On the small boat, seeing that Kong Ming was fast asleep, he quickly woke him up and said, "How sure are you of success if you go to cut off food and grass?" Kong Ming said casually, "I am proficient in the art of war and all kinds of wars. Commander, you don’t know anything except that you are a little capable in water warfare.” Lu Su was in a hurry, and it was inconvenient to point out to Kong Ming that Zhou Yu wanted to harm him, so he asked: “Sir, pay more attention.”

Lu Su told Zhou Yu what Kong Ming said, and Zhou Yu said angrily, "Kong Ming deceived me that I can't fight on land. I want to show him how I can break the grain road. I will immediately take 10,000 soldiers and horses to Jutieshan to break the battle." Cao Cao's way!" Lu Su told Kong Ming what Zhou Yu had said, and Kong Ming said, "Gong Jin asked me to go to the Road of Cutting off Food, because he wanted Cao Cao to kill me. So, I made a joke with Gong Jin. He even tolerated such a trivial matter." No. Now is the time for employing people. I only hope that Marquis Wu and Liu Shijun will work together. If you kill each other, you really don't know the current affairs. Gongjin wants to cut off the food road in a fit of anger, and there will be no return. Now it is only suitable for water warfare To defeat the enemy's morale, land battles come after water battles."

Lu Su told Zhou Yu what he had said overnight, and Zhou Yu sighed: "This man's knowledge really makes me hopeless. If he doesn't get rid of it, he will seriously threaten our Soochow in the future!" Lu Su said: "The enemy is at hand. It's time to employ people. It won't be too late to kill Cao Cao after defeating him." Lu Su also used the strategy of delaying the army.Zhou Yu didn't say a word. At this moment, there was only one thought in his mind: "Get rid of Kong Ming!" One month later in 1360, Cao Mengde led thousands of warships down the river eastward.The soldiers cheered from the bow and stern: "The prime minister's method is brilliant!"

The warships that were connected as a whole moved very smoothly, but the speed was slower than before, but Cao Mengde was full of joy when he saw the energetic sergeants. Suddenly it was heard that Zhou Yu's navy had stationed at Sanjiangkou, and Zhou Yu had beheaded the surrender envoy sent out to show the public, and Zhou Yu tore the surrender letter to pieces.Cao Mengde said angrily: "The two armies are fighting without beheading the envoy. Zhou Yu is deceiving people too much this week. I must give him a heavy blow!" In the wide Sanjiangkou, Soochow ships are slowly going up, and a general stands on the bow of the first ship.The general shouted at the top of his voice: "I am Gan Ning, the general of Eastern Wu, who dares to fight me!"

Cai Mao ordered his younger brother Cai Xun to advance, and the two boats were approaching. Gan Ning picked up his bow and set up an arrow, and watched Cai shoot. Cai shook and fell into the river, and was carried away by the river.Gan Ning chased after the boat, and the small boat that was separated from the main boat drifted with the current. Cao soldiers from Qingzhou and Xuzhou had no strength to fight back.Jiang Qin on the right and Han Dang on the left rushed directly into Cao Jun's fleet, together with Gan Ning's warships, scattered across the water, killing Cao Jun's corpses on the river, bleeding and floating on the oars.It is killing sex.Zhou Yu was afraid that the three of them would rush into Cao Jun's main battleship, so he ordered Jin to withdraw his troops.

Cai Mao and Zhang Yun were defeated.Cao Mengde ordered the fleet to stop sailing, and then passed Cai and Zhang to his account. "Eastern Wu has few soldiers, but they defeated you miserably. How can you two explain?" Cao Mengde scolded them. Cai Mao said: "Jingzhou's navy has not practiced for a long time; Qingzhou and Xuzhou's armies are even less able to fight on water. This is the reason for the failure. Our army should set up a water village, so that the Qing and Xu armies are in the middle, and the Jingzhou army is outside. Let them train every day so that they can face the Soochow Navy after a period of time." Cao Mengde said: "Since you are appointed as the captains of the navy, you can arrange the training by yourself. Why bother to report to me. From tomorrow onwards, you two should train the navy well, and if you lose the battle, bring your heads to me." The two left the camp in fear.