Cao Cao did not launch any offensive yet. Naturally, the coalition forces could not take any action. The army of both sides fell into this quiet confrontation. Time passed without realizing it. In a blink of an eye, a few months passed, and it was already mid-May.

At noon that day, a knight in casual clothes rode his horse to the city of Nanjun and took out a token to open the gate of Nanjun. Just as Ailang and Sun Jian were discussing the current situation in the hall of the prefect's mansion, Sun Jian's guard suddenly rushed in and reported: "Report to the lord, we have sent the fine work to Xiangyang to return!" Everyone present was moved, and Sun Jian said anxiously: "Call him in!" The guard Yingnuo ran down. After a while, a middle-aged man dressed in the costume of the people rushed into the hall, clasped his fists to Sun Jian and said, "Go to him to come in!"

Sun Jian hurriedly asked, "Have Cao Cao done anything?"

"Reporting to the lord, Cao's army has begun to take action. Cao Cao swore a oath to the outskirts of Xiangyang two days ago, and now he has all his troops south. At the same time, Cai Mao led the navy to leave Xiangyang and come straight to the south along the Han River."

Although the people present heard this, they were shocked, but they felt relieved. It was really hard to wait for Cao's army to arrive. Now that Cao's army is finally going to launch an attack, it made everyone feel relieved.

Ailang said: "It depends on Zhou Lang now. When he eliminates Cao Cao's naval army, our plan will be implemented."

At about the same time, Zhou Yu also received the news that Cao's army was moving south in a large scale. He couldn't help but be happy and immediately ordered Huang Gai to send orders. All the navy troops immediately left the Chibi Water Village and moved towards the Sanjiangkou. For a moment, hundreds of boats competed and thousands of sails competed. Fifty thousand Jiangdong navy troops blocked the river and went straight towards the Sanjiangkou. The so-called Sanjiangkou is actually the entrance of the Han River to the Yangtze River. Because it was a Sancha waterway, it was called Sanjiangkou. Just as Zhou Yu led the navy to the Sanjiangkou, the navy led by Cai Mao went south along the Han River and also headed towards the Sanjiangkou. In this era, the two most powerful navy troops were about to collide at Sanjiangkou.

Before the water war began, the war on land had begun.

Cao Cao personally led an army of 800,000 to the city of Nanjun. Ailang and Sun Jian led the army to attack at the same time, preparing to defeat Cao Cao's vanguard in one fell swoop. However, more than 100,000 troops surrounded the 60,000 troops led by Cao Ren and attacked them for a long time. The coalition's offensive, especially the Lu Bu army's offensive, was extremely fierce, but Cao Ren's army remained as unmoved like a mountain standing in the stormy waves. Just when the battle was in a stalemate, Xu Chu led 50,000 war cavalry to the battlefield to launch a fierce counterattack against the coalition. Seeing that the opportunity had been lost, Ailang immediately led his war cavalry to resist Xu Chu's cavalry.

To cover the retreat of other armies. The two sides fought fiercely in the wilderness north of the southern county, and saw thousands of horses galloping like tides, killing like thunder. The two sides fought like tigers and wolves, killing the sky and earth, killing the sky and the moon without any light. Although Xu Chu's cavalry was twice as big as Ailang's cavalry, he could only fight with Ailang and could not form a decisive advantage! Seeing that the armies had retreated into the city smoothly, Ailang did not want to waste these precious cavalry in his hands, he immediately led his army out of the battle and retreated back to Nanjun. Xu Chu led the cavalry to chase the city until he was shot by the crossbowmen on the city wall, and then stopped chasing and retreated temporarily.

Not long after, the main forces of Cao's army arrived one after another. The troops were like tides and flags were like clouds. Cao's army came from the north, covering the sky and the sun. The scene was very magnificent! When the soldiers of the two armies saw this scene, their faces changed slightly.

As soon as the main force of the Cao army arrived, it formed a huge camp outside the city that stretched for more than twenty miles. Then the sound of ding-dong dong in the Cao army camp was heard, which was the sound of Cao army soldiers rushing to make siege equipment.

Sun Jian stood on the city gate tower and looked at the endless Cao army camp outside the city, which seemed to be out of the end, frowned, and looked very worried. At this time, Sun Ce, who was fully dressed, quickly walked to Sun Jian, clasped his fists and said, "Father, I have sent someone to investigate. The 800,000 infantry and cavalry army of Cao's army went to Nanjun and did not divide the troops. This saved us a lot of strength." Sun Jian pointed to the magnificent and majestic Cao army camp outside the city and frowned: "The Cao army has such a huge scale, I am afraid that there has never been such a huge army in ancient times. I am only worried that we will lose in Nanjun until Zhou Lang defeated Cai Mao and raided Xiangyang!"

Sun Ce laughed, "Don't worry, my father doesn't have to worry. Our army and Lu Bu's army have 300,000 people together. Although it is not as good as Cao Cao's 800,000 troops, we have a good position to resist the city and hold on. Just the offense and defense here are also a 50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50

When Sun Jian heard Sun Ce say this, his originally worried heart couldn't help but calm down a lot.

Sun Ce clasped his fists and said, "Cao army is powerful, Cao Cao must think that our army dare not fight. My son asked his father for his orders and led his army to raid Cao's camp tonight, and he would definitely catch them off guard!" Sun Jian felt that this plan was feasible and nodded, "Okay! If Ce'er's battle is successful, although he cannot defeat Cao Cao, it can greatly damage their morale!"

In the middle of the night that day, the sound of tinkling sounds in Cao camp outside the city had returned to peace, and the entire Cao camp seemed to have fallen asleep. At this moment, the east city gate of Nanjun quietly opened. Sun Ce led 10,000 elite troops out of the city gate, and the people carried horses to pick the bells. Ten thousand people and horses almost made no sound to the east. Sun Ce led the 10,000 elite troops out of the city gate and quickly headed towards the Cao army camp that stretched for dozens of miles away.

At this time, Ailang was watching the report that Xu Shu had just sent to send in his temporary residence. Xu Shu, Yan Liang and others, and 40,000 troops were currently staying on the east bank of the Han River with Liu Bei's army on close guard.

Jia Xu walked into the room and saw Ai Lang reading a letter. He immediately folded his fists and bowed: "Lord!"

Seeing that Jia Xu was coming, Ailang handed the bamboo slip to Jia Xu and said, "Look at it. This is the report sent by someone Xu Shu just now." Jia Xu took the bamboo slip with both hands, took the bamboo slip quickly, clasped his fists at Ailang and asked, "I wonder what the lord has?"

Ailang frowned and said, "Although I don't like my troops being commanded by others, since they are all the way and I am not there, I have to let Liu Bei lead the entire army! Otherwise, it will be a big mistake!" Jia Xu clasped his fists and said, "Lord is wise!" Ailang asked, "You agree to let Liu Bei command our army on the east coast of the Han River?" Jia Xu nodded with a smile and said, "As the lord said just now, we are united in the same hatred of the enemy. If we cannot be united, we will really miss the big mistake! Although Liu Bei is treacherous, it is precisely because of his treacherous that he should be measured.

He would never frame our army under the current situation of such a great enemy. There is no need to worry about this." Ailang nodded, "Okay. I will write a reply letter immediately and call someone to take it to Xu Shu." As he said that, he walked to the back and sat down, picked up his pen and wrote a reply letter on a piece of wooden tablet. After checking it, he ordered people to call the messenger sent by Xu Shu, handed it to him, and ordered: "Call it to Xu Shu and Yan Liang as soon as possible." The messenger took the wooden tablet with both hands, responded to the promise, and hurried away.

Ailang glanced at Jia Xu and asked with a smile: "Old Jia, you should have something urgent to come to me in the middle of the night, right?"

Jia Xu smiled and clasped his fists and said, "Lord wise!" Then he said seriously, "That's right. Just now, Sun Ce led 10,000 elite troops to quietly leave the East City Gate..." Ai Lang was stunned, then understood and smiled, "This Sun Ce must be unwilling to be beaten passively. He wants to lead the elite troops to raid Cao's camp!" Jia Xu nodded, "Lord wise. Then Sun Ce must have thought that Cao Cao would not expect that he would dare to lead the army to take the initiative, so

This is the case." Ai Lang glanced at Jia Xu and asked with a smile: "Old Jia, do you have any opinions on Sun Ce's raid?" Jia Xu smiled: "I just think that although Sun Ce's plan is brilliant, I'm afraid it's better than Cao Cao and Guo Jia. Cao Cao has been through the battlefield for a long time, and Guo Jia is as deep as the sea. How could these two people not beware of the opponent's raid? I predict that Sun Ce's raid will not only return in vain, but may even fall into the siege of the enemy!"

Ailang looked puzzled and said, "I said Lao Jia, since you have seen this, why don't you tell Sun Jian and Sun Ce?"

Jia Xu smiled and asked back, "Does the lord think they will listen to me?"

Ai Lang was stunned. Thinking of the proud attitude of Sun Jian and Sun Ce, the father and son, he felt that even if Jia Xu raised objections in front of them, the father and son would probably not obey, and might even laugh at Jia Xu for being timid and cowardly.

Ai Lang couldn't help but frown and said, "It's nothing that the father and son are defeated. But now we need them to deal with Cao Cao. If they are defeated in this round, it will be unfavorable to us!" Jia Xu smiled and said, "This battle will not be defeated." Ai Lang immediately looked at Jia Xu and cursed, "You old fox! You must have come up with some idea! Don't keep it a secret! Tell me quickly!"

Jia Xu smiled and replied, walked to Ailang and whispered. Ailang opened his eyes wide, looked at Jia Xu with a look of surprise, and couldn't help but say, "Old Jia! You are indeed so treacherous!" Jia Xu smiled and said, "Thank you for your praise!" Ailang laughed. Then he called Dian Wei and asked him to send someone to pass the order immediately.

Not long after, Sun Jian, who was anxiously waiting for Sun Ce's news on the South City Gate, suddenly received a report from his subordinates: "Report to the lord, Zhao Yunwenchou, the general of Lu Bu army, suddenly led 20,000 cavalry out of the city from the West City Gate!" Sun Jian was surprised and couldn't help but mutter: "What's going on? Do they also want to raid Cao's camp?"
Chapter completed!