Huang Yueying, who was standing beside Ailang, looked at Liu Beijun who was leaving and couldn't help but ask Ailang: "Husband, are you in a hurry?"

Ailang smiled, "What's the intimidation?"

Huang Yueying gave Ailang a blank look, "Aren't you worried that the Sun family and the Liu family will defeat Cao Cao and gain the greatest benefit?"

Ailang smiled, "I'm worried! I'll just get the benefits of the two of them, and I'll just take advantage of the fisherman!" Huang Yueying said teasingly, "Husband, you're so treacherous!" Ailang saw her attitude so tempting, and couldn't help but feel heartbroken. Then he quickly suppressed his thoughts, looked up at Liu Beijun, who was almost invisible, and smiled, "Anyway, Cao Cao will definitely be defeated this time, let them mess with me, and I won't get involved!" Huang Yueying asked in surprise, "Don't you plan to cross the river?" Ailang smiled, "You have to pass, but there's no need to be so anxious. Anyway, the benefits are not ours, so we don't need to be so active. It's too dangerous to cross the river in a dark and languid, let's talk about it when it's dawn."

After Zhou Yu burned Cao's water and land camp in one fell swoop, he immediately led the navy to land on the east side of Cao's Dazhai and went straight to Huarong in the rear. Almost at the same time, Sun Ce led the main force of the army to cross the river on the west side of Cao's Dazhai, and then divided the troops into two groups. One side was led by Cheng Pu to directly take Nanjun, while the main force was led by Sun Ce personally to advance northward to seize Xiangyang. Sun Jian's army had no intention of intercepting Cao's defeated troops, and they all aimed to seize Jingzhou territory. While Sun Jian's army was snatching the fruits of victory, Liu Bei's army was not idle. They divided into two groups, one by Guan Yu, crossing the river from the south of the Yangtze River, and directly took Jingling County dozens of miles northeast of Huarong in Jingling County. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led the main force to attack Cao Renjun's defense line in Zhengguo County near Lulin Mountain, trying to seize Xiangyang before Sun Jian's army.

Liu Bei and Zhang Fei's attack went very smoothly. The Cao army guarding the Han River seemed to be absent-minded. Under the fierce attack of Liu Bei's army, they collapsed instantly and retreated towards Yicheng County. Liu Bei's army then crossed the Han River and rushed to Xiangyang.

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Before we knew it, it was dawn, and the bright sun shone brightly between the sky and the earth. Compared with the hot and noisy land of Jingzhou, Ailang was very calm, and the officers and soldiers seemed to be a little idle.

Ailang sat on a large bluestone by the river, looking at the river rolling eastward in front of him, and couldn't help but mutter: "This is the first time I have encountered such a boring war." Huang Yueying sat down next to Ailang and smiled: "Because this battle basically has nothing to do with us." Ailang said regretfully: "What a pity, our navy army was not useful." Huang Yueying smiled: "But this can be said to be the highest level of military strategy! Ailang defeated others without fighting!" Ailang laughed, "The highest level of bullshit!" Huang Yueying smiled.

At this time, Xu Shu came to Ailang. Seeing this, Huang Yueying stood up and stood beside Ailang. Xu Shu said to Ailang: "My lord, it's time for us to cross the river. Although this battle is not good for us, we have to help Liu Bei hold up the scene." Ailang nodded, stood up, and said to himself: "Who told me that Xuzhou was taken from Liu Bei's hands! I owe him what I owe him! Send the order..." At this moment, Ailang suddenly saw many officers and soldiers standing on the shore and pointing fingers at the river. Ailang felt strange and couldn't help but look at the river. It doesn't matter if it doesn't look, and he was shocked when he saw it. I don't know when it started, countless wreckage of ships appeared on the river, drifting down from the upstream. Not only the wreckage of ships, but also the bodies of many people and horses were also drifting with the flow.

Seeing this, Ailang couldn't help but curse: "What the hell is Sun Jian's army doing? Cao's army has been defeated and fallen. Why do they want to kill people randomly!"

Xu Shu frowned and suddenly said, "No! Those corpses don't seem to belong to Cao's army, but they look like Sun Jian's army! And those wreckages of ships, why do I feel that they look more like the warships of the Jiangdong Navy?"

Ailang was shocked and shouted, "No!" Xu Shu immediately clasped his fists and said, "Lord, please send some soldiers with good water quality into the water to catch some corpses and take a look!"

Ailang was also thinking this way and immediately said to Wen Chou, "Wen Chou, send some soldiers who are good at water to catch some corpses!" Wen Chou shouted and immediately sent dozens of soldiers with good water to go into the water to salvage them. After a while, five corpses were caught and placed in front of Ailang.

Ailang and others walked up to the corpses and looked at them and found that the costumes of these corpses were not from Cao's army, but from Sun Jian's army. Xu Shu frowned and said, "These corpses are all from Jiangdong Army, and the situation is wrong!" Ailang smiled and said, "Old Xu, don't think about it randomly. If Cao's army is defeated like a mountain, it is impossible to have no resistance. It is normal to kill some Sun Jian's army!" Xu Shu clasped his fists and said, "Lord, wisely, even if that is said, it is abnormal that the five corpses are all from Jiangdong Army. It is said that the annihilation is

Cao Army, then, not to mention that all the corpses belong to Cao Army, at least most of them should be Cao Army. But the current situation is completely opposite. The corpses belong to Jiangdong Army! It is like the Jiangdong Army is being slaughtered by the opponent!" Ai Lang was stunned for a moment, and said in disbelief: "How is this possible!" Xu Shu said: "This is just an inference made by his subordinates based on the situation in front of him. Perhaps the real situation is completely different." He clasped his fists at Ai Lang and said, "Lord, you should immediately send a scout to the direction of Chibi Wulin to investigate the situation."

Ailang nodded and said to Zhao Yun: "Zilong, send a fast horse scout to investigate the situation in the Red Bird Wulin!" Zhao Yun held his fists and ran down immediately.

Ailang was waiting anxiously by the river, while more and more corpses and ship wreckage were floating down from the river. The scene was shocking, and whether it was a corpse, it looked like the Jiangdong Army. This made Ailang feel that Xu Shu’s previous inference might come true.

Ailang and others waited until noon. The scouts sent out finally came back and reported to Ailang: "Report to General, Zhou Yu's navy is wiped out!"

Although everyone had a bad premonition, they could not help but be shocked when they heard this. Ailang said in disbelief: "Have you figured it out? Zhou Yu's navy was really wiped out? Isn't it wrong?" "Report to the general, his subordinates met several Sun Jian's deserters near Chibi. According to them, after they crossed the river, they were ambushed by Cao's army near Huarong. They were unprepared and were suddenly destroyed by Cao's army. They and some soldiers were

The horse finally got out of the encirclement and returned to the ship. However, just as they were driving a ship across the Yangtze River and preparing to retreat to the south bank, they were suddenly attacked by Cao's naval forces from the upstream. The naval forces were almost completely destroyed, and only a few people fled to the south bank! The villain was worried that what they said was wrong, so he rushed to the shore of Chibi. He did see a terrible scene on the river. Sun Jian's naval forces were almost wiped out, and the ships traveling were all Cao's warships!..."

Ailang and others looked at each other, and everyone's eyes showed an incredible expression. Ailang asked: "Didn't Zhou Yu's raid succeed last night? Why did Zhou Yu and the others encounter an attack? How was Sun Ce and the others' situation?" The scout shook his head, "I don't know these villains."

Ailang looked at a loss and didn't know what to do for a moment.

Xu Shu said, "Lord, since the situation has changed, let's go back to the barracks first and make plans." Ailang nodded, "Okay. Let's go back first." So Lu Bu's army hurriedly left the shore and ran towards his own camp on the side of Chibi. After an hour, the army returned to the camp. As soon as they came back, they met the envoy Lu Su sent by Sun Jian. When Lu Su saw Ailang, he looked happy and stepped forward and clasped his fists. "Fortunately, the general returned safely, which is really great!" Ailang was having many questions to ask, but when he saw Lu Su coming, he jumped off the horse and asked, "Zi Jing, what's going on? When I was crossing the river, I heard the news that Zhou Yu's entire army was wiped out, and then he hurried back!"

Lu Su said with a serious expression: "Although Gongjin's naval army is not completely wiped out, it's almost done..." Ai Lang said anxiously: "What's going on? Didn't Zhou Yu's raid go smoothly last night? How could it suddenly become like this? Didn't Cao Cao's water and land camp be burned down? How could he launch such an attack?"

Lu Su frowned and said, "The specific situation is not clear yet. Perhaps, maybe Cao Cao has already seen through our strategy and put a huge trap with it. The deadlock may be unknown. The enemy general who led the navy to raid our navy not long ago was not Mao Jie, but Cai Mao, who should have been killed by Cao Cao!..." Everyone was shocked. Xu Shu frowned and said, "It seems that the Grand Commander-in-chief has actually been seen through by Cao Cao since the beginning of the strategy of 'borrowing a knife to kill people'. Everything we see is an illusion. Since Cao Cao thought of the Grand Commander-in-chief trying to get rid of Cai Mao, it was natural to think that our coalition forces would launch a counterattack recently."

Lu Su nodded, clasped his fists at Ailang and said, "General, my lord is waiting for the general in the big tent, and wants to discuss the current situation with the general!" Ailang nodded and said to everyone behind him: "Old Xu comes with me, everyone else goes back to the camp to rest first!" Everyone clasped their fists and agreed. Then Ailang led Xu Shu to the Jiangdong Army's big tent, and saw Sun Jian paced back and forth in the big tent, looking very anxious.

Ailang clasped his fists and said, "General Sun."

Sun Jian immediately raised his head and saw Ai Lang coming. He quickly stepped forward and said, "General, the battle situation is completely different from previous expectations. I want to ask the General and my alliance to cross the river to pick up Ying Ce'er and the others back to Jiangnan!"

Ailang said: "General Sun is a little restless. You should tell me the current situation first." After looking around, he didn't see Zhou Yu and asked, "Where is Zhou Yu? He just retreated. He knows more about what is going on in the North Bank than any of us."
Chapter completed!