However, Cao Cao did not give up immediately after Liu Bei escaped temporarily. He continued to chase Liu Bei along the river, and threw some bamboo slips into the Yangtze River and went down the river, claiming to be an army of 800,000 to go south, trying to seize the hearts of the people in Jiangdong.

As a result, Cao Cao was attacked by the Sun and Liu coalition forces at Sanjiangkou, and lost a lot of people and had no choice but to lose. Cao Cao was not too angry about this, because Cao Cao himself knew very well that his soldiers were all northerners, including Cao Cao himself, and were not good at water battles. This time, he did not expect that Sun Quan's son would dare to resist him directly. He knew his own self but did not know his enemy, and there was no surprise if he lost. Cao Cao was never the one who could not recognize his mistakes. Cao Cao fully admitted at this time that if he was fighting water battles, he might not be a match for Jiangdong.

However, in this battle, Cao Cao at least felt the attitude of the Sun family in Jiangdong. Sun Quan was unwilling to surrender, but planned to fight with him Cao Cao! If you want to fight, then fight. Who would Cao Cao be afraid of?! When Liu Biao was still there before, Cao Cao no longer took Jiangdong seriously, not to mention that Liu Biao is no longer here and Jingzhou has surrendered!

Speaking of which, as early as the New Year, Cao Cao had already solved the Yuan brothers and stabilized the situation in the north. Before he went south, in order to prepare to attack Jingzhou and Jiangdong, Cao Cao had already built Xuanwu Pond in Yecheng in advance to train the navy. Now that Jingzhou surrendered, with an outstanding water battle general like Cai Mao, and the original elite navy in Jingzhou, Cao Cao had the confidence to not take Jiangdong in his eyes!

So, Cao Cao built a water village in Chibi, and appointed Cai Mao and Zhang Yun as the governor of the navy. Ling Qing and Xu troops were in the middle and Jingzhou troops were outside. He was familiar with the teaching every day and waited for the day when it was available. Cai Mao and the other two were familiar with water battles for a long time, and they really had two tricks. Moreover, they recently surrendered to Cao Cao, and Cai Mao and others must also want to show off in front of Cao Cao, hoping to get Cao Cao's heavy use. Cai Mao divided into twenty-four water gates along the river. Large boats lived outside as city walls, and small boats lived inside, and could lead to the way. The lights were on the late night, making the water surface of Tianxin red. The dry village was more than 300 miles away, and the fireworks were endless.

It is no exaggeration to say that such a formation is no less than the Eight Gate Golden Lock Formation on the ground. Of course, if Cao Cao had no huge financial, material and manpower support, Cai Mao would not be able to easily be deployed. However, since it has been deployed now, it will definitely have its due effect. It is said that Zhou Yu came to spy on the Cao army's water camp in person. After seeing this formation, he was shocked and said, "This is a wonderful thing about the navy!" Then, Zhou Yu had the strategic direction of defeating Cao Cao, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, the two Cao army generals, must first be eliminated.

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The so-called raising an army for a thousand days is used for a moment. To train soldiers who are not familiar with water war to fight water wars is just like training new recruits. Even because there is no practical exercise, it may be more difficult than training new recruits. Therefore, not to mention training for a year, it will take at least half a year to train Cao Cao's navy. Perhaps it may not be as elite as the navy in Jiangdong, but with an absolute advantage of numbers, it is still able to suppress the opponent.

So, at this time, all you need is to stabilize and wait. At this time, what you should be anxious about is definitely not Cao Cao, but the Sun-Liu Alliance.

However, as early as when Cao Cao defeated the Yuan family and just went south to fight Liu Bei in Xinye, he could see that there was an overly radical and impetuous atmosphere in the Cao camp. This year and two years have passed. Not to mention whether Cao Cao can calm down, some of the people below are unable to rest. Especially some people who want to make contributions, are eager to make contributions, and think they can make contributions!

Like Jiang Gan.

Now Cao Cao is worried about nothing more than Zhou Yu in Jiangdong. Jiang Gan had a good relationship with Zhou Yu since childhood. Jiang Gan and Zhou Yu's relationship, well, Jiang Gan thought that it was similar to Guo Jia and Xun Yu. Therefore, Jiang Gan volunteered to go to Jiangdong to persuade Zhou Yu to surrender to Cao Cao with his own fair tongue.

Although Cao Cao actually did not have much hope for this. If Zhou Yu would surrender so easily, then he would not be Zhou Yu, and then the Sun family in Jiangdong would not dare to fight Cao so openly! But at this time, waiting is waiting, and being idle is idle. Even if the hope is small, it is hope. It is better than nothing. What if it is really successful? Besides, Cao Cao is so active, right?

So, this is just a two-pronged approach, and the training is carried out as usual, while Jiang Gan crossed the river alone to meet Zhou Yu. I have to praise him, Jiang Gan is at least quite courageous.

In short, Jiang Gan's action finally gave Zhou Yu the great opportunity to implement a counter-espionage plan!

Afterwards, it goes without saying that Zhou Yu pretended to be drunk and let Jiang Gan see something that he "should not be seen". So Jiang Gan got into a trap and hurried back to the other side of the river to expose the rebellious intentions of Cai Mao and Zhang Yun to Cao Cao.

Later, Sun Quan asked Zhou Yu,

"How can you be sure that Cao Cao would be trapped so easily?"

Zhou Yu smiled and replied,

"It's not whether Cao Cao will fall into the trap, but whether Cao Cao is willing to fall into the trap!"

That's right, with Cao Cao's intelligence, would he fall into the trap so easily? There were so many people who separated from Cao Cao and Guo Jia back then. Did you see Cao Cao easily attack Guo Jia? Cao Cao was suspicious, but such an important and key figure could not be killed immediately by saying that he could kill him. If you don't think carefully, and if you investigate it carefully, you can't take it first?

Therefore, it is better to say that Cao Cao was deceived by Zhou Yu, it is better to say that Cao Cao deliberately pretended not to see it, deliberately pretended to kill someone furiously, and deliberately deceived him by Zhou Yu. However, in the result, Cao Cao was still caught up with Zhou Yu's plan!

I have to say that Cao Cao was arrogant! That's right, so many people separated from Cao Cao and Guo Jia, the reason why Cao Cao never attacked Guo Jia was because Cao Cao knew the importance of Guo Jia very well. Later, when Guo Jia was no longer so important, or in other words, Cao Cao no longer thought that Guo Jia was so important that no one needed to alienate him, Cao Cao also attacked Guo Jia.

The same is true now. Compared to Cai Mao’s role, Cao Cao feels that Cai Mao’s threat may be greater, and he is especially related to Guo Jia. So, for such a guy, it may be a bit early to take action now, but it is rare to have such a reasonable opportunity. Why not make good use of it?

What? It doesn’t seem contradictory to say that Cao Cao’s actions are done? If Cao Cao didn’t know the importance of Cai Mao, how could he hand over the position of the navy governor to Cai Mao? How long has it been since then? Why did Cao Cao feel that Cai Mao is useless at once?

Don’t forget that there is the word “learning” in this world! Is it the only one in the world that Cai Mao can fight? Is this a natural talent that others can’t learn? During this period, how Cai Mao does, how to arrange, and how to train soldiers, Cao Cao actually let his confidant generals imitate, ask for advice, and learn. Cao Cao is so that someone can replace Cai Mao in the future and become the governor of the navy!

Since Cao Cao himself and most of his generals did not know much about the water war, although Zhou Yu's plan of disagreement came suddenly, Cao Cao thought he had learned almost everything, but he didn't know that he had only learned the shape but not the spirit. He knew it but did not know why, so Cao Cao believed that Cai Mao had no effect anymore, so Cao Cao was so rash and killed such an important naval general. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!