Chapter 1063 2 Styles

Chapter 1063 2 Styles

Chapter 1063 Two Styles
Jiangling is actually divided into two cities, the new and old cities.

The old city is in the north and the new city is in the south.

The old city is located near the site of the former capital of Chu, Ying. It was renovated successively during the Qin and Han dynasties. When Guan Yu was stationed in Jingzhou, he made major repairs to the city, but it was not very large, with a circumference of more than ten miles.

When Zhu Ran was the governor of Jiangling, he built a new city in Jiangling, which was very close to the Yangtze River. From then on, it became an important town in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the old city was renamed "Jinan City".

Ji'nan City has a total of 3,000 defenders, of which 2,000 are relatively capable troops, and the other 1,000 are young refugees who have only been trained for two years. They are county soldiers, which is not bad.

The garrison of Jiangling City was slightly larger, with about 4,000 elite soldiers and several hundred strong men.

Of course, there is still a naval camp near Jiangling, but there are not many people now and they have been transferred away.

Jiangling is an important town.

In the early Jin Dynasty, the chief officials of Jingzhou either governed Xiangyang or stationed in Jiangling. After crossing the Yangtze River, they did not follow the usual rules.

Wang Dun settled his family in Wuchang, but he was sometimes in Xiangyang and sometimes in Jiangxia.

Tao Kan settled his family in Jiangling and also established his seat of government there, but he was mainly in Wuchang or Xiakou because he was also serving as governor.

Simply put, Jiangling is the political and economic center, and Wuchang or Xiakou is the military center.

Now that the war has just begun, Tao Kan has been squatting on the front line between Xiakou and Yangkou almost day and night.

As for Jiangling and Ji'nan City, they were left to the military officer Tao Bin (son of Tao Kan) and the prefect of Nanjun Tao Zhen (nephew of Tao Kan) to defend - Ji'nan City is also the current seat of Nanjun.

After receiving the news, the two cousins ​​immediately sent messengers to contact each other and then made some arrangements.

The most important thing is to contact the powerful people in various places...

On the eighth day of the eleventh month, on a sandbar in a lake northwest of Jiangling, Huang He finished drinking, smashed his porcelain bowl to the ground, and shouted, "In the Han Dynasty, my ancestors defeated Ying Bu as a river thief and were granted a title of nobility. Why are you afraid now? Follow me."

After saying that, he put on leather armor and boarded a ship first.

More than a thousand people followed closely behind and boarded various ships.

Members of the Huang clan stood on a tall building, quietly watching their tribesmen go away.

A total of 1,500 soldiers were considered the old foundation of the Jiangling Huang family. When the army was approaching, they did not retreat but advanced instead, which was worthy of Tao Gong.

The fleet sailed northward along the Zhangshui River (not the Zhangshui River in Hebei) at a moderate pace, but with great momentum and vigor.

After marching north for a day, they even saw several Liang cavalrymen cruising around.

These cavalrymen were also very bold. They actually followed from a distance on the shore, cursing from time to time.

The people on the boat also started cursing, using the most vicious language to curse their ancestors for eighteen generations. It was very lively.

The only regret is probably that neither side can understand what the other is scolding.

After two days of sailing, Dangyang City could be seen from afar on the distant horizon.

This city is still some distance away from the river. It looks close, but it is actually not close when you walk there.

Huang He ignored them and went into a reed marsh.

A few miles to the north, there was a sworn brother of his, so he could go and meet him. The boat would stop in the lake near his fortress, and he could ask for some dry food. If he could persuade him to go north with him, that would be even better.

Shao Bing was very bold. He went so far into the enemy's territory just to see if they had any convoys transporting grain. If he could successfully launch a raid, he might make a fortune.

That's the tactic.

It is impossible for the thief Shao to have cavalry, armored soldiers and elite troops everywhere. He will always have young and strong men with weak fighting ability. If he plans intentionally or not, he will always have a chance.

The same happened to the Huang family of Jiangling, and the Hu family of Huarong also received the order later.

They selected a thousand soldiers, equipped with swords, shields, bows and spears, and headed north across the Yangshui River into the lake area between the Yunmengze and the Mianshui River.

There are several water forts there, which were not set up by the government but were formed spontaneously by the people.

They cultivate the land in the islands and fish in the rivers and lakes. They rely on boats to travel back and forth, so it is difficult for outsiders to know where they are. If you can hide among them and suddenly rush out, you can achieve unexpected results and gain something.

At the Hepu Wharf in Linju County, nestled in the mountains, the county magistrate was seeing Pang Yang off.

Soldiers from dozens of counties were handed over to him, and several wealthy families also gathered three or four hundred soldiers. As a branch of the Xiangyang Pang family, Pang Yang himself gathered more than a hundred clan members, plus a thousand strong men, totaling more than 1,500 people. They crossed the mountains, first stayed in a familiar Tu ethnic manor, then went out along the Zhang River and walked north.

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In the land of Nanjun, Tao's orders are still very effective.

The local nobles didn't know much about the outside world, so when the son of Lord Tao gave the order, they could just fight. Anyway, they didn't need to charge head-on, they just had to harass the enemy's baggage train.

If the enemy outnumbers you or looks like they can fight better, don't attack.

If the enemy has few soldiers or looks like a bunch of peasants, then attack.

After all, they were often ordered to go to war and had experience in warfare. They didn't believe that they could not defeat those strong men.

If it really doesn't work, they can also use their familiarity with the geography to launch a surprise attack. It is easy to escape after being defeated, as there are people everywhere in the local area who can help them.

The Dow cousins ​​actually responded correctly.

If it were a young man from a noble family who was addicted to alcohol and had no real skills, he might have panicked and even abandoned the city and fled.

The tactics they formulated were actually a miniature version of Tao Kan's tactics, which were also the tactics that the Wu people had always used. After all, northerners ride horses and southerners ride boats.

In the real north, of course, the same tactics apply: the grassland cavalry keeps retreating, stretching your supply lines, then attacks from behind, cutting off food supplies, killing messengers, and shaking the entire army.

This is human beings. They will always try their best to use wisdom, tools and even the surrounding mountains and rivers, and summarize over a long period of time to form their own fighting style - of course, this requires a certain level of civilization.

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The nobles of Nanjun helped Tao Kan, but the situation of the nobles of Xiangyang was completely different.

The Kuai family surrendered, so how could there be no Cai family? This doesn't make sense.

The Cai family did surrender, but no one cared about them. They were just a few big cats and small cats.

The Cai family suffered a heavy blow, and that started with Wang Ru.

When Wang Ru led his army to cause chaos in Xiangyang, he once attacked "Caizhou".

The so-called Caizhou is a sandbar, or island, in the Mian River, located ten miles southeast of Xian Mountain.

Because Cai Mao surrendered to Cao Cao in the late Han Dynasty, the Cai family did quite well, although the family's status gradually declined during the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

But because of the influence of their ancestors, the entire Caizhou Island belonged to them. The Cai family built a mansion and opened up farmland on the island. It is said that during its heyday, the Cai family had hundreds of maids and concubines.

However, during the Wang Ruzhi Rebellion, Caizhou, a "recreation and recuperation" resort, was wiped out. The island and the house were still there, but the people were gone... After the Wang Ruzhi Rebellion was quelled, the Cai family's branch clans returned from other places, first vowing that the Cai family would never marry anyone with the surname Wang, and then began to fight for the inheritance left by the main branch after it was slaughtered. But it was useless, the servants were gone, the food was gone, and the wealth accumulated over generations was gone, and everything had to start from scratch.

Unfortunately, the times did not give them a chance.

Because of Caizhou's extremely important location, many soldiers have come to the island to try to stop the Wu navy from heading north.

This is not unfounded.

There is indeed a relatively narrow section of the Mian River in the lower reaches, but the area east of Xiangyang is very wide.

When Cao Cao conquered Jingzhou, Cai Mao trained the navy here - to be honest, the Han River could train a useless navy, and Cao Mengde's navy was congenitally underdeveloped and would have been defeated even without the fire.

Now many infantrymen have come to the island, and even hundreds of cavalry have landed on the island and camped in the suburbs, ready to attack the Jin State's naval and land troops that have landed on the island at any time.

The infantry was mainly composed of more than a thousand government soldiers, plus an almost equal number of retainers.

But the number of people was definitely not enough, so they mobilized troops from nearby powerful families to the island.

The Xi family of Gaoyang Pond (Xijia Pond) dispatched five hundred soldiers.

This family was a wealthy family in Jingzhou, and they had a beautiful garden and pond. When Shan Jian was stationed in Jingzhou, he liked to go to his house to play. "Every time they went out to play, they would hang out by the pond, and they would get drunk as soon as they had wine. They named it Gaoyang Pond."

Xi's in-laws, Pang's, also sent people.

This family is the descendants of Pang Degong and Pang Tong, but they are not doing well now.

Pang Huan (grandson of Pang Degong, son of Pang Shanmin, nephew of Pang Tong, and nephew of Zhuge Liang) served as the prefect of Zangke during the Taikang period of the Jin Dynasty. Later, he became so angry that he didn't want to do the job anymore, so he left this poor and remote place and returned to his hometown to live in seclusion.

After Pang Huan, most of the Pang family members served in counties and prefectures, and it was difficult for them to move beyond Xiangyang. They showed signs of sliding into the position of a small local aristocratic family.

Jin and Liang had been at war for many years, and Pang had suffered heavy losses, let alone the possibility of rising again.

Now that he has been arrested, although he is unwilling to do so, he may still want to take the opportunity to revive his family.

In addition to these three families, there were several other families that gathered a total of 3,000 strong men to garrison the island.

On this day, the Jin army navy broke through the blockade in the direction of Yu County, and more than 20 ships went upstream and attacked Caizhou.

Arrows were flying all over the island, densely packed.

Shi Xian, a general of the Xia Lou Long Xiang Mansion, stood on the wall. He was furious when he saw his soldiers being shot by dense arrows from the boats and unable to stand and retreating one after another.

But he didn't have any better solution.

If the people of Wu dared to fight him in Henan, they would have learned a lesson from him. Unfortunately, this is a sandbar in the river, so it would be a different way of fighting.

"Capture the thief!"

"Kill the bandits!"

On the river beach, a group of Wu soldiers bravely went into the water and rushed towards the sandbar under the cover of boats, bows and crossbows.

At some point, the reeds on the shore were ignited and the fire shot up into the sky. Some of the Wu soldiers who rushed in too fast screamed loudly in the fire.

The remaining people decisively changed locations and continued to try to land.

On the river, the warships pulled up the wooden stakes one by one.

They have been cleaning here for several days, and today they have finally cleaned up a part of the river in the middle.

Amid the rumbling of drums, the two ships moved forward first, but before they had gone far, a sharp scraping sound was heard.

A moment later, the Wu soldiers on the boat began to run around, shouting.

A big hole appeared in the bottom of the boat, and the river water rushed in, causing it to tilt in an instant.

The soldiers guarding Caizhou shouted in unison, their morale boosted, and they shouted: "All the Wu people have become fish and turtles!"

Wu Bing jumped into the water with a grim look on his face, swam towards other ships behind him, and was slowly rescued.

The Jin naval commander had no choice but to order the fleet to retreat temporarily and camp in the open water. At the same time, he found a way to mobilize several small boats and go upstream to Xiangyang.

This kind of boat can't carry many people, let alone any supplies. Their purpose is more to deflect mines.

Who would have thought that the Liang people actually nailed wooden stakes full of spikes into the bottom of the river?

This was the tactic that Dongwu used to deal with the Jin navy, but it was leaked in advance and known to others.

Deng Yue watched quietly from the top of Xiangyang City.

The navy fleet was only ten miles away from them, but they could never reach them.

The land troops sent out by Cai Zhou won at first but then were defeated. They defeated the soldiers of the Xiangyang nobles in front of them, but were soon forced to flee in a panic by a group of palace soldiers wearing heavy armor. They only survived when they were protected by the navy's ships.

The battle was extremely fierce, and the cries of killing reached the sky.

He wanted to send troops out of the city to fight and provide support, but after trying it once before and losing hundreds of soldiers, he was hesitant to do so.

The course of this war is becoming increasingly confusing.

"My Lord, someone shot up a letter." The aide came hurriedly and said in a low voice.

"Don't want to see it." Deng Yue pushed him away.

The aide smiled awkwardly and hid the letter in his sleeve.

Deng Yue glanced at him and snorted coldly.

This man's surname was Yang, and he was a native of Xiangyang. Even his home could be seen from the top of the city wall - there was a lake on the other side of the river west of Caizhou, named "Huihu", which was several miles long and the water was always green. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Yang Yi lived in Shanghui and Yang Yong lived in Xiahui, which was the Yang family of Xiangyang.

When the Liang army came, some members of the Yang family took refuge in the city, while those who stayed in the ancestral home surrendered by occupying the fort.

Deng Yue suspected that the Yang family members in the city would also surrender, especially after this person picked up a letter.

He was still unwilling to surrender, as his respect for Master Tao was still deep in his heart.

The appearance of the navy near Caizhou today also gave him more confidence.

The aide named Yang sneered in his heart.

Deng Yue still says one thing and does another.

If you really don't want to surrender, why bother pretending to be so hypocritical?
After some time, find an opportunity to let others bring it up again. I don’t believe Deng Yue will not waver.

(End of this chapter)