Chapter 972

In December, even in southern areas like Jiangxia County, it is quite cold. Today's river water is freezing, not a strong and perennial swimmer. Once you fall into this kind of river water, there must be no life or death.

During this period of time, Zhang Xiu's soldiers, from time to time by boat in the river training, momentum is very big.

It was done on purpose.

Specially let Sun CE's sentinel spy find out, let everyone know that Zhang Xiu is ready to attack sun CE.

Originally, Zhang Xiu's plan was to send troops in December, but considering that the weather was too cold, the wind was fierce, the cold water was icy, and the soldiers couldn't bear it, so she didn't take action. She just kept training the soldiers and continued to recruit more warships.

Zhang Xiu did not attack immediately, but let Sun CE firmly believe that Zhang Xiu wanted to cross the Yangtze River and attack Chaisang.

Otherwise, Zhang Xiu would not be so ambitious.

It's not like training soldiers like this.

Time flies and the new year begins in a twinkling of an eye. The weather in the south is warmer. When the north is still cold and the spring is chilly, there is sunshine every day in Jiangxia county.

It's good for the army.

February 18 is a lucky day.

Zhang Xiu personally vowed to fight. The water village was in the camp, isolating the internal and external contact. Even if there were sentinels in Jiangxia County, they could not find out the specific situation inside.

The water stronghold connects the Yangtze River. After Zhang Xiu boarded the flagship, all the big ships slowly rose.

On every big ship, there is a king's flag flying.

On every big ship, there are soldiers in formation.

Its momentum is immense.

Its power is mighty.

Zhang Xiu's warship is not in the front, on the contrary, it is in the back. After all, he represents the great Qin Dynasty. He only needs to sit in the rear. In Zhang Xiu's flagship, Jia Xu is also there, but Sima Yi and Zhang Song are not. They stay in the water village, because they are responsible for the smuggling of troops.

Standing on the deck of the warship and facing the river wind, Jia Xu said, "Your Majesty, the area where we are now is still in Jiangxia county. It is estimated that it will be some time before we can meet sun CE. It's quite different to take a boat on the river from that on Hu Po. I'm not used to some on-demand programs. "

Zhang xiudao: "Wenhe, it's OK to get used to it."

Jia Xu laughed and said: "it's estimated that sun ceyi is very happy to see our hundreds of building ships crossing the sword together and going to the place where Chaisang is. Unfortunately, he didn't know that we had to fight together, that is, thousands of soldiers, and the rest of the main force stayed in the water stronghold. "

Now a building ship draught, because all filled with stone.

Apart from the soldiers rowing and decorating on the deck, there were no more soldiers. All the other soldiers stayed in the water village. After Zhang Xiu attracted sun CE's attention, Sima Yi, Zhang Yan and others would sneak in quickly.

Now even Huang Zhong is beside Zhang Xiu.

After all, Zhang Xiu needs to face around, to ensure that people are convinced that Zhang Xiu's army is on the ship. As for Zhao Yun, Zhang Yan and others, Sima Yi and Zhang Song acted together.

This is the beginning of the war between Zhang Xiu and us. It is not easy to destroy the state of Wu. But now, it is an opportunity to weaken sun CE. If sun CE had not taken the initiative to attack, we would not have paid any attention to sun CE for the time being. He asked for all this. "

Jia Xu said: "indeed, sun CE asked for all this."

Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu are chatting, and the army is still on its way.

When the fleet led by Zhang Xiu appeared on the Yangtze River and headed for Chaisang, the news quickly came back to Chaisang.

When sun CE got the news, he quickly called Zhou Yu and Lu Su and said with a smile, "here we are. Zhang Xiu has finally sent troops. This piece of embroidery has been working behind closed doors for several months in Jiangxia county. It is also a water army that has practiced for several months. Now it has finally come out. Imagine Zhang Xiu now, is fierce, think training for a few months of water army, can win our Jiangdong water army. But in fact, it's too weak to withstand a single blow. "

Zhou Yu said: "Your Highness, I still have some doubts about Zhang Xiu's playing tricks. But as soon as Zhang Xiu practiced the water army, it was just a few months of Kung Fu. These months of action are not in vain. This time, he really wanted to fight on the water. This battle is our chance. "

Sun CE stood up and said, "let's go, prepare to fight with Zhang Xiu!"

Zhou Yu said: "in this war, we only need to send 40000 elite to accompany us. The remaining 20000 elite will stay in Chaisang county. After all, Chaisang is the rear area, so we have to consider its safety. I will fight with your highness, and Zijing will stay in Chaisang. "

"No problem!"

Lu Su responded without hesitation.

He also agrees with Zhou Yu's analysis. Even if he is fully confident in this war, Chaisang is an important town and the gateway of Jiangdong. There can be no problem. So he is a good choice to stay in Chaisang with 20000 troops.Sun CE also agreed with Zhou Yu's analysis. Without saying much, he left Chaisang with Zhou Yu and went straight to Chaisang's Ferry. As a matter of fact, Chaisang is close to Poyang Lake, where there is a water stronghold of the state of Wu. All the fleet of the state of Wu are here.

From the north of Poyang Lake, you can go straight to the Yangtze River along the waterway now opened.

Sun CE led the fleet to leave Poyang Lake and head for the Yangtze River. In fact, now from Poyang Lake to the Yangtze River, it is downstream, and the speed is relatively fast.

However, sun CE was carrying countless boats, which were covered with hay, so even if they were downstream, the speed was not too fast.

When Zhang Xiu goes to Chaisang and sun CE goes to Zhang Xiu, the two sides are facing each other. Jiangxia county is close to the Yangtze River, a remote place. Looking across the river, you can see that the opposite bank is Chaisang county.

But these places can't cross the Yangtze River without river bridges.

But at this moment, led by Chen Dao and Zhang Yan, they have quietly come to a slightly low-lying and flat terrain. It's early spring, and it's still in the dry season. It's not the time for the river to flood in summer, so the beach is relatively wide.

It is true that the Yangtze River is still more than 100 feet wide, which is not easy to pass.

But now, there are boats gathering.

Boat after boat gathered here, and then one by one, constantly close to the other side of the river. Finally, two rows of boats were formed, all tied with ropes, across the Yangtze River.

After the boats were connected in series, there began to be rows of rafts directly laid on the boats. In particular, there are ropes on both sides of the raft. Although the soldiers are shaking on the raft, they can stabilize themselves with the help of ropes.

This is a simple floating bridge.

So that the soldiers can cross the Yangtze River quickly.

When all this was built up, Zhang Yan gave an order, and the soldiers in the army quickly began to cross the river and quickly went to Chaisang County on the other side. Although it was a little remote in the past, it was better to be able to cross the river quietly.

When all the soldiers crossed the river, Zhang Yan looked at the whole group of soldiers and gave the order for the whole army to move forward. It's easy for soldiers to cross the river, but in fact, the food supply after crossing the river is the most troublesome. Therefore, every soldier under Zhang Xiu's command has only 15 days of dry food. They must seize Chaisang within 15 days, or they must find food in no hurry. Otherwise, the whole army will be at risk.

This is the key.

It's not difficult to cross the river. What's difficult is logistics supply. But now it's impossible to supply continuously.

The only way is to win Chaisang County as fast as possible.

Sun CE didn't know all about Zhang Yan and others crossing the river. Sun CE still thought that Zhang Xiu's army was already in the fleet, and was moving along the Yangtze River to Chaisang county.