Volume 1 Jiangdong Fengyun Chapter 77: Seizing Wujiang River, Fighting Sun Bofu Three Times
Late at night, on the north bank of the Yangtze River, at the mouth of the Wujiang River, Wujiang Port, there is a quiet and lonely scene.
This is the Wujiang River, the Wujiang River that flows through Liyang County, and the Wujiang River where Xiang Yu committed suicide. It is not the Wujiang River that is still called "Qianjiang" and is admired by people for its pickled mustard tubers in later generations. That Wujiang River flows into the Yangtze River in Fuling, and Fuling is in Ba County, Yizhou. No matter how lost Xiang Yu was, he would not run to Bashu...
Originally, there were only two or three thousand old soldiers in the water fort here. They were not "old" because they had been on the battlefield for a long time, but "old" because they were old and wise, and their horses were old and cunning - in other words, two or three thousand veteran soldiers.
Among them, the Ji-zao soldiers were poorly trained, and the grassroots officers would leave the camp and go to the city for entertainment when they had nothing to do.
Even after Yuan Shu occupied Jiujiang, he tacitly gave up these veteran soldiers. After all, it would be easier to recruit new troops than to reorganize and train these people!
Previously, because Gan Ning and Chen Gong, one in the east and one in the west, respectively, had been conducting provocative drills on the river, the naval fortresses at Wujiang Port had been tense for a while, and reinforcements , and even Shouchun had troops stationed there...
However, it has now been proven that Jiangdong was just bluffing, and after repeated analysis, it was found that Jiangdong had no strength to attack Huainan at all. The other temporary reinforcements have also left, either to reinforce Lujiang or return to their original bases.
In addition, just the day before, the navy of Jiangdong seemed to have discovered that they could not deceive them and had already returned to the camp. The navy of Wujiang Port became even more uninhibited. Tonight, the "old rules" were followed again. Half of the sergeants and squad leaders stayed behind, a quarter of the officers stayed behind, and the others who had families went home to hug their wives, those who did not have families went to the city to have fun, or... found ways to hug other people's wives.
However, on that night, the sergeant on night watch was just strolling around with his soldiers to do his job when suddenly the sound of horse hooves was heard!
A quarter of an hour later, fire broke out in Lu's camp and shouts of killing were heard everywhere.
At the same time, as if receiving a signal, the river surface on one side of the water fort suddenly became lively.
Originally, taking advantage of the dark night and strong wind, the Jiangdong navy's small boats had no lights on and were crossing the river in the dark - this was a unique skill of the grassroots officers who were originally pirates.
Now seeing the fire on the other side, we immediately took up our positions and attacked the enemy. For a moment, both the water fort and the land camp of Wujiang Port were in chaos!
In fact, when Lu Bu alone led a hundred cavalrymen to charge the camp, the enemy's camp was already blown up. After all, there were not enough sergeants and squad leaders in the army, and they were all poorly trained Ji-made soldiers. Naturally, it was easy for riots to occur, and in serious cases, the camp would be blown up.
As for the water fort, after the Jiangdong navy approached, there was no power to fight back.
Gan Ning was a little worried at first - although the officers at the grassroots level were all his old subordinates, and as a "cultured man" among the pirates, Gan Ning was usually very methodical when robbing, and his elite pirates naturally had tactical experience, but... the naval soldiers were all newly recruited soldiers after all.
Now it seems like this is a perfect opportunity for the new recruits to get some blood and gain experience!
Within two hours of fighting, the shouting and killing in Wujiang Port had stopped, the water fort at the port had been occupied by Gan Ning, the captain in charge was tied up and brought in front of Gan Ning, and the camp on land was in chaos.
At this time, Bai Tu also came in from the land camp and went all the way to the water fort...
"Gan Ning greets my lord!" Gan Ning bowed after seeing Bai Tu.
However, Gan Ning's way of bowing was very unique. He always bowed halfway, as if he was waiting for someone to help him. Bai Tu was already prepared and rushed forward to support him.
"Xingba, no need to be polite. Thanks to you for taking over the water fort so quickly... Come, these are Lu Su and Lu Zijing. You will be our people from now on." Bai Tu introduced.
In the previous half month, Bai Tu led a hundred people, riding on civilian horses, that is, the kind with real four legs. They ran when there was no one around and mixed up with people when there were. Finally, they arrived in Jiujiang. After all, there were no Ji-zao soldiers among them, so they could pretend to be a caravan or even bandits in front of others.
The situation became a little more difficult until a while ago when Bai Tu and his group attracted the attention of Yuan Shu's army. However, they were already close to , and Lu Bu came to support them in time.
We just arrived near Wujiang Ferry today. Lu Bu's hundred cavalrymen and Gan Ning's navy attacked us from both land and sea and captured the water fort here!
Although scouts had already reported urgently at daybreak that there were thousands of cavalrymen chasing from the west, and even... tens of thousands of soldiers, advancing both by land and sea from the direction of Lujiang.
When Bai Tu heard the news, he was also a little surprised - Zhou Yu pretended to chase him afterwards, which was not unexpected to Bai Tu, he just thought it was his acting, but... Liu Xun also came so quickly?
The infantry are almost here, is this his prediction?
Good Lord... If he had set out a day earlier, or had been more hasty on the road, and camped near the water fort first, Bai Tu might have been doomed!
Bai Tu even suspected that this guy was pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger.
However, Bai Tu is now firmly in the water stronghold and can cross the river to the south at any time. Moreover, there is Chen Gong's navy in the south to support him, so Liu Xun cannot stop him even if he wants to.
In fact, Liu Xun was also a little confused at this time. He originally came just to pretend, but when he approached Liyang, he encountered the defeated army of Wujiang Port halfway, so he learned about the Jiangdong Army's capture of the port.
At the beginning, Liu Xun really thought that Jiangdong wanted to fight to the death and attack Shouchun directly. He disdained the other party's wild ideas. At the same time, he was also glad that he was just looking for an excuse. But now it seems that he really has a chance to make a contribution?
However, when Liu Xun saw the big flag with the word "white" at Wujiang Port, he realized that the governor of Yangzhou was going to withdraw from here!
"Oh! If I had been a step faster... cough, although I guessed Bai Tu's retreat route, it was a pity that the enemy fled too fast, and we couldn't even engage with Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, who were such young boys, so we failed to intercept Bai Tu at the Wujiang River crossing!" Liu Xun was rehearsing to himself how to brag and how to pass the blame.
That's right, Liu Xun also understood from this situation that he had missed the greatest achievement, and now Bai Tu was occupying the water fort. If he wanted to leave, there was no way to stop him.
Sun Ce also understood this, but he still walked to the front alone and shouted loudly: "Lü Bu! Do you dare to fight me?"
Zhou Yu didn't pay attention for a moment and found that he had already challenged him. He was so angry that he kept rubbing the red dot between his eyebrows...
"Oh? This guy is Sun Ce? Sun Jian's son?" Lu Bu looked at the young general who challenged him with interest.
"That's right, this guy is as strong as me... Let me do it this time!" Taishi Ci said.
On the one hand, Taishi Ci had some sympathy with Sun Ce, and was worried that Sun Ce would force Lu Bu into a state of losing and kill him here. On the other hand... he was also a little unhappy. This guy clearly hadn't even defeated him, but he actually challenged Lu Bu directly. Did he look down on him?
“Sun Ce! Don’t be so arrogant. If you want to challenge General Lu, you’ll have to pass my test!” Taishi Ci said, and he also spurred on the engine to meet Sun Ce.
"Zi Yi, it seems that you also want to decide the winner before going back? Well..." Sun Ce said, and started fighting with Taishi Ci.
After seeing this, Lu Bu uttered a faint "Huh", and then said to Bai Tu: "Hard Drive, it seems that Ziyi has made great progress in recent days... The armor is very close to being advanced!"
"When we were in Shucheng before, Ziyi and Sun Ce fought twice. Each time, they both made progress and it was very thrilling every time... Of course, even if they joined forces, they would not be a match for my godfather." Bai Tu was still as honest as ever today.
