BSI Chapter 262 The Unsuspecting Jiang Xia
Chapter 262 The Unsuspecting Jiang Xia
Chapter 262 The Unsuspecting Jiang Xia
This time when Zhu Wei attacked Jiangxia, he only needed to go west along the Yangtze River.
And after taking Jiangxia, continue along the Yangtze River to the west to Chibi, and then Zhu Wei can enter Nanjun territory to face Jiangling City in Jingzhou, and may face the Jingzhou navy controlled by Cai Mao.
Of course, Zhu Wei can also cross the Yangtze River on the Chibi side of Shaxian County, and after landing on the north bank, he can directly attack Xiangyang City, Liu Biao's hometown in Jingzhou.
It can be said that Jiangxia is Jingzhou's first line of defense against Jiangdong.
In history, after Sun Jian defeated Huang Zu through Jiangxia, he went all the way to Xiangyang, but later he was shot to death by Liu Biao's men and horses who were ambushing Lu Gong when he attacked Xiangyang. It is also said that he was shot to death by Huang Zu's soldiers. Only then did Liu Biao relocate to Xiangyang.
After Sun Ce captured Jiangdong, he also attacked Jingzhou through Jiangxia many times. For this reason, Huang Zu had to set up a defense line in Shaxian County (that is, the Xiakou area) to prevent Sun Ce from entering the hinterland of Jingzhou along the Yangtze River.
But now Huang Zu didn't have to worry about the Jiangdong Sun family. Jiangdong Liu Yao was not as aggressive as Sun Ce, and Zhu Wei had recently won Yuzhang. Huang Zu never thought that Zhu Wei would attack him so quickly.
To tell the truth, Huang Zu has a bit of covetousness towards Jiangdong. Give him some time, maybe he will secretly attack Yuzhang. Who made Zhu Wei give up Yuzhang's fringe counties on his own initiative?
In Huang Zu's eyes, these can be regarded as unguarded empty cities, fat meat that can be occupied without spending a lot of troops.
Well, let's not talk about Huang Zu's thoughts here, just say that Huang Zu's county seat in Jiangxia County is Xiling County, which can be regarded as a big city located north of the Yangtze River.
But on the side of Xiling County, there is a tributary of the Yangtze River, Xiashui, which can go directly to the Yangtze River, so Zhu Wei can use the fleet to directly kill Xiling County through the Yangtze River.
There are [-] other counties in Jiangxia County, among which the counties facing Jiangdong along the Yangtze River mainly include Chaisang, Qichun, E County (later Wuchang), and Zhu County.
Originally, in order to guard against the invasion of Jingzhou by Liu Yu in Jiangdong and Yuan Shu in Huainan, Huang Zu set up two water camps in the Yangtze River waters belonging to Qichun County and E County. The enemy army from the Yangtze River.
The water village in Qichun County was only regarded as Huang Zu's frontier guard post to defend Jiangdong and Huainan, while the water village in E County was Huang Zu's more assured water river defense fortress.
With these two lines of defense on the river, Huang Zu was able to prevent the enemy from directly threatening him in Xiling County, Jiangxia's old nest.
Therefore, Zhu Wei's war against Jiangxia this time was mainly a water battle against Huang Zu's two river defense lines on the Yangtze River, and finally a siege battle against Huang Zu's old nest Xiling City.
However, it is indeed difficult to break through the defense line on the river in E County, Zhu Wei is also very clear about this.
Therefore, when Zhu Wei attacked Jiangxia this time, he simply performed a ceremony of sending troops to worship the gods in the water village of Poyang Lake, explained the reason for his sending troops, and entered Jiangxia's territory with a lightning speed.
Zhu Wei's purpose was to sneak attack. Before Huang Zu was prepared and reacted, he broke through Huang Zu's two defense lines on the Yangtze River and went directly to Huang Zu's old lair in Xiling County.
Judging from the current situation, Huang Zu would never have expected Zhu Wei to attack Jiang Xia suddenly. He may not even know the news of Zhu Wei sending troops to Jiang Xia, and he was completely caught off guard.
According to Zhu Wei's investigation of Jiangxia County through scouts and spies in the real world, Huang Zu's main energy is still on Xiling City.
As for the two defense lines above the Yangtze River in Qichun and E County, they were actually under the control of Huang She, the son of Huang Zu.
But now the combined strength of these two water defense lines is just over 5000. Among them, [-] soldiers are stationed in the water village on the E County side, and [-] soldiers are stationed in the water village in Qichun County.
So before Huang Zu noticed Zhu Wei's surprise attack on Jiang Xia, the strength of the two lines of defense on the river was not too much.
In fact, Qichun and Exian, the two Huangzu water villages that formed the defense line on the river, usually do inspections and collect transit taxes for merchant ships, so it is enough to deploy these troops.
The transit tax for ships traveling on the Yangtze River can be regarded as a good money gain for Jiangxia.
Because I didn't expect that Zhu Wei would attack suddenly, Jiangxia is now in a comfortable state, so Huang She, the general who is in charge of the two lines of defense, doesn't usually stop at the two lines of defense on the river, but occasionally returns to Xiling County. Live his son's dandy life.
The actual management of these two water defense lines was actually handed over to Huang Zu's generals Zhang Shuo, Chen Jiu, and Deng Long, but the command of the two river defense lines was still controlled by Huang She himself.
So on the surface, it seems that Huang She is not on the two river defense lines, but Zhang Shuo, Chen Ju, and Deng Long can only be regarded as temporary guards guarding the two river defenses. The number of soldiers directly under his command is only 300 to [-], and they can't even sing a song. , the rest of the troops were commanded by military marquises directly under Huang Archer.
Therefore, when Zhu Wei checked the information of Jiangxia County, he saw that there were 1000 soldiers under Huang She, and the combined strength of Zhang Shuo, Chen Jiu, and Deng Long was only more than [-]. This is actually a flaw.
As for the remaining Su Fei and Gan Ning in Jiangxia, they were stationed in Shaxian County by Huang Zu, which was actually far away from Jiangxia's main Yangtze River area.
They are not qualified to collect taxes and fees for ships traveling on the Yangtze River, so they can't get any oil and water to subsidize military use. They can only rely on Huang Zu to get military supplies.
Of course, this time when Zhu Wei attacked Jiang Xia, the two of them were lucky to escape from the battlefield Zhu Wei had planned.
Well, let's not mention Su Fei and Gan Ning for the moment. I will just say that Huang Zu's river defense lines in Qichun County and E County in front of Xiling County are currently in a state of lack of defense.
This also gave Zhu Wei a chance to make a quick sneak attack and forcefully break through the two defense lines on the Huangzu River. As long as he breaks through the two defense lines on the Huangzu River, Jiang Xia can almost get it at his fingertips.
And Zhu Wei's fleet to transport troops on the Yangtze River is mainly composed of 250 big river boats that can carry 400 to [-] people, and there are thousands of small boats guarding the periphery to prevent surprise attacks by enemy warships.
But the size of such a fleet is not small, so Zhu Wei's fleet sailed on the water of the Yangtze River, but it almost covered the entire river.
Along the way, Zhu Wei conscripted all the ships encountered on the Yangtze River and brought them into Zhu Wei's fleet. On the one hand, this was to increase the number of ships on his side, and on the other hand, it was also to raid Jiangxia's Confidentiality.
With Zhu Wei's unexpected action of dispatching troops, coupled with the speed of marching on the water, it can definitely be regarded as a blitzkrieg-like sneak attack against Jiang Xia.
After all, there is no Jiangfang Beacon Tower set up by Guan Yu on the current Yangtze River. Even if someone saw Zhu Wei's fleet, they would not be able to immediately send an early warning signal to Jiang Xia...
(End of this chapter)