It was almost the intersection of You and Xu, and the sky was already dark, and the crescent moonlight was in the sky, and the bright and cold moonlight fell on the river. The cold wind in the northwest during the day did not weaken, and it was still strong.

The sailing flags on hundreds of warships spreading across the river were blown and the sound of "spin" sound!

On the river, the remaining fire of dozens of fireboats has not yet burned out, reflecting half of the sky. Not far away, the battle between the Jinfan Navy and the Huangzu Navy is still continuing, but it is approaching its end.

Huang Zu was originally planning to attack the Ganning Navy with fire, but not only failed to make a plan, but was attacked by Ding Feng and Ling Cao's two naval armies from behind, and the entire army immediately fell into extreme chaos.

When Gan Ning and Jiang Qin led the main fleet to join the battle, Huang Zu's defeat was naturally inevitable.

After less than two hours of battle, Huang Zu's naval army had been divided into many small pieces and was surrounded by the superior forces of the Jinfan naval army. Few soldiers who lost their fighting spirit died in battle, and many surrendered. Even Deputy Governor Zhang Yun was captured alive by Ling Tong.

Huang Zu, Huang She and his son guarded a large ship of fighting ships, and led their soldiers to fight to the death.

But under the general trend, all the resistance was just in vain. More than ten Menghunzhuo boats were like bloodthirsty sharks, surrounding the fighting ship where Huang Zu was located.

The soldiers of Jinfan Camp knew about the gambling agreement between commander Gan Ning and deputy commander Jiang Qin, so how could they let Huang Zu slip away?

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Huang Zu never expected that he would have such a embarrassing day: the most proud capital - the complete defeat of the Jingzhou naval army was near, and he was defeated by Gan Ning, who was swept out like garbage in the past.

If he was defeated by others, Huang Zu might feel better! But Gan Ning made Huang Zu particularly unable to accept it...

"Crash, hit, hit these fish!" Huang Zu waved his sword in his hand like a crazy look, and shouted at the top of his lungs.

But his soldiers had already lost all their fighting spirit. He was executing Huang Zu's orders with slander. In this case, continuing to resist stubbornly will only arouse the enemy's anger, and even if he wants to save his life, it will not be easy.

"Father, we can't fight anymore, we're defeated!" Huang She grabbed his father and shouted in a crying voice, "Subdue!"

"Surrender??? Gan Ning, can these bastards like Jiang Qin let me go? Surrender is death, and if you don't surrender, you will die. Just fight with them!" Huang Zu pushed his son away and shouted sadly and angrily.

"Damn it, have you heard that you've hit and sank these miscellaneous fish!" Huang Zu saw the soldiers under his command look unscrupulous, walked to the stern of the ship angrily, waved his sword and chopped down the two soldiers in the boat, and roared.

"Huang Wenchang, are you the only way to kill your subordinates?" A loud voice with a slight joking voice came over.

"Gan Ning!" Huang Zu suddenly turned his head. He looked at the direction where the sound came, and gritted his teeth and growled.

"Huang Fubo still remembers me, a mere thief, which is really a great honor for Gan!" Gan Ning jumped onto Huang Zu's ship alone with a single knife and smiled heroically.

"Come on me. Kill Gan Ning!" Huang Zu cut his sword in his hand twice, and shouted at the soldiers beside him.

Under the brilliance of the torch, Gan Ning smiled confidently and walked slowly towards Huang Zu. The Huang Zujun soldiers on the boat looked straight at Gan Ning.

However, due to his reputation, no one dared to take action. Many people were so scared that they dodged involuntarily.

"Kill and kill, I will give you all! Whoever dares to disobey orders will be killed immediately!" Huang Zu was so angry that he raised his sword and fell down. He cut down a soldier and roared.

"Zu Huang, you can have a good time with me!" Another cold voice sounded from the edge of the ship on the other side.

"Jiang Qin!!!" Huang Zu looked at the person who came with a trembling voice. Huang Zu hated Gan Ning more than fear. After all, the Jinfan Navy and Huang Zu had never fought in the true sense before.

A conceited person like Huang Zu, who does not experience it personally, will not and will not believe how powerful Gan Ning is. Huang Zu was deeply afraid of Jiang Qin. Jiang Qin, who originally commanded the Jiangdong Navy, had defeated the Jingzhou Navy several times.

The most dangerous time, Jiang Qin almost cut Huang Zu himself. It was still a bit chilling when he remembered it afterwards.

"Treading the waves, but I came up first. You can't grab the big fish!" Gan Ning gently tapped his palm with the back of the knife, and said to Jiang Qin, who had just climbed onto the boat.

"I have more than a dozen sips from my family, and you are alone. Drinking the northwest wind alone is better than drinking the northwest wind by one!" Jiang Qin took a few steps closer, and responded to Gan Ning with a loud voice.

Gan and Jiang were talking to each other as if they were unconscious of it being on a ship still controlled by the enemy, and who would capture Huang Zu.

Huang Zu laughed furiously, waved his sword in his hand twice, shouted and ordered: "As long as you kill these two people, our army will win. Give them all!"

"If you don't want to die, you will leave your weapons and get out of here!" Gan Ning glanced at the few enemy soldiers who were ready to move with a cold look, and shouted, "Otherwise, I will send you to feed the river fish!"

Huang Zu was not afraid of Gan Ning, but his soldiers did not have this "ability". Most of the navy soldiers on the ship grew up listening to Gan Ning's reputation, and no one was afraid of the name of "Jinfan Thief".

The destruction of the Jiangdong naval army some time ago pushed Ganning's reputation to the pinnacle.

"Bang!" A Dubron took the lead in dropping his weapon, retreated to the edge of the ship, and crouched down.

"Pu!" "Puu!" Others also followed suit and chose the path of life at the critical moment of life and death.

In a moment, none of the 7 or 80 soldiers on the ship stood, leaving only Grandpa Huang and his son facing Gan Ning and Jiang Qin.

"Coward, trash!" Huang Zu was already in a state of madness and kept yelling and scolding.

"Good scolding!" Jiang Qin interrupted coldly, "Huang Zu, you are not a cowardly naval commander, dare to fight Jiang for a life and death!"

Huang Zu didn't dare to touch him at all, and his face was sunny and his face kept changing. He looked around for a moment. Finally, he shook his head and sighed desolately: "Huang has been in half his life, and he has ended up in such a situation today! It's hateful, hateful..."

Before he finished speaking, Huang Zu suddenly wiped his neck with a sword in his hand. A stream of hot blood spurted out from the wound.

"Father!" Huang She was not mentally prepared for her father's actions of committing suicide. When she came to her senses, Huang Zu's body had fallen back and fell down.

Gan and Jiang both bullied themselves forward at the same time. Gan Ning threw Huang's shot aside, and then used his hands to explore Huang Zu's wound and breath. "It's useless!"

"It's a bargain!" Jiang Qin didn't expect Huang Zu to commit suicide so simply, and said unwillingly.

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Huang Zu committed suicide and set off the talisman of the battle. The soldiers of the Jingzhou navy, who had already lost their fighting spirit and were divided and surrounded, immediately chose to surrender with relief after hearing the news of Huang Zu's death.

During the battle of Xia Ze, Gan Ning attacked the Jingzhou navy with a lack of confidence.

Except for less than ten small boats who escaped from the opportunity of chaos and dimness, the remaining 140 warships of the Jingzhou Navy were either sunk or captured, and died in battle. There were countless naval soldiers captured.

Governor Huang Zu committed suicide, and Deputy Governor Zhang Yun was captured alive... and Jinfan Navy. Except for the dozens of fast boats used to block fire boats, the losses were minimal.

After this battle, although the name of Jingzhou navy remained, it was actually destroyed!

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As the hour of Mao approaches, the sky is about to be bright. The soldiers of Jinfan Navy, who were happy to win a great victory, were completely exhausted. They were all excited and busy gathering their prisoners and cleaning the battlefield.

On the ship

"Public achievements, do a good job!" Hearing the news that Ling Tong captured Zhang Yun alive.

Gan Ning patted Ling Tongdi's shoulder and laughed and said, "I am worthy of being a son of Zifudi! I should express my merits to the general. With this merit, it is more than enough to be promoted to a captain!"

"Thank you, Commander!" Ling Tong was very happy and bowed to Gan Ning.

"Public record is very good. Zhang Yun's soft-footed shrimp was beaten to the point of no fight back!" Ding Feng said with a smile.

Ling Cao showed relief on the serious ground on the side, and the gap between him and Gan Ning was also faded a lot.

"Chengyuan. It's going to be bright. Send the fast ship back to Moling to report the victory to the general!" Gan Ning turned to Ding Feng and said.

"Okay, boss!" Ding Feng's reign took the order and left.

"Treading the waves, what is the result of a bet between you and me?" Suddenly, Gan Ning asked Jiang Qin with a smile.

"Huang Zu's guy committed suicide, not died at your and my hands! Speaking of which, we all lost!" Jiang Qin said with some regret.

"This old boy has made us a move before he died!" Gan Ning smiled and cursed. Then he suggested. "Since you have lost, you have to accept the punishment. After returning to the army, you and I will invite all your brothers to drink, how about it?"

"Okay, one word is certain!" Jiang Qin responded readily without vagueness.

Gan Ning walked to the edge of the boat, and through the thin morning mist, he looked at the river where the fierce battle was resting. Suddenly, he burst into laughter, and the laughter was extremely refreshing, as if he wanted to vent all the breath in his heart.

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At noon, the battlefield was completely cleaned up. Gan Ning ordered Ding Feng to lead a naval army to escort the captured warships, and the soldiers returned to Danyang, while on the other hand, he led most of the naval army to Jiangling with Jiang Qin, Ling Cao and others.

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On the morning of December 30, news of Gan Ning's defeat of the Jingzhou naval army was sent back to Moling.

The fall of the Jingzhou naval army would inevitably be a huge blow to Cai Mao. Originally, Cai Mao had to kill Liu Qi, Kuai Liang and others who were trapped in Jiangling, and the overall situation in Jingzhou could basically be pacified.

But now without the navy, Cai Mao would be unable to stop Liu Qi, Kuai Liang and others from crossing the river to the south, and he would be unable to stop Liu Pan, Jingnan, Wang Wei, Jiujiang, and Yu Zhangwen from recruiting troops to the north.

The situation in the battle in Jingzhou will reverse with the fall of the navy. This can be regarded as a help from our army to Liu Qi!

However, when I issued Gan Ning the order "no need to hold back", my intention was not just that-

The Yangtze River is the hub between the south and north of the Yangtze River! Whether it goes north or south, it must pass through the Yangtze River. Today, there is no technology to build a bridge across the Yangtze River, and you can only cross the river by boat.

And if a powerful naval army could block the Yangtze River, the north-south communication would be completely cut off. This is even more true for Jingzhou.

Today, among the territory controlled by the Jingzhou regime, there are 8 counties south of the Yangtze River (including the newly occupied Jiujiang, Yuzhang and other three counties), and the other four counties are in the north of the Yangtze River. Controlling the Yangtze River means controlling the lifeline of Jingzhou.

In the next period of time, our army's strategic focus has become clearer———Jingzhou!

Taking advantage of the current civil strife in Jingzhou, we must take Jingzhou under the control of our army before Cao Cao stretches out his hand. To control Jingzhou, we must first control the Yangtze River.

Taking advantage of Liu Qi's opportunity to invite aid to the ground, I simply let Gan Ning "rescue" thoroughly - knocking out all the Jingzhou naval forces. I think that Liu Qi, Kuai Liang and the others could only "knock off their teeth and swallow them" and in the future they could only rely on our army's nose to survive.

The navy won a great victory, but I was not ready to take any action on land for the time being. Land rescue was actually to assist Liu Qi in counterattacking Jingbei.

This action is very likely to involve Cao Cao, so it must be coordinated with Shouchun's second brother's army, as well as the Jingzhou army of Jingnan and Jiujiang counties before the troops can be used.

We must seek the greatest gain with the minimum loss!

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After ordering people to send the news of the navy's victory to Shouchun, I ordered Danyang, Wujun, and Kuaiji to step up their preparations without affecting people's livelihood.

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The situation in Jiangling is in a serious state.

Cai Xun, Cai He and Ma Chao's troops, nearly 60,000 troops surrounded Jiangling.

After the besiege of the city, Cai Xun and Cai He first ordered people to call the city and persuade the surrender but failed. They also presented the emperor's imperial edict to worship Liu Cong as the pastoral land of Jingzhou, and directly accused the Kuai brothers of the Kuai family in order to usurp the power of Jingzhou, and rebelled against Liu Biao's will and launched troops to cause chaos.

Kuai Yue refuted it with a stern refutation, saying that in order to usurp the power of Jingzhou, Cai Mao colluded with Cao Cao to assassinate Liu Biao, and forged Liu Biao's last order, and his actions were incompatible.

What is the eloquence of Kuai Yue? Cai Xun, Cai He and others can match. After some debate, the Cai brothers were speechless by Kuai Yue. In extreme anger, Cai Xun ordered the army to start attacking Jiangling.

Although Ma Chaodi Xiliang Iron Cavalry was only responsible for patrolling the four gates and did not participate in the siege, the psychological pressure these huge cavalry caused to the defenders was unprecedented.

With the strong city, Kuai Yue barely commanded his soldiers to block the offensive, but the defenders suffered heavy casualties. At this time, Kuai Liang fell ill due to overwork.

In the chamber

"Mr. Kongming, has Mr. Zirou's health improved?" Liu Qi asked Zhuge Liang with concern. After Kuai Liang fell ill, all the confidential matters of the Jiangling Army fell on Kuai Yue, and he had to patrol the city and was too busy.

Zhuge Liang volunteered to take on the important task of taking care of Kuai Liang.

"It's still the same!" Zhuge Liang shook his head with a slightly sad expression. Zhuge Liang has been well-read since childhood and has a lot of knowledge about medical books. His medical skills are even more skilled than ordinary doctors.
Chapter completed!