"Red Cliff!" Standing by the river and looking at the railing, Ye Zhao sighed at the surging river.

This is the battlefield chosen by Zhou Yu, and it is also the battlefield chosen by Ye Zhao. Therefore, it connects Yunmengze, and Yunmengze is where Ye Zhaoxun raises the naval army. For Zhou Yu, the water situation and undercurrents converge between Yunmengze and the Yangtze River are complex and undercurrents are surging. This is the place where the command ability of the navy is tested. This is also the only advantage in Jiangdong, so Sun Ce and Zhou Yu set the battlefield here.

Ye Zhao understood a little why Cao Cao chose to establish a village here in history. Although it was beneficial to the navy, the place where Yunmengze and the Yangtze River converged was a river channel that was only ten meters wide, and infantry could be stationed on both sides. It was very suitable for Cao Cao or Ye Zhao in history. If the Jiangdong Army attacked, the army alone could protect the water village. Even if the Jiangdong troops were dragons in the water, if they dared to land, they would be seeking death.

Historically, Cao Cao's ideas were probably the same as his.

"Lord." Zhang Liao and Wei Yan came to Ye Zhao and fisted at Ye Zhao.

"How is the navy training?" Ye Zhao turned his head and looked at Zhang Liao.

"Not ideal." Zhang Liao smiled wryly and shook his head, "Although the Jingxiang Navy is proficient in water, the fighting will is very weak. If the training is slightly strengthened, it will be complained. Now that the war is imminent, these surrendered troops are not too strict. Only the navy under Xingba's tent can be used, but the number is only 8,000. Most of the soldiers in our army come from the north, and not many of them can be water-efficient. After boarding the ship, they may vomit or be seasick. If they really enter the river, they may be difficult to compete."

"Lord, Wen Yuan is too polite to speak. It is not that the Jingxiang naval army is useless. As far as the last general knows, these Jingxiang naval army fight against Jiangdong soldiers all year round, so how could it be so unbearable? It is obvious that someone secretly instigated him!" Wei Yan snorted coldly.

Ye Zhao groped through the railings, looked at the Taojiang River and smiled, "I know, the soldiers from the north will stop training."

"Lord, if you don't rely on our elites, and rely on these Jingxiang naval troops alone, you may not be Zhou Yu's opponent at all." Wei Yan frowned.

"I am not familiar with water wars, how much improvement can there be in a hurry?" Ye Zhao looked at Jiang Shui, and a sneer flashed in his eyes: "I have my own concerns, so I don't need to say much, go and ask Han Sheng to see me."

"Here!" Zhang Liao and Wei Yan could only sigh, bow to Ye Zhao, and each took the order and left.

Ye Zhao patted the railings and looked at the direction of Jiangdong Water Village. The battle of Red Cliffs had already begun at this moment.

Returning to the Central Army camp, Fa Zheng and Li Ruzheng were helping Ye Zhao handle military affairs, while Guo Jia leaned lazily on the seat, staring at the map in front of him, and when he saw Ye Zhao coming in, he quickly bowed and bowed.

Ye Zhao waved his hand and said, "Is there any information on Jiangdong?"

"This time Sun Ce took over the command personally, and there was a news from a secret spy. Sun Ce used Zhou Yu as the chief commander and ordered the governor of the three armies!" Li Ru said to Ye Zhao: "Lord, Zhou Yu should not be underestimated; Sun Ce can have his current foundation, and Zhou Yu will make a contribution."

Ye Zhao nodded, and he naturally knew how powerful Zhou Yu was.

"Lord, General Huang Zhong is asking for a visit." Dian Wei's voice sounded outside the door.

"Come in." Ye Zhao sat down.

Then he saw Huang Zhong walking in with a meteor, and intervened at Ye Zhao and said, "See lord."

"Hansheng will rise." Ye Zhao stretched out his hand and said: "My soldiers from the north are not familiar with water wars, but the soldiers of Jingxiang are now in a low morale. If this continues, it may be difficult to resist the Jiangdong Navy. I think Hansheng will select a group of troops from the Jingxiang Navy, with a number of about 5,000. Selecting those who dare to fight and can fight into the army, Hansheng will be in charge of them personally and will be directly responsible to me."

The Jingzhou navy was mostly led by surrendered generals in Jingzhou. It was not that Ye Zhao did not want to take back the military power, but that he had no navy generals except Gan Ning and Huang Zhong. Ye Zhao had to use Jingzhou generals. However, people are not in love with him now. Cai Mao and others rely on Ye Zhao to use him. Now they are trying to bargain with Ye Zhao!

Just like Huangfu Song was raising thieves back then, although Cai Mao and other Jingxiang civil and military officials surrendered Ye Zhao under Ye Zhao's power, they were unwilling to be taken back. They wanted to take advantage of this battle to seek some privileges from Ye Zhao. Cai Mao had already mentioned it vaguely before, and Ye Zhao just pretended not to understand, but felt a little uncomfortable.

Any lord or monarch may find it difficult to tolerate such behavior from his subordinates, not to mention the behavior of a powerful lord like Ye Zhao and the Jingxiang scholars such as Cai Mao have already made Ye Zhao a little angry, but now it is not the time to deal with them, so Ye Zhao has not taken action.

"Here!" Huang Zhong naturally didn't say much, and immediately took the order and took Ye Zhao's order arrow. In order to avoid Cai Mao and others from interfering, Ye Zhao directly asked Dian Wei to follow Huang Zhong. If anyone dared to stop him and killed someone directly, he would probably be more and more presumptuous than killing two chickens.

"Lord!" Li Ru looked up and looked at the direction where Huang Zhong left and said, "The Jingxiang Navy seems to be a little..."

Ye Zhao nodded, picked up a document on the table and looked through it, saying, "The unification of the world is imminent. Although these people surrender, they are unwilling to hand over the rights. They want to ask for power from me!"

"Master, are you willing to delegate power?" Li Ru looked at Ye Zhao and said.

"What do you think?" Ye Zhao's eyes flashed with coldness and said, "Once the rules are broken, it is not easy to make up for it again. How can the situation I have created for twenty years be ruined?"

"I thought of a plan that the Jingxiang Navy could be exchanged for the destruction of the Jiangdong Navy!" Li Ru looked up and looked at Ye Zhao, with a vicious look flashing in his eyes.

Ye Zhao and Guo Jia looked at Li Ru at the same time, but did not ask about Li Ru's plan. Ye Zhao just waved his hand and said, "Wenyou's plan... I can probably guess it, but this move is too cruel, so that I can think of it!"

When Li Ru heard this, he stopped talking and continued to approve the official documents.

In the evening, Li Ru and Fa Zheng returned to the camp. Guo Jia accompanied Ye Zhao to stand by the river, and looked at the surging river water and suddenly smiled: "It's not easy for Jiangdong to win this battle."

"If Fengxiao was Zhou Yu, what strategy would he use to deal with our army?" Ye Zhao did not answer, but just looked at Guo Jia and asked.

"With the weak defeat the strong is nothing more than leveraging the power of water and fire. The Yangtze River is vast, and it is not easy to cut off the water. Besides, the lord has sent cavalry to patrol along the coast day and night, and set up beacon towers. Therefore, I concluded that Zhou Yu wanted to defeat our army, so I could only use the power of fire." Guo Jia smiled.

Even if the Jiangdong naval army is powerful and defeats Ye Zhao in the water, if they want to defeat Ye Zhao, the soldiers on the river bank must be eliminated. With the Jiangdong army, it is no match for Ye Zhao's 100,000 heroic troops.

This time, almost all the main forces of Ye Zhao's conquest to the Central Plains have reached this point. With the Jingxiang Navy, Ye Zhao stationed 200,000 troops in Yunmengze this time, not to mention the troops stationed in other places. This time, the total force Ye Zhao invested in the Jingxiang area is probably close to 250,000.

Ye Zhao nodded. This is also the same thing as Guo Jia. When the two were about to fight, the first thing they thought was not how they should march and set up formations, but from the other party's standpoint, considering how they would win this battle if they were the enemy.

"But there are many problems. If Zhou Yu wants to attack with fire, first of all, how to get the fire ship closer to our army. Secondly, even if the fire ship is put into our army's barracks, it may be difficult to ignite all of our army's barracks, and then there will be a wind direction..." Guo Jia turned his head to look at Ye Zhao: "These problems must be solved one by one. Wenyou's plan, Jia Neng guessed one or two. I think... The lord should put the overall situation first at this moment."

Ye Zhao nodded silently, as Guo Jia said, Quanzhong, although I don’t know what Zhou Yu is thinking now, in history, did Zhou Yu follow this idea to plot Cao Cao step by step and eventually win the Battle of Chibi?

"In addition, the land of Jingxiang has been completely returned to the lord. If the lord wants to use Wenyou's plan, then Cai Mao and Zhang Yun should not be kept, otherwise they will not be deceived by Zhou Yu." Guo Jia bowed to Ye Zhao: "The night wind is a little cool, Jia goes to rest first, and I hope the lord will think carefully!"

Ye Zhao nodded silently.

The next morning, Ye Zhao recruited all generals to discuss matters and discussed how to deal with Zhou Yu.

"Prime Minister!" Under the tent, one person stood up and bowed to Ye Zhao and said, "God and Zhou Yu had studied together, and had a friendship with classmates. They were willing to cross the river for the Lord and say that they would surrender Zhou Yu."

Jiang Gan was a general under Cao Cao. When Ye Zhao captured Suiyang, he surrendered to Ye Zhao with everyone. He didn't know how good his strategy was, but he was proficient in politics and was not useless. Otherwise, Jiang Gan was not from a high background. If he had no talent in some aspects, he would not be able to keep Jiang Gan by his side with Cao Cao's attitude of employing people.

Ye Zhao looked at Cai Mao strangely when he heard this. Zhang Yun glanced at him and smiled and nodded, "I have heard of Zhou Lang's talent for a long time. If Ziyi could say that he surrendered to Zhou Lang, it would be a great achievement."

"I will cross the river and say that Zhou Yu will surrender!" Jiang Gan was overjoyed when he heard this, bowed to Ye Zhao, and happily crossed the river and said that Zhou Yu will surrender.

As for how Jiang Gan was fooled by Zhou Yu, Ye Zhao had no intention of caring about it. In short, when Jiang Gan brought Cai Mao secretly to Zhou Yu's letter the next day, Ye Zhao was quite satisfied.

"General Cai, General Zhang, what's the point?" Ye Zhao threw the letter down, looked at Cai Mao, Zhang Yun and others, and said with his eyes narrowed.

"This..." Cai Mao, Zhang Yun quickly picked up the letter and read it, his expression changed drastically, and he quickly knelt down and said, "I will never be as sincere to the Prime Minister."

"Come on! Drag it out and behead it for public display!" Ye Zhao sneered and waved his hand.

The Jingzhou Army has been working hard these days, and although it is somewhat inconsistent with the Jingzhou Army, Ye Zhao is certainly inseparable from these two people. He just took this opportunity to get rid of the two people. And if he doesn't get rid of these two people, how could Zhou Yu be deceived?

"Ziyi's move should be the first to make a contribution, but what happened to convince Zhou Yu?" Ye Zhao looked at Jiang Gan and commended him.

Although Jiang Gan was not smart in this regard, it was because of this that he could deceive Zhou Yu.

The situation between the two sides was as Cai Mao and Zhang Yun's head fell to the ground and began to open to the other side. As for who can laugh, it depends on their own methods in the end.
Chapter completed!