Chapter 3616 The empty boat covers the sun's confusion, the new fire spreads the prairie

Jiangling Sichuan River Village.

Yu Jin's naval ships were like cavalry on the water, rolling up waves, rushing in, and then jumping left and right on the red line.

Occasionally, arrows, crossbows, or crossbows, guns, bullets, or rock bullets, if they hit the ship, they will leave in disappointment. If they shoot in the air and fall into the water, it will cause the Yu Shu Army to laugh at it.

The circling naval squad is just a prelude.

Yu Jin may not have reached the level that Confucian scholars want in terms of loyalty and filial piety, but it is not bad in terms of combat and military affairs. He looked at the water camp of the Sichuan and Shu navy, and felt a little moved.

Who would have thought that a navy army emerged in a mountainous area of ​​Sichuan and Shu?

Although Yu Jin also knew that most of the navy troops were recruiting the thieves in Sichuan and Shu, who acted as ferrymen on weekdays. When they met fat sheep, they asked if they wanted to eat Banban noodles or Fat Intestine noodles. But now they have become troops that can compete with Jiangdong. I have to say that they are really amazing.

This cavalry army...

Yu Jin sent a navy fleet to take turns to harass the Sichuan and Shu water camp, in fact, to cover up his lack of troops. Because the Sichuan and Shu water camp came suddenly, Yu Jin could not say that it was similar to the later fast-resisting troops, and he could order the entire army to set off without falling. Therefore, he came in batches. At the same time, Yu Jin also had to compete with Xu Huang for the territory in Yunmengze, so in fact, the troops who could invest in the attack on the Sichuan and Shu water camp were not very abundant.

In the past few days, Yu Jin's water army has gradually increased. Yu Jin began to think about setting up Xu Huang's water camp.

After all, it is Cao Zhen's responsibility to station in Jiangling County and counties. No matter how much Yu Jin helps, it is Cao Zhen's merit. On the contrary, it is Xu Huang's water camp, which Yu Jin is very envious.

Not only talking about the ships in the Water Village, but just talking about the few cannons in the Water Village made Yu Jin amazed, and then immediately felt that if his navy army could use it, wouldn’t it be like a tiger’s wing?

Even if you can't get the cannon, you will still be destroyed.

This is the basic quality of a general, and it is normal to be happy when seeing new weapons.

Yu Jin hid in the battleship and carefully checked Xu Huang's water camp. He did not use his own banner and pretended to be an ordinary military academy, with the purpose of avoiding attracting the attention of the water camp.

It seems that Xu Huang is not the one who is in charge of the command in the water village...

"Who is Zhuge?" Yu Jin muttered.

Of course, he didn't know that "Zhuge" was also a guise set by Xu Huang. In fact, Gan Ning was in command in the water village.

Gan Ning also did not use his own banner, and what he was thinking about happened to be the same as Yu Jin.

Perhaps others would be diverted by Yu Jin's repeated attacks, but Gan Ning would not. He calculated the attack batches and number of soldiers of the Yu Jinshui Army, and then calculated the overall strength of the navy army mobilized by Yu Jin.

The water camp is stable, and Xu Huang on the shore has a stable rear. As long as he repels or defeats Yu Jin, Xu Huang can naturally devote all his energy to the attack on Jiangling.

Therefore, Gan Ning was really looking forward to Yu Jin's attack, for fear that he would scare Yu Jin away if he was too big, but he was worried that he would pretend to be too weak, which would arouse the other party's suspicion, so he was very uncomfortable to worry about gains and losses.

Seeing the Cao army on the river quietly increasing, but it still did not reach the number that Gan Ning expected...

The reason is also very simple.

Although Yu Jin has been training troops in Xincheng, he is not treated by the front-line Cao's field group. What's more, the navy has to be dispatched and transporting supplies from the shore to the cabin is a troublesome thing. Moreover, among the Cao army, it does not pay attention to the use of tools and equipment like the Cavalry Army, and often relies on manpower to transport. After all, manpower is cheap, maintenance costs are low, and easy to be obedient. However, when speed is urgently needed, it is not as efficient as crane pull rods.

How can this speed be faster?

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No matter whether it is on the Jiangling River, Jiangling is waiting eagerly. Looking back at the place of Heishi Pass, after the rain, there is another scene of blood and fire intertwined.

In the first few days, the cavalry army was like a wave. With the help of Zhu Ling and Jiang Jie, they organized offensives again and again, slapped the defense line that Cao Zhang had been weakening, which made Cao Zhang almost feel that he might be overwhelmed by the waves in the next moment.

The continuous attack and pounce have caused a lot of earth-building horse walls and traps and trenches on the west side of Black Stone Pass to be destroyed. Normally, after the attacking party retreats, the defense has to repair these fortifications, but unfortunately, whether it is the Cao army soldiers or the remaining civilians, the morale is already low in the Black Stone Pass, and it is not easy to persist in fighting. Don’t think about going out to the gate with arrows and crossbows to repair the fortifications.

As a result, a heavy rain interrupted the attack of the Cavalry and gave Cao's army some time to breathe.

When the second time, after the rain stopped and the Cavalry Army made a comeback, the offensive form changed.

The Cavalry Army took turns to fight, and the attacks were still fierce, but they didn't just know how to do it.

Military academies will also compete with each other to see who can control the rhythm. They not only need to control the rhythm, but also clear obstacles such as horse walls and deer forts, and fill out paths in the trenches. After retreating at the same time, they even compare with each other who has the least casualties, which seems extremely patient and does not desperately build up more troops in order to make a quick breakthrough.

On this day, from dawn to noon, the cavalry were gradually eliminating various obstacles in these directions of progress.

He even gave the defenders of Black Stone Pass a illusion that after the rapid offensive two days ago, the cavalry army was exhausted and had been wiped out...

But Cao Zhang felt that the crisis had not been resolved, and even felt that the rope around his neck was being tightened little by little.

The speed was not fast, but the cleaning and dismantling of these Hussar soldiers did not stop at all.

After a day of sorting out, the fortifications on the outskirts of the west side of Black Stone Pass were swept away, and several passages were filled in the trenches, and the style of the cavalry changed again!

The heavy armored array rolled forward in front of the Black Stone Pass early the next morning!

The archers followed these heavy armored soldiers and advanced forward together, oppressing the Black Stone Pass. They used dense rain of arrows to suppress the Cao army defenders on the Black Stone Pass and protect these heavy armored soldiers who broke through the formation!

After several days of fierce battle, Jiang Jie and Zhu Ling also cooperated tacitly. They did not blindly send a military academy to fight until they were exhausted before retreating. Instead, they began to arrange rotation when they saw that their strength was almost exhausted. Although some time would be lost and some results would be lost in the process of this exchange, this kind of offensive, like a tide, has left the Cao army guards at Black Stone Pass without any time to stop and breathe!

The Cao army's defense system of the Black Stone Pass was under great pressure in such a firm and efficient offensive and began to become a little fragmented. If Cao Zhang had not been running around the Black Stone Pass with his elite guards and putting out fires everywhere, he might have been directly captured by the Cavalry Army!

Even so, the Cao army soldiers at Black Stone Pass were forced to stuff a large amount of flesh and blood into the war millstone...

In the remaining half of the day, the casualties and expenses of Cao's defenders suddenly increased!

When the night finally came and the battlefield that had been fighting for a day gradually became quiet, Cao Zhang slowly breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly felt that this extremely long day had finally passed!

In the Black Stone Pass, the bloody smell was so strong that even the mountain wind could not be blown away.

The bodies were piled up in a row, and everyone sat in exhaustion. Even if there was blood around them, it didn't matter if the remaining limbs and arms were broken.

The repeated battles and fighting on the passes were fought. Even the defenders were defending the cavalry, with the blessing of firearms and exquisite equipment, the soldiers of the Cao army were obviously at a disadvantage.

Cao Zhang's face was extremely heavy.

Now many of the Cao army's guards were directly under the Cao family.

After retreating from Tongguan, the ordinary Cao army soldiers and county soldiers were killed, injured, surrendered or fled. In fact, Cao Zhang didn't care much about it. After all, the ordinary soldiers recruited from counties did not completely obey Cao Cao's orders, and they were also flirting with the local gentry and gentry. It didn't matter if they died.

But now the familiar faces of the soldiers who were directly under his family disappeared from now on and would never be seen again. Especially during the battle today, his personal guards also lost more than ten people, which made Cao Zhang feel sad and unspeakable.

Cao Zhang stood with a sword in his hand, looked around, turned his head and said to the guard beside him, "Send orders to strengthen the duty! Strictly guard against the thief attacking at night!"

The guard responded, but did not send an order immediately. Instead, he looked around and whispered: "General... Now the soldiers are tired... Even if they have to be careful, it will be difficult..."

Cao Zhang nodded, "There will be replacements in front of reinforcements tomorrow."

"Really?!" The guards were overjoyed, "Then we are not..."

『The soldiers were replaced, not us.』 Cao Zhang glanced at the team leader, 『We have to be here...at least for another month...』

"One month?!" The guards were in a dim position.

If it was a few years earlier, not to mention a month, it would be possible to just stay in a pass for half a year, or even for several years.

But I don’t know when it started, but the time for the pass to defend and defend was getting shorter and shorter.

One month, now it feels like a lifetime is so long.

Cao Zhang waved his hand and said, "Go down and pass the order."

Cao Zhang didn't expect to use the reserve soldiers so soon, but he had no choice.

If you don’t replenish troops or rotate, the front line is about to collapse.

But if it is rotated, what should I do next time?

One month...

Cao Zhang couldn't help but sigh.

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Heluo.

Fei Qian sat in the central army's tent and asked Pang Tong, "Shi Yuan, if he arrived in Shandong... would there be a lot of children of the gentry clamoring to implement the Zhou system? After all, the Zhou Dynasty is eight hundred... and the Han Dynasty only have four hundred...

Pang Tong was stunned, "There is such a statement?"

Fei Qian laughed and said, "Not only in Shandong, but also in Qinglong Temple, there are many people who always talk about the Spring and Autumn Period!"

The Zhou Dynasty did last for about eight hundred years, which was longer than the later unified dynasties such as the Han, Tang and Song dynasties. Although the Zhou Dynasty was divided into the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was divided into the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, so the actual stable rule may not be that long, the nominal Zhou emperor did exist for a long time.

This may lead to later Confucian scholars in feudal dynasties who felt that the Zhou Dynasty's system was superior. In addition, in order to emphasize self-political correctness, they maintained the noble status of Confucian "Invisible Heavenly Master" in the court. Therefore, no matter which dynasty, they all praised Confucius and Zhou rituals tacitly, which naturally promoted the Zhou Dynasty to a very high position.

Confucius himself really praised Zhou Li and often mentioned Zhou Duke, but it was obvious that Confucius did not find any good way to govern the country at that time, so he could only use Zhou Duke Zhou Li to cover up his slightestness. From this point of view, Confucius was even worse than Mo Zi, Xunzi, Han Feizi and others of the same period. At least these other schools are really looking for new governing models.

Overall, the combination of the longevity of the Zhou Dynasty and the Confucian classics really made Confucian scholars regard it as an ideal political model.

Nowadays, the Han Dynasty is in a period of authority vacuum. The Han Dynasty is in name only and has not been completely bound by new Confucianism. The imperial examination has not yet formed a standard eight-legged essay. On the one hand, the gentry and gentry miss the old era, and on the other hand, they are eager for a new system.

At the same time, after a long period of war with nomadic peoples such as the Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Wuhuan, many people at the Han Dynasty realized that as a farming nation in China, there would always be problems of foreign invasion. Therefore, governing the country cannot just blindly suppress internally, but also consider external defense or even attack.

In fact, in history, during the Cao Wei period, there was really a chance to take a different path.

The key figure is Sima.

Of course it was not Sima Yi, but Sima Lang. At that time, Zhong Yao, Wang Can and others made a remark, saying: "Only saints can have peace in the world." Sima Lang said: "Although Yi Yin and Yan Hui are not saints, their virtues and words have been passed down from generation to generation among the people and are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, peace in the world can also be achieved."

If it was not a plague in history that took Sima Lang's life, then under Sima Yi, as a few Sima elites who were clear-headed and whose political ideology jumped out of the traditional Confucian concept, they could really break through Dong Zhongshu's framework and embark on a new path.

『Just judging heroes by their length alone is a biased person... However, if you do not base your Zhou rituals," Pang Tong frowned and said, "It is a bit... absent from "rituals"...

Fei Qian nodded.
To be continued...