Under Zhou Yu's turtle, Li Su was unable to attack Dangtu Shuizhai for a while and for a while.

However, the attempt to launch an attack from the surface of the Yangtze River alone can obviously be rolled out immediately without waiting for the progress of the camps and siege weapons on the shore.

So Li Su was not vague. After the fleet arrived at the outer river of Dangtu, he climbed up and used a telescope to observe Zhou Yu's deployment casually. He found that Zhou Yu's fleet was parked at the anchorage in the water village, and the soldiers were on the village wall to defend.

Seeing this situation, Li Su thought for a moment and made targeted arrangements. He told the army to not care about consumption at all, and directly approached the water village wall built by giant trees from the Yangtze River, and blindly shot rocks into the anchorage inside the partition wall.

Although Zhou Yu built dense catapults in the water village, Li Su's fleet and Zhou Yu's water village fortress must have suffered losses, Li Su did not expect to knock out many fixed defense facilities.

Li Su imagined that he would use the Flying Fire Crow and the Rain of Gravel Bullets to cover and shoot the ships in the anchorage of the Water Village. This way of playing requires that the attacking ships approach the position closer to the wall of the village, and some even force the Water Village to 50 steps, but the advantage is that they can exchange boats with the other party for ships.

As for the soldiers' losses, it is actually not a big deal, because the biggest loss is the damage or even sunk of the ship, but the sailors with bunkers cannot actually kill many people.

Li Su has many ships, and there are patrol fleets in the rear, and they can just fish out the soldiers on the damaged or even sunken friendly warships in front of them at any time and rescue them.

Zhou Yu had never seen this style of fighting. The carrier-based trench and water camp he encountered before were all the boats that were hiding far away. Basically, the distance from the village wall was Ji An at the maximum range of the trench, so he began to patrol and throw stones slowly to reduce the hit rate of the trench on the side guarding the village.

No way Li Su could force him up like this, crossing the village wall and smashing the warship in the anchorage behind him.

Zhou Yu was caught off guard at first and was smashed dozens of berthed ships and blocked part of the waterway in the anchorage, which was really miserable. Although he also replaced some of Li Su's ships, he even made a profit by looking at the number of war damage, Zhou Yu knew that he could not change this way.

He had been forced into a tributary between the Yangtze River and Taihu Lake. He had no potential in the shipbuilding industry and had no shipyard at hand. Moreover, he had only two and a half counties of land, and the people's productivity that could be mobilized was limited.

Now Zhou Yu relies on that little stock in his hands, and he will make a little less. In the back of Li Su, there are so many shipbuilding areas above Jingzhou, Yizhou and Wuhu, Yangzhou, and at least the people's strength along the Yangtze River can be used to build ships.

As long as Li Su has money, he can replenish the war-damaged ship at any time. Otherwise, the Navy is a money-burning thing.

For Li Su, it is only possible to spend money to get things done, and at the same time, to ensure that the sailors die less and not increase the workload of training elite soldiers. It is simply too cost-effective to burn Zhou Yu to death by burning money with Zhou Yu.

After Zhou Yu realized this situation, he decisively withdrew all the Dangtu warships and concentrated them in Niuzhu. He did not dare to stop at the anchorage berth on Niuzhu's coastal coast. He only dared to pull all the remaining warships into the Zhongjiang River (a tributary of the Yangtze River in Ma'anshan, connecting Taihu Lake) to avoid it, and escape from Li Su's trencher battle attack range.

Zhou Yu can't afford to exchange his life for the warship.

However, this was exactly the result that Li Su wanted. He knew that as long as Zhou Yu hid in Zhongjiang or even hid in Taihu Lake in the future, he would be better off staying on the surface of the Yangtze River and going so easily.

Moreover, this also means that Zhou Yu may lose the Yangtze River's control rights at any time.

Zhou Yu is waiting for a typhoon day, so let him pay a little more for this meaningless waiting!

In the evening of that day, as Zhou Yu hurriedly set off the ship in the anchorage and drove into the tributary, Li Su looked at Ma'anshan in the distance and saw Zhou Yu's dispatch clearly with a telescope. He immediately ordered the warships attacking the village to withdraw, and there was no need to bear more losses.

The next morning, after confirming the battle situation, he confirmed that Zhou Yu really didn't dare to set up the ship suddenly, and then Li Su issued an order.

He found Gan Ning and gave the other party some quick warships, about sixty or seventy fast ships, and nearly ten thousand sailors, and ordered:

"Xingba, Zhou Yu has been approached by us by Zhongjiang and Taihu Lake. The control of the Yangtze River is ours. So, you don't have to worry, take these men and warships, and walk around Jianye City and Wujun, and go downstream directly to the Yangtze River estuary.

Let’s meet with the Three Thousand Tribes you had stayed in Linhai County, southern Kuaiji County and other places and took a lucky boat.

This time I will give you the task of blocking several entrances to and from Taihu Lake in and out of the Jiangnan Canal, including blocking the entrance to the East China Sea through Songjiang (the Wusong River and Suzhou River in later generations).

As long as you don’t give Zhou Yu the opportunity to flee on a boat in the future, and completely catch him in the urn in Taihu Lake, I will remember you the first contribution of the final battle to encircle Zhou Yu.”

Gan Ning was very excited when he heard this. Although the encirclement that Li Sikong explained was a bit incredible, the battlefield layout was too grand, and the departments lacked real-time communication and communication of the situation, it really made him instinctively eager to try.

...

In the following days, because of Zhou Yu's temporary concession, Li Su really couldn't force Zhou Yu to fight to the decisive battle immediately.

But Zhou Yu's attitude also made Yu Jin, who had been tricked by him before, very dissatisfied with him.

Just the next day, Yu Jin rushed into Zhou Yu's camp and accused him of the face:

"Zhou Yu! You give in again and again, you even dare to give in to the mouth of the Zhongjiang River in Niuzhu, just to avoid a few more days of decisive battle with Li Su. What else can I do if this battle continues?

If you are afraid to fight, I will retreat from Zhongjiang to Taihu Lake now, and then go to Songjiang to retreat from Wuxian River to north! Do you know if you retreat again, there is no need for Li Su to fight your navy.

He could completely block the Zhongjiangkou and continue to go south to the Qinhuai River to attack Jianye City. What is the use of your navy staying in Niuzhu? Are you waiting to die?

Now I heard about the latest battle situation. Wang Ping appeared in Hebei, and immediately followed Guan Yu to break Guanglang City and kill General Wen Chou, surrounding Zhang Liao in the Taihang Mountains.

In such a situation, even the General and Cao Gong had to do their best. How could the alliance have the intention of preserving your strength here?"

Zhou Yu also knew that what Yu Jin said made sense. He said earnestly: "Wen Ze should not be impatient. How could I not know that if the river mouth in Niuzhu is blocked by Li Su, he could attack Jianye without fighting with our army.

However, the autumn is approaching, and the light rain has just turned cooler, not when strong winds are frequent. I have been in Jiangdong for a long time and are familiar with Jiangdong in early autumn. After occasionally turning dry and hot, I just wait for up to ten days, as long as four or five days, six or seven days, and it is easy to wait for the strong winds coming from the East China Sea.

And I am not without basis. Every few days, I line up fast horses and fast boats to Kuaiji Yongdong to explore the weather and sea conditions. Whenever there is strong wind in summer and autumn, I will travel 200 to 300 miles a day and gradually spread to the northwest. It is better to be a fast horse messenger.

As long as we send people to observe in advance, it is equivalent to predicting strong winds. At that time, we can calculate the days when there are strong winds and fight against Li Su's Five-Tooth Warship Fleet!"

Yu Jin has lost confidence in Zhou Yu: "Then can you guarantee that Li Su will be willing to fight you then? He will directly block the river mouth of Niuzhu to avoid the war, what do you think?"

Zhou Yu: "Give me five days! No, seven days! If that happens, I pretend not to want Jianye, and act like a ban on Wuxian, giving him a chance to fight at Taihukou, Zhongjiang! If he is reluctant to annihilate me, he will catch up and fight me at Taihukou!

If he didn't dare to chase him, even if he finally surrounded Jianye City, I would continue to defend Wu County. I believe Li Su would not be willing to do this more. If he was given the opportunity to wipe out me in Taihu Lake, he would definitely come. He would not want to "even if Jianye is taken down, he will attack slowly in each county in Wu County, Danyang, and hope to achieve his merits.

He is too careful to withstand this temptation. Moreover, people are pursuing opportunities that they have spent a lot of money, and when the opportunity really comes, they will definitely not be willing to miss it. He has been chasing me for several months, and I have tried to avoid the battle. Now I am willing to fight to the death with him. Will he not fight?"

Yu Jin: "If you drag it to the windy day and the battlefield will also drag it to the mouth of Taihu Lake, you will be sure to win?"

Zhou Yu sighed: "At this point, what are you going to talk about to win? But do your best and leave your fate, and you have a better chance of fighting like this. The waterway from Zhongjiang to Taihu Lake is not wide. Even if you can pass the Five-Tooth Battleship, Li Su's fleet will still be pulled into a long snake formation.

Our army calculated the days in advance and fought and left. As soon as the wind was strong and the sky retreated into Taihu Lake, we could then encircle the river estuary at the mouth of the Zhongjiang River flowing into Taihu Lake.

Even though Li Su's warship was strong, they could only line up to enter Taihu Lake little by little, but our army could push the entire army. The local battlefield was more and less, and at least 70% of the chances of severely hitting Li Su at the mouth of Taihu Lake. After this battle, General Yu wanted to return to Jiangbei and obey the orders of Xiahou Dun or General Cao Ren, and I would no longer stop him!"

Yu Jin saw that Zhou Yu had given a deadline and agreed to let him go after seven days without a typhoon, so he reluctantly agreed.

...

Li Su, on the opposite side, began to launch a water-land attack on Niuzhu Water Village after three or four days of comprehensive preparations in Niuzhu Water Village.

Zhou Yu originally wanted to stick to it again, but after he held it for less than two days, he got the Kuaima messenger from Yongdong, Kuaiji to report the recent weather conditions in the East China Sea to him.

On July 29th, the third day after Li Su started to attack Niuzhu Village on land and water, Zhou Yu learned that several counties on the coastal coast had already shown strong winds. Based on the experience of those old coastal fishermen, it is estimated that the typhoon center is still south of the Ningdong islands (between Xiangshan and Zhoushan)

The information Zhou Yu received was the weather a day ago, and according to experience, he would log in in one or two days, and he would enter the Taihu River Basin in three or four days.

Therefore, Zhou Yu did not spend much energy on "How to defend Niuzhu Village", so he decided to calculate the time and spend three days retreating for more than 100 miles from Niuzhu to the mouth of Zhongjiang River in Taihu Lake, and calculate the time to slowly put Li Su in.

It’s not that Zhou Yu has great confidence in the typhoon and the method of blocking the river estuary, but that he has reached this situation when he is at the end of his battle and has no other choice.

There are other ways to have no life without death. At least there is a chance of eight deaths and two deaths to seven deaths and three lives. Then you can gamble for life. If you lose, you can go to hell to see Sun Ce, which is worthy of your loyalty to bet on the righteousness.

...

Although Li Su has no weather forecast, he still has some understanding of the typhoon weather in Jiangdong. In addition, observing Zhou Yu's retreat rhythm every day, Li Su can roughly figure out what Zhou Yu is waiting for.

This is not a secret for both sides, as long as the generals of both sides can understand a little common sense of astronomy and geography.

So Li Su also prepared to instruct the generals under his command: "The wind has become strong these two days. It seems that if there is a water battle in the future, the Five-Tooth Warship will suffer a loss. You can prepare in the past few days and remove all the side sticks of the Five-Tooth Warship. The parts that are difficult to dismantle are cut off directly!

If you want to fight in the future, you can still pretend again, but this time you probably won't be able to use it. Also, Zhou Yu gave up the mouth of the Zhongjiang River in Niuzhu and gradually retreated deeper. We also need to fight him to the decisive battle.

Since the wind is getting strong, we will also divide our troops and push the land troops to Jianye City in the North Korea, preparing for the siege of tens of thousands of people. If Zhou Yu really wants to force me to fight, I can force him to fight, and force a battlefield time and battlefield location that both sides can accept, and he will definitely not be completely up to him."

Li Su didn't expect how to avoid typhoon days, and he didn't want the other party to know that he, a northerner, also knows how to avoid typhoon days.

However, at least he could see Zhou Yu's retreat rhythm, and was preparing to block his troops into a snake formation at the entrance of Zhongjiang River and to concentrate his forces to smash the snake head one by one.

Therefore, he must not be trapped. He must force Zhou Yu to accept a condition similar to the "Battle of Feishui". You first retreat your fleet from the mouth of Taihu River to the east for dozens of miles, give up a wide lake, allow the Han army's fleet to sail into Taihu Lake, set up a preliminary formation on the lake, and then the two armies will start fighting again.

If Zhou Yu does not accept this condition, Li Su doesn't care, so he won't fight with Zhou Yu. At that time, Li Su would rather sink two buildings and block the estuary of Taihu River in Zhongjiang to show that we do not need the navigation ability of this river! Then attack Jianye with all our might!

Zhou Yu, if you want to escape to Wuxian, just run away. We won’t chase you even if we watch you escape!

Otherwise, you can give in and leave the lake at the entrance of the lake, and we will take a step back and fight to the decisive battle. Let Zhou Yu get a typhoon, but Li Su can also avoid geographical disadvantages.

...

Two days later, Zhou Yu's troops fought and retreated, and finally retreated to the surface of Taihu Lake. In the evening of that day, Li Su's land troops suddenly sent a team of cavalry to run along the north bank of the Zhongjiang River toward the estuary of Taihu River. When catching up with Zhou Yu's fleet, they also shot a large number of arrows tied to the river from the shore.

The person who brought the cavalry to issue the battle letter was Zhao Yun himself, and he respected Zhou Yu very much.

Zhou Yu was sitting on the building boat, of course he would not be caught in an arrow. Even the soldiers had shipboard covers. However, when the soldiers pulled out the arrows and wanted to recycle them, they found letters on them and sent them to Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu opened it and looked dark, and said with a wry smile: "As a matter of fact, no one could have completely deceived Li Su. He had already seen that I wanted to take advantage of the location of Taihukou. If I didn't agree to him and retreat twenty miles to let his fleet sail into Taihu array, he would rather attack Jianye directly than come and fight me.

It seems that we can only agree to him. After all, after our army retreated, it only changed from taking advantage of the territory to geography fair to both sides. But the time is still completely on our side.

Our ships have been treated with windproof, and the lower cabins have also been basin stones, and the tall masts have been removed. This is the day we are waiting for.

Li Su's ship came from the Yangtze River with the wind, but he did not make these preparations. Without removing the pole or cutting the mast, his ship must be more likely to overturn several times than us..."

Zhou Yu thought about it again and again and decided to give him a happy time. He knew that he might not have waited for a better opportunity.

Then I promise Li Su! About one-third of the tactical arrangements were seen through by Li Su, which was not harmful! With the remaining two-thirds of the strategy, there is still a chance!

Moreover, at that time, I pretended to set up a fleet and retreat twenty miles, so that Li Su's fleet could sail into Taihukou to form an array. But I could not be trustworthy at all. When Li Su's fleet had not yet entered Taihu Lake, I would retaliate and repelled back! Enter Li Su's formation and disrupt Li Su's troops! (During the Battle of Feishui, Fu Jian agreed to temporarily retreat and give up the battlefield to cross the river for the Jin army. He also thought so, and felt that he could regret it and rush back and attack halfway through)
Chapter completed!