To be honest, Li Su was really unsure about what effect Zhuge Liang's anti-intervention operations would achieve in the end.

He had no hope that Sun Quan would be so smooth, and he drew away a total of 20,000 old subordinates and established himself. You must know that when Sun Quan joined Cao, there were only about 30,000 soldiers left. This was equivalent to two and a half years after returning to Cao, and in the end he had only paid less than 10,000 people and escaped. Is this too relaxed, right?

For Li Su, the best ending was of course that Sun Quan had to seek self-protection out of fear, but failed and was counterattacked. Both sides fought bloody battles, and then Li Su attacked in while both sides were in trouble.

If Sun Quan failed and died at Cao Ren's hands, and Cao Ren was seriously injured and was robbed of the head by Li Su, it would be the most perfect ideal state.

Li Su doesn't like Sun Quan's treacherous temperament. Li Su is enough to have him in the yin world, and Li Su is at least the one who builds new rules.

Unfortunately, if you can't assume that you don't have the chance to start over, then do it yourself.

The current situation also explains two problems from another aspect

First, Sun Quan's acting skills are really good. In two and a half years, he is so loving to Cao Cao's eldest daughter, gentle and humble, and has no ambitions.

Second, Cao Cao probably really admired Sun Quan. In history, Cao Cao said, "Give birth to a child like Sun Zhongmou", but he had a serious conflict with Sun Quan, so he just sighed. Sun Quan became his son-in-law in this lifetime. He really cherished his talent, so he relaxed his vigilance.

It was true that the geese were pecked by the geese all day long. Cao Cao swallowed Sun Ce's legacy in this life and Yuan Shao's legacy. He plotted against two allies who had no successors, but was finally beaten back and lost a daughter.

It can also be regarded as a cause and effect, so fate will make people mess with people. Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang’s inability to achieve is also an important factor that has led to Cao Cao’s reduction of his vigilance towards his old friends and future generations.

Now that things have come to this point, Sun Quan has survived, and Li Su really can't deliberately kill Sun Quan again. After all, the Han Dynasty court must pay attention to trust and righteousness. Li Su repeatedly emphasized to Liu Bei with temptation that "in the process of the war of unity, conspiracies can be used on the battlefield, but not on the promise of envoys."

Although this time cannot be regarded as a "committee negotiation", it is a counter-espionage plan. Strictly speaking, Sun Quan responded to Li Su and Zhuge Liang's plan, which was equivalent to making a direct promise while making an offer.

Li Su couldn't even imitate the "stop offense" operation during the Warsaw Battle, especially now that he has enough soldiers and food, he has not consumed his energy and energy. He said he was unable to attack and no one believed him.

Otherwise, they will definitely be captured and criticized in history in the future. Now they have such a great advantage, so there is no need to leave any controversial stains.

Whether Sun Quan will die or live in the future depends on his chance.

If the Cao family was a decisive force and all refused to surrender, there was nothing to say. I guess no one would seek revenge on Sun Quan in the future.

But if the Cao family also had relatively weak compatriots who wanted to surrender and survive, they might have committed themselves to Sun Quan's killing of his wife, which would have nothing to do with the court.

As long as the court enforces the law impartially, it is enough to deal with those who seek revenge in private disputes according to law.

But regardless of whether Sun Quan died or not, for the sake of the credit of the court, Li Su had previously said that he was not guilty and his family when negotiating with Wu Jing, and now the Sun family is in trouble anyway.

So even if Sun Quan himself was revenged by the Cao family in the end, he had to let a certain younger brother of Sun Quan inherit the title and the family could be continued.

Similarly, if someone in the Cao family seeks revenge in the end, then it is only a crime and himself according to the law.

Those members of the Cao family who are quite loyal or have no ambitions will accept it as long as they surrender sincerely in advance and surrender with chips, and the court will accept it, so of course they cannot be implicated in the end.

Li Su even thought of such a long-term thing, as if the people from the Cao family and the Sun family were already meat on the chopping board.

...

Two more days later, May 20th, Ruxu Mouth.

Li Su's army of 100,000 was deployed in the Ruxukou battlefield, and regarded this as the number one main battlefield for the northern expedition of the Han army in Yangzhou. Li Su himself and Zhuge Liang were also supervising the battle along the way, and the Five-Tooth Warships were also concentrated here.

The troops attacking Guazhou from Jingkou on the other east road did not need too many people, nor could they drive the Wuya ship. The main one was the east road, and only the Zhongdu River in the natural river south of Shanyangchi (now Gaoyou Lake) could sail the large ship.

The Hangou River section north of Shanyangchi was completely a purely artificial canal dug by King Fuchai of Wu in the late Spring and Autumn Period. It was too shallow and narrow, and even the fighting ship could not be opened. The maximum navigation capacity was just a ship.

This is also the reason why although there are two rivers that can connect the Jianghuai River from Yangzhou to the north, in actual operations, the southern troops mainly fought against Hefei and Shouchun.

Hangou on the East Road can be used, but the Southern Army's warships cannot be used to make the advantage of being larger and more powerful. They can only use ships as small as those of the northerners and have equal equipment to attack.

Occasionally, large ships of southern military entered Zhongdu River and Shanyangchi. The northern defenders would not fight in Shanyangchi at all. They would only directly retreat to the northernmost end of Guangling County, connecting Huaiyin County, which connects the Huaihe River. They were waiting for the southern military to give up the benefits of the large ship on their own.

Because of these characteristics, at the pre-war meeting, Zhuge Liang also suggested that Li Su could consider playing more fun, such as taking advantage of the fact that the northerners felt that because the large ship could not enter the northern half of Hangou, it was impossible for the Southern Army to attack there and do the opposite.

The Han army in Yangzhou is skilled in water battles, and can also use unique weapons such as poles and mines. They can use only small boats to fight the battles vividly to break through Huaiyin.

But Li Su did not accept it. He now has a great advantage. Just push forward steadily and have enough strength on either side.

Because he had learned about the civil strife of the enemy, the morale of the Han army was very high, and the ship was strong and profitable, he could act as an attack with all his might, without fear of the defenders' desperate resistance.

As the main attacking general along the way, Gan Ning has been a little depressed in recent years. After pacifying Yangzhou, he missed the opportunity to go to Jiaozhi like Zhao Yun and Taishici and make contributions to Linyi Kingdom like Zhao Yun and Taishi Ci. He has been holding back this breath for more than a year, and now he has finally got somewhere to vent.

So Gan Ning ignored his already senior general and led the warships several times to lead the warships. Within one day, he captured Cao's army in the outermost water village dock at Ruxukou. There were dozens of large and medium-sized warships in Cao's army that were sunk and captured, and the Han army fleet successfully broke into Ruxu River.

The scale of Cao's army's defense and military distribution were basically explored clearly by Li Su's sufficient intelligence work before the war.

Cao Ren was only 50,000, and during Sun Quan's independence, he consumed some of the first wave of friction with Sun Quan, and was restrained by Sun Quan in the future. It would be great that Cao Ren could distribute 20,000 veterans in the front line of Ruxu-Hefei to focus on dealing with Li Su.

...

After breaking into the Ruxu River, Li Su thought that it would be a lasting two or three days of peace. After all, Cao's army was not so stupid that they resisted step by step along the river, and used a tactic to add fuel to the oil and send people to their heads in batches.

Even the estuary docks and water camps leading to the Yangtze River cannot be defended. What is there to guard in the river? If you want to defend, you should gather troops again and choose another important geographical node with a good location to fight.

Li Su believes that this point may be the north entrance of Ruxu Water, which is where Chaohu Lake water flows into Ruxu Water.

If there was no Cao army dared to regroup and fight, it would be like letting the Han army fleet pass through the entire Chaohu Lake safely.

The next possible decisive point should be Juchao County where Feishui was injected into Chaohu Lake, or even directly to Hefei.

However, Li Su really underestimated Cao Jun's courage.

Just when he felt that "it would be impossible to be attacked again until Chaohu Lake enters the mouth of Ruxushui River", he was really attacked by a group of Cao's army's death.

That was one day after he broke through the south entrance of Ruxu, at dawn on May 30th.

The Han army fleet approached the river surface more than ten miles away from the north entrance of Ruxushui. If nothing unexpected happened, it would take more than one day to reach the north entrance of Ruxushui by the first noon of June.

Don’t think that the fleet is driving slowly, mainly because after entering the Ruxu River, the wind is not as strong as the Yangtze River.

Moreover, Li Su's fleet is facing upstream and is punished by the speed of the water flow. It is normal to drive sixty or seventy miles a day. It also requires a lot of soldiers' physical strength to row and use sailing power.

Then, at such a dawn moment, there were a hundred and ten small boats of Cao's army and nearly twenty ships upstream, carrying a total of more than three thousand soldiers. They just went down the dark and rushed towards the high speed.

Fortunately, the Han army's vigilance has not relaxed. There are also sieges in front of the Five-Tooth Battleship, and patrol cavalry on the shore searching for advance.

Therefore, Cao's army was discovered by a sneak attack fleet more than ten miles away, and was warned by the Han army, and soon a signal came to intercept it.

Cao Jun realized that he could no longer steal, so he decisively set off the fire before he was about to enter the battle and rushed down with the advantage of the water speed.

Not to mention this trick is quite vicious under normal circumstances.

About a year ago, during the conquest of Sun Jian unifying Jiangdong, when Sun Ce and Zhou Yu dealt with Lu Kang, the prefect of Lujiang, they used to lure the enemy ships to a narrow countercurrent in the Ruxu Water Battle, and then suddenly attacked the fire attack at high speed.

Although Cao's army was not good at water warfare, it seems that some generals had learned historical warfare examples, so they tried to imitate Zhou Yu's victory model back then.

It’s a pity that Li Su, Zhuge Liang is not comparable to the old scholar like Lu Kang who doesn’t know how to fight?

Moreover, it can be seen from the actual combat operations of the Cao army that the Cao army generals who commanded this battle only learned historical battle examples, but did not understand the specific practice, and did not understand the true strength of the Han army navy's water battle.

That feeling fell into Li Su's eyes, like an e-sports expert. When he saw the enemy on the opposite side suddenly used some very old tactics and came over it in a spectacular way.

It’s not that the tactics themselves are wrong, but that the opponent has been disconnected for several years before returning, and has not kept up with his understanding of the latest version at all.

He didn't know how good the defense effect of Li Su's waterline armor was for a small boat collision such as a waterline contact arson attack?

Even Han Dang Huang Gai and Zhou Yu knows it!

Oh, Zhou Yu was still colonizing in Yizhou and Liuqiu, and Han Dang Huang Gai had already lived in a prisoner of war camp, and was released from prison and placed in another place.

Although those people happened at least three years ago, Li Su would monitor those enemy generals who had tested the advanced tactics of the Han army's water war as long as they could not be used by me even if they were released from prison after death, and would not give them the opportunity to contact the old master or other imaginary enemies.

It's okay to think about it this way. Cao Jun doesn't know how to do it, so he still uses the old version of the disconnected version to kill him. It's not surprising.

Cao's fire attack ship was very brave and rushed down with fire when he fought to the death.

Even because they had to raise the fire in advance, the soldiers on several boats had no time to transfer to other boats to retreat, so they could only insist on steering the fire boat, and only jumped directly into the river to escape at the last moment.

Also, because the Huainan soldiers of the Cao army were generally slightly worse than those of the Jiangdong soldiers, some people did not distinguish the direction in the dark, had poor swimming endurance, and some were accidentally drowned in the Ruxu water.

But their results were only given in vain.

There were enough pole holders on the side of the Han army's Five-Tooth Battleship, so they were alert to hold up many fireboats and prevented them from getting close.

Even if the impact force is large enough and the number of struts encountered is small, the Han army's struts successfully broke and continued to hit them, and the inertial kinetic energy has greatly attenuated.

The destruction effect on the iron armor on the side of the Five-Tooth Battleship during the collision was already very weak, and it was difficult to quickly spread large enough flames, and it was easily destroyed by the well-trained damage team of the Han army.

In the end, it only burned some of the pirates intercepted by the Han army's vanguard.

The Five-Tooth Battleship was only slightly burned, and the deck was blackened, but none of them sank and all the fire was extinguished.

Compared with such losses, the Han army's losses were even worse than the fire ships that Cao army burned themselves, and they could be said to be a tiger-like dog.

After resisting the fire attack by the wave of Banmen, the Han army immediately advanced together on land and water, allowing the cavalry troops on the shore to search and suppress the enemy along the river, killing many Cao's fireboat soldiers who were swimming and landing, especially many Cao's soldiers did not have weapons when they landed in swimming, so they could only surrender directly.

After one night, more than 2,000 warriors of Cao's army were wiped out. If the sky had not been completely bright until the end of the battle, and even if the search and suppression and pursuit of the side had a bad vision, the Han army would have definitely been able to kill all the warriors in one go.

After getting so many prisoners, Li Su was happy in order to understand the doubt that "Why did the Cao army's sailors suddenly become so brave?", he asked Gan Ning's soldiers to torture the military information, wanting to know the information of the Cao army guards at various strongholds along the way of the Ruxushui and Feishui.

After all, no matter how sufficient the intelligence work before the war was, it only roughly knew how many troops Cao's army had in the Huainan War Zone and which generals. However, Li Su could not know how to allocate and dispatch the Cao army within it.

After two victories and so many prisoners were captured, we can finally further open up the fog of war.

Gan Ning's people were obviously very good at torture and obtained information, and immediately obtained Li Suyou's information.

When Gan Ning came in to give in, Li Su also smiled easily and guessed an answer first.

"Is the guardian of Chaohukoushui Village in front Li Dian or Lu Qian? Cao Ren is in Shouchun, and Man Chong is not as radical and courageous as he is. Liu Xun was found out before the war, and he has no such ability."

Li Su had to guess, and wanted to show his understanding of the enemy generals before his subordinates, and then consolidate the stereotype of "the prime minister predicts things like a god".

Unfortunately, Gan Ning's answer to the return was that Li Su was embarrassed. "Not because Zhu Zhi suddenly became independent, and Li Dian was temporarily dragged in Wan County. If our army advanced fast enough, Li Dian would probably be worried about threats on the flanks and had to give up Zhu Zhi and retreat north.

The enemy generals in Chaohu Shui Village in front of him were originally Lu Qian, but because of the recent rebellion and surrender, Cao Ren became increasingly distrustful of the foreigners' unique place and sent many young generals of the Cao family to key military supervision.

The one sent here was Cao Xiu, the nephew of Cao Ren. According to the prisoners, the fire attack he insisted on trying last night. In addition, on the offensive route of Youping on the East Road, Huaiyin County, the most important nephew, Cao Zhen, was sent."

Li Su was stunned and then relieved. These young generals were only in their twenties, especially Cao Zhen was younger than Cao Xiu. They should have gradually stepped onto the stage of the Cao family's front-line generals when they were nearly 40 years later.

Now the Cao family actually asked these people to guard some military key points in advance, which shows that the internal people are unstable and the talents have withered to a certain extent.

Young people are so energetic, no wonder they dare to take the initiative to try a night attack on fire.
Chapter completed!