Yan Yan took the initiative to lead a navy of 30,000 infantry and 80 warships downstream and began to march towards Zigui.

He tried to break through Zigui, threaten Yiling, take the initiative to force the Wei army to retreat, thus causing the Wei army to voluntarily give up its strategic intentions.

Yan Yan's army decisively launched a powerful deterrence to Zigui.

Yan Yan was very confident and felt that he could definitely defeat the Wei army.

On February 24, Yan Yan led his army to the vicinity of Zigui and began to attack the military strongholds set up by the Wei army near Zigui.

The Wei army stationed in Zigui relied on military strongholds to fight back and fought fiercely. However, because the number of people was small and the number of troops was large, these military strongholds were abandoned one after another.

The Wei army continued to retreat.

On February 26, Yan Yan's army broke through the Wei army's resistance and entered a place where you could see Zigui County with your naked eyes, and you could also see the joint camp formed by the Wei army near Zigui County.

"The Wei people indeed drew a large number of troops back to quell the rebellion. This is a god-given opportunity for our army. This time, I will definitely annihilate the Wei people in one fell swoop! The Wei people are arrogant until now, because no one can defeat them. As long as they can defeat them, people in the world who are in love with the Han family can stand up and resist the Wei people together. By then, it will be no difficult for us to restore our generals to Han!"

Yan Yan was very passionate and vowed to annihilate the Wei army in Zigui. With such a record, he called on all the people in the world who were in love with the Han Dynasty to raise an army to resist the Wei State, overthrow the Guo and Wei regime, and regain the Han Dynasty's territory.

He really thought so. He really felt that as long as he could defeat this Wei army, he could sound the trumpet of the destruction of the Wei Kingdom, and he could make the heroes who were close to the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains rise up to resist the brutal Guo and Wei pseudo-government.

It seemed that he heard Yan Yan's ambition and felt unbearable, so Wei general Zhu Ling led the four generals, including Gan Ning, Huang Zhong, Wen Pin, Li Qian, etc. to fight Yan Yan's army in different waters and lands.

Yan Yan's army has been separated from the camp for a long time, and it is time to close the net.

It should be known that the only one who can defeat the Wei army is the Wei army itself, and no other army can defeat the Wei army.

On land, Zhu Ling personally took the battle, took the banner of General Pingnan, led the two generals Gan Ning and Li Qian to form a formation on land, and ten thousand Wei troops formed several armies, waiting for the battle.

Yan Yan was overjoyed when he saw the main force of the Wei army and prepared to fight a decisive battle. So he also commanded his own army to form an army formation and confront the Wei army. The two armies beat war drums on their own and prepared for a decisive battle head-on.

At the same time, on the other side of the water, the Wei Navy, led by Huang Zhong and Wen Pin, also formed an array to prepare to fight against the Yizhou Navy.

The main force of the Wei Army's Inland River Naval Division was adapted from the Jingzhou Naval Division. Basically, the personnel were all configured by the Jingzhou Naval Division. Except for some grassroots officers from the Wei Army, the personnel configuration was generally not changed.

Because the Wei Navy was indeed weak.

The previous seven defeats in Jiangdong were the dark history that the Wei army was unwilling to mention from top to bottom. Zhang Liao and Yu Jin were deeply ashamed of it and were unwilling to mention it again.

So when it comes to water wars, the Jingzhou Navy is indeed much stronger, has a lot of combat experience, and has good skills. Moreover, these sailors have also undergone high-intensity military training and have been injected with the genes of the Wei army, which is very different from the past.

The previous pretended defeat made the Jingzhou Navy a little angry. Now that he finally had the opportunity to avenge his previous shame, the Jingzhou navy was ready to give the Yizhou Navy a little color.

It’s not that they have confidence in themselves, but that they are very confident in the light trench machine that can be used after the transformation of the powerful weapon department of the Wei army.

In order to adapt to the needs of water war, during the Battle of Jiangdong, the Wei Navy under Zhang Liao equipped the warship with light trenchers that were useful on the warship to launch stone bombs and attack the Wu Navy.

As a result, Zhou Yu knew that the Wei army had a catapult and knew that the Wei army would definitely use a catapult, so he simply abandoned the large ship and used a light and fast small boat to engage in water battles, maximizing the advantages of the Wu army's superb naval technology.

The light boat made the catapult with unfast launch speed useless, and the combat skills of the Wei Navy lag behind the Wu army, so the Wei army suffered a great loss in the water battle and ended up with seven battles and seven defeats.

The Shu people did not know that the Wei army had ship-type catapults that could be used in water wars, nor did they know that the Wei army improved the firearms that could be fired, nor did they know that the craftsmen of the Wei Work Department improved the weakness of the heavy and slow throwing trenchers.

Now the light trenchers for ships have been greatly improved. After using them, the Jingzhou sailors were amazed and believed that in this way, the future water war pattern would be changed.

In the past, water battles were two warships that attacked at close range and then engaged in jumping gang battles. In addition, crossbows were fired against each other. The longest combat distance of the navy would not exceed the range of the crossbows. After all, crossbows could not destroy ships, and collisions and jumping gang battles were the mainstream.

It's different now. The trench has the ability to destroy ships from a long distance.

Although the stone bombs fired by such a light trencher are not enough to destroy them when facing large tower ships, once the ignition tank is used, it is enough to bring unforgettable nightmare to the opponent's navy.

The navy does not need to close collisions or jump gang fights to destroy the opponent's ships, which has a significant impact on the navy's fighting style.

The Jingzhou sailors could not wait to see the destruction of the Yizhou Navy.

And this is the most important part of the tactics formulated by Guo Jia and the entire staff team.

Before the war, Guo Jia believed that although the Shu army had poor combat effectiveness, it had occupied the geographical advantage after all, and the Wei army attacked on the attack, and they were condescending and had the advantage, and the number of people was no less than that of the Wei army.

If the army is in a strong attack face to face, attack Yufu fiercely, and fight offensive and defensive battles at Qutang Pass, Baidi City and the main force of the Shu army, then the Wei army will surely win, but it will cause excessive casualties, which is inappropriate.

In the future, this army will be used to advance to Shuzhong and guard Shuzhong. There will be no major casualties. This is Guo Peng's order.

Guo Peng would not care how difficult his orders were to be executed. He believed that those who could not execute such orders were not suitable to be commanders of the army.

In order to avoid causing too many casualties, Guo Jia racked his brains to deal with the situation. After learning that the logistics of Shuzhong was very tight, he had a sudden idea and designed a plan to make the Shu army voluntarily give up and take the initiative to attack.

He allowed Gan Ning to lose consecutive battles and give Yan Yan a taste of the sweetness of the general of the Shu army. He took advantage of his urgent and eagerness to win, so he led his army to take the initiative, and divided his troops with Yu Fu, and went deeper alone.

Then, Guo Jia designed the illusion of letting Zigui soldiers return to Jingzhou, and used the scouts sent by Yan Yan to cause civil strife in Jingzhou, and the Wei army had to send troops back to rescue, which prompted him to further resolutely advance and enter the battlefield preset by the Wei army.

Next is the key point, using the navy to win.

Taking advantage of the information asymmetry, he destroyed the Shu army's naval forces in a way that the Shu army had never expected, and then let the Wei army naval forces go up the river and rushed to Wu County, occupy Wu County again, cut off Yan Yan's retreat, attacked both ends, and destroyed him.

Guo Jia originally thought that Yan Yan brought at most 20,000 troops to attack, but he brought more than 30,000 troops, bringing the main force, which was even more eager for victory than Guo Jia thought, and even more eager for a quick battle and a quick decision.

This shows how tight the logistics in Shuzhong is, how difficult it is to use the equal army to fight the Wei army. Compared with the abundant food and strong transportation capacity of the Wei army, it is a world of difference.

That's why Guo Jia sighed.

"It was not us who won this battle, but Your Majesty. He implemented the strategy of military farming and food accumulation for ten years to help our army sweep the world! Since the beginning of peace, only the Wei army of the princes in the world has never been short of food. Therefore, he will win the battle and defeat the attack. Isn't this the achievement of Your Majesty?"

Guo Jia sighed like this, and Le Jin also sighed like this.

They all knew that the victory of this battle was inevitable, but the Shu people didn't know that they were still trying to resist, which would bring great convenience to the Wei State's final rule of Shu.

Because there are many people to be killed, the space for political interests will be very large.

Le Jin and Guo Jia were excited and their hearts were beating.

Because the great cause of unification is right in front of them, they will be named in history.

The heart of the Shu Navy soldiers was also pounding.
Chapter completed!