An Le City.
"Welcome, Commander-in-chief! Welcome, General Chen!”Cheng Pu respectfully and humbly welcomed Zhang Xun and Chen Ji, who had led their main forces to catch up.
Zhang Xun held Cheng Pu's hand affectionately and said," You don't have to be so polite. We can just call each other brothers."”
"Thank you for your love, Lord! Don't worry, this is my duty!”
Zhang Xun nodded in satisfaction when he heard Cheng Pu's response." Good job! How is the situation here?"
"The situation isn't very good. The spies who had infiltrated Nanyang and Xinye have yet to return. They might have been discovered or strictly controlled.”
At this point, Cheng Pu's emotions gradually became agitated and he became extremely angry." The most hateful thing is that Chu Huan is extremely vicious. All the water in the well was thrown into the corpses of dead animals. Moreover, he tied stones to the bottom of the well and sank them into the well. In the beginning, we couldn't find them at all. We couldn't even test the poison.”
" It's summer now, and the weather is hot. Many soldiers drink raw water directly, so it was fine for the first few days. It was not until last night when the animal carcasses at the bottom of the well rotted, filth floated up, and many soldiers were infected that we realized that something was wrong.”
"At present, the epidemic is very serious. Nearly a thousand soldiers have lost their combat ability. I can only send these infected soldiers to camp outside the city and let them fend for themselves. If this continues, our army will collapse without a fight. The military camp was seriously short of water. Today, when they went to the Yushui River to get water, they encountered a surprise attack from the Jing State Navy. Many soldiers had already been injured or killed!”
Upon hearing this, Zhang Xun's men immediately distanced themselves from Cheng Pu's subordinates. Zhang Xun quickly shook off Cheng Pu's hand and took a few steps back.
He wanted to curse in his heart! Damn you, Cheng Pu, why didn't you tell me that there was a plague in the city earlier? I haven't enjoyed enough glory and wealth. If I were to contract the plague, I wouldn't let you off even if I became a ghost!
For a moment, the atmosphere became extremely awkward…
Zhang Xun was the first to react. As the commander, he should not have acted so cowardly. He immediately found a topic to divert everyone's attention.
"Men, pass on my order. Get Runan's emergency doctors to send me peace. The more, the better! The soldiers would not enter the city for the time being and would be stationed outside the city!”
After passing down the order to his subordinates, he turned around and said to Cheng Pu," Demou, I think we shouldn't enter the city. We can't let the disease spread to the entire army! Move out too! It would be a big joke if a real man died of illness on his bed. However, the soldiers in the city are not allowed to approach my main camp!”
Cheng Pu was secretly pleased when he heard this. Do you think I want to stay inside? If I move out alone, the morale would have collapsed long ago. At that time, you would have a reason to punish me!
Now that you ordered me to move out, I was waiting for you to say this. I immediately replied," I will obey your orders!"”
"Good! The commander's tent is about to be set up. Let's go to the tent and talk. Tell me the details of the Jing state navy's surprise attack!”
After the commander's tent was erected, everyone entered the tent to chat. Cheng Pu began to talk about the Jing State navy's surprise attack.
"Since the day before yesterday, I ordered the soldiers to cut down trees to make rafts and pontoons, and led the soldiers to practice swimming in the river. The Jingzhou navy built a water stronghold on the opposite bank to confront our army. Although their supply ships often pass through the river, they have never attacked us.”
" Today, we went to the river to fetch water because we couldn't drink the well water. Once again, we met the Jing State navy passing by the river. Some of the soldiers provoked them because of the recent epidemic. I was angry and didn't stop them. Who would have thought that the other party would suddenly attack us with stones? Unfortunately, our vanguard troops didn't have long-range weapons like catapults.”
"We were unable to suppress the other party, so we had no choice but to retreat. The other party took the opportunity to go ashore and destroyed all the river crossing tools we made a few days ago! Sigh, now that the general is here, our army can use the catapults to suppress the other party. The problem of getting water from the river can be solved, but if we don't get rid of the other party as soon as possible, our army might not be able to cross the river!”
Zhang Xun frowned after hearing that. Crossing the river was a small problem. After all, the Yu River was not a large river. It was not too deep or too wide. With his current military strength, even if he forced his way across, the Jing State navy would not be able to stop him!
However, if he did not completely deal with the Jingzhou navy, crossing the river would be a dead end. His supplies would be completely cut off. Was he only going to attack Xinye and go south to Jiangnan?
Then wouldn't his previous plan to attack Nanyang be in vain? Thinking of this, he looked at Cheng Pu and could not help but ask with a glimmer of hope," Demou has lived in River East for a long time. He should be very familiar with water warfare, right? Have you thought of a way to wipe out the Jing State navy?”
Cheng Pu shook his head silently! He laughed in his heart. Of course there was a way. Ever since Huang Gai told me about the Jing state navy being invulnerable, I have been thinking about how to defeat them. If you had asked two days earlier, I would have told you. Unfortunately, Huang Gai arrived one day earlier!
Seeing that Cheng Pu had no choice, everyone in the tent fell silent…
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