Chapter 234: Night Attack on the Enemy Camp, Gan Ning Kills Two However, Gan Ning and Huo Jun were ordered to break through the enemy's reconnaissance, so they lowered the sails, turned off the lights, and quietly sailed on the river. It was autumn at this time, the weather was clear and crisp, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. The moonlight reflected on the river seemed quite bright. Seeing many patrol boats in the distance, Huo Jun said to Gan Ning in a deep voice: "Although we have been ordered to come here, the moon is bright tonight and there is nothing blocking the river. How can we break through?" "Why not just charge forward and lure them over and kill them one by one no matter how many troops they have!" Normally Huo Jun shouldn't be so reckless, but now he was eager to avenge his brother, he was very upset and had lost his composure. But Gan Ning grinned and pointed to the river bank and said: "Don't be impatient. The moon has its own way of shining. I see that although it is bright on the river, it is not as bright as on the shore." "We are here to launch a surprise attack, so we must not alert the enemy. Wait for me to devise a plan. First, we will destroy one of the ships and get the password, and then we can march forward!" As he said that, he took off his armor, took a few people on a small boat, and headed towards the patrol ship in the distance. Gan Ning was originally a bandit, and in terms of tactical agility, he was no match for Huo Jun.

He led his men to the patrol boat and ordered his men to float behind it. Because of the dark sky, the scout in the distance could not see their appearance clearly, and only asked for the password when he got close to the ship. When Gan Ning heard this, he said nothing and hurried downstream. When the patrolling soldiers saw this, they immediately shouted: "Who are you waiting for? Stop immediately!" After calling out several times, without receiving any response from the camp, several patrolling soldiers sailed directly towards Gan Ning and blocked his way. After catching up, Gan Ning looked back and exclaimed: "My fellow soldiers, I am just a fisherman who wants to go home. Why are you stopping me here?" The patrolling soldier saw that he was strong and muscular, and immediately drew his sword and shouted: "Why are you hunting and fishing in the dead of night? You must be a spy!" "Hurry up and tell us. Otherwise, don't blame us for taking action!" There were five people in his boat, two on board and three on guard duty. At this time, a man drew his sword, and Gan Ning pretended to be wronged and said: "Military officer, you are officials who eat food, how can you understand the suffering of the common people like me?" "Your boats come and go during the day, so we have no place to fish and hunt. We have no choice but to come out and cast our nets now." "I hope you will show mercy and let us go!" The Jiangdong soldiers naturally didn't believe him and started to question him. Gan Ning saw this and suddenly pointed to the shore and exclaimed: "No, what is that?" Upon hearing this, all the soldiers looked towards the shore, but they were surprised to see several people suddenly rushing out from under the boat, each of them pulling several people off the boat. The soldier who had drawn his sword turned around hastily and shouted "enemy attack!", but before he could finish his words, he was knocked off the boat by Gan Ning's pole. In just a short while, Gan Ning captured several people and they walked back to his own army. He smiled and said to Huo Jun: "With these few men, our army will be able to advance unhindered!"

Huo Jun was overjoyed to see that he had captured the enemy scout in a short time, and hurriedly ordered his men to interrogate the Jiangdong army for its password. After asking for the password, he killed several people and continued to advance with his troops. With Gan Ning's example, the soldiers under his command disguised themselves as Jiangdong patrol soldiers and cleared the defenses on the river in less than half an hour. After finishing the task, Gan Ning sent someone to inform Cai Mao and others, and he led his troops to continue attacking towards Pengli Lake. Cai Mao and others received Gan Ning's message and marched forward again. When they reached Pengli Lake, they saw that the gate of the Jiangdong Army's water fort was not closed, and it was obvious that they had not yet noticed their approach. Upon seeing this, Cai Mao was overjoyed, thinking that the Jiangdong navy must have concluded that they did not dare to come, and now was the perfect opportunity to defeat the enemy. He immediately ordered Su Fei and other generals to send out a group of small boats, fill them with straw, and prepare to block the way out of the Jiangdong navy. After making the arrangements, he ordered Gan Ning, Huo Jun and others to rush directly towards the Jiangdong Water Fort. On the other hand, after Zhou Yu learned that Lu Su was transporting troops, he led his troops to attack, leaving Jiang Qin and Dong Xi alone to defend the camp. Faced with this task, Jiang Qin was meticulous and arranged for people to patrol overnight. Dong Xi didn't care about this at all. When he saw him arranging troops to patrol, he smiled and said: "General, why should you be so cautious? The troops of Jingzhou have been defeated again and again by our army and have retreated to their own territory." "And our army has deployed a large number of scouts on the periphery. Not to mention that the enemy dare not come, even if they come here, our army will respond immediately." "Why bother placing patrols in the camp? It's just a waste of the soldiers' energy!" When Jiang Qin heard this, he thought Dong Xi was young, and said in a deep voice: "The Yuan Dynasty never fought against Qin Zhen, so we don't know how this man used his troops!" "Although there are sentries outside, there are few patrols on the shore. If the enemy comes from the land, what should we do?" Dong Xi heard this, Ren Jiu didn't care at all, and sneered: "If he comes by water, I will fight him in my boat; if he comes by land, I will block him at the gate." "No matter what he does, he can't break through our defense!" Seeing his arrogant look, Jiang Qin frowned and was too lazy to say anything. Seeing that he was silent, Dong Xi stopped talking and left with a sneer. So when it was three o'clock in the morning, Jiang Qin called Dong Xi to guard the second half of the night. Dong Xi was naturally displeased when he heard this, but because Jiang Qin was Zhou Yu's deputy general and had a long career, he had to agree unhappily. After Jiang Qin fell asleep, he felt bored, so he went to the camp, took a jar of wine, and drank while on duty. As he drank one jar after another, he became drowsy. Unexpectedly, at this moment, a loud shout of enemy attack was heard outside the camp, followed by endless shouts of killing. Dong Xi was immediately awakened by the sound and hurried out of the tent. There was already fire outside the camp and a large number of arrows were shot towards the village. The soldiers in his camp rushed out in panic, and the camp was in chaos for a while.

Seeing this, he quickly grabbed a soldier and asked: "Our army's outposts are all on the river. How did the enemy get here?" The soldier heard this, not knowing what had happened, and hurriedly said: "I don't know either. I just heard that there were enemy troops outside the camp, and then I saw the enemy troops rushing into the camp!" When Dong Xian heard this, he thought to himself that something was wrong, and hurriedly turned back to the tent to get his weapons and charged out. Jiang Qin had already stood up when he heard the voice. Seeing the enemy soldiers rushing into the camp, he went to find Dong Xi, grabbed him and shouted angrily: "I asked you to patrol here at night, so why did the enemy enter the camp?" Dong Xian was yelled at by him, but he could only wail in a muffled voice: "I don't know why the enemy has reached the camp gate." As he spoke, his mouth was filled with the smell of alcohol. When Jiang Qin smelled it, he was furious and said: "You still dare to drink. If we are defeated here today, I will see how the lord will spare you!" After cursing like this, he turned around and shouted: "Don't make a mess, come with me to the north shore to ask for help!" "The rest of you follow me to fight off the enemy. Don't let them get into the camp!" But just as he finished speaking, he heard a scream from the village, followed by a series of loud crashing sounds. Looking up, I saw a raging fire outside the water fort. At this time, the exit of the water fort had been blocked, and a large number of torches were thrown into the fort, and soon the boats in the fort were set on fire. Seeing this, Jiang Qin's eyes widened and Dong Xi's face turned pale. If it were just the enemy, they would still have a chance to resist, but now that the fire has started, the ships in the camp have become decorations! Seeing that he had brought disaster upon himself due to his carelessness, Dong Xi gritted his teeth and said: "General, please prepare your troops here and wait for me to defeat the enemy!" After a shout, he led his troops all the way to the shore. At this time, Gan Ning, Huo Jun and others had already led their troops into the camp. Once they reached the shore, they lowered the planks and a large number of soldiers and horses rushed towards the shore. Originally, the Jingzhou navy was no match for the Jiangdong army, but at this time the Jiangdong troops were in chaos, and with Huo Jun and Gan Ning leading the way, they actually killed the Jiangdong navy and forced them to retreat step by step. Dong Xisha stepped forward and saw that the enemy was coming aggressively, so he shouted: "Dong Yuandai of Kuaiji is here, who dares to fight me?" As soon as he stepped out of the line, the morale of his soldiers was greatly boosted. However, when Huo Jun heard this, his eyes turned red and he rushed forward with his gun in hand: "Jiangdong rats, return my brother's life to me!" With a shout, he rushed forward and stabbed with his spear, fighting with Dong Xi. But Dong Xian was eight feet tall, which was considered tall in that era, and Huo Jun was only over seven feet tall, so there was no way he could be Dong Xian's opponent. Although he fought with Dong Xi for a while due to the anger in his heart, he was at a disadvantage after a dozen rounds. Dong Xi, fearing that the battle was going to go badly, immediately showed off his weakness, turned around and kicked Huo Jun to the ground. As Huo Jun fell, Dong Xi was very pleased with himself, and he laughed loudly: "You dare to rap here without any skills?" As he said this, he raised his knife and walked forward, ready to kill Huo Jun directly.

But just as he raised the knife, he heard a sneer: "How dare you fight me, Gan Xingba?" Without giving Dong Xi time to react, Gan Ning rushed towards him with a dagger in hand. Among the generals in Jiangdong, Dong Xi can be considered as a bottom-tier first-rate general or a top-tier second-rate general. If you meet an average opponent, even if you don't win, you won't lose too badly. It's a pity that he met the Jinfan thief Gan Ning, who dared to attack Cao Cao's camp with a hundred people and was extremely powerful. At this moment, a killer suddenly came forward and Dong Xi hurriedly resisted. A clanging sound was heard, which made his arms numb. He thought to himself that Gan Ning was very strong. While he was forced away by Gan Ning, Huo Jun was helped up by his personal guards and quickly joined the battle. Dong Xi was no match for Gan Ning to begin with, and it was even more difficult for him to fight two people alone. He was caught off guard and was stabbed in the thigh by Huo Jun. He screamed and turned sideways, and Gan Ning saw the opportunity and killed him on the spot with a single blow. With the death of Dong Xian, the morale of the Jiangdong army plummeted and they retreated one after another. Jiang Qin was organizing his troops to resist Su Fei and his men, but when he heard that Dong Xi had died in battle, he cried out in grief: "This is not the time to destroy our army! Retreat, retreat quickly!" After all, he was a veteran general and knew that the water fort could no longer be defended, so he hurriedly led his troops to withdraw. At the same time, the war in the south of the Yangtze River was also discovered by the troops in the north of the Yangtze River. The commanders of the Jiangbei army were Deng Dang and Chen Bao. Deng Dang was Lu Meng's brother-in-law, and Chen Bao was not well-known in history, but he was a real confidant of Sun Ce. After Sun Ce defeated Liu Yao in the past, he sent this man to Fuling to bring back his mother and brother Sun Quan. Ever since Zhou Yu divided his troops that day, he and Deng Dang had been hiding on the north bank of Pengli Lake, waiting for Zhou Yu's military orders. Before Zhou Yu received his military orders, he heard a report from a scout saying that the navy of Jingzhou had already reached the south bank of Pengli Lake. Faced with this news, Chen Bao hesitated for a while and said: "We are now ordered to wait here and not to go south without your permission." "Now that the governor has led his army far away, the enemy has attacked our camp. What should we do?" Originally according to Zhou Yu's idea, Pengli Lake was a pocket. If troops entered the South Lake, the troops from the North Lake could move forward to besiege it. But all this has a prerequisite, that is, Zhou Yu leads all the enemy troops into his pocket. And now, the Jingzhou navy took advantage of Zhou Yu's absence and attacked them. How should they react? If we send troops now and accidentally ruin Zhou Yu's plan, we will be punished when Zhou Yu returns. But if we don't send troops now, and wait until the water fort is breached by the enemy, Zhou Yu will still be punished when he arrives. Therefore, Chen Bao seemed a little hesitant for a moment, not knowing what to do. But Deng Dang had been fighting with Sun Ce for many years and acted decisively. He immediately said in a deep voice: "The water fort is the foundation of our army. We must save it no matter what."

"Now that the governor is not here, if we don't save him, who else can save him?" Having said this, he sent someone to inform Zhou Yu of the situation here, and took Chen Bao with him to lead the troops across the river and head south to Pengli Lake to reinforce. When they reached the South Lake, they suddenly saw a big fire in the camp, so they urged their troops to move forward. But at this moment, a loud shout was heard from afar: "The enemy's ambush troops are all out, follow me to break through the enemy's rear!" With a loud shout, large fleets of warships appeared on the surface of the river and charged towards the south. Upon seeing this, Deng Dang and Chen Bao felt a chill in their spines, knowing that they had fallen into a trap, and hurriedly ordered their troops to withdraw. But Cai Mao controlled the situation in the water fort. Seeing that the troops from the rear had arrived, he led his troops to the north again, and instantly trapped the Jiangdong navy in the middle of the lakeshore. Suddenly, another fight broke out, and the shouts and sounds of killing filled the night sky, never stopping. (End of this chapter)