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The conflict between Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang was not a day or two, and it has lasted for many years, nor was it because of a small matter, but that the military restructuring carried out by Zhuge Liang in Jiaozhou violated Guan Yu's vital interests.

Before coming to Jingzhou, Liu Bei's army was composed of four major forces, one was directly under Liu Bei, such as Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, the other was Xuzhou, including the general Chen Dao, the Mi brothers, the other was Guan Yu, and the other was the smaller Liu Feng force.

Before Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei firmly controlled these four forces with his great prestige, and even Zhao Yun left, he could not shake Liu Bei's absolute influence in the army. However, since Zhuge Liang was loyal to Liu Bei, Liu Bei gradually handed over military affairs to Zhuge Liang, and Zhuge Liang's identity changed from an aide to a commander.

In Jiaozhou, Liu Bei was unable to adapt to the humid and high temperature weather in Jiaozhou, so he no longer went to war. Instead, he handed over the army to Zhuge Liang. In order to strengthen his control over the army, Zhuge Liang began the military reform in the process of conquering the scholars.

For example, when Zhang Fei was appointed as General of the Cavalry, Guan Yu was General of the Cavalry, and Chen Dao was General of the Later Army, they no longer directly commanded the troops, but directly served loyalty to Liu Bei and became senior officials of the founding emperors. At the same time, Zhuge Liang promoted a large number of young generals, including Guan Xing, Zhang Bao and other young generals, standing out.

Zhuge Liang's purpose was to break the power structure, unify the leadership of the army, and form a new military system, but his reforms were not successful.

On the one hand, because of the lack of talent in Jiaozhou, he could not exclude Guan Ping, Zhou Cang, Guan Xing and other Guan Yu forces. On the other hand, Liu Bei secretly restrained Zhuge Liang. After all, Liu Bei still did not want Zhuge Liang to completely control the army.

This is not a matter of trust. Liu Bei trusted Zhuge Liang very much, so he handed over the army to him to command, but no monarch would tolerate military power being lost.

For example, Liu Jing had to command the commander in many battles in order to firmly control the military power in his own hands. Liu Jing did not hesitate to give up his government power for this, but he refused to weaken his control over the army at all.

The same was true for Liu Bei. In Liu Bei's view, Zhuge Liang only held military power for him, but could not replace him. Zhuge Liang's military reform also weakened Liu Bei's control over the army to some extent and violated Liu Bei's interests.

Liu Bei supported the military restructuring on the surface, but was secretly dissatisfied. Therefore, during this Northern Expedition, while Liu Bei appointed Zhuge Liang as the head commander, he also appointed Guan Yu and Zhang Fei as deputy generals. He had the intention of surveillance and restraining Zhuge Liang. Guan Yu understood Liu Bei's profound meaning, so he finally turned against Zhuge Liang in the decision to evacuate Yuzhang County, and used the support of the soldiers to seize Zhuge Liang's military power in one fell swoop.

Guan Yu left 5,000 troops for Zhuge Liang to guard Nanchang County. He and Zhang Fei each led 10,000 troops north to fight the Han army. However, Guan Yu also knew that they were in a hurry. Once the Han army really went south from Jingnan to Jiaozhou, he would make a big mistake. Only by defeating the Han army in Yuzhang as soon as possible can he recover the unfavorable situation.

The biggest advantage of the Jiaozhou Army is its high morale and well-equipped. More importantly, the gap between them and the Han army is not large, and the elite Han army is concentrated on the Guanlong line. Most of the Jingzhou navy is newly recruited last year and has no combat experience. It is precisely based on these considerations that Guan Yu believes that the Jiaozhou Army can defeat the Han army.

At this time, Guan Yu also received information. The main fleet of Han army appeared on the river ten miles away. The time they had been waiting for finally came. Guan Yu immediately sent someone to contact Zhang Fei and sent a small boat with the army to intercept the Han army fleet.

The Jiaozhou Army's ships were mainly civilian ships on the Gan River, and they were not big in size, mostly two stones. However, the Gan River was narrower than the Yangtze River. Once the river surface was blocked, the fleet might not be able to rush over.

In the narrowest part of the Ganjiang River, the small boats are lined up in two rows. In front of the dense boats is an iron chain about a meter long. This was originally used to deal with the Jiangdong warships, but unexpectedly, it was used on the Han army warships in the end. Guan Yu's hopes are placed on this iron chain.

On the west bank, 20,000 Jiaozhou troops were already lined up, and 5,000 crossbowmen were arranged densely on the shore, with swords tens of thousands of swords waiting for the battle. The Han army warships were already ten miles away, and the wind was strong on the river surface, and the enemy warships would arrive soon. Guan Yu stood at a high place, holding the Qinglong Yanyue Sword in his hand, narrowed his eyes slightly, and stared at the northern river surface coldly.

"Father, the enemy warship is here"

Guan Xing's eyes were sharp. He saw a team of black spots appearing on the northern river at first sight. He couldn't help but shout. Guan Yu tightened the knife rod and turned around and ordered: "Fleet ready."

There were about a thousand soldiers with good water quality on the boat. Their mission was not to deal with the huge Han army warships, but to prevent the Han army from destroying the iron chains. Although Guan Yu had no experience in water warfare, he had been in Jingzhou for many years and knew some common sense of water warfare.

When dealing with iron chains that block the river, you either go ashore to destroy the iron chain head, or use a fire boat to burn the iron chain, and most of them choose the latter. At this time, flexible and mobile boats are particularly important. At critical moments, you can also use fire attack to deal with large ships.

Sure enough, when the Han army fleet was two miles away from the chain, it slowly stopped and lowered dozens of small sampans from the large ship. Each sampan had two soldiers, one rowing and one holding a shield to defend. The small sampan was filled with tinder oil and rushed towards the Hengjiang iron chain.

The sound of war drums on the surface of Dongdongdong River was ringing, dozens of small sampans were lit, the flames were burning, and thick smoke was rolling, and they rushed towards the chains together.

When the iron chain was still ten steps away, the Jiaozhou military ships began to shoot arrows at the small sampan. The arrows were like rain, and densely shot at the small sampan. One of the two Han soldiers on the sampan was shielded by the shield, and the other speeded up the ship. Just when the iron chain was still ten steps away, the two soldiers jumped into the river at the same time. The uncontrolled sampan was spinning and rushing on the river surface and hit the iron chain.

The iron chain intercepted the sampan, and the thick iron chain was wrapped in a raging fire, and the tincture oil poured into the river, and the surrounding river surfaces also burned. The fire was so rapid that dozens of Jiaozhou military ghosts who were trying to get close to extinguish the fire were also trapped in the fire, their hair was ignited, and they screamed and struggled, and quickly dived into the water to escape.

The boatmen of the other Jiaozhou army boat had never seen the fire burning in the water. As the fire approached, they were extremely frightened and they all rolled their boats to retreat.

At this time, dozens of sampans were full of turbulent oil and joined the camp of the Fiery Fire Burning River. The surging fire only burned for a quarter of an hour. The iron chains that crossed the river were finally burned off. Dozens of sampans rushed through the chains to help, and gradually drifted towards the shore with the help of strong wind.

The thick smoke was blown ashore by the wind, and the crossbowmen who were originally neatly lined up also began to become a little confused. Guan Yu's brows frowned and worried flashed in his eyes. He did not expect that the iron chain he had sent hope was so easy to be broken by the enemy, and the ship arranged in advance did not work at all. The key was that he ignored the fact that tinder oil could burn on the water.

Guan Yu secretly regretted in his heart that since the Han army had broken through the blockade, could it still go ashore to fight him?

At this time, the fire on the river gradually disappeared, and several Han warships were divided into two, one another, and another warship broke through the enemy's blockade and continued to sail south.

The other Han army, nearly two warships, slowly moved closer to the shore. The soldiers on the ship fired arrows at the shore, and dense arrows shot towards the crossbowmen on the shore.

Five thousand crossbowmen also fought back, and two armies broke out in fierce archery battles on the banks of the Ganjiang River.

According to Lu Xun's strategy, there is no need to pay more attention to the Jiaozhou army heading north, and you can directly kill Nanchang County and cut off the Jiaozhou army's food and supplies.

Of course, the Jiaozhou army will turn around and follow the ship south. At this time, an army will be needed to restrain the Jiaozhou army. If the Jiaozhou army does not care about the restrained army, they will fall into the dilemma of being attacked from both sides.

It was only after the disastrous defeat in Xinwu County that Lu Xun learned his lesson and found a strategy to defeat the Jiaozhou army, that is, not to follow the intention of the Jiaozhou army, but should take the initiative and let the Jiaozhou army follow their intentions.

If the Jiangdong Army had not attacked Xinwu County, but sent an army directly to Jiaozhou with empty troops, they would have changed from passive to active, and people would often realize the mistakes they made and the opportunities they had missed afterwards.

This time, they no longer paid attention to the Jiaozhou army, but rode the wind and waves, attacked Nanchang County, and forced the Jiaozhou army to return to the rescue, which would inevitably lead to a situation of attacking from front to back.

After driving in the Ganjiang River for an hour, the Han army fleet arrived in Nanchang County at dusk.

At this time, there were 5,000 troops stationed in Nanchang County, commanded by Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang has been depressed since his military power was seized by Guan Yu.

Although he was extremely talented and had a certain prestige in the army, he still could not fight Guan Yu in the direct competition for military power. Guan Yu had the support of Zhang Fei and the support of middle and lower-level officers. As soon as he responded, he took the army away and left only five thousand people to him, which made Zhuge Liang deeply dissatisfied.

Although he was dissatisfied, Zhuge Liang also knew that this battle would be related to the success or failure of the Northern Expedition strategy. If he was defeated by the Han army, the hard work in the past two months would be lost, and Jiaozhou would also face a profound crisis.

Zhuge Liang was very concerned about Guan Yu going north to meet the enemy. From a tactical point of view, this kind of attack was not wrong. However, Zhuge Liang was very suspicious whether Guan Yu's iron chain crossed the river and could block the Han army with rich experience in water battles.

At this time, a soldier rushed to report to Zhuge Liang: "Qi reported to the military advisor, a Han army warship was found on the river ten miles away, with several large army coming, and the military advisor decided to seize it."
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