Chapter 981 The Crisis Brought About by the Destruction of the Navy

Although the destruction of the water army is unacceptable, it did not reduce Liu Bei's original strength after all.

If Liu Bei gave up Yuzhang after losing some surrendered troops, he might be refuted by Liu Bei!

Xu Shu sighed and kept waving his hands.

"Auxiliary general, the navy is destroyed, the north and south banks are completely out of control, and General Zhang Fei of Yidao is in danger!"

"If Liu Zhang leads his army to the south, General Zhang Fei will have no way out!"

"Liu Zhang has far more soldiers and horses than we do. If he orders partial divisions to attack Jingnan, it will be too late for regret!"

At present, all the soldiers and horses under Liu Bei's army are only concentrated in two places, Nanjun and Yuzhang.

In addition, there are only more than a hundred county soldiers in the counties in Jingnan, and there are only a few dozen people!

Only Linyuan, the Wuling County Government, has more soldiers and horses, at 3,000, mainly to guard against the Wuling barbarians who often make trouble.

What Xu Shu was most worried about was that Liu Zhang would let the partial division attack Changsha!

Once there is a change in Changsha, the food road of Yuzhang's army will be cut off instantly, and the 50,000 army will collapse accordingly!

At that time, it will really be called every day, and the earth will not work!

Fu Kuang was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and immediately stopped hesitating.

"Military commander, don't worry, the general will set off immediately, and I will definitely persuade the lord to retreat!"

"Wait a moment!"

As soon as Fu Kuang turned around, he was stopped by Xu Shu's shout.

"Master, what else can I order?"

Xu Shu thought for a while, then said in a deep voice,

"Yuan Bi, if my lord doesn't know how to make peace with Sun Quan, tell my lord to provoke the conflict between the Jiangdong faction and the Huaisi faction."

"The general obeys orders!"

Fu Kuang quickly agreed, and then immediately turned around and left the big tent.

Not long after, an extremely embarrassed figure walked into the tent, it was Zhang Nan, the navy leader who fled from the front.

"Criminal Zhang Nan, meet the military advisor!"

Zhang Nan's hair was disheveled, his armor was completely damaged, and his whole body was soaked in the river water. It was extremely miserable!

Just by looking at this outfit, one knows how fierce this battle is!

Most of Xu Shu's original anger dissipated after seeing such a miserable Zhang Nan.

"General Zhang, what's going on!"

"Even if you can't beat Liu Zhang's navy, can't you run away?"

"I have never heard of such a defeat in water combat!"

Zhang Nan didn't answer immediately, but sighed, stamped his feet and beat his chest, with a look of endless remorse.

After a long time, he opened his mouth slowly.

"Mr. Xu, General Feng and I led the army upstream and encountered the Yufushui army in the Yiling waters."

"Both of us want to test the strength of our navy, so we unanimously decided to go upstream to attack the enemy."

"I didn't expect the enemy's formation to be in chaos, and they would be defeated as soon as they came into contact!"

"General Feng and I took advantage of the situation to hunt down and immediately won a big victory!"

Speaking of this, Xu Shu can probably guess what's going on.

"Is it because Liu Zhang's navy was defeated and lured the two of you into an ambush?"

Zhang Nan's eyes were red, with tears in his eyes, and he nodded helplessly.

"What the military adviser said is absolutely true! At that time, the last general also felt the same way, so he persuaded General Feng not to underestimate the enemy!"

"However, General Feng felt that the enemy's lack of training was not worth mentioning at all, so he immediately ordered the whole army to pursue it."

"As a result, we were ambushed by the Yufushui army. Under the front and rear attacks, our army's warships were in a mess and collided with each other!"

"The Yufushui Army first surrounded our army heavily and launched a rain of arrows. After the arrows were shot, they began to ram our warships!"

"The last general desperately led the soldiers to evacuate, but in the end he only brought back less than a thousand people..."

After saying that, Zhang Nan burst into tears and kept kowtowing to confess his crime.

"It's all the general's fault. If General Feng could be persuaded, he wouldn't have ended up in such a situation!"

"It's the last general's fault, otherwise General Feng wouldn't have been poisoned by the enemy...!"

Zhang Nan kowtowed, talking about his mistakes.

In particular, the movement caused by kowtowing is not insignificant, and there is a sound of thump, thump, thump.

"General Zhang, get up!"

Xu Shu hurriedly stepped forward to hold Zhang Nan back, not allowing him to be crushed to death in front of her.

After all, it wasn't all Zhang Nan's fault that this matter developed to this point.

Xu Shu didn't have any doubts about Feng Xi's disobedience to what Zhang Nan said.

First of all, the status of the two is different, whether it is in Liu Bei's personal eyes or in the entire South County.

Feng Xi's Feng family is much higher than Zhang Nan's Zhang family.

Moreover, Feng Xi has always been a radical, often proposing to take the initiative to attack.

Zhang Nan is a conservative, and he has been substituting defense for offense from beginning to end, and it is rare to hear his idea of ​​taking the initiative to attack.

As for the promise that the two of them swore in front of him before, Xu Shu thought that Zhang Nan was trying to cater to Feng Xi and prevent Feng Xi from having any suspicions against him.

"General Zhang, you have personally come into contact with Liu Zhang's water army, how powerful is it?"

"If we hadn't been ambushed and confronted head-on, would our army have defeated the enemy?"

Zhang Nan shook his head again and again, immediately expressing that it was absolutely impossible.

"Military division, Liu Zhang's navy is extremely powerful, especially the soldiers headed by Jinfan bandit Gan Ning, their combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and everyone is brave and invincible!"

"Our soldiers have been out of battle for a long time, and they can't even fight with three enemies and one in close combat..."

After saying that, Zhang Nan stamped his feet and beat his chest again, looking heartbroken.

In fact, Zhang Nan was already sneering in his heart.

No matter who asks, Liu Zhang's navy is invincible!

Zhang Nan didn't want to encounter such a terrifying water ghost again!

But when Xu Shu heard these words, he felt chest tightness and shortness of breath.

Unexpectedly, after a battle, our general would describe the enemy army as invincible!

What an irony!

Xu Shu had no choice but to think pessimistically that after this naval battle, Liu Zhang's navy had left an indelible fear on his own navy!

Especially Zhang Nan himself, Xu Shu could clearly feel the fear in his heart.

Although there are many generals in Jingzhou at present, there are not many who can really serve as the commander of the navy.

Zhang Nan and Feng Xi are the two generals that Xu Shu found with great difficulty.

At this time, there is no chance to find a suitable navy commander, so the remaining navy will need Zhang Nan to lead!

"General Zhang, how many people are left in our navy?"

Zhang Nan lowered his head, and a gleam of joy appeared in his eyes.

He had already guessed Xu Shu's intention, and he must have all the navy under his command!

In this way, Zhang Nan will be the only navy general under Liu Bei in the future.

"Reporting to the military division, the last general and General Feng brought 10,000 soldiers, and there are still more than 2,000 soldiers left in the water village. Counting the escape with the last general, it is estimated that we can make up 3,000 soldiers."

"It's just that there is only one warship and more than ten walking boats left in the water village..."

Zhang Nan can only rejoice that there was still a boat left!

Otherwise, the captain of the water army would be boring enough, and he didn't even have a decent warship.

Xu Shu nodded, and could only announce his decision helplessly.

"General Zhang, General Feng has gone, and everyone in the navy will fall on you!"

"Rectify the navy immediately, and restore morale in the shortest possible time!"

Zhang Nan didn't dare to show his joy, he quickly wiped away his tears and bowed his hands.

"The last general will definitely live up to the high expectations of the military adviser!"

(end of this chapter)