No one thought that Ji Ling, who had high hopes from Yuan Shu, led 15,000 men, followed by 5,000 Nanton men, with a total force of 20,000 men. When he attacked Chen County, he would be defeated.
Sun Jian was more reckless than his father. Sun Ce was even more reckless than his father. He was a reincarnated overlord, killing dozens of people and injuring Ji Ling.
The front army was torn open, and a steady stream of Sun Ce's troops rushed into the formation. In addition, Sun Ce single-handedly defeated Ji Ling. When Ji Ling's flag fell, it caused a chain reaction and the entire army collapsed.
By this time, it was getting dark, and it was almost seven o'clock at the beginning of dusk. Although it was not impossible to see, many soldiers with night blindness found it difficult to see very far away, making the entire battlefield situation very difficult.
confusion.
The pursuers were chasing, and the deserters were fleeing. The 5,000 Chinese troops who came to support later were implicated. Due to the loss of command, the direct consequence was that the front army dispersed the Chinese army. The situation between the enemy and ourselves was intertwined. The Chinese army did not even start a fight. It was the same.
Started to retreat.
Sun Ce was furious because people's physiques are different, especially after he found Liu Chong's body with dozens of wounds among the rebels. The impulse caused by this rage was enough to turn into
A source of strength like a lion.
The pursuit continued until dawn, until dawn broke. On the vast plains, except for the corpses along the way and the occasional villagers and wild beasts overlooking the vast land, there were no more living things.
Many rebel soldiers fled everywhere and went to the countryside near Chen County to cause trouble. Some soldiers returned to the army under Ji Ling's reluctant greeting, forming a remnant army and slowly retreating towards Ruyang. Although Sun Ce wanted to continue the pursuit,
But at least he was stopped by Wu Jing and others. I hope he can clear up the rioters in the nearby countryside first.
These rioters fleeing in panic may not have a major impact on Chen County, but if they cannot be cleaned up, the rural people under his rule will be harmed, and it is easy to lose the public support that Sun Jian finally gathered in Chen State.
It fell and shaken Sun Jian's rule.
After a night of pursuit, Sun Ce gradually regained his composure. He understood that what his uncle said was indeed reasonable, not to mention that if he pursued again, he would have to leave the territory of Chen and enter the territory of Runan. Although it was not far away, he had no luggage.
Ji Ling retreated into Ruyang City with nearly 10,000 remaining soldiers, relying on the city wall to hold on. Although Sun Ce was brave, he had few soldiers and no food and grass. It was indeed unrealistic to attack.
So on the second day, Sun Ce gathered his troops and returned to the city. While carrying Liu Chong's coffin, he invited Liu Chong back for burial, and at the same time summoned the generals to discuss the attack.
"No, absolutely not. Zu Rong has passed away. If Bo Fu has another accident, how can I explain it to the state pastor?"
Luo Jun firmly disagreed.
Sun Ce went out of the city and defeated Ji Ling, proving that his previous fantastic idea was right. While the enemy was still building a camp, he suddenly attacked and defeated the invading enemy in one fell swoop.
The mistake was that Liu Chong shouldn't have charged into the battle like this, but now that it had happened, Luo Jun had no choice.
However, in the name of revenge for Liu Chong, Sun Ce directly sent his troops south, which would have been too rash, because their troops were originally small, and although Ji Ling was defeated, he still had enough troops to deal with it, let alone a siege, how could he defeat the enemy?
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But Sun Ce also had his reasons. He said: "The enemy has been newly defeated and the troops have no fighting spirit. If we don't attack now, how much later? Besides, I have no intention of attacking Ruyang."
"Not attacking Ruyang?"
Everyone was puzzled.
If we don’t fight Ruyang, why don’t we still plan to fight Pingyu?
That's even more outrageous. Pingyu is the administrative center of Runan, and its military strength is only much larger than that of Ruyang. If you rely on their few people, you will die.
Wu Jing frowned and said, "Bo Fu, you don't want to fight Pingyu, do you?"
He was really afraid that Sun Ce would go crazy and actually carry out a suicide attack.
However, Sun Ce was not stupid. Of course, he knew that fighting Pingyu would lead to death. He just shook his head and said: "Of course not. Pingyu City has many soldiers and food, and he has to work on an expedition. I am not that stupid to hit an egg against a stone. I want to fight against it."
Nanton.”
"Nanton?"
Everyone looked at each other and thought carefully, Nanton was indeed ten thousand times better than Pingyu.
Just the reason?
Luo Jun asked: "Why fight Nanton?"
Sun Ce pondered: "The prisoners captured yesterday said that there were less than 10,000 defenders in Nanton, and five thousand were transferred away by Ji Ling, leaving the city empty. And my father is now attacking Xihua. If we can
If we capture Nandun and encircle Ruyang together with my father, then the barrier to the northeast of Ru'nan will be broken, and Yuan Shu will be furious and call back the troops who attacked Yanzhou to defend it."
"It's still too risky. The mission given to us by the state pastor is to garrison Chen County. We have already lost our ancestral honor and can no longer take risks."
Luo Jun shook his head and objected to sending troops this time.
However, Sun Ce said: "Before he left, my father said that Uncle Chen Wang would be the leader and I would be his deputy. Now my uncle is buried outside the city, wrapped in horse leather. Now I should take over the military power of Chen County. Don't persuade me anymore. I will
The decision has been made. Once the troops and horses are reorganized, we will send out troops tomorrow!"
"..."
Luo Jun was speechless. He was really helpless when talking about military power.
Although Wu Jing, Sun He, Zhu Zhi and other generals wanted to persuade him, they had no choice but Sun Ce, the bastard, was determined to send troops, but they couldn't resist him. They tried to persuade him, but they also said that there was nothing they could do against him.
However, the morale of the soldiers in Chen County has never been higher. You must know that they were four to five thousand people fighting against Ji Ling's 20,000 army. They went out of the city to fight in the field, and directly defeated Ji Ling and fled, making the morale in the city almost reach the level.
vertex.
In particular, Sun Ce's personal prestige has skyrocketed. Many soldiers said that a tiger father has no dog son. The young general has inherited his father's bravery and will lead them to victory, so that Sun Ce is second only to Sun Jian in terms of prestige in the army.
Now Sun Ce made a speech and waved his hand, and he would take the initiative to attack Runan. Fortunately, he was not attacking Ruyang and Youyang, but just attacking Nanton. Everyone could barely accept it, so they didn't say anything anymore.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After all, Ji Ling is like a lost dog now, and the morale in Ruyang City is probably not high. If he attacks Nanton, Ji Ling probably won’t dare to go out of the city to rescue him. It’s okay.
Obstacle.
Now, on the second day, Sun Ce organized his troops and led the soldiers out of the city in a mighty manner. Two days later, they rushed to Nanton County.
The current number of defenders in Nanton County is very small, only four to five thousand people. Although it is similar to the strength of Sun Ce's attackers, the morale of the soldiers in Nanton City is extremely low, because they already know the news of Ji Ling's defeat, so that Nanton
The guard Chen Jian did not dare to go out of the city to fight, but wanted to hold on to the city.
But the city of Nanton was not high, just a simple county town. The people in the countryside outside the city were plundered by Sun Ce, and all the population moved to Chen State. The entire county town was surrounded, and the food routes and water sources were cut off.
So much so that the city of Nanton fell into despair.
You must know that Nanton is not located next to the lower reaches of Honggou like Xihua. It is seven or eight kilometers away from Honggou. The water source is a tributary of Honggou next to the city, but it does not flow into the city. If you want to get domestic water, you have to go outside the city.
Pick.
Although there is some grain storage and a few wells in the city, Yuzhou is not as rich in groundwater resources as in the northwest. These wells are of little help to the city's consumption. Originally, it was already difficult to maintain thousands of residents in the city, and now thousands more are added.
The army has led to the rapid consumption of water resources, and the water in the wells is becoming less and less.
In mid-March of the first year of Xingwu, Sun Ce besieged the city for ten days. The grain, grass and water sources in Nanton City had dried up. Finally, Chen Jian had to decide to lead his army to break out of the siege before the resources were exhausted. After a fierce battle, Chen Jian led 3,000 remaining soldiers to break out of the siege.
, ran back to Pingyu.
Nandun fell, and Xihua followed closely. The two places fell. Sun Jian and Sun Ce combined their forces to attack Ruyang. Zhao Yun led his troops southward, defeated the Qiang, passed Dingying, and was on the north bank of the Qishui River and the south bank of the Qishui River.
Shang Cai faced off from afar, plus Huang Zu's 30,000 Jingzhou soldiers, and Sun Jian's 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers, known as 200,000, with the intention of heading south along the Yishui River to capture Pingyu.
This severe situation made Yuan Shu, who was still in Shang Cai, furious, and immediately sent people to recall Zhang Xun, who was fighting in Yanzhou on the front line.
You must know that the Xihua Ruyang Nandun line is Runan's barrier to the east. Although Yilu, Xiangxian, and Xinyang are located to the southeast of Chen State, Yuan Shu has too many places to defend and has to deal with them.
There are enemies on all sides, so even an army of 150,000 is not enough.
Pingyu is also on the north bank of the Yangtze River. At this time, there are only more than 10,000 people in the city. Yuan Shu also has Jingnan and western Yangzhou to defend. The total force is large, but it is widely dispersed. The frontal battlefield is stretched. If reinforcements are not allowed to come back, Runan will
There is a risk of being breached.
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Just when the allied offensive of Liu Bei, Liu Biao and Sun Jian in Yuzhou was in full swing, Cao Cao of Yanzhou was looking at the map of Yanzhou in his mansion in Puyang and was stunned.
It was already dark, and there was no one in the hall. Cao Cao, wearing his coat, was staring at the pictures on the table and thinking deeply.
The current situation in Yanzhou is not very good. Cao Bao and Zhang Xun combined have 80,000 troops. There is a huge disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves. Even if Cao's army relied on favorable terrain, trapezoidal configuration, and segmented sniping, it could only hold back the enemy for more than a month.
The allied forces of Yuan Tao bypassed Ohye Ze, detoured from the north to Jibei Kingdom, and went south from Gucheng Dong'a and other places. The two sides fought for a foot in Dong'a, and then Cao Cao burned Cangting and defeated Cao Bao's former army.
Cao Bao's former army was led by general Lu You. At that time, Cao Bao had been attacking the city for seven days. The city's population and supplies had long been moved by Cao Cao. Dong'a became an empty city with strong walls and clear fields.
When the time was right and the delay was almost over, Cao Cao used the boats that had been prepared in the city in the middle of the night to take a boat south from the Huzi River in the east of the city and ran to Fan County in the south. At the same time, he sent Xiahou Dun to set up an ambush in Cangting and defeated them.
Lu Youbu was chasing after him in the starry night.
Immediately afterwards, relying on the terrain of the water park in Fan County, they blocked it for eight or nine days and withdrew to Zhencheng. The location of Fan County was the eight hundred miles of water park Liangshan in the Song Dynasty. At this time, it was composed of two large lakes, Dongping Lake and Onezawa, plus countless
It is composed of small lakes. The geology here is soft, there are groups of swamp lakes, and the mountains and rivers are continuous, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
However, Cao Cao did not have the habit of hiding in the mountains to fight guerrilla warfare. Moreover, when fighting guerrilla warfare with cold weapons, there was really not much room for survival. Therefore, after successfully blocking the 89th day, Cao Cao used the special terrain to quickly retreat to Linqiu, where Xiahou Dun
Stationed at Qin Pavilion.
In this way, we fought sniper battles along Linqiu and Zhencheng for more than ten days. By the time Cao Cao's army returned to Puyang, it was already more than a month later. From the beginning of the war in February, it was already late March. Currently, Cao Bao Zhang
Xun's army was marching into Puyang, and the two sides started a stalemate and tug-of-war in Xiancheng, a small county east of Puyang City.
Due to the overwhelming strength of the enemy army, Cao Cao's troops were so limited that he did not dare to fight a tough battle with the enemy. Even if he set up ambushes several times and wiped out many of Cao Bao's troops, he could not change the general situation. The current general situation is that the enemy has more troops.
Even if the quality of the soldiers is not as good as Cao's army, the ants will bite the elephant to death.
Fortunately among the misfortunes, all of this was expected by the advisers, including Cao Bao's several actions, such as dividing his troops on the north bank of the Yellow River to attack Dongwuyang, and then marching south to Dunqiu and Weiguo counties in an attempt to attack Puyang from the north to the south.
Detour behind Puyang and conduct a sneak attack.
After these actions were predicted by the advisers, Cao Cao personally led the main force to deal with Cao Bao's main force, and at the same time sent Xia Houyuan and Cheng Yu to divide the troops into three thousand, and achieved considerable results by constantly harassing the enemy's grain road north of the Yellow River.
Originally, Cao Bao divided his troops into 10,000 troops. When they were forced to retreat from the north bank of the Yellow River, there were only more than 7,000 people left. Especially in the Battle of Weiting, Cao Bao's army took advantage of the enemy to cross the river and attacked, burning the pontoon bridge and falling into the water.
Countless enemy troops were burned to death. Finally, Cao Bao's troops, who were divided on the north bank, crossed the river in despair and ran back to Xiancheng.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After a month of fighting, although Cao Cao set up surprise ambushes and fought day and night, he was still at a huge disadvantage, so much so that his face turned pale several times.
It was very bad. We fought and retreated along the way, and finally retreated to Xiancheng. We were in a dilemma, with no way to escape, and we had to prepare for the final decisive battle.
"well!"
Looking at the situation between the enemy and ourselves on the map, Cao Cao let out a long sigh.
Despite his many sniper attacks, he killed many of Cao Bao's troops, but after all, they were large, with an army of 80,000. They killed at most a few thousand people. Counting the wounded, the enemy still had at least 70,000 troops.
But he only has 20,000 people, and the strength of the troops is very different. It is too difficult.
The only good news is that Cao Bao's offensive has slowed down a lot now, because the food and grass can no longer keep up. The 70,000 to 80,000 troops have to eat a huge amount of food every day, and it has to be transported from Xuzhou. As a result, the army is short of food and grass, so it must be slowed down.
offensive.
Currently, Cao Cao has deployed many forts along the Huzi River between Xiancheng and Puyang, where Bao Xin, Cao Hong, Cao Ren, Xia Houyuan, Xiahou Dun, Cheng Yu and others are continuing to follow their orders to snipe in sections.
According to the worst plan made by the counselors, if there is no progress on the Yuzhou battlefield and the enemy is still so powerful, they will have no choice but to retreat to Puyang and defend the city.
As for continuing to withdraw towards Baima County, it is no longer within the scope of the advisers' consideration. If we withdraw further, there will really be no territory to defend.
Cao Cao stared at the map carefully, already thinking in his mind, what should he do if the final battle came?
Well, there are several hills and mountains in the south of the city. If we can hide a few soldiers in the mountains, it might be good to sneak attack the grain road.
There is also the Huzi River. The enemy has no navy, but we have some ships that can transport troops.
Now that the enemy's idea of attacking from both sides on the north bank of the river has been shattered, he can use the river to the north of the city and go east along the river to attack Zhencheng, agreeing to cut off their food route.
Cao Cao thought quickly in his mind, and all he could think about was cutting off Cao Bao's food route.
The reason for thinking this way is simple. After all, Cao Bao came from afar. Once the food route was cut off, he would have no choice but to retreat. Therefore, Cao Cao never thought about annihilating the enemy in the future. It would be good to cut off their food and grass and force them to retreat.
While he was thinking, suddenly there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the hall, and the guard at the door said: "Sima, Duke Ming said that no one should disturb him."
"Go and inform Duke Ming that there is a great news."
Guo Jia's voice came from outside.
"this......"
The guard hesitated for a moment. Cao Cao ordered that he should be quiet and not allow anyone to disturb him. Will he be punished if he goes in?
While he was hesitating, Cao Cao had already stood up and walked to the hall and shouted: "Fengxiao, come in."
Guo Jia opened the door and came in with a smile, his hands folded in his sleeves, his young face full of smiles: "Ming Gong, I am very happy."
"What happy event?"
Seeing Guo Jia so happy, Cao Cao couldn't help but laugh.
He knew that Guo Jia was not a fake person. If there was a happy event, there must be a real happy event.
Guo Jia said: "The soldiers and horses sent by Sun Jian and Liu Biao of Yuzhou and the Luoyang court jointly attacked Yuan Shu, forcing Yuan Shu to recall Zhang Xun. It is estimated that before long, only Cao Bao's soldiers and horses will be left outside Xiancheng."
"hehe."
Cao Cao just smiled, stroked his beard and said, "I think the happy events should be more than this."
These were all things they had calculated at the beginning, it was just a matter of time. If this could be considered a good thing, it would be too little of a surprise.
"I can't hide it from Mr. Ming."
Guo Jia smiled slightly: "Tan Ma found out the news. The grain and grass shipped by Tao Qian arrived at Linqiu yesterday. Counting the days, it should arrive in Zhencheng tomorrow."
"Then the day after tomorrow, it should be on the way to Xiancheng?"
Cao Cao was thoughtful.
Now the Linqiu area of Zhencheng has fallen into Tao Qian's hands. There are not only defenders on this line, but also food and grass.
He had strong walls and clear fields, and it was difficult for Cao Bao to get food locally, so he had to transport food from the distant Xuzhou. This was not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also because the baggage vehicles moved slowly, it was difficult to keep up with Cao Bao's offensive.
If the grain and grass can be destroyed, then Cao Bao will not be able to wait for the next batch of grain and grass to arrive, and the only way out is to retreat.
"good."
Guo Jia nodded: "Now the north bank of the river is still in our hands. We only need to take a boat and go east along the river, and we can reach Zhencheng in an instant."
"good!"
Cao Cao stood up and laughed loudly: "It is indeed a great event. Send me an order to set out early tomorrow morning. I will personally lead five thousand people to attack Zhencheng by boat."
"I wish Ming Gong on his triumphant return!"
Guo Jia smiled and bowed his hands. What he admired most about Cao Cao was that Cao Cao did not stick to trivial matters. Not only did he have some ingenious ideas for using troops, but he also had the courage to take risks and did not care about the gains and losses of a city or a place.
Now Cao Cao's total troops in Puyang are only more than 10,000, and there are only 5,000 in Puyang city. Cao Cao takes 5,000 people away, which means that Puyang has become an empty city.
Once Cao Bao divided his troops to bypass Xiancheng and attack Puyang directly, Puyang would be lost in an instant.
Therefore, this surprise attack is to risk death and survive!