The warm sunshine in early spring has dispersed the severe cold of winter. Starting from mid-January, the weather has become warmer day by day. While the north is still gloomy and cold and windy most of the time, the sun has begun to shine brightly in the south.
Occasionally, spring rain falls in some places, and the pattering raindrops fall on the ground, forming streams to moisten the fields, and flow into rivers and lakes, causing little ripples.
Peiguo, Guting, about 20 miles southwest of Guyang County, is located to the north of Huai River and later belonged to Bengbu City.
There are vast farmland and groups of lakes, rolling mountains and dense jungles, as well as wooden houses and villages under the low weed slopes, beside the road between the fields, beside the mountains, rivers and lakes.
Kites soar in the sky and wild beasts roar in the plains. This is a harmonious scene between man and nature.
There is a village under the mountains and forests in the northeast, with a trickling river and beautiful mulberry and bamboo ponds. Judging from the spring rice that has just been planted in the fields, there should be people here.
However, the quiet village was deserted at this time, like a ghost land.
To the north of the village, there is a large lake beneath the towering undulating mountains. The lake is covered with groups of reeds and shoulder-deep basil weeds, lush and green and slowly swaying in the spring breeze.
Several heads wrapped in cloth poked their heads out from the grass, looking towards the wilderness in the distance.
In the troubled times, most of the villages around Ting Town like Guting were dilapidated. The people either starved to death or were kidnapped to serve as soldiers.
The only remaining family survived the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Dong Zhuo's chaos. By the time the world was in chaos and chaos, this place had already become empty and devastated.
The bandits are like a comb, and the soldiers are like a grate. The remaining people can only live in fear.
While they waited for soldiers and bandits to come over, they got into the mountains, forests and lakes they were most familiar with, praying to God to bless them and avoid this disaster. At the same time, they carefully watched to see if the crops in the fields would be trampled by the soldiers and bandits, hoping that
Hope they can have a good heart.
Unfortunately, most of the time, their hopes always come to nothing.
The battle had only just begun, and the dozens of acres of spring rice that had just been planted in the south of the village had already suffered an unthinkable disaster.
Many elderly people in the village felt sad after seeing this scene. Without this food, even if they fished for lake fish and picked wild vegetables, they might not be able to survive the summer until the autumn harvest.
But this is considered good, at least it is not like the previous bandit trouble. When the bandits saw that there were still people cultivating the fields, they knew that there were people hiding in the nearby lakes and mountains, so they searched everywhere and arrested many people.
The few village strongmen in the village are the militias united by the few remaining villages nearby. Without the government and order, they can only organize some resistance forces on their own, muster up courage and harden their hearts to fight against the vicious bandits and rout.
of rioters fighting.
However, these people in front of me are far beyond what the dozens of villagers can handle.
What they saw was an endless sea of people in the wilderness, an endless stream of soldiers, fully armed generals riding war horses, and thundering gongs and drums.
The flags covered the sky and the sun, and the soldiers crowded together. At the front was the spear battle formation, followed by various large oars, chariots, and some cavalry that circled around on the left and right, crashing into the ground like a tidal wave.
Together.
Near Huainan and Huaibei in Yuzhou, only three forces can have so many soldiers and horses. One is Yuan Shu, the other is Lu Bu, and the last one is naturally Sun Jian who occupies most of Yuzhou.
And on the flag, the word "Sun" and the word "Yuan" are also telling people that the people fighting here are the Sun family of Runan and the Yuan family of Huainan.
Sun Ce was wearing a silver-white battle armor with a red ribbon tied on his head. The spear in his hand was stained with blood. He was riding on a horse and was located on a hill on the battlefield, overlooking the entire battle situation not far away.
Zhou Yu and Lu Su were beside him, their clothes fluttering in the spring breeze and their robes fluttering.
The Battle of Shanyang was a battle in which Sun Ce adopted Zhou Yu's plan, concentrated his strength, and attacked Yuan Shu's front army first.
The movements of Lu Bu's army were controlled by Cao Cao's spies. Last month, Cao Cao deduced that Lu Bu was going to send troops, but they didn't know exactly where Lu Bu was going to attack, so they just told Sun Ce the news.
However, Cao Cao did not know that Sun Ce already had Zhou Yu and Lu Su by his side. They also concluded that Lu Bu and Yuan Shu would not miss this opportunity, so they secretly prepared for battle.
Since Zhou Yu and Lu Su were both wealthy and powerful in Huainan, one was from Shu County, Lujiang, and the other was from Xiapi Dongcheng, and they moved to Lujiang to live in their nests. They had many connections with other aristocratic families in Huainan.
Therefore, Yuan Jun's movements were also secretly passed on to Zhou Yulu Su and others by these aristocratic families, letting them know Yuan Shu's plan.
The Yuan family made their fortune from Runan, and powerful families from all over Yuzhou respected Yuan Shu. However, the families in the south even refused to accept the Sun family, a prominent local family in Wu County. When Sun Ce pacified Jiangdong, he killed countless powerful families, let alone Yuan Shu.
Outsiders.
Therefore, it is common sense that powerful families in Huainan, Lujiang, Jiujiang and other places secretly collude with the Sun family, and the information about Yuan Jun sent to Yuzhou is as numerous as snowflakes.
This meant that even Cao Cao didn't know Lu Bu's movements for the time being, but Sun Ce knew about it before he did.
Moreover, Yuan Shu's army had long been leaking out like a sieve, and Sun Ce could not hide various military operations and the mobilization of food and grass.
As a result, Sun Ce soon learned that Yuan Shu planned to go north to join forces with Lu Bu first.
So he decided to strike first and intercept Yuan Shu's front army.
Although Yuan Shu had been attacked by various princes for so many years and lost most of his troops, Luoyang, who was skinny and bigger than his horse, still had almost 100,000 troops under his command, so his strength should not be underestimated.
After Liu Yao died of illness last year, Yuan Shu sent people to occupy Jiangdong. Although there were still a large number of local powerful people in Wu County and Kuaiji County who refused to obey his management, Danyang County had fallen into Yuan Shu's hands, allowing him to at least breathe a sigh of relief.
, to restore some strength.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! This year, Yuan Shu took advantage of the decisive battle between Liu Bei and Yuan Shao and sent troops to prepare to recapture Runan.
Runan has a large population and a vast territory, making it an excellent place to start a business for Yuan Shu, who suffered a drought last year that led to the decline of the people under his rule.
Moreover, the Yuan family was born in Runan, and most of the wealthy families in Runan were relatives and friends of his family. Although these people did not want to support him at all, if he occupied Runan, at least these people would not be like those powerful families in Jiangdong and Huainan.
It also gives him obstacles.
Therefore, Yuan Shu of Runan is bound to win.
He has failed many times before, and this time he will not allow himself to fail again.
By the end of last year, Yuan Shu had already begun preparations for this matter.
Since Shen County was Sun's heavily guarded frontline, Yuan Shu planned to go directly north into the territory of Pei State. After burning, killing and looting, he passed through Guyang County and went to Xiapi to join Lu Bu's army.
Yuan Shu was also very aware of how disorganized his military spirit was. Most of the soldiers under his command were a motley crew, and joining the army was just for a living. In terms of loyalty and combat effectiveness, it was a far cry from Sun's direct lineage of Danyang soldiers.
The most important thing is that since Sun Jian defeated Dong, took refuge with Liu Bei, and was recommended by Chen Mu as the shepherd of Yuzhou, he had many battles with Yuan Shu. The two sides had several big battles and small battles.
The bravery of Sun Jian and Sun Ce father and son has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Many Yuan Jun soldiers are afraid of their bravery. Whenever there is a war, once the enemy's flag on the opposite side has the word "Sun" written on it, the Yuan Jun soldiers often collapse before the two sides have time to make contact.
There is no fighting ability at all.
Under such circumstances, if Yuan Shu went north to attack the important cities in Runan guarded by the Sun family, it would be a great fortune to return without success, let alone whether they could be conquered.
If you attack forcefully, if you are not careful, you may fall into a situation of defeat and death.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Yuan Shu decided to use his close relative to send troops to Pei State first to occupy some strategic locations. At the same time, Lu Bu sent troops from Xiapi. The two sides met in Pei State. After joining together, they attacked Runan together.
It is a pity that their actions have already been included in the intelligence of Cao Cao and Sun Ce. One used the spy intelligence network and the other used the personal relationship network to easily uncover all the military plans of the two.
Pei State is actually considered a four-no-no zone because it happens to be in the middle of the four major forces. Although it is nominally under the jurisdiction of Yuzhou, it is occupied by Cao Cao to the north, Sun Jian to the west, Lu Bu to the east, and Yuan Shu to the south.
Extended tentacles.
This makes the four major forces often attack each other here, with one battle in half a month and another in three months, resulting in the decline of people's livelihood and a ruined scene.
Guyang County happened to be in the center of the three major forces of Sun Jian, Yuan Shu and Lu Bu. The people in the surrounding countryside suffered countless raids by Yuan Shu's army with corrupt military discipline. Therefore, when Yuan Shu's army moved north, Sun Ce sent out cavalry to investigate.
At the time of his whereabouts, the local people all enthusiastically revealed the camp where his army was stationed that day.
Yuan Shu planned to go out with all his troops this time, leaving less than 20,000 men to disperse around Jiujiang, Lujiang, Danyang and other places to prevent the powerful families from various places from coming back. A total of about 890,000 troops marched northward in a mighty manner. The former army was led by General Zhang Xun.
More than 30,000 people planned to settle in Guyang County, but they were intercepted by Sun Ce's army.
Zhou Yu asked Sun Ce to concentrate his forces to defeat Yuan Shu's front army first, and then take advantage of Yuan Shu's unsteady footing to immediately turn his guns and attack Ping'a. This was because according to intelligence, Yuan Shu's front army advanced into Gu Yang, and he himself and the middle
The army is in Xiang County, which is more than 20 miles away from here, and Ping'a is where the rear army is.
Strictly speaking, Yuan Shu's three armies were not far apart. It was more than twenty miles from Guting to Xiangxian County, and it was only more than forty miles from Xiangxian County to Ping'a. The overall journey was only an hour or two.
After all, an army of nearly 100,000 people would look very bloated if they acted together, and the army would not move too fast. Therefore, in ancient wars, hundreds of thousands of people often did not gather together, but acted dispersedly, and were even subdivided into each group below.
Each school of the Ministry is led by officers at all levels to prevent chaos in the army caused by too many people.
Although the Battle of Kunyang is a negative teaching material, among many negative teaching materials, including the Battle of Chibi, the Battle of Feishui, and the Battle of Guandu, these large-scale battles, whether it was Cao Cao, Yuan Shao or Fu Jian, did not involve hundreds of thousands of troops.
Just rush forward and be done with it, but attack in batches and never delay.
Yuan Shu is not as talented as Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and Fu Jian. No matter how incompetent the three are, although they do not dominate the world, they are still heroes for a while. Compared with them, Yuan Shu is just a withered bone in the grave, but this is basic military
Common sense, Yuan Shu has been in the army for many years, so he will not understand it.
Therefore, in order to avoid confusion in the march, the front, middle and rear armies marched separately. And there were local people in Guyang serving as guides for Sun Ce's army, so they quickly found the camp where Yuan Shu's former army had planned to spend the night.
A fight quickly broke out between the two sides.
Sun Ce took the lead and led Danyang's elite troops straight into the central formation. He unexpectedly penetrated the enemy's central army and almost captured Yuan Shu's general Zhang Xun alive.
Zhang Xun was beaten to the point of collapse, and he scurried away in a group, and all the captains and captains were also in a state of defeat.
When Sun Ce returned, the war in the distance was coming to an end. Yuan Jun fled south, and Sun Ce's generals Zhu Zhi, Sun Bi, Xu Kun, Wu Jing, Sun He and others immediately led their troops to pursue them.
At this time, there were only sporadic battles in the original battle formation. In the southwest, Zhu Zhi led thousands of troops to besiege more than a thousand Yuan troops. Two of these Yuan troops led the troops and ran rampant, breaking through the siege of Sun's army several times.
, almost breaking through.
Seeing how powerful the two leading men were, Sun Ce felt his hands were itchy and unbearable, so he said to Zhou Yulu Su, "I'll capture those two generals!"
After saying that, he rode away.
Zhou Yulusu knew his bravery and did not dissuade him.
After a while, Sun Ce came here and the little overlord arrived. Zhu Zhijun's morale was greatly shaken, and when he was about to go all out, Sun Ce shouted: "Get out of the way, I'll meet them!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The soldiers moved out of the way one after another. Among the crowd, the leading second general looked sideways, covered in blood, and breathing heavily.
Sun Ce came to the formation, pointed his spear at them and shouted: "Please leave your names!"
"Jiujiang Zhoutai!"
"Jiujiang Jiang Qin!"
The two shouted angrily.
Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin are from Xiacai and Shouchun.
Historically, Sun Ce found Yuan Shu, hoping to return to his father's old army and lead his troops to conquer Jiangdong.
Yuan Shu returned Sun Jian's old troops to Sun Ce, and also gave him a certain amount of food, grass and money to recruit soldiers and horses.
At that time, Yuan Shu occupied Huainan and the land of Jiujiang and Lujiang. Sun Ce recruited troops in Shouchun. Among them, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin joined his army and made great contributions to Sun Ce's campaign in Jiangdong.
But now the Sun family is in Yuzhou and has not recruited troops in Shouchun.
On the contrary, when the Yellow Turbans in Runan were pacified, Liu Pi, Gong Du, Huang Shao, He Man, He Yi and others were defeated and brought under their command.
As a result, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin could only join Yuan Shu's army in Shouchun and now serve as Qu Junhou.
This group of troops turned out to be Yuan Shu's subordinate Qiao Rui's soldiers. After Zhang Xun was defeated, Qiao Rui fled in panic, leaving Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin Duan behind. They fought bravely and have resisted tenaciously until now.
Seeing that they were quite brave, Sun Ce fell in love with their talents and immediately shouted: "Yuan Shu rebelled against the country and committed rebellion. Why should I serve him?"
"In these troubled times, soldiers and bandits are everywhere, and there is no food left at home. If I didn't join the army, I would have starved to death!"
Zhou Tai responded.
Sun Ce said: "In that case, why not join our army?"
"A loyal minister will not serve the two masters, so I will not obey my orders!"
Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin refused.
Sun Ce laughed and said, "Okay, do you dare to fight me? If I win, surrender to me. If I lose, you can leave!"
"Why don't you dare?"
The two looked at each other, clenched their weapons in perfect agreement, and charged towards Sun Ce.
Sun Ce was arrogant in his fighting spirit and didn't care about one against two, so he galloped on his horse.
The three of them immediately started a bloody fight, and the fight was so intense that the sky was dark.