On the day that Zhang Xiujun took Niuzhu, Zhang Liao, a general under Zhang Xiu, captured Shicheng and Danyang counties!

It is said that it was captured, but it is actually an exaggeration. Zhang Wenyuan, who was well versed in the speed of soldiers, couldn't wait for all the soldiers to go ashore, and arranged for the general Song Xianhou Cheng to lead the team, and he only brought more than 2,000 light cavalry to attack first.

Setting off in the morning, more than 2,000 light horsemen rushed to Shicheng a hundred miles away at noon. As Zhang Liao expected, the defenders of Shicheng were extremely lax, and there were no patrols and checkpoints in the huge city, and only a dozen soldiers were arranged near the city gate to guard the guard.

It is said that they are on duty, but they are really praised. It was the height of summer in July, and it was noon in the scorching sun, and people were the most spiritless. In addition, those who stayed in the county at this time and were not recruited to fight were all second- and third-rate soldiers. These people are usually very loose and lazy, but now compared with other elite soldiers, those small days are naturally how happy they are.

When Zhang Liao approached Shicheng, he divided his cavalry into three teams. He commanded a team, and his cavalry generals Cheng Lian and Wei Yue each led a team. Zhang Liao rushed to the west gate, and Cheng Lian and Wei Yue made a detour to attack the north and south gates respectively. An east gate is empty, but it is just in line with the art of war.

As we approached the city gates, there were more pedestrians on the road. However, this only made Zhang Liao worry for a moment, because after a while, Zhang Liao found that the people of Jiangdong had no special performance except for being surprised by the fierce cavalry that suddenly appeared on the main road.

This made Zhang Liao himself surprised, feeling that he was not here to conquer Jiangdong, but as if he was still in Huainan. Every time the people of Huainan see the strange appearance of the Xiliang light horseman, they also have this novel and surprised expression!

However, there was no time to think about this problem, Zhang Liao's main mind was still on how to cause the surprise attack.

But the defenders of Shicheng told Zhang Liao with their own performance: You don't have to think hard about how to raid the city, as long as you come, you can enter!

Finally seeing the wide open city gate, Zhang Liao immediately ordered to speed up the horse, and sprinted as fast as possible before the Jiangdong soldiers discovered the enemy attack and closed the city gate!

In order to ensure protection, the ancient city gates were made extremely heavy. For the heavy city gates, the city defenders have always loved and hated. Love, it's a critical barrier in and out of the city. If the attacking side wants to take the city, it must use rushing cars and crashing cars to deal with the city gates, and many times because of the heavy city gates, the attacking side may not be able to knock down the city gates even after paying a huge and heavy price.

The hate is that the thicker the city gate, the more difficult it is to open and close it normally. For example, the gate of this stone city usually requires seven or eight men to work together to fit it, and the process is slow, extremely inconvenient and easy.

And Zhang Liao's light cavalry must seize the important place of the city gate before the Jiangdong soldiers close the city gate, otherwise if the gate is closed, no matter how brave and fierce Zhang Liao's light cavalry is, how weak and incompetent the defenders in the city are, in the absence of siege equipment, they can only look at the city and sigh.

But Zhang Liao was obviously overwhelmed. When the Xiliang light cavalry had already been killed in front of the city gate. The dozen or so Jiangdong soldiers guarding the city did not have the slightest posture of guarding the door, and only one of the soldiers at the head of the city shouted to the cavalry of Zhang Liaobu below: "Where did the brothers on horseback come from at noon?" Remember to dismount when you enter the city! ”

It was an arrow that answered him.

Eight hundred light horsemen, when they were about fifty paces close to the city gate, the first hundred archers took out their bows and arrows and shot at the dozen or so soldiers on duty at the city gate!

Entering the stone city with great ease, Zhang Liao went straight to the seat of the county capital. Here, I have to say that the ancient cities in our country are always the same, and the government offices are located in the center of the city, and in most cases there is no need to deliberately look for them.

When Zhang Liao led his troops to the county government, there was still no strong resistance. When the Shicheng County Commander was captured, he still didn't realize that this was a war!

Hou Chengwei, who broke through from the north and south gates, reported that the situation was similar to that of Zhang Liaobu. There are thousands of defenders in Stone City, and there is not even a warning action until now.

When Zhang Liao captured a local of Shicheng and killed the soldiers on the city wall under his guide, he only found less than 300 Shicheng defenders in the camp!

After forcing these defenders to surrender with iron and blood, Zhang Liao asked where the other seven hundred defenders were! The answer is, either go home and get some sleep, or just cool off somewhere in the city! Not many people want to camp in the dirty and crowded city anyway.

As a last resort, Zhang Liao himself beat the drum of gathering troops, and finally defeated the defenders of Shicheng!

On the one hand, let the cavalry under his command rest for a while, and on the other hand, arrange military control of Stone City. Before noon was over and before the afternoon, Zhang Liao resolutely led more than 1,500 horsemen to set off again, and rushed to Danyang County, which was 100 miles east.

The situation in Danyang County is similar to that of Shicheng, and it is extremely lax and guarded. However, a skirmish broke out here. Almost 300 Danyang Township soldiers were unwilling to be captured, but it had no impact on the overall situation. Although they ran around for a day, this did not affect the more than 1,000 Xiliang cavalry to show their fierce and bloodthirsty side.

In one day, the six counties of Danyang under the direct control of the Sun family have fallen into two counties!

But Zhang Xiujun's surprise attack ended there. Zhang Liao's general Song Xian's headquarters of 10,000 soldiers and horses, when there were still ten miles away from Moling, Sun Ce's appointment of Danyang Taishou Wu Jing, had already closed the Moling city gate and summoned thousands of county soldiers to guard the city wall.

Song Xian, who had trekked all the way through the mountains and rivers, was quite depressed, looking at the towering Moling city wall and the closed copper-inlaid city gate, Song Xian secretly scolded that he knew that he should have killed all the villagers he met on the road, and on the other hand, he could only order to bury the pot and cook under the Moling City.

Zhang Xiujun's soldiers did not set up camp, from Song Xian, the general of the army, to the soldiers, all of them thought that there was really no need to set up camp. It's just a Moling city, although the city is the first in Danyang County, but no matter how strong the city is, it must be guarded by elite soldiers with strong bows and crossbows, and it must be supported by enough grain, grass and ordnance.

And it is obvious that at this time when Sun Ce launched the western expedition with all the strength of the country, Moling City obviously did not have the latter two conditions!

Therefore, the next day, Zhang Xiu personally led the 10,000 soldiers who stayed in Niuzhu to rush to the city of Moling, making the number of Zhang Xiu's army under the city reach 20,000, Wu Jing decisively abandoned the city and retreated. It's just that this decisiveness came too late, Cao Xing commanded two thousand Qiang Hu archers, and taught Wu Jing an unforgettable lesson in his life.

easily took Moling, and Zhang Liao also took Shicheng Danyang in return, Zhang Xiu still ordered his subordinates not to rest, and continued to move towards the hinterland of Jiangdong. Until another three days, Zhang Xiu led the army to take Hushu, Jurong, and Jiangcheng, the remaining three Danyang counties controlled by the Sun family, which were weakly garrisoned. And Zhang Liao also led the army to the southeast, approaching Yangxian of Wu County.

At this point, Zhang Xiu's first phase of the battle ended so happily and quickly. Zhang Xiu's army was very fast, and the soldiers were divided into two routes, and quickly controlled the whole county of Danyang. The 20,000 troops on the North Road led by Zhang Xiu were directed at Qu'a, the important land of Wu County, and the 20,000 troops on the South Road led by the general Zhang Liao were also about to advance into the Taihu Plain, the "land of fish and rice".

Although I still don't understand why Zhang Xiujun suddenly tore up the treaty of friendship and alliance, the Jiangdong people still understand that they were put together by Zhang Xiu. also finally reacted, on the one hand, mobilized troops to guard the important place, and on the other hand, urgently went to the main force of Sun Ce in Yuzhang County to report to the emergency!

Although Jiangdong was empty because Sun Ce poured troops to attack Jingzhou, it was still possible to mobilize 18,000 troops. Especially at the critical moment of life and death, many preferential policies and lenient treatment of the people implemented by Sun Ce since he took charge of Jiangdong finally played a role. Many powerful people of the world volunteered to bring their private troops to contribute to the defense of Jiangdong, and there were countless children of Jiangdong who volunteered to join the army!

Zhang Xiu has created an excellent sneak attack opportunity for himself, but all he can do at present is to suspend the pace of the march. Because on the one hand, he has to wait for his Danyang Taishou Yuan Yin to take over the six northeastern counties of Danyang and digest them into his own territory. On the other hand, it is necessary to let the foot soldiers under his command who have been adrift on the water for nearly a month take a breather, and they have to wait for the food and logistics supplies to keep up with the journey of the army.

This was very helpless, but Zhang Xiu had to overcome these unfavorable factors by herself. Although the main force of Yongliang under his command fought fiercely, it was also divided into when and where! In this rainy and hot flashes, dense water networks, and dense forests in the Jiangnan region, the combat effectiveness of the Xiliang soldiers is greatly reduced.

But there is no way to do this, because if the Huainan soldiers are replaced to come to the south, it is really more than enough to defend and not enterprising enough! What's more, Zhang Xiu himself predicted that this expedition to Jiangdong would inevitably be a bloody storm, and it was reliable to bring the main force of Xiliang, who was used to seeing blood.

After thinking about it in depth, Zhang Xiu strengthened the idea of Yongliang's main force on the Jiangdong battlefield. One is because the Sun family enjoys considerable popularity in Jiangdong. Whether it is the powerful family in the ruling class or the cloth cloth people at the bottom, the support for the Sun family is quite high. Not to mention the big clans, just a world military system is enough to make all the powerful clans stand on Sun Ce's side.

As for Zhang Xiu, the new policy implemented in Huainan uprooted the entire Huainan clan Haoqiang! Except for a small number of scholars who only had symbolic significance, the wealthy families of the original Huainan were all annihilated under Zhang Xiu's obscenity.

Compared with the two, it is too simple to want the wealthy families of Jiangdong to make a choice! Although Zhang Xiu's current troops are very strong, they have a very favorable advantage in the battle situation. But you just have to think about it, if Jiangdong falls into the hands of Zhang Xiu, the life of his entire family will no longer be in his hands, and the net worth accumulated by his ancestors for generations will all disappear. Then even if you fight to the death at this moment, you will choose to live and die with the Sun family!

Compared with the wealthy families who think more about their own safety and interests, ordinary people do not have the slightest affection for the term "Xiliang soldiers". Since Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the word Xiliang Bing seems to have become synonymous with disaster to the country and the people. For Zhang Xiu, who was born in the Xiliang Group, the vast majority of Jiangdong villagers' imagination of Zhang Xiu is a fierce and vicious, cruel and brutal jackal image who usually eats human flesh and does not spit out bones!

It is needless to say what kind of result this spontaneous understanding, coupled with the intentional guidance of the nobles, will cause. Then, Zhang Xiu's prediction of the bloody storm in the southern expedition to Jiangdong can be said to be reasonable.

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