Chapter 147: Fire Array Stops Sleeping Dragon
Jiangdong actually expected that he would not be able to defend this Chaisang City for a long time. There were no more people here, and all the people were transferred by Sun Ce to Wu County and other places in Jiangdong.
Jiangdong was originally not comparable to other princes in terms of population, if the population in Chaisang City was collected by the Shenwu Imperial Court, then how Jiangdong would resist Liu Yu for a long time in the future would be a big problem. Not only the people of Chaisang City, but even the people of the entire Yuzhang County, who can be relocated, Zhou Yu has completed the relocation. Zhuang Ding father and daughter, Zhou Yu will not let go of any of them. Nowadays, the most people left behind in Yuzhang County are some old and weak. Zhou Yu is still a little human, and Zhou Yu will not be embarrassed by these people who don't want to leave their homeland. He is not Liu Bei's kind of person who lacks morality, and he doesn't even let go of the old and weak. But without the sturdy old and weak, if there is no relief, whether or not they can survive is a question. This was done by Zhou Yu on purpose. Liu Yu is not the son of heaven who claims to be benevolent, and the old and weak people of Yuzhang are also his people. If the benevolent Emperor Shenwu is really benevolent, he should help his people, and not let them go hungry and freeze. There should be more than 10,000 old and weak people in the entire Yuzhang, and the food and drink of these people is a lot of money. Zhou Yu is waiting to see the show.
Therefore, taking precautions, Zhou Yu's ability will not be unexpected. If Liu Jun wants to occupy Yuzhang County, then he must relieve these old and weak. In disguise, it weakens Liu Jun's strength.
Sun Ce was very unwilling, he didn't know how many times he had failed at the hands of Liu Jun. Thinking of being defeated at the hands of Liu Yu so many times, Sun Ce didn't know if he could stop Liu Jun's plot to annex Jiangdong.
Zhou Yu knew what Sun Ce was thinking, and said excitedly: "Bo Fu, are you discouraged? It's not you. ”
Gan Ning and the injured Zhou Tai, as well as all the Jiangdong soldiers, all looked at their lord, and they all looked at Sun Ce with surprised expressions.
When Sun Ce was said like this, the whole person was angry, and shouted: "I am the lord of Jiangdong, even if you are discouraged, the general will not be discouraged!" ”
Sun Ce then glared at all the people who were looking at him and scolded, "Why are they all stunned? Don't you know that Liu Jun's army is coming. Hurry up, go to the port. Let's continue to fight with Liu Jun! ”
Seeing that Sun Ce's fighting spirit was high, the soldiers all regained their spirits and responded loudly: "Yes, lord!" ”
The remaining Jiangdong soldiers immediately supported their comrades-in-arms and accelerated their march towards the port.
In fact, as the lowest level of soldiers, what they pursue is just a simple meal of food and clothing. The other thing is whether their lord can make them feel inspired. If even Sun Ce was discouraged, they wouldn't have to continue to fight, surrender to the Shenwu Imperial Court, and still have food and clothing.
This is Sun Ce's personal charm, as long as he is there, the Jiangdong army will not panic or be chaotic.
Sun Ce and Zhou Yu walked side by side.
Sun Ce suddenly asked, "Gong Jin, what is the point of fighting Liu Jun like this?" ”
Zhou Yu knew that Sun Ce already had a shadow area in his heart, and now that it had reached this point, Sun Ce had only two ways to go, and said: "Bo Fu, the battle for domination in the world has never been smooth sailing. My Jiangdong is a rich land, Liu Yu wants to dominate the world, and we can wait for nothing but surrender, or fight to the end. Now that I, Jiangdong, am in terms of strength, I really can't compete with Liu Yu alone. But it is not so easy for Liu Yu to take down my entire Jiangdong. I, Jiangdong and Liu Yu, are against each other, and we must be prepared for the most suffering. My Jiangdong children will die for Bo Fu. Surrender is not necessarily the wrong path. The temporary surrender can give Jiangdong a chance of life. When the time comes in the future, it is possible to lead the troops to recover, which is a trade-off. The only thing to worry about is whether Liu Yu will impose more restrictions on Jiangdong and Bofu. And after the resurrection, the south is called lonely, who is convinced? Jiangdong can still compete with the princes of the world for hegemony, won't it make people laugh? ”
Zhou Yu is right, either fight or surrender. If you fight, it will be very difficult for Koto, but with the same heart, no one knows what the outcome will be. But if he wants to surrender, Sun Ce will not have much benefit, and he will also lose his reputation. Zhou Yu himself was not in favor of surrender, he was a staunch pro-battle faction.
"Even if I, Sun Ce, want to surrender, Liu Yu won't keep me. That's to fight with Liu Yu. See if he is the true son of the Han Dynasty? His ancestor Liu Bang also defeated the overlord of Western Chu Xiang Ji to dominate the world, so this time it will be up to my Jiangdong little overlord Sun Ce to teach him Liu Boxuan a lesson. In this world, Liu Yu is not alone, he can do whatever he wants! Sun Ce said firmly.
Even if Sun Ce didn't have the confidence to defeat Liu Yu, he didn't want to be a loser in his bones. Surrender is a coward in Sun Ce's eyes. Sun Ce admits that he is not a coward, and it is really difficult for him to surrender.
Zhou Yu looked at Sun Ce with a relieved face, but in fact, he secretly said that it was a pity, Sun Ce just said to teach Liu Yu a lesson, but he could only teach the other party a lesson in the fight for domination, and he really felt a little powerless to say it.
Because of Sun Ce's single-mindedness, there is no more value in Chaisang now. Zhou Yu could only sigh that it was a pity, originally he still wanted to hold on to Chaisang City for four or five years to buy time for the rest of Jiangdong to recover. Now I can only run away with everything.
"I don't know when I'll be able to return to this place!" Zhou Yu sighed in his heart.
The Jiangdong army rushed to the port of Jiujiang, and Zhang Fei also joined Guan Yu in disgrace.
At this time, Guan Yu had already joined Zhuge Liang, and the wounds on his arms had been bandaged. When he saw Zhang Fei leading his troops back, he immediately greeted him.
But Zhang Fei's current appearance is really not good-looking, all the soldiers under him are injured, and even Zhang Fei's armor has a few feather arrows hanging on it.
"Yide, why are you like this?" Guan Yu is worried about Zhang Fei's injury.
Zhang Fei said depressedly: "Don't mention it, just about to catch up with Sun Ce, who knew that a bunch of archers suddenly appeared, shooting at me indiscriminately, if I didn't retreat in time, the casualties would be heavy." ”
Guan Yu looked at the feather arrows on Zhang Fei's body, Zhang Fei understood what Guan Yu meant, and said with a smile: "Brother, don't worry, these are all hung on the armor, and they are not injured in the slightest." ”
With such a result, Guan Yu is much more relieved.
At this time, Zhuge Liang and Wen Ping came over slowly.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei immediately saluted Zhuge Liang and arched their hands and said, "See the military advisor." ”
Zhuge Liang nodded with a smile and asked, "Listening to Yun Chang, Yide went to pursue Sun Ce, I don't know what the result is?" ”
"Strategist, the last general has let you down. The last general did not notice for a while, was ambushed, and retreated. Please punish the military advisor. "Zhang Fei dared to act and did not have anything to hide.
Zhuge Liang's face remained unchanged, and after listening to Zhang Fei's report, he said simply: "The whole army is in pursuit, and it is chasing Sun Ce." ”
Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Wen Ping and others should be immediately.
Pursuit is a must, but Zhuge Liang asked them to pursue in a bit of a problem. Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others think that the next direction to enter should be Chaisang City. But Zhuge Liang asked them to march towards Jiujiang Port.
"Strategist, the last general is very confused. Chaisang City is the seat of Yuzhang County, and Sun Ce also retreated to Chaisang, why did our army march to Jiujiang Port? Could it be that the military advisor is going to cut off the back road of Chaisang City?" Guan Yu recounted the doubts in his heart.
"Sun Ce retreated to Chaisang? I'm afraid that there are no people in Chaisang City now except for the old and weak. Zhuge Liang asserted.
Zhuge Liang was so resourceful that he marched all the way, and when he passed by some villages, he found that there was no smoke rising in these villages when they were eating. The careful Zhuge Liang noticed this strange phenomenon and immediately asked the soldiers to enter the village to investigate. In the end, I learned that there were already a few people in the village, and there were only a few old and weak people who were unable to walk. Zhuge Liang finally learned that Zhou Yu had slowly transferred the people from all over the country to other counties in Jiangdong long before, with the purpose of leaving an empty Yuzhang County for the Shenwu Imperial Court. The villages were like this, and Zhuge Liang could conclude that Zhou Yu and Sun Ce would leave an empty Chaisang City for them.
"No one?" Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were very surprised.
Wen Ping immediately told Zhang Fei and Guan Yu what he had seen and heard in the army just now, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei understood that the Jiangdong Army was so ruthless. Guan Zhang and the others, as pioneer generals this time, didn't care about the surrounding situation, and it was normal not to see it.
Guan Yu deeply memorized this lesson and told him to pay attention to these things in the future. As a general, if you are not careful, you will suffer a big loss.
Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "Zhou Yu and Sun Ce didn't burn the entire Yuzhang and leave a piece of white land for us, which is already a big conscience." ”
Wen Ping and Guan Yu thought so, and kept nodding, not feeling exaggerated by Zhuge Liang's words.
Zhang Fei didn't understand, and asked: "Military advisor, this Sun Ce is the lord of Jiangdong anyway, this Yuzhang is his territory, judging by what he did before, he will definitely not do such a thing." ”
Zhuge Liang knew that Zhang Fei was relatively upright and didn't know much about people's hearts, so he patiently explained: "Yide, although Sun Ce is the lord of Jiangdong, not any prince is as benevolent as His Majesty, and those who fight for hegemony in troubled times are all heroes, don't underestimate the viciousness of others." ”
Zhang Fei touched his head, looking like he didn't understand very much. Everyone knows that Zhang Fei is this virtue, he has been assassinated by Liu Bei, but until now Zhang Fei still has a personal relationship with Liu Bei. When everyone sighed that Zhang Fei would suffer a loss because of this in the future, by the way, they all felt that Zhang Fei was a person who could have deep friendships, after all, at least an upright person would not fall into the ground.
After saying a lot, Zhuge Liang felt that time had been wasted, so he asked the soldiers to speed up their march.
Now no one has any doubts about Zhuge Liang's command, and everyone has sped up.
Liu Jun was speeding up the march, and the Jiangdong Army in Jiujiang Port was constantly getting on the boat, and Sun Ce's only naval army was placed in Jiujiang Port, in order to leave a way back after the defeat. Zhang Zhao and the others were all relieved when they saw Sun Ce returning, as long as Sun Ce was there, there was still hope for Jiangdong.
At this time, Zhou Yu and Sun Ce also knew that Liu Jun would not go to Chaisang City, so they killed him directly.
"Zhuge Liang is really a little capable." Zhou Yu understood that his plan to leave Liu Jun with an empty city was seen through by Zhuge Liang.
Sun Ce said a little worriedly: "Gong Jin, our army has not fully boarded the ship, if it is caught up by Liu Jun, it will be troublesome." ”
"Don't worry, Bo Fu, this matter will be left to you. Go down and go back. Zhou Yu smiled confidently and then led a thousand men and horses in the direction where Liu Jun came, and Sun Ce couldn't stop him if he wanted to.
Seeing the situation, Gan Ning came to Sun Ce and asked for orders: "Lord, the last general will go to support the governor." ”
Sun Ce remembered Zhou Yu's confident appearance just now, thinking that Zhou Yu must have sufficient plans, shook his head and said, "No need, let the soldiers get on the boat as soon as possible." ”
Sun Ce gave the order like this, and Gan Ning could only give up.
Zhou Yu came to a hillside with a thousand soldiers and horses, and ordered all the 1,000 soldiers to prepare the rockets.
It turned out that Zhou Yu had set up a trap here before, and calculated that Zhuge Liang would ignore the surprise attack of Chaisang City, and this time he used fire to stop Zhuge Liang's advance.
After a while, Liu Jun's banner appeared in front of Zhou Yu's eyes.
With a big Zhuge banner, Zhou Yu knew that Zhuge Liang was coming.
When Liu Jun approached, Zhou Yu felt that it was almost there, so he said loudly to Liu Jun: "Zhuge Junshi, can you come out and see it!" ”
Zhuge Liang immediately stopped the advance of the army, he followed the sound and looked over and saw Zhou Yu on the hillside not far away.
Zhuge Liang's eyes shrank, and it should be Zhou Yu on the hillside. Others asked very politely, Zhuge Liang naturally couldn't lose the demeanor of a literati, and stepped forward and replied: "Zhuge Kongming is here, but Mei Zhoulang is on the mountain?" ”
"Haha, Zhuge Junshi is really discerning, and it is Zhou Gongjin below. People say that Zhuge Junshi is extremely talented, and he is deeply valued by Emperor Shenwu. Zhou Yu said loudly.
"Prizes. Under just a slight name. Zhuge Liang responded: "Governor Zhou, as far as I know, the governor is fleeing in embarrassment, why do you have time to talk here and below, is it because you want to delay time?" ”
"Zhuge Military Division, whether you want to delay time in the next place, with the talent of the foot, you must have already known. It can be concluded that in Xia to empty Chaisang City, Zhuge Junshi's resourcefulness is enough to make Zai admire. Zhou Yu then changed his words and said in a cold voice: "Zhuge Liang, you led 150,000 soldiers and horses to invade my Jiangdong, and you have exhausted all the organs, more soldiers and horses than Liu Yu used, aren't you afraid that others will laugh at you for being cowardly and afraid?" ”
Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "Soldiers, the important weapon of the country." can be upright and upright, why do you need to wait for the side door like you. Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, Sun Ce disobeyed the orders of the imperial court, and was ordered by the Son of Heaven to ask for no ministers. Zhou Du supervised and helped the abuse, aren't you afraid of leaving a stench for 10,000 years? ”
"What a big breath. Everything in the world is man-made, and now there is a while, Zhuge Junshi, you have a peerless talent, just come and break it. Come on, release the arrows! Zhou Yu didn't plan to talk nonsense with Zhuge Liang anymore, and launched the rocket directly.
A thousand archers shot rockets not far in front of Zhuge Liang, and instantly ignited a fire. Since Zhuge Liang was more than a stone's throw away, and it was a rocket, Jiangdong's archers could not pose a threat to Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang was also guarding against this at the beginning.
Zhuge Liang instantly understood that Zhou Yu had set up a fire here, and he wanted to teach him a deep lesson.
"Zhuge Military Division, I will dedicate this fire array to my feet, and please accept it with my face." Zhou Yu said very happily, and then disappeared.
Zhuge Liang looked deeply at the position where Zhou Yu left, his eyes showed a fine light, and finally said: "Zhou Yu, you are ruthless enough." I didn't expect that I, Zhuge Liang, were the best at using fire, but today I was blocked by you with fire, it's really a heavenly cycle. ”
Liu Jun looked at the fire in front of them with a bewildered expression. With such a fire to block, how can they pursue the Jiangdong Army?
"Strategist, what should we do?" Wen Ping came to Zhuge and asked weakly.
Zhuge Liang was interrupted from his thoughts, and finally said lightly: "The whole army retreats one mile, and after the fire is extinguished, then pursue." ”