After listening to the soldier's detailed report, Zhou Yu couldn't help but feel a burst of weakness and almost sat down

Originally, I just thought that the grain camp was burned, but I didn't expect that even Hefei was recaptured by the other party

However, it is normal to think about it, Hefei is so close to the Chaohu grain camp, and this city is extremely important to the Cao army, and the Cao army has no reason not to take it back, and after burning the grain camp, it is really simple to pretend to be the defeated army of Jiangdong and deceive the gate of Hefei City, and it is even effortless

Seeing that it was about to hit Xuchang City, I didn't expect it to fall short

The grain camp was burned, and the army had no other way but to retreat, and it was really a waste of all the work

Zhou Yu was very unwilling, but he was helpless, and he didn't have the ability to conjure food for nothing

And Xuchang City, as the capital of the Han Dynasty today, must have been repaired by Cao Cao many times, and it is definitely not something that can be captured in a short time

If you want to attack Xuchang, you must be prepared for a protracted battle, and this battle must last for at least a month

The military rations carried by the whole army can only last for five days, even if they make great efforts to reduce the amount distributed every day by half, it will only last for ten days at most, what Zhou Yu can be sure of is that with only ten days of work, it is simply a fool's dream to conquer Qiaoxian and then capture Xuchang

If this is the case, the fate faced by the Jiangdong Army at that time will be nothing more than the exhaustion of morale and the defeat of the whole army

No matter how reluctant he was in his heart, Zhou Yu knew very well that it was time to retreat

When the decision continues to be chaotic, at this moment, he hesitates on the issue of whether to withdraw the army, and when the time comes, when the army's morale is really broken, he will regret it

When it really comes to that time, if you want to go, you can't go, so you just wait to be wiped out by Cao Jun

Although I don't know how Sun Jian will feel about the proposal to withdraw the army, Zhou Yu estimates that he will agree

If you want to ask who is most hated for not being able to capture Xuchang, it is definitely Sun Jian, there is no doubt that Sun Jian launched this war in addition to the reason for developing his own power, and avenging Sun Quan for his love is also a major factor

never thought that Sun Quan's revenge had not yet had time to be avenged, and Sun Jian's other son, Sun Yi, had also died in the hands of Cao Jun

He lost two sons successively, and both of them died at the hands of Cao Jun when he attacked Cao Cao, and the grief in Sun Jian's heart can be imagined

With so much anger and sadness in his heart, but he had to face the choice of whether to retreat, at this moment, Zhou Yu couldn't help but feel pity for Sun Jian

However, after all, Sun Jian is a powerful man on one side, and his ambition is still very firm, and Zhou Yu believes that he will make the right choice from the perspective of the whole army after learning the sad news

When Sun Jian heard the news of the fall of Chaohu Grain Camp, although he was shocked, he was still able to restrain his emotions and make the shock not superficial, but when he learned that his other son Sun Yi also died at the hands of Cao Jun, he obviously couldn't continue to calm down

Sun Jian is forty-eight years old this year, and he is no longer in his prime, and he has obviously felt that his physical strength and energy have dropped significantly compared to usual, so he has put more effort into the next generation, hoping that they can hold up a piece of the sky

But his favorite and most optimistic Sun Quan was killed by Cao Cao a few years ago, and now the heroic and resolute third Sun Yi also followed in the footsteps of his second brother, and another son was killed by Cao Jun

The sad news of his son's death came, so that Sun Jian couldn't keep calm, he was extremely angry at the moment, his eyes were cracking, and his beard was crazy

At the same time, a hint of haggard crept on his angry face

The pain of losing a child is not so easy to bear, and sending a white-haired person to a black-haired person is a kind of exhaustion and sadness that soaks the heart

It stands to reason that Zhou Yu should say two words of comfort at this time, and then stand in the position of a military advisor to persuade Sun Jian to withdraw as soon as possible

But Zhou Yu didn't do that, Zhou Yu believed that Sun Jian would make the right judgment, and if he stepped forward to persuade him, it might be self-defeating, but it would arouse Sun Jian's hatred for Cao Jun in his heart, but it was not beautiful

Sun Jian's expression was uncertain, and he was struggling to make a choice

His eyes were red, his expression was also very painful, the grain and grass were burned, this war had no possibility of winning, and continuing to attack Xuchang would undoubtedly push the whole army into a desperate situation, but if he returned like this, the deep hatred of the two sons of Jiangdong did not know that it would not be repaid until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse

"Father, second brother, third brother, revenge, can not be avenged, we and Cao thief are already incompatible, if you want to take revenge today, I don't know what year and month you have to wait for" When Sun Jian was still hesitating, Sun Ce suddenly shouted: "Even if the granary is burned, the dry food carried by our army can support a few days, as long as Xuchang is quickly attacked, you can get revenge."

After capturing Xuchang in a few days, Sun Jian also wanted to do this, and he hated it in his heart, but how could this matter be so easy

But if you retire like this, how should you bear the pain of losing your child, and how should you vent it

Just when Sun Jian was hesitating, another herald ran in and said a shocking news

The defeat of the Xiliang army has retreated from Chang'an