Dong Xi is eight feet tall and definitely stands out among the Jiangnan people. Full of beards, tall and mighty, at first glance it is the kind of personality that refuses to convince people easily, and once it is served, it will be dead hearted.

It was not surprising to meet Sun Ce here. On the contrary, he was not surprised that Guo Yi and others limited their attention to Guling and did not pay attention to such an important path. mentioned Guo Yi and others, he looked disgusted and directly denounced them as scholars.

Things gather by like, people by groups, Dong Xi has a very good appetite for Ma Chao, and the two chatted very happily, although Dong Xi's official dialect has a strong local accent, Ma Chao can only barely understand part of it. Sun Ce led Dong Xi to the riverside and met Gan Ning and Ling Cao. Seeing the soldiers on the hillsides on both sides, and then looking at these generals who were not gentle gentlemen at first glance, Dong Xi patted the back of his head with palpitations, and his back was cold.

Even those who no longer know the art of war know that if they are friends or enemies, it is expected that they will crash into this ambush circle and suffer heavy losses, and it is not impossible for the entire army to be annihilated. Although there are not many people in front of them, they are all elites, and their own troops are not opponents at all, and they can only be abused.

Heroes cherish heroes, although Dong Xi only saw a small part of Sun Ce's strength, he immediately fell in love with it, feeling that he had finally found a like-minded person. It's interesting to fight with such heroes, and what is the future of mixing with Guo Yi and those people. At first sight, Dong Xi quickly put forward his own suggestion: to attack Shanyin.

Guo Yi was intimidated by the prestige of the Ming Mansion, and not only gathered all the county soldiers, but also gathered many bandits, such as the thieves Huang Longluo and Zhou Bo near Shanyin. These people usually hide in the mountains, and if they are good, they will advance like bees, and if they are unfavorable, they will be scattered as birds and beasts, although their combat effectiveness is average, but they are extremely troublesome. Now that he is tempted by Guo Yi, it is a good opportunity to gather to consolidate the tomb, which is a good opportunity to catch them all. Sanyin is empty, but it can be decided by a war. If he sent people to seize Zhuji and Yuji counties, Guling could not get food supplies, and it collapsed in a month at most. ”

Dong Xi said as he drew the grassland on the ground with a war knife to explain the situation. Although the area of Huiji is wide, it is the coastal plain that has been developed now, the thirteen cities of the whole county, seven cities are located in this narrow strip, Yuji is located in the westernmost county, not far to the east is Shanyin, and Zhuji and Wushu are connected to the south, but they are far away, and when they capture Shanyin, the grain of the counties east of Shanyin cannot be transported to Guling, and Guling becomes a lonely city.

If there is no aid and no defense, no food and no food, and Guling has no reinforcements and no food, it will definitely be defeated.

Sun Ce was in the middle of it, and immediately took Dong Xun across the river to discuss with Guo Jia. Guo Jia is good at observing faces, if Dong Xi has any cattiness, it is difficult for him to hide from Guo Jia's eyes. Although he believed that Dong Raid would not be a bait, it was related to the survival of thousands of people and whether he could occupy Huiji, so he had to be careful.

Guo Jia agreed with Dong Xi's suggestion and proposed supplements. He suggested surround Guling with heavy troops, and then send light cavalry to Shangyu to meet Gu Yong, and let him rush to Shanyin to act as a guard, lest Sun Ce personally rush there. Although Guling is full of county soldiers and bandits, after all, there are 20,000 people, if Sun Ce can't personally sit in the town and coordinate the generals, it will be difficult to achieve the goal of total annihilation.

Sun Ce agreed with Guo Jia's suggestion, and was about to nod his head, when he suddenly remembered something. "Yuan Dynasty, there is a person named Yu in Yuyao, are you familiar with it?"

Dong Xi pouted. "General, the Yu clan will be in the Ji family, and that Yu Tuo is a well-known madman, so I am naturally familiar with it."

"Do you think he will be in Guling?"

"No, it won't."

Seeing that Dong Xi answered so surely, Sun Ce was puzzled. Dong Xi explained: "The general doesn't know, Yu rolls his eyes very high, and it is difficult for idlers to enter his eyes, because his words are not inferior, he doesn't know how many people he has offended, and he can't talk to Guo Yi and others, let alone get mixed with these rabble." The fifth generation of the Yu family ruled easily, how could they not know that these people were defeated and invincible? ”

Sun Ce secretly laughed. Yu Turn's stinky mouth is indeed famous, and it is probably not only Guo Yi and others who are despised by him, Dong Xi is likely to have also eaten deflated, and he is a little afraid of Yu Flip between his words. With his character, it is naturally not because his academics are not as good as Yu Tuo, but more likely that he suffered a loss with Yu Tuo.

"In that case, I simply invite them to come along." Sun Ce immediately called Jiang Gan, took care of a few words, and asked Yan Xing to escort Jiang Gan with a hundred cavalry to Shangyu and Yuyao to ask Gu Yong and Yu to turn. Dong Xun heard this, and hurriedly reminded Sun Ce that Yu had a bad temper, and he was afraid that he would not accept the invitation, and maybe he would say a few ugly words. Sun Ce was confident, picked up the pen, drew a few strokes on the paper, wrote a few more words, sealed them with a copper pipe, and asked Jiang Gan to take them. If Yu Chuan refuses to come, show him this, if he doesn't come, whatever he wants.

Dong Xi saw it in his eyes and doubted it.

Jiang Gan took the order and left, and Sun Ce immediately arranged to cross the river and quickly rushed to Guling City.

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Sheng Xian stood on the top of the mountain, looking down on the river.

Guling City is sandwiched between two waters, the west is the big river, the east is Guling Lake, Guling is built on the Hucheng Mountain in the west of the lake, and there is Xiajia Mountain in the east of the lake. The lake is connected to the Yougao River, and the source of the Yougao River comes partly from the mountains and partly from the valley water. It is a ferry port suitable for ships to dock, and it is usually landed here by Wu Gun.

Controlling Guling means controlling the Gully, as long as the defenders set up strong bows, crossbows, halberds and shields on the shore, they are condescending, even if the attackers can fight again, the casualties will be very heavy.

"Can Sun Ce land here?" Sheng Xian sneered: "Xu Gong is stupid and deserves to die. He was not defeated by Sun Ce, but by the Wu Jun clan. If it weren't for the fact that he killed innocents indiscriminately and separated from the Wu Jun clan, why would he go out of the city to fight Sun Ce? According to the city, no matter how many people Sun Ce has, it is useless. ”

Shen Zhi disagreed. "Ah Weng, Guling is strong, but Guling has limited grain storage, usually only 20,000 or 30,000 stone grain, enough for 2,000 people to eat for half a year, now 20,000 people have come at once, and the grain storage is only enough for half a month, and every half a month you have to go to the nearby Yuji to transport grain, if you want to hold Guling, you must guard Yuji. Let's hurry up and go to Yuji, in case Sun Ce occupies Yuji City, no matter how strong Guling is, it will not be able to defend it. ”

"Sun Ce can't land here, how can he get the rest of the?" Sheng Xian scoffed. "Do you think he's really a phoenix bird and can fly over?"

Shen Zhi didn't want to argue with Sheng Xian, so he urged Sheng Xian to go down the mountain. He knew Guo Yi's troop deployment and knew that there were major flaws in it, but he didn't want to remind Sheng Xian, nor did he want to remind Guo Yi. After a few days in Guling, he felt a deep malice. He regarded himself as a scholar, but because of the Shen family's good martial arts, Guo Yi actually looked down on him and treated him as a pure martial artist, and those bandits. He didn't want to help Guo Yi and suffer this insult, let alone stay in Guling, so he deliberately made a plan to let Sheng Xian invite himself to guard Yuji. He was snubbed, and Sheng Xian also felt faceless and agreed to his suggestion, but he still disagreed with his worries, stubbornly believing that Sun Ce would not be able to break through Guling.

There was a sound of chirping in the distance, and Shen Zhi looked up to see that on the southwest slope, there were flocks of birds flying up, hovering in the air, and not falling for a long time. Shen Zhi smiled bitterly: "Ah Weng, the phoenix bird is here." ”