After listening to Chen Zhi's narration, Shen You touched his knees with one hand and supported his cheeks with the other, rolled his eyelids from time to time, and looked at Pang Tong opposite.

Pang Tong was sent by Sun Ce to assist him in his military strategy, and he was Sun Ce's confidant. He is very young, but he has followed Sun Ce for the longest time, and he debuted almost at the same time as Sun Ce, and his seniority is only comparable to Zhou Yu. Shen You was very curious about how this person, who had been branded by Sun Ce from the beginning, would plan this military battle.

Ling Cao, Yan Baihu, and Zhang Yun were also watching from the sidelines, seemingly not communicating with each other, but they had a similar attitude to Shen You. Only Liu Bi was unpersuaded and took care of himself. Chen Zhi saw it in his eyes and frowned secretly. He smelled discord. After all, Pang Tong is too young, and he has been by Sun Ce's side for too long, and his words and deeds are stained with the taste of the people around Sun Ce. No one paid attention when Sun Ce was around, but when he got along with ordinary people, he could immediately feel it, just like he couldn't talk to Tian Kai.

Pang Tongyi lowered his head in contemplation. After a while, he raised his head, smiled, and his gaze swept over the faces of Shen You and the others. "Chen Sima fought this battle well, not only burned Yuan Xi's baggage, but also established his authority and inspired people's hearts, which is a good start."

Shen You nodded with a smile, but did not speak. Zhang Yun and Ling Cao crooked their mouths and didn't say anything. Yan Baihu laughed: "Yes, Sima Chen's martial arts are strong, and his cavalry tactics are the essence of General Sun, but this armored cavalry is a bit overkill." ”

After the Yan Baihu brothers surrendered to Shen Zhi, they were originally quite comfortable, but they changed their flags, and the people were still those people. didn't want to say that it would change, Shen Zhi coerced and lured, reorganized Yan Baihu's men and horses, and finally left Yan Baihu with more than 2,000 people, and all the rest were sent to Tuntian in the area of Biling. Without people, Yan Baihu could only cheer up and start a new business, this time Shen You went north to fight, and he took the initiative to ask to join the army.

The thieves of Shicheng Mountain are the eagle dogs raised by the Shen family, and Shen Zhi sent him to assist Shen You, just to let him bite. What Shen You wants to do but is inconvenient to do, he will leave it to him. At this moment, by ridiculing Chen Zhi to refute Pang Tong and expressing the unity of the people of Wu County, it is just a gesture.

Chen Zhi smiled and didn't say anything, but he was a little worried about Pang Tong. Pang Tong's young spirit was confronted by Yan Baihu in front of him, and he didn't know if he could control his emotions.

Pang Tong glanced at Yan Baihu and laughed silently. "If the armor cavalry built with a lot of money is just to burn a baggage camp, it is indeed a bit overkill. However, the two armies competed, and the victory or defeat of the first battle was very important to morale. Chen Sima was shocked, not only boosting the morale of our army and breaking Yuan Xi's courage, but also affecting Junyi. ”

Yan Baihu rolled his strange eyes, and was just about to express his disdain, when Shen You coughed and interrupted him in time. He heard Pang Tong's voice and was a little embarrassed. Building armored cavalry is not as simple as creating a few pairs of horse armor for Sun Ce, this is a sharp weapon used by Sun Ce to restrain the advantages of the northern cavalry, in order to let these armored cavalry give full play to their advantages, Sun Ce also let Chen Lai, who had been the Taishou of Danyang, come to command, which is naturally imperative for Qingzhou, and has high hopes for him. If he spoils a big deal because of his momentary anger, he will live up to Sun Ce's trust in him.

"The sacrificial wine means that Yuan Xi will spread the news to Junyi and affect Yuan Shao's judgment?"

Pang Tong hummed and raised three fingers. "The war in Qingzhou had three objectives: first, to prevent Yuan Xi from taking control of Qingzhou, and then to Xuzhou, threatening the right flank of Yuzhou; secondly, to maintain the passage from Pingyu to Donglai, and maintain the influence on Youzhou; In the end, a threat was posed to Jizhou, forcing Yuan Shao to be unable to go south with all his might, to fight for the Central Plains, and to advance the front to Jizhou if appropriate. ”

Shen You bowed slightly, sat up straight involuntarily, and his expression became solemn. He knew that this expedition was an accident caused by Tao Qian's division of Xuzhou, Yuzhou was tired, and he had to deal with Yuan Shao, so Sun Ce could only send him to fight. Therefore, he knew the first two of the three goals that Pang Tong said, but the last one was beyond his expectations, which showed that he only stared at Qingzhou, and did not fully understand Sun Ce's strategic intentions, nor did he have a strategic vision to look at the overall situation.

This is still a certain distance from Sun Ce's importance to him.

"Will the armored cavalry attack make Yuan Shao prepared and increase the pressure on the general?"

"The technical requirements of the first rider are very high, and it is not necessary to have money." Pang Tong said unhurriedly: "There is a shortage of horses in the south, especially high-grade war horses with strong physique. If the horse armor is too heavy, beyond the limit that ordinary war horses can bear, the armored horse cannot really be used on the battlefield. Since Yuan Shao raised his army, there are only three hundred horse armor. Huang Chengyan, the chief craftsman of Nanyang Iron Officer, was personally in charge, and transferred half of the first-class blacksmiths, and it took three months to create a horse armor that could make ordinary war horses carry weight. Ladies and gentlemen, every piece of armor used by these armor riders is full of wisdom and sweat, and it is difficult to buy a thousand dollars. He glanced at Shen You again and smiled meaningfully. There were only fifty sets of the first batch of horse armor, all of which are here. ”

"Only fifty sets?" Shen You was slightly stunned, and then his face was a little hot, both excited and a little ashamed.

"There are only fifty sets. Because it is not easy to build horse armor, Nanyang Tieguan does not have similar experience, although a lot of improvements have been made, and a lot of problems have been solved, but there is still a considerable distance from perfection, and we need to collect experience in actual combat and make improvements. There is another key, even if they have lightened the horse armor as much as possible, it is still not something that ordinary war horses can bear, these more than 100 war horses were carefully selected by General Sun from more than 3,000 war horses, and even General Sun himself could not take more. Therefore, General Sun did not have armor cavalry. ”

Shen You had already guessed this possibility, but getting the verification from Pang Tongkou still surprised him. Sun Ce gave him all the first batch of horse armor he built, and equipped him with enough horses, which was not only a weight for him, but also hoped that he could make meritorious contributions, so that the Wu Hui Department could stand shoulder to shoulder with the Jingzhou Department and the Yuzhou Department, but also a tactical concept about the overall situation.

If he didn't know the inside story, who would believe that he Shen You had a cavalry, but Sun Ce, as the main general, didn't? He has fifty, and Sun Ce has at least a hundred. Yuan Shao himself only had three hundred horse armors, and he didn't even give one to others, what would he think when he heard that there were armored horses on the battlefield in Qingzhou? There is no doubt that he will be vigilant, not dare to act rashly, and be ready to meet Sun Ce's armored cavalry at any time.

But Sun Ce didn't. This is just a false move, so that Yuan Shao can tie his hands and feet, and he can't let go of it, so he can only fight steadily and steadily, step by step. In this way, the cavalry advantage was greatly reduced, and the battle had to be protracted, which was more beneficial to Sun Ce.

Although the Qingzhou battlefield and the Yanzhou battlefield are thousands of miles apart, they are a game of chess in Sun Ce's strategy, as the main general of the Qingzhou battlefield, he should have understood this a long time ago, but he didn't pay enough attention to it, and he still had the heart to test Pang Tong here. Pang Tong was sent by Sun Ce, and he carried out Sun Ce's plan, can he question Pang Tong just because he is young?

Shen You's face was hot. "The sacrificial wine is right, the first battle is a big victory, which is very happy, and it is also a good omen for the smooth war in Qingzhou. Sacrificial wine, what to do next? Surround Yan Liang, meet Yuan Xi, and answer Tian Zhijun to break through? ”

Pang Tong shook his head. "Three goals, the last one is a long-term goal, for the time being, the first two goals have been basically achieved, we need to stabilize the situation, not rushed. As for Tian Kai......" Pang Tong sneered: "At the end of the road, he is still so domineering, it is simply a suicide." If he is disrespectful to Sima Chen, he is disrespectful to us and the general. We came according to our plan, we don't have to care about his life or death, from this moment on, Qingzhou has nothing to do with him. ”