The 605th Local Battle in Xuzhou (End)
It was with these 300 elite veterans of the Yellow Turban Army trained under Jin Jue's instructions, as well as the 10,000 Xuzhou soldiers assigned to him by Liu Bei, Wei Ming first quickly attacked Sun Ce's only two remaining counties in Jiujiang County, Fuling County and Quanshu County.
There were 3,000 defenders in the counties of Quanshu County and Fuling County, and although the guards were not any of Sun Ce's generals, they were also old middle-level generals who followed Sun Ce to conquer the east and west in the Jiangdong region.
Although these two veterans did not have any great ability, Sun Ce thought that it was more than enough for them to defend the city. It's just that Sun Ce obviously greatly underestimated the ability of Wei Ming, or rather, the elites of the Yellow Turban Army trained by Jin Jue to attack the city.
Wei Ming used the night attack again, so that three hundred elites of the Yellow Turban Army took advantage of the cover of the night to raid the city heads of the two county seats, in this era, the soldiers generally lacked adequate nutrition, except for the veterans of the Jin Jue army, almost all of them suffered from night blindness, in this case, it is reasonable that the two counties and counties were quickly taken by him.
Because the 300 elites of the Yellow Turban Army were all crossbowmen, the two veterans left by Sun Ce to defend the city were all shot on the spot by these crossbowmen because they were anxious to drive the enemy troops besieging the city off the city.
As a result, Wei Ming's subordinates, except for some Sun Cejun soldiers who began to kill and wound the city first, other Sun Cejun soldiers in the city laid down their arms and surrendered to Wei Ming on their own initiative after the main general was killed.
After that, Wei Ming didn't care how to take over the defense of the two counties and how to deal with these surrendered troops, he left them all to the people sent by Lu Su or Yuan Lian, while he himself continued the journey of confrontation with Sun Cejun.
Immediately afterwards, after consulting with Liu Bei, Wei Ming immediately led his troops to Lujiang County and attacked Sun Ben's army from the flank.
At that time, Sun Benzheng led his headquarters soldiers and horses in Longshu County, Lujiang County, and fought a fierce battle with Tai Shici outside the field.
Tai Shici's time in Lujiang County was too short, so the 5,000 veterans under him were still transferred to him by Liu Bei from Xuzhou. The rest were either Huainan soldiers who surrendered to Liu Bei's side under Yuan Shu, or they were newly recruited soldiers by Tai Shici in the past few months.
Therefore, no matter how strong Tai Shici's military ability and personal martial arts are, the soldiers under his command are not strong, and when Sun Ben's new defeat is new, he still can't break through Longshu County in a short time.
And Wei Ming seized that the main force of Sun Ben's army was contained in Longshu County by Taishi Ci's department During this time, he led his troops to move east to west, starting from Xiang'an County, which is close to the left of Wuwei Village, and along the way, the speed of the march can be described as a seal scroll and remnant clouds, sweeping the southern counties of Lujiang County occupied by Sun Ce's army, until he captured Anhui County, Sun Ben's troops got the news that the counties in the rear were lost one after another.
At this time, Sun Ben left Longshu County in a hurry, and halfway, he also used the method of breaking his tail to survive, leaving a small number of troops to defend in the middle and contain Tai Shi Ci's department, while he himself led the remaining main force to quickly retreat to the southeast, trying to jump out of the encirclement before Wei Ming led the troops to Tai Shi Ci and encircled him.
If Zhou Yu hadn't intervened in time to help Sun Benjun, Sun Ben would have died this time.
Because Zhou Yu suddenly appeared in Lujiang County, Wei Ming was caught off guard, and the 10,000 Xuzhou soldiers he led almost collapsed. If it weren't for the three hundred elites of the Yellow Turban Army left by Wei Yan desperately using the crossbow arrows in his palm to attack and retreat Zhou Yu's surprise attack, this time, Wei Ming would most likely fight a defeated battle and be completely defeated in the hands of Zhou Yu.
Even so, in this battle, the number of casualties of the elite 300 of the Yellow Turban Army exceeded the ordinary, and the sum of them actually exceeded the sum of this army since the present world, that is, from Jin Jue's use of this army to first go down to Hanzhong County, and then break Yizhou, and Wei Yan's attack on Wuwei Village and Liyang County, these battles combined are not as many as the number of casualties of Wei Ming at the hands of Zhou Yu this time.
Siege warfare caused a greater casualty rate to the besieging side, but because Jin Jue had begun to gradually establish a military medical system in the army, even if there were wounded soldiers, they could be treated quickly.
Not here in Lujiang, because Wei Ming only has one military doctor under him, and he can't be busy at all.
Of course, this is also the reason why Wei Yan rejected Liu Bei's request to temporarily leave Li Ming in Liyang County for the sake of Li Ming's small character, because Liu Bei didn't know that Li Ming was the best battlefield doctor taught by Jin Jue. How could Wei Yan leave such a person in Liyang County as a small county lieutenant?
Fortunately, Wei Ming set up an ambush to ambush Sun Ben's ambush site, which was not far from Anhui County, so he was able to regroup, plus Tai Shici had already eliminated the small army abandoned by Sun Ben at this time, and followed in time.
Seeing this, Zhou Yu had to choose to retire with Sun Ben. However, because of Zhou Yu's timely appearance, Sun Benbu did not return to Jiangnan this time, but stayed in Xunyang County, Sun Ce's only remaining county in Lujiang County.
Xunyang County is located in the northeast of Poyang Lake, because of its proximity to Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River, so Sun Cejun wanted to rush to the county from the Jiangnan region, and used ships to reach this place much faster than the other counties in Lujiang County, which was the closest to the county.
Therefore, after discussion, Wei Ming and Tai Shici had to choose to stop the army in Anhui County.
At this point, in addition to Liu Bei still having to settle the grievances between him and the Chen family in Guangling City, the third battle of Xuzhou launched by Cao Cao and Sun Ce, the war between Liu Beijun and Sun Cejun can be said to be completely over.
In terms of territory, before the war, Sun Cejun originally occupied the counties along the Yangtze River in Jiujiang County and three-fifths of the central and southern parts of Lujiang County, but after the war, Sun Cejun's Jiangbei Territory only remained Xunyang County in Lujiang County, and Liu Beijun recovered all the lands in Jiangbei except Guangling City and Xunyang County.
In terms of casualties among generals and soldiers, although Liu Beijun did not lose any generals, the casualties of soldiers were higher than those of Sun Cejun, even if most of Liu Beijun's battles were fought in city defense battles, the reason was that in Liu Bei's army, especially in Lujiang County and Jiujiang County, most of the soldiers were newly recruited, and the inexperienced army went to the battlefield, and the casualty rate would naturally be very high.
Sun Cejun was miserable, although the number of soldiers killed in the battle was less than that of Liu Beijun, but the wounded and killed in battle were all veterans who had been following Sun Ce in Jiangdong to fight in the east and west to pacify the entire four counties of Jiangdong, but Sun Cejun did not have a good medical system, which led to the death of many soldiers who could have been saved due to injuries.