In April of the fourth year of Jian'an, when Sun Ce broke through the two surrounding counties of Linyuan County, obtained relatively abundant grain, and began to gather troops under the county seat of Linyuan County, preparing to launch a general attack on the county, Fu Tong also led the army back to Lingyang County.

Liao Li is a local after all, and he is not useless, he has a certain political ability, so after spending five or six more days than Yin Guan, he finally completed the relocation of the people of Qianling County in accordance with Fu Tong's minimum requirements.

At the same time, Zhang Long also captured Duliang County very smoothly without alarming Cheng Pu, the general of Sun Cejun's follow-up troops.

Conquering a county town in Jingnan, which was not guarded by famous generals and heavy soldiers, and had not been subordinated to Sun Ce's army for a long time, was a piece of cake for Zhang Long, and the difficulty was that in the whole process of attacking the city and breaking the city, the people in the county could not be allowed to send people to Cheng Pu for help.

There are only two ways to do this.

First, completely besiege the county town with a sufficient number of soldiers.

Obviously, in terms of the current strength in Zhang Long's hands, he does not have such conditions.

Second, send a clearance force in advance and let it lie in ambush on the road that the county town must take in other directions.

In this way, although it did not completely besiege the county seat with troops, as long as the people sent by Zhang Long were effective enough, they could avoid the occurrence of fish that slipped through the net.

And the kind of battle method that Jin Jue handed over to his subordinates that a spark can ignite the prairie is very suitable for use in this kind of place.

As soon as the county seat of Duliang County was captured, Zhang Long immediately scattered the eighty guards and the five hundred soldiers assigned to them in both directions to the east and west.

Its primary purpose is twofold,

First, destroy roads, bridges and other infrastructure leading to Duliang County in all directions.

This is called a sabotage war.

The purpose of this tactic used by the Red Army in later generations to deal with the Japanese was to delay the enemy's advance and then use small forces to attack and harass the enemy army halfway.

Second, go to the surrounding counties and burn all the cultivated land outside the city at night.

Although Fu Tong's strategy is a bit poisonous, he can't be blamed for this.

In case Sun Ce felt that his war in the three counties of Jingnan was not going well, it was very likely that his generals would recruit troops on the spot. Correspondingly, because Huang Zu had previously recruited troops on a large scale in Wuling County, the source of troops in the counties under the jurisdiction of Wuling County had become less sufficient.

Fu Tong was worried that the two armies would fall into a protracted war because of this, so he asked Zhang Long to implement such a vicious battle plan.

The subordinates sent by Zhang Long once destroyed all the crops in the cultivated land of almost all the subordinate counties of Lingling County. At that time, Cheng Pu had to recruit troops on the spot to make up for the lack of numbers in Sun Cejun's army, and it was difficult for him to even gain a foothold in the local area.

Unless Cheng Pu or Sun Ce dared to give an order like Jin Jue to massacre the local large and medium-sized landlords and wealthy merchants in Lingling County, in order to obtain enough food to calm the people and even stabilize the morale of the army, it would be possible to continue to gain a foothold in Lingling County.

But Fu Tong and Zhang Long both expected that neither Sun Ce nor Cheng Pu would dare to do this and kill the county magistrate of Youyang County, because the county magistrate was not only surnamed Huang, but also Huang Zu's own nephew. However, if Sun Ce really dared to kill so much in Lingling County, without Fu Tong and Zhang Long making another move, Sun Cejun was likely to be driven out by the local forces that might not be eliminated.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, especially in the three southern states, local forces were intertwined, and the power controlled by the families and wealthy families was much greater than that of the imperial court.

Many local officials are even served by the children of local families, such as the former Jiangxia County Taishou Huangzu.

Of course, such a vicious plan, Fu Tong will not only let Zhang Long do it alone, before he left Youyang County with his troops, he also sent six of the ten divisions he borrowed from Wei Yan, each leading 500 people, to the south along the direct flow of the Yuan River, and secretly infiltrated the territory of Yuanling County and Chenyang County.

The goal, of course, is also to destroy local arable land.

As for the crops in the cultivated fields of Youyang County and Qianling County, they had already been destroyed by Fu Tong's people.

The other four other divisions were left by Fu Tong in the four northern counties of Wuling County to assist several county commanders in training troops and strengthening the city defense.

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On this day, in Yuanling County, Sun Quan, who was in charge of an army alone for the first time, was looking through the official documents in the county office.

General Zhou Tai suddenly walked in and shouted: "Second son, something is wrong!" From today, it is the tenth day. There has been no more news from General Cheng. Should we hurry up and report this situation to the eldest prince? ”

According to the advance plan formulated by Sun Ce at the beginning, when taking Chenyang County, Cheng Pu should take the entire Lingling County within the next month, and go north to join the main force of Sun Ce's army.

A few days ago, Cheng Pu would send someone to Sun Quan from time to time to send him the progress of his attack on Lingling County, but ten days ago, there was suddenly no news from Cheng Pu.

Zhou Tai is a rectum, and on the third day, he once persuaded Sun Quan to report the matter to Sun Ce. However, Sun Quan is young after all, and his personality is stable, but he lacks the vision when he grows up, he thinks that three days is very short, and it is not worth disturbing Sun Ce for this little thing. In case Cheng Pu has completely taken over the entire Lingling County, and the follow-up troops are already marching towards Wuling County, presumably, Cheng Pu will not send someone to deliver the message again!

As a result, Sun Quan dragged on for another ten days.

At this time, Sun Quan also knew the seriousness of the matter, he nodded, and replied: "General Youping is very right, I will repair a letter and pass it to my brother." ”

It is no wonder that Sun Quan has never received the latest battle report from Cheng Pu here, Zhang Long led his troops to occupy Rongcheng County in Wuling County and Duliang County in Lingling County, completely sealing the passage between Wuling County and Lingling County, and the messengers sent by Cheng Pu to Wuling County to deliver messages were all wiped out by Zhang Long's small troops in various townships.

Cheng Pu, who had a premonition that the situation had changed, had given up continuing to attack the last unbreached city in the south of Lingling County, Shi'an County, where Taishou was located, and he personally led almost all the soldiers of the follow-up army to march in the direction of Rongcheng County.

Because Zhou Yu led his troops into Jiangxia County and Changsha County, after Huang Zhong and Zhang Long handed over, he did not dare to continue to lead troops to continue to attack Luling County. Therefore, Sun Fu immediately sent a second wave of follow-up troops from Luling County to replace the first wave of follow-up troops of Sun Ce's army, and under the leadership of Huang Gai, Han Dang, and Sun Ce's subordinates, they also began to gradually occupy and digest Guiyang County and Lingling County.

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