491. The current situation
It can be said that the wise man is the same strategy.
Now the military strategy that Zhou Yu is considering, just as Wang Yuyan fears, really has a plan to forcibly capture Qiantang County and open up the road into Huiji County.
Because after attacking Huiji County, Zhou Yu can get a lot of benefits, of course, the benefits that Zhou Yu is considering now are not the Guyue Mountains that Wang Yuyan is worried about, which can become a way for Zhou Yu to escape or something.
Until now, Zhou Yu's military strategic purpose is still very clear, that is, to safely withdraw to Guangling County with as many troops and property as possible.
Therefore, Zhou Yu's intention to attack Huiji County this time was more about the relatively wealthy local heritage of Huiji County under Wang Lang's governance.
If Zhou Yu can successfully attack Huiji County this time, and can capture Qiantang, Shanyin and other county seats, then Zhou Yu will naturally be able to seize a large amount of grain and grass materials in Wang Lang's official warehouse to meet his military needs.
At the same time, if Zhou Yu also carried out the act of looting and looting in Huiji, then maybe he could get more grain, grass, materials and money and treasures, at least Zhou Yu would be able to eliminate the current dilemma of lack of food and grass.
Just like Wang Yuyan has been trying to compress the space for Zhou Yu and Yan Baihu's military activities before, Zhou Yu also thought of this problem, so as long as he can capture Qiantang County and enter Huiji County, then he will have a larger space for activities.
In this way, on the premise of having food and soldiers, Zhou Yu can have more confidence in conducting military maneuvers with Zhu Wei's army under the control of Wang Yuyan.
The most important thing is that it is already difficult to find ships to call on the side of Wu County, but there is obviously no restriction on this side of Huiji Wang Lang, so if Zhou Yu can attack Huiji, maybe he can find a large number of river boats on the side of Huiji County to transport troops.
In this way, Zhou Yu may be able to find a way to withdraw to Guangling County from the waterway, after all, the main force of Cai Mao's Jiangling Navy was blocked by him and trapped in Zhenze Lake, so the number of warships of the Jiangling Navy on this side of the Yangtze River Waterway is not much, and Zhou Yu still has a chance to lead his troops to force them over.
So if it weren't for Pang Yan's Xiong Lu battalion coming quickly this time, then Zhou Yu would have been able to storm Qiantang County with more than 50,000 troops.
In this way, with the strength of Wang Lang, the governor of Qiantang County, he may not be able to resist the strong attack of Zhou Yu's army.
Now Zhou Yu had to divide his troops to block Pang Yan's Xionglu battalion, so Zhou Yu only dispatched Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin to lead 10,000 Danyang new troops and more than 20,000 Wujun new troops to forcibly attack Qiantang County, and he personally took 8,000 Guangling elite soldiers and 10,000 Danyang new troops to prepare to block Pang Yan's Xionglu camp in Youquan County.
Zhou Yu naturally knew a little about the generals and troops guarding Qiantang County on Wang Lang of Huiji County, so he sent Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, two young warriors, to attack Qiantang County with nearly 30,000 troops, but it was enough to pose a threat to Qiantang County.
And he personally blocked Pang Yan in Youquan County, and maybe he could find some strategy or something like that, preventing Pang Yan from rescuing Qiantang County, and even having a chance to completely defeat Pang Yan's Xionglu camp.
This is the location of the boxing county, which is the land of Jiaxing in later generations.
The terrain of plains, lakes and rivers is mainly used here, but there are many hills in the direction of Qiantang County, which can be regarded as a geographical environment that can be manipulated.
As long as Zhou Yu could repel or defeat Pang Yan's Xionglu battalion, then Zhou Yu would be invincible in Wu County in a short period of time.
Of course, at this time, Zhou Yu still didn't know that Sun Ce had been defeated in Danyang County, and he still thought that Sun Ce could help delay time in Danyang County and attract the main army of Zhu Wei controlled by Wang Yuyan.
In Zhou Yu's consideration, he now came to the Pang Yan Xionglu camp in Wu County, that is, Wang Yuyan was specially transferred to deal with him, so Zhou Yu thought that if he could defeat Pang Yan's Xionglu camp, then he would be able to show his skills in Wu County and Huiji.
Zhou Yu is also a little confident in this, after all, the Pang Yan that Zhou Yu knows is just a reckless man.
In this way, when the main army commanded by Wang Yuyan had just sent troops to Wu County, Chen Wu and the coerced people disguised as the main force were approaching the territory of Wucheng, while Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin were leading Zhou Yu's army to attack Qiantang County, and Pang Yan's Xionglu camp and Zhou Yu's army were encountered in Youquan County.
This is also the reason why Wang Yuyan felt a little headache about Zhou Yu's actions after receiving the scout's report, and it is also a loss that Qiantang County has not been captured yet, and the battle between Pang Yan's Xionglu Battalion and Zhou Yu's army in Youquan County has not been concluded for the time being.
So let's not talk about Wang Yuyan getting these news for the time being, what follow-up measures were taken, and also putting aside the siege battle on the side of Qiantang County, anyway, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin did not have the trick of Zhu Wei attacking Qiantang County and blowing up the water gate, so they forcibly drove Qingzhuang and soldiers to attack Qiantang County.
And Zhou Xin and Kan Ze, who are guarding Qiantang County, are guarding with the help of the city wall, and the two sides are still continuing for the time being, and Qiantang County should be able to hold out for a while.
Just talk about the situation of Zhou Yu and Pang Yan on the side of Youquan County.
Now Zhou Yu seems to have taken Youquan County as the command center on the side of Youquan County, and sent 18,000 soldiers under his command to set up several lines of defense in Youquan County, and is ready to meet the army of the Xionglu camp led by Pang Yan.
And Pang Yan's side came all the way from Wuxi, Wu County, and Lou County, but also absorbed and received more than 6,000 troops from local forces, plus the original main force of more than 15,000, which was about the same as the number of troops guarded by Zhou Yu in Youquan County.
However, this time, among the local forces in Wu County who led troops to join the Xionglu camp, there is also a young general who has left a name in history, that is, Zhu Huan, the future representative of the Zhu family among the four surnames in Jiangdong.
This Zhu Huan is now only twenty years old when he is a weak crown, in the original history, he should have started his career in Jiangdong when Sun Ce died of illness and Sun Quan succeeded to the throne, and then gradually became the general of Eastern Wu under Sun Quan by virtue of his military merits.
This Zhu Huan can also be regarded as a general recognized by the Three Kingdoms game system, in the original history, he defeated Cao Ren, the general of the Cao army, in the battle of Wet Su, and then accompanied the Northern Expedition with Lu Xun, the governor of Eastern Wu, and can also be regarded as a famous general in the middle of Eastern Wu.
And now he should have been just a descendant of the Zhu family of Zhongwu County in Jiangdong, and he didn't even become the master of the family when he came out.
But because of Zhou Yu's previous looting and sweeping actions on the side of Wu County, the Zhu family, whose family foundation was in Wu County, was greatly damaged, so Zhu Huan, who had military talent, led the clan soldiers to resist Zhou Yu's army at this time and started his military career early.
Of course, there were only more than 1,000 clan soldiers under Zhu Huan before, so he didn't dare to really fight against Zhou Yu's more than 50,000 troops, and he could only raid Zhou Yu's small force on the side of Wu County.
It wasn't until Zhou Yu led the army to leave Wu County, and when Pang Yan's Xionglu camp came to Wu County, Zhu Huan also took the initiative to join Pang Yan's Xionglu camp.
This really allowed Zhu Wei to get a general-level talent, and the Zhu family to which Zhu Huan belongs seems to have some distant relationship with the Huiji Zhu family, to which Zhu Wei belongs......