473, Sun Ce's strategy
Sun Ce gave up Danyang City this time and suddenly sent troops to attack Zhu Wei's army, so he naturally had a plan.
At the beginning, he and Zhou Yu had already decided that Sun Ce would not withdraw to Wucheng, but would transfer his army to the southwest of Danyang County, so as to attract the attention of Zhu Wei's army for Zhou Yu, and give Zhou Yu the opportunity to bring more people back to Guangling County and fill the population gap of Guangling County.
This is also out of consideration for the long-term development of the Sun family in Guangling County.
Therefore, this time, Sun Ce wanted to take advantage of Wang Yuyan's initiative to expose his flaws and divide his forces to attract him to attack, so he would attack with all his might, and then turn to Jurong and Moling, and rush all the way to the west of Danyang County.
Although such a strategic plan is very crazy and very dangerous.
Because Sun Ce does not have enough grain and grass now, and it is very likely that Wang Yuyan will be besieged in Moling, Jurong and other places with troops, he may not be able to break through Moling County and enter the hinterland of Danyang County.
But Sun Ce can't care about so much, he has to survive in death, and he just wants to make a chance.
Now Sun Ce is ready to learn from the Yellow Turbans, burning and looting all the way to the past, looting the grain and grass materials he needs from the local scholars and powerful families in Jiangdong, coercing the people of various places as soldiers, and then destroying Jiangdong like a thousand holes.
In this way, even if Sun Ce would eventually be wiped out by the army commanded by Wang Yuyan, it would still be able to attract enough time for Zhou Yu to withdraw to Guangling County.
At the same time, Sun Ce's move can also make Zhu Wei have to face a Jiangdong that has been beaten into a wasteland by Sun Ce, so that Zhu Wei must spend more time to redevelop Jiangdong.
As for Sun Ce himself, he may not necessarily die, the big deal is that he will use up all the troops he has now and flee directly into the mountains, so that he may finally break away from the encirclement and suppression of Zhu Wei's army, and then find an opportunity to escape back to Guangling County.
This is also the reason why Zhou Yu asked Sun Ce to save his life, with Sun Ce's ability, unless Sun Ce himself is bent on seeking death, as long as Sun Ce still has the intention of saving his life, even if the whole army is wiped out, he should have a great chance to escape and escape with his life.
Therefore, Sun Ce already had the confidence to exhaust all the troops under his control, so he naturally didn't worry about playing a hard-fought war of attrition with Zhu Wei's army.
As long as Sun Ce can sweep the population of Danyang County, Sun Ce will soon be able to quickly replenish his troops like the Yellow Turban Thieves back then, even if these troops don't have much combat effectiveness, but Sun Ce doesn't ask for anything else, as long as they go to death.
Anyway, no matter how many people die, they are all the population of Jiangdong, and the more people die, the greater the weakening of Jiangdong.
At the same time, as long as these people can fight to kill a Zhu Wei's soldiers, it is useless, for the current Sun Ce, as long as they can fight a little Zhu Wei's military strength, they can weaken some of Zhu Wei's strength, and they can reduce Zhou Yu's pressure.
If Sun Ce is really given any opportunity to break the current situation by surviving, then it may not be a dead end for Sun Ce, but a reopened overall situation in Jiangdong.
So now, as long as Sun Ce is careful to guard against the ambush plan set up by Wang Yuyan, he will not let his entire army be wiped out in a single battle, so he can seek battle as he wants.
Now Sun Ce feels that he may have caught a flaw in Wang Yuyan, Wang Yuyan's strategy of preserving his strength and not being willing to fight hard with Sun Ce makes it seem that Wang Yuyan's army will run away from Sun Ce's army, so can Sun Ce seize this point to do something.
Now Sun Ce is constantly chasing Huang Zhong's army, even if he can't catch up with Huang Zhong, as long as Huang Zhong's army can be driven into the Yangtze River, then Sun Ce can return to the army and cooperate with Huang Gai to besiege the main village of Zhu Wei's army where Wang Yuyan is located.
"Hmph, this demon girl is too arrogant, she would never have thought that I would take the initiative to attack, let alone that I would send out the whole army! As long as I ......, as long as I am given a chance, then I can concentrate the strength of the whole army and forcibly break through the Ruzhi military village, as long as I can kill this demon girl, then the situation in Jiangdong will be different, maybe there is no need to do such a strategy of burning the earth! ”
Sun Ce's expression hidden behind the bronze mask flashed slightly, if Wang Yuyan really held it up and was besieged by Sun Ce in that military village, then Sun Ce would definitely attack at any cost and kill Wang Yuyan here.
Of course, if Wang Yuyan was not in that military village, then Sun Ce would immediately take all the soldiers and horses to burn and loot all the way to Moling County, and then drive the coerced people to storm Moling County and break through this important military town that was blocking the road.
After that, if he sent troops to garrison Moling County, maybe he could stir up a big mess in the hinterland of Danyang County before Wang Yuyan led his troops to chase him, but he could also let Wang Yuyan take care of one thing and lose the other.
Sun Ce was thinking in his heart, but he still drove the army to chase Huang Zhong's army first, no matter what, Sun Ce had to drive Huang Zhong's army away before he could return to the army to fight Wang Yuyan's military village.
In this way, while Sun Ce once again sent people to investigate the movements of Huang Zhong's army, he also sent people to investigate Huang Gai's attack on Wang Yuyan's main village in Zhuwei.
Continue to go forward a short distance in this way, and you are about to reach the territory of Dantu County, Sun Ce can already smell the thick water vapor from the Yangtze River, but soon there are scouts in front of you who come back to report, "Report ......, lord, Huang Zhong's army in front has stopped outside Dantu County, and it seems to have the intention of facing the battle!" ”
"Oh, Huang Zhong is not running away?"
Sun Ce was shocked when he heard this, this Huang Zhong retreated all the way to this side, why did he suddenly stop again, could it be that there was still some plan from Wang Yuyan here.
Thinking of this, Sun Ce hurriedly sent people to investigate around, and then slowed down the speed of the pursuit, began to reorganize the soldiers and horses behind him, and then slowly moved forward after setting up the military formation.
Although Huang Zhong suddenly stopped to fight, which made Sun Ce's heart a little weird, he also had the intention of looking for Huang Zhong to fight, so Sun Ce would not give up easily.
At the same time, if he stops Huang Zhong here, then Huang Gai, who he sent to attack Wang Yuyan's main village of Zhu Wei, may also be able to capture that military village with enough troops.
After all, the troops sent by Sun Ce to Huang Gai this time also had more than 10,000 regular new troops, plus 14,000 or 5,000 old and weak women and children who could make a precursor to the battle, compared to the number of troops left by Wang Yuyan in Zhu Wei's main village, it was also much more.
In fact, even if Sun Ce's forces can't pass, Huang Gai should be able to attack Wang Yuyan's Zhuwei main village.
It's just that in this case, Wang Yuyan still has a chance to escape with his troops, so Sun Ce still thought of sending someone to Huang Gai to give an order, asking Huang Gai to slow down the speed of attacking Wang Yuyan's main village of Zhu Wei, so that he could delay some time and wait for him to go over and join forces together, so that he could completely surround the Zhu Wei army village and prevent the Zhu Wei soldiers in the middle from having a chance to escape.
But now the situation has changed again, and Sun Ce is afraid that he won't be able to quickly transfer troops, so he can only let Huang Gai decide on his own by looking at the situation over there......