505. The situation in Wu County changed
Pang Yan persuaded Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, and took the two all the way back to Qiantang County.
At this time, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin were both prisoners and waiting to surrender, so the other Danyang new soldiers and Wu Jun Qingzhuang who were still scattered on the battlefield basically became prisoners with the end of the war and were hunted down by the soldiers of the Xionglu battalion.
Although some of them escaped, more than 8,000 Danyang Xinzhu and Wujun Qingzhuang brought by Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin became prisoners of the Xionglu camp, and then they were escorted into Qiantang County.
Of course, the number of Xionglu battalion troops brought by Pang Yan was too large, and Qiantang County could not accommodate so many soldiers and horses, so after Shi Yiji, the commander of the Xionglu battalion, discussed with Zhou Xin and Kan Ze of Qiantang County, Xionglu Battalion simply set up a large camp outside Qiantang County and did not enter Qiantang County.
However, after the victory of this war, Kan Ze in Qiantang County naturally prepared a large amount of wine and meat to eat and sent it to the Xionglu camp as a reward and gratitude to the soldiers of the Xionglu battalion.
In this way, Qiantang County has the support of Pang Yan's handsome Xionglu battalion, coupled with the reorganization of Danyang Xinzhu and Wu County Qingzhuang, and suddenly has a scale of 40,000 or 50,000, basically there is no need to worry about Zhou Yu wanting to fight Qiantang County again, breaking through Qiantang County and entering Huiji County.
And Pang Yan and Zhou Xin also sent a lot of scouts to Qiantang County and the Qiantang River basin to investigate, so as to prevent Zhou Yu from smuggling across the river on this side of the Qiantang River and killing into Huiji County.
It's just that at this time, Zhou Yu seems to have discovered that Pang Yan's army raided Qiantang County and completely defeated the military situation of Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin's troops, so after Zhou Yu withdrew from Youquan County, he did not come to Qiantang County again.
According to the current situation of the scouts, Zhou Yu seems to have divided his troops again, some of them seem to be going to Wucheng, probably to join Yan Baihu's department, and some of them seem to be killing Wu County, perhaps to take back Wu County, Lou County and other places.
It's just that I don't know what direction Zhou Yu's main force is, and I don't know what Zhou Yu's next step is.
Of course, at this time, the form of the entire Wu County is also somewhat clear, after Wang Yuyan led the army into Wu County, the front of the army has been pressed to the territory of Wucheng County, and at the same time, with the convenience of Cai Mao's water army on Zhenze Lake, Wang Yuyan's Zhu Wei army can also easily send troops to Wuxi, Wu County and other places.
So even if Zhou Yu temporarily hid his whereabouts, Wu County was only a little bigger, and he couldn't run anywhere.
Don't say where Zhou Yu is, just talk about the situation of Wucheng where Yan Baihu is now, this Wucheng is also the modern Huzhou region, which was originally named after Wushen and Cheng Lin in the Qin Dynasty, and it is not a big county.
The land of Wucheng belongs to the Zhenze Lake Basin, so the plains and rivers in the territory are intertwined, and many water systems such as Tiaoxi River that spread from Zhenze Lake can be said to have spread to all parts of the territory, so you can reach all parts of Wucheng by boat from Zhenze Lake.
Although Wucheng also has some low mountains and hilly areas, they are not high mountains and mountains, and they can't hide too many troops and population.
The lair of Yan Baihu is specifically the Stone Mountain and the White Tiger Mountain generation in Wucheng, he was originally a thief of the Shanyue Sect entrenched in the mountains, but the mountains here also limit the development of his power, so Yan Baihu is not a big force.
Now, although with the help of Sun Ce's invasion of Jiangdong, Yan Baihu occupies the territory outside the mountains such as Wucheng County, but with Cai Mao's Jiangling naval army hitting Wucheng, he quickly swept all the tentacles of Yan Baihu on Zhenze Lake, and also sent troops to attack many towns and villages in Wucheng, and Yan Baihu did not dare to confront Cai Mao's army outside the mountain, so he retracted his forces back to Laowo Stone Mountain and Baihu Mountain.
In fact, the city walls of Wucheng County are low and thin, and they are indeed inferior to the low hills where Yan Baihu is hiding, and they can also use mountain cliffs and rocks to play some geographical defense advantages.
To be honest, with Yan Baihu's own strength, he had no strength to resist in the face of the threat of Cai Mao's Jiangling Naval Army before.
If it weren't for Cai Mao's desire to preserve his strength, he was unwilling to drive the naval soldiers to the mountains to attack Yan Baihu's village in the mountains, but he was afraid that Yan Baihu would have already been captured by Cai Mao, and he could only be an ordinary rogue in Wu County.
Therefore, Yan Baihu was in a hurry to ask Sun Ce for help from Danyang City before, but Yan Baihu didn't expect that the first wave of reinforcements he was waiting for was actually the people of Danyang City swept by Zhou Yu, and then the actual soldiers were the five thousand Jiangdong soldiers commanded by Chen Wu and the young people who were coerced on the road.
As a result, Yan Baihu didn't let the people brought by Chen Wu enter the village he hid in the mountains at all, not to mention that his village couldn't accommodate so many people, even if it could, Yan Baihu was unwilling to help Sun Ce and Zhou Yu raise these coerced people.
Therefore, Chen Wu could only send so many people into Wucheng County, but he turned the entire Wucheng County into a refugee camp.
It can be said that as long as Wang Yuyan leads his troops to fight on the side of Wucheng, he should basically be able to capture Wucheng County soon and break Yan Baihu's stockade on the side of Stone Mountain and Baihu Mountain.
However, Wang Yuyan is not in a hurry to deal with Yan Baihu, and now Wang Yuyan is more concerned about Zhou Yu's forces.
Therefore, after Wang Yuyan stopped her troops in Yangxian County, she first sent someone to secretly contact Yan Baihu, preparing to use the general situation to subdue Yan Baihu and let Yan Baihu surrender on his own initiative, which also saved a lot of hands and feet.
After Yan Baihu saw the envoy sent by Wang Yuyan, his attitude was not so tough, but he was a little unwilling to put forward some conditions, such as hoping that Zhu Wei could recognize him as the Taishou of Wu County, and hoped that he could retain his status as an independent vassal on Wu County's side.
Of course, Yan Baihu also promised that he could help Zhu Wei's army deal with Zhou Yu, and even try to trap Zhou Yu as a condition for him to attach to Zhu Wei.
However, Wang Yuyan was only perfunctory about Yan Baihu's conditions, although there was also an idea of using Yan Baihu's side to trap Zhou Yu, but Wang Yuyan felt that Yan Baihu might not be able to do this.
But no matter what, as long as Yan Baihu attacks Zhou Yu, it is equivalent to letting Yan Baihu and Zhou Yu make an internal bargain, which is beneficial to Wang Yuyan.
Therefore, Wang Yuyan also put on a negotiable attitude towards Yan Baihu, saying that if Yan Baihu can really catch Zhou Yu, then Yan Baihu's conditions are not impossible to consider.
Of course, Wang Yuyan's side quickly contacted Pang Yan, who was already in Qiantang County, and learned about Pang Yan's war in Qiantang County, Wang Yuyan was more relieved.
No matter how good Zhou Yu is now, there are not many places where he can use his means.
The only thing Wang Yuyan had to consider was whether Zhou Yu would go to sea and go into the water, so Wang Yuyan also dispatched young and strong civilian servants to help Cai Mao's navy re-dig the channel connecting Zhenze Lake to the Yangtze River, and then let Cai Mao return to the Yangtze River basin with most of the naval warships, and intensified the efforts to block Zhou Yu's army from retreating to Guangling County on the water.
It can be said that Zhou Yu does not want to escape back to Guangling County by water, and his current retreat is to flee south by boat into the mountains of the ancient Yue land, or flee all the way to Jiaozhou along the coastline.
However, at this time, Wang Yuyan came to have a special guest...... [.]