Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Early Morning Attack

Nominally, Zhou Xin is still Danyang's Taishou, Jiang Hong Nian said that Danyang is undecided at this time, and Zhou Xin, who is very familiar with Danyang, is still the Taishou, which is conducive to stabilizing Danyang. It's just that the military power is all in Jiang Hong's hands, and Zhou Xin is just a simple administrator, now and in the future.

"It seems that Wu Jing is going to have a hard time with us." Jiang Hong looked at the information in his hand, said to Cheng Yu with a smile, and then handed the cloth strip to Cheng Yu on the side.

After reading carefully, Cheng Yu pondered for a while and asked:

"The lord is going to attack Wanling?"

"Can't you?"

"But if you act like this, the casualties may not be too large, and the ancients have clouds, ten and surround it, five and attack it, and divide it twice, and the subordinates feel that it is too risky." Cheng Yu said worriedly.

"Who said I'm going to take a siege?" Jiang Hong said with a smile, "Didn't he Wu Jing abandon all the counties?" It just so happens that he doesn't want me to take the entire territory of Danyang and turn Wanling into a lonely city, I want to know, how long can the grain in Wu Jing's hand support him to hold on? ”

"But what if Yuan Shu led the troops to save him?" Cheng Yu asked.

"Eh~~~~" To be honest, Jiang Hong really didn't consider that Yuan Shu would come to the rescue.

"The lord can 。。。。。。。" Cheng Yu offered advice.

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didn't let Wu Jing wait too long, Jiang Hong drove to Wanling City with a large army, and sent people to surrender as usual, but was shot back by Sun Ce's arrow, Jiang Hong didn't care, camped, set up a village, and Lao Tzu didn't attack the city.

To put it bluntly, the casualties of the siege are too great, and it is not beautiful to take the city without killing too many soldiers. For a few days, Jiang Hongjun outside the city did not have the slightest movement, but every day there were many soldiers leaving the camp, Wu Jing and Sun Cezhang on the city wall were confused, this script unfolded, it seems a little wrong.

They didn't have to wait long before a spy came to report that Jiang Hong's army had captured the rest of Danyang's counties, and Wanling had become a veritable isolated city.

"Oops, I've been tricked." Wu Jing slapped his thigh fiercely.

Looking at the puzzled Sun Ce, Wu Jing explained:

"He Jiang Hong didn't attack the city, just to drag us in Wanling, these days Jiang Hong has been leaving the village, that is, to attack the rest of the counties, and then trap us in Wanling."

"But..." Sun Ce thought for a while, and said with some hesitation, "In this way, Jiang Hong's soldiers are not much more than us, and a large number of soldiers have left the camp these days, so isn't the defense of the camp very weak now?" ”

Wu Jing was stunned, and then reacted, Wu Jing looked at Sun Ce with some relief, there is a successor to his brother-in-law, Wu Jing did not hesitate to praise Sun Ce, Sun Ce continued:

"We can also ask General Hou for help, and when the time comes, not only can we take Danyang, but also Guangling and Wujun can also be taken together."

The smile on Wu Jing's face stopped, to be honest, Wu Jing didn't want to bring Yuan Shu, who was still in the Central Plains at the moment, to Yangzhou, but Sun Ce couldn't understand the careful thinking in his heart at this time, Wu Jing only excused.

"Don't worry about General Hou for the time being, if we can defeat Jiang Hong this time, Bo Fu, your weight by General Hou's side in the future will be different."

Sun Ce nodded, he could feel that Wu Jing was not telling the truth, but it did not prevent Sun Ce from believing Wu Jing, because he knew that watching him grow up, his uncle who followed his father in the southern and northern wars would not harm him.

That night, Sun Ce took the initiative to ask Yingye to attack the enemy camp, Wu Jing hesitated for a while, but nodded and agreed. Sun Ce led 8,000 soldiers out of the side gate and quietly went around to the side of Jiang Hong's camp.

Sun Ce was not at ease, so he decided to go to investigate himself, but Sun Ce was greatly surprised by the result. After managing Jiang Hong's camp, there were constant lights, but the defense on the periphery was almost non-existent, so Sun Ce easily bypassed Jiang Hong's spies, and then found that there were almost no voices in this huge camp.

Sun Ce was bold, with his sturdy body, he actually lurked into the camp, avoiding the few patrols, Sun Ce found that there was no one in the camp, this camp was really a cover for Jiang Hong, and it was used to deceive him and Wu Jing.

Since Sun Ce discovered the truth, Sun Ce was not polite, and led the army directly into Jiang Hong's camp, Jiang Hong's more than 1,000 soldiers left behind had no power to resist, hundreds of soldiers were beheaded, and only a few soldiers were captured and survived.

"Uncle, at this moment, Jiang Hong's army is attacking the counties in the south, it is better to take the opportunity to go north, let Jiang Hong take the counties in the south, let's go and capture the northern part of Danyang, which is much richer than the south." Sun Ce persuaded Wu Jing.

"Yes, this Jiang Hong still thinks we are fools, and an empty village can trap us in Wanling." Wu Jing scoffed.

Sun Ce faintly felt that there was something wrong, but he couldn't say it, so he could only suppress the doubts in his heart.

Wu Jing is also a quick person, in order to avoid Jiang Hong's reaction and lead the army to the north to rescue, Wu Jing decided to lead the army to Wuhu that night, and caught him off guard, leaving only 3,000 soldiers to stay in Wanling, and Wu Jing personally led the rest of the soldiers to go out.

The speed of the march at night was much slower, and even if it was a rapid march, Wu Jing had not been able to reach Wuhu in the morning. By the light of the morning light, Wu Jing led his army to a small forest, and ordered to bury the pot to make rice, and only after eating and drinking enough did he have the strength to attack the city.

Sun Ce gnawed on the coarse grain cake in his hand, and the uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, at first he even went to the depths of the forest to investigate carefully, but he did not find any signs of the enemy ambushing in the forest, so where did the uneasy feeling in his heart come from, Sun Ce did not know.

With the crisp cry of the birds in the forest, Sun Ce became more and more irritable, and at this moment, a soldier suddenly ran in in a panic and shouted loudly:

"General, there are a lot of enemy troops outside, and they are coming towards us."

"How many are there?" Wu Jing hurriedly asked.

"Villain, villain doesn't know, I just see it and think a lot." The soldier stammered in reply.

"Hmph, useless thing." Immediately, Wu Jing shouted loudly, "Prepare for battle." ”

After receiving Wu Jing's order, he quickly organized a defensive line, with the shield soldiers in front and the archers in the back, interspersed with the rest of the soldiers in the middle. Seeing that Wu Jing's defensive line formation had been formed, Jiang Hong had no intention of stopping his pace.