Chapter 480: Plotting to Pacify Jiangdong (9)
Yan Baihu's nearly 10,000 troops who were "abandoned" because of Guo Jia's plan were pursued by the elite soldiers of Yuzhang's headquarters led by Sun Ce, the little overlord who once swept Jiangdong, in fact, even if the whole army was captured, it would not be too surprising.
After all, the combat power of the two armies is there, one is a tiger leading a pack of wolves, and the other is like a free-range flock, and the result can be imagined. But Yan Baihu's words still aroused Qin Xu's vigilance.
At this time, Yan Baihu had no need to lie about the military situation, and the nearly 10,000 troops tried their best to move south, in order to confuse Zhou Yu's judgment, and it was best to attract some of Sun's troops to mistakenly think that Yan Baihu was going to join forces with Qin Xu's army, and temporarily leave Yuzhang County, so as to create convenient conditions for the raid on Yuzhang.
The development of the situation shows that although Zhou Yu is brilliant in wisdom and is the best in Jiangdong, this time it may be because because of repeated blows, when facing a ghost talent like Guo Jia who is called Liang Dong of the Central Plains, he is still slightly inferior in people's calculations.
Yuzhang County is located in the south of the territory of the Han Dynasty, with a wide territory, and the territory governed by a county is enough to be compared with the five counties of Xuzhou. In order to achieve the purpose of raiding Yuzhang this time, the location of "going out of the mountain" chosen by this army has been as close to the Yuzhang County Administration as far north as possible, and it is only a small county of Wangu in the middle from the county seat of Yuzhang. As Yan Baihu said, the place where he left the army and entered the mountains was at least 300 miles away from each other in the south and north. If according to what Yan Baihu said before, when he left the army, he strictly ordered the army to advance to the south, according to the time calculation, it was impossible for the Yan clan's defeated army to enter the sight of Qin Xu's army in less than two days.
If it is the defeated soldier who is now discovered by the sentry cavalry, it is really the general of the Yan army. Then there is only one possibility, the soldiers under Yan Baihu's command were encountered and defeated by Sun Ce's army. There was no time to flee south, and it was likely that Sun Ce's army was driven all the way north to this point.
"All on alert! The herald sentry rode a detective horse to expand the detection range by another twenty miles! Cao Xing's front army must arrive at the county seat of Wangu before noon today, and prepare to open the Wangu passage. Qin Xu almost subconsciously issued a military order. Sun Ce is worthy of the name of the little overlord, and the speed of this advance is too fast. If the previous speculation is true, leave it to Qin Xu to open up the Ten Thousand Valleys. The time to raid Yuzhang may be running out.
"General Qin, Wangu County is close to the Shanyue stronghold. The place is remote, but it is also related to the grain road of our army between Fuguan and Yuzhang County, although the city is weak after exploration, but with the ability of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu. Even if we didn't expect that our army would attack the base camp through this route. In order to prevent chaos in the mountains, the defenders here should not be too perfunctory. Don't underestimate your enemies! "Being appointed as the rear army to escort grain and grass and guard the grain road, Tai Shi Ci, who has almost cultivated his body, heard Qin Xu's order, thought for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "This time the Yan clan's defeated army suddenly appeared here, maybe someone expected the previous purpose of our army, but I don't know where we chose to make a breakthrough. Only then did he use this to drive Yan's troops northward to lure our army to appear. Therefore, if you want to move troops against Wangu, you must prevent Sun Ce from attacking from the rear or in the middle of our army. General Qin, the last general asked for his life, and was willing to lead his headquarters to pretend to be the main force of the Chinese army to confuse Sun Ce, so as to help the army quickly take Wangu and raid Yuzhang. ”
After the battle of Fuguan, Tai Shi Ci's temperament has become much more stable, and he has obviously considered the problem a lot, Qin Xu has always had great expectations for Tai Shi Ci's ability, and over time, he will definitely become a handsome talent on one side. Therefore, Qin Xu listened extremely carefully to Tai Shici's suggestions.
In fact, compared to the northern princes, it was Sun Ce who made Qin Xu the most cautious in his actions. The Jiangdong Sun clan is very different from the powerful princes such as the Cao clan in the Central Plains, the Jingxiang Liu clan, the Shuchuan Liu clan, the Yuan clan in Hebei, and the Gongsun Lost clan and other forces. Whether it is the late Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zhan, or the clan forces of the Han family of the old Liu family, or even Cao Cao, who once occupied half of the northern part of the country in history, Qin Xu can let it go, because these people have their own scruples, and they are inevitably cautious in their actions. But Sun Ce is different. Now Sun Ce has been forced to shrink in the corner of Yuzhang, facing enemies on all sides, it is the opportunity to fight against the water, between advancing and retreating,
Moreover, Sun Ce's forces had too many advantages on the ground in Jiangdong. First, Yangzhou has left the Central Plains for a long time, there are many wealthy families, and the xenophobia is extremely strong, compared with the old Sun family who has a significant reputation in Jiangdong, Qin Xu and Lu Bu had to use the hands of Liu Xuan to control Yangzhou at the beginning of Jiangdong, in order to slowly try to make it. If it weren't for Sun Ce, who was forced to Yuzhang this time, to recover his vitality in a very short period of time and regenerate the war, it is impossible to say that the current war would have been postponed for many years. Moreover, in the history known to Qin Xu, Sun Ce swept the six counties of Jiangdong in the name of the little overlord, making the world look sideways, and was known as the Sun Tiger after Sun Jian, the head of the previous family, who had strength, ability, and troops, and had no sense of belonging to the Han court, and Zhou Yu and other wise and scheming people as his wings, and were suppressed to such an extent, he could quickly pull out a force that could compete with Lu Bu's forces in Jiangdong in less than a year, and in time, unless Lu Bu's army completely withdrew from this world of disputes, Otherwise, with Yangzhou bordering Xuzhou, it will inevitably fall into the end of the quagmire of the Sun family, which has been occupied by the favorable geographical area, and drag it into the quagmire of fighting Jiangdong, so that the Lu Bu army, which is currently in Qingxu, will not be able to care about each other, and will miss the opportunity to go further.
This is absolutely not allowed! Tai Shici's suggestion gave Qin Xu a bold idea. Not only did he agree to Tai Shi Ci's request, but also allocated 3,000 Qingzhou soldiers from the headquarters, plus the only 2,000 remaining 2,000 people in Tai Shi Ci's headquarters, a total of 5,000 elite soldiers, and then Yan Baihu temporarily became Tai Shi Ci's deputy general, responsible for collecting the defeated troops to resist Sun Ce's attack, not seeking victory, but only expecting Qin Xu to lead the Qingzhou soldiers and Danyang soldiers to open the passage of Wangu County and complete the "task" of raiding Yuzhang County before the "task" was completed, to delay Sun Ce's pace of coming to the army, and buy time for the front army as much as possible.
Of course, before the specific movements of Sun Ce's army were accurately discovered, this could only be an assumption. After all, with Zhou Yu's ability, if he had expected that Qin Xu would use Daoshan to cross the border to raid Yuzhang, he would never allow the troops led by Sun Ce to have such a move of being cross-cut with Yuzhang. Qin Xu is gambling, betting on Sun Ce's paranoid nature in history, and after seeing the generals led by Tai Shi Ci, who had made him fall short in Fuguan, he would desperately want to get back the lost "victory".
However, I have to say that although because of the mixture after the arrival of Qin Xu's "variable", the history of the late Han Dynasty has undergone fundamental changes. But the conclusion of history is still a big killer for the character of these darlings of the past era. The speculation about Yan Baihu's military strength is actually eight or nine.
As early as a few days ago, Yan Baihu according to Guo Jia's plan, with nearly 10,000 subordinates of his army as bait, after using a plan to disrupt Yuzhang County, Zhou Yu successfully guessed the wrong intention, thinking that Yan Baihu's previous actions were all to join forces with Qin Xu's army in Daoshanyue, from the south to the north, from the three prefectures and counties south of Yuzhang, where the troops were relatively weak, as a wedge, to attack Yuzhang County. Therefore, when the illness was not cured, he still urged Sun Ce to send troops to pursue Yan Baihu's army, which had fled because of the return of his army, and it was best to hold the tail of Yan's army and take advantage of the situation to catch Qin Xu's army by surprise.
After that, Sun Ce was really persuaded by his sworn brothers, and before he could rest, he sent troops. And soon, as Zhou Yu said, sure enough, when Qin Xu was entangled with the sect of Shanyue Xindu, at the border of Yuzhang County, he encountered the Yan army that was frantically fleeing south.
Sun Ce's violent temper is famous in history. Seeing that the culprit who almost made himself and Zhou Yu believe that the Jiangdong Raiders plan was almost completely collapsed, how could Sun Ce endure it. Sun Ce, who was very angry when the enemy saw each other, plus Pan Zhang, who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic and had the intention to continue to earn "impression points" in front of Sun Ce, although he only brought out 10,000 troops because he was worried about whether Qin Xu would have other plans, and the strength was only equal to the strength of the Yan army. But Yan Baihu's army, a rabble, where would it be the opponent of Sun Ce's army, it was almost just a charge of kung fu, and it was scattered.
Fortunately, these Yan generals still remembered the orders of their masters, although they were already fleeing in all directions because the dragons were leaderless at this moment, they still "faithfully" implemented this advice, and at the time of the rise of Sun Ce and Pan Zhang's killing, Sun Ce, who was worried about Zhou Yu's illness and the traces of Qin Xu's army that had not appeared for a long time, still found the clue.
In the history that Qin Xu is familiar with, Sun Ce is worthy of being a figure who was also shrouded in the aura of pig's feet in the early stage. Jiangdong Xiaobawang's military achievements are naturally not comparable to others. Of course, it is also strange that Yan Baihu has too high prestige in this group of remaining remnants of the army, in Sun Ce's eyes have been pursued for nearly a hundred miles, and then to the southwest to the mountains adjacent to the land of Jiaozhou, Yan has not seen a person in the army has never seen a person who has the intention of returning north, this anomaly, was keenly grasped by Sun Ce, after interrogating a few captives who could not get the essentials, Sun Ce decided to give up the previous strategy of chasing the tail and attacking to lure out Qin Xu's army, and instead accelerated the march, bypassing the Yan army that was being chased like a flock of sheep, from south to north, Along the side of the mountain at the junction of Huiji and Yuzhang, drive north. According to Sun Ce's plan, even if he couldn't meet the traces of Qin Xu's army, which he already knew was in this mountain, but it seemed to disappear out of thin air, and he didn't know where and when, he could not stretch the battle line too long and aggravate the panic in the county, so that if there was Lujiang County where Liu Biao was based in the west, and Yuzhang County, which had been threatened by Danyang County that had surrendered to Qin Xu, would have something to do.
Sun Ce's luck was good. Even Sun Ce himself didn't expect that the sentence that it would take no effort to break through the iron shoes and find nowhere to find them would be on his own head. After all, this is Yuzhang, although Sun Ce has not occupied it for a long time, but he also has some fame, Qin Xu's army is quite numerous, and the march is too conspicuous, after all, it was hidden by Sun Ce's army in the Yan clan's rout, and found the traces of Qin Xu's army exploring horses, and also brought back the speculation that Qin Xu's army intended to attack Yuzhang County through Wangu. Moreover, according to the report of the sentry cavalry, the "broken queen" people left by Qin Xu are the characters that Sun Ce also wants to see in his "love and hate" and "morning thoughts".
Tai Shi Ci! (To be continued......)