When Yuan returned to Xingyuan, he ordered the drumming to gather the generals.

The drum sounded three links, and the generals of various ministries and officials of various departments gathered to Yuan No's line.

There are not many generals, except for Ji Ling, Zhang Niuli, and Xu Sheng, the three old generals, that is, Zhang Duo, Xu Gan, and Liu Wei, the three generals from Lujiang County, but there are many civil officials, in addition to dozens of civil officials of the original Zhongjia Dynasty, there are also Lujiang officials, such as Qiao Xuan's nephew Qiao Jue, Fan Yang of Fan's family, Xu Liu's Xu Liu, etc.

So there were only six people standing on the left, and dozens of people standing on the right, which was somewhat asymmetrical.

Yuan Wei glanced at Liu Wei, who was standing at the head of the military general class, and then at Qiao Wei, who was standing at the head of the civil official class, and said: "The sentry cavalry returned, Sun Ce raised an army of 30,000 and marched westward from Stone Town, and its forward was less than fifty miles away from the nest, and the Jiangdong army was strong, whether the battle was peaceful or surrendered, you are specially summoned to come to the showdown, and you can speak freely." ”

Hearing that Sun Ce raised 30,000 troops to march westward, he suddenly became silent.

Seeing that no one spoke, Ji Ling frowned and was about to stand up and speak, but Yuan Wei restrained him with his eyes.

After a while, Zhang Duo, who was standing at the head of Ji Ling, finally came out of class and said: "Son, Sun Ce Pifu is addicted to killing, if Lujiang falls into his hands, how can it be good?" Didn't say it, go to war! ”

"At war? The general said it easy. Fan Yang immediately stood up and retorted, "Sun Ce's father and son are arrogant, deeply respected, and have hundreds of generals under their command, and now, Sun Ce has raised an army of 30,000 to the west, what can our small county of Lujiang compete with?" ”

Xu Gan followed and said excitedly: "That's right, our Lujiang is small, but we also have 5,000 elite soldiers, plus the old department of Gongzi has 9,000, and it is based on the strong city, so we may not lose to Sun Ce's house." ”

Although Xu Liu is the uncle of the Xu Gan clan, he did not give his nephew face at all, and retorted: "Although our army has 9,000, except for the 4,000 soldiers under the command of Gongzi, the rest are all people's strong, lacking both ordnance and training, but Sun Ce's command is all elite in a hundred battles, how can they be their opponents?" If this battle really starts, Lujiang County will inevitably be burned! ”

Xu Gan said sharply: "Even if the jade is burned, I will never hand over the Lujiang River to Sun Ce!" ”

Xu Liu said angrily: "Xu Gan, you shut up for me, you want to fight so much, you look forward to war so much?" Do you want to trade the lives of your parents, wife, children, and thousands of people for military exploits? ”

"Xu Gong's words are wrong." Ji Ling finally came out of the ranks and retorted, "My generation of martial artists has always taken it as their responsibility to protect the territory and the people, and now Sun Ce has raised unrighteous soldiers to attack, but it is the duty of my generation to protect the Lujiang River, how can I exchange the lives of my parents, wives and children for war exploits?" Xu Gong said this, didn't it chill the soldiers of the three armies? ”

"The old man disagrees with the general's words." Fan Yang continued to retort, "The general also said just now that the duty of the warrior is to protect the territory and the people, but once the war starts, Lujiang County will inevitably be burned. ”

Ji Ling said angrily: "I didn't fight, how do you know that our army will lose this battle?" ”

Fan Yang said: "Sun Ce's army has 30,000 people, almost four times as many as me, and the Jiangdong army is all elite in a hundred battles, but our army has been sparse for a long time. ”

Ji Ling sneered: "If the war is won or lost, how can it be that there are many soldiers?" Although our army is small in this battle, it occupies the right time and place, although the Jiangdong Army has many soldiers, it is an unrighteous division, our army will win this battle, and the Jiangdong Army will be defeated! ”

Xu Liuzhi said: "Qiang Qin's attack on the Six Kingdoms also did not occupy the right time, place and people, but why was it able to wipe out the Six Kingdoms and dominate the world in the end?" Don't the generals know that there is a difference between a royal way and a domineering way in this way of war? ”

Zhang Niucal said angrily: "What bullshit is kingly, domineering, a certain person believes in the knife in his hand!" ”

Fan Yang shook his head again and again, and said disdainfully: "The shaft is not enough and the plan, the shaft is not enough and the plan." ”

The quarrel between the civil and military soon escalated into a personal attack on each other, and the situation was about to get out of control.

However, this is also expected by Yuan Wei, the generals always want to fight, because only by fighting can they obtain military merits and become knights.

However, it is difficult for these civil officials and nobles to reap the benefits of war, but because of war, they will inevitably pay a lot of vested interests, because as soon as the war begins, they must provide the army with food, grass and ordnance, and once the war is defeated, the result will be even worse, and even their slaves, fields, and estates will become the enemy's spoils.

Therefore, in wartime, the civil and military factions have always been incompatible, and there are few times when they agree on the same opinion.

If it is not handled well, and it is not possible to unify the opinions of the civil and military factions, it will become Yuan Shao in the battle of Guandu, and if it is handled well, and the opinions of the civil and military can be unified in time, then there is a chance to become Sun Quan in the battle of Chibi.

Fortunately, this battle does not need to fight with Sun Ce.

In this battle, Yuan Jun only needs to play military power and hurt Sun Ce.

At that moment, Yuan Fu hit the case hard, and said sharply: "Quiet, what does the noise look like?" ”

After the civil and military generals in the hall were each listed and no longer quarreled, Yuan Wei set his eyes on Liu Ye and asked, "What does Ziyang think?" ”

There are so many civil and military forces present, Liu Ye is the most special.

Liu Ye is a scribe and the leader of Lujiang Shilin, and it is easy to be recognized by civil officials by nature.

But at the same time, because of the killing of Zheng Bao, Liu Ye also won the respect of Zhang Duo and Xu Gan.

Although Liu Ye had already reached a conclusion with Yuan in private, in fact, Jiangdongjun was recruited by him.

However, the article on the surface still needs to be done, and at the moment Liu Ye came out of the crowd, first looked at Yuan Fu deeply, and then said loudly: "Son, although there are 30,000 people in the Jiangdong army, they have been away from Jiangdong's homeland for a long time, and the soldiers are homesick, and ten percent of the combat strength has gone to two percent; Moreover, the Jiangdong Army came in the wind and rain, and it was very hard, so the combat strength went to two percent; In this way, the combat power that 30,000 Jiangdong troops can exert is equivalent to 10,000 people, which is similar to our Lujiang army, but it is not enough to be afraid. ”

Yuan Wei said: "So, can you fight? ”

"Battleable!" Liu Ye said, "Moreover, our army will win this battle!" ”

Yuan Wei pulled out the ring knife with his backhand, cut off a corner of the table with one knife, and then shouted sharply with the knife: "I have made up my mind, and I vow to fight to the death with the Jiangdong Army, and then there are those who surrender, just like this case!" ”

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At the same time, Sun Ce's army had passed through Shu County.

Because the arrow sores had not healed, he could not ride a horse, so Sun Ce could only go out by car.

Before the expedition, a hurricane came suddenly, and the land of Jianghuai was raining heavily and the wind was like a roll.

The Jiangdong army marched in the rain, which was very hard, and even the carriage in which Sun Ce was riding trembled in the wind.

Sun Ce was leaning on the cushion and closing his eyes and pretending to sleep, when he suddenly heard a crackling sound on the car window, and hurriedly asked, "Jia Hua, what's going on outside?" ”

Jia Hua responded: "Lord, it's hail!" ”

"What, hail?" Sun Ce hurriedly rolled up the car window and looked out, and sure enough, he saw that the bean-sized ice crystals were falling from the sky, and after they hit the ground, they bounced up one after another, splashing around.

Occasionally, there will be hailstones the size of eggs, but they are extremely lethal.

Looking at the queue of the Jiangdong Army, the hoplites in iron armor are fine, even the hail the size of an egg can't cause much damage, but those light soldiers who are only wearing leather armor or even cloth armor, such as archers, are miserable! The hail had only been falling for less than a moment, and all of them were already blue and swollen, and they were miserable.

The subordinate general Chen Wu urged him to step forward and said to Sun Ce: "Lord, the hail is too big, so let's avoid it first?" ”

"No, you can't stop!" Without waiting for Sun Ce to speak, Zhou Yu walked around from the other side of the carriage and said in a deep voice, "The soldiers are very fast, since the war has begun, we must rush to the city of Juchao in the shortest possible time, and we must not give the Yuan army too long to prepare, because the longer the preparation time for the Yuan army, the greater the price we will have to pay when we attack the city!" ”

Chen Wudao: "But marching against hail, the soldiers are too hard, and it will increase unnecessary casualties." ”

Zhou Yu said: "As a soldier, you are not afraid of bleeding and dying, so why are you afraid of hail? As for casualties, how many people can be injured by a mere hailstorm? If the military plane had been delayed because of this, so that Yuan's army had been fully prepared, the casualties that our army would have to pay at that time would have been much greater than the casualties that could have been caused by a mere hailstorm. ”

Sun Ce said: "Gong Jin is right, the soldiers are fast, pass on the order of a certain general, and continue to march!" ”

"No!" Chen Wu waved his hand and rode his horse away.