Chapter 31: Cleaning up the Mess

"What?" Without waiting for Zhou Yu to answer, Cheng Pu was already angry and stepped forward to grab the pawn who reported the news and said angrily: "How could Wu County be lost? There are 30,000 elite soldiers in Wu County, 30,000! You are 30,000 steamed buns, and Liu Bei can't even think of eating them all night! What is the crime of disturbing the morale of the army? ”

"General, Liu Bei's banner has been hung on the head of Wu County!" The pawn was screwed up by Cheng Pu, but he still said weakly. Cheng Pu seemed to lose all his strength in an instant when he heard this, and let go of his hand and put him down. At this moment, another small school came running over and said breathlessly: "Dudu, the big thing is not good, a group of about 30,000 people in Wujun City is killing Shenting Ridge, and there are only ten miles left from us!" ”

"That's Liu Bei stabilizing the situation and sending someone to deal with Zhao Feng." Zhou Yu said slowly. The voice was still calm, but there was an indescribable sense of fatigue. "The rear army becomes the front army, withdraw!" Zhou Yu waved his hand and gave the order.

"Governor, where are you going?" Tai Shi Ci came to his senses and asked.

"Withdraw Yuzhang, and at the same time send someone to inquire about the whereabouts of the lord. If the lord can escape, he must go to Huiji or Luling, and send more people to inquire. After Zhou Yu finished explaining this last sentence, he first turned his horse's head and left, and the rest of the generals followed, only Cheng Pu kept watching Wu Jun from afar, but the tears were silent.

Koto, it's over!

"General, the fake man has withdrawn!" Chen Zhi panted, and then sat on the ground. At the same time, Hao Zhao in Houshan also sent someone to report that reinforcements were coming, and the banner should be Li Tong.

"Whew!" Zhao Feng let out a sigh of relief, and sat on the ground with some fatigue, although the injury on his shoulder was simply bandaged, it still had a faint pain. At this time, when Shi Cai was commanding the battle, he was shot by a Jiangdong Army Sima, and of course the guy immediately asked Huang Zhong to kill him with an arrow.

Thinking of this, Zhao Feng also turned his head to look at Huang Zhong, who was even more unbearable, and was already lying there while panting. Not long after, Li Tong's reinforcements had also arrived, "Is General Zhao okay?" Li Tong's voice was heard from a distance from the bottom of the mountain.

"Venda, I'm here!" Zhao Feng replied breathlessly, but he didn't have the strength to get up to greet him for a while. Li Tong ran up the mountain, and saw that Zhao Feng's shoulder injury was not serious, so he was relieved. "Wenda, what's going on over there in Wu County?" Zhao Feng took a few breaths and hurriedly asked this most important question.

"Everything is going well, our army has occupied Wu County, and when the situation settles down, the lord will send me with 25,000 men and horses to support the general first." Li Tong briefly explained the situation.

"How is Sun Quan?" Zhao Feng asked again, as long as Sun Quan is caught, it will be twice the result with half the effort.

"Let him run!" Li Tong said with some annoyance. It turned out that when Sun Quan saw that the city was about to be broken, he ran directly from the east gate. After the Xuzhou army divided its troops to block it, after all, the number of people was not too much, and Sun Quan's personal guards were indeed more brave and good at fighting, so he was able to stand out from the encirclement. Not only that, even Zhang Zhao and other important ministers also ran a lot, and Sun Quan's family also ran with him. Although Liu Bei sent people to chase after him, Sun Quan had already prepared a boat, and only ran a few miles before getting on a boat and heading south, apparently going to Huiji.

"I see!" Zhao Feng also felt a little regretful after learning what happened, but now that Wu County, the richest county in the six counties of Jiangdong, and Danyang, which produced troops, have been taken, even if Sun Quan goes to Huiji, he will not do anything. Thinking about this clearly, Zhao Feng was also in a much better mood, and after resting for a while, he and Li Tong went to Wu County to join Liu Bei's army.

"Bo Tao's injury is out of the way, right?" Seeing Ai hanging his arm back, Liu Bei was also a little nervous. After learning that the latter was fine, Liu Bei was also relieved. At this time, Lu Su began to report to Liu Bei on the overall situation of this battle.

Of the 70,000 Xuzhou troops, about 7,000 were killed in the battle to capture Wu County, and more than 1,000 were seriously wounded and 2,000 were slightly wounded. The way that Zhao Feng blocked was even worse, 15,000 people were killed in 6,000 alone, and the rest except for the minor and serious wounded, only 6,000 people could continue to fight, and the entire Xuzhou army suffered nearly 20,000 casualties.

Of course, the Jiangdong Army did not get any bargains. Of the 30,000 defenders of Wu County, about five or six thousand fled south with Sun Quan, and nearly 15,000 of the rest died, and the rest were captured. As for Zhou Yu also threw down more than 10,000 corpses in Shenting Ridge, of course, there were no more prisoners. Nearly 20,000 people died in a fierce battle in just one night, which is enough to see the fierceness of the battle.

"After this battle, only Huiji, Luling, Yuzhang and Poyang are left under Sun Quan's rule, and the military horses under his command are only sixty or seventy thousand, and their vitality is greatly damaged!" Lu Su finally concluded. It could be seen that he was also a little excited, and the last sentence was called an impassioned one.

"That's great!" Liu Bei was also very satisfied when he heard this. Next is the next stage of mission planning, after this battle, the Xuzhou army needs to take a good rest anyway. First of all, the county soldiers were transferred from Xuzhou to guard the city, and the prisoners were also selected and reorganized for training to replenish the battle losses, and these tasks were about to be carried out in an orderly manner. There is also to appease people's hearts, Wu County is the foundation of the Sun family, once it is not well governed, it is inevitable that there will be hidden dangers in the future, which requires Lu Su and others to bother a lot, Liu Bei even ordered to urgently transfer Jiang Wan, who is good at internal affairs, from Xuzhou to come here. Of course, the rest of the counties should also be pacified as soon as possible, and Gao Ran and Wen Ping were each sent to pacify the rest of the counties of Wu County with 10,000 troops each.

As for the direction of the next march, Pang Tong, Lu Su and Zhao Feng all thought that since the Jingzhou army could no longer be counted on, then the surname Suo would do our own thing, and just take down Huiji and Poyang after resting enough, and Yuzhang and Luling would see if the Jingzhou army had the ability to take it themselves. Liu Bei did not object, he was not a person who was too willing to make wedding clothes for others, but out of politeness, on the day of the capture of Wu County, he immediately sent an envoy to contact the Jingzhou army to see how the situation was.

However, what happened next was almost everyone's surprise.

"Gongji, Chengyuan, why are you here?" After evacuating Shentingling, the Jiangdong Army marched west for only a few dozen miles, and did not want to meet the Jiangdong Army with a messy team, but the two leaders were Ding Feng and Ling Tong, who stayed in Yuzhang, and Zhou Yu suddenly had a trace of ominous premonition in his heart when he saw them.

"Governor Dadu, as soon as your army left, the Jingzhou army suddenly united with the Xuzhou army to cross the river to attack, and we couldn't be prepared to be defeated by them, my father has already died in battle! Of the 10,000 defenders, there are only more than 3,000 of us left! After Ling Tong saw Zhou Yu, his nerves, which had been tense for many days, were also relaxed. After briefly explaining the situation, I couldn't help but cry on the spot.

It turned out that on the second day after Zhou Yu burned Liu Pan and broke the Jingzhou army, Kuai Liang, who was originally sent by Liu Biao to support Liu Pan, led 10,000 new troops to Ganjiang, and only when he arrived did he know that Liu Pan had just lost another game. However, Kuai Liangzhi was very scheming, and he was keenly aware that once Zhou Yu won, he would return to help Wu County, and Yuzhang's guards would inevitably be empty, so he immediately persuaded Liu Pan to reorganize his army and fight again. At the same time, he also sent people to unite Gan Ning and Guan Ping of Lujiang to send troops, under the attack of the two people, Ling Lai father and son and Ding Feng who stayed in Yuzhang failed to resist after all, and Ling Gang was killed by Gan Ning with an arrow in the melee, and Ling Tong and Ding Feng led the army to fight desperately out of the encirclement.

"What?" Zhou Yu was also shocked when he heard this, and then asked with some concern: "Then why don't you go to Poyang?" As soon as the words came out, I knew that the situation in Poyang might not be good, and this time I felt even more cold.

Sure enough, Ding Feng said: "I waited to fight out of the siege and come to join the army, I wanted to enter Poyang to wait for help, but I didn't want Poyang to be besieged by tens of thousands of Shanyue troops at this moment, I waited for a small number of soldiers, and I couldn't kill it thoroughly, so I had to come to the metropolitan governor first!" ”

"What? Tens of thousands of mountains? Zhou Yu's mind was blank when he heard this, Poyang only had Cheng Pu's son Cheng Zhi led 5,000 people to garrison, and now he was besieged by tens of thousands of Shanyue, even if there was nothing to do for a while, but after a long time, it would inevitably be more auspicious. Although there are still nearly 40,000 people under his command, once he goes to rescue Poyang, in case he gets entangled with the Jingzhou army or the Xuzhou army again, then he is afraid that he will have to get in. What's more, now that Sun Quan's whereabouts are unknown, he can't just consume this last bit of capital casually.

"To the south, go to Luling!" Zhou Yu wanted to understand this, gritted his teeth and ordered. "The Grand Duke?" Huang Gai and Tai Shi Ci were both anxious when they heard this, but they heard Cheng Pu say a little weakly: "Let's go south, listen to the governor." ”

"Demou!" Huang Gai was also stunned when he heard this, but when he looked back, he saw that his old friend was crying silently when he saw his son's Poyang from a distance, and opened his mouth but couldn't say anything more.

"Let's go!" Looking back at Poyang deeply, Zhou Yu gritted his teeth and turned his horse's head to be the first to rush to the south. Xiao Qiao was in Poyang, and Zhou Yu knew very well what would happen to his delicate wife if he fell into their hands once those barbaric Shanyue broke through the city.

"Ahh Zhou Yu galloped wildly, and at the same time vented his anger like a wounded beast.

"Lord, Leader Yan Peng is here!" The next day, Wu Jun welcomed an uninvited guest to the city. "I've seen Uncle Liuhuang!" Yan Peng meticulously saluted Liu Bei. "Why does Leader Yan need to be polite, I don't know why the leader came to find a reserve at this time?" Liu Bei asked in some surprise.

After Yan Peng sat down, he explained his intention. This Yan Peng is the nephew of Yan Baihu, the leader of Shanyue in the past, and the son of his younger brother Yan Yu. When Sun Ce conquered Jiangdong, Yan Baihu once sent Yan Yu to negotiate with Sun Ce. Sun Ce set up a banquet to entertain Yan Yu, but during the banquet, he suddenly attacked the other party and hacked him to death, and then started a war with Yan Baihu.

When watching "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in his previous life, Zhao Feng felt that Sun Ce's behavior this time was a little disapproving. If you want to say that there are Hongmen banquets and killing messengers, but chopping the envoys in the middle of the meal is a bit unauthentic. After Yan Baihu was defeated, there were few survivors in the whole clan, only this Yan Peng was recruited as a son-in-law by Pan Lin, the leader of Yuzhang Shanyue, who happened to be not in Wu County at that time, so he survived.

This time, Liu Bei nominally united Shanyue, but in fact, he didn't let them fight any big battles, mainly to harass the counties of Danyang to lure the snake out of the hole. After the deed was completed, the Shanyue people also began to migrate to Yuzhou according to the agreement. However, Yan Peng is more distinct from grievances, and he feels that he will inevitably feel uneasy when Liu Bei is so favored, and it coincides with the Jingzhou army attacking Yuzhang, and he persuaded his father-in-law to send troops to besiege Poyang, and he also fought a good battle for Liu Bei before leaving. After besieging the city, Yan Peng personally came to explain the situation to Liu Bei.

"I see!" Liu Bei and others also suddenly realized when they heard this. "Poyang has been besieged by the warriors of our clan, but we lack siege equipment and cannot attack the city, and we ask Uncle Liu Huang to send troops to carry equipment to help!" Yan Peng finally said that even the news of the Jingzhou army's attack on Yuzhang was told to Liu Bei by the way, and it was half a day earlier than the envoy sent by Liu Bei to inquire about it.

The world is changing! Zhao Feng sighed. Who would have thought that the Jingzhou army, which has always been despised, also has a time when the salted fish turns over, but Yan Peng has good intentions, and Liu Bei can't bear to be rebellious, not to mention when this ready-made cheap will not be taken advantage of? . Since Gao Ran and Wen Ping were still conquest of the counties, and Zhao Feng and others had met with them a few times when they contacted Shanyue before, and they still had some friendships, Liu Bei asked Zhao Feng to lead 10,000 horses with thunderbolts and ballistas to unite the Shanyue army to capture Poyang.

"What is this called?" After resting for less than a day, Zhao Feng was a little dazed and led his army westward again. When passing by Shenting Ridge, the battlefield there had not yet been cleared. Looking at the dirt slope where he was beaten badly a day ago, Zhao Feng was also quite emotional, just one day, I, Hu Hansan, have changed my face and attacked again. Koto, are they trembling?

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