Chapter 268: Before the Rain
Sun Gan evacuated the camp with the white-eared elite soldiers and the remaining hundreds of Liu troops, and quickly found a place conducive to hiding his body and retreated.
After Liu's army withdrew, Cao's army easily took Liu's camp. Looking at the Liu army camp that had been empty, Cao Cao's mood was full of joy at the same time, he also felt disappointed, Liu Jun retreated so decisively, which made Cao Cao feel very admired, indeed, for a camp that has lost its role, it is indeed not suitable to fight hard with Cao Jun.
Originally, Cao Cao wanted to pursue this team of Liu Jun, but they soon disappeared from Cao Jun's sight and disappeared, which made Cao Cao only smile bitterly, but the more this happened, the more curious Cao Cao became about Liu Jun's strategists, and he wanted to know what kind of talent Liu Jun had invited.
However, since Liu Jun has disappeared, Cao Cao has not continued to dwell on this matter, and now there are many more important things than this, and taking Liu Jun's camp does not mean that the battle is won, he wants Liu Bei to have no place to turn over.
After taking the camp of the Liu army, the Cao army began to rest, and now the Cao army has no soldiers, so Cao Cao has to wait for Du Chen to lead the Cao army to come to the aid before he can launch an offensive against the Liu army, after all, Cao Cao is still self-aware, and he naturally knows that it is difficult for his soldiers to conquer the city guarded.
While Cao Jun began to recuperate, Sun Qian hid in the woods and didn't know what to do, he realized that there must have been an accident when the lord led the army to raid Cao Jun, otherwise Cao Jun would never have made such a move.
But the question is that he doesn't know anything about what happened on the front line, so he doesn't dare to send people to search for Liu Bei and others, but if he withdraws his troops now, if there is really any accident in Liu Bei's place. Then he had absolutely no chance to go to the rescue, so Sun Qian was in a dilemma at this time.
After thinking about it for a long time, Sun Qian still decided to look for Liu Bei's trace, the lord Liu Bei has not contacted him for so long, which can prove that the situation of the lord Liu Bei at this time is definitely not much better, so he needs to find the lord Liu Bei. I can give some assistance to my lord.
With a decision, Sun Qian led all the soldiers to the north, his primary purpose was to find Liu Bei, and then how to follow depends on how Liu Bei arranged, after all, Liu Bei is the lord.
Sun Qian is afraid that it is difficult to think that it is precisely because of his decision that he and the soldiers under his command escaped, because when Liu Bei was fighting Cao Cao's idea, naturally there were also people fighting his idea.
Huainan under Liu Bei can be regarded as a mouthful of fat. Although Yuan Shu made the people of Huainan miserable when he was there, under Liu Bei's Huairou policy, this made Huainan's economy and people's livelihood recover well.
Liu Bei's appearance made him have a very good reputation in Huainan, which was also an important reason why Liu Bei was able to dominate the Huainan lands in a very short period of time.
However, Liu Bei's actions are naturally seen by others, and as the situation in Huainan gets better and better, there will naturally be an idea to fight him, after all, the troubled times are a world of fighting for strength, and every human resource is very precious. So naturally there are people who will not give up such territory.
Liu Bei's own strength did not support him to lead such a large territory, and when Liu Bei led almost all his soldiers to crusade against Cao Cao. His station suddenly became a sweet spot, and the undefended territory was favored by others.
Of course, they didn't act rashly, after all, they didn't want to be attacked by Liu Jun's army suddenly, so they naturally had to wait for Liu Jun and Cao Jun to stalemate. Then he easily took Huainan, so that Liu Bei would have no effect even if he returned to help.
Liu Bei didn't know that his territory was now under the enemy's plan, but even if Liu Bei knew, he couldn't do anything. After all, Liu Bei at this time no longer had any troops.
Knowing that Liu Bei and Cao Cao were in a bloody battle, and the Cao army's army was close to the battlefield, this made Sun Ce, who had been planning for a long time, have to act, if Cao Cao defeated Liu Bei, his Cao army would definitely aim at Huainan, at that time, Sun Ce did not think that his current strength could play with Cao Jun.
His time is limited, Sun Ce has no intention of completely occupying Huainan, his purpose in attacking Huainan is to take advantage of the fire to rob, don't look at Liu Jun's current record is good, but he is the opponent of the powerful Cao Cao, so Liu Bei's defeat is absolutely predictable.
And now, neither Cao Cao nor Liu Bei has time to take care of Huainan, so he has a lot to do, Liu Bei is not Cao Jun's opponent, then Huainan will soon fall into the hands of Cao Jun.
And after he takes Huainan, he can loot on a large scale, whether it is population or food, Sun Ce will definitely not leave anything to Cao Jun, so he now has to race against time, to win the most territory in the shortest possible time, and then sweep away anything he can take from these places.
With a decision, Sun Ce began to act, and now Sun Ce's strength has increased greatly, and because he has been planning for a long time, Sun Ce has mobilized a large army of soldiers early, preparing to attack Liu Bei's territory.
The soldiers under Liu Bei's command were naturally very clear about Sun Ce's actions, and of course, they also knew that with the strength of Liu Jun, who was now staying in Huainan, they were definitely not Sun Ce's opponents, so they hurriedly asked Liu Bei for help.
However, although Liu Jun's request for help was sent out early, Liu Bei was already overwhelmed at this time, not only the camp had been taken by Cao Jun, but even Liu Bei was like a lost dog, panicking all day.
In the expectation of everyone, the letters of request for help seemed to sink into the sea, and Liu Jun did not wait for Liu Bei's help, but waited for Sun Cejun's fierce attack.
Liu Bei mobilized most of the soldiers, how could a county town be the opponent of Sun Ce's army, so in a short period of time, Sun Ce's army conquered the city in front of him.
After taking this city, Sun Ce began to plunder, the purpose of his trip was grain, grass and population, so Sun Ce would never give up any time, so after conquering the city in front of him, Sun Ce began to rob.
After the soldiers under Liu Jun's command heard the news, although he was very annoyed, but there was no way, now that he was not enough to defend the city, they had the strength to recover the city.
Therefore, the soldiers of Liu Jun could only watch Sun Ce's army loot, but there was no way to stop it, and they plundered a city, Sun Ce suddenly tasted the pleasure of plundering, and nothing could be faster than this.
After tasting the pleasure of plundering, Sun Ce became even more difficult to stop, he wanted to conquer more cities in the shortest possible time, and then continue to loot the contents of these cities.
In Sun Ce's thoughts, Sun Cejun suddenly turned into an army of locusts, and wherever they went, it could be said that there was no grass, which brought a dire impact to the people of Huainan.
In order to resist Sun Ce's invasion, the people of Huainan spontaneously organized to resist Sun Ce's invasion, and it was precisely because of the joining of the people that Sun Ce's invasion suddenly slowed down a lot, which also angered Sun Ce to some extent.
Sun Ce himself was irritable and irritable, so after he learned that these ignorant people had actually united to resist him, his murderous intent suddenly soared, and for Sun Ce, Sun Ce, who was addicted to robbery, these people were just his own goods.
The goods actually dared to resist, how could this not make Sun Ce deeply angry, he naturally raised the butcher's knife against these defenseless people, originally, Sun Ce's purpose was just to kill chickens and monkeys, in order to set an example.
But as the news of Sun Ce's killing of the captives spread, his name suddenly became synonymous with demons in the hearts of the people of Huainan, and it was precisely because of this that the resistance of the people of Huainan became more and more intense.
In the eyes of the people of Huainan, before Sun Ce came, their lives were changing dramatically, after Yuan Shu was destroyed, the emperor's uncle Liu Bei entered Huainan, which made the people of Huainan see the hope of life, but this hope did not last long, and the demonic Sun Ce came.
The people's resistance became more and more intense, and even many of the people who were escorted back to their own places by Sun Ce had a lot of riots, which made Sun Ce's mood can be imagined, at first he wanted to kill to stop killing, but this idea was stopped by Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu is Sun Ce's best friend, the two have been friends since childhood, and at the same time married Jiangdong Erqiao, who is known as the national color, and became a brother-in-law, if anyone in Sun Ce's army can dissuade Sun Ce, it is only Zhou Yu.
At first, Zhou Yu did not dissuade Sun Ce, because he felt that this matter was not a big deal, but it was just a few people who participated in the defense of the city, of course, it can only be said that it is a symbol of the surname, since they took up arms to participate in the defense of the city, then these people are their enemies, and they will be killed if they are killed.
But a series of things later, Zhou Yu really didn't expect, he didn't expect that the people of Huainan hated the army so much, and their resistance was obviously beyond imagination, which caught Zhou Yu off guard.
Fortunately, he stopped Sun Ce's tough methods in time, if he really killed Sun Ce's surname, he knew what would happen one day.
Now it is absolutely impossible to use strong measures, since we have made up our minds to plunder the population, then we cannot make all the population very repulsive to the self-army, if that is the case, then the self-army will not plunder back with resources, but with disasters.
Although Sun Ce was a little angry about Zhou Yu's stopping, he still obeyed Zhou Yu's words, after all, the reason why he has his current achievements is that Zhou Yu's assistance has played a vital role, so for Zhou Yu, Sun Ce can definitely be trusted, and he will definitely not harm himself. (To be continued......)