Chapter 269: Preparation

After Zhou Yu intervened, he immediately adopted a policy of Huairou to deal with the people who had been captured by Sun Cejun, the people were so simple, as long as they could eat their stomachs, as long as there was still hope of survival, they would definitely not rebel lightly.

It was precisely because of Sun Cejun's grain release that the people of Huainan had a different view of Sun Cejun, and after that, Zhou Yu tried his best to publicize Sun Ce and establish Sun Ce's glorious image.

Although the effect is very small, but slowly accumulated, it definitely has some effect, at least, Sun Cejun successfully stopped many people from rebelling. With Sun Ce's reputation improving a lot, this made Sun Ce's offensive a lot stronger, because many people were rumored to love the people like sons in Sun Ce's army, and they would take the initiative to give food and grass to the people, which made the people of Huainan very optimistic.

And this is undoubtedly very bad news for Liu Jun, Liu Jun himself does not have many soldiers to defend the city, there are people, can share in blocking a lot of Sun Cejun's offensive, and as Sun Ce's reputation gradually improves a lot, the people will rarely help Liu Jun defend the city.

For the people, although Liu Bei has a good reputation, but they can't afford to lose their lives for Liu Bei, for the people, as long as there is food and land to plant, then how can they have the idea of giving up their lives.

Sun Ce's army also said that as long as they did not participate in the defense of the city by Liu's army, Sun Ce's soldiers would not harm the people in the slightest, so as long as the people of Huainan did not act rashly, Sun Ce's army would guarantee their lives.

Moreover, there are constantly people advocating the benefits of Sun Ce's governance, for this, although Liu Jun's soldiers have taken precautions, it is difficult to stop the messages that continue to spread around, as the so-called three people become tigers, and the messages are constantly transmitted through the ears of the people. Even if it's fake, it's true.

Ravaged by Yuan Shu, this made the people of Huainan yearn for Sun Ce's rule, although Liu Bei's situation in Huainan has improved a lot, but the problem is that Liu Bei is not in Huainan now, and no one knows whether Liu Bei will come back.

Not only did the people of Huainan lose confidence, but even the soldiers defending the city in Huainan lost confidence in Liu Bei, and these soldiers defending the city were almost all soldiers recruited by Liu Bei, they were at most farmers with a little training, and they naturally would not be very loyal to Liu Bei.

Moreover, Sun Ce was very cruel to the soldiers of the Liu army, so this has frightened the soldiers of the Liu army, after all, they don't want to lose their lives like this, and. Sun Cejun's treatment is not bad, as long as Liu Jun chooses to surrender, they will not use extreme means to treat the surrendered soldiers.

With all kinds of news, Liu Jun finally could not resist the offensive of Sun Ce's army, and the army was defeated, because there was no reinforcement support, Liu Jun's soldiers were obviously unable to withstand Sun Ce's offensive, especially under Zhou Yu's conspiracy. Liu Jun is even less of an opponent of Sun Ce's army.

However, Sun Ce's offensive could only stop there, because Cao Cao's army had already approached Huainan. Although Sun Ce was not afraid of the Cao army, now was not the time for a decisive battle with the Cao army, and now Sun Ce had to gather strength, otherwise he would not plunder the population, but conquer the city.

Under Zhou Yu's persuasion, Sun Ce finally began to withdraw his troops. With a lot of people and baggage to withdraw the army, the speed of Sun Ce's army can naturally be imagined, but the speed of Cao's army is not fast, coupled with Zhou Yu's foresight. This made Sun Cejun's withdrawal orderly.

Sun Ce's robbery naturally did not escape Cao Cao's ears, but compared between Du Chen and Sun Ce, Cao Cao still chose Du Chen, and now he and Sun Ce are ruling across the river, but it is not the time to fight with Sun Ce.

Moreover, Cao Cao's army is strong now, so he doesn't attach great importance to Huainan, if it weren't for this reason, Cao Cao wouldn't have left Liu Bei a chance to take Huainan, and now if Liu Bei didn't take the initiative to attack him, Cao Cao didn't want to pay attention to him.

Of course, this is secondary, and the most important thing is that Cao Cao knew that Du Chen was injured, and the paper couldn't contain the fire after all, although Du Chen tried his best to cover up the fact that he was injured, but Du Chen still needed to face Cao Cao in the end.

Knowing that Du Chen was injured, Cao Cao was obviously a little angry, obviously aiming for a victory, but he didn't expect that Si Lang would be injured because of this, although Du Chen's injury was caused by capturing Guan Yu and Zhang Fei alive, but Cao Cao still reprimanded Du Chen.

After capturing Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, Cao Cao was obviously happy, but all his happy mood was covered by Du Chen's injury, and he would rather kill Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, Cao Cao also hoped that Du Chen was not injured.

Although Du Chen was only slightly injured, but this also made Cao Cao suffer a lot of surprise, Si Lang's physical condition is not clear, but he knows that Si Lang's body cannot be lightly injured, after all, Si Lang's physical condition is still very weak.

Although Du Chen kept telling Cao Cao that he was fine, Cao Cao was still not at ease, he wanted to order someone to send Du Chen back to Xuchang several times, but he was afraid that Du Chen would be tired and hurt himself.

Due to Du Chen's unstable factor, Cao Jun's marching speed was absolutely slow, and it was precisely because of Du Chen's existence that Cao Jun would tolerate Sun Ce's wreak havoc in Huainan for so long.

Sun Cejun's retreat is undoubtedly a good thing for Liu Jun, but only out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's mouth, with Sun Ce's army retreating, Cao Jun is in a hurry to kill, presumably for Sun Ce, Liu Jun's most fearful thing is to see Cao Jun.

Sun Ce and Liu Jun did not have any hatred, although Sun Ce's methods were cruel, but compared to Cao Cao, it was far worse, and now it was Liu Bei who took the initiative to attack Cao Cao, so you can imagine how much hatred Cao Cao had for Liu Bei.

You must know that Liu Bei turned his back on Cao Cao, and then took advantage of Cao Cao's unpreparedness to take Huainan, which is not counting, after taking Huainan, Liu Bei also stabbed Cao Cao in the back, which is somewhat treacherous.

When Lu Bu attacked Liu Bei, it was Cao Cao who gave Liu Bei a place to stay, if it wasn't for Cao Cao, God knows what Liu Bei's situation was, so Cao Cao would definitely not let Liu Bei go lightly.

In addition to this, Cao Cao appeared here without the lord Liu Bei, which made the soldiers of Liu Jun can't help but guess, the lord Liu Bei is at war with the Cao army, and now the Cao army has appeared, but they have not seen anyone from Liu Jun appear.

Even if the lord Liu Bei was defeated, everyone could see a few Liu soldiers who retreated from the front line, and even these Liu soldiers had not seen them, which made Liu Jun soldiers not know what was happening on the front line.

Sun Ce's offensive has made it difficult for Liu Jun to resist, not to mention the Cao army, which is stronger than Sun Ce's combat effectiveness, and now that the Cao army is attacking, the number of the entire Cao army is 10,000, and the Liu army defending the city is only a few people, the result of the battle can be imagined, and all the Liu army soldiers are in confusion.

If the lord Liu Bei was only defeated, then he still had a chance to withdraw, but now that the lord Liu Bei has lost his whereabouts, this makes Liu Jun's soldiers think otherwise, and even if the lord Liu Bei returns, he has no ability to turn things around, after all, even if there is a miracle, it is difficult for tens of thousands of Cao troops to disappear.

Liu's army, which had no fighting spirit, was conquered by Cao's army in a very short time, except for a few diehards of Liu Bei's forces who fled Huainan with a few thousand soldiers, and most of the other Liu's soldiers surrendered to Cao's army.

Easily took Huainan, Cao Cao's brows were furrowed deeply, now Huainan is dilapidated, under Sun Ce's attack, many cities have become empty cities, and there is no life in them.

Huainan was not favored by Cao Cao, and after taking it, Cao Cao hated this place even more, but for Du Chen, Huainan was a good buffer point, buffering the relationship between Cao Jun and Sun Ce.

Sun Ce is a character, and Zhou Yu beside him is not an easy character to deal with, but in addition to the two of them, the Yangtze River natural danger that is blocked between the two forces is what Du Chen fears the most.

Cao Jun didn't have a navy at all, they would definitely not be Sun Ce's opponent, after all, they had been in the Yangtze River for a long time, and their experience in water combat was much stronger than Cao's, and of course, there was a very important point, Du Chen still had a shadow on the Battle of Chibi.

has his own presence, although Du Chen doesn't know if the Battle of Chibi will happen, but Du Chen still has to deal with it carefully, the Battle of Chibi will definitely be a difficult battle, Du Chen has no confidence to stop him from happening, but he still has to make adequate preparations for the Battle of Chibi.

Under Du Chen's admonition, Cao Cao finally decided to occupy Huainan, of course, Du Chen's purpose was not for the territory here, his purpose was to train the naval army.

People who have no long-term worries must have near-term worries, so it is too late to wait until the Battle of Chibi to train the naval army, which Cao Cao did back then, but in the end he was defeated.

In addition to training the navy, Du Chen's other purpose is to train a naval general, or to go to Yangzhou in Jingzhou to find a good naval general, you must know that when the Cao army was in the Battle of Chibi, there was no naval general, but there were two generals, but they were also killed by Zhou Yu.

Without a naval general, even if Du Chen knew how to deal with Zhou Yu's strategy, it would be difficult for Du Chen to defeat Sun Ce's troops on the Yangtze River.

After arranging all the qiē, Cao Cao led the Cao army to withdraw, and this battle was not bad for the Cao army, not only eliminating Liu Bei's forces, but also capturing Liu Bei's two sworn brothers and brothers.

For talents, Cao Cao did not refuse, but this time the talent did not give Cao Cao a good face, Cao Cao wanted to recruit Guan Yu very much, but Guan Yu ignored Cao Cao at all.

However, Cao Cao did not give up at all, he had the spirit of perseverance, he treated Guan Yu with little kindness every day, but Guan Yu obviously still did not give Cao Cao a good face. (To be continued......)

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