Chapter 27: The Great War Breaks Out
There were two more martial spirits in Fang Yun's storage space, and he knew about this matter for the first time.
It's just that I didn't expect that the legendary Qu A junior would withdraw from the stage of history in such a helpless way. In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he single-handedly blocked the twelve generals who went to Shentingling with Sun Ce for an hour. Although it is also possible that Luo Guanzhong miscalculated the time, but this also makes Qu A really famous.
However, he didn't really shine on the stage of history, so he left aggrievedly. For this reason, Fang Yun expressed regret that a rare talent fell quietly like this. Two more days later, new information came to his case.
Now Huang Zhong is mainly in charge of the battlefield on Qingxu's side, and he only needs intelligence to be able to clearly understand what is happening on the front line, and he will not interfere in the matter of command.
Knowing that Zhu Ran and Zhu Huan were captured, Fang Yun became interested in these two important generals of the later Wu State. However, Zhu Ran is Zhu Zhi's adopted son, and his generals killed Zhu Zhi, so it is not easy for him to give up this hatred.
However, similar situations have not happened before, it must be known that when Gan Ning was fighting with Sun Ce, he shot Ling Cao with an arrow, but after returning to Sun Ce, he was able to become friends with Ling Cao's son Ling Tong. This mainly comes from Gan Ning's bold and sincere character, as well as Ling Tong's open-mindedness.
Whether Zhu Ran can be so open-minded is difficult to say. If the hatred is very strong, there is no way to implant the die-hard program. It's like the brain has made a fire prevention treatment, refusing to open the back door to install a die-hard program for the system, so that even if he is given the Martial Soul Pill. There is no way to gain his allegiance.
As for Zhu Huan, it is much simpler. After all, his family is on the Wu side of the county. Moreover, because of the military attache examination, the influence of this family of military generals in the local area has been greatly hit. Fang Yun was confident that as long as he sent a letter to Liu Xuan, the demise of this family would only be a matter of minutes.
If he threatens Zhu Huan with this, he has no reason not to compromise. In the final analysis, Zhu Huan is different from Zhu Ran, he is the son-in-law of the family. The family is both a help and a drag on him. In an era when family interests are paramount, he actually has no choice.
In the end, with a Martial Soul Pill, you can harvest a good general, and this deal is still very cost-effective!
Then again, Gao Lan's luck is indeed good, and he can still make such a contribution to the rear. Zhang He led an army of 15,000 to meet the battle, but he didn't expect his 8,000 people to pick up a bargain in the rear.
Under his attack, Sun Ce's army of 10,000 completely collapsed, and was killed again during the period, and only less than 3,000 people were able to return to the system. The 20,000 border troops were lost 17,000 at once. Sun Ce, no matter how good his mentality is, he has to be furious.
Danyang County itself does not have much population, and more than 17,000 people disappeared at once. It's like cutting a piece of meat on him! Now there are still 50,000 soldiers under his command, and he must guard the border, so as not to be attacked by Yuan Shu or Liu Xuan, and there are only less than 20,000 who can enter the battle.
If you want to retreat, it is even more impossible, now that you are surrounded by enemies, even if you want to retreat, where can you go? How disappointed is this for the soldiers and courtiers below? If people's hearts are scattered, it will be difficult to bring the team!
"You may be able to call for help, we are not alone." At this time, Sun Ce's little Zhou Yu gave thousands of advice.
Zhou Yu took refuge in Sun Ce later, also because of the friendship between the two parties when they were children. At that time, Sun Jian, as a deputy general, followed Zhu Jun's attack on the Liangzhou rebellion, leaving Sun Ce in Luoyang, and he became friends with Zhou Yu, the son of Zhou Yi, the then Luoyang Ling.
The two can be regarded as sympathetic to each other, and then Zhou Yi died of illness, and Zhou Yu served as a small official under his father Zhou Shang, who served as the Taishou of Danyang County at that time. After Sun Ce occupied Danyang County, he also took refuge in Sun Ce, of course, he was more afraid that it was to protect the interests of the Zhou family, and during the period, it may also involve some of the Zhou family's investment in Sun Ce or something.
Zhou Yu Yunwen Yunwu, Sun Ce took it as his help, and appointed him as a military advisor. On matters large and small, he was consulted for a long time.
Now that Zhou Yu reminded him, he understood that he was not fighting alone, but also organized. Since Yuan Shu formed this coalition army, as the leader of the alliance, his own ally was attacked by the enemy, should he send troops to help? Besides, there is a bit of a grudge between him and Fang Yun, isn't it?!
So Zhou Yu didn't talk nonsense, and directly sent a letter to Yuan Shu, telling him that he was willing to cede Jiangcheng and Jurong to Yuan Shu, and begged him to send troops to support. In this letter asking for help, he rarely used a more humble tone, originally he didn't want this, but Zhou Yu told him that Yuan Shu would eat this!
Sure enough, seeing that Sun Ce, this kid, came to ask for help, and he said it so humbly, Yuan Shu was immediately happy. In addition, he did have a bit of a holiday with Fang Yun, and there were some things that needed to be settled, so he was also happy to support.
So he immediately sent the general Ji Ling to cross the river with an army of 10,000 and came to the territory of Danyang County. Not long after, Ji Ling came to Moling with his headquarters, they didn't bring too much grain and grass this time, not that there was none, but Yuan Shu didn't intend to waste too much food, since it was Sun Ce asking for help, then it was natural for him to provide military rations!
Sun Ce's food is not much, but since he is asking for help, he can only pinch his nose and admit it.
The two sides had a short exchange and discussed the tactical route of attacking Hushu and recapturing Jiangcheng and Jurong. It's a pity that Zhang Hejun, who is now heading to Qilin Village, has begun to defend himself, otherwise he would immediately launch a surprise attack on Hushu, a small town that is only more than three meters short of a low wall, and it will not be easy to take it down?
"An iron cart that can gallop without oxen or horses, are you sure you don't dream or be dazzled?" The battle intelligence of the two armies went first, and Fang Yun's armored car did not hide from anyone, so it was naturally found by Sun Ce's spies.
It's just that this epoch-making product has given Sun Ce and Ji Ling an unprecedented impact, and they can't believe that there will be such a terrible thing in this world.
"Lord, the little one thought it was wrong at first. In the end, he risked his life to investigate. It was determined. The cars were covered with a sturdy layer of iron. There is no fear of arrows or axes at all. Underneath it is six wheels, and the amazing thing is that it can move without any traction from a cow or horse, and it is faster than the average horse! The spy replied very aggrievedly, if this strange information was not confirmed, he would dare to come back and report it casually?
"It's not surprising, it's just that it's driven by foot. We have already tried to develop and have made initial progress. In the future, this kind of pedal car may be able to replace horses. At the very least, it can greatly alleviate the embarrassing situation of the lack of horses in the south. Ji Ling interjected with a bit of contempt and arrogance.
When I was fighting with the outside world before. The use of armored vehicles has already been put into service. It is not very difficult for someone to know about the existence of armored vehicles. It's just that Yuan Shu spent a lot of time deciphering the technology of this armored car, and the only conclusion he came to was the pedal drive.
He also didn't want to think about how such a heavy body could make the car run like the wind with only two or three people pedaling? Zhou Yu thought of this question for the first time, and secretly threw a contemptuous look at Ji Ling.
"How to drive is not a problem, the key is how we should deal with this kind of car that is not afraid of swords and arrows." Sun Ce also saw Zhou Yu's eyes, and suddenly felt a little relieved. Then he asked.
"It's very simple, the wheels of this kind of car are the Achilles' heel. Just destroy it and it's a tin box. Then you can attack with fire, as long as you burn those iron cars, even if you can't burn the soldiers inside, you can suffocate them! Ji Ling replied eloquently.
I have to say that this is indeed a good way, if you really want to attack with fire, you can achieve the goal with the Vulcan cannon. The two did not think that the Vulcan Cannon was backward and could not play a role on the battlefield before, mainly because Zhu Zhi was not present.
"Has the enemy been doing anything new lately?" Sun Ce asked again.
"The local government only pushed the border line to the Hushu area, and then maintained a defensive position, and there was no intention of external expansion." The spies below answered quickly.
"Although Guangling County and Danyang County are only separated by a large river, it is not easy to transport supplies here. I'm afraid that at present, they are also busy building pontoon bridges or other means of transport, and if the baggage is not in place, the other party will not be able to fight. On the contrary, their supplies are not well supplied for the time being, and it is the best opportunity for us to attack! Zhou Yu said.
Since this is the case, there is naturally no need to waste time, and after simply formulating the offensive policy, especially the military arrangements before the battle, the army quickly came to the east of Huaishui and began to attack Hushu in the north.
At the same time, Cao Cao and Liu Bei, who were originally fighting together, suddenly launched an attack on Xiangxian. Liu Bei sent more than 10,000 troops, and Cao Cao sent more than 5,000 troops. The number of people is not large, but a lot of weapons of war are invested to the maximum. They did not divide their forces, but formed a coalition to attack.
Xiangxian is the seat of Peiguo's governance, and it is also an important place to store grain. The two armies launched an attack on this place, apparently with the intention of attacking the grain route. It doesn't matter if you can't capture this place, you just need to destroy all the food here, then Fang Yunjun will inevitably fall into chaos, and when the main army divides Peiguo County, it will be much easier.
In particular, they also heard that Yuan Shu and Sun Cejun were planning to attack Hushu County, and some of Fang Yun's troops would inevitably be attracted to the southern region, which gave them a chance.
In fact, they didn't know that Yang Feng, who was stationed in Xiang County, was ready to face the battle, and at the same time, Zhao Yun would also rush to the scene to support as soon as possible. They didn't know that Zhao Li left Qi County and went to Sangshan County under the rule of Yuzhou...... (To be continued......)
PS: Liu Bei and Cao Cao really can't bear the loneliness again......
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