Chapter 228: The Rise of Sun Ce (2)
In Liu Xuan's formation, the deputy general Fan Neng saw that Yu Mi was captured, and his anger rose, and he did not ask Liu Miao for his life, but directly rode out of the formation and stabbed Sun Ce with a gun.
At this moment, Sun Ce had already turned back to the war horse after riding his horse for dozens of steps, and was facing Fan Neng with his back, and for a while, he didn't see Fan Neng's sneak attack. In the Jiangdong army formation, Cheng Pu shouted: "Lord, be careful behind your back!" When Sun Ce heard this, he looked back and saw that Fan Neng had already killed in front of him, and the spear in his hand stabbed straight at Sun Ce's heart.
Sun Ce didn't have time to turn back to the war horse, and shouted angrily: "Kill!" This shout sounded between the two armies like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and it was not much better than Zhang Fei's shouting. Fan Neng, who had seen the success of the sneak attack, was frightened by Sun Ce's sudden shout, and with a tremor in his hand, the spear that stabbed out immediately deflected, far away from Sun Ce's heart. This is not counting, there must be a master and a horse, Fan Neng was timid, his war horse was also frightened by Sun Ce's shouting, and the horse stumbled to the ground, and fell Fan Neng off the horse, so that Fan Neng's forehead had a close contact with the earth, and Fan Neng's head was bleeding for a long time, and Venus appeared in front of him.
Without waiting for Fan Neng to come back to his senses, Sun Ce turned back to the war horse, pulled the reins, and let the sitting Wu Qi raise his front hooves and stomp on Fan Neng's head fiercely! With a click, under the trampling of the black horse, Fan Neng's skull immediately shattered, and the white brain mixed with red blood splattered all over the ground.
As a member of the Han family, Liu Miao has always been pampered, how could he have ever seen such a cruel scene? His mind was immediately shocked by Sun Ce's bravery, thanks to Liu Xuan, who was still relatively calm, if it was replaced by those ministers who were above the temple, they might have fainted screaming.
After solving Fan Neng, Sun Ce looked down at Yu Mi, who was caught in his ribs, and found that Yu Mi had been caught alive by himself. Then he threw away Yu Mi's body. Sun Ce raised his heavy gun, pointed at Liu Xuan's military formation, and shouted: "Charge!" ”
Under Sun Ce's shout, the Jiangdong army immediately reacted, and the whole army was divided into three teams, led by Cheng Pu and other old ministers, and the Chinese army went straight to Liu Xuan to kill; Zhou Tai and other Mesozoic generals were on the left wing, and Gan Ning led the Qilin Army as the right wing, outflanking and killing on both sides.
Among them, the right wing led by Gan Ning is the most eye-catching, and the Qilin Army is one of the four elite troops under Ao Lie, needless to say, its combat effectiveness is extremely strong. Even the weapons, armor and other equipment are far higher than the other troops on the battlefield. But these are not the most frightening, the place where the Qilin Army really surpasses the other sergeants is their fighting spirit, the Qilin Army of only 5,000 people. Under the command of Gan Ning, they shouted in unison: "The gall of the unicorn." I'm invincible! Kill! Kill!! Kill!!! "It seems like there's a fire burning in everyone's heart. This flame ignited their chests, making their blood boil like boiling water, and they would never fear death again.
Faced with the siege of the Jiangdong Army of the Third Road, Liu Miao reluctantly issued an order to retreat. Right now, Sun Ce has beheaded two generals in a row. It was the time when the morale of the Jiangdong Army was at its highest, and it was absolutely undesirable to fight a decisive battle with the Jiangdong Army at this time. Liu Miao decided to temporarily avoid the edge of the Jiangdong Army and retreated to the camp to defend it.
The three roads of the Jiangdong Army. Under the leadership of their respective commanders, they rushed and killed nearly 1,000 people under Liu Xuan's department, and then stopped the pursuit. Sun Ce's purpose is very clear, Liu Miao doesn't want a decisive battle to happen now, and he is in his hands. Now Liu Xuan's troops have a large number of men, more than twice the size of the Jiangdong Army, and there are large battalions to hold on, so it is not yet the time for a decisive battle. What Sun Ce had to do was to drive Liu Xuan back to the camp, make him shrink in the camp and not dare to take his head, and create fighters for Zhou Yu and Chen Wu, who attacked Qu'a.
Therefore, after Sun Ce gathered the military horses, he left Cheng Pu to continue the challenge outside Liu Xuan's camp, maintaining the coercion of Liu Xuan's army, and led the army back to the camp, waiting for news from Zhou Yu's side.
After three days of rapid marching, Zhou Yu and Chen Wu came to the vicinity of Qu'a with 7,000 dead soldiers. Zhou Yu ordered the whole army to rest for a while and regain their physical strength after the rapid march, so that they could launch a siege later. Subsequently, Zhou Yu asked Chen Wu to stay in the army to lead the sergeants, and he took a dozen personal guards to the mountains near Qu'a to watch the terrain from a high place.
Zhou Yu was a delicate person, and every time before fighting, he had to repeatedly observe the terrain in order to formulate the most reasonable combat policy. Through observation, Zhou Yu found that Qu'a's city wall was not high, only three zhang high, and the view outside the city was not very good, which was conducive to people and horses lurking. Therefore, Zhou Yu simulated a general battle policy in his mind, he planned to let a small group of soldiers into the city, and then take the city gate at night to lead the sergeants who had been ambushed outside the city in advance.
After returning to the army, Zhou Yu told Chen Wu his thoughts, Chen Wu thought for a while, and said to Zhou Yu that he had lived in Qu'a City for a period of time before, and he made a living by robbing tombs.
With the idea of giving it a try, Zhou Yu asked Chen Wu to take fifty dead soldiers to the cemetery to check, perhaps the heavens intended to protect Sun Ce, and the secret passage was still intact. So, Chen Wu sneaked into Qu'a with fifty dead soldiers along the tunnel, and waited for the soldiers guarding the city to fall asleep, so he touched the city gate and let Zhou Yu and others enter the city.
Outside the city, Zhou Yu had already led seven thousand dead soldiers to the vicinity of Qu'a City by taking advantage of the bunkers outside the city. Looking up at the sky, Zhou Yu muttered, "It's almost time, it's time for Zilie to act." ”
As Zhou Yu expected, Chen Wu had already quietly arrived near the city gate with fifty dead soldiers. Stretching out his hand and pulling out the short knife, Chen Wu quietly gestured a few gestures to the dead soldiers behind him, meaning to let them disperse, each looking for a target, and killing with one blow. The dead soldiers comprehended what Chen Wu meant, and scattered in groups of three or two, quietly touching the cave in the city gate.
Chen Wu took ten dead soldiers and gently climbed the city wall along the stairs. In addition to the defenders in the city gate, Chen Wu also had to create as much chaos as possible for the defenders on the city wall, so that Zhou Yu could enter the city smoothly, otherwise, as long as the defenders on the city wall fired arrows randomly, it would bring huge damage to Zhou Yu's department.
The dead men who had infiltrated the cave of the city gate were quickly captured, and they quietly killed the defenders guarding the city gate, and then poured a large amount of oil into the cracks on both sides of the gate. This trick was given to Sun Ce by Ao Lie, in order to lubricate the rusty door shaft so that when the city gate was opened, it would not make an obscure squeak. It's just this trick, Ao Lie didn't have a chance to use it, but he was told to Zhou Yu by Sun Ce, and then Zhou Yu used it in advance. After waiting for a while, the dead men felt that the lubrication was almost exhausted, so they gently pulled down the deadbolt and slowly opened the gate.
At the same time, Chen Wu on the city wall, unknowingly, secretly killed more than a dozen defenders on the city wall, and then changed into the defenders' clothes and armor with ten dead soldiers, posing as a patrol team, wandering around the city wall, and secretly assassinating the unsuspecting defenders. After a long time, the defenders on the city wall finally realized that something was wrong, because the number of companions was significantly reduced, but there was no enemy in sight, and some of the timid defenders, thinking that they were haunted, turned pale with fright, and curled up on the ground with their heads in their hands.
Outside the city, Zhou Yu saw the city gate wide open, and waved his hand vigorously behind him, and after the seven thousand dead soldiers saw Zhou Yu's attack gesture, they immediately ran towards Qu'a's city gate at the speed of sprinting. Immediately, shouts of killing rang out in the city until dawn. By the time the sky was bright, the banner planted on the head of Qu'a's city had been replaced by a green dragon flag embroidered with the word "Sun".
The matter of Zhou Yu leading his troops to attack Qu'a at night, under his deliberate spreading, quickly spread to the front of the two armies in Shenxian Ridge, and Liu Xuan and Sun Ce's reactions to this were completely different. Sun Ce was overjoyed, and immediately launched an attack on Liu Xuan's camp; And Liu Miao was panicked and rushed to the battle when there was no way out.
After two days of fighting between the two armies, the sergeant of Liu Xuan's unit could not withstand the onslaught of the Jiangdong army, which had high morale, and finally lost the camp and began to rout. The grain, grass and weapons that were too late to move away in Liu Xuan's camp were naturally cheaper than Sun Ce. After taking Liu Xuan's camp, Sun Ce arranged for Cheng Pu and Han Dang to garrison the camp, and then Sun Ce personally led other soldiers to pursue the remnants of Liu Xuan.
The poor Liu Miao had no way to retreat, and the soldiers under his command were killed by Sun Ce's pursuers, so some of Liu Xiang's subordinates got together and mutinied, preparing to take refuge in Sun Ce. As a capital for promotion, these mutinous soldiers originally wanted to behead Liu Xuan, but Liu Xiang was usually loyal, and his political achievements in governing Yangzhou were also outstanding. Seeing Liu Xuan break through, these mutinous soldiers immediately turned their spearhead to Xue Li, hacked Xue Li to death with a knife, cut off his head and gave it to Sun Ce.
In this battle, most of Liu Xuan's 70,000 troops fled, and only more than 1,000 people protected Liu Mian and fled to other places. After the war, Sun Ce collected and surrendered his soldiers, and got another 8,000 strong, which made his prestige even greater. After Liu Xuan's defeat, Sun Ce no longer had any obstacles in front of him, so he waved his troops to attack all over the country, not only recovering all the territory that Sun Jian had previously laid, but also laying down a county that was originally Yuan Shao, and officially extending the tentacles of the Jiangdong Army to the hinterland of Yuan Shu.
After a series of wars, Sun Ce borrowed 10,000 troops from Ao Lie, through the method of clearing out water thieves, gradually increased his strength, and then concentrated his forces, in the fairy ridge and Liu Xuan, Xue Li two men and horses decisive battle, in Zhou Yu's surprise attack on Qu'a's plan, Sun Ce successfully defeated Liu Xuan, Xue Li's department, drove Liu Xuan out of Jiangdong, Xue Li killed, and collected two subordinates, so far, Sun Ce occupied six counties in Jiangdong, and his men and horses reached nearly 100,000 people, becoming a new generation of Jiangdong overlord. (To be continued......)
PS: PS: A little break out today, and there is a 4000-word chapter later