Chapter 616, Po Shu (middle)

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Liu Feng was at the end of April of the second year of Jian'an and nearly May, when the navy began to clean Yuan Shu's water village, and today, nearly half a year has passed, spanning the summer and autumn seasons. With the increase in casualties, the supply of logistics has gradually become strained. The supplies that had been stored for many years were spent on most of them under the First World War.

Although there are still a lot of war supplies, it is obviously impossible to spend them all on this war, and Liu Feng needs to ensure that he can mobilize at least a month's supply army at any time.

The more the war, the more Liu Feng understood the shallowness of Jiangdong's heritage, this undeveloped land, compared with the Central Plains and Hebei, the gap is too big, so big that it will take hundreds of years to catch up with the north, and if you want to achieve "Jiangnan is familiar with the world", it will take thousands of years.

Historically, the Sun-Wu group, from Sun Ce's unification of Jiangdong to the destruction of Wu by the Sima clan eighty years later, the number of uprisings within its scope was as many as one or twenty times, on average, someone wanted to rise up and make a fuss in three or four years, and He Qi became famous by suppressing internal rebellions. Even if the Sun-Wu group later annexed half of Jingzhou and Jiaozhou, it did not change much, and it was indeed a miracle that it could persist in the Three Kingdoms for so many years and become the backbone of the anti-Wei resistance.

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It is rare that on a good day, the sun is shining, and the atmosphere of the entire Shucheng, especially the military camp and the city gate camp, becomes depressing.

After breakfast, the east gate of Shucheng opened again, and the army walked out of the city, lined up with their backs to the city wall.

There is not much left in the army in Shucheng, Liu Xun originally tossed the army of Shucheng only six or seven hundred thousand, and Zhou Yu has lost most of the army brought from Huailing, although a batch of emergency recruitment has been urgently recruited during this time, but the training is too late at all, and can only be used as a defender in a hurry. There were only 300,000 Praetorian Guards sent by Yuan Shu twice before and after, and there were basically no losses.

Even so, plus part of the army supported by the Zhou family, the army that Zhou Yu can pull out to fight is only one million, which is already almost all the combat power of Shucheng, and there are only 100,000 elites who remain in the city, especially in the south of the city, and the rest are all newly recruited troops with no combat experience. If the Jiangdong Army attacks from the south gate at this time, I am afraid that it will not last long. In the final analysis, they are just gambling, gambling on an opportunity, even Liu Xun agrees with this plan, otherwise with the current situation of Shucheng, he will not be able to defeat the Jiangdong Army at all.

Zhou Shang and Zhou Yu had different thoughts, and before going to war, they clearly hoped that the Jiangdong Army would fight normally some time ago, and would not attack the city from the south gate on a whim, because otherwise, they would not be able to organize enough military strength to annihilate the 500,000 troops outside the east gate.

Even so, they had to fight quickly and not give the enemy troops in the southern city a chance to rescue.

The movements on Shu Cheng's side continued, and Ling Cao's battalion naturally couldn't fail to react. Ling Cao, Zhang Hong, and Lu Su, who had already learned the whole plan, naturally would not hide in the camp and let others attack, but would lure the enemy deep and drag the Yuan Shu Praetorian Guard, which was almost never moving around Zhou Yu, into the battlefield, annihilate them in one fell swoop, and then capture the city.

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......The drums sounded, the flag was waved, and the war officially began.

The two sides are already "old friends", and before the war, various skills have been blessed to the army that fights. The first to attack was still Zhou Yu's own troops.

There is no way, Yuan Shu's Praetorian Guards will not be easily dispatched until the last moment. These people, in Yuan Shu's army, can be said to be the elite of the elite, and their combat effectiveness is extremely strong.

After entering the range of the bow and arrows, a rain of arrows flew from behind, causing confusion in the formations of both sides. But this did not stop the footsteps of both sides, and they continued to charge forward.

This is the two sides attacking, and only by quickly melee with the enemy can the archers not dare to shoot their bows at will.

Soon, the two sides passed the coverage of the rain of arrows and strangled together.

In terms of numbers, Zhou Yu's army was nearly twice the size of Ling Cao; In terms of quality, the army under Zhou Yu is now all elite, and it is much stronger than some ordinary soldiers in Ling Cao's army. As the number of troops invested by both sides increased, Ling Cao's side gradually became unable to support it.

Of course, whether there was any deliberate release of water, it is difficult to say.

"Zijing, protect Mr. Zigang, it's time for me to play." The Chinese army has all pressed up, and now Ling Cao's position has become the rear army.

"You are the main commander of one side, don't take risks easily, or I'll go!" Lu Su suggested.

"There is no need to argue anymore, it is precisely because I am the main general that it is possible to attract Yuan Shu's descendants into the battlefield in person, so as to give the army a chance to encircle and annihilate." Ling Cao stopped Lu Su, "Don't worry, just rely on Yuan Shu to command these minions, or I won't be killed." Besides, isn't there a backhand! ”

Ling Cao led the last 100,000 men into the battlefield and immediately changed the situation on the battlefield. After all, he is a historical figure, much stronger than most of the nameless 7th Order. Especially when the main general plays in person, the morale is not half a bit.

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"Huh?" Zhou Yu frowned, "General Yuan, these days you have sent people to monitor the enemy army at the South Gate, I wonder if there is any sign of a large army movement at the South Gate?" Zhou Yu asked while observing the battlefield.

"No, although there has been a truce at the east gate in the past few days, the enemy army at the south gate is still attacking the city normally, and it is the same today, and there is no sign of a large army mobilization." General Yuan replied.

"In this way," Zhou Yu glanced at the battlefield again, "General Yuan, the battle at the east gate cannot be sustained, and the Jiangdong army cannot support it, so it will definitely ask for help at the south gate, so we must end the war before the enemy army at the south gate reacts and return to the city to defend." Now that the enemy's chief general has gone to the battlefield in person, and there is no reserve force, can General Yuan take the Praetorian Guards into battle, insert himself into the battlefield on the side, defeat or even behead the enemy's commander, so as to quickly achieve the combat goal? ”

"You also know that now that several other battlefields have been defeated, we don't have much capital, and we can't lose too much in this east gate. If you can't defeat an enemy in time, then I'm afraid you will ...... after that" What is the result, Zhou Yu did not say, let General Yuan use his imagination himself.

"Yes, but your safety...... Otherwise, leave 100,000 men to protect you! General Yuan thought for a moment and agreed to Zhou Yu's suggestion, but still had doubts about his mission.

"Behind is the city wall, could it be that General Yuan thinks that there are still people in the city who can't put cold arrows? Or is General Yuan not at ease with Liu Taishou or General Zhendong? Zhou Yu asked.

"How is that possible?" Of course, he would not say that Yuan Shu sent him to spy on Zhou Yu, but he also understood that now Shucheng would shorten the war time as soon as possible in case there was a change.

"Then go, 300,000 Praetorian Guards are out of the army, Ben will hope to end the battle in a quarter of an hour, go. The 3,000 soldiers who have trained themselves are not very powerful, but they are enough to ensure my safety at this time. ”