In fact, Sun Qianda doesn't have to be so serious, Kuai Liang's statement is always just a statement, the Jingxiang family can lose to Liu Bei, because Liu Bei is the pastor of Jingzhou, and Liu Bei is the uncle of the two sons of heaven today. But to hand over Jingxiang to Sun Ce, the Jingxiang clan can't afford to lose this person!

Huang Zu is the person who holds this kind of idea, the Huang family is a century-old family in Jingxiang, a real family, for Sun Ce, a half-haired child, and the Sun family, a nouveau riche is absolutely unsightly, so he will take advantage of Sun Ce's help to stay in Wanxian County, in fact, he doesn't really want Wanxian, speaking of which his territory is Jiangxia, even Jichun County is just a springboard, just seriously operating Xunyang.

He originally wanted to blackmail Sun Ce when he was in Wanxian, but who knew that Sun Ce actually ignored it and pinched his nose and admitted it, which made Huang Zu very embarrassed, it was not okay to withdraw plainly, and it would be a tear to tear his face if Wanxian County was swept away, so Huang Zu had to be hung in Wanxian County.

In the autumn, Liu Bei suddenly sent troops to attack Cai Mao, Huang Zu was undoubtedly in the same boat as Cai Mao, but he was not Cai Mao's subordinate, but Cai Mao's ally, a member of the Jingxiang clan, Huang Zu had his own views on Liu Bei and Fang Zhiwen.

Liu Bei became the ruler of Jingzhou back then, and it was indeed a lot of Jingxiang clan practices, but that was also helpless, Liu Bei had no roots and no foundation in Jingzhou after all, he needed to establish authority, and he also needed the support of money, grain, territory, population and talents, so he raised a butcher's knife against the Jingxiang clan. Now that the times are changing, Liu Bei is already the unyielding lord of Jingzhou. Now the crusade against Cai Mao is also a great righteousness, and judging from what Liu Bei is doing now, Liu Bei is still quite polite to the clan. Basically, he will not embarrass the clan under his jurisdiction, and even rely on the clan quite much in the cultivation of talents.

On the other hand, Fang Zhiwen, Youzhou's land policy itself is a fundamental restriction and weakening of the clan, and Huang Zu is a traditional Chinese with a very serious land plot, so if he chooses a side between Liu Bei and Fang Zhiwen, Huang Zu is now inclined to Liu Bei. At least Liu Bei would not limit how much land Huang Zu owned.

Therefore, Huang Zu regarded the war around Xiangyang as if he couldn't see it, and just went to a letter and asked about it pretendically. Cai Mao naturally understood Huang Zu's plan, but still reminded Huang Zu to be careful of Sun Ce's counterattack, but Huang Zu didn't take it seriously, he always felt that Sun Ce, a little baby, had no guts. Even Wanxian didn't dare to come to ask for it. Dare to use troops?

It's a pity that Huang Zu doesn't know Sun Ce too well.

"My lord, the geographical location of Jichun County itself is not important, and it is not a rich place, but the city of Xunyang is very important, this city is an important stronghold of the Jingxiang Naval Army to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, if we take this city, we can basically lock the Jingxiang Naval Army upstream. Therefore, Xunyang is our main point this time. Wanxian is just incidental. ”

Zhang Hong summarized his battle plan this time on the map, Sun Ce pondered for a moment, and turned his gaze to Zhang Zhao, after refining in these rìzi, Sun Ce has adapted to his current identity as the lord, and his body faintly exudes the domineering momentum of the lord.

"Mr. Zibu, I have two questions I want to ask you."

Zhang Zhao smiled slightly, bowed down and said, "Lord, please speak." ”

"First, if our army takes back Wanxian, it will be a matter of course, and no one can put a beak in it, but if Xunyang or even the entire Qichun County is taken down, it will have the meaning of taking advantage of the fire to rob, so what will Cai Mao think? What will Fang Zhiwen think and what will he do? Second, Liu Bei sent a letter saying that he wanted to attack Jingxiang with me, so does it mean that we can also get involved in Jiangxia County, if Liu Bei gets Jingxiang in the future, won't he covet the Yangtze River? and Changsha County is also under the rule of Jingzhou, will he handle the affairs of Changsha County according to Jingxiang? ”

Zhang Zhao nodded secretly, Sun Ce, who was young at a young age, was now a qualified superior, and it was really difficult for him to be able to think of the long-term impact from the things in front of him.

"The lord is very worried. However, Jichun County is useless to Cai Mao, and it was originally taken to contain Cao Cāo, and the relationship between Cai Mao and Huang Zu is not subordinate, but a relationship of cooperation and alliance, so how Huang Zu is, Cai Mao may not care too much. Looking at Fang Zhiwen again, Xunyang's role for Fang Zhiwen is the guarantee of trade routes, as long as we can guarantee this, Fang Zhiwen will not rebound, and more importantly, now the only force in the south to contain Cao Cāo is us, Fang Zhiwen must take this into account. The rest is the problem of Cai Mao's army, but now Cai Mao and Liu Bei are in a quarrel, and there must not be a war on two fronts. ”

Sun Ce nodded, did not make a sound, and continued to wait for Zhang Zhao to continue.

"Looking at the future relationship between Liu Bei and our army, it must be a relationship of both dispute and cooperation, cooperation is to counter Cao Cāo Yuan Shu, and the dispute is to seize the interests of the territory and the Yangtze River, so we have to cooperate and guard against Liu Bei, the lord is worried that he will plot against Changsha, this is certain, but we may not be able to plot against Jiangxia, and use this to balance his snooping on Changsha. Of course, our main direction of attack is still the east, and the west is still the main defense. ”

"That is, to marry Liu Bei, guard against Cao Cāo, and attack Liu Xuan?"

"Yes, the lord said jīng dang 1 Zhang 纮 praised a sentence, these twelve words basically accurately cover Sun Cejun's foreign policy.

Sun Ce smiled: "Since this is the case, then let's follow the battle plan, it's just that Zhu Zhi's troops attacking Xunyang are slightly weaker along the way, whether to transfer Huang Gai to support, Cheng Pu should have no doubt about taking Wanxian." ”

"Don't worry, the lord can rest assured, there is no general stationed in Xunyang City, Huang Zu's son Huang Shiè is just a timid and incompetent person, General Huang Gai is on the Eastern Front, and he is constantly moving long distances."

Sun Ce actually knew that Huang Gai should not be transferred for a long time, in fact, he wanted to say that he was going to assist Zhu Zhi, but Zhang Hong obviously also saw Sun Ce's thoughts, but Sun Jian's case was in the past, Zhang Hong and Zhang Zhao were still resolutely opposed to Sun Ce charging into battle.

"Huang Shiè is incompetent and defends the city, General Zhu Zhi is good at naval forces rather than siege cities, two gentlemen, a certain family thinks that they should go to help in person, if Xunyang can't be taken quickly, Huang Zu fled from Wanxian and returned, Xunyang can't be recovered1

Zhang Hong and Zhang Zhao glanced at each other, and Zhang Hong gritted his teeth: "If the lord wants to go, he can go, but he needs to promise his subordinates, he can't go into battle to kill, he can only sit in the middle army, and his subordinates must also go with him1."

Sun Ce pursed his lips, hesitated for a moment and reluctantly agreed: "It's okay, just like Mr. said." ”

Guangxi five years of September three rì, light rain.

After this autumn rain, the taste of autumn seems to be stronger, and the cool autumn breeze tells everyone who is active at night that the footsteps of winter are not far away.

In the wilderness outside Wanxian County, it seems to be extraordinarily quiet, it seems that even the sound of insects has disappeared, and experienced sentinels must understand that this is because there are people in the wilderness, however, Huang Zu did not release a secret sentry outside the city, as for the sentinels on the city wall, it is impossible to find anomalies at such a distance.

Suddenly, a few cold stars flew out of the dark night under the city, and just as the sentry in the city looked out, these cold stars had accurately submerged into the sentry's throat.

"Quickly build a ladder 1

A suppressed voice sounded, and in the grass and shrubs outside the city, which had been silent, many shadows suddenly appeared, and these black shadows silently rushed towards the city wall, and then put a long ladder on the wall.

"Enemy attack! Dangdang"

The hurried bell suddenly rang in the quiet of the night, the defenders on the city wall hurriedly responded, and the panicked soldiers in the city rushed out of the barracks, but the ignorant were a little overwhelmed, without the command of the officer, these soldiers could only look blankly to the east where the bell came.

Cheng Pu's action was very fast, led by Cheng Pu himself, and he took the east city gate with one impact, opened the city gate and put in his own large army, Cheng Pu sent people to light fires everywhere to create chaos, and on the other hand, he took his main force to attack the military camp and government in the city.

When Huang Zu got dressed up and got on the war horse, he found that the city had been on fire everywhere, according to the latest news, the east gate and the north gate had been lost, the number of enemy troops was unknown, and they were attacking the city, Huang Zu was thinking nervously while tangling the troops.

"The rear team relied on the houses, streets, and street battles to block the enemy, and ordered all the soldiers in the city to assemble at the south gate, and we went and held the south gate1

Huang Zu's response was very correct, first to ensure his retreat, and then to plot a counterattack, but he really underestimated Cheng Pu's combat effectiveness, Huang Zu had not yet established a position at the south gate, and the rear team left in the city to block the enemy had already been defeated by Cheng Pu, and Cheng Pu had already chased and killed.

Huang Zu was shocked, he didn't expect that there were such fierce generals in Sun Ce's army, seeing Cheng Pu rushing and killing in his own army as if he had entered a no-man's land, Huang Zu knew that it was difficult for him to compete with this person for Anhui County, Huang Zu ordered to put down the broken dragon stone at the south gate, and then ordered the troops gathered outside the city to slam into the city for a few rounds, then turned around and retreated south.

Cheng Pu chased for a few miles, but he couldn't catch up, Cheng Pu had to reflexively return to Wan County, disperse the army, clear out the stragglers in the city and take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, to the dawn of ten o'clock, the chaos of the middle of the night Wan County finally returned to calm, in the early morning mist still exudes a scorched smell and a faint smell of blood, the people of Wan County are afraid to go out, hiding at home quietly, anxiously waiting.

Besides, Huang Zu is rushing towards Xunyang like a lost dog, he already has a bad premonition, if Sun Ce this kid is really determined to do it, he won't just take back Wanxian, maybe the garrison is empty, and Xunyang, which is more strategically located, is also their target, after all, from Jiujiang to Xunyang is just across the Yangtze River, and he is careless, it is really too much