"Originally, I brought 5,000 people, but now I have lost more than half."

"There are still fighting people, but I'm afraid there are less than 3,000 people."

Yuan Yao didn't see Zu Lang's previous battle, but he sent men and horses to supervise the battle and command, and the news he received was similar to what Zu Lang said.

In order to perform in front of Yuan Yao, Zu Lang really used a lot of strength to attack the city this time.

It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven.

Their plan still didn't succeed, and the main reason was that Yan Baihu didn't stop Sun Ce.

"Three thousand people, so to speak, you still have 6,000 men and horses under your command, and I also have 3,000 men and horses under my command, so that we still have nearly 10,000 troops near Wanling."

"And yesterday's attack on Wanling, the defenders in the city must have also been damaged, and there will be more or less more than 1,000 casualties."

"Counting the 2,000 people I killed Sun Ce last night, Sun Ce estimates that he didn't bring many people over this time, as long as we occupy the favorable terrain, even if Sun Ce is there in person, he can't think that he can easily repel us."

Yuan Yao had already learned about Sun Ce's strength last night, and he was already surprised that Sun Ce was able to come to Danyang County to support him for so much time.

Therefore, he guessed that Sun Ce would definitely not be able to bring many people.

And there are not too many soldiers and horses Yuan Yao has the courage to fight with Sun Ce at this time.

"With the words of Gongzi, we are relieved, anyway, now in Danyang County, half of the counties have fallen into our hands, if Sun Ce comes with a large army, we are still a little worried."

"But now that I heard Gongzi say this, then Sun Ce has nothing to be afraid of."

"Childe, what should we do next?"

According to Zheng Bao and Zu Lang's plan, since they knew that Sun Ce had brought people to support Danyang, the two of them were frightened, and their first reaction was to run away.

But now after asking Yuan Yao what he meant, Yuan Yao didn't seem to have any intention of running away, and wanted to continue to stay in Danyang to compete with Sun Ce.

This made Zheng Bao and Zu Lang have some confidence again, after all, Danyang, who had been defeated with great difficulty, was not willing to let them go back like this.

"Hold your ground for now."

"We don't know exactly how many people Sun Ce has brought, and whether there are still a large number of reinforcements behind, now we have to figure out these things first, know ourselves and know the enemy, and we can win all battles."

Yuan Yao said a word to Zheng Bao and Zu Lang, and then continued to instruct the two.

"General Zulang, next, please keep an eye on Wanling County, and be sure to block the contact between the city and the outside world."

"Zheng Taishou, you contact your spies as soon as possible and ask about the situation on the Wu County side, why Yan Baihu didn't block Sun Ce, and at the same time cooperate with Zu Lang to block Wanling County."

"Yes."

"Childe, understand, then what are you going to do next, Childe?"

The two accepted Yuan Yao's arrangement, and asked curiously what Yuan Yao was going to do.

Yuan Yao smiled faintly and replied easily.

"Me? Naturally, it was a head-to-head battle with Sun Ce, and last night's battle was not yet over. ”

"It's not too early, you've all been busy all day, let's go down and rest first, and wait until tomorrow to see the situation."

"Farewell."

Yuan Yao gave an eviction order, and it was not good for the two to continue to stay here, so they quickly left and left.

After Zheng Bao and Zu Lang left, Yuan Yao called Liu Ye and Tai Shici again.

Don't look at him, he told Zu Lang and Zheng Bao everything that should be done, but there are some things that can't be done by relying on others.

So he gave a few more orders to Tai Shi Ci and Liu Ye, asked Tai Shi Ci to call a few spies to go to Wu County to inquire about the news, and asked Liu Ye to send someone to keep an eye on Wanling County.

And he himself, then relieved, went down to prepare to rest.

The December night is not beautiful, the weather is freezing, and if it weren't for the campfire, it would still be cold to camp in the wild.

Fortunately, Yuan Yao's army was supplied with honeycomb coal, and the soldiers would not be frightened by the cold.

Nothing was said all night.

Early the next morning, Yuan Yao woke up.

Because he was still worried about Sun Ce's affairs, he couldn't sleep well, so he couldn't sleep anymore after resting a little and nourishing his spirit.

After a simple breakfast, Yuan Yao began to continue to comfort the wounded soldiers in the army.

It wasn't until it was almost noon that Tai Shici's side finally passed on the news he had discovered.

This time, Sun Ce, as Yuan Yao expected, because he was worried about the safety of his cousin and uncle, did not gather too many soldiers and horses, but only brought 4,000 elites and rushed to Danyang overnight.

After last night's battle, more than half of the 4,000 soldiers and horses were lost.

Last night they were forced to retreat more than 20 miles.

Set up camp in yesterday's camp for the rest of the night.

Until the next day, he did not dare to continue the march to the vicinity of Wanling County.

After the spies sent by Tai Shi Ci found out about these news, they quickly passed the news back.

Yuan Yao was temporarily relieved to learn that Sun Ce did not continue to march towards Wanling County. After all, in this way, there is no need for the two sides to face each other again for a while.

As long as he didn't have to go head-to-head with Sun Ce's soldiers and horses, Yuan Yao had other ways to slowly consume it.

Yuan Yao was looking for information about Sun Ce.

On the other side, Sun Ce was also inquiring about the situation outside Wanling County.

Since returning to the camp outside the city last night, Sun Ceke has not slept all night.

It's not just because of the heavy defeat of the enemy outside the city, and the loss of troops. is even more because he didn't bring many soldiers and horses over this long journey, and now this little manpower wants to support Wanling County and rescue his uncle and cousin, the possibility is a little slim.

After settling the soldiers under his command last night, he immediately instructed Cheng Pu to send a large number of spies to be deployed near Wanling County.

I want to figure out what the situation is in Wanling County as soon as possible.

It's just that the current Wanling County has already been blocked by Yuan Yao, Zheng Bao and others, and Sun Ce sent out a large number of spies, either they can't get close to Wanling County.

Either they approached Wanling, but they were found and killed directly.

Therefore, now Sun Ce is not clear about what the situation is in Wanling County.

However, there is one thing, Sun Ce is still certain.

That is Wanling County, it should not have been breached yet, otherwise Yuan Yao and the others would not have been stationed outside the city, but waited for Sun Ce's arrival in the city.

At noon the next day, Cheng Pu returned to the barracks worriedly.

Sun Ce saw that Cheng Pu was back, his solemn face looked a little better, and then asked Cheng Pu about the situation of the spy.

"General Demou (Cheng Pu's cousin), how is the situation? Is there any information about Wanling? ”