Cheng Pu was ordered to take people to find out the news of Wanling, and now it has been more than a day, but more than ten spies have been sent out, in addition to knowing that there are three forces outside Wanling County.

I didn't find much other news at all.

Now that he was asked by Sun Ce, he could only shake his head again and again.

"Wanling County is so blocked that this time I brought a dozen spies to sneak over, but I couldn't get into the city."

"Moreover, the spies brought over were also found and killed on the spot."

Cheng Pu first explained to Sun Ce that it was difficult to find out the intelligence.

This is mainly because Sun Ce has not been present in Jiangdong for a long time, and the intelligence system under his command is not perfect, and he has not even focused on cultivating his own fine works.

It's not that Sun Ce's subordinates didn't have fine works, he stayed under Yuan Shu for some years, and he also left a few fine works in Yuan Shu's army.

But these meticulous works, most of the time, are concerned about the dynamics of Yuan Shu, and every move of Yuan Shu's army can be transmitted to Sun Ce through the intelligence line of meticulous work.

However, Yuan Yao, the number one person, rose too quickly in Yuan Shu's army, which led to Sun Ce's infiltration of Yuan Yao's meticulous work, which was not thorough enough, so he had relatively little control over Yuan Yao's intelligence.

Now he can only rely on Cheng Pu to take people, risking his life, to go to Wanling to investigate.

Hearing Cheng Pu say this, Sun Ce's face couldn't help but look ugly.

"Young master, although it is not easy to find out the intelligence, but this trip, we are not completely without gains."

"Oh? So, have you found some useful information? ”

Sun Ce's eyes immediately lit up, and he hurriedly asked Cheng Pu again.

"There are a couple of useful messages."

"The first one is the army and horses that fought with us the day before yesterday, and it is indeed as the young master said, it is under the command of Yuan Yao, the sister-in-law of Yuan Shu."

After hearing Cheng Pu's words, Sun Ce, whose face was not very good-looking, became a little gloomy.

That night, when he heard Tai Shici say that he had taken refuge in Yuan Yao, Sun Ce was already a little angry.

Now that he has confirmed that this news is true, it naturally makes him even more annoyed.

After a slight hesitation. Sun Ce didn't continue to think about this matter.

Instead, he looked at Cheng Pu again and asked him a question.

"What else is there to do?"

"The second news is that there are three groups of people besieging Wanling County this time."

"Three?"

Sun Ce frowned, a little puzzled.

Cheng Pu did not hesitate, and continued.

"One of them is Yuan Yao, who just told the young master, and the other group is a local tyrant named Zu Lang in Danyang County."

"And the main force among them is a green forest hero named Zheng Bao."

"Zulang? Zheng Bao? ”

When Sun Ce heard these two names, he frowned and fell into deep thought.

These two names are actually not very familiar to Sun Ce.

After all, although they have some fame in the local area, they have never had much to do with Sun Ce. It was normal for Sun Ce not to know about their existence.

On the contrary, it was Cheng Pu, when he saw Sun Ce frowning, he knew that Sun Ce should not be familiar with these two people.

Hurriedly opened his mouth to continue to explain.

This Zulang is the leader of the Shanyue forces who is active in the area of Jing County, Danyang County, and calls himself "Marshal of Jing County" and "Marshal of Danyang" gathered nearly 10,000 people in Jing County, and has good strength. ”

"As for that Zheng Bao, it seems that he is a strong place in Huainan, and he has absorbed a lot of staff members in the local gathering township, and he is not weak, but I didn't expect these two groups of people to get mixed up with that Yuan Yao."

After Cheng Pu explained, he also sent his own questions to Sun Ce.

Sun Ce listened to Cheng Pu's explanation, and his face was very gloomy.

"What else can it be, naturally because Yuan Yao can promise them what they need."

"How many soldiers and horses do the three of them have combined?"

Now that it has been figured out, who are the people besieging Wanling County? Then what Sun Ce wanted to know most was how many people they brought.

As long as he knows how many people there are on the other side, he can also measure whether his own manpower can fight the other side.

"It's unclear how many people there are for the time being, our spies only found out how many they were before the siege of Wanling County."

"The three of them brought thousands of soldiers and horses to attack Wanling County together, a total of less than 20,000 people, but after the battle the day before yesterday, they should have lost all three soldiers and horses, and it is estimated that there are about 10,000 people left."

Although the spies sent by Cheng Pu did not infiltrate the enemy's military camp, they were able to find out some facts through some clues and the tongues of the surrounding people.

Although it is impossible to know the specific situation, through some known information, we can roughly guess it, and we can understand one or two.

"Are there 10,000 left?"

Sun Ce's face couldn't help but become a little gloomy again.

This time, he brought 4,000 elites, but after a battle with Yuan Yao, more than half of these horses had been lost.

There are 2,000 men left, and it is not too much to say more, and it is not too little to say less.

If the other party was just a group of rabble, not to mention 10,000 people, or twice as much, Sun Ce was not afraid at all, and even dared to rush over with these 2,000 people and kill all these mountain bandits.

But after the battle the night before yesterday, Sun Ce deeply understood that the other party was not a rabble, or even some well-trained elite people.

The strength of the men and horses under Yuan Yao's command is not even inferior to these elites under his command.

In this way, Sun Ce would not dare to take the only remaining centaurs to take another adventure.

If he falls into Yuan Yao's ambush again, it will really outweigh the losses.

After all, he didn't know what kind of talented people Yuan Yao had under his command, but just one Tai Shi Ci made him feel very tricky.

"The strength of the other party is not clear for the time being, we don't know what is happening in Wanling County, I don't know if my uncle is okay, if we kill them rashly, it will be bad for us."

"At the moment, we can only temporarily set up camp here, in case they are attacked by Yuan Yao's men."

"As long as we wait for our army in Wu County to come, this siege of Danyang can be resolved."

Although Sun Ce only brought 4,000 elites this time, it does not mean that Sun Ce only has 4,000 people.

In Wu County, he actually gathered a total of 10,000 troops, but these soldiers and horses were attacked by Yan Baihu on the way to Danyang County.

Sun Ce is so smart, he naturally understands that it must not be a coincidence that Yan Baihu is doing things at this time, but I am afraid that most of it is the situation of the Danyang Army, which is very critical.

So he made a quick decision and directly divided his soldiers and horses into two, leaving six thousand soldiers and horses, led by Han Dang, to deal with Yan Baihu, while he himself took the remaining four thousand elites and rushed to Danyang County under the stars.