In the direction where Sun Ce's army was stationed outside the city, there were signs of soldiers and horses moving.

When the news came, Yuan Yao immediately knew that Sun Ce had taken the bait.

Immediately, Yuan Yao's side also began to act.

In a dense forest ten miles outside Wanling City.

Deng Dang led five hundred elites and quietly approached Wanling.

As the vanguard, Dundown's role was to remove some obstacles and pull out the enemy's spies and outposts.

Paved the way for the arrival of Sun Ce's follow-up army.

However, Deng Dang was also very cautious, after all, he only had 500 men under his command, only 500 people, once the enemy was detected in advance, it was easy to fall into a battle to the death, and finally the whole army was annihilated.

"Brother-in-law, it's not far from Wanling County, let's go over like this, won't we bump into those thieves?"

"I heard that there are tens of thousands of thieves in that gang, and we only have 500 people, so if we pass like this, won't we be sent to death?"

Next to Deng Dang, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man muttered a few words.

Deng Dang turned his head to look at his brother-in-law and sighed.

"Amon, don't talk nonsense, grow other people's morale, destroy your own prestige, don't say that those thieves have tens of thousands of soldiers, even if there are more, it's just a group of rabble, what are we?"

"We're battle-hardened elites, and we're just dealing with some rabble, and it's no problem at all."

Deng Dang's brother-in-law is called Lu Meng, and he is eighteen years old this year, but don't look at this kid's young age, in fact, he has been in Sun Cejun for more than three years.

Three years ago, Deng Dang originally followed Sun Jian, and then Sun Jian died, Sun Ce took refuge in Yuan Shu, as Sun Jian's old department, Deng Dang and his party were all Sun Ce's generals, Deng Dang had several expeditions to Shanyue, and made a lot of contributions.

Lu Mengna, who was about fifteen or sixteen years old, saw that his brother-in-law was so brave and envious, so he secretly followed his brother-in-law Deng Dang out to fight. Later, Deng Dang found him, was very surprised, and shouted at him, but Lu Meng still secretly followed.

After returning from the battle, Deng Dang told Lu Mu about it. Lü's mother was very angry and wanted to punish him, Lü Meng said: "It is really difficult to live in such a poor life now. If you go out to fight, you may be able to gain merit and wealth. Besides, if you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger? Mother Lu took pity on him and forgave him.

Don't look at Lu Meng's age, but his personality is very hot.

Last year, one of Deng Dang's subordinate officials, seeing that Lü Meng was young, despised him very much, and said, "What is Lü Meng's kid capable of?" When he was young, he ran to the battlefield, just to feed the tiger with meat. Later, he laughed and humiliated Lu Meng in front of him. Lü Meng was immediately furious, raised his knife and killed him, and in order not to affect his brother-in-law, he fled to the house of his fellow villager Zheng Chang.

Later, he turned himself in through the captain Yuan Xiong, and Yuan Xiong interceded for Lu Meng, which saved him from death, but Sun Ce also knew that Lu Meng was a capable person, so he let him follow his brother-in-law and continue to experience on the battlefield.

As a pioneer this time, Lu Meng naturally followed his brother-in-law and planned to show Sun Ce how powerful the two of them were.

"But brother-in-law, the opponent we faced this time may not be a rabble, the last time General Sun personally led the team to the expedition, we were not able to get any benefits in the hands of the other party, and we, the five hundred, were sent to death."

Although he was beaten by his brother-in-law, the young and vigorous Lu Meng is not a fool, facing a very strong opponent, the disparity in strength comparison, there is no chance of winning at all.

Deng Dang didn't know this truth, but the task arranged by the superiors, even if it was to send them to death, they could only accept it, after all, soldiers are obedience to orders as their duty.

"Amon, what nonsense to send to death, we don't have to defeat those thieves, our task is just to contain it, it's really not good, when the time comes, it depends on the situation, just run away."

"The top priority is to go to the vicinity of Wanling County to inquire about intelligence and open the way for General Sun."

Deng Dang did not argue with Lu Meng here, and soon took his five hundred men and continued to approach Wanling County.

However, the closer you get, the more you can feel the restlessness outside Wanling County.

When there were only three or four miles left from the county seat, there were obviously more outposts and spies here, and there were even remnants of enemy camps.

Deng Dang and his party did not dare to take the main road, so they could only walk around the forest, so that they could barely hide their figures.

Fortunately, those thieves are attacking Wanling County outside the city at the moment, so there are not too many enemy troops in the vicinity of three or four miles.

However, the distance of three or four miles is quite close to Wanling County, and Deng Dang and the others can hear the shouts of those thieves attacking the city, and even the roar caused by the throwing of stone-throwing equipment and the huge stones thrown down on the city tower.

The sense of urgency that was very close to the battlefield was full of the hearts of Deng Dang, Lu Meng and others.

"Brothers, later here, send someone to inform General Sun."

"As soon as the general's order arrives, we will kill from the rear, go straight to the rear of this gang of thieves, and be sure to send the news of our rush to Wanling to Wu Jingtaishou."

Sun Ce's plan was actually very simple, while Yuan Yao and others were attacking Wanling, his troops were divided into two routes, one led by Deng Dang, who killed from behind the enemy army and was responsible for attracting the attention of the enemy army.

And Sun Ce, with the main force, suddenly attacked from the weakly defended place of Wanling County, not to annihilate the enemy army, but to get close to Wanling County.

As long as Sun Ce can get close to Wanling County and connect with Wu Jing in the city, he can let Wu Jing call out the four or five thousand soldiers and horses in the city.

At that time, Sun Ce would have seven or eight thousand men and horses, and he would lead these soldiers and horses to fight against Yuan Yao, and the chances of victory were very great.

Even if Deng Dang and these people will encounter danger at that time, as long as Sun Ce's actions are fast enough, he can quickly support Deng Dang, not without a chance.

When Deng Dang sent the news to Sun Ce, Sun Ce's army was actually only ten miles away from Wanling County.

As soon as the news arrived, Sun Ce immediately changed the direction of his march and approached the western gate of Wanling County.

Here, it is the weakest place where Wanling County was besieged by Yuan Yao and others.

Liu Ye walked in quickly from outside the big tent, his face flushed with excitement.

"Master, here you are."

In recent days, Liu Ye has been by Yuan Yao's side, starting to be a follower, and is also responsible for helping Yuan Yao pass on some information.

Now that the spies had found out the news of Sun Ce's army, they immediately reported it to Yuan Yao.

"Sun Ce is here?"

"Well, Sun Cebing divided into two routes, sent five hundred men and horses, and went to find Zheng Bao, and he himself led the main force and followed closely."