Volume 2 The Rise of Jingzhou Chapter 535 - Bottoming Out
"This man's military schemes.... Although the old man had never heard of how he fought, the surprise attack on Li Shu at the beginning was definitely quite a good method.
Want.... This man's strategy is quite meritorious! β
Sure enough, Sun Quan at this time was really bluffing.
Even Guo Tu has a lot of confidence in it.
But..... The news of Sun Quan soon appeared.
At this time, Sun Quan decided to divide his troops into two routes, one of which was to use Zhou Yu to directly attack Shouchun, the gateway of Yangzhou, and other places, wanting to snatch Huainan back into his hands again.
Completely occupy the land of Yangzhou.
And he led the naval army to attack Xuzhou directly, and attacked Guangling like his own eldest brother before.
He felt that his eldest brother had met Chen Deng, who made them look down on him, so he accidentally failed.
Now that he has come with a large army, there must be no problem.
So, this war... It was also beyond everyone's expectations.
During this time, the battle in Jingzhou was in full swing, and Jiangdong finally couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart and began to join the chaos in the world.
Maybe he felt that he was too quiet before, and he didn't make a fuss, and he was a little sorry for his reputation as a Jiangdong warrior.
So Sun Zhongmou came to a big one at the beginning!
Although Liu Xie has been thinking about whether Jiangdong wants to unite with them, especially now that it has obviously exceeded his expectations.
Jiangdong's power is no longer so dispensable.
But Liu Xie never pinned his hopes on this Jiangdong, after all.... Liu Xie's memory is very clear about this Jiangdong's virtue.
That is, Jiangdong's defense of the territory can be described as extremely strong, but let Jiangdong send troops to contain it.... There is a saying that there is not enough success and more than failure, this sentence is very good!
Just when the flowers were blooming and the war was intensifying again, Sun Quan's army finally took the lead in reaching beyond Guangling, and across the river from Zang Ba, who was also prepared.
At this time, Zang Ba, the defender of Xuzhou, had already gotten the news.
After knowing that Jiangdong was attacking in a big way, he immediately mobilized troops and horses and began to defend cautiously.
I'm afraid that I will accidentally be hit by this famous Sun Quan.
not only personally mobilized troops and horses to garrison the front line, but also constantly sent personnel to Luoyang and even Yuzhou and other places to find reinforcements and report the war in Xuzhou.
Even he himself personally garrisoned Kuang Qi City to guard against the arrival of Sun Quan's army.
And Sun Quan, who followed the army all the way north, was also overjoyed after hearing the news.
I feel that this is a good opportunity for me to break the enemy.
Therefore, Sun Quan, who thought that he was profound, immediately sent an army to it, intending to directly surround it and attack it slowly.
Well.... To be honest with this idea, even confidants such as Lu Meng and Lu Fan didn't understand what this meant for a while.
Why did his own army appear here in a hurry, but in the end, they had to besiege each other and fight slowly.
If you are worried that something will go wrong, then why do you put on such a posture, could it be that this is frightening?
They didn't understand in their hearts, but Sun Quan didn't give them a chance to ask themselves more, and Sun Quan at this time simply took his power to the extreme.
directly and constantly issued new orders, so that many generals under his command were confused but did not know how to persuade.
I always feel.... This Sun Quan seems to have some means behind!
But this news is also well known to Zang Ba, and even Sun Quan's somewhat strange behavior is very clear.
But after Zang Ba knew, he didn't care at all.
Unlike the people of Jiangdong, who trust Sun Quan, this Zang Ba doesn't know Sun Quan very well, although he is also considered to be most of his neighbors.
But Zang Ba has to fight wits and courage with this group of wealthy families in Xuzhou all day long, where is there any time to see what happened in Jiangdong.
Anyway, Zang Ba was not prepared to attack the land of Jiangdong, and what a big piece of the country was laid for that Cao Gong....
Therefore, when Zang Ba learned that the Jiangdong army was coming to attack, he not only learned from Chen Deng's way to defend the city and wait for the opportunity.
Instead, a very different approach was used.
Zang Ba ordered the two generals under his command, Wu Dun and Yin Li, to lead the boats and soldiers to the Tanglin Pavilion in the starry night.
Then he personally sat in Guangling County, and as soon as Sun Quan's soldiers and horses arrived, he immediately sent troops to meet the enemy, and started a fierce battle with Sun Quan!
Not only that, but he also ordered the soldiers under his command to light wolf smoke in Guangling at the same time, signaling Wu Dun and Yin Li, who had already gone around to the Tanglin Pavilion.
Let them immediately send troops and do what they planned.....
When the two saw the wolf smoke rising, they directly raised troops to attack from the rear, and the two of them each operated the boat, forming a front and rear attack with Zang Ba.
This is not a very scary, unexpected style of play, which can even be said to be a relatively ordinary thing in a water war.
But..... Sun Quan looked at the formation in front of him, and he really felt that this matter was too unusual.....
Under such circumstances, if Sun Quan immediately divided his troops with Cheng Pu and LΓΌ Meng and others, he would rely on the skills of the generals under his command.
Let both of them be in charge of one side of the other, and maybe things will turn around.
But he once again gave birth to a sense of command, and this battle was under his command...
The big ship in the rear was powerless to turn around, covered by a rain of arrows, and there were many dead, and those who climbed the city to fight urgently retreated and trampled on each other.
And on the shore they are crowded with each other, unable to get on the boat ....
In the end, Zang Ba killed thousands of Jiangdong soldiers at a very small cost, captured hundreds of warships, and forced Sun Quan to flee in embarrassment.
And the soldiers and horses who came from afar from Jiangdong didn't even have time to show the results of their training for so many years, so they could only flee in embarrassment under Zang Ba's attack.
How embarrassing it is to be so embarrassing, so that this Jiangdong soldier general, and even Sun Quan, the lord of Jiangdong, himself are flushed....
In this battle of Xuzhou Langya, Zang Ba, who supervised the military of Xuzhou, really achieved the fame of Jiangzuo, which made the people of Jiangdong fearful.
Especially in this battle, Zang Ba, as a soil overlord who came down from the mountain, took the lead in attacking directly in a small boat, and was the first to attack the Jiangdong warship.
Successively broke more than ten Jiangdong warships and killed dozens of Jiangdong soldiers, this brave and extraordinary record suddenly made all Jiangdong people remember the man who seemed fierce but was actually as careful as a hair.
His fame naturally exploded.
Sun Quan, on the other hand, immediately chose to withdraw his troops for dozens of miles after the defeat and stopped at Beigu Mountain, which is across the river from Xuzhou.
Sun Quan, who had already failed, did not choose to evacuate, he felt that although he had failed a little.
But as the lord of Jiangdong, and the Jiangdong soldiers under his command are the elite of his own painstaking training for so many years.
Before, he underestimated Zang Ba, but he didn't expect that the other party's first fight not only did not test his strength, but on the contrary, he directly attacked himself.
Even in Sun Quan's eyes, this can be regarded as pouring out of the nest, which makes him fail, but he knows the strength of the other party in an instant.
Sun Quan thought that he had discovered the other party's problem, so he thought about it too.
As long as you recuperate here for a short time, you can restore your morale, gather your troops and horses, and most importantly, you can adjust your state and attack again at any time.
At that time, he knew what the strength of the other party was, but the other party did not know his own situation.
Therefore, as long as there is a surprise attack, you can directly take down the opponent.
Well.... Sun Quan was very satisfied with his idea.
He never even thought about what would happen if Zang Ba had just been a simple attack before, and it wasn't the so-called pouring out of the nest?
Sun Quan hadn't thought about it, but ..... Sun Quan still knew it very quickly, because he was calculated again!
Sun Quan's original idea was to repair briefly and then attack Guangling again, this time he must take Guangling County and cut this Zang Ba off his horse.
As a result, his idea was once again calculated by Zang Ba, and he had made follow-up preparations early.
Just when they started the big battle, just when the water station that suddenly appeared on both sides had just begun, Zang Ba took advantage of the chaos to let Sun Kang and Sun Guan brothers out of the city, and ambushed them on Beigu Mountain first.
This Sun Kang and Sun Guan brothers can also be regarded as rare real generals in the hands of Zang Ba.
Especially when they fought bravely and decisively, even Cao Mengde couldn't help but praise again and again after seeing it.
Although he had not experienced the deeds of Wancheng, Cao Mengde did not think of pulling the two of them directly to his side.
And at this time, Zang Ba released these two people, which was ready to directly defeat the Jiangdong soldiers and horses!
By the time Sun Quan had just begun to give the order to set up camp here, the sky had already begun to get dark.
Although the previous battle was relatively fast, Sun Quan's withdrawal was also relatively fast.
But this is a fight after all, and it took a lot of time for both sides to do so after this fight.
And setting up camp before the night is about to fall is not a good idea in the first place.
It's a pity that Sun Quan doesn't care at all.
Cheapened the Sun Kang brothers in vain.
When Sun Kang and Sun Guan found out about this, they immediately changed their original opportunity.
Sun Kangna directly took advantage of the darkness of the sky, first rolled down the mountain rocks and bombarded the enemy army.
Followed by Sun Guan is tiger rushing down the mountain into the Jiangdong Army, as the first fierce general in the Zang Ba Army, there was Sun Yingzi's bandit name in his early years.
And Cao Mengde, who is accustomed to seeing strong generals, was emotionally moved when he saw this guy, which shows how capable this guy is.
This Sun Guan has always been the most brave man in the army, but now in the chaos, he disregarded his own danger, and still fought bravely with several arrows in his body, taking the lead in tearing through the Jiangdong army formation and leading the army to rush in.
It was because of Sun Kang's calculations and Sun Guan's bravery that this war fell into absolute chaos at the beginning.
And Sun Quan was beaten directly.
Sun Guan kept clashing back and forth in Sun Quan's military camp, and the soldiers and horses under his command were burning, killing and looting, and they were as ruthless as they were.
This kind of fighting directly made the chaos under Sun Quan's command completely unstoppable, and this battle once again killed more than 1,000 enemies, directly damaging more than half of Sun Quan's warships.
almost beheaded Sun Quan himself, and the guards around Sun Quan lost more than forty percent.
Many elite generals fought desperately to snatch this Sun Quan.
If it weren't for Sun Quan's crotch and the war horse Shenjun, who knew that he would run away with Sun Quan's saya, I'm afraid Cheng Pu wouldn't know how to take over the chaotic military formation.
After Sun Quan fled, Cheng Pu immediately joined Lu Meng and others to stabilize their position, but instead forced the two brothers Sun Kang and Sun Guan to retreat.
However, after this battle, Sun Quan's corporal was completely demoralized....
When these news came back, Guo Tu was directly dumbfounded, and the spy who was responsible for delivering the news was also blindfolded there after speaking.
For a while, I didn't know how this guy did it.
As for the agent in charge, he continued to talk at this time.
"Now, although the soldiers and horses under Sun Quan have not been evacuated, they can only be stationed in the area from Beigu Mountain to Dantu, and they dare not act rashly.
When I just entered Xuzhou, it was just in time for Zang Ba to hold a celebration banquet, and Guangling was celebrating.
In fact, his subordinates were also a little hungry at the beginning, so he pretended to be a person from Xuzhou and wrote a letter of congratulations to Zang Ba, and then rubbed a meal, and by the way, he became the secretary of his Zang Ba's army..."
"Okay, I don't want to know what you went through in Xuzhou." Liu Xie looked at the secret agent in front of him and couldn't help but interrupt the other party.
He really didn't expect this guy to have this ability, of course... He didn't want to know why this guy had the ability.
Moreover.... I don't want to know what this guy did in Xuzhou!
To put it mildly, it is not easy for Liu Xie's secret agents to be in his hands at this time, not only with professional teaching, but also with many real elites to help them.
For example, Li Fu, who jumped back and forth under Cao Mengde's nose, was once responsible for teaching this spy how to act.
And this group of people is doing well.
But as the saying goes, what kind of master is what kind of apprentice.
This group of guys is growing day by day, but this.... This character, that's more than one jumps out of the other.
After all, Li Fu is a bold guy, and the ones he taught are not worse than him.
After Liu Xie interrupted the guy's words, Guo Tu on the side finally couldn't help it.
snatched the battle report from the opponent's hand, and then looked at how ugly the battle report was.
Finally, after watching it for a long time, he directly slapped the battle report to the ground, and then said it with anger on his face.
"Sun Zhongmou is also the lord of Jiangdong, doesn't he know the art of war at all?
Back then, his father Sun Wentai was called the Jiangdong Tiger, and he was the leader in the battle against Dong, a famous general in the world!
His brother Sun Bofu, who started almost from scratch, also laid down the six counties of Jiangdong...
Is Sun Zhongmou the son of the Sun family? β
Guo Tu's character is naturally not such a detached person.
It's just that he thought of his previous praise for this guy at this time, but at this time, he heard that Sun Quan had been in just one month... No, he must have almost wiped out his army in two days.
It's unimaginable.
And Liu Xie could only continue to chuckle after hearing this at this time, of course, the secret agent on the side couldn't help but add to Guo Tu.
"The old gentleman is right, maybe Sun Quan also wants to prove that his blood is pure."
The spy couldn't help but laugh when he thought of the rumors he heard in Xuzhou at this time.
In these words, it seems to be a deep agreement with Guo Tu's words, "It's just that after he tossed it like this, it seems to be becoming more and more impure..."
"Enough!" Liu Xie hurriedly interrupted the other party's words at this time, and then directly asked Gao Rou on the side to bring Yangzhou Yutu to everyone, "I already know Sun Zhongmou's ability."
It's a shame that he's playing like this, but... But it's not too surprising.
What I really value is Zhou Gongjin, if there is really someone in the world who can lead the Jiangdong soldiers to fight with Cao Thief at this time, Zhou Gongjin is the only one.
Since Sun Zhongmou is attacking Guangling, then Zhou Gongjin must be attacking Shouchun? β
"Exactly, but he also lost..."At this time, the spy was also a little helpless after hearing this, "Zhou Gongjin's speed may be faster than Sun Zhongmou's.
But stationed in Shouchun was the fierce general Du Tinghou under the command of Cao Thief, and the general Cao Ren of the expedition to the south, who was called the first general of the clan by Cao Mengde.
When Zhou Gongjin's army approached the city, he had already led the army to wait for a long time.
With his brave general Niu Jin as the vanguard, he personally rushed the unheard Jiangdong soldiers and horses for the rear army, and almost killed the Jiangdong fierce general Ling Tong.
However, Zhou Yu is indeed different from Sun Quan, and immediately adjusted his methods after the defeat of the striker, and slowly tried to do it.
Now that all the city fortresses around Shouchun should have been cleaned, and they are facing Cao Ren under Shouchun City.
But if you want to break Shouchun, I'm afraid it's not easy..."
Liu Xie couldn't help but sigh secretly.
Before, he was still wondering where this Cao Ren went.
Before, it was obviously he stationed in the Central Plains of Yuzhou, but now Guan Yu and Zhang Liao are fighting back and forth.
Why didn't Cao Ren move at this time?
Now that the news came, he learned that this guy had secretly run to Yangzhou.
It's really.... Coincidental!
Today's situation is even far worse than that of Chibi back then, although Cao Mengde has some losses, but it is far from the stage of breaking his muscles and bones.
The most important thing is that there is no defeat at Chibi, they have enough strength, Cao Ren does not need to be forced to retreat like in his previous life, and Zhou Gongjin has no morale advantage...
And even the Jingzhou battlefield is not optimistic.
Single-round loss of soldiers and horses ... Their elite losses are even more serious, and Cao Mengde's losses can be replenished by mobilizing elite veterans in the rear.
And they can only continue to fill the youth.
The longer it drags on, the greater their disadvantage ...
"It seems... I have to use the text and some of the means left before! β