A decisive battle of large-scale annihilation of the enemy's vital forces is often followed by a wave of devastating and enterprising seizures and horse races.

Sun Ce lost 20,000 soldiers in the Jiangyin Water Battle, and the defense line after the war was full of loopholes, and it was also reasonable for Zhuge Jin and Guan Yu to push off a few counties and jam a few throat nodes.

The battle of Dantu is just a microcosm of this series of frontal changes, not that Zhou Yu is incompetent, but that there is really no solution, and it is not easy to change who is the defender in this situation.

Guan Yu's army finally captured Dantu County on May 23, and then spent another two or three days purging the sporadic remnants of the enemy in the city, forcing the prisoners to land, and restoring order.

On the other side, Lu Su, who attacked Niuzhu from Wuhu, also used similar means, and finally took Niuzhu at the end of May.

In a word, it is to attack the heart and attack the city below, half by intimidation, and half by using tactics to release smoke bombs.

In the end, after a few days of bluffing, the defenders in Niuzhu City misjudged the situation, felt that they could not do anything, and if they did not leave, they might be surrounded and annihilated, so they broke through and retreated from the north gate of Niuzhu to Moling in a panic.

Because the process and routine of capturing Niuzhu are too similar to the plot of Dantu County's change of hands, the specific details do not need to be repeated again.

This is also the first time that Lu Su has established military merits on the battlefield after defecting to Liu Bei's camp. He, the head of the general's mansion, can also rely on this credit to rise one step higher, plus a little deputy county-level local position.

At present, in Liu Bei's chariot and cavalry general shogunate, the long history is Zhuge Liang, the army is Pang Tong, and the main book is Lu Su. Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong both still have county-level local positions, and Lu Su originally only served at the county level.

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After Dantu and Niu Zhu, the two nodes that choked Moling's throat, were taken, Guan Yujun's situation on the Jiangdong battlefield was very perfect.

After entering June, throughout the first and middle months of June, Guan Yu chose to move forward step by step and steadily.

From Niuzhu to the northeast to choose the mountain and set up two more camps, and Niuzhu County into a corner. On the other side, it also set up camp from Dantu County to Jurong and cut off the main road. Then the high base and deep ditch, thinking that the siege was long.

Under the new defeat of Sun Ce's army, he was unable to organize any counterattack, but gradually shrank his forces to Moling, recuperate the wounded soldiers, restore morale, and clear the wilderness.

It is a pity that the rice planted in Jiangnan is still a single crop, and the land under Sun Cejun has not yet learned the transplanting method, and the growth cycle of crops in the field is extremely long, and the rice can not be harvested until more than half of August or even early September.

It's only mid-June now, and of course Sun Ce can't destroy the farmland outside the city when he is on the fence in Cage City, and he doesn't want to destroy it.

After all, there are still two or three months before the autumn harvest, and Sun Ce is also fantasizing that in two or three months, there may be a turnaround, and he can turn the tables after he recovers. If you completely clear the wilderness now, and destroy the unripe crops, you may starve yourself by then.

Therefore, Sun Cejun's fortified wall cleared the wilderness, mainly staying in the collection of civilian grain and withdrawing the people around Moling to the city. Those fields that are far away from the city, even if they are not yet ripe, are first lost to Guan Yu and Tai Shici's military tunke to continue planting.

If Sun Ce hadn't been able to launch a counterattack in September, then these grains would have been really cheap for Guan Yu. If a counterattack can be launched at that time, it will be Guan Yu's military tunke who has volunteered for Sun Cejun for three months, which is very fair.

After this retreat of the fortified wall and the clear field, Sun Ce's main force withdrawn from Biling had more than 15,000 soldiers.

In addition, Moling originally had thousands of standing elite soldiers, as well as a small number of troops that Zhou Yu withdrew from Dantu, and Niu Zhu's troops. The number of main soldiers in Moling City once reached as much as 23,400.

In Moling City, nearly 200,000 people have also gathered, many of which were withdrawn from other small counties around Danyang County by Jianbi Qingye, including Niuzhu and part of the population of Dantu County.

Sun Ce's army had to charge at other rear points, such as Biling, Wuxian, Wucheng, Qiantang, and Shanyin, adding up to nearly 10,000 soldiers, as well as two or three times the number of Xiangyong and militia that could be temporarily requisitioned.

Such a force composition can ensure that no matter which side Guan Yu concentrates his forces to attack, he will not be able to quickly advance and achieve results, and the battle line will be completely stalemate.

For these contractions of Sun Cejun, Guan Yu and Zhuge Jin actually had the opportunity to obstruct them, but Zhuge Jin dissuaded Guan Yu and told him not to obstruct them, and let Sun Ce collect the relocated population - anyway, there is only so much grain in Moling City, and the food carried by the relocated population will not be able to eat for a few months.

After September, these populations are pure food losses for Sun Ce, and everyone will become a mouth waiting to be fed.

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The time in Moling City has come to the end of June in a blink of an eye.

After the contraction in the first half of the year, the battle lines of the two sides have entered the freezing stage, and those who have high bases and deep ditches have already built high bases and deep ditches, and now whoever wants to change the battlefield situation will have to pay a much greater price than the other side.

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Sun Ce himself recuperated from his wound for nearly a month, and the surface of the wound finally healed completely.

Most of the other generals who were wounded in the previous Jiangyin Water Battle also recovered. Huang Gai has recovered, Zhou Tai is more seriously injured, and the medical officer believes that he needs to recuperate for at least two more months after diagnosis.

After Sun Ce recovered from his injury, he began to insist on personally patrolling the city and rectifying the defense.

It was June 22, and it was Sun Ce's first tour of the city after he recovered. Because of the good just now, his body is still a little weak, and after just inspecting the north and east of the city, he is already panting and sweating slightly.

Zhou Yu followed him to inspect the defense, and when he came to the East Gate Tower, while he was resting, Zhou Yu persuaded him to collect his sweat, drink some hot water, and then take off his armor - when it was very hot after exercising, he couldn't directly remove his armor, and it was easy to get "armor removal wind".

Sun Ce is young, the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems are very strong, and he was not afraid of stroke, but during the special period after the injury, he must pay attention.

"I didn't expect to be hit by an arrow, and I will be raised for more than a month, and I am still weak so much! It's really frustrating. Sun Ce took off his armor, and he was still patting his thighs and angry that he was useless, and his heart was full of indignation, which can be seen.

After sighing for a while, Sun Ce wiped his sweat as if he remembered something unsettling, and lowered his voice to Zhou Yu with emotion:

"I wanted to take advantage of the time to rise up, take advantage of the intractable opportunity of the Central Plains princes, and strengthen Jiangdong. Unexpectedly, Liu Bei was so vicious, claiming to be in the face of the edict, but instead of fighting Cao Cao, he concentrated his forces to expand his territory in the south!

What a despicable villain with different hearts! said that he was asked to ask for a thief, but he didn't ask for the thief he asked him to beg, and he specially cut off the wings of the so-called thief! This kind of despicable behavior of picking fruits and picking soft ones, how can people all over the world be convinced! ”

Zhou Yu had nothing to say about Sun Ce's complaints, after all, everyone was grabbing land.

Sun Ce has this feeling, and it is nothing more than because Liu Bei has left the impression that he has always been "out-and-out and strict with the edict", but this time he suddenly became subjective and active, and he had a scale to tighten his hand, and Liu Bei's enemies were a little surprised and depressed.

Sun Ce sighed a few words, but he didn't get a response from Zhou Yu, he vented and vented, and suddenly he was a little decadent, and the words turned to ask for advice:

"Gong Jin, do you think we still have some hope if we stick to each other like this? If there is a turnaround in the future, what will it be? ”

When Zhou Yu heard this, he was a little alert in his heart, he was very afraid that Sun Ce would vent this breath now and be decadent.

The three armies can win the commandery, but the horseman cannot win the ambition, and at this critical juncture, the Jiangdong Army needs a resolute leader even more.

So Zhou Yu immediately racked his brains and tried to find a way to help Sun Ce deduce, half comforting and encouraging, half giving advice:

"Bo Fu must not be slack! Victory or defeat is a common thing for soldiers, although our army lost Dantu and Niu Zhu, and lost nearly half of the troops, but it can still be done for a long time to defend and stick to Moling for help! The strength of the two sides is similar, so what if they hold out for a year and a half? Definitely going to keep it up!

Although it is impossible to eliminate Liu Bei by our own strength, in my opinion, we still have three possible chances to turn the tables. The first is to wait until Yuan Cao divides the victory and defeat, as long as Cao Cao wins the battle of Guandu, we still have a glimmer of life, and this has never changed.

Secondly, even if the land of Wuhui cannot be defended, as long as Cao Cao can finally hold on, we can reorganize the warship in order to ...... Turning in, even if you can't achieve a great cause, at least you can keep your family, and you will never reach the point of exhaustion. ”

Zhou Yu couldn't help but feel a little frustrated as he spoke. His original intention was to tell Sun Ce: No matter what kind of fight he makes, the Sun family will definitely have a way to live, and it will not reach a complete desperate situation, at most, it will not be able to achieve a great cause again.

Although Sun Ce is ambitious, he is still young after all, and he climbs and falls quickly, so he can withstand regression, and he can still resist pressure in his heart.

In history, when Sun Ce was dying, there were no obvious military enemies outside, and Liu Biao of Jingzhou was with them endlessly, but Sun Ce still had doubts about "whether the Sun family can gain a firm foothold in Jiangdong for a long time", and finally when he was alone with Zhang Zhaotuo, he even said "If Zhongmou can't defend it, please look at the Sun family and slowly return to the west" Such depressing words.

That is, he hoped that Zhang Zhao would take the Sun family back to the land of Huaisi and give up the struggle for hegemony when Sun Quan could not keep the foundation of Jiangdong.

In this life, Sun Ce's personal health situation is much better than that of the same period in history. Thanks to Cao Cao's edict, he is now nominally a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, and his rule is authorized by the imperial court, so the internal rebellion is temporarily smaller. The assassins who tried to assassinate him also stopped, and he was not assassinated for a long time.

However, the external military pressure that the Sun family is facing now is much more severe than that of the same period in history, and now Liu Beijun's combat power and fighting spirit are far from being comparable to Liu Biao in parallel time and space.

Because of this, Sun Ce was decadent and discouraged, and gave birth to the idea of "what to do after giving up the struggle for hegemony and how to save the lives of his clansmen", and it was normal to think more about the way out. Zhou Yu also had to help Sun Ce think about the way back in advance, which was also a relief by the way.

(Note: Historical records record that the person who assassinated Sun Ce was a guest of Xu Gong's family, but it is doubtful whether Xu Gong, a former county guard-level civil official who was killed, left so much energy after his death.) Therefore, there are quite a few theories that there are other forces behind the assassin who assassinated Sun Ce.

Sun Ce and Cao Cao are teammates in the same trench in this time and space, Cao Cao's potential power will not harm Sun Ce, and Liu Bei is not the one who carries out assassination, so I think it is very reasonable that Sun Ce was not assassinated. ）

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