…… But Sun Ce came by boat.

…… He had no cavalry, he had only a few dozen horses, all for officers to ride.

…… To be precise, there is no cavalry in the entire Jiangdong.

"Send troops out of the city!" Chen Deng smiled leisurely, "I'll write a letter." ”

"General, should we strike first?"

The general walked out of the tent, went up to the high platform, and looked at the northern jungle with his dark and clear eyes.

"Aren't the antlers arranged?"

"Yes."

"The ambush is also ambushed?"

"Yes."

"Then why should I do it first?" He asked.

So Cheng Pu didn't ask again.

"Intensify the siege." Sun Ce said with a smile, "I heard that Lu Lian studied under Chen Qi, so he has a brother and sister friendship with Chen Deng. ”

"Her name was given by Chen Jue."

"Since the affection is so deep, and she is the leader of the cavalry here, and she has such an undefeated reputation-" The young general, who stood on a high platform like a jade tree, greeted the dazzling sunlight, and a smile appeared on his lips, "She should come to the camp as soon as possible." ”

He was ready to encircle the area and send reinforcements, and he had even prepared a tent for Lu Lian, and when he captured the female general, he would definitely have to take a closer look at her.

Taishi Ziyi treats her so affectionately and righteously, she must be in love, right? Then he caught her, wouldn't he-

That handsome face suddenly bloomed with a smile that Cheng Pu didn't understand at all.

…… Cheng Pu turned his head away and sighed slightly.

…… The general is good at everything, but he is too young and his temperament is too out-of-the-box.

…… Who can understand what is going on in his head?

It was getting dark, and the ambush soldiers in the camp were still waiting, but the cavalry was slow to attack.

Sun Ce was very patient, he knew that a radius of dozens of miles had been leveled by him, and Lu Lian's soldiers and horses had no food, drink, or heavy supplies, and they couldn't consume him.

Of course, she can also enter the city, but in the next few days, he will attack the city with all his might! Because he calculated the speed of the rear army, she entered the city as if she was in an urn, and there would be no reinforcements for at least ten days, or even more than a month!

As he lay down in his tent and comfortably picked up a letter from Gongjin and was about to unfold it and read it again, his cronies suddenly ran in.

"General!"

Sun Ce got up from the bamboo mat with a bone, "Lu Lian has come to the camp?!" ”

"It's not!" The soldier shouted, "General, go out and have a look!" ”

To the north of Gangdu is a plain with paddy fields, swamps, and jungles, but no mountains, so you can always see far away.

On this summer night, he first saw the campfires by a river a few miles from the barracks, which were so bright that he could almost see the horsemen drinking and washing their horses by the river.

To the north of the camp, which was so simple that it could barely sit on the ground in the open air, there were torches dotted with stars, connected into a long dragon, like a galaxy flowing on the ground, reflecting each other with the river men in the night sky.

The end of the long dragon was extremely far away, and until the horizon, the firelight was already extremely faint, but it was still faintly beating in Sun Ce's eyes.

Every time I beat, my heart is followed by a huge shock!

"It's the reinforcements——!"

"Reinforcements - it's ——!"

"Reinforcement ——!"

The sound came from the Jiangdu city wall behind, first sparsely, then more and more, more and more prosperous.

Countless soldiers ran out of the tents, and together they craned their necks in panic to see the fire.

And Sun Ce turned around abruptly and looked at the brightly lit Jiangdu City in the dark night!

Not bad! Anyone can see why the torch came from! How could the defenders of Jiangdu City not rejoice!

"How is this possible......" A bead of sweat broke out on Sun Ce's forehead, "Lu Lian's cavalry has only arrived here today, how can she, how can she make the infantry come day and night, so quickly?!" ”

His voice stopped suddenly.

Lu Lian is extremely trusted by Liu Bei, and Guan Zhang is generally his right-hand man, and has a deep friendship with the Xiapi Chen family, if she is to recruit the county soldiers along the way, what is the impossibility of rushing all the way? !

If she really led thousands of soldiers to come, and there was a family to raise grain and grass for her, how could these more than 1,000 cavalry defeat him?!

When Huang Gai, Cheng Pu and the others hurried over, Sun Ce had already regained his composure.

"When reinforcements come, let's get on the boat." He said coldly, "On both sides of the Yangtze River, aren't we having the final say?" Lu Lian was able to save Guangling for a while, could she arrange the 500-mile road from Guangling to Hefei clearly with this little bit of soldiers and horses? Can't I tear this hole?! ”

"What the general said," Han Dang said with a smile, "all the ships built by Chen Deng have been captured by us, and even if they want to transport grain, they will see if they can transport it!" ”

"Set off overnight! Embarkation! Embarkation! ”

On this trip, he did not lose his main force, so it is not a loss to withdraw his troops immediately, but for a twenty-two-year-old young man, not being able to capture Jiangdu City is already an unforgettable shame in his life.

On such a summer night, when Sun Ce mounted his horse and was about to set off to return to the riverside, he couldn't help but glance back at the stars, which seemed to be endless firelight.

"Lu Lian, Lu Lian." He chewed on the name and pressed down his depression hard, "Tian Ji horse racing, I can always beat you once!" ”

It's dawn.

Sun Ce walked in a hurry, so the defenders hurriedly ran out and began to pick up all kinds of scattered grain and grass in the camp, carrying heavy loads, not to mention those half-built siege equipment, it is also good to carry back a cart.

And Lu Hangyu, who was about to enter the city to receive a warm welcome from the citizens of Jiangdu, was a little confused.

She looked to the left and to the right.

In the middle stood a Chen Deng who had lost a lot of weight.

"Brother—"

Brother Chen Deng, who has always been very steady, couldn't hold back and stepped forward quickly.

She quickly jumped off her horse.

Chen Deng seemed to want to hug her, but since she had turned into a female salted fish, he nodded vigorously in the end.

"You're doing well, Ciyu."

"It's my brother's plan," she said flutteringly, "I sent someone to light some torches along the way, and Sun Ce actually ran away, and he hasn't fought with me yet!" Not a single one! ”

Chen Deng touched his mustache and let out a laugh of boiling water from his chest.

Chapter 228

She had been to Jiangdu once in a few years, so she was no stranger to everything here.

It's just that after experiencing Sun Ce's baptism, the local scholars withered. But Chen Deng has been operating here for several years, promoting the poor on the one hand, and raising the elderly and orphans on the other, so that those orphans whose families have been destroyed can read and write, and when they reach adulthood, there will be a group of more small officials.

This is important because, even now, the grain tax in Gwangneung County has not fully recovered—without enough grassroots officials, it is impossible to establish sufficient connections with every village in Gwangneung County, and naturally it is impossible to collect the full amount of grain tax.

Now the city of Jiangdu is still stable, and when she brought the cavalry into the city, she was warmly welcomed.

But after entering the county guard's mansion, Chen Deng asked a very important question.

"How many soldiers did you bring?"

"There are 1,000 cavalry, another 1,000 pack horses, and there are still 6,000 soldiers behind, led by Taishi Ziyi, and it should have reached Xiapi at this time!" She said, "Brother, don't worry—"

"I'm not worried that you've brought too few soldiers," Chen Deng looked a little distressed.

“…… Is that because I brought too many soldiers? ”

“…… That's not either. He stroked his beard, "Forget it, let's have a wine banquet first, and then let's talk." ”

Jiangdu is very close to the mouth of the Yangtze River, so the aquatic resources can be called unique, when she first came to Guangling, there are fish and shrimp for three meals a day, think about it and miss it a lot, especially here you can eat the fish of seawater fish, this is very powerful!

"Brother, do you have a fish belly?" As she was about to enter the main room, she asked casually.

…… Chen Deng suddenly braked suddenly, and his footsteps stopped.

Scared her.

Her brother turned and glared at her.

"It's been so long since Governor Qingzhou is still so unable to speak!"

…… Zhang Liao behind him pretended not to hear anything.

The army that Lu Hangyu brought from Qingzhou was a double-edged sword for Chen Deng.

Now there is Yuan Shu in the north, Sun Ce in the south, and Liu Biao's attitude in the west is unclear, seeing that this war to besiege Yuan Shu is about to become a battlefield for the princes to conquer the city, and Guan Yu has shrunk his forces, abandoned a large area of land, and put the main force on the siege of Shouchun.

In such a situation, Lu Xuanyu can bring an elite army of soldiers and horses over, which is naturally extremely beneficial to the battle situation.

But the daily food consumption of more than 7,000 people is an astonishing number, and when she came to Guangling, the pressure was naturally placed on Chen Deng.

He needed to settle the displaced people, he needed to build a grain route to transport grain for Guan Yu, and he also needed to supply Lu Lian's army with food and grass.

These things were all pressed on the first county of Guangling, even though he had done his best to open up the wasteland and cultivate the land and build water conservancy in the past two years, and he tried his best to stuff every granary in the city of Jiangdu with grain.

But the consumption of the war was staggering, especially in an area like Huainan, where there was no way to collect grain at all, and the consumption immediately doubled.

"The second general wants to encircle with the lord and trap Shouchun," he held the pottery cup and sighed, "If you can't break through Yuan Shu in a few months, Xuzhou's grain stock will be exhausted!" ”

Xuzhou grain storage is not only Guangling, she thought, besides, even in Guangling, if you can beat a circle of wealthy families, then you will definitely be able to spit out food.

But this suggestion is not very friendly, especially not to Chen Deng, who was born in a family of valve. She muttered inwardly as she took a sip of the ...... in her cup

"Brother! I have come from afar to solve this crisis! How can there not even be a pot of turbid wine! ”

Brother Ah let out a sneer, "There's not enough food to eat!" What to drink! Since I came to Guangling, I have banned alcohol! ”

Although Guangling in Jiangbei banned the brewing of moonshine under the strict order of Taishou Chen Deng, it is difficult for the people to completely ban drinking.

In this era, there was too little entertainment, and the fun of the middle and lower classes was especially less, and alcohol was definitely the best of them, so the merchants of Wu County often secretly sold wine across the river to sell, and even some people in the county guard would spend money to buy a few urns to hide.

But it's true that the land hanging fish can't drink alcohol now.

Guangling in Jiangbei banned winemaking, and Wujun in Jiangnan banned private ships.