Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 492 Zhou Yu's Last Strike

In fact, Cai Mao did not pay attention to Zhou Yu, he had no idea of ​​going ashore to fight Zhou Yu's army with a navy army.

To be honest, Cai Mao also had a little selfishness of not wanting to consume too much of the Jiangling navy in Jiangdong, so although Cai Mao had discovered Zhou Yu's movement of dividing troops, he had also discovered Zhou Yu's movement in Wuxi, Wu County, etc., but Cai Mao was completely unconcerned. He just stayed at Wucheng's side to maintain the so-called offensive against Yan Baihu.

Anyway, Cai Mao knew that Zhou Yu didn't have a navy river boat, but his water camp was built directly on the islands in Zhenze Lake with the help of large and small warships and river boats, so that anyone who dared to go into the water to attack his water village enemy, that is to seek death.

But he will never land easily and go to land to fight with others.

Therefore, Cai Mao did not give Zhou Yu a chance to capture the warships of the Jiangling Navy through the war. Cai Mao just shrank in the Zhenze Lake like a turtle, preserving the strength of the Jiangling Navy.

In fact, Cai Mao had also received a military order from Wang Yuyan before, telling him to be careful of Zhou Yu's sneak attack, and be careful to preserve the warships, so Cai Mao also had a more legitimate reason to preserve his strength.

Of course, at this time Cai Hao also discovered that the waterway from Zhenze Lake to the Yangtze River seemed to be blocked by Zhou Yu's army, but this problem was not too big, since Zhenze Lake had enough water to park his navy anyway.

Therefore, Cai Mao just sent a part of the navy back to clear the waterway, and then stepped up the patrol and monitoring of the Yangtze River waterway, and then sent people to monitor the movement of Zhou Yu's army, and sent a message to Wang Yuyan in time.

As a result, Zhou Yu fought all the way from Piling County to Wu County, but still failed to lure Cai Mao's navy to fight, so he could only set his target on Qiantang County.

This is what Zhou Yu did during the time Sun Ce helped him delay, but soon Zhou Yu got the news that Zhu Wei's army had entered Wu County, that is, Pang Yan's Xiongba camp also followed his previous plan. The route once again took back the lands such as Wuxi and Wu County that Zhou Yu had previously conquered.

To be honest, it is easier for Pang Yan’s Xiongba camp to attack these places this time, because after Zhou Yu captured these places before, he also adopted the method of sweeping and looting. The food stored in Wubao, the home of many rich and powerful families in the local area.

In this way, Zhou Yu can be regarded as making his army become angry and resentful in these places, and it also caused the nobles and powerful families in many places to gather private soldiers to resist.

But before Zhou Yu's army was huge, even if these local forces wanted to counterattack, they would hit a rock with eggs, so at most they would hide and fight guerrillas to resist Zhou Yu's plundering of their family's population, food, grass, and property.

When Pang Yan's Xiongba camp came to these places, it was like a long drought and rain. They were welcomed by all directions, and there were always teams coming to join them. They wanted to help Zhu Wei's army deal with Zhou Yu, and some followed Zhu Wei's army to rescue the captured The family that Zhou Yu coerced away.

Such Pang Yan's Xiongba camp naturally advanced all the way, and recovered Wuxi, Wu County, Lou County, etc. within a day.

Uh, in fact, Zhou Yu didn't leave troops to guard these places, so Pang Yan's Xiongba battalion chased Zhou Yu's army all the way, heading towards Youquan and Qiantang.

Of course, Zhou Yu knew very well that what he had done along the way had completely lost the support of Wu Jun.

Therefore, although he didn't know what the situation of Sun Ce who was staying in Danyang City was, he knew that Zhu Weijun who entered Wu County was actually Pang Yan of the Xiongba camp under the banner, so he didn't dare to fight against Pang Yan easily. In Wuxi, Wuxian, Louxian and other places, any troops were left to resist, because Zhou Yu's current military target is still Qiantang County.

Therefore, Zhou Yu only stopped in Yuquan County after leading an army that had swelled to almost [-], and swept the young and strong in Yuquan County, and began to build defenses. It seemed that he was going to fight Pang Yan's Xiongbaying army here.

At the same time, Zhou Yu also allocated a part of his troops to fight in the direction of Qiantang County. The defense of Yuquan County was just to delay the attack on Qiantang County.

At this time, Qiantang County has already received news of Zhou Yu's army's attack. Fortunately, Zhou Xin and Kan Ze, who had gone out to attack Wucheng before, had returned to Qiantang County with more than 8000 Kuaiji troops, so Wang Lang was also sent in Qiantang County. Guarded by heavy soldiers.

But relatively speaking, the army controlled by Zhou Yu at this time is also somewhat aggressive, and it is no longer the ordinary new army that has no combat effectiveness at all.

Now Zhou Yu has more than 5 troops under his control, although more than 2 of them are young and strong recruits brought by Zhou Yuxin from Wuxi, Wuxian, Louxian, and Youquan. Looking for an opportunity to escape, they were originally intended to be used as cannon fodder in Zhou Yu's hands.

This time Zhou Yu coerced the local people in several counties in the southeast of Wu County, and did not bring the old and weak women and children who would slow down his marching speed. In the army.

After all, these people are strong and young, even if they are unwilling to fight for Zhou Yu in their hearts, they can be used as cannon fodder by Zhou Yu to attack the city. Naturally, it is more effective than cannon fodder composed of old and weak women and children. In ordinary county towns and local family fortresses, many of them were captured by Zhou Yu with this kind of cannon fodder, young and strong, and filled with human lives.

In addition, Zhou Yu also has six or seven thousand elite Sun soldiers trained from Guangling County. These soldiers are the core troops of Sun Ce's attack on Jiangdong this time.

With this elite main force, Zhou Yu also dared to fight head-to-head with Zhu Wei's army.

In addition, Zhou Yu still has about [-] new troops coerced from Danyang City, but these new soldiers have completely let go of the bottom line under Zhou Yu's deliberate indulgence in the previous expedition from Wuxi to Youquan. A lot of robbery and raids were committed, and many soldiers were cultivated with a bandit and murderous spirit.

Although Zhou Yu didn't have time to train these new soldiers, he discovered the animal nature in their hearts. Almost every soldier was already tainted with a bit of murderous blood, and naturally they were different from ordinary recruits on the battlefield.

This method of training troops is also a helpless strategy, but it is indeed an effective method.

In this way, apart from the elite soldiers of Guangling County, Zhou Yu's subordinates can be considered to have cultivated an army with combat effectiveness, and they are no longer rookies who have never been on the battlefield. Therefore, Zhou Yu now has some confidence in his army.

It can be said that if Pang Yan hadn't brought the Xiongba battalion into Wu County in time this time, and chased Zhou Yu's army to support Qiantang County, I am afraid that Zhou Yu could easily capture Qiantang County and then lead his troops into Kuaiji County.

That was the situation that Wang Yuyan was worried about...

(End of this chapter)