Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 133 Liu Bei's Support
"General, someone has come to surrender."

On this day, Zhang Liao was leading troops to hunt down Sun Quan's army, but one of his subordinates reported a news to Zhang Liao.

"Someone came to surrender? Who is it?" Zhang Liaochao asked his subordinates.

"It was Sun Quan's navy general Wei Wen who brought two Sun Quan navy officers and soldiers to surrender." The subordinate replied.

"Oh? Wei Wen?" Zhang Liao was surprised.

He knew about Wei Wen. Ever since he was defeated by the Youzhou Navy at Guangling Station, he hadn't been seen. He didn't expect to come to him to surrender now.

It turned out that after Wei Wen was defeated last time, he did not dare to return to the court for fear that Sun Quan would kill him, so he hid in Langya Mountain.

This time Sun Quan was defeated, and Wei Wen also saw the reality clearly. He knew that Sun Quan could not defeat Cao Cao, and he would be destroyed by Cao Cao sooner or later. Therefore, after Wei Wen weighed it, he took his two thousand shield men in hiding. The officers and soldiers came and surrendered.

When Zhang Liao saw Wei Wen and his soldiers, he found that these people were like beggars. If they didn't have weapons in their hands, no one would have thought that they would be an army.

Regarding Wei Wenwen's surrender, Zhang Liao welcomed him very much.

In the past few days, not only Wei Wen came to surrender, but many of Sun Quan's generals were forced to surrender to Zhang Liao, which made Zhang Liao's army strength reach [-] to [-].

At this time, under the pursuit of Zhang Liao's tens of thousands of soldiers, Sun Quan could only flee in a hurry, and there was no way to organize a resistance.

Whenever Sun Quan organized troops to resist Zhang Liao's attack, five thousand musketeers would stand up.

After a few rounds of flintlock shooting, the soldiers and horses that Sun Quan managed to organize would be defeated again.

Sun Quan's defeat in Hefei this time is similar to Cao Cao's defeat in Chibi a few years ago, and most of the troops were lost.

But compared to Cao Cao, Sun Quan at this time was even worse.

After Cao Cao's defeat in Chibi, he at least controlled the north, but Sun Quan's defeat this time will definitely lose all the territory in Jiangbei.

At present, Zhang Liao's army has driven Sun Quan to the banks of the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River, in this era, no one has been able to build a pontoon bridge. To cross the Yangtze River, you can only take a boat.

However, on the Yangtze River at this time, more than a dozen Youzhou gunboats and hundreds of captured Sun Quan navy warships had already intercepted on the Yangtze River in advance, and Sun Quan's soldiers and horses seemed to be unable to fly.

At this time, Sun Quan's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses had retreated to Tangyi City (Lingnan Liuhe District) on the edge of the Yangtze River. There was only a river away from Moling, but it became a natural moat.

Originally, there were [-] soldiers stationed in Tangyi, but now with the tens of thousands of soldiers Sun Quan brought back from Hefei, there were [-] to [-] soldiers at once, which was about the same as Zhang Liao's soldiers.

Tangyi City is an important city in the Jiangbei area, and it is also the earliest administrative building in the Nanjing area in history. The strategic location here is self-evident.

After Zhang Liao led his troops to Tangyi, he did not attack the city immediately because siege equipment would be needed to attack the city and the casualties would be too high.

Zhang Liao's purpose is very simple, that is to block Tangyi, prevent Sun Quan's army from crossing the river, and wait for the reinforcements sent by Cao Cao.

But at the same time, Zhang Liao was also sending people everywhere to persuade cities in Jiangbei to surrender. After seeing Sun Quan's defeat, many cities believed that Sun Quan could no longer keep Jiangbei territory, so they surrendered one after another.

A week later, the entire Jiangbei, except for Tangyi, which is across the river from Moling City, most of the entire Jiangbei territory has fallen into the hands of Cao Cao's forces in the north.

Sun Quan wanted to withdraw his troops to the south of the Yangtze River, but unfortunately the Youzhou Navy had blocked the Yangtze River, making it almost impossible for Sun Quan's tens of thousands of troops to cross the river.

As time went by, at the end of February, the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses led by Xia Houyuan finally arrived in Hefei.

At the same time, in Liaodong, Cao Cao also received news of Sun Quan's defeat in Jiangbei.

Therefore, Cao Cao handed over the matter of moving the capital to Cao Ren, and he himself hurried to Hefei with his troops.

In Cao Cao's view, this is a good opportunity to wipe out Sun Quan's forces in one fell swoop, and he cannot let such an opportunity go in vain.

In Sichuan and Shu, when Liu Zhang heard that Sun Quan was defeated, he was shocked. If Sun Quan was defeated, Liu Bei would be next.

However, even so, Liu Zhang has nothing to do. He has no way to send troops to rescue Sun Quan, and he has no confidence that he can rescue him.

"This Sun Quan's 10,000+ army, how can you say that you are defeated?"

Many people are puzzled that Sun Quan's 10,000+ troops were defeated by Zhang Liao's tens of thousands of troops.

"My lord, I'm going to find a way to deal with the changes in the situation." Someone said to Liu Zhang.

"How to deal with this? Go out of Sichuan to attack Cao Cao?" Someone retorted.

Liu Zhang's territory was Zhang Lu's Hanzhong to the north and Liu Bei's Two Lakes to the east. The only land bordering Cao Cao's forces was the Qinling Mountains in the northeast, which the army could not cross.

Even if Sun Quan is defeated by Cao Cao, Liu Zhang's forces can only watch and worry.

It's different from Liu Zhang who wanted to rescue Sun Quan but couldn't.

On the other side, Liu Bei, who occupied the two lakes area, was ready to rescue Sun Quan immediately after hearing of Hefei's defeat.

Liu Bei knew that if Sun Quan was gone, he would not be able to last long.

According to the plan, this year Liu Bei was planning to plan Liu Zhangchuan's Shu land, but the situation changed too quickly, so he had to give up this plan.

One week after the news of Sun Quan's defeat in Hefei, Liu Bei sent Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to lead an army of [-] troops from Jiangxia County (now Wuhan area). They would follow the north bank of the Yangtze River and bypass the Dabie Mountains to rescue Sun Quan.

For the waterway, Liu Bei also dispatched hundreds of large and small ships, accompanied by thousands of water troops. In addition to transporting food and grass, they are also a good fighting force.

Naturally, Liu Bei's actions could not be concealed from the detailed work dispatched by Cao Cao. When Liu Bei was just about to act, a fast horse quickly sent the news back to Hefei.

After Zhang Liao learned that Liu Bei was going to rescue Sun Quan, he immediately called all the generals together to discuss the matter.

In the end, Zhang Liao planned to send [-] troops to intercept Liu Bei's army in Wancheng (now the Qianshan area of ​​Anqing). This is the only way for Liu Bei's army, just like Gongsun Kang's army had to go through the Liaoxi Corridor when entering Youzhou.

At the same time, after Zhang Liao and Lin Yongsheng discussed it, they also dispatched half of the Youzhou gunboats to intercept Liu Bei's navy on the Yangtze River.

The person responsible for intercepting Liu Bei's navy this time was led by the Youzhou, three steam paddle wheels and three other gunboats.

Behind the gunboats, there were hundreds of captured Sun Quan navy ships.

The Youzhou fleet, in addition to the original crew and gunners, also brought two thousand musketeers.

As for the hundreds of captured Sun Quan navy ships, in addition to Zhang Liao's thousands of soldiers and horses, there were also two to three thousand soldiers of the Wei Wen Navy who surrendered.

Before Liu Bei's soldiers arrived in Wancheng, Zhang Liao's [-] soldiers and Youzhou fleet had already arrived and were ready to intercept.

A few days later, the first to arrive was the Liu Bei navy fleet that went down the river.

Hundreds of ships of all sizes went down the river, and the scene was very spectacular.

The arrival of Liu Bei's navy fleet shows that the army led by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei is not far behind.

However, Zhang Liao's tens of thousands of horses were just huddled in Wancheng, and had no intention of going out of the city to fight in the wild.

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