Dong Xi, Ling Cao, Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai, Chen Wu, Yuan Xiong, Deng Dang.

Most of the young and courageous generals who joined the Sun Ce Group after coming to Jiangdong were good at water warfare.

Jiangdong people are good at water warfare. When it comes to water warfare, Jingzhou people are not opponents of Jiangdong people.

Sun Ce had thought about capturing Lujiang countless times and using them to attack Jiangxia and kill Huang Zu to avenge his father, but now Guo Peng is more threatening, and this revenge can be reserved for later.

Anyway, it is impossible for myself and Liu Biao to dominate the world at the same time. Even if Guo Peng collapses and everyone competes in the Central Plains, there will be a winner in the end.

The wings on my side have just formed, and the military preparations are ready. It is time to show my command ability, go straight to the battle against Zhang Liao, defeat it, and take the second county of Jiujiang and Lujiang, so as to demonstrate my ability and the strength of the Sun Wu regime.

This will not only avenge Guo Peng's wooing of the Lu family, but also reverse the negative impact of the failure of the previous political war.

Chapter 573 .580 The Second Sun Wu's Battle for the Founding of the Country

The blows brought by the failures on the political battlefield to the Sun Wu regime are invisible to the naked eye but real.

After Lu's escape, many scholars who had already started contacting Zhou Yu suddenly changed their minds.

They had originally planned to serve Sun Ce, but because Lu's escape to the north caused a chain reaction, they had a negative perception of the Sun Wu regime and yearned for the Wei regime in Jiangbei.

In fact, this battle has to be fought. If it is not fought, the Sun Wu regime will slowly collapse sooner or later. If it is fought, there is still a glimmer of life.

Both Zhou Yu and Sun Ce have already seen that if Sun Wu is to truly establish a country, this battle must be fought.

The pacification of Jiangdong is not considered the establishment of a country, only this battle is the real battle for the establishment of a country.

Sun Ce mobilized [-] troops, carefully selected strong and courageous soldiers, and asked the generals of each army to bring their cronies with them. When necessary, they must lead the guards to attack the Wei army.

Sun Ce knew very well that in Jiangdong's military system of step-by-step military system, the most powerful army was often the personal soldiers of Jiangdong's generals.

Of course, Sun Ce also has the most capable troops belonging to the Sun family, with a large number of about ten thousand soldiers, while the county soldiers stationed in various places and the peasant soldiers recruited temporarily cannot be counted as the main force.

Of course, the Sun regime cannot break away from the army model of temporary recruitment and withdrawal after the battle. It is taken for granted that Guo Peng's army is the same, but it is relatively sophisticated.

Sun Ce believes that Guo Peng's troops stationed in various places are all in the model of combining soldiers with agriculture, and farming together.

Even Zhou Yu thinks so.

But they don't know that Guo Peng's regular army doesn't farm. They just eat and train every day to build up their strength. There is also a long-distance cross-country training with heavy loads every seven days. Ass smashed.

They have already sharpened their swords and are ready to wait for Jiangdong soldiers to come.

Sun Ce doesn't care, this battle must be fought.

Then Sun Ce made a grand strategy of three-way advance.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu personally led the main force to enter Chaohu along the Ruxu River, then attacked Hefei, and then broke through to the north of Jiujiang, aggressively entered Shouchun, and annexed Jiujiang County.

Veteran Cheng Pu led [-] partial divisions into Lujiang County, attacked Lujiang County, and occupied Lujiang County.

General Wu Jing led [-] partial divisions to harass Guangling County, making Guangling Zangba unable to divide his troops to support Jiujiang and Lujiang, so as to ensure that Jiujiang and Lujiang could be captured.

The grand strategy and tactics have been determined, and the Sun Ce Group has risen to fight, rectify the troops, hoard the grain and grass, pack the warships, and prepare to attack.

At the end of August, Sun Ce's preparations were basically completed and he was ready to attack at any time. At this time, Zhang Liao had basically ascertained the attack direction and strength of Sun Ce's army.

Realizing that Sun Ce's army was twice as strong as his own, Zhang Liao immediately sent an order for Yu Jin to lead [-] troops to Shouchun as backup.

Once they were in danger of overturning their cars ahead, Yu Jin immediately led his troops south to resolve the crisis and save the situation.

Zhang Liao didn't dare to mess around casually. Although he had Guo Peng's instructions, there was a distance between instructions and implementation.

In order to ensure the implementation of the instructions, Zhang Liao, who was cautious, took Xu Huang, who was also extremely cautious, together with a counting official who came here from Yecheng to measure the best shooting angle and shooting angle of the trebuchet at the predicted location. The shooting distance, and then gave Zhang Liao and Xu Huang advice on how to use the trebuchet from the most professional perspective.

After listening to them talk about some very profound and obscure things, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang suddenly felt that the books they were reading seemed to be somewhat different from the books these people were reading.

I heard that Guo Peng is now very willing to reuse officials who have made achievements in mathematics. The group of accounting officials is very popular and is very appreciated by Guo Peng. reuse.

Now it seems that mathematics can be used not only in government affairs, but also in military affairs.

Zhang Liao and Xu Huang have changed their views on mathematics.

With the help of this group of people, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang are now full of confidence. When the Sun Wu Navy arrives in Hefei and Xiang'an County to prepare to attack, give them a little color and try to see if the catapult bombarding the warship is as expected So sharp.

In Zhang Liao's mind, this trebuchet would be no problem against a city wall, and probably no problem against a wooden warship...

But so what if there are problems?

Can Sun Wu's soldiers and horses compete with the northern elite cavalry?

If a group of boatmen had the upper hand in the front of the field, Zhang Liao felt that he would be a military leader for nothing, and Guo Peng's trust in him would be wasted. Even Yu Jin, who joined Guo Peng's group earlier than him Follow his orders.

I don't know if Yu Jin is happy...

Zhang Liao was a little worried about whether Yu Jin, a general at his level, would accept his command.

He was worried that Yu Jin was dissatisfied, so he didn't deal with him, and if there were hidden dangers in the rear, it wouldn't do. So Zhang Liao also wrote a humble letter to Yu Jin, hoping he wouldn't mind.

Yu Jin replied quickly, saying that public affairs are public affairs. Since Guo Peng ordered Zhang Liao to be the governor of the southeast front army, he would listen to Zhang Liao.

Only then did Zhang Liao feel relieved, and dispatched troops to the front line with peace of mind.

The battle in the southeast is about to start, and Liu Biao is also making intensive preparations for the battle going north. In the direction of Runan County and Yingchuan County, Guo Lie and Li Gan are also ready for defense, ready to deal with Jingzhou soldiers from Nanyang County at any time. .

In fact, Le Jin, the person in charge of the Central War Zone, was quite depressed, because he liked to rush and fight. When he entered the battlefield, he had to fight bravely and not retreat.

Guo Peng wrote to Le Jin, asking Le Jin to sit in Chenliu, command Guo Lie and Li Gan to fight against the enemy, and fight a defensive counterattack.

Le Jin didn't understand why Guo Peng didn't attack those soft-legged shrimps in Jingzhou.

More than 2 Jingzhou soldiers have not been to the north since they were stationed in Nanyang. They have been guarding Nanyang carefully all the time. They don't look like an elite army at all.

And with the fighting power of the Wei army's elite soldiers in all battles, and his ability as a veteran general who has soaked in the battlefield, can't he compete with the Jingzhou soldiers for Nanyang County?

The terrain of Nanyang is flat, which is a good place for the cavalry to deploy. If they want to compete for Nanyang County, Le Jin is confident of winning Nanyang County.

He could even threaten Liu Biao's Xiangyang, forcing Liu Biao to escape, and take down the northern part of Jingzhou. How could the Jingzhou people threaten Guo Peng's hinterland?

However, Guo Peng did not allow Le Jin to attack, and specifically stated that Le Jin was not allowed to attack. If Le Jin did attack, he would be dismissed.

Only defensive counterattacks are allowed, and Runan County and Yingchuan County are well guarded, and the rest are ignored.

Chapter 574 .580 Three frustrated Shu army

Of course Guo Peng would not tell Le Jin that this was an appointment between him and Cai Mao and Zhang Yun.

After the internal coordination of Liu Biao's forces in this battle, Zhang Yun was still the main general, commanding [-] troops to attack Runan and Yingchuan counties in the north.

Liu Biao originally wanted to conscript himself, but was strongly opposed, and wanted to appoint Liu Pan as the coach, but was rejected on the grounds that Liu Pan was too violent.

In the end, Liu Biao had no choice but to accept Zhang Yun as the commander-in-chief and Liu Pan as Zhang Yun's deputy. At the same time, Liu Biao also saw clearly that these people did not want to expand the war at all, and could only accept the result of the symbolic Northern Expedition at most. He was unwilling to go to war with Guo Peng.

Liu Biao was very annoyed, but there was nothing he could do. Without the support of these people, his Northern Expeditionary Army could not go far.

Just harass and harass, at least it's sending troops.

With Nanyang in hand, Jingzhou's defense line is complete, and Xiangyang is safe. When Nanyang County cannot be kept, that is the most dangerous.

Both Liu Biao and Sun Ce's offensive plans were determined. Liu Biao was a feint attack, and Sun Ce was the real onslaught. For Sun Ce, this battle can even be said to be a battle for the establishment of a country.

At the end of August, Liu Zhang's army that they were going to help finally fought against the Liangzhou army in Hanyang County and Wudu County.

After nearly two months of trekking across thousands of mountains and rivers, Liu Zhang's army finally fought against the Liangzhou soldiers who had been prepared for a long time at the end of Qishan Road.

The vanguard of Liu Zhang's troops fought against Ma Teng and Han Sui's troops in Hanyang County. Ma Teng and Han Sui continued to form an alliance, and led the warlords of Liangzhou to form an alliance to resist the Shu army.

The two major warlords led Cheng Yi, Li Kan, Yang Qiu, Ma Wan, Candidate and other large and small warlords to resist the attack of the main force of the Shu army in Hanyang County.

It has to be said that when the Shu army encountered a counterattack from the well-prepared Liangzhou soldiers at the destination, the leaders of the Shu army did not expect it, including Fazheng, who did not expect that the Liangzhou people had already prepared it. Prepare, lead the army to take the initiative to counterattack the attack of the Shu army.

Their target, Ji County, had long been closely guarded by Liangzhou soldiers. The Liangzhou soldiers came prepared, and the Shu army was suddenly attacked, caught off guard, and the vanguard was defeated for a while.

This surprised Pang Xi and Fazheng.

"Why did the Liangzhou people come prepared? Did they get the information about our attack in advance?"

Pang Xi looked at Fazheng.

Fazheng was very surprised.

"Our march is so secretive, all in the deep mountains, how could the people of Liangzhou know in advance?"

Fazheng didn't think of this either, so suddenly faced with the situation where the Liangzhou people came prepared, Fazheng gritted his teeth and persuaded: "Now the situation has reached this point, our army is hard to get off, and we have to face it head-on. If you retreat from time to time, you will inevitably suffer a disastrous defeat, but if you take the initiative to attack, you still have a chance to win!"

Pang Xi thought so too, this Northern Expedition was also led by him, if it failed, the consequences would be disastrous.

So Pang Xi made a desperate move, led the main force of the Shu army to attack, and fought fiercely with Liangzhou soldiers near Ji County.

A great battle lasted from morning to dusk, and the two sides were tied. The Shu army set up more bows and crossbows under Fazheng's preparations to deal with the Liangzhou soldiers' charge. In embarrassment, he was unable to attack the Shu army's formation for a while.

As night fell, the two sides returned to their camps, preparing to fight again in the future.

Pang Xi and Fazheng were amazed by the preparations made by the Liangzhou people, and Ma Teng and Han Sui were also surprised by the strength of the Yizhou people.

"No matter how they know, now that our purpose has been exposed and there is no way out, the Liangzhou thieves must have concentrated their main force in Jixian County to prevent us from going out of the mountain. Well, if we can defeat the Liangzhou soldiers head-on, the land of Longyou will surely be defeated. All for me!"

Fazheng comforted Pang Xi in this way.

But Pang Xi was very worried.

"Liangzhou's cavalry is strong. Our army lacks cavalry and it is difficult to deal with it. If it continues, it may be difficult to conquer Ji County. Our army's food and grass are difficult, and we cannot fight a protracted war. After a long time, the food and grass will be exhausted. How can we fight this battle? Xiaozhi, Why would they be on guard?"

Fazheng also had doubts like Pang Xi's.

Fazheng's initial plan was to take down Hanyang County and use it as a base to rapidly expand the results of the battle and attack the unprepared, so that Liangzhou soldiers would be defeated if they could not take advantage of their strong and good fighting skills.

Quickly push Longyou to force the people of Liangzhou to surrender, so as to occupy Longyou completely, quickly occupy the main roads of Longshan, and block the Long road when Guo Peng can't react, then you can safely and slowly move to Longyou. Liangzhou digested, so, after two or three years, the overall situation has been settled.

But now the first wave has been blocked, and the first plan cannot be realized. Now the two armies are still facing each other, and there is still a long way to go before Hanyang County is completely taken down.

If we continue to fight, even if we can win, can we get other parts of Liangzhou?

If Longyou can't catch them all by surprise, the follow-up strategy will not be able to continue.

hateful!

Fazheng gritted his teeth fiercely, his heart was full of indignation.

He couldn't figure out who leaked the news of the Shu army's advance, which made the army fall into such a passive situation.

Different from the situation on the side of the Shu army, the Liangzhou soldiers were rejoicing, because they withstood the first wave of the Shu army's offensive and did not lose Hanyang County, so they could naturally gain an advantage.

As long as they continue to resist and prevent the Shu army from seizing the territory, it will not take long for them to retreat after running out of food, and Liangzhou will naturally be safe.

The big and small warlords are still very grateful to themselves for being wise, standing together at the critical moment, not being hostile to each other, but fighting against foreign enemies together.

We should do this again in the future, not only when dealing with Liu Zhang, but also when dealing with Guo Peng.

Ma Teng and Han Sui guarded the Long Road and controlled the main road. While guarding against Guo Peng's looting, they used the main force to fight against Liu Zhang.

So Ma Teng and Han Sui took advantage.

Faced with Pang Xi's wavering situation, Fazheng could only continue to cheer him up and support him in continuing to attack the Liangzhou army.

After the Liangzhou army was attacked by Guo Peng, the fighting will and combat effectiveness were greatly weakened. Facing the strong crossbow of the Shu army and the attack of this kind of technologically advanced army, the Liangzhou cavalry could hardly cope.

The Liangzhou spearmen that Ma Teng and Han Sui were proud of were completely lost in the battle with Guo Peng. Although the other armies also had their own elite troops, they fought in a coordinated manner.

It's not that your elite plus mine is the elite of all of us. Such a simple addition cannot be counted on the battlefield. The different combat habits of the respective armies cannot bridge each other in a short period of time. Big problem.

This kind of big problem in coordination will appear in various senses, including when facing the attack of the Shu army with a unified order, the Liangzhou army cannot make a uniform resistance, the coordination is improper, and it cannot resist the attack of the Shu army. army array.

As a result, Liangzhou soldiers were repeatedly defeated on the field battlefield, losing troops and generals, losing the possibility of continuing the front of the field war, and had to retreat to Ji County and defend the city to the death.

The Shu army began to attack the city, and the Liangzhou army also relied on the city to persist in resistance, refusing to give up an inch. The two sides fought back and forth again and again, and gradually became a tug of war.

A month later, the situation of the battle has not changed. Although the soldiers in Liangzhou were lost and the generals were defeated, and those who were beaten could only defend the city, the Shu army still failed to capture Ji County.

During this period, Guo Peng received a letter from Guo Jia.

Guo Jia said to Guo Peng in the letter that Guo Peng should not pay too much attention to Liu Zhang and Liu Biao. After all, these two people will not be able to go north.

Only Sun Ce is really worthy of attention.

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