Three Kingdoms: At the beginning, Cao Cao assassinated Dong, and I was abandoned

When Sun Ce saw Cao Shuo's black cavalry rushing out, he couldn't help but roll his eyes.

This bastard has hidden so many cavalry in the camp, is he just waiting for him to come to his door?

"Archers, shoot their front line for me, and the pikemen set up their formation!"

After Sun Ce's army was in formation, Cao Shuo's cavalry suddenly took out their bows and arrows when they saw the cavalry was about to enter and shoot, and shot randomly at the pikemen blocking in front.

"Puff puff!"

The shield soldier standing next to the pikeman hurriedly raised his shield to block.

"what……"

Thinking of the screams of his soldiers, Sun Ce couldn't help but frowned. Can the leather shield be shot through?

Do ordinary soldiers of Cao Shuo use such sharp arrows?

"The cavalry charged, and the infantry quickly retreated!"

The two sides fought for nearly two hours, and Sun Ce's soldiers were rapidly decreasing.

Seeing that the momentum was wrong, Lu Su hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, we should retreat to the south bank of the Zhongjiang River as soon as possible. The opponent's cavalry is too strong, and our soldiers are about to be unable to resist."

Sun Ce sighed, ordered to withdraw from the battlefield, and left Liyang on the warship left by Zhou Yu.

"Zhang Liao, you lead two thousand Xuanjia troops and five thousand infantry to attack Wuhu."

"promise!"

Cao Shuo ordered the remaining soldiers to escort [-] to [-] captives and enter Liyang City.

Sun Ce ran away as soon as he ran. He didn't have a warship, so it was impossible to chase him.

Cao Shuo looked at Xi Zhicai and said, "Zhicai, send someone to inform Zhang Xiu to lead the army back to Jing County and wait for the next order."

"promise!"

"In addition, send someone to inform Gan Ning that Zhou Yu's navy will be sent to the west of Zongyang at all costs, and Li Dian in Lujiang County will be informed to lead an army of [-] to cross the Yangtze River at any time to encircle Sun Ce in Danyang County! "

"promise!"

Sun Ce has already entered his siege, as long as he does not abandon Wanling and flee back to Yuzhang County, when his three-way army is in place, even if he cannot be killed, he will have to be stripped of his skin.

The passages to the north and south of Wanling had been blocked by his army. Once Li Dian led the army across the river to block Sun Ce's escape route to the west, he would be trapped to death in Danyang County.

Chapter 487 Army division, is Zhou Yu running too fast?

Zhou Yu led an army to the Yangtze River near Liyang, just in time to encounter the defeated Wu Guoshui army.

"Zhou Tiao, Shi Gan, you two lead ten boats and block Gan Ning's big boat for me."

"promise!"

Then Zhou Yu asked his lieutenant to clean up the remnants, and now he had to plan carefully.

Sun Ben said dejectedly; "The enemy's ships are far more numerous than ours, and my warships can't stop them at all."

Zhou Yu waved his hand to signal Sun Ben not to speak any more.

His own warships did not have an advantage, and his ability to resist them depended entirely on the number of small boats. Once Gan Ning's big boats rushed in, he would send people to attack them with fireboats.

Although Gan Ning's large ships, throwing stones and bed crossbows are domineering, the interval between attacks is relatively long. As long as his own large ships are not within his range, Gan Ning can only attack small ships.

"Sun Ben, you lead ten large ships and a hundred warships to Wuhu immediately. After our army has retreated to Spring Valley, you lead the fleet to fight out from behind Gan Ning."

"promise!"

After Sun Ben left, Zhou Yu asked Zhou Tiao and Shi Gan to resist for a while, and then led the army to retreat.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Gan Ning couldn't help frowning as he looked at the back of Zhou Yu's big boat.

He looked at Lu Jun and asked, "Lu Jun, is Zhou Yu running too fast?"

Lu Jun thought for a while and said, "Since the Hengjiang iron chain on the Yangtze River was destroyed, Zhou Yu's navy has been retreating. We fought and stopped, and fought from the mouth of the Yangtze River to Liyang. His navy suffered heavy losses. It is necessary to retreat. Unavoidable."

Gan Ning asked, "Then shall we pursue Zhou Yu now, or go ashore to assist Tai Shici in attacking Shicheng and Danyang?"

After Gan Ning's reminder, Lu Jun suddenly realized a problem. Sun Ce led the army to fight His Majesty in Liyang. If Zhou Yu retreated to the south of Zhongjiang, wouldn't Sun Ce be alone?

Zhou Yu would be so stupid as to ignore Sun Ce's safety?

Lu Jun looked worried and said: "Zhou Yu's retreat is too strange, our army is not easy to catch up, how about this, Li Yang's guard general Li Zheng has [-] troops, why don't we take Zhou Yu's retreat and take them to the Yangtze River South Shore."

Gan Ning thought for a while, and felt that what Lu Jun said made sense, their navy only had more than 5 people, and it was not appropriate to divide their troops to assist in the war in Danyang County, but they could help the army in Jiangbei transport soldiers.

"Ling Cao, Jiang Qin, you two lead five empty boats to take over Li Zheng's army."

"promise!"

After Li Zheng's army crossed the Yangtze River, according to Lu Jun's request, he was asked to move with the fleet. Li Zheng was responsible for attacking cities and land on the shore, and they followed behind slowly.

When Li Zheng came to the city of Wuhu, he saw that the flag on the top of the city belonged to his own side, so he quickly sent someone to ask which general went to Wuhu.

Zhang Liao heard that Li Zheng led an army across the Yangtze River, and quickly led a thousand cavalry out of the city.

Zhang Liao said with a smile: "It's really unexpected that General Li came here."

He thought that after Li Zheng crossed the river, he would go to help Tai Shici attack Moling, but he did not take the usual route, detoured behind Moling, attacked Shicheng and Danyang counties, and then went all the way south.

Li Zheng asked, "Where is Your Majesty?"

"His Majesty's army is stationed on the bank of Lengshui to the east of Wanling, across the river from Sun Ce's Wanling."

"Shall we cross the river now to support the Lord?"

Zhang Liao said: "General Li, my lord asks you to send five thousand troops to take over Liyang's defense."

Receive Liyang's defense?

He left 3 troops in Shicheng and Danyang each, and now he only has more than [-] troops. If he divides his troops, what attack power does his army have?

Li Zheng said angrily: "General Zhang is not lying to me, is it because you are afraid that I will take the credit and you deliberately dismiss my army?"

Zhang Liao said with a smile: "5000 troops, is not a drop in the bucket for you? If you care, I can make you a lieutenant general."

Zhang Liao also knew that Cao Cao's generals had relatively low meritorious service, and he had no intention of competing with Li Zheng for credit.

Then he walked to Li Zheng's side and said in a low voice: "Tai Shici's army will soon break through Moling City. At that time, he will definitely go south. The general can inform his subordinates that when Tai Shici's army arrives, he will directly abandon it." Go out of the city and round up with the general."

"This south is Tai Shici's battlefield. We are just assisting and defending the city. I am sure he is the most suitable."

The two looked at each other and smiled, and Li Zheng said, "I didn't expect General Zhang to be as resourceful as Jia Wenhe!"

Zhang Liao rolled his eyes, why does this sound like a curse?

Immediately, Li Zheng sent [-] soldiers to Liyang, and then left [-] soldiers to guard Wuhu, intending to lead the army to go south with Zhang Liao.

"Report, in Zhongjiang, [-] miles west of Wuhu, Wu army warships were found, and there were hundreds of them."

Zhang Liao narrowed his eyes and asked, "Where is Gan Ning's army?"

Li Zheng replied: "Gan Ning has been following us. He should have passed Dangtu by now and is heading towards the intersection of the Yangtze River and Zhongjiang River."

"not good!"

Zhang Liao said in horror: "The other party wants to ambush our navy."

Li Zheng also understood, and hurriedly dispatched several soldiers to inform Gan Ning, and then suggested: "We need to cross the river as soon as possible, and then capture Spring Valley as quickly as possible, forcing Zhou Yu's navy to go ashore."

Chungu is an important town to the west of Wanling. If Chungu falls, Wanling's route to the west will be cut off. For Sun Ce's safety, Zhou Yu will definitely go ashore to entangle them, and then send someone to inform Sun Ce.

However, Li Zheng was still one step too late. Gan Ning's army had already entered the fork in the fork. He received Li Zheng's warning and was about to retreat when Zhou Yu and Sun Ben led the navy to kill him.

Lu Jun looked at Gan Ning and asked, "Xingba, shall we break through the encirclement, or fight head-on with each other?"

If you break through now, you can easily rush out, and you may only need to lose some small boats.

Gan Ning said coldly: "What's the point of breaking through? Such a good opportunity. Wu's navy is not much left. We can defeat them in one battle."

Seeing Gan Ning's strong will to fight, Lu Jun gave up his plan to retreat. He looked at Ling Cao, and Jiang Qin said, "The two generals lead the rear army to meet the ambush soldiers coming from the east."

"promise!"

Gan Ning, Lu Jun, and Dong Xi led the front army towards Zhou Yu's navy.

Gan Ning said: "Longjun, you command the big ship. Dong Xi and I will lead the big ship to fight Zhou Yu!"

Lu Jun ordered: "The trebuchets and bed crossbows are designed to attack the opponent's big ships, and the small boats will not be hit at all."

"Fire arrows!"

Gan Ning gave an order, and the soldiers on the building boat shot towards Zhou Yu's warship.

The naval forces of both sides fought a decisive battle on the great river. The strength of the two sides was almost the same. Whoever wins this battle will be the overlord of the Yangtze River.

Chapter 488

The battle between the two sides lasted for two hours, and there was no winner.

Zhou Yu was a little panicked. In the past, Gan Ning was worried about the loss of his big ships, so he seldom confronted them head-on, and always used the big ships to deal with them.

I didn't expect to be so tenacious now, attacking them regardless of losses. Could it be that they have some conspiracy to succeed?

"Report, Commander-in-Chief, in the direction of Spring Valley, we found the enemy's figure!"

"how is this possible?"

Zhou Yu was terrified. Spring Valley is 150 miles away from Zhongjiang. Why would Cao Shuo's troops attack there?

Don't they need to attack Sun Ce's camp in Wanling?

"Report, Zhang Liao leads the army towards Fanchang!"

Zhou Yu wiped off his cold sweat. He saw the opponent's intention, which was to cut off Sun Ce's westward retreat route.

Does their doing so mean that Sun Ce will definitely retreat westward?

Jing County has already fallen, and Cao Shuo's army is on the east bank of Lengshui. If Zhang Liao's army is allowed to occupy the west bank of the Qingge River, then Sun Ce will really be trapped between the three rivers, and he will be unable to escape.

"Zhou Tiao, go and inform the king immediately, let him withdraw from Wanling as soon as possible, lead the army to attack Fanchang, and must not be besieged in Wanling."

"promise!"

"Notify the defenders in Guichi that they must guard the city to the death, and there will be no loss."

Guichi was the only route for Sun Ce to withdraw from Danyang County. Once Guichi was breached, the entire western front would be blocked.

Looking at the battle ahead, Zhou Yu wondered if he should send some soldiers to fetch Chungu.

After fighting Gan Ning for so long, he still has less than [-] soldiers left. If he divides his troops to take the Spring Valley, the whole army may be wiped out.

"Report, Commander, Gan Ning's big ship is suddenly heading towards our Chinese army!"

Zhou Yu narrowed his eyes, what are they going to do?Hold yourself up here?

"No, their goal is the king!"

Ever since Cao Shuo's solitary army went deep, every move they made was within the opponent's calculations.

Sun Ce's army was led by the nose by the opponent, and led into the net step by step.

Now the entire Danyang County, except for Wanling, may all fall into the hands of Wei Guo.

Zhou Yu called a lieutenant and said, "Immediately inform Xu Kun, the commander of the water army at Pengze Lake, and ask him to lead the army to come here for support."

Now they have to ask for reinforcements, otherwise none of them will be able to get out of Danyang County.

On the east bank of Lengshui, Cao Shuo stood on the bank riding a red rabbit horse, looking helplessly at the city on the opposite bank.

Sun Ce's fleet blocked the cold water, and he couldn't cross the cold water at all. He could only hope that Zhang Liao and Li Zheng could quickly capture the area west of the Qingge River.

Jia Xu suggested: "Your Majesty, why don't we cross the river through Ningguo, where large ships cannot pass, and Sun Ce's navy cannot sail there."

Xi Zhicai said: "General Zhang Liao has not yet completed the siege of Wanling. If we cross the river rashly, if Sun Ce abandons the city and flees, wouldn't it be a failure?"

Cao Shuo asked, "What's going on with Gan Ning? Can you repel Zhou Yu and drive the warship into cold water?"

Xi Zhicai shook his head and said, "Zhou Yu's navy is very tenacious!"

"Give Gan Ning an order. Even if the entire army is wiped out, Zhou Yu must know that the Yangtze River is no longer dominated by their navy."

"promise!"

"Zou Dan, Qi Zhou, and Xu Ding, the three of you each lead a thousand Tiger Guards to Ningguo, then go around to Jing County, and lie in ambush on the road that Sun Ce must pass to retreat."