The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 220 Cheng Yuanzhi attacked south, Sun Quan surrendered to the state

Just when Liu Bei was looking for Zhuge Liang but failed to meet him, Cheng Yuanzhi mobilized elite troops and rushed to Shouchun.

There was a reason why he was eager to go to the south of the Yangtze River. History had already proved that as long as Jingzhou and Yangzhou were not in an alliance, they would not be able to form a joint force, and it would not be difficult to break through.

In the original time and space, due to Sun Quan’s surprise attack on Guan Yu, Liu Bei’s Eastern Expedition was triggered, and the two sides of Shu and Wu confronted each other in Yiling. The state is an alliance, and the two countries are separated by mountains and rivers. It is difficult to save each other in an emergency. This is the benefit of a small country. Now that the two sides are still killing each other, it is the time when the sky is dead. If I take advantage of this time to attack Wu and cross the Yangtze River Attack the inside. Shu attacks the outside, I attack the inside, within ten months, Wu will perish."

At that time, Cao Pi was unwilling to obey because of his affection. Instead, he said: "Sun Quan has just proclaimed himself a minister. If I raise troops to attack today, I will lose the righteousness of the world, and I may block the people of the world from surrendering. This is not possible!"

Such a god-sent opportunity was wasted by Cao Pi.

Assuming that Wei used Liu Ye's strategy at that time, even if Soochow did not perish, it would be difficult to survive for long.

You know, Liu Bei mobilized the whole country to attack, and after a stalemate for seven or eight months, he was finally defeated by Lu Xun in Yiling.

These seven or eight months are enough for Cao Wei, the most powerful in the world, to do many things.

For Cao Wei, as long as troops were sent to attack the Sanwu area behind Sun Quan, Sun Quan would have to face preparations for fighting on the east and west fronts.

Of course, looking back visually in the future, it will be easy to break the thorns and promote the alliance.But from the perspective of people at this time, the Northern Army had no water divisions and there were many waterways in the south of the Yangtze River, which were insurmountable difficulties.

But Cheng Yuanzhi knew that if he wanted to conquer Jiangnan, he could do it without a navy.

Therefore, he took advantage of the fact that Liu Biao was alive and Jing and Yang could not unite because of their feud, and went south in a big way.

As soon as the front foot arrived in Hefei, the military orders were issued one by one, and they were quickly delivered to Zhao Yun of Wujun, Qu Yi of Huiji, Zhang Liao of Guangling and others.

At that time, Zhou Yu was stationed in Wanling, stationed in Chaohu, and said to the generals with a solemn expression:

"Yuan Shejin knows that Wen Chou has been punished and Wanling has been captured, so he will raise an army to fight. How should I meet them?"

Lu Su sighed: "There are enemies on all sides in Jiangdong today. If he comes here with all his troops, there is no other way but to fight."

Suddenly there was a news report saying: "Yuan She led an army of [-] to Hefei, and pretended to be crossing the river."

Zhou Yu stared at the map hanging on the wall, and said in a deep voice, "It turned out exactly as I expected."

Veteran Huang Gai said: "There is no navy in the Northern Army, even if a hundred thousand soldiers come to attack, it's nothing serious, how can the commander-in-chief look like a big enemy?"

Cheng Pu also echoed: "What Gongfu said is true. If you fight against the outside world, you must first secure the inside. If you don't want the navy to patrol the river and stick to it, I will first gather superior forces to drive out the enemies in Kuaiji and Wujun, and then go back to fight the Northern Army in Yuzhou." On the river."

Lu Su said: "No, Wu Commandery and Kuaiji each have [-] enemy troops, and each has its own city, and they will not rush forward. How easy is it to suddenly conquer?"

"Besides, even though our army has won a small victory at this time, the situation is still very dangerous. If the enemy soldiers in Kuaiji attack Ma Xixiang, the Lord will be in danger!"

The situation with enemies on all sides made Zhou Yu helpless and fell silent for a long time.

He has never experienced such a thunderous and swift war, and he has no way to start.

There is no such case in history for reference.

It seems that in just a moment, Jiangdong's proud navy has become a decoration.

Huang Gai sighed: "If it's war or peace, the governor will give the order. If you hesitate any longer, Jiangdong is in danger."

Zhou Yu thought for a long time, and said, "For the present plan, I can only ask for help."

Lu Su said: "Where is the help?"

Zhou Yu pointed to the west: "Jingzhou Liu Biao!"

Hearing this, all the generals looked at each other in surprise.

Lu Su shook his head and said, "I, Jiangdong, and Liu Biao had a hatred of killing my father before, and later, a hatred of attacking the city and seizing the people. He wished that Jiangdong was in trouble, how could he be willing to help?"

Zhou Yu waved his hands and said: "That time, this time. Jing and Yang share the natural danger of the Yangtze River, and their lips and teeth depend on each other. If they don't exist today, where can they rely on their teeth? I would like to ask Zijing to go to Xiangyang, show his tongue to produce lotus flowers, and tell Liu Biao to come to help." .”

Hearing this, Lu Su said helplessly: "I should try my best. If they don't help me, what will happen?"

Zhou Yu stared fixedly at the map, and said in a deep voice: "If he doesn't help, then there is only one battle, report the kindness of the king and marquis, and report the support of Jiangdong's elders."

After the plan was completed, Lu Su took a speedboat upstream and rushed to Xiangyang at starry night.

Zhou Yu stationed troops on the east bank of the Yangtze River to observe the Northern Army's strength.

To this day, he still does not know how the Northern Army smuggled 20 soldiers and horses to Jiangdong.

This kind of unheard of tactics is really hard to deal with.

It made him feel powerless.

Zhou Yu had never seen a Lianfang warship that was 200 feet long and [-] feet wide and could accommodate [-] soldiers. In his knowledge, the largest warship was Jiangdong, which was ten feet long and five feet wide and could accommodate [-] soldiers. battleship.

In his cognition, as long as the Northern Army has the same warships as Jiangdong, it will definitely choose to fight on the water.

However, the northern army implemented a strategy of not fighting with Jiangdong's water army.

How effective is this strategy!
The way of war is to avoid the reality and embrace the imaginary...

Zhou Yu sighed. He still didn't have a comprehensive response plan. He could only resort to tactics. Coastal patrols were only passive and expedient measures he made.

As for the effect...

For the time being it works.

On the other hand, Qu Yi and others will occupy the entire county of Huiji, and after the local situation has been stabilized, according to Cheng Yuanzhi's order of "soldiers to attack later", a small part of the [-] soldiers and horses will be stationed in Kuaiji, and Sun Quan will be besieged in Nanchang with heavy troops. .

At the same time, in the deep ditch and high fortress outside the city, they made a posture of besieging the city and fighting for aid.

During this period, there were dozens of fierce battles with reinforcements from all over Jiangdong.

Thanks to the Xiaoyong of the Northern Army, the cavalry was good at fighting, and the losses of the two sides were about [-]-[-].

For more than a month, nearly 10 people died in battle outside Nanchang City. At a glance, there are many bones and blood everywhere in the wilderness.

The Northern Army lost about [-] to [-] in battle, and Sun Quan almost wiped out all the army in his hands, with a battle loss of about [-] to [-].

At this moment, apart from the [-] sailors, Sun Quan only had the [-] infantry in Zhou Yu's hands.

Fortunately, Qu Yi didn't besiege the city on all sides, what he did was the strategy of encircling three and missing one.

This prevented Sun Quan from panicking into despair.

Wanling City.

Zhou Yu didn't wait for Lu Su's return, but he received an emergency order from Sun Quan, ordering him to lead the whole army back to rescue Nanchang.

Hearing the news, Zhou Yu knew that his plan to confront Cheng Yuanzhi head-on had failed.

But this is not the worst news.

The [-] patrolling naval forces sent by Jiangdong saw that the situation was not good, and half of them decisively voted for Cheng Yuanzhi.

Seeing that the general situation was over, Zhou Yu immediately withdrew all the naval forces on the river, gathered all his troops, and rushed to Nanchang City to rescue Sun Quan before he set off to the south.

After Zhao Yun learned of Zhou Yu's withdrawal, he immediately divided his troops into eight groups to capture Wanling and the remaining counties of Danyang County.

At the same time, Qu Yi, who was besieging Nanchang, also divided his troops to attack the counties under the jurisdiction of Yuzhang County.

In addition to Nanchang, Yuhan, Poyang, Yunyang, Haihun, Liling, Chaisang, Pengze, Aixian, Jianchang, Jiancheng, Xingan, Yichun, Pingdu, Shiyang, Luling, Linru, Nancheng [-] counties including Yudu, Yudu, Ganxian and Nanye were occupied one by one.

By August of the tenth year of Jian'an, there were only three cities left in the territory belonging to Sun Quan in the four counties of Jiangdong.

When Zhou Yu approached Nanchang, he saw the sound of killing outside the city, and the city was on fire everywhere. Knowing that Sun Quan was in danger, he hurriedly ordered the whole army to cover up and enter the city.Connected with Sun Quan and protected Sun Quan from the south gate.

Qu Yi's army pursued closely, and most of Jiangdong's army died in this battle. Civil and military officials, family members, wives and children fell into the hands of the Northern Army.

Sun Quan led the remnants of his army to flee south to Luling City, where people called for help.But there was a drum sound on the city, and a general stood up with a flag, shouting: "I have been ordered by the Prime Minister to capture this city for a long time! Who is coming? We want to fight!"

Everyone was shocked. Seeing the "Gao" flag hanging high on the city, and not knowing which general of the Northern Army it was, they turned their horses and left.

Gao Gan led the army to hide and kill from behind for a while.Sun Quan broke off a lot of army horses and surrendered to the state at night.


(End of this chapter)