The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 250 Zhou Yu Attacks Nanye, Qu Yi Shows His Majesty

The terrain of Nanye City is very special. It is located in the middle of the main road between two mountains and one valley. The east and west sides are surrounded by mountains, and the north and south are transparent. There are four city gates on the surface. In fact, there are only two gates in the north and south where soldiers can be used.

Since the south gate faces Jiaozhou, the city gate is open during the day and closed at night; while the north gate leads to the hinterland of Jiangdong and is usually not closed at night.

Before coming here, Zhou Yu not only found out the realities of Nanye City, but also the realities of Yuzhang County.

The garrison of Yuzhang County is Qu Yi. This man is very good at foot combat. He commands [-] infantrymen to guard Yuzhang. He also has [-] soldiers who died first. He is well-equipped and can be called the elite of the infantry.

At first, there were only 800 dead soldiers, but later it grew to [-].Its slogan "Either you die, or I die" fully demonstrates the combat effectiveness of Xiandeng dead soldiers.

Fortunately, Qu Yi is now in Nanchang, not in Nanye, and there are only three thousand defenders in Nanye City.

The bones are not too hard.

Even so, Zhou Yu had to carry out a sneak attack, because he didn't bring many elite soldiers, so he had to save some.

In this era, an ordinary farmer is far away from a veteran soldier.It is not simply to put down the hoe and pick up a knife and gun to become an elite soldier.

Ordinary farmers have to go through thousands of trainings, as well as the baptism of blood and fire, in order to become a real elite.

Because farmers are illiterate, if they want to become an elite soldier, able to follow orders and prohibitions, and advance and retreat in a controlled manner, it requires not only a lot of time, but also life.

Not all soldiers survive every life-and-death battle.

The gap between them is as big as the gap between the Yellow Turban Army and the regular imperial army.

During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the regular army of the Han Dynasty was usually one against ten. Lu Zhi with 15 regular troops was able to trap Zhang Jiao's [-] Yellow Turban troops in the city, making them unable to move at all: Cao Cao with [-] The soldiers can chase the [-] to [-] Yellow Turban troops and fight fiercely.

In fact, it was a bit sad to say that these [-] elite infantry were already Sun Quan's property, so Zhou Yu had to plan carefully to avoid any unnecessary casualties.

Although Sun Quan occupied Jiaozhou, the number of people under his rule was less than one million, and there were hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, and [-] of them were navy troops brought over from Jiangdong.

It's not that Zhou Yu doesn't want to train more soldiers, but that Jiaozhou can only raise so many soldiers.

Jiaozhou is located in a remote place with hot and dry seasons. Except for the aborigines, most of them are people from the Central Plains who fled the war and migrated. Their enthusiasm for joining the army is very low.

In three years, although Zhou Yu recruited more than 4 recruits and trained them into elites, the Northern Expedition could not count on them.

To regain Jiangdong, we can only rely on the five thousand veterans brought over from Jiangdong.

This is also the reason why more than 2 soldiers and horses were stationed in the distance, and only 5000 people crossed the mountains and ridges, and appeared in the woods outside the north gate by detour.

While the thoughts were turning, the moon passed through the sky, and the night became darker and darker.

Zhou Yu looked up at the sky, estimated the time, looked at Cheng Pu and Huang Gai, and waved his hand.

The two quickly rushed out with the soldiers.

……

After half a night of fierce fighting, when the sky was bright, the defeated soldiers of the northern army retreated from the north gate like a tide, dragging their flags and weapons backwards.

Seeing their disappearing figures, Zhou Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered the soldiers to appease the people, clean up the battlefield, rectify the city defenses, and prepare for the follow-up troops to enter the city.

He planned to use Nanye City as a base to gradually erode Yuzhang County, so as to finally recover Jiangdong and step into the Central Plains.

After seeing the soldiers clean up the corpses in the city, Zhou Yu went down the city wall and brought Cheng Pu and Huang Gai to the county government.A mature-looking middle-aged scribe has long been waiting here.

"Your officer has met the governor."

Yan Xing, the 36-year-old magistrate of Nanye County, bowed to Zhou Yu.


Zhou Yu nodded and said to him, "Let me ask you, under Yuan She's rule, how did the people in Jiangdong live, do you think about General Sun?"


The people he was asking about were not ordinary people, but about the attitudes of big and small families and landlords.

Yan Xing said without hesitation: "Governor, the people are looking forward to General Sun going north day and night."


"Oh?"

Zhou Yu frowned and asked, "What's the reason?"

He knows that Cheng Yuanzhi is very good at governing the people, which can be seen from the prosperity of Hebei and the Central Plains.

But he didn't expect that Jiangdong people's hearts would be so lost this time.

This is not reasonable!


Yan Xing said without even thinking about it: "The governor doesn't know something. After the Northern Army occupied Jiangdong, they divided the people into 'five categories of white' and 'five categories of black'. Those who confiscate their property and become civilians, the life of the common people...is really hard..."

Hearing this, Zhou Yu said in surprise, "What are the 'five black categories'?"

He has never heard of this term!

Yan Xing replied angrily: "Landlords, rich people, aristocratic families, opponents, and bad people. These five are collectively called the 'five black categories'. When dealing with the first two (landlords and rich people), it is usually said that they used to Funding General Sun's rebellion against the court, confiscation of all family property, and dismissal of servants; treatment of aristocratic families clearly stipulates that "children of aristocratic families cannot enter politics"; 'Reform through labor' in the north three thousand miles away."

Many novel vocabulary and unheard of policy strategies surprised Zhou Yu.

I wanted Yan Xing to explain it, but Yan Xing also had a half-knowledge, knowing it but not knowing why.

At this time, Cheng Pu said, "Great Governor, Fang is in chaos today, and the people of Jiangdong are in such a state of mind. It can be used. It seems that there is hope to recover Jiangdong!"


Zhou Yu frowned and fell into deep thought. He always felt that something was wrong, but limited by his experience, he thought about it for a long time, but he was still at a loss. He could only skip this point, and said instead :
"I expected that when Qu Yi learned that Nanye had fallen, he would raise a large army to attack. For the defense of the city, he would have to rely on the two old generals. Whether he can gain a firm foothold and recover our Jiangdong depends entirely on the next battle."

"Yes, Governor!"


Cheng Pu and Huang Gai took the lead and went down to prepare.

To be honest, Zhou Yu was very apprehensive and unsure about the siege warriors who were good at siege and fighting on foot.

To regain the four counties in Jiangdong, the popular support is only an aid, and in the end it is still necessary to rely on force to determine the outcome.

The current basic situation is that the enemy has [-] troops and ours has [-] troops. The enemy troops are extremely good at infantry combat and are good at attacking and defending cities.

And our army...

Although I am superior in intelligence and resourcefulness, most of the wars are not used by surprises. The normal war is "to win by coincidence and by surprise".

But if you can't even catch a single move head-on, and you are directly beaten and collapsed, there is no way to talk about winning by surprise.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yu raised his hand to screen Yan Xing away, sighed, and said to himself:
"The enemy is outnumbered and we are outnumbered, and our combat power is also different. Bo Fu, you have a spirit in heaven, please help me win this battle."

Qu Yi's troops came faster than expected.

On the third day after the fall of Nanye City, Qu Yi led [-] troops to the north gate.

However, they did not attack the city for several days, and only stationed outside the city, blocking the way for the soldiers and horses in the city to go north.

This made Zhou Yu feel a little strange, and the scouts sent out to explore the horses did not find anything unusual.


(End of this chapter)