Chapter 211 The unlucky Jiangdong soldiers
In the past few months, the fighting in Jingzhou has been in full swing, but there has been no commotion in Jiangdong.
This is mainly because Jiangdong needs to withdraw his troops back to Yangzhou first, and then reorganize his troops and divide them into two groups to attack Xuzhou and Shouchun.
Zhuge Liang didn't want to rely on Jiang Dong at first. After all, everything in his previous life had already fully proved one thing for him.
That is, Jiangdong's defense is extremely powerful, but Jiangdong is asked to send troops to contain it... There is a saying that success is insufficient and failure is more than failure. This sentence is very good!
At the end of November of the 13th year of Jian'an, Sun Quan's army finally took the lead in arriving outside Guangling, facing Zang Ba across the river who was also well prepared.
Zang Ba was stationed in Kuangqi City. Sun Quan's army heard the news and immediately sent troops there, intending to directly surround it and slowly attack it.
But this news was also well known to Zang Ba. When Zang Ba learned that Jiangdong's army was coming to invade, instead of following Chen Deng's example, he defended the city and waited for the opportunity.
Instead, a completely different method was used.
Zang Ba sent an order to his two generals, Wu Dun and Yin Li, to lead their boats and troops to Dongling Pavilion at starry night.
Then he personally sat in Guangling and waited until Sun Quan's troops arrived. He immediately sent out troops to meet the enemy and started a fierce fight with Sun Quan. At the same time, he lit the smoke in Guangling to signal Wu Dun and Yin Li who had already arrived at Dongling Pavilion.
When the two saw the smoke rising, they directly raised their troops to attack from the rear. They each took charge of the boat, forming a pincer attack with Zang Ba.
Under such circumstances, if Sun Quan immediately divided his forces with Cheng Pu, and each side took charge of one side, perhaps things would turn around.
But he happened to have the desire to command again, and this battle was under his command...
The large ship at the rear was unable to turn around and was covered by a hail of arrows. There were many dead, and the people who boarded the city to fight even made an emergency retreat and trampled on each other.
But on the shore, they are crowded with each other and unable to get on the boat....
In the end, Zang Ba killed thousands of Jiangdong soldiers at a very small cost, captured hundreds of warships, and forced Sun Quan to flee in embarrassment.
During this battle, Prime Minister Langya of Xuzhou and Zang Ba, who supervised the military in Xuzhou, truly became famous in Jiangzuo and were feared by people in Jiangdong.
Sun Quan, on the other hand, immediately chose to withdraw tens of miles after his defeat and stopped at Beigu Mountain, across the river from Xuzhou.
As a result, this was once again calculated by Zang Ba. At the beginning of the war, Zang Ba used the chaos to let Sun Kang and Sun Guan brothers out of the city, and first ambush them on Beigu Mountain.
When Sun Quan had just begun to give orders to set up camp, Sun Kang took advantage of the darkness and first used rocks to roll down the mountains to kill the enemy.
Following Sun Guan, he rushed down the mountain like a tiger and rushed into the Jiangdong Army. As the most powerful general in Zang Ba's army, Sun Yingzi had the bandit name in his early years.
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Sun Guan has always been the most courageous person in the army. In the chaos, Sun Guan ignored the danger and still fought bravely despite being hit by several arrows. He took the lead in tearing through the Jiangdong army formation and led the army to charge in.
The chaos under Sun Quan's command was completely unstoppable. In this battle, more than a thousand enemies were killed again, and more than half of Sun Quan's warships were damaged.
If it weren't for Sun Quan's horse, the Divine Horse, who knew how to carry Sun Quan and run away, I'm afraid Cheng Pu wouldn't even know how to take over the chaotic military formation.
After Sun Quan fled, Cheng Pu immediately joined Lu Meng and others to stabilize the position, but forced the two brothers Sun Kang and Sun Guan back.
However, after this battle, the morale of Sun Quan's soldiers was completely destroyed....
"Now, although the troops under Sun Quan have not evacuated, they can only be stationed in Beigu Mountain to Dantu Yiyi, and they dare not act rashly.
When Yong Chu arrived in Xuzhou, he happened to catch up with Zang Ba's grand celebration banquet, and Guangling was full of joy.
Yong was really greedy for wine at first, so he wrote a letter of congratulations to Zang Ba in the name of Geng He, and then had a meal, and by the way, he became the secretary of the Wen Secretary of Zang Ba's army..."
"Okay, I don't want to know what exactly happened to you in Xuzhou." Zhuge Liang quickly interrupted Jian Yong's words.
He doesn't want his good mood to deteriorate here....
"Sun Zhongmou is also the lord of Jiangdong after all. Does he not know the art of war at all?
At that time, his father Sun Wentai was called Jiangdong Tiger. He was the leader in the battle against Dong and was a world-famous general!
His elder brother, Sun Bofu, almost started from scratch and also conquered six counties in Jiangdong...
Is Sun Zhongmou the son of the Sun family?"
Huang Zhong on the side heard that Sun Quan almost wiped out his entire army in just one month... no, probably in two days.
This is simply unimaginable.
"What the old general said makes sense. Maybe Sun Quan also wants to prove that his bloodline is pure." Jian Yong deeply agreed with this, "It's just that after his troubles, it seems to be getting more and more impure..."
"That's enough!" Kong Ming interrupted Jian Yong's words, and then directly asked Zhou Buyi to bring the Yangzhou map in front of everyone, "I have already understood Sun Zhongmou's ability.
Although it's a bit embarrassing for him to look like this, but... it's not too surprising.
What Liang really values is Zhou Gongjin. If there is anyone in the world at this time who can lead Jiangdong's soldiers to fight against Cao's thieves, Zhou Gongjin is the only one.
Since Sun Zhongmou is attacking Guangling, then Zhou Gongjin must be attacking Shouchun?"
"Exactly, but he also lost..." Jian Yong was a little helpless, "Zhou Gongjin's speed may be faster than Sun Zhongmou.
But the one stationed in Shouchun was Dutinghou, a powerful general under Cao Cao, who was marching to conquer the south. Cao Ren was called the first general in the clan by Cao Mengde.
When Zhou Gongjin's army approached the city, he had already led his army to wait for a long time.
With his brave general Niu Jin as the vanguard, he personally led the rear army to charge into the unknown Jiangdong soldiers and horses, and almost killed Ling Tong, the mighty Jiangdong general.
However, Zhou Yu is indeed different from Sun Quan. After the forward's defeat, he immediately adjusted his approach and slowly tried to figure it out.
By now, all the city fortresses around Shouchun should have been cleared, and they are confronting Cao Ren under Shouchun City.
But it may not be easy to break through Shouchun..."
Zhuge Liang also secretly sighed. Today's situation is even far worse than that of Chibi. Although Cao Mengde suffered some losses, it was far from the stage of breaking out.
The most important thing is that there was no Chibi defeat. They had sufficient rear strength. Cao Ren did not need to be forced to retreat like in his previous life, and Zhou Gongjin did not have a morale advantage...
And even the Jingzhou battlefield is not optimistic.
The loss of soldiers and horses in a single round...The loss of their elite soldiers is more serious. The loss of Cao Mengde can be supplemented by mobilizing elite veterans from the rear.
But they can only continue to fill in the gaps.
The longer they delay, the greater their disadvantage...
Chapter completed!