Chapter 184 Gan Xingba is here, Sun Ben will be captured before he can!
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lujiang County was located in Shu County, more than 200 miles northeast of Wancheng.
Due to its location in the center of Lujiang County, Shu County has long been a hot spot for political and military activities since the early Han Dynasty.
After Liu Xun took office, he moved the county administration southward to Wancheng, and after Yuan Shu's defeat, he took in his remaining troops and relatives. Since then, Wancheng has become the military and political center of the Lujiang area. Gu Zuyu's textual research on its geographical history says: "In ancient Shu, the Han Dynasty established Shu
The county was governed by Lujiang County, which was the reason of the Later Han Dynasty. When the Three Kingdoms were abolished, it was the territory of Shangjiang." What we call Lujiang City actually refers to Wancheng, where Lujiang was governed.
Liu Ye withdrew all the troops outside Lujiang and placed them in Lujiang City, also known as Wancheng, creating the illusion that defenses were lax.
At the same time, Liu Ye also secretly sent his men to Huangzu in Jiangxia to ask for help. Huangzu and Sun Ce had a grudge against killing their father, so they must have understood the meaning of death and coldness, and would definitely send troops to help.
But Liu Xun had no generals under his command, and when he went on an expedition, he took away almost all the generals who could fight.
Liu Ye had no generals available, so he had no choice but to ask Zhao Xue to come out of the mountain, temporarily put on armor, and suddenly became the number one fierce general under Liu Ye!
In September of the second year of Jian'an, Liu Xun led an army of 40,000, with Liu Kai as the vanguard, and marched westward through Pengze, crossed Haihun, and reached the outside of Shangliao City.
However, what caught Liu Xun off guard was that although Shangliao was small, it was a fortified city that was difficult to attack and easy to defend. For a moment, Liu Xun felt that he had no idea what to do. He was blocked by deep ditches and high walls from beginning to end.
Just when Liu Xun's troops were exhausted, Sun Ce, who pretended to send troops to respond to Liu Xun, took advantage of the situation and turned around and sent troops to sneak attack Lujiang!
Sun Ce's 20,000-strong army arrived at Lujiang County without any baggage and traveling lightly.
During the march to Lujiang, Sun Ce also assigned 8,000 troops to Han Dang and Zhu Zhi, ordering them to intercept the first half of the only way back to Pengcheng, hoping to block Liu Xun's return reinforcements.
Sun Ce brought a total of 25,000 soldiers on this trip.
After the eight thousand soldiers were separated, the remaining 17,000 soldiers and horses, led by Sun Ce, Ling Cao, and Zhou Tai, went straight to Wancheng, where Lujiang was governed.
Three days had passed since Sun Ce turned around and marched to Lujiang.
After entering Lujiang County, Sun Ce felt like he was in a deserted land.
But he didn't think there was anything wrong with this. After all, Liu Xun had fallen into his own plan of "driving the tiger away from the mountain", and all his troops went to attack Shangliao City.
Although there are still 10,000 defenders in Lujiang, according to reports from spies, most of the defenders are concentrated in the north to defend Xiahou Dun in Shouchun. Lujiang is empty and Wancheng is undefended. Now is the perfect time to attack Lujiang!
After a quick march, Sun Ce arrived at the foot of Wancheng.
There were only a thousand or so defenders on the city. When they saw Sun Ce's army attacking the city, they couldn't help but panic and turned around and ran away.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
"It's Sun Ce! It's Sun Ce, the little overlord of Jiangdong!"
"Sun Ce is here! He is going to die!"
Seeing that the defenders had no resistance, Sun Ce burst out laughing: "Liu Xun is a remnant of the puppet emperor Yuan Shu! Now I am going to capture General Sun Bofu and follow the emperor's order to attack Liu Xun! Why don't you open the city and surrender quickly?"
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"Kaicheng surrenders! Rao'er will not die!" Ling Cao shouted loudly.
The Jiangdong soldiers behind them also shouted,
"Kaicheng surrenders! Raoer will not die!"
The momentum must be strong and the attack must be ruthless.
While Sun Ce was shouting, he also ordered his generals to start attacking the city.
Zhou Tairen didn't say much and was the first to climb the city wall without saying a word.
The cold and ferocious-looking Zhou Tai appeared on the top of the city with a broadsword, frightening the last few defenders on the city wall to throw away their weapons and flee in panic. There was even a soldier who was so desperate to escape that he jumped directly from the stairs of the city wall several meters high.
I fell down and was knocked unconscious...
Seeing this, Zhou Tai became even more suspicious of fraud, so he led his soldiers straight to the city gate under the city wall.
Under the leadership of Zhou Tai, the soldiers who scaled the city wall quickly opened the city gate, and Sun Ce's army easily "broke" the gate of Wancheng.
Sun Ce outside the city saw Zhou Tai successfully opening the city gate.
Overjoyed in his heart, he raised his spear and pointed at Wancheng, shouting: "Brothers, rush with me, take down Wancheng, drink wine and eat meat!"
"Come on!"
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Ling Cao took the lead and led the troops into the city.
However, when Ling Cao entered the city, he immediately noticed something unusual, so he quickly ordered the soldiers who came behind him: "Everyone, stop advancing! Be alert!"
Sun Ce, who was half a step behind, came to Ling Cao and asked doubtfully: "Captain Ling, what's wrong?"
"General, the situation is not right, we may have been ambushed!" Ling Cao looked around and replied with a solemn expression.
Sun Ce was shocked when he heard this. He looked carefully and realized that there was not a single person walking around in the huge Wan City!
"No, I've fallen into a trap!" After Sun Ce realized what he was doing, he immediately ordered: "Back off, the rear team becomes the front team, and get out!"
However, at this moment,
A burst of war drums sounded in the city, and the archers who had already been ambushing the rooftops on both sides of the road immediately stood up and shot at Sun Ce and others with their bows and arrows!
"Whoosh!" Countless sounds broke through the air!
"Um!"
"ah!"
"ah!"
"Poof!"
Countless screams and the sound of arrows entering his body immediately intertwined together. Seeing the fierce rain of arrows, Sun Ce had no choice but to turn around and dance his spear tightly to cut off the rear of the army himself.
"Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding."
Some of the arrows were blocked by Sun Ce, but after all, there was only one little overlord, and the group of people who entered the city suffered heavy losses.
Fortunately, Ling Cao discovered it in time, and not many soldiers entered the city. At the cost of losing nearly a thousand men, Sun Ce and others finally withdrew from the city.
But Liu Ye and Zhao Xue had spent so much time planning, would they watch Sun Ce escape like this?
Of course it’s impossible!
Sun Ce, Ling Cao, Zhou Tai and others had just exited the city gate, when the military formation was in chaos.
"Dingle bell!"
A pleasant ringtone suddenly came from afar!
Sun Ce was still paying attention to whether there were pursuers coming out of the city, when Ling Cao beside him suddenly shouted: "General, be careful!"
"Poof!"
"Forehead......"
When Sun Ce turned his head, a stream of warm blood splashed onto his face.
Sun Ce looked at Ling Cao who was standing behind him and was stabbed in the heart by an arrow. His eyes were splitting. Then he roared: "Captain Ling! No!!!"
Ling Cao was a chivalrous and courageous man. When Sun Ce broke away from Yuan Shu and raised troops from Huainan, Ling Cao followed Sun Ce in his expeditions east and west.
In every battle, he often ranks first in the army and performs his duties as a vanguard. Due to his meritorious service, he is promoted to the rank of captain of the bandit-breaking school.
But Sun Ce would never have thought that such a sure-fire mission as attacking Lujiang would fall into the enemy's trap. Now he is watching his right-hand general being shot and killed by the enemy in order to save him!
"kill!"
Without any intention of giving Sun Ce time to breathe, a cold female voice came from the city, and the defenders who had been lying in wait for a long time rushed out under the leadership of Zhao Xue!
on the other side,
Liu Ye secretly sent reinforcements to Huang Zu, and led by a group of "weirdos" wearing brocade robes, bird feathers on their heads, and bells on their bodies, they came to outflank Sun Ce's army!
"Jinfan Ganxingba is here, if Sun Ben is not ready to capture him, how long will it take?"