Chapter 507: Sun Ce who is good at listening to opinions
Lu Kang was undoubtedly a smart man. He knew that by withdrawing from Ruxuwu, Lujiang would lose its support. Not only would the door be wide open, but this guarantee of non-aggression would become a piece of paper when the power was unbalanced. He simply did not believe that Sun Ce was like this.
A young general who had just made a difference would stop his progress and expansion. But with his son in their hands, Lu Kang had to take action. Lu Kang was also so smart that he reached the point of being willful, so that no one around him could remind him.
This person may not be too smart, but he must be able to stand up and remind Lu Kang at this time that the decision is correct. But there is no such person around Lu Kang, so Lu Kang thought again and again and chose to give up Ruxuwu
, to save his son's life. He is old and it is not easy to cultivate a son to become a talented person. At this time, he cannot bear the pain of losing his son.
In this way, Ruxuwu was occupied by Sun Ce without any resistance. By this time, Sun Ce had won the first battle. Except for Juchao, who was still under the control of Danyang, two-thirds of Chaohu County in Chaohu County was already in his hands.
Zhang Hong's plan was successful again, and Sun Ce was excitedly preparing for the battle on the Lujiang River in Ruxuwu. The Ruxuwu waterway is intricately tangled. After the joint management of Li Hu and Lu Jun in the past few years, it is no longer the slums it used to be. They are also working with limited resources.
The land was opened to open fields and the city was built, radiating to the surrounding area of hundreds of miles, and it was built as a county town. It can be used as a springboard directly into the Lujiang River, and can directly reach Anhui City through the waterway. This is an excellent strategic base, now Sun Ce
He felt that his luck was so good, everything was going so smoothly, Wancheng was waving to him, and it was just around the corner for him to occupy Yangzhou.
Sun Ce, Zhou Yu and other young generals hurriedly planned the schedule to attack Lujiang. At this time, Zhang Hong, Sun Jing and other older generations stood up and called for a stop. They asked Sun Ce not to be anxious and attack a large county like Lujiang.
, need to make sufficient preparations. Zhang Hong asked Sun Ce not to overestimate his current strength. He is still a newcomer who has only half a foot in Yangzhou.
At this time, Sun Ce did have some inflated self-confidence and a little arrogance. He did not take Zhang Hong's words seriously, thinking that Zhang Hong and others were stuck in the rules and were not as courageous as their young people and were timid in doing things.
How can this be a big deal?
Zhang Hong can understand the mentality of a young man like Sun Ce who is under twenty years old. He was also young and radical. He knew that Sun Ce at this stage really needed an experienced old man like him beside him.
Instructing him, Zhang Hong showed great patience at this time. He asked Sun Ce: "If you think you are ready to attack Lujiang, then what method are you going to use to attack Lujiang?"
Sun Ce replied confidently: "By water!"
Zhang Hong said: "Very good, do you have a ship now?"
Sun Ce frowned and replied: "Yes, I have more than a hundred ships now."
Zhang Hong smiled and took Sun Ce to see the various ships they had cobbled together, and asked Sun Ce: "Can a navy like this capture the city of Anhui with high walls and deep ditches? And..."
Zhang Hong listed Sun Ce's shortcomings in many aspects, including military affairs, food and grass, people's hearts, equipment, morale, etc., and told Sun Ce bluntly that you would not be able to win if he attacks Lujiang now.
Sun Ce looked at the miscellaneous ships and saw that they were not very decent. He had been to Wancheng many times. Such a big and strong city was not something that his new army could easily capture. Fifty thousand barbarian troops plus two of Zheng Bao
Despite the flanking attack, Wancheng was not captured. It is conceivable that his army, which was less than 40,000 in total and not well-equipped, was unlikely to capture Lujiang.
Although Sun Ce is arrogant, he is able to listen to well-intentioned opinions at critical moments. This is the difference between a winner and a loser. Sun Ce grasps this degree very well. He is very humble and very easy to understand.
This is what Zhang Hong admires about him very much.
After comprehensive consideration and detailed analysis, Sun Ce finally listened to Zhang Hong's opinions. He first set up camp in Ruxuwu, managed most of the hard-won Chao Lake, continued to provide food and grass, formulated a Chao Lake policy that stabilized people's hearts, and stepped up the training of his troops.
The new army asked him to familiarize himself with water warfare and prepare for the attack on Lujiang River.
Sun Ce, who had just calmed down and camped in Ruxuwu for a few days, soon received a battle report that Deng Ai in Danyang led an army to counterattack Shuicheng. Sun Ce hurriedly led his troops back, but Shuicheng was still in the hands of his subordinates.
The tallest three-story county palace in Shuicheng was burned down. Except for the slight damage to the thick city gate, everything else remained the same. It was still a city that was easy to defend and difficult to attack in the true sense. Besides, while Sun Ce was away, he still had heavy troops and left behind to guard Shuicheng.
Although Huang Gai and Deng Ai, the generals who were recovering from their injuries, planned to attack Shuicheng with 15,000 people, it was not easy to attack Shuicheng with real swords and real spears.
During this period of grief, anger and chaos, one thing moved Deng Ai very much. Zu Lang gave up the opportunity to evacuate with Qiao Xuan's family, and when he saw Li Hu's body, he took the initiative to ask to stay.
Although he was still a prisoner, Deng Ai saw that he was quite sincere, and with his performance in rescuing Qiao Xuan's family, Deng Ai felt that Zu Lang had no ill intentions. It was more because Li Hu, who was also a barbarian, was killed, which caused a certain amount of confusion.
He felt the same hatred towards the enemy.
Zu Lang and Li Hu are not of the same race, but during the rule of the Han Empire at that time, the Han people were absolutely dominant and were the first race in the social environment at that time. The barbarians had status and were even meritorious ministers who had made immortal contributions to the Han Empire.
, they are still inferior to the Han people in every way. Not to mention the barbarian people who are like ants. During the hundreds of years of Western Han and Eastern Han rule, the barbarians living on the land of China have been oppressed by the Han ruling class, and they have been resisting and suppressing them.
Continuously, so each barbarian tribe has a corresponding feeling of falling in love with each other. Seeing one party being betrayed, the other party will naturally feel sympathy.
Moved by Zu Lang, Deng Ai waited for 15,000 reinforcements from Zhou Cang, and then 5,000 soldiers from Pu Hu from Jing County. He gathered three generals, Zhou Cang, Pu Hu, and Zu Lang, to attack Shuicheng.
Fight back.
The water city is still indestructible. Due to the insufficient number of ships and other reasons, Deng Ai can only launch an offensive against the water city in turns and at multiple levels.
This was difficult for Deng Ai, who was commanding the battle independently for the first time. He was also a Confucian general in the true sense. He himself did not even understand martial arts, but this matter caught up with him and he had no choice but to bite the bullet.
Deng Ai followed the two masters Chen Wen and Cao Zhi in his life. He experienced a lot of wars and made many suggestions for these wars, but he never acted as a general and independently commanded a city-capture battle. It has a crazy meaning.
What's interesting is that this city originally belonged to them.
In fact, Cao's army in Danyang never actually captured Shuicheng. When they captured it from Zheng Bao, Zheng Bao was already dead and there were actually almost no defenders in the city. Li Dian, who was serving under Cao Zhi at the time, easily captured it.
Water City.
But at this time, Deng Ai was not so relaxed. Their army marched into Shuicheng in unison at the Juchao Chapter. Surprise attack and evasion were no longer possible.
At this time, Deng Ai's familiarity with the mountains, rivers and continents and his superhuman ability in geography were of little use in Shuicheng, because there was greater need to fight on the water here. Before Sun Ce could rush back, Deng Ai sent Zhou Cang
The first wave of attacks was launched on Shuicheng.
This first move made Deng Ai and Zhou Cang realize the difficulty of attacking Dashui City. Difficulties turned into difficulties. As Pu Hu and others arrived later, the land and water armies launched a furious attack on Shuicheng.
Danyang Cao's army came with fury, but half a month later their confidence was ruthlessly beaten and destroyed. It was too difficult to capture Shuicheng head-on with strength. With Sun Ce leading his troops back, this goal became even more difficult.
So tens of thousands of troops were invested on both sides, attacking and defending, and the fight lasted for half a month.
During this period, Deng Ai actively contacted Lu Kang and asked him to send troops from east to west to attack the unsteady Sun Ce for the common interests of both parties and annihilate him in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, Lu Kang ignored Deng Ai's suggestions and just watched from the other side.
The frame.
When Deng Ai failed to obtain military support from Lu Kang and saw the shortage of his own warships, he transferred warships to Lu Su in Moling and Jiang Qin and his subordinates who were familiar with water warfare. But coincidentally, at this time, Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou
The war of aggression also started at this time. They assigned a part of their troops to use Moling and Qu'a as springboards to cross the river and attack Xuzhou.
Under Cao Zhi's previous order to fully cooperate with Cao Cao in sending troops to Xuzhou, Lu Su and Du Yi had to deploy all warships and naval forces to help Cao Cao cross the river. This is why Lu Su rushed as quickly as possible after hearing about the fall of Shuicheng.
The reason why he rushed back to Wanling was to explain to Wanling military and political officials why he could not send a single soldier or ship to Chaohu; Cao Cao sent Cao Hong to bring some soldiers and horses, plus the 10,000 soldiers left by Cao Zhi in Moling and Qu'a.
Many water troops marched into Jiangling, Guangling and other places in Xuzhou. Cao Cao led the main force to drive directly from Yanzhou to Xuzhou. He also used troops in Moling and Qu'a of Danyang to attack Xuzhou at the same time. This was mainly to form a horn against Xuzhou and prevent Tao Qian from heading towards Yangzhou.
Break through, escape.
Cao Cao's perfect plan came at the wrong time, causing Lu Su to be unable to mobilize Moling and Qu'a's soldiers. This was also the main topic of ridicule for Mi Heng, but Lu Su really had no choice.
He even negotiated with Cao Cao and asked him to postpone the timetable for entering Xuzhou.
At this time, in Cao Cao's eyes, Sun Ce was far from being an important person who could stop his plan. When he heard that Sun Ce had used a trick to seize Shuicheng, he was just dumbfounded, and then he smiled and said: "That beauty-loving brat from the Sun family has become successful!"
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Then he disdainfully told Lu Su that it didn't matter. When he returned from conquering Xuzhou, he could crush this kid to death with two fingers. But now for such a small water city, he must not give up his long-prepared plan to invade Xuzhou.
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Cao Cao was able to say this to the young Lu Su because he heard Cao Zhi praise Lu Su for his outstanding performance in the battle of Qu'a, and saw how well he prepared for Cao Cao's army to cross the river, so he was extremely polite.