Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 127 As soon as I came to Xudu, Yingchuan was shocked
Jiangdong, Wu County, Dantu County.

At the end of last year, Sun Ce and Liu Biao fought for Yuzhang. Because of Zhang Xian's incident, Liu Biao was forced to withdraw his troops and Sun Ce occupied Yuzhang.

But in fact, his loss was not small, although in the process of chasing Huang Zu, Huang Zu was defeated.

But Liu Biao had a servant named Liu Pan, and he had a general named Huang Zhong who guarded You County together. Liu Pan attacked Yuzhang from You County and cooperated with Huang Zu's actions.

The so-called Congzi is the son of a cousin, with a slightly distant relationship, and basically not very popular with Liu Biao.

But this kid couldn't help but was more aggressive, so he attacked Huang Zu's rear while Sun Ce was chasing Huang Zu.

For this reason, Sun Ce had to retreat back, beat Liu Pan and Huang Zhong back, and sent Zhu Zhi to guard Haihun County, Jianchang County and other places, and then took Yuzhang County into his own hands.

By this time, Sun Ce's territory included the four Jiangdong counties, namely Danyang County, Wu County, Yuzhang County, and Kuaiji County in Yangzhou.

The sphere of influence is probably a part of Anhui, Jiangsu, and the entire territory of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian.

But in fact, due to the fact that there are many mountainous areas in Fujian and Jiangxi in the south of Zhejiang, they are all the lands of Shanyue indigenous people.The area occupied by Sun Ce is only the lower plain area on the south bank of the Yangtze River, which is the famous Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai free shipping area, and does not even occupy Jiujiang and Lujiang counties in Huainan.

Therefore, his strength is not particularly strong. At present, there are about [-] to [-] troops. The government is in Dantu County in Wu County. This is the Zhenjiang City of later generations.

At this time, Sun Ce was resting in the county mansion. Holding a document in his hand, he sat on the table and smiled at Zhou Yu beside him, "Shen Chen, I heard that he is a celebrity from Jingzhou. He invited me to hunt in Xudu."

Zhou Yu said with a smile: "I have heard of this person, and he is the most famous Confucian scholar in Jingzhou Shilin. I heard that he put forward the idea of ​​"integration of knowledge and action". I think it is very interesting. He has already "Knowledge and action are one", and Cao Cao killed his family, so he went north to seek revenge on Cao Cao."

Sun Ce said, "Gong Jin, what do you think?"

Zhou Yu pondered, "Now that Cao Cao is dealing with Yuan Shao in the north, of course I know what Shen Chen is thinking. It is nothing more than asking Bo Fu to lead the army to attract the attention of Cao Jun in the south. He is much closer to Nanyang than we are to Xu. Now that Yuan Shao has not gone south, once we send troops, Cao Cao may personally come and conquer us first."

Sun Ce nodded: "Cao Cao took the emperor to command the princes, and in just a few years, he has grown to this point. If I can capture Xudu and welcome the emperor to Jiangdong, I will be able to grasp the righteousness. Wherever the soldiers and horses go, I will wholeheartedly support you Welcome, father's great career will be accomplished, but it's a pity that it's not the time yet."

"Yes, the time for us to act is only after Cao Cao has already fought Yuan Shao. The reason why Shen Chen invited us to go north is to let us help share the pressure, so that he can attack Xudu. This kind of thing cannot be agreed."

Zhou Yu smiled.

In history, Sun Ce wanted to take advantage of the time when Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were fighting to attack Xudu and welcome Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty.

"Three Kingdoms Sun Ce Biography" records: "In the fifth year of Jian'an, Cao Gong and Yuan Shao refused to go to Guandu, and Ce Yin wanted to attack Xu. He welcomed the Emperor of Han, secretly ruled the army, and deployed all the generals. If he did not send out, he would be Xu, the prefect of Wujun. Killed by the tribute."

So at that time, Sun Ce's strategy was the same as Cao Cao's. He saw the benefits of "holding the emperor to command the princes", and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to abduct Liu Xie to Jiangdong to seize the righteousness of the Han Dynasty.

As a result, he was killed by Xu Gong's three disciples before he set off.

So why didn't he leave earlier?
Because the time has not come.

In February, the siege of Baima broke out. Cao Cao set off in March to break the siege of Baima, and then retreated to Guandu.

Yuan Shao, on the other hand, delayed his journey southward until August to confront Cao Cao at Guandu.

Although Sun Ce did not know that Yuan Shao would not go south until August, as long as he did not go south, it meant that if Sun Ce went north, Cao Cao would have enough time to deal with him.

Historically, this period lasted half a year. With Sun Ce's strength, let alone half a year, it is estimated that he would not be able to last for a month or two.

It's not that Sun Ce can't fight, but it's too far from Jiangdong to Xudu, and the supply line is long. Cao Cao doesn't need to take the initiative to attack him. If he builds a defense line in the northwest of Runan, he will retreat due to lack of food.

Therefore, Sun Ce had to wait until Yuan Shao had already gone south before attacking, so as to ensure that the first blow was sure to hit, and he rushed to Xudu for a long distance, and no one from Cao Jun came to stop him.

Now that Shen Chen invited him to attack Cao Cao's rear together, Sun Ce would certainly not go if he had not received definite news that Cao Yuan had already started the war.

"Then it doesn't matter."

Hearing Zhou Yu's words, Sun Ce threw the letter in his hand on the table and said, "It is said that Shen Chen is only fourteen or fifteen years old, a child with a yellow mouth, dare to order me to do things for him?"

But Zhou Yu thought about it: "That's not necessarily the case, I think, I still need to do him a little favor."

"Oh?"

Sun Ce wondered, "What does Gong Jin mean?"

Zhou Yu explained: "Shen Chen said in his letter that he is attacking Cao Hong in Ye County. Zhang Xiu has a deep hatred with Cao Cao. If Zhang Xiu joins the war, Cao Hong may not be able to hold it. At that time, Cao Cao will go south to help. Zhang Xiu and Cao Cao If Shen Chen is wiped out by Cao Cao, and the two of them are wiped out, Cao Cao's rear forces will come to guard us."

"That's it."

Sun Ce frowned.

What Zhou Yu said made sense.

Now Cao Cao's layout in the south is actually very empty.

Cao Hong is in Ye County, and Man Chong Li Tong is in Runan, and their strength is not very large.

His main deployments were in Guandu, Sili, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou, where most of Cao Cao's troops were separated.

Therefore, if Cao Cao went south to defend and eliminated Zhang Xiu and Shen Chen, then he would no longer need to defend Nanyang, and would instead join Man Chong Li Tong to defend against Sun Ce.

At that time, it will be more difficult to attack Xudu.

Thinking of this, Sun Ce murmured, "Then I'll send a small group of troops to the north to support Shen Chen?"

Zhou Yu shook his head, and said with a mysterious smile, "That's not necessary."

"That"

Sun Ce was puzzled. You said you wanted to help Shen Chen, but you didn't send troops. Are you planning to provide all support except help?

Zhou Yu said: "Bo Fuke carefully controlled the army, deployed the generals, and sent more scouts to Jiujiang and other places to go north. At the same time, he announced to the outside world that he would go north to attack Guangling. It is good to let the Cao army in Runan know on purpose."

Sun Ce thought about it carefully, and asked tentatively, "Could it be that Cao Cao was suspicious?"

"good."

Zhou Yu nodded and said: "The art of war lies in falsehood and truth. If it is too public, Cao Cao will definitely be on guard. If it is too secret, Cao Cao will be even more suspicious. At this time, if we keep secret, he will always be on guard against Jiangdong, but Shen Shen Chen is already attacking, and he defends against Shen Chen better than us. When Yuan Shao arrives, it's time for us to raise our troops."

"Ah."

Sun Ce thought it made sense, nodded and said, "Okay, let's do it this way."

At the moment, according to Zhou Yu's suggestion, Sun Ce began to secretly mobilize the team, and at the same time publicized to the outside world that he would go north to attack Guangling.

At that time, the prefect of Guangling was Chen Deng. Historically, Sun Ce did attack Chen Deng in Kuangqi City of Guangling, but in fact he did not go there, but sent his general Zhou Zhang there.

Doing this now obviously means building the plank road openly and keeping the warehouse in the dark.

Soon, Man Chong from Runan heard about this, and immediately sent someone north to inform Xun Yu of Xudu.

Xun Yu once sent someone to inform Man Chong and Li Tong to return to Fangye County, but at that time Runan was also in chaos, and Yuan Shao wanted to attack Cao in the south.

Cao Cao appointed Man Chong as the prefect of Runan, and cooperated with Li Tong, it took a lot of effort to pacify Runan, and now he is still in the area of ​​Langling'an City, far away.

So when Shen Chen broke Kunyang, Li Tong and Man Chong just got the news, so Man Chong asked Li Tong to lead troops north to Xudu.

And where is Shen Chen at this time?

He is going north.

Break Wuyang, rest in Kunyang for a day, and let Lou Fa lead 2000 people to supervise the transportation of grain and grass in the rear, occupy Kunyang city, guard the gate of Nanyang, and lead 3000 people from Huangmenting and 5000 from Ganning, a total of 8000 people , north to Xiangcheng.

It was already the end of March, and soon the beginning of April.

Cao Cao just got rid of Yan Liang and Wen Chou and returned to Guandu to set up defenses. Yuan Shao was preparing to go south. Liu Bei followed Wen Chou and was defeated by Cao Cao in Yanjin and returned to Yuan Shao.

At the same time, Sun Ce was announcing that he was going north to attack Chen Deng. Man Chong had just sent someone to report to Xudu, and Li Tong had just arrived in Liqiang County.

In just five days, Shen Chen first went north to feint to attack Xudu, and then went south to Poye County, Kunyang, and Wuyang, and fought back and forth for [-] kilometers, causing earth-shaking chaos in the hinterland of Yingchuan.

After Xia Houyuan was defeated in Xudu and fled back with difficulty, Xun Yu let him rest and ordered Li Dian to go out of the city to set up defenses.

At that time, Xudu was actually very small. Later generations of Xuchang people may have been to Prime Minister Cao’s Mansion. The four circled streets around Qingxu Street-West Street-Bei Street-Jifang Street were basically the ancient city of Xuchang at that time. , an area of ​​less than two square kilometers.

Now it is Liu Xie's palace residence, Cao Cao's Sikong residence, and later the prime minister's residence is here.

Later, the large city walls, streets, and ancient buildings in Caowei Ancient City in Xuchang City took more than ten years to have a large scale, including the moat, which was also dug later. Therefore, the current Xuchang Outer City is basically an undefended city.

If the enemy is allowed to enter the city, the damage and influence will be too great. Xun Yu believes that the enemy must not be allowed to approach Xudu, so he increased the defense.

Except for the guards at the gate of Liu Xie's palace who must stay behind to prevent those with ulterior motives like Dong Cheng from making trouble, basically as many troops as there are in the city can be mobilized. 5000 troops defended outside the city.

On April [-], Shen Chen had already passed Xiangcheng and entered Linying.

Because Linying was less than [-] miles away from Xudu, almost [-] kilometers away, and it could be reached within a day, so when the news reached Xudu, the whole Xudu was shaken.

The news cannot be concealed.

The enemy's scout outpost had even appeared outside the city of Xudu, so everyone from the emperor to the people was shocked.

For a while, Shen Chen's soldiers came to Xudu, shaking Yingchuan.

(End of this chapter)