Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2535 Zheng Zhilong was trapped in Zhu County, Zheng Chenggong plotted to save his father

Chapter 2531: Zheng Chenggong was trapped in Zhu County, Zheng Chenggong plotted to save his father

Lujiang has always been the focus of contention between Wu and Chu. For the land of the eight counties in the south of Lujiang, many wars have broken out between the two countries. The casualties are no less than [-], but no one can do anything about it.

This time, Sun Ce led the army to attack Chu. In less than half a month, he even captured the three fortified cities of Tongxiang, Juchao and Wanxian, and wiped out nearly half of the Lujiang defenders. This greatly inspired the military spirit of the Wu army. .

Relying on the high morale, Sun Ce decided to launch a blitzkrieg, and only led more than [-] elites to set off overnight to raid Xunyang without giving Guo Ziyi any chance to react.

Sun Ce was also worried about failure, so before taking action, he also consulted Sun Wu for some advice, and sent troops only after getting Sun Wu's approval.

The [-] troops acted together, and the movement was too loud, it was impossible to hide from the Chu army spies.

Guo Ziyi was also surprised when he received the report from the spies. He originally thought that the Wu army would rest for several days after the capture of Wan County. After all, the Wu army was also very tired after sieging the city for several days, but he did not expect Sun Ce to be so uneasy and common sense to play cards.

Sun Ce came too fast, the morale of the Chu army had not recovered, and Guo Ziyi was not ready to defend.

The army of more than [-] people in Guo Ziyi's hands is the last force of the Chu State in the Lujiang River. Once the entire army is wiped out, the eastern gate of the Chu State will be opened wide, and Sun Ce will effortlessly invade Jiangxia.

After thinking about it, Guo Ziyi decided to give up Xunyang before the Wu army arrived, and the whole army retreated into Qichun City in order to retain strength, and also had the idea of ​​​​inducing the enemy to go deeper.

After receiving the summons from Sima Yi, Guo Ziyi no longer doubted Sun Quan's intentions.

As the prefect of Lujiang, Sun Quan was in charge of the food supply for the [-] Wu army, and he was able to provide Guo Ziyi with a lot of classified information.

Even if the information leaked by Sun Quan is true, as long as Sun Ce's army of [-] is fighting steadily, Guo Ziyi, who only has more than [-] troops, can't help the opponent.

The only way Guo Ziyi can think of is to take the initiative to show weakness, and in the continuous retreat, to dispel Sun Ce's wariness of himself, and let him misestimate the strength of both sides, in order to achieve the purpose of lure the enemy deeper.

As long as Sun Ce is out of the main force, then Guo Ziyi's chance will come.

Guo Ziyi's move is not unremarkable, after all, even if he can achieve his goal of lure the enemy deeper, Sun Ce, as the general of the Wu army, will not necessarily lead the army in person.

If other generals came, then even if Guo Ziyi was able to ambush successfully, but he voluntarily abandoned the portal to the east, the price would be too high.

Moreover, even if Sun Ce did catch up, he might not continue to pursue him after occupying Xunyang, so Guo Ziyi's move was a big gamble.

The reason why Guo Ziyi dared to take such a big gamble is mainly because Sima Yi and Sun Quan gave him the courage to gamble.

He knew that Wu State sent troops to attack Chu this time mainly to pave the way for Sun Ce, so he bet that Sun Ce would not rely too much on Sun Wu in order to express himself, and would be eager to open up the situation.

It has to be said that Guo Ziyi has grasped Sun Ce's mind very well, so this time he made the right bet.

Sun Ce marched all night and finally arrived at Xunyang City, only to find that the gate of Xunyang City was wide open and it had become an empty city.

Faced with this piece of fat on his lips, Sun Ce naturally would not let it go. He occupied Xunyang City without a single soldier, and completely expelled the forces of Chu State from Lujiang County.

After the Chu State occupied the four cities in the southwest of Lujiang, in order to prevent them from being captured by the Wu State, they invested a lot in the four cities and turned them into military fortresses.

But now Wu State has recovered the four southwestern cities of Lujiang at a very small price, and the Chu army has been beaten almost without any strength to fight back.

This also made many generals in the Wu army arrogant and began to ignore the Chu army.

Sun Ce would naturally not make such a low-level mistake of underestimating the enemy. After all, it was not the first time that Wu and Chu had fought against each other.

Every time it was the State of Chu that Wu State took the initiative to attack, while the State of Chu was passively defending.

Every time, Wu State had the upper hand, while Chu State was passively beaten and forced.

But each time, it ended with the defeat of Wu State, while Chu State held on to its territory.

Sun Ce clearly knew how difficult the Chu army was, and also knew that a few small victories were of little significance, and only the real victory would be won at the end, so naturally he would not make such a low-level mistake of underestimating the enemy.

However, in this battle, Sun Ce felt the power of blitzkrieg for the first time.

This kind of tactics that ignores logistical supplies, rushes forward with one mind, and never stops until the enemy is defeated, is really too fascinating and too appetizing for him.

Taking the four cities so easily and expelling the Chu army from Lujiang gave Sun Ce the illusion that the eastern part of the Chu state was empty and Guo Ziyi was an incompetent generation.

"Liu Xiuying has always been very accurate in seeing people, but he rolled over on Guo Ziyi when he didn't want to." Sun Ce sneered in his heart.

At this time, Liu Xiu hadn't realized the mistake of employing people. Sun Ce naturally wanted to expand the results as much as possible and occupy more territory before Liu Xiu replaced Guo Ziyi.

Qichun is the east gate of Jingzhou. If this city is breached, the eastern part of Jingzhou will open its gate, and Jiangxia will wave to Wu.

So after a night of rest, Sun Ce left behind [-] defenders in Xunyang, and set off again for Qichun.

This time, Sun Ce not only did not discuss with Sun Wu, but also left Sun Wu's army behind. In his opinion, to deal with an incompetent Guo Ziyi, he did not need his uncle Sun Wu to take action.

When Sun Ce's army arrived in Qichun, the Chu army had already entered the city half a day in advance. Although various arrangements had been made, the preparations were still insufficient.

Sun Ce saw the loopholes in the city defense at a glance, and he personally led the elites to relieve the troubled army. Carrying the cloud ladder, he directly launched the siege. The three peak gods Lihu, Lilu, and Liyang also participated.

A god of war, three peak god generals, and an elite battalion, the outbreak of combat power is terrifying, even if there is no extra siege equipment, only relying on the ladder to attack the Qichun city tower.

After the two armies of Wu and Chu fought fiercely for two hours, Guo Ziyi ordered Wuzhiqi to withdraw from Qichun, and then the whole army retreated to Zhu County.

The Qichun defenders had not lost their fighting spirit, but Guo Ziyi took the initiative to withdraw?

This reaction fell into Sun Ce's eyes, and naturally it became Guo Ziyi's daring to fight to the death, a sign of cowardice and incompetence.

Although the Chu army suffered heavy losses and withdrew from Qichun, it was not defeated. It was the best time to pursue the victory.

However, it was already dark at this time, so Sun Ce could only temporarily stop and rest for a while.

Sun Ce dared to march at night, but did not dare to pursue at night, after all, the risk of doing so was too great.

Although Lian Zhan Lianjie made him a little over the top, after all, he has not lost his senses, and it is not a joke if he falls in the middle.

The next day, at dawn, Sun Ce led his army and set off again, heading straight for Zhu County, leaving behind [-] defenders for Qichun.

Sun Ce was also worried that he would encounter an ambush, so this time he marched in two directions, one led by Zheng Zhilong, and the other led by him himself.

The two armies have only one purpose, and that is to take advantage of Guo Ziyi's unsteady foothold to reach and capture Zhu County as quickly as possible.

Zheng Zhilong was implanted as a Jiangdong water bandit, and he ran rampant in the Jiangdong area for many years, and no one could do anything about him.

After the Yellow Turban Uprising, there were water bandits everywhere in the Jiangdong area. Among them, the problem of the water bandits was the most serious, and Zheng Zhilong was the most powerful family among the water bandits.

The major princes of Jiangdong sent troops to encircle and suppress them several times, but Fang Dufang was defeated by Zheng Zhilong, including Sun Jian.

At that time, Sun Jian personally led the army to suppress the bandits, but Zheng Zhilong was really cunning, and his ability in water warfare was quite good.

It was not until Sun Jian occupied Jiangdong and ordered Sun Wu to lead the army to clear the Jiangdong bandits, which completely wiped out Zheng Zhilong's forces, and Zheng Zhilong also surrendered to Soochow.

As the No. 1 green forest in Jiangdong, Zheng Zhilong's surrender not only added more than [-] elite sailors to Wu State, but also made bandits all over Wu State fearful and chose to take refuge in one after another.

Sun Jian was able to put down all the bandits in Jiangdong in a very short period of time because of Zheng Zhilong alone.

After Zheng Zhilong surrendered to Soochow, because of his excellent water warfare skills, he was also heavily used by Sun Jian, and this time he was transferred to Sun Ce's command.

Sun Ce divided the army into two routes, and after leading one route, Zheng Zhilong led the other route alone, which shows his status in Wu State.

After Zheng Zhilong separated from Sun Ce, he led a large army of [-] people, took a small road all the way to the west, and after two days and one night of rapid marching, finally arrived outside Zhuxian County.

Based on the number of sparse defenders on the tower, Zheng Zhilong judged that there should be no more than a thousand defenders in the tower, which means that the defeated army of the Chu army had not yet retreated to Zhu County, and was caught up by Sun Ce's army.

Zheng Zhilong didn't worry about Sun Ce either. After all, with the strength of Guo Ziyi's defeated army, it was impossible for him to be the opponent of Sun Ce's newly victorious army, so he ordered a siege.

Zhu County's defenders numbered less than a thousand in total, and it was not a fortified city, so naturally it could not withstand the onslaught of the seven thousand Wu army.

After three hours of storming, Zheng Chenggong, the son of Zheng Zhilong, beheaded the defenders of Zhu County, and the Chu army no longer had any will to fight and surrendered to the Wu army.

Zheng Zhilong was naturally overjoyed when he conquered Zhuxian County. After all, after Zhuxian County, there was Xiling City, where Jiangxia ruled. This was obviously a great achievement.

However, Zheng Chenggong's reaction was completely opposite to Zheng Zhilong's, with no joy at all.

"Sen'er, how come you have a somber expression after winning the battle?" Zheng Zhilong asked with a smile.

Zheng Chenggong said solemnly: "Father, something is wrong.

It stands to reason that even if he catches up with Guo Ziyi's defeated army, it has been so long, and the prince should have arrived in Zhu County. "

Zheng Zhilong was stunned for a moment, then frowned and said, "That's true, how much combat power can Guo Ziyi's defeated army have. It is impossible to block His Royal Highness for so long. Maybe there are other things that are delayed on the way."

"But father, not only the prince's army did not come, even Guo Ziyi's defeated army did not escape to Zhu County. This is simply unreasonable."

Hearing Zheng Chenggong's words, Zheng Zhilong's face changed greatly, and he said solemnly: "Sen'er, do you mean that the prince has encountered a strong enemy?"

Zheng Chenggong shook his head and said, "No, what my son means is that His Royal Highness may be subdued, and we fell into Guo Ziyi's trick to lure the enemy into the deep."

"But with Guo Ziyi's defeated army, how can he have the spare energy to set up an ambush? Even if he does set up an ambush, he can't deal with the prince's elite." Zheng Zhilong asked with a puzzled face.

As soon as the words fell, a soldier came to report: "Report, report to the general, there are a large number of Chu troops outside the city, I am afraid no less than tens of thousands of troops."

"what?"

Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong's father and son exclaimed at the same time, with shock and anxiety in their eyes, and immediately went up to the tower to investigate.

Sure enough, there were tens of thousands of Chu troops outside the city, and the banner of the King of Chu was still flying, which showed that Liu Xiu was outside the city.

"Father, we've been tricked." Zheng Chenggong said bitterly.

Zheng Zhilong nodded mutely, but he regretted that he didn't persuade Sun Ce not to be greedy for merit.

In his opinion, when Sun Ce continued to attack Qichun City after taking Xunyang, he should persuade Sun Ce to stop, but instead he supported Sun Ce, which is really inappropriate for a future member.

"Sen'er, what should we do now? Let's abandon the city and break through."

Zheng Zhilong asked, he knew that the situation on Sun Ce's side was definitely not good, but he couldn't protect himself now, and he couldn't care about Sun Ce.

After Zheng Chenggong heard his father's words, he said without thinking, "You must not break out of the encirclement, you will die if you leave the city."

"Then wait for help?"

Zheng Zhilong asked, but he had no confidence in his heart.

The leader of the Chu army outside the city of E County was none other than Liu Xiu, the king of Chu. Except for Sun Wu, there was no one in Wu who could fight against him.

Zheng Zhilong had also been defeated by Liu Xiu before, and naturally he did not think that his mere [-] defenders could defend E County, which was not very strong in defense, under the onslaught of Liu Xiu's [-]-[-] army.

Zheng Chenggong also knew that E County was no better than Xunyang and Qichun. Because it was located close to the hinterland of Jiangxia, it rarely experienced wars, and Chu State had not invested too much resources, so it was not a strong city.

It is impossible to hold on tight, but if you leave the city, you will surely die.

What should we do?

In this regard, Zheng Chenggong was also very anxious in his heart, but after a long time, his heart moved, and he muttered to himself: "Since you can't match, you can only outsmart."

　Sorry, this week is too busy. The author has worked four extra days in a row and didn't go home until [-] o'clock in the evening. He was too tired and didn't have the time to code, so he stopped working for so long.

　　I won't go out to play this weekend, and I won't say that I can add more and more, but I will definitely update it normally.

　　
　
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