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Chapter 526: War on all sides, the arrow is on the string

“Are they loaches?”

After chasing for nearly an incense stick of time, Xu Rong could not help but say angrily that he and two other first-rate generals had spent a whole incense stick of time chasing and killing the cavalry of a hundred people, but in the end they did not catch any one, and the enemy was still galloping on the battlefield without any scruples.

"Stop chasing them General, they are obviously avoiding us."

"Yes, they would rather not take action than avoid us. If this continues, we will suffer greatly."

Neither of them suggested continuing the pursuit. They were all veterans of the Sand City who had fought in many battles and climbed up step by step from being soldiers. Although this situation was rare, it was not new. Therefore, they both suggested that Xu Rong should not continue the pursuit.

Xu Rong's eyes were about to spit fire, but he also knew that continuing to drag on like this would only make things increasingly disadvantageous for them.

"Go kill the enemies as quickly as possible. Compete with them to see who can kill faster!"

Following Xu Rong's order, the two first-rate generals behind him rushed into the battlefield without any hesitation and started a frenzied killing on the battlefield. The Bai Ling Guards didn't care at all. After they found that Xu Rong was not chasing him, they turned around and launched a large-scale killing of the cavalry under Xu Rong.

The two sides seemed to have started a competition to see who could kill faster.

Sun Quan was on the city wall, looking at the battlefield with indifferent eyes, his hands clasped together, his thumbs turning back and forth, and it was unknown what he was thinking about.

After Bai Lingwei joined the battlefield, the combat power of both sides reached a strange balance. This balance was formed by the cavalry under Sun Quan, the cavalry under Xu Rong, Bai Lingwei, and Xu Rong. The four sides were like a pyramid, with combat power from high to low, and the consumption rate of soldiers on both sides was almost the same.

Sun Quan suddenly turned his head, looked into the distance, and then sneered.

"Okay, that's it."

Sun Quan's voice was so soft that no one nearby could hear it.

But soon after he finished speaking, the 10,000-man sailor army finally joined the battlefield as infantry.

Xu Rong noticed this troop as soon as it appeared, but he did not seem nervous at all. No, it should be said that there was no change at all.

As the sailors wielded swords and shields and began to charge, getting closer and closer to the battlefield, a smile appeared on Sun Quan's face.

"Hahahaha, if Zhang Liao is to die, you are to die too. I will annihilate both of your armies at once. Hahahaha."

Sun Quan laughed crazily. If he killed Zhang Liao, he would be able to get rid of his inner demons and destroy the army in front of him. He would also be able to demonstrate his abilities in front of Sun Jian. Thinking of this, Sun Quan laughed even more happily.

But his smile soon froze on his face, because a troop that appeared out of nowhere suddenly blocked the sailors and the battlefield. That troop had only more than 3,000 people, and everyone was wearing heavy armor and holding a big sword, and they stood in front of the 10,000 sailors.

"kill!"

The commander of the White Tiger Sun-Eating Guard roared, raised the sword in his hand, and started to charge first. The two sailor commanders who were in the front also held swords and shields and met the commander of the White Tiger Sun-Eating Guard.

The commander was fighting one against two and slashed at one of them with his sword. The man naturally raised his shield to block, but the commander's powerful sword slashed into the shield, leaving a huge scar on the wooden shield.

The huge force directly knocked the man away, causing him to fall heavily to the ground and then start vomiting blood.

The other person looked at the scene in front of him in a daze. He and the fallen man were both second-rate generals. If he could chop him down with one sword, then the other party should at least be a first-rate general. When the other person heard a whistling sound in his ears, it was too late to dodge. A cold light flashed and a head flew up.

As the man who had just fallen stood up, the commander attacked him again. After a few moves between the two, another body fell to the ground.

More than 3,000 people stood in front of 10,000 sailors and successfully blocked them, preventing the sailors from advancing an inch, and there was even a sign that they were about to be repelled.

There was no surprise on Xu Rong's face. They were supposed to be here with Wei Yan, but halfway through the journey, Wei Yan temporarily turned back to Jiangxia County City, so the White Tiger Sun-Devouring Guard replaced Wei Yan's original team and went to Wu County together.

Just now, the White Tiger Sun-Devouring Guard had been hiding in the dark, waiting until the sailors went into battle, and then the White Tiger Sun-Devouring Guard also joined the battlefield.

Although the White Tiger Sun-Devouring Guards only have the basic attributes of a top third-rate general, they are a special type of soldier with more than 3,000 attributes of a top third-rate general and they also enjoy high attribute bonuses from Gu Rubing and his subordinates. The impact they can produce on this battlefield is even stronger than that of an ordinary cavalry army of 10,000 people.

Even to stop those ten thousand sailors, there was no need for so many White Tiger Sun-Devouring Guards. Only two thousand five hundred White Tiger Sun-Devouring Guards were needed to easily stop them. The remaining nearly one thousand White Tiger Sun-Devouring Guards even came to the cavalry's battlefield and started a fierce battle with infantry against cavalry.

In one night, fighting broke out on four battlefields at the same time, even more than during the day.

At Tiger Leaping Gorge in Wu County, Yangzhou, Zhang Liao led 3,300 cavalrymen to fight against Lu Xun's 10,000 cavalrymen. The cavalry formation killed people on all sides. More than 4,000 of Lu Xun's men had died in the battle, but they had not yet rushed into Tiger Leaping Gorge.

In the county city of Wujun, Sun Quan, with his 11,000 cavalry, 10,000 sailors and Hundred Feathered Guards, fought against Xu Rong's 10,000 cavalry and 3,400 White Tiger Sun-Devouring Guards. Except for the Hundred Feathered Guards who were a bit of a headache, the others did not pose any threat.

In the battlefield northeast of Nanjun County, Jingzhou, Ma Chao, Zhang He, and Taishi Ci, three famous generals, are fighting against Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, and Xu Chu. Ma Chao seriously injured Xiahou Yuan at the cost of his own injury, and is fighting with Xiahou Dun. Zhang He and Taishi Ci are fighting against Cao Ren, Xu Chu, and two quasi-famous generals. In addition, Zang Ba and his three men are fighting against the other four quasi-famous generals. Although they are defeated, they can barely resist them under the battle formation. The 250,000-man army is fighting against Cao Cao's 380,000-man army.

On the battlefield west of Nanjun County, an army of 100,000 fought against an army of 150,000 from Yizhou. Pang De was promoted to a famous general in the battle with Zhang Ren. Zhang Ren no longer hid his weakness and used his signature double-edged spear, and Pang De was gradually defeated.

Gu Rubing had a firm advantage in the battlefields around and in Yangzhou, and both Sun Quan and Lu Xun were facing a situation where they had no support. If Sun Jian wanted to rush back to Wujun from Jiangxia, it would take at least four or even five hours even if the cavalry marched quickly. At that time, Sun Quan took Bailingwei and several first-class generals to take a shortcut, and it took them four and a half hours to rush back.

This can only be done at any cost. If they march normally, it would take them a whole day to barely get back. But by then, Wujun might have been conquered, so there would be no point in rushing back. Moreover, Sun Jian had no intention of retreating. He knew very well that it was too late to rush back now, so it would be better to fight a vigorous battle.

Gu Rubing had the same idea. He planned to take Zhang Fei, Wei Yan and the remaining cavalry to Nanjun to fight a decisive battle with Cao Cao in Nanjun. Since Cao Cao didn't know that he had already dealt with Sun Jian and had time to spare, Gu Rubing planned to take advantage of the information gap again and catch him off guard.

At this moment, in the Sun army camp, Zhou Yu, Gan Ning, Huang Gai, and Cheng Pu, four famous generals were sitting in Zhou Yu's tent. Three of them witnessed what Sun Jian did, and Gan Ning also learned the truth from Zhou Yu's description.

The four of them had been silent for a long time, and no one knew what to say.

On the other side was a large tent where Sun Jian was sitting alone. Next to Sun Jian sat a burly man who was constantly rubbing his neck.

"Father, when Dian Wei saw that I was no match for him, he immediately turned and ran away. Is it necessary to continue cooperating with such a person?"

Those people were actually Sun Jian. He now felt as if his neck was broken. He knew that he had been unconscious for several hours. He had been dreaming during these hours. In the dream, he had his neck broken repeatedly and then came back to life.

Now that I think about it, maybe it was twisted when I was unconscious.

Sun Jian noticed Sun Ce twisting his neck and hesitated for a moment, but still did not tell Sun Ce how Zhang Fei had abused him. After all, such a fact was really hurtful to his self-esteem.

His second son was tortured so badly by Zhang Liao that he had to find a way to help him overcome his inner demons. Sun Jian didn't want his eldest son to repeat the same mistake as the second son.

Retracting his thoughts, Sun Jian looked at Sun Ce seriously.

"Bo Fu, the current situation is such that we can no longer form an alliance just because we want to. At this point, we must form an alliance, otherwise, we will be the first to be destroyed."

"Why? The relationship between us and Liu Bei is far less bad than the relationship between Cao Cao and Liu Bei. If we don't form an alliance, Liu Bei should fight Cao Cao first no matter what."

Sun Ce asked with some confusion, he really didn't understand what Sun Jian said.

If we don't count the friction caused by the two major wars with Liu Bei, then their feud with Liu Bei would only remain in Xuzhou. However, the two sides only fought over Xuzhou and there has never been a large-scale full-scale war. After forming an alliance with Cao Cao, they launched two wars involving the entire Central Plains in a short period of time.

Needless to say, the result of the first war was that they not only lost a huge amount of manpower and wasted a huge amount of financial resources, but they even gave up half of Yuzhang County as compensation in exchange for Liu Bei's withdrawal. On the other hand, Cao Cao not only suffered no loss of manpower, but even used the opponent's force to kill all the foreign tribes in the Western Regions. He also took advantage of the situation to collect all the gold, silver, treasures, jewelry and jade in the Western Regions.

The same thing happened this time. Putting aside the fact that Dian Wei abandoned him and left, Cao Cao asked them to be responsible for attacking Jiangxia County, and they also had to face harassment from Xuzhou. He was free and let Yizhou attack Nanjun, and he reaped the benefits.

In this situation, he felt that there was really no need to continue the cooperation.

But Sun Jian dispelled his doubts with just eight words.

"The arrow is on the string and must be shot!"

After hearing these eight words, Sun Ce remained silent. Yes, the arrow was already on the string and had to be shot. If the alliance was cancelled at this time, Jiangdong, the weakest of the three major princes, would definitely become the target of public criticism.

Liu Bei would want to destroy them, because that way he would no longer be attacked from both sides. For Liu Bei, there would be only benefits and no disadvantages. Moreover, with Liu Bei's current strength, he probably wouldn't need to use all his strength to destroy Jiangdong. After all, the battle in Jiangxia County is a good example.

Cao Cao would also regard Sun Jian as a thorn in his side, and would wish to eat him up so as to enhance his own strength and allow him and Liu Bei to form a balance of power between the north and the south.

In other words, once the alliance is dissolved, there is a high possibility that they will be attacked by everyone, so now being able to form an alliance with Cao Cao and contain Liu Bei has become their best option.

Sun Ce was not convinced and wanted to say something else, but Sun Jian's next words dispelled his thoughts.

"Even if we can't cancel the alliance, this matter will never be let go. Don't worry, your father will definitely not let you suffer any injustice."

This sentence is just like telling Sun Ce directly that we can't afford to offend anyone.

Sun Ce sighed slightly. He knew that this matter would end up in nothing.

When he raised his head and wanted to discuss the next matters with Sun Jian, he suddenly found that Sun Jian had his eyes closed and his Adam's apple moved.

He stopped the words that were about to come out of his mouth. He knew about the voice-transmitting Gu, and he had one in his throat. However, he had no chance to transmit information on the battlefield, so he missed the opportunity to pass on information to Sun Jian.

It can only be said that everything was too coincidental. Due to a series of unexpected circumstances, the situation that originally seemed to have them secure victory began to gradually become unbalanced, and the balance of victory began to tip towards Liu Bei.

Cao Cao, who was thousands of miles away, was frowning at this moment.

According to Sun Jian, Dian Wei abandoned Sun Ce and returned to Yizhou, so he should have been seen by now. However, Dian Wei has not appeared here yet, which makes Cao Cao worried.

The only people who can threaten Dian Wei in this world right now are probably Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Coincidentally, according to what Sun Jian said, Zhang Fei is by Liu Bei's side, so where is Guan Yu? Is there any need to say more? The answer is obvious. Guan Yu is now chasing Dian Wei. If he can hold Dian Wei for so long, then Dian Wei is very likely to have already...

Thinking of this, Cao Cao didn't dare to think any further. Sun Jian had Huang Zhong, whom Liu Bei cared about, so he could use Huang Zhong's life to exchange for Sun Ce's life. But what if Dian Wei was captured alive by Guan Yu? What bargaining chips could he use to save Dian Wei's life?
If there was no Dian Wei, how would he cope with this war for supremacy?
"Capture the city of Nanjun at all costs and capture the enemy general alive!"

(End of this chapter)