The Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms: The Evil God Arrives

Chapter 304 Zhou Yu: There is something wrong with the size of this fleet!
How could an old general like Cheng Pu, who had watched Sun Ce grow up, not see Sun Ce's current condition?

Ever since Sun Jian's death, Sun Ce has taken over the responsibility of the Sun family and everything has been going smoothly. This was also the case after Yuan Shu handed over the foundation to Sun Ce, because Zhou Yu helped him to block a lot of obstacles.

Until now, he was blocked from Shucheng by the Lu family. Coupled with his youth and vigor, how could Sun Ce not be furious?

Fortunately, Sun Ce had Zhou Yu, a steadier brother, to assist him, and Sun Ce was also able to listen to Zhou Yu's words, which prevented Sun Ce from showing his tyranny.

As a warrior with internal energy leaving his body, how could Sun Ce not have a tyrannical side?

Or you can put it this way, if you don’t have a violent side in your heart, how can you become a warrior?

With a sharp weapon in hand, the desire to kill arises naturally;
Cheng Pu and the other two watched Sun Ce grow up, so of course they could see that Sun Ce was in a bad mood at the moment.

In other words, Zhou Yu was still by Sun Ce's side, otherwise they would all suspect that Sun Ce would do something big.

They had all witnessed Zhou Yu's abilities with their own eyes, and even experienced them personally.

Therefore, since Zhou Yu spoke at this time, it proves that Zhou Yu has a way to capture Shucheng.

"Gongjin, if you have any brilliant ideas, just tell us and we will definitely help you get them done," Huang Gai said.

Although Huang Gai did not follow Zhou Yu and Sun Ce to destroy Huang Zu and capture Xiangyang like Cheng Pu in this life, he witnessed how Zhou Yu manipulated those aristocratic families.

He didn't think that his brain could compare to Zhou Yu's, and with the testimony of his elder brother Cheng Pu, he was willing to believe in Zhou Yu's military ability.

"It's not really a brilliant plan." Zhou Yu shook his head and continued, "I see that there are not enough soldiers in Shucheng. If the Lu family hadn't mobilized the people in the city, they might not have been able to hold out for many days."

"So I plan to divide our army into three parts. One part will attack the city, one part will make a feint attack during the day and harass the enemy at night, so that the enemy cannot rest, and the third part will rest in rotation with the first two parts."

"If we harass the enemy day and night, at most three days, they will be exhausted, and their combat effectiveness and morale will definitely drop to a freezing point. That will be the time for a general attack."

Zhou Yu calmly stated his plan, which was not very outstanding and could even be said to be a simple strategy.

However, no matter how simple it is, it is useful. If Shucheng was not short of soldiers and generals, Zhou Yu would not have used this strategy. He still had other ways to capture Shucheng.

For example, use a chariot crossbow to nail crossbow arrows on the city wall, and then find hundreds of elite soldiers with internal energy and agility to climb the city wall by stepping on these crossbow arrows nailed on the city wall.

In this world with extraordinary factors, as long as there is a foothold, soldiers who have mastered special skills are able to climb up the city wall in a very short time, and then occupy the city wall with the assistance of friendly arrows.

It’s not that Zhou Yu’s army didn’t have large equipment like chariot crossbows and bed crossbows. How could Sun Ce, who inherited Yuan Shu’s foundation, not have such things?

But now Zhou Yu wants to capture Shucheng with their own strength, although chariots and crossbows are also their strength.

However, Zhou Yu wanted those guys who were fanning the flames and trying to oust Sun Ce from power to realize that even without the help of powerful weapons, they could do similar things with their own strength.

Although this is somewhat putting the cart before the horse, it would be strange for Zhou Yu to look down upon the power of the princes in Jiangdong.

Jiangdong is not a concern. What really gives Zhou Yu a headache is the Shanyue. In addition to the aristocratic families who are very good at staying in the dark, there are also nearly one million Shanyue people in Jiangdong.

After taking over Yuan Shu's foundation, Sun Ce was able to mobilize hundreds of thousands of regular soldiers and tens of thousands of elite soldiers.

However, not to mention whether he can compete with Liu Bei, the big question is whether Sun Ce can fully control these legions.

Therefore, in order to quickly gather at least 70,000 to 80,000 veteran and strong soldiers for Sun Ce, Zhou Yu set his sights on the Shanyue people who were entrenched in the mountains of Jiangdong.

At least these Shanyue people do not have many traces of aristocratic families, and are exactly the source of troops that Sun Ce urgently needs.

The Shanyue people are extremely tough. Although their military discipline is not very good, they are indeed fearless in combat and have very good physical fitness. They are indeed an excellent source of soldiers.

However, even for a big man like Zhou Yu, attacking Shanyue would be a lot of trouble.

"In short, we need to quickly capture Shucheng, then sweep across Jiangdong and completely lay the foundation for our hegemony. Lord Yuan is still too troublesome." Zhou Yu complained a little about Yuan Shu.

“After we take over Jiangdong, we will be the people of Shanyue who live in the mountains.

Although these barbarians have poor military discipline and are not well educated, their physical fitness and combat effectiveness are very good. After being conquered, they are very suitable to be used as a source of soldiers.

We have to build an army that truly belongs to us, otherwise it will be a fantasy to truly take over Yuan Gong's foundation." Zhou Yu said solemnly.

This is also the main reason why Zhou Yu wanted to take over Jiangdong. Sun Ce really had no foundation in Yuzhou. Except for the more than one thousand old subordinates left by Sun Jian, the legions under Sun Ce were basically funded by Yuan Shu.

Although Zhou Yu didn't know why Yuan Shu handed over his foundation to his adopted son Sun Ce, it was impossible for Zhou Yu to ask Yuan Shu to clean up everything before handing it over to Sun Ce.

No one does that.

If this were to happen, not only Sun Ce, that shameless guy, but even Zhou Yu himself would not accept it.

"The people of Shanyue..." Huang Gai frowned. He had fought with those barbarians before and knew how strong they were.

Just as Zhou Yu said, apart from their poor military discipline and lack of education, the Shanyue tribe is almost a source of high-quality soldiers.

"But what should we do with Yan Baihu?" Huang Gai asked. If they wanted to completely subdue Shanyue, Yan Baihu could not be kept.

But if we get rid of Yan Baihu directly, it will be difficult to subdue the Shanyue tribes, after all, Yan Baihu is their leader.

"When I have free time, I will think of a way to make him die at the hands of the Shanyue tribe." Zhou Yu said casually.

Yan Baihu alone is not enough to make them take action personally. Zhou Yu has plenty of ways to make Yan Baihu die in the internal strife of the Shanyue tribe.

Over the next three days, Cheng Pu and the other two followed Zhou Yu's arrangement, each leading 3,000 men to attack the walls of Shucheng day and night.

Zhou Yu even relied on the large number of soldiers and generals on his side to harass the enemy at night, and ordered tens of thousands of auxiliary troops to form a formation ready to attack the city at any time.

This forced Lu Kang, a 70-year-old man, and a young man who was not very strong to work without rest for three days and three nights.

After Zhou Yu's actions, the morale of the people in Shucheng, who were originally united as one, was almost exhausted.

Lu Kang knew that this was Zhou Yu's strategy to tire out the troops, but Shucheng, where there were few soldiers and generals, could not relax, especially at night.

As long as Shucheng dares to relax, Sun Ce and his men will launch a fierce attack. They don't care whether it is day or night. After all, Sun Ce has many soldiers and generals, unlike Shucheng who can't even take turns to rest.

Early that morning, Sun Ce led his army to the outskirts of Shucheng again and launched a verbal attack on Lu Kang.

Unfortunately, Lu Kang was sleepy at the moment and didn't want to pay any attention to Sun Ce who was talking nonsense outside, which made Sun Ce very angry.

There was no other way, Sun Ce could only launch a monetary offensive, but Sun Ce still underestimated the strength of a noble family, and his soldiers were almost defeated by Lu Kang's monetary offensive.

Zhou Yu stepped forward and patted Sun Ce who had broken through the defense, and shouted to Lu Kang on the city wall: "Why did Governor Lu use our army's wealth to offer a reward to our army?"

Before Zhou Yu could finish, Lu Kang shouted, "Bullshit, what do you mean by your army's wealth? This is the wealth accumulated by my Lu family over the years. I can reward anyone I want!"

"Tsk, Lu Kang, I'm only respecting you because you're an old man.

With your experience, you should have realized that the battle has come to this point and you can no longer drag it on.

The Lu family's property? It won't be there after the city is broken. The Lu family's reputation? People are dying, so who would come to your Lu family to redeem it? "

Zhou Yu shook his head. He didn't want to bother with Lu Kang anymore. He turned to Sun Ce and said, "Bofu, attack the city."

"Follow me!" Sun Ce shouted loudly. Although there was no promise of money, the morale of the soldiers under his command soared and they followed Sun Ce and rushed forward.

Because they believed that after capturing Shucheng, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu would not let them down.

Sun Ce attacked the east gate, which was also the main battlefield, while Cheng Pu and the other two attacked the other three gates respectively.

Because in the past few days they chose to attack only one city gate, instead of attacking all four gates like today when Sun Ce's army was attacking.

Therefore, the soldiers at the other three gates were caught off guard by Cheng Pu and others. The entire city wall seemed to be crumbling, and the gate commanders hurriedly asked for help from the east gate where the most soldiers were stationed.

Unfortunately, regardless of whether Lu Kang at the South Gate could spare troops to provide support, Cheng Pu and others had already planned to lead their personal guards to attack the city wall.

"General Huang, Commander-in-Chief Zhou has ordered you to quickly defeat the guards on the city wall. The reinforcements from Shucheng have arrived!" Huang Gai, who was closest to the battlefield at the east gate, received the order from Zhou Yu.

"I understand." Huang Gai calmly took the order handed over by the messenger. Wasn't the reinforcement confirmed long ago? It was just that he didn't expect it to come so soon.

[I don't know who is coming, I hope it's not the Taishan Army.] Huang Gai said in his heart, and then quickly found Cheng Pu and Han Dang.

"The reinforcements from Shucheng have arrived. Gongjin ordered us to quickly defeat the guards of Shucheng." Huang Gai took out Zhou Yu's command arrow.

"We will lead our personal guards to attack from the north gate and take Shucheng in one fell swoop!" Cheng Pu said to Huang Gai and Han Dang.

"Okay!" Huang Gai and Han Dang responded, and then Han Dang threw the drumstick in his hand to a strong man next to him.

"After the three of us rush onto the city wall, you will beat the drums hard. It would be even better if we can find more drummers before we climb the city wall."

After Han Dang gave some instructions to the strong man, he quickly followed Cheng Pu and Huang Gai.

"Kill!" Cheng Pu, the leader of the three, rushed to the city wall first. With a swipe of his long sword, he swept away the guards near the ladders, clearing a space for the subsequent guards to land.

"Whoever kills Cheng Pu will be rewarded with a hundred gold coins!" When Lu Kang saw Cheng Pu who had already climbed up the city wall, his heart skipped a beat and he shouted hurriedly.

It was because of Lu Kang's loud shout that Cheng Pu and Huang Gai and Han Dang, who had already climbed onto the city wall, discovered Lu Kang.

"Lu Kang, die!" Huang Gai shouted, and with the help of his personal guards, he drew his bow and shot Lu Kang to the ground.

"Lu Kang is dead, why don't you surrender!" Cheng Pu was delighted when he saw Lu Kang falling to the ground, and then he shouted at the defenders on the city wall.

The guards on the city wall subconsciously looked towards Lu Kang, but sure enough, he could not see Lu Kang anymore.

This time, everyone turned to look at Lu Kang, but the guards panicked when they didn't see Lu Kang.

"Lu Kang is dead, why don't you surrender!" Han Dang shouted again, and at the same time, the guards around the three people also shouted: "Lu Kang is dead, why don't you surrender!"

Seeing that the situation was irreversible, Lu Jun decisively ordered his private soldiers to carry Lu Kang and himself to the city.

At the same time, when a dozen Lu family private soldiers carried Lu Kang and Lu Jun away, some of the Lu family private soldiers blocked the surging Sun Ce army.

"Report, enemy troops are pouring in from the North Gate and the West Gate, but there is no one at the South Gate." A blood-covered Lu family retainer shouted to Lu Jun.

"Go through the south gate!" Lu Jun ordered decisively, "Zhou Tai has been fed by our Lu family for so many years, now is the time for him to repay us."

"Listen to Ji Cai and go through the south gate! Go around Chaohu North and go to Xuzhou." Lu Kang coughed up a mouthful of blood and said to the hesitant retainer.

"None of the three families of Gu, Zhang and Zhu have come to support us until now. In this case, we will go north to find Liu Xuande.

And take Xun'er and Ji'er with you, and set fire to the Lu family. Sun Ce, don't even think about getting all the wealth of our Lu family." Lu Kang said with a pale face.

"Okay!" Lu Jun said without hesitation, "What about our Lu family's shipbuilding technology? Even if we rush to Chaohu Lake, I'm afraid we can only escape alone!"

What Lu Jun was worried about was what would happen to the Lu family's craftsmen after they escaped.

You know, the reason why Liu Bei and Chen Xi chose to cooperate with the Lu family was because of their technology and craftsmen.

If they went north empty-handed like this, they didn't know how Fenggao would treat their Lu family.

Lu Kang coughed a few times before saying to Lu Jun, "Let's escape first! Craftsmen have never been a problem. The only difference is their skill. As for the Lu family's shipbuilding technology, your father is still alive."

“Along the way, I will tell you everything I know. As long as you can memorize it all, it won’t be difficult for my Lu family to rise again.

As for those craftsmen, we will recruit them again after we settle down in Qingzhou. Sun Ce and Zhou Yu will not take action against them. "

Zhou Yu on the other side said, "They came really quickly. I didn't expect that it was the Qingzhou fleet.

But, isn't the fleet too small?" Zhou Yu frowned as he looked at the intelligence sent by the scout.

(End of this chapter)