Chapter 339: Throwing himself into a trap
“Sun Fu has left the city!?”
Zhou Yu was shocked when he heard this.
Just now Zhong Zhong made an explanation. Although Zhou Yu remained silent, he had been weighing it secretly in his heart.
The situation Hua Zhong said is consistent with the information he received.
If Hua Zhong was here to lie to himself, then this would be a bit too honest.
In addition, there are two very important factors that support Zhou Yu's choice to believe in Hua Zhong.
First, there are less than a thousand troops in Qiantang City. Even if they are deployed in full force, they will hardly pose a threat to Zhou Yu.
Second, there is no need or reason for the Hua family to work so hard for the Sun family.
Zhou Yu pondered for a moment and immediately ordered: "Please invite Captain Zhou and General Yu to come to discuss matters."
Soon, Zhou Bin and Yu Mi also rushed over. Hearing what Zhou Yu said, they felt a little excited.
"General, I humbly serve as a pioneer and open the way for the army!"
Zhou Bin did his duty and was the first to stand up and ask for military leave.
Although Wunan is a large plain, it already has some rolling hills. Coupled with the swamps, reed swamps and dense forests, it is not more difficult to ambush than in the Central Plains.
Therefore, the risk for Zhou Bin to ask Ying to be a pioneer is still extremely high.
But Zhou Bin is not afraid. He is not afraid of risks, only afraid of not having the chance to get ahead.
Zhou Yu was immediately overjoyed. The person he liked was also Zhou Bin, because Zhou Bin was not only smart, but also capable of fighting.
If the enemy attacks Zhou Bin directly, then Zhou Yu will have time to adjust and counterattack.
If the enemy leaves Zhou Bin alone and ambush Zhou Yu's headquarters, then Zhou Bin will have enough ability and strength to go back and forth to support the Chinese army.
This is something Yu Mi may not be able to do.
"Good!"
Zhou Yu praised loudly: "The captain is ambitious, and Yu is fully aware of it. In this case, he will take the captain as the vanguard, organize the army to cook, and set off as soon as dawn."
Zhou Bin responded to the order, immediately left the tent and went to organize the army.
Subsequently, Zhou Yu made arrangements: "General Yu, I will use you as the rear army to escort the headquarters' grain, grass and baggage without any loss."
Yu Mi immediately stood up to receive the order.
Finally, Zhou Yu said to Hua Zhong: "Please, Mr. Hua Zhong, please follow our Chinese army."
Hua Zhong didn't dare to refuse at all, so he nodded immediately.
As a result, the entire Zhou Yu camp began to move. The soldiers were awakened by the officers, and the camp began to light a fire for cooking.
At dawn, Zhou Bin's troops, who had finished eating, were the first to break camp and gallop towards Qiantang.
A quarter of an hour later, Zhou Yu's brother Zhou Dao and his son personally led two thousand elite members of the Zhou family to set off to pursue Zhou Dao.
Half an hour later, Zhou Yu personally led the army and set off.
Ahead Zhou Bin was galloping all the way and arrived at Qiantang City in just two hours.
What surprised Zhou Bin was that the Qiantang City Gate was wide open at this time. Although there were guards at the door, residents were allowed to come in and out, and it was as peaceful and peaceful as usual.
Zhou Bin was a little surprised and unsure of the situation.
His general Zhou Kan stepped forward and asked: "Master, what should we do?"
Although Zhou Bin had been promoted to captain by Liu Feng, his close confidant Bu Qu still used to call him the master of the family, and he couldn't change it for a while.
After watching for a while, Zhou Bin decisively ordered: "You lead two hundred people first and control the city gate. The rest of the people will wait for you to take over the city gate before entering the city."
Zhou Bin Bin's words were like asking Zhou Kan to take risks, but Zhou Kan agreed without hesitation.
“Yes, head of the family!”
Immediately, Zhou Kan pointed out two hundred people and drove straight towards the city gate.
After Zhou Kan and the others took action, Zhou Bin also moved with a large group of people, but the remaining 800 people did not continue to move forward, but stopped at a stone's throw away.
This place can not only respond to Zhou Kan, but also not be ambushed by the shooters on the city wall.
The people at the city gate began to become confused when they saw Zhou Kan's appearance.
Fortunately, there were dozens of guards at the city gate to appease them, allowing them to either enter the city or simply get out of the way, making way for Zhou Kan and the others.
After Zhou Kan arrived at the city gate, before he could ask any questions, dozens of gatekeepers came up to him with no weapons in their hands. The leader bowed to Zhou Kan: "But the warriors under General Zhengnan? Hua San, a member of the Xiahua family, was ordered by the family leader to welcome the imperial army here.”
Zhou Kan was overjoyed and asked: "Where is the head of your family? Are there any defenders in the city?"
Hua San respectfully replied: "The thief Sun had retreated from the west gate before dawn in the early morning. I am the only one in the city." Hundreds of members of the Hua family are maintaining order, and the head of the family is counting supplies in the county office in case the general asks. "
Zhou Kan nodded and winked at his deputy.
The deputy immediately led a hundred people and rushed into the city. No problem was found until they reached the tower.
The deputy stood on the tower and shouted down: "Marquis, there is no problem."
"Good!"
Zhou Kan immediately waved the flag and sent a letter to the back. When Zhou Bin saw it from a distance, he was overjoyed and rushed over immediately.
After receiving Zhou Kan's report, Zhou Bin asked Zhou Kan to take two hundred people to fetch Ximen. At the same time, he sent a messenger to report back to the main follow-up force, and he rushed to the county government with his own soldiers.
At this time, Hua Zheng was already waiting at the gate of the county government office.
After seeing Zhou Bin, Hua Zheng immediately bowed his hands and saluted, but was directly stopped by Zhou Bin: "Hua Gong, I am in charge of military affairs. I have no time to talk to you. I just want to ask how long Sun Fu has been there. Is it really coming out of the west gate? ”
Zhou Bin's behavior is actually very rude.
But Hua Zheng didn't pay attention at all. Instead, he nodded and said: "He must have gone out of the west gate. Zheng has sent people out from the west gate and south gate respectively to monitor. Those who went out from the south gate have returned. Others No troops were seen ten miles ahead, and there were no traces of large groups of people walking along the way. However, those who left the west gate did not return. They thought that Sun Fu must be heading to Yuhang."
"Hua Gong is a truly resourceful man. Yes."
Zhou Bin was overjoyed, don't underestimate Hua Zheng's operation, at least he bought the Zhengnan Army more than half an hour.
Zhou Bin immediately ordered the entire army to gather to the west of the city and come out from the west gate to pursue Sun Fu.
He, Zhou Bin, was the one who got the first prize, and he would not look down on someone from Qiantang County who just came to his door.
Afterwards, Zhou Bin bid farewell to Hua Zheng and continued to pursue him after leaving the west gate.
At this time, Taishi Ci in Yuhang City also received news that an army of a thousand people was heading towards Yuhang.
Taishici was very prudent and sent out all the scouts. Even the road to Qiantang was full of scouts.
Firstly, Wu Jing had just suffered a similar big loss, and secondly, Taishi Ci had more than 10,000 troops, so naturally he would not be as stretched as Wu Jing. Therefore, Taishi Ci's subordinates discovered Sun Fu's subordinates from a distance, and then passed the news back.
Taishici made a decision immediately. The opponent only had a thousand men. Although it was too late to set up an ambush, he gave the opponent a head-on blow. With the cavalry finishing, Taishi Ci was still very confident that he could eliminate most of the opponent.
In the past few times, Taishi Ci had been patient and stayed in charge of the overall situation.
This time Tai Shici felt itchy and unbearable, so he said to Xu Huang: "Gongming, I will go there in person this time, and I will leave it to you, Mingjun, and Kong Wen in Yuhang City."
< br>Xu Huang clasped his fists solemnly: "General, please rest assured, Huang is sure to keep Yuhang safe."
Xu Zhao and Gao Dai also stood up at the same time and saluted Taishi Ci: "We are determined to help General Xu guard the city, and there will be no mistakes."
Tai Shici nodded with satisfaction and immediately took all his troops with him. More than 600 cavalrymen, plus 4,000 elite troops from the headquarters, opened the east gate directly to meet Sun Fu.
Sun Fu, who was already surrounded by Taishi Ci and Zhou Bin, was unaware of it.
Even after receiving information from the rear guard that someone was following people out of the city, he sneered with some disdain and said: "There must be a spy of the Southern Army in Qiantang City. I just used a little trick to capture him. It can be seen that the Conquest of the South Army is nothing more than..."
Sun Fu wanted to boast, but just in the middle of the sentence, he suddenly remembered that his brother had already surrendered, so he quickly changed the subject and said: "...can't be underestimated either. , the generals still need to be cautious.”
Surrounded by the Sun family's cronies, although Sun Fu was a bit too crooked, everyone could guess the reason. They all said that the Conquering South Army was too cunning. Fortunately, General Sun was smart, otherwise the big guy would have been targeted. .
For a while, the atmosphere was quite good. Seeing that Yu Hang was more than twenty miles away, they would definitely arrive before it got dark, so everyone felt quite relaxed.
Even the defenders didn't pay much attention. Calculating their distance, they were at least twenty-five miles ahead of their opponents. Unless the Conquest Army had wings, it would be impossible to catch up with them.
In fact, although Sun Fu’s guess was wrong, the conclusion was correct.
At this time, even Zhou Bin's troops at the front were still more than ten miles away from Sun Fujun.
There is this error, firstly, because the advance speed of Zhou Bin's troops is indeed faster than that of Sun Fu, and secondly, Zhou Bin's troops did not march at the normal time as Sun Fu guessed, and their departure time was not even later than Sun Fu's. How many.
So I hurriedly and slowly caught up with Sun Fu for several miles.
But if there were no accidents, Zhou Bin would not be able to catch up with Sun Fu even if he ran to death, because Sun Fu would be able to reach Yuhang City tonight.
But we are always afraid of accidents. Didn’t Sun Fu also encounter an accident?
He never dreamed that Yuhang would be lost earlier and more thoroughly than Qiantang.
Even Wu Jing became a prisoner of Tai Shici.
After Taishi Ci left the city, he led the team and galloped all the way. After walking ten miles, he chose a battlefield.
On the right side of this battlefield is a small river. The water volume in the river is very small, only reaching the waist of an adult man, and the current is very slow, so people can swim across it.
But no matter what, this can be regarded as an obstacle, especially when you are wearing armor, it will be troublesome to get over.
Let alone iron armor, even leather armor is heavy, weighing at least ten kilograms. Once it falls into the water, it takes a lot of effort to get up.
If you don’t have the strength, you will naturally have to feed the fish.
On the left is a reed swamp. Taishi Ci sent people to explore it. It would be no problem to hide three hundred horses in it.
So, after resting for a quarter of an hour, Taishi Ci began to order the formation.
Three hundred riders hid in the reeds, and the other three hundred riders were placed in a small forest on the other side of the river to be responsible for harvesting. The remaining four thousand infantrymen were divided into four columns. Except for the thousand men in the front column who began to wear armor, the others ate dry food with clear water to replenish their strength.
Taishici originally thought about changing into Sun Jun's military uniform and playing a sneak attack, but after thinking about it carefully, he decided not to do it.
Taishi Ci and Xu Huang's subordinates were both from the Central Plains, and the expanded Yuan Shujun also spoke Jiangbei dialect, which was completely different from Wu Ruanyu. It was difficult to hide this from Sun Fujun.
If it’s just a sneak attack to seize the door, you can always find a few people who understand Wu dialect to talk to.
But now we are marching in the wilderness, this method is not very effective, it only makes people laugh.
Moreover, Taishi Ci is waiting for work at the moment, and he is prepared to fight but not prepared. He fights in formations, with more than 4,600 and less than 1,000 defeated. If he still loses, then Taishi Ci will really be ashamed to find him. A rope arranged itself.
After the thousands of people in the front row finished putting on their armor, they sat down again.
In the armor of the Han Dynasty, the breastplate was the most single piece, followed by the arms, then the skirt armor, and the smallest piece was the greaves.
Therefore, it is not difficult to sit down after putting on the armor, because Liu Feng does not have that much capital to equip them with lower body armor, and most of them only have one breastplate.
Only a few elites wear full-body leather armor.
After another full half hour, Sun Fujun's forward appeared on the opposite side.
Tai Shici immediately ordered the front camp to be made and the secondary troops to wear armor.
The first column, under the command of a captain and two military commanders, pressed towards Sun Fujun.
The second column also began to put on their armor, waiting for subsequent orders.
At this time, Sun Fujun's vanguard also saw the Zhengnan Army, but they did not understand the situation like the Zhengnan Army did.
The vanguard of Sun Fu's army fell into confusion, and for a while they couldn't guess who the army in front belonged to.
Soon, the news reached Sun Fu, and he was stunned for a while.
"Could it be that my uncle sent someone to pick us up?"
Sun Fu asked tentatively.
Calculating the time, it is possible that this army was sent by Wu Jing. After he left Qiantang, he sent several messengers to Yuhang to spread the news.
Calculating the distance, after Chuanqi arrived in Yuhang, Wu Jing immediately sent troops to meet him, so he happened to meet him here.
The generals were immediately overjoyed. It would be much safer if they met a supporting team.
At present, Sun Fu had just marched in a hurry. It was more than sixty miles from Qiantang to Yuhang. Sun Fu's army had traveled more than fifty miles. His physical strength was quite exhausted, and his combat strength was only 20 to 30% at most. Moreover, this time There were still many soldiers left behind.
If there is friendly escort, then everyone will feel more at ease.
Sun Fu is discussing here and wants to send someone to ask.
Taishici's side has already pressed forward, and now Zisunfu also sensed that something was wrong.
If it was a friendly army and there was no enemy chasing them, how could they form an armored formation to meet them?
"The enemy is attacking!"
After Sun Fu reacted, he immediately shouted: "The central army and the rear army are wearing armor, and the front army is in formation!"
Sun Fu's decision was actually the right one. Yes, he wanted to use the front army to buy time for the center and rear armies.
As long as the central and rear armies are arrayed in armor, even if the front army is destroyed by the enemy, it will still be able to get support from the two armies behind.
But the problem is that no matter which of the three armies in the front, middle and rear under Sun Fu's command, let alone the front army, even the three armies cannot withstand the Southern Army.
After the former army heard the order, the faces of the soldiers were almost pale, and all of them looked desperate.
(End of this chapter)