Chapter 304 Zhou Yu: There is something wrong with the size of this fleet!
How could a veteran like Cheng Pu, who had watched Sun Ce grow up, fail to see Sun Ce's current state?
Since Sun Jian died, Sun Ce took over the responsibilities of the Sun family, and it has always been smooth sailing. Even after Yuan Shu handed over the foundation to Sun Ce, it was the same, because Zhou Yu helped him block too much. .
Until now, he has been blocked from Shucheng by the Lu family. In addition, he is young and energetic. How could Sun Ce's anger not rise sharply?
However, fortunately, Sun Ce had Zhou Yu, a sworn brother who was too stable, to assist him. Sun Ce could also listen to Zhou Yu's words, which prevented Sun Ce's tyranny from being revealed.
As a warrior whose inner energy has left his body, how could Sun Ce not have a violent side?
In other words, you don’t have a violent side in your heart, how can you become a warrior?
Having weapons in hand, murderous intentions arose;
Cheng Pu and the other three had watched Sun Ce grow up, and of course they could tell that Sun Ce was in a very bad mood at this time.
That is, Zhou Yu is still with Sun Ce, otherwise they all suspect that Sun Ce will do a lot of tricks.
As for Zhou Yu's ability, they have all witnessed it with their own eyes and even experienced it personally.
So, now that Zhou Yu has spoken, it proves that Zhou Yu has a way to capture Shu City.
"Gong Jin, if you have any strange plans, just tell me, and we will definitely take care of it for you." Huang Gai said aloud.
Although Huang Gai did not follow Zhou Yu and Sun Ce to destroy Huang Zu and destroy Xiangyang like Cheng Pu in this life, he had witnessed how Zhou Yu manipulated those noble families.
He didn't think his brain could compare with Zhou Yu's, not to mention that with the testimony of his big brother Cheng Pu, he was willing to believe in Zhou Yu's military ability.
"It's not really a clever plan." Zhou Yu shook his head and continued: "I think there are not enough soldiers in Shu City. If the Lu family hadn't mobilized the people in the city, they might not have been able to last for many days."
"So I plan to divide our army into three parts, one to attack the city, one to feint attack during the day and harass the enemy at night so that the enemy cannot rest, and the third part will take turns resting with the first two."
"If we harass the enemy day and night, it will take at most three days. After the opponent is exhausted, the combat effectiveness and morale will definitely drop to a freezing point, and then it will be the time of the general attack."
Zhou Yu looked plain. He told me his plan, which was not very good, it could even be said to be a simple plan.
However, keep it simple, as long as it works. If it weren't for the shortage of soldiers in Shu City, Zhou Yu would not have used this strategy. He still had other ways to capture Shu City.
For example, a crossbow was used to nail the crossbow arrows to the city wall, and then hundreds of elite soldiers with internal energy and agility were used to climb up the city wall by stepping on these crossbow arrows nailed to the city wall.
In this world with extraordinary factors, as long as there is a foothold, those soldiers who have mastered special skills can scale the city wall in a very short time, and then occupy the city wall with the help of friendly arrows.
It's not that Zhou Yu's army did not have large equipment such as chariots, crossbows, and crossbows. How could Sun Ce, who had accepted Yuan Shu's foundation, not have such things.
It’s just that now Zhou Yu wants to capture Shucheng through their own strength, although chariots and crossbows are also their strength.
However, Zhou Yu wanted those guys who fanned the flames and wanted to oust Sun Ce to realize that even without the help of sharp weapons, they could do similar things with their own strength alone.
Although this is putting the cart before the horse, it is surprising that Zhou Yu can understand the power of the princes in Jiangdong.
Jiangdong is nothing to worry about. What really gives Zhou Yu a headache is Shanyue. In addition to the aristocratic families who know how to squat in their nests, Jiangdong has nearly a million Shanyue people.
After taking over Yuan Shu's foundation, Sun Ce was able to recruit hundreds of thousands of regular soldiers and tens of thousands of elite soldiers.
However, let alone whether he can compete with Liu Bei, it is a big question whether Sun Ce can fully control these legions.
So in order to quickly accumulate at least 70,000 to 80,000 veteran soldiers for Sun Ce, Zhou Yu focused on the people of Shanyue who were entrenched in the mountains of Jiangdong.
At least these people in Shanyue didn't have many traces of aristocratic families, and they were the source of soldiers that Sun Ce desperately needed.
The folk customs of the people of Shanyue are extremely tough. Although their military discipline is not very good, they are indeed brave and fearless in fighting, and their physical fitness is also very good. They are indeed an excellent source of soldiers.
However, even a big boss like Zhou Yu will be in trouble if he attacks Shanyue.
"In short, we need to quickly descend to Shucheng, and then sweep across the Jiangdong area to completely lay the foundation for hegemony. Yuan Gong is still too troublesome." Zhou Yu complained slightly to Yuan Shu.
“After taking Jiangdong, the people of Shanyue are entrenched in the mountains.
Although the military discipline of these barbarians is not very good, and they are not well educated, their physical fitness and combat effectiveness are very good, and they are very suitable for use as a source of troops after being conquered.
We have to form an army that truly belongs to us, otherwise it will be a utopia to truly take over Mr. Yuan's inheritance. "Zhou Yu said solemnly.
This is also the main reason why Zhou Yu wants to capture Jiangdong. Sun Ce really has no foundation in Yuzhou. Except for the more than a thousand old subordinates left by Sun Jian, Sun Ce's subordinates The legions are basically Yuan Shu Funded.
Although Zhou Yu didn't know why Yuan Shu handed over the inheritance to his adopted son Sun Ce, it was impossible for Zhou Yu to ask Yuan Shu to clean it up before handing it over to Sun Ce.
He didn't do this. .
If he really did this, Zhou Yu himself would not accept it, let alone the shameless guy Sun Ce.
"People from Shanyue..." Huang Gai frowned. He had fought against those barbarians and knew what their strength was.
As Zhou Yu said, apart from military discipline and poor education, the Shanyue tribe is almost a high-quality source of soldiers.
“But, how to deal with Yan Baihu?” Huang Gai asked, if he wanted to completely conquer Shanyue, Yan Baihu couldn’t keep him.
But if Yan Baihu is eliminated directly, it will not be easy to conquer the Shanyue tribes. After all, Yan Baihu is also their leader.
"When I'm free, I'll think of a way to let him die in the hands of the Shanyue tribe." Zhou Yu said casually.
A mere Yan Baihu is not enough to kill them personally. Zhou Yu has many ways to make Yan Baihu die in the internal fighting of the Shanyue tribe.
In the next three days, Cheng Pu and the others followed Zhou Yu's arrangements, each leading 3,000 men to attack the Shucheng wall day and night.
Zhou Yu even relied on the large number of soldiers on his side to harass the enemy at night, so that tens of thousands of auxiliary troops could prepare to attack the city at any time.
Forcing Lu Kang, a seventy-year-old man, and a young man with a weak body, to have no rest for three consecutive days and nights.
Because of Zhou Yu's actions, the morale of the people in Shu City who were originally united as one was almost depleted.
It’s not that Lu Kang didn’t know that this was Zhou Yu’s plan to exhaust his troops, but Shu Cheng, who had few soldiers, could not relax, especially at night.
As long as Shucheng dares to relax, Sun Ce and others 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 Shu Cheng who can't even take turns.
Early that morning, Sun Ce led his army to the outside of Shu City again and launched a verbal attack on Lu Kang.
It's a pity that Lu Kang was trapped at this time and didn't want to pay attention to Sun Ce who was talking outside, but Sun Ce was very angry.
There was no other way, Sun Ce could only use money offensive, but Sun Ce still underestimated the foundation of a noble family, and his soldiers were almost defeated by Lu Kang's money offensive.
Zhou Yu stepped forward and patted Sun Ce who had broken the defense, and shouted to Lu Kang on the city wall: "Why does Governor Lu use our army's wealth to reward our army?"
Zhou Yu didn't wait. After saying that, Lu Kang shouted: "What the hell, what's your army's wealth? This is the wealth that my Lu family has accumulated for many years. I can offer a reward to anyone I want!"
"Tsk, Lu Kang , I only respect you because you are an old man.
Based on your experience, you should have been able to tell that this battle has reached this point and you can no longer drag it on.
Lu family property? It won’t be the case after the city is destroyed. Will the Lu family be honored? Everyone is going to die, so how can anyone come to your Lu family to cash in? "
Zhou Yu shook his head. He no longer wanted to argue with Lu Kang. He turned to Sun Ce and said, "Bo Fu, let's attack the city. "
"Follow me! "Sun Ce shouted. Although he did not make any financial promises, the morale of his soldiers soared and they rushed forward with Sun Ce.
Because they believed that after capturing Shu City, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu will not let them down.
Sun Ce attacked the east gate, which was also the main battlefield, while Cheng Pu and the others attacked the other three gates respectively.
Because they had chosen one city gate to attack fiercely in the past few days, instead of having Sun Cejun attack all four gates like today.
So, the soldiers of the other three gates were caught off guard by Cheng Pu and others. The entire city wall seemed to be crumbling. The city gate order hurriedly asked for help from the east gate with the largest number of soldiers.
Unfortunately, leaving aside whether Lu Kang at the south gate can mobilize troops to support him, Cheng Pu and others have already planned to lead their personal guards to attack the city wall.
"Reporting to General Huang, Governor Zhou has ordered you to quickly defeat the city wall guards. Shucheng reinforcements have arrived!" Huang Gai, who was closest to the East Gate battlefield, received the order from Zhou Yu.
"I understand." Huang Gai calmly took the arrow handed over by the messenger. Wasn't the matter of reinforcements already decided? I just didn't expect it to come so quickly.
【I don’t know who is coming, I hope it’s not the Taishan Army. ] Huang Gai said something in his heart, and then quickly found Cheng Pu and Han Dang.
"Shu City reinforcements have arrived. Gong Jin ordered us to quickly defeat the Shu City guards." Huang Gai took out Zhou Yu's command arrow.
"We will lead our guards to attack from the north gate and capture Shucheng in one go!" 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 to the city wall, you beat me hard. It would be better if we can find more drummers before we climb the city wall."
After Han Dang gave instructions to the strong man, He quickly followed in the footsteps of Cheng Pu and Huang Gai.
“Kill!” Cheng Pu, as the boss of the three, rushed up to the city wall first. With a sweep of his long sword, he swept away the defenders near the ladder, clearing a space for the following guards to stay.
"Whoever kills Cheng Pu will be rewarded with a hundred gold!" Lu Kang's heart skipped a beat when he saw Cheng Pu who had climbed onto the city wall, and he shouted quickly.
It was precisely because of Lu Kang's loud shout that Cheng Pu and Huang Gai Handang, who had already climbed the city wall, discovered Lu Kang.
"Death to Lu Kang!" Huang Gai shouted, and with the help of his bodyguards, he drew his bow and arrow and shot Lu Kang to the ground.
"Lu Kang is dead and you still don't surrender!" Cheng Pu was overjoyed when he saw Lu Kang fall to the ground, and then shouted towards the defenders on the city wall.
The city wall guard subconsciously looked towards Lu Kang, and sure enough he could not see Lu Kang.
Now Fan turned to look at Lu Kang, but he didn't see Lu Kang's guard getting flustered.
“Lu Kang is dead and you still don’t surrender!” Han Dang shouted again. At the same time, the guards around the three people also shouted: “Lu Kang is dead and you still don’t 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 more than a dozen private soldiers of the Lu family carried Lu Kang and Lu Jun away, some of the private soldiers of the Lu family blocked the surging Sun Ce army.
"Report, there are enemy troops pouring in from both the north gate and the west gate, but there is no one at the south gate." A Lu family retainer covered in blood shouted to Lu Jun.
"Go to the south gate!" Lu Jun ordered decisively, "He Zhou Tai has eaten the sacrifices of our Lu family for so many years, and now it is time for him to repay the favor."
"Ting Ji You're good, take the south gate! Detour to Chaohu and go north to Xuzhou." Lu Kang coughed up a mouthful of blood and said to the hesitant retainers.
"Until now, none of the three families of Gu, Zhang and Zhu have come to support. In this case, we will go north to find Liu Xuande.
We also take Xun'er and Ji'er with us and set fire to the Lu family. I, Lu Sun Ce, you can't get the whole family's wealth," Lu Kang said with a pale face.
"Okay!" Lu Jun didn't hesitate at all, "What about our Lu family's shipbuilding technology? Even if we get to Chaohu, I'll probably have to escape alone!"
Lu Jun is worried. The only question is what will happen to the craftsmen of the Lu family after they escape.
You know, the reason why Liu Bei, Chen Xi and others chose to cooperate with the Lu family was because of their technology and craftsmen.
If they go north like this empty-handed, I don't know how Fenggao will treat their Lu family.
Lu Kang coughed a few times before saying to Lu Jun: "Escape with your life first! Craftsmanship has never been a problem, the only difference is whether you are skilled or not. As for the Lu family's shipbuilding technology, your father and I are still alive. . ”
“I will tell you everything I know along the way. As long as you memorize it all, it will not be difficult for our Lu family to rise again.
As for those craftsmen, wait for us. They will be recruited again after settling down in Qingzhou. Sun Ce and Zhou Yu will not attack them."
Zhou Yu on the other side said, "It came really fast. I didn't expect it to be the Qingzhou fleet. < br>
But, is the fleet too small? "Zhou Yu frowned and looked at the information sent by the scout.
(End of this chapter)