Overlord!

Chapter 173

The 3 people under Ji Ling's troops did not move forward and gathered in Dongyang. This is indeed not a meritorious arrangement.

But relatively, this deployment is also very difficult to have insufficient force dispersion and the risk of being taken advantage of by the enemy.

The five divisions of Ji Ling, together with the navy, gathered for dozens of miles in Dongyang, and each battalion guarded each other's horns.

Attacking one of them will be flanked by the other two. If the battle is delayed, Liu Bei's army will be surrounded by Ji Ling's [-] soldiers.

The Sun-Liu coalition army was entirely due to the favorable weather, the enemy was affected by the cold weather, the soldiers were stiff, the army was exhausted, and it was difficult to rush to help quickly, so they were able to give it a go and defeat the enemy with one blow.

When Guan Yu heard that Sun Ce wanted to use him as a vanguard general, he was immediately inspired. He is now wearing a crimson military officer's robe, covered with a fine armor basin collar, and he is fierce and brave.

Immediately, he raised his phoenix eyes, stroked his beard with his hand, and said arrogantly: "Guan is here, and he will persuade the soldiers to break the front and break the enemy in an instant."

Liu Bei was also dressed neatly at this time. Not only did he hang double swords on his waist, but he was also covered with gold and silver armor. This is a high-level armor that can only be worn by high-ranking princes nowadays. Bright, majestic and luxurious.

The war is imminent, and Xuzhou's military and martial arts are full of breath. They must smash the enemy's army, avenge their shame in the first battle, and feel proud.

So Liu Bei held the hilt of his sword in his hand, looked at Guan Yu majesticly, and said, "Yun Chang, this battle is about the success or failure of the world. Xu Yang belongs to you. Don't underestimate the enemy."

"My lord, if I am invincible, come and see me!" Guan Yu immediately became awe-inspiring!
Sun Ce laughed loudly and said, "Good! Regarding what the general said, I know that victory is inevitable."

Once Guan Yu issued a military order, he would basically be invincible!
This powerful general of Megatron China should also break out in this battle.

The opponent's camp in this battle is about 6000 to [-] people, so the Sun Liu coalition army gave Guan Yu, the vanguard, more than [-] people, all of whom are well-equipped and well-equipped elites.

The whole army will reward the soldiers, and after feasting on wine and meat, they will storm Ji Ling's front battalion.

The former battalion was under the command of Wu Jing, the prefect of Guangling, and was stationed in the southernmost part, a little far away from the other four tribes.

With Guan Yu's talents, he led an elite division to defeat Yuan Jun's [-] fully clothed and exhausted divisions.

Sun Ce had absolute confidence in him, so his deployment was very bold, and he said to General Xuzhou: "With the talent of General Guan, this battle will surely smash the enemy's front. Therefore, the main force of the army led by Liu Shijun does not need to consider reinforcements. You can march decisively to Gexiang, and ambush your troops in the narrow part of the North Road. Once the enemy comes to reinforce, Liu Shijun can ambush all his troops and attack and break the enemy."

Everyone looked at Ge Township on the map. This was more than ten miles north of the enemy's front camp, almost surrounded by Ji Ling's five divisions. It was indeed bold and decisive to ambush here.

Once Guan Yu fails to defeat the enemy army in the front battalion, Liu Bei's troops will be completely besieged.

It can be said that all the prerequisites for this deployment are based on Sun Ce's absolute trust in Guan Yu's ability to defeat the enemy. If Guan Yu's attack fails, he will lose everything.

Faced with Sun Ce's trust, Guan Yu was quite moved, and solemnly bowed his hand to Sun Ce, saying: "Yu will not hesitate to die, for the army to defeat the enemy's vanguard, so that the soldiers can advance with the trend."

Sun Ce straightened up from the map, inspected the Xuzhou civil and military camps, and said solemnly: "The matter in Huainan is all about this battle! Please encourage each other! I believe that you are all outstanding men in the world, and you will be able to defeat the enemy and return triumphantly." And return."

Holding the hilt of his sword, Liu Bei glanced at Jiang Qin, the general of Sun Ce's personal guard who barged in. He still calmly encouraged the army: "I have been working hard in Xuzhou for a long time, and I only wait for one day to avenge my shame. Today is the right time, place and people. We wait, all the armies will fight and bravely defeat the enemy in the lonely period. Show off our Xuzhou army and let the world see our magnificent martial arts!"

When Liu Bei encouraged the soldiers, Sun Ce took a look at Jiang Qin, and he immediately approached and whispered in Sun Ce's ear: "General, there is a rebellion in Jiangdong, Yuzhang thief Zhou Feng, Poyang thief Youtu, and Danyang thief Tong Zhi , Yellow Turbans, Chen Bai, Wan Bing, and others joined together and led tens of thousands of households to attack prefectures and counties."

Sun Ce glanced at him, nodded, and said calmly, "I know that the battle is imminent, don't make a fuss, let's go down."

Suddenly such a large-scale rebellion broke out, and it broke out at the same time in various counties and counties.

Obviously not by chance, it must have been provoked by the enemy!

Either from Chen Yu or from Yuan Shu.

Chen Yu's suspicion is relatively small, after all, he just had an incident.However, it cannot be ruled out that he had already planned these when he was in Huaipu, so as to hold back the Jiangdong army so that the uprising would not be directly extinguished by the Jiangdong army.

However, the rebellion was mainly concentrated in Yuzhang, Poyang, Danyang and the rest of the Yellow Turbans along the Huaihe River. The biggest suspect was Yuan Shu and even Liu Biao.

Yuan Shu likes to use this kind of method, linking up sect thieves and Yellow Turbans is one of his greatest aids in seizing counties.In particular, Sun Ce had a bad relationship with him and began to march into Xuzhou since July, which can be said to have snatched Guangling from him.Later, he even sponsored Liu Bei as his enemy and led his army to fight against Ji Ling's army.

The two sides turned against each other, and he didn't have the confidence to confront Sun Ce on the battlefield. It was normal to use this method.

However, the possibility of Liu Biao cannot be ignored. After all, Zhuge Xuan, the prefect of Yuzhang he appointed, is still in Yuzhang.

Jingzhou and Jiangdong are still at war.

It has been two years since Sun Ce established an army in Jiangdong. With the ambitions of Liu Biao and Huang Zu, it is impossible to sit idly by and not fight this year and not conscript next year. This will allow Sun Ce to become big, annex Huainan and Jiangdong, and unify Yangzhou.

Sun Ce was serious. He wasn't too worried about the rebellion of Jiangdong sect thieves and Shanyue. This was already expected by Jiangdong's civil and military forces. Hu people in the north also invaded every year. Jiangdong's Shanyue rebelled every one or two years, and everyone was used to it.

With the combat power of Jiangdong's elite professional warriors, these riotous mobs will definitely not be able to stop Jiangdong's conquest by the world's famous generals.You must know that Tai Shici and Liu Ye are in Yuzhang, and Sun Ben and Xu Huang are in Danyang. These are the most outstanding talents at that time.

With this generation of generals entrusted with power, they can command thousands of elites and suppress tens of thousands of rebels.

What Sun Ce was really worried about was the direction of Yuzhang County. Thanks to Gao Cheng's strong recommendation, Zhenwu general Liu Yao and Yuzhang prefect Zhu Hao were transferred to the capital Luoyang. The scattered people of the Quartet were reunited.

If he regrouped with the support of Huang Zu and Liu Biao, as the prefect of Yuzhang, he would definitely launch an offensive to regain Yuzhang County.

This is his duty as the prefect of Yuzhang, and he has a heavy responsibility to win Yuzhang for Liu Biao no matter what.

And Huang Zu is bound to have great ambitions to intervene in Yuzhang and attack Jiangdong.

You must know that in order to resist Huang Zu, Jiangdong has always arranged Zhou Yu in Yuzhang County and Chaisang County in history to be in charge of the western war against Huang Zu.

Due to the intervention of Huang Zu's troops, Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Dong Xi and many other famous generals joined the battle and defeated the enemy.

Huang Zu and Liu Bei are the most capable generals under Liu Biao's command. One is responsible for defending Jiangdong and the other is responsible for defending the north.

His upper limit is Liu Bei, and his lower limit is also Zhang Xiu's level.

And look at how difficult the battle between Cao Cao and Zhang Xiu is, you can see it.

Thinking of Zhang Xiu, Sun Ce couldn't help thinking of the confrontation between Liu Biao, Cao Cao and others in Ye County.

Due to the restoration of the majesty of the Han Dynasty by the emperor, Cao Cao's march to the capital had to be terminated.Fight against the imperial coalition forces in Yingchuan and Nanyang.

Cao Cao may have a fierce battle with Liu Biao's coalition forces, but his counselor Xun Yu will definitely stop this conflict.

For Xun Yu, revival of the Han Dynasty was his greatest pursuit.

Whether he chooses to serve in the imperial court, or to support a prince, Jianhuan, Wen Baye, respect the emperor, and stabilize the world, may still be under Xun Yu's consideration.

But in any case, the war between Cao Cao and the coalition forces is not in the interests of either the Han Dynasty or Cao Cao.

Xun Yu will definitely stop it with all his strength.

Boss Cao may have many problems, such as cruelty, such as a good wife, such as suspicion and suspicion, but one of his greatest strengths, the reason why he can become the overlord of the north is that he really listens to persuasion when the wind is against the wind.

If Xun Yu, Cheng Yu, Guo Jia and others persuaded him, he would be able to humbly accept advice.

This is the most important mind and tolerance to become a prince.

This unexpected war will not last long, and it has been half a year since April. I am afraid that Cao Cao has already submitted to the court to express his submission, and then this war will be terminated.

And once Liu Biao withdraws troops from the north, he will turn his energy to Jiangdong and fully support Huang Zu and Zhuge Xuan in their struggle for Yuzhang County.

This is what Sun Ce is most worried about, because this situation exceeds the subordinates of the military before the Northern Expedition.

The more than 1 defenders in Yuzhang County, if there is no support from the army, the battle will be extremely difficult if they want to fight against Liu Biao's army.

At this time, Jiangdong Jiye had Chen Yu in the north, coveting Wujun.There are bandits from Shanyue sect rebelling inside, infesting the place.In the west, Liu Biao's army besieged and invaded counties.

Just thinking about it made Sun Ce feel extremely stressed.

No wonder it took six years for the little overlord in history to stabilize the six counties in Jiangdong. No wonder Cao Cao failed to unify the troubled times in half his life.

The princes at the end of the Han Dynasty faced too many challenges, and all their opponents were outstanding.

Just like Cao Cao was still conquering Lü Bu last year, but the next year he had to move to Nanyang to defend against Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu. He had just won the battle, but before he had time to expand his victories, it was rumored that Yuan Shao was about to go south to attack Xudu.

After returning to Xudu in a hurry, it was reported that Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor, and he had to lead his army to the south. If he defeated Yuan Shu, he would have to fight Lu Bu and Liu Bei again.

Conquering the east and the west, and conquering the south and north, is simply the normal state of a prince.

Sun Ce really can't imagine that he can have a smooth sailing, he can only hit others when he is fully prepared, and no one will surprise him.

It is also inevitable to be forced to lead troops to suppress the rebellion and resist the enemy's army.

After broadening his mind, Sun Ce was not too anxious about these matters, and the immediate priority was to defeat Ji Ling's [-] troops.

The big battle is tomorrow, and it is useless to think about the rear. It is better to choose to believe in your own generals, who will be able to stabilize one side and wipe out the rebellion, and go all out to completely resolve the Huainan war.

After Liu Bei encouraged the entire army, he turned to look at Sun Ce and asked, "Does Marquis Wu have something important to do? Will it affect the decisive battle?"

Sun Ce smiled boldly, waved his hand, and said: "The matter in Jiangdong is thousands of miles away, and has nothing to do with this battle. I look forward to defeating the enemy with the lords tomorrow and triumphantly together!"

Seeing Sun Ce's heroic efforts, everyone immediately became excited, and the whole army was ready to go.

The coalition forces were strong and powerful for a time, their morale was high, and they had the heart to do their best in one battle, so they all prepared beef and wine to reward the sergeants.

After the soldiers had a full meal, at the fourth watch of the next day, Liu Bei led the army ahead, silenced the flags and drums, and went straight to Gexiang, waiting for the reinforcements of Ji Ling's troops.

At five o'clock, Guan Yu was wearing armor and a hood, and personally led [-] elite soldiers, marched out of the camp in a strict array, and launched an offensive against Yuan Jun.

Five thousand elite soldiers, with clanging armor, roaring steps, fluttering flags, and morale like a rainbow.

Jiang Qin and Sun Ce stood on the gate, watching this elite army leave from the front of the camp with high morale, and praised Sun Ce: "Guan Yu is compassionate to the soldiers, he has won the hearts of the army, he has won the championship for a lifetime, and he has won the art of war." , whose commander is so elite, he will surely become a famous general in the world the next day."

And Guan Yu rode his horse beside the army formation, saw Sun Ce looking at the place from above the camp, also held a spear in his hand, made fists on the horse and saluted Sun Ce, and then led the troops away.

Looking at the fierce and invincible figure of this fierce general, Sun Ce understood why Cao Cao loved Guan Yu.

In this way, the fierce generals charge into the battle, why can't they break the front and smash the enemy's army?

Sun Ce sighed and said: "Guan Yun has always won the three armies bravely. What he lacks has always been a strong army with a solid morale and morale. If the three armies are stable and the logistics are not worrying, they can be called the God of War when they confront each other head-on. They are indestructible and invincible. ! His illustrious martial arts should become famous all over the world since this battle!"

When the [-] elite army commanded by Guan Yu disappeared from sight, Sun Ce also cheered up and said, "After Guan Yu, it's time for us to go to battle. Gather the whole army and use my iron cavalry to defeat the enemy in one battle!"

Thousands of Xuanjia's elite iron cavalry immediately put into formation, then neatly got on their horses, and followed Sun Ce, with banners unfurled, and the horses galloped forward.

The task of the Jiangdong Iron Cavalry is to plunge into the rear of the enemy army after Guan Yu defeats the enemy army, and encircle the enemy army in the south of Hongze with Guan Yu's troops.

Ji Ling's army crossed Xuyi and stormed Dongyang, so that its [-] troops were already located in Huaiyou.

The lower reaches of the Huaihe River do not flow from west to east, but pour from southwest to northeast, so the area east of the Huaihe River is also called Huaiyou.

As a result of this geographical situation, once Ji Ling's [-] army was defeated, they had to cross the Huai River to escape from Xuyi.

The Jiangdong army was going to rush to the enemy's rear from the breakthrough opened by Guan Yu, cut off their retreat, and wipe out all the [-] troops east of the Huaihe River.

(End of this chapter)