Chapter 1357: Burning the City

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"Di Yi went to Hefei?"

Sun Ce, who was patrolling the camp, got excited and said hastily, "Hurry up, chase him back!"

Zhou Yu said, "Bo Fu, it's too late."

"This kid!" Sun Ce's fists were clenched, "It's audacious to act recklessly!"

Zhou Yu said: "Actually, this is not necessarily a bad thing."

"Um?"

Zhou Yu said: "None of us could have imagined that if Sun Yi dared to do this, the enemy should be even more unaware. So what we should do now is to assemble a large army and be ready to break the city at any time!"

Sun Ce said: "But brother Yi is under heavy siege, even if he has three heads and six arms, he can't stop so many Yuan soldiers!"

Zhou Yu said calmly: "So we should attack the city and let the defenders in the city be busy defending against the enemy, so as to create the greatest chance for him to survive."

At that moment, Zhou Yu ordered Gan Ning to lead an army to Dazhai in the west of the city to stop Zhang Liao; Tai Shici led an army to go to Dazhai in the east of the city to stop Xu Huang. Sun Ce led Zhou Tai, Cheng Pu, Han Dang and other generals to Hefei City.

The 40,000 army, carrying soil and grass, came to the moat.

It was spring at this time, and the water in the moat was shallow; in addition, the Sun's army attacked the city a few days ago, and the moat had already been filled in sevens and eights.

In the city of Hefei, the flames were soaring into the sky, the voices of people were full of voices, and it was obviously a mess.

"The city gate! The city gate is open!" Zhou Yu excitedly said to Sun Ce: "Bo Fu, attack the city quickly, capture Hefei, and open the door to the Central Plains!"

With one stroke of Sun Ce's spear, Zhou Tai and other generals led the army into the city. Sun Ce led the Chinese army and pressed forward aggressively.

Yuan Jun was obviously more tenacious than Sun Ce imagined. Although the city gate was lost, he still insisted on street fighting.

The fierce fighting lasted most of the night before Sun Ce occupied Hefei City. Cao Ren, the guard, abandoned the city and left.

Zhou Yu was a little surprised, and said, "Why doesn't the number of Yuan Jun guarding Hefei match the number in the intelligence? The total number of Yuan Jun we eliminated and the captured Yuan Bing is only a few thousand."

Zhou Tai next to him said, "Did they all escape with Cao Ren?"

Zhou Yu shook his head and remained silent.

At this time, Gan Ning came to hand over the order and said: "I fought fiercely with Zhang Liao and could not win. Later, when Zhang Liao saw Hefei fell, he immediately withdrew his troops. I did not pursue the army because of the order."

Zhou Yu said: "Don't chase after the poor, General Gan is right."

That's what he said, but Zhou Yu's handsome eyebrows became more suspicious.

After a while, Tai Shici also came to give orders, saying that Xu Huang was not interested in fighting, and also retreated.

Sun Ce waved his hand and said, "Yuan Jun is a cowardly bandit. Hefei is such an important portal, but he can't fight to the death. If I were Yuan Xi, I would definitely chop off the heads of these shrimp soldiers and crab generals... By the way, have you seen Brother Yi?"

Zhou Tai and other generals who participated in the attack on Hefei shook their heads to express their ignorance.

Sun Ce's heart sank, and he said, "Order the whole army to dig three feet to find Brother Yi. If you want to live, you want to see people, and if you die, you want to see corpses!"

Zhou Yu persuaded: "Bo Fu, now that Hefei has just been captured, you should immediately inspect the city defense and restore the defense, and at the same time send people to Wancheng to prevent accidents."

Sun Ce shook his head and insisted: "If Brother Yi is wrong, I would rather not have this city of Hefei!"

The Jiangdong army searched the streets and alleys of Hefei City.

Suddenly someone reported that the city gate was on fire.

Sun Ce had just arranged for soldiers to fight the fire, but before the military order was issued, the four gates caught fire together, and the fire was raging, burning up the houses in the city.

This fire was obviously planned for a long time, and the flames burned half of the sky red.

Zhou Yu said in shock: "It must be Yuan Jun who set fire to the city! I don't know who planned and offered such a poisonous plan. Bofu, quickly order the evacuation of Hefei!"

Sun Ce was unwilling, but he could only lead his army out of Hefei City.

After the burning Sun's army left the city, they encountered Yuan Jun's returning carbine. Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Cao Ren and other generals of the Yuan army led their troops to intercept and kill them, but the Sun's army was hit by the plan of burning the city, their morale was greatly depressed, their formation was chaotic, and they were already on the verge of being defeated.

Three groups of Yuan soldiers came rushing towards Sun Ce's banner, shouting loudly to capture Sun Ce alive.

Zhou Yu was beside Sun Ce and said in a low voice, "Put down the commander-in-chief flag and go back to Jiangdong by the path!"

Sun Ce raised his gun and said loudly, "The generals are courageous. If I flee timidly, what will these 50,000 Jiangdong soldiers do with themselves? Raise the commander's flag, and all the generals will follow me to fight the enemy!"

Among the chaotic army, Sun Ce bravely charged into battle, killing seven generals of Yuan Jun in a row, and no one dared to fight him wherever he went.

The morale of Jiangdong's army was revived, and they regrouped with Sun Ce's personal troops as the forerunner.

Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Cao Ren and other generals saw that the situation was not good, and after fighting for a while, they called for gold to withdraw their troops again, and unexpectedly turned to the southeast.

Sun Ce reorganized his army and saw that only half of the 50,000 army was left, and most of them died in the Hefei fire scene. Most of the remaining 20,000 sergeants were wounded.

"This time I fell into Yuan Jun's plan and lost troops and horses. However, Hefei City is already a piece of white land. When our army returns to Wancheng and regroups, we will come to take the Central Plains!"

Sun Ce was still very reliable at the critical moment, and his impassioned remarks rekindled the confidence of the dispirited Jiangdong generals.

However, Zhou Yu was not optimistic, and said to Sun Ce in a low voice: "Wancheng may be difficult to defend. Look at the generals of the Yuan family, why did they not go to the northwest when they retreated, but went to the southeast? There is only Wancheng in the southeast. They Do you want to throw yourself into a trap?"

Sun Ce was startled: "You mean, there is something wrong with Wancheng?"

Zhou Yu nodded and said: "I estimated that the Yuan army that fought fiercely with us tonight does not exceed 30,000 people. And the Hefei defenders have at least 60,000 to 70,000! Where did the remaining half of the troops go? I am afraid that they took advantage of During the battle in Hefei, go and take Wancheng!"

Sun Ce narrowed his eyes and said, "That being said, I can't be reconciled if I don't go and see it myself."

...

Wancheng.

Standing at the top of the city, Jia Xu looked ahead and saw the three banners of Yuan soldiers approaching from afar, he couldn't help but shook his head and said, "Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and Cao Ren are all fierce generals, so why can't they take down Sun Ce who was caught in the fire? Jiangdong's army is really strong."

Qiao Rui was right behind him, and said with a smile: "Mr.'s strategy is really eye-opening. Hefei was burned, Wancheng was secretly captured, and a series of strategies were completed in one go. No wonder the lord uses the sword to support each other."

Jia Xu shook her head: "My intelligence is far worse than the lord's."

Qiao Rui could see Jia Xu's complacency hidden in the corner of her eyes at a glance, she couldn't help laughing and said, "I would also like to thank you, sir, for leaving me the victory of attacking Wancheng."

Jia Xu shook his head and said seriously: "General Qiao is the most suitable candidate to capture Wancheng. When I deployed, I didn't have any selfish intentions."

"...Mr. is right." Qiao Rui nodded.