Chapter 829 Ji Ling's Surprise Attack
Ji Ling saw Sun Ce's army's movements one by one. After the news of the departure of Lu Dai's army came, Ji Ling immediately sent Chen Lan to lead an army of five thousand to follow quickly. After Lu Dai's army arrived at Hailing, At that time, they besieged them at the foot of Hailing City. After a day of fierce fighting, almost all of Lu Dai's three thousand troops were destroyed. Only Lu Dai led more than a hundred remaining soldiers and fled to Donglingting Ferry in embarrassment.
However, Chen Lan's army then chased to Dongling Pavilion. After Chen Lan defeated Lu Dai's army at the foot of Hailing City, he transferred 3,000 garrison troops from Hailing City. A total of 8,000 troops followed Lu Dai's defeated army and pursued them all the way. Dongling Pavilion.
At this time, Lu Dai looked at the nearly 10,000 troops and Chen Lan's flag outside Dongling Pavilion. He didn't understand that Ji Ling had deceived everyone. When everyone thought that his 50,000 troops were hiding in Runan or Xia. Somewhere in Pi, when he was preparing to surprise the two armies in the north, his army had already arrived in Guangling, and his target was his Jiangdong army.
However, at this time, Lu Dai was unable to save the situation and could only order the army to defend Dongling Pavilion while sending people to report the news to Sun Ce via the waterway, hoping that he would still be able to do so in time.
At this time, Dongling Pavilion, after being attacked by Sun Ce's army, did not have time to repair its defenses. Under the desperate attack of Chen Lan's nearly ten thousand troops, it only lasted for one day before being captured by Chen Lan's army. Sun Ce's army had already retreated. was blocked.
Seeing that the Dongling Pavilion Ferry was in danger, Lu Dai's strong man broke his wrist, and immediately ordered the Dongling Ferry to be abandoned. The remaining 1,500 Sun Ce soldiers on the Dongling Ferry were quickly withdrawn to the ship, and then went west along the river, heading directly to the south of Guangxi. Jiangdu City.
As a Guangling native, he knew the geographical conditions around Guangling very well. Donglingting was the largest and best ferry in Guangling. Once the ferry was lost, Sun Ce's army's retreat back to Jiangdong was blocked, but it did not mean that there was no retreat at all. To the west, There is also a ferry in the south of Jiangdu City, but the ferry is too small and there are too few boats that can dock at one time.
If he can defend Jiangdu City, Sun Ce's army can withdraw at least half of the troops from Jiangdong. Of course, this depends on how many troops Sun Ce can bring back from Guangling City.
When Lu Dai led the remaining troops to retreat to Jiangdu, Sun Ce's army was already in a crisis about to collapse.
It was already July 20th. After three days of fierce fighting, Sun Ce's army had slowly been able to attack the city. Although it could not last more than a stick of incense before it would be driven off the city by Zhang Xun's army. But being able to achieve such a result in three days has already made Sun Ce and the Jiangdong generals very satisfied.
Just when everyone was feeling satisfied, the news brought by Lu Dai's messenger caused everyone to fall into the ice cave. Ji Ling's 50,000-strong army was in Guangling! He has already defeated Lu Dai and is now attacking Dongling Pavilion.
After receiving the news, Zhu Zhi and Lu Fan immediately asked to see Sun Ce and asked Sun Ce to withdraw his army immediately. Everyone knew that Dongling Pavilion must have been lost now, which meant that the army's retreat route was dead, and now they could only retreat to Jiangdu before making plans.
But Sun Ce was not willing to give in. Just when he was about to make a desperate move to capture Guangling City with all his strength, a loud killing cry suddenly erupted from the army in the north of the city.
Everyone's hearts sank. With such a big movement, the only possibility was that Ji Ling's army had already arrived.
Sun Ce's face was as dark as water, and he was pacing back and forth in the tent, unable to make up his mind.
"Report!"
At this moment, the anxious report of the messenger sounded outside the tent.
"Pass!" Sun Ce shouted violently.
"Report to the general. General Huang sent someone to report that Ji Ling's 50,000-strong army suddenly appeared behind them. They are now attacking. General, please make a decision as soon as possible."
"General, we can't wait any longer!" Zhu Zhi took the first two steps;
"Yes, general, we must withdraw our troops!" Lu Fan also said;
In a rage, Sun Ce pulled out his ancient ingot knife and struck the table in front of him with one strike. There was only a "crash" sound, and the table was split into two.
"Jiling dog thief, I will definitely not spare you..."
After venting for a while, Sun Ce finally regained some sense. Now he only has more than 30,000 troops left, and he has been fighting for several days.
It has almost become a tired army, and Ji Ling has an army of 50,000 and is recharging his strength. It is the time when his strength is at its peak. Moreover, now that Donglingting Ferry has been lost, once the soldiers get the news, their morale will be greatly dispersed. It is only right to retreat at this time.
However, Sun Ce was really unwilling to give up after months of planning and seeing it almost succeed. But after taking a look at the generals around him, Sun Ce suppressed the thoughts in his heart. Now that he was in the army, he had not completely convinced these veteran generals. If he forced himself to fight, there would be future troubles.
Thinking of this, Sun Ce had to suppress his fighting spirit and ordered: "Come here, give orders to General Huang and General Han to withdraw the army from the center, order the siege soldiers to slowly return to their own formation, and order the camp to stand ready and prepare. Resist Ji Ling's army."
After thinking for a while, he added: "Immediately send people to the two cities of Jiangdu and Yuguo to guard the generals, and let them guard the city strictly to prevent Yuan Shu's army from sneak attacks. Once Yuan Shu's army attacks, they are not allowed to leave the city to fight."
Soon, several messengers rushed out from Sun Cejun's camp and headed in various directions. At the same time, Sun Cejun's golden sound also sounded. After the attacking soldiers heard the golden sound, they quickly left. After engaging Yuan Shu's army, they returned to the camp, but Zhang Xun at the top of the city had discovered something unusual in the north of the city. Knowing that Ji Ling's army had arrived, he ordered his soldiers to fight back desperately, causing Sun Ce's army to lose a lot of troops.
It can be said that Sun Ce's order was quite timely. Although it could not save Huang Gai's army, it was very timely for his own army and Han Dang's army.
Huang Gai originally had an army of 10,000, and he had lost 2,000 in a few days of fighting. Now he still had 8,000. However, when Ji Ling's army appeared, although Huang Gai reacted quickly, Ji Ling's army was faster. When Huang Gai's army was gathering, they had already started to attack.
Huang Gai used the 2,000 soldiers gathered in advance to block the attack of Ji Ling's army, and ordered his deputy general to continue to gather troops and set up formations in the back. Unfortunately, although Huang Gai tried his best to block it, in the face of absolute strength, the thousands of Jiangdong troops only lasted less than two quarters of an hour under the attack of Ji Ling's 45,000 troops, and then they were completely defeated.
Huang Gai also retreated towards the west army under the protection of two hundred personal guards. When Sun Ce's messenger arrived at the northern camp, he could only see Yuan Shu's soldiers rushing towards the west like a tide, and his own army of thousands of soldiers had disappeared.
An hour later, Ji Ling's army appeared to the north of Sun Ce's camp. At this time, the gate of Guangling City was also opened, and Zhang Xun's nearly 10,000 soldiers also went out of the city and lined up, forcing towards Sun Ce's camp in the west.