Chapter 831: Withdrawal to Jiangdong
Sun Ce didn't need to look back to hear that it was Lu Dai who was coming to the city. After a long time, he sighed softly and said: "Ding Gong, this war can be said to be a complete defeat."
Lu Dai bowed to Sun Ce and said: "My lord, victory or defeat is a common thing for military officers. If you lose today, you can get it back tomorrow! When my army returns to Jiangdong, I will concentrate on training. I will surely regroup in the future, and I will be able to win a snowstorm by then." Former shame.”
Lu Dai's words made Sun Ce feel much better. Moreover, when he sent troops to Jiangbei and returned in defeat, Sun Ce realized a very serious problem. He had no advisers. Although there were many generals in the army, they were all commanders. General, not good at planning.
The strategy that his generals planned for several days ended up becoming a laughing stock in the eyes of others. Thinking of this, Sun Ce suddenly thought of someone, turned his eyes to the west, and said to himself: "Gong Jin, you have to help me no matter what this time."
"Ding Gong, don't worry, I'm fine. Since Guangling has been captured without any hesitation, in Ding Gong's opinion, can our army hold this city? At least it can leave a place for the next invasion. "Sun Ce turned back to Lu Dai and said;
In fact, he had another idea that he had not expressed, which was to leave a fig leaf for his defeat.
Lu Dai was stunned for a moment, but soon understood what Sun Ce meant, and said cautiously: "In the opinion of the last general, Ji Ling, with his 50,000-strong army, will not tolerate my army occupying this city in Jiangbei..."
"Okay," Sun Ce suppressed the anger in his heart and said: "Ding Gong, there is no need to say more, I have already understood. In this case, before Ji Ling's army has fully sieged the city, send people to Yuguo to attack the city. Try to take them back to Jiangdu, and then discuss with General Huang and others to return the army to Jiangdong in batches!"
After saying this, Sun Ce seemed to have drained all the strength from his body and lost his spirit.
Lu Dai was about to say something more, but was stopped by Sun Ce with a wave of his hand: "Go and make arrangements, Duke Ding. I want to stay at the top of the city for a while longer."
With that said, he ignored Lu Dai and turned around towards the city tower.
Seeing this, Lu Dai quickly turned around and walked down the city wall. As soon as he got off the city, he saw that Huang Gai's generals had already arrived at the bottom of the city. He quickly stepped forward and said, "Lü Dai has met some old generals."
"Okay," Huang Gai waved his hand and said, "Captain Lu, don't be too polite. How is the young general?"
The others also looked at Lu Dai, and Lu Dai quickly said: "Go back to General Huang, my lord ordered the generals to send people to withdraw the soldiers and horses of Yu's country, and then discuss the withdrawal with all the old generals."
When several people heard this, they all breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the Major General did not insist on fighting against Ji Ling's army, which made the army feel relieved. What they were most worried about was that Sun Ce was young and energetic, could not let go of his dignity, and wanted to fight to the death with Ji Ling's army.
One day later, while Ji Ling's army was waiting for Guangling's siege supplies and troops, thousands of Sun Ce's troops from Yu State quickly broke through Ji Ling's army's defenses, entered Jiangdu City, and joined the army.
Two days later, on July 25, after resisting Ji Ling's army for two days, Sun Ce's army suddenly boarded a ship at night and quietly evacuated Jiangdu City. At this point, the Guangling War was over.
Sun Ce's 50,000-strong army marched north, but lost more than half of it in the end, and only about 20,000 troops successfully retreated to Jianye City. Ji Ling's 50,000-strong army lost less than 5,000 people, but the An army in the three cities of Jiangdu and Yuguo Guangling lost nearly 10,000 people.
Subsequently, Ji Ling handed over the defense of Guangling to the prefect of Guangling and Zhang Xun. After resting for a day in Guangling City, the army led the troops north along the Zhongdu River, passed through Hongze Lake, and entered Surabaya, preparing to go upstream to support Xiapi City. .
At this time in the Yuzhou battlefield, Huangfu Chaobo's Andong Army was still divided into two groups and had captured the two cities of North Yichun and Shenyang. The alien alliance army led by Zongheng Tianxia and Huang Turban Invincible has also sent troops to attack Xiyang.
The 90,000 troops transferred by Huangfu Chaobo from Luoyang have arrived in the southern territory of Runan, and the property and craftsmen collected by the Anton Army from the territory of Runan in the past two months, as well as the prisoners in the past few months,
All were concentrated in the small town of Ge Ling. The army is all in a state of rest. After the new army arrives, this group of soldiers will escort this group of personnel and property back. After arriving in Luoyang, they will go back to their respective places.
Among these harvests, what Huangfu Chaobo valued most was the more than 10,000 Yuan Shujun's captured Yulin Army. There were many very qualified soldiers among them, and they were much better than the heavy infantry captured in Luoyang. . It's just that Yuan Shu has not yet failed, so these soldiers cannot surrender yet.
At this time, Huangfu Chaobo had also received the news that Ji Ling's army had appeared in Guangling, and he couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although he said that he was not afraid of Ji Ling's 50,000 army, but if he didn't show up for one day, everyone always felt that It's scary.
But if Ji Ling's 50,000 troops appear in Guangling, the little tiger's life will be difficult.
As Huangfu Chaobo expected, a few days later, the battle situation in Guangling was reported back. Under Ji Ling's counterattack, Sun Ce's army was able to sustain for less than half a month before losing most of its strength, and then retreated to Jiangdong in embarrassment. It only took less than two months for the three princes to besiege Yuan Shu and they had already retreated.
When Huangfu Chaobo received the news, Cao Cao had also heard about Ji Ling's army. At this time, Cao Cao's army had already captured Liangcheng, Siwu, Xiaxiang and Quliu. In addition to the tens of thousands of troops besieging Xiapi, the rest of the troops were preparing to attack the county of Tongguo in the south. After receiving the news that Ji Ling's army had repelled Sun Ce's army, Cao Cao immediately withdrew his troops and the army retreated to Xiapi.
Just as a major battle in the Central Plains was about to come, a message suddenly came from Youzhou in the north. Just as Gongsun Zan was fighting against Liu Yu and Liu Bei's army, Bingzhou Lu Bu suddenly launched an attack on Liu Bei's lair in Dai County. Liu Bei, who received the news, immediately led his troops to help, but was ambushed by Lu Bu's army 20 miles east of Daoren County. Tens of thousands of Dai County troops suffered heavy casualties, and Liu Bei was seriously injured by Lu Bu. Under the desperate protection of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, he only led hundreds of Bai Lao soldiers to break through and disappeared.
Afterwards, it took Lu Bu's army only more than ten days to control the entire territory of Dai County. However, after occupying Dai County, Lu Bu's army did not take advantage of the situation to attack Liu Yu, but stopped at Chen Gong's suggestion and waited for the end of the war between Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan.
At this time, Yuan Shao also suddenly sent troops, Yan Liang and Wen Chou each led 60,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, and several generals to attack the Yellow Turbans occupying the cities of Lingshou and the Xintianyou occupying the cities of Shangquyang.