Chapter 839 Zhou Yu's Method

After receiving Sun Ce's order to see him, Quan Rou soon entered the study room under the guidance of Sun Ce's personal guards. So Zhou Yu began to carefully inquire about the intelligence of the Jiangdong counties.

Half an hour later, Zhou Yu finally finished asking about the situation, and at the same time, he was relieved.

After Quan Rou left, Zhou Yu turned to look at Sun Ce and said, "Brother Bofu, I have a plan that can help you get out of your current predicament." As he spoke, he told Sun Ce about the map. After hearing what he said, Sun Ce's eyes, which were originally a little gloomy, suddenly flashed, and his expression was even more excited. He kept patting Zhou Yu's shoulders with both hands and shouted loudly.

A moment later, a team of Sun Ce's personal guards left the prefectural governor's mansion and went to the mansions of the generals of various departments to pass on the order and summon everyone to the prefectural governor's mansion for discussion.

Half an hour later, in the Danyang prefect's mansion, the main civil and military officials of Sun Ce's army rushed to the meeting hall. Everyone was surprised that Sun Ce suddenly called everyone to discuss matters. Didn't he say that the young general was going to the dock to pick someone up? Why did he suddenly call everyone to discuss matters again? Could it be that the boy who was picked up gave the young general some ideas?

After everyone arrived, Sun Ce first introduced Zhou Yu to everyone, and then told Zhou Yu's ideas. When everyone heard that Zhou Yu actually encouraged Sun Ce to send troops to attack Liu Yao, they all exploded at once.

You know, it's less than a month since their army retreated from Jiangbei, and only more than 20,000 of the 50,000 troops returned. They haven't recovered yet, but they are thinking about sending troops to Liu Yao. This young general of theirs is so aggressive.

In the meeting hall, not only the relatives and generals of the Sun family, but even the four elders of the Sun family expressed their opposition. Only a few of Sun Ce's own followers did not express their opposition explicitly, but judging from their faces, they were not optimistic about the expedition against Liu Yao.

Facing the overwhelming opposition from below, Sun Ce's face suddenly swelled red. As the leader of an army, he was so unsupported by the generals below that his prestige in the army was evident.

The four hot-tempered veterans directly pointed their spearheads at Zhou Yu, who had just arrived, and almost jumped up and cursed. Sun Ce finally couldn't bear it anymore, and when he was about to speak, he was stopped by Zhou Yu.

He took two steps forward, bowed to everyone, and then said to Huang Gai, who was the most angry among them: "General Huang, why do you think we can't send troops to attack Liu Yao?"

"Liu Yao is the governor of Yangzhou. Although only Danyang is ours now, we once occupied the four counties of Jiangdong. It can be said that we have many soldiers and sufficient food. There are no less than 60,000 troops in Dantu City alone, including 10,000 naval forces and 50,000 infantry. Add to that the 10,000 troops in Quyang, and there are 60,000 troops. We can only dispatch more than 20,000 troops in Jianye City. How can we attack Liu Yao?"

Zhou Yu saw that everyone else nodded, smiled lightly, and said slowly: "There are 16 cities in Danyang County, and each city has three to five lines of garrison troops. I believe you will not forget that Fengchu used the method of gathering sand into a tower to gather tens of thousands of troops to relieve the siege of Luoyang a few years ago?"

When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up. It was indeed a good idea.

"With Danyang's strength, we can draw hundreds to thousands of troops from each city, and then we will have 50,000 troops available."

"But Liu Yao has 60,000 infantrymen, how can he fight?" someone asked;

"If I send 20,000 troops from Danyang to attack Qu'a, what will Liu Yao do?" Zhou Yu asked again;

"He will definitely send troops to rescue." Someone curled his lips and said;

"Yes, Liu Yao will definitely send a general to lead the troops to fight. He has 60,000 infantrymen, but apart from the troops defending the city, he can only send 40,000 troops at most. That kid wants to ask the generals If my 50,000 troops were to fight Liu Yao's 40,000 troops in the open field, what would be the final outcome? "

"The Jiangdong army has never been strong, how could it fight against my 50,000 troops? Even our 20,000 elite troops withdrawn from Jiangbei can stop Liu Yao's 40,000 troops." After hearing Zhou Yu's words, the veteran Han Dang replied;

All the generals were confident in the combat effectiveness of their own troops, not to mention that although only more than 20,000 troops were withdrawn this time, these were the elite troops left after the battle with Ji Ling's 50,000 troops,

which was far from comparable to the Jiangdong troops.

You know, when Sun Ce borrowed troops to pacify Danyang, he only had 30,000 troops, but he captured the entire Danyang County within a few months, which shows how powerful the Jiangdong troops are.

"What the old general said makes sense, so I will use 20,000 elite troops as bait to lure out his 40,000 troops, and then send the remaining 30,000 ordinary soldiers to cut off their retreat. The final result of the battle, you generals should be able to imagine it." Zhou Yu said with a smile;

After hearing this, the generals all had an idea. If 20,000 elite troops and 30,000 ordinary soldiers can easily deal with Liu Yao's 40,000 troops, then Liu Yao will only have 10,000 troops in each of the two cities. It will be much easier to attack the city, and then he can easily capture Wujun.

Zhu Zhi frowned slightly and said, "It's just that we have no reason to fight, and at this time..."

"Humph..." Zhou Yu laughed contemptuously, "How can we have no reason to fight? Liu Yao is the governor of Yangzhou and a relative of the Han Dynasty, but he doesn't think about serving the country and is secretly communicating with the traitor Yuan Shu. Everyone can kill him!"

Everyone was stunned. When did Liu Yao secretly communicate with Yuan Shu? Sun Jing slammed the table in front of him and said, "Yes, Yuan proclaimed himself emperor, and the current emperor called for an attack on the traitor, but Liu Yao did not move his troops. If it wasn't secretly communicating with the traitor, then why?"

"Yes!"

"Yes, it was secretly communicating with the traitor!"

The rest of the people also reacted and expressed their agreement.

Sun Ce was also very excited when he saw Zhou Yu refute everyone with just a few words. However, even so, the generals still had doubts about sending troops.

Finally, under Zhou Yu's persuasion, everyone reluctantly agreed to mobilize the troops first and wait for a month of training. After all, Jianye now has less than 40,000 troops. If something really happens, it may be too late to mobilize troops. However, they still did not agree to the matter of sending troops, but they were not as firmly opposed as at the beginning.

Sun Ce was very anxious when he saw this, and when he was about to speak again, he was stopped by Zhou Yu's eyes.

After all the generals withdrew, Sun Ce asked Zhou Yu the reason. Zhou Yu said: "Brother Bofu, don't worry, train the troops first. It's still early now, and the rest of the things will be done slowly."

In desperation, Sun Ce could only give up and immediately ordered soldiers from various counties to go to Jianye. He trained the soldiers with all his strength and left the matter of persuading the generals to Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu lived up to expectations and persuaded most of the generals within a month. They finally decided to send troops according to Zhou Yu's strategy. However, all the generals requested that if Liu Yao did not fight as Zhou Yu expected, the army should not attack Danyang by force.

The most important reason why everyone agreed to send troops to Dantu was that Zhou Yu convinced them with a reason: Dantu could buy war horses.