Chapter 526: War on All Sides, the Arrow Is on the String
"Are they loaches?"
After chasing for nearly an incense stick of time, Xu Rong couldn't help but say angrily. During this incense stick of time, he and two other first-class generals chased the 100-man cavalry for a whole incense stick of time, but in the end they didn't catch anyone, and the other side was still galloping on the battlefield without scruples.
"Don't chase them anymore, General. They are obviously avoiding us."
"Yes, they would rather not take action than avoid us. If this continues, we will suffer greatly."
Neither of them suggested to continue chasing. They were all veterans of the Sand City who had climbed up step by step from soldiers. Although this situation was rare, it was not new, so they both suggested that Xu Rong stop chasing.
Xu Rong's eyes were about to spit fire, but he also knew that continuing to drag it out would only make it more and more disadvantageous for them.
"Go kill the enemy, kill as fast as possible, compete with them, see who kills faster!"
As Xu Rong gave the order, the two first-class generals behind him rushed into the battlefield without any hesitation, and started a crazy killing on the battlefield. Bai Lingwei didn't care at all. After they found that Xu Rong was not chasing him, they turned around and started a large-scale killing of Xu Rong's cavalry.
The two sides seemed to have started a competition to see who killed faster.
Sun Quan was on the city wall, looking at the battlefield indifferently, with his hands clasped together, his two thumbs turning back and forth, and I don't know what he was thinking about.
After Bai Lingwei joined the battlefield, the combat power of the two sides reached a strange balance. This balance was formed by Sun Quan's cavalry, Xu Rong's cavalry, Bai Lingwei, and Xu Rong. The four sides were like a pyramid, with combat power from high to low, and the consumption speed of soldiers on both sides was almost the same.
Sun Quan suddenly turned his head and looked into the distance, and then sneered.
"Okay, let's stop here."
Sun Quan's voice was so small that no one nearby could hear it.
But not long after he finished speaking, the 10,000-man sailor finally joined the battlefield as infantry.
Xu Rong discovered this army as soon as it appeared, but he did not show any nervousness. No, it should be said that there was no change.
Seeing the sailors waving swords and shields and charging, they were getting closer and closer to the battlefield, and a smile appeared on Sun Quan's face.
"Hahaha, Zhang Liao is going to die, and you are going to die too. I will annihilate your two troops at once, hahaha."
Sun Quan laughed crazily. If he killed Zhang Liao, he could break his inner demons and destroy the army in front of him. He could show his ability in front of Sun Jian. Thinking of this, Sun Quan laughed even happier.
But his smile soon froze on his face, because a troop that came out of nowhere suddenly blocked the sailors and the battlefield. That troop had only more than 3,000 people, and everyone was wearing heavy armor and holding a big knife, just blocking the 10,000-man sailor.
"Kill!"
The commander of the White Tiger Sun Devouring Guard roared, raised his sword, and started to charge. The two sailor commanders who were in the front also held swords and shields and met the commander of the White Tiger Sun Devouring Guard.
The commander fought one against two, and slashed at one of them with a sword. The man naturally raised his shield to block, but the commander's powerful and heavy sword slashed into the shield, leaving a huge knife mark on the wooden shield.
The huge force directly knocked the man out, causing him to fall heavily to the ground, and then began to vomit blood.
The other person looked at the scene in front of him in a daze. He and the man who fell were both second-rate generals. If he could slash him away with a sword, then the other party should at least be a first-rate general. When the other person heard the whistling sound in his ear, it was too late to hide. A cold light flashed, and a head flew up.
As the man who just fell stood up, the commander attacked him again. After the two exchanged a few moves, another body fell to the ground.
More than 3,000 people blocked the way of 10,000 sailors and successfully stopped them, preventing the sailors from advancing an inch, and even seemed to be trying to repel them.
There was no surprise on Xu Rong's face. They were supposed to appear here with Wei Yan, but halfway through, Wei Yan temporarily returned to Jiangxia County City, so the White Tiger Sun Devouring Guard replaced Wei Yan's team and went to Wu County together.
Just now, the White Tiger Sun Devouring Guard had been hiding in the dark until the sailors went to battle, and then the White Tiger Sun Devouring Guard also joined the battlefield.
Although the White Tiger Sun Devouring Guard only had the basic attributes of a top third-rate general, more than 3,000 of them had the attributes of a top third-rate general, and they also enjoyed the special arms with high attribute bonuses from Gu Rubing and his subordinates. The impact they could produce on this battlefield was even stronger than that of an ordinary 10,000-man cavalry army.
Even to stop the 10,000 sailors, there was no need for so many White Tiger Sun Devouring Guards. Only 2,500 White Tiger Sun Devouring Guards were needed to easily stop them. The remaining nearly 1,000 White Tiger Sun Devouring Guards even came to the cavalry battlefield, fighting with infantry against cavalry.
In one night, four battlefields started fighting at the same time, even more than during the day.
In Yangzhou Wujun Hutiaojian, Zhang Liao led 3,300 cavalry to fight against Lu Xun's 10,000 cavalry. The horse-blocking formation killed people in all directions. More than 4,000 of Lu Xun's men had died in the battle, but they had not yet rushed into Hutiaojian.
In Wujun County, Sun Quan led 11,000 cavalrymen and 10,000 sailors, as well as the Bailing Guards, to fight against Xu Rong's 10,000 cavalrymen and 3,400 White Tiger Devouring Sun Guards. Except for the Bailing Guards, the others did not pose any threat.
In the northeast battlefield of Nanjun County, Jingzhou, Ma Chao, Zhang He, and Taishi Ci, three famous generals, fought against Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, and Xu Chu. Ma Chao seriously injured Xiahou Yuan at the cost of his own injury and was fighting with Xiahou Dun. Zhang He and Taishi Ci fought against Cao Ren, Xu Chu, and two quasi-famous generals. In addition, Zang Ba and his three men fought against the other four quasi-famous generals. Although they were defeated, they could barely resist under the formation. The 250,000 troops fought against Cao Cao's 380,000 troops.
In the battlefield west of Nanjun County, 100,000 troops fought against 150,000 troops from Yizhou. Pang De was promoted to a famous general in the battle with Zhang Ren. Zhang Ren no longer hid his weakness and used his signature double-edged spear, and Pang De gradually lost.
In the battlefields around and Yangzhou, Gu Rubing firmly occupied the advantage, and both Sun Quan and Lu Xun were facing a situation of being helpless, because if Sun Jian wanted to rush back to Wujun County from Jiangxia County, even if the cavalry marched quickly, it would take at least four or even five hours. At that time, Sun Quan took Bailingwei and several first-class generals to take a shortcut, and it took a full four and a half hours to rush back.
This can only be done at any cost. If they march normally, they will probably need a whole day to barely rush back. But at that time, Wujun might have been conquered, and there was no point in rushing back. Moreover, Sun Jian had no intention of retreating. He knew very well that it was too late to rush back now, so it was better to fight vigorously.
This idea coincided with Gu Rubing. He planned to take Zhang Fei, Wei Yan and the remaining cavalry to Nanjun together to have a decisive battle with Cao Cao in Nanjun. Because Cao Cao didn't know that he had solved Sun Jian's problem here and had freed up his hands, Gu Rubing planned to take advantage of the information gap again and catch him off guard.
At this moment, in the camp of Sun Jun, Zhou Yu, Gan Ning, Huang Gai, and Cheng Pu, four famous generals, were sitting in Zhou Yu's tent. Three of them witnessed what Sun Jian did, and Gan Ning also knew the truth from Zhou Yu's description.
The four had been silent for a long time, and no one knew what to say.
On the other side, Sun Jian was sitting alone in a big tent. Next to Sun Jian, there was a burly man who was constantly rubbing his neck.
"Father, Dian Wei turned around and ran away when he saw that I was no match for him. Is it necessary to cooperate with such people?"
Those people were Sun Jian. He felt as if his neck was broken. He knew that he had been unconscious for several hours. He had been dreaming for several hours. In his dream, he was constantly having his neck broken and then came back to life.
Now that I think about it, it might have been twisted when he was unconscious.
Sun Jian observed Sun Ce twisting his neck, hesitated for a moment, and still did not tell Sun Ce how Zhang Fei abused him. After all, this fact was really a bit hurtful to his self-esteem.
His second son was tortured by Zhang Liao, and he had to find a way to help him break his inner demons. Sun Jian did not want his eldest son to repeat the same mistakes as the second son.
Retracting his thoughts, Sun Jian looked at Sun Ce seriously.
"Bofu, the current situation is not that we can choose not to form an alliance. At this point, we must form an alliance, otherwise, we will be the first to be destroyed."
"Why? The relationship between us and Liu Bei is far worse than the relationship between Cao Cao and Liu Bei. If we don't form an alliance, Liu Bei should fight Cao Cao first."
Sun Ce asked with some doubts. He really didn't understand what Sun Jian said.
If we don't count the friction caused by the two wars with Liu Bei, then their grievances with Liu Bei only stayed in Xuzhou, but the two sides only fought around Xuzhou and never had a large-scale full-scale war. After forming an alliance with Cao Cao, they started two wars involving the entire Central Plains in a short period of time.
Needless to say, the result of the first war, they not only lost a huge number of troops and wasted a huge amount of financial resources, but also gave up half of Yuzhang County as compensation, in exchange for Liu Bei's withdrawal. On the other hand, Cao Cao not only did not suffer any loss in troops, but even used the power of the enemy to kill all the foreign tribes in the Western Regions. He also took advantage of the situation to collect all the gold, silver, treasures, jewels and jade in the Western Regions.
This time is also the same. Let's not talk about Dian Wei abandoning him and leaving. Cao Cao asked them to attack Jiangxia County, and they also had to face the harassment from Xuzhou. He was free and let Yizhou attack Nanjun, and he reaped the benefits.
In this case, he thought it was really unnecessary to continue the cooperation.
But Sun Jian only used eight words to dispel his doubts.
"The arrow is on the string, and it has to be shot!"
After hearing these eight words, Sun Ce was silent. Yes, the arrow is on the string now, and it has to be shot. If the alliance is cancelled at this time, then Jiangdong, the weakest of the three major princes, will definitely become the target of public criticism.
Liu Bei would want to destroy them, because that way he would no longer be attacked from both sides. For Liu Bei, there would be only benefits and no disadvantages. Moreover, with Liu Bei's current strength, he probably wouldn't need to use all his strength to destroy Jiangdong. After all, the battle in Jiangxia County is a good example.
Cao Cao would also regard Sun Jian as a thorn in his side, and he would like to eat them to strengthen his own strength, and even let him and Liu Bei form a situation of checks and balances between the north and the south.
In other words, once the alliance is lifted, there is a great possibility that they will be attacked by the crowd, so now being able to form an alliance with Cao Cao and contain Liu Bei has become their best choice.
Sun Ce was not convinced and wanted to say something else, but Sun Jian's next words dispelled his thoughts.
"Even if the alliance cannot be cancelled, this matter will never be let go. Don't worry, your father will definitely not let you suffer any grievances."
This sentence is just short of telling Sun Ce that no one can afford to offend us.
Sun Ce sighed slightly, he knew that this matter could only be left unresolved.
When he raised his head and wanted to discuss the next matters with Sun Jian, he suddenly found that Sun Jian was closing his eyes and his Adam's apple was moving.
He stopped what was on his lips. He knew about the voice transmission Gu, and he had one in his throat. However, he had no chance to transmit information on the battlefield, so he missed the opportunity to transmit intelligence to Sun Jian.
It can only be said that everything was too coincidental. Due to a series of mistakes, the situation that they had originally won was gradually unbalanced, and the balance of victory began to fall to Liu Bei.
Cao Cao, who was thousands of miles away, was frowning at this moment.
According to Sun Jian, Dian Wei left Sun Ce and returned to the direction of Yizhou, so he should have seen him now, but Dian Wei had not appeared here for a long time, which made Cao Cao worried.
The only people who can threaten Dian Wei in this world now are probably Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Coincidentally, according to what Sun Jian said, Zhang Fei is by Liu Bei's side, so what about Guan Yu? Need I say more? The answer is obvious. Guan Yu is now chasing Dian Wei. If he can hold Dian Wei for so long, then Dian Wei is very likely to have already...
Thinking of this, Cao Cao dared not think any further. Sun Jian had Huang Zhong, whom Liu Bei cared about, so he could use Huang Zhong's life to exchange for Sun Ce's life. What if Dian Wei was captured alive by Guan Yu? What bargaining chips did he have to save Dian Wei's life?
If there was no Dian Wei, how would he deal with himself in this war for the world?
"At all costs, capture the city of Nanjun and capture the enemy generals alive!"