Chapter 1099: Attacking Changsha City
Sun Ce stayed in the Sun family's manor for a day, and then returned to the army.
The army of hundreds of thousands has now become a soft-footed shrimp, and when Zhang Yu starts to attack, they will inevitably be under great pressure.
Sun Ce called Zhou Yu to sum up.
"Zhang Yu's offensive is imminent, even if we don't attack, we will be very uncomfortable for a month or two, and now, we don't even have the confidence to fight a decisive battle." Sun Ce sighed.
Zhou Yu could feel Sun Ce's thick depression.
Sun Ce was a proud man, but now he was forced to be like this.
"I'll go up to the city and have a look."
After Sun Ce finished speaking, he left directly without waiting for Zhou Yu to say anything.
On the top of the city, the soldiers at the head of the city were loyal to their duties, but Sun Ce found that their state was not good.
The lack of salt has not been paid attention to before.
This is also because Zhang Yu controlled the salt.
His sea salt, which defeated all other table salts, was monopolized by his family, so it could only be purchased through him.
Then, due to the war, the price of salt more than doubled, resulting in insufficient reserves, and then Zhang Yu sent people to burn all the salt.
At this time, the situation is serious, there is a large-scale shortage of salt, hundreds of thousands of troops in the city, there is no salt to eat, and the problem is concentrated and exposed.
The soldiers did not have the strength to fight.
Sun Ce looked out of the city, the army outside the city was busy, they were going to fill in the moat, and then they would start attacking.
Once attacked, can this group of limp soldiers block it?
Sun Ce already knew the ending, but he was unwilling.
He even thought of surrendering, but he was not reconciled.
After inspecting the city, the soldiers were lifeless and weak.
If it was any other time, Sun Ce would definitely whip them hard, but not now, it was not the soldier's fault, but his own fault.
After another two days, Zhang Yu had already filled in the moat.
Fill in the moat, and the battle is about to begin.
Zhang Yu asked people to start preparing.
When Zhang Yu was preparing, Cao Cao and Cai Mao were also very anxious.
The battle situation did not exceed their expectations.
Zhang Yu drove all the way in, and then after occupying a few places, the offensive slowed down again, and began to slowly build his logistics base.
After the logistics base was completed, the attack was carried out slowly.
On this day, Cao Cao called several henchmen and Cao Ang as well.
After a period of cultivation, Cao Cao's body has improved a lot, but now he still leaves many things to Cao Ang to do.
"Zhang Yu has surrounded Changsha City, this Changsha City may be able to hold on for a year and a half, but we can't rule out accidents, if we help from the side, if this Changsha City can hold out for two years, Zhang Yu will have a relatively big problem, at least within three or five years, unable to go west." Cao Cao said.
According to estimates, Sun Ce's army of 500,000 people, Zhang Yu wants to break through Changsha City, and he has to send troops from so far away, and he has to do it with all his national strength.
With the use of hundreds of thousands of troops, plus losses, Zhang Yu filled in an army of 400,000 to 800,000.
The losses of these troops, combined with all kinds of attrition, must have exhausted the national strength and could not recover within three or five years.
After Cao Cao finished speaking, Cheng Yu said: "Lord, this Zhang Yu is not easy to deal with, he has already taken precautions in Yanzhou, and directly let Gao Shun station, we will mobilize the army first and threaten Zhang Yu, and then we can only slowly find an opportunity." ”
In fact, everyone has doubts, afraid that something will happen, and this Zhang Yu can always make many things strange.
They had to be careful, and they didn't even believe that Zhang Yu didn't have a backhand.
"We must jointly send troops, otherwise Changsha will not last long, the longer they hold out, the more opportunities we have, now we maintain an army of one million, it is difficult, we must vigorously reform and develop, in order to deal with the threat of Zhang Yu." Cao Cao directly set the tone, and everyone could only plan in this direction.
Several people began to plan, intending to send troops in two directions.
Jia Xu said: "Let Cai Mao send troops, set off to Zhang Yu's logistics base, and let the fleet move on Dongting Lake, even if you can't win, it can greatly slow down Zhang Yu's offensive, and we also send troops in the north and central regions, even if it is a confrontation, it will cause a great burden to Zhang Yu." ”
Cao Cao and others agreed and decided to send troops to interfere with Zhang Yu.
However, this is not something that can be done in a short period of time, and coordinating Cai Mao is not a simple matter.
Cao Cao immediately sent someone to contact Cai Mao.
And Zhang Yu here has already begun to attack.
After the moat was filled, Zhang Yu's army was deployed.
After the army was deployed, all kinds of siege equipment were pushed up.
There is no stone throwing cart, so I don't want to use it for the time being.
"Let the soldiers, keep the high-intensity attack, and fight for two days first to see the situation."
Zhang Yu led an army of 300,000 and began to attack.
The four city gates, each with tens of thousands of Fuso troops, will take the lead.
There is a Fuso army, and the generals are more bold when they use it.
Dian Wei was the most excited, and he hadn't been able to fight well for a few months.
The armies moved.
"Attack."
Zhang Yu gave an order, and several armies began to attack.
The armies attacked, and at the beginning, a group of troops who had been holding back for an unknown amount of time attacked with all their might.
The young generals even led people directly to the city.
The archers under the city attacked directly and were not afraid of death at all.
The morale of the whole army is very high, which is very rare.
The army broke out with very strong combat effectiveness at the very beginning.
Less than half an hour after the station opened, some soldiers even climbed to the top of the city, but they were quickly driven down.
At the head of the city, Sun Ce and other generals and high-ranking officials all went to the city to check.
Sun Ce's face turned blue.
"The morale of the enemy is so high that we estimate that it will last for a year and a half, and we are a little optimistic." Sun Ce said in a low voice, only Zhou Yu and Huang Gai and a few other generals could hear it.
Zhou Yu observed carefully, no matter how resourceful he was, it was very difficult at this time.
"Our soldiers, who have not had salt for a long time, really greatly affected their combat effectiveness."
When the battle first started, I didn't see that the soldiers still had high combat effectiveness under the stimulation.
However, after half an hour or so, the situation was revealed.
The archers did not have the strength to pull the bowstring, and just shot a few arrows, they had no strength.
This was very serious, and the offensive immediately slowed down.
Many problems were exposed in the city, and Sun Ce sent several generals to deal with them everywhere.
I didn't expect the lack of table salt to be so serious.
A large number of soldiers had no strength because of the lack of salt.
Carrying stones and rolling wood to hit people, because there is no strength, so the speed is much slower, with arrows, after pulling the bow and arrow a few times, there is no strength, and you have to change people.
However, after a change of people, the situation is still the same.
When the substitution was made, the army under the city was immediately given an opportunity to break through the city several times.
But in the end, they didn't succeed, and they were all driven down again.
The situation is not optimistic, the battle is half a day, half a day, they suffered heavy losses.
Zhang Yu was very surprised, he didn't expect the result to be so good.
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