457, Wu County, Huiji War
For these two defeats, Tai Shici was also impressed in his heart, and he had nothing to say about the loss.
It can only be said that Zhou Yu is steady and ruthless every time he goes out to fight, and he is at the stage when Tai Shici's Divine Arrow Battalion has just defeated the enemy army and chased down the defeated enemy army and is relaxed.
At this time, the sudden change made the mentality of the Divine Arrow Battalion soldiers on Tai Shici's side a little unable to react, and they couldn't turn around for a while.
To tell the truth, it was also thanks to the well-trained soldiers of Tai Shi Ci's Divine Arrow Battalion, and at a critical time, the soldiers who were scattered by Zhou Yu's army were able to form a small army formation to counterattack, so that Tai Shi Ci was raided by Zhou Yu twice, and he did not really suffer a big defeat of the entire army.
Of course, it is also because the troops led by Zhou Yu are still a new army after all, and they lack some lethality on the battlefield, so in addition to occupying some advantages with the help of surprise attacks at the beginning, they will gradually become weak and weak on the battlefield with the well-trained response of the soldiers of the Tai Shi Ci Divine Arrow Battalion, so that they cannot completely defeat the soldiers of the Tai Shi Ci Divine Arrow Battalion.
If the soldiers led by Zhou Yu also have the same training degree and combat effectiveness as the soldiers of the Divine Arrow Battalion, I am afraid that the Divine Arrow Battalion can still have two thousand remnants now, it will already be a blessing.
After thinking about it carefully, Tai Shi Ci could only secretly be frightened, and carefully warned himself that he must be careful to leave reserve troops in the future, or carefully probe the situation around the battlefield to prevent such a thing from happening again.
Anyway, Wang Yuyan received the news from Tai Shici, and in addition to her initial surprise, she could only sigh that Zhou Yu was really extraordinary, and he could fight such a war with the rabble under his command, and it was indeed impossible to give Zhou Yu and Sun Ce more opportunities to develop and grow.
Fortunately, now that Wang Yuyan's overall situation in Jiangdong has been laid out, now she is just embezzling Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's troops step by step.
Soon Wang Yuyan sent troops from Moling County to Danyang City, but left Yu Yu with 3,000 Liu Xuan's old soldiers to guard Moling County, so as not to let Sun Ce's troops easily take it back and cut off the grain route of Wang Yuyan's army on land.
Halfway through, Wang Yuyan also joined the army of the 6,000 Divine Arrow Battalion led by Tai Shici, so that Wang Yuyan's army recovered to nearly 20,000, and the army she commanded was already close to the direction of Danyang City.
However, at this time, news came from Danyang City, Sun Ce had broken through Danyang City, and the seriously ill Liu Xuan, under the protection of the remnants of the soldiers led by Hua Xin and Zhang Ying, had withdrawn to the direction of the Yangtze River and joined the Jiangling Army of Cai Mao, who led the troops to the east of the Yangtze River.
As for the more than 20,000 Jiangling naval troops led by Cai Mao, they have also occupied two important places on the Yangtze River, Dantu County (now Zhenjiang area) and Jiyang Township (now Jiangyin area) in Piling County, especially Jiyang Township in Piling County, where Sun Ce's army attacked Jiangdong and crossed the river into Wu County.
This Jiyang Township of Biling County is where the Jiangyin section of the Yangtze River is located in the later generations, this river is the narrowest area of the Yangtze River, and the Yangtze River suddenly tightens here, and then releases in the shape of a trumpet.
Therefore, Jiangyin has always been the "first fortress" guarding the throat of the Yangtze River in later generations.
Of course, at this time, the Jiangyin section of the Yangtze River, which is located in Jiyang Township, Biling County, has not been taken too seriously, after all, the whole world was originally unified by the Eastern Han Dynasty, and naturally there is nothing to do with the Jiangyin section of the Yangtze River, which is the throat of the Yangtze River.
Besides, Wu County was originally under the control of Xu Gong, the Taishou of Wu County, and Xu Gong didn't pay attention to this side, so it was naturally not easy for Liu Xuan in Danyang City to interfere more.
In fact, in the original history, the area controlled by the Sun clan of Eastern Wu also crossed the Yangtze River and included a certain area of Guangling County, so this section of the Jiangyin River also belonged to the internal territory of Eastern Wu, so that in this year, the Jiangyin River section does not belong to the important place of river defense that has been taken seriously.
However, as Zhu Wei affected the situation in Jiangdong and Sun Ce had no choice but to retreat to Guangling County, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu naturally thought about Jiangdong's territory and often thought about how to cross the Yangtze River from Guangling County so that they could launch an invasion war against Jiangdong.
In this way, the two of them quickly discovered the significance of this side of the Jiangyin River for crossing the Yangtze River, so Sun Ce and Yan Baihu secretly contacted and reached an alliance agreement.
Then, with the secret help of Yan Baihu, Sun Ce crossed the river from Jiangyin and directly attacked Wu County, the old nest of Xu Gong, the Taishou of Wu County, and defeated Sun's first battle in Jiangdong.
Yan Baihu crossed the Taihu Lake from Wucheng and sent troops from the south side of Wu County, so that he could flank Wu County with Sun Ce from the north, but Xu Gong of Wu County was defeated and died after failing to resist for long under the attack from the north and south.
After that, Sun Ce returned to the west to attack Danyang City, and Yan Baihu returned to the south to attack Qiantang County, triggering the subsequent Jiangdong Change.
But now, under Wang Yuyan's arrangement, Cai Mao's more than 20,000 Jiangling naval troops are on the Yangtze River, and naturally no opponent can stop them, so Cai Mao's Jiangling naval army easily occupied two important places on the Yangtze River in Dantu and Jiyang Township, Biling County, completely cutting off Sun Ce's retreat to Guangling County.
The main geographical location of Dantu County is special, the east and north sides are adjacent to the Yangtze River, to the west is connected to Jurong, to the south is where Danyang City is located, so the occupation of Dantu County is equivalent to revitalizing the main road for Zhu Wei's army to enter the area controlled by Sun Ce through the Yangtze River.
Previously, Tai Shici landed in Dantu County with the help of waterways, and then came to Jurong County to the west, controlling the county seat between Moling County and Danyang County.
As for Cai Mao's army, after occupying Dantu County, it did not directly send troops to rescue Danyang City, but continued to follow the Yangtze River to the east and occupied Jiyang Township, Biling County, before sending troops ashore to recover Wu County, the seat of Wu County.
Although Wu County was jointly captured by Sun Ce and Yan Baihu, according to the secret agreement of Sun Ce and Yan Baihu, Wu County seems to be handed over to Yan Baihu's territory, so the army stationed in Wu County also belongs to Yan Baihu.
An ordinary general under Yan Baihu commanded more than a thousand troops, guarding the county town that now seemed to be in the rear.
As for Yan Baihu and his younger brother Yan Yu, they led the main force of their subordinates, but they confronted Wang Lang's army on the side of Qiantang County, so that after Cai Mao's army landed from Jiyang Township, they almost followed the original route of Sun Ce's attack on Wu County, and recovered Wu County with almost no effort.
Yan Baihu's subordinates, who were guarding Wu County, did not expect that anyone would attack Wu County, so Cai Mao sent his brother Cai Xun to lead 5,000 Jiangling sailors to easily capture Wu County, which had no defense.
After that, Cai Mao led the navy to sail along the waterway connecting the Yangtze River to Taihu Lake, and made a gesture to attack Wucheng, Yan Baihu's lair, and once again made most of the counties and townships of Wu County surrender to Cheng without much effort along the way.
The news quickly spread to Yan Baihu in Qiantang County, and Yan Baihu also hurriedly withdrew from Qiantang County, preparing to protect his nest in Wucheng County.
In this way, the crisis on Wang Lang's side was resolved, but Wang Lang's side also sent the military general Zhou Xin and the famous man Kan Ze, who had just arrived in Jiangdong, to send troops to Wucheng with the soldiers of Huiji, preparing to unite with Zhu Wei's Cai Mao to exterminate Yan Baihu's sect and thieves......