The night is dark, and the heat is better than the day.

Sun Ce sat cross-legged on the bed alone, thinking hard about what to do next?

If time could be turned back, Sun Ce would choose to abandon Xiangyang and retreat to Jingnan, but unfortunately he couldn't, Sun Ce could only face the worsening situation.

According to Sun Ce's original plan, he controlled the six counties of Jingzhou, with nearly 200,000 troops and a population of 4 million; In addition, Jiangxia and Liu Biao, who are still breathing, are each other's horns, which can support at least about three years, and then the Western Han Dynasty court will be able to destroy Ma Teng, and then turn the spearhead to fight a decisive battle with the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then the Sun family can take the opportunity to gain a firm foothold in Jingzhou.

It's a pity that the situation did not develop according to Sun Ce's assumption, the desperate Liu Biao ended his life with a glass of poisonous wine, and the Jingxiang clan led by Cai Mao and Kuai Yue surrendered openly, and the Eastern Han army took Jiangxia bloodlessly. Then he turned around and assisted Yue Fei in attacking Sun Ce, causing the forces of both sides to disappear from the other, which led to a sharp turn for the worse in Sun's situation.

However, at this time, Sun Ce still had confidence, since ancient times, it was easy to defend the city and difficult to attack the city, and it was difficult to conquer it five times. Although the Eastern Han Dynasty gathered more than 300,000 troops to advance in three directions, it also had nearly 200,000 horses in its own hands, and the difference in strength between the two sides was less than twice that of the troops; If the strategy is right, it can hold out for a year or two, and then the Western Han Dynasty will definitely send troops to attack the Eastern Han Dynasty.

But what disappointed Sun Ce was that Yang Su and Zhu Yuanzhang advanced together in two ways, and they failed to destroy the Xiliang Army before the cold winter last year; This will definitely make the Western Han Dynasty continue to be dragged in the Yongliang area, and it will not be able to send troops in time to save the Sun family from fire and water.

The roof leak happened to be rainy and rainy, and the ship was late and encountered a head wind.

Just when Sun Ce was worried, Zhuge Liang used the "Kong Ming Lantern" to send a surprise soldier from the sky in the middle of winter last year. Conquer Wuling in one fell swoop, and behead Sun Jing. captured Taishou Lü Fan and cut off the connection between Jingnan and Jingbei in one fell swoop.

It was only at this time that Sun Ce panicked. Only then did he understand that if there was no timely reinforcement from the princes, the Sun family's ending would be the same as Liu Biao sooner or later!

However, even so, Sun Ce still has no intention of abandoning Xiangyang and fleeing south, because Sun Ce still has a way to deal with it, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, Sun Ce will not give up, "I retreat one foot, and the enemy advances one foot?" Where can you retreat? ”

Sun Ce's strategy was to marry Liu Bei, each with different goals. The two hit it off, and although they each had ghosts, they at least reached a superficial union. But what Sun Ce didn't expect was that Baimi finally had a mistake, and his favorite sister was captured by the Eastern Han Army.

Although Sun Ce was heartbroken, he had no choice, he couldn't surrender to Liu Wei for the sake of a younger sister, right? I can only hide my feelings of loss and continue to persevere.

Sun Ce believed that as long as Liu Bei was willing to send troops, the siege of Xiangyang could be resolved by joining forces with the outside and supporting it for another year and a half. After the Western Han Dynasty sent troops, it could reverse the decline, recapture Wuling, and open up the connection between Jingnan and Jingbei.

Speaking of which, Sun Ce's strategy of uniting Liu Bei is not wrong. In order to avoid the situation of cold lips and teeth, Liu Bei did his best and ordered Zhang Fei and Guan Yu to raise 100,000 troops to march in the army. It's a pity that Sun Ce doesn't understand Guan Yu. Even Liu Bei didn't see through Guan Yu, and Sun Ce didn't wait for reinforcements. Instead, he waited for the news of the fall of Gangneung, which made Xiangyang completely an isolated city.

Until when Ma Chaobing came to the city. Sun Ce suddenly realized that maybe it was a wrong decision to stick to Xiangyang. Liu Bei wanted to save himself but had more than enough strength, the Western Han Dynasty court was intrigued, and because of the extermination of Ma Teng, he was unable to send troops for a while, and Xiangyang could only be alone.

In this time of life, the best news for Sun Ce is that Sun Shangxiang has returned to his side, and he is unscathed and not hurt at all. This made Sun Ce happy at the same time, but he admired Liu Wei a little, and the hatred in his heart faded a lot.

"Speaking of which, this Liu Wei is also a big husband, no wonder he can rise strongly and make the Eastern Han Dynasty court prosperous!" Sun Ce commented on Sun Ce in his heart.

A rush of footsteps came from outside the door, Sun Ce hurriedly collected his thoughts, and looked intently, it was the military advisor Zhu Sheng who came.

"The military advisor came in such a hurry, what happened?" Sun Ce opened his eyes abruptly and asked in a deep voice.

Zhu Sheng didn't answer Sun Ce's words directly, but handed the letter he had just picked up to Sun Ce: "Lord, look at this." ”

Sun Ce took it and glanced at it quickly, and then scoffed: "Hmph...... Carving insect skills, this is Yue Fei deliberately disturbing the hearts of our army, don't pay attention to it! ”

"Lord, please listen to me." Zhu Sheng's tone was very solemn, "Whether this is Yue Fei's strategy to disrupt our army or not, we must take action, instead of continuing to sit back and wait for death." ”

Sun Ce sighed: "Alas...... I thought I would wait for Liu Bei's reinforcements, but now it seems hopeless! How long will the food in the city last? ”

"Half Moon!"

"What does the military advisor think our army should choose?"

"Breakout!"

After listening to Zhu Sheng's words, Sun Ce no longer hesitated: "Then gather all the people in the future to discuss the strategy of breaking through, if there will be an earthquake, it is Yue Fei's rumor, I think that at this moment, the Eastern Han army has set up an ambush on the way of our army's retreat." If you can't plan carefully, I'm afraid you won't be able to break out of the encirclement. ”

Soon, Zhou Dong, Zhang Ren, and Su Fei in Xiangyang City came to the conference hall as quickly as possible, and Zhang Dingbian and Sun Li, who were guarding Fancheng, also took a small boat and came to Xiangyang, which was only a river away, to discuss countermeasures.

Although Sun Ce had been sitting in the mansion and had not gone out, he could still hear the noisy voices and noises in the streets and alleys, frowning and asking, "What is the reaction of the people of Xiangyang and Fancheng now?" ”

Zhang Dingbian replied: "The rumors of the Han army have taken effect, and the people are so worried that they have taken their valuables and hid in the streets, and many people have gathered at the city gate to ask for the city gate to be opened and let them out of the city. The soldiers are trying their best to suppress it, but the people are gathering more and more, and if they don't use tough measures, they are afraid that they will not be able to suppress it! ”

"There's no need to suppress it, we're ready to abandon the city and break through!" Sun Ce waved his hand and informed the generals of his decision.

"After holding on for ten months, do you still want to give up?" Zhang Dingbian was a little unwilling, and said hatefully, "If you give me two more years of grain and grass, I will at least let the Han army fill 100,000 lives under Xiangfan City!" ”

Sun Ce sighed: "Alas...... Liu Bei's reinforcements were delayed, the vitality of the Western Han Dynasty was greatly damaged, and the three major factions were intrigued. Jiangling has fallen, Xiangyang is about to run out of food, and it can only be a dead end if you continue to defend it, so let's break through, at least there is hope to find a glimmer of life! ”

"Brother, or ...... Surrender, right? Sun Shangxiang bit his lip and spit out a sentence, "In this way, there will be no casualties among the soldiers, Liu Wei said that he will not only pardon you and the generals for their innocence, but also entrust you to reuse." ”

Sun Ce smiled: "The Sun family only has the heroic souls who died in battle, and there are no sons who bend their knees!" In the elder brother's mind, there is no such thing as surrender! ”

"But my uncle and cousin are still locked up in Gangneung, and if you are willing to surrender, brother, they will survive." Sun Shangxiang tried to convince his brother again.

Zhang Dingbian refused for Sun Ce: "What do you vote for?" We still have 70,000 or 80,000 horses in Jingnan, and the lord still has a way to retreat, why do you surrender lightly, please Miss Shangxiang don't say more, so as not to chill the hearts of the three armies! ”

Sun Ce waved his hand and motioned for Sun Shangxiang to retreat: "Okay, Shangxiang, go down and sleep for a while, recuperate, after we have discussed, it is likely that we will break through before dawn." I will let Uncle Zhou follow you to protect you! ”

After Sun Shangxiang retreated, Zhu Sheng began to plan the route of the breakthrough, pointing to the sand table on the table to analyze the pros and cons to the generals: "The north gate is Yue Fei's camp, and it must be the first to be ruled out." Not to mention that the south gate is Ma Chao's battalion, there are Jiangling, Gong'an, Wuling and other fortresses all the way to the south, and the Han army must be guarded layer by layer, and it is also sad. The east gate can reach Jiangxia by going down the river, but our army has insufficient warships, only about 20,000 people, and this road is more than 1,000 miles in the territory of the Eastern Han Dynasty, plus Han Shizhong's sailors held the route to land in Jingnan, this east gate is also impassable......"

"It seems that I can only go to the west gate to Shangyong and Hanzhong to go to Liu Bei!" Sun Ce and the generals agreed with Zhu Sheng's analysis, and at this moment they did not know the news of Liu Yu's betrayal of Liu Bei's self-reliance.

Next, the generals worked together to formulate a breakthrough strategy.

It was now ugly time, which was equivalent to one o'clock in the morning before Liu Wei crossed, and Sun Ce ordered the generals to return to the camp to order troops and prepare for a breakthrough. When the time came, the four gates of Xiangyang and Fancheng were opened together, and the people were released from the city, and then the 30,000 defenders in Xiangyang City took advantage of the chaos to quickly retreat from the west gate to Fancheng, and then landed at the west gate of Fancheng and retreated in the direction of Shangyong.

There are three roads to go from Fancheng to Shangyong, just like a "three" word parallel, which are three routes of Dengxian, Longzhong and Zhonglu. Zhu Sheng suggested that the troops break through in three ways, so as to disperse the forces of Yue Fei's army and avoid being blocked and completely annihilated on one route.

"I walked with the military advisor to Longzhong in the middle, Zhang Dingbian led his troops to take the right road to Deng County, and asked Uncle Zhou to protect Shangxiang in the middle of the left road, Sun Li, Zhang Ren, and Su Fei were the three generals. Finally, assemble around Gucheng and march westward! Sun Ce took the case and made the final decision.

"Do as your lord commands!" All the civil and military forces surrendered their orders together.

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly heard the crackling sound of the rubble on the roof, the sand table in the center of the council hall collapsed and shattered, the arrows on the table fell to the ground with a clatter, the weapon rack fell to the ground, and the swords, guns, swords, and halberds made a crisp metal crashing sound.

At this moment, everyone felt that the sky was spinning, the earth was shaking and roaring, the houses were shaking and trembling, the whole Xiangfan chickens and dogs were crowing, the war horses were neighing, and the people were whimpering, as if the end was coming!

"Oh no, it's an earthquake!" Sun Ce grabbed Zhu Sheng and rushed out of the meeting hall, and all the generals quickly rushed out of the room and into the courtyard.

The chamber shook a few times in violent tremors, the walls were torn, rubble fell to the ground, pillars were broken, and dust was flying. The entire city of Xiangyang was pitch black, and you couldn't see your fingers, only the sound of frightened dogs, the neighing of chaotic war horses, and the cries of children and daughters could be heard.

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