Chapter 670
Guan Yu traveled day and night to Shaopi.
Wu Jing was worried. Sun Jian was besieging the city of Shu County, and most of the food was transported from Runan, transited in Shaopi, and then transported to Shu County. The supply line was relatively long. Sun Jian gave him five thousand people, but he was still stretched and did not dare to be careless. Although Zhou Ang had no ability and the combat effectiveness of the county soldiers was also very poor, he had a lot of troops and was entangled like a mangy dog. No matter how much suffering he suffered, he refused to retreat. The constant harassment made Wu Jing not have a time to breathe.
Sun Jian also knew that Zhou Ang wanted to avenge Zhou Yu, so he sent him here because the Zhou brothers were both scholars, and they were very good at talking about it. The war was very bad. Wu Jing was enough to deal with it and did not need to mobilize the main generals such as Cheng Pu. After Zhu Zhi and Sun Ben led one by one, he joined the northern defense line, there were not many generals under Sun Jian. Siege was a big deal and he had to do his best.
There is indeed nothing wrong with this arrangement, but Wu Jing was also overwhelmed by Zhou Ang. He regretted it a little. If he had known this, it would be better to stay in Pingyu after Sun Ce's advice. Unfortunately, it is too late to say this now, and he must find a way to solve Zhou Ang's trouble. If he can't even handle a scholar, he will not want to win one alone in the future. Be honestly a lieutenant of the baggage camp.
The best way is to kill Zhou Ang. Zhou Ang has poor military skills and is even more slack in training. The soldiers of Jiujiang County are just a group of mobs. If Zhou Ang dies, the soldiers of Jiujiang County will be defeated. However, it is not easy to kill Zhou Ang, because there are many soldiers in Jiujiang County, and Zhou Ang is self-aware and never comes to the front line in person. He always commands behind him. When he sees the situation is not good, he turns around and runs away. Wu Jing has insufficient troops and has to protect food, grass and supplies, for fear of being burned by Zhou Ang, so he dare not chase him too hard, so he can only drive Zhou Ang away.
Guan Yu's arrival gave Wu Jing a glimmer of hope. Guan Yu brought Sun Ce's handwritten letter. Sun Ce explained the situation in detail. Qin Song had rushed to Shu County. He would suggest Sun Jian to change his tactics and first solve the counties around Shu County, and solve the food and grass on the spot. Wu Jing's mission is no longer to protect the supply line, but to attack Jiujiang and resolve the war as quickly as possible.
According to Sun Ce's deployment, Wu Jing's task was not lighter, but heavier. Of course, he would have made greater contributions to taking Jiujiang. For Wu Jing, this was a rare opportunity. Guan Yu was the knife given to him by Sun Ce. Sun Ce said, you must use this knife well and give full play to his role. He may have to leave at the end of this battle, and he would have no chance to use it in the future.
Wu Jing put away the letter, looked at Guan Yu in front of him, and thought about Sun Ce's subtext. Sun Ce could not have written everything in the letter, and he had some intentions to think about it himself. Guan Yu wanted to leave with Liu Bei, no matter what the reason, he was not Sun Ce's person anyway. Since that's the case, there was no need to care about his life and death, and everything was aimed at completing the task.
"Bo Fu is really considerate to me, my uncle." Wu Jing sighed: "He sent Qin Song, Gan Ning to help his father break Lujiang, and to help me break Jiujiang. He knew that I was unable to reach the point, so he sent Yun Chang to help me. Yun Chang, please."
Guan Yu rushed here from Wancheng without hesitation, not only to ask Huang Chengyan to build a weapon for him, but also to compete with Gan Ning. His duel with Gan Ning was in no time and he could not decide the outcome. Now that there is a situation, he will naturally not let it go. He not only wants to help Wu Jing conquer Jiujiang, but also to be ahead of Gan Ning.
He had sufficient confidence in this. Whether it was martial arts or military skills, he believed that he was better than Gan Ning. What was Gan Ning? It was just a thief, and it was okay to take hundreds of thieves in the river to rob the house, but it was a bit embarrassing him to form a formation. But he was different. He participated in wars many times, some even had a battle of tens of thousands of people, and was experienced. Recently, he learned a lot of military training methods. It was easy to defeat Zhou Ang's scholar.
Faced with Wu Jing's entrustment, Guan Yu agreed with pleasure. "Guan was entrusted by the general to challenge the rebellion and was willing to help the commander with his armed force."
He said he wanted to serve the lieutenant, but his expression was clearly that you were watching from the side, seeing how I cut off Zhou Ang's head and how I beat Jiujiang down to give you. Wu Jing had long heard of the pride of Guan Yunchang. When he saw this, the rumors were true. If Sun Ce had not been before, and had been annoyed by Zhou Ang recently, he would have almost driven Guan Yu out.
"What are the plans of Yunchang?"
Guan Yu had already prepared, spread the map, and talked about his plan. "The army is in the elite, not in the many. Ask the commander to assign five hundred elite troops to me, and then spread the news, saying that General Sun's attack was not going well and he wanted to transfer the commander to reinforce. After the commander left, Zhou Ang learned that Shaobi's troops were insufficient, so he would come to rob the grain. At that time, Guan attacked and beheaded his head. The commander then rushed forward. After the defeat, the people were unstable, and Yinling could go down in one go."
Guan Yu talked freely, and Wu Jing nodded while listening, thinking that although Guan Yu was crazy, this method was good. If it was done properly, there would be a chance to succeed. He agreed and asked Guan Yu to pick people by himself. Guan Yu was not polite, so he went to the camp to select 500 elite soldiers, and asked Wu Jing to fill in their armor, swords and shields, kill two cows to feast for the soldiers, and improve morale.
Wu Jing immediately sent someone to spread the news that he would reinforce Shucheng by Sun Jian's order. For safety, he transported all the baggage to Lu'an, and then left with 4,000 people.
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Zhou Ang got off the carriage, pulled his sleeves, and flattened his wrinkled sleeves. Then he looked up at Cheng Deling and Hu Min who came to greet him, and said lightly: "Where is Liu Ziyang?"
Hu Min bowed and said, "The Lord of the Mansion was here, and the lower officials immediately sent someone to inform the Liu family. However, Liu Ye went out for a trip half a month ago and has not returned yet. Now he has his brother Liu Huan here. If the Lord of the Mansion has any doubts, ask him."
Liu Huan flashed out from behind Hu Min and bowed to Zhou Ang. Zhou Ang frowned, looked Liu Huan up and down, shook his sleeves, but ignored Liu Huan. Liu Huan was embarrassed and retreated awkwardly. Hu Min was also embarrassed. Zhou Ang blamed him for his poor work. But he had no choice. Zhou Ang thought about seeing Liu Ye, but Liu Ye didn't want to see him.
Zhou Ang was in a very good mood and was even a little depressed. He and Chen Deng joined forces to resist Sun Jian's attack. Chen Deng guarded Shucheng and restrained Sun Jian's main force. He led Jiujiang County soldiers to attack Sun Jian's supply line. He thought he was easy to capture, but he didn't expect that Wu Jing's troops were very elite. Although there were few people, they had strong combat power. The Jiujiang County soldiers he led were defeated repeatedly and were not at all cheap. Fortunately, Chen Deng was tenacious and Sun Jian had not been able to conquer Shucheng yet, so he had to transfer Wu Jing to reinforce. Wu Jing took away most of his troops, and now only a thousand people were stationed in Lu'an, giving him a chance.
A rare fighter jet appeared and passed by Chengde, so he wanted to visit Cai. A few days ago, he received a letter from Xu Shao, saying that Chengde had a young man named Liu Ye, who was a talented person from Zuoshi, and could be of great use. He had a long battle and was not good at it. When he needed talents, he was naturally happy to receive this news. He specially sent someone to inform Hu Min, asking him to inform Liu Ye to come to see him, and was preparing to make him an official and lead him to the left and right.
Unexpectedly, Liu Ye didn't even take a look at him.
A frivolous person is useless. Xu Shao is indeed an exaggeration. No wonder he can't stay in Runan anymore and can only go to Yuzhang.
Chapter completed!