Chapter 342: Yangzhou Situation, Gu Rubing Returns to Qingzhou

"The decisive battle, the decisive battle, the decisive battle between Liu Caoxie and Sun Menghu, this battle between the two will tell who is the hero and who is the loser!"

"The result is beyond doubt, Liu Caoxie will definitely win, now Liu Caoxie's Yellow Turban Army reserves are already able to fight, plus now the three eastern counties of Yangzhou have lost their generals, Yuzhang County is about to be lost, not only that, now Sun Menghu's total army is only more than 200,000, plus Zhou Yu's remaining remnants, a total of less than 300,000 troops, Liu Caoxie's Yellow Turban Army reserves alone are as many as hundreds of thousands! Although these hundreds of thousands are not regular troops, even if they use human lives to pile up Sun Menghu, they can directly pile him to death."

"It's useless, those Yellow Turban reserves are usually good for small battles, but when encountering such a large-scale war, except Giving training to Sun Menghu's soldiers is probably useless, and Cao Zhonger will definitely make other moves, and will not let Liu Caoxie and Sun Menghu fight. "

"I don't agree with it. Cao Zhonger has a sinister character. He would rather teach me to betray the world than let the world betray me. Cao Zhonger must be happy to see the decisive battle between the two. No matter who wins or loses, it will not affect Cao Zhonger. If both lose, Cao Zhonger will reap the benefits. He would rather both suffer heavy losses, and he can recuperate on the side. With the rise and fall of one, Cao Zhonger will be the common ruler of the world in no time. "

"Why are Jiaozhou and Liangzhou so quiet during this period? The Central Plains has become a mess, and they are still keeping their troops in place. Can they really Sit still."

"Dude, do you think Liangzhou is quiet? Ma Teng and Han Sui have become enemies. They are now splitting Liangzhou and are cavalrying in the Gobi Desert. It's just that Ma Teng's live broadcast room is not very popular and has few fans, so you probably haven't paid much attention to them. The two brothers are really fighting to the death now. Ma Teng's son Ma Chao has personally led the troops and defeated Han Sui three times."

"During this period, I only paid attention to Liu Caoxie, Cao Zhonger, and Sun Menghu, the three war madmen. I can't even watch the live broadcast rooms of these three people, let alone other live broadcast rooms."

"Jiaozhou is like Yangzhou, they are all iron plates. All the seven counties of Jiaozhou respect Shi Xie as their lord, or are allies with Shi Xie. In addition, Shi Xie is not interested in this and has no desire to compete for the world, so he has always been in peace. In a corner, he never showed up. Shi Xie's live broadcast room was also very boring. Every day, he was busy with official business. It must be said that in reality, he must be worth at least tens of millions, otherwise it would be unfair for him to be so diligent now. "

"I originally thought that the combination of Cao Zhonger and Sun Menghu could beat Liu Caoxie back to the pre-liberation period, but I didn't expect that Liu Caoxie would be beaten up by the two men in the end. I can only say that Liu Caoxie has both strength and luck to get to this point. He can be called the biggest dark horse. He started out as a weaver and shoe seller, but became the biggest prince. It's amazing. "

The decisive battle between Gu Rubing and Sun Jian pushed the live broadcast rooms of both sides to the climax of the heat at the same time. Almost all netizens gathered in their live broadcast rooms, unwilling to miss a minute, fearing that a war that would affect the whole world would start at any time.

At the same time, the live broadcast rooms of other players became cold. Cao Cao, who was originally known as the three giants with Gu Rubing and Sun Jian, is now less and less popular. After all, Cao Cao has just suffered a defeat and is still in the repair stage. He will not make much movement in the short term, so some of Cao Cao's fans have also run to Gu Rubing and Sun Jian's live broadcast rooms, not wanting to miss this exciting battle.

Gu Yong, the governor of Nanchang, the county seat of Yuzhang County, is one of Sun Jian's capable subordinates and a first-class counselor. He has an important position among Sun Jian's subordinates. Otherwise, he would not have sent 50,000 troops to garrison Yuzhang County, let alone Gan Ning and Lu Xun, who are double first-class counselors and generals, to support Gu Yong.

In addition to the importance of Gu Yong, Yuzhang County also has a very important geographical location. Yuzhang County is the first line of defense against Jingzhou, and it is also the last line of defense of Jingzhou and Wu County. This means that as long as Yuzhang County is broken, the next one to be attacked is Wu County, the seat of Yangzhou, which is also Sun Jian's old nest.

Gan Ning, Lu Xun, and Gu Yong, a first-class general and two first-class counselors, can be said to attach great importance to the Jingzhou army. On the other hand, although the troops in Jingzhou are more sufficient, there is only one first-class general, Huang Zhong, and only one second-class counselor. Kuai Liang, who was originally going to come to Changsha County to take charge of the battlefield, was unable to come in the end for various reasons. Only Kuai Yue was still on his way.

Huang Zhong stationed his troops in Jianchang and looked at Jiancheng from afar. The next target must be Jiancheng. On the other hand, Gu Yong was stationed in Nanchang County, just waiting for Gan Ning and Lu Xun to arrive with the army. At that time, the war between the two sides might be imminent in Jiancheng. At that time, Jiancheng might become a Shura field. Not to mention ordinary people, even the possibility of soldiers surviving is very small. This is destined to be a fierce battle.

Huang Zhong and Gu Yong knew this, so both of them were keeping their troops in place and waiting.

Huang Zhong was waiting for a military advisor who could truly command the three armies. It was extremely important for an army to have a good military advisor or not. The difference in combat power was huge.

Gu Yong was waiting for Gan Ning, Lu Xun and reinforcements to arrive. After all, the Jingzhou Army had a full 200,000 troops, but he only had 50,000 troops. With a four-fold difference in troops, the Jingzhou Army could capture Nanchang City even if they attacked it forcefully.

Jiujiang County, Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei, Zhang He and more than 100,000 troops were blocked by Sun Jian and Sun Ce in Chengde Military Town. This military town was originally built by Sun Jian to radiate Xuzhou and Jingzhou. Therefore, a large amount of food and grass was stored in Chengde. Even if Zhang Fei and his men were trapped in the city and did not come out, they would have no problem holding on for a month. Even if they used large siege equipment to recapture Chengde Military Town, the desperate counterattack led by the three of them with 100,000 troops was also very terrifying.

Sun Jian was not stupid. He now knew Cao Cao's idea clearly. He first sent people to lobby him to form an alliance. The actual alliance was fake. It was true to use his own power to contain Liu Bei. Since the war began, it has been nearly ten days. He has not received any news from Cao Cao, and even the news he sent has not been replied. This situation made Sun Jian have to suspect that Cao Cao had betrayed the alliance and planned to use him as a gun.

But what Sun Jian didn't know was that Cao Cao did not betray the alliance. On the contrary, Cao Cao also contributed manpower. Although it was to seize Bingzhou, he still contributed a certain amount of effort.

What Sun Jian didn't know was that Cao Cao not only didn't break the covenant, but also thought that he had broken the covenant. Since then, there has been a gap between the two sides, and it may be difficult to join forces in the future.

So Zhuge Liang's most perfect move was to send Zhao Yun and Taishi Ci to lead all the scouts to intercept and kill all the messengers who delivered information between Cao Cao and Sun Jian. Otherwise, if the two had exchanged information, they would have launched a general attack on Gu Rubing long ago.

To this day, the strategy given by Zhuge Liang is still playing a huge role at this moment, and the ingenious plan he prepared before the war allowed Zhang Fei to go north and get rid of the pursuit of the enemy Sun Ce's army, and at the same time let Zhang He go to Jiujiang County to join Zhang Fei after rescuing Zhang Liao.

At the same time, after Zhao Yun failed to intercept any messengers from both sides for three days, he immediately turned his horse's head and set off for Jingzhou to borrow siege equipment from Jingzhou, which is why there are now five catapults and twenty giant crossbows transported to Chengde Military Town.

Not only that, Zhuge Liang also informed everyone that Sun Jian would definitely launch a large-scale attack, so that everyone could prepare in advance. It was really a well-thought-out plan.

On the other side, in Qingzhou, Gu Rubing had returned to the camp at this moment. There were only hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban reserves left. These Yellow Turban reserves were different from the army. The bonuses they enjoyed from military advisors and generals would be reduced by 50%, which made their combat power much weaker than Gu Rubing's army. Fortunately, the quantity could make up for the quality a little. In summary, these hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban reserves were roughly equivalent to 150,000 regular troops under Gu Rubing.

Although they were called Yellow Turban reserves, they could not enjoy the characteristic bonus of the Yellow Turban Army, because Zhang Jue was dead, the Yellow Turbans were destroyed, and the characteristic bonus from the Yellow Turban Army naturally disappeared.

Not only did Gu Rubing return to Jingzhou, Taishi Ci also led another 500 scouts back to Qingzhou. Now Sun Jian and Cao Cao are currently at odds with each other. Even if they get in touch, the two sides will no longer trust each other, let alone conclude an alliance. The effect of the alienation plan has been achieved.

In the camp, Gu Rubing and Zhuge Liang sat opposite each other to play chess, and Taishi Ci sat aside and waited for them. Gu Rubing knew a little about Go. In his previous life and the previous life before that, he cultivated it as a hobby. His skills cannot be said to be bad, but compared with Zhuge Liang, it was really a big witch meeting a small witch. After a few moves, Gu Rubing was forced into a dead end by Zhuge Liang. Helplessly, Gu Rubing had to resign on the chessboard.

"Mr.'s chess skills are as profound as his wisdom."

"My lord, you are too kind."

Zhuge Liang is still as celestial as a fairy.

"My lord, I went to the craftsman's shop yesterday and saw that Zhuge Liannu has made more than a thousand crossbows. Which army will you equip these crossbows to?"

"This type of continuous crossbow is a huge boost to combat effectiveness, but if the two armies are fighting, this type of crossbow will not be as effective as a single soldier. So my idea is to first equip these thousand crossbows to the thousand scouts led by Ziyi and Zilong. What do you think, sir and Ziyi?"

Gu Rubing told his plan. The role of scouts is more about reconnaissance and spying, but the situation has changed. Now the scouts, with the addition of various characteristics, have extremely strong single-soldier combat capabilities. If they can be equipped with Zhuge Liannu, then in small-scale encounters and battles, Gu Rubing's scouts will have an absolute advantage.

This is the first step of Gu Rubing's plan, to strengthen the scouts' individual combat capabilities to the extreme. Gu Rubing's second step is to build these scouts into special teams one after another, spread out, and form a group of several people. While completing tasks such as spying on intelligence, they can also carry out decapitation operations.

This is Gu Rubing's ultimate goal, to build an army of thousands of people, each of whom has the strength of a third-rate general, and with the addition of various weapons, they can reach the level of a second-rate general!

At that time, a second-rate general of a thousand people will be able to command them at will, and such a team will be more powerful and more deterrent than an army of tens of thousands of people.

"My lord's idea coincides with that of my minister."

Zhuge Liang nodded slightly. The original intention of Zhuge Liannu's design was to strengthen the combat capability of individual soldiers. If it is not equipped with scouts, the best choice is Zhang Fei's Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry, but Zhang Fei's Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry pays more attention to it. The speed is better in surprise attack, but the improvement with Zhuge Liannu is not that big, so giving it to the scout is the best choice, bar none.

Taishi Ci listened to the side and looked at the two of them with some confusion. Why did he know every word in what the master and the military advisor said, but how could he not recognize them when they were connected together?

Seeing Tai Shici's confused expression, the two of them smiled knowingly.

"Come on, Ziyi, let me show you the latest invention of the military advisor."

Gu Rubing stood up first and walked outside, followed closely by Zhuge Liang and Tai Shi Ci. The three of them arrived at the school grounds. Gu Rubing took the Zhuge Liannu from the hands of the soldiers on the side. Tai Shi Ci looked at Gu Ru Bing held the Zhuge Liannu in his hand and felt even more confused.

"My lord, isn't this just an ordinary crossbow? What's so special about it?"

"Ordinary crossbow? Ziren, come on, use it on the straw man in the distance."

Gu Rubing did not answer Taishi Ci's question. Instead, he handed the Zhuge Liannu to Taishi Ci and asked Taishi Ci to use it. After Taishi Ci took the Zhuge Liannu, he felt that it was better than the same bow. The crossbow is a little heavier, but nothing else is special about it.

"My lord, this straw man is three hundred meters away from us. Can a crossbow shoot this far?"

Taishi Ci raised the Zhuge Liannu and aimed at the straw man in the distance.

"You'll know once you try it."

After hearing Gu Rubing's words, Taishi Ci no longer hesitated, pulled the trigger, and the crossbow shot out of the air, directly piercing the grass man three hundred meters away. The arrow penetrated the armor on the back and then stopped.

"Keep firing!"

Gu Rubing said from the side. Although Tai Shici didn't understand, he still pulled the trigger again. Another crossbow arrow flew out and hit the straw man again, piercing through the armor in the same way.

"continue."

Gu Rubing and Zhuge Liang watched this scene with smiles. Taishi Ci was extremely shocked. He pulled the trigger three times in succession, and fired three crossbow arrows. The three crossbow arrows hit the armored man in a straight line. Taishi Ci was shocked. The shock in my heart at this moment cannot be described in words.

Taishi Ci tried to pull the trigger several times again, and fired five crossbow arrows in a row, all of which hit the straw man in armor.

At this moment, Taishi Ci finally understood the conversation between the lord and the military advisor in the camp.