Chapter 167: Strategies for Danyang (Thirteen)

Twenty-two miles northeast of Moling City, the mountain is located.

At this time, the Sheshan Mountain was still called Sheshan. More than a hundred years later, a monk in the mountain built the "Qixia Jingshu" and changed it to Qixia Mountain. There are three peaks, the main peak of the three Mao peaks is 286 meters high, also known as Fengxiang Peak. A mountain in the northeast is like a lie-long dragon, and is called Longshan. A mountain in the northwest is like a buried tiger, and is named Hushan.

Just at the foot of the mountain of Sheshan, there is a large open area. At this moment, a large camp has been built on this land. Several watchtowers are also built on the mountain of Sheshan, which are high above so as to observe the surrounding situation.

In the camp, flags were waving, and from time to time, soldiers who were training returned in teams, and patrol teams were entering and leaving. Around the central army tent, several large flags with red characters with black backgrounds embroidered with the big "Zhou" characters embroidered on them.

Zhou Yu led his troops to arrive first. In Niuzhu, he won beautifully and fought frankly. He was able to say that he won the biggest victory with the smallest casualties. Zhou Yu's troops' losses were even smaller than when he attacked Likou.

As for the supplies, there is no need to mention. The food and weapons are piled up in the Niuzhu Fortress. What made Zang Ba and Zhao Yun happy was that there were still five hundred horses here. Now their cavalry troops can have reserved military horses and the capital to expand their troops.

In the battle of Niuzhu, he also surrendered 5,000 defenders. In addition to the two thousand who were unwilling to continue to join the army and were willing to return to his hometown, the remaining 3,000 people joined Zhou Yu's army. Zhou Yu knew that in the final analysis, these soldiers joined the army just to make a living. Some of their families were destroyed, and some of their fields were not there, and there was still no way to survive when they returned to their hometown. It was better to join the army. At least three meals a day were guaranteed. Besides, these surrendered soldiers also saw the treatment of the soldiers of Zhou Yu's troops. In addition to the three meals being better than the Yangzhou army, their monthly salary was doubled, and even if they died in battle, they would have a high pension.

The power of role models is infinite. Seeing the good treatment of Zhou Yu's soldiers, these three thousand people joined the Zhou army in one go and surrendered sincerely.

Seeing that these 3,000 men were all strong men and could become an elite force with a little training, Zhou Yu was very happy, so he organized them into a battalion, named "Niuzhu Camp", and appointed Xu Sheng as the chief general of Niuzhu Camp, and followed the army to attack Moling.

Afterwards, Zhou Yu ordered Gan Jiangqin to lead two thousand Jinfan troops to station in Niuzhu and be responsible for transporting food, grass and supplies to the front line at any time. Gan Ning led the remaining about 4,000 Jinfan soldiers downstream from the Yangtze River and directly attacked Liu Yao's nest - Qu'a.

The sun is warm in spring, and the gentle breeze blows in the face with warmth. Zhou Yu handed over the resettlement of the camp to Zhou Tai, and took Zhao Yun and Xiao Yuer to climb the Sheshan Mountain by himself.

On the waist of the mountain, there is an antique wooden pavilion. Zhou Yu and others happened to walk a little hot, so they sat inside and rested. Zhou Yu stood in the wooden pavilion and looked into the distance. There was no industrial pollution in this era, the air was clear and transparent, and the eyes could see a very distant place. Zhou Yu happened to see the walls of Moling City.

"Moling is worthy of being an important town in the south of the Yangtze River. The city walls are tall and the enemy is gathering here now. This battle is probably a relatively difficult battle." Zhou Yu said with a calm expression.

Xiaoyuer blinked his big black and white eyes, thought for a while, and said to Zhou Yu: "Brother Yu, don't you often say that the best way to use troops is to defeat others without fighting. If we fight with the enemy, even if our army wins, it will suffer a lot of losses."

Zhou Yu looked at Xiao Yuer with a look of relief and smiled: "Little Yuer, I didn't expect that your military strategy will also improve quickly."

Faced with Zhou Yu's teasing, Xiao Yu'er's pretty face turned slightly red, and she said angrily: "Hate", she shook her sleeves, turned around and looked at the scenery, and ignored Zhou Yu.

Zhao Yun took a step forward and said thoughtfully: "Lord, according to the current news, Liu Yao and Wu Jing gathered a lot of people in Danyang, including 10,000 people from Sun Ben, Liu Yao transferred from Qu A, and Wu Jing also brought 10,000 people from Wanling. This is 30,000 people. There are 7,000 elite soldiers from Xia Pi, and 5,000 people from Xue Li, the prime minister of Pengcheng. There are 42,000 people in total, and their strength is much higher than our army."

Zhou Yu smiled slightly and said, "Zilong, you also missed an important person."

Zhao Yun frowned slightly and asked hurriedly: "Who did I miss?"

"Taishi Ci!!" Zhou Yu's voice suddenly became a little low. At this time, Taishi Ci had not become famous yet, but Zhou Yu, who was familiar with history, knew that his powerful combat power was very terrifying.

Information about Taishi Ci gradually appeared in Zhou Yu's mind:

Taishici, whose courtesy name is Ziyi, was from Huang County, Donglai County, Qingzhou. At this time, Taishici should be in his twenties, slightly older than Zhou Yu. He was seven feet and seven inches long, beautiful beard, good at shooting his arms, and his strings were not weak. He was a real sharpshooter. Since he was young, Taishici had become very studious, and later served as the county's reporter Cao Shi.

When Kong Rong, the Prime Minister of Beihai, was very surprised when he heard about Taishi Ci's deeds, so he sent people to ask Taishi Ci's mother several times and gave gifts as a greeting. When Kong Rong went out to fight against the Yellow Turban tyrant, he was surrounded by the Yellow Turban thief Guan Hai. Taishi Ci took the opportunity to wait for the encirclement at night and rushed into the encirclement to see Kong Rong, and even asked him to send troops to fight the thief. Kong Rong did not listen to his words and was only waiting for foreign aid. However, the rescue of the outside world had not arrived, and the thief surrounded him day by day. So Taishi Ci only led a few people to break through the encirclement and ask for help from the Pingyuan Prime Minister Liu Bei. When Liu Bei heard that Kong Rong was in danger, he sent three thousand elite troops to rescue him. When the thieves heard that the reinforcements had arrived, they all hurriedly rescued them.

After Liu Yao learned of Taishi Ci's reputation, he deliberately made friends and finally took him as his subordinate. However, Liu Yao was not willing to use Taishi Ci because his adviser Xu Shao was very good at meeting each other. Xu Shao commented on Taishi Ci's brave but unscheming, and was not a talented general. Therefore, Liu Yao initially asked Taishi Ci to be responsible for the investigation of the cavalry, but later Taishi Ci made many military achievements and was promoted to the cavalry commander.

Zhao Yun scratched the back of his head with his hand and murmured to himself: "How powerful is this Taishi Ci? Yun wants to fight with him!"

Zhou Yu gently patted Zhao Yun on the shoulder with his hand and smiled, "Zilong's martial arts are naturally not inferior to Taishi Ci. However, this person is brave and loyal. I really want to subdue him. When you become colleagues, you will naturally have many opportunities to compete with martial arts."

"However," Zhou Yu's words turned around and continued, "Taishi Ci led three thousand cavalry, but our scouts did not have any information about his location. He should be hiding somewhere at this moment, just waiting to give us a fatal blow at the critical moment!"

Night came quietly, and after a busy day, Zhou Yu finally turned off the lights and went to bed. The central army tent suddenly became dark, and in the entire camp, there were only a few tents and faint candlelight. It was Zhou Tai and Zhao Yun who were studying military tactics. After some time, their tents also darkened.
Chapter completed!