Chapter 454 (1/2)
At least Tai Shici led half of the troops and horses back, while Chen Heng and 5000 army horses died together. Only a hundred of the remaining soldiers managed to escape back to the camp.
Liu Yao wanted to scold Tai Shici for a while, but when he saw that Chen Heng had lost his head, he had no mind to say it.
But Tai Shici complained that Liu Yao did not dare to put all his eggs in one basket: if someone led the whole army to attack the enemy's main account, he would have broken the enemy.
After the war, Liu Yao's army was frightened by sun CE, and Liu Yao was strictly forbidden to go to war. Even though Tai Shici took the initiative to fight several times, Liu Yao still refused to allow him to fight. Fortunately, after this war, Liu Youjun lost nearly 10000 people, but saved a lot of food and grass.
However, sun CE was not idle these days. Instead, he led his troops to attack Xue Li, who was stationed in moling City, and led his army to defeat Zuo Rong. Sun CE got the support of Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai Lai, and his military strength increased. Therefore, he assigned his generals to attack the cities near moling. At that time, qu'a became an isolated city.
Liu Yao had no choice but to fight sun CE. Taishici asked to be the vanguard. Liu Youjun fought under Tai Shici's bravery, but his morale was low because of lack of food and grass, while sun CE's army was victorious in a row, with high morale and numerous brave generals in the army. Therefore, the strength and weakness of the two armies soon became apparent.
In the first battle of qu'a, Liu Yao was defeated and fled to Yuzhang. However, taishici lost Liu you in the fierce battle and could not be found. In desperation, taishici had to flee to the nearby Jingxian county. Among Liu Yao's defeated army, more than 1000 people admired his bravery, so they went with him to Jingxian.
After sun CE defeated Liu Yao in the first World War, his reputation in Yangzhou was at its zenith. Under Zhou Yu's suggestion, sun CE issued a decree: Liu Yao, Zuo Rong and Xue Li's generals and soldiers who came to surrender and were pardoned; those who were willing to join sun CE's army were exempted from taxes for three years, and those who did not want to be forced to do so.
As soon as this decree was issued, the people of Yangzhou attached themselves to it. At that time, tens of thousands of people from all over the country rushed to join sun CE's army. Sun CE's reputation shook the east of the river for a moment, and even the whole world looked at him.
Sun CE, on the other hand, never forgets Tai Shici and rode lightly to Jing county to recruit him. Sun CE and Tai Shici sympathized with each other. Tai Shici said that he asked to recruit Liu Yao soldiers from other counties for sun CE, but Sun CE allowed him.
Some people advised sun ce that Tai Shici would never go back, but Sun CE affirmed: ”I treat Tai Shici with faith, and my son's righteousness will not fail me.”
Sure enough, Tai Shici urged more than 2000 soldiers from three counties around Jing county to come to sun CE. Sun CE was overjoyed, when he was about to persuade more than 2000 people to taishici's command, and appointed Tai Shici as the captain.
Sun CE sent Zhu Zhi, an old general, to attack Wujun. After hearing that Liu Yao was defeated, the morale of the garrison was low. Xu Gong was defeated by Zhu Zhi, and Wu Jun was also in sun CE's hands.
At this time, there were two enemies in front of sun CE. One was Yan Baihu, known as king De of the eastern Wu, who supported tens of thousands of soldiers. Yan Baihu and his brother Yan Xing were domineering in Wu County. The other was Wang Lang, who had been in the east of the river for a long time. They both had tens of thousands of officers and men under them to fight against sun CE.
”Bo Fu, although our army has won great victories in successive years of battles, many of the officers and men feel tired. How about taking a few days off to make plans?” Veteran Han Dang suggested.
Zhou Yu shook his head slightly to sun CE, but Sun CE looked at Tai Shici with great interest: ”Ziyi, what do you say?”
Tai Shici knew that Han Dang was an old general who had followed Sun Jian. However, he always had a strong and courageous character. There were one saying one and two saying two, so he said frankly: ”no! The Lord's army has been victorious in a series of battles. Now it is full of vigour and the front of the army is in full swing. We should work hard to calm down Jiangdong, otherwise we don't know what changes will be made in the future. ”