Chapter 633: Tragic Yuan Shu

Without a big advantage, or without necessity, Zhang Yu would not use his soldiers to fight for consumption.

Fighting with Liu Bei is not beneficial at all, so Zhang Yu can only let them go first.

Zhang Yu and the others retreated, but Liu Bei's army failed to attack successfully, but joined forces with Ji Ling.

"Brother Xuande, you and I should join hands," Ji Ling said.

Liu Bei also pretended to be close to Ji Lingtao, and then scolded Zhang Yu and Sun Ce.

With Liu Bei's arrival, Ji Ling also thought carefully. If Liu Bei could help block it, then his soldiers and horses could be withdrawn a lot.

Zhang Yu and the others retreated, just a few miles away, obviously they would not let them cross the river easily.

Although Ji Ling joined forces with Liu Bei, it was not easy to cross the river easily.

Now Zhang Yu and the others don’t need to attack, but when you have more soldiers and horses crossing the river, they can attack if there are fewer soldiers and horses here, leaving at least some of them.

Knowing that there was no need to rush, Zhang Yu first ordered Zhou Cang to take 20,000 troops across the river from the mouth of the Yangtze River to take back the cities occupied by Liu Bei.

Sure enough, Liu Bei and Ji Ling were also troubled.

"Brother Xuande, at this time we should overcome difficulties together and resist the enemy together." Ji Ling said.

It's a very polite sentence, but Liu Bei doesn't think so. Ji Ling is asking him to make a sacrifice.

There is no way, Liu Bei has no ships, and now Ji Ling controls the dock.

"I would like to keep ten thousand soldiers behind, so that Zhang Yu and Sun Ce won't succeed." Liu Bei was still very shrewd, and immediately knew what Ji Ling meant, so he had to make a sacrifice.

Ji Ling nodded, Liu Bei kept 10,000, and he kept 10,000 to minimize the loss.

Liu Bei also tried his best to get close to Ji Ling, and asked Ji Ling to say something nice to Yuan Shu.

It turned out that Liu Bei knew very well that Xuzhou couldn't go back, and the cities he occupied Zhang Yu certainly couldn't go back either.

In this way, Liu Bei became a bereaved dog again, with no territory and no supplies.

He needs a place to settle down.

Ji Ling also thought about it. Now they have lost a lot, hundreds of thousands of troops have not returned, and Yuan Shu is also very weak.

At this time, Ji Ling naturally wanted to increase Yuan Shu's strength, so he immediately sent a letter of divorce to Yuan Shu.

It can be said that Liu Bei and Yuan Shu are like bastard and mung bean.

Both sides take what they need and hit it off.

Speaking of Yuan Shu, he has experienced a lot in the past few days.

Before, he was full of ambitions, so he went back to organize the manpower to unify Jiangdong.

In a few days, something happened in Jiangdong, and his soldiers and horses were flanked back and forth, causing heavy losses.

Now, being chased away, only some of them escaped back.

Most of them are still on the other side of the Yangtze River. If these people don't come back, Yuan Shu will be weaker than ever, and may be annexed by then.

Yuan Shu was shocked, and at the same time sent people to meet Yuan Shu and tried his best to rescue him.

On the one hand, they immediately mobilized all the aristocratic families in the territory, asking them to send their servants to Yuan Shu to form an army.

At the same time, let the aristocratic families in the territory donate food, grass and money to rebuild their own army.

Yuan Shu is crazy, and at the same time, he has no choice. If he does not maintain a strong army, he will be annexed in a short time.

The Yuan family still had great prestige at this time, and he had soldiers and horses in his hands, those aristocratic families had no choice but to follow suit.

If they don't obey, Yuan Shu will take them to the knife, and if Yuan Shu loses, all their previous investment will be in vain.

Yuan Shu still had relatively strong control over his territory, so he immediately recruited another 300,000 troops from these aristocratic families.

There is a large army, and ordinary soldiers are everywhere, and there are a lot of them, but there is no way to make the army effective without enough officers.

An army without combat effectiveness is useless no matter how many there are.

Zhang Yu attaches great importance to this point. Zhang Yu attaches great importance to training military officers, especially grassroots officers. He will select good seedlings to go to corresponding colleges for training.

With grassroots officers, the combat effectiveness will be strong.

However, Yuan Shu had no choice but to expand the army too much and die too many, so there were not many officers available.

Yuan Shu didn't care too much, it was better to have such a big army than nothing.

As for the officers at the grassroots level, he can only use some veterans.

It took Yuan Shu just a few days to gather a large-scale army.

There are soldiers, but most of them have no weapons and equipment.

Some of the weapons were made by the family, but there was really no armor or anything.

Such an army can only be assembled first, and other various problems can only be put aside first.

Yuan Shu was miserable, who knew that he would be maimed in this battle.

Yuan Shu panicked and rushed to the Yangtze River in person to watch Ji Ling bring the army back.

I'm afraid he won't be able to sleep without bringing it back.

Now Yuan Shu is troubled internally and externally, externally, he is surrounded by enemies, now he is dying, anyone may stab him.

In the past, he was so militaristic, laboring the people and wasting money, making life difficult for the people and the aristocratic family, and he didn't know when he was going to stab him.

On the bank of the Yangtze River, Yuan Shu had already arrived and withdrew some soldiers.

Yuan Shu looked eagerly at the Yangtze River, every time a boat or bamboo raft came over, it gave him a little more hope.

However, Zhang Yu will not give him any good news.

When Liu Bei arrived half a day later, Zhang Yu started to attack again.

The attack strength is not very high, but it can also drag them across the river.

If you want to cross the river, you must leave enough people behind.

After attacking for a long time, Yuan Shu and the others sent over tens of thousands of soldiers.

There were fewer and fewer soldiers left by the Yangtze River, and Zhang Yu's offensive became more and more fierce.

The night did not cover up all the killings.

At night, Zhang Yu and the others launched an offensive across the board, from several directions, even from above the Yangtze River.

Zhang Yu and the others had already gone to mobilize ships. This will mobilize a large number of merchant ships and divide them into two groups. One group will attack the other side, and the other group will attack their side.

Attacking with arrows on the banks of the Yangtze River, Yuan Jun and Liu Bei's soldiers and horses were unprepared and were massacred.

The enemy was attacked again, with heavy casualties.

At this time, they still had more than 20,000 troops who had not crossed the river, and all of them were left behind, and they could no longer cross the river.

After attacking for half an hour, these people knew that there was no way out, most of them surrendered, and a few threw themselves into the river.

The battle here is over.

On the other side, of course the merchant ships could not approach the shore to attack, but under the cover of the night, the merchant ships approached, and then opened fire with full firepower, flooding the sky with arrows, drowning the enemies along the Yangtze River.

More than 2,000 enemies who did not have time to run were shot and killed on the banks of the Yangtze River.

"It's over, and it's time for the liquidation to begin." Zhang Yu said, looking at the vast Yangtze River.

After a while, Sun Ce took his general to bid farewell to Zhang Yu, and he had to go back to make arrangements.

Zhang Yu didn't say much, gave him some boats and arranged for him to go back.

At this time, Sun Ce felt bitter, because when he returned, he only had more than 30,000 soldiers and horses. The strongest system to dominate the Three Kingdoms