I did it all for the Han Dynasty!

Chapter 195 Grain Rain
"it is good!"

Sun Ce requested permission to fight, and Liu Miao naturally agreed.

"Gongjin, you tell Bofu the rest!"

When Zhou Yu saw Sun Ce requesting to fight, he immediately warned him: "Fight, you may! But you can only lose, you cannot win."

"If you dare to win, you will be court-martialed!"

Seeing Zhou Yu's serious expression, Sun Ce knew that Zhou Yu was not joking with him, and immediately became somewhat displeased.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"Who told you to be in such a hurry? Did you provoke the lord into going into battle?"

Zhou Yu emphasized again: "We can only lose! We cannot win!"

Liu Miao nodded in agreement: "Especially for this first battle, we must lose beautifully! Lose with dominance!"

Sun Ce: "..."

Although I felt aggrieved, I had to fight the battle I had taken, no matter what.

When Sun Ce was about to go out to fight, Zhou Yu came to him again and patiently instructed him once more: "Huang Zu and Bo Fu have a blood feud! You haven't seen him yet, so you might still be able to control yourself. But once you see him, no one knows what will happen."

Zhou Yu asked Sun Ce to extend his hand.

"What does Gongjin want to do?"

"Just stick it out!"

Sun Ce reluctantly extended his palm, and Zhou Yu immediately took the brush from Lu Yi and wrote the character "defeat" directly on Sun Ce's palm.

The characters were written with great force and remained deep in Sun Ce's palm. Even if he rubbed them hard, they wouldn't come off. There was no need to worry about them being wiped off when he held the reins or the spear.

“Bo Fu, Huang Zu is not an enemy that can be easily defeated.”

“If we make him afraid now, he will retreat to Xiakou, or even retreat to Changsha and Jiangling. At that time, killing him and avenging your father will be even more distant.”

"When you see Huang Zu, ask yourself this: Do you want to show off your bravery and flaunt your power in front of the world, or do you want to personally cut off Huang Zu's head and bring it to your father's grave to pay homage to his spirit in heaven?"

Sun Ce lowered his head, pondered for a long time, and then punched Zhou Yu hard.

"Does Gongjin think I can't even control my own temper?"

"Just you wait and see. Even if I don't look at your words, I can easily feign defeat!"

Sun Ce mustered five thousand soldiers and set off by boat towards Huang Zu's camp at the foot of Lishan Mountain.

Lishan is called a mountain, but it is actually just a slightly raised mound of earth less than 100 meters high.

Therefore, Huang Zu specifically ordered his soldiers to set up sentry posts along the Yangtze River to monitor the movements in the direction of E County.

When Sun Ce led his troops closer, they were immediately spotted by the Jiangxia soldiers under Huang Zu's command, who began to use beacon fires to warn Huang Zu that the enemy had arrived.

"The coward has finally made his move."

Huang Zu personally led his troops out of the camp to meet the enemy, and set up his battle formation on the banks of the Yangtze River.

Sun Ce landed ten miles downstream and set up camp there, after which he made no further moves.

"Who is the opposing commander? Why are they dragging their feet like this?"

When Huang Zu heard that the banner bore the character "Sun," he immediately became disdainful.

"So he's the son of an old friend. No wonder he has the air of an old friend!"

"What? Because your father died at my hands, is he also so afraid of fighting that he dares not advance?"

Seeing Sun Ce's fear of battle, Huang Zu not only moved his camp forward a few miles, but sometimes he would also personally lead dozens of light cavalry to stroll in front of Sun Ce's camp.

Not only did Huang Zu take a stroll, but he also went further by having his personal guards come forward and vividly recount to Sun Ce the events of killing Sun Jian at Xian Mountain.

"General Sun! Back then, your father chased us to a bamboo forest on Mount Xian. He was wandering around like a headless fly when General Huang and I ambushed him there and shot an arrow straight into his heart!"

The guard shouted at Sun Ce, "General Sun, do you know what Sun Jian's last words were?"

Sun Ce, who had initially intended to ignore it, suddenly opened his eyes.

When Sun Jian pursued them to Xian Mountain, neither Wu Jing, Sun Ben, nor Cheng Pu and Huang Gai were actually by his side.

Even Sun Jian's body actually fell into Liu Biao's hands, and was eventually brought back to Jiangdong by Huan Jie, a man from Changsha who had once been recommended by Sun Jian as a candidate for the civil service examination.

Therefore, Sun Ce really didn't know what Sun Jian said before he died.

Sun Jian concluded by saying—

Sun Ce pricked up his ears, eager to hear his father's last words.

Unexpectedly, Huang Zu's personal guard grinned wickedly and said, "He begged us not to kill him! He even said that if we didn't kill him, we could have his wife and children to play with."

Sun Ce, who had remained relatively calm, suddenly turned bright red.

"You scoundrel! How dare you insult my father!"

"Send troops! Send troops!"

The war drums sounded in Sun Ce's camp, and his army poured out in an instant, charging towards Huang Zu's camp!
When Huang Zu saw that Sun Ce had finally sent out his troops, he laughed loudly, "Just like his father, he's a simpleton!"

"His father didn't utter a single soft word before he died; even with his intestines spilling out, he still gripped the knife and killed. Today, I'll see if all the members of the Sun family are so fierce!"

Huang Zu led his troops out, arranged their formation, and waited quietly for Sun Ce.

Soldiers on both sides held long spears to protect the central army. At the forefront, Jiangxia soldiers stood firm with swords and shields, followed by archers, considered the elite of the army.

A thousand men form a square formation. Huang Zu was able to kill Sun Jian and was trusted by Liu Biao to be appointed as the governor of Jiangxia, guarding the eastern gateway of Jingzhou. His basic qualities were still there and had not gradually deteriorated with age. He perfectly mobilized the formation without the slightest noise.

Sun Ce arrived with his troops, and although he saw that Huang Zu's army was well-organized, he completely disregarded it. Even though he had less than a hundred riders with him, Sun Ce still charged forward headlong into the enemy lines, leading from the front, which can be described as incredibly brave!
"Like his father, he is someone who likes to lead from the front. Such a person may be a talented general, but he will never become a great commander."

Huang Zu admitted that Sun Ce's fighting style was extremely aggressive, even bordering on insane. The young man's powerful punches, relentlessly thrusting forward, were admirable, but not particularly intelligent.

"Let the left and right flanks advance, while the vanguard remains stationary, slowly plunging Sun Ce into a predicament of being surrounded on all sides."

It's not exactly a sophisticated tactic.

Moving left, right, and forward, the military formation will gradually become concave.

Once Sun Ce is trapped there, it will be difficult for him to retreat. He will see his soldiers huddled together, their internal organs trampled out and stuck together, their shapes indistinguishable.

Breaking this method is actually quite easy.

Either retreat slightly, or remain vigilant at all times.

They could either push forward desperately, forcefully breaking through Huang Zu's vanguard and central army, and reach Huang Zu in person.

Now, the enraged Sun Ce has clearly chosen the latter!
With his right hand holding a long spear to parry, he took out the ancient sword left behind by Sun Jian with his left hand and kept slashing at the surrounding enemy soldiers!
The power of one man is like that of a thousand troops!
Sun Ce's actions at this moment instilled fear in the surrounding enemy troops!
This man is a match for ten thousand men!

Even Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King who single-handedly killed a hundred Han soldiers on the banks of the Wujiang River, could not have done this much.
"This is the Little Tyrant!"

Hearing the exclamations of the enemy soldiers around him, Sun Ce did not react at all.

Right now, he had only one thought in his mind: to break through Huang Zu's vanguard, kill his way to Huang Zu, cut out Huang Zu's tongue, and nail it to Sun Jian's tombstone!

"General!"

Sun Ce's personal guards hurriedly called out, but did not approach him directly: "General, have you forgotten what the lord and the commander-in-chief instructed you to do?"

"What is it! My only thought right now is to break through the enemy's formation and kill Huang Zu!"

Sun Ce's eyes were bloodshot, and he no longer resembled a human.

"Don't stop me! Today I'm going to cut out that scoundrel Huang Zu's tongue!"

"call out!"

An arrow flew past, slicing through Sun Ce's forehead, and blood instantly blurred his vision.

"General!"

The guards shouted, "If we charge in now, will Huang Zu still stand there and offer his neck for slaughter?"

"If Huang Zu escapes, the general's revenge for his father's murder will likely be a long and uncertain affair!"

Sun Ce looked up and saw Huang Zu's banner swaying inexplicably.

Clearly, Sun Ce's ferocity instilled fear in Huang Zu, who seemed to be considering retreating.

Sun Ce raised his arm to wipe the blood from his eyes, only to find a dark mass in his palm.

"defeat!"

Sun Ce looked at the hesitant banners, at the enemy troops surging in from both flanks, and then thought of Zhou Yu, Liu Miao, and his mother. Finally, he gritted his teeth in fury—

"Come and help me up?"

"Ok?"

Fortunately, the guard immediately understood and quickly reached out his hand, and Sun Ce took the opportunity to fall into the guard's arms.

"Withdraw! Withdraw!"

The sound of retreat echoed throughout the battlefield, and the army that had been entangled with Huang Zu's forces began to withdraw in an orderly manner, slowly leaving the battlefield.

Huang Zu was confident of victory, but Sun Ce's ferocity clearly exceeded his expectations, so he did indeed have the idea of ​​retreating.

However, when he saw Sun Ce suddenly fall off his horse and the Jiangdong soldiers begin to retreat, he immediately burst into laughter: "Just like his father, he's a reckless brute!"

Huang Zu originally wanted to send troops to pursue them, but seeing that Sun Ce's army was still in good order, he stopped chasing and returned to the Lishan camp.

In the following days.

Taishi Ci, Huang Zhong, Cheng Pu and other Jiangdong generals took turns attacking Huang Zu, but Huang Zu was able to easily defeat them each time, which made Huang Zu even more arrogant: "Truly nothing more than a rabble!"

"Knowing defeat is inevitable, why continue this attack? Isn't it just needlessly damaging the morale of the soldiers?"

"Moreover, the weather is extremely hot now, yet Liu Miao shows no compassion for his soldiers, frequently ordering them out to fight. He has no strategic acumen whatsoever as a general!"

"When the weather cools down a bit, that will be the time for us to retake Ezhou!"

the other side.

Liu Miao, Zhou Yu, and others were also waiting, waiting for the day when the weather would suddenly turn cold and gloomy.

April 19th.

Grain Rain Day.

The soil pulsates, and rain falls on the valleys.

The clouds in the sky gradually thickened, and the "humid heat" in Jingzhou slowly began to change from hot to humid.

There is Ping Shisheng.

A turtledove cooed and fluttered its wings.

A hoopoe descended upon the mulberry tree!

With a thunderclap, Liu Miao and Zhou Yu walked out of the tent at the same time, exchanged a smile.

"Huang Zu's death day has come!"

(End of this chapter)