Chapter 152

And Sun Quan and Sun Shangxiang remained in Chang'an.

Regarding Sun Quan, Sun Shiwan, Gu Yi naturally wouldn't care.

But Sun Shangxiang aroused Gu Yi's strong interest.

However, Sun Shangxiang was still young at this time.

Even if Gu Yi were a beast,

he couldn't be impatient right now, could he?

Therefore, Sun Shangxiang's situation in the short term was still safe.

But if we talk about the long term, that's not very clear.

A month passed in a hurry.

Kan Ze returned to Yizhou and reported the situation truthfully to Sun Ce.

After listening, Sun Ce was so angry he almost couldn't help but curse out loud.

But soon,

the Liu Biao army from Xiangyang in Jingzhou, under the leadership of Cai Mao, suddenly sent troops to attack Nanyang.

Nanyang was something Yuan Shu had spent a lot of effort to obtain.

How could he give it to Liu Biao for no reason?

Thus, Yuan Shu hurriedly sent troops to reinforce Nanyang.

Sun Ce decisively seized this opportunity and raided Yuan Shu's lair, Runan.

Hearing the news, Yuan Shu had to withdraw troops from Nanyang again.

Cai Mao thus captured Nanyang.

Sun Ce also took the opportunity to capture quite a few cities.

In the end, Yuan Shu became the only loser.

Of course, this is not to say that Yuan Shu would be unable to recover from this.

With the help of the Yizhou aristocratic group, Yuan Shu's recovery ability could be called the pinnacle of perfection!

Whether it was Sun Ce or Liu Biao, they could at most beat him up in the short term; it was impossible to annihilate him.

And the reason why Liu Biao sent troops to Nanyang

was precisely because Dong Zhuo followed Gu Yi's plan and sent Jia Xu to Jingzhou.

Under Jia Xu's bluffing,

Cai Mao, Kuai Yue, and other leaders of the Jingzhou aristocratic group couldn't wait to incite Liu Biao to send troops to attack Nanyang.

Only then did the three-way melee between Sun Ce, Yuan Shu, and Liu Biao happen.

And at the same time,

Chang'an received an unexpected piece of bad news!

In the Prime Minister's Mansion,

with a "Bang!" sound,

Dong Zhuo kicked the table in front of him to the ground.

"Niu Fu, you straw bag! You've infuriated me!"

Dong Zhuo roared.

The sound even reached outside the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Yes.

Niu Fu was defeated, and it was a crushing defeat!

As the commander-in-chief of the expedition to Liangzhou, Niu Fu's own troops numbered a full fifty thousand.

Plus the thirty thousand troops of Li Jue and Guo Si each.

The total number was close to one hundred and ten thousand.

Moreover, this did not count the twenty thousand troops under Xu Rong who were supporting Ma Teng.

If those twenty thousand were added,

the total military strength of this expedition would reach one hundred and thirty thousand!

But with such a large number of troops, Niu Fu actually suffered a defeat, which really made it hard for Dong Zhuo to endure the anger in his heart.

"My lord, please calm your anger."

Li Ru and Gu Yi arrived together.

For such a big thing, Dong Zhuo naturally thought of notifying his eldest son-in-law and granddaughter's husband first.

"This... Niu Fu's defeat is too shameful!"

After reading the battle report,

Gu Yi couldn't help but complain.

It really wasn't that his emotional intelligence was low, but Niu Fu's brain circuit was really hard to understand!

After entering Liangzhou, Niu Fu's situation was excellent at the beginning.

Relying on Old Dong's prestige in Liangzhou,

many Liangzhou powerful families didn't even need Niu Fu to send envoys to win them over.

They took the initiative to find the Dong Zhuo army and wanted to join it.

Perhaps it was too smooth sailing,

which led Niu Fu to become increasingly inflated.

He wanted to rely on his own ability to achieve something.

He knew deeply that if he could settle Liangzhou with just the fifty thousand troops in his hands, he would definitely show off in front of his father-in-law, Old Dong!

But if he added the sixty thousand troops of Li Jue and Guo Si,

the battle merits would shrink significantly.

Thus, Niu Fu made a decision he thought was very smart.

He took his fifty thousand troops and headed straight for Han Sui's lair, Tianshui!

According to the intelligence Niu Fu had obtained before,

Han Sui was currently taking various small warlords of Liangzhou to besiege Ma Teng in Fufeng.

That is to say, Tianshui basically didn't have many garrison troops.

However,

Niu Fu really underestimated Han Sui too much.

Known as the "Fox of Liangzhou," how could Han Sui not leave enough troops to defend his lair, Tianshui, in advance?

Niu Fu attacked fiercely for two days, but still couldn't capture Tianshui.

And at this time, Han Sui had already led a portion of his soldiers to withdraw from Fufeng and was planning to return to reinforce Tianshui.

Niu Fu listened to the advice of his dog-headed strategist,

planning to set up a formation at Jieting,

break Han Sui first, and then continue to come back to attack Tianshui!

Imagination is beautiful, but reality is cruel.

Niu Fu had just set up his defense at Jieting with his troops,

but Han Sui had already bypassed it from another road!

And he led his elite troops to raid Niu Fu's supply train!

Niu Fu had not left too much defense around the supply train in order to speed up the march.

Facing Han Sui's elite troops at this moment, the result could be imagined.

Having lost his grain and supplies, Niu Fu had no choice but to hold his ground at Jieting.

But what was the use of holding his ground?

The eating and drinking of fifty thousand troops was not a small number every day.

The cunning Han Sui was not in a hurry to fight a decisive battle with Niu Fu,

but deliberately besieged without attacking.

Until three days later, when the dry rations carried by Niu Fu's army were completely exhausted, Han Sui then ordered a general attack!