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"Yi went to Hefei?"
Sun Ce, who had been inspecting the camp, jolted and said urgently, "Quick, bring him back!"
Zhou Yu said, "Bofu, it's too late."
"That brat!" Sun Ce's fists clenched with a crackle. "Reckless and audacious beyond measure!"
Zhou Yu said, "This may not necessarily be a bad thing."
"Hm?"
Zhou Yu said, "None of us expected Sun Yi to dare do this, so the enemy will be even less likely to expect it. What we should do now is gather the army and prepare to break through the city at any moment!"
Sun Ce said, "But Yi is surrounded. Even if he had three heads and six arms, he couldn't hold off that many Yuan soldiers!"
Zhou Yu said calmly, "That is why we must attack the city. If the defenders inside are busy resisting us, it will give him the greatest chance of survival."
At once, Zhou Yu gave the order. Gan Ning would lead one force to the western camp and hold off Zhang Liao; Taishi Ci would lead another to the eastern camp and hold off Xu Huang. Sun Ce led Zhou Tai, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, and other generals straight toward Hefei City.
Forty thousand soldiers carried earth and bundled grass as they reached the moat.
It was spring, and the moat water was shallow. Moreover, when the Sun Clan army had attacked the city in previous days, they had already filled much of the moat. Now, once they threw in sacks of earth and bundles of brushwood, the army could pass through without