Chapter 457: Find a way

Huang Zhong was stunned for a moment, and he didn't quite understand what Liu Zheng meant.

Liu Zheng immediately explained to him.

"Although Zhang Miao's strength is the weakest of the three, if we attack him, Zhang Miao's strength will decline again after being hit by us, maybe it will really cause Liu Dai's greed, and Zhang Miao will be solved easily, but this possibility is very low, and once this happens, the stronger Liu Dai will become stronger, and Cao Cao may also abandon Zhang Miao and switch to Liu Dai."

"On the contrary, if Liu Dai is attacked by us, it can make Zhang Miao feel greedy and launch an attack on Liu Dai."

Because Liu Zheng knew these historical figures better, Zhang Miao and Cao Cao had rebelled against the imperial court before.

Once they have the opportunity, they will still make actions to rebel against the imperial court, which is like a Pandora's box, which has been opened by them, and they have tried the benefits of rebelling against the imperial court, and they can no longer stop, and the imperial power is no longer so supreme in their hearts.

But Liu Dai is different, he is a relative of the Han family, and he will think about it for the sake of the court.

Even if Zhang Miao and Cao Cao's strength declined, judging from the news that the two of them had returned to the arms of the imperial court, Liu Dai would not take the initiative to attack them unless there was an order from the imperial court.

But Zhang Miao is different, he already has the heart to resist, if he can occupy Huainan this time, defeat Liu Dai at the same time, and let him sit on the land of a state.

When the time comes, he will have no scruples and no longer pay attention to the court. Being able to grow big in an instant, this kind of opportunity that can allow him to develop rapidly, I think he will still want to grasp it.

Through the characters' personalities, Liu Zheng can guess that Liu Dai may not attack Cao Cao and Zhang Miao.

But once Cao Cao and Zhang Miao learned of Liu Dai's decline, they would definitely launch an attack on Liu Dai and then occupy the entire Yanzhou.

Whether it was Cao Cao's shot or Zhang Miao's shot, Liu Zheng was happy to see it, so only the target was Liu Dai.

After some explanation, Huang Zhong nodded.

"Then attack Liu Dai, I have no opinion on this."

Huang Zhong just put forward his own ideas, and as for the person who took the case in the end, it was Liu Zheng. At this time, since Liu Zheng said that he wanted to attack Liu Dai, he would not argue with Liu Zheng, but would only think that Liu Zheng's method was good.

When the discussion was over, the people understood.

"Okay, since we have decided to attack Liu Dai, then we must rely on these people and horses now, and prepare to launch a head-on battle with their tripartite soldiers and horses, on the one hand, to lead people to attract the enemy's attack, and on the other hand, to divide a force to attack Liu Dai's people."

"At the same time, it is best to be able to directly kill outside Shouchun City, launch an attack, reveal the news that we have come to support Yuan Shu, and let us also give us some responses from a distance and launch a wave of attacks."

After another period of deliberation, everyone decided to launch an attack on Shouchun City in two days.

The reason why he didn't launch an attack as soon as possible was also because, after knowing Shouchun's information, Liu Zheng felt that the remaining manpower might not have been able to fight, and the more than 70,000 people present needed reinforcements.

On the one hand, Liu Zheng quickly sent people back to transfer the 10,000 elites of Wenpin, as well as Zu Lang's 6,000 sailors, plus the newly surrendered Pan Lin's 5,000 soldiers and horses.

For this battle, Liu Zheng temporarily shelved the two places of Yuzhang and Poyang, if Huainan can't keep it, Yuzhang and Poyang can't hold it, so they just let it go and fight on the Huainan side.

When Liu Zheng attacked Yuzhang before, he had incorporated the 7,000 defenders of Yuzhang who were too protective of Zhoushu, and these horses, although they were surrendered, but Liu Zheng did not disband them, but they were scattered and scattered to various small counties.

Although these people have only been here for less than half a month, Liu Zheng does not expect them to be able to bring the war, and only needs to maintain the law and order of Yuzhang County and the temporary defense, there should be no problem.

With Wen Ping, Zu Lang, Pan Lin, three soldiers and horses, and a total of 20,000 troops, after arriving in the Huainan area, Liu Zheng had more confidence and could resist the officials and soldiers.

The people hired by Wen, Liu Zheng directly asked them to join Liu Zheng, and after the convergence, Liu Zheng had 26,000 people under him.

Pay attention to the battle with Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, and Liu Dai's people.

At the same time, Zu Lang and Pan Lin, because they were mostly naval troops, Liu Zheng did not let them come directly, but hid on the Yangtze River, and obeyed Liu Zheng's dispatch at any time.

After Wen Ping brought people to converge, Liu Zheng divided the 26,000 people here into two teams.

One was led by Liu Zheng himself, with a total of 17,000 people, and the other was led by Huang Zhong with 9,000 people.

In fact, Liu Zheng led the men and horses of the two battalions of Wenpin and Zhou Cang to attack Huainan directly from the front, while Huang Zhong led the men and horses of one of his battalions to attack Liu Dai's men and horses directly from the side.

In the specific battle, Liu Zheng did not give Huang Zhong instructions, and instructed Huang Zhong to tell Huang Zhong that after figuring out Liu Dai's men and horses, he would try to attack Liu Dai's men as much as possible, and then carry out guerrilla tactics.

Don't fight and run.

Anyway, Liu Zheng only came to Huainan to support Yuan Shu, not necessarily to save Yuan Shu, just do your best. The most important thing is that if you can cause some damage to these three coalition forces, then Liu Zheng's goal will be achieved.

Soon, after the soldiers and horses were distributed, Liu Zheng began to lead more than 10,000 people to march again in the direction of Shouchun City in Huainan.

In fact, in the past few days, Liu Zheng has sent a large number of scouts, especially in the direction of Shouchun, and even sent his troops and horses to investigate the news.

However, what made him strange was that Cao Cao's army and Liu Dai's army did not continue to send soldiers and horses to pursue him.

It stands to reason that knowing Liu Zheng's strength and the specific number of soldiers and horses, especially after Liu Zheng encountered an ambush, the next thing should be to shift the focus to being sent over to pursue Liu Zheng.

However, unlike Liu Zheng's expectations, Cao Cao, Liu Dai and others did not send people over at all, and Liu Zheng did not even catch a single spy.

Regarding this point, Liu Zheng has not thought about it, but this time he is mainly fighting guerrilla warfare, and does not plan to face Cao Cao, Liu Dai and others' soldiers and horses head-on, plus he has sent a lot of spies in advance, so he no longer worries about being ambushed.

Liu Zheng led people, and in just two hours, he had already approached the vicinity of Shouchun City, but what he didn't expect was that here, Cao Cao, Liu Dai and others set up a battle formation, waiting for Liu Zheng's arrival.