Zhou Yu's arrangement was naturally right, he landed in advance, arranged the military formation, and when he encountered the Wei army, he could immediately turn into combat effectiveness.

If you wait until you reach the city of Hefei before you unfold, unless the speed of the Wu army's landing can exceed the speed of the Wei army's cavalry assembly, you will be making yourself unhappy.

Zhou Yu was still relatively cautious, considering that Guo Peng's army was invincible all over the world in the north, and he had also heard from the mouths of some merchants from the north that the main force of the Wei army often wandered around in groups in the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Although he didn't know why, Zhou Yu always felt that Guo Peng would not let Wei Jun do boring things.

Guo Peng is such a strong and shrewd person, from weak to strong, cautious, constantly plotting to become stronger, constantly overthrowing opponents who are stronger, more advantageous and more prestigious than himself, and finally becoming the overlord of the Northland, the first prince of the Han Dynasty, will he not prepare anything?

Zhou Yu thought about it like this, but he still believed that people are not saints and sages, and no matter how strong they are, they have weaknesses and are not good at them.

A wise man thinks a thousand times, and there must be a mistake, even if Guo Peng is a rare wise man, it is not impossible to say that the boat will capsize, right?

Guo Peng has never fought a water war, which Zhou Yu is convinced of, there is not even a naval army under his command, and without a naval army, he cannot compete with the Jiangdong naval division, which is also certain.

Under such a premise, Guo Peng had no other way than to defend the city.

Zhou Yu really thought that Guo Peng had no way to fight against the sailors, so he could only passively defend and stick to Hefei.

But in terms of troops, Sun Ce's army is more than the Jiujiang garrison, and in terms of combat effectiveness, they are also elite divisions, no matter what Zhou Yu thinks, he can't think of a reason why Sun Ce will be defeated.

Sun Ce is so good at attacking, daring to attack, full of sharpness, sharp and difficult, and always full of motivation to lead everyone forward.

Such a charismatic leader will definitely be able to lead Wu Guo to a better tomorrow.

This is also Zhou Yu's biggest expectation.

With this in mind, Zhou Yu followed behind Sun Ce and faced the Wei army in Hefei.

At this time, Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan, commanders-in-chief of the Wei army in the southeast, were dispatching troops and arranging offensive tasks in the newly renovated city of Hefei.

What he is most worried about now is not that he is about to face the attack of Sun Ce's main force, but that he is very worried about whether Xu Huang's side can kill Cheng Pu's sailor according to the plan, and he is very worried that Xu Huang will lose the chain.

That's a newcomer after all.

Although Guo Peng has always been very bold in using newcomers, after capturing him, he also wanted to grant the authority of Taishou, and finally was dissuaded by the ministers before giving up.

But Guo Peng just admired him, and now he has promoted him to be a demoted general to be the commander-in-chief, and his command position is even higher than that of Yu Ban, who is more senior than him.

It is conceivable how eclectic Guo Peng is in employing people, and how freewheeling.

Despite this, can Guo Peng really care about Xu Huang's ability at all and arrange for him to guard such an important place as Lujiang County?

More than 200,000 people in Tuntian, millions of stone and rice grains, those are all grain and straw stored as a forward base for enterprising Jiangdong in the future, once it is lost, Guo Peng does not know how angry he will be.

Xu Huang, Xu Gongming, don't drop the chain!

Zhang Liao kept praying to the heavens.

Even when his subordinates came to report that Sun Wu Shuishi was close to the cordon, they didn't care very much.

"How's the trebuchet ready?"

"Ready."

The subordinate replied.

Zhang Liao nodded.

"Have the generals of the armies stationed their troops in the pre-arranged positions and are ready?"

"Yes, it's all ready."

The subordinate replied again.

Zhang Liao nodded again, stood up, picked up the iron helmet and put it on his head, took a deep breath, and walked forward with a saber in his hand.

"Let's go and take a look, maybe I can see Sun Wu Shui Shi now."

Seriously, Zhang Liao is quite interested in the water master.

As a northerner, or even a person who grew up on the grassland, he had no idea about the Jiangnan Water Town at all, and it was not until he was appointed as the garrison of Jiujiang that he began to study the water division.

Through the research of the water master, he found that there are really many ways to water the water master.

Especially when he noticed that as long as Hefei was taken, the Jiangdong Navy Division could directly attack the hinterland of the Central Plains along the waterway, and the Wei army lacked countermeasures, he was even more surprised.

If it weren't for Guo Peng's early preparation, and the trebuchet had been improved to play a greater role on the battlefield, and with the blessing of this special combat environment, he really wouldn't have been able to defeat Sun Wu's huge sailors.

There are many in Sun Wu's sailors, from tall building ships to small and nimble ones, the scale is huge, and when all of them are approaching, it gives Zhang Liao a very different visual impact.

With such a prestige, if he really fights, without Guo Peng's preparation for him, this will not be easy.

Of course, it's not that it's really easy right now.

As one of the few high-ranking generals of the non-Yuancong group, and even suppressed the old qualification Yu Ban below, and became the supreme commander of the 60,000-strong army of the Southeast Front Army, Zhang Liao was under great pressure.

In order to protect Zhang Liao's safety, Guo Peng even transferred 300 Tiger Guards from his own guards, the most elite of the Wei army, to protect Zhang Liao's safety.

This is the second case in the whole army, the first case is Cao Ren.

Even Zhao Yun, Lejin and Xiahou Yuan, the three generals who were in the first rank, failed to get the Tiger Guards as their personal guards.

Cao Ren is Guo Peng's relative general, since Guo Peng started the army, he has loyally followed the left and right, repeatedly made military exploits, and has been in charge all year round, and his grace is prosperous, and others will not say anything.

But Zhang Liao was a general who had fought with Lu Bu, but he was treated like this.

It can be seen that Guo Peng trusts and attaches great importance to Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao could already have a premonition of what the veteran generals in the army thought of him, and he could also expect that someone would gossip in Guo Peng's ear.

In the end, he was born and demoted, and he was stained, but he was so reused, and it was natural that the generals of Yuan Cong were unhappy.

However, as Zhang Liao himself, he must make a meritorious deed worthy of Guo Peng's trust, so that he can stand up and not lose Guo Peng's face.

This battle is not only for himself, but also for Guo Peng.

My lord, how can I work to repay your trust in me?

Zhang Liao stared affectionately at the northwest for a moment, and then shifted his cold gaze to the tall ship that was faintly visible in the distance.

Repay the Lord for his trust in me with your lives and blood.

Zhang Liao will say this and will do it, because Zhang Wenyuan is a person who is consistent on the outside and on the outside.

Zhang Liao immediately ordered the whole army to fight.

He set up an army on the shore to block the attack, led by the partial general Cheng Lian, with a number of 2,000, and was responsible for blocking the 10,000 troops of Sun Wu who cooperated with the fleet all the way.

When Zhang Liao learned that Sun Wu's army was advancing in concert with the infantry army and the naval army, he immediately felt that Guo Peng was really far-sighted and had also studied water warfare.

Previously, Guo Peng wrote to him that the Wu people were afraid of the northern heavy infantry group, and they would inevitably adopt the method of advancing the infantry army and the naval army at the same time.

Covering the infantry with the navy, cooperating with the navy, and relying on the warships to fight with the river when necessary, can offset the impact of the heavy infantry group on them to the greatest extent.

It's a clever tactic.

But it always has to be done, Zhang Liao ordered Cheng Lian to lead 2,000 cavalry to attack Sun Wu's infantry army, Cheng Lian led the army forward, and attacked Sun Wu's infantry army with cavalry shooting.

Under the command of generals Xu Kun and Zhou Tai, Sun Wu's infantry immediately formed a formation, backed against the river bank, and cooperated with the crossbowmen on the building boat to return fire, making it impossible for Cheng Lian to lead the cavalry to approach Sun Wu's infantry army.

Cheng Lian saw this situation and knew that it was pointless to continue the attack, so he immediately led his army to retreat.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu on the boat saw this scene and immediately showed happy smiles.

The Wei cavalry could not threaten Sun Wu's march pattern and could not stop their advance, which was a great success for Sun Wu.

Continue to advance all the way like this, directly advance to the city of Hefei, and then counteract the advantages of the Wei army in such a coordinated way and fight offensive and defensive battles.

After determining the correctness of this tactic, the advance of the Wu army was smoother and more powerful.

After receiving Cheng Lian's report, Zhang Liao nodded and asked him to lead his troops back to rest and prepare, so that the other armies could prepare to attack Sun Wu's army at any time.

Thirty new counterweight trebuchets have been prepared and lined up outside the city, in addition, the Wei army outside the city has also been assembled and put in formation, as long as Sun Wu's sailors arrive, it is the time for the tactics to be executed.

Zhang Liao personally served as the commander of the trebuchet team and personally directed the trebuchet to attack.

Sun Ce didn't know, Zhou Yu didn't know, the generals under his command didn't know, and neither did the majestic and high-spirited Wu army's foot soldiers.

The biggest advantage of the Wei army is that the Wu army does not know.

They thought that the Wei army had no better way, so they were not prepared.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu confidently and boldly commanded the sailors to advance, let the infantry troops who had already landed seize the position, form a military formation as a cover, cover the Sun Wu army on the ship to continue the landing, and join the formation defense force on the shore to fight against the Wei army who were waiting for the battle.

When they saw the towering and tall Hefei city wall a little farther away, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were a little distracted for a while.

They have been to Jiangdong for a long time, and they have not been to Jiangbei for a long time.

The walls are tall and majestic, and the city is wide and thick, and it is very difficult to attack at first glance.

It is estimated that it will be very difficult for such a tall and deep city wall to really attack, even if Sun Ce's troops are more than three times the number of Wei troops.

But besieging such a city requires at least 60,000 troops, right?

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu looked at each other and felt a little embarrassed.

"In the past, I never saw Hefei City so tall, it must have been renovated, did Wei Gong have long expected this day, so he specially repaired Hefei City?"

Sun Ce asked.

"It's really hard to say."

Zhou Yu shook his head and said: "But if Wei Gong is far-sighted, I don't feel strange, Bo Fu, I have already said that what we can think of, Wei Gong will not be unexpected, the victory or defeat of the war is not to see whose strategy is better, but to see who can implement the strategy to the end." ”

Zhou Yu put forward the same military thinking as Guo Peng, which was deeply approved by Sun Ce.

Soon, Zhou Yu and Sun Ce learned that the Wei army under Hefei City had finished lining up and took the lead, and they did not panic.

Zhou Yu ordered to put more troops ashore when there was still some distance, especially to let all the fierce generals go ashore, and Sun Ce himself went ashore as the commander-in-chief of the entire army on land.

Han Dang, Dong Xi, Chen Wu, Yuan Xiong, Deng Dang, Sun Ben and other generals all went ashore, and with Xu Kun and Zhou Tai, who had already gone ashore, the formation was perfected, and Sun Ce personally commanded in the center, which became a symbol of more combat effectiveness of this army.

Zhou Yu stayed in the water and led the naval division as reinforcements together with the general Huang Gai, so that the Jiangdong infantry army would rely on the naval division to fight against the Wei army.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were still a little jealous of the Wei army's combat effectiveness, so the elite and fierce generals came out together, and they did their best.

The Jiangdong infantry army and the sailors approached Hefei City with great momentum, and a bloody war was about to break out.

Seeing the tall Hefei city wall, as well as the Wei army array under Hefei City, the appearance of the armor and the fluttering flag, Sun Ce couldn't help but sigh at the elite of the Wei army.

Standing beside Zhou Yu on the boat, Sun Ce's younger brother, seventeen-year-old Sun Quan, was also looking at the tall and sturdy Hefei City.

"Zhongmou, what do you want?"

Zhou Yu finished ordering the sailors to advance, and saw Sun Quan standing on the deck looking at the Hefei city wall, so he stepped forward to ask.

"Brother Zhong, you say, can we really capture such a tall city?"

Sun Quan had never seen such a tall city, even if it was Wu County, Wu County, there was no such tall city wall.

"Whether a city can be captured or not is often determined by many factors, not only the number of troops, but also the amount of food reserves in the city, the decisions of the main generals in the city and the degree of courage of the soldiers, and whether the enemy's reinforcements can arrive in time."

"Then our army attacked Hefei and took the advantage?"

Sun Quan looked at Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu nodded: "That's natural, our army has an advantage in attacking Hefei, and the most important point is that we used various means to contain the reinforcements who might come here before we sent our troops, so that the entire Jiujiang County only has 10,000 enemy troops at most to fight against us." ”

"That's right."

Sun Quan nodded slightly: "That means that we will definitely win?" ”

"No, no one dares to say that we can win, only that we have an advantage, and with such an advantage, we have a greater chance of winning."

Zhou Yu said with a smile: "In the battle on the battlefield, no one dares to say that they are the final winner, we can only say that we will do our best to win the battle, and no one dares to say that we will definitely win." ”

Sun Quan stopped talking and continued to look at Hefei City.

Zhou Yu looked at Sun Quan and nodded slightly.

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