Guo Peng has a lot of famous generals in a hundred battles, the army is elite and good at fighting, Nanyang is located in the northern basin, the terrain is flat, can not give full play to the advantages of Jingzhou water division, but it is conducive to the play of the northern infantry group.

Guo Peng's advantage lies in the strong infantry and cavalry group, the Wei army's infantry and cavalry are famous for their strong combat power, and once the Nanyang Basin is attacked by Guo Peng's heavy infantry and cavalry group, whether the 20,000 Jingzhou soldiers led by Zhang Yun can hold it will be a big question mark.

The Jingzhou soldiers, like the Jiangdong soldiers, were good at water warfare, but they were not necessarily good at field warfare on the plains.

This is especially true for Guo Peng, who has a powerful cavalry group.

Liu Biao knows this clearly, Cai Mao knows, Zhang Yun knows, and Kuai Yue also knows.

Everyone knows this, but the crux of the matter lies in the content of the covenant.

If one party enters or is attacked, the other two parties need to send troops together to contain it, so that it can be regarded as an act in line with the covenant, if Liu Zhang's request for cooperation is not complied with the first time, then when there is a need on his side in the future, how can he count on the support of his allies?

This kind of thing is relative, and a person can't sing a one-man show.

"We have made an alliance, if we don't attack, it is a violation of the alliance, then the alliance will be directly abandoned, I am happy that Guo Zifeng, the union of the three states in the south of the Yangtze River was initiated by me, I must abide by it, no matter what, I will send troops to the north to clamp down on Guo Zifeng!"

Liu Biao made the final decision, forcibly sent troops despite opposition, and sent people to contact Sun Ce, hoping that Sun Ce would cooperate with the troops to restrain Guo Peng and fulfill the covenant.

He deliberately emphasized that if the covenant was not fulfilled at the first time, then the covenant would be the same as if it had not been concluded, and Guo Peng would be happy.

Sun Ce had just lost the opportunity under Guo Peng's political offensive, was successfully attacked by a sneak attack, his reputation fell, and he was in an embarrassing situation, so as soon as Liu Biao's news came, Sun Ce immediately decided to go north.

"Gong Wei made the first move, how could I not make a move and let Gong Wei see my jokes?"

Sun Ce grinned, his face full of the will to fight, and his eyes full of the fire of battle.

Zhou Yu said worriedly: "If our army goes north, the target must be Lujiang and Jiujiang, this point, Duke Wei must also know, so he has separated troops and horses in Lujiang and Jiujiang, and has already taken precautions, is there really no problem for us to go north at this time?" ”

"This is a covenant, Gongjin, this is not something I am willing to do, if I don't send troops at this time, when I am in trouble in the future, how can I expect Liu Jingsheng and Liu Jiyu to send troops to help? Against the Duke of Wei, the power of one state is not enough, and the cooperation of three states is needed. ”

Sun Ce took a deep breath: "Moreover, my Jiangdong Sailor is the best in the world, and I go north along the waterway, which is enough to kill the hinterland of Jiujiang County in one go, I want to see how the elite of the world of Duke Wei competes with me on the water, whether to go into the water to engage me, or to chase me on the shore?" ”

Zhou Yu frowned, feeling that what Sun Ce said made sense, but ......

"What we can think of, can't the Wei Guild think of? Wei Gong must have thought of it a long time ago, and he was ready to deal with it, Bo Fu, you have to think twice. ”

"I've thought twice, this battle, I have to fight, and I have to fight, Gongjin, help me, this battle is won, all the losses we suffered before will be recovered, if we can't win this battle, then ......"

Sun Ce didn't say anything to death, but what he meant, Zhou Yu understood.

If this battle cannot be won, then the situation will be really bad, and it will be really difficult for the Jiangdong Army to go north again.

Defeated on the political battlefield, and as a result, defeated on the military battlefield, the resistance of the local people in Jiangdong, who had been suppressed with great difficulty, may break out again.

On the first day of the eighth month of the fifth year of Xingping, when the Shu army had not finished the difficult Qishan Road and began to attack Liangzhou, Guo Peng's letter to Zhang Liao was sent to Zhang Liao by 600 miles, and Zhang Liao immediately unfolded the letter to read.

After reading it, he was silent for a while, and Zhang Liao said to the generals around him: "Duke Wei is far-sighted, this battle, our army will win." ”

Subsequently, Zhang Liao burned the letter and did not let anyone else see it.

At that time, Guo Peng had already received the news from Zhang Yun that Liu Biao was about to send troops north to attack Runan County and Yingchuan County, and Zhang Liao had already received information from all sides, proving that the Sun Wu regime was making a series of war preparations, and the troops were heading north and were about to attack Jiangbei.

When Guo Peng wrote the letter, he didn't know about Liu Biao and Sun Ce's actions, he just speculated on the inevitability of this action, and then gave Zhang Liao an idea, Zhang Liao was a little nervous here, and Guo Peng's letter arrived.

Zhang Liao's confidence has increased greatly.

But even Ma Yan, Cheng Lian, Cao Xing, Hao Meng, Hou Cheng and other generals who were transferred by Guo Peng to Zhang Liao's side to assist in the battle did not know what Guo Peng wrote to Zhang Liao, so that Zhang Liao had such confidence.

In any case, Zhang Liao did start to act.

Zhang Liao quickly withdrew the main force of the Jiangfang army, leaving only the symbolic garrison troops, and did not intend to fight Sun Ce in a decisive battle when Sun Wu's naval division marched.

Then he also ordered the people south of Hefei in Jiujiang County and east of Xiang'an County in Lujiang County to be relocated to the north of Hefei and west of Xiang'an County, and all materials were transferred, leaving a strategic vacuum zone.

Guo Peng's center of gravity in Tuntian in Jiujiang is still in the Shouchun area, and in Lujiang County, it is the Wancheng area.

Zhang Liao easily created a strategic empty city, so that when Sun Wu's army marched, he could not get any supplies and destroy anything.

Of course, Zhang Liao directly gave up the defense south of Hefei, and did not intend to entangle with Sun Wu's army in these places.

In fact, Zhang Liao did not have the ability to fight with Sun Wu's sailors, there were no ships, no navy, Guo Peng did not train the navy along Chaohu Lake and the Yangtze River, and the only navy was far away in Qingzhou, Zhang Liao had no way.

Therefore, he could only watch Sun Wu Shui Shi enter Jiujiang County along the river in one fell swoop and could not stop it.

The only place where the Wei army could stop Sun Wu's sailors was Hefei.

Hefei city after Zhang Liao's repair, now is not what it used to be, has become a fairly strong military fortress, although close to the water, but, this is the chance to win.

Although Guo Peng admired Sun Bofu very much and praised Sun Bofu as a lion and enterprising, Zhang Liaoke did not think that Sun Ce could take Jiujiang away from him.

When Sun Wu's fleet arrived at the source of Shishui and had to land and attack Hefei, it was time for Zhang Liao to start exerting his might.

At the same time as the defense of Jiujiang County, Zhang Liao was also a little worried about Xu Huang, a rookie general and Hengjiang Zhonglang general who was deployed in Lujiang County, and he thought that Guo Peng's decision to let the little-known Xu Huang replace Guan Yu's former position was a very risky move.

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