After Sun Qian announced Liu Bei's order, he then briefly stated the current battle situation in Guangling County and the Jiangbei area of the Yangzhou Assassin History Department to the people who were waiting for the order in the council hall.

The entire area north of the Yangtze River was plunged into a melee.

First of all, in the direction of Guangling City, the Chen clan is currently at a disadvantage, but it is also very difficult for Sun Cejun to take the entire Guangling County in the short term.

This time, Sun Ce not only took the initiative to unite with Cao Cao and prepare to attack Xuzhou from the north and south, but also his ambition was very big.

Not long after Cao Cao sent troops to attack Pengchengguo, he gathered heavy troops and launched a general attack on the Jiangbei region from three directions.

The commander who led the troops of Wu County to attack Guangling County was Wu County Taishou Zhu Zhi.

Cao Cao did not convey the matter of Sun Ce's attack on Guangling County to the Chen clan in advance, so when Zhu Zhi's troops came to Guangling City, half of the troops in the city were missing, and both Chen Qi and Chen Yu knew that they were not Sun Cejun's opponents, so after discussion, Chen Qi had to release his son in danger, and he led the troops to resist Zhu Zhi's attack.

After Chen Deng was released, he didn't say anything, and immediately buried his head in arranging the city defense, and the commander resisted the attack of Sun Cejun.

The current situation is that, except for Guangling City, all counties in the vicinity of the Yangtze River in Guangling County have been captured by Sun Cejun.

Of course, even if Zhu Zhi captured these subordinate counties and temporarily occupied the situation in the area south of the Yangtze River, he found that he could not get much.

Last year's devastating drought had a much greater impact than anyone could have imagined. With Chen Deng's ability, he can only gather the people affected by the drought in Guangling City to eat, and at present, the grain in the county government treasury can only maintain the basic living needs of the people in each county. And the Chen family's own grain depot in Guangling County and the grain that Liu Bei supported to Guangling County are now all placed in Guangling City.

Therefore, Zhu Zhi's idea of wanting to feed the enemy cannot be realized.

If Guangling City is not captured, the Wu County troops led by Zhu Zhi will take great risks if they want to cross the Huai River, capture the counties north of Guangling City in Guangling County, or even invade Xiapi State. Therefore, the current situation in Guangling County has fallen into the attack and defense of the two armies closely surrounding Guangling City.

In the face of Chen Deng's tight defense, Zhu Zhi's methods were really not too many, and he also admitted frankly in his military report to Sun Ce that according to the current situation, the possibility of him wanting to capture Guangling City in the short term was very small, and Chen Deng was a respectable opponent.

Secondly, on the side of Jiujiang County, Sun Ce personally led the troops to attack this way.

As soon as Sun Ce crossed the Yangtze River with his troops and entered the territory of Jiujiang County, he found that he was blocked by Liu Beijun in the Chaohu area south of the county seat of Hefei County, and Liu Beijun was responsible for guarding Hefei County's guards, and it was Lu Su and Lu Zijing, who missed Sun Ce.

Originally, Zhou Yu had already planned to recommend Lu Su to Sun Ce, but under the guidance of Jin Hou, in the end, it was Liu Bei who took the lead, looked at Dongcheng three times, moved Lu Su, and invited him out of the mountain.

In Jin Jue's view, in the entire history of the Three Kingdoms, Lu Su's strategic vision is unmatched, and in this regard, Zhuge Liang, Xun Yu or Guo Jia are far inferior to him, but Lu Su naturally has his own weaknesses.

First, Lu Su is not good at conspiracy.

Second, Lu Su is not good at conquering cities.

Third, Lu Su does not have the ability to speculate on the enemy's hearts as strongly as Guo Jia and Jia Xu.

However, in addition to his high strategic vision, Lu Su was very good at training the army, controlling the city or blocking the block, and more importantly, he had many military advisors who rarely had the courage to do so. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the bridge section of going to the meeting alone was shamefully pressed on Guan Yu's body, but in fact, this historical event was made by Lu Su.

Sun Ce has always been quick to fight, once he was blocked by Lu Su, he immediately led his troops to storm Hefei City, and the two armies had already fought a real fire in Hefei City.

However, Sun Ce could not help Lu Su in the city.

At this time, Liu Bei not only arrived in Shouchun City in time, Xu Shu also led reinforcements to temporarily establish a defensive line on the northern border of Jiujiang County, to gain time for the evacuation of the people of Jiujiang County north of Shouchun City.

At this time, the Cao army spies who discovered the movement in Jiujiang County reported the matter to Cao Cao, and the main force of the Cao army quickly attacked Jiujiang County and found that it was too late.

Because the food was lost to the enemy, even the people along the way ran out.

This time, there was no need for Xu Shu to do too much agitation, as soon as the people in the Jianghuai area heard that Cao Cao was about to lead his troops into Jiujiang County, they all spontaneously abandoned everything at home and fled into Shouchun City with their families.

At this time, Cao Cao finally had to pay for his act of massacring the innocent people of Xuzhou in the first battle of Xuzhou.

Because Lu Su's preliminary work was really good, Xu Shu was able to use the camp established by Lu Su outside Shouchun City in advance, and launched an offensive and defensive battle with the main force of Cao's army under Shouchun City.

Let Liu Bei lead the army to fight directly with Cao Cao in the field, he may lose the battle, but let him defend the city, it is still very certain.

As for Lujiang County, the situation became favorable to Liu Beijun.

At this time, the reinforcements sent by Jin Jue had not yet arrived, so Zhao Yun could not leave Runan County.

Even so, Zhang Fei led the cavalry and made a surprise attack on the 3,000 infantry of the Lejin Division, who were also preparing to surprise attack Lujiang County, and successfully gave Cao's army a blow to the head.

However, as the five tiger generals under Cao Cao, Le Jin is naturally not easy to match, in the case of the same strength of the two armies, but the arms have a great disadvantage, Le Jin took advantage of the geographical characteristics of many rivers in the Lujiang Huai River area, and escaped Zhang Fei's pursuit. After the war, after counting, more than eighty percent of the Lejin Department was lost, and the soldiers who could escape back to Chen County with him alive were less than 600 people.

After the successful sneak attack on Cao Junqi's soldiers, Zhang Fei became addicted and did not follow Liu Bei's prior instructions, and immediately attacked Sun Cejun, who was besieging Lujiang County.

The commander of Sun Ce's army that attacked Lujiang County was Sun Ce's cousin Sun Ben, which was different from the original history because Sun Ce had appointed Zhou Yu as the Taishou of Yuzhang County, so Sun Ben was currently serving as the Taishou of Lujiang County.

In this battle, fortunately, Sun Ben's army was strictly organized, even if it was really under the front and rear attacks of Tai Shici and Zhang Fei, he only paid very small losses and successfully led most of the rest of the army back to Jiangbei.

(End of chapter)