Because of the need to prepare a sufficient number of trebuchets and wells, the Kwantung coalition suspended the siege.

Of course, Lu Bu was not in a hurry, he also knew that there were many wise and resourceful people in the opposite camp, and they must be trying their best to deal with the Tiger Prison Pass, and he only needed to see the moves.

Lu Bu firmly believes that with his own experience, experience, and knowledge of his previous lives, what else can't he cope?

Although the coalition forces on the opposite side were quiet for more than ten days, Lu Bu knew that they must build more and better siege weapons before they would attack the city again.

He is now more concerned about how his two mobile legions are progressing, and this is the key to breaking the current stalemate.

He believed that with the abilities of Xu Huang and Zhang Liao, they could make great achievements, as long as there was no influence from external factors.

It's a pity that sometimes things always backfire, Lu Bu has not received Xu Huang's good news, but he first received an urgent military report from the direction of the grassland.

This was directly transferred by the Ministry of Intelligence, and Xu Huang was probably the same information he received at the same time as Lu Bu.

According to the intelligence, Kebineng and Budugen of Xianbei in the central part of the country, under the mediation of mysterious lobbyists from the Central Plains, abandoned their previous suspicions and joined forces to form the Xianbei coalition army.

The two major tribes each dispatched 60,000 iron cavalry, a total of 120,000 cavalry, to prepare to take advantage of the Han civil war in the Central Plains, when there was no time for other care, to invade the south, plunder the population, money and food.

The source of information is very reliable, and it is an inside line developed by the two Hou Dahou brothers under Bu Dugen, and it is transmitted.

The status of this inside line is high enough, the status is above the captain of Wan, and his real identity is a diehard loyalist of Helian's golden family, and he is on the order of Helian to pretend to defect to Budugen.

Therefore, he took the initiative to contact the Central Army and was willing to cooperate with the Han people, just hoping to be able to re-support Helian's young son to regain the position of leader after the collapse of Budugen and Kebineng.

However, the information does not state which force the original lobbyist came from, but it is nothing more than a subordinate of one of the Kwantung princes.

Lu Bu had to admire that these large military divisions under the Kwantung princes still considered the problem very comprehensively, and would not leave themselves with any opportunity to take advantage of.

Lu Bufeige sent a letter to Xu Huang, asking him to make a decision on his own, and the second batch of Tuntian Army and local garrison brigades that were originally scheduled to come to Hugao Pass to help them stopped mobilizing and stayed in the Duliao and Bingzhou areas to assist Xu Huang in the battle.

Xu Huang had the Second Cavalry Division, the Fifth Cavalry Division, and the Sixth Cavalry Division, plus the Xiongnu servant army, the nomadic troops, the Tuntian Army, and the local garrison brigade.

Xu Huang and Zhao Yun's combination, Lu Bu was very relieved, he only hoped to repel the Xianbei people as soon as possible, and he could free up his hands to help him clean up the Kwantung princes.

Xu Huang was restrained by the Xianbei people, but Zhang Liao didn't have so many fetters.

Zhang Liao sent a notice to Lü Bu saying that he had led the 2nd Division and the 7th Cavalry Division to leave Wuguan and enter the territory of Nanyang County, and Wei Xu's 3rd Division took over the defense of Wuguan.

Zhang Liao will lead these two divisions deep behind enemy lines, cut off the supply lines of the Kwantung coalition army, avoid the real and attack the weak, and make a good trouble in the hinterland of the Kwantung princes.

Since there were not many supply belts and set off lightly, Zhang Liao had already decided to go on this expedition, which was in the enemy's territory, and the Jiangnan region was rich in products, so it was enough to feed the war by war.

Lu Bu also trusted Zhang Liao's ability very much, and his independent training during this time in Liangzhou made Zhang Liao more and more mature.

He only wrote back and instructed Zhang Liao to pay attention to the ways and means of using war to nourish the war, so as not to leave a bad impression on the people of Jingzhou.

In addition, when the cavalry of the Central Army enters the south to fight, it is necessary to pay attention to the geographical environment there, which is mountainous and watery, and it is even more necessary to pay attention to the enemy's encirclement and interception when going deep behind enemy lines.

Lü Bu ordered the intelligence personnel of the Intelligence Department in the Kwantung region, especially in Jingzhou and Yuzhou, to make every effort to provide Zhang Liao with the latest information, and also to prepare guides who were familiar with the local situation.

When Zhang Liao received Lü Bu's reply, he had already led his army south along Danshui and arrived near Nanxiang.

Zhang Liao had already prepared a guide, a regiment commander of the Second Division and the Fourth Brigade, named Huo Jun, a native of Nanjun, who was admitted to the third phase of the Shaling Military Academy after traveling thousands of miles that year, accumulated military merits, and was promoted to regiment commander.

However, the connection with the Ministry of Intelligence is still very close, and at this point, Zhang Liao is deeply influenced by Lu Bu, after all, he has been by Lu Bu's side for many years and has learned a lot.

Zhang Liao also had several relatively detailed maps in his hand, which were drawn by intelligence officers from the Drawing Department of the Ministry of Intelligence who had infiltrated various parts of the Kanto region.

Zhang Liao already had the general geographical information of Jingzhou, and he also very much agreed with Lu Bu's entrustment, that is, the south was mountainous and watery, which was not conducive to the mobility of the cavalry, and there were also northerners who were not accustomed to the water and soil in the south.

Therefore, Zhang Liao has decided to avoid the developed water system in the south of the Yangtze River as much as possible, after all, Jingzhou's water army is still very famous.

As for the prevention of water and soil adaptation, it is not a big problem, and the army has both medicine prepared by the divine doctor Zhang Zhongjing, as well as tea made of honey and barley, and is fully prepared.

Moreover, the disciples of the divine doctor also taught a trick, that is, when the army marched to one place, a large amount of local tofu could be eaten.

Yes, it is tofu, legend has it that tofu was accidentally invented by Liu An, the king of Huainan during the Western Han Dynasty, when he was refining pills, and it has already spread all over the world in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

It is said that this is because tofu is made from soybeans, and the local soybeans are suitable for the local water and soil, and eating local soybeans can help adjust the body.

According to the latest information sent by the intelligence officers of the Ministry of Intelligence in Nanyang, there is a county town called Shunyang in the east not far from Nanxiang, and the defense force is weak, with only 500 county soldiers, but Nanxiang is guarded by 3,000 Jingzhou troops.

The purpose of Zhang Liao's trip was to attack and sabotage, not to fight hard with the enemy, so it was natural to avoid the real and attack the weak.

Zhang Liao immediately decided to sneak attack Shunyang, and changed the style of sneak attack, and let hundreds of people disguise themselves as ordinary people and blend into the city in broad daylight.

Because the news was not transmitted so quickly, Shunyang did not know whether Zhang Liao's army had entered the boundary of Jingzhou or the city gate was wide open.

Hundreds of Central Army troops successfully seized a city gate, released green flares, and received the army into the city.

How did the five hundred county soldiers deal with the central army, the city gate was taken, the battle in the city was basically over, and the county order was caught by Zhang Liao before he could escape.

He didn't need to be tortured, but just made words and threats, and he told him everything he knew.

Although Jingzhou was already guarding against Zhang Liao's Central Army, Liu Biao did not dare to participate in the Puyang Alliance.

However, the Jingzhou army has limited troops, and the main forces are guarding those transportation arteries or rich and important big cities, and it is not bad to have 500 soldiers in a small county like Shunyang to defend it.

After all, 50,000 elite soldiers were lost in the first battle of Hanzhong, and 50,000 people were sent to the Puyang Huimeng, so how many people were there in the Jingzhou army?

After the Battle of Hanzhong, Liu Biaoxin recruited many soldiers, but they still lacked training and equipment!

After collecting enough military rations in the official warehouses in Shunyang and the shops in the city, Zhang Liao began to fight elsewhere, and the grain and dried meat in the shops were all bought for money.

Of course, the money for buying things was also stolen from the county government, "taken from the people and used for the people."

Leaving Shunyang, Huo Jun led his regiment in front and led the whole army to the road, this route he was most familiar with, this was his way home.

酂县(zanxian)

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