"What? Shouchun was breached, and Ji Ling surrendered directly? This traitor has betrayed my trust in vain! As soon as Yuan Shu arrived in Hefei, he heard the news of Ji Ling's surrender and the destruction of Shouchun City.

What he scolded was not that Shouchun was broken, although it was the "capital" he carefully selected, but since he had decided to give up, it was abandoned, there was nothing to be nostalgic about, what he scolded was only Ji Ling's surrender, thinking that Ji Ling's surrender betrayed him, and he had trusted and reused the other party for so many years.

However, Yuan Shu didn't think about his unfair treatment at all, let alone the reason why he promoted Ji Ling's official position in the end, but let Ji Ling block Pei Qing's progress with his life.

However, anger turned to anger, but Yuan Shu did not stop fleeing at all, and he decided to continue to flee to Lujiang, where it was possible to ensure his safety.

For Yuan Shu's idea of continuing to escape, Yang Hong persuaded bitterly, because the geographical location of Hefei is very important, it has always been known as "the head of the south of the Yangtze River, the throat of the Central Plains", whether it is Jiangnan or the Central Plains, it has always been a place for soldiers to fight, and Hefei has a strong city wall, and the city is full of materials, as long as it sticks here, it is very likely to persist until Pei Qing retreats, and even if it is really defeated, it is convenient to escape from the waterway, and once Hefei is abandoned, this place will inevitably be occupied by Pei Qing, and at that time, The Lujiang River will be surrounded by Pei Qing on both sides of the north and east, and once Pei Qing cooperates with Jiangxia on the west side of the Lujiang River, it will form a three-sided encirclement of the Lujiang River, and the county of Lujiang is located in the plain, there is no danger to defend, it is easy to be surrounded, in fact, it is not an ideal place.

However, Yuan Shu didn't listen at all, and led the army without hesitation to easily give up all the land in Jiujiang County, and fled directly to Zhishu County, Lujiang County, where he strengthened the city defense and prepared to defend it to the death.

In Yuan Shu's opinion, there are many advantages to staying in Lujiang, one is that it is getting farther and farther away from where Pei Qing is, which leads to longer and longer supply lines, and Pei Qing has difficulty transporting grain, which is their biggest advantage. In addition, whether it is Qiao Rui who conquered Guangling or Liu Xun who crossed the river to conquer Danyang, they all have a deep relationship with Lujiang, Qiao Rui is a person from Lujiang Anhui County, and his family members are in Lujiang, Liu Xun is now Lujiang Taishou, and his family members are also in Lujiang, so as long as Yuan Shu controls Lujiang, it is equivalent to controlling the families of the heads of the two armies in their own hands, so they are not afraid that they will not be loyal to themselves.

The two armies can have 80,000 people, plus the 30,000 personal soldiers led by himself, adding up to a total of 110,000 people, no matter what, it is impossible to defeat Pei Qing's little men, and even Yuan Shu still wants to defend instead of attacking, after defeating Pei Qing, not only to recover Jiujiang, but also to take the opportunity to recover Yuzhou and Nanyang, and further occupy the Central Plains, dominate the world.

It is precisely because of this idea that Yuan Shu would rather give up Hefei than firmly control the Lujiang region, which is where his hope lies, and it is the key to him turning the tide and turning defeat into victory.

Pei Qing was still a little nervous when he led the army to Hefei, because once Yuan Shu defended here, it would not be easy for him to take it down, not to mention Yuan Shu's own 30,000 troops, plus the bridge that could return in time, the other party would have 60,000 troops, and at that time, under the attack of these armies, even if he could win in the end, it would only be a miserable victory, and he would inevitably pay a very heavy price.

But when Pei Qing heard that Yuan Shu had led the army to evacuate Hefei and rushed to Lujiang, Pei Qing's heart was suddenly overjoyed, because he knew that once Yuan Shu went to Lujiang, the prospect would be bleak. Not to mention that Liu Xun can't get out at all when he fights with Sun Ce's army, even if he really comes back, he can completely thwart Liu Xun's army by encircling the point and sending reinforcements, and hit the morale of the defenders and Liu Xun's army, as long as the time is slightly longer, as soon as the grain and grass of Liu Xun's army are used up, this army will soon collapse, as long as Liu Xun's army is finished, the sergeants guarding the city will inevitably collapse quickly, so that the capture of Yuan Shu is very expected.

"Hehe, this Yuan Shu is really stupid, he chose to do this, this means that he will kill himself, no wonder others."

After Pei Qing got the news, the only worry in his heart was gone, he believed that the Lord had been doomed to defeat since the moment Yuan Shu decided to flee to Lujiang.

So Pei Qing occupied the important town of Hefei without a single soldier, thus not only blocking the retreat of Qiaorui, but also forming a two-sided or even three-sided encirclement of the Lujiang River.

As soon as he heard that Yuan Shu had fled to Lujiang, he immediately sent Deng Zhi to Jiangxia to persuade Jiangxia Taishou Huang Zu to agree to send troops to cooperate and attack Lujiang together.

This time, in order to be prepared, Pei Qing transferred Deng Zhi to his battalion in advance, just to prepare for this kind of foreign affairs, and it turned out that Pei Qing's preparation was not in vain, and it was this key one-handed layout that finally completely defeated Yuan Shu's will.

Since he knew that Yuan Shu was already a turtle in an urn, a dry bone in the mound, and he would lose sooner or later, Pei Qing did not rush into the army, but ordered the soldiers to garrison Hefei, and build city defenses, deep ditches and high fortresses, to avoid fighting with it, and also set a strategy for counterattack.

It can be said that the current Pei Qing has already made all preparations, just waiting for Qiao Rui to surrender step by step according to his design.

"Lord, Qiaorui's army is only ten miles away from here, and it is estimated that it will only take half an hour at most to arrive." In Hefei City, the spies sent by Pei Qing's Ministry to Wen Ji heard the news, and he hurriedly reported to Pei Qinglai after getting the news.

"Oh? It came pretty quickly. Pei Qing said with a smile on his face after getting the news.

I saw Wen Ji smile and said: "In fact, according to the itinerary of the Qiaorui army, it should be tomorrow morning at the earliest, and it may even go around the city directly, but our spies pretended to be farmers, and when he inquired about the news, he told him the 'insider' very happily, saying that our main army had just left, and there were only 3,000 soldiers in the city holding on. ”

"Well, good job," Pei Qing praised Wen Ji, and then ordered the army to act according to the plan, this time it must be that this bridge Rui cannot return to Lujiang.