In this way, if the third battle of Xuzhou is over, Liu Bei can successfully block the combined forces of Cao Cao and Sun Ce and keep the existing territory. Then, next, Cao Cao's first choice to solve the enemy became Jinyun's Taishan County, Jinhou's Lu State, and Wei Yan's Runan County.

Among them, the situation in Lu will definitely become the most difficult.

Because, within the Lu State, there is neither the danger of the mountains and rivers in Taishan County, nor is it connected to Nanyang County like Runan County, and it can be supported by Nanyang County at any time. From Jin Jue's urgent letter, Liu Bei and others had realized at this time that Zhang Xiu was probably about to raise the whole army to join Jin Jue. This was also a great blow to Cao Cao.

If Jin Hou wants to defend the Lu State, in addition to relying on his own ability, he can only rely on Liu Bei's assistance.

In this way, Liu Bei only needed to send troops to help Jin Hou defend in Lu State, and no longer had to worry that Cao Cao would send a large army to attack Xuzhou again, giving Xuzhou time to recuperate and train generals and soldiers.

Liu Bei's proposal can be described as a plan to kill three birds with one stone.

After thinking about it for a long time, Jin Hou gritted his teeth and promised: "Thank you for your trust, Jin Hou just follow the orders of the lord." ”

At this time, Xu Shu interjected and asked, "Jin Hou, how many troops are you going to bring to the East China Sea!" ”

Obviously, Xu Shu was still a little worried, Jin Hou fought with Cao Cao's generals for the first time, and if he was not careful, even if he was defeated, it would not affect the overall situation, but if he died in battle, it would not only completely destroy Liu Beijun's strategic deployment, but also lose such a rare talent as him.

At least, in Xu Shu's current view, Jin Hou is a very qualified military staff officer.

But Jin Hou's answer made everyone present startled, and said: "Lord, Xu Junshi, the villain is going to take a thousand people to the East China Sea!" ”

"A thousand people, are you crazy, just now you said that Yu Ban is the most difficult to deal with, but you kid dare to only take a thousand people, don't you want to find death?" Yuan Jian was straight-tempered and asked in disbelief.

"Yuan Gong, please calm your anger, please listen to the villain's words and it's not too late.

First of all, the villain's departure is not a direct confrontation with the forbidden department.

Thinking that there were only 5,000 soldiers in the forbidden area, even if they carried food, they had nothing to gain in Pengcheng State, and they would inevitably rely on support from the rear. Therefore, the villain's first step was to lead his troops to the rear of Yu Ban and cut off his grain route first. Although there are not many soldiers in 1,000, it is very easy to hide, and if it exceeds 1,000, it is difficult not to be discovered by the army of Cao Jun escorting food.

Secondly, when the villain attacks the grain route, he will launch a night attack at night.

There are too many people, and the villain does not have the ability to fully control it.

Finally, Xu Junshi also knew that the villain's subordinates were all Tuntian soldiers, and at this time, if I transferred too many Tuntian soldiers to leave at once, it would affect the next summer and autumn harvests. Jin Hou explained eloquently.

"This ,......" After hearing this, Yuan Jian and the others present actually nodded subconsciously.

Jin Hou's answer is not wrong at all, although the soldiers can't do too much, but it is indeed very easy to control, not to mention, if you follow Jin Hou's steps, it can indeed bring a lot of trouble to Yu Ban.

More importantly, the problem of food is the top priority for Xuzhou today. Last year, the locust plague in the second year of Jian'an caused a lot of losses to Guangling County, and the second battle of Xuzhou launched by Cao Cao directly made Liu Bei have to set fire to all the immature crops in the cultivated land in Pengchengguo, and the severe drought at the end of the year caused Liu Bei to have to take out the only stock of grain to support Lu Su and Tai Shici to rescue the two counties of Huainan newly seized from Yuan Shu.

If this year's summer and autumn harvests are delayed, and this year's grain income is missed, perhaps Cao Cao and Sun Ce will not join forces at all, and Xuzhou under Liu Bei's rule may collapse on its own.

……

Therefore, at Liu Beijun's military meeting, Liu Beijun's strategic deployment was finally determined.

After the meeting, Liu Bei took his entourage and rode a fast horse to the place where Zhang Fei was stationed, and personally had a deep conversation with him all night.

Xu Shu and Wang Xiu immediately mobilized the troops in Xiapi City, and after completion, Wang Xiu immediately led 15,000 soldiers to the western border of Xiapi to garrison the defense line, and Yuan Jian was responsible for recruiting another 20,000 strong men in the city to guard Xiapi City, and at the same time, he also had to supervise the harvest of tuntian in Xiapi.

To Xu Shu's great surprise, with his own and Wang Xiu's abilities, it took five days to complete the assembly and mobilization of the army, on the contrary, Jin Hou headed northwest with a thousand soldiers he had personally trained shortly after leaving the city that day.

Zhang Fei was naturally very happy that he was able to participate in the battle immediately, no longer have to act like a fool, and lead the troops to live in the same place. As for what the eldest brother Liu Bei ordered, let him return to his original place immediately after killing Lejin, and he also gladly accepted it.

Zhang Fei actually understands the general situation and the overall situation.

Even Chen Zhi, the newly promoted general, was able to get the opportunity to confront Xiahou Yuan, the general of the Cao army, but all along, Liu Bei only asked him to be a reserve army, which made Zhang Fei very difficult to accept.

Early the next morning after the eldest brother Liu Bei left, Zhang Fei led his 3,000 cavalry to the county border along Xiapi and Jiujiang County, all the way to the south and then to the east, and went straight to Lujiang County.

In fact, Liu Bei's original words were just to let Zhang Fei defeat Le Jin's department, but killing Le Jin was just a goal that Zhang Fei set for himself.

……

Five days later, Liu Bei and Xu Shu also quickly led the troops out of the country of Xiapi and went straight to Shouchun City, according to Liu Bei's military deployment, at this time, Lu Su had already led the Huainan soldiers to Hefei City to garrison.

It was the most suitable strategic place to block Sun Ce's attack.

If there was no Hefei City, even if Sun Ce abandoned Hefei and went deep into the interior of Jiujiang County, he would lose one of the sharp weapons of the Eastern Wu Army-the warship. Without Chaohu Lake around Hefei City in hand, it was very difficult for the Eastern Wu army to quickly retreat to the Yangtze River. Compared with the northern army, the army south of the Yangtze River marched much slower.

This was due to the fact that the southern river network was crisscrossed, and the soldiers marched, often by boat. On the contrary, the north, especially the area south of the Huai River, is either flat or hilly.

After this news reached Guangling County, it triggered a big controversy among the Chen family.

At this time, in the back office of Guangling County, Xiapi Chen was holding a meeting here about the fate of the Chen family.

The initiator of the meeting was not Chen Deng, the Taishou of Guangling County, but his father Chen Qi and the two uncles of the Chen family in Xiapi.

(End of chapter)