It's a pity that Sun Ce's plan is doomed to failure, and he greatly underestimates the opponent he is about to meet - Chen Deng.

If Sun Jian is replaced, Chen Deng may surrender to the other party under the pressure of the Chen family.

In the original history, Xuzhou has changed hands several times, but the Chen father and son are still sitting in the position of various counties in Xuzhou without moving, whether it is Cao Cao or Lu Bu who is easy to kill, they have not been able to clear the Chen family's power in Xuzhou, and their ability can be seen.

However, Sun Ce is a young doll in his twenties, not to mention Chen Deng, no matter how capable and prestigious he is, it is also in Jiangdong, not Jiangbei. Xiaobawang is always just a Xiaobawang, he is not really the overlord of Xichu. Let the Chen family surrender to Sun Ce, and Chen Jue, Chen Yu, and Chen Yu's generation will definitely be the first to stand up and oppose it.

Chen Jue's generation is also very cunning, they know that as long as they resist Sun Ce's attack, even if Liu Bei comes, even if they do betray Liu Bei, just for Chen Deng's face, Liu Bei will not kill them.

Therefore, after Sun Ce led the main force and Zhu Zhi to converge in Guangling City, he encountered a strong resistance from the defenders of Guangling City led by Chen Deng, and the two sides fought a real fire on the city, and in just three days, the casualties of the two armies have greatly exceeded the previous one, only the sum of the casualties of the soldiers since the day Zhu Zhi's troops were trapped in Guangling City.

Chen Yuanlong is Chen Yuanlong, in the Three Kingdoms, whether it is a coincidence or not, the name or the word with the word 'dragon' is not Li Shu's cat and dog's goods.

Chen Deng may not have such a vigorous performance in the field battle, but this is an offensive and defensive battle of the city, and the side defending the city naturally occupies a greater advantage and initiative, and the city wall of Guangling City itself has been personally supervised and repaired since Chen Deng took office. He knew better than anyone all the strengths and weaknesses of Guangling City and beyond.

In addition, even if Sun Ce and Zhu Zhi's troops converged, their combined strength did not exceed 40,000.

Sun Tzu's art of war is cloudy: ten are to encircle it, five are to attack it, and even if Sun Ce's army is combined, it is only twice as many as the remaining troops in Guangling City.

This is not counted, during the period of Zhu Zhi's siege of the city, Chen Qi and Chen Deng, father and son, successively recruited 20,000 new soldiers from the city.

At this time, Xu Shu had already led 20,000 Xuzhou soldiers into the north of Guangling County, and camped north of the Huai River, and his intention was also very obvious, that is, to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and when both sides were tired, he would march again.

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At the same time, in Hefei City, overnight, the main force of Sun Ce's army also suddenly withdrew its troops from outside Hefei City and Chaohu Lake, and Liu Bei and Lu Su were a little stunned after learning the news.

The third battle of Xuzhou has been fought until now, and the hearts of Liu Bei, Lu Su and Xu Shu have always been hanging. In fact, they themselves also knew very well in their hearts that Cao Cao and Sun Ce joined forces to attack Xuzhou, and Liu Bei was afraid that he would not be able to keep all the territory this time. If it weren't for Jin Jue's thousands of miles to send a message to Liu Bei, he might have to use Zhao Yun, a secret son who has been hiding in the shadows.

Then, in this way, Liu Bei had to make some trade-offs.

First of all, it's not a pity that Runan County lost it.

Liu Bei could give up his territory to Liu Ye, who occupied the southern part of Runan County and had always been ambiguous about the surrounding forces. Even if this Liu Ye chose to take refuge in Cao Cao in the end, there was nothing. This is because Runan County is the base camp of the Yuan family, and once Yuan Cao fights with each other, his protégés and former officials will still make trouble for Cao Cao in Runan County.

Secondly, it is Lujiang County.

After all, among the three counties of Huainan occupied by Liu Bei, only Lujiang County has been occupied by Sun Ce, so why not give it to Sun Ce, temporarily let Tai Shi Ci free his hand and let him assist Lu Su in guarding Jiujiang County.

In the end, if it really didn't work, Liu Bei was ready to completely abandon Pengcheng and other counties except Pengcheng.

For more than two years, Cao Cao has been constantly attacking Pengchengguo, so even if Guan Yu has done his best, Pengcheng's domestic tuntian is still not harvested, but agriculture and animal husbandry are booming. The grain planted in the ground could not run, and Cao Cao took advantage of the summer harvest to send troops every time, so Guan Yu planted alfalfa in Pengcheng and used it to raise cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens and ducks, but received more fruitful results.

In the past year, Guan Yu's soldiers have indeed consumed a lot less food, but the time for training has increased correspondingly. Unlike wheat and rice, alfalfa is still grass after all, and if you plant the seeds, you don't need to be as careful as tending to the crops, as long as there is plenty of water, you don't have to worry about its growth.

In this way, in order to save trouble, Guan Yu and Jian Yong simply moved all the people from other counties of Pengcheng Kingdom to Pengcheng City after discussion, which not only saved the waste of some troops in each county to defend those county towns that could not be defended at all, but also saved the pain of fleeing and running whenever the war started.

But I don't want to, the war situation has developed to the present, and Liu Beijun himself has not done his best (give up Lujiang and Runan County, and transfer Tai Shici and Zhao Yun back!). Cao Cao and Sun Ce actually withdrew their troops from the main battlefield at the same time.

Of course, locally, even Cao's army did not all withdraw, because Xiahou Yuan was still dragged by Chen Zhi's army in the south of Langya County and could not get out, and Yu Ban was also trying to find a loophole in Mi Fang's defense.

Cao Cao originally wanted to try to attack Donghai County on the way to withdraw the army, but he didn't want to, and another Wenchen under Liu Bei showed Cao Jun his strategic vision at this time.

Wang Xiu found that Cao Cao had suddenly withdrawn his troops, so he immediately divided his troops and stationed them on the western border of Donghai County, helping Mi Fang stabilize his defenses.

Because Cao Cao's grain route has been cut off, it is not a big problem to support a small force like Yu Ban, but if he wants to support the main force of Cao's army to continue to fight outside, it will be much more difficult. In desperation, Cao Cao could only leave enough troops for Yu Ban and Xiahoudun, and he himself led the main force back to Xu County again in vain.

In this process, the tiger and leopard led by the angry Cao Chun rode like a rabbit, and Jin Hou and Liu Ji, who had fought to escape, finally fled back to Pengchengguo in great danger.

In the final analysis, it is not that Jin Hou is proficient in cavalry tactics, on the contrary, if it is any of Lu Bu's generals who is chasing him, it is really hard to say how many of the three hundred cavalry under Jin Hou can escape with him. The generals under Lu Bu may not have a higher IQ than Jin Hou, but they are all better at cavalry tactics than Jin Hou or Cao Chun.

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