However, Xu Huang said that after learning that Yuan Shu had attacked Lujiang, although he had not yet received the news that Lu Su had sent troops, he was sure that with Lu Su's talent, he would not be unaware of the importance of Lujiang, so Lu Su would inevitably send troops to fight for Lujiang with Yuan Shu. Since the war in Huainan is about to be ignited, he must not be idle, and must immediately extend the war to Runan, contain Yuan Shu, reduce the pressure on Lu Su, and limit Yuan Shu to the embattled realm, and finally be defeated under the attack of the two Shu armies.

Xu Huang immediately summoned Wei Yan, Huang Zhong and others to say their decision, Wei Yan and others all agreed, originally Liu Zhang asked them to launch a crusade against Yuan Shu, just because Xu Huang and the First Field Army had just arrived, and they were still making preliminary preparations, and they had not yet launched an attack for a while, since Huainan had already started fighting, they should also start the war in advance, otherwise wouldn't it be a lonely battle for the Third Field Army? Well, in fact, it was Wei Yan, Huang Zhong, and even Xu Huang, they all had itchy hands and couldn't wait to put on their armor again.

Since the three giants have reached a consensus, it is natural to send troops. Because the 1st Field Corps had traveled all the way over the mountains and mountains, and the soldiers were resting, this achievement was grabbed by the 2nd Field Corps.

Huang Zhong drove away Liao Hua, Guan Hai and others who came to him to ask for the opportunity to fight for the first battle, led the 3rd Infantry Division as the vanguard, galloped to Wuyin, and arrived at Wuyin the next morning. After a full meal in Wuyin, he went to Wufang non-stop.

Wu Fang is a barrier to the west of Runan, since Liu Zhang captured Jingzhou, in order to prevent Liu Zhang from attacking Runan, Yuan Shu has long maintained 10,000 elite soldiers stationed in Wufang, if it is not for the Wu County is too small, it is difficult to station more soldiers and horses, this number must be much larger. Don't think that with only 10,000 soldiers and horses stationed there, you can easily break through, unless the person leading the troops is a person like Hefei Yangjie......

Yuan Shu, who knew the importance of Wu Fang, sent Xiao Jiangle to sit in Wu Fang, and Wu Fang was located at the confluence of the water and the water, and Wu County, which was facing water on three sides, was an easy place to defend and difficult to attack from Cuba, as long as it was not careless, it would not be a problem to block tens of thousands of enemy troops for several months with 10,000 elite soldiers in the city.

When Huang Zhong arrived at Wufang City with great interest, he saw that the gate of the county town was closed, and the defenders on the city wall were waiting. Huang Zhong saw that the sneak attack failed, and knew that it was impossible to capture Wufang with the 10,000 soldiers who did not have a siege equipment at hand, so he could only scold and fight under the city, hoping that the enemy army in the city would not be able to endure it and go out of the city to fight with him.

It's a pity that Le was not fooled, and ignored Huang Zhong's scolding, as long as Huang Zhong entered the range of the archers, it would immediately be a rain of arrows. Huang Zhong almost fell on the road, and hurriedly withdrew from the range of the defenders' bows and arrows. Seeing that the defenders were holding on without fighting, he had to order a retreat of ten miles to camp and wait for the main force to arrive.

Unlike the vanguard led by Huang Zhong, the main force led by Xu Huang escorted a large number of materials and equipment, and the speed of action was very slow, and these materials still needed time to be transported, so Huang Zhong waited for three days in the west of Wufang City before waiting for Huang to come.

In order to crusade against Yuan Shu, this time the 1st and 2nd Field Corps could be exhausted, the 1st Infantry Division of the 1st Field Corps, the 1st Infantry Division of the 1st Field Army, the 4th Division Gong Dubu, the 7th Division Pei Yuanshao, the 1st Independent Infantry Brigade Gao Shun, the 1st Cavalry Division Huaxiong, the 2nd Field Corps Infantry 3rd Division Huang Zhongbu, the 10th Division Guan Hai, the Independent Division Liao Hua Division, the 4th Independent Infantry Brigade Gao Pei, the 2nd Cavalry Division Xu Dingbu, the 7th Division Zhang Xiubu, and the two divisions directly under the Army Corps totaled 140,000 Mabu troops, and 100,000 soldiers and civilians. Feng Ji, chief of staff of the Second Field Army Corps and deputy chief of staff of the First Field Corps, led the rest of the troops of the First and Second Field Corps to sit in Nanyang to guard against Lu Bu and Cao Cao.

Seeing Xu Huang, Wei Yan and others, Huang Zhong, who thought that he had won the first credit, immediately poured bitter water: "The defenders of Wufang have long been prepared, I can't take it, so I can only go to call for war every day, but the enemy army sticks to the city and does not fight with me in the field, I have been idle for four days, I knew that this is the case, why should I fight with Wen Chang for this vanguard that day!" ”

Xu Huang and the others laughed, and after ordering the army to set up camp, Xu Huang, Wei Yan, Huang Zhong, Gao Shun, Chen Gong and others led thousands of guards to Wufang County to check the enemy's situation.

Everyone boarded a small dirt bag and looked at Wufang City not far away.

The defenders did not panic at all about the arrival of the Shu army, and stayed at their respective posts step by step, looking calm and calm.

"Looking at the appearance of the defenders, it seems that this music does have a ......hand in leading the soldiers," Xu Huang said without sadness or joy.

"Alas, I think it's a shrunken-headed turtle, and the soldiers with it are all shrunken-headed turtles, and I've been scolding and fighting every day these days, but there is not even a single person on the city wall!" It seems that Huang Zhong's resentment is quite deep, and he hurriedly said after listening to Xu Huang's words.

Gao Shun said: "General Hansheng personally led 10,000 troops to take the city, the strength has been equivalent to the other party, if I am a defending general, I will not give up the geographical advantage, go out of the city and fight with General Hansheng, if out of the city, once defeated, there is only a way to lose the army, even if you win, it will inevitably be a heavy loss, once the main force of the attack is completed, what troops will be used to resist!" ”

"I know this too, but it's still very unpleasant...... Alas......" Huang Zhong sighed.

Everyone smiled, and Chen Gong said: "Now that the main force of our army is exhausted, we must quickly dial this city, otherwise once the reinforcements of the Yuan army arrive, the other party will defend the city, and our army will pay a great price if it wants to break through!" ”

Huang Zhong said again: "I have already investigated, although there are only 10,000 defenders in the city, but because this city is located at the confluence of Lishui and Huangshui, the north, east and south are facing the abyss, and the troops are not easy to deploy, only the southwest is relatively open, which can be used as a battlefield. Therefore, once our army attacked, it could only attack from the west, but due to the terrain, it could not be coordinated in other places, and the defenders could gather all their forces in the west, and everyone also saw that the city wall was so long, if the main force of the defenders was all gathered here, it would not be easy for our army to attack the city! ”

"So is it feasible to besiege and surrender the enemy when he runs out of food?" Kuailiang Road.

Huang Zhong shook his head and said: "I'm afraid it's difficult, I asked the people nearby, it is said that since the prince recovered Jingzhou, Yuan Shu has been constantly transporting food and weapons to the city in order to prevent our Shu army from entering Runan, it is said that the food in the city is enough for the people and officers of the city to eat for a year or two, and we obviously don't have so much time to waste here!" ”

"Let's go back first!" Xu Huang said that, took the lead and walked down the dirt slope, and everyone immediately followed and returned to the camp.

Xu Huangshuai is in the tent.

"Lord Shangshu, why don't you let the last general lead his troops to try the attack?" When he heard that he had encountered a turtle shell, he wanted to touch it himself.

Xu Huang looked at the map of Yuzhou hanging in the tent and said: "It's not good, the enemy army is well prepared, and attacking rashly will only damage manpower and morale!" ”

Chen Gong was also observing the map, looking at it, an idea rose in his heart, and he couldn't help but close his eyes to demonstrate its feasibility.

After a while, Xu Huang, Wei Yan, and Chen Gong almost felt their eyes light up at the same time, and the three of them looked at each other and laughed, and everyone couldn't help but look at the three of them strangely.

After laughing, Xu Huang said: "It seems that the public station has a clever plan, so please ask the public station to explain it in detail, and I will listen to you!" ”

Chen Gong hurriedly said: "Lord Xiangbi Shangshu and General Wei have a plan, and they don't dare to get an axe in the next shallow opinion!" ”

Wei Yan said with a smile: "Zi said, 'Threesome, there must be my teacher', please speak freely on the public platform, whether it is feasible, let's all consider it together!" ”

Chen Gong arched his hand and said: "Then it will be a brick and a jade...... and then he said, Chen Gong pointed to Fang County on the map and said: "Wufang County is a hard bone, it is unwise to attack, and the siege is indefinite, it seems that we have encountered an unavoidable trouble." Look, although Wufang County faces water on three sides, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but there are advantages and disadvantages, and the terrain facing water on three sides is also surrounded by water and water on three sides, according to intelligence, Yuan's army does not have a water army here, that is to say, as long as our army blocks the west with a small number of troops, and then uses water instead of soldiers, the enemy in the city can be besieged...... Although our army also lacks sailors, there are many small boats that transport grain and grass supplies, as long as small boats are sent to be placed on the surface of the water to guard, the defenders will be unable to fly! In this way, our army can ignore the enemy of Wu Fang, and the main force will bypass Wu Fang, capture Maoyang and Shangcai, and then threaten Pingyu. ”

Wei Yan nodded and said, "I completely agree with Gongtai's opinion!" ”

Xu Huang said: "I also agree with Gongtai's opinion, but I have to add one more, I heard that Cao Cao of Xu County was assembling a large army and wanted to attack Yuan Shu, but he didn't dare to send troops because he was worried about Yuan Shao." Now Cao Cao is sending people to contact Yuan Shao, in order to reach some kind of agreement, once Cao and Yuan reach an agreement, Cao Cao will inevitably send troops to attack Yuan Shu, Yuzhou, Huainan is a grain town, people are prosperous, if Cao Cao takes one or two counties, it will inevitably increase its momentum, so I think that when attacking Maoyang and Shangcai, we must divide troops at the same time to attack Xiping, Dingying, Yin (add three points of water, this word can't be typed -_-) Qiang and other counties, and then kill into Chen State, Cao Cao blocked in Yingchuan! ”

Wei Yan said: "Shangshu is high! ”

Gong Du hesitated: "In this way, will our troops be insufficient?" ”

Xu Huang said: "The Yuan army has 120,000 soldiers and horses in Runan, of which 10,000 are stationed in Wufang, and even if 1,000 people are stationed in one county in more than 30 other counties, this goes to more than 40,000, and the remaining is less than 80,000. ”

Huang Zhong said: "It is reported that more than one-third of the recruits in the Yuan army have just picked up arms, and these recruits have almost no combat strength, once the battle starts, I am afraid it will only drag the Yuan army back, so the actual strength of the Yuan army is only 80,000, and our army has 140,000 people, with sufficient grain and grass, and excellent equipment, this battle will definitely be able to be attacked!" ”

Feng Ji said worriedly: "But Cao Cao has the heart of plotting Yuzhou and Huainan, once our army captures Haoyang, Shangcai and other places, will Cao Cao take advantage of our army's unstable foothold and suddenly attack our army?" ”

"He didn't dare to ...... him if he had the guts," Huang Zhong said confidently.

Chen Gong also said: "Our army is ordered by the Son of Heaven to crusade against the thieves, it is a righteous army, if Cao Cao attacks our army for no reason at this time, it is equivalent to the enemy of people with lofty ideals in the world, and Cao Cao will not put himself here." What's more, our army is so strong and strong, if Cao Cao dares to start a war lightly, our army can take this opportunity to destroy it in one fell swoop! ”

But when it came to who would be the commander of this partial division, he encountered a problem, because no one was willing to lead this partial division, and everyone understood that the main battlefield was on the front line of Pingyu, and these places in Xiping were just small fights, and leading the partial division meant that they would miss the decisive battle with Yuan Shu's main force, where were these militants willing to miss it......

In the end, Xu Huang had to name Gao Shun, although Gao Shun preferred to stay, but as a qualified soldier, he deeply understood the truth of military orders, accepted the order, and served as the commander of this partial division.

Xu Huang is not a random general, in fact, he originally meant Gao Shun. Maybe every division commander and brigade commander of the first and second field corps can do it to capture Xiping, but after the capture, it is necessary to guard against Cao Cao's invasion, which requires the person who leads the troops not only to attack, but also to defend well, and Gao Shun is the most suitable person to use the troops in a relaxed manner, both offensive and defensive.

Regarding the composition of the partial division, Xu Huang let Gao Shun take the idea. Gao Shun originally wanted to use all the troops of the First Field Army, but after thinking that he would take away tens of thousands of people, Wei Yanke would become the commander of the light pole, and finally after careful consideration, he decided that in addition to his infantry independent brigade, Pei Yuanshao's Ninth Infantry Division, Guanhai's Tenth Infantry Division, and Xu Ding's Second Cavalry Division were also ordered. Xu Huang sent another 30,000 soldiers and civilians to help transport supplies.

In order to confine Le to Wufang, Xu Huang deliberately transferred 10,000 people from the two divisions directly under the field army to form a mixed division, led by Zhang Song, deputy chief of staff of the Second Field Army, responsible for the siege, and also specially transferred hundreds of fishing boats and 5,000 people to assist.