Zhang Yi, like a cockroach, disgusted Cao Cao.

Whenever Cao Cao wanted to attack the north, he would come out and make trouble. When he fought with Yuan Shao in the battle of Guandu before, he defected! During the Battle of Cangting, he rescued Liu Bei! Now Cao Cao wants to go north to Jizhou again, and he runs out to attack Xuzhou again.

This time was different from the last attack on Guangling, Zhang Yi actually plundered most of Xuzhou, and killed Zhang Zhao, the minister of Pi, and Qin Song, the minister of the lower pi. Zhang Zhao and Qin Song came over with Sun Fu, although Cao Cao can't be reused here, but he is also a celebrity, Zhang Yi said that he would kill him. This has dealt a serious blow to the dignity of the Han family, and Zhang Zhao and Qin Song were appointed by the imperial court.

Cao Cao wanted to send a general to fight back Zhang Yi, but after thinking about it, it was not very reliable. Xiahou Yuan was injured in the attack on Shouchun, although the injury was healed, it was enough to show that he was not Zhang Yi's opponent. Cao Ren was also defeated by Zhang Yi when he was in Runan, although it was due to the small number of soldiers, but this time Cao Cao would not send too many troops over.

Cao Cao can only go by himself, if he still wants to attack Jizhou, he can only exclude the partial division, and he is destined to have no more soldiers than Zhang Yi. In the case of weak troops, neither Xiahou Yuan nor Cao Ren was Zhang Yi's opponent. Then it is better not to send this partial division, but not sending troops in the past will only boost Zhang Yi's prestige.

So Cao Cao had no other choice, he could only give up attacking Jizhou and send troops to Xuzhou.

Cao Cao thought for a while and gave an order: "Let Xiahou Yuan, Xu Huang, and Zhu Ling prepare the troops, and Guo Jia and Xu You participate in military affairs." Order Zang Ba to go south to support Wei County! ”

After Cao Cao gave the order, the entire state system began to operate, and after ten days, he gathered an army of 30,000 men, as well as some supplies, and advanced to the east.

Zhang Yi besieged the county and fired stones into the city every day, causing panic in the city.

Chen Deng had already expected it, and he kept saying to the soldiers guarding the city and the people in the city: "Gong Cao will not let Zhang Yi's evil deeds go, and will definitely come to our rescue." Before Cao Gong's reinforcements arrived, we walked under the wall and hid in the house as much as possible so that the stones would not hit us. ”

What Chen Deng said is very reasonable, after all, the stones thrown into the city are not very large, as long as they hide well, there is basically no threat. However, Chen Deng needed to appease the people in the city, but he was hit by a stone and smashed on one of his guards.

The guards knocked him down, and Chen Deng fell to the ground and twisted his foot. Chen Deng still didn't care about it, and insisted on patrolling the city every day, which made the people in the city calm down.

Most of the people in the county moved from the south of Huaishui, most of them were from Sheyang, and some of them moved from Huaiyin, Huaifu and other places. Most of these people are people who are unwilling to be notified by Zhang Yi, and people who are unwilling to leave their hometowns, so they will migrate to Wei County.

In mid-April, Zhang Yi had been besieging the city for more than half a month. Suddenly, I received a report from Tanmalai, and there were people in the north, under the banner of Zang, who should be Langya's Zang Ba.

Zang Ba is here, so Cao Cao should not be far away. Zhang Yi's plan has been halfway realized, and what he has to do now is to deal with Zang Ba first while Cao Cao has not yet come.

Zhang Yi's men and horses in Wei County have increased to 20,000 people, and he called Li Jing: "Zang Ba's reinforcements have arrived, there are about 5,000 people, you take Master Shang and Tang He, see if you can make some trouble for Zang Ba?" ”

Li Jing nodded, immediately picked up the headquarters, and brought the army of Master Shang and Tang He, a total of 6,000 people to the north to block Zang Ba.

Li Jing hid in the shadows, constantly sending scouts to investigate Zang Ba's movements. It turned out that Zang Ba was very cautious, only walking about ten miles every day, and he didn't leave Li Jing with any omissions.

Whenever soldiers are used, they are all negligent in their own way, so that others can take advantage of them. Anyone who knows how to use soldiers is to find the omissions of others, and Li Jing is naturally the best among them.

However, the omissions were all exposed by others, Zang Ba did not make mistakes, and it was impossible for Li Jing to defeat him easily. Unless he chooses to attack, otherwise, he can only wait, waiting for Zang Ba to make a mistake.

Li Jing took Master Shang and others to inspect Zang Ba's camp, and on the way back to the camp, he also admired Zang Ba's caution: "Zang Ba is not famous, but he is so cautious, he is a general. ”

Tang He said: "Cao Cao must have his intention to put Zang Ba in Langya to defend against the Yuan family. Looking at Cao Cao's employment, there is always a reason, Zang Ba can be reused by Cao Cao, and his person must be extraordinary. ”

Master Shang said unconcernedly: "General Li, I can raid into Zang Ba's camp and kill him." ”

Li Jing said with a smile: "General Shang, you can't blindly be brave in a war, the enemy will always leak out." ”

Master Shang said: "Isn't it necessary for us to rush to the front when we fight? ”

"That's when you're young, and when you're old and weak, you'll find out that's wrong." Li Jing said.

"That's when it's time for me to die." Master Shang said: "I have killed so many people, and I deserved to die on the battlefield. ”

"I don't want to die!" Li Jing said: "So don't think about this kind of thing, wait for my order." ”

"Okay!" Master Shang had some grievances, but he still obeyed orders. This is the result of Zhang Yi's management of the army, and military orders are not allowed to be violated, no matter who it is. For this reason, Zhang Yi did not hesitate to kick Shi Jin out of the barracks, and now Shi Jin has become a strong man in Lujiang, but he still can't return to the army.

Li Jing waited for the opportunity, and waited for another half a month, but Zang Ba actually brought enough grain and grass to eat for more than half a month, and did not transport grain from the rear once.

As a result, Cao Cao led the army to the territory of Xiapi, and Li Jing also received Zhang Yi's order to withdraw his troops.

Zhang Yi set up a large camp by Hongze Lake, relying on the lake to set up, half a road village and half a water village, which has been established for almost two months.

Cao Cao brought with him an army of 30,000, much more than Zhang Yi's army. Zhang Yi withdrew his troops from Xuxian, and he didn't want to fight with Cao Cao, because he wanted to leave his army to attack Jingzhou.

Cao Cao arrived at Wei County, and while calling Zang Ba over, he discussed the war with Chen Deng.

Chen Deng said: "When Zhang Yi sent troops, he sent people to attack Xuxian, and I could only defend. However, I have already sent someone to inform the counties, but it is still a step too late. ”

Cao Cao said: "I have already asked people to inspect Zhang Yi's marching route, and he directly attacked Xia Xiang and Xiapi from Surabaya. Zhang Yi actually used the water army in Surabaya, it seems that I am also going to establish a water army, otherwise Xuzhou will never have peace. ”