Yuan Shu's withdrawal from Chen State actually had his own little abacus, and on the one hand, Yuan Shu didn't want to fight Cao Cao hard.

Although he made a lot of benefits in Chen State, he really didn't have the intention of attacking Xu Du, so he thought that if he withdrew his troops from Chen State, maybe Cao Cao would also take advantage of the situation to go down the ladder of truce.

On the other hand, Yuan Shu was also worried that his retreat would be cut off by Lu Bu and Liu Bei.

After all, the two of them sent troops from Xuzhou, and they could directly attack Qi County, an important town in Huaibei, which was also the only way for Yuan Shu to retreat to Shouchun, the old nest in Huainan.

Therefore, Yuan Shu only retreated with the grain, grass and money obtained by Chen Guo at the first time, and then sent Qiao Rui and Zhang Xun with 20,000 troops to intercept Cao Cao's army in Kuxian.

Of course, Yuan Shu may also have a plan in mind, as long as Cao Cao is blocked by him in Ku County, he can first solve Lu Bu and Liu Bei's soldiers and horses in Qi County.

It's a pity that Yuan Shu's abacus failed, first of all, Cao Cao's side did not stop fighting because he withdrew from Chen, but the army attacked Kuxian, Kuxian was ordinary, Qiao Rui and Zhang Xun couldn't resist the offensive of Cao's army, and they couldn't hold out for a day, so they withdrew their troops to Qi County.

So when Zhu Wei captured Lujiang County, the three armies of Cao Cao, Lü Bu, and Liu Bei had already converged on the side of Qi County and were preparing to attack Qi County.

According to the military intelligence information that Zhu Wei has obtained now, now the three armies of Cao Cao, Lü Bu, and Liu Bei have converged and have surrounded Yuan Shu's key town in Huaibei, Qi County.

As for Yuan Shu, he really left Qiao Rui, Li Feng, Le Zhuo, and Liang Gang to garrison Qi County with 60,000 troops, and he himself took his generals Ji Ling, Zhang Xun and other confidants, and returned to Shouchun, the old nest in Huainan.

It's just that Yuan Shu heard the news that Zhu Wei's side had captured Lujiang County and marched to Hefei, so he naturally stepped up his defenses on Shouchun's side, and recovered the troops scattered in Quyang, Yinling, and Zhongli to Shouchun.

It can be said that at this moment, Yuan Shu has gathered about 150,000 troops in Shouchun, and it seems that he wants to defend his old base camp.

However, Zhu Wei was not in a hurry to attack Shouchun, because Zhu Wei remembered that in the original history, the three armies of Cao Cao, Lü Bu, and Liu Bei should have easily captured Qi County, and then attacked Shouchun, so frightened that Yuan Shu threw Shouchun to his subordinates again for defense, and he himself fled to Runan County, Yuzhou.

In the end, after Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei really finished fighting Shouchun, they lost the capital to pursue Yuan Shu, and as a result, after sacking Shouchun City, they also withdrew their troops, and Yuan Shu returned to Shouchun after that, and survived the last period of time.

But now that Shouchun has more than 100,000 troops of Yuan Shu stationed there, Zhu Wei is not willing to gnaw this hard bone alone, he has to wait for Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei to fight Huainan before they talk.

As for Yuan Shu, if he still fled to Runan County, Yuzhou, he might bump into Mu Lan, Teng Yuyan's handsome light cavalry and Zhang Xiu's Liangqi battalion sent by Zhu Wei to Runan County, Yuzhou before, which might really make them make miraculous achievements.

To tell the truth, Zhu Wei can be regarded as a little "admired" Yuan Shu who dared to disobey and claim the emperor, everything he did was really irresponsible, he only knew that he would run away first, leaving some subordinates to help him deal with the mess, and he didn't mean to take on it at all.

In that case, why did he claim the title of emperor in the first place?

Of course, now that Zhu Wei has known about the changes in the battle situation this time, he has naturally made a strategy on his side.

The first step is to capture Hefei County.

In this way, Zhu Wei's army can gain a firm foothold in Jiujiang County and Hefei County, and then wait for Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei to go to Shouchun together, and then besiege this Yuan Shu's lair.

This Hefei County was the provincial capital in later generations, but now it is only a medium-sized county in Jiujiang County.

Hefei is named because the East River and the South River originate from the place, the so-called Hefei is actually the meaning of the confluence of the two rivers in the east and south, and the place where the two rivers meet is Xiaoyaojin at the same time, Zhang Liao counterattacked Sun Quan with 800 foot soldiers in the future, and finally the battle of Xiaoyaojin that made Sun Quan frightened took place here.

Further back, the famous battle of Weishui in history also took place here, the Eastern Jin Dynasty only defeated more than 800,000 former Qin troops with 80,000 troops, so that the Han Central Plains culture in the south can continue and develop, it can be said that the battle of Weishui preserved the core inheritance of Chinese culture.

The Nanqi River eventually flows into the Yangtze River, while the Dongqi River flows into the Huaishui, two rivers of life in the Huaiyou, which also gave birth to Hefei and Shouchun, two counties with hundreds of thousands of people.

It's just that now Yuan Shu takes Shouchun as the capital, strengthens the city of Shouchun, and builds palaces or something in it, which naturally makes Shouchun the core of Jiujiang County and the most densely populated place in Huainan.

As for the population of Hefei, in fact, it is not very much, and the population has basically been moved to Shouchun to enrich the imperial capital of Yuan Shu, so that the current Hefei is also by virtue of the geographical advantage of the confluence of rivers and rivers, as well as Chaisang can be regarded as a medium-sized county with commerce as the mainstay.

Of course, Hefei can also be regarded as the outer gateway to Shouchun from south to north.

Now the defenders left by Yuan Shu on Hefei's side are Lei Bo and Chen Lan, and the troops that can be assigned to them are not more than 10,000, and in addition, they are asked to recruit young men to protect Hefei City.

Obviously, Yuan Shu didn't think that Lei Bo and Chen Lan could hold Hefei, but just hoped that they could stop the advance of Zhu Wei's army in Hefei, so that he could have more time to prepare for defense in Shouchun.

It's just that to everyone's surprise, just after Zhu Weishuai's army entered Jiujiang County, and then met Huang Zhong's Jiangdong Battalion and Tai Shici's Divine Arrow Battalion, and made the intention of besieging Hefei, Lei Bo and Chen Lan, who were originally stationed in Hefei, took the initiative to offer a letter of surrender to Zhu Wei's side.

It turned out that Lei Bo and Chen Lan had already had a bit of centrifugation for Yuan Shu, and in the original history, when Yuan Shu was defeated, they directly coerced a batch of grain up the mountain to become bandits.

Later, Yuan Shu was really downcast, and he actually wanted to take refuge with the two of them, but they refused to accept Yuan Shu at all, and because of this, Yuan Shu finally vomited blood and died.

Now although Yuan Shu still maintains his empty frame and has not reached the most depressed state, because of Yuan Shu's extravagance and waste, coupled with the identity of Yuan's sister-in-law, he doesn't care about the life or death of ordinary people and soldiers at all, in fact, he has already shown some signs of dilapidation.

At the end of last year, that is, in the winter of 197 AD, a great drought broke out in the land of Jianghuai as in the original history, which caused a local famine, and even tore Yuan Shu's false skin, perhaps this is one of the reasons why Yuan Shu had to go to Chen to fight the autumn wind.

However, although Yuan Shu had made great gains on the side of Chen State, these spoils had not yet moved back to Huainan, and they had already been besieged by Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, Lü Bu, and Liu Bei.

In this way, in Huainan, Yuan Shu's old camp, not only the common people had a hard time, but they could only starve to death under the famine or flee their hometown to find food and survive, even many of Yuan Shu's army sergeants and soldiers could not eat enough.

In this case, Lei Bo and Chen Lan also had no intention of guarding Hefei for Yuan Shu, so they were simply ready to surrender and change owners......