Hurry up, day and night......

Needless to say, what kind of virtue was the transmission of information at that time, the road from Xuchang to Tancheng was hundreds of kilometers long, and when Lu Ren received Mi Zhen's letter, it was already six days after Guan Yu led his troops to Runan, but this was already very fast at that time. And every time he encounters such a thing, Lu Ren will secretly say to himself that this Nima would be better if he had a mobile phone? Don't ask for a crazy four crazy five, a PHS in the mountain can do! Not even to mention PHS, if you can have the earliest brick big brother.

However, this kind of thing can only be complained about from the bottom of my heart, and the reality that should be faced must be faced. Lu Ren asked Mi Zhen to pay attention to the movements in Xuchang and even on the Guandu battlefield, which naturally had his own reason.

Guan Yu's White Horse and Yanjin battles that cut down Yan Liang and Wen Chou were outposts of the Battle of Guandu in the true sense. As soon as these two battles are over, Cao Cao will return to the army to defend Guandu, and then Cao and Yuan will officially enter a stage of confrontation. And once Cao and Yuan enter the stage of confrontation, there will be movement on Sun Ce's side, and Lu Ren will wait here to fight.

With such a mentality, Lu Ren called Lu Xun over and asked Lu Xun what he thought of the current situation. Lu Xun's response was that if Sun Ce wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to fight Xuzhou, it should be a month later.

First of all, Sun Ce will definitely have something to do in Xuchang, but if these details want to pass the news back to Sun Ce, it will take at least ten days or so. In addition, the situation of the confrontation between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao in Guandu has not yet been fully formed, and if Sun Ce's hand moves too early, Cao Cao will have a certain amount of spare strength to transfer to Xuzhou, which is inconsistent with Sun Ce's idea of wanting to pick up cheap.

After listening to Lu Xun's analysis, Lu Ren secretly consulted the historical materials, and felt that Lu Xun's analysis should be very correct, because although Chen Deng repelled the men and horses sent by Sun Ce, he actually scared Sun Ce's men and horses away. Chen Deng himself asked Cao Cao for help, but Cao Cao did not seem to be able to send reinforcements. With Cao Cao's situation at that time, I am afraid that there will be no reinforcements to send at all.

Anyway, Lu Ren didn't want to let himself fall into Xuzhou's side. What I can do now is to make the preparations as good as possible. Before Lu Ren arrived in Pengcheng, he hadn't gone to Tancheng yet. Lu Ren had already issued an order, asking Tancheng to summon craftsmen to wait. And after Lu Ren arrived in Tancheng, he asked these craftsmen to start making bows, crossbows and arrows.

To be honest, many times Lu Ren didn't know whether his current Xuzhou assassin history should be said to be in name or not, or whether it should be said to be worthy of the name, because Lu Ren's hands can almost be said to have no decent military power. If you really want to talk about it, the assassin is just a civilian position, and if you want to have military power, you have to be a state pastor.

It's just that by the end of the Han Dynasty, this kind of thing had long been confused. Those messy assassination histories with troops have long been common, and there are very few assassination histories like myself that are almost purely civilian. But then again, just by himself, he was Cao Cao, and he didn't dare to let himself lead the troops. Do you have 255 commanders, or 255 arms, or 255 intelligence? If you really bring soldiers, it's about one or two hundred and five.

As a self-aware guy. Lu Ren still chose to strengthen the garrison capacity of the Xuzhou area in terms of logistics and supply. For example, when he ordered the production of bows and arrows, he was preparing for the battle to defend the city. Mixed up for so many years. Lu Ren knew not to underestimate the huge role that bows and arrows could play when defending the city. Even for the untrained civilians, a rain of arrows can inflict great damage on the other side as long as a few hundred crossbows are placed on the city wall...... In other words, it seems that this is the only thing Lu Ren can do now.

In this way, by mid-May, the situation of confrontation between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao at Guandu had formed, and some large and small battles were fought, but basically no one could help anyone. And at this very time. Lu Ren, who was in Tancheng, received an urgent report from Chen Deng, who was stationed in Kuangqi City:

"Nani!? More than 10,000 people of Wu Kou forcibly attacked the city, Chen Deng was unfavorable to the battle, and now he defended Kuang Qi to the death, wanting to break the siege but not to get out...... How did it come to this? Didn't Chen Deng have the ability to scare these people? ”

I was shocked. Lu Ren inquired in detail about the incident with the person who sent the letter. And after asking, Lu Ren was so angry that he slapped the table case with a tom, and scolded in his heart: "You die Chen Deng, make you look down on me!" I've told you to prepare again and again, don't you think it's a deaf ear? ”

roared like this, but Lu Ren didn't know that he was a little wrong to blame Chen Deng. To be precise, Chen Deng certainly has some responsibilities, but Lu Ren himself also has some good intentions to do bad things. Let's put it this way, Chen Deng is certainly a little arrogant and looks down on Lu Ren, and Lu Ren also made a mistake of being too wordy in this matter.

It is actually enough for you to remind Chen Deng of this matter once or twice, not to mention that Chen Deng also participated in the defense of Xuzhou formulated by Lu Ren. However, Lu Ren said too much, and when he got to Chen Deng, Chen Deng had some rebellious mentality, and Chen Deng looked down on Lu Ren in his heart, so there were some changes in defense compared to the original history. But this change was good, and Chen Deng's original suspicious tactics failed to bluff the enemy army, but instead led to the enemy's all-out siege of the city.

Chen Deng's troops on hand are insufficient, or it can be said that the troops in the entire Xuzhou region are somewhat insufficient, and now as soon as he does it, Chen Deng immediately falls into a disadvantage. Speaking of which, if it weren't for Lu Ren to send the first batch of bows and crossbows and arrows made by the craftsmen to Chen Deng first, so that Chen Deng had these hard guys in his hands to rely on, Kuang Qi City might have been hard piled up by the enemy's tactics of crowds.

Regarding the matter of fighting, Lu Ren knew that he was a two-hundred-five, so of course he would call Zhao Yun and Lu Xun for the first time and ask them how to solve the current situation. Zhao Yun's idea is relatively simple, just let him bring people and horses to rush over to break the siege, but Lu Xun put forward a different opinion:

"Brother Mingjian, although the Kuangqi City guarded by Chen Yuanlong was a key place to attack Xuzhou after crossing the river, it was only one and not the only one. Now that the thieves are attacking, although there is the intention of taking Kuang Qi's foothold, it is enough for the virtuous brother to order some troops from each of the two cities to disperse the thieves, so that the thieves do not dare to attack the city with all their might. As for sending troops to fight it, it is still too early. ”

It was said that he listened to people's persuasion and had enough to eat, so Lu Ren adopted Lu Xun's suggestion and urgently ordered the two cities near Kuangqi City to send some soldiers and horses to force the two wings of the enemy, and did not ask them to fight, as long as they waved their flags and shouted on the two wings. Because to tell the truth, there really aren't many troops in those two cities, and the total number of people is only five or six thousand.

By the way, the registered population of Xuzhou at that time was only 130,000 or 400,000, and although it was not a sharp decline in population after several wars, it was really not much. The entire Xuzhou area, note that the entire Xuzhou, its total strength is about 30,000 nods.

Chen Deng used 8,000 when deploying the defense, and another 8,000 were stationed in the Qingzhou area of the northern line, and minus some other necessary troops, Lu Ren's Tancheng was only 4,000 people here. However, Lu Ren's 500 cavalry was not counted in this, they were the men and horses brought by Lu Ren himself, and they were not included in the establishment of Xuzhou. To be honest, it was already very good for Xuzhou to have these 30,000 troops at that time, and the total number of troops that Cao Cao brought to the Guandu battlefield was actually about 30,000. As for the historical data that Cao Cao was "less than 10,000 soldiers" when he faced off with Yuan Shao, it is nonsense, but there were indeed many places for Cao Cao to deploy at that time.

Not to mention, Lu Ren, the assassin of Xuzhou, issued an order at a critical time, and the generals everywhere did not dare to disobey the order, so the two cities each sent more than 1,000 people to rush to the two wings of the enemy, and in the case of blindly shouting and scaring people, the pressure on Chen Deng's Kuangqi City suddenly eased a lot. For the time being, at least, the situation can hold steady.

And Chen Deng himself didn't know if he realized his mistake, and at this time he sent a letter to Lu Ren, asking Lu Ren not to act rashly, and to "wait for the enemy's sharp spirit to subside, and set up surprise troops to break it". It is said that there is nothing wrong with this, but Chen Deng's next request almost made Lu Ren jump up and scold his mother, because Chen Deng actually set his eyes on the five hundred cavalry beside Lu Ren, hoping that Lu Ren could lend him these five hundred cavalry.

You say Lu Ren can stand this thing? When my heart said that you Chen Deng should be shameless, this cheek is really thick enough! Earlier, I reminded you again and again that your sister just looked down on Lao Tzu, and as a result, there was such a situation, and now I am embarrassed to ask Lao Tzu to borrow soldiers, and the borrowed is still Lao Tzu's descendant...... It's a bit too much to say that the descendants are lineage, but these five hundred cavalry, at least for now, are indeed Lu Ren's own goods at the bottom of the box. But because it is not his own after all, if this is really lost, Lu Ren will not be able to explain it to Zhao Yun and Zhang Xiu.

But Lu Ren also understood that if Chen Deng was not to a certain extent, Chen Deng's personality would not be cheeky enough to borrow troops from him, and from the overall situation, this soldier should also be seconded to Chen Deng. In desperation, Lu Ren had no choice but to invite Zhao Yun and ask what Zhao Yun meant. If Zhao Yun was unwilling to help lead the team, Lu Ren could only take Zhang Xiu's 300 cavalry and his own more than 100 miscellaneous cavalry over.

However, Lu Ren was a little overly concerned about this. Brother Yun is a general-type character, and in a way, he is looking for the meaning of his existence on the battlefield. As soon as I heard that there was a battle to fight, although it didn't make my palms itch, I was eager to try. Besides, it has been several months since Brother Yun met Lu Ren in Pengcheng and was fooled by Lu Ren, and he has never done anything except for one battle when he saved Zheng Xuan, and he fought a battle that was not a battle. And on weekdays, he eats well and lives well here in Lu Ren, Lu Ren has always been polite to Brother Yun, and Brother Yun wants to entrust his baby sister to Lu Ren to take care of, and he always feels that he has to help Lu Ren do something decent to make sense. Now that Lu Ren is cheeky enough to ask Brother Yun to help, Brother Yun will naturally agree...... (To be continued......)