Xuyi County belongs to the country of Xiapi, located on the south bank of the Huai River, the land is fertile, the irrigation is convenient, and it is also a key transportation and military land, very rich.

Sun Jian once served as a county governor in Xuyi County and had a high reputation in the local area.

After Cao Hong's army caught up with Sun Jian's troops, he was stationed not far from Sun Jian's military camp, and Liu Bei's army was not far away.

The officers and soldiers of the headquarters of Captain Cao Hong were all recruited in Xiapi State, and there were many people from Xuyi County, and there was a soldier who had received Sun Jian's favor before, so he quietly left the camp in the middle of the night and defected to Sun Jian.

When Sun Jian heard the news, he was terrified, and when he stabilized his mood, he carefully considered countermeasures, but he did not dare to ask Sun Ben, Huang Gai, Zu Mao and others to come to negotiate, for fear of arousing the vigilance of Lu You, the captain of the Xuzhou cavalry.

Sun Ben is the son of Sun Jian's elder brother and has been following Sun Jian in the east and west.

Huang Gai, whose name is Gongfu, is a native of Quanling, Lingling County (now Lingling District, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province), and is a fierce general recruited by Sun Jian when he served as the Taishou of Lingling County.

Since Cao Bao in Xuzhou is unkind, don't blame him for Sun Jian's injustice.

The benefactors who came to surrender were secretly placed first, and promised to be rewarded when they were stable, and they were kept secret for the time being.

As soon as the sky was bright, Sun Jian ordered Sun Ben and Huang Gai to garrison the military camp to secretly monitor Liu Bei and Lü You's army, and he took Zu Mao to Xuyi County.

Sun Jian has a prestige in Xuyi County, and the army is stationed outside the city, the fox is pretending to be a tiger, and he easily takes over Xuyi County, and makes Zu Mao serve as the commander of Xuyi County, controlling the two thousand defenders and material warehouses in the city, temporarily relieving the cavalry's worries.

Sun resolutely decided not to startle the snake for the time being, and first deal with Liu Bei, and then deal with the Xuzhou army.

After several back and forth negotiations and requests for instructions from Jian Yong, the two sides finally decided that for every boatload of Liu Bei's cavalry, they would send a corresponding number of cavalry to Sun Jian, and finally transport half of Liu Bei's army across the river.

Both sides are wary of each other, fearing that they will fall for each other's calculations, which is the most beneficial way for both sides.

In one day, he sent away a thousand Liu Bei's cavalry, and Sun Jian also accepted a thousand cavalry, which was temporarily owned by Sun Jian, Sun Jian vigorously appeased them, promised good treatment, and let Huang Gai serve as the military commander of this cavalry, and strictly controlled it.

These thousand cavalry were abandoned by Liu Bei, and there were complaints in their hearts, but when they saw Sun Jian treating them like this, they were all felt, and they swore allegiance to Sun Jian; Sun Jian was very happy, the combat effectiveness of the Liangzhou cavalry was strong, and he was carefully planning to get more Liangzhou cavalry.

Sun Jian promised that the 1,000 cavalry received again would belong to Xuzhou, but Lü You had no choice but to obey the arrangement.

The next day, still according to the previous method, when there were still 1,000 cavalry left in Liu Bei's military camp, Sun Jian discussed with Lu You: "Captain Lu, there are only 1,000 cavalry in the enemy's camp, and a surprise attack will inevitably take them all. ”

Lu You was very moved, but he hoped to get more cavalry, and hoped that the Xuzhou army would fight, and the Yangzhou cavalry could watch the battle, and Sun Jian pretended to be helpless to fulfill Lu You.

Sure enough, in the afternoon, three thousand Xuzhou cavalry went out to battle and successfully rushed into Liu Bei's barracks, and one thousand cavalry abandoned their weapons and surrendered without resistance.

Liu Bei was calculated, and he hated it in his heart, but he couldn't do anything about it; Jian Yong felt very guilty in his heart; Xu Sheng kept comforting that it was a fluke to have 1,500 cavalry left, and he must leave this place quickly.

Liu Bei endured the pain and led the connections to Runan County; The morale of the 1,500 cavalry was very low, and they were eager to fight a decisive battle with the enemy, and they did not want to suffer from this kind of cowardice.

That night, Sun Jian secretly summoned Sun Ben and Huang Gai, carefully summed up, and Huang Gai led 500 cronies to control the horse shed first, and then Sun Jian personally led 2,000 cavalry to surround the tent of the Xuzhou cavalry army; Sun Ben led 1,500 cavalry to monitor the Xuzhou infantry camp.

Lü You had 3,000 cavalry and 1,500 Liangzhou cavalry; However, those Liangzhou cavalry had not yet been integrated and did not have any combat effectiveness, and there were Liangzhou soldiers who were loyal to Sun Jian to do their work and successfully surrendered to Sun Jian; The 3,000 cavalry under the direct jurisdiction of Lü You, lost their war horses, their combat effectiveness was even worse, and they could not organize an effective formation, and if they fought against the cavalry, they could only be slaughtered.

Under Sun Jian's persuasion, Lü You had no choice but to announce his surrender; He secretly blamed himself, he was too careless, and fell for Sun Jian's trick.

Subsequently, Sun Jian first reorganized 1,500 Liangzhou cavalry to strengthen his own strength, and Lu You and others were disarmed and placed in custody.

With the previous 1,000 Liangzhou soldiers doing the work, it was very easy to organize the 1,500 Liangzhou mutinies, all of them were loyal to Sun Jian, they were not scattered, and all of them were led by Sima Huanggai and divided into five parts.

With the addition of 2,500 Liangzhou soldiers, Sun Jian's strength increased greatly, and he no longer worried about the 15,000 infantry led by Cao Hong.

Sun Ben, Huang Gai and others were even more confident, and Sun Jian became the biggest winner in the pursuit of Liu Bei, not only adding 2,500 Liangzhou cavalry, but also capturing 3,000 war horses in Xuzhou; The morale of the cavalry was suddenly high, and after training 3,000 cavalry in the future, Sun Jian's cavalry force would reach 8,500 people, which was a powerful cavalry force in the Central Plains; They didn't know what was happening in Guangling City.

Sun Jian's goal is more than that, he has more ambitions, he must not let the 15,000 cavalry led by Cao Hong escape, he is determined to win the 5,000 Danyang infantry.

A detachment of cavalry was first sent to patrol outside Cao Hong's infantry barracks, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving.

Then send people outside the barracks to shout and persuade them to surrender, if the Danyang soldiers do not surrender, they will order the Danyang County Taishou, slaughter their relatives in Danyang County, or sell them into slavery.

Sun Jian's shouting had a great impact on the Danyang soldiers and Xuzhou soldiers in the battalion; Sun Jian has served in Xuzhou for many years, and he has long been famous in Xuzhou, and Xuzhou soldiers are very afraid of him; Those Danyang soldiers were also very afraid that Yangzhou would do something to their families; This led to a depressing atmosphere and low morale in the barracks.

Now Cao Hong is afraid in his heart, all he leads are infantry, and now he can't even send information, if he continues to be besieged, it won't take a few days to mutiny; He really regretted that he should have advised his eldest brother Cao Bao at the beginning, Yangzhou soldiers were not so easy to deal with, and sure enough, now he was burned; Yangzhou Sun Jian merged Xuzhou's 3,000 cavalry and Liu Bei's more than 2,000 cavalry, which is powerful, and will definitely be able to stir up Xuzhou's restlessness, and the consequences are unpredictable.

At this time, Sun Jian was loyal to the Han Dynasty and Yuan Shu, and had no plans to become independent.

Subsequently, Sun Jian hurriedly wrote a letter, ordering someone to quickly send it to Yuan Shu in Shouchun City, reporting the situation here to Yuan Shu in detail, denouncing Xuzhou's injustice, and hoping that Yuan Shu would send troops to support and take the opportunity to occupy the area south of the Huai River in Xuzhou, which would be more conducive to the defense of Yangzhou in the future, and Jiujiang County would be safer.

While sending troops to besiege Cao Hong's military camp, Sun Jian ordered Xuyi County to order Zumao to actively recruit troops; He also sent a small force of cavalry to raid and occupy the surrounding Dongyang and other counties, control the area on the south bank of the Huai River, and collect ferries along the river to cut off the connection with the north bank of the Huai River, in preparation for the siege of Guangling City.

At this time, Cao Bao, who was in Guangling City, was dreaming, not to mention that he didn't know what happened in Xuyi, even if he knew that Cao Hong was besieged, he didn't have cavalry, and he didn't dare to go out of the city to rescue.