Runan.

Cao Cao personally led an army of 20,000 just after Yingshui, there was a horse to return, Yuan Shu general Zhang Xun led 30,000 troops has been stationed in Ruyin, Cao Cao's face changed greatly when he heard the news, and he urgently ordered the army to camp on the spot, and convened Guo Jia, Xun You, Cheng Yu and other confidants and advisers and Zhang Liao, Xiahoudun, Cao Hong, Cao Chun and other generals to discuss countermeasures.

The Great Tent of the Chinese Army.

Cao Cao's narrow little eyes flashed a hint of gloomy coldness, and he looked around at everyone: "Everyone, make a careful report, the Cheng army has been divided into three routes, respectively to meet our army, Lu Bu's army and Sun Jian's army!" The commander of this army in Runan in the north is Zhang Xun, the number one general under Yuan Shu, who has 30,000 elite soldiers in Yangzhou, and his strength should not be underestimated. ”

Guo Jia said casually: "If Yuan Shu traps Shouchun with an army of 100,000, there is really nothing to do with him, and our army can only plan to besiege the city for a long time, but if Yuan Shu sends out an attack, it will be another matter entirely!" Hehe, I didn't expect Yuan Shu to dare to take the initiative, but in this way, the battle against Yuan could end early. ”

Xun You smiled and said: "Although Zhang Xun can be called a battlefield general, it's a pity that Shang Zheng is not good at strangeness, and it is not difficult to break it!" Lei Bo and Chen Lan are even more mediocre, and although the two armies of Lu Bu and Sun Jian are inferior in terms of strength, they are better than the elite, and victory should not be a problem. ”

Cao Cao said happily: "Gongda already has a good way to break the enemy?" ”

Xun You said: "Now the winter has just passed, the rainy season has not arrived, it is the time when the weather is dry and dry, the mountains and forests and wild grasses are very easy to catch fire and burn, if the fire attack strategy is applied, it will inevitably be seen through by Zhang Xun, if our army does the opposite, and the flood plan is implemented, then Zhang Xun will definitely poke it without noticing!" ”

"Flooding?" Cao Cao's expression moved, and he said with relief, "It seems that Zhang Xun was counted dead by Gongda, and this can be complemented by Gongda and everyone here, why worry about the uncertain world, hahaha~"

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Youzhou, Jixian County, Zhang Bao's mansion.

Zhang Baozheng looked at the silk in his hand with a playful face, this is Yuan Shu's handwritten letter for help presented by Yuan Shu's messenger Yuan Lian, but the words in the letter are quite arrogant, Zhang Bao doesn't care about it, what makes Zhang Bao feel funny is that Yuan Shu actually put forward a strategy for dividing the world in the letter.

In history, Zhou Yu once put forward the strategy of dividing the world, in short, it was to capture Jingzhou, and then use the strong and powerful naval army of Eastern Wu through Nanjun and Yiling, directly take the waterway, go upstream, and go straight into the White Emperor City into the interior of Xichuan, annex Xichuan, and divide the river with the north, forming a situation of confrontation between the north and the south.

After the death of Zhou Yu, this strategy was put on hold by Sun Quan, who turned to support the strategy of uniting Liu and Cao to divide the world into three parts of the world, led by Lu Su. However, this strategy of dividing the world was actually put forward by Yuan Shuzhi, which is worth playing.

The current situation, Zhang Bao's Yellow Turban Army includes Guanzhong, Xiliang, Beidi, Bingzhou, Youzhou, Jizhou six places, in the north can be described as a dominant power, and there are Jia Xu, Xi Zhicai, Guo Tu, Zhang Lie and other current advisers, and Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Zhao Yun Gaoshun, Yu She, etc.

And Yuan Shu's soldiers in Yangzhou are rich in food, once the Yellow Turban sends troops to pull Cao Cao and Lu Bu's hind legs, Yuan Shu's army can concentrate on dealing with Sun Jian's army, with Yuan Shu's troops, Sun Jian's soldiers and horses will be defeated all the way, and then the two annexed Cao Cao and Lu Bu, with Yanzhou as the boundary, forming two huge military groups in the north and south to confront each other~

This is indeed a tempting idea, and what makes Zhang Bao most excited is that Cao Cao, a thorn in the flesh, can be eradicated in one fell swoop, but the only thing Zhang Bao thinks about is whether a unified south is beneficial to the Yellow Turbans or a divided south is beneficial to the Yellow Turbans.

While Zhang Bao was pondering, Guo Tu, Jia Xu, Xi Zhicai, and Zhang Lie had already walked into the hall and waved their fists at Zhang Bao: "See the lord." ”

"Hmmm! You're here~" Zhang Bao looked up at the four most trusted henchmen, and said, "Take a seat~"

After Guo Tu and the four of them took their seats, Zhang Baojiong's eyes fell on Guo Tu, and he handed the silk silk in his hand to Guo Tu and said: "Gongzhi, I think you already know that Yuan Shu's envoy Yuan Jian came to ask for help, this is Yuan Shu's letter to the general, you should take a look~"

Guo Tu took the silk silk, finished reading the ten lines at a glance, handed it to Jia Xu on the right hand, and said coldly: "Yuan Shu is so big-hearted, Sun Jian, Cao Cao, and Lu Bu can come to the city in a blink of an eye, but here they are talking with the lord about the world's two strategies, and they are arrogant and incorrigible!" ”

Jia Xu said indifferently: "The strategy of dividing the world is indeed the best choice for Yuan Shu at present, but it may not be the best choice for our army, a chaotic south is more beneficial than a unified south!" ”

"Hmm!" Zhang Bao bowed his head slightly, turned his gaze to Xi Zhicai and Zhang Lie, and asked, "Military advisor, Tianyi, what do you think?" ”

Xi Zhicai pondered for a long time, got up and walked to the military topographic map, pointed to the map and said to Zhang Bao: "Lord, look at it, Yangzhou is in the hands of Yuan Shu, Jingzhou is in the hands of Liu Biao, and Xichuan is in the hands of Liu Yan. So between the three, no one can help anyone. ”

Xi Zhicai said this, and then said: "However, Cao Cao and Sun Jian's abilities are far stronger than Yuan Shu, once Yangzhou falls into the hands of the two of them, under the fierce soldiers, Liu Biao and Liu Zhang are by no means opponents of the two. Cao Cao's heroes are also the heroes of the world, and Lu Bu and Sun Jian are the tigers of the world, but Yuan Shu is a straw bag in the defeat of Jin Yuqi, so Yangzhou is far more beneficial to our army in the hands of Yuan Shu than in the hands of Cao Cao, Sun Jian or Lu Bu. ”

"Hmm!" Zhang Bao bowed his head lightly and said in a deep voice: "Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Lu Bu's abilities are indeed much higher than Yuan Shu's, uh~ Lu Bu still forget it." In other words, Yangzhou can't fall into the hands of Cao Cao and Sun Jian, so our army will join forces with Yuan Shu to actually divide the world's second strategy, right? ”

Xi Zhicai shook his head and said indifferently: "Cao Cao and Sun Jian, either of them to capture Yangzhou is not good for our army, and Yuan Shu is far from enough to unify the south, so there is no way to talk about the strategy of dividing the world!" ”

Zhang Bao frowned slightly, and said in a condensed voice: "The meaning of the military advisor is to prevent Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Lu Bu from getting Yangzhou, and our army must send troops south to contain Cao Cao and Lu Bu, so that Yuan Shu can face Sun Jian with all his energy, right?" ”

Xi Zhicai said: "That's it! ”

"Lord~"

Zhang Lie's eyes were full of solemnity, and he suddenly got up and said to Zhang Bao: "Lie has a word that I don't know whether to say or not!" ”

"Tianyi, you, Wenhe, Zhicai, and Gongze are all confidants of this general, why is this so?" Zhang Bao said in a deep voice, "But it's okay to talk about it!" ”

Zhang Lie said: "The lord doesn't want Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Lu Bu to sit big, and wants to take the opportunity to weaken, this idea is good, but the question is how many troops should be sent to fight?" If there are fewer troops, I am afraid that it will not be enough to threaten Cao Cao and Lu Bu's lair, and if there are more troops, it will affect the rest and recuperation of the territories under his rule. And Sun Jianshi's fierce tiger, the naval army under his command is extremely powerful, so Lie thought that it was inevitable to send troops south, but it was difficult to ensure that Yuan Shu was not destroyed! ”

"What Tianyi said is reasonable, General Ben is indeed negligent." Zhang Baozhen said, "Tianyi, you are responsible for the internal affairs under your rule, so in your opinion, on the premise of not affecting recuperation, how many troops can our army dispatch at most?" ”

Zhang Lie said: "The garrisons stationed along the river and the 150,000 garrisons in Guanzhong and Xiliang, these 150,000 people must not be moved lightly, so there are only 2,000 heavy-armored iron cavalry under the command of the lord, 10,000 tiger and wolf cavalry under General Xu Chu and 20,000 Xiliang light cavalry under the command of General Jun!" ”

"More than 30,000 cavalry?" Zhang Bao said in a deep voice, "The number of troops is indeed a little less!" ”

Zhang Lie said: "Lord, I haven't finished talking yet. ”

Zhang Bao said: "Go on." ”

Zhang Lie said: "These 30,000 cavalry can be dispatched at any time, but the weight of grain and grass is limited. With the current reserves of our army's warehouse, we can only guarantee half a month's dry rations, 20 wolf's tooth arrows, and 5 throwing guns per person, and there is no money. ”

"No pay? So poor? Zhang Bao frowned, "If that's the case, I'm afraid that 30,000 cavalry going south to protect Yuan Shu is tantamount to an idiot's dream!" ”

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Koto.

After Huang Gai captured the hometown, according to Zhu Fan's strategy, he ordered the soldiers to go out of the city during the day and enter the city at night, which was the case for ten consecutive days, and Danyang Annihilated the Emperor to report to Wanling urgently, saying that Sun Jian had gathered at least 50,000 Wu troops in the hometown! Danyang Taishou Liu Miao believed it to be true, and hurriedly dispatched soldiers from various counties to Wanling to gather, and ordered the general Tai Shici to lead 3,000 troops to set up camp over cold water to resist the Wu army. Tai Shi Ci and Danyang Taishou Liu Xiang is the same township, the two have been kind to each other since childhood, and then Tai Shi Ci brought dozens of villagers to Danyang County to join Liu Xiang, Liu Xiang was really overjoyed to see Tai Shi Ci, and immediately thought that he was the captain of Danyang, and leaned on it as his left arm and right arm.

However, after Liu Miao transferred the soldiers, he soon knew that he had been tricked!

When the attention of the Danyang army was all focused on Huang Gai in his hometown, Sun Ce, Sun Jing, and Pan Zhang took advantage of the false attack to take Jurong, Moling, and Shicheng counties, and Ling Cao and the Wu County Navy also attacked Wuhu Port, and when Sun Miao reacted, the northern counties of Danyang County had already fallen into the hands of the Wu army, and the Danyang Navy in Wuhu Port was also wiped out by the Wu County Navy in one fell swoop, and the downstream section of the Yangtze River Waterway was completely controlled by the Wu County Navy.

Liu Miao hurriedly reported to Shouchun in an expedited manner of 800 li, and ordered Tai Shici to lead his troops north to Liyang, thinking that it was a barrier to Wanling.

After the Wu army captured the northern counties of Danyang and the port of Wuhu, Sun Jian ordered Sun Jing to defend Shicheng and Pan Zhang to defend Jurong. He knew how to attack and lead 3,000 sailors to swim on the Yangtze River, and responded to Sun Jing and Pan Zhang's armies at any time.

The arrangement stopped, Sun Jian personally led 8,000 Wu County elite soldiers to Huainan to the north, deceived Chen Lan with a plan to hide from the sky and cross the sea, in just half a month, the Wu army even won the battle, even under the ten cities, the soldiers pointed directly at the Huainan town of Hefei, Hefei is the southern barrier of Shouchun, once lost, Shouchun will be completely exposed to the Wu army's soldiers!

At this time, Chen Lan still thought that Sun Jian's main force was still in Jiangdong, and it was only a small force of Wu army that turned to Huainan, and was stationed in Liyang, raising ships to prepare to cross the river to attack Wu County.

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Heqi, Zhou Shang's official residence.

Zhou Shang was originally the Taishou of Lujiang, but after Yuan Shu became the emperor, Lujiang County was changed to Huainan Yin, and Zhou Shang was no longer qualified to serve as the Taishou of Lujiang, so he was sent by Yuan Shu to the military town of Heqi to be the Taishou.

Partial hall.

Sun Jian hugged his fists and said, "Lord Zhou." ”

Zhou Shang returned the salute and said, "General Sun." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, and sat down, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu stepped forward to see Zhou Shang and Sun Jian respectively as a junior, although Zhou Shang had not met Sun Jian, but because of Zhou Yu's relationship, his impression of the Sun family has always been very good, and he and Sun Ce's maternal uncle Wu Jing are also close friends, so he asked Sun Jian: "I don't know how Lord Wu Jing is lately?" ”

Sun Jian said: "Very good, thank you Lord Zhou for your concern." ”

Without waiting for Sun Jian to speak, Zhou Shang took the initiative to say: "Yuan Shu went against the grain and tried in vain to usurp the Han Dynasty and claim the emperor, which can be described as a great crime. ”

Sun Jian said: "I don't dare to ask for it." ”

"Uncle, General Sun." Zhou Yu on the side stood up and said loudly, "There is no need to be so anxious about the dedication of the city, why not wait for Chen Lan's 20,000 troops to arrive before reasoning?" ”

Sun Ce knew Zhou Yu the best, and said hurriedly: "Does Gongjin already have a good strategy to break the enemy?" ”

Zhou Yu smiled slightly and said something, Sun Jian, Zhou Shang, and Sun Ce immediately applauded when they heard it

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In May of the twelfth year of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, the land of Jianghuai had just entered the annual rainy season, and the bad news was transmitted back to Shouchun one after another.

First of all, Zhang Xun was defeated, and the 30,000 army was defeated by the Cao army by flooding, and finally only 8,000 remnants fled back to Shouchun in embarrassment, and then Chen Lan was in Hehuai in Sun Jian, Zhou Shang's internal and external strategy, and 20,000 troops were blocked by 8,000 Wu County elite soldiers in Heqi City and killed the whole army.

Following Zhang Xun and Chen Lan, Lei Bo also fell into the plan of Lu Bu's army, and was defeated in successive battles, Dongcheng and Yinling fell one after another, and Lei Bo had to lead 10,000 remnants to return to Shouchun. In this way, in less than three months, the three-way army sent by Yuan Shu was completely routed, and most of the 70,000 elite casualties were lost.

In mid-May, the armies of Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Lü Bu arrived at the foot of Shouchun City at the same time, forming a joint encirclement.

However, Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Lu Bu did not have a good time, although Shouchun was surrounded, but the defenders in the city still had nearly 50,000 people, but the three-way coalition army besieging the city, the total strength was only more than 40,000 people! Judging from the comparison of forces, the coalition forces do not seem to have the strength to attack.

If you can't storm it, you can only besiege it for a long time.

But the problem is that there is abundant grain and grass in Shouchun City, and it is more than enough to insist on half a year, but it is the three-way coalition army, due to the rainy days and muddy roads, the supply of military food began to be tight, Cao has many soldiers, Yanzhou has a thin foundation, and the military food is the first to run out, as a last resort, Cao Cao had to borrow some military food from Sun Jian, and Lu Bu is also appropriately even, but in this way, the coalition army can only hold out for half a month at most.

In other words, if Shouchun cannot be captured within half a month, the coalition forces can only choose to retreat.