The first is the appointment of civil officials, now Liu Bei is already a general of Zuo, able to open his own government to govern affairs, so the change of civil officials is also relatively large, appointing Gao Ping as the chief secretary of the general's mansion and the general of the military division, Mi Zhu as the Shang Cao rafters, in charge of Xuzhou's commerce, Chen Gui as the ritual Cao rafters, responsible for etiquette and education, Jian Yong as the law Cao rafters, responsible for the supervision of officials and criminal law, Sun Qian as the official Cao rafters, responsible for the promotion and appointment of officials, Chen Qun as the rule of Cao rafters, responsible for the reform and implementation of Xuzhou's decrees.

After that, the Taishou of various places had been appointed as military generals, and Gao Ping divided the Xuzhou army into eight divisions, each with a full strength of 10,000 people.

Appointed Guan Yu to lead Pengcheng Taishou and Anguo General, Guan Ping as Yamen General, Zhou Cang as a partial general to assist Guan Yu to lead the first division, Zhang Fei to lead Pi Taishou and rebel generals, Xu Sheng as Pingnan General, Sun Guan as Zhongyi Lieutenant to assist Zhang Fei to lead the second division, Lu Bu because he has an official position in the imperial court, so he is still General Fenwu and Wen Hou, Liu Bei added a Donghai Taishou to Lu Bu, Wu Dun is the captain of Fenwei, Yin Li is the captain of the thief and assists Lu Bu to lead the third division of 10,000 people, Zhang Liao is the Huaiyin Taishou, the general of the Broken Captives, Cao Xing, Hou became the general to assist Zhang Liao as the fourth division, and these four divisions were the permanent troops of Xuzhou, including 5,000 cavalry battalions and 5,000 crossbow battalions. Zang Ba was the general of Langya Taishou and Pingdong, Wei Xu and Song Xian were all lieutenants and Zang Ba was the fifth division, stationed in Langya to guard against Yuan Shao in the north.

He Man was the general of Pingxi and led the sixth division of Feilongwei, Chen Deng was the general of the Guangling Tai Guardian Army and led the seventh division to garrison Guangling County, and Mi Fang was the general of Pi and Wei Cao Rafter, responsible for the security of Xuzhou and the maintenance of the city walls of each county. Jiachen Gong is the Wei Cao rafters, and cooperates with Gao Ping to be responsible for the 'Flying Eagle Force' of the Eighth Division. Because of the strong combat effectiveness of the Flying Dragon Guard, all the leading generals learned from Gao Ping, and even Lu Bu, who has always been arrogant, also came to Gao Ping to ask for advice, and as a last resort, Gao Ping had to write a detailed training plan and distribute it to the hands of the generals, and for a time all over Xuzhou were busy training scenes.

In the second year of Jian'an of the Han Dynasty, in 197 AD, when Xuzhou was busy integrating troops and training soldiers, a bad news reached the general's mansion and Yuan Shu sent troops.

Originally, Yuan Shu withdrew his troops from Xuzhou to attack Jiangdong Sun Ce to give Sun Ce a little color to see, how do you know, Sun Ce is not ordinary ruthless, with the help of Zhou Yu and others, he has occupied Huiji, Wu County and other places to beat Liu Xuan, and now the little overlord in Jiangdong has occupied Wu County, Huiji, Danyang County, plus Lujiang County occupied by Yuan Shu, Yangzhou Assassin Liu Xuan only has one Yuzhang County left, but according to the current development of the situation, it is only a matter of time before Yuzhang is taken by Sun Ce. And Sun Ce gathered the old department of the Jiangdong clan, and now his power has increased greatly, and the number of soldiers under him has exceeded 100,000, although Yuan Shu claims to have an army of 200,000, but he is not good at water warfare, and the issue of conquest of Sun Ce has to be shelved, but Yuan Shu is also a lord who is not willing to be lonely, and he has not reaped the benefits of sending troops to Xuzhou twice, and now he finally decided to send troops to Xuzhou again under Cao Cao's prodding, but this time it is a different route, Huaiyin.

After knowing the news of Yuan Shu's troops, Liu Bei immediately convened all the civil and military affairs.

Xuzhou, the State Pastoral Mansion, no way, the General's Mansion has not yet been built, and now Liu Bei's deliberations are still in the Prefecture Pastoral Mansion.

Above the lobby, I only heard Liu Bei say: "Wen Yuan yesterday 600 miles of urgent military report, saying that Yuan Shu hated me for sending troops to attack him last time, with Ji Ling as the general, sent 100,000 troops to attack Xuzhou, less than 200 miles away from Huaiyin, Chen Yuanlong in Guangling to guard against Sun Ce did not dare to leave lightly"

In fact, although Zhao Yu of Guangling County is dead, there are still a lot of remnants of his subordinates, although these people dare not do anything under Chen Deng's strength, but now that Yuan Shu has been overwhelmed by a large army, some people inevitably have some ideas in their hearts, so Chen Deng did not dare to support Zhang Liao easily.

As soon as these words came out, there was a lot of discussion at the bottom.

The first one to stand up was the fiery Zhang Sanye: "I have long seen that Yuan Shu's fight is not pleasing to the eye, the eldest brother gave me 30,000 elite soldiers, and I am determined to kill Na Ji Ling lost his armor, and then broke Shouchun, cut Yuan Shu's bird's head and came back to give the eldest brother a big night pot" Zhou Cang and other generals also echoed.

At this time, Sun Qian came out and said: "Huaiyin is the southern gateway of Xuzhou, Zhang Wenyuan is the general of Xuzhou, you must not save it, now there are only more than 10,000 defenders in Huaiyin, and you should send troops to rescue it as soon as possible." ”

"It's not appropriate at this time" was actually stopped by Chen Gong's words, although Chen Gong had recognized Liu Bei as the main duke, but every time the court had no remarks, now Leng Ding's voice made everyone stunned.

However, Chen Gong didn't care about everyone's strange eyes and said loudly: "Xuzhou is the place of four battles, General Zang Ba guarding Langya's 10,000 troops need to guard against Yuan Shao, and the three divisions in Xuzhou must prevent Cao Cao from leaving without permission." In this way, we have less than 30,000 troops at our disposal, although our army is far superior to them in terms of combat strength, but if the whole army goes to the rescue, it will be a melee for more than 100,000 troops to crowd under the city, and the so-called wounded enemy is 1,000 and 800 self-inflicted, even if we can win in the end, our vitality will be greatly damaged."

Liu Bei thought that he was now going to have soldiers and a territory, and he could finally raise his eyebrows, but who knew that Chen Gong was still overstretched when he said this, and asked with a little unhappiness: "What about according to the opinion of the public platform?" ”

Chen Gong smiled at this time and said: "Yuan Shu is known as having 200,000 armor, but there is Liu Miao in the south, Liu Biao in the west, and Cao Cao in the north. Therefore, his army is also scattered in various passes, and this time Ji Ling sent troops to Xuzhou to withdraw Shouchun's troops. Speaking of this, Chen Gong couldn't help but pause.

At this time, only Guan Yu was thoughtful among the people, and the others were all at a loss on their faces.

Gao Ping imagined the geography of Xuzhou and Huainan in his mind, as if he had grasped something. Meng's eyes lit up, and Gao Ping couldn't help blurting out: "Could it be that Gongtai is planning to encircle Wei to save Zhao, and attack Shouchun will not succeed?"

Chen Gong glanced at Gao Ping approvingly, and then said: "Although Yuan Shu and his people are so happy, but they are as timid as a mouse, as long as the lord chooses a general to attack the direction of Shouchun, Yuan Shu will inevitably order Ji Ling to return to the army to rescue, and then ambush Ji Ling halfway, this battle can be won."

Hearing Chen Gong's plan, Liu Bei's eyes lit up, but he quickly frowned and said: "However, General Zhang Liao only has more than 10,000 soldiers, and the Huaiyin city wall is not very high and strong, so I am afraid that I will not be able to defend it."

Gao Ping remembered the allusion of Zhang Liaowei's shock to Yaojin, and said with confidence: "General Zhang's mind is calm, he has a good command of the army and is not lacking in resourcefulness, he is a good general in the world, if the two armies fight against each other, I am afraid that they will not be able to withstand Ji Ling's 100,000 army, but with General Zhang's ability to defend the city, I think I can at least ensure that Huaiyin is not lost within more than a month, and the lord can write a letter to inform him of the plan here, comfort his heart, and then send troops to attack Shouchun as soon as possible."

Liu Bei nodded and continued to ask, "Then who will you send to attack Shouchun?" ”

Gao Ping and Chen Gong glanced at each other and said in unison: "This matter belongs to General Gao Shun. ”

Mi Fang rushed to Huaiyin with 3,000 flying dragon guards and Liu Bei's letters, Pegasus and handed them over to Zhang Liao, and at this time Ji Ling's 100,000 troops had begun to camp under the city. Although Gao Ping spoke highly of Zhang Liao's ability, he still took out 3,000 people from the Flying Dragon Guard to bring Mi Fang to Huaiyin, at least if he really couldn't hold Huaiyin, he would also protect Zhang Liao's safe evacuation. Gao Ping didn't want this famous general to go down in history to make any mistakes.