In May, Liu Xiu rushed to Chaohu, and Gan Ning and Gan Xingba, the sailors who had just been promoted to General Fubo, rushed to the mouth of the Yangtze River to greet them. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Itchy hands again?" Liu Xiu glanced at him and sneered: "Killing people is so addictive? ”

"No, no, no." Gan Ning shook his head again and again, and said with a sad face: "I'm not killing to stop killing, restore peace in the world one day earlier, and disarm and return to the field one day earlier." ”

"Don't do that." Liu Xiu couldn't help but laugh and pointed to the sand table of the ship zhongyāng: "Tell me about the recent situation first." ”

"Ugh." Gan Ning responded happily, first holding a cup of tea for Liu Xiu, and then a cup of tea for Liu He, who was inseparable from Liu Xiu's side. He glanced at it and felt a little surprised, the look on this young man's face was not as simple as an attendant, could it be that the general had any other hobbies recently? As soon as his mind moved, Liu Xiu understood, knowing that he wanted to be crooked, and coughed: "My daughter." ”

Gan Ning was taken aback, and suddenly his face was flushed, he glanced at Liu Xiu embarrassedly, and offered the teacup with both hands: "It turned out to be Lord Heweng, and he looked up for a long time." ”

Liu He was simple-minded, how could he know the dirty thoughts in the minds of soldiers and bandits like Gan Ning, so he took the teacup embarrassedly and owed Shi: "Thank you, General Fubo." ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say." Gan Ning didn't dare to raise his head, so he hurriedly retreated, picked up Jing Zhu, coughed seriously, and began to tell Liu Xiu about the recent battle situation.

According to the military order from Taiwei Duan Cheng, Gan Ning divided the sailor division into two parts. He led the main force of 10,000 sailors into Chaohu, and supported Fu Xie by land nearby, Yan Yan led 10,000 men from Zhongdushui into Huaishui, and has now entered Surabaya, and the Qingxu sailors arranged by Cao Cāo controlled the area of Xiapi and Liang, and they were transporting food to Cao Cāo's army on the one hand. On the one hand, it cut off the connection between the Yuan army in Guangling and the Yuan army in Runan.

Liu Xiu raised his hand and interrupted Gan Ning. "Where is Cao Cāo now?"

"In Dangxian."

"Why is it so slow, it's been almost a month. Haven't been able to cut off Yuan Kui's retreat? ”

Gan Ning was stunned for a moment and touched his head blankly. Zhang Ren, who was standing on the side, reminded: "General, it is not easy to attack the city. The Kanto region is densely populated and has many castles, so it takes a lot of time to capture them one by one. Moreover, General Wei still has to leave some troops to defend the northern front, and it is not easy for him to fight here in less than a month. ”

"." Liu Xiu waved his hand and motioned for Zhang Ren not to say anything. "Why siege the city? Our task is to cut off Yuan Kui's retreat, as long as we control Surabaya and Huaishui, Yuan Kui will be unable to fly and kill Yuan Kui. Those cities are self-defeating. ”

Gan Ning and Zhang Ren looked at each other, and the smugness on their faces suddenly disappeared.

"Call me all your military schemes." Liu Xiu sank his face and glared at Gan Ning. Gan Ning licked his lips and hesitated for a moment: "General." Don't blame them, this ...... They reminded me that it was me...... It's that I didn't listen. ”

"Why don't you listen?" Liu Xiu shouted: "The Son of Heaven is driving the expedition in person, just waiting for us to cut off Yuan Kui's back road so that we can launch a general attack, you will drag on here for a month, to put it mildly." This is a delay in the military plane, and to put it mildly, this is a violation of the edict. ”

Gan Ning's face immediately collapsed, this crime is a big crime.

"The autumn harvest will be in two or three months, and the Son of Heaven has been out of Beijing for half a year, and there has been no progress at all, which is a blow to morale, but for the rebels, it is a good time to relieve the pressure. The reason why Duan Gong didn't rush you was because he was afraid that if you were in a hurry, you would be busy and messy, but you were good that you still regarded this as a normal thing. ”

Liu Xiu's reprimand on the head and face made Gan Ning and Zhang Ren bow their eyebrows and pleasing them, and he immediately ordered that except for the three thousand sailors who were left to be responsible for transporting grain and grass, all the others went ashore and marched to the Shouchun area at full speed. He found Sun Jian.

"Give you 5,000 steps to ride, and immediately rush to the area of Shouchun, I don't want you to attack the city, but if anyone dares to go out of the city, kill them all."

Sun Jian was overjoyed, he couldn't believe his ears, he was a general, according to common sense, now he could only follow Liu Xiu's descendants to play soy sauce and be a subordinate, where would he have thought that Liu Xiu would let him lead the troops alone, and he would ride five thousand steps as soon as he gave it. The proportion of cavalry under Liu Xiu has always been relatively high, and there can be at least 2,000 cavalry for 5,000 cavalry, which is more exciting for Sun Jian, who thinks that cavalry has already come up with pink eye, than Yuan Shao asking him to lead 10,000 foot soldiers.

"Whoa." Sun Jian responded loudly with surging enthusiasm.

"Wait." Liu Xiu stopped Sun Jian, who was just about to leave, "There is an additional order. ”

"General, please."

"When there are less than 2,000 people around, you are not allowed to go out."

"Huh?" Sun Jian was stunned. However, he looked at Liu Xiu's serious face, gritted his teeth and nodded: "Don't worry, general, I will definitely not come out lightly." ”

"Well, then you go, send the battle report back at any time, use your brains more, don't be brutal."

"Whoa." Sun Jian saluted again and went out with his head held high, although he felt sorry for not being able to go out hunting casually, he was a little warm. His son Sun Ce has not been by Liu Xiu's side for a long time, Liu Xiu found out that Sun Ce has a bad problem, this kid likes hunting too much, he is itchy all over his body if he doesn't hunt for three days, and he likes to rush to the front alone when hunting, the more dangerous it is, the more excited he is. Liu Xiu criticized him a few times, but it had no effect, so he found Sun Jian, and when he asked, he found out that Sun Jian was also virtuous. Usually looking for hunting, then it will be pulled down, but now that there is a war, Liu Xiu can't tolerate this situation, with the martial arts of Sun Jian's father and son, even if he encounters a fierce beast, as long as he is not in a group, there will be no big danger, but marching and fighting are different, once you fall alone, maybe a single arrow can kill you.

Liu Xiu sued him in the form of an order, in fact, he loved him, if Liu Xiu wanted to borrow a knife to kill someone, he wouldn't say such nonsense. If the general dies on the battlefield, and because of his own reasons, then no one will have an opinion.

Liu Xiu immediately issued a second order, asking Fu Xie, Xu Rong and others to immediately abandon the siege and rush to Lu'an as quickly as possible. Shouchun and Lu'an were the only way to retreat from Runan to Jiujiang and Lujiang, and these two points were controlled. That is, it cut off Yuan Kui's escape to the southeast. As for the Yuan army in the county behind them, if they cowered in the city and did not move, they could ignore them, if they drove out of the city to invite battle, it would be right in the middle, and it would be better than attacking one county town after another.

After Fu Xie received the order, he was also a little ashamed. After discussing with Xu Rong and Huang Zhong, he decided to proceed according to Liu Xiu's deployment and give up the siege. Rush to Lu'an at full speed. They suddenly changed their actions, and Yuan Jun didn't have time to react at all, waiting for Yuan Kui to receive the news. Fu Xie had already rushed outside Lu'an City, and Sun Jian had set up a military camp outside Shouchun City three days ago. They used the sailors of Chaohu Lake as the support point, like two iron fists, strangling Yuan Kui's retreat.

Liu Xiu immediately sent the general report to the Xuanmen Pass, and I have completed the scheduled task to ensure that Yuan Kui will not be able to pass through my defense area.

At the same time, Cao Cāo, who received Liu Xiu's private message, also changed his strategy, no longer entangled in the gains and losses of one city and one pool, and quickly broke into the area of Longkang, and got in touch with Sun Jian of Shouchun. Followed by. Yan Yan and others also filled the boat and landed ashore, rushed to Shouchun, and joined forces with Sun Jian.

After a few days, Liu Xiu rushed to the outside of Shouchun City, and Sun Jian and Yan Yan reported the situation to him. Shouchun's guards never left the city. He seems to be dead determined to defend Shouchun and keep this retreat for Yuan Kui. Sun Jian scolded outside the city for a few days, but the other party didn't even show his face.

"Then leave him alone." Liu Xiu waved his hand disapplausively, "Let's rush to Runan, if he rushes out to chase him, then we will turn around and eat him." If you don't dare to come out, then treat him as a fart. ”

Yan Yan reminded: "General, is that appropriate, what if he comes from behind when we are fighting fiercely with Yuan Kui?" ”

"I'm afraid he doesn't have the guts." Liu Xiu smiled slightly: "Fighting against Yuan Kui, we are not the main force, the main force is His Majesty's Fifth School of the Northern Army, we are just blocking the road." Moreover, the battlefield is hundreds of miles away, and they are mainly foot soldiers, so if they want to raid, is it so easy? We raided them about the same. ”

Yan Yan understood after a little pondering. They have always been accustomed to the tactics of foot soldiers and sailors, but Liu Xiu brought 20,000 iron cavalry this time, and with these 20,000 iron cavalry, the tactics have changed a lot. Their combat range has been greatly expanded, no longer limited to a range of thirty to fifty miles like foot soldiers, iron cavalry with its super speed, can wander within two hundred miles, as long as it is within this range, they can appear anywhere at any time, just from the psychological deterrence of the enemy is very shocking - before the foot soldiers go out of the city, we must first consider how to prevent the surprise attack of these iron cavalry.

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In Yangxia, several military newspapers were torn to pieces and thrown on the ground, Yuan Kui's face was so bad that water could drip out, and his hands and feet trembled a little. The little emperor rushed to the revolving gate pass in the first month, in order to be able to trap the little emperor by surprise, Yuan Shao reluctantly gave up Liyang, just to attract the little emperor to attack, but he didn't expect the little emperor to be so patient, and stayed in the revolving gate pass for a few months, waiting for Liu Xiu to come.

Yuan Kui didn't know how Liu Xiu could compromise with the little emperor, he couldn't take care of so much now, Liu Xiu and Cao Cāo had cut off his retreat, because of the little emperor's patience, Yuan Shao lost Liyang in vain, although his purpose of inducing Cao Cāo to go south was achieved, the little emperor did not give him the opportunity to raid, and now he can only face the three-sided attack of the imperial army.

Yuan Kui's hands and feet were numb for a while, he now has more than 30,000 people around him, of which 20,000 are Jing Rui, who has been fighting for many years, but there are more than 100,000 troops surrounding him, and there are two generations of famous generals Duan Cheng, Liu Xiu and Cao Cāo, no matter how you look at it, this is a sure defeat. Originally, he was counting on relying on the advantage of defending the city to support him for some more time and wait for the flaws in the imperial court, but now Liu Xiu threw down so many cities and forced him up viciously, forcing him to a dead end all of a sudden.

What to do? Yuan Kui was like a trapped beast, constantly turning in circles, talking to himself, and cold beads fell from his forehead, fell to the ground, and smashed to pieces.

Ma Lun stood at the door, looking at Yuan Kui, who had lost all his demeanor, with only despair in his eyes.

At this moment, Fa Yan walked in, holding a letter in his hand, and looked at Yuan Kui with sympathetic eyes. Yuan Kui held his breath and froze: "Whose letter?" ”

"Gong ...... Childe's. ”

"Who?" Yuan Kui didn't react for a while, but Ma Lun stepped forward, stretched out his hand to take the letter, opened it, his face changed suddenly, raised his head, and looked at Yuan Kui in a daze, with a look of shame. Yuan Kui took the letter in his hand, quickly glanced at it, and snorted: "You really found a good son for me." ”

Mullen was speechless. (To be continued) RQ