Man Pet is trapped on the hill between Huaiyin City and Huai'an City, needless to say. Guan Hai continued to harass according to Xun You's intentions, attacked day and night, and coped calmly in the mountains, although his life was safe for the time being, but he suffered from no chance to escape.

Xun You's army still stood still, quietly waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.

Of course, the army of Zang Ba and the army of Sun Guan would not disappoint Xun You, and at dusk of this day, the army of Zang Ba and the army of Sun Guan had already arrived here to meet Xun You. That night, everyone talked about the current situation at the wine table, and Zang Ba and Sun Guan were greatly admired after understanding Xun You's intentions, and immediately said that they would attack the city immediately according to Xun You's instructions.

Xun You wanted to wait a little longer, because Ji Ling's army had not yet arrived.

Zang Ba and Sun Guan thought that Xun You wanted to be more sure, after all, when attacking the city, it could really be described as "Han Xin's troops, the more the merrier". They didn't know that the person Xun You wanted to see the most was actually Huan Fan, after all, when he was attacking the city with all his might, he could really sit back and relax with someone like Huan Fan to answer him.

In the early morning of the next day, Ji Ling's army, which was marching in a hurry, rushed to Xun You's camp and joined Xun You.

Xun You and Huan Fan are still meeting for the first time, but they are both strategists, and Huan Fan admires Xun You very much, and now they are naturally very affectionate when they meet, one is a famous military advisor who can fight in Yanzhou, and the other is a celebrity around Xu Ji, who has become famous in the Yanzhou army in recent times, and they are all top military advisors who have no last resort, of course, there are many topics to say. The two laughed and took each other's hands and walked into the tent. The guests are seated.

Xun You looked at Huan Fan and said with a smile: "Mr. Huan Fan, how are the lord and Mr. Xun Yu doing?" This is Xun You's habit. When talking about Xun Yu in front of outsiders, he is only called Mr. or an official position.

Huan Fan smiled: "When I came out of Chang'an. The lord is all right, although the wind and rain in Chang'an are big. But it still can't get wet on the feet of the lord. ”

Everyone smiled when they heard Huan Fan's pun. Truly. Today, Xu Ji is already a towering tree that is difficult for others to shake, and the people sitting here today have such a beautiful scene, of course, all thanks to Xu Ji.

Especially Liu Bi and others, they never dreamed that they would have a day to break away from the title of thief, and originally thought that they would spend their whole lives in robbing their homes. It was Xu Ji who gave them the opportunity to start from scratch, and they were naturally very grateful to Xu Ji, who had not yet met. Huan Fan paused, obviously thinking of Xu Ji who was supervising the battle in Nanyang at the moment, and said half-loudly: "As for Mr. Xun Yu, he has been very busy recently. Originally, it was just one Yanzhou, but now it is the entire north, and the lord was distressed, so he ordered Mr. Hua Tuo to become Mr. Xun Yu's professional doctor. What do you do for Mr. Xun Yu...... That's right, do health care. Mr. Xun Yu now practices the 'Five Bird Opera' every day, and stopped taking the 'Five Stone Scatter' to become strong, it is said that he can become a martial arts master after practicing more, and even Mr. Xu Zijiang and Mr. Shi A are also learning recently, and I heard that they are highly respected. The crowd listened with great fascination. I can't wait to go to Chang'an in person.

There's so much magic there.

There are not only emperors, but also Xu Ji, the most powerful prince in the world, as well as Yu Jina and other religious liars who are the first in the world, and there are countless people who can be benevolent and wise. The beauties are even more like clouds, just one Cai Yan makes people yearn for it, and there are even more immortals like Xu Zijiang. It was in this place that Xu Ji fought openly and secretly with the world's outstanding enemies. Just thinking about it makes people feel on a whim. Liao Hua is the oldest person in the Yanzhou army here, and it can be said that he is a veteran figure when Xu Ji raised the army. Naturally, there are not so many scruples when it comes to talking. At this time, he looked at Huan Fan and said, "By the way, how is that kid Xu Wei?" Don't you have a favorite girl? Talking nonsense all day long? ”

Huan Fan couldn't help but smile and said: "That's right, General Xu Wei is full of energy and has a good hobby, but no one looks down on him, so he talks even more ...... Unrestrained. ”

Liao Hua laughed, knowing what this unrestrained meant, and even more knowing that Xu Wei was taught by him to become like this. Huan Fan looked at Xun You and said with a smile: "The kid has long admired Mr. Daming. Today is a blessing to see. ”

Xun You said with a smile: "Yuan Ze is polite, the false name is tiring, the reputation of our people will be commented on by future generations, we don't need to care too much." Huan Fan's eyes flashed, and he said indifferently: "People say that it is better to be famous than to meet, but I say that it is better to be famous than to meet?" In my Yanzhou, under the fame, how can there be a vain? But looking at Mr.'s mind that doesn't care about the success or failure of life and death, it makes me embarrassed by the juniors, not to mention the situation that Mr. is doing in the three cities of Huaiyin, which is really exciting. It is really admirable that the wise man can be pampered to eat such a big loss, and he also puts the three cities in the place of exploring the bag and taking things. ”

Xun You's eyes showed a look of surprise, he didn't expect this Huan Fan to be so clever, as soon as he arrived here, he saw through his scheme, it seems that this kid is indeed a talent, no wonder Xu Jihui takes such a fancy to him. Thinking of this, Xun You wrote lightly: "I Gong Huaiyin, General Zang Ba attacked Huai'an, General Sun Guan attacked Yandu, Yuan Ze and General Ji Ling ......"

Huan Fan picked up the teacup and took a sip, and when he heard this, he said categorically: "It's good to leave the matter of encircling the point to help, but General Zang Ba and General Sun Guan need to listen to my mobilization." Xun You looked at Huan Fan with admiration here, looked Huan Fan up and down, and said: "There is no problem with this, we are now going to break each of the three cities in the shortest possible time, so the matter of breaking the city will be handed over to me, and everything will be handed over to Yuan Ze, so as not to distract me." ”

Huan Fan nodded and said, "It is Huan Fan's honor to be able to help Mr. accomplish this task." ”

After a pause, Huan Fan said again: "By the way, can I get in touch with General Zhang Ji and let General Zhang Ji and I work together?" Xun You stared at Heng Fan, and he couldn't figure out what Heng Fan's idea was, but he knew that one person was short and two people were long, and he had an indescribable sense of relief about Heng Fan, so he nodded in agreement at the moment,

Everyone was stunned at this time, and they only felt that Xun You and Heng Fan seemed to understand every sentence they spoke, but they had a deep meaning together, and they made themselves cloudy. I don't know why.

Liao Hua couldn't help but say on the side: "Mr. Hengfan, you want to cooperate with General Zhang Ji to march on land and water at the same time." Deal with the enemies of Huai'an City?"

Huan Fan laughed and said: "A lot of things are not so simple, please forgive me." It won't take long. You'll get the idea. ”

Everyone looked at each other, only Xun You smiled and said nothing.

Immediately, the Yanzhou army began to attack the three cities, and the war for control of Jiangbei officially began.

Huaiyin City, in the conference hall. There was a gloomy cloud. The guards in the city had already learned the news that Man Pet was trapped in the mountains at this time, and he was shocked and helpless. The news came in the evening, and everyone stayed up all night. But there is still no result of the discussion.

Xiahoujie, who had just recovered from an arrow wound, advocated immediately sending troops to attack the Yanzhou army. Rescue the full pet. The reason is simple. If there is no full favor, then Huaiyin will not be able to hold it at all.

And Li Tong does have a different point of view. He believes that this is the idea of the Yanzhou army to encircle and send reinforcements, and it must not be taken lightly. If you rush out of the city, Huaiyin City will lose the ground faster. These people argued endlessly, and finally came up with a sound idea.

Li Tong said proudly to everyone: "Mr. Man Pet is indeed the foundation of our three cities, but now our army must not act rashly, after all, we do not know the marching steps of the Yanzhou army, and even if we rescue Mr. Man Favor, its purpose is to hold Huaiyin City, so we must now find a way to hold this city in a short time, as long as we wait until the army of the main duke land is withdrawn from Xuzhou." Then we can rest easy, even if Mr. Full Pet is not there. Everyone nodded in agreement, and now the situation is clear. The reason why the Yanzhou army trapped Manchu was to capture Huaiyin City in the shortest possible time, cut off Cao Cao's back road, and if he had already left the city. It will only disperse the defense of Huaiyin City, and the gains outweigh the losses. But if Cao Cao returns. The form is completely different, and the Yanzhou army will be defeated in front of them. Therefore. The priority now is how to survive until Cao Cao returns.

Xia Houjie was worried about Man Pet, and frowned: "But, won't we save Mr. Man Pet?" Li Tong sighed and said: "Of course Mr. Man Pet wants to save him, but now is the time has not come, the Yanzhou army will attack the city, and will definitely concentrate all its forces in order to achieve encirclement and reinforcement, or quickly break the city, but no matter what, we must first understand the distribution of the Yanzhou army's troops, otherwise reckless actions will only ruin a big thing, not only can not save Mr. Man Chong, but also will pay us a fundamental loss." Cao Chun, who was calm and wise on the side, said in a deep voice: "We don't know the number of enemy troops yet, but there should be only a few, according to the worst plan, when Zhang Ji's army, Zangba's army, Sun Guan's army, as for the siege of Caicheng's Yanzhou army, we don't know, but I think it's also more auspicious, then there are four armies coming, on the surface it sounds like a lot of people, but if the other party wants to break through three cities in a row, it will be difficult from time to time." Li Tong nodded and said: "Now there is an army besieging Mr. Man Favor, that is to say, there are still three armies to attack three cities, in my opinion, when the Yanzhou army starts to operate, it is the best time for us to rescue Mr. Man Pet." However, it should not be us who do it, but it should be the defenders of Yandu City, after all, Yandu City is the best choice, Yandu City is too far here, if the Yanzhou army is willing to seek the near and far and concentrate all its strength to attack Yandu City, it is necessary to prevent our three cities from attacking head to end, but it is thankless, so the first choice for the Yanzhou army to attack the city should be Huaiyin City or Huai'an City. In this way, the defenders of Yandu City have a better chance of rescuing Mr. Manzhong. Everyone nodded in agreement, after all, it was the best way out of the way.

Cao Chun snorted and touched his chin to play with the taste: "So, the most important thing we need to figure out now is the intention of the Yanzhou Army, although we didn't get instructions from Mr. Manzhong, and Mancheng didn't come back." We have no way of knowing the strategy to deal with the Yanzhou military land, but we can estimate that Mr. Man Chong set off from Huai'an City. The purpose is to come to Huai'an City, which means that Mr. Man Chong thinks that the Yanzhou Army's preferred target is our Huaiyin City. It seems that we should be prepared for the battlefield, and the Yanzhou army will probably attack Huaiyin City with all its might. ”

Everyone nodded, thinking it made sense. Xiahou Jie put forward a different opinion, and the fierce general shook his head and said: "We can't easily assert what the strategy of the Yanzhou army is, don't forget, Mr. Man Chong has now fallen into the strategy of the Yanzhou army and is besieged on the mountain, so is the judgment made by Mr. Man Chong still accurate." None of us can be sure. Maybe the target of the Yanzhou army is in Huai'an City. If this is the case, we have not fallen for the other side's strategy to stabilize the army. Missed the opportunity to rescue Mr. Full Pet and Huai'an City? Cao Chun shook his head and said: "The Yanzhou army is scheming, and the battle is erratic. Maybe the Yanzhou Army just wants us to have the illusion of a general? Don't forget. To the west of Huai'an City is a body of water, and if Zhang Ji's army wants to march quickly, it must start from the waterway. But on the waterway. Zhang Ji's army is not able to take advantage. Huai'an City is the center of these three cities, and its defense is extremely strong. When Mr. Man Chong left there, he must have left a way to deal with the Yanzhou army, and the Yanzhou army may not touch this mold. ”

Xiahou Jie fell silent, obviously thinking that Cao Chun had a point. The generals in the hall were deflated, and for the first time they clearly felt the importance of a military division in war. There are military advisors who have ordered that everything is regulated clearly, and the desired effect can be achieved without using their brains, and now that they are trapped in the mountains, they feel that there is no one to make plans for the war, and it is simply a fog, even if there is inexhaustible power, they don't know where to use this power.

For a long time, Li Tongcai, who was originally the guard of Huaiyin City, reluctantly raised his spirit and concluded: "Anyway. Huaiyin City connects Xiapi, Huai'an City connects Guangling, and it is as important as it is from a geographical point of view, and it is not surprising that the Yanzhou army attacked anywhere first. Even if we are worried about Huai'an City now, we are beyond the reach of the whip, maybe Huai'an City is still worried about us. Let's do our own thing first. Everyone nodded, and a stronger sense of powerlessness rose in their hearts.

This war is really home. I wanted to go out of the city, but I was afraid that the Yanzhou army would send the tiger away from the mountain and encircle the point to send reinforcements. If you don't go out of the city, you are afraid that you will fall into someone's plan to stabilize the army, and you want to connect the three cities and defend each other, but you can't figure out where the Yanzhou army really attacked Fang Xian. I want to rescue the full pet, but I don't know if trapping the full pet is the bait set by the other party.

The only thing that can be done now is to defend the city, wait for Cao Cao to return, and defeat the Yanzhou army with the superiority of troops. However, can he insist on Cao Cao's return to the army?

Everyone's mind is full of questions.

At this moment, a soldier ran in, knelt on the ground, and reported in a loud voice: "Generals, the Yanzhou army has attacked the city!" ”

The crowd stood up and ran out. The Yanzhou army is coming so fast.

In Huai'an City, there was a shouting and killing sound inside and outside.

Unlike the soldiers of Huaiyin City, Li Tong and the others still have a chance to breathe, here in Huai'an City, the Yanzhou army has already begun to attack the city.

Huan Fan led the army here, and then ordered the Yanzhou army to attack the city with all its might. Zangba's army was the main force of the siege, and 25,000 soldiers were invested in the first attack.

Among them, 8,000 archers held divine arm bows and threw them at Huai'an City, and for a while, the air was filled with the whining sound of carved arrows cutting through the air.

In front is the crazy impact of the Yanzhou army.

However, the soldiers at the head of Huai'an City did not flinch, but held huge shields and displayed them there like an iron wall. It makes Huai'an City seem to be a piece taller. Huai'an City was indeed a city that Cao Cao had painstakingly managed, and the city walls were extremely high, even with the Yanzhou army's throwing skills, it was still difficult to shoot bows and arrows on the city. Even if he shot it, he was blocked by Cao Jun's soldiers with shields.

If it is replaced by other Yanzhou troops, it will definitely be replaced by a strong crossbow for covering and shooting to suppress the Cao army at the head of the city.

It's a pity that Zangba's army is a field army, and it can quickly reflect when needed, so because the strong crossbow is relatively cumbersome, although the Yanzhou army has basically solved the problem of slow loading of the strong crossbow, but the problem of loading the weight still cannot be solved. Therefore, for the sake of mobility, there is no strong crossbow in the conventional armament configuration of the Zang Ba army.

However, the Yanzhou army still successfully rushed to the city wall of Huai'an City, set up a ladder, and began to climb the city.

Although the Yanzhou army had no way to force the Cao army to retreat because of the giant shield, the Cao army also had no way to attack the Yanzhou army that was climbing the city with rolling logs and stones, so the Yanzhou army climbed the city very quickly. Of course, Cao Cao's army, who was standing at the head of the city with a shield, did not dare to make any abnormal moves, otherwise he would be shot by the archers of the Yanzhou army because of his flaws.

Zang Ba squinted his eyes and stood at the rear of the army, and said to Huan Fan: "Mr. Huan Fan, is Cao Jun standing like this all the time?" Do you want our soldiers to go to the city and use their shields to push our soldiers down and fall into the city? If so, our army will make him pay a heavy price, just hold the edge of the shield and use the three-eyed crossbow to tear through the line of defense formed by these shieldmen. Our army wears rattan armor, and there is no way to hurt us except for heavy weapons. There are some gadgets, but they can't think of it. Heng Fan snorted coldly and said: "It's hard to say, but don't think about the enemy too simply, Man Pet must have figured out a way to deal with our army before leaving here, don't take it lightly." Although we invested a lot of people in the first round of attacks, it was only a test after all. ”

As he spoke, the vanguard of the Yanzhou Army had already come to the city.

Heng Fan Deng stared at the city intently, looking at what plan Man Pet had left behind. (To be continued......)