Cao Liu duel two duels, Liu Chuang was able to maintain victory for many reasons.

Among them, in addition to Liu Chuang's mastery of sea superiority and the sharp weapon of heavenly thunder and fire, there is also the factor of Cao Cao's underestimation of the enemy. Of course, Liu Chuang's strategic deployment every time he made a preemptive strike and grasped the opportunity gave Cao Cao a headache. Relying on Cao Cao's long defensive line, Liu Chuang attacked everywhere. In such a situation, Cao Cao could only be exhausted, and his passive defense also allowed Liu Chuang to take advantage of a lot.

But now, these factors are slowly disappearing.

After repeated failures, Cao Cao finally regarded Liu Chuang as the biggest enemy in his life, which also doubled the pressure on Liu Chuang.

It was getting late, but the lobby was still brightly lit.

Fu Zhu and the others had already left, leaving Liu Chuang alone to stand in front of the sand table, silent in thought.

Lu Jin sent someone to ask him to go back to eat several times, but he ignored it, and still stayed in the lobby, looking at the sand table in a daze......

"My lord, Kong Ming's military advisor asks to see you."

"Ah, let him in."

Liu Chuang suddenly came to his senses and turned to look.

"It's so late, Kong Ming and Xiaozhi are coming, what's the matter?"

Zhuge Liang and Fa Zheng walked into the lobby together, bowed down and waved with Liu Chuang.

"Lord, after hearing the words of the prince and Mr. during the day, after I went back with Xiaozhi, I also discussed it carefully.

Today, Cao Cao continues to increase his troops to Liyang, but he has not launched an attack for a long time, and there must be something strange in it. Xiaozhi and I thought that this must be Cao Cao's plan to attack the west. ”

Liu Chuang smiled slightly, glanced at Zhuge Liang and Fa Zheng, and suddenly said, "Your sister sent someone to inform you......

"This ......"

Zhuge Liang's face turned red, revealing a look of surprise.

Liu Chuang guessed well, he did receive a message from Zhuge Ling, so he rushed to the General's Mansion with Fa Zheng.

Fa Zheng came to the General's Mansion, and it took half a year for a while. As a Langzhong, he soon became friends with Zhuge Liang who talked about everything.

The left and right Fazheng have not yet started a family, so they go to Zhuge Liang's house every day to eat. And what about Zhuge Liang? He also greatly appreciates Fazheng's talents. Two young people who are also talented and outstanding have become friends who are irreversible, which makes Liu Chuang sigh with emotion.

Sima Yi is also talented, but he has never dealt with Zhuge Liang.

Who would have thought that a Fa Zheng would come and become friends with Zhuge Liang?

He smiled and motioned for the two to sit down.

"Mr. Dayma's words have also been a great inspiration to me.

Cao Cao has now seized the opportunity and made it a conspiracy, even if I know that he is scheming, I can't help but be the Cao army in Liyang.

Just now I got the news that Cao Cao sent another 30,000 troops to Liyang...... In such a situation, no matter whether he wants to fight in Liyang, I must increase my troops to Wei County. In this case, if you want to regain the opportunity...... And to be surprising. ”

Zhuge Liang said: "What the lord said is good, and Xiaozhi and I also think so." ”

"But how do you win?"

Zhuge Liang glanced at Fa Zheng and nodded at him.

Fa Zheng knew that Zhuge Liang had given him the opportunity......

Now Zhuge Liang no longer needs to steal the limelight. But for Fa Zheng, he also has to use his talent to strengthen Liu Chuang's attention to him.

Fa Zheng stood up and walked to Liu Chuang's side, "Kong Ming and I also discussed at dinner, since we want to win by surprise, the lord doesn't have to pay attention to where Cao Cao wants to cross the river from. ”

"Oh?"

"The lord just needs to find his own place to cross the river."

Liu Chuang was stunned for a moment, and then showed a sudden look.

He understood what Fa Zheng meant: no matter where Cao Cao wanted to cross the river from, Liu Chuang only needed to find the place where he crossed the river.

Cao Cao wants to burn the war to Hebei, so Liu Chuang can burn the war to Henan,...... You cross the river, and I will cross the river, and it depends on who can't hold it first.

With me as the main thing, let him Cao Cao plan in every way, as long as Liu Chuang can cross the Yellow River, Cao Cao will be difficult to care about.

Thinking about the mystery, Liu Chuang's eyes suddenly fell on the sand table. He pondered for a long time, then suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed to a city on the sand table, and said softly: "The meaning of filial piety, but do you want me to cross the river from this?" ”

When Fa Zheng saw it, he immediately smiled and nodded again and again.

In July of the ninth year of Jian'an, when Cao Cao continued to increase troops to Liyang, and everyone in the world thought that Cao Cao was preparing to fight to the death with Liu Chuang in Liyang, Cao Cao personally led 20,000 elite Cao troops, with Cao Chun's tiger and leopard cavalry as the vanguard, and suddenly crossed the river from Cangting and launched an attack on Qinghe.

Qinghe Country ...... No, it should be Qinghe County.

After Qinghe Taishou Shi Lian found out that Cao's army had crossed the river from Cangting, he immediately sent people to report to Yecheng urgently, and at the same time dispatched troops to quickly assemble in Dushui.

According to Shi Lian's idea, he was preparing to use the desecration of the water as a trench to block the Cao army's attack.

Who knows, the tiger and leopard cavalry attacked quickly, and before Shi Lian could arrange it properly, Cao Chun's tiger and leopard cavalry had already crossed the poisonous water and launched an attack on the Han army. Shi Lian responded to the battle in a hurry, but suffered heavy losses. Haw Par Riding has been established since the fourth year of Jian'an, and it has been five years now. Cao Chun is better at training. In the past five years, he has almost lived and eaten with the Haw Par Knights, and has tempered the Haw Par Cavalry into a strong force.

In this river-crossing operation, Cao Chun even asked for two fierce generals, Yue Xi and Cao Peng, from Cao Cao, which made the tiger and leopard ride like a tiger.

Shi Jian is also good at training, but after all, he has not had much time to take over Qinghe.

So much so that as soon as the two sides clashed at Shushuifu, the Han army even held on for an hour and collapsed.

3,000 tigers and leopards rode against 5,000 Han troops, but the Han army was defeated and fled. After Cao's army crossed the water, Cao Chun immediately ordered to continue the pursuit.

Shi Lian retreated from the desecration to the shell mound, and before he even had time to stabilize his position, the tiger and leopard rode to kill again.

At the time of desecration, the Han army had the advantage of strength, and it was not an opponent of the tiger and leopard. Now in Beiqiu, the superiority in strength is gone......

"Today's plan is to die and fight!"

Shi Jian saw the tiger and leopard riding menacingly, and he couldn't help despairing.

Since he was recommended by Xu Chu to serve Liu Chuang in the first year of Jian'an, he has conquered the east and the west and established countless meritorious achievements.

In terms of fame, he may not be as good as Tai Shici and others. But in terms of ability, he is not necessarily inferior to others. From a ranger in the rivers and lakes, to a county guard. Shi Jian knows that Liu Chuang's foundation is not easy to come by. He couldn't go back...... If you retreat, it will be Ganling.

Once Cao's army captured Ganling, the entire Qinghe River would be shaken.

If the Qinghe River is chaotic, then Hejian, Julu, and Anding will all be affected......

Only fight to the death!

I hope to delay the speed of Cao's army's attack so that Ganling can hold on.

Thinking of this, Shi Lian's eyes showed a look of absoluteness, and he shouted: "The lord treats me with the grace of knowledge, and today is the time for me to be loyal to the lord." Sons, come with me to attack, and be sure to stop Cao's soldiers and horses. Otherwise, Ganling will be in danger. ”

After speaking, Shi Jian jumped on the horse with his gun and rushed towards Cao Jun.

Behind him, more than a thousand defeated soldiers shouted in unison, following Shi Jian to charge at the tiger and leopard cavalry.

Cao Chun obviously didn't expect that the Han army would dare to fight back under such circumstances. A fierce battle ensued outside the city of Beyhill. The Han army, under the leadership of Shi Lian, fought to the death and did not retreat. The battle lasted from midnight to noon, and Shi Lian relied on a thousand defeated soldiers to hold back the advance of the tiger and leopard cavalry. But in the end, the Han army was insufficient, and Shi Jian was killed by Yue Xi after killing dozens of Cao soldiers in the chaos. Shi Jian died in battle, and the Han army could no longer resist it, so they scattered and fled...... Cao Chun immediately ordered to enter Beiqiu County.

However, being blocked by Shi Lian, the loss of the tiger and leopard rider was also quite heavy.

Three thousand tigers and leopards rode in the water, and no more than 100 people were killed or wounded, but under the city of Beiqiu, nearly 300 were killed

And after the continuous attack, the tiger and leopard riders were also exhausted. In this case, Cao Chun had no choice but to order the attack to be stopped, and sent someone to deliver Shi Lian's body to Cao Cao.

At this time, Cao Cao had just crossed the water.

Hearing about the battle situation, Cao Cao couldn't help but look up to the sky and sighed: "Under the tent, there are so many martyrs!" ”

Immediately, he ordered Shi Lian's body to be put into a coffin and sent someone to bury him in the watershed......

"Pass my order, the three armies speed up, and be sure to arrive in Ganling before noon tomorrow."

The loss of the shell mound also indicates that the gate of Qinghe County is wide open.

Cao Cao Ke led his ministers to drive straight in and arrived at Ganling.

At this time, the news of Shi Lian's death in battle also reached Ganling City...... In Ganling City, people were suddenly panicked. Everyone seemed nervous and didn't know what to do.

"Now that Cao Gong's soldiers are coming to the city, what should I do?"

The governor of Qinghe County, Sun Yan, was anxious about the gentry of Ganling, and discussed countermeasures in the Qinghe County Government.

This Sun Yan was originally a giant deer hero. Previously, when he was the prime minister of Qinghe, he recruited this person to come to Ganling and worship the post of county lieutenant.

At this moment, Sun Yan looked flustered.

"Even General Shi died in battle, how can we compete with Cao Gong.

General Shi had 5,000 soldiers and horses before, and he was not Cao Gong's opponent, and now that Cao Gong's army is coming, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to resist. ”

"The Commander's Meaning ......"

Sun Yan swept his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Cao Gong has tens of thousands of soldiers in Liyang, and Uncle Liu Huang can't send troops and horses to come to the rescue. In my opinion, when Cao Gong's soldiers come to the city, we will open the city and surrender, and I can't say that I can save my life. In the city of Ganling today, there are only 2,000 soldiers, and if Cao Gong breaks through the city, everyone will not be able to escape death. All the princes have property in the city, so is it possible that they will be willing to die? ”

For a while, there was a lot of discussion in the lobby.

After all, Liu Chuang's time in Jizhou is not long, and his control of Qinghe is far less than his control of Zhongshan and Hejian.

Although the time to occupy Wei County is shorter than that of Qinghe, after all, Xun Chen is in charge. Xun Chen is a celebrity and has friendships with all the powerful families in Jizhou, so he can quickly stabilize the situation in Wei County. But Qinghe ...... Liu Chuang's control of Qinghe has never been too high.

From the initial frustration to today's Shi Lian, it is not enough to really deter the Qinghe gentry.

It is precisely for this reason that Cao Cao, after discussing with Xun Yu for a long time, decided to use Qinghe as a breakthrough.

As long as Qinghe is captured, the situation in Jizhou will inevitably change dramatically...... At that time, he flanked Wei Jun and echoed with Liyang, so he completely seized the opportunity. As Xun Yu guessed, after Shi Jian died in battle, Ganling was in chaos.

"Since everyone has no opinion, let's say so.

I will send someone to Beiqiu to contact Cao Gong, and when Cao Gong's soldiers arrive in Ganling, we will open the city and surrender, which cannot be said to be a great achievement. ”