In the Huaiyin War, in less than a day, the Yanzhou army quickly broke the city, which became a nightmare that Cao Cao's army was unwilling to look back on in the future.

Xun You also proved the invincibility of the Yanzhou siege troops with reality.

After occupying Huaiyin City, Xun You's army quickly attacked, and united with Ji Ling's army to go straight. Yandu City, hoping to capture Yandu City in the shortest possible time, and Huaiyin City into horns to resist Cao Cao's army that may retreat at any time, at the same time, as early as when Xunyou's army began to move at the same time, Yanzhou logistics troops also continued to transport a large number of materials to the two cities. Although these two cities have always been Cao Cao's sphere of influence, because Yanzhou Junqiu did not commit any crimes, coupled with Yanzhou's reputation, the residents of these two cities did not have so much hostility towards the Qingming Prefecture.

The news reached Huan Fan, and Huan Fan knew that Xun You was buying time for himself, and he had to strategize calmly. Therefore, Huan Fan ordered Sun Guan's army to retreat to Huaiyin City to strengthen the defenses there, and at the same time, after Zhang Ji's army was in contact, he asked them not to attack Huai'an by water, but to go straight down the river after reaching Hongze Lake, and then wave their troops to attack Jiangdu and Shatou Town. Because it is far away from Huai'an City, the water army in Huai'an City is completely ignorant.

At the same time, Huan Fan also told Xun You about the way to defend the city that he had tried out in Huai'an City these days, Xun You understood it, and immediately ordered Ji Ling to garrison Yandu, and led the army straight to Huai'an. After Huan Fan learned of this news, he ordered the siege of Huai'an City to be lifted, led Zang Ba's army, and slaughtered at Baima Lake. Dismantled Huai'an's defense of the waterways. A large number of ships were also snatched from them. Then Shi Shiran rode his own ships and enemy ships down the river from Baima Lake and went straight to Cao Cao's military town of Qu'a. Of course. There is another reason for this.

Huan Fan's actions made the Cao army guards in Huai'an City suspicious and did not dare to act rashly. Afraid of falling for the enemy's tricks, it wasn't until the scouts went out to listen to the report that they knew that they had fallen for the enemy's plan to stabilize the army, and it turned out that the enemy was simply a drunkard who did not mean to drink. At the same time, they received definite news: Zhang Ji's army had begun to attack Jiangdu and Shatou Town.

After learning about this incident, Li Dian and others, who had just escaped from the enemy's siege and were terrified, panicked and hurriedly held a meeting to discuss countermeasures.

The first to speak was Bao Xin, who had a lifelong friendship with Cao Cao. This Cao Cao's old friend said anxiously: "Shatou Town and Jiang must not be lost, otherwise not only will Meng De's return army have no foothold." And even in the future, if you want to peek into the original place, the last springboard will be lost. No way. We're going to split up our forces to help! and the defenders of these two places flanked the Yanzhou army before and after, and did not know the sky and the earth. Hearing this, Lu Fan hurriedly stopped; Don't do that, Lord. Although the two places are important, our army now has only one lonely city. The scouts have already reported, the Yanzhou army has occupied Huaiyin City and Yandu City, forming a horn trend, if we rashly send troops, as the truth of the Yanzhou army of these two cities come to attack us, we may not be as lucky as this time, if we lose Huai'an City, it is the responsibility of the lord and Mr. Manzhong. Li Dian agreed with Bao Xindi's opinion. Shen Sheng said: "I thought that I could divide the troops to rescue, you must know that there are only four enemy armies, Zhang Ji's army is attacking Shatou Town and Jiangdu, and Huanfan's army is going downstream." That is to say, Huaiyin City and Yandu City each have a Yanzhou army, which seems to be stronger than our army on the surface, but don't forget it. The lord who learned that there was an accident in the three places would definitely return to the army immediately, and the reason why the Yanzhou army took the two cities first. It is hoped that each other will become horns to resist the lord. Therefore, even if we send troops to pursue the enemy in the south, the Yanzhou army in these two cities may not have the courage to attack us. Now we already know that it is Sun Guan's army in Huaiyin City, and Ji Ling's army in Yandu City, and these two people don't have much ability. What's more, they still have to allocate a part of their forces to besiege Mr. Manzhong, how can they have so much strength and take care of us? I heard that during this time, they kept transporting military supplies to the two cities, naturally in order to hold on to the city, to attack our Huai'an City, they did not want to, but they did not have the strength. ”

Bao Xinkou sighed: "That's why they came up with this plan to attack Shatou Town and Jiangdu, because they have seen very clearly that even if we can defend this city, we will abandon this lonely city after Meng De returns, so they don't pay attention to us at all, and in fact, we are really powerless and there is no need to defend this city in the future, after the lord returns, our mission will be completed, and we will naturally return to the army, although we are very unwilling, but we have to accept this fact." After a pause, he said: "The Yanzhou army is doing this now, which is very in line with their war idea of exchanging the minimum price for the greatest benefit, and Xu Ji often does this." ”

Everyone in the hall nodded their heads when they heard this, and they all thought so. Until this time, they still didn't know the fact that the Yanzhou army had another mysterious army, the Xunyou army, otherwise they wouldn't dare to make this plan if they were killed. Lu Fan felt that this matter was not so simple with his intuition, and hesitated: "I am very worried about the strength of the Sun Guan army in Huaiyin City now, they actually broke the city so easily, it seems that it is much more powerful than the Zhang Ba army that attacked us, if they come here, we may not be able to resist it." Li Dian shook his head and said: "Mr. is too worried, we have to take a long-term view, we have here the strategy left by Mr. Manzhong to deal with the Yanzhou army, of course Zhang Ba has nothing to do, but there is no place in Huaiyin City; Secondly, most of the defeated troops in Huaiyin City, and General Li Tong and others were defeated in the hands of Sun Guan's army not long ago. ”

Bao Xin nodded and said, "General Li Dian is reasonable. ”

Until now, they mistakenly thought that it was Sun Guan's army that captured Huaiyin City. Of course, Lu Fan had nothing to say, and frowned: "If this is the case, we now have three roads to choose from, one is to sneak attack Zhang Ji's army from the back road, the other is to go down the river by boat and attack Huan Fan's army from behind from the waterway, and the other is to send troops to rescue Mr. Man Chong." I don't know what you think? ”

Bao Xin said categorically: "We don't have to worry about Mr. Manzhong. He naturally has a way to deal with the enemy, although he can't get out, but as long as the lord returns to the army. Mr. Manchu will naturally be out of danger. The crowd nodded. Li Dian pondered: "Mr. Lu Fan's words reminded me, I think it's better for us to directly attack Zangba's army. According to the scouts, Zhang Ji's army was mostly cavalry, and we were no match for him in the wilderness. And it's a long way to go, and if we go a long way, we're going to make the other side feel like they're going to have to work hard, and that's really more than worth the loss. On the contrary, it would be wise to attack Zangba's army from the water, as we could return to the army at any time. Moreover, Qu'a's army is the elite army of the lord, so it is naturally much better to cooperate. ”

Lu Fan already knew that sending troops was a foregone conclusion. Of course, he was also planning carefully, and at this time, he said: "The problem is that Huan Fan has already captured all the warships of our army before leaving. What could not be taken away had been destroyed. Where do we have ships to pursue? I just don't know how long it will take to make a big ship. Bao Xin laughed when he heard this: "The Yanzhou army only knows the fur of my Huai'an City, in fact, Mr. Man Chong has already reserved a back hand. I still have a lot of spare warships in Huai'an City, where does the Yanzhou army know this? ”

When everyone heard this, their mood improved a little.

Bao Xin said in a deep voice: "Okay." Now that it has been decided, I think it will be up to General Li Dian to lead the naval army to pursue Zhang Ba's army from behind. Mr. Huan Fan and I are leading a part of the generals and troops to guard here. ”

Li Dian suddenly obeyed the order.

As a result, the forces of Huai'an City were so dispersed. And this is exactly what Huan Fan wants to see.

Li Dian led the army to start from Baima Lake in a big boat, and went down the river, in a vain attempt to attack the Zang Ba army led by Huan Fan from behind. Li Dian's army was out of the city shortly after. After being informed by Xun You's army, and after waiting for Li Dian's army to stay away, he suddenly appeared in Huai'an City, and immediately began to besiege the city from all sides.

Bao Xin, who was caught off guard, thought that the Yanzhou Army's move was completely unexpected. And this army in front of him will actually be the special siege force of the Yanzhou Army, the Xunyou Army!

First, the forces were dispersed, and the means of defending the city were well known to the enemy, plus they were taken by surprise. Where can Huai'an City be defended? It didn't take long for the city to be broken by Xun You's army and its swift and terrifying manner. Bao Xin panicked and wanted to flee back to Jiangdong with his troops. It was still Lü Fan who was in danger, and Jian yì Bao Xin led the army to join the Manchu favor. Fang is a foolproof strategy.

Bao Xin thought so, so he led the remnants of the army to run into the mountains, broke through the encirclement of the Yanzhou army, and joined Manzhong.

This point was a bit unexpected by Xun You, and of course he also knew the fact that there were other strategists in Bao Xin's army. Originally, Xun Youdi planned to disperse all the Cao army's troops in the three cities, and then he could deal with the full favor of the soldiers, but now that the enemy is united, it is naturally difficult to achieve his intended goal.

At this time, Xun You began to care about the whereabouts of Man Pet, now that the three cities are his own, Man Pet is not afraid at all, and now he will not leave even if he chases Man Pet away, because he still has to assist Cao Cao to return to the army. Therefore, Xun You did not increase his troops to surround Manzhong, but wanted to surround Manzhong's Yanzhou army and act carefully, not to be greedy for merit, but to be eaten by Manchu in one bite.

Almost at the same time, Li Dian was also attacked by Huan Fan's army on the river that was flowing downstream.

Of course, the purpose of the Huan Fan army is not Qu A, this is just a strategy of the Huan Fan army. The reason why Huan Fan wanted to burn all Cao Cao's warships in Huai'an City was to make a posture of attacking Qu A regardless of a single qiē, so that the other party would be fooled.

Huan Fan knew that Man Pet was powerful, how could he not have thought that Man Pet would naturally have other spare warships in Huai'an? His pretense here was precisely to lure Cao Cao's army in Huai'an City without a military division, and if he was full of favor in the city, he could see through his little trick at a glance.

The unsuspecting Li Dian army suffered a head-on attack from the Huanfan army, fortunately, the Huai'an naval army practiced for many years, only to keep the main force, retreated in a hurry, after returning to the White Horse Lake, before landing, and was killed by the Xun Yu army for a while, Li Dian had no choice but to abandon the ship, all the way south by land, and began a temporary exile life. The Huan Fan army, which won the victory, sang a triumphant song all the way, took a boat south, and went straight to Qu'a.

Of course, Huan Fan would not be stupid enough to attack Qu A, after all, Qu A was Cao Cao's military town. When Sun Ce fought Cao Cao. Sun Ce's number one military division, Zhou Yu, was helpless to attack Qu'a City for so long, and his army would not escape the opposite cloud if he went to fight hard, you must know that behind this Qu'a City. Naturally, with the support of Cao Cao's troops in other cities, even if he can break the city. But there is no room for troops here.

Huan Fan's purpose in coming here was actually to harass Cao Jun in Qu'a City, so that they would be attracted to him. It was impossible to rescue Shatou Town and Jiangdu, which were being attacked by Zhang Ji's army on the other side of the river.

Sure enough, Huan Fan appeared in Qu'a City. It caused a great riot in Qu'a City, who would have thought that a Yanzhou army would suddenly appear here? Huan Fan took the opportunity to besiege Qu'a City, and the Cao army of Qu'a City fought back. Soon after, the Cao Cao garrisons in Moling, Dantu, and Biling heard the news. Of course, they knew the importance of Qu'a City, and hurriedly sent troops to reinforce it.

Of course, Huan Fan is playing with encirclement and reinforcement, and this is also a conspiracy, and Cao Cao's side is not allowed to be fooled. Huan Fan took Qu'a City as the center and repeatedly attacked Cao Cao's army who came to the rescue. However, Cao Cao's troops were not vegetarians, so there were casualties on both sides.

But Huan Fan knew that he couldn't stay here for long. At this time, news came from Zhang Ji's army: Shatou Town and Jiangdu had been broken by the Yanzhou army, and Zhang Ji's army turned the two cities into the territory of the Yanzhou army. In the absence of reinforcements from the small number of Cao troops in these two places, of course, there was no way to hold out for long, so they could only abandon the city and flee.

Huan Fan knew that he didn't need to stay here anymore, so he flicked a shot, leaving behind a large army of empty battalions and a small number of defenders. The rest of the army followed Huan Fan's army down the river by boat to the town of Shatou, where they landed and entered the town of Shatou. Immediately rendezvous with Zhang Ji's army. After Cao Cao's army in Qu'a City knew about this, it was already too late. In this way, the Yanzhou army strategized all the cities in the Guangling area. It also completed the encirclement of Cao Caodi, who was still fighting in Xuzhou, although there were still fierce battles. But anyone with a discerning eye knows that Cao Cao has been completely defeated in this battle.

Of course. Hengfan will not leave Zhang Ji's army and Zang Ba's army stationed in Shatou Town and Jiangdu for a short time, and this will become the last stop for Cao Cao's defeat and escape to Jiangdong. Heng Fan not only wants to keep these two cities from being recaptured by Cao Cao, but also wants to knock a victory on Cao Cao, for this result, of course he wants to stay here.

And at this moment, Xu Ji, who had been rushing to the snow here non-stop, finally came to Huaiyin City.

The battle for control of the north bank of the Yangtze River finally ushered in its climax.

When Xu Ji and Xun You walked into the living room with a smile, Guan Hai, Ji Ling, Liao Hua, Liu Pi, Gong Du, Yu Man and other generals all stood up to welcome.

Xu Ji laughed and greeted everyone one by one. Liao Hua and Guan Hai met Xu Ji at the earliest, and they met Xu Ji when Bo Cai was ordered to lead the troops to adopt the Yellow Turban, and they hadn't seen each other for many years, and they were so excited that they were a little speechless.

Xu Ji stepped forward and patted the strong arms of the two of them hard, but he didn't say a word.

One qiē is all in the words!

The two of them were inspired by Xu Ji's actions, and their hearts were full of pride, like thousands of miles of mountains, boundless. Xu Ji looked at Ji Ling, saw that he was full of energy, and knew that his martial arts had made great progress, so he said happily: "Ji Ling, your demeanor is still better than in the past, it is really gratifying." ”

Ji Ling said gratefully: "Ji is able to have today, it is really all thanks to the lord." ”

Xu Ji smiled, and looked at Liu Bi and the other three, knowing that they were the generals of the Yellow Turban Army, not the children of those great clans at the end of the world, and said cordially in his heart: "It's the first time I've seen the three generals!" Liu Pi is calm by nature, and he is the leader of the three, and when he heard the words, he said in a deep voice: "The three subordinates have heard the name of the lord and know that they only saw Zun Yan today, but it is enough to comfort their lives." ”

Gong Du wanted to speak and stopped, as if he was thinking about words, and before he could speak, he was robbed of the limelight by his companion Yu Man, and the yellow scarf greeted Xu Ji with a big grin.

Xu Ji looked at his bold appearance, and suddenly remembered Wen Ping, who had been dead for a long time, and there was an indescribable cordiality in his heart, so he naturally seemed very enthusiastic.

Yu Man felt that this lord was very bold, although he was not a reckless person like himself, but he was never sour and ranny, and he had an appetite for himself, so he and Xu Ji were not restrained at all, very casual, and they couldn't see Liu Pi and the two of them calling him at all.

Xu Ji looked funny, so he talked to Gong Du, eliminated the latter's nervousness, and then beckoned everyone to sit down.

Xu Ji looked at Xun Yu and said with a smile: "Youruo is really extraordinary, as soon as he makes a move, he is thunderous, and the generals under Cao Cao who beat him have no temper at all, and they even besiege the military advisor who Cao Cao relied on very much, which is enough to make Cao Jun frightened." Xun You said indifferently: "In the midst of strategizing, the decisive victory is thousands of miles away." This is what the lord said, and his subordinates always remember it. As the saying goes, I am just turning the intention of the lord into practice this time, and it is insignificant at all. Xu Shu, Huan Fan and I all admired the lord very much, if it was someone else, how could we discover Cao Cao's strategy in Chang'an? ”

Xu Jixin was ashamed, if he didn't know the identity of the Yin family, how could he be so leisurely and stable now?

However, Cao Cao is a peerless hero, and he must not take it lightly. Thinking of this, Xu Ji lifted his spirit and said loudly: "The past cannot be traced, now how we can fight Cao Cao to the maximum extent and prevent Sun Ce from reaping the fisherman's gains is the key!" (To be continued......)