When Zhang Xun led his troops to occupy Huaiyin County, Zang Ba had already entered Xiaxiang City with an army of 30,000. In order to urge Cao Bao and Cao Hong to fight, Zang Ba sent Sun Kang and Xu Sheng to Geyi Mountain to help in the battle.

Sun Kang is Sun Guan's elder brother, although he is not as brave as Sun Guan, but compared to Cao Bao and Cao Hong, the two parallel goods, he is still a lot stronger. Xu Sheng is a new generation of generals in Xuzhou specially trained and promoted by Tai Shici and Lu Zhi, who is not only brave and unyielding, but also good at using wisdom, which is not much worse than Zang Ba. Zang Ba was able to send Sun Kang and Xu Sheng to Cao Bao and Cao Hong, which shows that he has no selfish intentions for this battle, and everything is measured and considered from the overall situation of the battlefield.

After Sun Kang and Xu Sheng arrived at the camp in Geyi Mountain, Cao Bao and Cao Hong didn't pay much attention to these two people at first, and felt that Zang Ba sent them over to clearly not believe in their own side, so they were quite resistant. Sun Kang and Xu Sheng had been mentally prepared for this, so they didn't feel wronged.

In order to attract the attention of Cao Bao and Cao Hong, Sun Kang challenged Cao Bao's personal guards, and as a result, in full view of everyone, with only two fists as big as a sand bowl, he easily overturned more than 20 guards around Cao Bao. Xu Sheng did not show force in public, but in front of Cao Hong and Cao Bao's brothers, he pointed out all the defense loopholes in the Geyi Mountain camp without a trace, which made the two guys ashamed.

After seeing Sun Kang's bravery and Xu Sheng's strategy, Cao Bao and Cao Hong finally got their attitudes right, and they accepted Zang Ba's suggestion to put together the soldiers of Pengcheng and Xiapi, and then Cao Bao served as the chief general of the battalion, Cao Hong served as the deputy general, Sun Kang served as the vanguard, and Xu Sheng served as the military advisor.

There were 25,000 soldiers in the camp of Geyishan, and after this adjustment and arrangement, there was finally a neat and unified command, and although the overall combat strength of the troops did not have time to improve, it also had the strength to fight.

In Xiaxiang City, Zang Ba had already sent someone to carefully touch the Ji Lingjun in Pugupi and Zhang Xunjun near Huaiyin. When he received the news from Xu Sheng, he immediately set a strategy for the two armies to attack Ji Ling at the same time.

Zang Ba has always been ruthless and decisive in doing things, and this time he attacked Pugupi, he took all the 30,000 soldiers and horses in the city of Xia Xiang, and was ready to lose the city to Zhang Xun.

A day later, the vanguard of Zang Ba's army appeared ten miles east of Pugupi, and the Ercao coalition army under Geyi Mountain also quietly approached Suishui.

After Ji Ling received the military information that the two armies were coming, he was not so flustered, he seemed to be waiting for this big battle here. It's just that. The conceited Ji Ling would never have thought of this battle, the opponent's camp not only included the two most effective troops in Xuzhou, but also several generals with stronger comprehensive strength than him.

This battle is definitely not as simple as Ji Ling imagined!

In order to create an opportunity for the friendly troops on the north bank of Suishui to cross the river, Zang Ba used all the bed crossbows and Youzhou's special long-range thunderbolt at the beginning. Ji Ling was worried about the instability of the camp, so he immediately sent a 5,000-strong force to the death. The intention was to rush through the center of the battlefield and destroy the long-range large weapons in the Xuzhou army.

Seeing that Ji Ling sent troops out of the camp, Zang Ba immediately sent the forward Guan Hai to lead 3,000 heavy armored infantry to meet the battle. These 3,000 heavy armored infantry are the strongest combat power that Youzhou secretly supports Xuzhou. Guan Hai and Xu Sheng repeatedly practiced in the Yushan Battalion, and in terms of individual combat ability, it was already comparable to the heavy infantry in the Zhenbei Army and the Zhenwei Battalion.

In the middle of the battlefield, I saw Guan Hai wearing full-body plate armor. Wearing a black tiger head with a full face cover, holding a machete, he led 3,000 heavy infantry like 3,000 tigers who chose to devour people. A fierce attack was launched against the Yuan soldiers who rushed out of the camp.

Guan Hai's sword technique was taught by Deng Zhan, a martial arts master who was as famous as Wang Yue and Tong Yuan in this era. Wang Yue's swordsmanship is unique in the world, Tong Yuan's marksmanship is proud of the world, and this Deng Zhan is on a par with Wang and Tong with his awe-inspiring sword skills, and is known as the world's three major martial arts masters.

With Guan Hai's sharp machete charging forward, the three thousand heavy armored infantry did not fall behind in the slightest against the five thousand brave men sent by Shang Ji Ling.

"Brothers, kill with me!"

After Guan Hai slashed the head of a Yuan army leader on the opposite side, he turned his head and yelled at the soldiers behind him, and then rushed forward again.

"Kill! Drive Yuan Jun into Suishui to feed Wang Ba! ”

A fierce hand-to-hand fight unfolded outside Pugupi......

Every moment, someone falls on the battlefield. Every moment, many lives are lost on the battlefield.

In less than half an hour, there were not many of the five thousand soldiers sent out by Ji Ling, and Chen Ji, who acted as the vanguard, was killed and the red-eyed Guan Hai was cut in two in the battle formation. Seeing this, Ji Ling felt a little worried, so he ordered the remaining soldiers to retreat to the camp.

In this battle, although the Xuzhou army did not have an advantage in numbers, because of the outstanding performance of Guan Hai and the heavy infantry, it shined on the scene, which greatly boosted the morale of the army.

At the third watch of the same night, Ji Ling personally led 5,000 soldiers out of the camp to attack Zang Ba's camp at night, intending to take advantage of Zang Ba's carelessness after the victory. Unexpectedly, Zang Ba had expected it, and only let Guan Hai and the heavy infantry rest at night, while the rest of the soldiers were waiting for the rest of the soldiers. Ji Ling and his troops just approached Zang Ba's camp, and Zang Ba rushed out with a large army, but in the night, Ji Ling and Zang Ba fought each other, and the two fought for thirty rounds, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner from defeat.

Ji Ling saw that there was no hope of stealing the camp, so he had to organize the troops to fight and retreat, because he was in a hurry to get out, but he was stabbed by Zang Ba with a spear and injured his back.

When Ji Ling and Zang Ba fought each other at night, the Ercao coalition army on the north bank of Suishui marched twenty miles along the river bank to the Lu Expedition, then quietly crossed the river, and then touched it from the west, and launched a fierce attack on Ji Ling's camp.

"Quick, shoot all the rockets into the Yuan Jun camp!"

"Quick, block the Yuan Jun who rushed out, and force them to jump into the water!"

Xu Sheng and Sun Kang's voices rang out in the battlefield, reminding the soldiers from time to time.

When the wounded Ji Ling returned to the camp with the troops who had been frustrated in the night attack, he saw the flames outside the camp from a distance, Ji Ling knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly let people rush into the camp, and gave orders to Xun Zheng, the deputy general and military Yuan Lian, who were left behind in the camp, to organize the troops to break through to the south with all their might.

Zang Ba, who was chasing Ji Ling, saw that Xu Sheng and their night attack on Yuan Ying was successful, so he hurriedly mobilized all the troops to encircle and suppress Ji Ling's troops in panic.

A chaotic field battle lasted from the third watch until dawn, and the wounded Ji Ling broke away from the war group early because he did not return to the camp, and fled to Louting with more than 3,000 soldiers.

Xun Zheng was lucky, and broke through with the army in the camp at the risk of death, and finally fled to Louting with more than 10,000 Yuan troops. The military advisor Yuan Jian was not so lucky, he was shot in the thigh during the chaos and was eventually taken prisoner.

After dawn, Zang Ba asked people to carefully count the damage and capture, and the final reported figure was more than 11,000 enemies killed, more than 23,000 prisoners, and about 15,000 Yuan troops who escaped. There were 8,000 dead and wounded soldiers on the two routes of Xuzhou, of which more than 4,000 were wounded, and less than 4,000 soldiers were actually killed.

Although he won a big victory, Zang Ba was not arrogant, he gave Xu Sheng an order, let Xu Sheng lead 10,000 soldiers to pursue the lost Ji Ling, and he himself led the main force of more than 30,000 people who converged to march eastward, preparing to intercept Zhang Xun's army heading north.

A day later, Xu Sheng led his army to approach Louting, but Ji Ling didn't have time to inform Zhang Xun of the battle situation, so he hurriedly fled to Qixiaju with the remnants of the army.

Three days later, Zang Ba led his army to stop Zhang Xun, who was in his prime, north of Wei County. At this time, Zhang Xun still had about 40,000 soldiers who could fight, and Zang Ba also had 30,000 Xuzhou soldiers with high morale. The two armies met in the wilderness, and a fierce battle was inevitable. Guan Hai led the heavy infantry to charge forward again, and then killed the forward troops of Zhang Xun's army. Zang Ba and Cao Bao, Cao Hong, Sun Kang, Yin Li and other generals all went to battle, leading their troops to fight with Zhang Xun's troops in every corner of the battlefield to the end.

A tragic battle lasted from noon to evening, and finally Zhang Xun's army was completely defeated with the superiority of troops......

Zhang Xun left behind more than 20,000 dead and wounded soldiers, and retreated westward with more than 10,000 remnants in a panic, and at this time he still did not know that the Ji Ling army on the west road of Ludao had been completely defeated.

Two days later, when Zhang Xun led his army to Louting, he was greeted not by friendly troops, but by Xu Sheng, who was waiting for work.

Although Xu Sheng only had 10,000 soldiers under his command, he was keenly aware that Zhang Xun was leading a demoralized remnant army, so he did not hesitate to attack the unprepared Zhang Xun.

A calculated and unintentional battle ended quickly, Zhang Xun was arrested red-handed by the young general Xu Sheng, and the military advisor Yang Hong escaped by luck, only fleeing to Qixiaju with thousands of frightened soldiers.

At this point, the armies of Ji Ling and Zhang Xun who invaded Xuzhou had been basically disabled, and less than 30,000 of the 100,000 Yuan troops finally fled back to Yangzhou.

In order to deal with the Yuan army, the Xuzhou side also paid a heavy price this time, and the Guangling Chen family lost more than 12,000 people in Yuguo in order to delay Zhang Xun's actions. In the First Battle of Pugupi, the Xuzhou coalition army lost more than 8,000 people. In the encounter in the north of the city, the Xuzhou coalition army lost more than 12,000 soldiers. In the blocking battle of Louting, although Xu Sheng won a big victory, he still lost more than 3,000 soldiers.

When the news of Yuan's army's defeat and withdrawal from Xuzhou reached Tancheng, the Xuzhou army and people rejoiced, and the prestige of the generals Zang Ba, Guan Hai and Xu Sheng who participated in the battle was spread by the people of Xuzhou.

When the news of Ji Ling and Zhang Xun's failure was transmitted back to Shouchun, Yuan Shuqi almost vomited blood.

"Ji Ling and Zhang Xun, the two idiots, rice buckets, bastards, lost so badly, not only lost Chen Ji, Yuan Jian was also captured alive, and Zhang Xun became a prisoner of Xuzhou! General Ben will never send someone to Xuzhou to ransom Zhang Xun, a fool! (To be continued......)