Jia Xu is a top strategist, for him, investment will definitely be optimistic about the timing and the development future of the other party.

He came to Xuzhou to represent Zhang Xiu and himself, to surrender to Liu Bei. However, simple surrender is obviously not his style, for him, if he wants to surrender, he must give Liu Bei a big meeting gift, so that he can be reused in the future.

It just so happened that his master, Whitebeard, once gave him a letter, and he was able to know the Tian family's relationship with him. So, after seeking Zhang Xiu's consent and deciding to take refuge in Liu Bei, he immediately wrote to his master and asked for a letter from Tian Kun to the Tian family, so that he could quickly gain the trust of the Tian family. After that, Tian Fan took him to see Liu Bei, and with Tian Fan's guarantee, the rest of the things would be easy to do.

persuaded Liu Bei that they didn't spend much effort, and the 6,000 elite Liangzhou soldiers under Zhang Xiu were still very attractive to Liu Bei, who was in urgent need of expanding his army. However, after discussing the distribution of interests, Jia Xu and Liu Bei had a disagreement on what to do after Zhang Xiu's surrender.

Liu Bei's idea was to send troops directly from Xuzhou, with Tian Fan's White Tiger Legion as the main force, with 10,000 cavalry and some elite infantry as the main combat force, and then gather almost all the war horses in Xuzhou to form a temporary fast mobile army, which ran thousands of miles and directly took Pingyu. Zhang Xiu's army was going to start an incident in Wancheng, drive away part of the Jingzhou army stationed in Wancheng, occupy Wancheng, and wait for the 10,000 soldiers of Long Kangchen to come to the rescue. After that, Zhang Xiu and Chen Zhi went south again and occupied the Nanyang Basin north of Xiangyang in northern Jingzhou.

It is not unusual for Liu Bei to have this kind of thought. Before the first battle of destroying Yuan Shu, Liu Bei was full of joy and hope and sent Liu Ye to Xiangyang to discuss with Liu Biao about the destruction of Yuan Shu. Unexpectedly, Liu Biao didn't appreciate it and directly shirked it. This matter is like a thorn in Liu Bei's heart, whenever he thinks about it, he always feels uncomfortable in his heart. Now that Zhang Xiu has surrendered, it is a good opportunity, and he naturally wants to take this opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

However, Jia Xu disagreed. First, it was winter, the roads were heavily covered with snow, and the march was difficult, and it was really a question of whether Chen's army could arrive on time. Zhang Xiu turned against Liu Biao, even if he could kill Liu Biao's army in Wancheng, the loss would be small, and whether he could hold the city before Chen arrived was really a problem.

Second, the geographical location of Wancheng is too important for Jingzhou. It is located in the middle of the Nanyang Basin and is the only way to attack Xiangyang in the south. And once you control Wancheng, and then break through Xinye, where there are not many troops stationed, and advance by waterway, you can reach Xiangyang City within three days. Therefore, once Wancheng is taken by Liu Bei, Liu Biao will definitely go crazy. It doesn't take him three days to react, and when tens of thousands of troops come over, even if Chen Zhi arrives in time, it is a question whether he can drive away the Jingzhou army, and after driving out the Jingzhou army, it is a question of how many troops can be left in Zhang Xiu and Chen Zhi's tired division. And next, they have to deal with Liu Biao's persevering and continuous attack.

Carrying out two-sided development has always been a taboo for soldiers. Liu Bei was finally persuaded by Jia Xu, Chen Gong, Chen Deng, Xu Shu and Tian Fan.

After that, the specific battle plan was drawn up by Jia Xu, Chen Gong, Chen Deng, and others.

In the end, it was decided that 6,000 foot soldiers from the White Tiger Legion, as well as 10,000 cavalry from the White Tiger Legion, a total of 16,000 people were the main army, one man and three horses, and they would run long distances to attack Pingyu and strive to win Pingyu in one round of impact. At the same time, Chen Dao's Longkang battalion of 10,000 foot soldiers marched westward to serve as the task of defending the city in the future.

Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu were responsible for attacking Yang'an, where Li Tong was stationed.

After the plan was decided, everyone discussed the specific details. Tian Fan proposed to immediately rush to make cotton clothes and let the soldiers march in cotton clothes. The war horses are non-stop, the speed is fast, the wind is strong and the weather is cold, if there are no good protective measures, I am afraid that when I get to the place, half of the soldiers who freeze to death and frostbite can be accounted for. On the horses, they were laden with dry food and water, as well as rations for the horses. The dry food of the people is easy to get, but the rations of the horses cannot be fodder. Liu Bei gritted his teeth and waved his hand fiercely, these more than 40,000 horses are considered to have passed the New Year, and soybeans and sorghum have been serving every day in the past few days, and they are fat to death.

After calculations, it took four days to get all the supplies ready. Thus, the date of the expedition was finally set for the evening of the 24th.

This war was launched by the White Tiger Legion, and Tian Fan was naturally willing. In the past, Tian Fan's identity was between Wenchen and military generals, even if he didn't fight, he had the same merits, but now, he has become a purely military general, without military merits, he is nothing, and within the Xuzhou Legion, he doesn't even have a sense of existence.

However, Tian Fan and Cai Yan's marriage has been decided, and he also knows Liu Hong's temper, if he tells the old man at this time that the marriage is postponed, he is afraid that he will immediately go berserk, and Tian Fan will be torn apart. And Cai Yan ...... Her life was already bitter enough, Tian Fan really didn't want to break her heart.

At the same time, Xuzhou has Cao Cao's spies! It is difficult for these spies to break into the barracks, but there are quite a few civilians. Observing the movements of Tian Fan and others is not difficult for these people. As a result, there was news of disagreement between Lu Bu and Tian Fan in Xuzhou. In fact, on the evening of the 24th, Lü Bu, Gao Shun, Lu Yi, Pang De and others had already led the army to set off in advance.

On the 25th, when Tian Fan and Cai Yan were married, there were always two Tian Fan! One is naturally the real Tian Fan, and the other is pretended to be Hui'er. Hui'er's disguise technique is superb, and she looks like something. She just raised the soles of her shoes, wrapped something around her waist, put on Tian Fan's clothes, and made a special mask, and another Tian Fan appeared.

Of course, if you observe it during the day, there are still many flaws, such as the neck is relatively slender, such as the hands are too delicate, but at night it will not be seen.

And Tian Fan wore the clothes of the groom in the wedding dress. His wedding dress is also specially made, and it only takes less than a minute to take it off, and then he looses his hair, coils his hair, and puts on a hat, which in the dim light is the image of a coachman.

Before greeting relatives, Tian Fan was Tian Fan, and when greeting relatives, Tian Fan was still Tian Fan. However, after Cai Yan got into the car, Tian Fan got into another car, and it was Hui'er who came out, and Tian Fan became a coachman.

On the way back, Tian Fan revealed his plan and inventory. Cai Yan listened, both sad and moved, sad that this wedding seemed to be incomplete, and his life seemed to be incomplete. What touched me was that Tian Fan's apology to her was very clear on the road of more than 30 miles. Because of this, Cai Yan looked unhappy at the wedding.

When he arrived at Tian's house, Tian Fan immediately changed into a wedding dress after getting out of the car, picked up Cai Yan, and entered the mansion to complete the wedding. In fact, Tian Fan participated in everything that a groom could participate in, except that he did not enter the cave room. It's just that this situation is somewhat cruel to Cai Yan. After all, without completing the last step, the two are not really husband and wife.

When the women of the Tian family entered the new house, comforted Cai Yan, and denounced Tian Fan, Tian Fan was running wildly on the way to chase Lu Bu with three hundred personal soldiers, one person and three horses.

Sure enough, Tian Fan's preparations were not in vain, and all the spies sent by Cao Cao to Xuzhou were deceived. They passed the news of Tian Fan, Lu Bu and others to Xu County, and Cao Cao passed the news to Man Pang.

Thousands of miles away, and most of the heavy snow closed the road, Tian Fan and Lu Bu and others suffered a great sin, they went out day and night, until the evening of the 29th day of the lunar month, they arrived in Pingyu.

As early as the 26th, Tian Fan had sent Pang De to lead more than 300 warriors first, according to the news they sent back, they acted in batches from morning to night on the 28th, and had successfully entered the peace and settled down.

No wonder Man Pang was careless, first, from common sense, Xuzhou has experienced drought and has been relieving disasters, and has just completed the battle against Yuan Shu, it can be said that the soldiers are very tired, and the granary is only afraid that it is empty, and it is impossible to launch a large-scale war in a short time. Second, the news that Cao Cao passed on to him made him relax a lot. Thirdly, as the New Year approaches, according to common sense, no one wants to fight. Fourth, and the most important point, the soldiers Tian Fan chose were all people of average height and weight, and they didn't look like soldiers when they took off their armor. Many of them are scouts, dressed as dragons and tigers. Divided into small groups, dressed as peddlers and farmers who sell firewood, grain and fish, and it is approaching the New Year, the soldiers who are checking at the city gate are not strict, and they are not subject to too strict inspection when they enter the city, so they will naturally not show their flaws.

After resting for an hour, Tian Fan ignored the strong opposition of Lü Bu and others, and immediately ordered Lü Bu to lead the main force to attack the city from the east of the city, while he led Gao Shun, Liyi, and the rest of the soldiers to the south of the city to wait for the city gate to open.

Lu Bu began to attack the city, and when the loud horn sounded, Pang De and the others immediately came out of various accommodation places and gathered at the agreed place.

When the earth-shattering shouts of killing rang out in the east of the city, they began to move. More than 300 elites, pretending to be the people in the city who were responsible for transporting the materials to defend the city, easily approached the south of the city, and after a battle, took the city gate, fell the drawbridge, and opened the city gate.

The little colonel told Manpang that when the gate of Nancheng was opened, Manpang didn't believe it at all. When it was confirmed, he was stunned, and immediately handed over the task of defending the city to the deputy general, drew his sword and roared, and led his own soldiers to rush to the south of the city.

When he arrived in the south of the city, the Xuzhou soldiers had already entered the city and had taken full control of the urn city and an area of the city tower on the south gate. Man Pang's heart was shocked, he pointed at his long sword, and shouted: "The time has come to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, kill me with me!" ”

After that, Man Pang led his own soldiers to rush up, and fought with the Xuzhou soldiers who were relying on the south city gate tower on the city wall and struggling to advance on both sides.

The soldiers brought by Tian Fan were all infantry. They don't know how to ride, they just ride horses. The long-distance raid in the past few days is a kind of torture for the cavalry officers and soldiers, if it is a test for them. Many of the soldiers' legs were worn out, and many more were sore, and they couldn't talk about how powerful they were. Therefore, Manpang worked hard, and although the Xuzhou army had better weapons, it was still suppressed.

A quarter of an hour later, the Xuzhou army left dozens of corpses, which were compressed to the city gate tower, relying on the city gate tower, and finally stopped the decline.

A commander of the Xuzhou army was helped by two brothers to retreat to the city gate tower, just after bandaging the wounds, he came to the position of the confrontation between the two armies, scanned the corpses all over the long city wall, his eyes were bloody, he roared angrily three times, and shouted: "Brothers, in front is the enemy who killed our brothers!" Rush forward and avenge the dead brethren! ”

Of the 100 brothers he led, only about 30 remained, and he couldn't help but be angry when he thought of the voices and smiles of the brothers who got along day and night. The rest of the soldiers listened to his orders, and one by one they shouted angrily, and prepared to attack.

But at this moment, a small colonel who gave an order rushed over, hugged his fist at the tun chief, and said: "The governor has an order, just hold the city tower, you don't have to attack, so as not to increase casualties!" ”

When the tun chief heard this, he shouted angrily: "Why? ”

The herald's heroic eyebrows frowned, but after looking at the bandages on the commander's body and the injuries on the soldiers beside him, his eyebrows stretched out again. He said, "I have already sent the order of the governor, if you have any questions, you can ask them yourself!" However, I advise you to obey the order, and defy the orders of the superiors, which is enough to kill the head in the army! After seeing the wounds of you and your brothers, I know that many of your brothers must have died at the hands of the enemy, and I am anxious to take revenge. But...... When has the Governor ever failed us? Just wait! ”

After a slight pause, he muttered: "This tun chief, I am also a soldier, and I don't want a soldier like you to die on the battlefield, but under the military law of the governor!" Think again! ”

With that, he turned and walked away. That is, when he saw the thirty or so brothers around the tun chief, as a soldier, he understood the tun chief's thoughts, so he explained a few words. Otherwise, he could have taken down the tun chief immediately.

Downstairs in the city, Pang De, Liyi, and Gao Shun were in the urn city, and Tian Fan was also asking, "Dudu, why?" Why don't you storm the city in one go? When they react, it won't be so easy for us to attack the city! "PS: Thank you for the old turtle in the book friend river dam for the reward, thank you very much.