Early in the morning of the second day, Zhang Xiu left the camp, and the army marched in the direction of Chenliu. Zhang Xiu is also cautious, only chooses the main road, and sends scouts to investigate dangerous places. Three days later, the army finally arrived at the city of Chenliu. Because Sima Yi ordered Jia Kui early in the morning, the fortified wall Qingye outside the city was not worse than that of Zhongmu.

However, this time, Zhang Xiu had already prepared, and the trees that had been cut down outside Zhongmu City before were directly brought in by Chen Liu. In fact, the distance between Zhongmu and Chen Liu is not far, with the elite of Zhang Xiujun, the marching speed will not be so slow than Sima Yi, the reason is naturally to carry these woods.

When he arrived at the city of Dechen, Zhang Xiu immediately asked the soldiers to build a large camp, and at the same time dug a well to get water, and the impact of Sima Yi's strong wall and clearing the wilderness was directly minimized.

Returning to Chen Liucheng for defense, Sima Yi's 100,000 army was reduced to only more than 10,000, and the loss was not particularly large. However, a series of battles made Cao Jun's morale plummet, and even broke the general Sun Guan, giving Sima Yi a headache.

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On the other side, Cao Cao had already ordered an army of 100,000 to leave Linzi, and the army had already passed Jinan and was heading for Yanzhou. This 100,000 army can be regarded as Cao Cao's last family base, and now in Qingzhou, in addition to the necessary more than 10,000 guards in Linzi, the rest of the cities are only more than 1,000 or even hundreds of old and weak soldiers to guard.

In Cao Cao's view, with the support of Yanzhou, Jizhou, Xuzhou and other places, Qingzhou can be regarded as a hinterland and should be worry-free, so he decided to move the capital to Linzi. It's just that in Zhang Xiu's view, Linzi is definitely not a hinterland, on the contrary, it is still the front line.

Let's say that at this time, there are only a few small counties in Donglai County, Qingzhou, and the imperial court will not send people to govern it except for collecting salt every year. If it weren't for the fact that Huang County in Donglai County produced a world-famous general Tai Shici, I am afraid that no one would know such a remote place.

The life of the people of Donglai County is very monotonous, staying at home in the spring for spring ploughing, except for fishing in the summer, harvesting in the autumn and resting in the winter. For hundreds of years, such a dull life has been lived, that is, more than 20 years ago, the Yellow Turban Rebellion disrupted some of the lives of the people of Donglai County. However, the yellow scarves came and went quickly, and the people of Donglai County soon resumed these ordinary days. Due to its proximity to the sea, the people of Donglai County are rarely short of food. And because Huang County has produced a famous general Tai Shici in the world, the people of Donglai County have also changed the situation that they did not care much about the world's major affairs in the past, and send people outside every month to inquire about Tai Shici's news.

In the autumn, the people of Donglai County harvested grain as usual, and the people chatted while harvesting. I only heard one of the farmers say, "Hey, Lao Chen, I heard a few days ago that the Emperor of Huaguo personally went on a crusade to the east. Brother Taishi also led the army back from Huainan. ”

When the farmer named Lao Chen heard this, he was surprised: "Lao Li, what you said is true? In this way, wouldn't the world soon be decided? ”

Lao Li heard this, nodded and said: "This is natural, but I didn't expect that the centuries-old Han family was about to come to an end." I heard that the people in Huaguo are living well, and they don't have to worry about food or clothing, and it seems that we will soon live this life. ”

Lao Chen said with a smile: "We don't have to worry about food and clothing now, but I haven't seen Brother Taishi for more than 20 years, and I still remember when he led us to fight together." I don't want to be a general now. ”

Lao Li heard it and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, don't talk nonsense, the sun is starting to rise, and if you don't hurry up, it's going to be noon." ”

While the two were chatting, a young man rushed from a distance and shouted, "Boat! What a big ship! It's coming by the sea, let's go and see it! ”

When Lao Li heard this, his face changed, and he exclaimed, "There is a boat? It's a bandit, everyone go back quickly and send someone to inform the government! ”

When the people in the field heard this, they took action at the same time, and the young man saw it and said hurriedly: "Don't! Don't go, everyone, it's not a pirate! It's not a pirate! ”

Lao Chen heard this, and asked loudly: "It's not a bandit, who is it?" Where did they come from the big ship? ”

The young man said, "It's the army of China!" The old village chief recognized a few words, and when he saw the word Taishi on the banner, it might be that General Taishi had come home! ”

When Lao Chen heard this, he said excitedly: "What? Big Brother Taishi is back? Folks, go and greet you. "Lao Li is a little strange, I heard that Tai Shici was in Huainan before, how can he be here now. But at this time, he did not care so much, and immediately threw down his hoe and hurried to the beach with the others.

When the people arrived at the beach, they saw dozens of huge warships anchored on the shore, and the ships were full of soldiers. The people who had just arrived were still a little frightened when they saw it, but when they saw the people who had come early gathered around a warship, they all unconsciously approached it.

Lao Chen was extremely excited, squeezed into the crowd, and said loudly: "Brother Taishi is back, can you remember Chen Sheng?" Chen Sheng squeezed forward as he spoke.

However, when Chen Sheng squeezed to the front, he saw the old village chief talking to a young general, and he looked a little similar to Tai Shici. Chen Sheng was stunned for a moment when he saw it, but at this time, the old village chief pulled Chen Sheng to the young general and said, "Yuan Fu, this is your father's brother when he was young, call Uncle Chen." ”

This young general is naturally Tai Shixiang, I saw him nodding his head and said loudly: "Uncle Chen, hello." ”

Chen Sheng heard this, but he was flattered, and hurriedly said: "No need to be polite, no need to be polite." After a pause, he asked again, "By the way, Yuan Fu, how did you get here?" ”

Tai Shi Xiang smiled slightly: "Xiang was ordered by His Majesty to lead the army to cross the sea from Liaodong by boat, in order to attack Qingzhou. Since my father is from Donglai, he came with the army, and our army is not familiar with this place, so I ask you to lead the way for our army. After the deed is accomplished, our General Sun will definitely be rewarded. ”

When the old village chief heard this, he waved his hand and said: "There is no need to reward those rewards, you are Ziyi's son, and Ziyi is following His Majesty Huaguo to fight, and we will do our best when we meet Ziyi." After finishing speaking, he turned around and said, "Chen Sheng, you are familiar with the road to the county seat, so lead the way for Yuanfu and them." ”

Chen Sheng heard it and replied loudly: "Okay! ”

Tai Shixiang heard and gestured to the boat. Sun Ce, who led the troops on the ship, nodded, and asked the soldiers to get off the ship to line up, and he turned his head to Fa Zheng and said, "Mr. let Yuan Fu come with him, and it really saved me a lot of trouble." ”

Fa Zheng nodded and smiled: "Although we all guessed that Cao Cao would lead the army to meet His Majesty, we have not yet fully grasped the situation in Qingzhou, and Bo Fu should not be careless." We will wait and take Huang County first, and then make a decision after gathering good news. ”

Sun Ce nodded and said, "What filial piety says is very true. ”

After finishing speaking, Sun Ce and Fa Zheng also disembarked together, and then Sun Ce let Tai Shixiang be the vanguard and led the army to attack Huang County. This Donglai County was originally a remote place, and although Huang County was the seat of Donglai County, there were not many troops. Taishi enjoyed Chen Sheng's leadership, and easily led the army to Huangxian, and only one charge broke through the city gate. After entering the city, he went straight to the Taishou Mansion, and before the Taishou knew what was happening, he had already captured Huangxian.

After welcoming Sun Ce, Fa Zheng and others into the city, after interrogating the county order, they knew that Cao Cao's army had already passed Jinan. Since there is a new map of Qingzhou in the county, Sun Ce and the others no longer need to know geography. And let Sun Ce and others know a more important news, except for Linzi, where there are more than 10,000 troops in the entire Qingzhou, there are only some old and weak people left in the rest of the cities. After deliberating for a while, Sun Ce decided to take Linzi directly with the army.

Qingzhou's side was raided by Sun Ce's naval army from the sea, and the same was true for Xuzhou's side. Gan Ning led the navy to the sea along the Yangtze River, turned north, and landed at Yandu in Guangling County. In the late Han Dynasty, this Yandu City was still on the seashore, just like the situation in Donglai County, and no one expected that the Chinese naval army would kill from the sea in the east.

In fact, it is not that no one expected that the original Guangling Taishou Chen Deng, when he was in office, deployed considerable troops and guarded personnel in several relatively large cities along the coast. It's just that Chen Deng has been dead for four or five years, and these troops have also been withdrawn to Huainan and Guangling City in the south.

Speaking of which, Chen Deng is also a great talent, assisting Liu Bei in his early years, and his wisdom is superb. However, Chen Deng is a member of the Xuzhou family after all, and he will not abandon his family business to follow Liu Bei like Mi Zhu, and finally naturally stay in Xuzhou and serve Cao Cao as the mainstay. Cao Cao also attached great importance to Chen Deng and made him guard Guangling, before Sun Jian repeatedly crossed the river north to Xuzhou, but was blocked by Chen Deng. Just one Chen Deng is enough to block the Jiangdong army, which can be seen. In desperation, Sun Jian could only place the attack point of the north in Huainan, where he had already obtained the land of Jiangbei.

Chen Deng usually likes to eat raw river fresh, and suffers from a serious illness, if according to history, with Hua Tuo to treat him, he can live for three more years. It's just that Hua Tuo was detained by Zhang Xiu to the west of the Tiger Prison Pass, and Chen Deng naturally couldn't live so long.

On the side of Guangling City, because he still followed Chen Deng's last words and guarded Jiangdong, Gan Ning had no way to start. So he could only make a detour to attack the salt in the rear, and then lead the army to capture Pi.

The Guangling County of Xuzhou did not have many troops, that is, there were many defensive facilities on the side of Guangling City, so after Ganning landed, he completely ignored the Cao army on the side of Guangling City. Accompanying Gan Ning, in addition to the generals, there was also Mi Zhu's younger brother Mi Fang. Let him come with the army, naturally using the Mi family's previous influence in Xuzhou.

It has only been less than ten years since the Mi family left Xuzhou, and the Mi family has taken root in Xuzhou for more than a hundred years. Ten years is not enough time to eliminate all the influence of the Mi family, so when Zhang Xiu made a plan to take Xuzhou, he asked Mi Fang to go to Jiangdong and let him attack Xuzhou with Gan Ning, so as to persuade those families in Xuzhou to surrender.

The two water armies of Qingzhou and Xuzhou are easy to get, and naturally Youzhou is indispensable. After learning that Xiahoudun had withdrawn from the army, Zhao Yun sent Gan Pi to collect some sea ships and sneak them along the coast to the territory of Youbeiping County to let the army land. Then it was to attack Lu Longsai before and after, and Lu Longsai, who was not guarded by a general, broke it in one fell swoop, and Zhao Yun rushed into the pass with 100,000 iron cavalry, looking south to advance.

When Zhao Yun's army marched to Jixian County, he encountered Ma Dai's army, which was preparing to attack Lu Longsai in the north. Seeing that Zhao Yun had already broken Lu Longsai and led the army to kill him, Ma Dai decided to stay and guard Youzhou and Liaodong. After all, the Liaodong side was only decided last year, and the people of Goguryeo, Buyeo and Sanhan still resisted repeatedly, and at this time, almost all the Liaodong army went south, and Zhao Yun was also a little worried that Liaodong would rebel. Arima Dai stayed in the north, and with his cautious character, he should be able to suppress the situation in the northeast.

After that, Zhao Yun and Zhang Quan, Pang Tong, Lu Su and others led the army to continue southward and pursue the cavalry of Xiahou Dun's department. However, as Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu expected, although Huang Zhong, Lu Xun, and Hao Zhao's troops were numerous, they were scattered in Jizhou, and it was difficult to stop Xiahoudun's army from moving south.

Xiahoudun's army entered Bohai County in Jizhou from Youzhou, and from the north of Bohai County to the south, no one could stop him. In particular, the 5,000 tiger and leopard cavalry were fierce, and Huang Zhong's army could not resist them at all. Huang Zhong, who learned of the situation in Bohai County, was naturally furious, and after discussing with Lu Xun and Hao Zhao, Huang Zhong decided to deploy a large army on the north bank of the Yellow River, near the plain city in Qingzhou, to block Xiahoudun. At the same time, he also let Zhao Yun's department accelerate its progress and encircle Xiahoudun's department.

Lu Xun deployed a large army near Pingyuan City, and his calculations were extremely accurate. Now what Xiahoudun has to do is to join Cao Cao's army, and the only place in the lower reaches of the Yellow River that can provide so many large armies to cross the river is here in Qingzhou Plain County. Otherwise, you can only continue westward to Yecheng.

Therefore, if Xiahoudun wants to join Cao Cao in a short time, he must go to Pingyuan County and grab the ferry. Lu Xun saw this and set up an iron barrel defense on the north bank of the Yellow River in Pingyuan County. In addition to the foot soldiers, seventy percent of the sailors who remained in the Yellow River were in the Yellow River in Pingyuan County to intercept the crossing of Xiahoudun's army.

For Xiahoudun, this time it can really be said that there are wolves and tigers in front of him, but although he knows that it is a dead end, Xiahoudun must break through. Otherwise, if you go west and enter the hinterland of Jizhou, you may encounter more calculations. And Xiahoudun knew that although this game was nine deaths, there was still the only chance to live, and what he wanted to bet on was the only chance to live.

Although Cao Cao has not yet received news from various places, looking at the situation in the world, it is obvious that Zhang Xiu has been completely overwhelming. As long as Gan Ning captures Xiapi and captures Xuzhou, then Cao Ren of Shouchun must be withdrawn, otherwise he will be outflanked from front to back. As soon as Cao Ren withdrew, Guan Yu of Xuchang could only retreat, plus Sun Ce's direct attack on the imperial capital Linzi on the Qingzhou side, and Lu Xun's death in the plain. In just half a month, the remaining states and counties of Dahan will be in an emergency.

At this time, Huaxiong of Liangzhou had also led 20,000 Liangzhou iron cavalry and rushed to Chen Liucheng. As soon as Huaxiong's army arrived, Zhang Xiu was even more confident, and with the preparations in the past few days, Zhang Xiu directly ordered to start an onslaught on Chen Liucheng!

[Dedication]