Just when Zhao Taifu and Zhao were busy carrying out his "western development" in Dunhuang City, on the battlefield of Xuzhou, which was directly east of the Han Dynasty, the newly appointed commander of the Dragoon Army, Li Tiezhu, was about to break the anger of Zhang Xun and Ji Ling and others.

As the saying goes: a quick knife does not hurt when cutting numbness, and a blunt knife cuts flesh and hurts to break the intestines. Zhang Xun, who was besieged more than 30 miles west of Huailing, had been suffering here for three months. Until now, Zhang Xun has not been able to see Ji Ling, who came to the rescue, he has been sad and desperate to the extreme, and even sent out several messengers who took the initiative to beg for surrender to the Jin army on the opposite side.

However, what made Zhang Xun feel even more desperate was that Li Tiezhu, the new commander on the other side, was not a fucking thing than Zhang Liao, who had besieged him. That kid actually said that let the brothers hold on for a while longer and then surrender collectively, if there is really no food and grass, the dragoons can provide some in friendship. Nima, who didn't even take the initiative to surrender, was not promised, how can people live this day!

Zhang Xun thought that he was very hard, but in fact he didn't know that Ji Ling was even more bitter than him. According to Yuan Shu's instructions, Ji Ling led 20,000 infantry to meet the fleeing Zhang Xun, thinking that he could take the opportunity to destroy the bold 2,000 Flying Tiger Army, but he found himself kicked on the iron plate. The encirclement of Zhang Xun was as simple as two thousand Flying Tiger Army, but fifteen thousand dragoons, plus five thousand Flying Tiger Army.

Ji Ling had not fought with the troops of the Jin Kingdom once or twice, and there was no time in his memory that it had not ended in the defeat of Yuan Shu's troops. Sometimes, even if his own forces are superior, the balance of victory in the end still tilts to the side of the Jin State, not to mention that this time he has to face the elite of the 20,000 Jin State troops.

As soon as Ji Ling saw that Zhang Liao and Li Tiezhu were deliberately using Zhang Xun's remnants as bait, waiting for him to lead his army to take the bait, he immediately turned around and prepared to run away, but unfortunately the Flying Tiger Army had blocked their way. Although the Flying Tiger Army that blocked the way was only 2,000 cavalry at that time, these 2,000 cavalry made Ji Ling's dream of retreating westward to Yangzhou come to naught.

The tactics of the Flying Tiger Army are too slippery and changeable, and they have brought their guerrilla tactics into full play, and with only 2,000 cavalry, Ji Ling has the feeling that a tiger eats the sky and cannot claw. Ji Ling only hesitated slightly, and the dragoons who came up from behind were completely mixed with his 20,000 infantry, and as a result, Ji Ling could no longer play any escape moves within the "golden cicada shell".

Several frontal charges were launched, Ji Ling's troops were beaten by the dragoons, and even he himself was not Zhang Liao's opponent, and he almost died under the Yellow Dragon Hook and Sickle. Later, after Zhang Liao was promoted to the commander of the Xuzhou Army and gave up his position to the junior general Li Tiezhu, Ji Ling's opportunity to break through in the future finally came.

As a result, he was a little desperate to find that this little guy who had been entangled with him for months was even more "shameless" than Zhang Liao, and more cunning and cunning.

The dragoon army under the command of Li Tiezhu never had a head-on duel with Ji Ling's troops, but they liked to do some things like to steal chickens and dogs, looking for opportunities to arrest Ji Ling's hundreds of soldiers today, and looking for opportunities to encourage Ji Ling's soldiers to rebel tomorrow. After tossing for a period of time, the 20,000 troops that Ji Ling originally brought are now less than 10,000 left, and there is a danger that the entire army will be wiped out.

Why did Li Tiezhu not allow Zhang Xun's nearly 5,000 men to surrender? That was because he wanted to take this opportunity to train the 7,000 Danyang soldiers who had already surrendered, and at the same time, to let these soldiers completely draw a line of separation from Yangzhou.

Why didn't Li Tiezhu think of a way to quickly solve the remaining 10,000 people of Ji Ling's department by thunderous means? That was because he wanted to use Ji Ling as bait to fool Yuan Shu into sending troops to rescue again, and then capture more high-quality Danyang infantry for the Jin State.

Although the Xuzhou Legion only had 30,000 dragoons and 30,000 Qinghuai troops, and now he had captured more than 17,000 prisoners, Li Tiezhu felt that this was not enough.

The lord Zhao Xing taught him since he was a child, saying that no matter how he is a person or a worker, he must have a sense of the overall situation, and he must not only care about the immediate interests in front of his own house. As Zhao Xing's most loyal and reliable follower, Li Tiezhu is now the main general of a large army, so his vision is no longer comparable to that of the past.

Li Tiezhu knew that the lord was about to use troops against the Liaodong region, and in the future, he would occupy Sanhan, Buyeo, Louyi, and even Wuying on the other side of the sea. Li Tiezhu felt excited and supportive of this huge plan from the bottom of his heart, but he also clearly saw that the current military resources of the Jin State could no longer withstand the military strength required after extreme expansion.

In order to occupy a territory permanently and completely, it is necessary to have loyal and reliable troops stationed there. The demobilization of the northeast is vast, and the Diao people in the land of Sanhan and the Uying are even more unruly, which requires the Jin state to send at least 100,000 troops to garrison it in order to ensure the long-term occupation of these places in the future.

Therefore, Li Tiezhu was bent on fulfilling Yuan Shu's reputation as the "captain of the transportation brigade", and planned to suck up Yangzhou's troops step by step on the battlefield in Xuzhou, and then turn around and send these soldiers to Qingzhou Gaoshun's command for short-term training. In less than half a year, these Danyang soldiers, who originally had good quality, could be trained by Gao Shun, a master of military training, and then take the big ship of the Jin Navy Division, cross the Bohai Sea, land in Sanhan, and plant the banner of the Jin army on the land of the peninsula.

What made Li Tiezhu feel depressed was that Ji Ling had been besieged for more than a month, and he also quietly let go of several messengers who had asked Yuan Shu for help, but Yuan Shu had never sent any reinforcements until now.

In fact, what Li Tiezhu didn't know was that although Yuan Shu was a straw bag, he now had a wise and resourceful scribe under him who was assisting Yuan Yao, as long as this strategist was still by Yuan Yao's side, Yuan Shu would become smarter, and there was still some distance to be truly destroyed and destroyed.

The person who can delay the defeat of Yuan Shu is naturally Zhuge Liang's brother Zhuge Jin.

The Zhuge family is really talented, and now Wolong's reputation is quite loud in Luoyang City, but this does not prevent Wolong's brother Zhuge Jin from making real achievements in Yangzhou.

When Zhuge Jin also sent Zhang Xun to Xuzhou to grab territory, Zhuge Jin dissuaded Yuan Shu and advised Zhang Xun not to besiege Picheng easily. Because in his opinion, when a pack of wolves snatches meat from the tiger's mouth to eat, as long as the tiger stares at a wolf and does not let go, then the wolf's fate will be very miserable. Unfortunately, Zhao Xing, who had a deep grudge against the Yuan family, really ordered his subordinates to bite Yuan Shu to death.

When the angry Yuan Shu sent Ji Ling to rescue Zhang Xun again, Zhuge Jin still ignored Yuan Shu's black face at that time, and still tried his best to dissuade him from sending troops to the rescue, and not to fall for the ambush plan of the Jin army. As a result, Yuan Shu kept dissuading, and buried another 20,000 soldiers in vain.

Yuan Shu, who had already lost 40,000 soldiers, now has no more than 30,000 real available soldiers. Yuan Shu, who realized that the situation was not good, no longer dared to joke with his net worth, so he listened to Zhuge Jin's advice.