In the winter of the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an, the Sun-Liu Alliance sent troops at the same time, and Cao Wei, who was fighting, was dizzy and at a loss.

But in fact, even Liu Bei didn't expect that this time Jiangdong would actually use Hefei from the north as a suspicious army, launch a surprise attack in winter, which is not suitable for the collapse of the river, and conquer Guangling, which had never been conquered before, in one fell swoop, and quickly open the gap and attack the city in Xuzhou.

Yes, this time, it was not the advance strategy discussed by the Sun-Liu Alliance, it was completely the result of each other's opportunistic actions.

After so many things, the alliance between Sun and Liu is probably only a nominal alliance, and Liu Bei can no longer have any hope for Jiangdong, and this Northern Expedition naturally did not agree to go north with Jiangdong.

Jiangdong's action was entirely the result of Zhou Yu's persuasion of Sun Quan.

After all, the situation is just too good.

Since Guan Yu launched the Battle of Xiangfan and Cao Cao transferred troops from Huainan and Xuzhou to support the Xiangfan battlefield, the number of defenders in Huainan and Xuzhou has not recovered to its peak, and the quality of soldiers has also declined significantly.

Previously, Sun Quan asked Lü Meng to attack Jiangling, although it was unsuccessful, but Lü Meng did not let the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army suffer too many casualties after all, because the recovery was timely, and the elite soldiers were preserved to a certain extent.

Afterwards, he had to cede Jiangxia to Liu Bei as compensation and re-maintain the covenant, but in recent years, Jiangdong's development in Changsha and Guiyang has slowly seen results, and under the bumper grain harvest, Jiangdong's strength has also been restored to a certain extent.

Now that he happened to encounter Liu Bei leading the Northern Expedition, Cao Wei's entire attention was on Yongliang and Nanyang, and the garrisons of Qingxu and Huainan were further weakened.

Therefore, Zhou Yuli Chen Sunquan hoped that Jiangdong would send troops to Huainan and march into Qingxu. Zhou Yu had a feeling that if he couldn't capture Huainan and march into Qingxu in his generation, then the entire Jiangdong would fall into a mentality of self-defense according to the river and completely lose its enterprising spirit.

It's not that Sun Quan doesn't want to send troops, but the problem is that over the years, Jiangdong has attacked everywhere, and the final result is that he was beaten back with a disgraced face, and Sun Quan is indeed a little disheartened.

Especially in Hefei, they have been fought four times, except for the second time when Hefei City was briefly defeated, the remaining three times, even the shadow of Hefei City had to be withdrawn.

Now although Sun Quan doesn't have too much shadow in his heart about Hefei, he always has a strange feeling, as if he can't beat this Hefei at all.

Therefore, Sun Quan was hesitant.

In order to convince Sun Quan, Zhou Yu spent a lot of effort, and at the same time formulated a very excellent plan - feigned Hefei and defeated Guangling.

Zhou Yu can see that he has always failed to make progress over the years, which has somewhat hurt Sun Quan's self-confidence.

Therefore, the most dangerous and at the same time the most difficult "feint attack on Hefei" in this plan, Zhou Yu decided to go out in person, and the opportunity to defeat the river and attack Guangling, which was relatively easy to obtain military achievements, Zhou Yu asked Sun Quan to go out in person.

To be on the safe side, Zhou Yu also asked the veteran Lu Fan and Jiangdong rookie Lu Xun to follow Sun Quan to act together to ensure that nothing went wrong.

To tell the truth, in fact, the most suitable candidate should be Lu Meng, but Lu Meng has always felt ashamed of the king since the failure of the sneak attack on Jingzhou, plus his own health has not been very good, he has been recuperating since returning to Jianye, and he is so sick that he can't even get out of bed in the winter this year, and I don't know if he can survive this winter, let alone lead the troops to fight.

After formulating the plan and persuading Sun Quan, Zhou Yu personally led 30,000 troops, falsely claimed 50,000, and took the clan general Sun Huan as the vanguard, leading Zhu Ran, Sun Shao, Quan Cong, Pan Zhang and others to send troops to Hefei, attracting the attention of the Cao army in the Huainan region, and creating an opportunity for Sun Quan to attack the river.

The result was also very smooth, Sun Quan captured Guangling in a war, and besieged Xiapi in World War II, Lu Xun, Lu Fan and others divided their troops to capture all parts of Xuzhou.

And Zhou Yu's side, relying on the advantage of troops, easily suppressed Jia Kui's Hefei defenders, and was besieging but not attacking, setting traps, waiting to eat the reinforcements that might arrive on Cao Wei's side in one go.

Jia Kui in Hefei City is now quite anxious.

When he accepted Hefei City from Manzhong, there were only more than 5,000 defenders in the city, and he finally recruited and trained a group of recruits, and the total strength did not exceed 8,000 people, which was less than 1,000 more than when Zhang Liao, Le Jin, and Li Dian guarded Hefei.

And the opponent, although there are not so many troops, the leading general is Zhou Yu. This is a famous general who has made Cao Cao, the king of Wei, suffer a big loss.

And Jia Kui can obviously feel that although the Jiangdong Army is attacking Hefei, the offensive is not violent, and it seems that there has been some reservations. This is waiting for its own reinforcements to arrive.

Zhou Yu must have a conspiracy, and this conspiracy must have been aimed at the 50,000 Chinese military reinforcements brought by Cao Xiu.

Jia Kui couldn't guess what Zhou Yu planned to do for the time being, but there must be a conspiracy, so Jia Kui hurriedly wrote to Cao Xiu, who came to help, telling him that he must be careful and not to rush along the way.

But. Jia Kui felt that he was dedicated to the country, but Cao Xiu would not think so.

Cao Xiu, as the "Qianli Horse" of the Cao family recognized by Cao Cao, except for the psychological shadow when he faced Zhao Yun in Changbanpo in his early years, the subsequent battles with the army were smooth, and he was deeply praised by Cao Cao's instrument and the elders of the Cao clan, especially the famous general Cao Ren recognized his ability, which led to the current Cao Xiu really feeling that he was far from being a famous general in the world, and he was just one representative battle away from paving the way.

But Jia Kui is famous for being upright, saying whatever he wants, and not paying attention to any politeness and methods with you at all, reminding Cao Xiu that the words in the letter are also more direct, giving Cao Xiu a feeling that he is teaching him to do things.

And more importantly, Cao Xiu and Jia Kui have always been at odds, and the relationship between the two is extremely poor, which led to Jia Kui's reminder letter on the matter, in Cao Xiu's view, it is a letter that ridicules himself for not being as good as Zhou Yu.

Now Cao Xiu is even more eager to prove himself.

As long as he defeats Zhou Yu and relieves the siege of Hefei, he is fully qualified to be regarded as a famous general.

And at this time, someone from Jiangdong suddenly wrote a letter, claiming to be Lu Cong, the son of Lu Meng, and wanted to surrender to him.

The reason is. Since the sneak attack on Jingzhou failed, Lü Meng was harshly reprimanded by Sun Quan, and all the responsibilities were put on Lü Meng to bear, resulting in Lü being ostracized everywhere in Jiangdong and quite uncomfortable.

Now Lu Meng is critically ill in bed, once Lu Meng dies, the Lu family has no place in Jiangdong at all.

Therefore, for the survival of the Lu family, Lü Cong wanted to surrender to Cao Wei.

This time, Lü Cong went out with Zhou Yu on the expedition, and was willing to serve as Cao Wei's internal response, inform Cao Xiu of the secrets of Zhou Yu's army, help Cao Xiu break the enemy, and only ask that the Lu clan could go to the north to settle down afterwards.

In the face of such a surrender, Cao Xiu said that whoever believes is a fool.

Treat yourself like an idiot, you didn't say it earlier if you wanted to surrender, but you wrote to me at this time?!

Obviously, this is a swindle.

But Cao Xiu still accepted the letter, and sent someone to keep in touch with Lu Cong, Cao Xiu wanted to plan the plan.

Obviously, Zhou Yu wanted to ambush himself with a trick, but Cao Xiu also wanted to take this opportunity to break Zhou Yu's army in one fell swoop, solve the siege of Hefei beautifully, and make a name for himself, so as to defeat Zhou Yu and become a real Cao Wei famous general.

Cao Xiu along the way, while marching, he used Lu Cong as planned, and after leading the troops into Huainan, he did not go to Hefei City at all, but directly chose to meet with Lu Cong.

After the two sides met, Lu Cong told Cao Xiu about the current march of Zhou Yu's army, especially to inform Cao Xiu of the Jiangdong army's grain and grass hoarding, hoping that Cao Xiu could break through Zhou Yu's army's grain and grass hoarding, as long as there is no grain and grass, Zhou Yu will inevitably withdraw from the army, and when Cao Xiu takes advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, he will definitely be a great success.

Cao Xiu ostensibly agreed, and immediately made combat arrangements after sending Lu Cong away.

First, send an army to pretend to go to Lu Cong's so-called grain storage to attack, and the other armies will divide into three routes, outflank in a roundabout way, and wait for Zhou Yu to ambush the grain robbery team, and then give Zhou Yu a counter-encirclement.

This is Cao Xiu's plan.

But the problem is that Cao Xiu is still too tender after all.

If Zhou Yu can only use such a superficial deception scheme, then is he still Zhou Yu?!

Cao Xiu's grain robbery team was indeed ambushed by Zhou Yu's army, and "Zhou Yu" was indeed "caught off guard" by Cao Xiu's counter-encirclement, desperately breaking through the encirclement and quickly retreating.

Cao Xiu saw that "Zhou Yu" broke through and retreated, of course he refused to let it go, this was the time when he made an immortal achievement, and naturally led the army to chase after him.

Cao Xiu wanted to make meritorious service too much, and wanted to defeat or even capture Zhou Yu alive to prove himself, and when it was judged that "Zhou Yu" was defeated, he led the army to pursue quickly, not only chasing the front army himself, but also letting his army in the process of pursuit, the battle line became longer and longer, and finally there was a disconnect between the front and back.

And Cao Xiu, who didn't know anything about it, was still desperately chasing "Zhou Yu" until he reached a place where Cao Xiu was destined.

Stone Pavilion.

Here, the real Zhou Yu appeared, taking advantage of the disconnection between Cao Xiu's army and the front and back, and sent Zhu Ran to easily cut off the connection between Cao Xiu and the rear army, causing a local fight in Shiting, and besieging Cao Xiu's front army of 7,000 people with more than 20,000 Jiangdong soldiers.

Cao Xiu was beaten, it was called a miserable.

At the same time, Jia Kui, who learned that Cao Xiu was besieged in Hefei City, also fell into a dilemma.

Do you want to save Cao Xiu?!

Go ahead, you have such a few people in your hands, once you go to rescue Cao Xiu, then Hefei City is estimated to be unable to be saved.

But don't go, Cao Xiu is surrounded like a bucket, restricted by the terrain of the stone pavilion, it is not easy for Cao Xiu to run out by his own ability, if Cao Xiu is captured or killed by Jiangdong, then he Jia Kui must also have a joint responsibility.

Jia Kui is so worried

(End of chapter)