In August of the twentieth year of Jian'an, Sun Quan officially attacked Hefei.

At this time, the situation in the world is completely different from that in history.

In history, Cao Cao conquered Guanzhong, defeated Han Sui Ma Chao, and marched south to Zhang Lu.

Zhang Lu surrendered, Cao Cao got Hanzhong, and coerced Bashu.

At that time, Liu Bei had just obtained Shuzhong, and his rule was far from stable.

Therefore, in order to put pressure on Cao Cao's eastern front, he negotiated with Sun Quan to return part of the territory of Jingzhou to Sun Quan in exchange for Sun Quan's troops.

At that time, the two sides agreed that the west of the Xiangjiang River would belong to Guan Yu, and the east of the Xiangjiang River would belong to Sun Quan, and the two would rule by dividing the river.

Sun Quan got the benefits, and Cao Cao Huainan is indeed empty, 100,000 against 7,000, the advantage is in me, how can there be any reason not to send troops?

So he chose to send troops to attack outside the city of Hefei and achieve Zhang Liao's reputation through the ages.

And today is very different.

Liu Bei held the complete Jingyi in his hands, and dared to send troops to Guanzhong to stifle Cao Cao's development momentum.

At this time, Han Sui Ma Chao had a heart of separation, and he was also afraid that Liu Bei would come to seize their territory, so he chose to face Cao Cao alone.

As a result, the two were defeated, fled to Xiliang to survive, and were forced to form an alliance with Liu Bei, leading Liu Bei's army into the pass to hold Cao's army.

Although Liu Bei mobilized some Jingzhou soldiers and horses into Xichuan, he only took about 30,000 horses with him.

Among them, Liu Pan's army went north to Jiangling, and each county of the five counties of Jingnan left some county soldiers to defend, and 50,000 Jiangxia sailors and more than 10,000 Zhao Yunbu still guarded Jiangxia Xiling.

Shen Chen's 80,000 Nanyang army was led by Wen Ping, Lü Chang and others, and about 50,000 people were stationed in the Yecheng and Wancheng areas, and Cao Cao's about 100,000 horses in the Yingchuan and Runan areas confronted each other.

More than 10,000 county soldiers were scattered in Zhangling South County and other places, and Shen Chen himself led 20,000 people to Kou Liuwuguan.

Because the soldiers and horses that Liu Bei took away were the soldiers and horses of the original Nanjun, Liu Pan wanted to go to guard the Jiangling area to make up for the lack of defense in the Nanjun.

Since then, of the 200,000 troops in Jingzhou, only the strength of Jingnan has been transferred, and the main forces of Nanyang County and Jiangxia Navy are still there.

It's just that due to the small number of main forces in Jingzhou, and the lack of soldiers and horses in Yizhou, coupled with the long way from Bashu to Hanzhong to Guanzhong, the road is difficult, people pull horses, the time is slow, the consumption is large, and the logistics pressure is great.

This led to the fact that in the direction of Guanzhong, Liu Bei could call on no more than the original 50,000 soldiers and horses in Hanzhong, which was far from Cao Cao's opponent.

And Sun Quan's side had already learned the news, knowing that Liu Bei only sent 50,000 Guan Yu's army out of Baoxie Valley to be stationed in Wuzhangyuan, and was pressed and beaten by Cao's army.

Then why didn't Liu Bei send more troops over?

It's not that I'm afraid of myself.

Therefore, Sun Quan knew that if he did not send troops, Liu Bei would most likely choose to maintain the status quo and sit back and watch Han Sui and Ma Chao be defeated and Cao Cao get Guanzhong Xiliang.

After all, Jingzhou is his foundation, and if Sun Quan makes a sneak attack in the rear while his main force is dispatched, it will not be good.

So in this kind of half-coercion and half-submission, Sun Quan was forced to choose to attack Huainan in order to win Liu Bei's trust.

This was his last chance.

So the huge Huainan, you have to attack there to take the whole Huainan as your own?

Hefei has become the only option.

Although Huainan is a vast plain area, it is also possible to travel by land.

But Jiangdong was stronger than the navy army, and the infantry and cavalry were weaker, so it was not wise to fight the Cao army on the plain.

In addition to this, there are logistical considerations.

At that time, Cao Cao's method in Huainan was to clear the wilderness and move all the people north of the Yangtze River and south of the Huai River, creating an area of more than 100,000 square kilometers of no man's land.

If Sun Quan chooses to take the land route, bypassing Hefei, and attacking the hinterland of Cao Cao in Henan, the lengthy supply lines, coupled with the attack and harassment of the defenders of Hefei in the rear, cannot plunder the people to replenish supplies, he will fall into a great bitter battle.

At that time, if he is attacked by Cao's army in Henan, the victory rate will not be high.

So he only had one path to choose.

That is, it enters Chaohu Lake through the water of Weixu, and after taking Hefei, it enters the Huaihe River basin by applying water, fertilizing water, and Shouchun.

In this way, the cost of transporting grain and grass was greatly reduced, and because the ship transportation could be carried day and night, the mobility was greatly improved, which was far stronger than taking the land route.

The only problem is that Hefei is stuck on the road of this transportation line, like a pass in the Qinling Mountains.

But even if this pass is difficult to beat, Sun Quan has to bite the bullet.

What's more, now Sun Quan must press his troops up, so that Liu Bei thinks that he has no soldiers and horses to attack Jingzhou again, so he has to make a big fanfare, and the army of 100,000 is mighty and mighty, surround the three layers of Hefei and the outer three layers.

So in this case, Sun Quan sent troops.

On August 3, Sun Quan personally led the army to the north along the Misu waterway, the fleet covered the sky and the sun, crowded the wide waterway, the front army and the rear army stretched for dozens of miles, the sails covered the sky and the sun, known as 100,000, crossed Chaohu Lake, and went straight to Hefei.

The weather on this day is gloomy, Hefei City is located on the northwest shore of Chaohu Lake, stuck in the mouth of the river channel where Chaohu Lake enters the water, the towering city is tall, and the Cao army in the city patrols the city defense in an orderly manner.

As the front line of Huainan, Hefei's location in the field is extremely important. Although Cao Cao did not deploy heavy troops here, he naturally had his considerations.

The first is logistics.

Now Cao Cao's logistical pressure is also very high.

On the Nanyang front, Shen Chen, the god of Jingzhou soldiers, was eyeing him, and he had no choice but to lay out heavy troops.

There are many soldiers and horses, people eat horses and chew, and the daily consumption of grain and grass is tens of thousands of stones, and the cost of transporting grain and grass from the rear is too much.

Therefore, it is necessary for the local people to cultivate and feed the army's food and grass materials.

And Cao Cao couldn't move the people of Yingchuan Runan, first, he had a close relationship with the Yingchuan family, and he couldn't touch the basic plate of the Yingchuan family.

The second is that there is nowhere to go after relocation, since he compromised with the Yanzhou family, the Yanzhou family has been guarding against the Yingchuan family and not allowing the Yingchuan faction to enter Yanzhou.

Therefore, at present, the status quo can only be maintained, and a lot of manpower and material resources are spent every day to resist Shen Chen. Even most of the soldiers and horses here have to be cultivated, which is half a field and half a frontier, for the south.

After the people of Huainan moved to Henan, more than 100,000 square kilometers of Huainan have become a deserted wilderness, if there are too many soldiers and horses arranged on the front line in Huainan, a large number of grain and grass will be escorted from the rear every day, and the long journey will cost a lot.

Therefore, only 7,000 people were placed in Hefei, and enough grain and grass were placed in the city.

As long as these 7,000 people can hold off the enemy for a month or two, the army of Yecheng Chendu can come to the aid at any time, thus saving a lot of manpower and material resources.

Secondly, Cao Cao really has no extra troops.

Youzhou in the north should be guarded, the base camp of Yecheng, the residence of the emperor of Chendu, and the front line of the confrontation between Henan and Nanyang should be heavily defended.

Therefore, by the time he took the main force to Koluo Pass, he had no other soldiers and horses.

But on the whole, Cao Cao's arrangement is still very powerful.

He calculated that Sun Quan could only fight Hefei, so he sent Zhang Liao Li Dian to garrison in Hefei, as long as Zhang Liao Li Dian could hold on for a month, enough reinforcements from the rear would come.

And Sun Quan naturally knew this, so he also planned to take Hefei immediately.

In this way, Cao Cao had nothing to do in Guanzhong, so he could win Liu Bei's trust while calmly writing a letter to Cao Cao to discuss peace, currying favor with both sides, in preparation for a sneak attack on Jingzhou in the future.

At this moment, the autumn wind was bleak, and Chaohu Lake was rippling and clear, and Cao Jun, who was stationed on the shore of the lake, had already noticed the mighty boats on the lake and hurriedly went back to warn.

In the city of Hefei, the general Zhang Liao, the general Li Dian and the protector Xue Yi led 7,000 people to defend the town, and when they learned of the arrival of Sun Quan's army, Zhang Liao, Li Dian, Xue Yi and others hurriedly held a meeting to discuss.

Zhang Liao and Li Dian have always been incompatible, the two are actually equals, no one can help anyone, and they don't obey each other's orders.

Therefore, in order to prevent the two from delaying the military plane due to infighting, Cao Cao specially left the protector Xue Yi to reconcile with him, and before leaving, he also left a letter to him, asking him to open it when Sun Quan attacked.

After Xue Yi arrived at the mansion, he sat on the main seat and waited for Zhang Liao and Li Dian to come over.

Don't look at Zhang Liao and Li Dian are all generals, but Xue Yi's full official title is called the Central Protector Army Overseer, and when Cao Cao was in the twelfth year of Jian'an, he placed the Central Protector Army Overseer and was the commander of the generals.

For example, Zhao Yan, the protector of the army, once commanded Tai Ban, Zhang Liao, Zhang He, Zhu Ling, Li Dian, Lu Zhao, Feng Kai and other seven-way soldiers and horses.

Later, Cao Zhen, Sima Shi and others all did this position.

After Cao Wei's Jiupin Zhongzheng, this official was the fourth rank, and Zhang Liao Li Dian's general position was the fifth rank.

Including when Cao Cao went to conquer Zhang Lu in history, he also handed over the secret letter to Xue Yi, instead of Zhang Liao, Li Dian, and Le Jin.

Therefore, although Xue Yi is not as famous as Zhang Lile and the three in history, he is actually the boss of the three, and he is currently guarding the city of Hefei as the chief general of the army.

After a while, Zhang Liao and Li Dian came in and said, "Protector." ”

"Two generals, please be seated."

Xue Yi stretched out his hand and motioned for them to sit down.

"Thank you."

The two didn't bother to look at each other, and each sat down to the left and right of Xue Yi.

Xue Yi looked around at the two and said: "Two generals, just now the scouts in front have come to report that Sun Quan has led the army to Shikou, and is about to board the ship and dock, enter Hefei, and it is expected that they will be able to reach the city tomorrow." ”

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"Oh?"

Li Dian said in a deep voice: "Then you should immediately send someone to send a letter to Shouchun for help." ”

"There's no hurry."

Xue Yi waved his hand, took out a letter from his arms, and said to the two: "Before the prime minister left Huainan, he had already left a letter, saying that if Sun Quan came to attack, he would open it and ask the two of you to come over." ”

Zhang Liao and Li Dian approached Xue Yi's table, Xue Yi opened the envelope, opened the letter, and saw Cao Cao's handwritten message on it.

"If Sun Quan arrives, General Zhang will fight; General Li defended, and the guards did not have to fight. ”

"Fighting?"

Li Dian was stunned: "Do you still want to go out of the city to fight Sun Quan?" ”

"Hmph."

Zhang Liao snorted coldly: "Since it is the prime minister's order, it must have its meaning." If you are afraid, stay in the city and wait. ”

Li Dian glanced at him and didn't make a sound.

Xue Yi hesitated and said: "It's just that Sun Quan claims to be 100,000, and he is menacing, and he will not be able to win when he goes out of the city to fight." ”

"The prime minister is on an expedition, and by the time the prime minister's reinforcements arrive, Sun Quan has already conquered us."

Zhang Liao said: "It was the prime minister who asked us to go out of the city to fight with Sun Quan's army when it was not yet assembled, to severely reduce their spirit, and also to settle the army's heart, so that Hefei can hold on, and the opportunity for success or failure is to fight here." ”

Xue Yi muttered: "The general's words are reasonable, the prime minister has always been like a god, with this arrangement, he knows that this is the way to deal with it, how many men and horses does the general need to go out of the city to fight with Sun Quan?" ”

Zhang Liao thought for a while and said, "I will select eight hundred warriors tonight, and when Sun Quan comes tomorrow, I will open the city gate and go out of the city to fight Sun Quan to the death." ”

"Eight hundred?"

Xue Yi was shocked: "Is this enough?" ”

"That's enough!"

Zhang Liao said loudly.

"Okay."

Xue Yi responded: "Just rely on General Zhang." ”

At the moment, the three of them have their own division of labor.

Xue Yi sent people to prepare beef and wine, Li Dian went to the city to inspect, and Zhang Liao selected the dead.

Eight hundred dead soldiers arrived at night, and Zhang Liao gave them wine and meat, preparing to fight Sun Quan the next day.

At the same time, Sun Quan also arrived in Hefei.

Hefei is not on the shore of Chaohu Lake, but on the right bank of the Shishui River in the north of Chaohu Lake, Xiaoyaojin is on the south bank of Shishui, and the north is the city.

The estuary of Shishui is very small, and the water is relatively shallow, and large ships cannot cross it, so he can only stop and land at the mouth of Chaohu Lake and Shishui, that is, Shikou.

According to Sun Quan's assumption, after the army disembarked and broke through Hefei, he would be able to use Shi Shui to transport grain and grass into Feishui in small boats, and then move directly to Shouchun by waterway, and then threaten Huainan.

When Liu Bei saw that he had sent troops and transferred Jingzhou's troops to Guanzhong, he could withdraw his troops and prepare to attack Jingzhou.

It's just that everything is difficult at the beginning, and Hefei is the first step of his Great Wall.

It's the day.

Sun Quan's army stopped at Shikou, and then disembarked and went north to Hefei outside the city, less than ten miles away from Hefei, the left side of the army is Shishui Xiaoyaojin Ferry, and due north is Hefei City.

After staying outside the city for the night, in the early morning of the second day, when it was just dawn, Sun Quan gave the order for the army to go north and surround Hefei.

The 100,000-strong army, led by generals at all levels, began to orderly reorganize the troops and horses, arrange the formation, and go all the way to the north.

Sun Quan rode on horseback, and he had only 3,000 guards by his side, led by Chen Wu, known as the "Lujiang Shangjia", and was the most elite army in Jiangdong.

Behind Sun Quan was the front army, led by Song Qian, Xu Sheng, Pan Zhang, He Qi, Lü Meng, and Ling Tong, who followed him.

There are more than 30,000 people in the front army of the Jiangdong Army, 50,000 in the Chinese army, and 20,000 in the rear army to guard the camp.

Sun Quanzhi proudly looked at the city of Hefei in the distance, and when he got closer, he turned over and dismounted, and under the protection of the guards, he swaggered to the city of Hefei.

Chen Wu, the commander of the guards beside him, hurriedly persuaded him: "Marquis Wu's noble body, how can he risk his life, please retreat to the front army." ”

Sun Quan waved his hand and said: "It's okay, there are 100,000 troops in the rear of Lone, and I don't dare to come out to fight in the city, so I will wait here to watch the enemy's situation, and when the rear army arrives, I will attack the city." ”

Chen Wu looked left and right, and saw that there was a small high slope outside the city two miles away from the city, so he said: "Wu Hou can go to that high slope to observe the enemy's situation. ”

Sun Quan glanced at the small high slope, two miles is eight hundred meters, a little far, and then turned his head and saw that there was also a small high slope less than half a mile away from the city, that is, two hundred meters, which was not only close, but also higher, so he said: "Go there." ”

"This ....."

Chen Wu was in trouble for a while, but Sun Quan's order could not be disobeyed, so he had to take the Jiangdong Army outpost to that side.

Their position at this time was less than a mile away from Hefei City, and the rear front army was still some distance from them, but Sun Quan thought to himself that the people in the city would not dare to come out even if they ate the leopard's gall, so they were very rampant and swaggered to the city.

In Hefei City, Zhang Liao and eight hundred warriors were already waiting at the gate of the city, Xue Yi and Li Dian were watching above, Li Dian saw that Sun Quan was already less than a mile, so he said: "Protector, can you go to war?" ”

Xue Yi saw that Sun Quan was actually approaching the city with only three thousand guards, and he was still walking here, and the target seemed to be the small high slope outside the city, so he said: "Sun Quan seems to be going to that high ground to watch our situation, this guy is really bold, wait for him to get closer." ”

Li Dian stared intently at Sun Quan's army, watching the banner representing Sun Quan slowly move closer to the small high slope outside the city, and suddenly said in surprise: "He really dares to come." ”

Sun Quan has always been like this, the prime minister attacked Huainan last year, Sun Quan personally drove the boat to Dongxingti outside the prime minister's military camp to check, Cheng was quite suspicious of fraud, did not send troops, just ordered the army to shoot arrows, but Sun Quan just ordered the ship to turn around, so that "the arrows are even", calmly left. ”

Xue Yi said: "The prime minister also said that giving birth to a son should be like Sun Zhongmou, and you also know about it." ”

Li Dian said in surprise: "Sun Quan's father is known as Jiangdong Menghu, and his brother Sun Ce is the little overlord of Jiangdong. ”

"He doesn't know how to do martial arts, so he just let General Zhang try it."

Xue Yi saw that Sun Quan was already close to the small high slope, and it was less than two hundred meters away from the city, so he resolutely turned around and said: "Order, open the city gate, and go out of the city to face the battle." ”

"It's all of it."

A sharp whistle sounded.

Immediately after that, the crunching gates were opened.

In the distance, Sun Quan was preparing to climb the small high slope, and the Janissaries of the "Lujiang Shangjia" were still lining up to enclose the small high slope.

As a result, they saw the gate of the city suddenly open in the distance, and in wonder, a man with a halberd in armor and stomach roared like a wolf, and rushed in their direction.

Sun Quan himself was stunned, standing in place for several seconds without reacting, and the Praetorian Guards around him were the same, staring blankly at the enemy.

As a result, just a few seconds later, Chen Wu shouted, and the soldiers woke up like a dream and began to line up in the whole team.

But by this time it was too late.

The first is the temporary formation, which makes the soldiers who have not had time to form a team extremely confused.

The second is that they are too close to the city, although they are outside the range of bows and arrows, but at a distance of 200 meters, they ran in about 20 seconds, and they didn't have time to react.

At the front of the line was Zhang Liao.

saw Zhang Liao taking the lead, and roared angrily: "Yanmen Zhang Wenyuan is here, who dares to fight me to the death!" ”

As he spoke, he rushed into Sun Quan's guard formation, slashing left and right with his halberd, killing several people in an instant, and the surrounding Sun Quan's guards were taken by his momentum, and they were defeated and retreated.

At this time, eight hundred warriors in his rear arrived, forming an armor-breaking awl formation, and Zhang Liao stabbed into the formation of the Jiangdong Army like a cone, so that the formation of the Jiangdong Army that was about to be assembled was disrupted again, and the soldiers were in a mess.

"Kill!"

"Fight to the death with General Zhang!"

"Death to me!"

Eight hundred warriors shouted slogans and fought hard.

Zhang Liao was even more brave and unstoppable, swung left and right, killed dozens of people, and beheaded a general, caught a glimpse of Sun Quan's handsome flag not far away in the chaotic battle, and shouted angrily: "Soldiers, Sun Quan is there, rush over with me, and capture Sun Quan's child alive!" ”

Not far away, Sun Quan panicked, looked left and right, and ran to the small hill behind him in a panic. The attendants around him also hurriedly followed him to the hillside and guarded him with a halberd.

"Sun Quan ran up that hill."

"Capture Sun Quan'er alive!"

"Kill!"

Cao Jun was magnificent, and continued to follow Zhang Liaomeng to the bottom of the hill.

At this time, because Sun Quan's guards stopped him with a halberd, Zhang Liao couldn't kill him for a while, so he shouted at the bottom of the mountain: "Sun Quan'er, I x your mother's, you give me down." ”

At this time, if Sun Ce was still there, he would definitely go down single-handedly to fight Zhang Liao to the death, but it was Sun Quan who was on the hillside.

Sun Quan's face was pale, looking at the situation under the mountain, he didn't say a word, and his back was covered with sweat.

I guess I'm thinking, "Ye won't go down!" ”

The surrounding Jiangdong army was defeated like a mountain, and there were Wu troops running around everywhere.

"Sun Quan Xiaoer, you are a rhizome, a gallless rat, and you have planted it to fight with me."

Zhang Liao is still provocative.

Sun Quan was still silent, and he still said in his heart, "Master won't go down." ”

Zhang Liao saw that Sun Quan couldn't come down, so he roared angrily: "Soldiers, follow me to rush up and kill Sun Quan, capture Sun Quan alive, and the prime minister will be rewarded." ”

"Ho ho!"

The momentum of the eight hundred warriors was even more magnificent, and they began to rush with Zhang Liao.

Sun Quan's elite "Lujiang Shangjia" was already in a mess, and not far behind Sun Quan were Song Qian and Xu Shengbu, and the two hurriedly led the people of the headquarters to come to the rescue.

As a result, the situation on the battlefield was so chaotic that their army had just approached, but was scattered by their own people.

Zhang Liao continued to lead the soldiers to slash and kill at the bottom of the mountain, Song Qian and Xu Sheng were wounded and defeated in the chaotic army, and Chen Wu, who was guarding Sun Quan's side, saw that Zhang Liao was unstoppable and was about to rush up the mountain, so he hurriedly led the guards down the mountain to stop him.

The two sides fought, fought to the death, and finally Zhang Liao beheaded Chen Wu, so that the Cao army was more imposing, constantly provoking at the foot of the mountain, and the surrounding Jiangdong army and the "Lujiang Shangjia" fled in confusion and became a mess.

Due to the support of Song Qian and Xu Shengbu, the number of Jiangdong troops in front at this time actually reached nearly 10,000, but the guards were scattered, causing the rear to be reversed and crushed, so that Zhang Liao's 800 people were in an offensive state from beginning to end, and many of them were pressed and beaten.

Pan Zhang saw the chaos in front and a large number of Wu troops fleeing, so he hurriedly rushed over and killed some of the defeated deserters, stopped the remaining men, reorganized the team, and moved closer to the direction of the battlefield.

At this time, the two sides had been fighting for more than an hour since early morning, and it was close to noon, and the battlefield was in chaos, and the Jiangdong Army was scattered and fleeing everywhere.

It's not that the Wu army can't beat Zhang Liao's eight hundred, but after they are broken up in formation, people crowd, rush, and oppress, causing the front to run to the back, and the back can't pass, which is far inferior to Zhang Liao's formation.

But the good news is that there are too many Wu soldiers, Zhang Liao can't cut them down, and he has never had a chance to rush to the small hillside.

He couldn't rush up and kill, so he had to keep roaring at the bottom of the mountain, hoping that Sun Quan would come down and die by himself. It's a pity that even when you say something like your mother, Sun Quan doesn't come down, and he can't help it.

After a while, Pan Zhang and He Qi gradually gathered the outer Wu army, and then slowly adjusted the formation to surround Zhang Liao.

Xue Yi Li Dian, who was far away in Hefei City, saw this scene and immediately ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

Zhang Liao kept rushing back and forth in the crowd, surrounded by surging heads, densely packed and countless, naturally he didn't know what was going on outside.

But when he heard the jingling sound, he immediately knew that the Wu army was going to surround him, so he hurriedly took dozens of people around him, turned around and slashed for a while, killed a bloody way, and rushed out of the encirclement.

"The general abandoned me?"

At this moment, the shouts of eight hundred warriors came from the encirclement of the Wu army behind him.

Due to the increasing number of soldiers in Jiangdong, Zhang Liao's initial formation was also divided, and there were only dozens of people around him, and he thought that everyone else had died in battle.

Unexpectedly, there were still hundreds of people in the encirclement who had not been killed, Zhang Liao did not hesitate at all, and shouted: "How can you give up your hands and feet." ”

Immediately, he led dozens of people to rush into the formation again, rescued hundreds of Cao troops, and ran back to Hefei City.

It was only at this time that Lü Menglingtong and other front troops finally arrived.

It took a long time for the 30,000 Jiangdong front army to reorganize their ranks, and then protected Sun Quan and retreated like a tide.

And Cao Jun in the city suddenly burst into violent cheers, as if he was laughing at Sun Quan's embarrassment, and Cao Jun's momentum also skyrocketed because of this.