Guan Yu was unable to support Nanyang, and Liu Bei's siege of Shangyong was also blocked, looking at the Shangyong City that was strengthened in order to consolidate the security of Hanzhong and connect Xiangfan and Nanyang, Liu Bei smiled bitterly in his heart, he had become a tester, and the price he paid was a bit big.

Xiahou Shang led 8,000 troops to defend, Liu Bei used siege equipment to attack, but he couldn't attack, and it was useless to attack the heart. can only be stuck under the city.

Xiahou Shang was determined not to leave the city, Liu Bei had no choice but to keep attacking, so deadlocked.

In the stalemate, Xiahou Shang learned that someone in the city contacted the wealthy merchants and scholars, and had the idea of responding to Liu Beili's foreign cooperation!

Xiahou Shang was originally worried that he had just won the upper level, and he had not yet gained a firm foothold, and he was not very familiar with the situation in the city, so even Shen Tan and Shen Yi did not dare to stay in the city, but were sent to Fangling. Secretly stared at the key wealthy merchants and scholars in the city earlier, and naturally learned of these small actions.

Xiahou Shang first took down the wealthy merchants and scholars who had fornicated in the city, and then interrogated them, and the person who contacted them was Meng Da before, who did not have time to escape, and who had a heart for Liu Bei, and was ready to first treat Cao Jun in the name of rewarding Cao Jun, and use Cao Jun to take advantage of Cao Jun's negligence and prevention, and receive the Han army from the north gate of the lower city wall.

Xiahou was still overjoyed, so he was ready to come up with a plan, trick the Han army into the city, calculate Liu Bei, considering that his own people are uncertain, the Han army will inevitably be self-defeating when entering the city, and take down a few rich businessmen who do not support him very much, and make an example of the monkeys, temporarily shocking the rest of the scholars and rich businessmen.

Xiahou Shang ordered the rich merchant to continue to contact Liu Bei, but the rich merchant did not dare to disobey, Xiahou Shang pretended to celebrate with the whole army in his face, relaxed the defense of the north gate, and secretly gathered elite soldiers to ambush at the north gate.

Liu Bei agreed with the wealthy merchants at a time, and initially planned that the rich merchants would entangle the Cao army at the north gate, and the Han army quietly arrived under the city, used the cloud ladder to ascend the city, and then suddenly attacked the Cao army, opened the city gate, and enlarged the army into the city.

Xiahou Shang understood the agreement, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said in his heart: Liu Bei, Liu Bei, you are also considered to have been on the battlefield for a long time, and Pang Tong is a strategist, I am afraid that this time it will be planted in my hands.

On the night of the agreement, Xiahou Shang laid an ambush, tightened his hand with a knife, and waited for the Han army to enter the city. The Han army entered the city unexpectedly slowly, and even a little grinding, Xiahou was still a little strange, it stands to reason that the city should be captured quickly, why is the Han army so slow. Looking at the city wall, the Han army was circling along the city wall. Xiahou Shang scolded secretly: "How do you go around the city after agreeing to enter the city?" ”

Suddenly, a thought flashed through Xiahou Shang's heart: Could it be a deception, Liu Bei deliberately pestered me, most of the elite soldiers in the city are here, and the other three gates are also equipped with defenses, but they are slightly insufficient, and if they are attacked, it will be bad.

Thinking about it, Xiahou Shang slowed down in a cold sweat. Sure enough, the fire at the south gate responded to Xiahou Shang's concerns, and then Xiahou Shang received a sneak attack from the Han army at the south gate, and there were also soldiers and horses at the east gate and the west gate!

Xiahou Shang was really miserable in his heart for a moment, and reacted quickly, ordering the deputy general to lead the troops and horses to continue the ambush and rush to support himself.

After Xiahou Shang left, the Han army at the north gate waited for a while and suddenly fired a salvo of bows and arrows, shooting at the head of the city, the Han army took the cloud ladder, stormed the north gate, and rushed to the head of the city, and the Cao army arranged an ambush in the city, resisted a little, and retreated.

The Han army opened the city gates and began to enter the city. Xiahou Shang rushed to the south gate and found that the Han army was strong and the attack was decent. Xiahou Shang counterattacked, and the Han army retreated.

Xiahou Shangqi said: "The Han army wants to attack the east and the west, how can it be so easy to give up!" ”

The north gate guard reported to the future: "The Han army attacked the city fiercely and opened the city gate. Our army prepared to ambush the Han army according to the ambush, but I did not expect the Han army to fight steadily and steadily, and only sent in two hundred vanguard troops, with thatch and torches. The oil hit both sides. Our army was burned by fire, unable to hide, exposing its position, and had to engage the Han army. There are many Han soldiers, and they have already poured into the city! I hope the general will do reinforcements as soon as possible! ”

Xiahou Shang exclaimed: "What a sound!" It turns out that the south gate is fake, and the north gate is real! Follow me! The troops rushed to the north gate, and Xiahou Shang fought with the Han army that entered the city at the city gate. The two armies fought fiercely until dawn, and the Han army attacked with all its troops, regardless of casualties, on all sides.

Cao's army could not drive the Han army out of the city, and the Han army climbed more and more to the top of the city, Xiahou Shang realized that the situation was not right, and if he continued to fight, he would not have as many soldiers and horses as the Han army, and he would inevitably be surrounded and annihilated by the Han army.

Xiahou Shang took advantage of the fact that Cao's army still had spare strength, and immediately gathered Cao's army and broke through from the south gate. Xiahou Shang highlighted the mediocrity all the way and retreated to Fangling.

Liu Bei went in Shangyong and said to Pang Tong: "It is all the credit of Shiyuan that we can conquer Shangyong. ”

Pang Tong said: "The lord praised it falsely, I just deliberately leaked a flaw, pretending to make a sound, Xiahou Shang would not have thought that we would dare to break in from the north gate." ”

Liu Bei sighed and said: "It's a good thing to recover Shangyong, but it has taken us more than three months since we got the news, and Yun Chang has also been blocked by Xu Huang in Jingzhou, and he has been unable to go north repeatedly." We have to hurry up, Nanyang is cut off inside and outside, no matter how brave Pang De is, he won't be able to last long! ”

Pang Tong also said: "What the lord said is very true! ”

The next day, Liu Bei approached Fangling, Xiahou Shang was already in the city and Yu Ban to prepare for battle, the original Fangling Taishou Shenyi was also in the city, Liu Bei quickly surrounded Fangling and began to attack the city.

Fang Ling operated in the forbidden hands for three months, pulling out spies, counting the population, and arranging defenses, which is not impregnable, but also a hard bone.

The Han army's siege of the city was blocked, and after Liu Bei carefully watched the city defense, he knew that it was not a good strategy to storm the city, and he did not want the soldiers to die in vain, so he collected his troops and returned to the camp to find countermeasures.

When Cao Cao and Liu Bei clashed, Jiangdong Sun Quan's mind began to be lively. Since Lu Meng's death, there has been a vacancy in the post of governor of Jiangdong, coupled with a defeat in Jingzhou, Jiangdong has made things worse! Cao Cao sent an envoy to contact Sun Quan, crowned Sun Quan and Wu Gong, and made an appointment to attack Liu and send gifts!

Sun Quan is quite sensitive, and he is crowned Duke of Wu, and the duke is a high hat, but it is not painful, but for Liu Bei, it is a signal that Sun Quan is equal to showing his ambition, saying that the duke is a Wang Mang and Cao Cao in the four hundred years of the Han Dynasty.

Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao was honored as a Han thief, and he became the Duke of Wu, which was the new national thief. and pressed Liu Bei from his position, causing Liu Bei to be disgusted. It's clear that the counter-plot is clear!

The conditions met to attack Liu, which made Sun Quan angry, since he failed to cross the river in white to attack Jingzhou, Liu Bei reconciled with him, and the strength of his defense really did not relax, the beacon tower was all guarded by elite soldiers and horses, Gan Ning was personally stationed in Baqiu for defense, and the Jingzhou naval army patrolled constantly on the river.

Even if Gan Ning went north to support Guan Yu, Baqiu also left the partial general Xi Zhen to lead the troops and horses to defend, it is conceivable that even if the war starts, Jingzhou's defense of itself will probably be stricter, and he does not know how many people will die when he hits Jiangling City, and it will not be cheap Cao Cao at that time.

On the surface, Sun Quan was grateful to Dade and entertained the messenger. Now Liu Bei is going to Nanyang for reinforcements, Guan Yu is fighting Xu Huang, Cao Cao is fighting Nanyang, the two are pinching to the death, Sun Quan summoned everyone to discuss how to march!

Zhang Zhao, Zhuge Jin, Han Dang, Zhou Tai, Xu Sheng, Sun Huan, Quan Cong, Jiang Qin and other military generals came to discuss

Sun Quan ordered Zhuge Jin to introduce the situation to everyone. Sun Quan said: "Liu Bei and Cao Cao only stopped fighting for a few months before starting a big war again, what should we do?" The crowd muttered, but no one spoke.

Sun Quan was a little sad, if Zhou Gongjin, Lu Zijing, and Lu Ziming were in this situation!

Zhang Zhao first broke the situation and said: "My lord, our army attacked Jingzhou before and looked like it suffered heavy losses on the surface, but in fact, after reconciling with Liu Bei, it returned with a loss of only 20,000 troops.

The recruitment and training of new troops also made up for the losses. We still have 100,000 elite soldiers, not without the strength to fight. Generals do not hesitate! When the Lord's open territory is the duty of a military general! ”

Sun Quan nodded after hearing this, in the end it was his old minister, and his words were to cheer for himself and everyone.

Sun Quan said: "Zhang Gong's words are reasonable! Let me start with my thoughts! My initial plan is to attack Hefei. Now, Pan Zhang, Lu Xun, Zhu Huan and nearly a thousand partial generals are still hostages in Liu Bei's hands, and we can't ignore them!

In our battle, no matter whether we win or lose, first of all, they can come back! You also know that Hefei is difficult to attack, and it is not impossible to attack!

I sent someone to find out that Le Jin and Li Dian were dead, and Zhang Liao was left in Hefei, and his soldiers and horses were all tired soldiers who had just fought a few months ago. This time Cao Cao was entangled by Liu Bei, and there will be no reinforcements in the short term! ”

After Sun Quan finished speaking, the young general Sun Huan said: "Lord, I am willing to be the vanguard and attack Hefei!" Sun Quan was very happy.

Xu Sheng also said: "My lord, we can take advantage of Cao Cao's peace with us, neglect our precautions, and sneak attack Hefei." We used the water army to transport soldiers and horses, and the speed was fast, and Zhang Liao was caught off guard! If you can't do it, then adapt to the situation and break the enemy in battle! ”

Sun Quan was overjoyed and said, "Okay! That Zhou Tai, Xu Sheng, Sun Huan, the three of you are the vanguard, go to Hefei, and I will follow with Han Dang and other armies! Zhang Gong deploys grain and grass! "Everyone. Promised.

Sun Quan waved his army north and besieged Hefei. Sun Quan ordered the generals Zhou Tai, Xu Sheng, and Sun Huan to lead the elite Jiangdong army to attack Hefei. Hefei has less than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the general Zhang Liao guards it.

In order to avoid startling the snakes, Jiangdong only recruited small boats to quietly transport troops, and quickly arrived at the city of Hefei, only to see the lights of Hefei City brilliantly, and the guards of soldiers and horses were very strict.

Seeing such a scene, Zhou Tai couldn't help but whisper: "Cao Jun is so vigilant, could it be that he has already heard the news that we are coming to attack Hefei!" ”

Sun Huan replied: "Our dispatch of troops and the quiet crossing of the river are all carried out in secret, and it is impossible for Cao Jun to know." Zhang Liao has always been proficient in the art of war, and such vigilance may be due to his character.

After all, now Liu Bei and Cao Cao are pinching you to the death in Nanyang. Liu Bei is guarding against us, why isn't Cao Cao guarding against us? ”

Zhou Tai scolded secretly: "What should I do now? ”

Sun Huan said: "The lord has already said before we set off, and now after the failure to seek Jingzhou, the only way out is to take Huainan."

To take Huainan must take Hefei, this time it will be our Jiangdong is to win the Jiangdong to sit in Jiangdong, defeat is to trap Jiangdong in the battle of life and death, we can not retreat, can only advance. ”

Zhou Tai listened and said: "I don't know, you see where there is an opportunity for such a defense." ”

Xu Sheng said: "I have a plan, let's discuss whether it can work." ”

After listening to Xu Sheng's words, Zhou Tai patted his thigh and said, "Okay, just do it." ”

Zhang Liao since Cao Cao attacked Nanyang, although he did not participate in the battle of Nanyang, but did not dare to relax for a moment, Jiangdong Sun Quan Zhang Liao has already dealt with him a lot, naturally understands Sun Quan's ambition and strength, so Hefei has been arranged to be on strict alert, pay close attention to Jiangdong trends.

In the past few days, the spies have returned very little, and this abnormal behavior has caused Zhang Liao's uneasiness, and his keen battlefield intuition has made him feel that he is about to usher in a big war.

Yes, this is exactly what Sun Quan took to block everywhere and avoid the news of the troop transfer from leaking, so the spies in Jiangdong could not cross the river, so Zhang Liao did not receive the news.

After dawn, Zhang Liao received some people coming to cry at noon, but there was a group of thieves who attacked the village and claimed to be a rebellious general, responding to the Jiangdong crusade against the rebel Cao Cao, and those who knew each other surrendered quickly.

Zhang Liao asked, "What does the leader look like?" What weapons, where accents, what were you robbed? ”

The people said: "The leader is a strong man with a full face and meat, they have more than ten knives, and the rest are farm tools. The accent is a local Huainan accent, and I robbed some jewelry and some beautiful girls. Your Excellency, you have to save us. ”

Zhang Liao nodded and said, "How many people did they kill?" ”

The people hurriedly said: "No one was killed, only four or five were cut, and many were beaten." ”

Zhang Liao said: "Well, I know. Come and help them down so that they can be entertained. The people thanked them, and the sergeant led them down.

After the people left, Zhang Liao Hu Jun Wu Zhou said: "What is the general going to do?" ”

Zhang Liao said: "I want to hear your opinion. ”

Wu Zhou said: "Listening to what those people said just now, it can be judged that they are just ordinary thieves, as long as they send a few hundred people to seek peace." ”

Zhang Liao said: "It makes sense, but it's hard to say whether there is Jiangdong's shadow behind them." ”

Wu Zhou said: "No, these thieves under the guise of Jiangdong show that Jiangdong will not interfere, and they pay attention to attacking them unprepared, how can they expose their intentions in advance."

If Sun Quan uses these guys who are not enough to achieve things and more than to lose, it will be really stupid. At present, the power of these thieves is still small, and they should be quickly extinguished, and they should be killed to make an example and stabilize people's hearts.

Otherwise, if people with universal intentions gather together to form a generation of roaring mountains and forests, it will be troublesome. ”

Zhang Liao thought for a while, felt that Wu Zhou's words were reasonable, although he was uneasy in his heart, he could only let it go, and sent the captain Zhao Kun to command 500 troops to pacify this gang of thieves, Zhang Liao instructed: "Although the thieves are small, don't take them lightly, go and return quickly." Zhao Kun agreed, and the troops left.

Three days later, Zhao Kun came with good news, he had defeated the thief, Zhang Liao received the good news and ordered Zhao Kun to eliminate the thief as soon as possible, and then return quickly.

Four days later, the defenders of Hefei heard the soldiers and horses calling the door under the city, only to hear the city shouting: "Brothers in the city, we are with Captain Zhao Kun to suppress the thieves, thinking about rushing back as soon as possible, but the result is still a step too late, it is dark." ”

The defenders in the city said: "Okay, you wait, I'll go and report to General Zhang." ”

The city shouted: "Brother, can you let us in first, we are all our own people, we have been on the road for a day, and we all want to go into the city to rest." ”

Chengshang said: "Brother, I didn't let you in, you also know that General Zhang strictly ordered the city to open at night." I don't dare to make my own decisions, you can't spare my brother's life.

I'll open the gates for you, and my head will move. I have sent someone to report to General Zhang just now, and he will come soon, and when he gives the order, you will be able to enter the city. ”

When the city was down, he could only say in a loud voice: "What I said is that there is Brother Lao." ”

Zhou Tai next to him scolded secretly: "Zhang Liao is quite a thief, it's really troublesome." ”

Sun Huan said to Zhao Kun next to him: "Captain Zhao, since you have abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, Zhang Liao will come in a while, and I will have to thank you." When the time comes, I will never break my promise, and I will definitely promote you as a general in front of Wu Hou, and Hefei will be too guarded. Not to mention the reward. ”

Next to him, Zhao Kun said: "I understand, with General Laosun's kind words, I will rely on General Sun in the future." ”

Sun Huan agreed, and said in his heart: "This Zhao Kun is really soft-boned. “

Zhao Kun defeated the thieves were all pretended to be Jiangdong, Zhao Kun came to crusade, was led to the ambush circle of Jiangdong soldiers and horses, one never escaped, at first Cao Jun was very tenacious, refused to persuade to surrender, and later saw that there were only 100 people left, Zhao Kun took the initiative to surrender.

After seeing Sun Huan, Sun Huan asked him to go to Hefei to defraud, Zhao Kun actually bargained with this and asked for money and official positions, Sun Huan despised Zhao Kun in his heart, and he could only praise this kind of surrender that was beneficial to him, Zhao Kun's behavior made Sun Huan feel that Zhao Kun was a person who was afraid of death, and he was most of his war.

Zhang Liao rushed to the city, Zhao Kun urged the war horse and came to the city, and Zhou Tai quietly followed. Zhang Liao saw that it was Zhao Kun, and Zhao Kun said: "General Zhang, you sent me to ask for a thief, which shows the general's trust in me, a thief." ”

After a pause, Zhao Kun suddenly said loudly: "Behind me are all thieves from Jiangdong, and General Zhang ...... tens of millions." ”

Before the words fell, Zhou Tai's eyes widened, anger surged, and he didn't think that the big knife in his hand had been swung, and he cut off Zhao Kun's head with a knife, and Zhao Kun's body fell to the ground with a bang.

Zhang Liao in the city watched Zhao Kun being killed at the head of the city, and in shock, Cao Jun at the head of the city began to scold, and Zhang Liao shouted: "Release the arrow." Then snatched a bow and arrow, looking at Zhou Tai is arrow, Zhou Tai held a knife to separate, Sun Huan saw the defeat, decisively retreated, Cao Jun fired arrows together, and the Annoying Army lost 100 people and retreated.

Then Cao Jun at the head of the city shouted that he wanted to go out of the city desperately to avenge Zhao Kun. Zhang Liao shouted: "There seems to be no movement under the city, and there are not many troops, but in fact, the Jiangdong army may have arrived, and going out of the city now will only make Zhao Kun's blood flow in vain." ”

Zhang Liao walked to the edge of the city wall and shouted to the city: "Zhao Kun, you have successfully completed the task I gave you, I will not let you die in vain, you can go on the road with peace of mind." ”

As soon as Zhang Liao's words fell, there were bursts of drums all around, and then countless torches lit up in the dark night, covering the sky and extending from the city to the distance.

Zhang Liao's face became solemn, and the Jiangdong army began to attack Hefei, Zhang Liao knew in his heart that Sun Quan was on Liu Bei's side, and he had to guard the eastern barrier alone, and the corners of his mouth moved.

Zhang Liao muttered: "Wen Qian (Le Jin), Man Cheng (Li Dian), it's really a bit kind of to you." ”

Zhang Liao cleaned up his mood and shouted: "Brothers, prepare for war." Zhang Liao's order quickly spread throughout the city of Hefei. After dawn, the city of Hefei has been surrounded by layers.

Sun Quan set up a big camp under the city of Hefei, Sun Huan, Xu Sheng, and Zhou Tai came to ask for guilt, Sun Quan was a little disappointed in his heart, but it was not unacceptable, and Zhang Liao had dealt with him for decades, Zhang Liao's ability Sun Quan naturally knew that the failure of the city was reasonable.

Sun Quan helped the three of them up to encourage him, and then said: "The herald will restrain Zhao Kun and return the coffin to Cao Jun with a good coffin, I Jiangdong respect such a loyal and brave person." "The people took the command.

Sun Quan had already ordered Zhu Ran and Han Dang to lead 6,000 soldiers and horses each to take the county seat near Hefei. The Cao army in the county town was taken down before they had time to take precautions.

Zhu Ran and Han Dang successfully completed the task of cutting off Hefei. Zhang Liao watched Sun Quan's banner hanging in the camp at the head of Hefei City, and the Jiangdong Army prepared all kinds of equipment back and forth under the city, deployed troops back and forth, and approached Hefei City.

Zhang Liao found hundreds of soldiers with loud voices and shouted at the head of the city: "The most untrustworthy and blue-eyed, he doesn't recognize people in the morning and evening." In order to get Jingzhou and begged the king of Wei, he turned his face and came to steal Hefei again. ”

Sun Quan is in the army under the city, as the saying goes, you don't slap people in the face, and you don't expose your shortcomings when you scold people. What Zhang Liao said was what Sun Quan was most taboo to listen to.

After hearing this, Sun Quan only felt a nameless fire rising in his chest, and he was about to explode. But Sun Quan is a very lord after all, he has a tolerant mind, suppresses the fire, settles his mind, and orders the Jiangdong army to shout: "Zhang Wenyuan, who bends his knees on the master, is loyal and praises the righteous Taoist." I didn't see the Baimen Gaoshun Festival, but I saw the child being an eagle dog. ”

Cao Jun and Jiangdong Jun scolded before the fight began. There were many soldiers in Jiangdong, and soon the voice overshadowed Cao's army, and Sun Quan ordered to shout hard, angering Zhang Liao and luring him out of the city, Zhang Liao was not moved, but stepped up the defense.

Sun Quan saw that Zhang Liao had no intention of leaving the city, so he stopped grinding and ordered the siege of the city. A war drum sounded, and the Jiangdong Army raised its swords and guns, carried the ladder, and pushed the siege equipment such as the rushing cart and began to attack the city.

Zhang Liao commanded Cao's army to defend, and the two armies fought until dark. The next day, the Jiangdong Army was still storming the city, and while Zhang Liao was defending against the Jiangdong Army's attack, he was keenly aware that the Jiangdong Army was building walls and digging trenches, which was a signal to prepare for a long siege.

The previous attack on Jiangdong Army would not have been under the city of Hefei for more than two months, so these fortifications would not be built. Zhang Liao found that it was not good.

In the evening of the same day, Zhang Liao took advantage of the retreat of the Jiangdong army, personally went out of the city to attack, covered the envoy to break through, the Jiangdong army was strictly besieged, and the previous several envoys were either killed or turned back, Zhang Liao fought fiercely, and finally reported the battle situation in Hefei, the situation and his own judgment to Cao Cao. Sun Quan sent an envoy Zhang Wen to meet Liu Bei.