There was no danger to defend in the north of Jingzhou, how could he retreat again and again?

"If, if that's the case, stay in the next return to the envoy ......"

Cao Cao was not surprised by the envoy's hesitation, he raised his eyes, glanced at him, and then howled loudly!

"My General Dianwei, ——!"

As the messenger fled, he almost ran into two scribes who were walking towards the palace.

He glanced back at the messenger, and then paused to listen to the distant cry.

"My lord has been crying for so long." Guo Jia sighed meaninglessly, "Brother Gongda should also be conscientious." ”

The scribe beside him was older than him, about forty years old, and his face was very calm when he heard this, but his face was very calm.

"Let the lord cry a little more," Xun Yu said, "and it's going to be soon." ”

Chapter 227

When Cao Cao slaughtered Xuzhou a few years ago, his eldest son Cao Ang, who died in battle, once asked him that victory and defeat are normal things, but why slaughter the city? Why do you want to target ordinary people?

Cao Cao's answer was: If you kill enough, there will be no one to farm in Xuzhou, and no one to be a soldier.

Today's Xuzhou is facing such a dilemma - for a Xuzhou with less than 300,000 people, Liu Bei can pull out an army of 20,000 people here, which is already the limit of Xuzhou's capacity.

Yuan Shu is different, although the two Huai were ruined by him and the displaced people fled in all directions, and the dead on the road were close to each other, he had the momentum and confidence to capture the last man in his jurisdiction into the barracks and use him as a pawn.

He is the embodiment of Destiny, and he will overlook the Central Plains from a tower full of bones, and he firmly believes in it.

Therefore, Yuan Shu will definitely collapse, because looting and plundering cannot fight a protracted war, which is a truth that a three-year-old child understands.

Before Ji Ling's army collapsed, all Liu Bei needed to do was wait patiently.

He was in the north of Shouchun, so Guan Yu had to rush to the south of Shouchun, and then the two armies could complete the encirclement.

Shouchun was a fortified city, and in order to obtain it, Liu Bei and Guan Yu had to shrink their army and focus on siege.

The surrounding area of Shouchun has already been fortified and cleared, and whether it is grain, grass, materials, or siege equipment, Guan Yu needs to prepare slowly.

The Yuan Shu army that rescued Pre-Shouchun around also needed to be stopped by him.

For those thieves who are not allowed to be in the Han family, Yuan Shu is the co-master of the world that they identify, and Shouchun is the royal city they identify!

Therefore, Guan Yu, who went deep into Huainan, was preparing to attack the city and block reinforcements, but also had to deal with waves of thieves.

Most likely, the thieves didn't have a uniform attire, or even decent weapons.

They emerged from the jungle, gathered together with whistles and codes, and in the middle of the night reached the edge of the camp and secretly set fires.

They also left many corpses in the upper reaches of the Huai River, intending to pollute the river and infect the soldiers who were collecting water downstream.

They would also disguise themselves as civilians, sneak up on the soldiers when they went out to cut down trees, and then stab them.

This kind of behavior of chickens and dogs and thieves cannot cause any decisive damage to the soldiers and horses in Xuzhou, but it damages morale and is annoying.

And every soldier who died because of these thieves cannot be resurrected, nor can they be replenished in the short term.

Therefore, Guan Yu could only keep shrinking, and then shrink the scope of his forces—he had to ensure that he could control the part of the land south of Shouchun, so as to complete the strategic goal given to him by Liu Bei.

Sun Ce crossed the river at this time.

The goal of this Jiangdong Tiger is also very clear: since Guan Yu will concentrate his forces on the line from Lujiang to Shouchun, and Guangling's defense is weak - then it is up to him to tear a hole!

You know, there is no food in Hefei! If you want food, you have to transport it from Guangling!

He not only wants to trap Chen Deng, but also starves Guan Yu to death!

The sun hung in the sky, and the green leaves on the branches were also rolled.

At this time, most of the peasants in the fields should stop and find a shady place to rest, and no matter how poor the man is, there is also a jar of water that the woman of the family has brought him to drink, and if he is more comfortable, he can also nibble on half a cake to improve his strength.

The winter wheat has been harvested, the spring wheat has not yet grown, and some melons, melons, beans and beans can be planted at the edge of the ditch or in the corners of the forest. As long as it rains, the farmers will not go hungry.

While they were chatting like this, the sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the distance.

When the peasants stretched out their heads one by one to look, the sound of horses' hooves was already in front of them!

Like a dark cloud sweeping in the sky! Like the flock of swallows that covered the sky and the sun before the rain, the dust rolled up fell on the face, on the body, and on the clay pot that forgot to close the lid!

Such a group of tall horses, such a long flag! Those cavalrymen were dressed in leather armor and carried longbows! They also brought so many weapons! Shining in the dark clouds! It's as if the stars are shining in the night when the sky suddenly goes dark!

For a peasant whose mule can be regarded as all his belongings, such a cavalry is unimaginable to them!

"So, whose soldier is that?!"

"Can't you read?"

"Are you literate?"

So the old farmer grinned proudly, "Although I can't read, I have connections!" ”

"What connections? Tell me about it! ”

"That's General Xiao Lu's soldiers and horses!" He said, "Don't you see? The person who rode in the front and brought a few flag bearers behind him was General Xiao Lu! ”

An exclamation.

"Is she the Lu Lian of Beihai?! And how do you find out! ”

"A few ......days ago," said the old farmer, "who do you think it is for?" ”

The excitement on everyone's faces turned into a subtle, covert disapproval.

If Lu Hangyu saw this scene, she would also smile bitterly.

When Sun Ce sent the letter to Qingzhou, most of his team had already arrived in Guangling, and by the time Lu Hangyu set off, another ten days had passed.

She couldn't delay it for a day, so after instructing Tian Yu to defend the city and take charge of the defense of Qingzhou, she sent 6,000 foot soldiers to Tai Shici, who led the troops, while she and Zhang Liao took the light cavalry and set off immediately.

The road was very peaceful.

Chen Zhen and Mi Fang, who set off ten days in advance, divided this task into two parts.

The first part was to provide food, grass and lodging for her thousand cavalry, which was to be fine, efficient, and fast. After all, the cavalry had been driving for a day, and when they dismounted, they were so tired that they had no strength to take care of the horses. But the horses were also so tired that they had to be conscripted into the service of a large number of local men, who drove them out of the fields and ordered them to wash them, add water and grass.

Occasionally, there were people who were angry about this, and secretly fed the horses a handful of moldy hay, or mixed some thorns in the forage. But they were immediately punished severely, so such incidents are extremely rare.

The second part is to provide the supply of food and grass for the 6,000 infantry led by Tai Shici, and this part requires scheduling, manpower, and efficiency. Because these infantry also spent a lot of time on the road, they had to rush from Qingzhou to Xuzhou, and then from Xuzhou to the bank of the Yangtze River, so that they could not carry a large amount of baggage, so in addition to military supplies such as spears and large shields, grain and grass had to be prepared by the counties along the way.

In Lu Hangyu's opinion, the road was very peaceful, and the counties along the way were also very efficient, and whenever she went, the local scholars would invite her to a banquet, but these invitations were rejected by her, and the scholars did not insist anymore.

It is a gesture, cold but not rude, reserved and detached.

If she had put her mind on them, she would have thought that the attitude of these Xuzhou scholars was not friendly.

There was a bit of compulsion in their attitude.

"I'm not dealing with you as a person," hidden under their respectful and courteous faces, was the subtext, "I'm dealing with the generals of the military forces of the Governor of Qingzhou." ”

Such an attitude is most obvious Fu Shiren, he didn't even send the invitation, he didn't specially arrange a clean house for her, he just ordered to charter the market house in Huai'an City, the nearby guest house, and the nearby wooden shed for placing goods.

…… The guest house is naturally also able to live, she doesn't care about this, and she doesn't care about Fu Shiren's attitude.

In this way, it was only five days later, and the familiar city walls of Jiangdu City were far away.

Together with Jiangdu City, there is also the overwhelming "Sun" character banner under the city.

“…… Let's just say," Lu Hangyu, who was riding on a horse, quietly complained to Zhang Liao beside him, "Is it necessary for him to make so many flags?" ”

Zhang Liao glanced at it from a distance, smiled and said nothing.

Sun Ce fights wars, he looks reckless, but in fact he is not reckless, this is the biggest difference between him and those generals under Yuan Shu.

For example, he would beat the drum repeatedly, pretending to be attacking the city day and night.

But he did not have many troops, and there were still only more than 10,000 under the city, so he did not use the main force to attack the city, he only drove the captives brought from Jiangdong to attack the city, and told them that whoever ascended first would be exempted from the death penalty.

Although Zu Lang, Jiao Ji, and Yan Baihu were defeated by the Yi clan, there are still many tribes, plus the servants of the Jiangdong Shi clan who were uprooted in this rebellion, they became a large army together.

Among them were men and women, old and young, wailing and crying, but still forced to attack the city.

And Sun Ce just watched quietly like that.

Chen Deng looked down from the city, saw layer after layer of those private soldiers who died under the city, and then saw Sun Cejun, who had strict military discipline in the rear, and felt that this scene was extremely strange.

Sun Ce cherished the people in his territory very much, he conquered the city in Jiangdong, and whenever he occupied a place, he always had to give three orders and five repetitions, and did not allow soldiers to disturb the people.

But once he became his enemy, he showed no mercy.

Chen Deng therefore had a habit of looking down on Sun Ce.

His eyes only look at the north, at the world, but he never looks down at those who are trampled under his feet.

Among them are those innocent people, and there are even Jiangdong scholars.

"County guard, there are reinforcements coming!"

Chen Deng woke up from his contemplation, and his dark eyes immediately bloomed with brilliance, "Where did it come from?" What flags were raised?! How many centaurs?! ”

"Coming from the salt and Huai'an, the 'Lu' flag was played! About a thousand rides! ”

"...... the 'Lu' character banner, this must be the reason why Ciyu came to Guangling to help me day and night," Chen Deng thought quickly, "Even if she is brave, it is not easy to repel Sun Ce with a thousand horsemen, and besides, I don't know how her cavalry was saved!" ”

If she rushes here for a while, even if Sun Ce's army is killed, this cavalry will be damaged.

Sun Ce has a boat, and after his soldiers retreat from Guangling, it is extremely easy to go up the river to attack Tu Tang and Juchao, but Lu Xuanyu has lost this cavalry, and it will be difficult to catch up with Sun Ce's footsteps!

Although he didn't sleep for days, his mind was still very fast.

It is not easy to force Sun Ce back, but it is not difficult for both sides to convey information.

No matter which siege army will not besiege the city and eat the rain of arrows, and the troops required to form a large circle around the periphery of Jiangdu City far exceed these more than 10,000 people.

Therefore, the normal siege army should keep the infantry on the periphery and use the cavalry to walk around the city, constantly harassing the defenders, and also isolating the inside and outside.