The civil and military officials were noisy again.

What are the requirements?

Doesn't this mean that we want to divide Qingzhou and make a country China!

Pang Tong sneered: "Why don't you discuss this matter with Yuan Shao's army? ”

Sun Guan smiled and did not answer.

Xu Shu said coldly: "After Yuan Shao IV and the Third Duke, his family has a big business, and he has the confidence to dominate the world, how can he accept such a threat?" ”

"It is very likely that Yuan Shao's army has looked for them before and wants to eliminate them."

"However, it was not found."

"After all, a group of bandits, if they want to escape, there is still some way."

"It's precisely because I didn't find it, I don't know the exact strength, I just thought they were a group of little thieves, so I concentrated on dealing with us."

Sun Guan was amazed and asked Xu Shu, "I don't know what to call the general?" ”

Xu Shu did not answer Sun Guan, but said to the soldiers: "Take it to the side hall first." ”

The soldiers immediately escorted Sun Guan away.

It wasn't until Sun Guan disappeared from sight that Xu Shu asked everyone, "What do you say?" ”

Pang Tong said in a deep voice: "Separating as the king, I'm afraid Wu Hou will not agree." Once you do allow it, others will follow suit, so what should you do? The reason why this Zang Ba found us, not Yuan Shao's army, is definitely because Yuan Shao's army will definitely not agree. ”

Zhao Yun nodded and said: "This kind of bandit handsome who has no temperament is whimsical, and I don't approve of it!" ”

Xu Shu looked at Lu Su and said, "Brother Lu, what do you say?" ”

Lu Su pondered for a moment and said, "I think I can agree." ”

Everyone looked at Lu Su in shock.

Lu Su asked rhetorically: "Now this situation, let alone Qingzhou, it is our Xuzhou, whether we can keep it is still a question." ”

"If you can't even keep Xuzhou, how can you talk about Qingzhou?"

"As for the Qingzhou issue after defeating Yuan Shao in the future, I don't think it's a big problem."

"If our Jiangdong really has the ability to dominate the world, at that time, the whole world will not be the king's land, and we are still afraid that he will occupy a Qingzhou?"

"Be obedient, let him continue to serve as the Qingzhou pastor, and then divide it up."

"If he is disobedient, he will not be able to finish his life!"

"At that time, we controlled the world, so why should we be afraid of a state?"

"What's more, if this Zang Ba really has the ability to dominate the world by relying on a state, he will not have the temperament to the point that as a lieutenant of Xuzhou, he will flee when he sees Cao Cao's invasion!"

"This Zang Ba, in my opinion, is brave and brave, but he is just a thief in a corner of peace."

"The reason why he wants to divide Qingzhou is nothing more than to use our strength to fight against other princes."

Chen Jiao, the county guard of Pengcheng County, said: "I also agree with Guangling Cheng's opinion. ”

"Now our situation in Xuzhou is critical, and we need to unite all the forces that can be used."

"Besides, you may not know that although Zang Ba is hateful, he has a good relationship with the big families in Qingxu and Xuzhou."

"After taking Qingzhou, with this person occupying Qingzhou, the big families will not have much rebellion, and the possibility of betrayal is very small."

"Moreover, with Qingzhou as a buffer point, we in Xuzhou don't have to directly face Yuan Shao's army."

When everyone heard Chen Jiao say this, they immediately started to talk about it.

Xu Shu stood with Pang Tong, Lu Su, Zhang Zhao, and Chen Jiao and muttered.

After a long time, Xu Shu said, "How many are there opposition?" Those who oppose it, stand on the left side. ”

Sparsely, someone walked to the left.

However, there are only a dozen people.

Xu Shu let out a long breath and said: "The minority obeys the majority, I will bear all the blame, agree to Zang Ba's request, help him take Qingzhou, and let him divide it." ”

After speaking, let the soldiers bring Sun Guan over.

And the bamboo tube that Sun Guan brought before hid the alliance agreement proposed by Zang Ba: Zang Ba cooperated with the Xiapi defenders to attack Yuan Shao's army, and the Xiapi defenders helped to take Qingzhou and let him divide it.

Xu Shu signed his name and stamped his seal.

Sun Guan remained in Xiapi as a hostage.

Xu Shu sent a dead man to the outside of the city with this agreement, and when Sun Guan came, he brought others over, but he did not let them into the city.

This time, the dead man took the agreement and Sun Guan's seal to meet these people and went to report to Zang Ba.

At the same time, Xu Shu officially sent an envoy to Yuan Shao's army to write a letter of war, agreeing that the two sides would fight to the death in an open space twenty miles outside the east of the city three days later!

Yuan Shao's army commander, Yuan Tan received the battle letter, he was quite excited, and immediately sent someone to find Yan Liang and all the generals.

Originally, they used frozen soil to build a mud wall, which was also a last resort.

The Jiangdong defenders shrank and did not move, and they damaged the mastermind Zhou Yu, and for a while, they couldn't make up their minds how to attack the city.

In the end, after discussion, everyone said that since the other party couldn't shrink out, then their own side also shrank!

In the north, east and west of the city of Xiapi built a mud wall with frozen soil outside the three gates of the city, only sent part of the troops to guard the city wall, trapped the Xiapi defenders, the main force of the army temporarily abandoned Xuzhou, went around to Xiaopei, from Xiaopei south to Shouchun, from Shouchun south to Hefei, or simply attacked Xudu!

However, it takes more effort to do so.

Moreover, it also violated the original attack route of the two armies formulated by Yuan Shao.

But there's no way, right?

Unexpectedly, the Jiangdong defenders couldn't stand it in the first place, and they wanted to go out of the city to fight.

Yan Liang and the others smiled.

If you go out of the city to fight, your side is completely worthy of the other party.

On his side, plus the cavalry, there were nearly 80,000 troops.

The Jiangdong garrison in Xiapi added up to 60,000 troops.

However, there are 10,000 cavalry on his side!

The soldiers are also stronger.

And the Jiangdong defenders in Xiapi had nothing.

As for the strange chariot against the cavalry, it was indeed very deterrent when placed in a small terrain.

It can be put in the open field to fight, and the number of those strange chariots is far from enough, but it cannot hold back the huge cavalry.

Yan Liang immediately asked Yuan Tan to agree to the challenge.

The two sides fought and reorganized their respective armies.

Yuan Shao's army also temporarily abandoned the mud wall and prepared to take down the defenders of Jiangdong in a battle.

This time, the Jiangdong defenders were defeated, and there was no pressure on Xuzhou's follow-up attack.

What a battle!

In Xiapi City, Xu Shu and the generals mobilized all the soldiers.

In the next two days, the army practiced under the command of Xu Shu in accordance with the established formation.

The food is also much better than usual.

This battle determines the belonging of Xuzhou, and Xu Shu is ready to personally suppress the formation.

In addition to Lu Xun, Zhang Zhao, Chen Jiao and other civilian officials, all other soldiers, including Ling Tong, Zhou Fang, and Zhu Ran, were all incorporated into the battle array.

Xu Shu even wrote a suicide note.

In the event of this defeat, the presidential commander will be taken over by Lu Su, who will kill himself in front of the battle.

Civil and military officials, everyone is serious.

On the last day of the war, Zang Ba sent his eldest son Zang Ai with twelve soldiers, on the one hand, to communicate and fight with the defenders of the Jiangdong River in Xiapi; On the other hand, it is also to reassure Xu Shu: his eldest son is in the hands of the Jiangdong defenders, so there is no need to worry about them fleeing in the desert like before.

And Zang Ba's army had already arrived sixty miles away from the north gate of Xiapi City, and lurked in a forest forty miles behind the military camp of Yuan Shao's army.

Xu Shu asked the soldiers to contact Zang Ba with a letter and asked him to move the army to the east gate of the city, under a small hill thirty to forty miles away.

The two sides agreed to use the thick smoke in the city as a signal.

As soon as smoke rose from the city, Zang Ba led a large army to attack Yuan Shao's army from the rear.

After that, Xu Shu mobilized the army.

In this battle, he personally sat in the rear of the Chinese army, commanded 5,000 infantry, and lived and died with Xiapi.

There are no pro-guards!

Everyone, except for the defenders, are all in the fight!

Zhao Yun was in the middle of the Chinese army, commanding 20,000 spearmen, swordsmen, archers and other arms.

Xu Sheng, Zhou Tai, Ling Tong, Zhu Ran, Zhou Fang, Wei Yan, and Gan Ning each commanded 3,000 vanguard soldiers and sat in the front of the Chinese army.

Jiang Qin and Ding Feng commanded 5,000 charioteers and occupied the front of the Chinese army, resisting the shield soldiers.

Zhang Xiu commanded all 3,000 cavalry and was the left army.

Huang Zhong commanded 5,000 armor soldiers and was the right army.

Among them, it also includes Gao Shun's 700 trapping camp.

And Lu Su took Chen Jiao, Zhang Zhao and other civil officials, as well as Huo Jun to sit on the west wall of Xiapi City.

Chen Jiao is in charge of lighting cigarettes.

Lu Su was in charge of dealing with the defeat.

Once the Jiangdong defenders were defeated this time, Lu Su had to open the city gates, enlarge the troops to retreat into the city, and take over Xu Shu's position as the president and marshal to deal with the subsequent crisis.

Everything was arranged, and this time the army did not conduct any further drills.

All of them were arranged to rest in their respective quarters in preparation for tomorrow's battle.

Although it is resting, how can anyone sleep?

In various residences, some soldiers were chatting about the richness of the last dinner, some were chatting about their wives, sons and daughters at home, and some were saying their final goodbyes.

More soldiers silently wiped their weapons.

In tomorrow's battle, in the face of the powerful Yuan Shao's army, how many people are confident of surviving?

Xu Shu knelt alone in the bedroom of the mansion and wrote a letter to his mother and fiancée in the Lu family in Wu County.

If the battle is defeated tomorrow, the marriage that Wu Hou promised to give him a victorious return can only be abandoned.

Xu Shu expressed his apologies to his fiancée Gu Hui in the letter, and asked Wu Hou to help his mother support her old age.

After writing the letter and handing it to Lu Su, Xu Shu practiced his sword outside the room alone.

Although over the years, he has been accompanying Tai Shici to fight in all directions, acting as a military advisor.

However, he never forgot his skills as an Assassin.

Outside the mansion, Zhao Yun and Zhang Xiu talked and laughed, and met with the Wancheng soldiers one by one.

Zhang Xiu regarded these Wancheng soldiers as family.

These Wancheng soldiers were all brought out by his uncle Zhang Ji from Wuwei.

Zhang Xiu greeted these veterans one by one: no matter who survives tomorrow, he will bring the ashes back to Wuwei for the dead, including him Zhang Xiu.

If Zhang Xiu dies in battle, the surviving Wancheng soldiers will be dominated by Zhao Yun from then on.

Zhao Yun also entrusted Zhang Xiu that if he died in battle, he would take his ashes to see his second senior brother Zhang Ren in the future.

Although he hadn't met, he still wanted to see the rest of his relatives in this world.

(End of chapter)