Mi Fang's arrival was definitely an unexpected joy for Dong Huang.

Although Mi Fang in history is famous for betrayal, Mi Fang scattered all his family resources to follow Liu Bei, and retreated all the way from Xuzhou to Jingzhou without surrendering.

Mi Fang is at fault, but it is by no means all his fault, and he may not even be the main responsibility.

For these historical figures, Dong Huang will not simply look at them with inherent impressions, and since becoming a war agent, Dong Huang's growth is not only in technology, but also in the city.

Dong Huang warmly and politely received Mi Fang and accepted the gifts he gave - Mi Luyun, Gan Yuer, Yuan Shao's sons, 5,000 house slaves, 10,000 treasures and 300 big ships.

Dong Huang not only appointed Mi Fang as Zhen Yan's deputy on the spot, but also officially accepted Mi Luyun and Gan Yuer as concubines, and promised to ask the court to give Mi Fang the title of marquis and exchange Yuan Shu's son for Mi Fang's brother Mi Zhu, and gave him a county in Jiangnan as a private territory, and the 5,000 slaves brought by Mi Fang were also returned to Mi Fang.

Giving territory is Dong Huang's recently invented new means of winning people's hearts, anyway, he doesn't stay in this world, so he is extremely generous to divide the independent kingdom for his subordinates, not the kind of food that only takes money in the Han court, but directly gives them a large piece of land, whatever they toss.

Anyway, Dong Huang only needs their full cooperation in the next year, of course, if he can gain the hearts of a few more civil ministers and military generals because of this small favor, it will be even more bloody.

Dong Huang's generosity not only calmed Mi Fang's heart, but also made Mi Fang grateful.

In this era, traitors are not tolerant, and Mi Fang's behavior of killing the old master and trapping his brother in danger is even more despicable, not to mention that he is still a lowly businessman!

He thought that he had come to defect to Dong Huang, but he was also hidden by Dong Huang, and he could only save his life and be a rich man, but he didn't expect that Dong Huang not only did not discriminate against him, but also reused him, which made him suddenly feel that he had met a confidant and a master.

Then, Mi Fang's loyalty was full.

Different historical figures have different ways of subduing, obviously for Mi Fang, an inferior and sensitive businessman, Dong Huang's attention is enough to make him dig out his heart.

Mi Fang's character attributes are stronger than Dong Huang's brother-in-law Zhen Yan, and they are also wealth skills, but Mi Fang has second-rate land and water warfare capabilities.

Of course, if you want to compare with Dong Huang's famous brothers, you have to punch a child.

With Mi Fang's joining, the biggest advantage is the Mi family's fleet and sailors who are familiar with the sea conditions, which directly doubles Dong Huang's naval strength and also makes Dong Huang's plan to attack the Japanese slave country more guaranteed.

In Dong Huang's plan, after the Huainan Campaign, Yuan Shao was defeated, and Xuzhou and Qingzhou were pacified, it was almost winter, and then Zhu Heng was just allowed to lead the fleet to the Japanese slave country by the monsoon.

Attacking the Japanese slave country can only be regarded as Dong Huang's willful plan to go his own way despite public opinion, and a large part of his subordinates, including Fa Zheng, are actually very disapproving, but with Dong Huang's prestige and control of the army, his petty willfulness has not encountered any resistance, and even Zhang Zhao, who is known for his direct advice in history, did not dare to say much.

Compared with the long-term goal of attacking the Japanese slave country, the short-term goal of this naval army with double strength is to enter Huai.

In Fa Zheng's plan, this fleet is actually the real killer weapon against the enemy army in Shouchun, once this fleet takes advantage of the recent large volume of the Huai River from the sea into the Huai River and blockades the Huai River, then Shouchun will fall into the encirclement of Dong Huang's army on all sides, not only lose the grain and grass support from Xuzhou, but also lose the way to retreat, and fall into a real death.

Not everyone can learn from the overlord of Chu, and not everyone can be born after death like the soldiers, at least Yuan Shao can't, and neither can the crooked melon and jujube army under his command.

And as long as this strategy can be achieved and Yuan Shao's main force is eliminated, Xuzhou can also be easily pacified.

This is why Fa Zhengming knew that Lejin's troops were very likely to be attacked by water, and even had the risk of annihilation, so he wanted them to march - Fa Zheng needed them to hold back the main force of Yuan Shao's army, so that they could see the hope of annihilating the main force of Dong Huang's army, so as to ensure that they would not easily break their tails to survive.

People hurt the heart of the tiger, and the tiger hurts people's hearts.

People and tigers compete for each other, and who is the final winner is not so easy to distinguish.

In all fairness, Xu You and Guo Tu are both resourceful people, and they are often more stable and comprehensive than the immature Fa Zheng thoughts, but unfortunately, there are too few cards they can play in their hands.

Fa Zheng was so extravagant that he could use 100,000 elite soldiers as bait, and he was confident that even if he lost 100,000 elite soldiers, he would be able to completely annihilate the main force of Yuan Shao's army, and Yuan Shao's initial plan was not to win a head-on decisive battle, but to drown Liu Beijun and Dong Huang's main force together.

However, what neither Fa Zheng nor Xu You expected was that Liu Bei and Guan Yu did not play their cards according to the routine.

Guan Yu, who had a deep hatred with Dong Huangjun and was unwilling to be compared to Sun Bofu, who had not dried up, used a water attack strategy in advance.

Guan Yu's water attack was not without effect, although it failed to capture Chengde City, but Lejin's nearly 100,000 troops could not all have camped high enough, so they also lost thousands of people, coupled with the impact of continuous rain, it was difficult to make a fire to eat hot food and cooked water, and many people in the whole army were sick, and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

It's just that Guan Yu, who is also difficult to fight in muddy water, has not been able to achieve greater results.

The greatest significance of Guan Yu's battle is that the road from Shouchun to the first line of Chengde will be completely destroyed, even if the flood recedes, it will not be able to continue the march for a while, and at the same time, he must be careful of the plague.

Such a result was very aggrieved for Fazheng, and he would rather be flooded in Shouchun than in Chengde, because it made him lose control of Shouchun's situation.

Yuan Shao and Xu You were also dissatisfied, because they originally planned to wait for the Lejin Division, and it was best to add that when the main forces of Fa Zheng and even Dong Huang came to Shouchun, they would enlarge the water and flood them, but as a result, you Guan Yu made such a move, not to mention that he did not achieve enough results, but made the enemy wary of the water attack, what if the enemy felt that this season was not suitable for marching, and had to wait until the end of the rainy season to advance?

When the time comes, without the help of Da Shui, how can you resist Dong Huang's million-strong army!

Do you rely on Guan Yu?

Yuan Shao and Xu You were helpless.

And their helplessness soon turned into horror.

A grain transport officer came to report: A large number of Dong Huang's army ships have appeared on the Huai River, and they have made a surprise attack to seize the important town of Xiacai in Huaibei, blockaded the Huai River, and cut off the communication between Xuzhou and Shouchun.

Another scout came to report that Zhao Yun's troops had captured Dangtu, and Dong Huang's army and the Huaihe water army were each other's internal and external forces, advancing towards Shouchun.

"How so!"

Yuan Shao, who heard the bad news, spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted again.

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Thank you brothers for your support, thank you very much! Tomorrow is a day off, there are only three watches, and the day after tomorrow will continue to be Riwanha!

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