The sky was clear, but Shouchun Yuan Shaojun's face was cloudy.

The breath of fear and despair spread from the officers to the soldiers and to all the people.

In order to block Dong Huang and win this battle, Yuan Shaoke concentrated a huge army of more than 300,000 troops in Shouchun, including almost half of the Xuzhou soldiers.

The Xuzhou soldiers had never fought against Dong Huang's army, and they did not have much fear of Dong Huang's army, coupled with the successive victories against Yuan Shu, their military morale and combat effectiveness were very impressive.

The remaining half of Yuan Shu's army, although the morale is terrifying, but with the two consecutive victories of Sun Ce and Liu Bei, the morale of the army has also recovered.

However, all of this became a bubble in the water as Dong Huang's army cut off the Huai River.

Now Shouchun, with Dong Huang's army and navy in the north, muddy land and Dong Huang's army in the south, Zhao Yun's threat in the east, and Zhang Liao's persecution in the west, has fallen into a heavy encirclement and has become a dead land.

In this case, the excessive number of troops only exacerbated the crisis of Yuan Shaojun's army - after the loss of the Huai River grain route, Yuan Shaojun's military rations would be difficult to support for too long.

What's even more terrifying is that since Dong Huang's army can enter the Huai River with warships, can he also send troops to the empty Xuzhou?

Yuan Shao didn't even dare to think about it.

"What can I do about it?"

Yuan Shao was desperate.

This situation reminded him of Dong Huang's closing of the door and beating the dog during the previous Battle of Luoyang, and Yuan Shao was also wiped out by the whole army that time, and he was only spared.

"If the Huai River water army cannot be broken, then my longevity and spring cannot be kept! For the sake of today's plan, only by defeating Zhang Liao's troops head-on, opening up the channel, crossing the river from the upper reaches of the Huai River, entering Runan, uniting with Cao Mengde, and holding the Huaibei line, can there be a glimmer of life. ”

Xu Yu pondered for a long time and came up with the only plan.

Now that Huaishui is blocked, it is difficult for everyone to abandon the army to cross the river, but it is only by preserving a part of the army that there is a chance.

"You can't just run away, otherwise the lord will walk forward, and Shouchun will be in chaos on the back foot, which is very likely to cause a rout."

Guo Tuye hurriedly added: "For today's plan, one is to release all the water stored before, so that the downstream area of Weishui can not march at all, and prevent the main force of Dong Huang's army from coming to help; The second ordered Liu Bei and Guan Yu's department to go to Xiquyang to block Zhao Yun's department under the banner of the lord, Guan Yunchang has the courage of ten thousand people, and Zhao Zilong is also good at fighting generals, the two fight, Guan Yunchang may be able to kill Zhao Yun, so that the enemy of the East Road can be broken! ”

"As for Shouchun, the lord can guard it with a general, and also under the banner of the lord, the lord can tell the general that the lord can defeat Zhang Liao in a roundabout way to open up the grain road, so that he doesn't have to worry!"

"In this way, the three roads are under the banner of the lord, and in order to prevent the lord from forcibly crossing the river with the tactics of the lord, Dong Huang's navy will inevitably divide the troops to deal with it, and the pressure on the lord will be much less when facing Zhang Liao."

One person counts short, and two people count long.

Xu You and Guo Tu jointly contributed to the plan, and finally came up with a more feasible way to get out.

"That's it!"

Yuan Shao also ran out of ideas.

Although Guo Tuyi said that it seems that the situation of the army is not bad, Yuan Shao is not a newcomer to the battlefield, how can he not see that Guo Tu is also sacrificing Liu Bei and others to survive?

It's just that at this time, everything is not as important as your own life.

Yuan Shao's order was quickly issued, and Liu Bei, who received the order, honestly didn't really want to go, because his sixth felt that it would be dangerous to go, but Liu Bei's biggest flaw was that he didn't have enough strategic vision, but he was persuaded by Yuan Shao's various strategies and the painting of Yangzhou Assassin's history, and felt that if he defeated Zhao Yun, he defeated Dong Huang's army on both sides.

Guan Yu was also very dissatisfied with Zhao Yun's rumored divine Shenwei general, and he was conceited that he would definitely be able to kill Zhao Yun under the horse, and step on Zhao Yun's head to shock Huaxia.

Yuan Shaojun's abnormal movements were soon detected by Dong Huang's army on Huaishui.

At this time, the commander of Dong Huangjun's army in Huaishui was Zhou Tai.

Although Dong Huang repeatedly said that he wanted Zhou Tai to be his personal guard and act as a water mount when necessary, in fact, among Dong Huang's naval generals, Zhou Tai was the only one who had the qualifications and ability to become the commander of the naval army.

Gan Ning, Cai Mao and the like may have abilities, but their qualifications are seriously insufficient, not to mention those naval generals in Jiangdong, as for Zhu Heng, who Dong Huang is optimistic about, he only felt that he died on the way to conquer the Japanese slave country and was not distressed, so he would reuse him.

In this case, Zhou Tai is actually Dong Huang's only choice.

"Yuan Shao's army is divided into three ways, but what tricks are there? Zijing, what do you think? ”

Zhou Tai glanced at the generals under his command, such as Niu Jin, He Qi, Pan Zhang, Liuzan, Zhang Ying, and Fan Neng, and finally locked his eyes on Lu Su, who was specially recommended by Fazheng.

Although Zhou Tai didn't know Lu Su's ability, he trusted Fa Zheng's ability very much.

You must know that Fa Zheng is the only man under Dong Huang's command who has offended all Dong Huang's concubines and concubines, and can still get Dong Huang's trust to take charge alone!

This is something that even Jia Xu, who can be called the first powerful minister under Dong Huang, can't do!

Not only could Jia Xu not be able to do it, but Jia Xu even got the affirmation of Dong Huang's concubines, for example, not long ago, Jia Xu sent Dong Huang's concubines to Jinling, which won the favor of Dong Huang's concubines.

Then the concubines arrived in Jinling and saw the twelve hairpins of Jinling offered by Fazheng......

In short, Fa Zheng was able to survive in such an environment and gain Dong Huang's trust, in addition to being a once-in-a-lifetime master, Fa Zheng's ability was still a little bit.

"The trick of the broken tail and the suspicious soldier!"

Lu Su explained with a smile: "After our army appeared in Huaishang, Shouchun has been surrounded on all sides, if Yuan Shao doesn't leave, he won't be able to leave, Yuan Shao's three suspicious soldiers just want to interfere with our judgment and make us reluctant to divide our troops, so as to reduce the threat to him and facilitate his crossing of the river!" ”

"Then where will Yuan Shao cross the river from?"

Zhou Tai's eyes lit up suddenly: capturing Yuan Shao alive would undoubtedly be the greatest achievement of this battle.

"Ninety percent may move westward, wanting to cross the river from the upper reaches of the Huai River after breaking through Zhang Liaobu and enter Runan; Half of it is possible to stay in Shouchun, and half of it is possible to cross the river from downstream. ”

Lu Su said very conservatively.

"It's done, I'll personally lead the troops to catch up with the upstream Yuan army!"

Zhou Tai said earnestly.

"Why don't you eat the fat before leaving? After all, if you chase it now, you can't say that Yuan Shao has been defeated by General Zhang! ”

Here, what Lu Su said was very vague, he was persuading Zhou Tai not to rush to compete with Zhang Liao.

What Dong Huang thinks of his subordinates' struggle for merit, Lu Su doesn't know, but Lu Su knows that if Zhang Liao knows that Zhou Tai took away the credit at his instigation, I'm afraid Zhang Liao will definitely not be able to spare himself.

"Fat? Where's the fat? ”

As soon as Lu Su said this, Zhou Taike became interested.

(End of chapter)