The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 388 The End of the Huainan War
Since Zhuge Liang led the army to attack Huainan, he first led a partial division to block Hefei's reinforcements, and ordered Gan Ning to lead the main force to quickly capture Wancheng, thus regaining Lujiang County, and then joined forces with Gan Ning to attack Hefei.

Hefei has always been an important military town to resist Jiangdong's invasion of the north. Sun Quan once raised troops to attack Hefei, but failed.Zhang Liao, Li Dian, and Le Jin also guarded here for several years, but no major war broke out.

The main reason is that Jingzhou's strong rise made Sun Quan have no energy to expand northward.If he can't beat Cao Cao, Sun Quan can retreat to Jiangdong and become a local emperor behind closed doors, but if he can't beat Zhang Wu, Sun Quan is in danger of perishing.

Therefore, since the failure of the raid on Hefei that year, Sun Quan has been focusing on dealing with Zhang Wu until he was completely defeated by Zhang Wu.

After Zhang Wu attacked Jiangdong, he didn't have the time and energy to attack Huainan for a period of time. He didn't even want Lujiang County, which was taken by Cao Cao at the beginning, because there were places more important than Lujiang and Huainan waiting for him to fight for. .

It wasn't until after taking Yizhou that Zhang Wu finally breathed a sigh of relief. It happened that Jiangdong was basically stable, and Jianye City was almost built, so Zhang Wu asked Zhuge Liang to send troops to Huainan.On the one hand, it was to regain the grain-producing area of ​​Lujiang, and on the other hand, it was to force Cao Cao to withdraw his troops from Hanzhong.

Cao Cao was defeated by the Han River twice and lost a lot of soldiers and horses. Therefore, after the 30 troops went to Hanzhong, there were not many troops stationed in Huainan, and they only relied on cavalry.

Zhuge Liang stationed his army at Ruxukou, and fought several battles with Zhang Liao. He found that Cao Jun's cavalry was indeed difficult to deal with, especially under the command of Zhang Liao, a top cavalry general, Zhuge Liang was not at all able to cope with the [-] cavalry galloping freely. Dare to attack the city.

But the cavalry was too expensive, and the food and grass in Hefei City alone were not enough. In the past, Lujiang County supported the food and grass. Now that Lujiang was captured by Gan Ning, Zhang Liao could only rely on Shouchun in the rear for support.

Zhuge Liang didn't dare to attack Hefei, but he could attack other prefectures and counties. He also asked Zhao Yun to snatch the food and grass sent by Shouchun many times on the way.At first Zhang Liao led his cavalry out of the city to rescue them, but after being ambushed by Zhuge Liang, he no longer dared to rescue those small counties. Fortunately, the cavalry was highly mobile and did not lose many troops.

Those small county towns don’t need to be rescued, anyway, they can be taken back after the prime minister’s army arrives, but the food roads must not be cut off, otherwise the soldiers and civilians in Hefei City will starve to death.

Therefore, Zhang Liao decided to leave one man to guard the city, and the two led all the cavalry to wander outside the city, which could not only prevent the opponent from attacking the city, but also escort the grain transport team.

Zhang Liao was sure to lead the cavalry, so he left Li Dian to defend the city, and Le Jin left the city with Zhang Liao, because Zhang Liao and Li Dian were not on good terms.

Li Dian was born in Juye County, Shanyang County, and lived in Chengshi County, which belonged to Yanzhou in the Eastern Han Dynasty.Li Dian's uncle, Li Qian, gathered a team in the Cheng family, followed Cao Cao to conquer the Yellow Turban, and later followed Cao Cao to fight Yuan Shu.

When Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, Zhang Miao, Chen Gong and others who stayed in Yanzhou rebelled against Cao Cao and welcomed Lu Bu into Yanzhou. The counties and counties in Yanzhou surrendered to Lu Bu one after another, but Li Gan refused to surrender.

Later, Lu Bu sent Xue Lan and Li Feng led the army to surrender Li Gan, but Li Gan still refused to surrender, so Xue Lan and others killed Li Gan.Many of Li Gan's soldiers were members of the Li clan, and many were killed. Now Li Dian's family had a blood feud with Lu Bu.And Zhang Liao was Lu Bu's general at that time, perhaps when Li Gan was killed, Zhang Liao was also present.

With [-] cavalry protecting the grain road, Zhuge Liang had no other way to deal with the opponent. Although Zhao Yun was fierce, his cavalry was far inferior to his opponent. If he fought head-on with Zhang Liao, he would be completely wiped out with a single charge.

The two thousand cavalry under Zhao Yun were all Zhang Wu's cavalry, and they were Zhang Wu's darling. It was because Zhao Yun was not only brave and invincible, but also cautious, that Zhao Yun was allowed to command the two thousand cavalry belonging to the Wuwei Battalion.

There is no way, the cavalry hangs like this on the plains. In the era without machine guns and cannons, the cavalry is the father on the plains.Just as Cao Cao did not dare to cross the Yangtze River without a navy, Zhang Wu did not dare to march north without cavalry.

In the original book, although Sun Quan did not capture Hefei until his death, and did not expand his territory northward, Cao Cao and his son and grandson did not take a step across the Yangtze River.It wasn't until the Sima clan destroyed Shu that they built warships in Yizhou, and then went down the river to destroy Soochow.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Mongolian army was blocked by Xiangyang for 40 years. In the final analysis, it was blocked by the Yangtze River. If there was no Yangtze River, the Mongolian army would not have to smash Xiangyang.

In this way, the two sides confronted each other until Cao Cao led his troops.

After Cao Cao led the army back to Xuchang, he made some repairs, left Xiahou Dun to guard Xuchang, and led an army of [-] to rescue Hefei.

Zhuge Liang found out that Cao Cao was coming, and formed an array to fight Cao Jun.

The general Gan Ning went out to fight. Cao Cao knew Gan Ning's bravery and was afraid that the others would not be his opponents, so he sent Xu Chu to the battle.

Gan Ning and Xu Chu fought for [-] rounds with no end in sight, so they each withdrew their troops and returned to the formation.

Afterwards, Zhao Yun went out to fight, Cao Cao had no choice but to let Zhang Liao fight.Because Cao Cao also knew Zhao Yun's strength well, when he was in Runan, he had a tie with Xu Chu, and stabbed Gao Lan to death with one shot, defeating Zhang He in [-] rounds.Now that Xu Chu had just fought against Gan Ning, except for Zhang Liao, no one else was Zhao Yun's opponent.

Zhang Liao braced himself and raised his gun to fight Zhao Yun. This was the first confrontation between the two.Although Zhang Liao is also among the first-class level, he is inferior to Zhao Yun in terms of force.Zhang Liao once played against Zhang He for [-] rounds, but Zhang He was defeated by Zhao Yun in [-] rounds.

Therefore, in terms of personal force alone, Zhang Liao is slightly stronger than Zhang Yun, and Zhao Yun is stronger than Zhang Liao, but Zhang Liao is also a super-class general after all, and it is no problem to fight Zhao Yun for fifty rounds.

After fifty rounds, Cao Cao asked Ming Jin to recall Zhang Liao, and then he wanted to send his army to press him.

Zhuge Liang ordered ten thousand arrows to be fired, and Cao Jun was shot back, and then both sides withdrew their troops and returned to camp.

Then, Zhuge Liang pretended to withdraw his troops first, and the army boarded the ship to return to Jianye. When Cao Jun relaxed his vigilance, he sent Gan Ning and Zhao Yun to attack Cao Jun's barracks at night.

For more than half a year, Cao Jun rushed from Xudu to Hanzhong, and then from Hanzhong to Hefei. He was already exhausted. During the day, when he saw the Jingzhou army boarding the ship and preparing to withdraw, he was relieved, and felt that he could finally rest after the battle. Therefore, they did not take more precautions, and the camp was attacked in the middle of the night, causing heavy losses.

When Cao Jun reacted and was about to organize a counterattack, Gan Ning and Zhao Yun had already led their troops out, and with the support of the navy, they boarded the boat and left.

Cao Cao sighed: "Zhuge Liang is so wise, Gan Ning and Zhao Yun are brave, they are really powerful enemies!"

Zhang Liao wanted to take advantage of Zhuge Liang's retreat to retake Lujiang, but was stopped by Jia Xu.Jia Xu also persuaded Cao Cao to give up Lujiang's territory in Wancheng, and just defend Hefei and Jiujiang with all his strength, so as not to waste too many troops on the defensive front.

Cao Cao accepted Jia Xu's opinion, gave up half of the Lujiang River, and focused on defending Hefei and Shouchun, basically maintaining the situation when he confronted Sun Quan, leaving a piece of land as a buffer zone between the two sides.

(End of this chapter)