Infinite War Begins with Cao Thief

The sky was sunny, but Shouchun Yuan Shaojun's face was gloomy.

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

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

The Xuzhou soldiers had never fought against Dong Huang's army and were not much afraid of Dong Huang's army. Coupled with their successive victories against Yuan Shu, their morale and combat effectiveness were very impressive.

The remaining half of Yuan Shu's troops surrendered. Although their morale was frighteningly low, with the two consecutive victories of Sun Ce and Liu Bei, the morale of the troops has also recovered. Now the dispatch and command can be considered orderly, and everything is developing in a good direction.

However, all this came to nothing as Dong Huang's navy cut off the Huaihe River.

Shouchun now has Dong Huang's navy to the north, Muddy Land and Dong Huang's army to the south, Zhao Yun's threat to the east, and Zhang Liao's persecution to the west. It has been heavily surrounded and has become a dead place.

In this case, excessive troops only exacerbated Yuan Shaojun's crisis - after losing the Huaihe River food route, Yuan Shaojun's military supplies would be difficult to sustain for too long.

What's even more frightening is that since Dong Huang's army can send warships into the Huaihe River, can they also send troops to the empty Xuzhou?

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

"What can we do about it?"

Yuan Shao was desperate.

This situation reminded him of Dong Huang's beating of dogs behind closed doors during the Battle of Luoyang. That time, Yuan Shao's entire army was wiped out and he only escaped with his life.

"If the navy of the Huaihe River cannot be broken, then my Shouchun cannot be defended! For the current plan, we can only defeat Zhang Liao's troops head-on, open a channel, cross the river from the upper reaches of the Huaihe River, enter Runan, join forces with Cao Mengde, and defend the front line of Huaibei. A glimmer of hope.”

Xu You thought hard and came up with the only plan.

Now that the Huaihe River is blocked, it is difficult for everyone to abandon the army and cross the river. Instead, they have to save part of the army to have a chance.

"We can't just run away, otherwise if the master steps forward, Shouchun will be in chaos, and it is very likely to cause a collapse."

Guo Tuye quickly added: "For the current plan, one is to drain all the previously stored water, making it impossible to march in the lower reaches of the Feishui River, and prevent the main force of Dong Huang's army from coming to help; the other is to order Liu Bei and Guan Yu's troops to attack the lord. The flag is sent to Xiquyang to stop Zhao Yun's troops. Guan Yunchang has the courage of ten thousand men, and Zhao Zilong is also good at fighting generals in battle. If the two of them fight, Guan Yunchang may be able to kill Zhao Yun, so that the enemy on the east road can be defeated!"

"As for Shouchun, my lord can guard it with a general. Also under the banner of my lord, my lord can tell the general that my lord will defeat Zhang Liao in a roundabout way and the food route will be opened, so he doesn't have to worry!"

"In this way, the three routes are all under the banner of the lord. In order to prevent the lord from using the trick to force the crossing of the river, Dong Huang's naval forces must divide their forces to deal with it. By then, the pressure on the lord when facing Zhang Liao will be much less."

One person is short and two people are long.

Xu You and Guo Tu worked together and finally devised a more feasible escape strategy.

"Just follow this plan!"

Yuan Shao also had no idea.

Although let Guo Tuyi tell it, it seems that the situation of the army is not bad, but Yuan Shao is not a newbie on the battlefield. How could he not see that Guo Tu was also sacrificing Liu Bei and others to survive by cutting off his tail?

It's just that at this time, nothing is as important as your own life.

Yuan Shao's order was quickly issued. Liu Bei, who received the order, honestly didn't want to go because he had a sixth sense that there would be danger if he went there. However, Liu Bei's biggest flaw was that he did not have enough strategic vision, and instead was beaten by Yuan Shao. The strategy of defeating the enemy was convinced by the Yangzhou governor's drawings, and he felt that by defeating Zhao Yun, he had defeated Dong Huang's two armies. The victory of the Shouchun defense battle was close at hand, and he was also the number one contributor. ah!

Guan Yu was also very dissatisfied with Zhao Yun's rumored miraculous general power. He was so arrogant that he felt that he could definitely kill Zhao Yun under his horse and step on Zhao Yun's head to shock China.

Yuan Shaojun's unusual movements were quickly detected by Dong Huang's army on the Huaihe River.

At this time, the coach of Dong Huangjun on Huaishang River was Zhou Tai.

Although Dong Huang has repeatedly stated that he wants Zhou Tai to be his personal bodyguard and serve as a water mount when necessary, in fact, among Dong Huang's naval generals, only the one with the qualifications and ability to become a naval commander and lead the army is Zhou Tai is just one person.

Gan Ning and Cai Mao may have the ability, but their qualifications are seriously lacking, not to mention the naval generals in Jiangdong. As for Zhu Heng, whom Dong Huang was optimistic about, he just felt that he died on the way to conquer the Japanese slave country and he would not feel sorry for him. , will reuse him.

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

"Yuan Shao's army is divided into three groups. Is there any conspiracy? Zijing, what do you think?"

Zhou Tai glanced at his subordinates Niu Jin, He Qi, Pan Zhang, Liu Zan, Zhang Ying, Fan Neng and other generals, and finally fixed his eyes on Lu Su, who was specially recommended by Fazheng.

Although Zhou Tai did not know Lu Su's ability, he trusted Fa Zheng's ability.

You know, Fazheng is the only man under Dong Huang who has offended all Dong Huang's concubines and can still gain Dong Huang's trust to take charge of his own affairs!

This is something that even Jia Xu, the most powerful official under Dong Huang, cannot do!

Not only was Jia Xu unable to do it, Jia Xu even got the approval of Dong Huang's concubines. For example, not long ago, Jia Xu sent all Dong Huang's concubines to Jinling, which won the favor of Dong Huang's concubines.

Then the concubines arrived at Jinling and saw the Twelve Hairpins of Jinling presented by Fa Zheng...

In short, Fazheng was able to survive in such an environment and gained Dong Huang's trust. In addition to the fact that Dong Huang was a once-in-a-lifetime enlightened master, Fazheng still had some abilities.

"The plan of cutting off the tail and suspecting soldiers!"

Lu Su smiled and explained: "After our army appeared on Huaishang, Shouchun has been surrounded from 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 We have no choice but to divide our troops to reduce the threat to him and make it easier for him to cross the river!"

"Then where will Yuan Shao cross the river?"

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

"Nine percent of the possibility is to march westward, hoping to defeat Zhang Liao's troops and then cross the river from the upper reaches of the Huaihe River and enter Runan; half of the chance is to stay in Shouchun, and half of the chance is to cross the river from the lower reaches."

Lu Su said it very conservatively.

"It's done, I will personally lead the troops to catch up with Yuan Jun!"

Zhou Tai said eagerly.

"General, why don't you eat the fat first and then leave? After all, if we chase him now, there is no chance that Yuan Shao has been defeated by General Zhang!"

Here, Lu Su spoke very implicitly. He was trying to persuade Zhou Tai not to rush to compete with Zhang Liao for credit.

Lu Su didn't know what Dong Huang thought about his subordinates competing for credit, but Lu Su knew that if Zhang Liao knew that Zhou Tai had taken away the credit at his instigation, Zhang Liao would definitely not be able to spare him.

"Fat? Where's the fat?"

When Lu Su said this, Zhou Taike became interested.