The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

As Liu Zheng thought before, the goal of Cao Cao, Liu Dai and others must not be Yuan Shu, but Liu Zheng.

Since he came directly to support Yuan Shu this time, it was the same if he was attacked halfway.

As for Liu Dai, Cao Cao and others, the reason why they didn't take down Shouchun City was probably because they were deliberately waiting for Liu Zheng to come over.

"Insidious."

Liu Zheng couldn't help but complained.

"My lord, what should we do next?"

When Liu Zheng was still thinking, Zhou Cang asked a question, wanting to listen to Liu Zheng's opinion.

"There is nothing we can do. We may have to withdraw. Yuan Shu is also unlucky. He was attacked by Cao Cao and others just after taking down Huainan. I don't know if it was destiny."

At the moment, Liu Zheng already felt that there was no need for him to go to Shouchun to support Yuan Shu. No matter how he looked at it, he felt that this was a pit, a trap, waiting for Liu Zheng to jump down.

Liu Zheng didn't want to take people there and be surrounded by Cao Cao, Zhang Miao and others.

Wait a minute, half of his 2 people can't be brought back.

Now the direct loss of more than 4000 people has already made Liu Zheng feel very distressed. This is the elite among the elite. He fought head-on and did not lose to anyone's elite, but now he has lost so much.

"My lord, I have a plan to defeat the enemy army."

Chapter 456 Threesome, there must be evil thoughts

When Liu Zheng planned to withdraw the army regardless of Yuan Shu, Huang Zhong, who had been silent all this time, spoke to Liu Zheng at this moment.

"Oh? What does General Huang Zhong think?"

Liu Zheng planned to retreat, but since Huang Zhong said he had a solution, he wanted to hear what Huang Zhong meant.

"My lord, there are many enemy soldiers and horses, but they are not on the same side. In addition, they have fought before, but only recently rebuilt their friendship. I don't think it is impossible to break this enemy army."

"You mean, use the estrangement to break up their relationship?"

Just halfway through what Huang Zhong said, Liu Zheng had already guessed what Huang Zhong meant. Liu Zheng had thought about this method before, but the idea was good, but it was very difficult to implement.

Let's not talk about whether Cao Cao and others can fall into the trap. Even if they fall into the trap, Liu Zheng can hardly do anything in Huainan with his current manpower. , also has no meaning.

It's better to retreat to Poyang, and you can use the natural danger of the Yangtze River to compete with them. If you can't beat them, you can also use the navy to stalemate for a while.

Anyway, most of Yangzhou is now in the hands of Liu Zheng, and Cao Jun and Liu Dai's army has almost no navy. With the natural danger of the Yangtze River blocking it, Liu Zheng has the confidence and qualifications to fight Cao Cao in the Yangtze River area.

Although there are many more of them, with the help of the natural danger of the Yangtze River, a stalemate is still possible.

"Exactly. Although Liu Dai is temporarily uniting with Cao Cao, Zhang Miao and others to deal with Yuan Shu, in fact, he just wants to take advantage of the strength of Cao Cao and Zhang Miao, deal with Yuan Shu, and break the city as soon as possible. In his heart, he and Cao Cao and Zhang Miao People are not of the same mind, if we can dissolve the relationship between Liu Dai and Zhang Miao and Cao Cao, there is no need to worry about this battle."

"And I think that Cao Cao and Zhang Miao are also not of the same mind. They just formed an alliance to fight against Liu Dai. If they can make the three of them turn against each other and become jealous, then there will be no worries for us."

Huang Zhong expressed his opinion to Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng nodded.

"That's true. I thought the same way. I just want to think of a way to make the three parties turn against each other. This is the most important thing."

"My lord, it's actually not very difficult to make them turn against each other. It's just that Yuan Shu may be involved in this plan."

"Involving Yuan Shu? What do you mean?"

Liu Zheng became more interested in what Huang Zhong said.

"My lord, why do you think Liu Dai, Cao Cao, and Zhang Miao came to attack Huainan?"

"It's reasonable for Liu Dai to attack Huainan. After all, Liu Yao is Liu Dai's own younger brother. It is normal for Liu Dai to avenge his younger brother and attack Yuan Shu with his troops. But what about Cao Cao and Zhang Miao? The coalition forces launched an attack plan against He Miao."

"In turn, he got mixed up with Liu Dai again. There must be something tricky in it. I guess, someone in the Luoyang court must have persuaded Cao Cao and others to raise troops to deal with Yuan Shu. The real purpose was also to against us."

"Since this is the case, then we can also know that they are not of one mind."

Huang Zhong told Liu Zheng about the relationship between Cao Cao and others in detail. Liu Zheng knew about these things, so he asked him immediately.

"General Huang Zhong, let's talk about the main point, how to make them turn against each other."

"It's actually very simple. Our secret work has sent us information that Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, and Liu Dai have about the same number of troops. If we deliberately strike one of them precisely when we are fighting, let them have three powerful troops. , there has been a huge change, the lord still thinks, can the other two remain as one?"

After Huang Zhong finished speaking, Liu Zheng's face changed slightly.

According to what Huang Zhong said, he began to think about it. In fact, what Huang Zhong said was simple. If Liu Zheng fought Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, and Liu Dai, he would definitely fight head-on.

Now that there are 5000 people, if they launch an attack on the three-party coalition forces of the official army, they will definitely not be able to fight against the three parties, but it should still be possible to fight against one of them.

If they hit one side in succession, most of the troops on one side will be killed.

Then the power of one of them must be weak among the three parties. Once weak, the other two parties will despise them, and if they are greedy, there will be the possibility of annexing the third party.

This way, Cao Cao may not necessarily do such a thing, but if it is Liu Dai and Zhang Miao, maybe they have ambitions. Once their own strength is intact, the strength of others will drop. They will not be indifferent to such a good opportunity to annex Suishou and control Yanzhou and even Huainan in one fell swoop.

"Okay, General Huang Zhong, let's give it a try as you said. Anyway, we are here. If we leave without fighting these enemy troops, it is not my Liu Zheng's style."

"Since we have decided to use such a estrangement, who should we choose as our target?"

Since there is a separation, and there are three parties to choose, who becomes the target has become the most important thing.

In fact, Liu Zheng already has a target candidate in his heart, but he still wants to hear what his subordinates think.

The first person he asked was Huang Zhong, after all, he was the one who proposed this plan.

Presumably, there should be a more suitable candidate in Huang Zhong's mind.

Huang Zhong also knew that Liu Zheng was asking him at this time, so he responded directly to Liu Zheng.

"In my opinion, the weakest of the three parties should be chosen."

"The weakest of the three parties should be Zhang Miao."

Huang Zhong's opinion is to strike hard at Zhang Miao. After beheading his troops to a relatively low number, it will definitely arouse the greed of Cao Cao and Liu Dai. At that time, the two of them will take advantage of the situation and annex Zhang Miao's troops. and territory.

And Zhang Miao will definitely not give up so easily. Once attacked by Cao Cao and Liu Dai, he will definitely use all his strength to launch a counterattack, so as to cause a lose-lose effect.

After Huang Zhong finished speaking, the others did not express any other opinions.After all, their understanding of the situation was not as clear as that of Huang Zhong.

Liu Zheng didn't expect them to express a different opinion.

It's just that after understanding what Huang Zhong meant, he still didn't agree to Huang Zhong, but spoke out his thoughts.

"Zhang Miao's strength seems to be the weakest side, but if we attack him, it will not cause the three parties to fight each other, but it may make them more united."

Chapter 457 Find a way

Huang Zhong was taken aback for a moment, not quite understanding the meaning of what Liu Zheng said.

Liu Zheng immediately explained to him.

"Although Zhang Miao's strength is the weakest among the three, if we attack him, Zhang Miao's strength will decline again after being attacked by us, which may really arouse Liu Dai's greed and deal with Zhang Miao easily, but This possibility is very low, and once this happens, the stronger Liu Dai will become stronger, and Cao Cao may also abandon Zhang Miao and switch to Liu Dai."

"On the contrary, if Liu Dai attacks him, Zhang Miao can get greedy and launch an attack on Liu Dai."

Because Liu Zheng knew these historical figures better, Zhang Miao and Cao Cao had acted against the imperial court before.

Once they have the opportunity, they will still take actions against the imperial court. This is like a Pandora's box, which was opened by them. After trying the benefits of resisting the imperial court, they can no longer stop. The imperial power is no longer so important in their hearts. Supreme.

But Liu Dai is different. He is a clan member of the Han family, so he will consider it for the court.

Even if the strength of Zhang Miao and Cao Cao declines, Liu Dai will not take the initiative to attack them due to the news that they have returned to the embrace of the imperial court, unless there is an order from the imperial court.

But Zhang Miao was different. He already had the heart to resist. If he could occupy Huainan this time and defeat Liu Dai at the same time, let him occupy the land of a state.

At that time, he will have no scruples and ignore the court.Being able to grow big in an instant, this kind of opportunity that can allow him to develop rapidly, presumably he still wants to seize it.

Through the character of the characters, Liu Zheng can guess that Liu Dai may not attack Cao Cao and Zhang Miao.

But once Cao Cao and Zhang Miao learned of Liu Dai's decline, they would definitely launch an attack on Liu Dai and then occupy the entire Yanzhou.

Regardless of whether it is Cao Cao's attack or Zhang Miao's attack, Liu Zheng is happy to see it, so the only way to do it is to target Liu Dai.

After some explanation, Huang Zhong nodded.

"Then attack Liu Dai, I have no objection to that."

Huang Zhong just put forward his own ideas, and Liu Zheng was the one who made the decision in the end.Now that Liu Zheng had said that he wanted to attack Liu Dai, he would not argue with Liu Zheng, he would only think that Liu Zheng's method was good.

After the discussion, everyone understood.

"Okay, now that we have decided to attack Liu Dai, we must rely on the current troops and prepare to launch a head-on confrontation with them. On the one hand, we will lead people to attract the enemy's attack. On the other hand, we must divide Send out an army to attack Liu Dai's men."

"At the same time, it's best to go directly to the outside of Shouchun City, launch an attack, and reveal the news that we came to support Yuan Shu, so that the distance can give us some responses and launch a wave of attacks."

After another round of discussions, everyone decided to launch an attack on Shouchun City after two days.

The reason why he didn't launch an attack as soon as possible is also because, after knowing Shouchun's information, Liu Zheng felt that the remaining manpower might not be able to fight. The more than 7 people present needed reinforcements.

On the one hand, Liu Zheng quickly sent people back to recruit [-] elite Wenpin, as well as [-] sailors from Zu Lang, and [-] troops from Pan Lin who had just surrendered.

For this battle, Liu Zheng put Yuzhang and Poyang on hold for the time being. If Huainan cannot be kept, Yuzhang and Poyang cannot be guarded either. He might as well let go and fight on Huainan. field.

The mobilization of Wenpin's [-] soldiers and horses is actually not completely incapable of defending Yuzhang. When Liu Zheng captured Yuzhang before, he had recruited [-] defenders from Yuzhang's prefect Zhou Shu. , but Liu Zheng did not disband them, but let them break up and disperse to various small county towns. Some Wenpin troops were reorganized and formed a new team.

Although these people have only come here for less than half a month, Liu Zheng doesn't expect them to bring war. He only needs to maintain the law and order and temporary defense of Yuzhang County, and there should be no problem.

With Wenpin, Zulang, Pan Lin, three soldiers and horses, and a combined force of 2 troops, after arriving in the Huainan area, Liu Zheng had more confidence to resist the officials and the army.

For Wenpin's people, Liu Zheng directly asked them to join Liu Zheng. After the meeting, Liu Zheng had 6000 people under his command.

Pay attention to the battle with Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, and Liu Dai.

At the same time, because Zu Lang and Pan Lin were mostly sailors, Liu Zheng didn't let them come directly, but hid on the Yangtze River, and obeyed Liu Zheng's dispatch at any time.

After Wenpin brought people together, Liu Zheng divided the 6000 people here into two teams.

One was led by Liu Zheng himself, with a total of 7000 people, and the other was led by Huang Zhong with 9000 people.

In fact, Liu Zheng led the Wenpin and Zhoucang battalions to attack Huainan directly from the front, while Huang Zhong led his own battalion to attack Liu Dai's troops directly from the side.

For the specific battle, Liu Zheng did not give Huang Zhong instructions. The instructions told Huang Zhong that after finding out Liu Dai's troops, attack Liu Dai's people as much as possible, and then carry out guerrilla tactics.

Remember not to love fighting, hit and run.

Anyway, Liu Zheng only came to Huainan to support Yuan Shu, not necessarily to save Yuan Shu, just do his best.The most important thing is that if it can cause a certain amount of damage to the three-party coalition forces, then Liu Zheng's goal will be achieved.

Soon, after the soldiers and horses were allocated, Liu Zheng began to lead the more than 1 people to march in the direction of Shouchun City in Huainan.

In fact, in the past few days, Liu Zheng sent a large number of scouts, especially in the direction of Shouchun, and even sent hundreds of soldiers to inquire about the news.

But what surprised him was that neither Cao Cao's army nor Liu Dai's army continued to send troops to chase him.

Logically speaking, knowing Liu Zheng's strength and the specific number of soldiers and horses, especially after Liu Zheng encountered an ambush, the next step should be to shift the focus to sending him over to pursue Liu Zheng.

However, contrary to Liu Zheng's expectations, Cao Cao, Liu Dai and others never sent any troops over, and Liu Zheng never even caught a single spy.

Regarding this point, it is not that Liu Zheng has not thought about it, but this time he is mainly engaged in guerrilla warfare, and he does not intend to face head-to-head with Cao Cao, Liu Dai and others. Worried about being ambushed.

Liu Zheng led the people, and within two hours, they were already close to Shouchun City, but what he didn't expect was that here, Cao Cao, Liu Dai and others had set up a battle formation, waiting for Liu Zheng's death. arrival.

Chapter 458 Surprised

Shouchun City, two days ago.

After Liu Zheng was ambushed, Cao Hong, Cheng Yu, and Zhang Chao retreated back to the big tent in Shouchun City.

"My lord, your guess is really good. Liu Zheng indeed led someone to appear from the place where we set up an ambush."

In the big tent, Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, Liu Dai and others saw their soldiers and horses returning, and immediately looked at the three lieutenants with concern, wanting to ask these people how the battle was going.

"How's the battle going, did you kill Liu Zheng?"

Cao Cao was still more concerned. After seeing his brother Cao Hong came back, he immediately asked Cao Hong.

"My lord, we did meet Liu Zheng and his troops, and the ambush was successful. Unfortunately, we didn't kill Liu Zheng, nor defeated Liu Zheng's troops. Instead, we lost a lot of troops."

Cao Hong could only tell Cao Cao what happened on the ambush battlefield. Not only was Cao Cao a little surprised, but even Liu Dai and Zhang Miao felt something was wrong, and they all looked at Cao Hong, Cheng Yu and others with puzzled faces. people.

"What the hell happened?"

Liu Dai took the initiative to ask Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu was a scholar, so he had a good idea of ​​what he was talking about, so he began to explain the story to everyone.

After some words, the people in the big tent finally understood what had happened, but they all fell into deep contemplation.

After about half a meeting, Cao Cao, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke again.