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After nightfall, someone really came to the camp to look for Xu Ding.
Xu Ding asked: "What's the situation in the city?"
"Returning to my lord, there are five thousand enemy soldiers in the city. The guard is Li Su's confidant Li You. Li You is a member of Li Su's clan. Hearing that the lord is leading troops to the south, he dispatched troops from various cities to stop the lord here." Come on.
Only then did Xu Ding realize that they were Li Su's clansmen.
No wonder he dared to block himself, Xu Ding asked about the situation in other places in Shangdang.
Someone told Xu Ding that Li You didn't dare to stop Xu Ding. After all, Li Su asked Li You to guard the party to guard against Zhang Yang in Hanoi.
Fearing that Zhang Yang would attack the eldest son from Xuan's family.
As a result, something happened in Hanoi.
Zhang Yang was indeed planning to sneak attack Shangdang and take the eldest son city.
All the soldiers and horses were drawn into the Gaodu City of Shangdang, but the high officials took the remnants into Hanoi, and took the opportunity to seize the city to develop soldiers and horses, intending to seek Hanoi.
Fortunately, Dong Zhao, who guarded the wild king, and others stood firm in the city, so they were not attacked by high officials.
Zhang Yang was so frightened that he immediately led his troops back to Hanoi, and fought with Gao Gan in Hanoi.
"Ahem! This... is really unfortunate news." A sympathetic smile appeared on Xu Ding's face.
Nothing, because Gao Gan was knocked away for his own reasons.
This should be the fire at the city gate and the fish pond.
However, at that time, Guo Jia and the others did not receive any information about where the high-ranking officials fled, and now they finally understand.
Gao Gan, Cui Lin and others turned out to have run into Hanoi and made trouble after lurking in Hanoi.
"My lord, if you want to take down Shangdang County, you can go to Tunliu City. If you just use the road to go back to Jizhou, then there is no need to fight here. We know how to avoid Tunliu and go to Huguan. "The messenger suggested.
Xu Ding said: "This time I didn't come here to occupy the city. It would be great if I could take it down. It's okay if I can't go around it. I think Huguan is good. Why don't you take this place first, and your contact person will take us there."
"It's the lord!"
With the help of the heaven and earth network, Xu Ding and others bypassed Tunliu as if they were familiar with the road, and then went to Huguan.
The guard of Huguan was a bandit leader from Taihang Mountain, he never thought that he could kill a soldier from behind, but he was captured by Xu Ding in one fell swoop.
After taking Huguan, this time Xu Ding did not leave, but sent someone eastward to inform Jushou in Yecheng.
Let him send his infantry over.
Huguan, Xu Ding did not intend to give up to Liu Bei and Li Su.
This is the only way to enter Shangdang from Jizhou.
Once you have mastered this, you can attack Shangdang at any time, making Liu Bei and Li Su restless.
At the same time, it is also to protect Jizhou from the harassment of Liu Bei and Li Su, and to hold the initiative in his hands.
Li Su chased to Tunliu, and found that Xu Ding had captured Huguan and hadn't left. He probably understood Xu Ding's meaning in his heart.
Can't help but scold Li You for being incompetent.
After receiving the scolding, Li You felt aggrieved and said, "Military Master, why don't you take advantage of Xu Ding's few troops and forcefully take back Huguan."
Hearing this, Li Su stomped his feet and scolded bitterly: "Idiot, now that Xu Ding has occupied Huguan, you think you can take it back so easily.
What he brings is a divine machine cavalry, and when he rushes out, he can knock our army into the air, and kill you without leaving any armor behind.
Even if he is defending the city, his three thousand continuous crossbows can shoot the attacking troops into sieves, whether it is your body or his crossbow bolts, do you want to wipe it. "
Li Su didn't have the confidence to conquer Huguan, which was guarded by Xu Ding himself.
"Then what should we do now, should we just let Xu Ding's knife rest on our necks?" Li You said:
"This is an old cat pillow with salted fish!"
"What to do, what else to do, draw all the soldiers and horses from the eldest son city, build a defensive system from now on, abandon the southern part of the Shangdang, and unless one day recaptures Huguan, otherwise the guide department will never be involved." Li Su said nothing. He flicked his sleeves and left angrily. This day-to-day mess is really exhausting.
Meeting Xu Ding always made him depressed, as if this guy would always stand there like a mountain, and he would never be able to overcome it.
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Jiangdong!
Jiujiang County, Yangzhou!
Sun Ce's army was divided into two groups, one was led by Zhou Yu, and led the water army down the Huaihe River to attack Xiapi.
Zhou Yu's naval force was so large that it numbered [-], and there were countless ships, big and small, pouring down.
After a fierce attack, Huailing, Xuxian, Xutai and Suiling were captured one after another.
Then continue to advance downstream Huaiyin.
Sun Ce led [-] infantry and marched southward from the east of Jiujiang, directly attacked Guangling City, and successively captured Tangyi, Yuguo, and finally Guangling City.
Zhao Yu, the prefect of Guangling, mobilized soldiers and horses from various counties to actively defend the city, and got in touch with Lu Chang who was stationed in Jiangdu to jointly deal with the Sun family who went south.
Because on the river side, the Sun family didn't have many ships, their own defense was insufficient, and all the warships were confronting Liu Biao in Jingzhou, so they naturally couldn't go south to attack Jiangdu and Dantu.
In this way, Lu Chang also has the energy to support Guangling City.
Sun Ce's soldiers surrounded Guangling City and directly sent envoys to ask Zhao Yu to surrender and offer the city.
It was Sun Ce's subordinate Lu Fan who went to the city to persuade him to surrender. Lu Fan had traveled in Xuzhou before and had acquaintance with Zhao Yu.
So after he entered the city, he said to Zhao Yu: "Yuan Da, my main ambition is Guangling and Xuzhou. Now the troops are divided into two routes to the east. Xuzhou has no soldiers to stop and will soon fall. It is meaningless for you to guard Guangling. If you don't For the sake of the people in the city, surrender to my lord first, so that the Guangling disciples will not be subjected to war."
"Only by the flames of war? If you don't come to attack Guangling, where did the flames of war come from? Where did the civilian casualties come from? It's our two armies that are friendly countries, but why should we mention this matter if we attack unjustly first? I feel ashamed for you." Zhao Yu flicked his sleeves and said:
"Besides, how can I have no soldiers in Xuzhou, how can I fall, you can think about it, if you continue to attack, I'm afraid it will be you who will be in trouble. I have a lot of soldiers and horses in Weihai, especially the powerful navy. The world is invincible, if you don't return to Yangzhou Jiujiang, don't blame us for being ruthless when it is destroyed."
"Yuan Da don't need to be arrogant, say this kind of angry words, Wei Haihou's men are indeed many soldiers, and they are well-equipped, but now they are caught in the flames of war between Jizhou and Youzhou.
This time, not only my troops from Yangzhou are attacking you, but also Yuan Shao from Yuzhou, Liu Bei from Bingzhou, all the major princes in the Kanto have sent troops, Marquis Weihai has transferred all the elite from the south to the north, and now he has no time to look south, let alone Xuzhou. Qingzhou and Taizhou are also in jeopardy. "Lu Fan said:
"The reason why I entered the city is not that our army can't take down Guangling City, but because I really don't want Yuanda, you and Guangling City to be destroyed at once. I hope you can make the right choice."
Lu Fan bowed solemnly, but Zhao Yu didn't accept it at all. Instead, he turned his back to him and snorted coldly, "Come here, see off the guests. Lu Ziheng will go back and tell Sun Ce to attack if he is capable. Although I, Zhao Yu, am not a military officer, But the same blood flowed as Lord Hou and the generals, we firmly believe that Lord Hou is invincible, I, Xuzhou, you will not be able to fight, and you will not be able to surrender."
Lu Fan shook his head slightly, this Zhao Yu was still the same bullish temper, he hadn't changed at all.
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