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Although a thousand soldiers rushed to reinforce the North and West City, as more and more of the Cao army's nest cars leaned against the city, the defense at the city was finally broken. It was still in the northeast corner. The Jiangdong army was defeated by the Cao army. Several Cao army rushed to the city. They quickly occupied the city and opened a passage to the city.

Huang Gai was leading more than a thousand people to resist the attack of Cao's soldiers. At this time, a soldier ran and reported urgently, "General Huang, the northeast corner is lost."

Huang Gai turned his head and looked at it. He saw a large group of enemy troops rushing up to the city in a steady stream. Only soldiers Yu were fighting desperately. Huang Gai was anxious. He shouted to a general beside him: "Take your brother to the northeast corner to defend."

As soon as he finished speaking, a panic of horror came from the city. Soldiers rushed into the corridor and shouted in a crying voice: "General Huang, thousands of Cao's troops entered the city from Xiaojin."

Huang Gai felt a bang in his mind, and it became blank. At this time, dozens of personal soldiers around him looked at him and waited for his decision. Huang Gai sighed slowly, his face full of bitterness. Although he fought to the death, Hefei was still lost.

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Sun Quan's initial plan was to wait until the Jingzhou naval army arrived, and the two armies joined forces to take the water from the Jingzhou naval army. His 100,000 troops went to the land and went to rescue Hefei. However, Huang Gai's letter of help came one by one, and Sun Quan also knew that the situation in Hefei was critical and he could not delay it any longer.

He could not wait until the Jingzhou navy arrived, so he rushed to Hefei day and night. For Sun Quan, Hefei was a strategic location for the Northern View of the Central Plains. As long as he stood firm in Hefei, once Cao Cao was dragged on the Western Front by Liu Jing, he could head towards the Central Plains at any time.

On the contrary, if Hefei is lost, Jiangdong may not be able to use troops to go north within ten years. It can be said that the Battle of Hefei is a battle related to Jiangdong's future status, whether it is to be more stable or to be more immigrant to the Central Plains, and then to win the world.

It is precisely because of the importance of Hefei that Sun Quan personally led an army of 100,000 to rescue Hefei.

A hundred thousand army marched northward along the east bank of the Feishui River. At this time, they were still twenty miles away from Hefei and could arrive in another hour. Sun Quan was anxious. Just a few hours ago, he received a letter of help from Huang Gai. Cao's army had already begun a large-scale attack on Hefei City, but now there was no news, so how could Sun Quan not be in a hurry?

The 100,000 army stretched for more than ten miles, running on the wide official road by the river. At this time, it was already four o'clock. Both sides of the official road were pitch black, without lights, and extremely quiet, with only the rapid footsteps of the army marching north.

Suddenly, a guard pointed at the front and shouted, "General, look ahead, it seems there is an army."

Sun Quan stopped the war horses, and he seemed to see that a few miles ahead, an army was running towards this side with a lot of horse hooves. At this time, Shi Ci led the elite crossbow soldiers from Qianjiangdong to immediately deployed a defensive formation on the official road, and thousands of military crossbows were coldly aimed at the north.

A team of cavalry rushed forward to investigate the situation. After a moment, the cavalry rushed back to report: "Report to the lord, it is General Huang and General Lu."

Sun Quan's heart sank. He immediately realized that something was wrong in Hefei. After a while, he ordered: "Take General Huang to see me."

Soon, a team of cavalry brought Huang Gai forward, Huang Gai was covered in blood, and was hit by several blows, blood and flesh. He seemed exhausted, and stepped forward and reluctantly clasped his fists and said, "I am guilty of being a humble job. I have failed to defend Hefei. I am ashamed of my lord."

Sure enough, Hefei was lost, Sun Quan was extremely depressed. After a while, he sighed and ordered his left and right, "Take the Old General Huang down to heal the wounds."

Huang Gai felt guilty. He wanted to say something, but he couldn't speak, so he had to follow the soldiers. Sun Quan asked Lu Meng to come and asked him, "How many troops are left?"

"Report to the lord, there are more than 2,000 people left."

Sun Quan felt a pain in his heart. Twenty thousand people guarded Hefei, but in the end there were only more than 2,000 people left. The loss was really heavy, but the loss of soldiers was second. The key was that Hefei, a strategic place, was lost, which made him unacceptable. After thinking for a long time, he asked unwillingly: "How many more do Cao's army have?"

"Reporting to the lord, the Cao army originally had more than 50,000 people, but after several major battles, they also lost seven or eight thousand people, and it is estimated that there are still more than 40,000 now."

At this time, Lu Su slowly urged him to go forward and said, "Hefei City is wide and the walls are high, and we do not carry heavy siege weapons. It is probably difficult to attack. It is better to withdraw back to Jiangdong first and then slowly plan it."

Sun Quan shook his head, "I lost nearly 20,000 soldiers and retreated like this, I am really unwilling to accept it."

Lu Xun next to him understood Sun Quan’s thoughts and bowed: “Report to the lord, I believe that we still have hope of regaining Hefei.”

"You continue talking," Sun Quan suddenly felt excited.

Lu Xun smiled and continued, "As Governor Lu said, Hefei City is wide and the walls are high, and it is difficult to attack, but Hefei also has a weakness. We can start from this weakness. General Lu should know where this weakness is."

Speaking of this, Lu Xun glanced at Lu Meng and looked at him with a smile. Since the Battle of Chaisang that year, Lu Xun led his troops to escape first, resulting in Lu Meng being captured. The relationship between Lu Meng and Lu Xun has been dissatisfied, but the two never showed it on the surface, but they just secretly interfered with each other inadvertently.

Sun Quan asked Lu Meng again, "Where is the weakness?"

Lu Meng felt uncomfortable. Lu Xun meant that they were not defending tightly and were rushed into Xiaojin by Cao's army. However, Wu Hou had to answer the words. Lu Meng had to bow and said, "Report to the lord, Hefei's weakness is Xiaojin, which is a lake with no walls. You can go directly from the lake to the city."

At this time, Sun Quan suddenly understood what Lu Xun meant, and he immediately asked: "General Lu meant that you can wait for the Jingzhou naval army to arrive and use the Jingzhou naval army to break through Xiaojin?"

Lu Xun nodded, "This is what I meant by Weichen"

Lu Su next to him said anxiously: "Please calm down. Our trip is to reinforce General Huang, not to attack the city. We are not prepared to attack the city. If we change the decision in a hurry, it may be unfavorable to the battle situation. Wu Hou should withdraw his troops first and then attack Hefei after sufficient preparations."

Sun Quan has been planning to Hefei for a long time, so he is not willing to give up easily. He did not listen to Lu Su's advice and immediately ordered: "Tell me my order, and the army will continue to go north and camp on the east bank of Xiaojin, Hefei."

The 100,000 troops set out again and rushed towards Hefei City. In one hour, they arrived at the east bank of Xiaojin on the east bank of Hefei City and began to set up camp on an open land.

The Jiangdong military camp was silent. After a day and night of forced marching, the soldiers were exhausted and rested in the tent. The Cao army had just captured Hefei City and needed to stabilize Hefei City and would not attack Jiangdong Army for the time being. The two were in a temporary ceasefire.

In the Jiangdong camp, Lu Xun walked past a tent, hurried to Sun Quan's tent, clasped his fists to the guards and said, "Would Mr. Wu fall asleep?"

At this time, Sun Quan's voice came from the big tent, "Bo Yan, please come in."

Lu Xun nodded to the guards and quickly walked into the big tent. In the big tent, Sun Quan stood in front of the sand table with his hands behind his back to check the terrain. This was also an advanced combat tool from Jiangdong to Jingzhou Xi. After the Battle of Chibi, Sun Quan ordered people to make Jiangdong sand tables. It took several craftsmen a year to finally create a panoramic view of this Jiangdong sand table, including Jingzhou and some places in Jiangbei. The northeast is Shouchun, each with a length of about meter and is composed of eight small sand tables, which are easy to carry.

Lu Xun stepped forward and bowed, "See Wu Hou"

"What's wrong with Bo Yan?" Sun Quan asked with a smile.

Lu Xun nodded and said, "I inspected the military camp and found that the soldiers were in a low morale because of the fall of Hefei. If we want to win this battle, we must first increase the morale of the army."

"I also know that morale is not strong. Is there any good way for Bo Yan?" Sun Quan asked as he stared at him.

"Reporting to the Marquis of Wu, the method of improving is very simple. It is to win a battle first, so that the morale of the army will inevitably rise. The weak minister has a plan to defeat Cao's army."

"Please continue to talk about any strategy."

Lu Xun smiled, "Just just now, Weichen went to visit General Huang's wounds. He told me that the grain warehouse in Hefei is only more than 10,000 stones, and a large amount of grain is stored in Shouchun. If the Cao army intends to confront us for a long time, they will inevitably transfer grain from Shouchun. Cao's army has more than two grain transport ships in Shouchun, and they should soon transport grain from water to Hefei. Weichen is willing to bring an army to ambush the grain ship and seize Shouchun."

Sun Quan felt that Lu Xun seemed to have not finished speaking yet, and asked again: "Boyan seems to have not finished speaking."

"It's a humble minister who wants to say that as long as the Jiangdong army goes north to Shouchun, the Cao army will definitely send troops to protect Shouchun. We can turn our heads to eat the reinforcements and cut off the supply of Cao's army. Even if the Jingzhou army is less than that, the Cao army will be unable to support it and withdraw its troops for a month at most."

Sun Quan stared at the sand table for a long time. Shouchun was north of Hefei and was connected with Hefei by Feishui. Indeed, as long as the Feishui was cut off, Shouchun's food could not be transported south to Hefei. Lu Xun's suggestion was indeed a good strategy. Sun Quan pondered for a moment and asked again: "If Bo Yan led his army to come, how many troops would it be necessary?"

"I need ten thousand people, ten thousand people are for the light and twenty thousand people are for the dark. The Cao army itself has not many troops, and at most ten thousand people are for the north. Then I am sure to wipe out all the 10,000 Cao army."

Sun Quan nodded, "Then I will give you ten thousand people, General Zhou Tai is the deputy general, I hope you don't let me down."

At the same time Lu Xun offered Sun Quan a plan to cut off food, Zhang Liao and Li Dian were also looking at the Jiangdong Army camp from afar.

Li Dian pointed to Jiangdong camp and smiled: "Sun Quan was actually stationed on the other side of Xiaojin. This shows that they wanted to break through from Xiaojin and enter the city, but they did not have warships."

Zhang Liao said worriedly: "They should be counting on the reinforcements of Jingzhou. Once the Jingzhou navy arrives, at least four warships will be under great pressure on us. They have an advantage in their troops. It is very likely that we can't defend Hefei. But the problem now is that even though we know the plan of the Jiangdong Army, we have no choice."

"There should be a countermeasure." Li Dian turned around and looked at Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao nodded, "There is indeed a countermeasure, which is to fight the Jiangdong Army to defeat the Jiangdong Army before the Jingzhou navy arrived."

"But if the Jiangdong Army is unwilling to fight with us, or they send troops to cut off our food transportation."

Li Dian didn't continue to talk about this issue. They had discussed it a long time ago. The city had only tens of thousands of grains, and ordinary residents were short of food. Shouchun had more than 100,000 stones of grain. Zhang Liao had sent Shouchun to urge grain. Now he was afraid that the Jiangdong Army would also realize this and sent troops to cut off their food channels.

Zhang Liao said lightly: "The Jiangdong Army will definitely find out the problem of our insufficient food, and there will definitely be people who will suggest cutting off our food route and even luring more troops to the north, so as to make the city empty, but since we expect the enemy to be ahead, we can use the trick.
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