Chapter 853

According to Zhou Yu's analysis, Yuan's army suffered a lot from the war last year, although it was far from the point of serious damage. Not to mention anything else, Yuan Shu's elite troops alone lost nearly 80000, including 30000 Yulin troops and 20000 battalions in Runan, 10000 soldiers in Guangling and 20000 soldiers in xiapi in Xuzhou.

However, despite this, Yuan Shujun felt that he could still support himself. The defense on the South Bank of huaishui river made Yuzhou army and Anton army sigh at Wanghe river last year. On the battlefield of xiapi, general Ji Ling nailed Cao Cao's army to death.

As for the little tiger in the south, it was only because he was lucky that he escaped. It's estimated that he doesn't have three or five years to rest. He doesn't want to go north. Moreover, he is still fighting against Wujun. Although he won, he won't be able to go north.

In early March, sun Qijun suddenly sent troops to attack Guangling again. Guangling governor yuan Sihe and general Zhang Xun immediately sent people to Shouchun for help.

In fact, there were no more than 20000 defenders in Guangling at this time. Although sun Qijun was left behind by a big war last year, Yuan Shujun's losses were not small. First of all, the 10000 soldiers brought by Zhang Xun lost nearly 2000, and Yuan Si's 10000 soldiers lost 4000.

After sun CE's army retreated, Yuan Si sent people to take over the two cities, each sending two thousand soldiers to guard and one thousand soldiers to fight. Although three thousand soldiers and horses were recruited later, there are only five thousand guards and six thousand soldiers in Guangling, with a total of eleven thousand soldiers and horses. Among them, three thousand are newly recruited soldiers, which can barely be used to defend the city.

When Shouchun's Yuan Shu got the news that sun Qijun was attacking Guangling again, he was very angry. He ordered ten thousand soldiers of Liu Xunbu who defended liyang to support Guangling quickly. At the same time, he was ready to order Shouchun to send troops to support Guangling. At that time, Yuan Shu found that all his 150000 soldiers had been sent out. Today, Shouchun city has only 70000 imperial guards and 20000 guards to defend.

There was no choice but to order the prince Yuan Yao as the main general and Li Ling as the deputy general to support xiapi.

Now, Yuan Shu really wants to eat his son-in-law alive. If he didn't despise the enemy and go to war rashly, how could he bury his 30000 elite imperial guards? Thirty thousand imperial guards are not lost, and the twenty thousand soldiers of Le Jiu and Li Feng will not be so easily defeated. Perhaps, the south of ru'nan is still in their own hands now.

Although Jiling and Xuzhou also lost 40000 elite soldiers, they caused no less casualties than themselves. However, the loss of 50000 troops in Runan battlefield only brought less than 10000 elite soldiers to each other. The rest of the casualties were ordinary soldiers and horses.

However, Yuan Shu no longer has the energy to manage his son-in-law. After sun CE's army left Xuzhou battlefield, Cao Cao's army sent out 60000 troops and 40000 strange troops to attack xiapi again, and the war between the two counties of Xuzhou was ignited again.

However, to everyone's surprise, the Anton army and the Yuzhou army did not send troops immediately, but were still slowly transferring troops. It is only more than four months since Kong Yu announced the reorganization of the Yuzhou army last year. The Yuzhou army has just been formed and reorganized in each county. It is estimated that it will take another one to two months to get into the war. Therefore, when sun CE and Cao Cao's army first fought with Yuan Shu's army, the Yuzhou army began to mobilize troops to the south.

This time, the troops of Yuzhou army included two schools of Fenwu battalion in Yingchuan County, led by the chief General Wang Ran, four battalion infantry and one school cavalry of Jianwu battalion in Runan County, led by Huang Zhong and Han Xian, and Li Le led two schools of infantry and one school cavalry to Ruyin. On the surface, it was to defend Yuan Shu army in Huainan, but in fact, it had another purpose to defend Cao Hong army in Qiao County.

In addition to the 35000 soldiers, Yuzhou also dispatched 30000 guards. In addition, the number of warlords and players under the rule of Yuzhou was nearly 40000. This time, Yuzhou sent nearly 100000 soldiers.

At this time, Huangfu Chaobo had just arranged for Anton's army to start from Luoyang. After learning the news of Cao Cao's army, Huangfu Chaobo negotiated with Guo Jia and other counsellors and decided to increase the number of troops.

Nowadays, most of the battalions of the Anton army are composed of four battalions and one cavalry, but there are still xiongqu battalions in Hongnong, Yingyang battalions in Hedong, Shenwu battalions in Chenliu and Canglang battalions in Donglai. Of course, hekong battalions in Longhua are an exception.

After discussion, Huangfu Chaobo decided to expand the remaining three battalions to four plus one, except xiongqu camp, so as to better cope with the future war.

For example, after the expansion of Yingyang camp in Tianyu, Deputy General Yang Feng will lead the infantry of the two academies to Yongan to defend against Lvbu in Bingzhou. Tian Yu led two soldiers and one school cavalry to guard Anyi.

In addition to Huangfu Chaobo's guards, Anton's army also dispatched two cadets from Huben camp, one Cadet from Shenwu camp and one Cadet from xiongqu camp, totaling nearly 40000 troops.

In addition to the generals of the guards, the generals of several battalions were Huang Wudi, Wang Yong and Zhang Ying. Of course, the two commanders of the Anton army also went out with the army.On March 15, Liu Xun led 10000 soldiers into Guangling, but the army stopped in Tangyi county. He was ready to wait for Yuan Yao's 20000 troops to arrive, and then go to support Guangling garrison. At this time, Yuan Yao's army had just passed the Dongcheng County of Guangling County, and it would take at least several days to arrive in Tangyi.

At this time, the war in Guangling has begun to enter the most severe time. Sun Qijun has attacked the city several times, and has been supporting the city for a longer time, and the defenders in the city have lost nearly half. In desperation, Zhang Xun and Yuan Si had to send messengers one after another to urge reinforcements to arrive as soon as possible.

In desperation, Liu Xun had to lead the army to set out again, leaving Tangyi and marching cautiously to Yuguo. Rao was so far away from Yuguo that he was ambushed by nearly 20000 troops of sun CE's army. Nearly half of Liu Xun's army was killed and captured. Liu Xun was escorted back to Tangyi by 3000 rout soldiers, and nearly 2000 rout soldiers fled into Yuguo county.

After defeating Liu Xun's troops, sun CE's army did not take advantage of the victory. Instead, it quickly returned to Guangling, disturbed the morale of the garrison in the city by using Liu Xun's captured soldiers and harvested armor, and then attacked the city with all his strength. Finally, on the morning of the 18th, they successfully entered Guangling. Zhang Xun and Yuan Si fled to the state of Yu under the escort of 2000 disabled soldiers.