Chapter 854

Guangling city finally fell into the hands of sun Qijun. At this time, twenty thousand yuan yaobu reinforcements had just arrived in Tangyi county. In view of this situation, Yuan Yao negotiated with Li Ling and Liu Xun, and decided that Li Ling would lead 10000 troops to defend Tangyi and block sun CE's way to Jiujiang, while Yuan Yao would lead 10000 imperial guards and Liu Xun's 3000 rout troops to settle in Yuguo.

So far, there were 10000 Yuan Yao's imperial guards, 5000 Liu Xun's battalions, more than 2000 disabled soldiers of Zhang Xun and Yuan Si, and more than 3000 garrisons in the city, totaling 20000 troops.

However, in the face of less than 50000 sun Qijun, Yuan Shujun did not go out of the city to fight again. Instead, he stuck to the two cities and waited for Shouchun's next arrangement.

At this time, sun CE's army did not stop. He arranged for Sun Jing to lead 10000 elite soldiers, and then recruited 10000 new soldiers from the captives and Guangling people. A total of 20000 troops defended Guangling. Sun CE divided the remaining 25000 troops into two groups. Lu Dai led 10000 troops to attack hailing, while sun CE led 15000 elite troops to attack Gaoyou county with Zhou Yu's navy.

After the news of the loss of Guangling came to xiapi, Ji Ling knew that Xuzhou was no longer defensible. Guangling and xiapi were horns of each other. Now that Guangling was lost, sun Qijun had invaded Jiangbei, and he could not advance or retreat in xiapi.

Cao Cao dispatched nearly 100000 troops, and Ji Ling himself and the troops in xiapi city were only 50000 troops, so he could barely defend Cao Cao's attack. Cao Cao left 20000 elite and 20000 strange troops to defend Jiling army, and sent another 60000 troops to intensify the attack on xiapi city.

After getting the news that sun Qijun had captured Guangling, Cao CaoJun intensified his attack. In the face of Cao Cao's increasingly fierce attack, Ji Ling decided to change his strategy. First of all, he transferred 8000 of Haixi's 10000 soldiers to Huaiyin, leaving only 1000 soldiers in Haixi city to help defend the city, while the other 1000 were sent to huaipu city to make use of these soldiers.

In addition, from his remaining 30000 troops, he sent 10000 troops into xiapi city to help Liang Gang and Yuan Yin defend xiapi, while he and Chen Ji led 20000 troops down the Surabaya River to guard Suiling and xutai, and to guard huaishui river.

One is to guard the retreat of tens of thousands of troops in Huaibei, and the other is to guard the passage from Xuzhou to Jiujiang. In his opinion, the importance of Xuzhou is far from comparable to that of Jiujiang and Lujiang counties.

As for other places, Ji Ling thinks that with Yuan Yao leading the generals to keep faith in the front lines of Tangyi and Yuguo, he can keep faith in Suiling and xutai, and with the soldiers and horses in xiapi City, he can prevent the soldiers and horses from entering Huainan. On the battlefield of Yuzhou, he has defeated the river crossing army of Anton army several times since last year, which should also be safe, so that he can give life The emperor of spring fought for more time.

What Ji Ling didn't expect was that he thought that the very stable battlefield in Yuzhou was not as stable as he believed.

Just when sun CE began to sweep the cities southeast of Guangling county and Cao Cao's army launched another attack on Pi city, tens of thousands of Yuzhou army and Anton army had already arrived in Runan. In order to confuse Yuan Shu army, Huang Zhong divided the army into two, and 100000 troops gathered on the north bank of huaishui River between Yuanlu and Fubo, making a false image of crossing the river on a large scale.

Huang Zhong, on the other hand, led 30000 elite soldiers including Yuanrong crossbow soldiers and tieyingruishi in Huangfu Chaobo guards to sneak into a camp in the southeast of Xinxi, where the Anton army would cross the river.

As early as last year's meeting, Huangfu Chaobo discussed with the public that the most suitable place to cross the river was Xinxi. However, Yuan Shujun would definitely know about Xincai's construction of a warship. Therefore, Huangfu Chaobo was going to give yuan Shujun a chance to "build a plank road openly and cross the Chencang secretly".

At the end of last year, Xincai began to build ships, and the news soon spread to Huainan. After discussion, Yuan Shujun felt that the Yuzhou army of Xincai needed to go down the Ru River before they could reach the middle of the Huai River. Therefore, since last year, Yuan Shujun began to increase the patrol at the Ru River entrance of the Huai River. In contrast, the strength of the water army in the upper reaches of the Huai River decreased significantly.

What yuan Shujun did not expect was that while Yuzhou army was building ships in Xincai, it was also building ships in a small Hanoi in Xinxi. However, Xincai built medium-sized warships such as maotuchi Ma, while xinxize built smaller tankers. This is a kind of naval warship that can only carry about 20 people. In addition to the reconnaissance boat, this kind of warship is the smallest.

After a few months, Xinxi has built more than 50 boats, which can carry more than 1000 soldiers across the river at one time. In Xincai City, there are medium-sized warships enough for thousands of sailors to use, as well as a large number of large rafts to cross the river.

On March 28, the new Cai water army entered Rushui and began to go downstream to huaishui. One day later, the fleet arrived at the North Bank of huaishui River and joined the first army. For a moment, the air on both sides of huaishui river became tense. Li Feng, the general of Yuan Shu's army stationed in Jisi, patrols day and night. At the same time, he calls for help from Shouchun and Le Jiu.

On the afternoon of that day, after receiving Li Feng's rescue, although Le would not like to, he sent two thousand water troops to Qisi again. At this time, Yuan Shujun's water army opposite Xinxi had only three thousand people, but they needed to inspect the nearly three hundred mile long huaishui waterway between Shisi and Tianyan county.In desperation, Le had to arrange one thousand water troops in Xinxi, which was the most suitable place to cross the river, while the other two thousand water troops were distributed on the waterways of Xinxi, which were more than 100 li from the east to the West. In the yingsi temple on the South Bank of the river, he even arranged two thousand troops. The purpose of the two thousand troops was to help the Navy control the floating bridge from the south bank to the central island of the river. In a critical moment, Le would allow the garrison general to destroy the floating bridge.

At the same time, Le Jiu personally led 5000 soldiers to garrison in the county town of Fuguo, more than ten miles away from the South Bank of huaishui river. With 5000 soldiers in the city, there were enough 10000 troops to defend the place he thought was the most suitable for crossing the river within his defense line.

In fact, Le Jiu once considered to destroy the floating bridge in the south of Hexin island. However, after careful consideration, he gave up the idea for the time being.

When the Huaihe River passes through the south of Xinxi, it forms a big bend. After years of sediment accumulation, it forms an island in the middle of the river. The island is not in the middle of the Huaihe River, but in the south. The island is small, but it can be used as a water camp for Yuan Shu's army.