Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 136 Going east to Dingling, will hunt full of pets

After Liu Bei arrived in Runan, he did not contact Shen Chen immediately, but went to Pingyu County, the seat of Runan County, which is also called Runan County, which is the ancient city of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

The reason why I came to Pingyu was to contact and coordinate the territory of Runan County and support Yuan Shao's forces.

As the ancestral home of the Yuan family, the Yuan family had a very high reputation in Runan County. Their family's disciples, former officials, and guests were scattered in various counties, and they surrounded Cao Cao everywhere.

Later generations looked at the battle of Guandu as if they simply thought that Yuan Shao's more than [-] horses hoarded at Guandu, and then Cao Cao burned the food and grass and was defeated.

In fact, Cao Cao's predicament was more difficult than anyone imagined. At this time, Yuan Shao's forces were everywhere around Yingchuan, and there were constant harassment from the rear. Yuan Shao's cavalry on the front line broke through the blockade, and even reached the vicinity of Xudu.

His grain road was attacked, and county officials in Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou and many other places responded to Yuan Shao's call. Basically, except for Li Tong and Man Chong in Runan, almost everyone in Runan had defected to Yuan.

It is no exaggeration to say that Cao Cao is besieged on all sides.

It's just that due to the lag of the news, Liu Bei came to Runan a little late, and he didn't know until he arrived that Man Chong had already acted preemptively, eliminating most of the old officials of the Yuan family who responded to the call.

Knowing this, Liu Bei had no choice but to recruit soldiers on the spot. He is now Yuzhou Mu, Zuo General, and Yicheng Tinghou. It is reasonable to come to Yuzhou to recruit soldiers.

At present, many people came to join him, plus the remnants of Yuan's disciples and old officials, Liu Bei summoned tens of thousands of horses in a short period of time.

And soon, Cao Cao also heard about this matter, but he couldn't spare any manpower, so he sent Cai Yang to conquer.

But before Cai Yang left, Guan Yu also got the news that Liu Bei was in Runan at the same time, so he said goodbye to Cao Cao, went back to Xudu, picked up Mrs. Mi and Mrs. Gan, and went south to Runan to meet Liu Bei.

At the end of June in the fifth year of Jian'an, Shen Chen sat cross-legged on the table in the mansion in the county government office of Kunyang County, Runan, holding a bamboo slip official document in his hand, which was a letter written by Liu Bei.

In addition to saying hello, the content of the letter also expresses gratitude to Shen Chen. Now that he has arrived in Pingyu, Runan, he is currently recruiting troops. He plans to take advantage of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's confrontation in Guandu to attack Xudu from the north. I hope Shen Chen can give him some advices.

"Mr. Xuande has just arrived in Runan, and the soldiers he hastily recruited have not been trained. The morale and morale of the army may be unstable. I actually don't recommend him to send troops immediately."

Shen Chen put the letter on the table and said to Tai Shici who was sitting beside him.

Tai Shici continued to work as a postman. Who told him to do this in his early years?So every time there is a short-distance communication, he is the one who comes to deliver letters to Shen Chen.

Hearing Shen Chen's words, Tai Shici also smiled wryly and said: "My lord, there is nothing I can do. Now that Duke Yuan is still in Yangwu, Cao Cao is guarding Guandu and cannot leave, so I have to let my lord come to Runan to lead the army to attack Xudu."

Shen Chen pondered and said: "Well, this is indeed a helpless move. Uncle Ziyi, please go back and tell Lord Xuande that if you want to attack Xudu from Runan north, you must destroy Li Tong and Man Chong. Li Tong's soldiers are so full." There are few Chong soldiers, we can attack Dingying together first, and then break through Xiping, so that we can go north to take Linying."

Tai Shici was overjoyed and said, "Okay, I'll go back and tell my lord, Ah Chen, when will we agree to march together?"

Shen Chen said, "July [-]st."

"Then I will report back immediately."

Tai Shici didn't want to delay, so he was ready to go back.

Shen Chen said: "Don't be in a hurry, Kunyang is still three hundred miles away from Pingyu, even riding a horse will take two days, go after dinner."

But Tai Shici said: "It is precisely because the matter cannot be delayed that it is necessary to report to the Lord immediately."

"it is good."

Shen Chen nodded: "Please tell Duke Xuande to be more careful."

"I see."

After Tai Shici said goodbye, he left in a hurry.

Shen Chen walked him all the way to the door, and when he returned to the mansion, he fell into deep thought again.

Now Cao Cao's defense against him is actually very strict. There are a large number of Cao troops deployed in counties such as the north, northeast, east, southeast, and south of Kunyang.

Xia Houyuan was in Xiangcheng, Li Dian was in Linying, Li Tong was in Xiping, and Man Chong was in Dingying, almost blocking the Nanyang exit.

So now it is almost impossible for Liu Bei to come and join him, so he has to rush out of the encirclement.

And if you want to break out of the encirclement, you have to find the weakest point.

Where is it?
The well-loved Ding Ying.

These days, he also sent a large number of spies to sneak into Yingchuan to investigate the enemy's situation.

According to the feedback received, Xia Houyuan and Li Dian had nearly [-] soldiers guarding around Xudu, and in order to prevent Shen Chen from repeating his old tricks and falsely attacking Xudu from the southwest, Cao Cao specially dispatched two to three thousand elite backbones from the front line to garrison .

Li Tong himself has nearly 6000 troops. Although the previous battles were mainly due to his loss of troops, there are still [-] to [-] people occupying Xiping.

There are too few people who are full of favors.

In history, when Manchong pacified Runan, he recruited 500 people, captured more than 20 barriers, designed to trap and kill more than ten leaders, and captured 3000 soldiers. Up to now, the total force is less than [-].

Therefore, it is obviously easier to find a breakthrough from him.

Didn't the great men say it?

You have to learn to put the easy ones first and then the hard ones. If the bones are hard to gnaw, don't gnaw them first. Eat the meat first and then gnaw the bones.

Coincidentally, Pingyu County, where Liu Bei is located, is located behind Ding Ying.

When Shen Chenbing came out of Kunyang, he was able to attack back and forth with him, and together they attacked Man Chong, who had only two or three thousand people, and then jumped out of the encirclement, heading north from Zhaoling to Xudu.

You Cao Cao only defend me from the southwest line, then I will not attack from the southwest, I will attack from the southeast.

Thinking of this, Shen Chen felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so he sent people to find the generals to discuss matters. The first day of July would be less than a few days away, and all the surrounding cities were watching his movements, so he had to make other preparations.

Soon, Gan Ning, Lou Fa, Shen Mi, Deng Zhao, Shen Zhen and other main generals in Shen Chen's army gathered in the hall.

Everyone entered one by one and saluted Shen Chen.

Only Shen Zhen didn't speak, secretly followed behind everyone, and found a seat at the back to sit down.

It wasn't that he didn't like to talk, but that when he met Shen Chen on a formal occasion, he couldn't salute or say hello.

In a way, he was actually a little embarrassed.

The leader of an army is his own son. If he is not called a general in the army, he will lose Shen Chen's majesty. If he is called a general, he will lose his father's majesty.

But he and Deng Zhao single-handedly brought out the soldiers and horses of Huangmenting. The two had high prestige in the army, so to lead them into battle, Shen Zhen and Deng Zhao must be present.

So he simply didn't speak or salute, and it was fine for father and son to match each other in private.

But these are just little things.

After everyone sat down, Deng Zhaoxian asked, "General, why did you call us here?"

Shen Chen said in a deep voice: "Mr. Xuande has already arrived in Runan, and has summoned troops to attack Xudu. I plan to join him and attack Xudu again, so we must make arrangements."

"General, please speak!"

Gan Ning said solemnly, "Now that Cao Cao has arrived at Guandu, he is fighting Yuan Shao. This is a good opportunity for us to send troops."

He also understands this.

Shen Chen said: "The movement of our army is now being closely monitored. The surrounding counties are all Cao soldiers. If there is any trouble, they will definitely be attacked by them. Therefore, we must not go east to join Xuande Gong immediately. . Instead, the enemy's troops should be mobilized to make them think that we will continue to go north, but in fact we are going east."

Lou Fa wondered: "Could it be another false attack on Xudu? Maybe Xudu is guarded by heavy troops along the route. I'm afraid they will be surrounded by them not long after the troops are dispatched."

"good."

Shen Chen nodded and said, "So we can't go north, we can only go east."

"Go east?"

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing why.

Shen Chen called everyone over, pointed to the map on the table and said, "Look, everyone, the main force of Cao's army is now distributed in Xiangcheng, Linying, Xiping, and Dingying. Why is Dingling in the east unguarded?"

Gan Ning was not an illiterate person. He had read a lot of books in his early years, so he blurted out: "Because Dingling is in the center, isn't it surrounded by four sides when going to Dingling?"

"Exactly."

Shen Chen nodded: "Dingling is surrounded by these four places, if we go there, we will be besieged by Cao's army from all directions, so they didn't set up troops in Dingling, but if we go to Dingling and go east How about going to Yancheng?"

Yancheng?

Everyone hurriedly probed to see.

I saw that the location of Yancheng is very special, east of Dingling, south of Linying, north of Dingying, northeast of Xiping, and southeast of Xiangcheng.

Go from here, go east to Zhaoling, and then go north from Zhaoling to Suiqiang, north of Suiqiang is Xudu.

That is to say, according to Shen Chen's statement, it is absolutely possible to bypass the northeastern defense line of Xiangcheng and Linying from this route, go around behind this defense line from the east, and attack Xudu.

At that time, the defenders of Linying in Xiangcheng will inevitably go to Xudu or Liqiang to garrison, and Li Tong in Xiping will also most likely go north. At this time, they will go south again and attack Dingying from north to south with Liu Bei. Ying completed the confluence.

But Gan Ning still raised a different opinion: "But the enemy will not just look at us. If we leave Qian Dingling immediately, I am afraid that we will be surrounded by them before we reach Yancheng."

Shen Chen nodded and said: "So I plan to divide the troops again, go north to Fucheng, pretend to attack Yangdi, and go east immediately after Xiahouyuan is mobilized. Because from Fucheng, Yangdi, and Yingyin can go directly to Xudu, so Li Dian and Xia Houyuan will definitely not go south, and then we will only face Man Chong and Li Tong."

"Divide the troops again? Our army lost thousands of troops in the previous pursuit of Cao Jun."

Gan Ning frowned. The previous battles had already cost them a large number of troops. Now they only have less than [-] troops on hand. If they divide the troops, the strength is really too weak.

Shen Chen sighed: "There is no way. Each of these soldiers and horses under my hand is extremely precious in my eyes. I had no choice but to pursue Cao Cao before. If we don't fight Cao Cao to the death, then the defense force on the southern front will be even stronger. Sufficient, we are more passive."

Through the operations of the previous battles, their battle loss ratio with Cao Jun reached one to three, and one Shen Chen Army replaced three Cao Jun.Some of them are elite, but most of them are second-line troops, which is not worth it to Shen Chen.

But no matter how unworthy it is, they can only fight such a war of attrition. If they don't fight, they will face 1 more Cao troops. By then, [-] to [-] Cao troops will guard Xudu, and it will be too difficult.

Now there are only more than 2 people. After joining Liu Bei, at least their army strength can reach [-], which is not much less than Cao Jun in terms of strength.

"Ok."

In the end, Gan Ning had no choice but to compromise and agreed to Shen Chen's strategy.

At present, Shen Chen ordered his father Shen Zhen to lead 1000 people to garrison Kunyang. Most of their supplies and food are here, and Kunyang cannot be lost.

He also ordered Lou Fa to lead 500 people to go northward from Fucheng to attack Yangdi. In later generations, this route was actually from Ye County to the north to attack Pingdingshan, then Jiaxian County to Yuzhou, all of which were flat.

Because Fucheng and Xiangcheng are separated by Ziyun Mountain, and there is no Cao army in Fucheng, by the time Xia Houyuan and Li Dian got the news, Lou Fa had already arrived in Yangdi, and Yangdi could leave Xu. It's too close, and they're sure not to snub.

So when Xia Houyuan and Li Dian sent people to come, Lou Fa could also return to Kunyang along the way he came, so that the strategic goal of attracting Cao Jun was achieved. Will be full of pets!

(End of this chapter)