After knowing that he had been tricked, Liu Zheng was very anxious about the situation on the battlefield in Xuzhou, and he wanted to go directly to support Xuzhou.

However, the war in Huainan is not completely over yet.

He couldn't leave directly and go to Xuzhou, so he could only let his Jinyi guard quickly rush to Xuzhou to learn about the military situation, and then give Liu Zheng some information on intelligence.

However, not long after his brocade guard left, there was already news from Xuzhou.

Lu Zhi's people have indeed appeared in Xuzhou, they were diverted from Xiacai County, directly through Lingbi County, and fought all the way to Xuzhou City.

Because most of the soldiers and horses were mainly cavalry, Lu Zhi's army attacked quickly, and the smaller county towns, when they were attacked by 30,000 troops, had no ability to resist at all, and surrendered directly.

And the larger city, Lu Zhi's people did not attack at all, rushed across the border, and went straight to Xuzhou City.

On the Xuzhou side, although the speed of the spies quickly spread the news to Xuzhou City, Xuzhou Thorn Shi Mi Zhu immediately started to deal with it, and even dispatched all the soldiers of his Mi family to defend the city, but it was still not enough for Lu Zhi to see.

30,000 cavalry blockaded Xuzhou City, and began to recruit Xuzhou soldiers on the spot, and in a few days, stormed Xuzhou City.

Xuzhou City was originally garrisoned by Tai Shici's 20,000 troops, and there were no county soldiers here, so naturally it could not stop the strong attack of Lu Zhi's soldiers and horses.

In less than ten days, it was broken by Lu Zhi's army, and Mi Zhu, the head of the Mi family, was defeated and killed along with Xuzhou City, and the second master Mi Fang took some remnants of the Mi family to the south and fled to Yangzhou.

When the news reached Huainan City, Liu Zheng was stunned on the spot.

He slumped in his chair.

"Zizhong (Mi Zhu Biaozi) is dead, my Zizhong is dead!"

When the news of Mi Zhu's death passed through the hands of Jin Yiwei and reached Liu Zheng's ears, it was indeed a relatively big blow.

made Liu Zheng a little distracted, and even some didn't react.

He once thought that he had heard the news wrong, but Liu Zheng, who understood the reason for the matter, knew that the news would not go wrong, and Mi Zhu was really dead.

For a while, Liu Zheng's mind recalled Mi Zhu and some of his past experiences.

Although Liu Zheng has not seen Mi Zhu a few times in total, and the number of times he has met can be counted clearly by hand, Mi Zhu's status in Liu Zheng's heart is not low.

Even among the entire faction, Mi Zhu and even the Mi family's help to Liu Zheng, except for Yuan Zhou, the Mi family is the largest.

Liu Zheng also attaches great importance to Mi Zhu, otherwise, he would not have handed over such an important position as Xuzhou Thorn History to Mi Zhu.

But Liu Zheng never thought that letting Mi Zhu go to be the assassin of Xuzhou would harm Mi Zhu.

Mi Zhu is not a person who likes to escape, the city is there, he will not choose to surrender or choose to escape, and he wants to hold on to Xuzhou City.

However, he didn't have many troops at all, even if he counted all the Mi family's soldiers, he only gathered more than 4,000 people, how could he be able to block Lu Zhi's attack.

"Xu Huang!"

Liu Zheng shouted and called Xu Huang's name, and wanted to immediately take Xu Huang's cavalry to help Xuzhou, and then avenge Mi Zhu.

However, just when Liu Zheng called Xu Huang and planned to take Xu Huang's men and horses to Xuzhou to take revenge, Liu Miao came over in a hurry outside.

"My lord! Big things are wrong! ”

"What's going on again?"

"Water, it's flooding! Liu Bei's men and horses dug down Gaotang Lake, and now the flood has washed away the nearby crops and is approaching Huainan City! ”

Liu Miao, as the Taishou of Huainan County, was recently arranged by Liu Zheng to pay close attention to the water level of Huaishui, once there was news, he was the first to know, and now that the water level of Huaishui has really risen, Liu Miao ran over to tell Liu Zheng as soon as possible.

And when this news reached Liu Zheng's ears again, it immediately shocked Liu Zheng and made Liu Zheng almost not stand firm.

Although he had long known that Liu Bei would definitely not give up flooding Huainan City, after he repelled Liu Bei and these horses, he thought that he would alleviate Liu Bei's plan to flood Huainan City, who knew that not only did he fail to scare Liu Bei back, but instead accelerated Liu Bei's will to flood Huainan City.

After retreating for 20 miles, Liu Bei led people overnight to dig up the Gaotang Lake embankment that had dug most of the dam, and now the water of the entire Gaotang Lake poured down and rushed out, quickly making the water of the Huai River rise, because of the recent rain, the Huai River water was unbearable, and now it has become even more unbearable.

The monstrous flood flowed from all over the city, and the flood ruthlessly affected the entire Huainan County for a time.

Even Huainan City, which has always been highly respected by Liu Miao, was flooded by water at this moment, and the outside of the city became an ocean, not to mention horses, and even people couldn't stay in the water for a long time.

In Huainan City, because of the topography, it will not be flooded for the time being, but Liu Zheng and these people want to get out of the city, but it is difficult, because there is already a lake outside, and it is difficult to march.

Of course, flooding Huainan City was also out of a strategy, Liu Bei didn't want to do this, but because of the heavy losses in the first battle with Liu Zheng, he saw the strength of Liu Zheng's cavalry, and let Liu Bei know that relying on his own men and horses could not compete with Liu Zheng at all.

Liu Bei himself had not prepared enough ships to let the planning function of flooding Huainan City start in advance, and without ships, he could only retreat because of this.

The battle between the two sides was temporarily stranded at this time, and Liu Zheng could not attack, so he could only wait for Zulang's navy to come and use the ships to take Liu Zheng and these people away from Huainan.

And just like that, another few days passed.

Zulang's sailors finally arrived in Huainan, and they could have arrived in advance, but because the water level in Huainan had risen sharply recently, the water was out of breath, and it was not suitable for boats, so it was delayed.

By the time Liu Zheng returned to Wu County, Yangzhou, with the help of Zulang's army, the time had already come to June.

June.

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and these days of delay have made Liu Zheng sober up in anger, he has been delayed for half a month, and he has not gone to Xuzhou, and now even if he rushes over immediately, it will be useless.

So there's no rush anymore.

After he returned to Wu County, the first thing he did was to gather Yuan Zhou and ask about the specific situation of the war in Xuzhou and Qingzhou.

When the ending of the battle between Xuzhou and Qingzhou was transmitted back to Wu County, this time, Liu Zheng was not shocked anymore, but looked at these things with a normal heart.

Qingzhou and Xuzhou were lost one after another, and Liu Zheng, who originally occupied nearly five prefectures and counties, lost two at once. The situation has changed dramatically.