While Peng Biao was still trapped on the north bank of Luodu and was in doubt, Shen Zhezi had already received Xi Jian's envoy in the camp.

He personally led his troops to the north, and it was naturally not a pleasure to use troops against Huainan at this time when it was not suitable for sending troops. On the one hand, this battle is inevitable, and there will inevitably be a battle with Huainan this winter.

On the other hand, it is an indisputable fact that the logistics of this winter's war will be unfavorable. This point, even if it is a problem that people who don't know about military affairs know, Peng Biao is naturally impossible to ignore, and it is very likely that he will regard it as an opportunity to win.

But in fact, Shen Zhezi's troops attacked, and they never thought about defeating the opponent in the field. Although his chariot formation was impregnable, it was far less mobile than the cavalry. Slowly going north, on the one hand, there is naturally a consideration to lure the enemy, but it is also true.

Therefore, the real main attack is still Hefei Guo Yu and Lujiang Mao Bao. Although Hefei has been dilapidated, but as an important town in Huaixi, the geographical location is placed there, although the winter waterway is difficult to use, but even if it is a simple land route, it is closer to Shouchun than Liang County, which can collect a miracle effect.

After the recovery of Hefei, there was no large-scale reconstruction and operation, but the original non-existent Liangjun City was operated on a large scale. In the course of the confrontation in the early months, Shen Zhezi did indeed operate Liang County as the main base. Even within the Jiangdong Imperial Court, they also believe that if they look at Huainan again in the future, Liangjun will be the direction where the main force will be launched.

Therefore, for a long time, Peng Biao's focus has always been on Liang County, and he has paid little attention to Hefei, the biggest threat to Shouchun.

This is actually a simple question of power comparison, even if Peng Biao finds that Hefei is the main direction of attack, can he turn a blind eye to Liang Junlai? Once the two armies meet under the city of Shouchun, even if Peng Biao is the main force of Shouchun, it is only a matter of time before the city is broken.

In the final analysis, it is still because of Hu's strategic neglect of Shouchun, Xiangyang on the west road and Pengcheng under Huaixia are heavily guarded, but Shouchun is the only one here Peng Biao.

Shen Zhezi's military strength, taking Shouchun is a sure thing, but the question is how to defend it in the future. Although the headquarters of Shouchun does not have many troops, further north to Nanyang, Qiaojun and even Luoyang, as well as Huaishang Pengcheng, Xiapi, Xuyi and other places, there are more than 100,000 troops in Qianhu.

Once Shen Zhezi ventured in to take Shouchun, it would be impossible for Qianhu to endure the gains and losses of this important town in Huaizhong, and he would be alone and would be besieged from all sides.

Therefore, Shen Zhezi wanted to rush to send troops in winter, not because winter was suitable, but because the Jingzhou army was now fighting fiercely with Qianhu around Xiangyang. In this way, the slave soldiers west of Shouchun will be pinned down in the direction of Xiangyang in large numbers. At the same time, Xuzhou has also frequently used troops in the north recently, which can also offset some of the pressure from the east of Shouchun.

Here in Liang County, although Shen Zhezi has invested for several months regardless of the cost, in terms of actual troops, he is still a small character in the towns of Jiangbei. After all, no matter how thick the money and food are, it will take time to completely transform them into real combat effectiveness. At present, Yuzhou really does not have the strength to launch a battle around the important town alone.

Therefore, Shen Zhezi could only take advantage of the frequent wars between the east and the west to rob and take Shouchun at the lowest cost. In the past few months, although others were in Liang County, they had been signaling Guo Yu, Chen Gui and others to contact several forces around Shouchun.

To tell the truth, those people still have too many reservations about Shen Zhezi, and the communication effect is not good, almost no one has clearly expressed their willingness to support Shen Zhezi to recover Shouchun, they are not confident that Shen Zhezi can keep Shouchun. If this leads to a large number of slave soldiers coming south, it will bring them great danger.

But Shen Zhezi finally decided to send troops, and hoped to win the hearts and minds of the people with a big victory. But in winter, there is no naval army to cooperate, and the Peng Biao he faces is mostly cavalry, so he can't run if he can't fight, so it's not easy to win.

He personally made the bait to seduce Peng Biaonan, putting on a posture that was not in a hurry or impatient. So far, the effect has been surprisingly good, Peng Biao probably wanted to win battle merits on him, and a large number of main forces gathered here. And last night, the cavalry raided Luojian and easily took down this thing node, probably because Peng Biao had high confidence in the reinforcements from Xuyi, and there were less than 1,000 people there.

With this victory, it can be said that Peng Biao is half dead, and its importance is not to form a siege of Peng Biao, but to control the passage of the east and west after taking Luojian. And this can be used as a bargaining chip for trading with Xi Jian.

Matou, Wukou and other places near Luojian are extremely important strategic places in the upper reaches of the Huai River. Controlling these forts in his hands can be used to persuade Xi Jian to transfer the direction of the main attack from Huaiyin and other downstream Huaishui to Xuyi and other places in the west, and help each other's Yuzhou army under Shen Zhezi's department!

Therefore, as soon as he won the credit, Shen Zhezi immediately mobilized the right-wing men and horses of Cao Na's department to rush to the aid and defend it, and firmly grasped that area in his hands. At present, there are only more than 4,000 people left in Shen Zhezi's subordinates, and they are facing Peng Biao across the street. Although there is no obvious advantage in terms of troops, he believes that Peng Biao must have lost his strong fighting spirit at this time.

After explaining his thoughts to Xi Jian's envoy in detail, Shen Zhezi immediately ordered hundreds of people under his command to escort him to Xi Jian's military formation. The reason why we didn't communicate in advance was because it was a bit ruthless to dig into people's corners earlier, and it was not as convincing as it was to create an established fact.

And he is also very sincere, willing to allocate all the Huaihe strongholds east of Shouchun to Xi Jian, and provide some equipment funding, and even send troops to help if necessary, with a very sincere attitude, to dispel the embarrassment of digging the wall before.

Even if Xi Jian is unwilling to cooperate, with the solid backward base of Liang County, Shen Zhezi is confident that he will not lose Shouchun, but it will definitely be more difficult.

Now, what determines the date of Peng Biao's death is the result of the direction of Shouchun.

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In winter, the water runs out and the rafts are difficult to travel, and the dense river network north of Hefei is not enough to rely on, but adds some obstacles to the march.

Because there are places where there is a need to make a detour, although the date of dispatch is only one day behind the Liangjun Division, when Mao Bao and Guo Yu two thousand foot soldiers waded through Shaobi and arrived near Shouchun, it was the same as the date when Shen Zhezi arrived at Luodu.

There are many mountains around Shouchun, and the Kip Stone City in the northwest direction is a dangerous pass on the important road. The army arrived here to rest for a while, and then the scouts came to report that the villagers in the realm had come to see them.

Guo Yu's armor was frosty and dark, and he personally came out to see that there were three people who came, all of whom were in contact with the realm earlier. The three of them were wearing light armor, and when they saw Guo Yukuo walking in the leeward of the mountain, they all stepped forward and said: "I am waiting for the king led by Guo Hou for a long time, and as soon as I get the news, I will immediately come to see him in the city." ”

Guo Yu stepped forward to greet the three of them for a while, and then asked about the recent situation of Shouchun. In fact, there is no need for these three people to answer, he believes that the situation in Shouchun has definitely changed for the better recently. After all, when they contacted before, although these people did not directly refuse, their attitude was far from eager, but now they actually took the initiative to come to meet, which shows that they have no confidence in defending the city.

Peng Biao had already led the crowd to the south before, and it seemed that he had fought several battles with Shen Yuma, and recently he frequently dispatched guards to the south, which shows that the war is not very optimistic. Now there are fewer defenders in the city, and they have even abandoned Luocheng and built a golden city inside. At present, Luocheng is occupied by our villagers, and many thirsty kings have come to knock on the city. There are still 2,000 people in Jincheng, and they are led by Peng Biao's general, Zheng Tou, and Gao Cheng, the evil household in the county, but we can't get involved! ”

Those few people quickly explained the situation under Shou Chun's eyes, and then pointed to Kip Stone City not far away with a lot of praise: "Master Wang is here, we will first offer a fort for Guo Hou, Guo Hou can move to rest for a while, raise enough strength and then enter the city." ”

"This is not necessary, since the city defense is already in vain, you might as well go straight to Luocheng. All of you are loyal and admirable, and the Lord will come in the coming day, and there will be a commendation to show your merits! ”

After Guo Yu finished speaking, he asked these people to join the Chinese army together, and then immediately ordered the army to kill Shouchun. Of course, these forts along the way are also divided into troops to guard, as these people said, the defense of Shouchun City is indeed very weak today, and there are almost no guards in the surrounding forts.

Of course, there were also small groups of soldiers along the way to obstruct them, but when they saw the Yuzhou army coming from the broken ice all over the mountains, they were also panicked for a while, and they fled back to warn.

The pattern of Shouchun City is very large, the inner and outer rings, and the so-called Luo City is the outer city. Guo Yu and others looked outside the city for a while, and then divided their troops with Mao Bao, one from the west of the city Shamen, and the other from the south of the city Shaobi Gate.

Before the army approached the city gate, they saw that smoke was billowing from all over the city, and the noise and fighting were incessant. There is no shortage of soldiers in the city who are fighting or running, which shows that they have been chaotic.

When Guo Yu and others arrived at the sand gate in the west of the city, there were dozens of corpses under the gatehouse, most of them were slave faces, and there was no lack of strong people who had already led the troops to kneel on both sides of the dirt road of the city gate, and chanted the door to welcome the king.

Guo Yu comforted these defectors one by one in front of the city gate, and at the same time commanded the soldiers to march into the city gate in a procession, controlling the entire city gate.

Shouchun City circumference is more than ten miles, Zu has been operating here for many years, and it accommodates more than 100,000 people at its peak. Although the people of the city were taken captive by the slaves the year before, there are still 20,000 people in the city. Previously, there were still many murderers in the city who were brave and took advantage of the fire to rob, but with the Yuzhou army entering the city, the chaos gradually subsided, and they restrained their subordinates to stay in a position far or near.

On the other hand, Mao Bao also sent troops to inform that they had successfully entered the city and controlled the city gate, but what they entered was only the outer city, as for the real recovery of the city, it was necessary to lay the inner city in the northwest corner, that is, the golden city, which was the core of the entire city.

Although he has settled in the outer city, Guo Yu is not in a hurry to attack, although there are many people in the outer city, but if there is no order, once the city defense war becomes fierce later, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no accidents.

So at the moment, he is just sharing a city gate with Mao Bao, selecting people from among the people who want to be brave to restrain the people, making room for the later attack, and at the same time preventing the enemies in the inner city from crossing the city wall to create chaos.