Chapter 836 Xu Huang's hesitation

Cao Cao's order for Lu Bu and Xu Huang to attack Yangzhou was itself a temporary decision.

If there had been more time at that time, Cao Cao would not have sent out Lu Bu, who had not yet been fully controlled.

Cao Cao, who is a little overstretched in terms of generals, will not be very generous in terms of the number of soldiers.

This time, Lu Bu and Xu Huang went out together, and Cao Cao gave them a total of less than 80,000 soldiers.

This is still Cao Cao's ruthlessness, and after most of the defenders who were guarding Linzi City at that time were withdrawn, he gathered enough soldiers to go on the expedition.

After Lu Bu and the others left, the remaining defenders of Linzi City gathered a total of less than 10,000 people.

For this reason, Cao Cao was also worried for a long time, if it weren't for Xu Huang, a general who was loyal to him, in Lu Bu's army, Cao Cao decided not to make such a risky decision.

It wasn't until Xiahou Yuan and Xu Chu led the army back to Linzi, and Xu Huang and Lü Bu led the army to start a battle with Yuan Shu in Yangzhou, that Cao Cao's heart was put down.

After a period of fighting, Lü Bu and Xu Huang took most of the land in Yangzhou.

Although it was a brilliant victory, some of the soldiers were inevitably lost.

When Lu Bu and Xu Huang decided to attack the military city, they only had more than 60,000 but less than 70,000 soldiers left in their hands.

And at least 50,000 of them are under Xu Huang's complete control.

In order to create an opportunity for himself to get in touch with the people sent by Cao Pi, Lu Bu made an excuse to transfer all the more than 50,000 people out of the camp at that time, and there were only about 15,000 people left around him.

Xu Huang's army, which was the main force attacking the military city, had nearly 40,000 soldiers, and more than 10,000 soldiers, and Lu Bu also scattered them all around Xu Huang.

At that time, Lü Bu ordered most of these soldiers to patrol the surrounding villages.

Once it is discovered that Liu Xun sent out to rob the women, those people will become their targets.

After killing all these centaurs, they can take the stolen woman to meet Xu Huang.

During this period of time, there were about five or six thousand people who gathered back.

The remaining 5,000 or so people were all concentrated in Qingfeng's hands.

This means that Qingfeng's men and horses are only 5,000 people, which is not much different from the Han Xian Department who went to support.

However, in the face of the same number of enemy troops as himself, Qingfeng did not find it difficult, they fought ambush warfare, and were even able to defeat several times the enemy army of their own.

It's a pity that Qingfeng was a little careless this time, Han Xian did not have the panic that should have occurred at the beginning of the attack, but ordered people to return to Shouchun for help while leading the army to resist.

In this way, although at the beginning, Han Xianam's men and horses were a little embarrassed by the Qingfeng Ministry, but there was no sign of collapse.

And Qingfeng also got Lu Bu's death order, and he must stick to this place for a day and a night, so Qingfeng desperately led the team to block Han Xian's men and horses.

In this way, the two launched a fierce fight in this unknown location.

At this time, although Qingfeng's men and horses occupied the initiative on the scene, the offensive was gradually sluggish.

After the sergeant who came to give Qingfeng the order saw this scene, his face showed a smile that only came after the treacherous plan succeeded, he knew that Qingfeng was in a catastrophe this time!

For this Qingfeng, Lu Bu also wanted to get rid of it quickly, after all, this puppet was Xu Huang's cronies, and he had a record of contradicting himself several times before.

Lu Bu has an extremely narrow-minded heart, although he pretends to be generous on the surface on weekdays, in fact, he has long hated Qingfeng in his heart.

And as a top strategist who was loyal to Lu Bu, Chen Gong naturally knew a lot about his lord's careful thinking, otherwise he wouldn't have left only five thousand people for Qingfeng.

You must know that the military city is a key area in the battle of Yangzhou, which can determine the direction of the entire battle.

As long as you don't want to become a prisoner or die on the battlefield, when you learn that the military city has an accident, the Yangzhou army will definitely go to the rescue.

In that case, as the Qingfeng Department that blocked them from going to the rescue, it naturally became the target that the Yangzhou army had to get rid of.

It can even be said that Qingfeng at this time is the same as their father-killing enemy in the eyes of the Yangzhou army.

Even if Qingfeng can defeat Han Xian's troops at the first time, I believe that it won't be long before Yuan Shu will send the men and horses who come to attack again until the Qingfeng troops are defeated or completely annihilated.

What's more, Qingfeng at this time failed to defeat Han Xian's subordinates at the first time, and let the other party organize a defense.

As long as Han Xian can hold on for more than an hour, the second wave of reinforcements in Shouchun City will be able to arrive.

When the second wave of reinforcements and Han Xian's soldiers were united, it was the time when Qingfeng was defeated, but in order to give Xu Huang an explanation, Chen Gong also made other arrangements.

Although Chen Gong did not see Xu Huang take the military city with his own eyes, Chen Gong was still convinced of Xu Huang's ability.

He was sure that the military city at this time must have fallen into the hands of Xu Huang.

Even if Qingfeng didn't lead the army to intercept here, unless the Yangzhou army in Shouchun City poured out, they didn't even have the slightest hope of taking back the military city.

However, once he learned that he had no hope of recapturing the military city, according to Yuan Shu's temperament, he would definitely shrink all his troops back to Shouchun.

When the time comes, won't it be for his lord-in-law, which will increase the difficulty of winning Shouchun.

So in order to let his lord easily take down Shouchun, and at the same time not give Xu Huang a chance to attack his lord, Chen Gong gave another order to the person who came to give the order.

That is, when the Qingfeng Department and the men and horses who went to support the military city were strangled together, he would go to report to Xu Huang and ask Xu Huang to send men and horses to rescue Qingfeng.

Of course, the timing must be just right, and it is best to be when the Qingfeng Department has just been defeated by the Yangzhou army, and the Yangzhou army has not had time to sort out the battlefield, and Xu Huang's rescue of the men and horses will reappear.

In that case, Qingfeng himself must already be more than lucky, and Xu Huang has no reason to challenge his lord, and at this time, such a situation is completely in line with Chen Gong's previous expectations.

The person who came to report to Qingfeng, after seeing Qingfeng's subordinates and Han Xian's subordinates strangled together, quietly left the battlefield and went straight to the military city not far away.

At the same time, Xu Huang, who was in the military city, also got the news that there were two teams of men and horses fighting a big battle less than ten miles away from them.

He didn't know the identities of the two sides involved in the battle at this time, but one thing was for sure, there were definitely people from their Qingzhou Army.

As soon as he got the news, Xu Huang wanted to send someone to the rescue.

But then he gave up this idea, after all, the enemy situation was unknown at this time, and he couldn't gamble with the safety of the military city!

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