At night, Zhang Yu quietly left with 50,000 cavalry.

Of the 300,000 troops, there are 50,000 less.

50,000 soldiers and horses, marching at night and stopping during the day.

They moved along the banks of the Yangtze River and then northward.

Walking along the Yangtze River, it is not easy to be discovered, and Yuan's army retreats from the Yangtze River, because there is no role there, and it is easy to be attacked.

All the way north, it didn't take long to enter Jiujiang County.

After entering Jiujiang County, Zhang Yu continued northward, all the way to Xuzhou.

Then continue along the border between the two states.

After walking for a total of five days, Zhang Yu and the others did not find a large-scale enemy.

"Lord, the spies have come to report, a hundred miles away is the place where Liu Bei and Lu Bu are fighting, and now that their two armies are facing each other, Lu Bu doesn't seem to be in a hurry to attack." Dian Wei reported.

Zhang Yu stopped, looked at the map and said, "It's an opportunity, if we break into the battlefield, we can completely change the entire battle situation, at least it will scare Liu Bei." ”

Looking at the map, the place where Lu Bu and Liu Bei fought was in Dongcheng County and Dingyuan County.

Zhang Yu stopped and let the army rest.

Hidden in one place, Zhang Yu took out the map again to study.

"If you want to play, you have to play big, and change the whole battle situation in one fell swoop." Zhang Yu looked at the map and said.

Study the map carefully.

After half a day, Zhang Yu knocked on the map and said: "If you can make a detour here, make an ambush, and threaten the Yin Tomb of Jiujiang County all the way to the north, then Liu Bei will no longer be useful along the way." ”

The route Zhang Yu said was Liu Bei's supply route, once it was cut off, even if it was threatened, Liu Bei's troops and horses would be over.

Zhang Yu and they rested during the day, and at night, he looked at the starry sky and had a lot of thoughts.

At this time, a soldier came in a hurry, and when he heard the footsteps, Zhang Yu came back to his senses.

"Report to the lord, I received news from the front, Cao Cao led a large army to crusade against Yuan Shu, and the momentum was huge." The soldier said.

Zhang Yu nodded and asked the soldiers to go down first.

Soon, more detailed information arrived.

Cao Cao held a grand oath-taking meeting in Luoyang, Liu Xie personally attended, and also issued a holy decree in public, allowing Cao Cao to raise a large army to crusade against the unsubordinate.

"This Cao Cao is here to pick peaches." Zhang Yu looked at the intelligence and said.

Because the intelligence said that Liu Xie had sealed the official position of the commander-in-chief of the thief, and this official position was temporarily established, just to crusade against Yuan Shu.

It is obvious that with this official position, nominally Zhang Yu's allies will also be under his command.

Even if Zhang Yu achieves results, he will have to be cheap Cao Cao in the end.

"Cao Apu, it seems unrealistic to want to get cheap credit from me." Zhang Yu said.

The credit has to be earned, but if it is his own, he will earn credit for Cao Cao, and Zhang Yu will not do it.

One is the leader of the alliance, and the other is the commander-in-chief of the thief.

See who has suppressed whom, and see whose means are more clever.

Cao Cao directly sent 300,000 troops this time, and sent a lot of soldiers and horses over.

Undoubtedly, this five-way army was simply a catastrophe for Yuan Shu.

Not to mention anything else, Zhang Yu's 300,000 army and Cao Cao's 300,000 army are all elite soldiers.

Elite soldiers and strong generals, this is the route taken by Zhang Yu and Cao Cao, and there are strict requirements for army construction.

Zhang Yu began to act, and asked Dian Wei to go out with more than a thousand soldiers to clear the field, and he wanted to kill the spies along the road.

It only takes a few hours to buy it, the cavalry is very fast, and if it really gets close to the battlefield, the enemy has no time to react.

Acting at night, Zhang Yu and the others bypassed the frontal battlefield and moved to the rear.

It was another nightfall, and Zhang Yu and his men had already killed Liu Bei and their rear.

It's not that Yuan Shu and them are negligent in their defense, but they didn't expect Zhang Yu to go off the rails with his sword, and he was obviously still confronting Ji Ling by Chaohu Lake.

After Zhang Yu and the others broke into the rear, they didn't hide it, and swept towards the rear.

At night, they were not found, and Zhang Yu and they passed through several villages and towns.

"Lord, there is a small county town ahead, and there is a lot of grain and grass in it." Dian Wei said.

"How long will it take?" Zhang Yu asked.

"Two hours at most."

"Kill."

Hearing that it could be captured in two hours, Zhang Yu did not plan to rest, so he led his troops to rush over.

Zhang Yu and the others have already reached the rear of the enemy, so they should open and close, use their mobility, and attack quickly, so that the enemy is completely confused.

The army surrounded them and sent them down with a flick of arrows.

The county seat is small, larger than the town.

In other words, there was no such county town in history, but after the population skyrocketed, it naturally changed from a town to a county seat.

The population has increased, and many villages and towns have evolved into county seats.

Zhang Yu and the others suddenly appeared, and the arrows fell like a torrential rain.

The defenders at the head of the city were immediately stunned, and many were killed before they could figure it out.

Many of them were peasants before and had never been on the battlefield at all.

The brutality of the battlefield cost them their lives very quickly.

In less than half an hour, Zhang Yu and the others attacked the city wall.

There was little defense at all on the city.

The low city wall was directly controlled by a rain of arrows, and some soldiers went to smash the city gate, which was quickly smashed open.

When the cavalry entered the city, they split up and cleared it.

After another half an hour, the cleanup was completed, and Zhang Yu and they took control of the city.

The end of the battle was very light.

After taking control of the city, Zhang Yu left 10,000 troops to organize and defend the city.

And Zhang Yu and Dian Wei took the rest of the army, divided into two teams, and swept around.

They are very fast and don't care about anything else.

Rushing along the way, Zhang Yu destroyed two small supply bases on the way.

Dian Wei was lucky and intercepted a grain transport team.

In three days, Zhang Yu and his men fought for more than 400 miles, burned a large amount of materials, and intercepted and killed four small teams of grain transporters.

After three days of killing, Zhang Yu and Dian Wei converged, and then rushed to the previous county seat.

A day and a half after Zhang Yu and them broke through the city, Liu Bei and the others received the news.

Liu Bei shook, and Guan Zhang also shook.

Zhang Yu silently killed them behind and cut off their food routes.

It's just too dangerous.

At the same time, Lu Bu was also shaken.

"Gongtai, is this Zhang Yu here to grab credit?" Lu Bu said.

Chen Gong smiled, then shook his head and said, "Fengxian, there is no credit now, who do we want credit from, and who do Zhang Yu want to ask for rewards?" ”

Lu Bu nodded as if he didn't understand, and he also felt that this was true, they only fought for themselves, and there was no need to ask for credit from anyone, so naturally they didn't have to care about the credit.

"That Zhang Yu is here to grab the territory?" Lu Bu asked again.

"Definitely." Chen Gong thought for a while and said: "He probably wants to open up the situation, the sword goes sideways, and coming here to grab territory is not his best choice, but where his army is located." ”

It is not the ability to grab the turf, the most important thing is to be able to hold it.

(End of chapter)