Two days after Shamoke killed Li Tong, and the last day in May, he reported on the emergency military situation encountered by several counties in Anfeng County, Dabie Mountains. Finally, the fast ships and horses were used together and sent to Xiahou Dun, who was stationed in Juchao.

In fact, the straight-line distance from Anfeng County to Lujiang County is not far. From the map, these two counties are bordered. The straight-line distance from Anfeng to Juchao is only 350 miles. The fast horse reports the emergency military situation, so you don’t have to walk for two days.

However, the terrain on the borders of the two counties is also a mountainous area that is difficult to travel, so you have to take a small boat to the north to leave the Dabie Mountains and enter the Huai River. Then you can quickly go east along the Huai River, then turn south to cross Shaobi, Feishui, pass Hefei, Chaohu, and arrive at Juchao.

After walking for more than 300 miles, you can run a dead horse for two days.

On the same day, what was Yu Jin and Li Dian on the southern line in? Yu Jin just gave up Tongshan a day ago and continued to retreat to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and also reported his continued shrinking military information to Xiahou Dun.

So it is obvious that Yu Jin himself thought that "Li Su received all the reinforcements, and they were elite soldiers of Liu Bei, and they were definitely not new recruits or Yuan Shao's prisoners of war who were not familiar with water wars", and even all relevant evidence, he submitted them to Xiahou Dun.

In addition, just the evening before, Cao Cao sent Cheng Yu, a strategist to Xiahou Dun as the army, just arrived in Juchao. Last night, Xiahou Dun arranged a grand banquet to entertain Cheng Yu, and asked Cheng Yu to give him some advice and help him give more advice.

In the end, because the guest and host drank a little too much, Xiahou Dun and Cheng Yu were both hungover and slept very late before getting up.

So, Xiahou Dun was awakened by his entourage in this confused state and told him about this series of bad news.

"It's so noisy! I wonder if this general has worked very hard to entertain Cheng Changshi!"

When she was woken up, Xiahou Dun was still angry when he woke up. He took the linen towel and rubbed his eyes hard, and wiped off his eyes. Only then did he feel that the headache was slightly better.

In this life, he had never fought with Lu Bujun head-on, so he was still "real. General of the End", his eyes were well preserved, and not a single one was blind. He had a big beard and a burly figure and a very majestic appearance.

He called Cheng Yu the Chief of the Secretariat of Cheng Yu, which was naturally because Cheng Yu's official position was also affected by the butterfly effect in this life - Cao Cao did not hold the emperor, so his subordinates could only give him the officials within the system of the chariot and cavalry generals.

After all, Cheng Yu's status is not as good as Xun Yu, and he cannot be appointed as the governor of a state. He is still only the "General of the Cheqi General". Similarly, Guo Jia is now only the "General of the Cheqi General Sima", and his rank is only one thousand stones.

However, those who know how to do things know that rank is not the key. Whether or not they have authority or influence depends on whether they are Cao Cao's close ministers and confidant aides. Cao Cao is the general of the chariot and cavalry, and the chief clerk of the chief Sima around him is no less powerful than the governor who is exiled.

After following the little official, Xiahou Dun vented a little, he finally had the opportunity to speak and explain the detailed bad news one by one:

"General, Anfeng County and Zhenglou County in Anfeng County, because General Cao Ren had almost all the defenders there before to support Li Dian's Jiangbeiban defense. As a result, he was attacked by Wang Ping's troops of the Han army who came over the Dabie Mountains.

The prefect of Anfeng, Li Tong, was suspected of dying for his country. His lord, Xu Qi, the newly appointed governor of Yuzhou, stationed in Yangyuan and Xia Cai, in Huainan. He still had thousands of new recruits of farming and farming soldiers. After hearing the news yesterday, he also tried to counterattack and retake them immediately.

However, not far after entering the Jushui Valley, Wudang Feijun, who was hit by Wang Ping, was ambushed, and the soldiers were killed and injured, and Xu Envoy Xu also seemed to break through and returned to Xiacai, and rushed to send people to ask for help.

In addition, the above is just the attacks and losses suffered by the Anfeng County of Yuzhou. According to Xu Envoy, Liu Bei's people should have advanced north and south across the Dabie Mountains, so the Qichun area in Yangzhou on the southern foot of the main ridge was probably also plagued.

Judging from the results of the enemy's propaganda, they claimed that they had captured the Zhu County of Qichun and had to surround Qichun. If it was true as the enemy said, the entire Dabie Mountains would be ravaged by Liu Bei's army. The situation in Qichun would be rewarded within one or two days at most."

Xiahou Dun became more and more shocked the more he heard it. He was stunned for several seconds, and then someone immediately took the map to check it out. It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t look at it, but he was shocked that Liu Bei’s army actually launched the Dabie Mountains, which stretched for more than 300 miles in the northwest and southeast. The entire line was close.

The main ridge of Dabie Mountains is approximately in the shape of "Y", but the two slants of "Y" are longer and the vertical is shorter. It is the junction of Yuzhou, Yangzhou and Jingzhou (so the guerrilla base in modern times is called "Hui-Henan-Anhui Border Region", and in the Han Dynasty it was "Jingyu-Yang Border Region")

Before Shamoke and Meng Xin fought, only one-third of the southwest side of the character "Y", that is, the Jingzhou part was Li Su's jurisdiction.

Now that they are asked to cross the mountains and advance to the northeast, they will naturally attack the north and south sides of the upper right corner of "Y". The north side of that stroke are several counties in Yuzhou, and the south side of that stroke are several counties in Yangzhou, and the degree of the crimes they suffer on both sides is regardless of the severity.

Xiahou Dun's scalp was numb when he heard this. After he had recovered from the smell, he quickly asked Cheng Yu to discuss countermeasures.

As a result, before we could discuss a few words, bad news came one after another.

Just now at noon that day, Qichun, on the Yangzhou side of Dabie Mountain in the south, also came to report urgently, as Xu Yuzhou heard "Wang Ping" brag:

Zhu County was captured and Qichun was surrounded, leaving only Xunyang County, which borders Lujiang County, which is adjacent to the north bank of the Yangtze River. Because it is an important Jiangfang town, Cao Ren divided his troops and was not threatened.

Xunyang is located in Jiangbei on the other side of Chaisang. Cao Ren wanted to prevent Chaisang's Han army from coming out of Poyang Lake and landing on the north shore. So that point was still very strong, with 5,000 elite combat soldiers defending the city, as well as a large number of peasant soldiers and farming soldiers. The areas west of Xunyang were basically lost.

"Mr. Cheng, what should I do now? How could Li Su suddenly have such a huge momentum? How large is Wang Ping's Wudang Flying Army? The lord was mobilizing troops before. I heard from Yuan Shao that Gao Shun's troops in Wancheng were very threatening and he wanted to help Yuan Shao defend Yingchuan.

Now that Runan and Huainan have been harassed by Wang Ping over the Dabie Mountains, isn’t Runan and Huainan, where they originally rely on dangerous mountains and do not have to leave heavy troops, they also have to leave troops to defend everywhere? Are the enemy bluffing?”

After all, Cheng Yu is also a top strategist with an intelligence of over 90 years. Now in Cao's camp, he is slightly inferior to Guo Jia and even higher than Xun Yu in terms of military tactics and strategies.

Jia Xu is dead, Sima Yi has not been promoted to a high position by Cao Cao. Others are not opponents of Cheng Yu in terms of the profound insights. Of course, such people are not so easy to deceive.

Even though Li Su was playing the game on the other side, Zhou Yu, who was inclined to believe because of his preset position, became blindly believed. When Cheng Yu heard it, he still felt a slight smell of conspiracy by instinct.

Cheng Yu pondered cautiously: "From the news we have seen so far, Yu Jin from the water and General Cao Li Dian from the land, all have sufficient evidence to prove that Li Su has indeed received supplementary reinforcements from Liu Bei's large number of elite troops.

However, if Wang Ping was transferred from Taihang to Jiangxia, why would he be so high-profile? In other words, from Liu Bei's position of interests, even though he was sure that Yuan Shao was an indecisive person, he was frightened by his previous campaign and did not dare to attack if he had the chance.

But Liu Bei drew elite troops from the northern line to the southern line to assist in the war. After all, the more secret the better. There is no reason to deliberately let Yuan Shao know that he had transferred elite troops to the south."

Cheng Yu's idea is quite similar to Cao Cao's decision to "treat Yuan Shao first or to Liu Bei who just killed Che Zhou and stole Xuzhou" before the Battle of Guandu.

In order to make a gold medal for Liu Bei in the Romance, it is written that Cao Cao first asked Liu Dai and Wang Zhong to pretend that he had made a move and gave him a wave of kills.

However, there were no fancy and whistle operations in official history. Cao Cao directly conquered Liu with Xuzhou as the priority, but instead set up a false banner on Liyang facing Yuan Shao.

In Cheng Yu's opinion, Liu Bei sent reinforcements to Li Su at this moment, and the reason is the same: those with real profit will not have false reputations, and those with virtual reputation will not have real profits.

Li Su is so obscene and likes fraud, how can he make the strategic layout match the name and reality? There must be a little bit of a wrong product!

Xiahou Dun attached great importance to Cheng Yu's opinion, and he added with some concern: "In this way, sir thinks it is possible that Wang Ping is not in the Dabie Mountains?"

Cheng Yu didn't dare to say all of them: "It's hard to say. At least Zhou Yu and Yu Jin's information could not see any flaws or suspicion. Li Su did get a lot of reinforcements from Liu Bei. Perhaps he just wanted to cover up, but it was not known that it was actually false.

At present, we can only say that the news is insufficient, and I cannot rule out several other possibilities. If you investigate a little more, all the doubts can be eliminated, and the truth will inevitably emerge."

Xiahou Dun: "What other possibilities do sir, sir?"

Cheng Yu thought about it for a while and asked Xiahou Dun to call up the messenger who informed the military information again, and interrogated several details in detail, including

"When did Anfeng defenders learn that the other party was Wang Ping? Did Wang Ping deliberately promote his identity? Or did he promote it after siege the city?"

"For those cities that are obviously unable to capture, they just plan to grab a hand and leave. Have you deliberately exposed your identity?"

A series of questions asked the messenger as he walked on thin ice, desperately recalling, fearing that he would remember it wrong. The final answer was nothing more than:

Wang Ping did not promote his identity when attacking those cities that were robbed and left, nor even showed his banner. He only promoted his identity in the siege of the counties that were surrounded and later captured.

Xiahou Dun and others on the side were also ashamed of their feelings when they heard this, saying that Mr. Cheng was really careful and everything started from actual details. Without investigation, there would be no right to speak, and he would not blindly make a conclusion.

After Cheng Yu asked all the details clearly, he took a closer look: "If Wang Ping is true and Li Su really let him publicize this way, I think there are three reasons.

First, the simplest thing is to scare our defenders when attacking several counties in the Dabie Mountains, hoping that they would feel that their strength was disparity and they would surrender directly if they didn't dare to resist. After all, loyal and righteous people like Li Tong were a minority who fought to the end.

Secondly, I think Li Su may want to make things worse and attract us to use more troops to defend Runan and other places, and divide the two troops sent by the lord to Yingchuan and support Zhou Yu. After all, even if the lord annexed Yuan Shu's remnants, there were only 200,000 troops in total, and they were used in three places, which would inevitably favor one and the other.

Finally, I think Li Su may also hope that Wang Ping will make his voice come out and attract more intermediate forces that were originally swaying around the Dabie Mountains in Huainan, or other people who can win over, so that they feel that there is hope for Wang Ping, take the initiative to make Li Su's voice grow in vain."

Xiahou Dun's pupils shrank slightly, and he thought about it: "Welcome the local swingers? Could it be that sir, are those Liu Pi, who were defeated and driven away by Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, fled into the mountains and were forced by Li Tong and others, and incompetent Yellow Turban Remnants, Gong Du and others? What can these people do?"

It’s not that Xiahou Dun looked down on Liu Pi and Gong Du, but that the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army in Runan in this life were indeed worse than the same period in history. Yuan Shu had nothing to do during the two years of peace in the world and had no other direction to expand, so he had to work hard to eliminate the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan and Runan and expand his strength.

In history, Liu Pi and Gong Du responded to Liu Bei and Yuan Shao during the Battle of Guandu. At least they occupied most of Runan. Even when they were poor in their early years, they still controlled some plains south of the Huai River and could farm fields to support themselves. Now these two thieves have completely fallen into deep mountains and valleys, and have not occupied a single county.

When Cheng Yu heard that Xiahou Dun was a little disdainful, he nodded in approval: "So I also think it is unlikely that this situation is ranked last. The key is that Liu Pi, Gong Du is too famous and powerful. I guess with Li Suzhi's status, he should not have heard of these two names, so how could he focus on recruiting them?

No matter what, we must be serious and delay for a day or two, thoroughly understand the situation and report it to the lord, so that we can avoid trouble."

Xiahou Dun bowed and thanked: "Mr. Be careful and cautious, which has benefited a lot. These brain-like things depend on Mr.'s care."

One or two days later, Cheng Yu really helped Xiahou Dun to dispatch troops and generals. No matter what, he asked Cao Cao first to ask some reinforcements to defend the southern part of the Huai River in Runan County and block the exit of the Dabie Mountains.

On the other hand, Cheng Yu also stepped up intelligence screening, but the deeper he went, the more he discovered that everything Li Sugan was very reasonable and natural. The closer he looked, the more he looked at the conspiracy points that seemed flawed at first glance became reasonable, which had other profound meanings.

On June 2nd, the last straw that overwhelmed Cheng Yu's prediction fell: he got a heavy military situation.

"Sir, Huainan came to report that Liu Pi, the remnants of the Yellow Turban tribes in Runan who fled into the mountains, and the two thieves of Gongdu, had officially raised the flag and surrendered to Liu Bei. Wang Ping got Li Su to hold the rituals in advance and appointed Liu Pi on behalf of Li Su and Gongdu as the commander of the commander.

They have nearly 20,000 male remnants of the Yellow Turbans, and thousands of soldiers who can fight, and have been incorporated. In the near future, they will be encouraged to attack Yangyuan and other counties again."

"So that's it! Li Su made Wang Ping so arrogant, indeed to force Yuan Shao or his lord to waste more troops to fill Runan's defense line, and to use Wang Ping's reputation as a mountain warfare, so that the local remnants can see hope and quickly intimidate and force them to surrender! This is not surprising!"

Cheng Yu felt that he had completely understood Li Su's true meaning, and he was also a little moved. Why did Li Su even know the details of that kind of thief, and he still thinks it has value. This person is really too meticulous in his work.
Chapter completed!