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Xu Huang judged and mistakenly, the Han army's vanguard attacked Shuxian, but the real target attacked Lu'an, prepared to break through the periphery of Hefei from Lu'an County.

This veteran Huang Zhong carefully designed a strategy to attack the Han army chief of Lu'an, Zhao Yan, former magistrate of Changsha County. During the Han army launched the Hefei battle, Zhao Yan, the leader of Zhao Yan's rear army volunteered to attack Lu'an in the north.

Zhao Yan led 12,000 people to the north and after entering Lu'an, he divided his troops into two or one and about 7,000 people, led by himself, secretly entering Lu'an County ten miles away from Zuoyun Mountain.

Another five thousand people were led by Deputy General Yang Kai to drive out the flag of 10,000 people and slowly advance towards Lu'an County. Zhao Yan's intention was obvious to let Cao's scouts find that the Han army lured Cao's army to fight and the main force raided Lu'an County and attacked Cao's army from both sides.

But let Zhao Yan have some unexpected incidents, Cao's army sent troops to defend the city, which made me feel a little uneasy. Did Xu Huang find out his intention?

Zhao Yan and Xu Huang are familiar with each other and know that Xu Huang and Wu are both cautious and have rich combat experience. Cao Cao ordered to come to Lu'an County and trust Zhao Yan did not dare to underestimate the enemy or send troops to wait patiently for the opportunity.

But the Han army was also unfavorable. The Han army went north with light troops and supplies. Each soldier only brought dry food for five days. In fact, they only had two days. If they could not take over the Lu'an Han army within two days, they would have to retreat.

Of course, Zhao Yan could also get food from the people, but before leaving, Huang Zhong instructed not to disturb the people. If the military food was insufficient, he could take it from the official warehouse of the county town along the way. He could pass only one Bo'an County town along the way, and had already passed an empty city. Cao's army moved all the population of the county town to Lu'an to find a piece of food.

Zhao Yan was anxious and uneasy and paced back and forth in the big tent. At this time, the general Zhang Lin offered a plan: "Xu Huang must know that the military rations are insufficient, so he refused to leave the city to fight. You might as well pretend to be exhausted and retreated. Xu Huang will definitely pursue you at the end, but you can defeat Cao's army in half an ambush."

Zhao Yan was very happy and immediately pulled out the camp to the officials and released rumors in the camp that the food was full and the Han army immediately retreated to the south.

Early Detective reported to Xu Huang, Xu Huang heard this without caring about Mao Jie's urge to keep thousands of troops to defend Lu'an City, personally led 7,000 troops to pursue the Han army.

Baima Valley is a wide and six miles long. The valley is steep and the forests are dense at the bottom of the mountain. It passes through the valley and goes to Wan County. At this time, the sky gradually darkens and the huge shadows cover the valley, making the valley particularly dark. The valley is quiet and the sound of birds.

There were 10,000 Han troops hidden in the dense forests on both sides, Zhang Bi slid the cross and arrows patiently waiting for Cao's army to enter the valley, Zhao Yan was quite excited and received news that Xu Huang led his army out of the city to pursue him. This was the opportunity that had been waiting for a long time.

At this time, the soldier whispered: "General, the enemy is here."

Zhao Yan immediately looked down the mountain and saw an army of thousands of people coming quickly for a general with a burly figure and a big axe in his hand. Zhao Yan roughly saw the figure and appearance of the general Xu Huang.

Zhao Yan was very happy that as long as he shot Xu Huang and Cao's army, he would be defeated. He immediately called an order: "The crossbowman is ready to shoot."

Only a sound of buzzing sounds in the valley were heard. The arrows on both sides were fired at once. Cao's army was caught off guard. Suddenly, there was a chaos. The soldiers held their shields to resist the arrows on both sides and suffered heavy casualties and rushed to escape to the valley. General Xu Huang could not hide and died tragically on the spot. Several arrows were shot into hedgehogs.

Zhao Yanzhi returned to the army outside the valley and immediately called an order: "The army attacked and pursued the enemy."

Ten thousand Han troops rushed out from both sides of the valley to chase and kill the defeated Cao's army, Zhao Yan, took the lead and rushed north not only to completely annihilate the Cao army, but also to capture Lu'an City.

When the army had just chased through several hills for more than ten miles, a fire suddenly appeared in the woods on the left. About a thousand ambushed soldiers were about to be rebuked. The famous general Xu Huang laughed: "Does Zhao Yan think Xu Gongming was shot to death?"

Zhao Yan was shocked and realized that he had been fooled and the person shot to death was not Xu Huang. A substitute Cao army retreated and pretended to lure him into being fooled and said urgently: "Get back quickly."

Xu Huang shouted loudly and urged the horse to go straight to Zhao Yan and swung the axe, and chopped the Han general Zhang Lin swung his sword to greet the deputy general Yang Kai, who also swung the gun to kill him from left to right. Xu Huang was not afraid of a drop of the second battle. Zhang Lin was killed by Xu Huang with an axe and Yang Kai saw that the situation was not good, but Xu Huang rushed to swing the axe and cut it into two sections.

Zhao Yan fled in fear and fled. At this time, the woods on the right were also lit up. Another Cao army ambushed the troops and stabbed the Han army into two sections. Xu Huang led the army to cover up and killed the Han army and rushed forward. The Han army was scrambled and fled to escape. The Cao army was chased and killed and injured. Thousands of Han army were desperate. They knelt down and surrendered. Zhao Yan escaped under the escort of dozens of personal soldiers and only led more than a thousand remaining troops to flee back to Wan County in panic.

Almost all the Han army was wiped out. Not only did Huang Zhong fail to break the deadlock, but the earth affected the morale. Huang Zhong was furious and ordered the execution of Zhao Yan and the generals begged to be punished. Only then did he get rid of Huang Zhong's repeated attack on Zhao Yan and his army's stick generals rushed back to Chaisang.

In the tent, Huang Zhong was upset and paced back and forth with his hands. He failed to attack Lu'an County and suffered nearly 10,000 troops. He had never encountered a crushing defeat in many years. He didn't know how to explain to His Highness the King of Han.

At this time, Pang Tong advised: "The victory and defeat of the veteran general is a common cause of military affairs. I think His Highness the King of Han will not blame the general for fighting later on, and striving to break the deadlock as soon as possible."

Huang Zhong sighed, "How can Cao's army's deployment be broken like a wall of iron? Can the military advisor teach?"

Pang Tong pondered for a moment: "Lu'an is close to Hefei and Cao's army is easy to support, and it is recommended to break the situation from Shu County. However, the top priority is to withdraw the Juchao army first."

"Why" Pang Tong was puzzled.

"If our defeat in Lu'an Cao's army will definitely strike while the iron is hot, concentrate our forces to attack Juchao. In this case, either the old general will press Juchao and withdraw from the general and cannot be alone."

Huang Zhong pondered for a moment and could only sigh: "Now that the navy troops have not arrived. If the army is pressed, they will be surrounded by Cao Cao's superior forces and annihilated them. They will withdraw from Juchao first according to the military advisor's words."

Huang Zhong immediately ordered Xiang's army to withdraw from Juchao County and temporarily stopped attacking Hefei and waited for the navy to arrive.

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Thousands of warships of the queen arrived at Wankou in a mighty manner. Liu Jing personally led an army of 60,000 from Chaisang to rush, along with the 40,000 troops in Wan County, to reach 100,000 troops, officially kicking off the Hefei battle.

Huang Zhong arranged the military camp and military advisor Pang Tong to rush to Ankou to welcome Liu Jing to Liu Jing's arrival Liu Jing's main ship, a thousand stone tower ship, a guard ran down from the big ship and clasped his fists at Huang Zhong and Pang Tong: "His Royal Highness the King of Han is waiting on the ship for the old general to invite the old general and the military advisor Pang to come with him."

Huang Zhong seemed to be a little concerned, nodded and looked at Pang Tong. The two followed the guards and walked quickly to the ship to the front of the main cabin. The guards laughed: "Your Highness, please, please, two people in the cabin."

Huang Zhong and Pang Tong walked into the cabin and saw a huge sand table placed in the cabin. Han Wang Liu Jing was standing alone in front of the sand table, as if in contemplation.

Huang Zhong and Pang Tong hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "Meet His Highness the King of Han"

Liu Jing woke up from his thoughts and smiled at the two of them: "I'm so upset to come to Wankou in person."

"The humble official comes to apologize"

Huang Zhong knelt down on one knee and held his fist: "The decision-making mistake in the humble position caused heavy losses to the Han army and was willing to accept all punishments."

Huang Zhong then detailed the defeat of Zhao Yan in the attack on Lu'an. Finally, "The humble command Zhao Yan to go north and lead to insufficient supplies. Zhao Yan had to take a dangerous plan, but Xu Huang discovered that only more than a thousand people were left to escape back to this humble position. Please punish His Highness for punishment."

Liu Jing was silent for a moment and asked: "I want to know how to punish Zhao Yan."

"I wanted to be executed, but everyone begged for mercy and then spared the death and beat the army again and again, and was not allowed to lead the troops again."

"Since the punishment has been imposed, why should I mention this matter again?"

Huang Zhong understood Liu Jing's meaning and was not ready to punish him. He sighed: "The reason why Zhao Yan was finally executed was not pleaded with by everyone, but also the responsibility was to order the light troops to go north when there was insufficient food, and the official grain of the county along the way could be taken and strictly ordered not to disturb the people. As a result, a grain of food in the official warehouse along the way was only two days, so the responsibility was also to be responsible for the low-level position."

Liu Jing nodded, "I feel that this failure requires learning more lessons and not holding him accountable. If he defeats the battle, he will be held accountable. Cao Cao's generals have died long ago. Xu Huang was in Longxi, and in Chen Cang, he failed repeatedly but was punished. However, he learned the lessons to see through Zhao Yan pretended to retreat and put the general in a plan. General Huang would not punish him, but hoped to learn from the lessons to know where this mistake was."

Huang Zhong sighed for a while: "I feel a little pedantic."

“To pedantic.”

Liu Jing looked at: "What does it mean to disturb the people? In order to prevent soldiers from having enough food, the rules are set. But once the military ration is insufficient, it involves the military's life and death plan, don't talk about it. Plunder the people's food on the spot to ensure the supply of military rations. This is the correct decision. As long as you do not burn and kill the people, borrow food from the people or even directly seize the food, you will acquiesce the old general's hope not to do it again."

Huang Zhong nodded silently and Liu Jing said to Pang Tong: "I guess many military advisors of the Han army were captured, so they could send one to Lu'an to tell Xu Huang that many Cao troops were willing to exchange prisoners of war in Nanyang County."

"There is a good minister to obey the order"
Chapter completed!