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Before dawn, military advisor Zhang Zhao hurried to the inner hall. Two maids were lying on lanterns in front of him. An old eunuch took him to walk quickly to Sun Quan's study. The eunuch walked while whispering worriedly: "Wu Hou has been sleeping very badly these days. He woke up at the second update last night and did not sleep all night. He was very worried. The military advisor should enlighten him."

Zhang Zhao nodded. He understood the reason why Sun Quan was worried. A few days ago, Cao Cao sent someone to send a secret letter, threatening Sun Quan nakedly. If Sun Quan did not work hard, once the Han army destroyed Jiangdong, Cao's army would never intervene.

Although the Han army withdraws troops from the lake on the surface, they actually withdraw their boats and replace them with two thousand stone large ships. One stone boat is replaced with twenty two thousand stone large ships. This is not a withdrawal, it is clearly a strengthening of the occupation of the lake.

There is also the problem of grain. The farmers in Wujun all went to Kuaiji County. Who will cultivate the grain fields in Wujun? You should know that Wujun has always been the granary of Jiangdong. Without this granary, what will Jiangdong use to support the army?

If Sun Quan could still sleep peacefully with such internal and external difficulties, that would be strange.

When he walked into the inner hall, he saw Sun Quan sitting alone in the hall, staring at the map on the table in a daze. The bronze oil lamp beside him was also particularly dim, and Sun Quan seemed not to see Zhang Zhao coming in.

Zhang Zhao quickly stepped forward and bowed and said, "I am looking for the Marquis of Wu."

Sun Quan sighed, "Military advisor, please sit down."

Zhang Zhao sat down and whispered: "Mr. Wu would still find a way to sleep. If this continues, his body will collapse."

Sun Quan looked at the sky outside. The night was dark and the sky was full of stars. He couldn't help but apologize: "I'm so sorry to invite the military advisor so late, which will affect the military advisor's rest."

Zhang Zhao knew that Sun Quan would come to him in the middle of the night, and there must be something important. He smiled and waited for Sun Quan to continue talking.

Sun Quan nodded and said, "I have been thinking about it for a few days and decided to follow Cao Cao's plan to go there with a dangerous chess."

Zhang Zhao knew what Sun Quan wanted to do, and he pondered for a while and said, "But has the consequences been thought about?"

"How could I have never thought about it? It was because I repeatedly weighed the pros and cons that I decided to adopt Cao Cao's suggestion. I asked the military advisor to discuss the details with the military advisor."

Seeing that Sun Quan had made a decision, Zhang Zhao stopped opposing it. He pondered for a long time and said, "I think the key is the problem of ships. The Han army blocked the Wuhu and Ruxukou rivers, and our civilian ships could not pass."

"I know, but I have developed a plan that I think works."

Sun Quan picked up a scroll on the table and handed it to Zhang Zhao, "Military Master, let's take a look first."

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Nanyang County, since the Nanxiang Pass was opened by the Han army, the focus of the war gradually shifted to Hefei. Nanyang County, which had once had a great war, gradually calmed down. It seemed that both sides had accepted the result of the war. The Han army occupied most of Nanyang County, including Wancheng, while the Cao army only controlled Ye County, a strategic location in the northeast corner.

Ye County is known as Wanzhishu and Xuzhishu. Its geographical location is important and it shoulders the important task of protecting the southern capital Xuchang. At the same time, it is also the northeast entrance of the Nanyang Basin and the gateway of Wancheng. It occupied Ye County and was flat to the south, posing a direct threat to Wancheng.

At present, there are 6,000 Cao troops in Ye County, guarded by General Li Dian, while Xiahou Dun led tens of thousands of troops in Xuchang, and could support Ye County at any time. The battle of Hefei transferred a large number of troops. Xiahou Dun was not only responsible for the defense of the Nanyang front, but also for the defense of the western front of Luoyang. He did not dare to exert his troops to Ye County. Once the Han army launched a large-scale attack on Luoyang, the Cao army defending Luoyang would have no troops to support him.

The best way is to immediately send troops to Ye County for support when the Han army sent troops from Wancheng.

This is true. Although the war in Hefei was in full swing, Xiahou Dun did not dare to take it lightly and ordered Li Dian to report to him every day about the movements of the Han army in Wancheng.

Li Dian also sent famous scouts to pay attention to the movements of the Han army in Wancheng. They all knew very well that once the Han army broke through on the western front, it would have an adverse impact on the war in Hefei.

Currently, the Han army has 20,000 troops stationed in Wancheng. Unlike the Cao army, the Han army concentrated its troops in Wancheng, and there were only a few people in the remaining counties to maintain order. This is also the Han army learned the lessons of Cao army and no longer repeated the same mistakes.

Over the past few months, the Han army in Nanyang only did one thing, that is, to train the surrendered army. In the Nanyang Battle, the Han army captured more than 15,000 prisoners of Cao's army, of which nearly 10,000 were from Nanyang. Therefore, training these 10,000 prisoners of war into the Han army became the important task of the Nanyang garrison.

Time flies and gradually comes to early September. The autumn is clear and cool. Large fields of millet fields begin to grout, and bunches of millet ears become full. The land of Nanyang is filled with the joy of harvest.

At a beautiful moment when no one expected a war to happen, the dark clouds of war quietly descended on the land of Nanyang.

That afternoon, a team of 15,000 people marched quickly on the official road about forty miles south of Ye County. All 15,000 troops rode horses, and 5,000 of them were equipped with double horses.

There were only two armies equipped with double horses in the Han army, one was the Guanlong cavalry, and the second was the heavy armored infantry. Since the Han army seized a large number of war horses during the expedition to the Qiang Di and the Xiongnu in the western expedition to the Xiongnu, all of these war horses were equipped to the army. Whether it was cavalry or infantry, they rode and horses for transportation during the march.

Heavy armored infantry is no exception, but their armor is very heavy. In addition, they are generally tall and difficult to carry a war horse. Therefore, they are equipped with a double horse, and a war horse is specially used to carry a war knife.

There were indeed five thousand heavy infantry soldiers in the Han army heading to Ye County. They were led by General Yaowu Liu Hu. Liu Hu's army arrived in Nanyang from Guanzhong five days ago. He received an order from King Liu Jing of Han, who ordered him to rush to Nanyang to assist in the war and assist the Nanyang army in capturing Ye County.

This is one of the links in Liu Jing's decision to use the Battle of Hefei to drag down Cao Wei's financial resources, fight on multiple fronts, and put war pressure on Cao Wei.

Of course, the attack on Ye County was an unfinished link in the Nanyang Battle. If Ye County was captured, the Nanyang Battle would be successfully concluded.

About one mile from Wancheng to Ye County, and about two mile from Ye County to Xuchang, although the Cao army scouts would investigate the actions of the Han army, the scouts would have to rush back to report and report to Xu Du to increase their troops until the Cao army reinforcements arrived. There were many links in this. It would take two days at the earliest that the Cao army reinforcements would arrive in Ye County.

The Han army could only march quickly and could kill Ye County within one day. In this way, the Han army had more than one day of time than the Cao army in Xuchang, and this day could determine the fate of Ye County.

It was precisely because of this that Liu Jing ordered Liu Hu to lead 5,000 heavily armored infantry to assist in the attack on Ye County.

Ye County is far from the tall and strong as Hefei City. The city wall is less than 10,000 yuan, with a circumference of fifteen miles and a population of more than 10,000 people. In the Central Plains, Ye County's advantage lies not in the city, but in the closeness of Xuchang, and it can get timely support from Xuchang reinforcements. It is precisely because of this that the pirate has not launched an attack on Ye County for a long time.

At this time, the general of Ye County, Li Dian, had already received the news that the Han army had left Wancheng and killed Ye County. He immediately reported to Xiahou Dun Xuchang with a flying pigeon. Now the Han army is less than ten miles away from Ye County, and Xiahou Dun's reinforcements should also set off. In terms of time, Xiahou Dun's reinforcements will not arrive in Ye County as soon as tomorrow afternoon, and the Han army will be killed in another half an hour.

Li Dian couldn't help but feel a little nervous. He was captured by the Han army and later released, which left an indelible shadow in his heart. It was the capture that made it difficult for him to be promoted. He has been hesitating for many years. Zhang He, Zhang Liao, Zang Ba and others who were in the same position as him were all promoted and were granted the title of the Housing Marquis and Generals. He is still only the Hou of Guannei and the General of the Central Army.

Cao Hong's tragic death in Wancheng brought great pressure to Li Dian. Although he was not in the city at that time, he was Cao Hong's deputy general, and Cao Hong's death always gave him a little bit of unshirkable responsibility.

Li Dian stood at the top of the city and stared at the official road in the distance. The night fell, the sky was not yet dark, the dusk was dim, and the sky was roaring around the woods, and the wilderness seemed particularly quiet. Li Dian couldn't help but sigh softly, and this tranquility would be interrupted soon.

Just as Li Dian was worried, half an hour later, 15,000 Han troops finally appeared on Gaogang two miles away. A large area of ​​scattered birds living on Gaogang were shocked, which also alarmed the defenders on the city wall.

The alarm bells at the top of the city wall rang and spread throughout the city. Thousands of Cao soldiers who were resting under the wall stood up and rushed to the top of the city. Li Dian also went up to the top of the city and watched the Han army two miles away nervously.

At this time, the soldiers on the city wall shouted, and an army rushed down the hillside and headed straight for the city. The soldiers of Cao's army were so scared that they all set their bows and arrows. Li Dian shouted loudly: "Don't panic."

Li Dian felt that this army seemed a bit special, and it was actually accompanied by a pair of horses. Could this be the Guanlong cavalry of the Han army?

Li Dian did not expect that it was not the Guanlong cavalry, but the heavy armored infantry with the most powerful combat power in the Han army. They stopped their war horses about a step away from the city.

The squad is the range of a heavy squadron, but the Han army knew that the Ye County city was not wide and could not install a heavy squadron at the top of the city. There were only light squadrons, with a range of only 10 or 50 steps, and could not attack the army outside the squadron.

Of course, bee crossbows can shoot outside the field, and at the same time, the powerful iron crossbow arrows of bee crossbows can also shoot through the heavy armor of heavy armored infantry. It is the nemesis of heavy armored infantry. However, the number of bee crossbows in Cao's army is not large, with only one thousand, all placed in Hefei, which also prevents the Han army's heavy armored infantry from hiding without knowing it.

Secondly, there is a bed crossbow, which can shoot large arrows as long as a foot, with a killing range of 250 steps, is strong and can penetrate the armor of heavy armored infantry. Fifty bed crossbows were deployed at the head of Ye County, but they were not used to deal with heavy armored infantry, but to deal with the Han army's nest chariots and stone-capping machines.

The heavily armored infantry of the Han army has undergone several upgrades. Not only has the armor become lighter and thinner, but it is also stronger, but the sabre in the hands has also undergone great changes.

With the advancement of casting technology, the slashing saber has gradually become closer to the Modao of later generations. It has a total length of about two feet and a blade of six feet long. It looks like a sharp two-edged knife. It can be chopped on both sides or assassinated.

When heavy armored infantry uses a sabre, they wave with their waist power. After entering the battle, the heavy armored infantry swings the sabre to advance like a wall. The front-line cavalry is all covered with dust. It is the sharpest weapon to deal with cavalry, but it is not only against cavalry, but also has miraculous effects when siegeing the city.

At present, only the Han army is equipped with heavy armored infantry that uses sabers to kill horses. On the one hand, it is difficult to kill horsesabers, but it is the absolute secret of the Han army. Five sword craftsmen are secretly protected.

On the other hand, the Han army was mainly related to the rise of the south. At that time, they had no cavalry, and in order to deal with Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry, they could only use heavy armored infantry. Of course, this is also related to national strength. Apart from the Han and Wei countries, the Jiangdong Army did not have the national strength to be equipped with heavy armored infantry.

Currently, there are 6,000 heavy armored infantry in the Han army, with Liu Hu as the main general and Lei Tong as the deputy general. This time, Lei Tong did not go out to Nanyang, but led 1,000 heavy armored infantry to stay in Tongguan to protect the safety of Guanzhong.

Liu Hu was known as the first sword of the Han army. It was not that he was very skilled in martial arts, but that he was the most powerful heavy armored infantry in command of the most powerful combat power and used the sharpest sabre to capture Ye County within an hour. At this time, he was already eager to try it out and was waiting for this opportunity to become famous.

At this time, a soldier rushed to Liu Hu and said, "Governor, how long does the general need to rest?"

Liu Hu smiled proudly, "No need to rest, let my soldiers dress neatly and attack in a quarter of an hour."

The soldiers rushed back to report, and Liu Hu turned around and shouted loudly: "All the men dismounted and prepared to fight."

Although heavy armored infantry are not afraid of arrows and rolling wood attacks, they also have weaknesses. Their biggest weakness is that they are bulky and inconvenient to move, so they naturally cannot carry the siege ladder. Therefore, using heavy armored infantry to attack the city requires other troops to handle the prelude to the siege for them.

The heavy armored infantry was still changing clothes, but the Han army commander issued an order to attack.

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong" The huge war drum of the Han army was ringing, and the sound of the drums was earth-shaking. Ten thousand Han soldiers began to attack Ye County. The overwhelming soldiers raised their shields and rushed towards the city with several large cross-city ladders.

Li Dian's face turned pale, and the Han army began to attack the city without rest. He understood the Han army's intention that the Han army would use the period before reinforcements arrived to capture Ye County, and it would attack the city at night.
Chapter completed!