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On the last day of May, Shouchun changed drastically, and an unknown rebel infiltrated into Shouchun, raided the palace city, set fire to plunder, and disrupted Shouchun city.

Yuan Shu emerged from the palace urgently and avoided the military camp in the east of the city, and finally escaped. But before Yuan Yao could lead his army to welcome him, a greater disaster came - Cao's army launched a general attack.

In the dark night, the shouts and kills shook the sky, and the fires were everywhere, and the arrows flew around. Yuan's army was completely in a state of no command. Cao's army quickly broke through the peripheral obstacles, crossed the moat, cut off the cable bridge, and climbed the city to fight.

After nearly an hour of fierce battle, the defenders were not supported, and Cao's army increased their attacks. The fierce general Xu Chu wore double armor, held a large shield and brass slake, climbed first on the ladder, and killed the city. After half a moment of bloody battle, the shield was broken and the armor was broken, and the Cao army behind him rushed up like a tide... At midnight, he finally captured the outer city of the South Gate.

Yuan's army was defeated, his morale was lost, and he was unable to hold on. He retreated again and again. First, the east and west gates were lost, and then the inner city was lost. The sky was dim, and the three outer gates of Shouchun were lost, and the inner city was also captured. Cao's army entered Shouchun City. Then, under Cao Hong and Xu Chu, he surrounded the Dongdaying and launched a mad attack.

The defender Liu Xun was unable to resist, so he finally protected Yuan Shu, broke through the siege, broke out of Shouchun, and ran south.

At this time, Yuan Yao was also trapped in the palace city and could not meet his father, and the father and son were separated forever from then on.

On the first day of June, the sun rises as usual, and Shouchun has changed its owner.

The situation was very subtle at this time. Cao's army occupied the three gates inside and outside Shouchun, while the Dragon Wolf Army occupied the inner and outer north gates and palace cities close to the Feishui River. Both sides each surrendered Yuan soldiers. They collected military funds, recruited military servants, set up deer forts, and did not violate the river water.

Li Dian did not participate in the bloody battle last night. There are two reasons for this: one is that the night battle is too chaotic and basically cannot be effectively commanded. It is easy to become a chaotic battle and cause unnecessary losses. The other is that except for the five hundred mountain-yue elite soldiers, the rest of his troops are all shipmen, with great waters and mediocre land. It is a huge waste to throw these elite water soldiers into the siege and street battles. It is definitely not what a qualified general should do.

All Li Dian could do was to use calmness to keep the pressure on Cao Cao at all times, forcing Cao Cao not to act rashly, and at the same time ensure smooth communication with Gan Ning in Shouchun City and transportation of troops and food.

Although Cao Cao failed to take over the entire city of Shouchun and failed to capture the Yuan family, he occupied at least half of the city and had a certain voice. In the future, Huainan was bounded and divided into cakes, so he didn't want to put him aside.

Let’s talk about Yuan Shu. Under Liu Xun’s escort, he fled to Lujiang in a slump and stationed in Lu'an. At this time, the army was seriously short of food and the soldiers fled increasingly. In a difficult situation, Sun Ce from Wu County sent thousands of stones of grain and stones of grain to solve his urgent problem.

Yuan Shu sighed, Liu Xun was grateful.

Yu Fan, the envoy who sent life-saving food, "inadvertently" revealed an important information to the two of them. The area of ​​Shangliao and Haihun was rich, and they could take refuge and get into the valley. Yuan Shu and Liu Xun were both quite moved when they heard it. Later, Yu Fan expressed his willingness to persuade the lord to help, and both Yuan and Liu were happy.

Soon, Liu Xun sent troops to attack Shangliao City, and Sun Ce also sent Sun Ben and Sun Fu to lead 5,000 infantrymen to help the battle. When the fierce battle was in full swing, Cheng Pu and Sun He suddenly led nearly 10,000 troops to attack Liu Xun's base camp Wancheng, and attacked and destroyed them in one fell swoop, capturing more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians.

It is worth mentioning that it was the battle of Anhui City in history that Sun Ce and Zhou Yu got Qiao Xiao and Qiao. However, the situation was completely different in this time and space. Yuan Shu was not dead yet, and the storm on the Huai River was surging. Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were all focused on the north. It was impossible to attack Huang Zu in the south, and it was even more impossible to personally raise the army to attack Lujiang... So Sun Lang and Zhou Lang missed a pair of Jiangdong sisters so helplessly.

Liu Xun was shocked when he heard the news. He returned to Pengze, Sun Ben and Sun Fu sent troops to intercept and kill him. Liu Xun was defeated and fled to Liuyi (now Echeng, Hubei) and defected to Huang Zu.

As soon as Liu Xun collapsed, Yuan Shu had no generals, no soldiers, no food, and was completely in a tragedy. In desperation, he wanted to go to the mountain to join the old army Lei Bo, but Chen Lan refused for Lei Bo and kept it for three days. The soldiers left food, so he retreated to Jiangting. At that time, there were only 30 hu of wheat chops in the army. It was in June, and Yuan Shu wanted to get honey slurry to quench his thirst, but there was no honey. After sighing for a long time, he said, "Is Yuan Shu so much?" In the end, he vomited blood and fought again and died.

The death of Yuan Shu marked the end of the Yuan clan era in Huainan and the era of heroes competing for Huaihe.

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June 27th is the most heatstroke in the year. As long as you are fine, no one will run to the sun to suffer. But what surprised the Cao army in Shouchun was that early in the morning, the north gate of the palace city occupied by the Dragon Wolf Army opened wide, and a group of people opened up in a mighty manner.

The team took the lead and rode together. After careful look, they were three leaders who were guarding the palace city: Gan Ning, Yuan Yao, and Xu You. The accompanying army was Gan Ning's eight hundred Bashu soldiers.

The soldiers of Cao's army looked at each other. What's the situation? Did the Dragon Wolf Army abandon the palace city? But there were at least a thousand guards in the palace city, so why didn't they evacuate together?

The guard general Xu Chu rushed over to the scene after hearing the news. He looked down on the wall and saw Gan Ning, who was leading by ten horses, riding on a tall horse.

Gan Ning seemed to feel something, and looked up and was facing Xu Chu's gaze. Facing the fire-breathing gaze, Gan Ning provocatively made a gesture taught to him by the lord - compared to the middle finger.

Gan Ning did not fully understand the meaning of this gesture, and Xu Chu did not completely understand the meaning of this gesture. But at this moment, it felt particularly happy than the person who made the gesture, while the person who saw the gesture was filled with anger and rushed to the sky spirit cover.

No matter whether you understand clearly or not, as long as you are not a fool, you can understand that Gan Ning will not say "I will defeat you".

Xu Chu's forehead was leaping with blue veins, his fists were clenched, he loosened his fingers, and his thick arms slowly raised. The entourage, who was familiar with his temper, knew that he was ready to give an order when he saw his movements.

"Send the order!" Xu Chu's beard was full of ascites, and he saw flesh at every root, and his murderous aura was full of murderous aura. "When Gan Ning and his party left the north gate, they immediately surrounded the palace city..."

He rushed into the east gate. He raised his arms high and held a roll of military orders. He shouted at Xu Chu from afar: "Zhongkang——Lord has orders——"

It was Han Hao and Xu Chu who paused in gesture: "What?"

"The lord has an order and keeps his troops still. Those who violate the order will be killed!"

Xu Chu opened his mouth wide, I haven't taken action yet. How did the lord know? This is too amazing, right?

At this time, Han Hao had already rode his horse to the city, looked at the gradually moving away from the Dragon Wolf Army, and said with a look: "Don't be surprised by Zhongkang, because the lord knows that Gan Ning, Yuan Yao will definitely lead his army out of the city."

Xu Chu looked confused: "Why is this?"

A complex emotion flashed across Han Hao's face and he sighed heavily: "Because. He is here."

Xu Chu was stunned at first, then woke up, his eyes suddenly opened like bells: "Is he here?"

The heroes gathered on the Huai River, Cao Cao, Guan Yu, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Hong, Zhu Ling, Han Hao, Cao Ang, Han Song, Li Dian, Gan Ning, Xu You, Yuan Yao, Hu Cheer... etc., without distinction, they all stood quietly in the straw sheds they built, looking up at them.

At the second hour of the year, I saw the striking red flag standing on the mound in the distance. There was a commotion in the straw shed.

Another moment later, a tall three-story boat appeared downstream of the river, with dragons and wolf flags flying. On the three-story deck were full of warriors holding spears and bows.

As the ship approached the south bank, a neatly-built general on the deck bowed to the people in the straw hut: "The general's tent, Chen Zhi, had met the masters, and the general arrived two minutes later."

Ma Han, here it is.

On June 27, the fifth year of Jian'an, Ma Han, Guo Jia, Xun You, Gao Shun, Zhang He, Gao Lan, and Chen Dao led 500 general guards, 1,000 camps (originally 700, Ma Han ordered the expansion of 1,000). One thousand elliptical soldiers, plus a baggage battalion and an auxiliary battalion led by Gao Lan, more than 2,500 people. The entire army had a total of 5,000 troops, and met with the heroes in Huainan on the Huai River.

The two armies of Le Jin and Taishici, the main force in the southern expedition, lie dormant on the Sishui River and the East Coast, secretly practiced, adapted to the waters and soil of the Yangtze River and Huai River, and waited for the lord to call at any time.

The troops led by Ma Han didn't have many soldiers, only 2,500, but they were all the strongest troops of the Dragon Wolf Army. Needless to say, the general guards were both the first-class heavy infantry in the Three Kingdoms. When more than 2,000 helmets were shiny and the armored heavy armored infantry rushed out of hundreds of ships, and roared and gathered on ashore, the scene, from Cao Cao to Cao's soldiers, was shocked. You should know that although Cao's army had more than 20,000 soldiers, but they could not gather 200 heavy armored soldiers, you can imagine how shocked they were in the face of them.

Ma Han went south this time and made a name for accepting Yuan Shu's offering of seals and soil. It's not a southern expedition, so he could not dispatch too many troops. However, at this time, the Dragon Wolf Army had a total of more than 15,000 people and warships on the water and land of the Huai River. In addition, the Yuan army was captured and surrendered, and the total number of troops was nearly equal to that of Cao's army. It can be said that fighting the first phase of the Southern expedition was completely enough.

However, when Ma Han stepped on the land of Huainan and saw his long-lost old rival Cao Cao, the first thing he said was: "Brother Meng De, I am here, peace will come."

When Cao Cao heard this, he felt a broken heart. No one knew. Everyone saw that this hero only reached Ma Han's shoulder, but his aura was not weak, and he smiled: "At the first meeting in Xuzhou, the general was just a cavalry commander at that time, and he used all his strength to bring peace to Xuzhou. Today, the general's majesty has made the world look at him. If he wants to seek peace, what will happen?"

The two peerless heroes held hands with each other, laughing loudly, and looked very close and harmonious.

Seeing this, the soldiers on both sides breathed a sigh of relief and their tense nerves eased. Especially the soldiers of the Cao army who had fought for more than half a year were exhausted, and were intimidated by the Dragon Wolf heavy armored soldiers. They thought that now, there was no need to fight again.

Well, the soldiers' wishes are always so simple and beautiful.

Just as Ma Han and Cao Cao introduced their generals to each other and chatted with each other, a horse came from afar as if flying. Looking at the flags behind him, it was undoubtedly Cao's whistle cavalry.

The whistle cavalry rushed closer, turned over and dismounted, and knelt down and replied: "Report to the general, come to report to the front, Wucheng Hou, General Sun Ce, who was fighting against rebellion, led more than 10,000 troops and 300 warships to welcome the general."

Cao Cao was happy and moved: "Sun Bofu is here too, it's great! If you want to get peace in the Jianghuai River, you really need this help from Sun Lang."
Chapter completed!