There are many reasons why Liu Chuang was able to maintain victory in the two duels of Cao and Liu.

Among them, in addition to Liu Chuang's mastery of maritime advantages and possessing the sky thunder fire, there is also the factor of Cao Cao underestimating the enemy. Of course, Liu Chuang takes the lead every time and grasps the strategic deployment of taking the initiative, which makes Cao Cao a headache. Relying on Cao Cao's defense line too long, Liu Chuang attacks everywhere. In this case, Cao Cao can only run away and passive defense has also made Liu Chuang take a lot of advantage.

But now, these factors are slowly disappearing.

After repeated failures, Cao Cao finally regarded Liu Chuang as his biggest enemy in his life, which also doubled the pressure on Liu Chuang.

It was getting late, but the lobby was still brightly lit.

Ju Su and others had left, leaving only Liu Chuang standing in front of the sand table, meditating and silent.

Mi Feng sent someone to ask him to go back for dinner several times, but he ignored him and still stayed in the lobby, staring at the sand table in a daze...

"Lord, Military Advisor Kong Ming asked for a visit."

"Ah, let him in."

Liu Chuang suddenly woke up and turned to look.

"It's so late, Kong Ming and Xiaozhi are here. Is there anything wrong?"

Zhuge Liang and Fa Zheng walked into the lobby together and bowed to Liu Chuang.

"Lord, after hearing what Mr. Xiaozhi and I said to you, I also discussed it carefully.

Now Cao Cao continues to increase troops to Li Yang, but he has been slow to launch an attack, and there must be something strange about it. Xiaozhi and I think this must be Cao Cao's plan to attack the east and west."

Liu Chuang smiled slightly, looked at Zhuge Liang and Fa Zheng, and suddenly said, "It was your sister who sent someone to notify you..."

"this……"

Zhuge Liang's face turned red and showed a look of embarrassment.

Liu Chuang guessed well. He did receive a message from Zhuge Ling and rushed to the General's Mansion with Fa Zheng.

Fa Zheng came to the General's Mansion for half a year in a flash. As a doctor, he soon became friends with Zhuge Liang. The left and right Fa Zheng had not yet started a family, so he went to Zhuge Liang's house to have a meal every day. What about Zhuge Liang? He also highly praised Fa Zheng's talent. Two young people with outstanding talents became close friends, which made Liu Chuang sigh.

Sima Yi is also talented, but he never deals with Zhuge Liang.

Who would have thought that Fa Zheng came and became friends with Zhuge Liang?

He smiled and signaled the two to sit down.

"The words of Mr. Yujian and Mr. Yu were also very inspiring to me.

Cao Cao has now seized the initiative and made it an open plot. Even if I know that he is using it, I have to stop Cao's army in Liyang.

I just got the news that Cao Cao had once again increased his troops to Li Yang by 30,000... Under such circumstances, whether he was fighting in the east or fighting in Li Yang, I had to increase troops to Wei County. In this case, if he wanted to regain the opportunity... he had to win a surprise."

Zhuge Liang said: "What the lord said is right, Xiaozhi and I also think so."

"But, how to win by surprise?"

Zhuge Liang glanced at Fa Zheng and nodded at him.

Fa Zheng knew that Zhuge Liang gave him the opportunity...

Now Zhuge Liang no longer needs to steal the limelight. But for Fa Zheng, he also needs to use his talents to strengthen Liu Chuang's attention to him.

Fa Zheng stood up and walked to Liu Chuang, "I also discussed it during dinner. Since I was going to win by surprise, the lord didn't have to pay attention to where Cao Cao was going to cross the river."

"oh?"

"The lord just needs to find where he crosses the river."

Liu Chuang was stunned and then suddenly appeared.

He understood Fazheng's meaning: No matter where Cao Cao wanted to cross the river, Liu Chuang just needed to find where he crossed the river.

Cao Cao wanted to burn the war to Hebei, and Liu Chuang could burn the war to Henan... If you cross the river, I will cross the river, just see who can't hold on first.

With me as the main point, Cao Cao had all kinds of plans. As long as Liu Chuang could cross the Yellow River, Cao Cao would be difficult to deal with.

After understanding the mystery, Liu Chuang's eyes suddenly fell on the sand table. He pondered for a long time, suddenly pointed at a city on the sand table and said softly: "Xiaozhi means, but do you want me to cross the river?"

When Fa Zheng saw it, he immediately smiled and nodded repeatedly.

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In July of the ninth year of Jian'an, just as Cao Cao continued to increase his troops to Li Yang, and everyone in the world believed that Cao Cao was preparing to fight to the death with Li Yang and Liu Chuang. Cao Cao personally led 20,000 elite Cao troops, with Cao Chunhu and Leopard Cavalry as the vanguard, and suddenly crossed the river from Cangting and launched an attack on Qinghe.

Qinghe Country...is not right, it should be said to be Qinghe County.

After discovering that Cao's army crossed the river from Cangting, Shi Huan immediately sent people to report to Yecheng urgently, and at the same time dispatched troops and generals to quickly gather at the Dushui River.

According to Shi Huan's idea, he was preparing to use Dushui as a natural barrier to stop Cao's army from attacking.

Unexpectedly, the tiger and leopard cavalry attacked quickly. Before Shi Huan was properly arranged, Cao Chun's tiger and leopard cavalry had already crossed the poisonous water and launched an attack on the Han army. Shi Huan responded hastily, but suffered heavy losses. The tiger and leopard cavalry began to be formed in the fourth year of Jian'an, and it has been five years now. Cao Chun is better at training troops. Over the past five years, he has almost eaten, lived and served with the tiger and leopard cavalry, and has tempered the tiger and leopard cavalry into a powerful brigade.

During this battle across the river, Cao Chun even asked Cao Cao for two powerful generals, Lai Yuexi and Cao Peng, which made the tiger and leopard cavalry like tigers and tigers.

Shi Huan was also good at training troops, but after all, he didn't say much when he took over Qinghe.

So much so that as soon as the two sides confronted Dushui, the Han army even held on for an hour and became defeated.

Three thousand tigers and leopard cavalry fought against five thousand Han troops, but the Han army was defeated and fled. After Cao's army crossed the Dushui River, Cao Chun immediately ordered the pursuit to continue.

Shi Huan retreated from Dushui to Beiqiu, and before he even had time to stabilize his position, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry arrived again.

When the Dushui River was in the Han army, they had the advantage of military strength, and they were no match for the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. Now that they arrived at the Beiqiu, their military strength was gone...

"The only way to fight to the death!"

Shi Huan was desperate when he saw the tiger and leopard cavalry coming in a fierce manner.

Since he was recommended by Xu Chu to serve Liu Chuang in the first year of Jian'an, he has fought in the east and made countless contributions.

In terms of reputation, he may not be as good as Taishi Ci and others. However, in terms of ability, he may not be inferior to others. From a wanderer to a county prefect now, Shi Huan knew that Liu Chuang's foundation is hard-earned now. He could not retreat again... If he retreated again, it would be Gan Ling.

Once Cao's army seizes Ganling, the entire Qinghe River will be shaken.

If the Qinghe River is in chaos, the rivers, Julu and stability will be affected...

Only fight to the death!

I hope to delay the speed of Cao's army's attack so that Gan Ling can hold on.

Thinking of this, Shi Huan's eyes showed a glaring look, and he shouted sternly: "My lord is to treat me with the kindness of knowing me. Now is the time for me to be loyal to you. My sons, let me attack with me, and be sure to stop Cao's army. Otherwise, Gan Ling will be in danger."

After saying that, Shi Huan leaped his gun and rushed towards Cao's army.

Behind him, more than a thousand defeated soldiers shouted in unison and followed Shi Huan to charge towards the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Cao Chun obviously did not expect that the Han army would dare to fight back under such circumstances. The two sides started a fierce battle outside Beiqiu City. Under the leadership of Shi Huan, the Han army fought to the death without retreating. The war lasted from Chen to Wu, and Shi Huan relied on a thousand defeated soldiers to hold back the progress of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. But in the end, the Han army was short of troops. After Shi Huan killed dozens of Cao troops in the chaos, he was killed by Yue Xi. Shi Huan died in battle, and the Han army could no longer resist and fled in all directions... Cao Chun immediately ordered to enter Beiqiu County.

However, due to Shi Huan's blockage, the tiger and leopard cavalry suffered heavy losses.

Three thousand tiger and leopard cavalry killed or injured only a hundred people in Dushui, but nearly three hundred people were lost under Beiqiu City.

Moreover, after the continuous attacks, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was exhausted. In this case, Cao Chun had to order the attack to stop and send someone to Cao Cao's body.

Cao Cao had just crossed the Dushui River at this time.

Upon hearing the war situation, Cao Cao couldn't help but sighed to the sky: "There are so many martyrs under Chuang'er's tent!"

Immediately, he ordered Shi Huan's body to be put into the coffin and sent someone to bury it in Dushui...

"Tell me the order to speed up the three armies and make sure to arrive in Ganling before noon on the Ming Dynasty."

The fall of Beiqiu also indicates that the gateway of Qinghe County is open.

Cao Cao led his troops straight in and arrived in Ganling.

At this time, the news of Shi Huan's death in battle also reached Ganling City... In Ganling City, people were suddenly panicked. Everyone seemed extremely nervous and didn't know what to do.

"Now Cao Gong's troops are at the city, what should we do?"

Sun Kang, the magistrate of Qinghe County, was anxious about the gentry of Ganling, and discussed countermeasures in the Qinghe County Government.

This Sun Kang was originally a great hero of Julu. When Juhu was the prime minister of Qinghe, he recruited this person to come to Ganling and became the county magistrate.

At this moment, Sun Kang looked panicked.

"Even General Shi killed Beiqiu in battle, how can we compete with Cao Gong?

General Shi had 5,000 soldiers and horses but was not a match for Cao Gong. Now Cao Gong’s army is coming, so we may not be able to resist it.”

"The meaning of the county magistrate..."

Sun Kang glanced at him and said in a deep voice: "Duke Cao has tens of thousands of soldiers in Liyang, and Uncle Liu can't send troops to rescue him at all. In my opinion, when Cao Gong's troops are at the city, we will open the city to surrender, saying that we can still save our lives. There are only two thousand soldiers in Ganling City today. If Cao Gong breaks through the city, everyone will be unable to escape and die. All the dukes have their own property in the city. Could it be that they will be willing to die?"

For a moment, the gentry in the lobby was talking.

When Liu Chuang got Jizhou, he said that it was not long after all, and his control over Qinghe was far less than that of his control over Zhongshan Hejian and other places.

Although the time for occupying Wei County was shorter than that of Qinghe, Xun Chen was in charge after all. Xun Chen was a famous scholar and had friendship with various powerful families in Jizhou, so he could quickly stabilize the situation in Wei County. But Qinghe... Liu Chuang's control over Qinghe has never been too high.

From the beginning of Ju Hu to the current Shi Huan, it is not enough to truly intimidate the gentry of Qinghe.

It is precisely for this reason that after discussing with Xun Yu for a long time, Cao Cao decided to use Qinghe as a breakthrough.

As long as the Qinghe was captured, the situation in Jizhou would inevitably undergo tremendous changes... By then, he attacked Wei County on the side, echoed Li Yang with each other, and completely seized the initiative. Just as Xun Yu guessed, after Shi Huan died in battle, Gan Ling was in a mess.

"Since everyone has no objection, I will make up for it.
Chapter completed!