Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 582
In the original history, Liu Bei relied on the support of Liu Pi and Gong Du to gather more than [-] troops in Runan, and then blocked Cao Cao's pursuit of him, so that he had the opportunity to retreat to Nanyang, Jingzhou. Attached to Liu Biao, he opened a new chapter in his life.

Therefore, Runan County has not recovered from the Yellow Turban War, and the local area can be regarded as a mess, completely in the small separatism of the local Yellow Turban remnants and the powerful forces of the gentry.

Of course, the current Runan County is nominally under the control of Yuan Shu, after all, Runan County was originally Yuan Shu's hometown.

The power of the Yuan family is still well established in many counties and towns in Runan. In many places, the powerful gentry forces are also under the banner of the Yuan family. However, Yuan Shu can only be regarded as a distant leader in Runan. There are not many troops stationed here.

This is just like the remote control of Guangling County by Chen Gui and Chen Deng and his son in Xuzhou, it is actually a nominal control.

It can be said that Yuan Shu's main garrison area in Yuzhou, Huaibei is located on the side of Pei County, and then he just got the land of Chen State. He seems to have bypassed Runan County, and did not allocate any troops to go there. Take control here.

Perhaps Yuan Shu also hoped that his hometown in Runan would not have anything to do with his rebellion, so that he could leave a retreat in his hometown in Runan.

In the later period, Yuan Shu fled to Runan County, which was regarded as returning to his hometown. It is estimated that relying on the influence of the Yuan family in the local area, Yuan Shu could get some local support in Runan.

However, relying solely on these local forces in Runan County, of course they dare not compete with the more than 2 troops of Mu Lan, Teng Yuyan, and Zhang Xiu who have entered Runan County. opponent of resistance.

It can be said that wherever the army passed by, the county towns, large and small, took the initiative to open the city to welcome them, and the yellow turban bandits hidden in Runan County even took the initiative to avoid them by three points, not daring to come up to seek death.

It's just that in the land of Runan, there is not much oil, water and food to be harvested. It can be said that apart from the troops controlled by the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, there is nothing worth harvesting.

But now Mu Lan, Teng Yuyan, and Zhang Xiu didn't come to clean up the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, so they just followed their military instructions and marched to Ruyin County, blocking Yuan Shu's possible escape from Shouchun to Runan County .

In this way, through the map function of the Three Kingdoms game system, Zhu Wei has already seen that Mulan, Teng Yuyan, and Zhang Xiu's Qingqi and Liangqi camps have outflanked the area around Xincai and Ruyin counties in Runan County.

Then Zhu Wei sent Huang Zhong's Jiangdong battalion to attack Lu'an country. As long as they opened up several counties in Lu'an, they could contact Mu Lan and the others in Runan County.

In this way, Zhu Wei formed an arc-shaped encirclement line from east to west, and then to the north, like a pocket to block the possibility of Yuan Shu fleeing south from Shouchun.

Now, unless Yuan Shu left his old camp of Shouchun, left Pi and fled to the north to join Yuan Shao, otherwise he could only stay in Shouchun City and wait to die.

Anyway, after Zhu Wei made such a military arrangement, the army temporarily stopped in Hefei, and did not continue to march towards Shouchun, and after Huang Zhongshuai led Jiangdongying to invade the territory of Liu'an Kingdom, it was indeed like a broken bamboo, almost We went forward smoothly without encountering any obstacles.

Three days later, Huang Zhong had captured the five counties of Lu'an Kingdom, and got in touch with Mulan, Teng Yuyan, and Zhang Xiu. After that, Huang Zhong withdrew his troops and returned to Hefei. The cavalry led by Mu Lan, Teng Yuying, and Zhang Xiu also went Liu'an Kingdom is approaching here.

Of course, although Zhu Wei stopped his troops in Hefei County and did not move much, he still sent a lot of small troops to Chengde County near Shouchun for guerrilla warfare, and then passed through Chengde County and entered Shouchun territory to investigate Yuan Shu's army's garrison. intelligence.

This Chengde County can also be regarded as the intermediate line between Hefei and Shouchun. Yuan Shu sent troops to garrison here again. This can be regarded as the outermost line of defense against Shouchun.

In the southwest of Shouchun and Chengde, there is a large lake named Wabu Lake, which is formed by the accumulation of water in the lower reaches of the Dongfei River and connects with the Huaihe River through the Dongfei River. reservoir.

However, during the severe drought in the Jianghuai River before, the bottom of Wabu Lake was almost visible, but after the spring of this year, the original water volume was restored under the infusion of rainwater and Jianghuai River water.

In fact, the place where Shouchun is located is surrounded by water on all sides, with the Qianli Huaihe River to the west and north, Dongfei River to the east, and Wabu Lake to the south. Almost all the water in the surrounding area of ​​more than 4000 square kilometers flows through Shouchun.

However, Shouchun is relatively low-lying compared to the surrounding areas, so it is easy to encounter floods.

In fact, Jia Xu, who was in the army of Zhu Wei before, looked at the surrounding environment and terrain of Shouchun, and offered a strategy. Maybe he could build a dam on the Wabu Lake to store water. In Shouchun, the defenses outside the city of Shouchun can be destroyed without a fight, and perhaps the threat of the city defense of Shouchun can be reduced with the help of floods.

However, Zhu Wei was still a little hesitant. After all, besides Yuan Shu's army, there were hundreds of thousands of ordinary people gathered in Shouchun. tragic.

At the same time, Zhu Wei seems to have read some information in his previous life. It is said that Shouchun City itself seems to have a good drainage ability.

Perhaps it is because of the geographical environment where Shouchun City is located. When Shouchun City was built, the builders had already considered the possibility of flood threats. Therefore, when a flood broke out, the outside of Shouchun City was often flooded, but the inside of the city was instead flooded. There won't be much standing water.

It can be said that if there is a flood outside Shouchun City, we can rely on Shouchun's city wall to keep the flood out of the city like a dam.

However, the accumulated water in the city can be connected to the underground drainage culverts through the sewers in the city, so that the accumulated water in the city can be drained to the moat outside the city. It seems that the ancients used the siphon principle to use the underground drainage culverts to suck the accumulated water in the city to the outside of the city. in the moat.

Therefore, even if Shouchun City is hit by floods, there will be no water accumulation in the city. Since ancient times, Zhu Wei seems to have never seen in the history books that Shouchun has dug water to attack the city.

In fact, the lakes and rivers surrounding Shouchun, plus the Bagong Mountain standing to the north of Shouchun City, have become a natural barrier for Shouchun City, making Shouchun City a so-called "controlling the Huaiying and carrying the Jiangtuo. It is a strategic location that is the hub of the northwest and the shield of the southeast.

Thinking of this, Zhu Wei rejected Jia Xu's plan of flooding. No wonder Cao Cao's attack on Shouchun in the original history was also a strong attack, and he did not use any tricks.

Of course, Shouchun City also has water gates. Perhaps according to the past examples, blasting open the water gates to attack the city is also a way, but now Zhu Wei has used blasting bamboo tubes to blow up the water gates of many cities. I'm afraid I have already prepared for this...

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