Yuan Shu received a letter of war from Liu Xiu. The letter of war was quoted from classics and was passionate. The general idea was that I, Liu Xiu, followed the order of the emperor to fight against rebellion, recovered Xiling in one battle, and captured Zhang Xun alive. As soon as the navy came out, you, Yuan Shu, fled back to Poyang Lake. The victory and loss were clear. Don’t resist stubbornly anymore and surrender early. Maybe I can still ask the emperor to avoid you from death. (Baidu search: Sui Meng Novel Network, the fastest update to read novels) If you are not convinced, please be prepared and fight with me. Don’t be like a brave shrew who screams fiercely, but you don’t have the courage to fight, and you only dare to hide in the boudoir to wipe your tears.

After reading the book of war, Yuan Shu was so angry that he laughed. He shook the letter for a long time and finally said, "This letter must not be written by him. His knowledge is similar to mine. He can't write such sour and damaged words."

Yan Xiang took it over and looked at it, and immediately made a judgment: "Either Song Zhong or Qi Wukai, except for the two of them, Chapter 563, Fighting Tiger (a) A sour scholar, no one would write the war book so awkward." He smiled: "General, will you take the battle?"

Yuan Shu glared at him angrily: "If I could meet the challenge, would I hide here and be humiliated by him?"

Yan Xiang smiled with satisfaction. He was afraid that Yuan Shu would be angry with Liu Xiu, so he gave up the great geographical advantage in anger and fought with Liu Xiu desperately.

"The general is wise, and the final victory or defeat is the battle on the battlefield. These tricks are meaningless." Yan Xiang crumpled the Zhan Shu into a ball and threw it into the wastebasket with disdain. Yuan Shu's eyes flashed, but he still didn't move in the end.

Yuan Shu did not respond, and Liu Xiu was not in a hurry. He set up a camp in the infantry in Chaisang (now Jiujiang City). I don’t know if it was to aggravate Yuan Shu or something, but he set up the navy camp on Jiangxinzhou, blocking the entrance of Poyang Lake. In this way, if Yuan Shu wants to contact Jiangbei, he can only quietly, and a large-scale action can never be done again.

The geographical location of Chaisang is very important because it guards the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and is also a series of hills in the south of the Yangtze River. The starting point of the mountains is the famous Lujiang River in the southeast corner of Chaisang. The southwest corner is Mufu Mountain, and then to the south are Jiuling Mountain and Luoxiao Mountain. Jinggang Mountain, which is famous in the future, is part of Luoxiao Mountain.

In other words, Chapter 563: The Tiger Fighting (I) After Liu Xiu occupied Chaisang, he blocked the road to the west. From now on, if Yuan Shu wants to support Changsha, he can only pass a series of passages between hills and mountains. Yuan Shu was helpless to give up Chaisang. If he wanted to defend Chaisang, he had to cooperate with the navy. The navy under his command were no match for Liu Xiu, so he had to retreat to Poyang Lake to defend and give up such a great terrain as Chaisang.

Liu Xiu was very leisurely and sent letters to Yuan Shu every few days. Today I said I was in Lujiang to escape the summer heat. The scenery was very good. Will you come? Tomorrow I said I was rafting in the river, fishing, fishing, and drinking together? Yuan Shu was annoyed after seeing it. He didn't answer at all, so he threw it away. However, Liu Xiu's letter was still very patient and kept inviting Yuan Shu to reminisce about the past.

Yuan Shu was anxious and replied to a letter. The fish in Poyang Lake are not bad. Are you coming? You are here. I invite you to drink. As a few days later, Liu Xiu replied, "I'll go, you have a place to prepare, I have a lot of people, you have to move out a large camp for me. Yuan Shu was so angry that he had nothing to say."

But Yuan Shu never expected that Liu Xiu, who had been chatting and fucking with him, was not in Chaisang at all, but in Changsha.

Yuan Shu was hiding in Poyang Lake, and Liu Xiu could not do anything to him for a while. The terrain of Poyang Lake was complicated. Yuan Shu hid the navy anywhere, but he might not be able to find him. Even if he found it, he would not be able to start a war rashly. Marines and wars were very geography, and the navy was even more so. It seemed that there was a sky of blue waves. How do you know the depth of the water below? If the water was shallow, the big ship would be stranded when it drove in, and the rest would be shot as a target.

Liu Xiu was not that stupid. He asked Gan Ning to station on Jiangxinzhou. After blocking the passage of Yuan Shu from Poyang Lake, he ordered Xu Rong to be the general and Huang Zhong to be the deputy. He stationed in Chaisang under his banner, and himself rushed to Changsha to supervise the battle and prepare to eat Sun Jian first.

Sun Jian was not easy to fight. After taking over Zhang Xun's remnants, he now had 13,400 people and had a strong army. Linxiang City was so strong that it was a bit out of character under the leadership of Huan Jie. If it was a strong attack, Liu Xiu would lose at least 30,000 people in Linxiang City. Liu Xiu never did such a loss, so he did not attack the city, he only besieged the city.

Of course, the siege of the city cannot be simply surrounded. That method is too expensive and has no effect. What's more, Liu Xiu doesn't have so many soldiers now. He now only has 30,000 infantry and cavalry, including the 10,000 county soldiers and barbarians that Kuai Liang had just conquered from Lingling, Guiyang and Wuling counties. Such troops are far from enough to attack the city, and even the siege of the city is a little nervous.

However, Liu Xiu had a solution, so he stationed his army ten miles away from Linxiang City, and then practiced every day in places that Sun Jian could see. If Sun Jian did not leave the city, he practiced. If Sun Jian left the city, he started the war.

Sun Jian didn't take it seriously at first, thinking that this was Liu Xiu's plan to lure the enemy. He would have to change his tricks in a few days, but he didn't expect that Liu Xiu was very patient. He practiced for two months. Sun Jian watched him run a group of Wuling Man who only knew how to slash with his barefoot and slash with his sword. Jiang Xia Man became elite soldiers who could climb cities and line up.

Things that made Sun Jian even more nervous are still to come.

The autumn harvest has begun.

Where Sun Jian is, he dares to stick to Changsha. He thinks that there is rice in Changsha and can feed on the spot. But Liu Xiu is eyeing him and training troops outside the city. Do he still dare to go out of the city to harvest rice? If he has this strength, he would have gone out of the city to fight Liu Xiu long ago.

It would be fine if he didn't dare to return it. Liu Xiu did even more ruthlessly, the people were not allowed to leave the city, and they arrested one after another when they left the city, and then they asked them to stand under the city and call for surrendering their relatives. Anyway, they would not let go of it anyway, and they were called rescue.

In this way, even if the people were about to leave the city, Sun Jian would not dare to let go. He could only watch the golden rice fields outside the city but could not receive a grain of rice. At this time, Yan Pu did not allow Zhang Fei to kill a lot. After the addition of Zhang Xun's remaining soldiers, the consumption of food in the city increased rapidly, and the time Sun Jian could rely on for maintenance was much shorter.

Sun Jian was anxious and found Huan Jie. Huan Jie was mentally prepared. He thought of this when Liu Xiu besieged the city. He was very conflicted now, and what Liu Xiu was thinking. He knew clearly what this would bring to the people of Linxiang. After Liu Xiu collected the rice from Changsha, he could hold on here for another year and a half. At worst, he could draw some food from other counties to supplement it. But if Linxiang City had been surrounded for another year and a half, he would have to eat people.

Sun Jian may not care, but he Huan Jie cannot do this.

"Liu Xiu is delaying time." Huan Jie was a little depressed. "He is not in a hurry to defeat the Yuan family."

Sun Jian frowned, and he thought of this, but this was enough to reverse all the situation.

"Does the general want to ask General Yuan for help?" Huan Jie asked: "If General Yuan cannot come to help, then it will be a matter of time before Linxiang falls."

"You can't ask for help." Sun Jian shook his head, "My purpose is to delay Liu Xiu here so that General Yuan can free up his hands to prepare. Now that Liu Xiu's main force has been dragged down by me, I have achieved my goal. Isn't it a waste of all my efforts to ask General Yuan to come for help?"

"But General, the current situation is different from what we estimated at the beginning. Judging from Liu Xiu's series of actions, he did not plan to fight quickly. He was using his time to win over the hearts of the people in Jingzhou."

"The hearts of Jingzhou?" Sun Jian smiled bitterly: "It probably also includes Linxiang City?"

Huan Jie shook his head and sighed: "I'm afraid Linxiang City has been booked by him as the chicken that killed the chicken to warn the monkey."

Sun Jian raised his thick eyebrows. He savored the crisis in Huan Jie's words. He sat up straight and rolled his eyes: "What should I do?"

"Send someone to ask General Yuan for help, otherwise, you will break through the siege." Huan Jie said: "And, it is not appropriate to do everything. You must make a decision as soon as possible, and if you delay, you will change."

Sun Jian instinctively held his breath and thought for a while. Huan Jie's words were very clear. The people in Linxiang City were moved. With Liu Xiu's habit of implementing the new policy in one place, he must not be idle now. The great clans in Jingzhou are all sharing the benefits. If Linxiang City is always surrounded, not only will they not be punished, but they will also be punished as a gangster. Even if Liu Xiu does not punish them, they will suffer heavy losses by Sun Jian's army for a year. Those who rely on Liu Xiu are sharing the benefits, and those who rely on Yuan Shu are in trouble. Why?

If Yuan Shu comes to support, he has hope to defeat Liu Xiu, then the people of Linxiang City will be rewarded and can get benefits. With hope, they will be at ease. If Yuan Shu cannot come to support, then Sun Jian will have to break through, so as not to accumulate resentment in Linxiang City until even Huanjie can't control it.

In a word, if you drag on like this, it will be a dead end sooner or later.

Sun Jian hesitated for a while and finally said, "I will write a letter to General Yuan."

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Yuan Shu received the urgent letter sent by Sun Jian, and then he realized that Liu Xiu had been no longer with Chaisang. He was so angry that he gritted his teeth and beat his chest and stamped his feet. Liu Xiuren was not with Chaisang, and his name alone scared him to Yuzhang and dared not move. This was a great humiliation.

"Send troops, I want to fight him!" Yuan Shu roared in a voice like an angry lion.

Yan Xiang remained silent. He didn't understand why Liu Xiu was so patient. He had been sending troops for almost half a year. He had no big moves except to seize Xiling and recover Jiangxia. This calmness that was beyond their expectations also disrupted all their deployments.
Chapter completed!