After reading the letter, Ju Su found out that Yuan Tan had made almost the same suggestions as him. Yuan Tan volunteered to attack Yuzhou, but given his previous experience of besieging Lu County, he felt that the besieging was protracted and difficult to achieve results in a short period of time. So he suggested that infantry besiege the city, cavalry raid and take the hinterland of Runan. Runan is the Yuan county, with old officials, new friends and old friends, and most of them are aristocratic families with certain strength. As long as they hold Yuan Shao's order, those aristocratic families will provide food to solve the logistics supply of these cavalry.

Sun Jian and Sun Ce are good at fighting, but they have an insurmountable weakness: there are few cavalrymen. Sun Jian only has more than 300 cavalry around him, and there is no source of war horses, which depends entirely on Bingzhou and Guanzhong for replenishment. There is no problem in normal times. Once the war starts, the loss of war horses increases, and these cavalry cannot replenish war horses in time, and their combat effectiveness will rapidly decline and will soon become a situation of being beaten.

Therefore, even a few hundred cavalry could circulate Runan. When Runan was in chaos, Sun Jian could not do anything, so Sun Ce naturally had to give up Yuzhang and rush back to Runan. Even so, he could not solve the fundamental problem. They controlled Runan by force and did not gain the true hearts of the people. Now that Runan is allowed to come and go, the essence of being strong outside and doing the middle has been seen through, and their rule naturally collapses.

This strategy is in line with Yuan Shao's wishes. It is not only about making full use of the advantages of the cavalry, but also about Yuan Shao's advantages. Yuan Tan also has cavalry, but the number is not large, which is about a thousand people, which is not enough to undertake the task of attacking Runan in batches. It must be reinforced by Yuan Shao. The raiding cavalry must pass through the territory of Runan and also need the support of the Runan family. The Runan family will not give Yuan Tan face, but will only respond to Yuan Shao's call.

Yuan Tan took on the task of besieging the city, but it was difficult for him to break the city. He basically had hard work and no credit. All the credit was Yuan Shao, who sent cavalry reinforcements. Yuan Tan made this suggestion, which was equivalent to admitting that his ability was limited and inseparable from Yuan Shao's support.

This is the most satisfying reason that Yuan Shao cannot speak, so he immediately accepted the plan.

Ju Su’s feelings are not exactly the same as Yuan Shao, but he does not object to this plan. This is indeed the most feasible plan at the moment.

Yuan Shao immediately discussed specific matters with Ju Su and Tian Feng, who to lead the cavalry to fight, and how many cavalry to fight.

Tian Feng recommended a person: Liu He. Liu He is the son of Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou. He is in his prime and is young and strong. A few years ago, he followed Liu Yu in Youzhou. He had a good relationship with the Wuhuan and Xianbei people and was familiar with cavalry fighting. If he was sent to the expedition, Liu Yu would definitely be able to support him and the source of the cavalry was resolved. Liu He led the cavalry to fight for Yuan Shao. The conflict between Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu intensified, which would further force Liu Yu and Yuan Shao to form an alliance and restrain Gongsun Zan. In this way, Gongsun Zan's threat would be minimized.

Yuan Shao was overjoyed and praised Tian Feng for his good recommendation. He immediately sent someone to invite Liu He to write to Liu Yu and ask Liu Yu to send cavalry reinforcements.

After Liu He escaped from Guanzhong, he was detained by Yuan Shu first, and now he was forced to stay by Yuan Shao. He was as if he was under house arrest and could not escape. He was already depressed. He was very excited to learn that he could lead troops to fight. His father Liu Yu was originally very close to Yuan Shao, but later Yuan Shao wanted to recommend Liu Yu as the emperor, and his relationship became a little stiff. If he could take this opportunity to reconcile and fight Gongsun Zan together, it would be beneficial to both of them, and it would be the same for himself. The world was in chaos and he was in his prime. How could he watch others make achievements but wasted his time?

More than ten days later, Liu Yu replied to the news. He discussed with several Wuhuan masters and assembled three thousand Wuhuan elite cavalry. He was already on the way south and asked Yuan Shao to prepare for the support.

A few days later, three thousand Wuhuan cavalry arrived in Ganling. Yuan Shao arranged for Chunyu Qiong and Wen Chou to go to war with Liu He, and Xun Chen was the military advisor. Xun Chen was the brother of Xun Yu and a famous scholar of Ru Ying. He had a wide range of contacts with the Runan family. When he entered Runan, he could assist Liu He, Chunyu Qiong and others to contact the Runan family, borrow military supplies and guide the cavalry to attack various places.

In the middle of December, it was very cold and the Yellow River was frozen. Liu He and others led 3,000 Wuhuan cavalry across the Yellow River and entered Yanzhou. Before that, Yuan Tan had gathered 40,000 troops to station in Shanfu. When he learned that Liu He was about to arrive, he immediately led his troops to attack Liang State and sent Cheng Yu to capture Meng County and Zhu Ling to capture Yu County. He personally led the main force to surround Suiyang.

Lu Dai had already received the news, made sufficient preparations, and defended the city. But he only saw the Yanzhou army led by Yuan Tan, but did not see the cavalry led by Liu He and others. When the scouts who were left outside the city went through hardships and told him the news of a large number of cavalry entering the country, he was shocked but helpless. Yuan Tan was outside the city, and he had enough to defend the city, but he was unable to go out to block the city.

A few days later, three thousand Wuhuan cavalry crossed the Liang Kingdom and appeared in Runan. Liu He, Chunyu Qiong, and Wen Chou each led a thousand people to harass the entire Runan from different directions. Xun Chen sent envoys to various counties to contact the families he had known to be, and prepared to meet Liu He and others.

The Runan family responded one after another, some of them only provided food and grass secretly, while others simply raised up the banner, attacked the county magistrate, occupied the county town, and announced their response. For a moment, people were panicked and Runan was in chaos.

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Pingyu, the north bank of Gebi.

Mi Lan stood in the car, looking at the fire that soared into the sky in the distance, and her silver teeth clenched.

Most of the workshop has been trapped in the sea of ​​fire. Countless Wuhuan cavalrymen galloped on horseback, killing wildly, crying from craftsmen, excited shouting from Wuhuan cavalrymen, and chaotic horse hooves mixed together, stimulating everyone's eardrums.

Hundreds of Wuhuan cavalry rushed over, and the soldiers responsible for guarding the workshop did not have time to react. When they rushed out of the camp, the Wuhuan cavalry had already rushed into the workshop to kill and set fire. When the slave saw that the situation was not good, they immediately protected Milan. Two thousand soldiers set up a round formation with the carriage as the center, waiting for the battle. From time to time, craftsmen or families who were lucky enough to escape into the formation. They surrounded the carriage, some trembled, some cried in a low voice, and many children were so scared that they cried loudly, and then their parents were covered.

But more people were angry. The workshop had become their home and their efforts. Now they were set on fire by some Wuhuan people in the Wushang family. How could they not hate them? Many young and strong people picked up their weapons and gathered up automatically to prepare for the battle.

The Wuhuan cavalry saw Milan and tried to attack, but they failed and were shot by a rain of arrows to cover dozens of people. They were very unwilling to accept it and ran back and forth around the round formation. The sound of horse hooves was deafening. The war horses broke into the formation from time to time, shooting one or two arrows and leaving quickly. Some people were caught in the arrows, and some were frightened by the war horses that rushed in front of them, but the slaves led the guards to reinforce from all sides and blocked them in time, and finally maintained the formation, and did not let the Wuhuan cavalry find a chance to break the formation.

The two sides were in a stalemate for the middle of the night. As the sky was about to dawn, the Wuhuan cavalry left in disappointment and disappeared into the night.
Chapter completed!