Zhou Yu's arrangement was naturally correct. He landed in advance and arranged the military formation. When he encountered the Wei army, he would immediately become combat power.

If you wait until the city of Hefei and then unfold, unless the Wu army lands faster than the Wei cavalry assembles, you will be making yourself feel uncomfortable.

Zhou Yu was quite cautious. Considering that Guo Peng's army was invincible in the north, he also heard from some business travelers from the north that the main forces of the Wei army often wandered around in the heart of the Central Plains in groups.

Although I don’t know why that is, Zhou Yu always feels that Guo Peng will not let Wei Jun do boring things.

Guo Peng is such a strong and smart person, from weak to strong, he is cautious, constantly planning and becoming stronger, constantly overturning opponents who are stronger, more advantageous and more famous than himself, and eventually becomes the overlord of the Northern Land and the number one prince of the Han Dynasty. Would he not do anything to prepare?

Zhou Yu thought about this, but he still believed that no one was better than a sage. No matter how strong a person is, he still has weaknesses and something he is not good at.

A wise man will have a mistake if he has a thousand worries. Even if Guo Peng is a rare wise man, it is not impossible to say that he will capsize, right?

Guo Peng had never fought a water battle, and Zhou Yu was sure of this. He didn't even have a navy under his command. Without a navy, he could not compete with the Jiangdong Navy. This is also certain.

Under such a premise, Guo Peng had no other way than to defend the city.

Zhou Yu really believed that Guo Peng had no way to fight against the navy, so he could only defend passively and stick to Hefei.

However, in terms of military strength, Sun Ce's army was more than the Jiujiang garrison. In terms of combat effectiveness, he was an elite army. No matter how Zhou Yu thought, he could not think of the reason why Sun Ce would be defeated.

Sun Ce is so good at attacking and dares to attack. He is full of sharpness and hard to stand. He always leads everyone forward with full motivation.

Such a charming leader can definitely lead the Kingdom of Wu towards a bright future.

This is also Zhou Yu’s biggest expectation.

With this idea in mind, Zhou Yu followed Sun Ce and faced the Wei army who was in Hefei head-on.

At this time, Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan, commander-in-chief of the Wei army in the southeast, were repairing a new Hefei city to dispatch troops and arrange offensive tasks.

What he is most worried about now is not that he is about to face Sun Ce's main attack, but that he is very worried whether Xu Huang can kill Cheng Pu's navy as planned, and that Xu Huang will lose the chain.

He was a newcomer after all.

Although Guo Peng has always been very bold in using newcomers, he had to grant the prefect the power after capturing him, but he was finally dissuaded by his ministers.

But Guo Peng only admired him and now promoted him to be the commander-in-chief, and his command status was even above the ban with a deeper qualification than him.

It is conceivable how unconventional Guo Peng is in employed people and how free he wants.

Despite this, can Guo Peng really not care about Xu Huang's ability and arrange for him to guard such an important place in Lujiang County?

More than 200,000 military farmer and millions of stones of rice and grain are all the food and fodder stored in the future as a frontier base for advancing Jiangdong. If there is any loss, Guo Peng doesn't know how to get angry.

Xu Huang, Xu Gongming, don’t lose your chain!

Zhang Liao kept praying to heaven.

Even the subordinates came to report that the Sun Wu Navy had approached the cordon range and didn't care much.

"How are the catapults prepared?"

"Prepare is complete."

The subordinate replied.

Zhang Liao nodded.

"Are the generals of each army stationed in their pre-arranged positions and prepared?"

"Yes, everything is ready."

The subordinates answered again.

Zhang Liao nodded again, stood up, picked up the iron helmet and put it on his head, took a deep breath, and walked forward with his sword in his hand.

"Go and have a look, maybe you can see Sun Wu Navy now."

To be honest, Zhang Liao was quite interested in the navy.

As a northerner, even those who grew up on the grassland, he had no idea about the Jiangnan water town. He did not start studying the navy until he was appointed as the garrison of Jiujiang.

Through research on the navy, he found that the navy had many tricks.

Especially when he noticed that as long as he took Hefei, the Jiangdong Navy could directly attack the heartland of the Central Plains along the waterway and the Wei army lacked countermeasures, he was even more surprised.

If Guo Peng had not been prepared and the catapult had been improved, he could have played a greater role in the battlefield. With the blessing of this special combat environment, he would have really not been sure to defeat Sun Wu's huge navy.

There are many in the Sun Wu Navy, from tall tower ships to small and flexible swaggers. They are huge in scale and when they are all close together, they give Zhang Liao a very different visual impact.

With such power, if it really starts to fight, it will definitely not be easy without the preparations made by Guo Peng for him.

Of course, it’s not really easy now.

As one of the few senior generals of the non-Yuan Cong group, he even pushed Yu Jin, who was qualified to be below and became the supreme commander-in-chief of the 60,000 troops of the Southeast Front, Zhang Liao was under great pressure.

In order to protect Zhang Liao's safety, Guo Peng even drew 300 Tiger Guards from his most elite guards, the Tiger Guards, to protect Zhang Liao's safety.

This is the second case among the entire army, the first case is Cao Ren.

Even Zhao Yunlejin and Xiahou Yuan, the three generals ranked first, failed to get the Tiger Guard as their personal guards.

Cao Ren is Guo Peng's relative general after all. Since Guo Peng started his army, he has followed his side loyally, made many military achievements, and has always been his own side for many years. He has a great favor and will not say anything else.

But Zhang Liao was a surrendered general who once fought with Lu Bu, but was treated like this.

It can be seen that Guo Peng trusts and attaches importance to Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao could already have a premonition of how the old-fashioned Yuan Cong generals in the army viewed him, and could also have expected that someone would gossip in Guo Peng's ears.

It is natural that the generals of Yuan Cong were unhappy because they were stained, but they were so valued.

However, as Zhang Liao himself, he must make achievements worthy of Guo Peng's trust. Only in this way can he establish himself and not lose Guo Peng's face.

This battle was not only for himself, but also for Guo Peng.

My Lord, how can I work hard to repay your trust in me?

Zhang Liao stared affectionately towards the northwest for a while, then shifted his cold gaze to the vaguely visible tall building ship in the distance.

Just use your life and blood to repay the Lord’s trust in me!

Zhang Liao will say this and will do this, because Zhang Wenyuan is a person who is consistent in his appearance.

Zhang Liao immediately ordered the entire army to prepare for war.

He set up an army for blocking on the shore, led by General Cheng Lian, with a number of 2,000 people, responsible for blocking and cooperating with the fleet to advance 10,000 Sun Wu's army.

When Zhang Liao learned that Sun Wu's army was advancing with infantry and naval forces, he suddenly felt that Guo Peng was really visionary and had research on water wars.

Previously, Guo Peng wrote to him that the people of Wu were afraid of the heavy infantry and cavalry group in the north and would inevitably adopt the method of infantry and navy advancing together.

The navy is used to cover the infantry, the infantry is used to cooperate with the navy, and fight with the river channel when necessary, which can maximize the impact of the heavy infantry and cavalry group on them.

This is a very clever tactic.

But he still had to do it. Zhang Liao ordered Cheng Lian to lead two thousand cavalry to attack the Sun Wu infantry. Cheng Lian led his army forward and attacked the Sun Wu infantry with cavalry shooting.

Under the command of General Xu Kun and Zhou Tai, the Sun Wu infantry immediately formed a formation, leaning against the river bank, and cooperated with the crossbowmen on the tower to fight back, making Cheng Lian unable to lead the cavalry to approach the Sun Wu infantry.

Several attacks were failed and the generals were lost. Cheng Lian saw this situation and knew that it was meaningless to continue the attack, so he immediately led his army to retreat.

When Sun Ce and Zhou Yu on the boat saw this scene, they immediately smiled happily.

The Wei cavalry could not threaten Sun Wu's advance mode and could not stop their advance. This was Sun Wu's great success.

Continue to advance along the way, directly advance to the city of Hefei, and then offset the advantages of the Wei army in such a coordinated battle to fight offensive and defensive wars.

After confirming the correctness of this tactic, Wu's army's advance became smoother and more powerful.

After receiving Cheng Lian's report, Zhang Liao nodded and asked him to lead his troops back to rest and prepare, so that other troops could be prepared and launch an attack on the Sun Wu army at any time.

Thirty new counterweight trenchers were ready to line up outside the city. In addition, the Wei army outside the city had also assembled and formed a formation. As long as the Sun Wu Navy arrived, it was time for tactical execution.

Zhang Liao personally served as the commander of the catapult team and personally directed the catapult to launch an attack.

Sun Ce didn't know, Zhou Yu didn't know, nor did his generals, nor did the Wu army infantry who were so proud and close.

The biggest advantage of the Wei army is that the Wu army does not know.

They thought the Wei army had no better way, so they had never been prepared.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were confident and bold in commanding the navy forward, allowing the landed infantry to seize the position, form an army to cover the cover, and continue to land on the ships, join the formation defense forces on the shore to fight against the Wei army, which was ready for battle.

When he saw the towering and tall Hefei city walls a little further away, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were a little lost for a moment.

They have been to Jiangdong for a long time, but have not been to Jiangbei for a long time. The ordinary, low and dilapidated Hefei City has become a different person.

The city walls are tall and majestic, and the city is wide and thick, which makes it very difficult to attack at first glance.

It is probably a very difficult thing to attack such a tall and deep city wall, even if Sun Ce's troops were more than three times the number of Wei troops.

But it takes at least 60,000 troops to siege such a city?

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu looked at each other and felt a little embarrassed.

"In the past, Hefei City was not so tall, so it must have been renovated. Did Mr. Wei have expected this day long, so he specially repaired Hefei City?"

Sun Ce asked.

"This is really hard to say."

Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "But I don't feel surprised if Mr. Wei is far-sighted. Bo Fu, I have said a long time ago that Mr. Wei will not imagine what we can think of. The outcome of the war is not about whose strategy is better, but about who can implement it to the end."
To be continued...