"General!"

Xiangyang, the General's Mansion, Ma Liang, Guan Ping and others arrived.

Guan Yu waved his hand, without the slightest greeting, and said straightforwardly: "Recently, there have been many changes in the Ming army, and I suspect that the Ming army has a tendency to go south, I don't know how you should respond?" ”

Ma Liang had known about this for a long time, and in recent days, he had sent someone to investigate, and the answer he got was that the Ming army would definitely go south.

Guan Ping practiced his soldiers for many days, but he didn't know about it, and said: "Don't worry, Father, it's a well-known thing that the Ming army will go south, otherwise Your Majesty would not have sent troops one after another in the first two years." Therefore, the Ming army will come as soon as it comes, and we are not vegetarians. Moreover, according to the advice of Lord Shizhong, ambushes have been set up in various waterways, and it is not impossible to defeat the Ming army. ”

Ma Liang in the service does not have such self-confidence, according to common sense, the south water and the north horse, but Gongsun Du broke this common sense, and the water army under his command is even more overwhelming, and some waterways are narrow, I am afraid it is difficult to stop the Ming army!

Guan Yu saw that Ma Liang didn't make a sound, and he also beat a little drum in his heart, but for the sake of morale, he didn't say anything, just nodded.

Kuai Liang was probably the only person who was skeptical of Guan Ping's words except for Guan Ma and the two of them, and immediately opened his mouth to relieve Guan Yu's siege, saying: "General, my subordinates think that the top priority is to report the news of the Ming army's intention to go south to His Majesty, and at the same time spread the news to the east. ”

"What you say is very true!"

When Guan Yu agreed, he didn't know that there was a war in Shudi, and even Jia Meng Pass was lost.

Then the rest of the people spoke one after another, but none of them gave useful advice, and finally Guan Yu looked at Ma Liang. The rest of the people immediately shut up and turned their gaze away.

Ma Liang didn't realize it, sighed in his heart, and said lightly: "Needless to say, the strength of the Ming army is needless to say, all we can rely on is the geographical advantage, and if we want to win, we must use the dense water network." ”

Of course, even then, there is only a silver lining!

The last sentence Ma Liang naturally did not say.

Nanchang.

Sun Ce suddenly summoned his ministers Gu Yong, Zhang Zhao, Lu Su and several others.

After the courtesy, Sun Ce asked, "What do you think of the news from the direction of Jingzhou?" ”

Gu Yong and Zhang Zhao didn't speak, but looked at Lu Su.

Lu Su said: "Your Majesty, the minister also learned from his subordinates today that there was an abnormal movement of the Ming army in Jiangbei, maybe the matter of the Ming army going south is true." ”

"Of course I know it's true."

Sun Ce said angrily: "What I am asking is how to do it? ”

Moving from Chaisang to Nanchang, although there is no way to do it, it is simply a great shame for Sun Ce. Now that the Ming army is about to come south, it is naturally even more angry.

To be precise, it should actually be in a hurry.

In the first two years, he and Liu Jun jointly attacked the north, but never achieved any results, but lost their troops and lost their generals, and moved the capital from Chaisang to Nanchang. made Sun Ce understand the gap with the Ming army, but because of the arrogance in his heart, he didn't want to admit it openly.

Lu Su was silent for a moment, and said: "Liu Jun will send news, I think that the movement of the Ming army in Jingzhou is much greater, maybe they want to take it first, and the Ming army in the north of Yangzhou is likely to be just a cover." Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the Ming army did this in order to attack the east and the west. ”

"What the truth is, I believe that as long as we wait a little longer, we can do it."

Zhang Zhao said: "Lips and teeth are cold, and ......"

Left eaves road, south crossing.

The Ming army led by Lei Tongsuo encountered Li Yan.

"Captain Ma, is it really like this?" To the north of Liu's military camp, Lei Tong is still a little unaccustomed. It's not the change of identity, but Ma Dai's way of letting him not shout and attack directly makes him unaccustomed to it.

Ma Dai rolled his eyes and said, "General, it's not that you really rushed forward like this, just to teach them a lesson." ”

"Uh...... All right! ”

Lei Tong smashed his mouth twice and shouted: "Attack!" ”

When the Ming army pounced, Li Yan was stunned at first, and then shouted: "Everyone be on guard!" ”

Then he added: "Crossbowmen ready!" ”

The Ming army rushed to the outside of the camp, close to the horse, but did not mean to destroy the horse.

"Arrow~"

The swarm of arrows flew towards Liu's camp, and Li Yan was not polite and ordered to return fire. According to the setting of the horses, it was carefully planned by Li Yan, and the number and scope were just enough for his crossbowmen to reach, but they could bring trouble to the Ming army very well.

The rain of arrows of "Xiu Xiu" flew non-stop, and the soldiers of Liu Jun who were in the front were still shot and killed, which was still Li Yan's careful care, and he made arrangements one step earlier, with a thick wooden shield blocking the front, otherwise the loss would be a few points more.

Hiss! This Ming army is ferocious?

Li Yan looked at Ma Yan in surprise.

Ma Tan didn't think there was anything to be surprised about, but he felt quite bored watching each other's attacks.

That's right, Li Yan's actions are only "boring" in Ma Yan's eyes.

Li Yan didn't know what he was saying, but he knew that he underestimated him, and while he was resentful, he also looked down on Ma Yanlai more and more: he was really a bastard who didn't understand anything except a mouth.

Half an hour later, Ma Dai said: "General, it's time to withdraw!" ”

"Won't you hit it once?" Lei Tong asked.

Ma Dai said: "General, do you still remember General Zhang Liao's orders?" ”

"Remember, stall!" Lei Tong nodded.

"So don't worry! What we have is time. Ma Daihun said indifferently.

Then the sound of gold rang out, and the Ming army quickly retreated, just as they had attacked without even shouting when they arrived.

For the next five days, every morning and afternoon, the Ming army would come to such an attack. At first, Li Yan still had people shoot at him, but in the next two days, he completely abandoned this practice.

No way, after three days of observation, Li Yan found that the crossbowmen under his command could not cause much casualties to the Ming army, maybe hundreds, maybe less than a hundred, and the people under his command were shot to death enough to be 500 people, and nearly 1,000 people were wounded. The most important thing is that there are not many arrows left.

"Where did the Ming army get such arrows?"

Li Yan was very puzzled by this.

In the end, Ma Jian solved this puzzle for him.

"General Li, according to his observations, in addition to the arrows of the Ming army, there are still a lot of our arrows, which should be supplies from Yinping and Jiangyouguan."

"Damn it!"

Hearing this, Li Yan just scolded: "Lei Tong and Su Fei, two idiots, can't they win and don't know how to burn the materials?" ”

Hearing this, Ma Yan said helplessly: "General Li, didn't you find that it was Lei Tong who led the troops on the other side?" ”

"Huh? What the? ”

Li Yan and Lei Tong also had a relationship, and they really didn't know that the other side was Lei Tong.

"That's him." Ma Yan shrugged and said.

"Damn it!"

Li Yan scolded again, and then said: "When we join the army, we should immediately pass the news of Lei Tong's rebellion to Your Majesty, and ask Your Majesty to give Lei Tong a good look, otherwise everyone will follow Lei Tong's example." ”

Ma Jian only felt embarrassed at first, but when he heard this, he realized that he was negligent, and hurriedly said: "What General Li said is extremely true, and His Majesty must be informed immediately." ”

After Ma Yan finished speaking, he turned around and went away, and Li Yan did the same, but the difference was that he didn't pay attention to Lei Tong.

For several more days, the Ming army only released arrows every day, but had no intention of attacking.

In Chengdu, Liu Bei received the news and invited Xu Shu to him, but he did not disturb Zhuge Liang, because the problem of the ballista had entered a critical moment.

"Yuan Zhi, how likely is it that you said what Zhengfang said?"

Li Yan wrote in the compromise: "The chief general of the Ming army who attacked Yinping and Jiangyou is missing, and there must be another plan, or it may be related to Mianzhu, I hope Your Majesty will see it." ”

Xu Shu said: "Lei Tong's family is not in Chengdu, but Your Majesty can't help but say it, otherwise there will be the next Lei Tong." ”

"As for what General Xingye said, the minister thinks that not only Mianzhu, but also Sword Pavilion and other places cannot relax, and even Chengdu has no possibility of being regarded as a target, so they must be careful."

"Huh?"

Liu Bei was a little surprised, and immediately calmed down, and said: "According to what Yuan Zhi said, immediately pass on the decree to General Wei and others to strengthen their vigilance, so as not to be raided by the Ming army, if someone loses the city and land, they will be killed immediately!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"