To the west of Bishui Pass, the original Ming army camp has been repaired and has become the temporary residence of the wing army.

In the middle of the night, in the quiet of the night, there was a sudden shout.

"Newspaper~"

The soldiers on the night vigil had already been awakened, and when they heard the sound of hurried horses' hooves, they immediately drew their strong bows in their hands.

"Who?"

"General Guan's account is a lieutenant, and he has been ordered to come and report the news!"

"Do you have a certificate?"

"The credentials are here."

After watching, the visitor was let in, but he was followed by two soldiers who were eyeing him fiercely, and it was obvious that he had not completely let down his guard.

Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and others had already woken up at this time and gathered in the main account.

"Is that you?"

Unexpectedly, Liu Bei happened to know this person.

"It's the little one, the little one who meets the king!"

"Well, get up!" Liu Bei waved his hand and asked. He is not far from Guan Yu here, and he can wait for the day to talk about anything, but now that he came in a hurry, there must have been an accident. It was precisely because of this that he would immediately call over next to Ling Zhuge Liang and others.

"King Xie!"

After a pause, he said: "King Qiqi, this evening, the Ming army suddenly increased its troops, and General Guan suspected that the reinforcements of the Ming army had arrived, so he reported to the king with the villain. ”

"What's there to report about this?" Liu Bei was stunned.

Zhuge Liang didn't see it that way, and suddenly asked the man, "How many reinforcements are there from the Ming army?" ”

The man didn't know much about Zhuge Liang, but after seeing him speak, even Liu Bei didn't say anything, but looked at him, and immediately replied: "About two thousand." ”

"Two thousand?"

Zhuge Liang just pondered for a moment, and then said: "If there are only two thousand, it should be the Ming army that retreated to Yanshi from here or another place before." ”

Liu Beixi said: "Since this is the case, doesn't it mean that the defenders of Yanshi are only more than 1,000, so can we bypass Gongxian and go straight to Yanshi, and then we can use this to isolate Gongxian, or we can go down without a fight." ”

Zhuge Liang shook his head and said, "No!" ”

Liu Bei was quite displeased.

Zhuge Liang had to explain: "Since the Ming army retreated to Yanshi and Gongxian respectively before, it must have been arranged a long time ago, and it will not be changed easily. Especially in the face of the pressure of a large army, they will not be unaware that if they move troops indiscriminately, there will be problems. ”

"And what are they?" Liu Bei also knew that Zhuge Liang was not untargeted, and his complexion gradually eased.

"It should be their reinforcements arriving, and it shouldn't be far from Gongxian. It's just that in case of accidents, we transferred some men from the Yanshi to reinforce Gongxian first, but the vacant time is definitely not enough for us to use troops in the Yanshi. Maybe now, or tomorrow morning, a large number of Ming troops will be reinforced to Yanshi. ”

After a pause, Zhuge Liang said again: "These are not big deals, the key is whether we want to reinforce General Guan now?" ”

Zhuge Liang also looked at Liu Bei when he heard this, and opened his mouth to speak, but in the end, he seemed to have scruples and finally failed to speak.

Liu Bei groaned, but he didn't notice his abnormality. After a long time, Liu Bei was still undecided, and asked, "Is the problem serious?" ”

Zhuge Liang also pondered for a moment before he said: "This mainly depends on the number of Ming troops who come to help, if it exceeds 30,000, with the strength of the Ming army, I think that even if General Guan bravely crowns the three armies, I am afraid that he is not an opponent." ”

"And in less than 30,000, as long as there are 5,000 people, Gong County is afraid that it will be difficult to capture. Well...... In addition, there is another problem that we should pay the most attention to. ”

"Okay, tomorrow we will set off to meet General Guan."

Liu Bei heard his hesitation, knew the reason after a little thought, and immediately made a decision. Then he asked, "What's the problem?" ”

Zhuge Liang's face also became quite solemn, and said, "Dare to ask the king, if our city is attacked, how long will it take for reinforcements to arrive?" ”

"It's going to take ten days!" After Liu Bei finished speaking, his face changed, "You mean ......?"

"That's right!"

Zhuge Liang nodded heavily: "The reinforcements of the Ming army came too quickly!" We had barely started when their reinforcements arrived. It is hard for the minister to imagine that if the protracted battle is unfavorable, will they send more Ming troops to reinforce them? You must know that the Ming army has a full two million, can it win at that time? ”

Liu Bei's face turned dark, and he said, "So this time we go north, we don't have any chance of winning at all?" ”

Zhuge Liang was silent when he heard this.

Liu Bei was taken aback when he saw this, and said, "Is there really no chance of winning?" ”

When Zhuge Liang saw Liu Bei like this, he was also uncomfortable in his heart, but there were some things that could not be solved by knowing, so he could only stubbornly say: "If the reinforcement speed of the Ming army is really so fast, the chance of victory is almost nothing." Now it depends on how many reinforcements the Ming army will come tomorrow, and if it exceeds 30,000, the king still has to prepare for both as soon as possible. ”

"Damn it!"

Liu Bei vented for a moment, and then said: "Prepare with both hands? What is the preparation of both hands? ”

"First of all, we must plan a retreat, if it doesn't work, we must not let all the wing armies going north be lost here, otherwise the Ming army will definitely not miss this opportunity, and it will definitely raise troops to the south."

Zhuge Liang also said with a heavy heart: "Secondly, how to deal with the reinforced Ming army. ”

"Huh? What do you mean? Liu Bei was puzzled.

Zhuge Liang didn't dare to hide it, and hurriedly said: "The Ming army came so quickly, in the final analysis, it should be that the news transmission is so fast that we can't imagine it, even if it is like this, the king led an army of 300,000 to the north, and the Ming army should have known it a long time ago and made corresponding preparations." It's just that it may not have occurred to us that we would go west. ”

"Rao is like this, and the Ming army's response is fast enough, so Chen dares to assert that the Ming army's reinforcements will definitely not be less than 30,000, even if it is low, it will not be much worse, because they know that it is impossible to stop us with such a few people. Of course, if the first reinforcements are less than 30,000, there will inevitably be reinforcements in the future. In this way, it is not the ministers who are ambitious to destroy their prestige, as long as the Ming army has 80,000 to 100,000 people, with their strength, we have no chance of winning. After all—"

"Most of us are infantry troops, with less than 20,000 cavalry, while the Ming army is mostly cavalry."

What Zhuge Liang didn't say was that the Ming army's war horses were far superior to theirs.

But it doesn't mean that Liu Bei can't think of it, after all, he has always wanted to have a strong cavalry, so he knows a lot about the Ming army, and even has the idea of fighting the Ming army. Well, it's not about grabbing, but about buying some war horses, even if you can't buy more, it's okay to buy less. It's a pity that Gongsun Du didn't agree, and finally only agreed to sell sweet potatoes and other things to them.

Liu Bei's heart sank, and said: "Since this is the case, the Bishui Pass must not only be guarded, but also not blocked, otherwise it will not be able to pass the pass, and it will be attacked from both sides." ”

Zhuge Liang shook his head and said: "Don't worry, the king can rest assured, there is a horse army division in the east, and there will be no loss, Zhang Liao and others are not his opponents yet." The only thing to worry about is that the southern army of the Ming army sent a large number of men and horses to surround it. ”

Liu Bei was not worried about this, and said indifferently: "Cao Cao is more worried than us, after all, if he is defeated, he will be at the forefront." ”

Zhuge Liang nodded, expressing his approval, and the words in his heart ......

Somewhere south of Qishan. (It's not clear whether this Qishan is the Xiqi in the gods.) ）

"Tingfang, Ma Chao has already passed Chencang and gone to Yixian, it seems that he is going to go straight to martial arts." Huang Zhong and Xu Rong have a very close relationship, and when there is no one in private, they usually call each other cousins.

"Good!"

Xu Rong's spirits perked up, and he clenched his fists and said, "Order, everyone will immediately go out and take down Chen Cang." In addition, send a letter to the Western Army in martial arts, tell them to be careful, don't capsize in the gutter. ”

"No problem."

Huang Zhong nodded, and said, "I think that as long as the news of our takeover of Chen Cang comes out, Ma Chao may not be able to take care of the Western Army." ”

"You can't say that, it's always good to be cautious, after all, you are not afraid of 10,000 in everything." Xu Rong said.

Huang Zhong got used to his caution, nodded again, and didn't say anything more.

Xu Rong also knew that Huang Zhong just said that, and he would not take his words seriously.

Not long after, 80,000 Chinese troops temporarily lived and flew to Chencang.

Ma Chaofang passed through Yi County, and Xu Rong and others had already arrived near Chencang.

The army was temporarily encamped in a remote place, but Huang Zhong took a thousand people to replace them with what had been prepared.

Xu Rong didn't plan to say much, but in the end he said: "As long as General Huang is careful here, it will be fine, and Ma Teng wouldn't have thought that we would suddenly appear here, so he wouldn't have much defense." ”

Precautions, there must be, but Chen Cang is in the hinterland, and the precautions are definitely not as strict as those in martial arts. Therefore, Huang Zhong didn't have the slightest worry in his heart, but said: "Lord Shangshu, don't worry, it's not a little time, Chen Cang will belong to our Ming Empire." ”

"Hmm."

Things are just as Xu Rong and Huang Zhong thought, Chen Cang's precautions are there, but they are not strict. The caravan pretended to be Huang Zhong entered the city after some inspection, but as soon as he stepped out of the city gate, he attacked, killed the guards, and took one side before the defenders on the other three sides could react. Then under Huang Zhong's charge, Chen Cang, who had only two thousand defenders, was taken by him.

Subsequently, Xu Rong quickly led the army into the station.

"Your Majesty asked people to come up with such a line in Jingshui, which is really far-sighted."

Xu Rong originally just sighed, because although the city of Chencang is not big, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, I am afraid that it is no worse than cities like Jinyang, Luoyang, and Chang'an, and even because of its small city, it is even more difficult. But after finishing speaking, Xu Rong had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and said: "The road in Shuzhong is difficult, and the passes everywhere are easy to defend and difficult to attack, even more so than Chen Cang, do you also find a way to make such a road, and ...... when the time comes?"

A trace of fire flashed in Xu Rong's eyes, and Huang Zhong on the side also breathed heavily when he heard this.