"Gongtai, will it succeed?" At night, outside Wanxian County, Liu Bei sat opposite Chen Gong, looking at the Chen Palace where the old god was there, Liu Bei didn't have much hope for whether Cui Quan could succeed, after all, no matter from which angle, Cui Quan didn't look like a person who could make things happen.

And the things that Chen Gong explained before leaving, Liu Bei also felt a little weird.

"The lord can be at ease, and the city will be broken in these days." Chen Gong poured a bowl of water for Liu Bei unhurriedly and said with a smile.

Liu Bei nodded, but his expression was still unbelieving, Chen Gong he was naturally trustworthy, but no matter how he thought about this matter, Liu Bei felt a little unreliable.

"Let's talk about the destruction of the city, does the lord know about Zhang Liao?" Chen Gong didn't explain much, he used Cui Quan, it was according to human nature, this Cui Quan, as a member of Cui Geng's clan, may not be capable, but it would be too simple to give Cui Geng bad things.

"I've heard a few." Liu Bei shook his head and said: "This person and Yun Chang are considered fellow villagers, Yun Chang has a lot of praise for this person, he was a general under Lu Bu before, but he doesn't know what he is capable of." ”

For Zhang Liao's understanding, Liu Bei only knows that this person's ability is not bad, but how is it not bad, Liu Bei is not too clear, in the early years, he was entrenched in Nanyang with Lu Bu, Lu Bu was too sharp, and the generals under his command were a little bleak, after Lu Bu left, after Zhang Liao took over Nanyang, the main thing to do was to assist the officials sent by Chen Mo to govern Nanyang and maintain public order in Nanyang.

It is inevitable to fight Zhang Liao now, but they don't know anything about Zhang Liao, which is not a good thing.

"Previously, the palace and Liu Pan and Liu Hu asked the two generals, Lu Bu has a lot of strong generals, but if you say the most powerful, it is this Zhang Liao, when Lu Bu was in Nanyang, many things were actually under the control of this person, leading the troops quite strategic, and quite brave, if it weren't for Lu Bu's reputation, Zhang Liao's name would have been famous all over the world now." Chen Gong frowned and thought about it.

In fact, after the battle of Guandu, Zhang Liao has begun to have a reputation, after all, Yingchuan and Runan were all broken by Zhang Liao, it can be said that Zhang Liao's dispatch of troops to Yingchuan completely laid the victory or defeat of the battle between Cao Cao and Chen Mo, it seems that he did not make any great achievements, but if you calculate carefully, Zhang Liao's contribution is actually not small.

Liu Bei looked at Chen Gong and said with a smile: "If the public platform has words, you might as well speak up." ”

"Gong is just worried that the third general is not that Zhang Liao's opponent." Chen Gong sighed and said.

Originally, the combat power of the Jingzhou army was inferior to that of the Guanzhong generals, not to mention that now that Liu Bei was in charge of Jingzhou, this time the troops were actually a little reluctant, coupled with Zhang Fei's attitude towards the enemy, Chen Gong was very worried that Zhang Fei would do something bad.

Liu Bei frowned when he heard this, Zhang Fei did have a feeling that he didn't put the soldiers in Guanzhong in his eyes, and he didn't know where this confidence came from, now that Chen Gong raised this question, he was obviously worried about the twists and turns of the Battle of Nanyang.

"Uncle Zhi!" After thinking about it, Liu Bei looked outside the tent and shouted.

"The last general!" Chen Deng strode in and bowed to Liu Bei and Chen Gong.

"You lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to deal with Yide, Yide and that Zhang Liao fight, if you win, you don't have to care, but if you lose, Uncle Zhi will help you in time." Liu Bei said in a deep voice.

Chen Zhi is a general under Liu Bei, following Liu Bei for a long time, in terms of ability, he is not under Guan Zhang at all, the most important thing is that Chen Deng has a tough and calm personality, and he is not chaotic when encountering major events, and now Liu Bei can't leave, and he sent Chen to Zhang Fei's side, Liu Bei is also relieved.

"[ ] Oh!" Chen Zhi intervened and bowed to leave.

"Gongtai, in your opinion, if Cui Quan is unsuccessful, how many days will it take for me to break through Wancheng?" After arranging for Chen to leave, Liu Bei looked at Chen Gongdao.

"Lord, although Wancheng is not the capital, but it is also a strong city, if there is no conspiracy, with the current strength of our army, if you want to conquer Wancheng, you can't go down until March." Chen Gong smiled bitterly.

Why did Cao Cao block Chen Mo with a Suiyang City when the army was defeated and fled, and the general trend was gone? Because Suiyang City is a strong city, this kind of city, if you use normal play, it is not surprising that it will be held for a year and a half, and it is also Chen Mo who found a way to break the situation from outside the battlefield, so Cao Cao had to give up Suiyang.

Now Wancheng is not as strong as Suiyang City, but Cui Geng's situation is much better than Cao Cao, not only the troops are sufficient, but also foreign aid is available at any time, in this case, it is not easy to break through Wancheng in a normal way, generally speaking, there must be ten times the number of troops, but now their siege force is probably far less than this number, so they can only win by tricks.

Just by virtue of that Cui Quan?

Liu Bei had a headache when he heard this, can Chen Gong's plan be successful?

"Don't worry, the lord is here, there will be a result in three or five days, but Zhang Liao must block it!" Chen Gong looked at Liu Bei and said seriously.

Nanyang is too important to Liu Bei, as long as Nanyang is won, there will be room for depth with Chen Mo, and there will be enough capital to block Chen Mo, otherwise why should they compete with Chen Mo?

At this time, Liu Bei could only choose to believe in Chen Gong.

At that moment, I had to nod and smile with Chen Gong: "That's good." ”

……

At the same time, in Wancheng, an inconspicuous event did not alarm Cui Geng, but it had a great impact on Wancheng.

Cui Quan took several family members to the barracks to investigate, but was stopped by the soldiers guarding the barracks: "The barracks are important, outsiders are not allowed to enter!" ”

Cui Quan also didn't understand why Chen Gong asked him to help Cui Geng seize power, if he could help Cui Geng seize power, how to say, Cui Geng couldn't do without his own family, right? When the time comes, why do you need to take refuge in that Liu Bei?

Thinking of this, Cui Quan originally wanted to come to the barracks to help Cui Geng win over a few generals he knew, but was stopped by a small garrison, which made Cui Quan embarrassed, and looked at the man with a gloomy face: "Do you know, who am I?" ”

The team leader didn't answer, just looked at him coldly, and didn't mean to get out of the way, Cui Quan's face was a little unbearable, and he said coldly: "I am the patriarch of the Cui clan, the uncle of Cui Geng, the guard of Wancheng, that is, Cui Geng saw me, and he had to call me uncle respectfully, you dare to stop me?" ”

Originally, he wanted to help Cui Geng win over people, but who knew that he didn't even see anyone, so he was stopped by a few guards at the gate, which made Cui Quan feel provoked.

"There are rules in the army, no matter who it is, whoever trespasses into the barracks, die!" The team leader said coldly.

"You ......" Cui Quan was a little speechless, glared at him hatefully and said: "Okay, I don't care about you, you go and inform General Huang Li, and say that I have something to find him!" ”

The team leader glanced at Cui Quan and arranged for a subordinate to go forward to inform Huang Li.

Cui Quan looked at him coldly, and didn't speak, and after a while, a middle-aged general came out of the camp, saw Cui Quan, was a little surprised, hugged his fists and said, "It turned out to be Brother Confusing." ”

Huang Li, the word Bogeng, is a side branch of the Huang family in Jingzhou, after Lu Bu returned to the imperial court, he joined Zhang Liao, and he was a neighbor with the Cui family in the past, and he also had some friendship, but it is not enough to say how deep it is, after all, Cui Quan's style of acting, Huang Li is not too optimistic, and he befriended Cui Quan, and the most important thing is Cui Geng behind Cui Quan.

"Bo Geng, you are too rude as a private!" Cui Quan pointed to the team rate and told him about it.

"The army has its own military rules, and this brother also acts according to the rules, and if he offends, I hope that the young brother will not be blamed." Huang Li smiled and revealed the matter: "Brother Confusing Nian came to me at this time, but what is the matter?" ”

"There is indeed something important to discuss." Cui Quan looked around and said.

"Brother Nian comes with me." Huang Li understood, took Cui Quan to a secluded place, and asked, "What is the matter?" ”

"Brother Confusing Nian, my nephew is now the main general of Wancheng, but the soldiers and horses of Wancheng all listen to Zhu Sheng's orders, which is not a good thing." Cui Quan said bluntly.

"Where do you start?" Huang Li frowned, looked at Cui Quan and said: "General Cui has always discussed military affairs with us, and General Zhu also respects General Cui, is there anything wrong?" ”

In his heart, he had already understood Cui Quan's intention to come here, and his heart was a little heavy, and he didn't know if what Cui Quan said was what Cui Geng meant.

"Brother Bo Geng, this big war is coming, if Bo Lun can't dispatch everyone, what is the point of this lord? What if everything is really discussed, but at the moment of crisis, everyone disagrees? Although my nephew is not as old as you and Zhu Sheng, he is following the general to fight in the south and the north, and if you talk about this battlefield experience, I am afraid that no one in this army is more qualified to lead the army than him! ”

"Brother Confused." Huang Li frowned and looked at Cui Quan, thought for a while, and said: "But General Cui also said yesterday that he only cares about scheduling, and we will continue to lead the troops, and we will not take away anyone's military power!" ”

"Brother Bo Geng has also been in the office, yesterday in order to stabilize the army's heart, he should be like this, but now the army's heart is stable, and the military power should also be taken into his hands, isn't this the case in this officialdom?" Cui Quan shook his head and smiled.

Huang Li's face remained unchanged, but he was a little greasy in his heart, he didn't have much ability to fight this war, but he knew a lot about the twists and turns, and he felt nauseous for no reason.

Cui Quan saw that he didn't speak, and continued to persuade: "Bo Geng, my nephew is a cronie of the general, as long as he can help him win this battle, it is needless to say that he will be promoted to the rank of knight in the future, Brother Bo Geng is already past the age of confusion, don't you want to go further?" ”

"I'll think about it." Huang Li was silent for a moment and sighed.

"The big war is coming, Brother Bogeng, don't let my nephew wait for a long time." Cui Quan said in a deep voice.

"Well, I'll take my leave." Huang Li gave a perfunctory fist salute and turned to leave.

Cui Quan saw Huang Li leave, and also took people to prepare to leave, when he passed by the gate of the barracks, he saw the leader of the camp guard, glared at him fiercely, and strode away with people.

"Boss, this person's status is not low, will he cause trouble?" A soldier frowned and came to the team's side and said in a low voice.

The team leader looked at the direction where Cui Quan left, then looked back at the direction Huang Li went back, and thought for a while: "You guys stay here, I'll go see the general!" ”

The general he was talking about was not Cui Geng, but Zhu Sheng, which is a bit strange.

Cui Quan thought that after persuading Huang Li, he led people to persuade several other generals who could get along, although Nanyang belonged to Chen Mo, but he has always used Zhang Liao as a guard, this Nanyang's soldiers and horses, generals, most of them were promoted by Zhang Liao, which can be regarded as a series of their own, for Cui Geng to take power, there are some complaints, but Cui Geng resolved this contradiction yesterday, which subsided, and now Cui Quan continues to persuade the generals, and some have also considered Cui Quan's words, but more of them are still on Zhu Sheng's side, in one day, Zhu Sheng received several informants here, and Cui Geng was secretly collecting people's hearts.

"General, what does this Cui Geng mean!?" In Zhu Sheng's account, several Nanyang generals gathered, frowned at Zhu Sheng, and said, "This battle hasn't started yet, why do you want to seize power?" ”

Another person frowned and said: "Cui Geng, this person, who is different from the outside, dares to seize the power of the general today, who knows if he will let people replace me tomorrow?" ”

Another person said: "A defeated general, I don't know where he got such confidence?" ”

Zhu Sheng waved his hand and said: "Don't say it, we are all doing things for the imperial court, and General Cui is indeed the highest general in the army today, before General Zhang returns, we should have obeyed him!" ”

"That's right, but he wants military power, and he told us directly yesterday, will we still rebel? Do you use such means to seize power? One general opened his mouth and scolded: "Villain." ”

Zhu Sheng was also a little sick to his stomach for this kind of approach, but for the sake of the overall situation, he should bear with it first, and said to everyone: "Let's all disperse, do what we should do, General Zhang is coming back soon, when he comes back, I will obey General Zhang's orders, don't pay attention to him." ”

"Whoa!" When the generals heard this, they could only agree, and left sullenly.

Early the next morning, Liu Bei began to attack the city, with his troops, it was naturally impossible to encircle, so he chose two sections of relatively easy to attack the city wall to attack, and at the same time sent troops to harass other city walls to disperse the enemy's forces.

Cui Geng also quickly went to the city and began to command the battle, but to Cui Geng's surprise, the Nanyang army was quite uncomfortable, and even faintly resisted, obviously the Jingzhou army's offensive was not fierce, but there were frequent dangers, a whole day, Cui Geng ran around, arranged all sides to defend, but many times, he just walked on the front foot, and there was a crisis on the back foot, a day of running, down, although the city wall was not breached, but Cui Geng was tired and half dead.

These people are really hateful!

At this time, Cui Geng didn't know that these Nanyang generals deliberately embarrassed themselves, which made him unhappy, and he had already said that he would not seize power, how could it still be so?

"Chamberlain, I said earlier, these people are unreliable!" Cui Quan looked at Cui Geng and said with a regretful face: "It's better to seize power first, there are a few people in this army who are familiar to me, as long as Bolun nods, I can take down that Zhu Sheng immediately." ”

"No!" Cui Geng frowned and said, "At such a time, how can you mess with yourself? ”

After speaking, he no longer paid attention to Cui Quan, and asked people to invite Zhu Sheng and others to come to the hall to discuss matters.