The morning light had not completely dissipated, and the sound of drums and trumpets of the Ming army made Fancheng quickly put on alert, but to the surprise of the Jingzhou army, the imaginary siege did not appear.

Zhuge Liang took Zhang Fei to the city to watch, and when he watched the mighty Ming army kill towards Liqiu, his face suddenly became ugly.

"Kong Ming, why is your face so ugly? Isn't it a good thing that this Ming army will not come to attack the city? Zhang Fei looked at the Ming army that had begun to line up in the distance, and looked at Zhuge Liang suspiciously.

"The Ming army attacked Liqiu, will our army save it?" Zhuge Liang asked rhetorically, this is really uncomfortable to fight with an enemy who holds the general trend and has a high IQ of the coach, from the beginning of the war to the present, even if Chen Mo has the advantage of troops, but he never attacks blindly, every step is to plan first and then move, constantly weakening their advantages, from delaying time and waiting for the day, to later attacking the east and west, tearing the defense line along the river, and wanted to burn the pontoon bridge last night, and now seeing that the pontoon bridge cannot be burned, he pointed the spearhead at the Jiangdong camp.

Chen Mo always puts the control of casualties in the first place, Rao is Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu, and they also have a sense of powerlessness against such an opponent, if everyone has similar strength, they can naturally fight, but now Chen Mo has an absolute advantage in terms of troops, and every time he moves, he is taking advantage of the situation, although there are a few small defeats, but he can't hurt the foundation, if he goes on like this, can he hold Xiangfan, Zhuge Liang really doesn't have any confidence now.

"After all, it's an alliance, and if it can be saved, it will naturally be saved." Zhang Fei said of course, although he didn't think much of Jiangdong, but people came to help, and Zhang Fei didn't really take it for granted.

"Look over there!" Zhuge Liang pointed to Chen Mo's Chinese army in the distance, where a large number of cavalry were vague, but they could still be seen, Zhuge Liang shook his head and said: "The cavalry is not triggered, it is for our army to prepare, once it is out of the city at this moment, the cavalry will be dispatched as soon as possible, then Chen Moming is attacking Liqiu, in fact, he wants to take this opportunity to consume the troops in my city." ”

"Then it won't come out?" Zhang Fei frowned, feeling that this was a little inappropriate.

"That will make Jiangdong feel guilty, after this battle, we will not retreat, and our army may not come to the rescue in time if it is in distress." Zhuge Liang sighed.

As soon as Chen Mo made a move, he gave him a dilemma, no matter whether he advanced or retreated, it was good for Chen Mo, and it was their side that lost.

"It's not a troop, it's not a no, it's not a no, what should I do!?" Zhang Fei asked with a headache.

"Out, not out!" Zhuge Liang saw that the Ming army over there had already begun to attack the camp, and frowned.

"Huh?" Zhang Fei looked at Zhuge Liang in amazement, with an expression of you teasing me, what is this special mother?

"Send troops, shoot the enemy's rear with Yuanrong ballistas, but not too far, must be within the range of our army's ballistas, if the enemy cavalry comes to attack, then quickly retreat, attack its cavalry with the city's head ballista, if the enemy retreats, then continue to use the Yuanrong ballista to hit the enemy's rear position, and so on, the Ming army retreats!" Zhuge Liang said.

Yuan Rong ballista, the range can reach one hundred and twenty steps, out of the city one hundred steps, with the distance between the two sides now, just enough to reach the rear of the Ming army, not only can make the enemy unable to attack the Li Qiu camp with all its strength, but also can minimize its own losses.

"Okay, this time I will personally lead the troops, if the thief army dares to come, I will screw off their heads with my own hands!" Zhang Fei nodded fiercely, and immediately ordered someone to push the crossbow out of the city, and a long spearman went out of the city to prevent the enemy cavalry from suddenly rushing over, and then under the impetus of the wrestlers, one by one Yuanrong crossbows were pushed out of the city.

In the distance, on the high platform of the Ming army, Chen Mo looked at this scene, and understood Zhuge Liang's plan, and immediately ordered someone to drive the broken army crossbow, the broken army crossbow is the bed crossbow in the Ming army, after these years of improvement, the range is not worse than the Yuan Rong ballista, but if the power of a single arrow is stronger than the Yuan Rong crossbow.

Rows of broken army crossbows were quickly lined up, and then took advantage of the Jingzhou army's formation when it was not lined up, and launched an attack first, the bed crossbow of the three consecutive rounds in this era, in fact, has far exceeded the ordinary bed crossbow, but Zhuge Liang's Yuanrong crossbow is also very powerful, the two sides have the same range, shoot at each other, the Yuanrong crossbow was broken several times, but the rear of the Ming army here was also shot by the Yuanrong crossbow, Chen Mo took the opportunity to order the cavalry to charge, Zhang Fei personally took the spearmen to protect the front of the ballista, lined up to meet the enemy, and fought fiercely with Ma Chao in one place.

Pang De led the cavalry to surround the rear of the enemy, and the ballistas flew at the head of the city in an instant, not only the Ming soldiers were shot and killed, but even the Jingzhou army that went out of the city to fight was killed by their own artillery.

This move is indeed effective, but it is also ruthless enough, and the soldiers on both sides were blinded at once, Chen Mo hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops, and on the side of Fancheng, Zhuge Liang also gave an order to collect troops.

"Zhuge Kongming, you want to kill me!" After Zhang Fei returned to the city, he rushed to Zhuge Liang as soon as possible, Zhuge Liang was eight feet tall, and was picked up by Zhang Fei and roared angrily.

"Liang is also a last resort, the cavalry of the Ming army has been surrounded by the front and back, if Liang does not do this, the soldiers outside the city will be completely defeated!" Zhuge Liang looked at Zhang Fei and said in a deep voice: "If Yide wants to kill me, wait for this battle, but definitely not at this time, this battle, our army can't lose!" ”

Zhang Fei turned his head, looked at the Ming army outside the city and began to retreat, gritted his teeth, let go of Zhuge Liang, and ran away angrily.

On the other side, after Chen Mo collected his troops, he glanced at Fan Cheng and frowned: "How did Liu Bei enter Sichuan?" ”

I can't help but be surprised by Chen Mo, although Zhuge Liang's approach is effective, it is too ruthless, although Ci is not in charge of the army, but Zhuge Liang is not afraid of shaking the army's heart when he does this? It's right that Ci is not in charge of the army, but if you don't treat your soldiers and horses as people, who wants to follow you?

Why is the morale of the Ming army high? One is to occupy the general trend, and the other is that Chen Mo will never let his soldiers make senseless sacrifices, he feels that it is necessary, no matter how many casualties there are, he will not blink his eyes, but if there are unnecessary casualties, Chen Mo will choose to retreat and compromise, like Zhuge Liang's style of play, Chen Mo will never be able to do it.

Chen Mo doesn't know much about Zhuge Liang, but judging from the layout of his practice, if it is not a last resort, a person like Zhuge Liang should not be so extreme, even if the Jiangdong army retreats, it will be no problem to drag it out for a few months or even a year with Xiangfan's solidity, enough to wait until Liu Bei comes back, but Zhuge Liang's approach obviously does not intend to give up Jiangdong as an ally.

In other words, Zhuge Liang knew that Liu Bei would not come back for a while, and he was still thinking about fighting Yizhou, is this crazy?

"Your Majesty, since last year in Shuzhong, there have been constant wars, and the disputes between Dongzhou Shi and Shu Shi have become increasingly obvious, and Zhang Lu also had the intention to take this opportunity to attack Bashu before, because our army has insufficient intelligence in Shuzhong." Xun You came to Chen Mo's side and bowed down.

"What is the situation in Hanzhong now?" Chen Mo asked while ordering people to go back to the camp for repairs.

When Zhang Lu received Chen Mo's letter, he had already chosen to surrender to the imperial court, and Wuyi had already led the army to Hanzhong at the beginning of the year, when Chen Mo allowed Zhang Lu to carry forward the Five Dou Rice Sect and let him develop believers in Guanzhong, Hanzhong should be relatively stable, so Chen Mo did not pay much attention to Hanzhong anymore, and now it seems that the situation has to be taken care of.

"General Wuyi has taken over Hanzhong, according to the instructions of the king, and did not rush to attack Shudi, withdrew the soldiers of Jia Meng, and reorganized the soldiers and horses in Hanzhong, Hanzhong originally had 50,000 soldiers and horses, so during this time, General Wuyi has been in charge of this matter, and Cui Geng is the Taishou of Hanzhong to stabilize the hearts of the people in Hanzhong." Xun You said with a smile.

"Inform Wuyi, I want the details of Liu Bei's entry into Shu." Chen Mo nodded and said in a deep voice: "This is not quite right!" ”

I have hit the door of Liu Bei's house, Liu Bei will not come back but rely on Shudi, Jingzhou is such a place, fighting on two fronts, can the grain and grass keep up? Even if the grain and grass can keep up and the family is gone, Shu may not be able to take it, even if Xichuan is of great significance to Liu Bei, but he should not insist on attacking Shuchuan at this time, unless he is absolutely sure that he can take Shuzhong, and he does not need to use Jingzhou grain and grass.

Is this possible?

Chen Mo wasn't sure, after all, he didn't know what kind of environment Liu Bei was in now.

"Whoa!" Xun You nodded, indicating that he understood.

After Chen Mo returned to the camp, he did not gather the crowd to continue to attack the city, but began to adjust the deployment, since Zhuge Liang was determined to fight like this, with the terrain here in Liqiu, it is easy to be attacked by Zhuge Liang before and after if he continues to attack Liqiu, in terms of attack position, it is better to fight Fancheng, Zhuge Liang is forcing Chen Mo to lord Fancheng.

Chen Mo was naturally reluctant to let the enemy master his rhythm, so he needed to think carefully about what to do next.

Liqiu, Jiangdong Daying.

Cao Ang frowned and looked at the direction of the Ming army's withdrawal, and turned his head to look at Zhou Yu in confusion: "Dudu, Zhuge Liang really came to help, does it mean ......?"

"Liu Bei won't come back." Zhou Yu nodded, also frowned and glanced at Zhuge Liang and said, "They are sure enough to take Yizhou." ”

"How many soldiers and horses can Liu Bei have?" This result made Cao Ang very puzzled, everyone is a neighbor, how much strength can Liu Bei have, Jiangdong can also guess a rough idea, Liu Bei can take away 50,000 soldiers and horses are all in the sky, this siege of the city, you also have to consume grass, Jingzhou can support such a conquest?

"I don't know how many soldiers and horses, but I'm afraid that the people of Yizhou are internal, the battle between Dongzhou Shi and Yizhou Shi has continued, when Liu Yan was alive, he was able to suppress Dongzhou Shi, but after Liu Yan went, Liu Zhang began to win over Yizhou Shi with Huairou strategy, which also made Dongzhou Shi start to be dissatisfied with Liu Zhang, and Liu Zhang's wrist is not enough, and he has not really won over Yizhou Shi, and now between these two factions, I am afraid that there is a suspicion of another master, Liu Bei obviously secretly got support, but I don't know whether it is to win over Dongzhou Shi, or both factions are here." Zhou Yu narrowed his eyes, this opportunity was just given to Liu Bei, and he had to help Liu Bei block the Ming army, this result made Zhou Yu a little depressed.