"Marshal, the city is high, it is difficult to overcome the urgency, a strong attack is not a method, and our army's casualties are too great. To be foolish, we should still outwit! ”

"Outwitted? How to outwit? Uncle Liu's grandson was born in a famous family in Jiangdong, seeing how he dealt with it today, he dispatched troops and sent generals, all of which secretly combined the art of war, and the department was the main force of the Jingzhou army, and there were 100,000 stones of grain and grass hoarded in the city. ”

"You are too ambitious! What are you afraid of? In today's first battle, the sons and daughters climbed to the top of the city many times, but unfortunately they missed the road and failed to go down with a drum. If you want me to say, just press the whole army tomorrow and fight again, and you will definitely win a big victory! ”

"Small town? Ha, Cangyuan is the state of Yuzhou, Mu joined the army, you were stationed in this city when you were assassinated in Yuzhou, come to tell you, Cangyuan City is a few zhang high, the wall is a few feet thick, and there are several horse faces, enemy towers, and corner towers, so that some people can understand whether it is difficult to attack! ”

"Ahem, it's better to feint at the north gate tomorrow, but in fact, break through the west gate to ......"

"The north gate has been thoroughly arranged by me, and if the west gate is changed again, I have to try it with human life, which is not advisable."

"Exactly! I see that the north gate and the west gate are well guarded, and all kinds of ordnance are sufficient, especially the Yuan Xiang bow and Wanjun crossbow are far better than our army, and the north gate cannot be broken today, and the west gate will be the same tomorrow. ”

"If you say that, let's just surrender!"

"If I want to descend to you, I am willing to lead two hundred dead soldiers to cross the river while the black water is black, quietly go to the east gate, climb the wall with a flying hook, and hit his grandfather by surprise!"

"I thought you had some idea, but it was just a foolish act to trap yourself! Even if the east gate is occupied, the waterways outside the city are like weaving, muddy and difficult to walk, and the follow-up parts can't keep up, and you and the two hundred dead soldiers can only go and have no return......"

Everyone was talking and arguing, but Yuan Mulan didn't seem to care, and said, "What about the proposal to join the army?" ”

Mu Fan sat next to him, quietly listening to the other people's disputes, even if he was named just now, he never participated, listened to Yuan Mulan's questioning, raised his head and replied: "Cangyuan is not enough to worry about, but it is Xu You who is worried!" ”

Hearing Xu You's words, the big tent was immediately as quiet as death. Until now, no one dares to underestimate this great general of the Chu State, and everyone is concentrating on it, wanting to hear Mu Fan's high arguments.

Although Mu Fan is a defeated general under Xu You, he has followed Yuan Guang for many years, and he still has vision and insight.

"Xu You has a strong army in his hand, he will never sit back and watch us attack Cangyuan and have nothing to deal with, once he divides his troops to cut off my back road, and then gather the crowd to surround him, and our army is frustrated under the city, I am afraid that something bad will happen......"

Everyone's hearts were slightly cold, and the original plan was to use the posture of a lion fighting a rabbit to do their best, quickly conquer the cangyuan before Xu You sent troops to rescue, and seize a large amount of grain and grass hoarded in the city. If Xu Youbing leaves Luoyang, he can fight a decisive battle; If Xu Yougui can't shrink, he can rely on the half wall of Yuzhou from the slide platform to Yongqiu and slowly move with him.

At the beginning, Xu You conquered Cangyuan, it only took one day, and in the hearts of the Wei people, they counterattacked Cangyuan, and half a day should be enough. Who would have thought that Cangyuan would be so difficult to gnaw, and all the previous plans seemed to have become a rope around the neck, and this rope was still knotted by itself, and then the head was hung up.

"Xu You, Zhu Zier, may not dare to go out of Luoyang!"

Speaking is the founding of the county, Fenwu general Liang Yiwei, he is from the Northern Wei Dynasty Baglie clan, later changed to the surname Liang, did not have much strategy, relying on the ancestral Yu Yin, attacked the title of the founding county. This time, he gave up the comfortable life of Pingcheng and took the initiative to go out with the army, because he wanted to mix up some military merits, and he would be promoted to two ranks as soon as possible from the general Fenwu under the fourth grade, and become General Ning Shuo or General Zhongli, and then it would be convenient to transfer to the inner government, and be a general in the inner capital, and follow the emperor all day long, at least with a familiar face, so as to seek a way out for his children and grandchildren.

However, there are always people who are used to living in the world of the past and can't see the changes of the new era, especially the Wei people have had a psychological advantage over the Chu people for many years, so Liang Yi was slightly stupid and felt that Xu You was afraid of shrinking Luoyang and not moving, and he didn't have the courage to lead the army out of the decisive battle.

Mu Fan sneered: "The eldest son of the Jun family is similar to Xu Younian, but he has hundreds of thousands of soldiers, expeditions of thousands of miles, destroying a country, occupying several states, and his ministers are like rain, and good generals are like clouds?" If Xu You is a vertical child, what is your home? Are pigs and dogs inferior? ”

"You!"

Although the Liang family is declining day by day, it is not as good as before, but Liang Yiwei has a knighthood in his body, not those ordinary four-rank generals, he was furious when he heard this, he actually pulled out his waist knife in front of Yuan Mulan, pointed at Mu Fan and said: "Insult my family, get out and die!" ”

Mu Fan was the most prosperous son of the Mu family in the dynasty, and he had always looked down on other surnames, smiled contemptuously, and did not accept his words. Yuan Mulan's beautiful eyes lit up, and he looked at Liang Yiwei seemingly lightly, but somehow, his heart suddenly beat wildly, his hands and feet were weak, his waist knife fell to the ground, and sweat drops were already seen on his forehead.

There was a friend with him who hurriedly came out to plead, Liang Yiwei also knelt on the ground to admit his mistake, Yuan Mulan was not ashamed of himself, he knew that this generation was a bad person, and he was too careful but fell behind, and said: "What Mu said in the army cannot be ignored...... In this way, I will give you two more days, if you can't capture the cangyuan, you can only temporarily retreat to the slipway, so as not to be surrounded by the Chu army, and you can't even escape with a single person and a horse! ”

All the generals showed disbelief and anger, but because of the majesty of Yuan Mulan's army, they didn't dare to speak out for the time being.

Yuan Mulan said lightly: "If it weren't for me to look down on you, you wouldn't even be able to deal with Uncle Liu, not to mention that Xu You's troops are far above Uncle Liu, go back to Pingcheng as soon as possible, and you can enjoy wealth and prosperity in peace!" ”

"Marshal! I will make a military order, and I will conquer the city tomorrow, otherwise I will see you here! ”

"I want to be a pioneer!"

"I want too!"

Some people even said angrily: "Tomorrow to attack the city, who dares to take a step back, without the military commander's marching method, I will commit suicide!" ”

As the so-called lord humiliates the ministers to death, Yuan Mulan does not have the slightest harshness, but in the ears of the generals, it undoubtedly insults their dignity as warriors of the Great Wei.

"Good!" Yuan Mulan's eyes swept over and said: "Since you are not afraid of death, then let the southerners take a good look at the means of your waiting, and I hope that after two days, I can celebrate you in the Cangyuan City Guard!" ”

All the generals raised their heads, and the iron armor roared, and the sound was like spring thunder, and said: "No! ”

When leaving, Mu Fan was left behind, and Yuan Mulan smiled: "Is there anything unfinished to join the army?" ”

"It's impossible to lay down the warehouse wall in two days!" Mu Fan frowned and said: "Mulan, it is naturally a good thing for you to boost the morale of the generals, but in order to please you, these people will definitely attack the city desperately regardless of casualties tomorrow and the future, not to mention how many people died for the time being, if the city is still not conquered, I am afraid that there is no room for recovery in the army......

He and Yuan Mulan have been under the same command of Yuan Guang for many years, and the zeze of his comrades is not comparable to others, so he can call him by his name, and he can also say these seemingly contradictory advices.

Yuan Mulan was silent for a moment, waved his hand to let the guards leave, and there were only two people left in the tent, and said, "Brother Mu, do you think that our army and the Chu army are stronger or weaker?" ”

"If Xu You was a general before, his army would be better, but this son is especially good at training, as of now, even if it is still inferior to our army, it is almost the same."

"Then, defend the city according to the city, and besiege the city to conquer, which is stronger and weaker?"

Mu Fan hesitated and said in a deep voice: "Chu Junqiang! ”

"Let me ask you again, if you talk about riding 100,000 horses, reining and reining, chasing the enemy for thousands of miles, destroying the strong and trapping the battle, which is stronger and weaker?"

"At this point, the Chu people can't catch up with us......"

"That's it!" Yuan Mulan's beautiful and incomprehensible face revealed the killing intent of ice, snow, frost and cold, and said: "If you win, you need to bully the weak with the strong!" Xu You occupies Luoyang, waiting for me to attack, it is with the strength of Chu and the weakness of me, if I want to win, I can only turn the tide and lure him out of the city. ”

Mu Fan was puzzled: "This is a decision we made when we went south from the slipway, but because of this, if the casualties in the attack on Cangyuan are too great and the morale is lost, even if Xu You can't hold it back and leads his troops to help, what will we do to fight him?" Why not besiege the city and feint, preserve your strength, and wait for Xu You to enter the urn? ”

"How cunning Xu You is, and the secret mansion is in control of the Quartet, if it is just a feint to attack Cangyuan, he will definitely be able to see the clues, and then stick to Luoyang, just wait for our army to run out of food, have no choice but to retreat, and then lead the people to chase after him, what should I do at that time?"

Speaking of which, there is still a lack of food, the lack of food leads to a tie-down, ten percent of the strength can only be used one or two percent, if you want to have food to the enemy, you must get the city, but you can hit the wall under Yongqiu and Cangyuan City one after another, Yuan Mulan uses troops like this, and it is also a helpless move.

Mu Fan gritted his teeth and said: "Then regardless of Cangyuan, activate the backup strategy, go south directly to occupy Yongqiu first, and then attack Jingxiang, or attack Xu Huai, wait for the Yangtze River, approaching Jinling, the government and the opposition of Chu are shaken, see how Xu You explains to Emperor Chu?" and then use the Chuchen who was bribed by the egret to divide the discord, and under the anger of An Xiulin, he first removed Xu You from the post of general, and we can win without a fight. ”

It's a trick, but it's too risky and too aggressive. Jing and Xiangzhigu are 100 times larger than Cangyuan, without 200,000 soldiers and horses, and three to five years of grain and grass, how can they knock on the pass? Xu and Huai are even more benefited by the rivers, there are no boats and sailors, and they attack purely with cavalry, but they are afraid that there will be no return.

Yuan Mulan shook her head and said: "Cangyuan is four hundred miles away from the slipway, and the grain road can still be preserved, and if you go deeper into the south, the grain road will be broken." Once the siege of the city is not conquered, there is no way to get food, and 50,000 athletes will be buried in other places, and this discussion cannot be mentioned again! ”

"Also, Luan Niao once told me that An Xiulin's trust in Xu You is extraordinary, and the discord plan is absolutely not feasible, but it will expose the secret son that the foreign marquis has finally planted in Chu Ting, and the gains outweigh the losses!"

Mu Fan silently!

He is a disciple of the Mu family, of course he knows Luan Niao's powerful methods, as long as she says it, it is impossible to go wrong!

"Brother Mu, for the sake of today's plan, you don't have to care about Kebuke City, and you don't have to care about the number of casualties, only if you fight in Cangyuan, Xu You will send troops."

"Oh? Are you so sure he's going to send troops? ”

"Of course!" Yuan Mulan suddenly laughed, her phoenix eyes were pretty, her ice muscles were shining, and her peerless face was bright and dark in the beating of the candle flame, and said: "He gave me no choice with 100,000 stone grains in Cangyuan, and as long as I am here, he has no choice!" ”

Just as Xu You used grain as bait to bet that the Wei army would attack Cangyuan, Yuan Mulan used herself as bait and gambled that Xu You would move eastward.

"But what about after the troops?" Mu Fan asked rhetorically: "Xu You is several times my division, and he has been recuperating for a long time, and his majesty is flourishing, and our army has fought viciously repeatedly, and the hunter who is only afraid of fighting the wolf has been swallowed by the evil wolf with his belt and bones." ”

"Sun Ziyun: Cast into the place of death and then survive, fall into the place of death and then live!" Yuan Mulan said calmly: "After Xu You sends out his troops, I have my own clever plan to defeat the enemy!" ”

Mu Fan was stunned, he didn't know what kind of trick Yuan Mulan would have, and he could stand up after breaking such a dangerous death situation, he still didn't believe it, and muttered: "Victory over the enemy?" ”

Yuan Mulan finally sighed, her eyebrows showed a little tiredness, and said: "It can't be said that the enemy is victorious, this expedition is really the weakest and most dangerous time for Great Wei, but the Chu army has invaded the northern border, and if you don't react, it will seem that our side has no confidence, and it is easy to let it gain an inch." Therefore, when leaving Pingcheng, my father said that it is good to be able to win, but if you can't win, you must at least maintain an undefeated situation, dispel the ambitions of the Chu army, and exchange for a good opportunity to recuperate for ten years......"