Wancheng, it was late at night, and Ma Chao looked at the map hanging on the wall.

Shouwan City?

I'm not good at defending the city.

Ma Chao deduced the development of the battle situation around Duyang, and if the opportunity was right, he would naturally send troops to the Central Plains, lest the Central Plains people forget themselves.

With the surrender of Nanyang Tianyu and Wenpin, Shangyong, the three counties of the Han and Eastern regions, also underwent some wonderful changes.

The obedience of the local snake Shen Tan and Shen Yi brothers is stronger, this time in the east, Liu Bei transferred Liu Feng to move to Changsha, and Liu Feng will urge Shen Tan, the general of the expedition, to move to Nanyang.

The three counties of Hedong are Shangyong County, and Meng Da is the Shangyong County Guard, worshiping General Yangwu and sealing the Pavilion Marquis; Shen Yi is the county lieutenant.

After splitting the Shen Tan brothers, the new Shangyong County will be more stable.

Shen Tan, the general of the expedition to the north, may be the general of the expedition with the most water, and he will lead more than 3,000 mountain people to move to Nanxiang Township, and feed himself by fishing and fishing in Danshui Juntun.

Nanxiang County was originally separated from Nanyang, Tian Yu raised Nanyang to descend, Tian Yu has given up the county to guard his duties, concentrate on farming, and Nanxiang County Shou Guo Mu supervises Nanyang; The original Fangling County Shou Deng Fu was changed to Nanyang County Lieutenant.

Guo Mu and Deng Fu followed Guan Yu to stay in Jingzhou all the way up with their military exploits, and the two cooperated skillfully.

Ma Chao couldn't wait for the scale of the war on the Nanyang battlefield to escalate, so that an army could replace him, and he could go out to fight.

Wen Ping, who was stationed in Xinye, was the head snake of the land, and he had already detected the news that all the cavalry troops under Ma Chao were moving.

It is impossible for the cavalry to go to Jiangxia, let alone Wuchang, and the only place that can play a role is to block Yang.

Tian Xin is not prepared to honestly abide by the scheduled defensive tasks, and Ma Chao will not either, if there is a chance, Guan Ping is also a flexible person.

Lei Xu and Sun Lang, who came to Xinye to assist in the defense of the town, are not very principled people, not to mention the identities of Tian Xin and Guan Ping, if there is an opportunity, Ma Chao greets, and both of them may lead troops to participate in the war.

This is a matter determined by origin and character, and these two armies will be transferred to assist in the defense of Nanyang...... This has deepened the cooperation between the various armed forces.

Wen Ping summoned his sons and nephews to start discussing, if he could participate in the war, he would naturally participate in the war.

Guan Yu's various armies arranged in Nanyang are quite attentive, in fact, with Guo Mu and Deng Fu, they can defend the core Wancheng, if Wancheng is there, the other counties can be recovered at any time if they are lost.

Ma Chao is General Zuo, the rightful General Zuo, Tian Xin and Guan Ping cannot compete with Ma Chao for command.

If Tian Xin tears open the gap and sees an opportunity, Ma Chao is the one who can control his hands?

Ma Chao definitely can't control it, especially when Huang Quan, the left protector, is still fishing and farming in Dongting Lake, if he has the opportunity, Ma Chao will definitely be willing to go down and cast a dice.

Guan Yuken endorses Ma Chao, a person with a bad record like Ma Chao dares to gamble, where can his family sit idly by?

Ma Chao's gang won the bet, and the Wen family watched from the wall, and there was an original sin; If Ma Chao and these people lost the bet, the Wei army entered Nanyang, and the Wen family would not end well.

This is a matter that does not need to be debated, the only thing to discuss is who to send and how much power can be squeezed out?

Tian Xin has food in his hands and is willing to take care of the food, and the Wen family is willing to take all the troops to the war.

So when it was just dawn, Wen Hou led more than a dozen knights to Liyang to find Tian Xin's protector Luo Qiong.

Not only the Wen family, but also the two queen families of the Deng family and the Yin family, as well as the An Zhongzong family and the Nieyang Zhang family, all sent their children to Liyang to seek opportunities to participate in the war.

Liu Bei only arrived in Yong'an at this time, and the Nanyang defensive theater he personally planned was already for everyone to fight.

There is no way, Hanjun's stock price continues to soar, and everyone is rushing to buy it, for fear that it will be too late.

Early in the morning of the 23rd, when the sky had just dawned, the smoke of the humble camp was everywhere, and Tian Xin saw that the blocked water was becoming more and more shallow, and it was no longer enough to be a foot deep.

The Wei army built a dam upstream, Zhang Bao and Xie Jing found Tian Xin together, and Zhang Bao said: "Filial piety, if you retreat now, many equipment and ships will have to be abandoned." If you want to retreat, filial piety can lead the crowd first, and I will lead the knight to the rear. ”

"Is Tian a cowardly person?"

Tian Xin responded, looking back at the humble camp where the meal was about to be finished: "Xu Gongming wants to leave our army in one fell swoop, but I don't know what his teeth are." Chengming, you organize the rear battalion to push the war equipment to five miles away from Duyang, and when the war equipment arrives, the rear camp will rest on the spot and make food. ”

Xie Jing arched his hand: "Get the order." ”

As a general, Xie Jing is usually silent, neither asking for superfluous words, nor having deep friendships with his colleagues in the army.

More than 100 members of the Xie family in Shanyin have moved to Chengdu, including Mrs. Xie, who is far away from Xie Jing's blood relationship.

Mrs. Xie was originally Sun Quan's wife, but in order to win over his cousin Xu Kun's old department, Sun Quan married Xu Kun's widowed daughter Mrs. Xu. He wanted to establish Mrs. Xu as the right, but Mrs. Xie refused to be under Mrs. Xu and died of depression.

Xie Jing hurriedly went to announce the military order, organized the rear battalion officials to transport war equipment to cross the river, and Zhang Bao was also ordered to cross the river with 800 knights under his department, and scattered to reconnoiter the surroundings and expel the Wei army rangers.

Soon after Zhang Bao crossed the river, a battalion of knights sent by Guan Ping arrived at the camp and was also thrown to the opposite bank by Tian Xin.

And the three battalions of Yamen knights led by Ma Dai were passing through the reed area on the edge of the Wanghua Pavilion, and the banner was displayed without concealment.

Wanghua Pavilion, the dew is extremely heavy in the early morning.

Here the top of the head is the water, the southwest is the blocked water, the south is the water, there are more than 10,000 acres of lakes in the east, and then the east is the Fuyu Mountain.

A series of wars such as the Yellow Turban, Yuan Shu, and Zhang Xiu destroyed the agriculture around the Wanghua Pavilion, and the fertile fields around the lake were abandoned and had been eaten away by patches of reeds, and there were 20,000 or 30,000 acres of reeds alone.

In the dense reeds, more than 3,000 Wei troops under the Xu Shang Department were nowhere to be seen.

Xu Shang sat on a pile of reeds and ate dry food, when he heard the neighing of horses in the distance, and after a while, the scout bowed his waist and drilled: "General......"

The scout swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his voice trembled, and he tried to lower his voice so that more people could hear it: "Cavalry, Liangzhou Xiaocai under the command of General Zuo Ma Mengqi!" ”

As soon as he breathed a sigh of relief, the scout was pulled in front of him by Xu Shang, and his face was close to his face: "How many rides?" ”

"He rode four or five hundred for a while, and for four for four, and about two thousand. In front of the army is the Yamen general Ma Dai, there are boats in the water, and the infantry army is being unloaded, I am afraid that it is the majority of the left army led by Ma Mengqi. ”

"Two thousand rides?"

"Ma Mengqi's left army?"

Xu Shang felt heavy and summoned the military officials to ask: "General Right ordered our army to copy Liyang, and the letter of the field is on the way back." However, at this moment, Ma Mengqi personally supervised the left army and went north from Liyang, and its vanguard 2,000 horsemen had passed the Wanghua Pavilion, and they could reach the shore of Lishui in two moments. ”

The surrounding military officials crouched on the ground one by one, and as the sun rose, they were sweating profusely in the humid environment, and their faces were oozing sweat.

Xu Shang pointed out the key at present: "If our army lurks and waits for Ma Mengqi's left army to pass the Wanghua Pavilion, and then attack Liyang...... I'm afraid I can't get enough. If the wolf smoke is lit to warn the right general, Ma Mengqi turns around and attacks, and our army will be destroyed here. ”

Ma Chao came with the main force of the left army, and there must be an endless stream of troops behind him, and it is not good to say that Guan Yu's front army is already ready to go in the Xiangfan area.

At this time, lighting the wolf smoke to warn will expose itself and attract Ma Chao's encirclement; If you continue to lurk and stick to the predetermined plan to copy Liyang, you will definitely collide with the successor Han army, and you will die an ugly death.

The military officials were worried, and Xu Shang was also puzzled and wondered.

Xu Huang has already understood the truth, and Xu Shang, as a general, naturally knows some general guesses: this time it is the Han army that comes to Nanyang, and the main force of the Han army will go east to conquer Sun Quan.

Could it be that Liu Bei and Sun Quan had another tacit understanding, and the Han army invaded the Central Plains from Nanyang to the north to encircle Wei and save Wu?

When Xu Shang's troops had no idea what to gain or lose, Xu Huang was leading 4,000 men to leave the camp and was marching to the Xu Shang empty camp fifty miles away, and he had already marched thirty miles.

Contrary to Xu Shang's expectations, Ma Dai turned north after passing the Wanghua Pavilion and went straight to the sun.