The twenty-third year of the Great Wei Wuwei, the twenty-fourth day of the first month

It has been nine full days since the vanguard of the Wei army led by Fei Zhenlu arrived at the city of Chencang.

During these nine days, except for the first day of the siege and some losses, the Wei army was almost immobile for the rest of the days.

Fei Zhen divided his corporal into four parts and built a camp around Chencang City, and it seemed that he had made up his mind to recuperate and wait for the final battle when the Shu army's reinforcements arrived.

Anyone who has studied the art of war knows that when a large army besieges the city, it is most taboo to form a situation in which the defender forms an internal and external echo and besieges on both sides.

Therefore, for such a decision, not only is it difficult for the Shu army in the city to understand, but even the Wei army has a lot of complaints.

Fortunately, Fei Zhen has led the army to fight for many years and has great prestige in the army, so he can implement such a seemingly stupid decision.

Of course, the Wei army is not completely tied to death these days.

They tried several times to send a small work to the city, in a vain attempt to provoke the people again, but unfortunately the Shu army firmly controlled the public opinion in the city, and in the end they could not succeed.

Seeing that the plan failed, a few days ago, Fei Zhen sent his soldiers who were proficient in the Shu dialect to disguise themselves as heralds of the Shu reinforcements, and entered the city to lie about the military situation, trying to lure the defenders out of the city.

However, such clumsy tricks were obviously full of flaws in front of a general of Song Mi's level, so he quickly saw through it.

It's a pity that the head of this soldier is still hanging high on the city wall, as the best basis for the defenders in the city to mock Fei Zhen.

Such an act of losing his wife and losing his troops was a great blow to the overall morale of the Wei army, so much so that in the past few days, there have been many messages in the army, saying that Fei Zhen seems to want to outwit him, but in fact he is cowardly in battle, and he has already been frightened by that Song Mi.

This news soon reached the ears of the Shu army in the city, and the heart of the Shu army was greatly boosted for a while, and everyone was quite optimistic at the moment that the Shu army would finally be able to successfully repel Fei Zhen.

However, optimism is optimism, and there should be no less precautions.

Therefore, in the evening of this day, when Song Mi went to the top of the city to inspect the military situation according to the custom, he couldn't help but be very annoyed when he found that the soldiers were all relaxed, talking and laughing.

He immediately hurried several of his generals to the bottom of the tower, severely reprimanded them, and ordered them to strictly control their subordinates when they returned, and never to be as lax and lax as they are today.

Jiang Senjun, who was on the side, witnessed what Song Mi had done, and he sincerely admired that he could still maintain such a cautious mentality.

He knows that in the past few days, the Wei army has made mistakes, and now it is already in a state of disappointment, and it is impossible for anyone who stands in the position of Song Mi not to have the emotion of underestimating the enemy at all, but Song Mi obviously understands the truth that arrogant soldiers will be defeated, so he has always buried this emotion very deeply, so it seems that he is indeed worthy of the title of a famous general in Shu, and the Metropolitan Governor arranged for him to guard Chen Cang, which is indeed the most ideal choice.

But even so, Jiang Senjun still had an ominous premonition in his heart, to put it bluntly, he just couldn't believe that Fei Zhen would be a wine bag and rice bag in the midst of gold and jade.

Therefore, the more Wei Jun has stood still these days and made many mistakes and omissions, the more difficult it is for him to feel at ease.

On a few occasions, he would even hope that Fei Zhen would forcibly attack the city, at least this way, after all, it was in line with what he had always expected in his heart.

But he was still disappointed after all, he couldn't imagine that Fei Zhen had not only lost his way, but seemed to have decided to move forward on the stupid road.

In the early hours of this morning, Jiang Senjun learned an unbelievable news, that Fei Zhen actually repeated his old tricks, and once again sent a detailed work, pretending to be a herald of reinforcements, falsely claiming that the reinforcements had arrived, hoping that the defenders in the city would go out of the city to respond.

Jiang joined the army and didn't understand what Fei Zhen thought, the detailed work he sent twice had no herald code, and no tiger talisman of the generals of the reinforcements, so how could he deceive the defenders in the city if he acted so hastily?

It's like a joke on the lives of his minoraries.

Therefore, when he learned the news early this morning, his instinctive reaction was that there was a deception.

However, he really couldn't share his doubts with Song Mi again.

First, he couldn't tell what Wei Jun wanted, and secondly, he had also reminded Song Mi of Wei Jun's stupid behavior in the previous few times, but later all kinds of signs proved that it was very likely that Fei Zhen was really whimsical.

What can Chiang do when he joins the army? He was also desperate!

But as a senior thinker, he will not give up thinking easily, even if he may become the laughing stock of everyone in the army afterwards, he still chooses to believe that there must be some motive behind Fei Zhen's seemingly stupid behavior.

And once he finds out the true face of this motive, then it is very likely that he will be able to save the lives of thousands of soldiers in Shu.

So at this moment, he stood behind Song Mi with a frown, staring at the Wei army camp in the distance, and once again fell into the long test.

After a stick of incense, he still couldn't come up with a reason.

Just when he decided to give up, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of the deep and shallow trenches in front of the Wei army's camp, and remembered Song Mi's previous words at the head of the city for no reason.

On that day, Song Mi and he also stood in the same position today, Song Mi pointed to the fortifications of the Wei army in the distance and said, "It seems that such fortifications, there is a place on each side of the city, not so much to prepare for the siege, but to prevent our army from attacking, so it seems that Fei really made up his mind to besiege and not attack, just waiting for Zhou Xin's army to arrive." ”

"It's not so much preparing for a siege as it is preparing for an attack by our army."

He pondered Song Mi's words repeatedly in his heart, and suddenly, he only felt a flash of inspiration in his mind, and finally found some clues in the thousands of threads.

So Jiang joined the army and combined what Fei Zhen had done in the past few days with the Wei army's camping on all sides to reorganize it, and immediately came to a shocking conclusion.

"Could it be that Fei Zhen sent people to disguise themselves as heralds of our army twice, not to induce our army out of the city, but to make our army completely hold out?!"

Thinking about it this way, Fei Zhen's two actions that have no possibility of success make sense.

Because Fei Zhen sent people to lure the defenders out of the city on purpose to expose them, he never thought of succeeding!

But after thinking about it, he felt that there was something wrong.

You must know that even if Fei Zhen doesn't do this, the defenders in the city will not go out of the city to fight? Wouldn't that be redundant? Besides, if the defenders of the city can't hold out, what good will it do them?

Jiang Senjun pondered and meditated, and then cast his eyes on the smoke rising from the Wei army's camp.

After a moment of careful observation, Jiang Senjun finally discovered the mystery.

It dawned on him and he exclaimed.

"I see, I see! I understand! ”

Song Mi on the side was startled by this sudden exclamation as soon as he waved away the generals, he turned to face Jiang Senjun, and saw that he was looking at the Wei army camp with an excited face, so he asked suspiciously:

"Sir? But did you notice anything unusual? ”

"General, I finally figured out what the Wei army was planning these days!"

"What? Sir, tell me quickly! ”

Jiang Senjun stretched out his hand and pointed to a place in the Wei army camp and said:

"General, look at this smoke!"

Song Mi looked in the direction of his finger and saw the smoke in the Wei army's camp, only to say that the Wei army was preparing dinner, and there was nothing wrong with it, so he asked suspiciously:

"Uh...... What does this smoke say? I look very normal......"

Jiang Senjun nodded, and then continued to ask:

"It's true that at first glance, I just don't think there's anything abnormal, but General, if you pay close attention to the amount of cooking smoke, is it too rare?"

"Well, when Mr. said that, it's true that the smoke is a little scarce, but it doesn't seem to be inappropriate, right?"

"General, according to the previous military reports and the observation of the first battle, Fei Zhen should lead the army this time to come with no less than 40,000 people, and the general leads the troops all the year round, so he naturally knows very well the number of stoves corresponding to the number of sergeants and soldiers in the army. General, as far as you can see, is there enough smoke in front of you for 40,000 people?! ”

After hearing this, Song Mi faintly sensed the meaning of Jiang Senjun's words, and he immediately observed it carefully again for a while, and said in surprise:

"So the 40,000-strong army really shouldn't have only these stoves, sir......"

"That's right! I expected that there were simply 40,000 people in the four camps that the Wei army surrounded Chencang City! These tents are just a trick! And their army has long since left! ”

Although Song Mi had already been mentally prepared before, he still felt too unbelievable when Jiang Senjun really said this, so he hurriedly asked:

"What!? Could it be that Fei Zhen led the army to evacuate? ”

Jiang Senjun shook his head and said categorically:

"No, if the Shu army wants to retreat, just retreat generously, and it is impossible for our army to stop it, but why do they still have to make a big army besiege the city? General, think about it, what is Fei Zhen's intention in sending Xizuo twice in the past few days to disguise himself as the backup of our army? Is he really an idiot? He was in order to dispel the suspicion of our army, and cooperated with the false siege of the city, so as to completely contain our army in the city! ”

Song Mi still couldn't quite understand Jiang Jianjun's thoughts, so he pondered for a moment and asked:

"Hmm...... Is there any point in holding our army back in the city, but dividing it up and leaving? ”

Jiang Senjun's eyes were hot, and he said categorically:

"Meaningful! If you think about it well, Fei Zhen is eyeing the support of our army, and he wants to set up an ambush along the road to intercept the reinforcements halfway! ”

"This ...... How is this possible! ”

"General think about it, if you want to carry out this plan, what does Fei Zhen need to prepare? First of all, he must cut off the contact between our army and the reinforcements, and secondly, he must try his best to prevent our army from rushing out of the city to help, so as to prevent being attacked by our army from front and back! That's why he chose to besiege the city on all sides, and pretended to faint again and again, which made our army slacken! The general re-sorted out the actions of the Wei army in the past few days, did it meet these two needs everywhere? ”

Jiang Senjun's words could no longer be understood, and Song Mi finally came back to his senses at this moment, he thought about it for a moment, and felt that Jiang Senjun's inferences were indeed reasonable, so he continued to ask:

"Hmm..... It is indeed very possible that Sir said this, does Sir want me to lead the army out of the city to help? ”

Jiang Senjun shook his head and said in a deep voice:

"Otherwise, the majority of the governors ordered the general to defend Chencang, so our army still has to put the matter of defending the city in the first place, and the following remarks are just speculation at present, if you rush out of the city based on this alone, it will be inappropriate. If this is the case, the general can send people to visit the camp overnight tonight to see what is going on in the Wei army camp, and it will not be too late for us to make a decision! ”

After listening to the careful consideration, Song Mi finally nodded and pondered:

"Well, for the sake of now, that's all it takes......"