The two mountains occupied by Zang Ba, one is called Maoshan and the other is called Gushan, these two mountains are relatively close to each other, and they just clamp the key road from north to south into Xuzhou, just like an iron door latch, strangle this artery.

When the King of Wei sent him here to stop Lü Peng, he did not choose the prefecture as the place to garrison the troops, because he had long heard that Lü Peng's catapult fire and oil bombs were extremely powerful. Especially his fire oil bomb, stained with grass and trees, burned immediately, even if it was a stone, it could be burned into powder in a blink of an eye, his battle in Jiangnan, and the battle against Yuan Shao proved this incredible, but bloody reality. If Lu Peng is ruthless, no matter what kind of city he relies on, he will come over with a burst of hot oil, and in the end, his end will be the destruction of the city.

Therefore, Zhu Shuo and Zang Ba decided to give up the city's insistence and directly use the terrain. At this time, Zang Ba gave full play to the advantages of his local familiarity, occupied these two critical natural passes, and led his 50,000 troops to block Lu Peng's tiger and wolf army.

The effect is obvious, in the early autumn, Lu Peng's army in front of him set up his forest-like catapult, the result can only be wide eyes, there is no way to speak, as long as they want to pass through this pass, they immediately send out a surprise army, cut off their passage, and divide them on both sides.

Of course, abandoning his own army of 50,000 and rushing straight over is not a stupid way that a person who knows military affairs can do.

The other party has also set up the formation many times, played the oldest method of the war book, invited himself to go down the mountain and fight with them, Zang Ba is rough on the outside, but he is not stupid in his heart, especially Zhu Shuo is even calmer, ignoring the enemy's request for battle, and said with an understatement: "The ancient rites cannot be abolished, and it is not rude to come, since the enemy has sent us a war letter to invite war, then of course we can hang the war card and not fight, anyway, this is a popular thing in today's society." ”

So out of ridicule of the enemy, Zang Ba simply used a few door panels to piece together a big battle-free card, hanging high on the cliff, the big characters on it, even if it is ten miles away, you can see it clearly, this is a kind of confidence, but also a kind of mockery of the enemy, but also an exaggeration.

After being taunted a few times, the enemy on the opposite side lost patience and launched several onslaughts on both sides of the mountain.

For the enemy's tactics, Zang Ba and Zhu Shuo really can't ask for it, just on this steep mountain, as long as a fist-sized stone is thrown down, they can smash a soldier to death on the other side, and on this mountain, the most important thing is the stone, which is really inexhaustible, and every time the rumbling stone rolls down the hillside, it brings out a bloody road, which makes people look really happy.

As a result, it has caused this situation now, the enemy can't attack and can't pass, and there is no need to fight back, because sooner or later they will lose it, as long as they can prevent them from entering Xuzhou, and finally hand over Xuzhou to Liu Bei, and become a gentleman to agree on integrity, everything will be fine.

So from autumn to winter, the two sides were completely consumed here.

It's really God who helps Cao Wei, and he may also see the injustice of this world, so the heavy snow falls repeatedly, when the first snowflakes fall, Zang Ba can't help laughing, when the snow is over his knees, Zhu Shuo, the literati, has no original image, and dances in this snow.

Then the first thing everyone did was to start counting the inventory accumulation on the two hills, fortunately, they were originally going to do a long-term defense, and the grain and grass materials on the top of the mountain were very sufficient, but the two people still decided that since there was no war, there was no need to consume too much, and the soldiers' rations were halved, and the firewood was halved.

Of course, this result caused a group of old and weak to freeze and starve to death.

However, Zang Ba didn't think it was a bad thing, because those old, weak, sick and disabled people died, but it reduced the burden on the army, which was actually a good thing.

It's not that Zang Ba, who was extremely righteous, suddenly became cold-blooded, but because he was forced by the situation, Cao Cao, whom he respected, did not hesitate to exchange interests with Liu Bei in order to continue the entire foundation, but even so, he was still forced to commit suicide by Liu Bei. From the moment Cao Cao committed suicide, an earth-shattering change occurred in the entire Cao Wei group.

It is not an exaggeration to describe the situation at that time as earth-shattering. It is not internal strife and war, but the separation of people's hearts.

There are many people who can work hard in Cao Wei's group, and a large part of the reason is that they are infected by Cao Cao's personality charm and inspired by his heroism, and they willingly bow at Cao Cao's feet, live for him, and die for him.

But the idol in everyone's heart suddenly left and collapsed, which made many people confused.

The collapse of idols is equivalent to the collapse of beliefs, so this part of the people left the group and threw themselves into other heroes.

There are also some people, they originally joined this group, just to be opportunistic, or simply a dispensable speculative opportunity for the families here, when the Cao Wei group completely collapsed, these speculative people were also disillusioned, so they left the Cao Wei group without hesitation, and also went to other places.

The Cao Wei Group, which was originally full of talents and generals, was scattered in a blink of an eye, and it was really looking for each family and each mother.

But this is not a bad thing, this is a good opportunity to go to the chaff, after this earth-shaking change, Cao Wei Group is now left, are the most loyal people to the Cao Wei Group, from now on, will not worry about betrayal, there are stabbed knives, from now on, no matter who they are, they will stand up in the face of the enemy, no longer look ahead, no longer worry about being stabbed in the back, from then on, everyone will die and die, in order to revitalize again, or simply, in order to live, one after the other.

Now Zang Ba's mood is like this, he is no longer worried about his background and being criticized by the people in the court, and he is not worried that he was not the core of the Cao family group, but was suspected by the King of Wei, then everything has become a thing of the past, and now he only needs to think about how to keep the enemy out of Xuzhou, and when his group retreats to Jiangnan, and then he will go away, no longer caring about the ups and downs of the Central Plains.

(End of chapter)