In just five days, nearly 2,000 Shu soldiers fled across the city.

Even, there were more than 300 soldiers, and they also launched a surprise attack on Liu Bei's station, trying to capture Liu Bei alive and surrender the city.

Although this small-scale rebellion was easily extinguished by the Imperial Forest Army led by Chen Zhi, it really caused Liu Bei to panic and make him even more angry.

Liu Bei, who was angry, ordered the corpses of the rebels to be hung at various street corners in Nan'an City to shock people's hearts.

At the same time, Liu Bei also ordered for the first time that the magistrate should behead the families of these hundreds of rebels on the charge of collaborating with the enemy.

At this point, Liu Bei didn't care about the name of benevolence and righteousness, so he could only tear off his disguise of benevolence and righteousness, and use the means of sitting together to deter and suppress the rebellious hearts of the Shu soldiers.

Liu Bei's bloody methods finally contained the situation a little, and those Shu soldiers were afraid that their wives and children would be implicated, so they could only continue to serve Liu Bei.

As for the Wei army, of course, no matter how much, in addition to bombarding Nan'an City every day, it is to send people to shout outside the four gates, soliciting the Han army to surrender out of the city, and constantly disturbing the morale of the Han army.

Liu Bei had no choice but to hold on to Su Zhe, hoping that Su Zhe would be forced to withdraw his troops because of the lack of food.

It's night, the lobby of the county hall.

Liu Bei, who was sitting on the top, supported his forehead with his hand, his face was gloomy and tired, and he looked like he was choked by the Wei army.

Under the stairs, Guan Yu, Ma Chao, Zhang Ren and many other generals were all gloomy and helpless.

"It's not a way to go on like this, filial piety, Kong Ming, you have to come up with a plan for me to turn the situation around." Liu Bei's expectant gaze looked at the two strategists.

Fa Zheng pondered for a long time, and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, the situation has reached such a point, if we just blindly defend the city passively, sooner or later we will not be able to defend it. ”

Turning defense into offense?

Liu Bei's eyes lit up when he heard these four words, and he said hurriedly: "How can you turn defense into offense, filial piety, you continue." ”

Fa Zheng said: "That Su thief has a lot of soldiers, forces the city to go down, and presses us to fight all day long, which shows how arrogant he is and how much he despises us." The minister thought that we could take advantage of his arrogance and lead the army out of the city by surprise and attack the enemy camp at night, which might have a miraculous effect. ”

Night Raid!

Liu Bei stood up and paced in the hall, his emotions gradually becoming excited.

Guan Yu stood up and said angrily: "Filial piety is reasonable, and the minister also thinks that we should go out to attack and kill the thief by surprise." ”

"I am willing to lead my Xiliang Iron Cavalry to attack the main camp of the Wei army, and I will definitely capture the Su thief alive!" Ma Chao also proudly asked for battle.

For a time, the fighting spirit of the generals was frenzied and they called for battle.

"Prime Minister, what do you think?" Liu Bei didn't dare to make a decision, and looked at Zhuge Liang.

"Surprise and attack the enemy camp at night is not a bad strategy." Zhuge Liang first agreed, and then changed his words, "However, the Wei army is not an ordinary enemy, and the Su thief is not Yuan Shao, Dong Zhuo and the like, has Your Majesty ever thought that with a single surprise attack, a few points of victory will definitely be able to win?" ”

"This ......" Liu Bei's words were sluggish, the excitement that had just ignited on his face was weakened by three points in the blink of an eye to Zhuge Liang's question.

Liu Bei shook his head and sighed.

He had to admit that Zhuge Liang's worries were not wrong at all.

Su Zhe is so deceitful, and how elite the Wei army is, even if Su Zhe doesn't take him in his eyes anymore, it is impossible to despise him so much that he doesn't even have the slightest precaution, so that he can defeat the Wei army with a mere night attack.

Attacking rashly, if you can't win, you may be counterattacked by the Wei army, and it is really impossible to speculate on what the victory or defeat will be.

"Alas~~" Fa Zheng sighed, "I haven't considered Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng's worries, but in this situation, I really can't think of any other way to reverse the unfavorable situation in front of us." ”

Liu Bei also sighed.

Guan Yu and the other generals, the impassioned emotions fell silent, and everyone stopped calling for war.

At this time, Zhuge Liang said: "The strategy of surprise attack is still feasible, but it has to wait." ”

"Wait?" Liu Bei's eyes glowed again, "What are you waiting for?" ”

"Wait for the time to change, so that the minister has the opportunity to perform the art of Qimen."

……

For seven days, the Han army stood still and let the Wei army ravage.

Seven days later, at nightfall.

It was already dark at night, and Liu Bei was about to go to bed and rest, when suddenly Chen Zhi hurriedly entered, and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister Zhuge sent someone to come, please Your Majesty act according to the plan immediately, and at the same time rush to the south gate to meet Cheng." ”

Liu Bei's spirit was shocked, and the cloak he had just taken off immediately put it back on, and he strode out.

"Quickly send an order to Ma Chao, Zhang Ren and them, immediately lead the army out of the city from the east and west gates, detour and sneak close to the Wei camp, and ask Yun Chang to also lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to assemble at the south gate, immediately!"

Liu Bei instructed as he walked, turned over his horse, and went straight to the south gate.

When he ascended the city gate, Zhuge Liang was already there, with a Taoist robe on his body and a seven-star peach wood sword in his hand.

On the left side of the tower, a three-story round platform filled with five-color flags has also been lifted off the previously hidden canvas and revealed its true face.

"Prime Minister, has the time come?" Liu Bei couldn't wait to ask.

Zhuge Liang raised his hand and grabbed the void, and said with a faint smile: "The north wind has risen, can't Your Majesty feel it?" ”

Liu Bei was stunned, and after he reminded him, he looked around, only to find that there was a north wind at night.

However, this sudden north wind is only a breeze.

"Could it be that the prime minister plans to use the technique of Qimen to launch the north wind?" Liu Bei asked.

"Exactly." Zhuge Liang nodded.

Liu Bei's brows froze, his eyes were full of confusion, and he was puzzled: "But, even if the prime minister turns this breeze into a gale, what's the use?" ”

"Haven't Your Majesty heard the saying 'the wind fuels the fire'?" Zhuge Liang asked rhetorically.

"The wind fuels the fire?" Liu Bei's expression became more and more confused, "Could it be that the prime minister wants to set fire to the wind?" But why didn't you say it earlier, I didn't ask Ma Mengqi to carry rockets at all, how to launch a fire attack? ”

The corners of Zhuge Liang's mouth raised a treacherous color, and the peachwood sword pointed at his feet: "Your Majesty is wrong, we will launch a fire attack on the Wei camp here." ”

Over here?

On the city walls?

Liu Bei's body was shocked, but instead of understanding, he became more and more confused.

Zhuge Liang smiled faintly: "Your Majesty doesn't need to be anxious, just wait and watch the minister's good show." ”

Liu Bei had no choice but to be hung by Zhuge Liang, curious about how he launched a fire attack on the Wei camp far away from Li Xu on the head of this city.

As time passed, Ma Chao and Zhang Ren, the second general, led more than 20,000 soldiers and horses from the east and west, and quietly approached the Wei camp.

On the front line of the south gate, Guan Yu also arrived with 30,000 elite soldiers, and as long as Liu Bei gave an order, he could lead the army out of the city gate and go straight to the Wei camp.

Zhuge Liang pinched his fingers and calculated, and said happily: "It's almost time, it's time for me to cast a spell." ”

After that, Zhuge Liang lifted his sword and climbed on the altar, stepped on the direction of the five elements and gossip, chanted words in his mouth, and the wooden sword in his hand danced like the wind, and began to perform the technique of Qimen Dunjia.