Chapter Seventy-Five: Only a Thousand Left Remained

Zhuge Song, who was repairing the beacon tower, did not know that Dongwu had conspired with Cao Wei to get on a boat at this time, and after the construction of more than 20 beacon towers had been basically completed, and the rule that the barrage iron cable was not allowed to be opened at night had been implemented for a period of time, what he never expected was that Lu Su's 50,000 arrows had just arrived in his military camp, and it was Guan Ping who came with him to convey Guan Yu's military order. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhuge Song had just received the envoy sent by Lu Su to send arrows, and surprisingly it was Lu Meng who came to deliver arrows! This kind of thing that only needs an ordinary civil official can handle, and it is really an exaggeration for Lu Su to engage in such a big battle.

Lu Meng's mouth was particularly nice: "Now that General Guan is fighting with Cao Ren on the front line, my governor is afraid that you urgently need these arrows, so he specially ordered me to escort them in person, just in case." While talking, he kept looking at the surroundings of Zhuge Song's beacon here, and then asked Zhuge Song jokingly: "Recently, my governor heard that General Guan was besieging Fancheng on the front line, and he was very worried that my Dongwu would take the opportunity to attack Nanjun, so he ordered the general to build a beacon tower here, light a cigarette during the day, and raise a fire at night. ”

Zhuge Song was stunned when he heard this, and he had already scolded in his heart: "* Obviously, you are thinking about Nanjun day and night, and you don't want to improve when you fight against Cao Wei, but you are worried about the nest all day long, and in the end, the root cause of Wu and Shu being destroyed by Wei and Jin is not that you first attacked Jingzhou and then burned Yiling, so that the sum of the national strength of Wu and Shu is far inferior to Wei's stereotype?" Now you dare to talk about trust issues in front of me? Your*! ”

Of course, he scolded in his heart, but Zhuge couldn't say that. I only heard him say to Lu Meng: "Where is it, where is it!" This must be a misunderstanding on the part of your governor! We and Soochow have always trusted each other and are close to each other. The reason for repairing the beacon tower is mainly that Nanjun is used as a distribution center for goods traded with Soochow, there are countless merchant ships along the river every day, some merchants are greedy for profit, often in distress, General Guan is merciful, so he ordered me to build a beacon tower along the river for hundreds of miles, one is to provide a place for merchants to rest, but to force the river at night, although it is good to pursue profits, but it is not possible to die without it? Zhuge Song deliberately added an accent to the word "fatal", and after speaking, he looked directly at Lu Meng, with deep meaning, seeing that Lu Meng was slightly embarrassed, and always had a weak heart, so he coughed, turned his head to other places, and said a few words casually, and then got on the boat to say goodbye.

However, until Guan Ping came to give the order, Zhuge Song did not feel happy because he choked Lu Meng. And Guan Ping didn't come alone, and he came with the most elite five hundred cavalry in the Guan Yu army.

What Zhuge Song never expected was that Yu Ban's action to aid Fancheng was faster than he imagined, it stands to reason that after Guan Yu captured Xiangyang and Cao Ren retreated to Fancheng, there was no Cao army south of Hanshui, Guan Ping just came to pass a military order, and he didn't have to bring so many cavalry to protect himself. At this time outside the gate of the courtyard, this murderous formation, I don't know, I still think that Guan Ping is on the order of General Guan to take whose head!

Of course, Guan Ping has been looking at Zhuge Song coldly after reading the military order to Zhuge Song, and it seems that he has made all the preparations for Zhuge Song's disobedience.

At this time, Zhuge Song can be said to miss Zheng Liang even more, if Zheng Liang is still by his side now, even if he may not be able to defeat Guan Ping, but at least he has five hundred personal soldiers under his command of Zhuge Song here, Zhuge Song does not have to look so faceless in front of Guan Ping at this time.

Wang Fu's face, which came with Guan Ping, was not very good-looking, he looked at Guan Ping, then at Zhuge Song, and finally his eyes stayed on Zhuge Song's face, looking at his expression, it was obvious that he didn't want Zhuge Song and Guan Ping to have a head-on conflict.

Guan Yu's military order is very clear, Cao Cao ordered Yu Ban, who was guarding Runan, to lead 20,000 troops to save Fancheng, in order to prevent Yu Ban from approaching Fancheng, Guan Yu ordered Zhuge Song to leave only the 500 people brought by Yuan Wangfu to guard the beacon tower along the river, and the remaining 5,000 men and horses should be pulled to the front line of Fancheng for him to dispatch.

Historically, the Seventh Army led by Yu Ban and Pang De was actually far more than 20,000 people, and in terms of elite, it was much more elite than the local army garrisoning Runan. The reason why it has become the way it is now is because in history, when Cao Cao was defeated from Hanzhong and returned to Chang'an, Guan Yu besieged Fancheng with more troops, and now Guan Yu's troops in the front line besieging Fancheng do not have an absolute advantage, so it is not indispensable to ask Yu Ban to take his army in Runan to rescue first.

In fact, Yu Ban is also a key chess piece for the current Cao Cao in Runan, it is like the middle of a flat shoulder, although it will not be directly attacked by Guan Yu and Sun Quan, but it is carrying Xiangfan on one side and Hefei on the other, and this army can go to reinforcements in time no matter where there is something. The last time Sun Quan attacked Hefei, it was Yu Ban's rescue troops who arrived first, forcing Eastern Wu to withdraw his troops earlier.

If Zhuge Song obeys the order to go to the front line of Fancheng, then the comparison of the military strength of Guan Yu and Cao Jun after Yu Ban will reach a relatively balanced state, although the situation is no better than the previous siege of Cao Ren's lone army in Fancheng, but with Guan Yu has already controlled the terrain around Fancheng first, Guan Yu will still have a slight advantage on the whole.

Of course, because the tiger of Dongwu has been eyeing Nanjun in the east, whether Guan Yu can win in Fancheng has never been the first thing Zhuge Song wants to consider.

Zhuge Song felt that if he took 10,000 steps back, even if Guan Yu defeated Yu Ban, and even captured Fancheng and reached Xuchang City, it would only make his army farther and farther away from Nanjun, and after being attacked by Eastern Wu, the situation would become worse and worse.

But the situation in front of him seems to be unrealistic if Zhuge Song does not send troops, even if he says to Guan Ping now that Dongwu will sneak attack Jingzhou, Guan Ping, who already knows that Guan Yu has arranged the beacon tower, will also feel that Zhuge Song is worrying about the sky.

At this point, Zhuge Song was relieved. After only a little groaning, he smiled and said to Guan Ping: "Although the construction of the beacon tower here by the general has been completed, there are still some things that need to be arranged before leaving, wait for me to write a military order, General Guan can take this to go to the beacon tower everywhere to gather 4,500 troops to Fancheng, and after I finish dealing with the miscellaneous affairs, I will take 500 personal soldiers to General Guan's account to listen to the tune!" ”

Although Zhuge Song is "still young", he is also a general of Pingxi who is only under Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in Liu Bei's army, and at this time he has put his qualifications on Guan Ping, one is to find some face in front of him, and the other is to clearly tell him that although he does not dare to resist Guan Yu's military order, it is not something that he Guan Ping can fiddle with at will.

It may be that Guan Ping had been thinking about it before he came, and Guan Yu told him what he would do if Zhuge Song refused to send troops. At this time, Zhuge Song agreed so readily, which made Guan Ping show a slightly surprised expression, because he didn't expect this trip to be so smooth.

More importantly, Zhuge Song not only agreed to send troops, but also handed over the command to Guan Ping, you must know that although Zhuge Song's army is nominally owned by Liu Bei, among these generals under Liu Bei, who actually controls more troops is undoubtedly more important in Liu Bei's heart, or the weight of what he says during deliberations.

Although Zhuge Song also said that he would listen to the scene after dealing with miscellaneous matters, anyone can hear it, it is just a pretext, Zhuge Song actually wants to stay in the rear and does not want to go to the front line to charge. In this way, although Guan Ping took away 7,000 people, because Zhuge Song did not go, even if the generals were returned to Zhuge Song after winning the battle in the future, many losses from the battle could be counted on Zhuge Song's head, and only a few soldiers were returned to him.

Zhuge Song is so easy to talk and so generous, so that Guan Ping's five hundred cavalry have become decorations, and it is really a waste of horsepower and forage, just like an arrow shot in the air.

Perhaps Guan Ping cares most about whether he can transfer the soldiers to the front line smoothly, and he doesn't care so much about whether Zhuge Song goes to Fancheng or not. In the case that the goal was achieved and far exceeded expectations, in the face of Zhuge Song's Pingxi General shelf, Guan Ping could no longer give Zhuge Song face in front of everyone, so he hugged his fist and said: "The military situation is urgent, then please ask the general to write immediately, and the last general will transfer troops to the front line!" ”

Zhuge Song knew that with his age and his previous military exploits in Xichuan, which were not too glorious, it was too reluctant for Guan Ping to convince him. Seeing that he lowered his posture and said this to himself against his will, he didn't say anything, and immediately ordered the document to prepare the things, Zhuge Song immediately wrote down the military order in front of Guan Ping, and went to the beacon towers along the river with him to transfer troops.

Wang Fu was also very happy to see that Zhuge Song did not have any conflict with Guan Ping, and after Guan Ping left, he was also relieved, Zhuge Song knew from him that Guan Yu had given a strict order when Guan Ping came, and if he did not obey, Guan Ping would tie himself up on the spot and escort him to the front line of Fancheng to listen to Guan Yu's fall.

Zhuge Song thought to himself: "I generally don't know and know, now I only have a thousand people left in my hands, and I have to guard the beacon, although the morale of the whole army is high because of the military victories, but the people in Jingzhou may only know now, in fact, this game of chess in Jingzhou is about to be played to the Jedi!" ”

At this point, Zhuge Song had nothing to say, and when Guan Ping and Wang Fu led the troops away, he summoned Shana and Jiang Xiaoyu to his tent, and immediately repaired the book to Qing'er, and asked Shana to take it back to Wuling immediately, and first arrange some things that he could arrange in advance. Of course, in the leather bag along with the letter, there was also a military order prepared by Zhuge Song for Shana in a bag, but Zhuge Song told Shana that this military order could only be opened after Qing'er read the letter.

Shana was very curious about Zhuge Song's mysterious move, but she wanted to pretend to be not uncommon in front of him. I was also very happy to be able to go back to Wuling to see Qing'er Shana, and after listening to Zhuge Song's instructions, she waved her hand impatiently and said, "I know!" "I didn't have any nostalgia at all, and I flew back to pack my things.

After Shana left, what Zhuge Song had to do next was how to arrange the 50,000 arrows sent by Lu Su to pave the way for the implementation of the next plan.

What Zhuge Song didn't expect was that in the next two days, he not only thought of a strategy on how to make better use of these arrows, but also waited for someone who brought him an unexpected surprise.