In fact, there is a reason why I am so confident.

Although I didn't expect Shamoko to come so soon, his judgment on Hanshou City was undoubtedly a good opportunity for me. As the saying goes, the end of a strong crossbow can't wear Lu Min, he is so anxious to chase me, naturally there are not many soldiers with him, and he will definitely be very tired now.

If I take someone back now, if I am just in time for him to lead the army to attack the city, then I can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, while letting my soldiers recuperate, and when he is almost done, his barbarians are exhausted, and when the time comes, I will lead the army to kill again, and I will definitely be able to earn face in front of Xie Xian's old man.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but be even more overjoyed, and ordered the whole army to go out to save Hanshou. Zheng Liang didn't look a little excited when he heard this, it was obvious that he was already very tired after so much travel, so he always looked listless during the march to Hanshou.

But maybe I was a little too excited, and I kept urging the army to hurry up for fear of missing the opportunity to attack Shamoko.

I rode the horse, and I naturally didn't feel anything during the excitement period, but after walking for a while, I found that not only Zheng Liang, but also the soldiers below all looked listless, especially Ma Yan, who was completely half-dead on the horse.

I suddenly realized that my army had not eaten because of Jiang Xiaoyu's troubles, and had participated in the confrontation with the fishermen, and that their physical strength and energy had not been replenished because of the hasty formation that I had mistakenly thought was the enemy army chasing after me.

But now that I have taken them all to Hanshou, it is impossible for me to go back to the lake to eat fish. I can only pray that the soldiers of Shamoko are not only not having enough to eat now, but are also suffering the smashing of the boulders that have been thrown from Hanshou Castle.

What I didn't expect was that Shamoko was not stupid.

After more than an hour of marching, the sun had already set, and my men were already out of breath, but when I dismounted early and carefully led them to Hanshou City, I actually found that not even a single barbarian was fighting Hanshou City, all of them had set up camp not far from the city, and the camp was full of smoke, and only dozens of barbarians who looked like patrols kept a long distance from each other and swayed around Hanshou City.

Qing'er ordered Jiang Xiaoyu to bring ten people to protect her after I left Dongting for a short time, firstly for her safety, after all, I am going to fight, and secondly, to avoid her from running around like me. Thanks to her understanding and non-refusal, it also relieved me of my worries. Actually, I also want to keep him, after all, he is a very important person to me, and I don't want him to have any accidents. But he was far less obedient than Qing'er, so he had to insist on joining the army, and I was in a hurry at that time, and I didn't force it.

When I saw the barbarians who were not in a hurry or impatience when they set up camp, I was a little helpless. I'm not sure if Shamoko was besieging the city during the time I was on the march, but judging from the cleanliness of the city and the absence of a single corpse, it seems that he and Xie Xian did not have any conflict.

However, when I looked from afar, Hanshou City was still heavily guarded, and it looked like it was facing a great enemy. Seeing this, I not only shook my head secretly, but thought: "Xie Xian, this old man still doesn't know the way of relaxation, the barbarians are all resting now, and he is still doing this, and his subordinates are tired and dizzy, when the time comes, how can they hold it when they really attack the city?" ”

It's just that I'm in a situation where I don't seem to have much fun with his capital. I looked at Ma Tan with a thoughtful look, and said to him, "Can you see the intentions of the barbarians?" It stands to reason that since Shamoko thinks that I am in the city, he should do his best to attack the city, and call for me to be captured and returned to his father to receive the reward. ”

I saw Ma Tan smile slightly, pointed to the barbarian camp in the distance and said to me: "My lord, please look at the barbarian camp, it is shabby, just cut a few logs to make a look, it is obvious that they are running long distances in order to chase you, and they have nothing to camp with them." If you look at their cooking smoke, it's obvious that something is baked directly on the fire, and if you use a stove, the smoke will not be like that. ”

I didn't bother to care about the difference between cooking smoke now, I just asked him, "Do you guess what the barbarians mean?" ”

"It's easy." I saw Ma Tan smile confidently, looked back at my subordinates who were out of breath and exhausted from the long march, and said to me: "Shamoke heard that you have left the county town, and you are so desperate to chase after him, when he arrives in Hanshou City, he and his subordinates will definitely not be in the same state as your subordinates are now." He also knew that the chances of attacking the city in this state were not good, so he camped and rested. ”

Ma Tan pointed to the barbarian patrol again and said, "Judging from the size of the barbarian camp, the number of people will probably not exceed two thousand, and he sent so many patrols around Hanshou City just to prevent you from escaping. Speaking of this, he smiled again: "But it is clear that this is not enough to stop people from rushing out of the city, so these patrols are not so much intercepting as surveillance, they must find that you are leading people to escape from the city, and it is estimated that Shamoko will immediately lead people to continue the pursuit." ”

"Then once they have eaten and drunk, they will start attacking the city?" After listening to Ma Yan's explanation, I rekindled the hope of internal and external attacks, I think that even if Xie Xian's old man is stubborn, when he sees me coming to save him, he will kill him from the city!

But Ma Tan shook his head, and he said to me, "No, if he wasn't stupid, he would have stationed his army here all the time, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements." Lord Gong will only close the city and defend himself, so the barbarians don't have to worry about him at all. There is no need for the barbarian king to lead the army himself, as long as Shamoke gathers his 10,000 vanguard army, then this small Hanshou City will not be taken into his eyes at all. ”

I gasped when I heard this. I always thought that barbarians only relied on bravery, but their brains were as stupid as pigs, which is why I dared to use myself as bait last time in Linyuan.

But in this situation, I can't move forward. Although attacking the barbarians' camp can have the effect of a surprise attack, after all, there are few people on my side, and they are all very tired, once the barbarians react, they are likely to fall into a crisis immediately. But if I don't do it now and let my subordinates rest, although I can restore their physical strength, they will only rest and have nothing to eat, so if they continue to be hungry and hungry, their combat effectiveness will only fall instead of rising.

So I can only pin my hopes on Ma Yan, although I am a modern person, there are some insights that the ancients can't match, but my mind only belongs to ordinary people, at this time, I have to point to this guy who seems to have a relatively high intelligence to give me ideas.

Luckily, Ma Tan did not disappoint me, and when he saw me looking at him with a very hopeful look, his pride was satisfied, and he was also very happy to tell him his plan.

I listened to him explain the beginning and process of the plan in a clear manner, plus the changes that may occur in the middle, I couldn't help but be surprised and delighted, and thought: "I was extremely prescient and relied on Ma Liang to ask him to come from Liu Bei, it was really right!" ”