Cao Zhang obviously believed Deng Ai's performance, and while he was happy in his heart, he was also a little incomprehensible that Liu Feng would leave such a hairy young man with almost no combat experience alone in Wancheng to preside over the overall situation, but Deng Ai's performance was too real, which made him not doubt him in his heart.

"Wait for a quick discussion, if it's too late, my Wei army is rolling in, but there is no time for you to discuss, and then you will be defeated in this district of Wancheng, you wait to open the door quickly, and then lead me to Xiangyang, it is a great achievement, in such a situation, why not?"

Cao Zhang said it very carefully, although Deng Ai sneered at this in his heart, but in order to temporarily stabilize Cao Zhang, he had to bow his head in the city again and again, and then shouted to Cao Zhang: "Don't worry, general, I'll go back after some discussion!" ”

After saying this, Deng Ai turned around with the two lieutenants on his side, and told the rest of the people to wait for a good life to defend the city, and keep an eye on Cao Zhang's every move with his tiger and leopard riders.

"General Shizai, is what Cao Zhang said just to deceive us?" As soon as they walked down the city, an adjutant general couldn't wait to ask each other, he was only a low-level general in Jingzhou's army, and he had not read any military books and strategies, and he had accumulated meritorious service by killing the enemy on the battlefield to the point where he was now, so it was naturally a little difficult to judge Cao Zhang's words, but through his previous experience in his heart, he judged that Liu Feng would definitely not be defeated so easily.

"Cao Zhang's guy is naturally deceiving us and others, he came from Shangyong in such a hurry, he must have seen that General Zilong and General Meng Qi all followed His Majesty to Shangyong, so he wanted to sneak attack my Wancheng, but he didn't want me to wait here to be prepared, he only had cavalry in his hands, and he lacked skills to attack the city, and saw that I was still young, so he said to deceive me, if I expected, he must have a large army of infantry and siege equipment behind him, once they arrived, he would immediately change his face."

When the deputy general heard this, his face showed nervousness and said: "What should I do, there are actually only 5,000 defenders in my Wan City, if the real enemy army attacks with tens of thousands of horses, we can't hold out for much time, those people, it's okay to scare the enemy army, if you really want to kill the enemy, I'm afraid it won't play a big role......"

In his opinion, although Deng Ai temporarily stabilized Cao Zhang, once the army behind Cao Zhang arrived, Wancheng would inevitably be breached, but their 5,000 men and horses didn't know how long they could hold out.

"Don't panic first, I wait for the siege troops behind Cao Zhang to arrive, if I can delay for a while, the reason why Cao Zhang is so eager to throw off his foot soldiers and lead the cavalry to come, it must be that he is also afraid of the return of Zilong and Meng Qi, as I expected, most of the two generals are already on the way, so even if they arrive later than his foot soldiers, they will not be several hours late, so the biggest test for us is time!"

Deng Ai broke through their biggest difficulty tonight, the lieutenant general and the other lieutenant general beside him glanced at each other, and then nodded firmly, and said to Deng Ai: "Today, the two of us are all listening to the arrangements of General Zhonglang, even if we can't hold Wancheng, we will definitely fight until the last moment, and whatever strategy General Zhonglang has, I will leave it to the two of us to carry it out." ”

Seeing that the two of them trusted him very much, Deng Ai's gaze became more determined, and then summoned the two to his front, and said in a low voice: "This time, relying on the only five thousand defenders in our city alone will not be able to resist even an hour, after all, once Cao Zhang finds that there are only five thousand defenders in the city, he will definitely not attack from just one direction, once he attacks two or even three city gates at the same time, it will only speed up our defeat, so the matter of more than 10,000 people pretending to be defenders must not be discovered by Cao Zhang!" ”

This requirement must be met in Deng Ai's heart, and it is also loud to say it, but the two lieutenants were a little difficult, one of them looked at Deng Ai, and said in a low voice: "Those people have never faced the enemy in front of the battle, and some have never seen blood, how can they not be discovered?" Once the enemy army really starts to attack the city, I am afraid that they will make a mess, and not only will it not help us, but may interfere with our defense of the city......"

Deng Ai knew that what he said was the truth, but he also knew that extraordinary things should be done at extraordinary times, so he shook his head slightly and said: "This battle, no more than before, you two quickly returned to the city, secretly separated to find those people with higher prestige among the people, and told them that this time since they have stood at the head of the city, once the city is broken by the Wei army, no one can escape the slaughter of the Wei army, They have only one task, that is, to throw the rolling stones and other things that I piled up at the head of the city to the Wei army, and the five thousand defenders in my city are all ambushed behind the battlements except for the archers, once the Wei army goes up to the city wall, quickly kill it, only in this way can we delay the time when Wancheng is broken to the greatest extent, otherwise the five thousand defenders will be damaged first, and Wancheng will be broken! ”

Deng Ai's thinking is very clear, the two lieutenant generals also know that they have a tight time today, and they want to use the time when Cao Zhang has not yet acted to make the people in the city accept this, and keep their tasks in mind, this is not an easy task, but the matter has come to this, they have no way out, they can only do according to Deng Ai's ideas.

After a few more simple explanations, the three of them returned to the city, Cao Zhang was already a little anxious and pacing slowly, in fact, he was also waiting for the arrival of his infantry, in that case, he naturally didn't need to talk to a hairy boy like Deng Ai here. Of course, if this is really the case and deceives Deng Ai to open the city gate, Cao Zhang will still be very happy.

"How do you think about it, since the matter has come to this, why don't you open the city gate quickly?" Seeing that Deng Ai and the others had returned to the city, Cao Zhang said with some fierce intimidation.

"The general must not be impatient, the defenders in my city are very loyal to Liu Feng, and when we can persuade him, I will go out of the city to meet the general, how about it?"

After finishing speaking, Deng Ai made a look, and the two lieutenants on his side hurriedly sneaked into the people of the city and told them according to Deng Ai's instructions just now.

Cao Zhang looked from a distance, and it was true that the two lieutenant generals were telling the officers and soldiers at the head of the city one by one, but what he didn't expect was that the content of the instructions was very different from what he imagined.