After looking at the sand tables of Fenglin Pass and Xiangyang City, Zhu Wei inevitably put forward a new military suggestion for the tactics of attacking Xiangyang.

Maybe you can set up a feint attack formation on the side of Fenglin Pass in Xiangyang City to attract Liu Biao's attention in Xiangyang City, but in fact, Zhu Wei can send people to attack Fancheng first and take Fancheng.

In this way, Zhu Wei was able to use Fancheng as the forefront of the attack on Xiangyang City, and then use gunpowder to blow up the water gate in the north of Xiangyang City, waiting for the opportunity to enter Xiangyang City, perhaps this is a more suitable tactic for attacking Xiangyang City this time.

Although there has been a saying that iron has hit Xiangyang since ancient times, Zhu Wei has also heard of the saying of Fancheng with paper paste.

Compared with the hard shell of Xiangyang City, which has high walls and wide rivers and the surrounding landforms that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, the landform environment of Fancheng is much simpler, and Fancheng is surrounded by a hill plain between Tongbai Mountain, Wudang Mountain and Jingshan Mountain Range.

Therefore, although this Fancheng has been built in the period of King Xuan of the Western Zhou Dynasty, in addition to the south of the Han River, the east, west, and north sides are plains, almost no danger to defend, just like an ordinary local county seat, almost without much effort, you can directly attack the city of Fancheng.

In fact, since its establishment, Fancheng has been a commercial city with commercial bazaars as its main business, and it was not originally intended to serve military purposes.

The purpose of the construction of Xiangyang City is to serve as an important military town in the north of the Yangtze River, to defend against the invasion of foreign forces in the north to the south, so the difficulty of attacking Fancheng is definitely much smaller than attacking Xiangyang City.

If Fancheng is attacked first, even if Liu Biao in Xiangyang City sends reinforcements to support Fancheng, it can also allow Zhu Wei to consume Liu Biao's troops in Xiangyang City through Fancheng, which is easy to attack, and can also reduce some of the troop losses on Zhu Wei's side.

Of course, if you can find any way to take advantage of the situation to capture Fancheng, then you can directly face the water gate in the north of Xiangyang City, and then use the special means of Zhu Wei's army to blow up the water gate, like a chrysanthemum directly breaking through the solid shell of Xiangyang City.

This is like finding a flaw in the door of Xiangyang City, so that Zhu Wei's side can attack the interior of Xiangyang City in one fell swoop and eat the relatively weak and tender flesh of Liu Biao's army in Xiangyang City.

According to Zhu Wei's knowledge, when Guan Yu attacked Xiangfan in history, he also sent troops to surround Xiangyang, and then the strategy of the army attacking Fancheng first, it seems that he was preparing to capture Fancheng and cut off the source of reinforcements for Xiangyang, and then slowly attack Xiangyang.

If it weren't for Lu Xun crossing the river in a light boat and seizing Guan Yu's Jiangling base camp, Guan Yu's strategy of attacking Xiangfan would also have a great chance of winning, after all, Guan Yu had already flooded the Seventh Army and eliminated part of Cao Cao's troops, and also surrendered Cao Cao's old general Ban, and killed Cao Cao's northwest general Pang De.

Anyway, for Zhu Wei, if he can take Fancheng, he doesn't have to worry about the two-sided attack of the Liubiao garrisons in Xiangyang and Fancheng, and he can let the black powder blaster on Zhu Wei's side exert his power, and he can use the water gate of Xiangyang City as the main direction of attack.

This is definitely simpler than forcibly attacking the strong and thick high-walled city of Xiangyang City as it is now, and it can also greatly reduce the losses of Zhu Wei's army.

After listening to Zhu Wei's suggestion, Wang Yuyan thought about it for a while and felt that this tactic was indeed feasible.

This is equivalent to placing the main battlefield of attacking Xiangyang City on the side of Fancheng, if Liu Biao really supports his troops to Fancheng, it can indeed reduce the difficulty of Zhu Wei's army in attacking the city.

Of course, others may think that after capturing Fancheng, they will have to face the water gate of Xiangyang City, and normally it is not as easy to attack the water gate as attacking the land gate, it is better to directly attack the land gate of Xiangyang City.

However, in the Zhu Wei army, there is a secret weapon of black powder that can blow up the water gate, and if the soldiers are rushed to the gate with boats, even if there are other obstacles in the water gate, the water urn city is better than the urn city in the land gate.

It's just that if you hit Fancheng first, you don't have to worry about Liu Biao on the Xiangyang side sending troops to support, but there is one thing you still have to be careful, that is, to prevent Xinye, Wancheng Wenpin, and Zhang Xiu from coming to help from Nanyang County in the north of Fancheng.

Otherwise, Zhu Wei's army would fall into a situation of being attacked on both sides, so Wang Yuyan couldn't help but ask Zhu Wei about Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan's current situation in Nanyang County.

When Zhu Wei heard this, he checked the situation of Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan's 10,000 light cavalry in Nanyang County through the Three Kingdoms game map, and from the map, Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan had moved to the vicinity of Xinye with 10,000 light horses.

Zhu Wei looked carefully, they actually set up camp near Xinye County, and they didn't know where to get thousands of young men and women, who were building siege equipment such as city ladders, and it seemed that they were actually going to attack Xinye County.

As for the soldiers and horses hired by Xinye here, it seems that they are guarding in Xinye City, and they do not go out of the city to fight with the cavalry commanded by Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan.

In addition, with the help of the war interface map of the Three Kingdoms game system, Zhu Wei found that Zhang Xiu had also sent reinforcements on the side of Wancheng, and now he was stationed in a military camp outside Xinye City.

Then Zhu Wei carefully inspected the number of cavalry commanded by Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan, and found that the cavalry had changed from more than 10,000 to more than 9,000, and it seemed that more than 1,000 cavalry had been lost.

In this case, they should have fought a few battles with Xinye Wenpin and Wancheng Zhang Xiu.

And judging from the current situation on Xinye's side, it should be that Mu Lan and the others have an advantageous situation, otherwise Wen Ping and Zhang Xiu will never be on the defensive.

The soldiers commanded by Wenpin on Xinye's side should be mainly Jingzhou infantry, and there is really no advantage in the light cavalry commanded by Mu Lan, no wonder they were forced by Mu Lan to stick to Xinye County, and they didn't dare to go out of the city easily to fight with Mu Lan and them.

However, on Zhang Xiu's side of Wancheng, Zhu Wei estimates that there should also be some cavalry.

After all, Zhang Xiu's uncle Zhang Ji was originally a member of Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Army, and after Zhang Xiu inherited Zhang Ji's troops, there should still be some Xiliang cavalry in the army.

In this way, it seems that the light cavalry commanded by Mu Lan and her team is likely to have clashed with Zhang Xiu's cavalry troops, and they don't know what the situation of the cavalry battle between the two sides is, and the specific battle situation is estimated to be clear only when Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan report in the future.

However, Zhu Wei can be sure that Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan should still have an advantage, so they can block Wen Ping and Zhang Xiu's army on the side of Xinye City, and they can also put on a posture of preparing to take the initiative to attack the city.

After Zhu Wei told Wang Yuyan about them, Wang Yuyan smiled, obviously relieved a lot about the possibility that Xinye Wenpin and Wancheng Zhang Xiu would rush to Xiangyang......