Chapter 335: Chess Opponents

Sun Shangxiang and Meng Yao saw that Liu Feng didn't even look at their children, but went straight to them on the bed, their eyes were full of tears, this small gesture was naturally enough to see the status of the two of them in Liu Feng's mind, all of this no longer need to be expressed in words.

"In the next few days, you just need to recover your body intact, don't worry about the rest, I have already found a nurse for the child in Chengdu City, and it is not too late to feed it myself after recovery."

Liu Feng knew that childbirth was a big injury to a woman's vitality, so he didn't dare to slack off on the recovery of Sun Shangxiang and Meng Yao, and he had already ordered the doctor to prepare a prescription to nourish qi and blood, and only waited for the two to give birth before starting to take it.

With these three children, Liu Feng's mansion was suddenly a lot more lively, and Liu Feng, who originally didn't like to put too many servants, had to recruit more than a dozen people to take care of the two wives and three children.

Happy days always fly by, although Liu Feng knew that Zhao Yun was leading the troops to fight outside at this time, he should pay attention to the war ahead every day, as well as the many movements of Cao Zhi, Zhuge Liang and Sun Quan, but the joy of becoming a father for the first time made him have to put these things aside for a while and carefully accompany the two bedridden ladies in the mansion.

Liu Feng knew that if there was anything wrong with the war ahead, Pang Tong and Xu Shu would most likely act cheaply, and when there was an emergency, they would definitely go to their mansion to invite them.

Sure enough, on the fifth day when Liu Feng accompanied the two wives, the door of Liu Feng's mansion, which had been closed for these days, was knocked open by Xu Shu, and Liu Feng knew when he heard about it that he was afraid that he would not be able to accompany them like this anymore.

After Xu Shu saw Liu Feng, he didn't say much, but directly said: "General Zilong did not spend much effort to capture the land of Shangyong this time, and according to the words of the lord, he left 10,000 soldiers to garrison Shangyong and after resting in Shangyong for only one day, he waved his army to capture Weixing. However, in Xicheng County, the seat of Weixing County, he encountered stubborn resistance from Cao's army......"

"How many defenders are there in Xicheng County?"

When Liu Feng heard this, his brows were furrowed, which was already different from what he had expected, Wei Xing was a newly established county by Cao Cao after the division of Wei State, and Shangyong, Xiangyang of Jingzhou were very close, but it was far away from Yecheng, the center of Wei State, so Liu Feng guessed that when Cao Cao died, Cao Zhi probably had no time to take care of this Wei Xing land, so most of them would not be arranged, according to common sense, Zhao Yun led the army to raid, and did not encounter much resistance from the defenders, but now it can form a stubborn resistance to Zhao Yun, enough to show that their previous judgment was skewed.

"General Zilong reported that there were at least 20,000 of them, except for the battle with General Zilong who went out of the city two days ago, and now he is just cowering in the city every day, although General Zilong is superior in strength, but it is expected that the strong attack will cause more than 10,000 casualties in our army, so it is not so for the time being, but set up camp to confront it. But I'm here because of another piece of news I just received today. ”

Liu Feng listened to this, and there was a burst of inexplicability in his heart, Zhao Yun didn't want to cause a loss of 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers because of the capture of a mere Weixing, Liu Feng was completely understandable, and he would do the same if it was him, the scale of Xicheng County, Liu Feng had also heard of it, if Zhao Yun blocked the city and confronted each other, it would be self-defeating in less than half a month, which was not a bad thing, but another news made Xu Shu come in a hurry, obviously everything was not as optimistic as it seemed.

"Yuan Zhi just say it." When Liu Feng heard this, he immediately changed into a dignified look.

"According to General Meng Qi's report from outside Yangping Pass, before he led 5,000 cavalry to pretend to be the vanguard of the front to go out of the pass, but it led to an ambush of no less than 50,000 people, but after a few days of maneuvering with the ambush soldiers, General Meng Qi found that the opponent only left more than 10,000 people to deal with him, and the rest of the people were already unknown where to go, and Mr. Shiyuan and I both thought that most of those men and horses were rushing to Weixing......"

Liu Feng listened, his face became more solemn, if there were 20,000 defenders in Xicheng County, plus these ambushes outside Yangping Pass, once they gathered a force, they would not lose to Zhao Yun, and the biggest advantage of Cao's army was soldiers and horses, even if Zhao Yun desperately captured the land of Weixing County from the hands of this 50,000 army, it was the result of injuring 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of himself, it was definitely not the outcome that Liu Feng wanted to see.

But Liu Feng thought about it, Wei Xing and the defenders outside Yangping Pass are not far away, if they are really ambushed and inform the defenders outside Yangping Pass, the defenders can arrive in almost a day or two, and it will definitely not delay so much time before they divide their troops to reinforce Wei Xing, at this time, a figure gradually appeared in Liu Feng's mind.

"I'm afraid it will be difficult to get benefits from attacking Wei Xing this time...... This kind of indication shows that the ambush outside Yangping Pass also intended to wipe out General Meng Qi's cavalry before, but did not get the news that Wei Xing was attacked, and the troops were hurriedly divided in the past two days, and it is very likely that they received orders from Luoyang or Yecheng, so this time the matter of sending troops to Shangyong and Wei Xing is afraid that Cao Zhi has already made Cao Zhi know, and most of them have also made arrangements. ”

Xu Shu listened, but also silently bowed his head, in agreement, before coming to Liu Feng's mansion, he had been discussing with Pang Tong and the two for nearly an hour, and the result was that if he didn't want to lose many sergeants this time, then this Weixing County should not be forcibly captured, and it was precisely because of this that he came here to discuss this matter with Liu Feng.

"If the lord wants to maintain the strategy of steady and steady after I have waited for Yizhou, this time he should not spend a huge price to capture Wei Xing, Shangyong has already fallen into the hands of our army, and if he wants to capture Wei Xing again in the future, it is also a matter of time. But after this period of Cao Cao's new death, I am afraid that Cao Zhi's control of Wei will become more and more solid, and it is still unknown what the situation will be at that time...... Therefore, it is up to the lord to decide what to do. ”

Obviously, after Xu Shu stated his interests, the rest of the matter was Liu Feng's, whether Wei Xing took it or not, it was in Liu Feng's sentence at this time, but as soon as his words came out, it might take away the lives of tens of thousands of sergeants.

Liu Feng sighed slightly after hearing this, looked into the distance with deep eyes, and said softly: "Cao Zhi and I, Zhuge Liang, are destined opponents in this life, and we will be enemies for decades from today, so this time we should not do such things as killing chickens and taking eggs, and order General Zilong to withdraw the army and leave 20,000 horses to guard Shangyong." ”