Yuxian County Ya.

It has become the temporary residence of the eldest prince of Jingzhou, General Fenwu, and Liu Qi, the Taishou of Changsha.

It was crowded with many high-ranking civil and military officials, including Xu Shu, Wei Yan, Pang Tong, Wang Cang and others, all of whom looked at the young general lying on the bed with anxious expressions.

Because Liu Qi was hit by an arrow by the enemy's main general Huang Zhong when he was defending the city today, he lost too much blood and was resting in bed, and these civil and military officials were accompanying him near the bed.

"Hehe, you don't have to worry, Ben Jiang just accidentally hit Huang Zhong's old puppet with an arrow, and he can't die. Then again, Huang Zhong's archery skills are indeed not bad, he can shoot one hundred and fifty steps away, and he can also cause such a lot of lethality, fortunately, the general's physique is good, and he dealt with the injury in a timely and decisive manner, otherwise this time it would make the general whine. Liu Qi's face was pale, but his spirit was undiminished, and he said with a smile at the crowd.

But I saw Liu Shi, the lieutenant of the Chinese army, kneeling to the side, and cried with a whimper: "General, it's all the minions who are not well protected, let the general be hurt like this, the minions should die, and please give the general an order to kill the minions." ”

After finishing speaking, Liu Shi kowtowed, and even his head was bleeding.

Liu Qi ordered someone to help Liu Shi up, and said with a faint smile: "Liu Shi, I don't blame you for this matter, I am too careless, I have been fighting for many days, I want to see what this Huang Zhong looks like, I didn't expect that as soon as I arrived at the female wall, I was injured by him with a bow and arrow, but you don't have to worry, Huang Zhong's arrow is not smeared with poison, I am only a skin wound by this arrow, and the distance is too far, there is a saying, the end of the strong crossbow, the potential can not wear Lu Mian, although his archery skills are good, one hundred and fifty steps is also considered the limit, Therefore, the general's injury is not so serious, and now the military doctor has taken off the arrow, and the bleeding has stopped, and the general is a young man again, and he will be fine after a few days of rest. ”

Liu Qi comforted Liu Shi a few words, and said to Xu Shu: "Huang Zhong is victorious today, and he will inevitably attack the city tomorrow, Mr. must arrange it, or according to the established strategy, not only to show that our strength is insufficient, but also to let him see the hope of breaking through the city." Hehe, we are now showing a weak strategy, it is almost over, just wait for the gentleman to dig the tunnel, and when the time comes, we will attack from behind him, and we will be able to capture the old horseman alive. ”

But seeing Xu Shu, he also smiled and said: "This is all the general's clever calculation, hehe, it is really not simple to come up with the idea of faking casualties by straw men, and also coming up with the idea of digging tunnels." Generally, only the besieging side will dig tunnels, and the tactics of defending the city to dig tunnels are really the first time I have heard of them. ”

Liu Qi smiled silently, he naturally couldn't think of such a strategy, but he traveled from later generations, and these strategies were learned from the classic examples of famous generals in later generations.

The strategy of using straw men to fake casualties is naturally inspired by a later one, although the straw boat borrowing arrows is a non-existent thing in history, but this strategy is indeed feasible, of course, this has been corrected by the wise man Xu Shu, he covered all those straw men with pigskin, which gives people a sense of reality.

The defenders' strategy of digging tunnels was inspired by Liu Qi's classic example of the famous Tang Dynasty general Li Guangbi defending Taiyuan.

After a slight pause, I saw Xu Shu say slowly: "General Qiyu, the tunnel can be dug tonight, as long as Huang Zhong attacks the city tomorrow, we will be able to lead the army to break through behind the enemy and destroy the archers in Huang Zhong's army by surprise. This Huang Zhongzhong is hateful, he dares to shoot the general, and tomorrow he will be asked to pay for his life. ”

Liu Qi hurriedly stopped: "No, Huang Zhong is also a famous general, we should persuade him to submit, in this way, we can do less killing, and we have a famous general in our army, isn't it beautiful?" ”

But I saw Xu Shu smile slightly: "Shu has long known the general's intentions, and this is a joke." The general can rest assured that Shu has been arranged, and he will capture Huang Zhong alive tomorrow, and push him to the mansion and hand him over to the general, but the battlefield is changing rapidly, and it is difficult for Shu to ensure his absolute safety. ”

Liu Qi couldn't help but be silent when he heard this, but he also knew that Xu Shu was telling the truth, sighed lightly, and said: "This is also a helpless thing, now I can only pray to God not to let Huang Zhong die so early." ”

Next, Liu Qi arranged a few words to everyone about the next day's affairs, and saw that everyone retreated with interest, so he rested with confidence.

But Liu Qi helplessly found that he couldn't sleep tonight, not because of the pain caused by the arrow wound, but because he couldn't sleep because of excitement and nervousness, because tomorrow, he would completely defeat Huang Zhong's army, and be able to capture Huang Zhong alive, so that he would have another tiger general.

"I hope this operation can go smoothly, then Huang Zhong should not be too extreme, otherwise, once he commits suicide, my plan this month will be in vain, but it is a pity that he has carefully cultivated so many excellent archers, and most of them will be lost tomorrow, otherwise once it is used by me, it will be a strong force to fight in the world in the future." It's just that there are so many perfect things in this world? ”

Liu Qi couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, and it took a long time before he fell asleep in a daze, but he didn't expect this sleep to be very heavy, and even the pain caused by the arrow wound did not affect his rest much.

At dawn the next day, Liu Qi anxiously waited for the news that Huang Zhong had sent people to attack the city, and his own soldiers sent out another one, but until the end of the day, he did not hear the news of Huang Zhong's siege.

In fact, as early as the end of the Yin period, someone brought breakfast, but how could Liu Qi be in the mood to eat? It was cold until the end of the day, and the food was already cold, but he never touched a chopstick.

"What the hell is going on? Could it be that Huang Zhong saw through my plan? But it shouldn't be. But why hasn't he attacked the city until now? If he said that he won a big victory yesterday, he should take advantage of the situation to attack today, and there is no reason to stop the siege today. Liu Qihu was suspicious and said to himself.

Liu Qi was very impatient in his heart, and despite Liu Shi's dissuasion, he forcibly ordered Liu Shi to carry himself up to the city tower and ask Xu Shu about the specific situation.

After Liu Qi saw Xu Shu, he didn't say hello, and directly asked about Huang Zhong's failure to attack the city.

But seeing that Xu Shu was also puzzled, he said respectfully: "General, the last general doesn't know all kinds of details, no matter what angle you think about, this Huang Zhong should continue to take advantage of the victory to attack the city, now Huang Zhong is not coming, there can only be one situation, that is, something happened to Huang Zhong's side, or there is a situation in Linxiang, Huang Zhong withdrew overnight, or there is a change in Huang Zhong's camp." ”

But seeing that Pang Tong shook his head, he said: "But these two situations are very unreasonable, let's talk about Linxiang first, this is the seat of Changsha County, and there are at least twenty or thirty thousand horses in the city, how can there be any accidents?" Besides, we are all here, and the Yuannan side can only protect itself, even if it really attacks, it is impossible for Linxiang to feel threatened, and there is no possibility of any accidents in Huang Zhong's camp, because although Huang Zhong led the crowd to attack the city, there will inevitably be someone in his camp to defend it. ”

Liu Qi nodded when he heard this, and said: "What Shi Yuan said is exactly what this general thinks in his heart, I really don't know what the hell this Huang Zhong is doing?" ”

Xu Shu thought for a while, and said with a smile: "The general doesn't have to worry, Huang Zhong doesn't come today, once he comes, the last general will let him come and go, since Huang Zhong doesn't come, the general simply goes to rest and rest." ”

Liu Qi could only nod, and then prepared to return to the mansion.

But at this moment, they suddenly heard the sound of the horn, and Liu Qi, Xu Shu, Pang Tong and others all smiled when they heard the words and said, "I finally looked forward to him." ”

But Liu Qi immediately saw Xu Shu snort lightly, and Pang Tong was also shocked, and Qi Qi looked at the city without saying a word.

"What's wrong?" Liu Qi felt strange in his heart, and hurriedly asked.

"General, this matter is really strange, the Huang Zhong army turned out to be a white flag, and I didn't see any siege equipment they carried, it looked like they were going to surrender."

"What?" When Liu Qi heard Pang Tong say this, he couldn't help but be surprised in his heart, and hurriedly ordered Liu Shi to help himself up and look out of the city.

Liu Qi raised his eyes and found that there was a team with a white flag under the city, and the leader of the team was the veteran Huang Zhong, and there were two more young generals next to Huang Zhong, and the strangest thing was that those two young generals were wearing the armor of the Jingzhou army.

At this moment, Liu Qi suddenly heard one of the two young generals under the city shouting: "I don't know which one in the city is the eldest prince?" ”

Seeing Liu Shi tightly guarding Liu Qi, he pointed to Liu Qi behind him and asked, "This one is, who are you?" What is the purpose of this? ”

I only heard the young general say: "See the eldest prince, the last general is a native of Zhijiang in Nanjun, surnamed Huo Mingjun, the word Zhong, was ordered to support the eldest prince, and in the city ** to General Huang Zhong attacked the county seat, the last general took advantage of the situation to occupy General Huang's camp, and took General Huang to lead the army back to the camp, when he was not prepared in his heart, he captured General Huang and handed it over to the eldest prince, and asked the eldest prince to open the city gate and let the last general enter the city. ”

"It turns out that this person is Huo Jun! Hehe, that's a takeaway for me. Although he is not as famous as Huang Zhong, he is also a famous general of Shu Han. According to the memory of my previous life, this person was once ordered to hold on to Jiameng Pass when Liu Bei attacked Xichuan, and fought against Liu Zhang's tens of thousands of troops with hundreds of soldiers. I didn't expect such an outstanding talent to take the initiative to go along with each other, and Huang Zhong was also captured, so I should greet him personally. ”

Unexpectedly, Xu Shu opened his mouth and said: "Shut up, you thief, you dare to pretend to be my Jingzhou reinforcements, do you deceive me There is no one in the city?" Let me ask you, how many reinforcements have you brought? How to get to the county? How to capture Huangzhong's camp? How did you capture Huang Zhong alive? ”

But I heard Huo Jun say: "This gentleman doesn't know, it is really impossible to do this with the young general's own ability, but fortunately, the young general met a gentleman, named Huang Shuo, who is a person from Xiangyang, it is under his guidance, and with Mr. Huang's compass, we passed through the vast mountains from Yiyang, rushed to Xiangxiang County, forced Xiangxiang County to order Kaicheng to surrender, and transported a large number of materials from the county, and asked the county to write a letter of reinforcements, and then rushed to the city of Youxian, just in time for General Huang to attack the city, the young general planned to lead the army to break General Huang, It was Mr. Huang who built the camp first, and then captured General Huang, and the junior general led the army to the camp, and obtained the trust of Huang Can, the Marquis of the left-behind army, and took the opportunity to occupy the camp, and then influenced the Marquis Huang with great righteousness, which captured General Huang. ”

Xu Shu listened to Huo Jun's words, glanced at Pang Tong, the faces of the two of them were strange, and after a little hesitation, Xu Shu asked again: "Who did you say was that Mr. Huang you met?"