Cao Ren was going to start the operation, and that was after the first battle between the Jiangdong Navy and Li Sheng's Army broke out and the results were achieved. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Although it was only the second fleet of Li Sheng's navy that fought with the Jiangdong Navy, and although this navy did not suffer anything after the battle with the Jiangdong navy, but repelled the attack of the Jiangdong navy, Cao Ren was still in a mood after getting this information. He didn't care about the specific identities of the two sides of the water war, he didn't care about the outcome of the battle between the two sides, he only cared about the fact that the two sides were fighting, and Sun Quan and Li Sheng had already started a war and exchanged fire. He knew that with the emergence of this fact, Li Shengjun's Xiangyang side would definitely send the fleet defending Hanshui to the south to support his naval army in Jiangling. "Hanshui's defenses will be reduced as a result," Cao Ren believes is the opportunity he is looking forward to.

"I think we should act." Cao Ren's movements were very fast, and after he received this battle report and understood the facts stated in the battle report, he quickly summoned the generals and military advisors under his command and said such a sentence to them. It may seem like a plea, but in fact everyone knows that it is a command: we wait for the opportunity we think we should wait, and now we will seize the opportunity to achieve what we must achieve.

"Why? Is it because Li Sheng and Sun Quan have already started fighting? We have not received any specific information after the First Fleet of Hanshui left Xiangyang. Do you think now is the opportunity we can grasp? Regarding Cao Ren's words, or the kind of bland order, Cheng Yu, as a military advisor, raised his doubts.

"That's true. Although we can wait until we have more definite news to act, at that point, I think our time will be very tight and we will most likely miss the opportunity that God has given us. Cao Ren thought for a moment and answered Cheng Yu's question, "Opportunity is never something that can be perfectly grasped by passive people. Even if you can grasp it, the benefits of the opportunity will be reduced a lot. In fact, I think that the opportunity can only be grasped by taking the initiative to strive for it, just like now, although everything is just the beginning, I think we should grasp it ourselves from the beginning. We have to prepare ourselves early. Don't always think that Pang Tong on the other side will not know our situation here at all, this is impossible, the strength of Li Shengjun's intelligence force and Pang Tong's own wit make it completely ineffective for us to use any means. Conspiracy can't deal with him, we can only plot it. ”

"Are you saying that since we can't deceive Pang Tong, then we will clearly let Pang Tong know that we are going to cross the river and capture Xiangyang City when we want to use Li Sheng's First Fleet to support Jiangling?" Cheng Yu looked at Cao Ren and asked calmly.

"Of course." Cao Ren nodded with great certainty.

"Aren't you afraid that Pang Tong will lay out many defensive facilities on the north embankment of Xiangyang?" Cheng Yu frowned and asked again.

"Afraid of what?" Cao Ren waved his hand very rudely: "If we are afraid, we will not fight." War itself is deadly, and even more so when it comes to a strong offensive. Before planning today's operation, I was ready to lose 30,000 soldiers and horses. Cao Ren said fiercely, "I don't believe that if we attack Xiangyang like this, Xiangyang will not be able to attack." ”

"What do you want to do?" Seeing that Cao Ren already had such a determination, Cheng Yu naturally didn't persuade him much, but just asked softly. In his opinion, whether today's events are Cao Ren's own whims, the key is to see how Cao Ren has a plan at the time, and how feasible this is almost in the end.

"I want to get the raft done first. We couldn't get a lot of boats, and we couldn't build them on the spot, so a lot of rafts, something as simple as crossing the Han River, became the only thing we could rely on. Cao Ren said, he seemed to have made up his mind about this, "There are still a lot of trees around Fancheng, and with the trunks of those trees, we can make a large number of rafts, and with the bark of those trees, we can connect a large number of rafts." The Hanshui River is not wide, so it doesn't take much time for us to cross the river. ”

"Your idea is to build a large number of rafts to cross as many soldiers as possible across the Han River at once. Taking advantage of the huge number of people crossing the river, the defenders of Li Shengjun on the north embankment could not take care of it - calmly shooting us, and allowing us to move our camp to the south bank more easily. Is it? Cheng Yu quickly judged Cao Ren's plan, and began to analyze and estimate it in his heart. He narrowed his eyes slightly and pondered for a while, then smiled and nodded: "Well, this plan is indeed somewhat feasible. As long as we can guarantee two things......"

"Two points? Which two points? Cao Ren asked with some surprise and some astonishment.

"First of all, you have to make sure that there is indeed no Li Shengjun's water army in this area of Hanshui. Secondly, you must confirm that the number of Li Shengjun in Xiangyang City is still so large. Cheng Yu said lightly.

"Uh...... What do you do to confirm these two? Cao Ren asked strangely, he looked at Cheng Yu and was still a little puzzled in his heart: "Are you still worried that Li Sheng's army is ambushing here?" That doesn't seem likely, right? There is no need to be so suspicious. Cao Ren said and waved his hand at Cheng Yu: "I know you are cautious, but if you are too cautious, you will lose the fighter." ”

"But if we're not careful, we risk putting all the soldiers in a desperate situation. This is the most dangerous thing for us. I don't know what else we can do to undo it if that happens. Cheng Yu still insisted on his opinion: "The person opposite is Pang Tong, this is a guy who can't be underestimated." ”

"You ......" Cao Ren wanted to have a seizure, but after looking at Cheng Yu and then at the generals under his account, he finally sighed helplessly. He asked Cheng Yu: "Don't talk about those conspiracies and tricks." I just ask you, how does Li Shengjun's navy compare to Jiangdong's navy? ”

"Li Sheng's navy is not as good as Jiangdong's navy. Although Li Sheng's navy is slightly stronger than Jiangdong's navy in terms of warships, no matter how strong the battleship is, it needs the existence of numbers to become powerful, and the number of Li Sheng's navy does not seem to be able to resist the scale of Jiangdong's navy. Cheng Yu thought for a while and replied. Undoubtedly, his answer was also very pertinent.

"So how much strength does the Jiangdong Navy use to fight Li Sheng right now?" Cao Ren asked again.

"Pretty much all of it. Although the Jiangdong Army is now desperately rearming in the rear, their newly built warships may be okay, but their newly recruited sailors are certainly inferior to the original soldiers in terms of combat ability. Cheng Yu still said a very correct and objective judgment.

"Since the Jiangdong Army is doing its best to fight Li Shengjun, then if you are Pang Tong, what will you do?" Cao Ren asked Cheng Yu rhetorically, but he didn't wait for him to answer, but expressed his judgment: "I think in such a situation, we must not have many choices to make." If we were on Li Sheng's side, we would definitely send the naval army in our hands desperately, and let the First Fleet and the Second Fleet go to Jiangling to join forces and use the defense facilities on the river bank to fight a defensive counterattack with the Jiangdong Army. As for the situation in Xiangyang, the army can be fully responsible. Even if the Cao army on the opposite side crosses south, we can rely on the city defense of Xiangyang to resist. As long as the water battle at Jiangling in the south is victorious and the threat from Jiangdong is temporarily eliminated, then we will definitely have a chance to outflank Cao's rear road - Pang Tong's tactics must be like this. Cao Ren explained it like this, but his eyes were aimed at Cheng Yu: "What do you think?" ”

"I think...... But it is. Judging from the available intelligence, Pang Tong had to make such a decision in order to get out of the unfavorable situation of the war. Cheng Yu frowned tightly, nodded slightly, and said thoughtfully: "It's just that such decisions have always been reasonable guesses based on the information we have obtained. If the information we get is not accurate, then Pang Tong's side may be able to use other methods. ”

"What will he do?" Cao Ren asked with a glare.

"I don't know." Cheng Yu spread his hands helplessly, "Our intelligence has always kept us in a state of confusion. ”

"Confused? What do you have to be confused about? Isn't it clear that the situation is right before our eyes? Don't you believe the information that Mr. Wenhe has provided us? Cao Ren rolled his eyes and asked weirdly.

"It's not that I don't believe it. It's just that my intuition tells me that there seems to be something wrong with this intelligence, and Li Shengjun has taken very strict precautions against our intelligence investigation. As a result, all we get is something vague, and I'm really worried that Li Sheng is hiding a lot. Cheng Yu said with a bitter face.

"Do you have any definite evidence?" Cao Ren was a little impatient, and his tone became slightly faster.

"No, it's just my guess." Cheng Yu shook his head.

"So, do you think I'm going to waste my current fighter because of your own conjectures?"

"I'm afraid not." Cheng Yu thought about it but also understood Cao Ren's insistence, he had no choice but to say: "I hope that the general can send some clever spies to Xiangyang City to investigate before crossing the river to see what Xiangyang City is really about." While it is true that forcible detection will cost our spies dearly, there really is no other way at the moment. ”

"I understand." Knowing that Cheng Yu was cautious, Cao Ren didn't want to blame him too much, after all, he was also for his own good, so he had to agree like this, "Then do what you say." Cao Ren said this, and quickly sent a task: he asked Cao Chun to take charge of the secret agent's affairs; Let Cao Hong be in charge of the production of the raft; Let Xiahoudun and Zhang Jaw be in charge of the training of the soldiers, and let all the soldiers take action to prepare for the next battle.

Xiangyang and Fancheng are only separated by a river. Fancheng has such a move, how can Xiangyang not know? Li Sheng's intelligence network all over Jingzhou quickly sent the information to Pang Tong. They can be regarded as very good, they actually know who is responsible for what things under Cao Ren, what kind of advice Cheng Yu provided to Cao Ren, and so on, and report to Pang Tong, which also makes Pang Tong see the situation here clearly.

"This Cheng Yu is also a shrewd person. We obviously didn't show any clues, and he actually had such suspicions, which is really ......" Pang Tong shook his head and tried to say something, but in the end he smiled bitterly and didn't say anything more. Because, he didn't think that there was any other way to think about Cheng Yu being so difficult to entangle.

"Perhaps, I can consciously or unconsciously withdraw some of our defenses and let them directly see what we are hiding." Seeing that Pang Tong frowned, Ma Tan, who was watching him from the side, guessed the worry in Pang Tong's heart, he thought about it from an outsider's point of view, but he gave Pang Tong such a suggestion.

"Withdraw? Let them see? Pang Tong was slightly stunned, but a smile bloomed on his face: "Hehe, this method is good." Withdrawing, saying withdrawing, but not withdrawing completely, is just letting them see the part we want them to see. Let them know that we are hiding from them, but it will make them a little troublesome in battle, but it will not affect their final victory. While they were surprised, they were relieved and further relaxed. We'll surprise them when they attack. Hehe, that's a brilliant idea. I think from now on, Cao Ren and they will definitely remember me. ”

"Remember? That's a certainty. It's just that they don't remember you because they like you, but they remember you because they hate you. Ma Jian reminded Pang Tong with a smile.

"So what? I don't care about that. Do you know that we are enemies with them? Isn't it normal for the enemy to hate themselves? Pang Tong seemed to be a little confused, he grabbed the wine gourd on the table with drunken eyes, but he slammed it down, "Cool......" he said.

"Huh." Seeing Pang Tong so wild and uninhibited, Ma Tan not only felt that he was rude, but envied him a little. He smiled, knowing that he couldn't do that, but he also sat quietly on the sidelines, and very elegantly sipped the tea on the table. Although he didn't clearly agree with the truths that Pang Tong said, he was also willing to do so in his heart. "Let the enemy hate himself? Well, there is some truth to this. He thought, as if he was a little intoxicated by the fragrance of tea.

Cao Ren made a move in Fancheng, but Pang Tong also set a countermeasure on Xiangyang's side. His response was also very clever, although he had already wanted to inform Cao Ren of the situation here, but the vigilance of the entire Xiangyang City did not relax because of this thought, but on the contrary, it was a little more than usual.

The vigilance of such a great enemy made Cao Jun's spies have a headache, but they couldn't help but be even more glad that the information of their spies was true and accurate. In their minds, if it wasn't for the information they were investigating that Pang Tong's side was waiting to be saved, then why was Pang Tong's side so concerned? Nothing important has happened in Xiangyang these days - most of them think so, but it is also a normal thinking. It's just that this thinking has long fallen into Pang Tong's calculations.

Now that they were convinced that the information they had discovered was true, Cao Jun's spies naturally hurriedly handed over the information they had discovered to Cheng Yu. Of course, they were asked by Cheng Yu about things to judge the authenticity of this information, but when the spies told Cheng Yu about all the things in Xiangyang City and how many people they had lost, Cheng Yu also thought that the information they had worked so hard to obtain was true and effective.

"It's been so hard for you." Cheng Yu said this, and comforted them and asked them to step back and rest. Immediately, as last time, I went to meet with Cao Ren and discuss all kinds of information about this information.

"Looks like everything is going according to plan." Cao Ren looked at the information, but he was happy, he looked at Cheng Yu, but asked: "With such information as a footnote, Mr. must be able to rest assured." ”

"Maybe." Cheng Yu was still frowning, and after saying this lightly, he stopped speaking.

Cheng Yu's no longer spoke was regarded by Cao Ren as his acquiescence. Since the military advisors who wanted to listen to his words more by the lord acquiesced in his actions, Cao Ren no longer cared about it. He issued one order after another, but he told the generals who were in charge of various affairs to speed up their actions so that the preparations for the battle could be carried out. He was a little anxious about this battle. Because while he was waiting for the spies to report information from Xiangyang, he also got the news that the Jiangdong army had attacked the county seat in Jiangnan. In his opinion, this news undoubtedly represents another wave of offensive of the Jiangdong Army.

"It seems that Jiang Dongjun can't help it. That's why I was so eager to lure Li Shengjun into attacking. Cao Ren thought. As a bystander, he could guess Lu Meng's mind with his experience. He felt that since Lu Meng was so eager to enter the army, then with the strength of the Jiangdong Army, he wanted to defeat Li Sheng's army, and it would be in the past few days. This obviously had an impact on the plan of his side to attack Xiangyang, and the time had become more urgent. For the sake of this urgency, Cao Ren naturally wanted his own family to speed up the preparation for war. He wanted to capture this damn Xiangyang City before the Jiangdong Army went north.

Cao Jun was in the land of Fancheng, and the brightly lit logging and shipbuilding was built. They seem to be ready for a strong attack, but they are not afraid that their actions will be known by the people of Xiangyang. And after seeing everything that the other party was so arrogant, Pang Tong of Xiangyang quickly sent people to the south in addition to ordering his own men and horses to defend more tightly. He seems to have brought back the Yangtze River Navy - this makes the Cao army spies who are still lurking in Xiangyang City look at it lightly.

The information was fed back to Cao Ren again, which made Cao Ren feel more and more urgent. He felt that time was running out. Although he guessed that Pang Tong was unlikely to transfer Jiangling's naval army back to fight against him, there was such a legend, which showed that the situation seemed to have such a contingency, and this contingency could completely make a mess of his defeat.

"The only way to avoid such a defeat is to further accelerate the pace of operations." Cao Ren thought so. He gritted his teeth and gave another order, but it was for everyone under him to further speed up the work in their hands. In his words, "...... In order to ensure the speed of the operation, we must speed up the rush to work. "This was also very reasonable, but it had already been sped up once, and the people who were already very tired were given such an order, and although it did not break them, it also made them even more tired. Individual exhaustion happened in Cao Ren's army, but Cao Ren had a deaf attitude towards it. Perhaps, in his opinion, all this kind of thing has never been as useful as having a good result in his own affairs. He is already ruthless, as long as the result is achieved.

Cao Ren's actions naturally fell into the eyes of Pang Tong. Although there is only one Han River between Xiangyang and Fancheng, this Han River is not as wide as the Yangtze River, and the exchanges between each other, as long as you are a little careful, you can still pass information to each other.

After getting Cao Ren's movements, Pang Tong couldn't help but be a little surprised: "I didn't expect that I just made some arrangements, and this Cao Ren would react so violently and frantically." Scold...... That's pretty amazing. If you want to take it, you will give it. Since I want them to destroy, let's drive them crazy first. When they think everything is under control, give them a fatal blow. Pang Tong calculated, naturally he didn't care at all, and let it be free.

In this way, after a few days, Pang Tong stood on the north embankment and looked at the north of the river with a crystal mirror, only to see that countless trees had been linked to the river to form a floating chain. Pang Tong understood that they were already ready, and they were only waiting for a suitable time to launch.

“…… So when is the right time? Pang Tong thought about this question, he looked up at the weather, and then thought about the current day, and suddenly understood Cao Ren's plan: "Do you want to use the night of the bright moon to carry out a night attack?" It's a good idea, but it's not always going to work. ”

"It's business as usual." Pang Tong, who was standing on the edge of the embankment, smiled and instructed the generals behind him, "It's just that the night patrol and bed crossbow are arranged for me more intensively." I think the enemy will strike in the night of these days. ”

"No......!" The generals bowed their hands to Pang Commander's command.

War is already so clearly flashing before our eyes. After a few days, Fancheng and Xiangyang passed safely, and it seemed that the two sides were still in a confrontation, but almost everyone who understood all this knew that this kind of nothingness was just a false appearance, and what was showing in front of everyone was the last calm before the storm came.

"It's going to be a big fight." With the advent of the war, Cao Ren's heart gradually became heavy, and he always felt that things after the start of the war were not as easy as he imagined. The battle for Xiangyang City is definitely full of variables. "After the First World War, how many soldiers will be able to fall under my command?" For these, Cao Ren is not clear. He only knew he had no choice but to do so. He didn't expect his plan to launch an attack at the time of the full moon to deceive Pang Tong. Therefore, all his preparations were very bold. Because he used a conspiracy instead of a conspiracy, he wanted to attack Xiangyang at night, that night with the bright moon. He knew that in that environment, although the light of the bright moon could illuminate the shadow of an individual, it would still be troublesome to attack a weapon like the bed crossbow, and this was exactly what Cao Ren wanted to see.

“…… Once the threat to oneself from the bed crossbow is reduced, more people from your army will definitely be able to come ashore. When the time comes, everything will work in our favor. The gap between the northern and southern soldiers can sweep away a certain amount of trouble. What's more, our side is far superior to theirs. Cao Ren thought like this, and his heart settled down a little. Although he was aware of the horrors of the war, he believed that it was important to save the lives of his men as much as possible.

On the third night after that, it was a sparse moon and stars, and the clouds were light and the wind was clear. It was about the time of the lantern, with the rumbling sound of the war drums on the Fancheng side, I saw that under the dim sky, countless Cao soldiers with weapons in their hands boarded the raft, under the sails on the raft, in the rowing of the wooden oars of more than a dozen soldiers on both sides, a piece of thousands of rafts will march towards the south of the Han River. For this operation, Cao Ren prepared a full 5,000 rafts, each of which was a standard raft that could carry ten people, and in this initial operation, Cao Ren directly dispatched 50,000 people to carry out this assault. The so-called people and horses are boundless, and the vast scenery that appears on the river at this moment can also be called boundless.

The war began, the drums echoed on the river, the horns whined in the sky, and the Cao army completely pressed towards Xiangyang with the overwhelming power of Mount Tai. At this moment, compared to the huge momentum on Cao Jun's side, the entire north embankment of Xiangyang is in silence. It was not undefended on the north embankment, in fact it was brightly lit and full of sergeants. Countless Li Shengjun soldiers stood there, staring at the enemy's pressure without blinking. They were all ready for battle, and the bed crossbow operator's bed crossbow was already aimed at each other's existence. They all held their breath, but their hearts were at peace. They all waited for the order, the order to attack.

The enemy quickly pressed in on his side. Looking at such a black and oppressive enemy army, all the people involuntarily lined up in a cold sweat in their hands, their expressions were calm, their mood was nervous, if it weren't for Pang Tong's strict orders, I was afraid that they would have been under a lot of this kind of quiet and terrible pressure now, and they broke out wildly. In terms of the current comparison of the momentum of the two sides, Cao Jun's momentum is undoubtedly heavy and overshadows Li Shengjun.

"The enemy is very close to us......" Zhang Bao, who was beside Pang Tong, was participating in the battle for the first time, and seemed to be a little unable to withstand such an imposing scene, but he blushed and reminded Pang Tong in a low voice.

"Close? They are at least 12 feet away from us. Pang Tong said calmly, he looked at Zhang Bao's flushed face, and asked him with a chuckle: "What?" You're not scared, are you? ”

"Where...... There is no such thing. Zhang Bao replied with a forced struggle.

"Huh." Pang Tong looked at him and knew in his heart that what he said was actually just a hard mouth. But that's good, at least he's still standing here. "Just wait and see. When they are fifty feet away from us, a bloody massacre will unfold in front of you. Pang Tong said lightly, his eyes flashing with an inexplicable bloodthirsty light.

"Blood...... Bloody? Zhang Bao is still a little unclear, at this moment he is secretly hating his own bad spirit. After all, it was he who proposed to come to the war, but standing by Pang Tong's side, he couldn't help but show timidity, which really made him ashamed. For a moment, his thoughts were racing, and he didn't notice that the other party's raft had reached a distance of less than fifty zhang from his side. He was thinking about things, and it wasn't until Pang Tong's order that he completely woke up: "Attack ......" - the massacre in Pang Tong's words began.