The rain fell, the wind also blew, and it was not only the Jiangdong Army in Xiakou that did not sleep in the wind and rain, but even Li Sheng's army in Hanyang was the same, and all the generals' staff gathered in Li Sheng's Chinese army tent at the moment when the wind and rain rose at Li Sheng's request, waiting for Li Sheng's dispatch. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo。 Because he already knew the "history", and because he had a wise and resourceful person like Pang Tong by his side, Li Sheng was more and more sure that when the southeast wind rose, it would be the time for the Jiangdong Army to attack. Although there was absolutely no way to launch a fire attack because of the wind and rain in the dark night, Li Sheng understood that the day after this rainstorm passed was definitely the day in history that laid the fate for the next 80 years, the decisive day of the "Battle of Red Cliffs".

"Well, the wind is coming. I think we should do our own setup. Li Sheng bent a slight arc, revealing a hint of intriguing smile. He tilted his head to look at Pang Tong beside him, and nodded to him, "Everything can begin!" ”

Receiving Li Sheng's commanding eyes, Pang Tong stood up with a smile and walked to the edge of the screen behind him, which had long been covered by a white cloth, and waved his hand heavily to pull the white cloth that had always been covered with a screen. Under the light of the twenty flickering oil lamps in the big tent, a huge and clear map drawn on the screen was displayed in front of everyone—this was the map of Changsha, Wuling, and Nanjun.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the day of the decisive battle is coming. This battle was arguably our most important battle against Cao Cao. If we win, we can officially set foot on the stage of dominating the world, and if we lose, I am afraid that from me to you will have to find another way. Li Sheng stood up calmly and calmly looked at these people who had struggled with him for so many years, "More than ten years of hard work depends on today." I can tell you very clearly that our goal is Nanjun, to completely take the land of Nanjun, and to completely expel Cao Cao from Jingzhou headquarters, which is what I need you to do. ”

"Nanjun? Aren't we going to take part in the decisive battle of Chibi? Everyone was a little stunned and confused, they looked at Li Sheng and Pang Tong, who were both smiling, and had some understanding in their hearts: "No wonder the lord scattered the soldiers in his hands little by little after coming to Hanyang, and in the past few days, he has gradually lost sight of Gan Ning, Zhao Yun, and Huang Zhong. ”

Li Sheng brought 70,000 troops to participate in the duel in Chibi, but all this seemed to be just a disguise, a cover to perform in front of Liu Bei and Zhou Yu. Since the soldiers and horses moved to Hanyang, the water village in Hanyang has not changed much, at least from the outside, but in fact, even the lowest-level soldiers can see that this Hanyang water village is just a virtual appearance. The water village built according to the scale of 100,000 people, at the moment, there are only more than 20,000 people stationed in it. The others were all transferred out little by little during the more than a month of stationing. Where do they go? No one knew, although some people were curious and wanted to ask, but they were given a "gag order" by Li Sheng.

"This is not the time for you to know everything." Li Sheng said with a serious expression at that time.

Since their own lord said so, everyone naturally didn't dare to continue to ask. Although they always had some unbearable itching in their hearts, as courtiers, they finally chose to wait. They didn't ask until today......

"We naturally have to send troops to experience the decisive battle of Chibi, but this is just our side business, and our real main business is to capture Nanjun. At this point, many of you may have guessed a little. That's right, several generals such as Gan Ning, Zhao Yun, and Huang Zhong have already led their troops and horses to prepare together with Liu Qi of Wuling. They will kill directly at Yiling to prepare for the opening of the second battlefield of our army. And what we have to do now is to provide them with resources as much as possible, and further attack Cao Cao's army on the Red Cliff Battlefield. Li Sheng narrowed his eyes, glanced at the soldiers under his head, and then continued, "It's almost time now. Let Shi Yuan tell you about the specific deployment of our army now. Only when you understand everything can you best understand what you should do. As he spoke, Li Sheng made a gesture of invitation to Pang Tong.

"The current military strength of our army is mainly divided into two parts, one is the Western Route Front with General Huang Zhong as the main general, and General Gan Ning and Zhao Yun as the deputy generals, and the other is the Eastern Route Front led by the lord himself, that is, our people. The strength of the Western Route Army is about 50,000, while the strength of our side is more than 20,000. Although the forces were extremely uneven, both armies were very important to the battle itself. Because our goal is the same, that is, to completely eliminate the main force of Cao Cao's southern expedition here. Pang Tong stood up under Li Sheng's gesture and said confidently. He is not a handsome person, but the self-confidence in him makes his originally ugly face very pretentious. All eyes were on his face, and they didn't feel how disgusting this ugly face was.

"Since the army is divided into two parts, our plan is also divided into two parts." Pang Tong paused as he spoke, picked up a cup of tea on the desk, took a sip lightly, and continued: "The troops on the West Road are carrying out landing assault operations. I think you've heard this kind of combat before, but now we want to turn them into reality: General Gan Ning led the First Fleet of the Navy to cooperate with the merchant shipping pairs, and after attacking Yiling at the same time as the Chibi fire broke out to obtain the first fulcrum, the two generals Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun led the mobile troops to seize the two cities of Jiangling and Xiangyang to complete the combat objectives of our army. ”

"Is this possible? Cao Cao and his men are not fools, even if we can rush to these two places in a considerable amount of time with the speed of our mobile troops, but in the face of a heavily guarded city, can we break through it at once? As Li Sheng's subordinate and brother, Song De, who was already in his twenties, had obviously matured, and he asked the military advisor about the plan.

"We've thought about what you've said, and we thought it would be good if we could capture Gangneung. But the lord gave us hope to seize Xiangyang. Answering Song De's question, Pang Tong cast his respectful gaze on Li Sheng, "Lord, have allocated us all the thunderbolt bags that have been made in the past few years." Although it is still a little difficult to use these things to flatten the entire city walls of Gangneung and Yangyang, I think it is still possible to use them to blast a hole. Once the opening is opened, do you think there is anything else that can be difficult to catch the two generals? ”

"Probably not." Song De shook his head in understanding. As one of Li Sheng's first three sworn brothers, in the eyes of others, he may not be as reused as Zhou Li and Zhou Rui, but in fact he is one of Li Sheng's most trusted people. Li Sheng directly handed over the task of guarding the Thunderbolt Bag Production Institute, which made him understand the power of the Thunderbolt Bag more than anyone except Li Sheng. In his opinion, no one can resist the kind of power that is close to the collapse of the sky and the earth, even Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong, who are strong in martial arts. Although it took Li Shengjun six or seven years to produce about 1,000 thunderbolt packets because of the difficulty of refining the raw materials, it seemed that it was pitiful, but Song De knew what the results would be once these 1,000 thunderbolt packets were used together. "With these things, not to mention that cities like Xiangyang and Jiangling can be broken in one attack, I'm afraid that even a giant like Chang'an can't withstand such an attack for long. After all, these are terrifying beings that can blow absolutely hard things like iron to pieces. Song De was also relieved when he thought of this. He sat back down, a faint smile on his face.

As Song De sat down, everyone in the tent had no more questions about the affairs of the West Road. Because they all saw the serenity on Song De's face.

Who is the most trusted by Li Sheng under Li Sheng's account, this has long been a clear ranking among the subordinates who have followed Li Sheng for so many years. Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Zhao Yun, Gan Ning, Song De, Zhou Li, Zhou Rui...... These people were the first to follow Li Sheng, and they were also the most capable group under Li Sheng's account, and naturally they were also the most trusted by Li Sheng. They must know something that the average person doesn't know. Because the more you know, the more you will know about things. Therefore, everyone believes that Li Sheng, who can make Song De make such an expression, must have some reassuring existence in secret. Although they themselves do not know what kind of power this being has.

"Even the lord's most trusted General Song is like this, do you think that the thing called the thunderbolt bag can really change the whole battle situation? It's not impossible, but our lord never does anything he is not sure of. Thinking like this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Alright, now that we're done with the west, let's talk about the situation in the east. The following tasks are entirely up to you. Seeing that everyone had no objection to the opening of a second battlefield in the west, Pang Tong cleared his throat but began to talk about the deployment of the east that was related to everyone: "The main task of our army in the east is to cooperate with the troops of Lord Liu Bei and Governor Zhou Yu to completely eliminate Cao Cao's army. Since our army is now in the south of the Yangtze River, it is necessary to attack Cao Cao's army from this side, and the main force of our army should be dominated by the naval army. Yang Xu's Second Fleet was the main force of the navy, and with Zheng Ping's 500 merchant ships, it was enough to send our army across the Yangtze River in a short time. Once the river is crossed, the task of our army is not to follow Cao Cao's ass like ordinary people to chase him to the death, but to go west along the river bank, gradually attack the forces along the river in the Jiangling area, open up more ports, and prepare for the arrival of our army's follow-up troops, which is the most important task of our army. As for the pursuit of Cao Cao, we also have to do it, but as long as a thousand cavalry are sent over, it is enough, and not too many people are needed. ”

As he spoke, Pang Tong's clear gaze swept over everyone's faces one by one, and he completely captured the divine movements that were eager to try, or bowed his head silently, or slightly disappointed, and smiled slightly, and then said loudly: "Where are the two generals, Yang Xu and Zheng Ping?" ”

"The last general!" From under Li Sheng's left hand, two people immediately jumped out and bowed.

"The beginning of today's battle was carried out by two generals." Pang Tong looked at them with his eyes as bright as stars: "General Yang Xu can lead the battle fleet as the vanguard, and prepare more oil and flint stones, so that the fire in Cao Cao's village will burn more violently." As for General Zheng Ping, he led the merchant fleet to follow General Yang Xu, and as soon as General Yang Xu had almost cleared the enemy in the water village, you quickly followed up and put down General Aliza's Shanyue soldiers for me first. ”

"Command!" Yang Xu and Zheng Ping answered in unison.

"As for General Aliza, he can lead the two thousand mountain and Vietnamese soldiers in his headquarters to go straight to Huarong from the path. In today's battle, Cao Cao will be defeated. And with his Cao Cao's personality, after the defeat, he must want to return to Jiangling in a hurry, so Huarong Dao is the only way for him. After you arrive in Huarong, if you see that the road in Huarong is smooth, then your task is to destroy the integrity of Huarong Road; If the road of Huarong Road itself is very muddy, you can take people and horses to directly intercept Cao Cao's army in the middle of the road. In this regard, I don't need you to kill how many people Cao Jun can kill, as long as you can drag Cao Jun on the spot as much as possible, this is your first achievement. Pang Tongle nodded to the order of the Shanyue Army, which had never been on the battlefield since joining Li Shengjun. In his opinion, this tactic of using infantry as a mobile force to carry out a large-scale attack can only be done by the Shanyue soldiers who are accustomed to living in the mountains.

"No!" Aliza, who had slightly pale sideburns, stood up in leather armor, just like Yang Xu Zheng Ping did. Under Li Sheng's account, he also had a life of six or seven years, although his bold temper was the same as before, but in terms of the whole person's behavior and tone, he was no different from the real Han people. If it weren't for the leather armor on his body that was very Shanyue-style to reveal his identity, otherwise anyone who asked him would be regarded as a veteran of the Han people. What is the essential difference between the Han people and the Shanyue people? I'm afraid no one can say it clearly.

Now that he listened to his own military advisor send the order to his own hands at once, and let himself take on such an important task, his wrinkled face suddenly showed a smile that was completely stacked with goosebumps. Although this smile is really a little ugly, everyone can see his sincerity and the pride and gratitude behind his sincerity.

Li Sheng is his lord and the benefactor of their Shanyue people, maybe not seven years ago, but after seven years, all the Shanyue people think so. Under Li Sheng's rule, the living standards of the Shanyue people improved day by day, and in just seven years, they enjoyed a life that they had not thought of for hundreds of years, and they got the equality he expected. They couldn't be more grateful. They voluntarily stepped on Li Sheng's chariot, just to be able to repay Li Sheng for being kind to them. In their hearts, only Li Sheng can become their ruler, and as for the others, they don't recognize it at all, whether it is Cao Cao in the north or anyone else.

Soldier, die for his confidant.

The firmness in Aliza's eyes made Pang Tong very pleased. He nodded slightly, and then continued to issue orders: "General Zhou Rui! ”

"The last general!" Zhou Rui, who had been waiting a little anxiously on the side, quickly jumped up: "Please give the order to the military advisor." ”

"Your troops are all cavalry, and you are fast enough. He also asked General Zhou Rui to lead the people of the headquarters to wait at the intersection of Huarong Road from the main road. If Cao Cao's soldiers come, they will quickly intercept and kill him, not once, but many times, and there is no need to directly obtain Cao Cao's life in the array, just keep hitting him and drag him as much as possible. Pang Tong explained the intention of this order to Zhou Rui in detail.

Li Sheng and Pang Tong had already discussed how to deal with the attack on the remnants of Cao's army: that is, to fight Cao Cao's army as much as possible, kill Cao Cao's generals and strategists, but let Cao Cao go alone.

In the eyes of Li Sheng and Pang Tong, Cao Cao's existence is undoubtedly the key to ensuring stability in the north. You can weaken Cao Cao's forces as much as possible in this battle, but you must not wipe Cao Cao out. After all, the best thing for me right now is three points, not two. If Cao Cao dies, Jiangdong will inevitably be powerful, and the result of Jiangdong's strength is that there is no good fruit to eat on his side.

"It is necessary for Cao Cao to contain Jiangdong, so that it is impossible for them to spend all their energy on us." Li Sheng and Pang Tong discussed for a long time, and exchanged letters with Kong Ming Feixin a few times, and finally the result of the discussion was this.

As a general, even if he is very close to his lord, Zhou Rui also can't guess the intentions of Pang Tong and Li Sheng, but the military advisor said so, and his lord did not say anything against it, so he knew that his lord also had the same opinion as the military advisor. Why does it have to be this way? Zhou Rui didn't understand much, but he couldn't object. In fact, at this time, he didn't care whether he could kill Cao Cao, but the fact that he would lead an army to carry out a task alone. This was a fact that made him very happy, and he did not hesitate to take the order from Pang Tong's hand at the moment, and responded loudly: "No! ”

"General Song De is responsible for the defense of Hanyang City, and the rest of the generals will go to the Chibi Formation with the lord to meet the enemy, and defeat the Cao army headquarters from the front to open the door to the victory of our army." After handing over the task of attacking independently to the generals one by one, Pang Tong finally gave the final order to the remaining generals - to act with the lord, which was the key to the final order.

In the midst of the sound of promises, the crowd dispersed. Only Li Sheng and Pang Tong were left on both sides of the case. Li Sheng turned his head and stared sideways at the brightly lit map screen behind him, with a faint look of worry on his face. The uneasiness in his heart made him really uncomfortable. In fact, he also knew that he should be extremely calm at this moment, but with the tranquility of that moment step by step, his heart could not be calm.

"Can we change history even further?" He didn't know, so his heart was upset.

"What is the lord worried about?" Seeing that Li Sheng had not spoken for a long time, and seeing the brows on his forehead slightly raised, Pang Tong seemed to understand something, and asked out loud.

"Worried?" Listening to Pang Tong's question, knowing that he had seen through his thoughts, Li Sheng was slightly ashamed, and then very indifferent, he nodded lightly to Pang Tong, and directly said the doubts in his heart: "Does Shiyuan think our deployment today can be successful?" ”

"Well...... this one" Pang Tong groaned for a moment and shook his head slightly.

"Can't make it?" Seeing Pang Tong shaking his head, Li Sheng's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but raise his voice a little: "If you can't succeed, why don't you stop me?" Well! ”

"Why stop it?" Pang Tong smiled: "The worry in the lord's heart is really big, did I say that it will never be successful?" ”

"Huh? Do you play me? Li Sheng looked at Pang Tong, and couldn't help but feel a little angry in his heart. He glared at Pang Tong viciously, but the worry on his face dissipated without a trace at this moment.

"I can't count it, it's the lord who will be wrong." Pang Tong still looked indifferent with the presence of an old god: "The reason why I shook my head is not to say with certainty that our plan will not work, but that the lord's plan is a bit big, and to make such a big move, there are five or five points of success or failure, which gives people a feeling of gambling." ”

"How do you feel like betting?" Li Sheng was slightly stunned, but laughed indifferently: "If you are gambling, you are gambling." When you're confused, isn't every decision you make a gamble? I also know that our shelves are a little too big this time, but otherwise, how can we talk about rapid development. If you miss this opportunity to fight Cao Cao, I am afraid that it will be difficult to beat Cao Cao like this in the future. It's not that we don't know what kind of ability Cao Cao has. ”

"Since the lord knows this so well, what else is the lord worried about?" Pang Tong looked at Li Sheng puzzled.

"Worried about what?" Li Sheng froze for a moment, racked his brains and thought about it, and finally came up with a result: "Although I understand that this is a gamble, and although I have prepared how to give up after failure, I still have a deep fear of failure in my heart." I'm afraid of failure, I don't want to give up, that's why I'm worried. ”

"Has the lord worked hard? Have you done your best for everything today? Pang Tong asked again.

"I guess I did my best." Li Sheng smiled bitterly: "I know how much level I have." To be able to do this step is already my limit. ”

"Then the lord shouldn't be like this. Although it is a gamble, but at this moment the manpower has been exhausted, and success is no longer something we can predict. If we can say to ourselves that we have no regrets, that's enough. In fact, we are not absolutely weak, and even if we fail, we have a chance to get back up. After all, we still have the land of Jingnan. Compared with Liu Bei, who has already reached the edge of the cliff and can only do the last battle against the water, we are already much better. If the lord feels that this is not enough, and is worried, then Liu Bei, who is more worse than us, shouldn't it be better to wipe his neck as soon as possible? Pang Tong patiently persuaded Li Sheng.

"This ......" Li Sheng was silent, he was thinking about Pang Tong's words. He bowed his head and groaned. When he raised his head again after a long time, there was no so-called diffuse in his eyes. He was no longer worried, because he knew that he had done his best, and as for whether he could succeed in the end, it depended not only on the full strength of himself and his generals in the next step, but also on the so-called ethereal luck. Li Sheng didn't believe much about this statement before he came here, but after coming to this era, Li Sheng recalled his strange situation, but he couldn't help but believe that in that darkness, there was indeed an invisible hand silently changing everything for everyone. Although this feeling of being mastered is very bad, Li Sheng knows that he is basically powerless to change all this. For him, everything is only after doing his best, and then he is resigned to fate.

"Is it up to man to plan things, and heaven to make things happen? I understood this truth a long time ago, why is it still not a picture today? Li Sheng shook his head and shook off the troubles in his heart. He laughed faintly, bored with all the inexplicable things in front of him. "Shiyuan, thank you very much." He sincerely bowed his hand to Pang Tong.

"Don't dare, worrying about the Lord is our duty as courtiers." Pang Tong waved his hand again and again, looking humble and undaring.

"Alas, what are you polite? It's just the two of us here. Do you and I still need to be so polite? Li Sheng shook his head, his face full of indifference.

"It's just the two of us, but this is the Chinese military tent." Pang Tong pretended to be serious, but the smile hidden in his eyes completely exposed the arrogance in his bones. He's not a serious guy, he always has been.

"You......" Li Sheng shook his head helplessly, and then laughed.

It rained heavily overnight and listened when it was supposed to be the sun rising. Li Sheng, who was waiting on the warship early, quickly sent his spies to the mast to take a look.

"When the Jiangdong Army came against the river, it was the time when our army set off. So the movement of boats on the river is very important to us, and I need to know every change here. Li Sheng said with a serious expression to Yang Xu, the commander of the naval army standing beside him.

Yang Xu was the water commander of the battle, while Li Sheng was the commander-in-chief of the entire campaign. Although Li Sheng himself did not understand the water battle array, he ordered Yang Xu to be in charge of all this, but Li Sheng had the qualifications and power to realize his intentions. "You have to do what I need, and as for what you do, that's your freedom." Li Sheng has always said this to his generals.

The boat rode the wind blowing behind it and quickly broke through the river in front of it. As the warship quickly moved north, Li Sheng's long-awaited information finally came: "Five miles ahead, I found the Jiangdong Navy Fleet, with twenty cyan ships!" ”

"Well, it seems to be Huang Gai's troops. Let's drop anchor on this river. Well, you can step back a bit, in short, just watch the fire from the other side. Li Sheng listened to the information, tilted his head and thought about it, and said directly to Yang Xu.

"That's all." Regarding the words of the lord Li Sheng, because it involved the deployment of the fleet, Yang Xu did not immediately agree, he first thought about it with his own brain, and felt that there was nothing wrong with it, before finally nodding.

At this moment, Li Shengjun's fleet was located about thirty miles away from Cao's Chibi military camp. Although it was still in the line of sight of Cao Jun's lookout, because of the fog on the river at the moment, Li Shengjun's fleet only had about 20 warships, which did not seem huge, so standing on the river did not attract much attention from Cao Jun. Right now, their eyes were attracted by the Huang Gai army coming from across the river, and they couldn't notice this fleet, which was further south.

Because the iron anchor of the battleship had been dropped, there was no possibility of engaging Cao Jun for a while, so Li Sheng naturally came to the high platform on the top of the battleship. This is a place with a wide field of vision, with the river breeze blowing from behind, looking at the misty scenery like a light veil in the north, Li Sheng is almost looking at it with wide eyes. Although he couldn't see the truth anyway because of the distance, he vaguely noticed that he understood one thing very clearly, that is, the Huanggai fleet that was preparing to go to Cao Ying in Jiangbei was too slow, and it looked like a lazy turtle from a distance, and it took a long time to move forward a little bit.

"What exactly are they doing? Isn't it a tailwind now? Why is it still moving so slowly? Li Sheng didn't know about the water war, and was very suspicious of Huang Gai's actions: "Don't they want to defeat Cao Cao's army?" Or did Huang Gai, the old guy, simply want to fake the show? Looking at this scene from afar, Li Sheng's thoughts were full of malice.