The next day, the Jiangdong Army continued to storm the South Pass of Juchao.

After three consecutive days of attacking, the pits and ditches outside Nanguan have been basically filled, and even the moat has been filled in by the Jiangdong Army for more than a dozen passable passages.

However, except for the lack of preparation of the defenders on the first day and being caught off guard by Zhou Tai's Ruishi battalion, the Jiangdong army had no chance to attack the city in the next two days.

It is not for nothing that Ji Ling can become the number one general under Yuan Shu's account.

Compared with field battles, Ji Ling, who is calm and lacks sharpness, is better at defending the city.

After leaving behind hundreds of corpses and more than a dozen broken siege equipment, the Jiangdong Army, which had been storming for a whole day, retreated like a tide again.

(Dividing Line)

Late at night, everything is silent.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu appeared on a small hillside in front of Chisong Gang wrapped in a big tree.

Zhou Yu was a little worried about Sun Ce's body, and persuaded: "Bo Fu, the cold at night is too heavy, why don't you go back?" ”

"Don't drive me away, I can't sit still even if I go back." Sun Ce said, "Besides, now that the entire camp is full of fire-causing things, wouldn't it be more dangerous for me to go back?" ”

Zhou Yu was dumbfounded, he forgot that the Jiangdong Army had put on a good show tonight.

In order to lure Yuan into the bar, Zhou Yu was determined to pay for the entire camp plus a large amount of grain and grass equipment, no way, if not accompanied by grain and grass and equipment, with the current weather, the fire could not burn at all, you must know that the hurricane has just passed, the land of Jianghuai is still damp, if there is not enough fire to ignite, the fire will not burn at all.

Sun Ce said again: "Gongjin, do you think Yuan Xiao'er will come?" ”

"He'll come." Zhou Yu said firmly, "It will be!" ”

Sun Ce was surprised and asked, "Why is Gong Jin so sure?" ”

Zhou Yu said: "Yuan Wei has only fought a few battles of Liao Liao since his debut, first Shouchun Beiguan led the army to fight back to the death, then Xia Cai deceived and defeated Tai Shici, and then ambushed Bo Fu outside the North Gate of Longkang, and finally Chaohu personally assassinated Zibu, if, these four battles are connected, Bo Fu, what have you ever discovered?" ”

Sun Ce shook his head and asked, "What did you find?" ”

Zhou Yu said: "I found that Yuan Wei won these four battles in danger. ”

"Winning in the face of danger?" Sun Ce said, "It's true, Yuan Nuo'er is really insidious and cunning." ”

"Yuan is not just cunning." Zhou Yu said, "At the same time, it is enough to show that Yuan is a gambler with a heavy gambling mentality, but any gambler will inevitably not be able to resist the temptation!" Ma Zhong's deception has enough temptation, because, if Ma Zhong really surrenders, Yuan will have a chance to make Jiangdong change hands in a battle! ”

"The First World War made Jiangdong change hands?" Sun Ce was awe-struck when he heard this.

If Ma Zhong really surrendered, if Ma Zhong really burned down the Jiangdong camp, and Yuan personally led the iron cavalry to raid at night, then the 30,000 Jiangdong troops under Chisonggang could really collapse, and he Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were also very likely to die in the chaos.

Thinking of this, Sun Ce couldn't help but let out a cold sweat, and at the same time, he was secretly vigilant in his heart, it seemed that for the sake of Sun's foundation, he would have to spare his life in the future, but he could no longer take the lead and charge into battle like before.

Zhou Yu smiled and said, "So, I expect that Yuan will definitely come." ”

Before Zhou Yu's words fell, Lu Meng suddenly came over with two sets of robes and said, "Lord, Governor, it's raining again, you should quickly put on your robes." ”

It turned out that Sun Ce and Zhou Yu had no distractions, and they didn't notice that it was raining again.

At first, the rain was still light, but after a while, the rain gradually became heavier.

Zhou Yu sighed, reached out and took the coat from Lu Meng's hand, Lu Meng came over, and was about to help Zhou Yu put on the robe, but Zhou Yu suddenly shouted: "Ah! ”

Sun Ce was taken aback and said hurriedly: "What's the matter, Gongjin?" ”

"It's broken, it's broken!" Zhou Yu's face suddenly turned pale, and he hurriedly said, "It's broken!" ”

"Gongjin, what's broken?" Sun Ce said hurriedly, "You say it quickly, it's really a person who is in a hurry." ”

"One hundred secrets, one hundred secrets!" Zhou Yu stomped his feet and said with great annoyance, "We prepared a monstrous fire for Yuan Wei, but we didn't expect that if it rained heavily, how would the fire burn?" I didn't even think of this layer when I was negligent, a mistake, a mistake! ”

"Huh? This ......" Sun Ce was also instantly petrified.

When I looked up again, I saw that the rain was getting heavier and heavier.

Lu Meng hurriedly said: "Why don't you pass on Ma Zhong and cancel the operation?" ”

"It's too late." Zhou Yu sighed, "The time has come. ”

(Dividing Line)

Under Chisong Gang, Yuan Fu's eight hundred horsemen have been waiting for a long time.

The sentinel cavalry reported that everything was as usual in the Jiangdong battalion, and no abnormalities were found.

Yuan Wei had even ordered the whole army to surprise when the fire in the camp ignited!

Originally, Yuan Nuo was determined to personally lead the army to kick the camp, or Liu Ye persuaded the villains to finally persuade Yuan No, and only ordered the two military marquis to lead the army to kick the camp.

Time, quietly passing in a suffocating wait.

However, at this time, it began to drizzle again in the sky.

The June day in Jianghuai was really a child's face, and in a blink of an eye, a light rain became a torrential rain.

Liu Ye rode his horse two steps forward and said to Yuan Wei: "Son, there is a sudden heavy rain at night, Ma Zhong is afraid that there is no way to raise the fire, if the fire can't be burned, the Jiangdong Army will not be in chaos, if the Jiangdong Army is not chaotic, even if Ma Zhong is the internal response, we don't have the slightest chance, why don't we return to the army?" ”

Yuan Wei was silent, he knew that Liu Ye's words were right, such a heavy rain, the fire couldn't burn at all, if he couldn't set the fire, Ma Zhong and a dozen Qingzhou soldiers under him alone couldn't make any waves, if the Jiangdong army was not chaotic, his eight hundred horsemen alone couldn't help anything.

But Yuan refused to give up.

It's a shame to give up such a great opportunity if you don't try it.

You know, such an opportunity may be once in a lifetime!

Yuan Wei waved his hand and said categorically: "No, wait a little longer." ”

"Wait?" Liu Ye looked at Yuan No, a little puzzled.

"yes, wait." Yuan no also has a reason to insist.

Yuan Wei deeply knows that the turning point of the war often appears at the last moment of persistence, and there are two extremely classic examples of war in the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty.

One is the Battle of Guandu.

After the battle of Guandu entered the stage of stalemate, Cao Cao felt that he couldn't hold on several times, it was too hard, too tired, he wanted to withdraw his troops, but Xun Yu persuaded him to hold on a little longer, and the result was this last insistence, Cao Cao waited for the biggest turnaround, Xu Yu surrendered Cao, and then burned the Wuchao army food, and the Cao army won a big victory.

The other is the battle of Hanzhong, which also entered the stage of stalemate, but unfortunately Xun Yu had already died of illness for many years at this time, but no one persuaded Cao Cao to hold on any longer, and as a result, Cao Cao was unable to hold on, and then retreated into a fiasco, and finally if Cao Zhang did not desperately strangle the Meridian Valley, the entire Guanzhong would have belonged directly to Liu Bei.

Although the battle in front of us is far from being comparable to the battles of Guandu and Hanzhong, some truths are the same.

In all battles, the one who laughs to the end is often not the most powerful, nor the most capable of fighting, but the most tenacious in heart.

Therefore, Yuan doesn't want to give up, it is indeed raining heavily at the moment, and this fire really can't be burned, but even if the fire can't be burned, how do you know that there will be no other opportunities?

(Dividing Line)

Yuan was unwilling, but Ma Zhong was already so anxious that he jumped there.

The rain is so heavy, not to mention the pouring fire that burns all over the camp, even if it is difficult to put a few torches on the gate, not to mention, how can a few torches lure Yuan Jun into the camp?

If Yuan's army can't be lured into the camp, how can it be surrounded and annihilated?

You need to know that the Yuan army came with cavalry, but the Jiangdong army no longer had a formed cavalry, and went out of the camp to pursue? In addition to following Yuan Jun's horse and eating mud, what else can be good?

What to do? What to do? What can I do?

"General, the fire can't be burned at all!" A Qingzhou soldier suppressed his voice and shouted.

As he spoke, the other twelve Qingzhou soldiers also came back in disgrace, and when they looked around, there was no fire burning at all, and the heavy rain was too urgent.

"General, let's fight."

"Yes, fight with the Jiangdong Army!"

"Sun Ce is unkind, don't blame us for being unjust!"

"That's it, let this group of Jiangdong rats taste the power of our Qingzhou Erlang!"

These thirteen Qingzhou soldiers didn't know the inside story of the fraudulent surrender, and said that Ma Zhong really planned to defect.

The fierce light in Ma Zhong's eyes flashed, and he immediately decided: "Go, follow me to capture Yuanmen!" ”

Now, there is no other choice but to retreat and infiltrate Yuan Ying to wait for the opportunity to assassinate.

After speaking, Ma Zhong strode out of his military tent, and then pulled his bow and arrows, and shot over a Jiangdong sentry guarding the Yuanmen guard tower dozens of steps away with only one arrow.

Behind Ma Zhong, thirteen Qingzhou soldiers unleashed their ring-headed swords one after another, and they roared sky-shattering.

"Kill, kill, kill, kill ......"