In the intrigue with peerless commanders such as Zhou Yu and Cao Cao, as well as peerless strategists such as Xun You and Guo Jia, Yuan Fu's abilities in all aspects are growing at an astonishing rate, just like playing chess, playing against a master whose level is better than yours, your chess skills can always improve rapidly, and Yuan No's growth is particularly amazing.

In particular, Yuan No's insight ability has grown rapidly.

Therefore, Yuan Wei easily discovered Cao Jun's abnormality.

Isn't it, isn't it? It's all night, why did Cao Junshui Village make so many torches?

It stands to reason that in order to prevent Yuan's army from attacking at night, Cao Jun should have lit a large number of torches, especially on the perimeter fence and guard tower, how much is the Songming torch worth, right?

However, now, there are few torches on the fence of Cao's barracks.

What's going on? Could it be that there is a reason in between?

Yuan Fu's eyes narrowed habitually, and his brain began to move rapidly.

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Zhuyi Water Village.

Xu Huang is inspecting the camp.

"Extinguish, extinguish all the extra torches!" Seeing several torches set up behind a section of fence, Xu Huang immediately shouted, "One torch every ten steps is enough, extinguish all the extra torches." ”

Xu Huang is cautious by nature, which is his strength, but also his weakness, especially at a ≡certain time, his character will become an Achilles' heel.

For example, now, Xu Huang's cautious personality has become the most fatal weakness.

Xu Huang knew that there was a circle of sulfur and fire on the periphery of the Zhuyi Water Village, and hundreds of thousands of catties of hay were stored in the village. His army of five thousand was like squatting in the crater. Can you be cautious? Can you accidentally fire a candle?

So. Xu Huang strictly ordered his soldiers to be careful with the candles, and the number of torches was also strictly controlled.

Xu Huang patrolled back and forth while shouting loudly: "Listen well, be careful of the candle." ”

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On the hill bag, Yuan still didn't mean to go.

Liu Ye said: "Childe, it's dark, let's go down?" ”

"Don't rush yet." Yuan Wei waved his hand and asked Liu Ye. "Ziyang, have you found it?"

"Found what?" Liu Ye was a little dazed, although he was also a man of great resourcefulness, he was better at political strategy, and his insight could not be compared with a first-class wise man like Guo Jiafazheng.

"Torch!" Yuan Wei said, "Ziyang, you see, there are very few torches in Cao's camp. ”

Liu Ye took a closer look and found that there were really not many torches in Cao's camp, especially near the outer fence fortifications, and the number of torches was even rarer. This is very different from the normal situation.

Yuan Wei asked Liu Ye again: "Ziyang, do you say it's a little strange?" ”

"Indeed." Liu Ye nodded and said. "It's a bit of an anomaly."

Yuan Wei said twice, and said: "There is a way, there must be a reason for everything, Cao Jun will never shoot torches without a reason, is it just to save money and food?" Cao Jun will not not know, the number of torches is insufficient, the lighting will be insufficient, and the lack of lighting is very likely to be attacked by us to break through the fence. ”

"Indeed." Liu Ye nodded again and said, "Stealing shouldn't be as simple as saving money." ”

Yuan Wei said: "If it wasn't to save money, then it would be interesting, there are not many generals surnamed Xu under Cao Cao, and there are only two generals surnamed Xu and making the mountain axe, and the one who can defeat Zhou Cang in one round can only be Xu Huang, Xu Huang is cautious by nature, Ziyang You say, is he preventing something?" ”

"Prevention?" Liu Ye said, "Childe is saying that Xu Huang is worried that he will go off?" ”

"Gone off?" Yang Hong, who hadn't spoken much, suddenly interjected, "This can't be, Zhuyi is a water village, just next to Suishui, it's not too convenient to get water, even if there is a fire, isn't it very convenient to get water to extinguish the fire?" What is there to worry about? Xu Huang is too cautious. ”

"Overcautious? Not necessarily. Yuan said, "What if it is a fire that cannot be extinguished by water?" ”

"A fire that water can't extinguish?" Yang Hong said, "How can it not be extinguished unless sulfur and fire are added with oil?" Scare......"

Halfway through the words, Yang Hong's face changed greatly, and he couldn't go on, because he suddenly thought of a possibility, should Cao Jun really bury sulfur and fire in Zhuyi Water Village, and then wait until it really can't be held, and wait for Yuan Jun to attack the Water Village, and then ignite these sulfur and fire nitrate, in that case......

Thinking of this, Yang Hong didn't dare to think about it anymore.

Liu Ye also said in a deep voice: "Childe, this really can't be guarded against." ”

Yuan Wei nodded, turned his head and shouted, "Where is Liang Gang?" ”

Liang Gang hurriedly stepped forward and replied loudly: "The end will be here." ”

Yuan Wei said: "Immediately lead the people of the headquarters to cut down pine in the forest, the more the better!" ”

"No!" Liang Gang agreed and took the order.

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"Ahem, cough, cough......" After a heart-rending violent cough, Guo Jia suddenly fell off the horse.

"Strategist!"

"Strategist!"

Cao Hong, who was following Guo Jia, and a few healthy soldiers hurriedly dismounted, and helped Guo Jia up with all hands and feet, and when he looked at it again, he saw that Guo Jia's face was as white as paper, and the whole person was unknown.

Cao Hong was startled, and while hurriedly calling the doctor, he pinched Guo Jia's middle of the people hard.

When Cao Cao arrived, Guo Jia happened to wake up quietly, and Guo Jia saw Cao Cao at a glance.

"Lord, I've worried you." Guo Jia smiled apologetically at Cao Cao, and said, "It seems that my body is really not done, alas." ”

Cao Cao waved his hand and said reproachfully: "Fengxiao, don't talk soon, blame me for not being good, knowing that your serious illness has not yet recovered, but still agreeing to let you go with the army, so that you fell ill on the way." ”

"Don't say that, my lord." Guo Jia shook his head and said, "Lord, the army must not be slowed down because of me, although General Xu Huang is good at fighting, but he is definitely not Yuan No's opponent, if the lord's army can't rush back in time, Yuan Nu will inevitably collapse and go, if Yuan No's go, he will become the lord's henchman one day!" ”

"Yes, I know." Cao Cao nodded again and again and said, "Fengxiao, you can rest assured." ”

After Guo Jia finished explaining, he breathed a long sigh of relief and fell into a coma again.

At this time, the doctor finally finished diagnosing Guo Jia's pulse, and in the face of Cao Cao's cold gaze, the doctor whispered: "Lord, the military advisor has not recovered from the cold disease, and the saddle horse is tired, and the qi and blood are deficient, so he fell ill, but the lord can rest assured, although the illness of the military advisor is a chronic disease, it is not a major problem in a short time." ”

"It's all right in the short term?" Cao Cao asked, "How long?" ”

"This ......" The medical craftsman was a little embarrassed when he heard this, but when he saw Cao Cao's eyes became colder and colder, he shivered excitedly, and said stubbornly, "Ten years at most, three years at least, and the medicine stone will be ineffective." ”

"Ten years more? Three years or less? Cao Cao looked down at the unconscious Guo Jia, and sighed, did Guo Jia only have ten years to live at most? Originally, Cao Cao even thought that after his death, he would give his son to Guo Jia, but now it seems that he has to choose another person.

Next to Xun You, Jia Xu, Cheng Yu, Cao Hong, Cao Xiu and other civil and military are also gloomy, although Guo Jia is arrogant and arrogant, and his character is not very good, but his ability is obvious to all, since Guo Jia was put into Cao Cao's command, the Cao Group has almost never suffered any big losses, and the reason why the battle of Wancheng was lost was also because Guo Jia was not there.

However, Cao Cao now can't care about sighing for Guo Jia's fate.

Because now Cao Cao must rush to Zhuyi as soon as possible, lest Yuan Wei slip away.

At that moment, Cao Cao ordered Che Zhou to send Guo Jia back to Xuchang, and then he didn't even care about eating, and personally led the army to continue to rush to Zhuyi at the speed of a forced march.

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Xu Huang was cautious by nature, and it took him two hours to walk through the entire outer fence of the water village to make sure that there were no mistakes, and then he returned to Xingyuan to prepare for dinner.

But by this time, dinner was already cold.

The gang leader was about to reheat Xu Huang, but Xu Huang stopped him.

Xu Huang grabbed a steamed cake that was already cold, and ate it with the vegetable soup.

However, Xu Huang had just taken two bites, but there was a sudden commotion outside.

Xu Huang has a cautious personality, but his majesty is extremely strict, especially strictly prohibiting soldiers from making noise at night, because night noise is particularly easy to cause unpredictable serious investigations, that is, bombing the camp.

At that moment, Xu Huang slammed the soup bowl on the table, then got up and strode out.

However, when Xu Huang walked to Xingyuan, he found that he had mistakenly blamed his subordinates.

At the same time, the anger in Xu Huang's heart also disappeared in an instant, and was replaced by a cold air.

I saw that the torches had been lit outside the Zhuyi Water Village, and the bright firelight almost illuminated the entire night sky as bright as day, and what made Xu Huang even more chilled was that Yuan Jun actually built more than a dozen simple trebuchets, and the trebuchet basket was not filled with stones, but fireballs made of hay!

This is...... Does Yuan Jun want to attack with fire?

Fire attack? This is really the more afraid of something, the more you come, Xu Huang is most afraid of fire, but I didn't expect that Yuan Jun was about to carry out a fire attack, how did you say this?

"Quick, quick, quick!" Xu Huang immediately snorted, "Water dragon, prepare the water dragon!" ”

Xu Huang gave an order, and Cao Jun in the water village immediately rushed to prepare a water dragon, the so-called water dragon is actually a fire-fighting device that can draw water and spray water, similar to a water gun.

However, before Cao Jun could push the water dragon up, more than a dozen blazing fireballs had already risen from Yuan Jun's array, and then dragged a long blazing tail flame and smashed down towards Cao Jun's water village