At this time, it was almost evening, Liu Cong was sitting in the tent, discussing military chores with several generals, and Wei Yan came in.

Seeing this, Liu Cong hurriedly asked, "What did Wen Chang find when he went over to investigate?" ”

Wei Yan unsheathed his sword and said, "Well, lord, I'm afraid that the original battle plan will be difficult to implement. ”

"Why?"

"The last general made a detour of the Fancheng city wall to inspect half a circle, and found that the Fancheng city wall was really tall and strong. They are all made of stone bricks and white ash joints, which are solid!

It can be seen that Cao Ren has indeed made a lot of painstaking efforts to build the city wall of Fancheng in recent years.

The last general fought for several years, and this was the first time he had seen such a tall and sturdy castle. Well, however, from the construction of this city wall, we can see the psychological dynamics of Man Cong Cao Ren - the two of them are determined to defend this lonely city. ”

Wei Yan stopped here and looked at Liu Cong, waiting for his reaction.

Liu Cong smiled and asked: "When you went to Xingshi in the past, you saw the tall and majestic city wall of Fancheng, and you didn't see anything else?" ”

"Well, besides, the moat is very deep. The moat of this Fancheng is also built strangely, it is a semicircle to protect Fancheng on three sides, both ends are connected with the Han River, the upstream introduces the Han River, the water flow has a zhang deep and two zhang wide, and the flow is very rapid.

Well, the last general took a closer look, and saw that the bare banks on both sides of the moat of Fancheng were full of stones, and he didn't know how to dig this moat at that time.

Anyway, one thing is for sure, the original plan we designed to dig tunnels and blast them seems to be difficult to implement.

Half a foot below the ground, it was full of stones, and the tunnel could not be dug, so I had to give up.

My lord, let's design another battle plan. ”

Liu Cong heard Wei Yan say this, thought for a while and asked, "Do you see that there are stone walls on both sides of the moat?" Isn't there a place where it's dirt? ”

"You can see that some places are not stones, but most of them are stones. In general, I personally feel that it is not possible to conquer Fancheng by digging tunnels. ”

Liu Cong didn't say anything when he heard this, and when he saw that it was almost dusk, he ordered the generals: "Let's go and have dinner." After the meal, the vigilance was strengthened, and the sentinels were sent far away to pay attention to the checkpoints. ”

The generals agreed to disperse.

At dinner, Liu Cong and Wei Yan both had thoughts, so they just ate silently and rarely spoke.

While eating, Liu Cong thought about the new siege plan, he thought: "The walls of Fancheng are tall, the moat is deep and wide, although the number of Cao soldiers in the city is small, but they are all soldiers who can recruit and fight.

In addition, this Cao Renman's pet has been operating in Fancheng for many years, and most of the young adults in the city are psychologically close to Cao Bing.

Therefore, in the event that our army attacks the city, it is not only 7,000 Cao soldiers who defend on the city wall, but also tens of thousands of young and middle-aged people in the city, which is a small force.

Well, although the young and middle-aged people of Fancheng have not been killed in battle formations and lack of experience in battle, they all stand on the city wall and throw cannon stones and sassalwood, which is enough for our army to bear. Hehe, in this case, it is difficult to blow up the city wall with gunpowder, even to carry gunpowder to the root of the wall. ”

Wei Yan was thinking the same way now, and the magnificent scene of gunpowder explosion appeared in his consciousness, "It's really a good thing, I can't imagine that it is so powerful." The thunder is general, the thunder is in the sky, and with the thunder, are you afraid of blowing up Fancheng?

However, this day, Lei Ye also managed to transport it to the bottom of the city wall of Fancheng, and only when it was transported to the root of the city wall and exploded could the city wall be overturned. But how do you get there? As long as it is transported over and the city wall is blown down, our soldiers rush up, and Fancheng will be in hand in an instant. ”

Thinking of this, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, Wei Yan had an idea, immediately put down his rice bowl, raised his head and opened his mouth and said, "Lord, I have a plan, which is enough to blow up the walls of Fancheng." ”

Liu Cong said, "You can tell me and listen to it." ”

Wei Yan said that as long as this is the case, Fancheng will be broken, "Our army was ambushed not far away in advance, but when the city wall was blown up, we immediately launched a charge, as long as we entered Fancheng City, our army outnumbered Cao's soldiers, and Fancheng could be recovered in less than half a day." ”

As Wei Yan spoke, Liu Cong nodded again and again, and when Wei Yan finished speaking, Liu Cong replied, "Okay, let's do it like this tomorrow." ”

After Liu Cong finished speaking, he lowered his head and thought for a while, thinking: "Wei Yan is also a famous general, brave in battle, and good at leading troops. The conditions for conquering Fancheng have been met, and this task will be handed over to Wei Yanxing. In the future, there are many things that I don't have to do by myself, and I should train the ability of my subordinate generals to take charge of themselves. ”

So he ordered: "Wei Yan, from today onwards, the heavy task of conquering Fancheng will be handed over to you." I'm only in the big camp. Dispatch troops and command battles, it's all up to you. Hehe, do you have confidence? ”

When Wei Yan heard this, he immediately came to his senses, stood up and clasped his fists and saluted: "The last general thanks the lord for his trust, and he will definitely complete the task successfully!" ”

That night, Wei Yan couldn't sleep, and called the deputy general Ma Yuan Liu Changyun and ordered: "You two will bring people back to the camp tomorrow, and ask Liu Bin to help us buy 10,000 bags or straw bales for our army to use in the siege of the city." ”

Ma Yuan Liu Changyun agreed, and returned to the Partridge Ridge camp the next day and requisitioned 10,000 straw bales. After Wei Yan received the straw bales brought back by Ma Yuan and Liu Changyun, he came over to report to Liu Cong.

So the two worked together on the battle plan.

On the third day, Liu Congwei Yan ordered the soldiers, in addition to carrying weapons, with a straw bale, and thus boarded the road to the front line in Fancheng.

10,000 soldiers walked on the road, the formation was very good, each with a straw bag in the crook of the arm, and outsiders did not know what task this was a battalion to carry out.

The two of them took the men and horses and came to the outside of Fancheng in less than an hour.

At this time, it was the middle of the day, the fog, and the fog covered a city of Fan in a hazy way.

Liu Cong, Wei Yan and several deputy generals stood not far from the moat, and when they looked up at Fancheng, they couldn't see the situation of the enemy army at all.

The whole Fancheng just stood there in the mist, quietly without any sound, as if it was a ghost town, and there was no population at all.

After Wei Yan asked Liu Cong, he arranged the formation, and when he came to the moat with more than a dozen deputy generals and his own soldiers to look down, he saw that the moat was flowing surgingly, and the low trees on the other side of the moat were hazy, and there was no sound at all.

Wei Yan was puzzled, suddenly heard a drum sound, and then a killing sound shouted, Wei Yan hurriedly stared and took a closer look, only to see a group of Cao soldiers killed from the low bushes, and the whirlwind killed the other side of the moat, one by one, pulling their bows and releasing arrows, and for a while, the arrows rained over, and several of their own soldiers had already fallen to the ground with arrows in the panic.

Wei Yan hurriedly commanded the team to retreat, and the Cao soldiers continued to shoot arrows, Wei Yan only felt that his waist was hit by something for a while, and he knew that it was not good, so he hurriedly hit the horse and ran out a few steps away.

Wei Yan took out a hand and touched it behind him, but he touched an arrow shaft, which was tightly tied into the armor on his waist.

Wei Yanchang tore off the cluster of arrows with his hand, drew out his carved bow, and took this arrow to shoot at Cao Bing on the other side, but he couldn't tell if it had hit Cao Bing, so he shouted at his own soldiers behind him to come and shoot.

By the time the Jingzhou soldiers rushed over and stood on their heels and shot arrows at the opposite bank, Cao Bing had already turned over and retreated into the thick fog.

Wei Yan knew that the enemy's situation was unknown and did not dare to attack without authorization, so he ordered his soldiers and horses to withdraw to the formation and wait for the fog to dissipate before making plans.

It turned out that the day before yesterday, Wei Yan led his troops to inspect Fancheng, and he came over like a tour of the mountains and rivers, and he didn't take Cao Ren and Manzhong and the seven thousand Cao soldiers in Fancheng in his eyes at all, this move was simply intolerable for Cao Ren. If it weren't for the estimation of his lack of strength, Cao Ren would never have let Wei Yan go like this. If you don't rush out of the city with troops and fight Wei Yan, you can't live or die.

After Wei Yan led the troops away, Cao Ren was full of favors and talked about the motives of the Jingzhou soldiers coming.

In fact, Wei Yan's motive was obvious, that is, to come over to inspect the garrison of Fancheng, so that he could attack the city later.

Cao Ren is a high-spirited general, and among the military generals in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Ren has not taken any of them into his eyes.

At that time, it was said that Lu Bu was brave and invincible, and Cao Ren thought to himself: "Heroic and invincible ball!" If they all bring the same soldiers and generals to the battle, Lu Bu will dare to win against me? ”

Now Cao Ren is here to Cao Cao with half of the sky in the south, Cao Ren knows that he has a great responsibility, in such a psychological state and environment, Wei Yan led two thousand Jingzhou soldiers to come over and swayed under Cao Ren's eyelids.

So after coming down from the city wall and entering the yamen, Cao Ren's anger still didn't find a place to vent, and he was sitting next to the case sulking at this time.

Man Pet came over to adjust the atmosphere and comforted: "Zixiao, don't get angry??????

"Can I not get angry? Let Wei Yan's kid take two thousand people and horses on a wandering trip, as if entering a no-man's land. Can I not get angry? Whitney. ”“

We didn't hurt a single soldier. ”

"It's worse than a slap in the face. It's not a matter of one soldier and one soldier, and it has no face in front of the soldiers. Damn,. ”

"Well, I have an idea, why don't we let Jingzhou soldiers suffer some losses!"

"Okay. I'm thinking like that right here, but we're passive now. Just this little bit of people, how can they suffer? ”

"Well, Zixiao, listen to me. Now, the entire Jingzhou barracks, including Liu Cong, thought that we could only take a defensive position, and would never dare to go out of the city to compete with them. You say, Zixiao, do they think so? ”

Cao Ren rolled his eyes and thought for a moment and said, "Yes, it must be so." Otherwise, how dare this Wei Yan kid be like this, and there is no one in his eyes. ”

"So I thought, Wei Yan came to investigate our defense, and he will definitely report to Liu Cong when he returns. Then study the siege plan.

They were only planning to attack the city, and they would never have thought that we would go out of the city to fight back.

Well, let's do something they don't expect and clean them up. It's best to kill this Wei Yan, even if you can't kill him, let them lose their troops and give them some color, so that they don't dare to underestimate Uncle Cao Zixiao, the defender of Fancheng. ”

When Cao Ren heard this, he laughed, stood up and said, "You say, what method do you use to teach them?" ”

Manchu then told his plan, and then said, "As long as we do this, we will surely reap the rewards." ”

As a result, there was an incident where Wei Yan was shot in the back by Cao Bing next to the Fancheng trench this morning.

However, he said that after Wei Yan led his troops to retreat into the distance, he ordered the soldiers to set up a position, but then try to attack the city after the fog cleared.

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