"Dudu, what are you ......" Ling Tong was in a daze, and was a little surprised, as if he didn't believe that such an incredible order could be given by Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu smiled indifferently, waved his hand and said, "You don't need to ask, just follow the order, and you will see it after ten days." ”

Zhou Yu's calmness and self-confidence made Ling Tong's heart even more troubled, but he had always had a deep trust in the elegant and chic commander in front of him, although he couldn't understand his meaning for a while, but since Zhou Yu had an order, he didn't ask more.

Ling Tong conveyed this order, and as he expected, the entire Wu army was dumbfounded by Zhou Yu's order, and there was a lot of discussion up and down, and no one could guess what their Zhou Dadu meant by it.

What's more, in private, I wondered if the governor of Zhou Dadu had relapsed from his old illness, and his brain was confused.

It's just that the military order is like a mountain, although the soldiers of the Wu army have deep incomprehension, they can only hold a puzzle and act separately according to Zhou Yu's orders.

Ten days later.

After many efforts by the soldiers and the full cooperation of the local officials in the rear, the task assigned by Zhou Yu was finally completed.

Early in the morning, Zhou Yu once again issued an order to siege the city.

The morning glow in the east is warm, and the morning glow embroiders the city and countryside of Hefei with a faint layer of gold edge, and nearly 20,000 Wu troops are arrayed in the south of Hefei.

The soldiers are full of armor, the flag is waving, the whole army is stirring, the soldiers are eager to try, and Baba is looking forward to Hefei City becoming the best stage for himself to become famous.

"The infantry army is in formation, and the artillery carriage is forward."

Zhou Yu reined in the Chinese army, looked at Hefei with a smile on his face, and gave a strange order.

The so-called gun carriage is a simple wooden trebuchet, which can throw stone projectiles at a distance of nearly 200 steps at the farthest by using the primitive principle of carrying the pole.

The advantage of this trebuchet is that it has great lethality and long range, but the disadvantage is that it is extremely inaccurate, and if it wants to be effective, it must gather hundreds of truckloads of artillery stones and launch a saturated attack at the same time, and make up for the lack of accuracy with numbers.

And the trebuchets that were placed in front of the battle this time were only thirty or forty gates, and they could not pose a real threat to the enemy's city walls at all. Therefore, as soon as Zhou Yu gave this order, the soldiers with a little insight would naturally feel strange.

"Push me up with our secret weapon."

The second order was given, and dozens of ox carts came forward from the rear, loaded with clay pots one by one, and the gunners loaded those clay pots on the launch racks with strange looks.

Those who saw this formation were all surprised and surprised.

Only Ling Tong suddenly seemed to guess a few points, and shouted to Zhou Yu in surprise: "Dudu, do you want to ......?"

Ling Tong didn't finish his words, but Zhou Yu knew that he had already understood his plan, so he raised his horsewhip slightly, and said with a smile: "Let's take a good look at the excitement." ”

At this moment, at the head of the city, Zhang Liao and Le Jin were fully armed, leading thousands of Cao troops to stand by, ready to meet another strong attack by the Wu people.

In the offensive and defensive battle of the previous three days and three nights, Zhang Liao and his team successfully repelled the attack of the Wu people, but at the same time, they also saw the strong combat effectiveness of the Wu people, and in the absence of cavalry, the combat power of the two sides was actually comparable.

Originally, Zhang Liao would have thought that the Wu people would continue to attack the city day and night, but what surprised him was that after three days of strong attack, there was a continuous silence for ten days.

The Wu people besieged Hefei City but did not attack, this kind of calm made Zhang Liao feel uneasy, he had a hunch that Zhou Yu must be playing some tricks again, so in the past ten days, he did not dare to relax his vigilance for a moment.

However, what puzzled Zhang Liao was that the Wu people did not make any movement, and until today, they appeared outside the city again in a strong posture.

"General Zhang, what kind of medicine do you think Wu Ren sells in this gourd?" Le Jin asked with a deep brow.

Zhang Liao shook his head and said, "Zhou Yu is a scheming person, and it is really difficult to guess. Have you seen it, what are the Wu people's catapults loaded with? ”

Le Jin stared at it carefully, and his expression suddenly became suspicious, and he said strangely: "It seems that they are all clay pots, using clay pots to attack the city, have the Wu people become crazy?" ”

"It shouldn't be that simple, let's see first." Zhang Liao did not dare to despise it, and immediately ordered the whole army not to slack off, and to prepare to meet the enemy with 12 points of spirit.

In full view of everyone, more than 30 trebuchets were loaded with clay pots, and with an order, the artillery carts fired in unison, and more than 30 clay pots rose into the air and roared towards the city wall.

Although the lethality of the clay pot is not comparable to that of stone bullets, it will definitely hurt a lot if it is smashed on the body, and Sergeant Cao hurriedly leaned down to avoid the female wall.

The hit rate of the Wu people was surprisingly poor, and none of the more than 30 clay pots hit the city, but all of them swept over the city wall and fell straight into the city. The fragile stone jars were touchable and caused almost no damage to the city's premises.

The original nervous mood of the Cao soldiers and soldiers, because of the Wu people's clumsy archery skills, was completely wiped out, thousands of people straightened their waists from under the female wall, and happily watched the Wu people continue the clumsy performance, and the soldiers were mocking and laughing, as if they were watching a joke.

"This Zhou Yu, is he amusing us?" Lejin's mood is also much lighter.

Zhang Liao was not so relaxed, he looked up at the clay pots that passed overhead, and in his confused gaze, the solemn color gradually became heavier.

Zhou Yu is by no means that simple, how could he really do such a stupid thing that makes others laugh!

Suddenly, Zhang Liao realized something, and ran to the other side of the city wall in a few steps, his eyes scanning the city like electricity, carefully staring at the landing point of each clay pot.

Suddenly, there was a kind of horror in his expression.

The clay pots were not empty, but they contained a lot of rats, and as soon as the pots broke, the rats burst out, squeaked and scurried around, and in a blink of an eye fled into the hollow under the stairs of the corner.

"Mouse, the jar is full of mice!" Zhang Liao pointed to the rats scurrying in the city and exclaimed.

Le Jin and the soldiers heard the sound, a swarm of bees pounced towards this side of the city, everyone took a closer look, only to find that the clay pot was indeed full of mice, which in the blink of an eye, the streets and alleys, has been full of rats, this Hefei City has become a big rat nest.

"Wen Yuan, what do you mean by Zhou Yu this time, this is too, too ......"

Facing this absurd and strange scene, Le Jin didn't know how to describe the strong surprise in his heart for a while.

Zhang Liao suddenly realized, his expression suddenly became extremely solemn, and he gritted his teeth and said silently: "This Zhou Yu is really scheming, he actually came up with such a trick, he is here for our food." ”

"Grain?"

Le Jin was dazed for a moment, and suddenly realized, and shouted urgently: "Quick, immediately send an order to every household in the city, men, women, and children to give me the extermination of rats." ”

Clay pots flew all over the sky, and in the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of rats had been shot into the city.

When Hefei City became a rat's nest, the soldiers of the Wu Army outside the city also exploded.

Although the range of the trebuchet was set to the inside of the city, after all, the machine was too rudimentary, and some of the clay pots still crashed into the city wall, and the rats that broke out of the cans immediately scattered flowers on the foot-high grass.

When the Wu people saw this formation, they were all stunned for a moment, and they couldn't figure out what was going on.

Zhou Yu raised his head, pointed at the head of the city, and said with a smile: "Gongji, can you imagine what the situation in the city is now, I guess it must be very interesting, haha-"

Ling Tong was also surprised at first, but he was able to get Zhou Yu's favor, and he naturally had two brushes in terms of resourcefulness and knowledge, and he was stunned for a moment, and Ling Tong suddenly realized.

"Dudu, is this move of yours aimed at their food?" Ling Tong asked excitedly.

Zhou Yu snorted coldly, and said proudly: "Didn't Zhang Liao rely on a lot of food and want to consume it with us, okay, I'll use these tens of thousands of mice to eat up their food, and see what capital he has to spend with me." ”

As soon as this statement came out, the truth came out.

It turned out that the previous order given by Zhou Yu was to send the whole army out to catch the old rats everywhere, and at the same time ordered the counties in Jiangbei to mobilize the people to catch the rats and exchange the rats for rewards.

In this way, tens of thousands of rats were sent to the front line in ten days, and Zhou Yu ordered all these rats to be put into clay pots and given to the defenders in Hefei today as a surprise gift.

Just as Ling Tong said, the enemy army has few soldiers and more food, and his own army has more soldiers and less food, and if it continues to be consumed for a long time, it will be disadvantageous to his own side.

It was because of this that Zhou Yu had a sudden inspiration and came up with this strange plan.

As soon as these tens of thousands of hungry rats entered the city, they naturally swarmed into the place where the grain was stored, and tens of thousands of small mouths chewed on it, which was tens of thousands of catties of grain every day.

Although Hefei City is the seat of Yangzhou governance, but because it is located on the front line, there are not many residents in the city, even civilians and soldiers are only tens of thousands of people, the rats move their mouths, and most of the food used in the city for a day is consumed.

Big rats regenerate small mice, one mouth becomes ten mouths, Zhang Liao How can the food they boast of "one full load" withstand the toss of this rat pest.

After thinking through everything, Ling Tong's worship of Zhou Yu was even more like a continuous river.

…………………… Thousands of miles away, Wu County.

In Liu Feng's big tent, there was suddenly an unfamiliar face today.

That person was Liao Hua, the general who originally belonged to Guan Yu.

Facing a few good drinks and dishes, facing Liu Feng's pleasant smiling face, that simple face revealed confusion and crampedness.

What the hell does he want to do when he's so good to me all of a sudden?

This burly man is like a child who has made a mistake at the moment, and the more polite and enthusiastic Liu Feng is to him, the more he feels hairy in his heart.

Liu Feng personally poured him a glass of wine.

Picking up the wine glass, Liu Feng smiled and said, "Yuan Jian, you and I are old acquaintances." I've been so busy since these days that I haven't had time to catch up with you, come, let's do this glass of wine first. ”

(To be continued)