When a city wall is only to block the direction of your departure, and the two walls become a siege for you, Cao Xiu deeply experienced the despair, there is a large army, a strong city, an earthen wall, and a building and a ship connected to the river to intercept it, almost a situation where the sky should not be called the earth, the most worrying thing is that the food in the camp is only enough for thirteen days, if Cao Xiu has not thought of a way to crack it after five days, he can only go north along the river to the naval army near Shangyong to seek to cross the river.

And in this case, Cao Pi's three-way army to attack Wu was a complete failure, because the three-way army actually really played a role in the middle of the Cao Xiu group, if his 100,000 people took Xiangyang and eliminated this stronghold, the three-way army could advance into Nanjun in a zigzag, the west road attacked the Han Zigui, the middle road approached Jiangling, and the east road went down to Jiangxia, and Cao Cao's strategy of going south before the battle of Chibi was almost the same.

It's a pity that this is just a plan, the top priority now is how to break the siege, this little food may be the only hope, as a Cao clan relative Cao Xiuke knows what this 100,000 army means, he doesn't dare to lose the foundation of Wei.

"It has been ten days since the siege, the Wei army has been in chaos, the people are sleepy and tired, according to Ren's estimates, the food in Cao Xiu's camp is definitely not enough for ten months, and it only needs to wait for half a month for the Wei army to decide without a fight." Qiao Ren smiled and said to the many generals and important ministers in the big tent.

Lu Meng also took over the conversation and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that the wishful thinking of the Tai Lieutenant will not work, and before Cao Xiu runs out of food, he will follow the example of the overlord and fight to the death, and then our army will still need to work hard!" ”

"Haha!" Seeing that the two of them didn't treat Wei Jun as a dish, Lu Xun didn't have much to say, so he had to follow: "It seems that we will have to wait for more than half a month to break the enemy!?" ”

"No!" Sun Ce suddenly interrupted the joyful atmosphere of these few, "The day after tomorrow, we will march to attack the Wei army camp at night!" ”

"Why?" Qiao Ren asked puzzled. Even if the Wei army's morale is unstable now, its combat strength still exists. Zhang Liao and Xu Huang are not easy to bully in the army, and Wu Jun is afraid that he will not be able to please him. But none of this could be said explicitly so as not to hurt morale, so Qiao Ren had no choice but to continue to ask: "Your Majesty, what happened?" ”

"Indeed!" Sun Ce spread out the information in his hand, and said with a wry smile: "Cao Zhen's 40,000 army has already moved, cooperate with the naval army to advance eastward from the north and south banks at the same time, and meet Cao Xiu. ”

"This!" Qiao Ren couldn't say a word. He still sees the enemy as too simple, since Cao Zhen can be a general and a metropolitan governor against Zhuge Liang for ten years as a fake son, he must be outstanding, at least now Qiao Ren can see that he is good at making trade-offs and is good at judging the situation.

"Your Majesty, I don't know how to arrange the attack the day after tomorrow." Lu Xun asked.

"I don't know!" Sun Ce shook his head, the decisive battle the day after tomorrow was only hastily decided because the situation had changed, and it was difficult to have any plans.

Lu Xun looked at the information silently for a long time, and finally said after Qiao Rendu came to his senses: "Your Majesty." Since our army has no good strategy, it is better to attack and not destroy. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Our army does not aim to annihilate the enemy, but to attack the southwest and southwest, leaving the north and east for the Wei army to escape, and the east is the Han River, and Cao Xiu, the naval army with Gandu Governor, will definitely not go. Then he had to flee to the north to turn Cao Zhen. Our army's ship is two days faster than the Wei army's scouts, and Cao Xiu does not know that Cao Zhen will arrive in eight days, and he will retreat when he does not fight to the death. ”

"Just to force the Wei army back?" Qiao Ren frowned, feeling that Lu Xun's strategy was too little of interest.

However, Lu Xun did not finish, but immediately added: "Take advantage of these four or five days, our army can let the naval army continue to attack and harass the Wei army Cao Zhen's troops. The main force of our army moved to Jiangbei to attack Fancheng and threaten Wancheng. ”

"What?" "This!!"

The danger plan is really a risk plan, even if Cao Xiu is defeated and unable to fight again. Cao Zhen was also trapped on the south bank of the Han River, so that both armies were unable to cross the river to support. But Runan County still has Cao Ren's 30,000 troops and Wancheng also has Cao Pi's 40,000 Chinese troops, and the 100,000 troops of Dongwu may not be able to successfully break through Wancheng before the enemy encircles them, Wancheng is more difficult to fight than Xiangyang, that is the emperor's hometown!

"Bo Yan's meaning is not really to attack Wancheng, but to take Fancheng and move away the grain, grass and armaments hoarded by the Wei army here, and then to create a false impression that our army is going to attack Wancheng, when the time comes, Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen, and Cao Ren will not dare to turn a deaf ear, it is estimated that they will return to Wancheng, as long as Cao Xiu returns to the north bank, he will never be able to cross the river again." Qiao Ren explained for Lu Xun.

"I see!" Lu Fan and Zhang Zhao touched their chests with peace of mind, these two really thought that Lu Xun wanted to fight Wancheng.

"What does Your Majesty think?" Lu Xun bowed his hand to Sun Ce and asked.

Sun Ce was silent when he heard this, his eyes were blazing, and he looked at the map for a long time before he said: "I am accurate, Bo Yan, you immediately quietly transport all the siege equipment in Xiangyang City to the north bank, and after our army forced Cao Xiu's army to retreat, you will first take 150 million soldiers and horses to cross the river, and after the war, I will order Ziheng to support you." ”

"Whoa!"

In addition to capturing Fancheng, Lu Xun also had a very important task this time, at least it was very important to him to rescue the remnants of Zhang Ren who was besieged in the mountains, and the unlucky Zhang Ren was still being surrounded and suppressed by Wei Xu.

After Sun Ce gave orders to Lu Xun, he summoned many generals to arrange the attack mission. Lü Meng led most of the Jingzhou army to attack Xizhai, Sun Ce personally led the main force of the four armies to attack Nanzhai, and Qiao Ren led the fifth lieutenant battalion and the Ganning department to ambush the Wei army in a dense forest from the waterway, not seeking to kill the enemy, but to let them leave all their baggage.

It's day and night, Wei Ying.

Cao Xiu sat idly and watched the book, holding a copy of "Warring States Policy" and reading it with relish, and he was happy to see it, and a little knowing smile appeared on his face.

When reading the key point, Yuzhou Thorn Shi Jia Kui hurriedly entered with his feet in the wind, and when he saw Cao Xiu's idle and leisurely appearance, his heart couldn't help but be strange.

It stands to reason that the third route army of Wei has not made much progress in attacking Wu, and his middle route army has been blocked in Xiangyang City for four months, and now even the back road is cut off, and the remaining grain in the village is less than ten days' needs. It's become such a situation, and he still has this leisure to read books!

Jia Kui, who felt strange, coughed a few times, and immediately made Cao Xiu, who was concentrated, come back to his senses from the book, and when he saw that it was Jia Kui in front of him, he asked: "It's Jia Yuzhou, what's the matter with finding Ben Jiang?" ”

"Zhengdong, we just inspected the west camp, and found that the antlers are old, the trench is very shallow, and even the fence is damaged, and the soldiers of the battalion are mostly tired soldiers, and they are useless, and the defense of the west camp is full of loopholes.

"Oh!" At this time, a loud voice came from the tent, and Jia Kui looked up and found that it was Zhang Liao. "We want the enemy to find out this flaw and attack the camp!"

"What?" Jia Kui exclaimed in surprise, but then he understood. "Former general?"

"Since the beginning of the war, our army has suffered setbacks one after another, and at this time we need a victory to boost the morale of the army, and the Xiangyang thief army is closed without a fight, and Sun Ce's army is stationed on the bank of Xiangshui, and we have nothing to do. Therefore, the best way is to take this opportunity to lure the thief army out of the city to fight, so that we can make a plan. And the thief army is cautious, if the Wu people see that the battalions of our army are tightly guarded, they will naturally not dare to act rashly, but if there is a slight hole in the defense of the western camp, then the Wu people will definitely seize this opportunity! Zhang Liao explained.

Cao Xiu also added: "Our army can't help Xiangyang, and the thief generals can't help our army in the field, what they rely on is only the water army, and the water army can't deal with us, so the Wu people will not miss this opportunity." ”

"The general is clever!"

Cao Xiu had a smug look on his face, not thinking that Zhang Liao had come up with this strategy, and said, "That's right." Yuzhou, I'm bothering you to secretly transfer troops to the west camp and arrange the pocket array properly, I expect that the thief army will rob the camp in the next few days. ”

If it was really a robbery camp, maybe Cao Xiu's plan was half of it, but this time the Wu army still poured out, and Lu Meng quietly entered Xiangyang City with 40,000 troops during the day, and when night fell, he came out of Xiangyang and went straight to the Wei army camp.

The night is falling lightly, although the Wei camp outside the city is not far from Xiangyang, the starlight is dim at night, except for a few torches swaying in the wind, there is no lighting, naturally there is no way to see the situation of the Wei camp.

However, under the cover of that night, nearly 20,000 Wei troops in black clothes and black armor quietly entered the western camp, each entering the predetermined position according to the plan, and the soldiers and armor, silent amaranth squatted in the dark, waiting for their enemies to fall into this huge pocket. At this time, the Xiying had gathered 50,000 Wei troops, and the pockets were not ordinarily large.

At the same time, Xiangyang City is not quiet.

At this moment, a Han army of 40,000 people was also ready to go, and the soldiers were gathered near Xicheng, some squatting there to wipe their knives, and some were gnawing on jerky, but no matter what they were busy with, everyone's faces were full of excitement and solemnity.

When a man kills people, it is always so simple to make a meritorious career, but maybe he will be someone else's meritorious achievement, but whether it is Lu Meng in the city or Cao Xiu and Zhang Liao in the village, they will only think that the enemy is the stepping stone to their achievements. (To be continued......)