Liu Cong stayed in Xinye for four days, and on the morning of the fourth day, watching Zhao Yun and Gongzhi each lead their troops away, Liu Cong said to Xing Daorong again: "There are 1,000 soldiers stationed there at the Queweipo Pass. You go over and take charge of leading the troops wherever you go. ”

When Xing Daorong heard this, he asked, "Zhou Cang can't go over?" ”

"Yes, Zhou Cang has another appointment."

Xing Daorong was indeed a little embarrassed, frowned for a while, and said: "It turned out that it was me and Lao Zhou, who led 2,000 troops to garrison, and almost failed to hold the pass.

The military position of the Queweipo Pass is so important, why did the lord reduce his troops and generals.

Such an important juncture, if it is lost, will not be able to afford it. I also hope that the lord will send someone else to garrison it. Xing Daorong said, stood aside with a shy old face and didn't speak angrily.

Liu Cong smiled: "Xing Daorong doesn't need to be angry first. Well, I'll tell you the truth. I have calculated that from today onwards, within three years, Cao Bing will never go to Queweipo to find trouble. All you have to do is bring your troops to garrison. ”

"But the last general didn't dare."

"If within three years, Cao Bing comes to attack Queweipo, even if you can't hold the pass, it is not a crime of punishment Daorong."

Xing Daorong listened, then he relieved his face, said goodbye to Liu Cong, and wanted to go to Queweipo.

Liu Cong instructed: "A thousand men and horses stationed at Queweipo are also idle errands. That's it, Lao Xing. Starting from this year, all of our military and civilians in Jingzhou will be mobilized to carry out the work of reclamation of wasteland and tuntian. You, a thousand men and horses are in Quewei Slope, if you can't be idle, you must also reclaim the barren fields. You have to know in your heart. After today's pass, you can start preparing. ”

Xing Daorong agreed, Liu Cong looked at Xing Daorong, inspected the people in front of him, and saw the veteran Huang Zhong in front of him, so he instructed: "General Huang Lao led troops to garrison in this Xinye, and it should also be noted that in peacetime, there is no need to idle a large number of troops." So I'll leave you with just the original team, which is a few thousand.

When I spoke to Xing Daorong just now, the old general had already heard it. I'm not going to be verbose.

In this way, I would like to draw your attention to one point, one is to prepare for the reclamation of the barren land, and the other is to do a good job of detective work. We must do this, and send a large number of secret scouts to the two cities of Wancheng and Yuzhou, so as to grasp the movements of Cao's soldiers in time, so that as soon as Cao's soldiers make a move, our army will immediately know about it and prepare to deal with it in time.

Suffice it to say, sending out a hundred scouts can sometimes be more useful than 100,000 elite soldiers. ”

Huang Zhong and Daorong all nodded yes, and Liu Cong ordered Zhou Cang again: "Zhou Cang will stay in this Xinye City and assist General Huang to defend the city." In this way, there is Pang Tong Xu Shu in Xinye City, and Huang Zhong and Zhou Cang in Wu. He has five or six thousand men and horses, cultivating barren fields in his spare time, and leading troops to fight in wartime. Very good. That's it. ”

Liu Cong said and ordered: "Liang Zhu'er prepares horses, and we will leave for Liu Bin's camp in Partridge Ridge today." Well, tell Wei Yan to come with me to Partridge Ridge. ”

In the evening of the same day, Liu Cong took Wei Yanliang, Zhuer, Lai Fatzi, Ma Zhu'er, and more than a dozen personal soldiers to the Partridge Ridge camp.

Liu Bin then stayed in the barracks for a night that night.

Liu Cong stayed here for a night, got up early the next morning, walked along the riverbank, climbed to the highest point behind the camp, and looked south, Yunxia Mountain in front of him was still standing majestically.

After Yunxia Mountain, walk another thirty or fifty miles, and it is Fancheng.

Liu Cong decided: "After breakfast, I will go to Fancheng to inspect the terrain." ”

At this time, Liu Cong and Wei Yan and his party of more than a dozen people came to the north of Fancheng, which is three or four miles.

It has left the mountains and come to the Xiangjiang River Loop. At the foot of Liu Cong is a hill, the terrain is not too high, but the eyes can look beyond the woods and have an unobstructed view of Fancheng.

From here, you can vaguely see that the north gate of Fancheng has been opened, and the suspension bridge has also been lowered, and on the suspension bridge, there are pedestrians coming and going.

Liu Cong laughed a little and thought to himself: "This person is very interesting to live. Two thousand years later, I was studying and knew about the place of Cao Ren Fancheng. How did you cross over, you brought me here, well, and gave me a problem, let me lead troops to conquer Fancheng. It's incredible.

However, the matter is clearly in front of you, if you want to live, this battle of Fancheng must be fought. ”

Thinking of this, Liu Cong felt that he couldn't see clearly, so he urged Liang Zhu'er: "Urge the horse to move forward and inspect the edge of the moat." ”

Liang Zhu'er didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly beat his horse and walked ahead.

Wei Yan prompted behind: "Lord." Fancheng Cao Ren led 8,000 elite soldiers. Should we be cautious? Just take a look, can you go back? ”

Liu Cong turned his face and glanced at Wei Yan, and said, "If you want to go back, you should go first." I'm going to see it clearly. As he spoke, he walked behind Liang Zhu'er.

When Wei Yan saw this, he hurriedly ordered his soldiers to go to the front to protect Liu Cong: "Listen to me, if the Cao soldiers in Fancheng have any strange behavior, they must retreat immediately." ”

The soldiers agreed to go forward, and Wei Yan was worried in his heart: "This Cao Ren is not a fuel-efficient lamp. There has been a gap of more than a month between the two, and they will not stay in the city honestly, there will definitely be a conspiracy. Shaoxin was ambushed by them, and the lord suffered a loss, which was a collapse of the sky. ”

Thinking of this, Wei Yan lifted his spirits, rode his horse and walked behind Liu Cong, staring at the two shining eyes, and patrolling around.

When Liu Cong and his entourage approached the moat, Cao Bing, who was on guard on the city wall, saw more than a dozen Jingzhou cavalry coming from the north, and was very alarmed, and hurriedly reported while informing to pull up the drawbridge.

When Liu Cong asked the horses to stand by the river and looked at the walls of Fancheng, he heard the squeaky of the drawbridge being pulled up by the ropes.

Liu Cong smiled and said to Wei Yan: "Actually, Cao Ren Mancong's life in the city is not easy at this time.

You see, just a few of us came over, and they were alarmed and pulled up the drawbridge. Haha, it's really hard for them to live so carefully these days. ”

Wei Yan didn't care about laughing, but just looked around intently, observing the situation in case something unexpected happened.

Liu Cong looked at the moat, looked upstream along the moat, and knew that this moat was introduced in the upper reaches of the Hanshui River, and after flowing here, it circled around Fancheng and flowed into the Xiangjiang River from the east of Fancheng City.

Liu Cong sighed that the moat was deep and deep, and then looked at the city wall of Fancheng, there were two stories high, and there were four gatehouses built on the city wall, which made it more and more tall and majestic to see this Fancheng.

Liu Cong sighed: "This Cao soldier is stationed in this Fancheng, just like a pinning on the chest of Jingzhou, which is very dangerous. I'm determined to get it over. But how can this city be conquered by means of high water and deep waters? ”

Thinking of this, Liu Cong asked Wei Yan: "In the past few years, what tools have been used in the world's scuffle, attacking cities and pools?" ”

"My lord, it's all ladders and stone carts. I haven't seen any other tools. ”

As soon as I said this, I only heard the sound of "fluttering and fluttering" nearby, and when everyone looked around, they saw that the other side of the moat kept falling arrows. 098