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Under the guidance of Zhuge Ke, Guan Feng inspected the position of the Wu army in Changshan, looking at the deep ditches, Guan Feng smiled at Zhuge Ke who was colorful: "My king has always praised you for digging pits, I originally didn't believe it, but now I look at it, it is indeed the case." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info You dug this pit well, and you can hold on to the current situation without breaking it, and your pits are the first credit. ”

The corners of Zhuge Ke's mouth twitched: "This is also a blessing in disguise, the three or four thousand people we recruited who can fight are all added to General Lu's camp, and the rest will not be able to fight, but will only dig pits." ”

Although Jiaozhou has been incorporated into the borders of the Han Dynasty for a long time, but the management model has been different from the mainland, Jiaozhou is far away, the people are fierce, easy to mess and difficult to govern, and there are many indigenous people, and it has been managed in the form of generals and marquis, that is, the power is exercised by the local powerful tribal leaders, and the court only symbolizes the collection of a little tax by the surname, and nominally Jiaozhou is the Han Dynasty, in fact, the court does not manage much, until the end of the Western Han Dynasty in the border county area to change the land and return to the stream, and cancel the privileges of the generals, marquis, etc., The implementation of the same tax collection as the mainland, so caused a rebellion of the natives, the Guangwu Emperor Jianwu 16 years, the daughter of the general of Eleng County, the second sister of the army led the rebellion, which lasted three years, was suppressed by the Fubo general Ma Yuan. In order to alleviate the contradictions, Ma Yuan partially restored the general system as a compromise.

It is precisely because of this that the county soldiers in Jiaozhou do not practice martial arts as often as the county soldiers in the Central Plains, of course, since Emperor Guangwu canceled the capital test system, the people and soldiers of the Han Dynasty have basically separated, and the people of the Eastern Han Dynasty are far less familiar with military affairs than the people of the Western Han Dynasty. This is the case in the Central Plains, and Jiaozhou is even worse by one level. In the past 30 years, the Central Plains soldiers have been in turmoil, the boundary between the people and the soldiers has been reduced, and Wei, Shu and Wu have successively established the world soldier system, and the elite soldiers in the hands of the generals are not comparable to ordinary county soldiers. Zhuge Ke said that these requisitioned county soldiers can only dig pits and cannot fight, which is basically not an exaggeration.

"In this way, the two sides are fighting for consumption." Guan Feng said with a smile: "With the national strength of the Wu State, the Funan people are not opponents, right?" ”

Zhuge Ke smiled bitterly: "The queen doesn't know, we are not dealing with Funan with the power of Wu now, but with the power of Jiaozhou. Among the remaining six counties, Yuenan suffered a big loss last year, and if it can hold the line of Changshan this year, Yuenan can complete the grain supply, it will be good. Other materials need to be transported from Hepu and Jiaoluan, and the leased ones are all merchant ships from the Yue Kingdom, and it is clear that the queen wants to come. The strength of Funan should not be underestimated, and it has been very difficult for us to support it until now. The casualties of the soldiers are not small, and the consumption of arrows and fire-starting objects is also very staggering, and I hope that your country can provide more support. ”

Guan Feng smiled silently, and Shi Bao on the side pursed his lips: "The materials of my Yue Kingdom did not fall from the sky, how can I give them to you for nothing, let you mean, pay a little money, you all seem to have suffered a great loss." Now you just want to buy it, and we may not be able to sell it to you, so we keep it for our own use, and after defeating the Funan people, we can share some of the spoils. ”

Zhuge Ke touched the beard that had just emerged from his lips, and laughed awkwardly: "Right now, Wu Yue is an ally, and it should be reasonable for him to communicate with each other." Zhong Rong asks for money at every turn, isn't it too small? ”

"I'm just a little man." Shi Bao rolled his eyes, and said very shamelessly: "I crossed the country to establish a country with business, you don't know, we went to Funan this time to seek justice for businessmen." You are generous, don't you also ask for money to fund our food? ”

Guan Feng coughed, interrupting Shi Bao's crying. Shi Bao is used to taking advantage of Sun Shao after him, and he has reached the point where he can't make a face, and he doesn't know how such a handsome young man who pays great attention to his appearance was nurtured by Sun Shao with this moral surname.

"Yuan Xun, what is your prince's plan?" Guan Feng said to Zhuge Ke very seriously: "Does he plan to continue to stick to the front line of Changshan and ensure the safety of Yuenan, or do he plan to fight a big victory?" ”

"A big win?" Zhuge Ke was very surprised, he touched his chin and thought for a while, and glanced at the guards beside him, and the guards understood, and immediately led people to guard around. Zhuge Ke arched his hand at Guan Feng and said sincerely: "Dare to ask the queen, can we still win a big battle?" ”

Guan Feng didn't answer him directly, but smiled meaningfully: "Yuan Xun, Shuai is the courage of the three armies, if the prince only wants to hold Yuenan and block this attack of the Funan people, then this is all he can do, but it is impossible to win a big battle." If the prince has the courage and courage to decide Yuenan in a battle, inflict heavy damage on the people of Funan, and no longer have the strength to attack Yuenan within ten years, then he must first have the courage to make this contribution, and only then can he think in that direction. You say, don't you? ”

Zhuge Ke was thrilled. To be honest, let alone Sun Deng, let's just say that he himself only wants to hold the Changshan defense line so far, and he doesn't want to further damage the Funan people, after all, the strength of the two sides is there, once they leave the defense line that has been repaired for more than half a year, whether they can withstand the impact of the Funan people is a question. However, Guan Feng is right, if you don't dare to think about it, then what is the possibility? If you want to stabilize Nan for a long time, it is obviously the best way to hit the people of Funan hard and hurt them. Zhuge Ke remembered the famous general Li Mu's famous battle of Daibei, which did not fight for several years, and the Huns did not dare to commit the border for ten years, such a battle is a battle to raise reputation.

"Queen, can't His Royal Highness the King of Yue personally conquer the Special Mu City and inflict heavy damage on the Funan people?" Zhuge Ke endured the excitement in his heart and said lightly. He was very worried that Guan Feng was using Yuenan as a bait to strand the main force of Funan in Funan and reduce Sun Shao's pressure, in that case, Wu Guo would really make wedding clothes for Yue Guo.

"He wants to hit the Funan people hard, but you also know, he only has more than 10,000 people, if nothing else, it is basically impossible to attack the special pastoral city, and the best result is to cut off the trunk of the elephant in Funan and obtain the right in the sea." Guan Feng did not hide it, and told Sun Shao's basic plan. What she said was indeed Sun Shao's idea, Zhuge Ke was not stupid, as soon as he heard it, he knew that this battle plan was relatively realistic, and there was not too much whimsy, it was indeed too difficult for Sun Shao's more than 10,000 sailors to conquer Temu City, so after a little pondering, he believed in Guan Feng's sincerity.

"Queen, if you can win a big battle, of course, it is something you can't ask for." Zhuge Ke said cautiously: "However, the strength of the Funan people is twice that of me, and there are war elephants to help us, it is not easy for us to inflict heavy losses on them." Ke Bucai, dare to ask the queen what she has planned? ”

Guan Feng smiled confidently: "Yuan Xun is cautious, I can understand this." Although there are more than 30,000 people in Yuanxun and Funan, they are not terrible. You have also seen that the combat strength of the Funan people is far from our Yue-Wu coalition army, and the reason why they are strong is mainly because of those war elephants, if there is no way to restrain these war elephants, then the Funan people will of course have the upper hand, but if they can restrain these war elephants, then what else do the Funan people have? ”

"What is the queen going to do to restrain these war elephants?" Zhuge Ke asked.

Guan Feng raised three fingers: "Lure the enemy deep, fight fast and slow, and use strong crossbows and heavy artillery." ”

Zhuge Ke pondered for a moment, and his eyes gradually lit up. He saluted Guan Feng: "Please let the queen enter the camp to rest first, and I will immediately report the queen's three strategies to the prince." After getting Guan Feng's consent, he hurriedly left the Vietnamese army camp and went straight to Sun Deng's residence.

"Hit the Funan people hard?" Sun Deng was stunned for a moment, as if he heard something funny, and couldn't help laughing. "Is it possible?"

"Possibly." Zhuge Ke explained in detail the three countermeasures proposed by Guan Feng, and finally said: "Prince, if you can hit the people of Funan hard, then Yuenan will be able to maintain peace and stability for a long time, and the prestige of the prince will spread all over Jiaozhou, who else can doubt the prince's ability to use troops?" Prince, if you can't hit the Funan people hard, then even if this battle can be won, it will only be temporary, and the Funan people will take a breather and make a comeback, and Yue Nan will inevitably become a thorn in the prince's heart. ”

Sun Deng was silent, of course he knew that Yue Nan was in trouble, otherwise he wouldn't have appeared here, this is a pit.

"Prince, Yuan Xun is right." Xie Jing said slowly: "Jiaozhou is already the second conscription, if it can't solve the problem this time, then there will be no third conscription." The people's grievances are boiling, in case something happens, I'm just afraid of ......"

Sun Deng glanced at Xie Jing, put down the book in his hand, and looked at Zhuge Ke in a daze: "Yuan Xun, you really told me, are you sure?" ”

Zhuge Ke was stunned for a moment, raised his head to meet Sun Deng's gaze, thought for a while, and nodded heavily: "Minister...... Be sure. ”

"Well, this thing...... I'll leave it to you. Sun Deng pointed at Zhuge Ke with his finger: "General Lu is injured and can't command the battle, I will let you take full responsibility for this battle with the Vietnamese army, you must not be careless." ”

Zhuge Ke took a step back, bowed to the ground, and answered loudly: "Huh." ”

Sun Deng set up a banquet to wash the dust for Guan Feng and Sun Shangxiang and others, and then handed over the military power to Zhuge Ke on the grounds of poor health, and Zhuge Ke was fully responsible for cooperating with Guan Feng. Guan Feng knew that Sun Deng did this, on the one hand, because he was unwilling to fight side by side with her as a prince, and on the other hand, he was unable to bear the serious consequences of defeat, so he had to find a way out in advance. If he wins, Zhuge Ke has merit, he also has merit, if he loses, of course he still can't escape responsibility, but the main responsibility will be borne by Zhuge Ke, he is at most only an unknown fault of employing people, and there is still a difference between the consequences of direct command failure.

Guan Feng could understand Sun Deng's approach at this time, she agreed, and besides, she also felt that it was more refreshing to cooperate with Zhuge Ke. However, Sun Luban was very dissatisfied with Sun Deng's cowardice, and muttered a few words secretly. She always hoped that Sun Deng could take the lead like Sun Shao and be on the front line, but Sun Deng really couldn't compare with Sun Shao in this aspect.

According to Guan Feng's plan, the main battlefield was still fought by the Wu army, but she supported Zhuge Ke with a lot of arrows and strong crossbows. The two sides fought in Changshan for another half a month, but the Wu army still used strong crossbows and fire to deal with the elephant soldiers of the Funan people, and Fan Chang also patiently used the war elephants to constantly test and consume the elite strength of the Wu army. Zhuge Ke asked Guan Feng to bring the Yue soldiers to replace the county soldiers who could only cheer and help defend, and at the same time withdrew those county soldiers who were good at digging pits and short enough to fight to the rear, and started a large-scale pit digging movement in a good place.

Looking at the Wu army running in a wolf, Fan Chang was not in a hurry to pursue, he first sent scouts to inquire about the news in the southern part of the country. A day later, the scouts reported that the rice fields in the south had just been harvested, and the people had been evacuated, and the reason why the Wu army had persisted until now was to cover the people for harvesting, and the Wu army was rapidly retreating, running nearly 100 miles in one day, and they had dropped a lot of ordnance and banners along the way, and it could be seen that their morale had collapsed and they could not afford to fight again.

Fan Chang looked up to the sky and laughed, he ordered people to go out to prey on the one hand, and led the army over the long mountain on the other hand, and chased after him, his speed was not fast, it didn't matter how far the Wu army ran, his purpose was not to kill and injure these Wu troops who had collapsed, but the entire Yuenan, he wanted to keep driving the Wu army away, driving the Wu army out of Yuenan, and even driving out Jiuzhen.

In the next ten days, the Wu army organized several ambushes and counterattacks, but in front of the Funan army led by more than 100 war elephants, their counterattacks were very weak, often collapsed at the touch of a button, and finally became a formality.

After more than half a month of cautious marching, Fan Chang walked out of the jungle of Changshan and was only a hundred miles away from Xijuan City. Fan Chang sat on the back of the war elephant, looking at the endless plain, smelling the hot wind that had already brought a little smell of the sea, and his mood was very comfortable, this time the task of attacking Yuenan had been completed for more than half of the time, and Wu Jun was chased by him, and it was no longer possible for him to be his opponent. As long as the city of Xijuan is conquered, Nanjun will be his.

Fan Chang began to think about how to conquer the West Scroll City. War elephants are useful in field combat, but their power is greatly affected during sieges, and in addition to storming the city gates, the huge size of the war elephants will become the key target of the crossbows erected at the head of the city. Unlike ordinary hand-held crossbows and crossbows, the power of the city defense crossbow is very great, as long as one or two arrows are shot, a war elephant is considered to be sacrificed. It was not easy to train a war elephant, he didn't want to spend the war elephant under the West Roll City, he had to think of other ways.

Fan Chang was very attentive, and until late at night, he discussed the siege plan with his generals in the camp. When it comes to attacking and defending the city, they know that they can't compare with the Han people, and how to restrain the crossbow to defend the city makes them very nervous, not to mention the leather armor they use now, just like the iron armor worn by the Han people, and it is also vulnerable in front of the crossbow to defend the city, not to mention that the volume of the war elephants is so large, it is not unrealistic to want to put a layer of iron armor on them.

In the end, they decided to take the method of besieging the city, now their forces have an absolute advantage, and it is not a problem to surround Xijuan City, if the Wu army still has reinforcements to come, it will save them from walking, and kill them directly under Xijuan City.

The generals dispersed, and although Fan Chang was very tired, he still couldn't sleep, and he was a little inexplicably excited when he saw that he could enter Xijuan City and complete the task given to him by his father. He sat up, carefully wrote a letter of success, and prepared to send someone to send it out the next day. After writing the paperwork, it was already the second half of the night, he opened his mouth wide, yawned, and fell on the marching couch, just squinting his eyes, and there was a rush of footsteps outside. Fan Chang was startled, turned over and sat up, and looked energetically at the captain of the baggage battalion who walked in.

"What's the matter?"

"Prince." The captain of the baggage battalion was relieved to see that Fan Chang had not slept yet, he stepped forward and saluted, and then said hurriedly: "The subordinates have just counted the number of people, and found that there are fifty-three fewer soldiers outside to collect firewood and water, and several wounded soldiers who escaped back said that they were attacked by people of unknown origin. ”

Fan Chang frowned, thought for a moment and said, "Are they alone?" ”

"It's the same as usual, it's a group of five, a group of ten."

"Nope." Fan Chang waved his hand, "Now that we have arrived in the territory of Yuenan, seeing that we are approaching Xijuan City, it is impossible for those cunning Wu people not to be in a hurry, they will definitely send people to intercept and kill our soldiers and interfere with our military morale." From tomorrow onwards, groups of 50 will not be allowed to act alone. ”

"Yes." The captain of the baggage battalion answered, turned around and walked out of the tent. Fan Chang sat there and thought about it carefully, and suddenly smiled. He remembered that when Fan Xun went to Xijuan City to negotiate, he once visited the captured soldiers of Fan Zhan's department, and some soldiers once said that the reason why Fan Zhan hastily evacuated Xijuan and finally fell into an ambush by the Wu army was because of the attack launched by the Wu army at night, and hundreds of people died within three or four days, which made it chaotic. Now that Wu Jun has come to repeat his old tricks again, is it so easy to scare him away Fan Chang?

With a disdainful smile, Fan Chang fell asleep. In the dream, he broke the city of Xijuan, the prince of Wu and the king of Yue, all knelt down in front of him, bowed to him, when he triumphantly graduated from the class, his father personally went out of the city to greet him, and the sycophant smile of the hundred officials sandwiched the depressed face of his brother Fan Jinsheng. His father patted him on the shoulder, smiling, as if he was going to say a few words of consolation, but suddenly, his face changed, he looked up at the sky that was suddenly covered with dark clouds, and exclaimed:

"Big things are not good!"

Fan Chang was startled, sat up suddenly, and saw the startled guard, and the guard's face showed a look of horror: "Prince, Lord Wu asks to see." ”

Fan Chang rubbed his eyes, glanced at the tent that had just revealed the morning light, and waved his hand: "Let him in." ”

The guards were startled by Fan Chang's dream early in the morning, and seeing that Fan Chang's face was not good, he didn't dare to stay longer, so he hurriedly went out. Immediately after, General Wu of the scout battalion walked in, looked at Fan Chang's face, and said apologetically, "Prince, I disturbed your rest." ”

"Hehe, it's okay, you want to see me at this time, there must be something important, right?" Fan Chang smiled tolerantly.

"Yes." General Wu's face tightened, "Of the twelve teams of scouts sent out yesterday, only five teams came back, and they are still the nearest five. ”

Fan Chang understood as soon as he heard it, and smiled indifferently: "You still follow the previous habit of five people in a team?" ”

General Wu was stunned for a moment, and nodded hurriedly.

"Now that we have reached the south of Yuenan, it is the plain that the Wu people are familiar with, and it is no longer the jungle that we are familiar with, why are you still in a team of five?" Fan Chang's face sank, "That is, start up, a team of twenty people, don't give the Wu people a chance to sneak attack." ”

General Wu suddenly realized, admired Fan Chang so much, turned around and left. Fan Chang snorted coldly, most of these people used to follow Fan Jinsheng to quell the rebellion in Funan, and they still didn't have enough preparations for going out to fight, and they blamed themselves, they only cared about attacking Xijuan City yesterday, and forgot to tell them. But then again, if it wasn't for the heavy battalion who came to report first, and he knew the news that Fan Xun had returned, he wouldn't have imagined that Wu Ren would make such a trick for a while. When fighting in a large army, it is normal for scouts on both sides to attack and kill each other, but it is still rare to organize people to attack the lone scouts and baggage battalion soldiers.

This approach is somewhat off the table.

Of course, the current Wu army can no longer take the table, they were driven by him for hundreds of miles in one go, deep into the territory of Yuenan, and they are about to hit the county to govern the west roll city, even if they want to be bright and bright, they don't have that strength.

"Come on, see if you little tricks can stop me." Fan Chang sneered.

…… In Meng'ang Bay, three hundred miles away from Jin Chenguo, Fan Man sat on a mossy boulder, looking at the foaming coast in the distance and was silent. The sky was covered with dark clouds, low and almost connected to the sea, and a tight sea breeze swept the waves, slapping the woods and stones on the shore, and turning one piece after another of the jade-like sea water into foam, and the big trees around them were torn by the wind, and the thick trees swayed and let out bursts of moans.

Fan Man turned a deaf ear, his sharp eyes staring closely at the sea in the distance. Sun Shao has been walking with him for more than a month, has been ghostly, every night, around his camp there will be the shadow of the Yue scouts, he has seen more than once the Yue scouts in the small boat in the offshore area of the majestic walk, and Sun Shao's sailors are often demonstrative surnames appear in their field of vision, the kind of arrogance from the bones has made the anger of the soldiers have accumulated to the edge of outbreak, but Fan Man has been silent, just bored head to Jin Chen and hurriedly marched.

The Funan people have no sailors, and they can only vent their anger on the innocent woods beside the road for the provocation of the Vietnamese sailors.

Two days ago, Fan Man had left the army and had traveled more than 100 miles in a day and a night to arrive here, where he wanted to lay a trap, and the prey was the forgetaway King Yue and his sailor. Meng Ang Bay is a small and inconspicuous harbor, but Fan Man once ambushed a group of pirates here, and he knows that Meng Ang Bay seems to have a wide exit, but in fact the water is not deep, and there are many reefs underwater, and there are not many places where a big ship like the Yue Guo Sailor can pass through. He had been controlling the speed of the march, hoping to lead the Yue Guoshui Division here, when the storm was coming.

Everything went according to his plan, a great storm was coming, and the Viet Cong sailors, who had been embellished with a large army, were at sea, and they had nowhere else to go but to venture into Muang Aung Bay. Entering Meng Ang Bay, those tall warships will suffer a lot of losses, and entering Meng Ang Bay does not mean that they are safe, on the contrary, Fan Man prepared a big gift for them.

40,000 troops and more than a dozen large cargo ships loaded with boulders - made by the Yue Kingdom.

(To be continued)