"Lord, does this Xu Gong still have such ability?" Zhao Feng briefly read this letter, which was written by Xu Gong, the Taishou of Wujun, to Liu Bei. He claimed that he had gathered more than a thousand dead soldiers, and could act as Liu Bei's internal response at any time, as long as Liu Bei came to attack Wu County, he could find an opportunity to open the city gate to deal with the Xuzhou army.

Before Sun Fu told Zhao Feng that Xu Gong's old troops had basically sent Sun Quan to Lujiang to accompany him to death, it was only because Sun Fu surrendered that these people picked up their lives. Zhao Feng estimated that Xu Gong should have been set up a long time ago, but he didn't expect that this guy could still entangle a thousand people. If he knew that he still had this energy, Zhao Feng would have directly waved his army to Wu County.

"Xu Taishou said that there are still a few people in Wu County who are dissatisfied with Sun Quan, and there are more than 1,000 people in the courtyard of these families, so as long as there is a chance, they are willing to assist our army to take Wu County." After Lu Su and Pang Tong had read the letter, Liu Bei told them more information.

"I see!" Zhao Feng and Lu Su and the others were all stunned, and then Zhao Feng also sighed: The power of this Jiangdong family is really amazing, any few people can pull out hundreds of servants in their families, and a few people can join forces to give Yin Sun Quan. Even if Jiangdong is defeated in the future, I am afraid that it will take time to stabilize it. Of course, Liu Bei and Sun Quan are different. Not to mention that his political skills are much more sophisticated than Sun Quan's, let's just say that Liu Bei's capital is much stronger than Sun Quan's. With the strength of the two states he has at hand now, it is more than enough to level these big families in Jiangdong.

"Sun Ce used to say that he used to sit firmly in Jiangdong by strong means, which is rare after all." Lu Su also shook his head after reading the silk book. Pang Tong thought more directly, and asked directly: "Lord, is this Xu Gong reliable?" ”

"Judging from the past, it should be more reliable." Liu Bei thought for a while and said, and then Zhao Feng told them what Sun Fu had revealed to him at the beginning, and after such a comprehensive analysis, everyone felt that it should indeed be more reliable. "That being the case, my lord, without further ado, we should send troops to besiege Wu County as soon as possible. If you can capture Sun Quan in one fell swoop, you will get twice the result with half the effort! Pang Tong's eyes were already bright at this time, and he hurriedly admonished.

"I think so!" Liu Bei saw that Lu Su and Zhao Feng both nodded in agreement, and at that moment they also decided to attack Wu Jun first. After some deliberation, everyone agreed that Zhang Liao would lead an army of 20,000 to garrison Danyang, and Liu Bei personally led an army of 70,000 with everyone to send Wu County, and at the same time ordered Li Tong to lead an army of 10,000 to garrison Wancheng to prevent Tai Shici in Poyang. Although the latter only had 8,000 defenders, Zhao Feng was afraid that it would not be fun for him to make a move to kick Gan Ning's 100 cavalry camp.

"Liu Bei personally led the army to my Wu County?" Sun Quan glared at the newly returned Tanma in front of him, and asked word by word. The sound gritted its teeth and made people shudder to hear.

"Exactly!" The tanma was already trembling, and could only barely spit out these two words. Sun Quan's face was extremely solemn when he heard this, and all the civil and military officers in the hall were also silent. Even Pan Zhang, who has always been not afraid of heaven and earth, failed to say anything inspiring.

"Order, stick to the four gates, wait for reinforcements, and at the same time tell Yuzhang's Gong Jin, let him break through the Jingzhou army as soon as possible and then come to attack together." In the end, Sun Quan was the first to react, and quickly issued these two orders. Everyone knows that although the soldiers of Wu County are well fed, but because they did not expect Danyang to fall so quickly, there are no generals in the city, and the main generals are basically still listening to orders under the account of Yuzhang Zhou Yu at this moment. Now the generals that Sun Quan can hold in his hands, in addition to Pan Zhang and Zhu Ran, there are only Quan Rou and Quan Zong's father and son, and then there are only two knives like Ma Zhong. Even if Sun Quan is not very experienced in combat, he understands that it is really unrealistic to rely on these people to fight Liu Bei.

There was nothing to say all the way, Danyang was not far from Wu County, Liu Bei's army only took less than two days to arrive at Wu County, and all the counties of Lingyang and Fuchun all heard the wind and fell. "It's a dangerous city, it's almost not weaker than my Xuzhou City!" On this afternoon, the army finally arrived in Wu County, Liu Bei looked at the dangerous city wall, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Don't worry, my lord, I have ordered the craftsmen of the army to use the winter to build more than 100 trebuchets, since the conquest of Jiangdong, there has not been a profit in the city, and now I will let this Sun Quan open his eyes!" Zhao Feng said with a smile. Liu Bei also had some expectations when he heard this, although he had never seen a trebuchet, but he absolutely trusted Zhao Feng's vision in the design of the mechanism. The previous ballista had already amazed him, and now the trebuchet seemed to be superior.

Because it was getting late, the Xuzhou army did not immediately attack the city, but set up camp and prepared to call for battle again. "How can this county in Jiangdong be so vast, just this Wu County, Danyang is almost as big as our Xuzhou!" When accompanying Zhao Feng to patrol the camp that night, Xu Sheng suddenly sighed.

"Wen Xiang doesn't know to you, this Jiangdong is notoriously vast and sparsely populated, and a county in Huiji to the south is about to catch up with our Xuzhou. But you see, although the land is big, there are very few people," Zhao Feng said with a smile. I don't know how the regional area division of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty is so different, but the combined area of Yangzhou and Jingzhou can almost be equal to the sum of all the states and counties in the north. Of course, on the other hand, the population distribution is very uneven, Jingzhou is okay, Yangzhou is four or five times the area of Xuzhou, but the population is only more than half of Xuzhou. And the land here is fertile and the economy is developed, it's not that it can't afford to support people, not to mention that there are Zhang Zhao and Gu Yong in history, why hasn't the population grown much? Zhao Feng thought about it, but eighty percent was still because the power of the big families here was too large and the land annexation was serious, so he failed to attract the people to come, and would rather gather in the small place of Yuzhou.

"Harsh government is fiercer than a tiger!" Zhao Feng can only explain like this, and he doesn't know how to solve this problem in the future. It just can't be completely solved, at least it should be eased a little.

"How's it going, is there any movement nearby?" happened to meet a scout who came back from inquiring about the news, and Zhao Fengsuo stopped him and asked about the situation.

"Back to the general, the defenders just closed the city gates, and there was no abnormal situation within a radius of more than 100 miles." The scout gasped slightly, but replied quickly.

"I know, in addition, we should also strengthen patrols on large and small rivers. The Jiangdong naval army is sharp, and it is very likely that they will be killed by surprise from the waterway. Zhao Feng suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly instructed again.

"The villain understands!" The scout was also shocked when he heard this, and then hurried down to prepare not to mention it. After Zhao Feng and Xu Sheng patrolled the camp together, they didn't find anything abnormal, so they went back to the camp separately, but before Zhao Feng went back, he still went to Liu Bei's camp to report the situation.

"Lord, I've seen it, the Jiangdong Army is heavily guarded tonight, I think Xu Taishou can't take time. From tomorrow, we must step up the attack, and wait until the defenders are tired and relaxed, and we should be afraid that we can take advantage of it. Zhao Feng said.

"Indeed!" Liu Bei is also a battle-hardened person, and he didn't expect to rely on Xu Gong to easily take Wu County. Then Liu Bei smiled again: "Bo Tao, I met your personal guard Hao Zhao, but I think he is a general, I heard that he sneaked into Danyang City alone and deceived Sun Yi and Gu Yong before?" ”

"Exactly!" Zhao Feng was not very surprised, Liu Bei's vision of people was still very accurate. "I originally wanted to settle down and then appoint him to a new official position, but now that the lord is interested in him, please ask the lord to decide!"

"Hehe, he is Bo Tao's person, and his current official position is no more than a military marquis, so you can be promoted at your own convenience." Then Liu Bei also sighed: "When Botao asked me to build Xuzhou College, I didn't care too much. At present, there are only two batches of students, and the results are already not small. Hao Zhao, Fu Tong, and Zhang Nan are all up-and-coming, and they must be generals when the time comes; Jiang Gongyan was even more praised by Gongyou. I have decided that after this year's batch of students leave the school, they will be assigned to come to Jiangdong for training. ”

"That's great!" Zhao Feng also nodded in agreement when he heard this. In this way, at least the influence of the family in Jiangdong can be temporarily weakened from the grassroots level. As for how to deal with it in the future, let's wait until it is completely settled. Then Liu Bei talked to him about some things after saying goodbye, and Zhao Feng also said goodbye and returned to the camp, after all, he still had to attack the city tomorrow.

It was night when the Xuzhou army was loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and it seemed that the guards were loose, but in fact, they wished that the Jiangdong army in the city would come to steal the camp. However, Sun Quan was obviously determined to defend it, and there was no movement this night.

Since you are determined to be a shrunken turtle, I can only smash your king's shell. Before dawn the next morning, more than 100 trebuchets had been transported to Wujun about 200 steps away from the city, and then began to be assembled and debugged. As for the stones, they were already sent to collect them nearby last night.

"Ziheng, what are they doing here?" At the head of Wujun City, after learning that the Xuzhou Army did not directly attack the city, Sun Quan also went to the city to see the situation in person, but saw that the Xuzhou Army was building wooden shelves one by one in a serious manner, and he had no choice but to ask Quan Zong, who was the most familiar with military affairs around him.

"My lord, the last general has been on the battlefield for a long time, but he has never seen such a situation!" Quan Zong can't say why. Compared with the people of Dongwu at the head of the city, the people in Xuzhou under the city are not necessarily so calm. Because the trebuchet was highly secret, only Zhao Feng and other generals who had seen the experiment knew its power before, and the rest of the ordinary soldiers, even Liu Bei, who had just arrived, and Huang Zhong and Pang Tong, who had just taken refuge, had never seen it. Except for Liu Bei, who could still remain calm, the rest of the people all looked at each other curiously, and at the same time began to ask each other questions, but unfortunately no one could answer them.

"General, the assembly and reloading are complete, and it's ready to be fired!" At this moment, a military marquis in charge of the trebuchet came to report to Zhao Fengyu. After getting Liu Bei's approval, Zhao Feng also turned around to face the defenders on Wu County City with some high spirits, waved his right hand and shouted: "Release!" ”

The sound of "bell bell" continued to remember, and then more than 100 stones of about 100 catties were thrown up one after another, and flew to the head of Wu County in the stunned eyes of the defenders of Eastern Wu.

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