Although Liu Cong suffered a little bit of flesh and skin, he didn't take it seriously, all day long, just rode the white horse Snow King to march, observing the fields along the way while walking, sometimes seeing farmers, and stopped his horse, came to the field to learn about farming.

In this way, on the afternoon of the seventh day, we came to the Queweipo Pass.

Liu Cong made an appointment with the White Horse Snow King and stood on a high place to observe the geographical situation of Quewei Slope.

It turns out that Queweipo is the place name of a mountain pass, and this mountain pass is also a remnant of the Qinba Mountains.

This opening is good, and it directly opens up the passage from Yuzhou to Xinye Fancheng.

Why is this sub-channel called a slope?

Because a pass of more than five miles of road, it is full of natural stone pavement, like a huge stone bar, which extends from the bottom of the slope of the mountain to the top of the ridge, extends, and after extending to the top of the ridge, a large open area appears.

This open area is also a stone ground, and if you look south along this ground, you will find the official road leading to Shinno.

In the peaceful era, this Queweipo business caravan and horse came and went from north to south in an endless stream, and it was very prosperous.

To this day, although after many years of war, there are still three or five inns, which are supported here with great difficulty, so that the desolate Magpie Tail Slope shows some rare vitality.

At this time, Liu Cong was standing on the open ground on the top of the Quewei Slope Ridge, and his eyes were scattered to both sides of the road surface of the Quewei Slope.

I saw that the stone walls on both sides were generally upright with knives and axes, but they were not high, but they were as tall as the eaves.

On the top of the stone walls on both sides of this eaves, Zhou Cangxing Daorong had already arranged the men and horses to block Cao Bing.

The cannon stone and sassal wood are piled up, the strong bow and crossbow are arranged, and the two black and white flags are erected directly on the top of the stone wall on both sides of the stone slope, facing the autumn wind blowing from under the pass, hula and hula, as if the psychology of the Jingzhou soldiers stationed on both sides of the stone wall at this time is anxiously waiting for the Cao soldiers to come and fight.

At this time, Zhou Cangxing Daorong, who had already greeted him, stood respectfully beside Liu Cong.

Liu Cong generally observed the terrain, and then dismounted and came to the Zhoucang tent surrounded by Zhou Cang Xing Daorong.

As soon as he sat down at the door, Zhou Cangxing Daorong was about to kneel down and give a big salute to Liu Cong.

Liu Cong ordered Liang Zhu'er to stop him, and said to himself: "Excuse me, excuse me." Come and sit down and report back to the military. In the future, they will all be their own people, and these red tapes will be deleted. When they meet, they do practical things directly, tell the truth, and act in accordance with the rules of the army. Don't be verbose. ”

Zhou Cang Xing Daorong stood aside with his hands a little restrained.

The reason why he was restrained was because Liu Cong was their top boss, and secondly, he had already heard from the scouts that Liu Cong only took one day in Mushroom Ridge to pack up the two generals sent by Xiahou Yuan, and there were 10,000 Cao soldiers, almost all of whom were dumplings made by Liu Cong.

You must know that this crisp battle was carried out by Liu Cong under the command of 5,000 men and horses.

After the war, a large number of Cao soldiers' materials were collected.

The grain and weapons were piled up, and Wei Yan's men and horses could not carry them, so he had to order the Yamen of Zaoyang County, Yiyang County, to summon the people to come and carry them.

Also, Liu Cong killed the enemy with his own hands in this battle, and snatched a white war horse from the hands of Cao Bing's main general. This war horse is tall and mighty, walking on mountain roads like walking on flat ground, running like a white cloud, floating in the air. The soldiers all suspected that this was a divine horse descending to earth.

With such news coming, can Zhou Cangxing Daorong not be solemn? Can you not admire?

When Liu Cong appeared in front of Zhou Cangxing Daorong on a white horse with his own soldiers, the two of them were so shocked by Liu Cong's heroic atmosphere that they didn't dare to look up. So after entering the big tent of the Chinese army and waiting for Liu Cong to sit down, Zhou Cang's punishment Daorong was about to bow to the ground.

Liu Cong was natural and liked to do things and speak directly, so he ordered Liang Zhu'er to stop the actions of the two, and then asked about the combat deployment here.

Liu Cong asked, "How is the situation in Xiahou Yuan?" ”

Zhou Cang had a messy beard, and he kept looking at Liu Cong a little nervously, staring at a pair of big eyes like bells.

As soon as Liu Cong saw Zhou Cang before, he knew that although he was a moth thief before, he was definitely a good person.

Good people and evil people are all on their faces, don't talk nonsense about Mr. Face, who can't see it?

So I had a good impression of Zhou Cang. Feel that he is a person to rely on, a loyal and reliable person. So he was transferred from Guan Yu for reuse, entrusted with important matters, and arranged to lead troops to guard the pass on the front line of Queweipo.

What about Xing Daorong? is also a good man, with five big and three thick, black and red skin, a sparse red beard on his face, the size is not the same as Zhou Cang, but it is not as stocky as Zhou Cang.

When Liu Cong came over from Lingling Taishou Liu Du to transfer Daorong, he also fell in love with Xingdaorong's good character, a martial artist, absolutely loyal, and the same as Zhou Cang, and he was good at martial arts, so Liu Cong arranged for him to be Zhou Cang's deputy and came over to guard the Queweipo Pass together.

At that time, Liu Cong knew: "Zhou Cang and Daorong are the two of them, don't worry where they are." Just put it on Queweipo, as long as there is one left between the two of them, just this one person, they will never let Xiahou Yuan cross the Queweipo pass, unless this person is also killed in battle. ”

At this time, Zhou Cang Xing Daorong saw Liu Cong asking, so he wanted to answer at the same time, Xing Daorong saw Zhou Cang open his mouth, so he choked back the words he was about to speak, and stared at Zhou Cang to answer.

Zhou Cang said: "Tell the lord, according to the scout report, the last general knew that Xiahou Yuan in Yuzhou was shouting all over the world and wanted to bring troops to attack Queweipo, but he put 10,000 elite soldiers outside the west gate of Yuzhou, and waited for five days before he took the carriage and ox cart requisitioned by Yuzhou, and slowly went on the road with grain and grass baggage.

According to our estimates, he will be in Fancheng now, and he will have already arrived.

But I don't know why, just five days ago, the scout came to report that Xiahou Yuan's men and horses had reached a hundred miles to the north, and they actually pressed the camp to stay.

The two generals didn't know why, so they waited here anxiously.

Yesterday, the scout came to report again, saying that Cao Bing had come out of Yuzhou City again, and he was in a hurry, and it was estimated that he would arrive at Xiahou Yuan's camp within three days.

Well, that's all the enemy the Admiral knows. ”

Liu Cong thought about it for a while and said to himself, "Isn't it? Xiahou Yuan did this, which was expected by me.

Before he sent his troops, he shouted all over the world that he wanted to come over and attack Quewei Slope, with the purpose of misleading our army's attention and misleading our army into defending only at this Quewei Slope and not paying attention to the direction of Mushroom Ridge.

He secretly ordered the two detachments to make a detour to Mushroom Ridge and surround Xinye from the south.

To his surprise, I set up an ambush at Mushroom Ridge and cleaned up his sneak attack troops at once.

This Xiahou Yuan listened to this military intelligence report, can he not hesitate?

So, he stopped a hundred miles to the north, thought about it for a few days, and thought that he should come and attack Queweipo? lack of confidence; Withdraw the troops back to Yuzhou, right? I am afraid of other people's jokes, and I am afraid of Cao Cao's scolding. So he made up his mind and transferred the garrison in Yuzhou City again, preparing to join forces and come over to attack Queweipo. ”

Liu Cong thought of this and thought deeply: "There were originally 30,000 horses in Yuzhou City, and I took 10,000 in Mushroom Ridge, and now Xiahou Yuan has poured out of the nest again. It looks like this is going to come over and fight to the death.

Hehe, Xiahou Yuan, your kid is a little too anxious, right? ”

Thinking of this, Liu Cong smiled slightly, his mind turned, and he suddenly came up with a clever move: "Why don't I send troops here to entangle Xiahou Yuan, and send troops over there to make a detour to Mushroom Ridge to sneak attack Yuzhou City?"

At this time, there was almost no soldier in the city of Yuzhou, as long as a thousand men and horses were sent and acted quickly, Yuzhou could be occupied immediately. Hehe, brilliant plan. ”

Liu Cong smiled and thought of this, and immediately denied his idea: "Forget it, there is no need to rashly use troops now." Judging from the current forces in Jingzhou, it is not yet necessary to lead troops around.

Yuzhou City, well, just say that Xiahou Yuan gave it to me personally, and I don't want it at this time!

I'm just thinking about recovering the lost territory, and then repairing Jingzhou's internal affairs, developing the economy, saving strength, and waiting until the soldiers are full??????

When the time comes, it will not only be Yuzhou City, but who will be my opponent all over the world? ”

So, Liu Cong's thoughts returned to reality and asked Zhou Cang: "Where are Xiahou Yuan's people at this time?" ”

"It is estimated that we have crossed the Dreadnought River, which is fifty or sixty miles away from us, and we can reach the pine slope this evening.

It is more than ten miles away from this Quewei Slope, and the last general estimates that he will stay at Songshupo tonight, and tomorrow Xiahou Yuan will bring someone over to observe the terrain.

Hehe, my lord, you will see a fight as soon as you come!

Let's see how I Zhoucang cleaned up Xiahou Yuan.

Well, Lao Xing had long been in a hurry to lead his troops to Xiaguan and Xiahou Yuan to fight. ”

Zhou Cang glanced at Xing Daorong when he said this, and when he saw Xing Daorong cracking his mouth and laughing, Zhou Cang continued: "I said no!" You can't take troops to the pass. The lord has instructed us and told us that as long as we hold the pass, we will have made a great contribution.

Well, with our little men, it is not a problem to hold the pass, and it is not a good sign to think about going down and fighting with Xiahou Yuan's team.

Is the Admiral right? Lord. ”

Liu Cong was very happy when he heard this, so he asked: "The enemy situation in front of me is like this, how do you two plan to defend the pass?" ”

"Lord, our army is 2,000 men and horses, you ordered us to hold Queweipo for at least ten days, in case we can't hold the pass, after the loss, we must also block Cao's soldiers to reach Xinye in five days.

Well, these generals remember.

According to your orders, Lao Xing and I studied the battle plan. I'm going to report back to you now, right? ”

Liu Cong agreed, squinting and smiling, listening to the battle plan returned by Zhou Cang and Xing Daorong, then thought for a while, nodded and said, "This plan is feasible, let's implement it." In this way, I came here this time mainly to observe and understand Cao Bing's tactical style and then test our army's combat capability.

I will not interfere in your combat operations. Is it okay to only watch the enemy from behind? ”

Zhou Cangxing Daorong laughed when he heard it.

Liu Cong continued: "Explain to you and let you understand.

The purpose of this campaign to regain lost territory was to conquer Fancheng, recover lost territory, temper our army's combat capability, and make Cao soldiers south of Xuchang dare not despise our army. In the future, we will create a stable surrounding environment for the economic construction of Jingzhou in the next three years.

Therefore, in this campaign, we must not prematurely expose the combat strength of our army. It's just a siege point to send reinforcements, defeat the Cao soldiers who reinforced Fancheng, and finally conquer Fancheng. ”

Liu Cong said this and looked at Zhou Cangxing Daorong, only to see these two guys staring, showing doubts on their faces.

Liu Cong knew that the two of them could not understand their strategic thinking for a while, so they laughed.

Liu Cong smiled for a while and asked them, "Do you understand what I mean?" ”

Zhou Cang spoke first: "Lord, I don't understand. To fight is to destroy Cao Bing, Cao Bing arrived in front of our door, just pack them up together, what else do you want? ”

Xing Daorong also muttered something, and Liu Cong listened to the same meaning as Zhou Cang's.

Liu Cong scolded in his heart: "Grass! What do I say to you? "Just think of it;" I'll tell you the truth, in this battle, as long as Xiahou Yuan and Xu Huang and them are repulsed, Xu Huang Xiahou Yuan is defeated and flees, so there is no need to chase and kill, let them flee back. Don't get it? ”

Xing Daorong returned to the words: "Why is this? If they are defeated, we will chase them, and if they are captured alive, they will kill their heads, why should they be so benevolent and righteous? ”

Zhou Cang added: "I have never seen such a battle. Is this Confucius leading the troops? ”

When Liu Cong heard this, he became angry, forcibly suppressed his anger, and commanded in a rough voice: "This is an order!" must not be violated. That's it. You are in charge of the battle ahead, and as for the course of the battle, let me arrange it! ”

Zhou Cangxing Daorong didn't dare to say anything more when he heard this, bid farewell to Liu Cong, and went out to arrange the battle. 057