Chapter Forty-Six: Darkness Chen Cang, Straight to Nanchang

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Liu Xiu looked at the soldiers who kept falling due to the storming of the city, and he was extremely angry in his heart, for him who was just starting out now, every soldier was precious.

After decisively ordering a retreat, Liu Xiu immediately ordered the losses to be counted; And Zhou Yu at the head of the city also took a long breath when he looked at Liu Xiu who was retreating: he was really afraid of Liu Xiu's strong attack regardless of losses, if that was the case, he would not be able to get rid of it for long, and he would have to abandon the city and retreat, after all, this Luling City was just a lonely city for him, and it was difficult to defend it for a long time

Liu Xiu, who returned to the camp, has already counted the losses.

Liu Xiu looked at the list of losses in his hand: nearly 1,000 casualties among soldiers and horses, heavy losses in equipment, and the most important thing is that morale has declined, after all, except for 5,000 Beifu soldiers, the rest are just recruits who have just been trained for less than half a year.

Liu Xiu frowned, and said with emotion: "This storming the city is really the stupidest tactic, but in less than an hour, the losses of the soldiers are so serious, it seems that this kind of behavior must be avoided as much as possible in the future!" 'The first army is to fight, the second is to fight, the second is to attack, and then the army is attacked, and the city is besieged; The method of siege is a last resort. 'Sun Tzu's Art of War, sure enough, is a great word! ”

"The Lord is merciful!" Wei Rui admired: "This strong attack is also impossible, but fortunately, it is just a temptation and a feint, and the lord can divide his troops first tonight, and the last general will stay and deal with Zhou Yu, just wait for the lord to take the Yu Zhang, and then come and surround Zhou Yu with the last general!" ”

"That's all there is to it!" Liu Xiu sighed and said, he has won almost every battle since he marched out last winter, but now he can only take a detour, although most of it is because of his own support conditions, but this is also the first time he has failed to do his best, so it is inevitable that he will be a little disappointed.

Liu Bowen on the side said: "The lord divides his troops tonight, and he still needs General Wei's help!" ”

"Why?" Liu Xiu cleaned up his frustration and wondered.

"The lord wants to withdraw more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and the movement must be not small, but Zhou Yu will find out that General Wei also needs to lead the troops to feint to attack Luling City tonight, so as to distract Zhou Yu from the lord!" Liu Bowen analyzed.

Wei Rui also agreed: "What Berwyn said is good, and the general will cover for the lord at the end of the night; Although even if Zhou Yu knew, he couldn't stop it, but once he knew that he would definitely abandon the city and leave, he was afraid that he would go to Panyang and others to find trouble with the lord! ”

"Eun!" Liu Xiu nodded when he heard this, and said solemnly: "Then it's going to trouble Huaiwen tonight, remember not to really attack, it's not easy to train soldiers, so try to avoid losses!" ”

"Whoa!"

At night, Liu Xiu handed over 5,000 Beifu soldiers to Wei Rui, and he took two more soldiers and horses to bypass Luling City and march directly towards Nanchang City.

At the same time, Wei Rui led 5,000 Beifu soldiers to set up a formation again under Luling City, and shouted to Zhou Yu at the head of the city: "The first two battles with Gongjin are inseparable, tonight I am ordered by the lord to come to Gongjin again to ask you for advice!" ”

Zhou Yu did not show weakness, and shouted: "General Wei is a great talent today, if he can come to our army, Yu will treat him as the commander of the three armies!" ”

Wei Rui said indifferently: "Brother Zhou, don't waste your tongue on this matter!" Wei came tonight to make a bet with Brother Zhou! I don't know if Brother Zhou is willing?! ”

When Zhou Yu heard this, he didn't say those discordant words anymore, but said strangely: "How to gamble, let's listen to it!" ”

Wei Rui said with a smile: "I often hear that Brother Zhou governs the army well, and the soldiers and generals under his command are all brave and good at fighting, and Wei asks himself if the soldiers under his command are not bad, I don't know if Brother Zhou is willing to lead his troops out of the city to confront a certain head-on?" ”

Wei Rui thought that if Zhou Yu agreed, he could test the true combat power of the Beifu soldiers, and he could defeat Zhou Yu to break through Luling, which was the best of both worlds;

However, Wei Rui naturally knew that with Zhou Yu's wisdom, even if he saw that only 5,000 people were attacking tonight, he would definitely suspect that there was an ambush outside the city, so he would definitely not go out of the city easily, and what Wei Rui wanted was Zhou Yu's suspicion, so that he thought that he and the soldiers and horses were all ambushes, not going to Nanchang!

Obviously, Zhou Yu naturally couldn't go out of the city to confront him head-on, but said with a smile: "Why does General Wei say such a joke, go to the army to fight, why should I abandon the strength of the city and fight with General Wei!" What's more, I look at the terrifying momentum of the soldiers and horses behind the general, I am afraid that after several years of strict training, how can Zhou's soldiers dare to compete with General Wei in these months! Don't laugh at the general! ”

When Wei Rui heard this, he smiled without mind, and thought in his heart: If Zhou Yu went out of the city so easily, it would not be Zhou Yu.

Wei Rui laughed and said: "I didn't expect that the dignified 'beautiful Zhou Lang' Zhou Yu also had a time when he was not confident, since Zhou Yu didn't dare to go out of the city to fight, why didn't he retreat early?!" Hahaha" Zhou Yu completely ignored Wei Rui's mockery, and laughed: "The battlefield has always been a hero of success or failure, how dare or not!" I watched Zhou Mougao, and I looked at General Wei, you! ”

The two fought for a long time, and naturally no one could convince anyone, and neither showed weakness to the other party.

Seeing this, Wei Rui, in order not to let Zhou Yu see through, immediately ordered the war drums to be beaten, the horn to be sounded, followed by several rounds of arrows towards the city.

Wei Rui feinted for a while, and immediately ordered a retreat.

And even after the precise arrangement of Wei Rui and others, Zhou Yu is what kind of person, he is still standing on the city tower at the moment and looking at Wei Rui in the distance, with a puzzled look in his eyes

A few days later, Nanchang County,

At this moment, Liu Xiu had already arrived at Nanchang County.

Liu Xiu looked at the large-scale Nanchang County, and his heart was full of pride, and he immediately shouted at Zhuge Xuan on the city tower: "I don't know if Lord Zhuge is here?" ”

"Zhuge Xuan is here! I don't know who is under the city? "Zhuge Xuan has been fighting with Panyang's Liu Xuan and Zhu Hao in recent years, so he is extremely vigilant.

"I'm Liu Xiu!" Liu Xiu began to flicker again: "I was ordered to encircle and suppress the traitor Zhang Xian, Zhang Xian, Zhang Yi and his son have been beheaded a few days ago; However, in recent days, I heard that there are still remnants who have fled into Yuzhang and other places, so the handsome soldiers came to encircle and suppress! Please let my uncle open the city and let me go in! ”

"Liu Xiu? Second son? Zhuge Xuan was a little puzzled, didn't this second son just capture Jingnan a few years ago? Why don't you govern it well and come here?

Zhuge Xuan has also heard a lot of rumors about Liu Xiu in the past few months, and he has already made a judgment on Liu Xiu in his heart.

Looking at the tens of thousands of troops under the city, Zhuge Xuan said with some trepidation: "There are no remnants of the traitorous party in the city, please go back to the second son!" ”

"Uncle, let's cultivate it first, how about we talk about it in detail?!" Liu Xiuyi waved his hand and signaled to the army behind him.

And the tens of thousands of troops behind him also shouted at the same time: "Kaejo!" Kaesong! ”

Zhuge Xuan on the top of the city tower was in a cold sweat when he heard it, and the atmosphere inside and outside Nanchang County was strange for a while!