Chapter 289: Offense and Defense

Cao Cao smiled: "It seems that you have all guessed my intentions, so do you think my intentions are appropriate?" ”

Xun Yu hugged his fists and said: "Although the remnants of the Yuan clan are not as strong as before, they are in great trouble after all. If our army fights with Lu Bu or Sun Jian, the remnants of the Yuan clan will attack behind the scenes, and the light ones will be lost, and the heavy ones will be turned upside down. Therefore, before the lord conquers the world, he must first pacify the Yuan family. Cao Cao smiled and nodded, "What Wen Ruo said is exactly what I want." Guo Jia said: "At the same time as sending troops to Liaodong, another strong army can reach the Tiger Prison Pass to contain Lu Bu's army and respond to Sun Jian, so that it is best for the two of them to lose and lose!" Cao Cao laughed, "What Feng Xiao said is very true!" ”

At the same time, far away in Liaodong, Er Yuan, who thought he had nothing to do, fought again for the position of the prince, which made Gongsun Kang, as the master's family, miserable. At this moment, a mysterious guest came to Gongsun Kang's mansion.

Look back.

Zhang Lang surround Nanyang by surprise with three legions of 300,000 troops, and the army attacked the city repeatedly, and the battle was fierce. At this time, Sun Jian was not idle, and counterattacked the 300,000 soldiers and horses led by Zhuge Liang with 400,000 heavy troops.

The army with the battle flag of Sun Zi surged towards the strong camp outside the city like a tide, and the countless catapults behind it made a whistling sound one by one, and the flying stones covered the sky and the sun, and smashed into the camp of Lu Bujun's army like a torrential rain, smashed down the watchtower, smashed the fence, and the gate was also smashed by a boulder, and some boulders fell into the soldiers, only to see the blood and water gushing wildly, and five or six people died on the spot.

Sun Jian's soldiers rushed to the edge of the trench, erected a wooden ladder, and then the tide of soldiers poured along the wooden ladder through the trench.

At this moment, in the camp, the shield line spread out, and tens of thousands of crossbowmen were exposed, along with a bed crossbow with a full string. Tens of thousands of crossbowmen stared coldly at the swarming enemy army, and the bows and crossbows were ready to strike.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Airplanes...... With a loud bang, the sky darkened suddenly, a rain of arrows obscured the sky, and huge spears and arrows tore through the air with a heart-rending roar! I only heard a loud crackling sound, and rushed to the wave of Sun Jianjun's army and paused suddenly, and countless Sun Jianjun soldiers fell to the ground or rolled into the trench!

The tide continued to move forward, the rain of arrows continued to pour, and overhead flew huge and terrifying stones! Sun Jianjun, who was impacted, was shot over, and Lu Bujun, who was shot, was hit by a boulder, and the scene was hot, and life passed quickly here.

Sun Jianjun's wave rushed through the two trenches, rushed to the first fence, slammed into the fence, and began to slash at the fence. The crossbowmen fired a burst of fire, and then the pikemen stepped forward and attacked Sun Jianjun in front of the fence with their spears, and they were stabbed to the ground one by one, and the scene was a little chaotic! Sun Jianjun behind him suddenly revealed a wave of spears, and the spearmen were defenseless and were immediately shot down!

The crossbowmen retreated to a high place and continued to shoot, and Sun Jianjun's shield-bearer raised his shield above his head, but it could not be completely covered, and soldiers were constantly knocked to the ground by arrows.

The assault force ran out of sharpness and retreated, and another assault unit rushed up again under the cover of catapults.

So repeatedly, the two sides fought fiercely for a whole day.

As the sun set, Sun Jianjun withdrew his troops. I saw that the corpses in the field in front of Lu Bu's army camp were all over the field, and in the camp, Lu Bu's army was also dead and wounded, and the soldiers who cleaned the battlefield continued to carry the dead soldiers down, and the other part of the soldiers were busy repairing the damaged fence.

The atmosphere was somewhat depressing, and there were considerable losses in today's battle, but no progress was made. Sun Jian frowned and said, "Zhuge Liang is very well prepared, and it is difficult to break through in his eagerness!" Looking at Zhou Yu, "Gong Jin, is there a way to break the enemy immediately?" ”

Zhou Yu said: "Today's result was expected! Zhuge Liang is not an idle person after all, we can't defeat him with a single attack! Then he smiled mysteriously, "But in today's battle, I found a flaw in him!" At the time of today's battle, I carefully observed from a high place and found that the side of his camp near the river only had many false flags, but in fact there were not many soldiers and horses, and all his soldiers and horses were concentrated on our side and the south side. We can take advantage of his flaw! ”

Zhou Tai asked, "The Grand Governor wants to attack from the waterway?" ”

Zhou Yu nodded: "Exactly!" ”

Zhou Tai frowned and said: "But Zhuge Liang has sunk ships in the river, and our fleet can't go through it at all, how can we attack from the waterway?" ”

Zhou Yu smiled: "I didn't mean to launch a large-scale assault with a large naval army. If this can be the case, Zhuge Liang will not only set up a false banner in Linjiang! The navy only needs to send an elite force of several thousand people to break into it on a light boat and fast boat, attack its camp with lightning speed, and set fire everywhere with great fanfare, and its army will be disrupted! At the same time, the main force of our army will attack its strongholds from the front, and it will definitely be a success! ”

Sun Jian high-fived and said, "Okay! That's a great plan! ”

Zhou Tai hurriedly clenched his fists and said: "The last general is willing to lead the army to raid the camp of the Lu Bu army." ”

Zhou Yu said with a smile: "This battle is going to Zhou Tai and Gan Ning together, remember, as long as you attack its northern village, don't go too deep, your task is to set fire everywhere and make a big splash, don't be greedy!" If a small group of enemies come to help, you can resolutely annihilate them! If you come to the aid of a large number of enemies, you can fight if you can, and retreat if you can't. The two generals clenched their fists and promised.

Sun Jian ordered: "The two generals will go and prepare immediately, and set off after midnight today." The two generals were ordered to leave the hall in a hurry.

Zhou Yu said to Sun Jian again: "Lord, prepare more things to ignite tonight's attack!" As soon as the army breaks through its strongholds, don't rush to the depths and set fire to them at once! As long as it can cause chaos in Lu Bujun's army, Zhuge Liang is a monster, and he has no power to return to the sky! Sun Jian laughed.

Zhuge Liang, who was standing upstairs, saw a busy scene in Sun Jian's army camp from afar, and he could judge that Sun Jian's army would definitely attack in a big way tonight, and immediately ordered all armies to prepare for battle. Lu Bu's military camp was also busy.

It was late at night, there was silence between heaven and earth, all sounds were gone, only the whining wind, the shadows of the mountains in the distance, and the big river next to it was rolling and flowing; The moon in the sky sometimes reveals its true face, sometimes hides the clouds, and the earth also flickers and darkens.

At this time, the 3,000 elite sailors led by Gan Ning and Zhou Tai had already boarded the light boat clipper, without big torches, and only slowly marched towards the parade with the help of the dim moonlight. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of Sun Jian's cavalry army were already ready to hesitate in the city. There was silence between heaven and earth, it was the silence before the great war.