At night, the entire city of Gangneung was silent, and there was no one to be seen except for the occasional patrol and guard above the city.

It's just that under this silence, all the soldiers in the city have gathered, and although the secret assembly took a lot of time, no whereabouts were revealed.

Just after Wei Tao retreated, Sima Yi's first order was to announce to the people of the city, prohibiting everyone from leaving their homes, but those who did not follow would be killed without mercy!

Maybe someone didn't pay attention to it at first, but when there were several more corpses on the side of the street, no one dared to ignore Sima Yi's order.

If it were normal, I am afraid that not every general of the Cao army would carry out such an order, after all, not everyone is an executioner.

But this time Sima Yi personally ordered in person, this before leaving the army, Cao Cao had already said something, this time it was mainly Sima Yi, otherwise even if Lu Bu was persuaded by Sima Yi, it would not be easy for him to lead many troops here.

Except for Lu Bu's own people, the others were restrained by Sima Yi.

"Zhongda, what are you going to do? Is it necessary to keep it a secret at this time? ”

In fact, at this time, even the generals of Cao Jun did not know Sima Yi's plans, so among the generals, Cao Ren just asked.

"If you want to break through in a battle, you are still a little sure, under the darkness of the night, even if Wei Tao has been prepared, it is impossible to be comprehensive, as long as our army is fast, it can break out of the other party's encirclement. However, if you want to attack Wei Tao's Chinese army tent at night, I'm afraid it's not so simple, since Wei Tao has already said here, it is naturally impossible not to guard against our army's night attack after that. And with the wisdom of Wei Tao. Even if it weren't, it would be almost impossible to succeed in stealing the camp at this time. ”

Cao Ren is also experienced in a hundred battles. His words could naturally be recognized by Cao Jun's generals.

You must know that although Sima Yi has the right to command the army. But Cao Cao also did not hand over the power arbitrarily, and there were many Cao clan generals sent this time.

Once Sima Yi has any improper strategy, the prestige of the Cao clan general is enough to completely empty Sima Yi and regain military power.

When the time comes, it will naturally be possible to forcibly break through and retain most of the army.

So even Sima Yi had to respond to Cao Ren's inquiry.

"Actually, I am not completely unprepared for the current situation, although I did not expect the situation to be so bad, but according to my original plan, even if it is smooth for a while, I will take Gangneung. But it was also necessary to face a massive encirclement by the guards. It's just that according to my calculations, we can occupy the city defenses, but we don't need to be in a hurry. When it was, I had already said to General Lu Bu that if Wei Tao went out of the city, he should not fight, and he should come and seek it. ”

Hearing Sima Yi say this, everyone nodded slightly, they were not stupid, and naturally knew what the consequences would be if they captured Jiangling. Naturally, we are not completely unprepared for this.

It's just because Jia Xu opened the four doors when he was about to retreat, and then sent people to guard them day and night. In addition, the equipment defending the city is long gone, so that the advantage of defending the city is directly reduced by half, which is what makes Cao Jun's people confused.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Sima Yi said slowly.

"I sent a letter to Wei Tao before, in order to confirm the whereabouts of General Lu Bu. Since Wei Tao has already left the city, it is naturally impossible for General Lu Bu to still be in Xiangyang, and he must also be coming. ”

"I see, but even if you attack from both sides, it is impossible to easily break Wei Tao."

Cao Ren nodded slightly, but Cao Ren is not the kind of person who listens to and believes as soon as he is said, so he directly retorted.

"If the four gates are complete, it is still possible for our army to fight with them in front of the battle, but now, I am afraid that Wei Tao is waiting for our army to throw himself into the net."

"So I didn't plan to attack Wei Tao's Chinese army's big tent, and I also didn't mean to attack its grain and grass."

In any case, from beginning to end, Sima Yi always maintained a calm face, and it was really impossible to grasp what he was thinking in his heart.

Fortunately, Sima Yi did not continue to conceal it at this time, and soon continued to say.

"My target this time is Wei Tao's military strength. The reason why Wei Tao was able to dominate the world was not because of his personal martial bravery, nor his extraordinary wisdom, nor his sharpness of a soldier, but because of his victorious army, as long as his army was defeated, then even if Wei Tao's martial arts were unparalleled in the world, it was nothing. When the time comes, the prime minister will naturally be able to subdue the world one by one. ”

"Soldiers?"

Cao Ren and the others were very puzzled, they didn't know the importance of the soldiers, but obviously they didn't expect Sima Yi to mention this matter specifically.

"Do you know why the prime minister handed over the military power to me this time? Speaking of which, I don't have the martial arts of General Lu Bu, and I am not General Cao Ren but from the Cao clan, but I am really powerful, and I can almost say that I am even higher than the main general General Lu Bu. ”

Sima Yi still spoke calmly, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him.

"That's because I have the same opinion as the prime minister, and the strongest in Wei Tao's hands is the one who fights with Wei Tao, sees Wei Tao defeat the enemy one by one, and thinks that Wei Tao is the elite of the all-powerful army. They are Wei Tao's greatest reliance! ”

Listening to Sima Yi's words, all the generals of the Cao army were speechless for a while, and then all the people had no doubts about Sima Yi's order.

Because of the siege on all sides, the camp of Wei Tao's army covers an extremely large area, at a glance, it seems that there is no edge at all, but if you look carefully, it seems to be sparse, you can walk through at will, but if there are marching experts to observe carefully, you can find that these big tents are all scattered and orderly, and each other is directly supported.

At this time, Wei Tao's camp tent can be described as brightly lit, although it is at night, but the place where the candles are lit can be said to be everywhere, in this situation, if you want to hide something, it is almost impossible, just this act of guarding against night attacks is enough to make people admire.

Quietly, the army has already left the city, and I have to say that the demolished gate also gives them convenience, at least as long as they are careful of the sentry, then they can quietly go out of the city.

It's just that this time the purpose of Cao Jun is not the side where Wei Tao leads the army to retreat during the day, but the south gate, according to Sima Yi's understanding, among the previous arrangements, it is the weakest here.

Cao Ren's eyes were patrolling back and forth, if it was up to Sima Yi to make suggestions, then the real battle command was up to Cao Ren.

After observing for a while, Cao Ren immediately waved his hand, and then immediately led the men and horses of the headquarters to kill.

"Woo......"

As soon as Cao Ren made a move, he was immediately discovered by the patrol soldiers, and a long horn sounded, and as soon as the emergency horn sounded, he immediately saw a churn in the camp, and soon there were soldiers guarding and rushing out.

At this time, Cao Jun had just been killed, but after all, he took advantage of the night attack, and Wei Tao's corporal was still killed and retreated.

Cao Jun attacked, Wei Tao naturally did not know, in fact, this was already in Wei Tao's prediction, and when he heard this, Wei Tao immediately looked at Pang Tong on the side.

"Shi Yuan, Cao Jun has already moved, what should I do?"

"From this momentum alone, even if the general does not go to the rescue, he can defend it, of course, this is under the condition that the opposing general has not taken out all his strength. If the general rescues, I am afraid that it will be a division of troops to attack, and if the general is unmoved, it will be an annexation of an army. In any case, this is a reduction in the general's forces. ”

Speaking of this, Pang Tong couldn't help but sigh slightly.

"I didn't expect that Sima Yi had such sharp eyes, and he suddenly found the most important point of the general, I have to say that compared to other generals, the soldiers in the hands of other generals are the biggest reliance, I am afraid that weakening the general's subordinates is the biggest purpose of the other party to come here this time."

"So what should I do?"

Wei Tao knew that strategists generally did not fully explain their plans in advance, let alone people with quite different self-esteem like Pang Tong.

However, the words offered by Pang Tong before were also good in Wei Tao's opinion, at least they could lead the snake out of the hole, after all, although the defense of Jiangling City had been destroyed, it would take a lot of troops to attack.

Wei Tao didn't want a series of schemes to end up like this. Although Zhou Yu did not come with him this time, it was also because he knew that Jia Xu was here, and at the same time, Pang Tong also had the intention of taking refuge in Wei Tao.

"It depends on what the general wants, I think although the general has the intention of destroying Cao's army, firstly, he does not want to consume his own military strength, and secondly, the general is not willing to immediately provoke Cao Cao and let him put down his internal affairs to fight with the general, right?"

Pang Tong smiled slightly, but he directly said Wei Tao's intentions, and after seeing Wei Tao nodding, Pang Tong finally did not continue to sell Guanzi.

"Everything the general did was to recuperate, restore his strength, and at the same time weaken the princes of the three parties as much as possible. Therefore, when the general curbed Cao Cao's military strength, he connived at what he did. Of course, Sima Yi is probably also aware of this, so he dares to act so arrogantly. Therefore, I suggest that the general face the current situation, then he can divide the army into five routes, and then divide it. As long as it is divided and surrounded, and then slowly persuaded to surrender, there may be more unexpected gains. What's more, isn't Gangneung City also returning to the general? ”

Wei Tao was slightly stunned, but then he felt that what Pang Tong said was not bad, and it was indeed even better compared to this.

"Okay, this battle is from what Shi Yuan said, and let me see how Sima Zhongda set up a plan, and how good Shi Yuan is capable of!"

Hearing what Wei Tao said, Pang Tong had a confident smile on his face.

"Then please let the general see it!" (To be continued......)