The world is impermanent, and the things of the world do not depend on the will of man.

Yang Wei, Fa Zheng and Lu Xun came back one after another, but the news they brought was not good. Although it rained lightly for ten days, there was no sign of flash floods in Yishan. The water in the upper reaches of Zishui is turbulent, and it is very difficult to build an embankment to artificially cut off the water. Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong listened well and were not depressed, and the strategy of using Zishui as a help to break the Jiang Yiqu water army was exactly what they proposed.

Tian Fan shook his head and said that although the rain for ten days was small, the amount of water should not be small enough to withstand flash floods, and the reason for this should be because the vegetation on the mountain is too dense and the water storage capacity is too strong.

This sentence was originally made by feeling, and it was just a casual talk, but Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong frowned together when they heard it.

Suddenly, Pang Tong remembered something, his little eyes lit up, and he hugged his fists and said: "Dadu Governor, the last general asks for an order, please send 3,000 soldiers to me, the last general will be of great use!" ”

Tian Fan glanced at him, and then looked at Zhuge Liang beside him, only to see Zhuge Liang also looking at Pang Tong with a puzzled expression. Tian Fan nodded, took the Tiger Talisman for Troop Transfer, handed it to Pang Tong, and said, "You go to Zhengqing!" Just say what I said, and allocate 3,000 soldiers to your use. However, Shiyuan, we have said ugly things ahead, this is the first time you have commanded a formed army, please be careful! I'm your brother, we've been together for a few years, and I know you very well. You like to take risks, and you like to go off the rails, but don't forget, our soldiers of the White Tiger Legion are all precious in their lives, and I will not allow them to suffer any unnecessary damage. Remember? ”

Pang Tong opened his mouth and smiled, and the already unsightly face became even more unsightly. He said: "Brother, don't worry, I will return a lot of the three thousand soldiers to you, and besides, I will use these three thousand soldiers to take down Jiang Yiqu's army!" ”

Tian Fan smiled and said, "Okay! Go ahead and stay safe. ”

Tian Fan didn't ask him what idea he came up with, nor did he try to guess, there was no need, Pang Tong was not a simple person, although he usually liked to mess around, but once he got down to business, he was still very reassuring.

Seeing the two of them out of the big tent, and hearing Zhuge Liang ask Pang Tong what he thought, Tian Fan smiled, picked up a letter under the bookcase, and read it again, his eyebrows wrinkled together.

It turned out that this was a letter from Xu Shu. Xu Shu said that Zhao Yun was defeated, and the 6,000 cavalry suffered heavy losses, and he was temporarily unable to fight again, so he could only lead the remaining cavalry to the east, preparing to rest and return later. As a result, the strategy of the southwest front line designed by Xuzhou before the war was broken by the three-legged support of Pingyu, Anyang and Zhao Yun's cavalry, and the future of the southwest front line was worrisome.

Tian Fan didn't understand, how did Zhao Yun lose? According to the information obtained before the war, there were only 2,000 cavalry in Liu Biao's army, and the remaining 1,200 groups were private soldiers of major families in Jingzhou. On the other hand, Zhao Yun, 6,000 cavalry, including 3,000 flying feathers, how terrible is this combat power? How could he have been defeated? Also, when the infantry fights with the cavalry, it is either a small victory or a big defeat, how can there be a cavalry defeat? What's going on?

After thinking for a while, Tian Fan came to a conclusion that Zhao Yun underestimated the enemy!

Tian Fan was very familiar with Zhao Yun, so he had this guess, in fact, just like his guess, Zhao Yun was defeated precisely because of the light enemy!

More than a month ago, Liu Biao led an army of 70,000 to set up camp in Anyang. This is the first time in more than ten years that Jingzhou has been united and ready to expand externally, from top to bottom, from Liu Biao to ordinary soldiers, all of them are ambitious and want to win a big victory.

However, the sky did not fulfill people's wishes, and the strategy planned by several strategists in Xuzhou before the war was very reasonable, because of the tie of the 6,000 cavalry led by Zhao Yun, Liu Biao did not dare to attack the city with all his strength, so he had to besiege the city without fighting.

However, Liu Biao is not in a hurry, anyway, he has not expanded externally over the years, there has been no major war in Jingzhou, and the money and grain he has saved is enough for him to squander. What's more, Kuai Yue also advocated that Zhao Yun outside Anyang City should be dealt with first, and then go all out to attack the city.

Jingzhou Erkuai, Kuai Yue is good at planning, Kuai Liang is good at government, not a waste of fame. Before Liu Biao went to war, he set a strategy of staying behind by Kuai Liang and accompanying Kuai Yue. Before the two brothers set out for the expedition, they had a conversation.

Kuai Yue said: "Brother, this time my brother will go to war with the envoy, and the affairs of the family will be handed over to my brother." ”

Kuai Liang brushed his head and said, "Second brother, rest assured, the affairs of the family are taken care of by the elder brother." It's just that...... In this battle, the second brother should also be attentive and not have reservations. You remember, this battle is related to the foundation of my Kuai family for the next hundred years, so you must be careful. Also, the combat strength of the more than 1,000 private soldiers in the family is stronger than that of the corporal of the envoy king's account, you don't care, as long as you can complete the goals set before the war, even if all the more than 1,000 private soldiers are damaged in battle, don't care. ”

Kuai Yue smiled and said, "Brother, rest assured, the younger brother knows it!" ”

Kuai Liang nodded and said, "I heard that Xu Yuanzhi has now arrived in Anyang, this is a powerful character, you must be careful, don't fall into his way." ”

Kuai Yue nodded and said, "Brother, don't worry, Xu Yuanzhi is indeed powerful, but the younger brother is not in vain." In this battle, the younger brother is about to meet Xu Yuanzhi! ”

After a slight pause, he said: "Brother, the younger brother still has a trace of concern in his heart, I don't know whether to talk about it or not!" ”

Kuai Liang smiled and said, "Why is the second brother so outside? What can't my two brothers say? ”

Kuai Yue smiled and said, "Brother, junior brother is thinking, even if we can complete the goal, Liu Yuanjun can enter the Central Plains, but can Liu Yuanjun withstand the blow of the storm after the general Liu Bei?" Brother, don't forget, the elite of the Xuzhou Army is the best in the world. ”

Kuai Liang thought for a moment and said, "Liu Yuanjun is not the opponent of the general!" However, second brother, does it have anything to do with whether Liu Yuanjun was defeated or not? ”

He smiled and said, "Second brother, when did we and Liu Yuanjun have one heart?" When he first came to Jingzhou, he borrowed my brothers to stabilize the situation in Jingzhou, and then thought that my Kuai family was too strong and too influential in Jingzhou, and my brothers were too smart to control, so they married the Cai family and the Zhang family, and even married the daughter of the Cai family to continue the string, and suppressed our power in this way. However, I don't hate him, in the end, our Kuai family and him are just using each other. We used Liu Yuanjun to expand the strength of the family, and Liu Yuanjun used us to stabilize the situation in Jingzhou, and that's it.

"Liu Yuanjun can't be the opponent of the general, there is no doubt about it. The general will inevitably fall for Cao Mengde's strategy, because what Cao Mengde is doing is a conspiracy, not a conspiracy, and the conspiracy can be dealt with with by the yang, but the yangmal conspiracy can only be dissolved by the yang. The general will inevitably suffer a temporary setback, but the general has been running Xuzhou for five years and has a deep heritage, and Cao Mengde's destruction in a short period of time cannot be very thorough, and it is impossible for the general to break his muscles and bones. Once the general gets back up from the setback, Liu Yuanjun will face the general's anger at that time. However, it will take time, as short as half a year, as long as one or two years, before Xuzhou can recover, and with this time, the Central Plains will have a place for us. Hehe, second brother, don't interject, listen to the old man!

"Second brother, are you worried that our power in the Central Plains will disappear with the entry of the Great General into the Central Plains? Hehe, don't worry, you might as well think about it carefully, when did the general move the property of the family? He hasn't touched the Xuzhou clan, why should he move my Kuai family? You can rest assured, from the old man's point of view, not only will he not move us, but even the Yingchuan clan will not move! In the final analysis, the strength of the Xuzhou clan is too strong, and the general also needs a force to balance. ”

He smiled and said sarcastically: "Liu Yuanjun wants to use the Yingchuan clan to balance the pressure on the Jingxiang clan, but I don't know that we also want to expand the influence and power of the family through external expansion, this is just a transaction. However, from the old man's point of view, Liu Yuanjun's idea will inevitably fail, and a big battle of 70,000 troops will only make a wedding dress for us. When the general defeats Liu Yuanjun, the old man will write a letter to the general, and the general will definitely not touch our property in the Central Plains, and our family will be able to spread out justifiably. Therefore, we are the last winners of this game. Second brother, you remember, in troubled times, eggs should never be put in one basket. No matter from which aspect, the general is stronger than Liu Yuanjun, and also stronger than the rest of the princes, I believe that in less than ten years, Liu Yuanjun will inevitably be defeated in the hands of the general, and within thirty years, the general should be able to dominate the world. When we established an industry in the Central Plains this time, we also dealt with the generals in advance in order to make long-term plans for the future. ”

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Kuai Yue has to say that his brother Kuai Liang's vision is longer than him, and he sees many things more thoroughly than him.

Because of this dialogue, Kuai Yue is very active in Liu Biaojun, which can be called sharp, and the limelight of the general Cai Mao is so angry that Cai Mao is angry, but there is no way to do it. Kuai Yue advised Liu Biao to temporarily besiege the city instead of besieging it, and a few days later began a tentative siege. Sure enough, as Kuai Yue expected, during the tentative siege, Zhao Yun, who had been patrolling not far away, attacked, and Liu Biao was unprepared, or deliberately unprepared, so he was defeated twice in a row. After that, Liu Biao sent an army of 10,000 people to guard the besieging army and try to attack the city again. This time, Zhao Yun did not come. Kuai Yue understood that Zhao Yun was still very careful, when his side was defenseless, he would take advantage of his own distraction from attacking the city, but when he was on guard, he would not easily rush to the rescue.

On this day, Liu Biao uncharacteristically began to attack the city with all his might. Kuai Yue believes that Zhao Yun will only be fooled if Anyang feels the pressure. Therefore, after a few temptations, Liu Biao was serious.

The 50,000-strong army attacked the city with all their might, and many of them had the same purpose as the Kuai family, although they did not have Kuailiang's long-term vision, but the short-term benefits after defeating the Xuzhou army were also what they dreamed of. Therefore, each family sent elite private soldiers who usually regarded it as their lives to participate in this siege battle. The private soldiers were stronger than the Jingzhou army in terms of combat strength and fighting will, and after they entered the battle, Xu Shu and Xu Dengton in the city felt a lot of pressure. The city defense of Anyang City is not good, and after Xu Deng entered Anyang, it was only simply repaired. After holding out for three days, there were heavy casualties and low morale in Anyang City, and seeing that it was about to be lost without reinforcements, Xu Shu personally lit the wolf smoke and went to Zhao Yun twenty miles away. Chen Zhi's Pingyu Army, Xu Shu did not plan to use it for the time being, firstly, he thought that it was enough to have Zhao Yun, and secondly, he knew that Pingyucheng was much more important than Anyang.

When Zhao Yun saw the wolf smoke, he led six thousand cavalry to rush to Anyang.

Ahead of the Malay newspaper, an army of 17,000 men, including 2,000 cavalry, blocked the way. These people are the troops that Liu Biao sent to Kuai Yue.

Liu Biao had full confidence in Kuai Yue's strategy, so he fully trusted him and gave him the right to dispatch any army in the whole army. As a result, Kuai Yue transferred Liu Biao's only 2,000 cavalry, and selected the most elite 15,000 troops in the whole army. These troops, Kuai Yue has been training for almost a month, and they have been able to complete all the tasks assigned by Kuai Yue, and when they see the military order, they can quickly change formations. Although there was still a little gap from Kuai Yue's expectations, Kuai Yue believed that with some troops to cooperate with his own strategies, it was enough to deal with Zhao Yun's 6,000 cavalry.

Life is full of adventures, and when selecting military soldiers, Kuai Yue accidentally found a person, and with this person, he was full of confidence in his plan.

Zhao Yun is an almost perfect person, he is very smart, skilled in the art of war, strong in martial arts, but not proud, and very handsome, deeply loved by the soldiers of Xuzhou, and also loved by women from eighty to three years old in Xuzhou.

But he is not a god, and since he is not a god, he will have shortcomings, desires, and pursuits. When he heard that Liu Bei had attacked Chen Liu's deployment and that Zang Ba had led the army alone to besiege all the way, he became no longer calm. Before the war, Liu Bei once said that after the end of the war, the Xuzhou Army would add three more legions on the basis of the current two corps. Zang Ba had always led a sentence alone, but Liu Bei was not there at that time, so he couldn't do it. And now that Liu Bei is here, he still lets him lead the army alone, which is a very obvious signal in Zhao Yun's opinion.

Among the three newly built legions, Zhang Fei will inevitably be one, there is no doubt about this, after all, he is Liu Bei's third brother. Now it seems that Zang Ba is also going to be the governor, so there is only one place left. Chen Zhi and Zhang Liao are both qualified, and they are also qualified, Zhao Yun was a little flustered in his heart, Chen Zhi and Zhang Liao had already begun to lead the army alone, could they compete with them?

Fighting with Liu Biao is very crucial, Zhao Yun knows in his heart that as long as he defeats Liu Biao all the way, and among Chen Dao, Xu Shu, and Xu Deng, his own credit is the greatest, and his chance will be the greatest.

When he dreamed back at midnight, Zhao Yun often sighed that although Liu Bei was not kind to him, he did not give him the opportunity to lead an army alone, so that the art of war learned from Tong Yuan was useless. Although the Flying Feather Cavalry was elite, it could not be compared with the large army of tens of thousands of people imagined by Zhao Yun.

Today, there is an opportunity in front of me, Zhao Yun grabbed the reins of the horse hard, I must seize it!

Everyone has something to pursue, and Liu Xian's pursuit is to control the land of Jingxiang, and for this, he needs to introduce another force, such as the Yingchuan clan, to form a pattern of checks and balances with the Jingzhou clan. Kuai Yue's current pursuit is to expand the family's strength and extend the family's tentacles to the Central Plains, for this reason, he knows that Liu Biao's pursuit is harming the interests of the Kuai family, but he still helps Liu Biao without hesitation. Zhao Yun's current pursuit is to master more soldiers and horses and command more people to fight, and for this reason, he is ready to drive Liu Biao away.

For their own pursuit, Liu Biao, Kuai Yue, and Zhao Yun are all going all out.