Within a day, Liu Bei led the army to Jiangxia and met with Liu Panhe, who was guarding Jiangxia. Liu Pan is Liu Biao's nephew, so he regards Liu Bei as a junior, personally greets him, and takes Liu Bei to the palace.

After Liu Bei and Liu Pan exchanged pleasantries, they began to discuss the military situation of the rebels. Before Liu Bei's arrival, Liu Pan had already fought against Zhang Wu and Chen Sun several times, and the two sides won and lost each other. Liu Pan is in the Liu clan in Jingzhou, which can be described as a talent with both civil and military skills, and even Liu Pan has nothing to do with Zhang and Chen, so it can be seen that the two still have two brushes.

At that moment, Liu Pan told Liu Bei in detail about the deployment of Zhang Wu and Chen Sun's troops. Now, the two gathered 50,000 people, occupying two adjacent counties in Jiangxia, with the thickness of the city and the advantage of numbers, from time to time will go out of the city to rob, making Liu Pan a little anxious, and when Liu Pan led the army to rush over, the two had already collected troops and returned to the city, and did not confront Liu Pan head-on at all, only twice Liu Pan predicted their movements, arranged the men and horses in advance, and fought two beautiful ambush battles, which can be regarded as rubbing their arrogance.

After listening to Liu Pan's story, Liu Bei's face was also full of worry. According to Liu Pan's account, Zhang Wu and Chen Sun are typical guerrilla tactics, which can achieve the effect of avoiding the important and light, try to avoid fighting with the main force of Jingzhou, wear down Jiangxia's forces little by little, and wait until the consumption reaches a certain level, attack on the whole front, and capture Jiangxia in one fell swoop. If you want to get rid of this situation of being led by the enemy's nose, you can only concentrate your forces and launch a tough battle. forcibly wiped out the power of Zhang and Chen. But Liu Pan also said just now, the two gathered 50,000 people to occupy two adjacent county seats, and if 25,000 people in each county seat are calculated, according to the regular ratio that the number of people besieging the city must be three times the number of people defending the city, then the manpower needed for the siege will be at least 70,000. But now Liu Bei and Liu Pan's men and horses combined, there are only 70,000, and they can only storm one county at most, if in the process of storming, another adjacent county town will send reinforcements. Then the outcome is unpredictable.

Liu Bei took the initiative to invite Ying to come this time. In his heart, he has his own little abacus, where there is war, it must be profitable, Liu Bei wants to incorporate this rebel army. Take the opportunity to expand your strengths. Moreover, in front of Liu Surface. Liu Bei behaved calmly and calmly. It seems that Zhang and Chen don't look at it at all, so Liu Bei not only wants to win this battle. also has to win the beauty and increase his weight in Liu Biao's heart, so that he can have greater benefits in the future. Based on these two reasons, it is obviously not advisable to attack the fortified position, and we can only find other ways to break the enemy.

That night, Liu Bei stood in the camp alone, looking at the stars in the sky a little lonely, thinking about how to break the enemy. A sound of broken footsteps sounded behind Liu Bei, and Liu Bei turned his head to look and saw Pang Tong's ugly face appear in front of his eyes. Seeing Pang Tong's face in the middle of the night, most people would be startled, but Liu Bei didn't have anything unusual, although he didn't like Pang Tong's face very much in his heart, but Liu Bei knew that Pang Tong was a really talented person, and some subtle dislikes were automatically ignored by Liu Bei.

When Pang Tong walked in front of him, Liu Bei smiled and said, "It's dark at night, hasn't the military advisor rested yet?" The wind in Jiangxia is cold, beware of catching a cold. Pang Tong was warmed by Liu Bei's simple words, which strengthened his idea of loyalty to Liu Bei, thinking that a benevolent lord like Liu Bei could not be found with a lantern. As for Ao Lie, who was highly respected by Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong had only met him once after all, and he was far from understanding, so naturally he couldn't compare with Liu Bei in front of him.

In fact, Pang Tong is not a fool, if he is a fool, then there are few normal people in this world, some of Liu Bei's practices, Pang Tong also saw through his pretentiousness, but Pang Tong believes that this is one of the qualities that a leader must have. In addition, Pang Tong is knowledgeable and sharp-minded, and has long seen that after Liu Biao's death, Jingzhou will inevitably have turmoil, which will affect Pang Tong's family, for the sake of the family, Pang Tong is also forced by the situation, so he had to agree to go out of the mountain to assist Liu Bei, in fact, the encounter between Pang Tong and Liu Bei was arranged by Pang Tong from beginning to end, or arranged by Pang Tong's uncle Pang Degong, the purpose is to occupy a place in Liu Bei's group while Liu Bei's strength has not yet taken shape. Then gradually assisted Liu Bei to occupy Jingzhou, which not only kept Jingzhou, avoided the turmoil that might occur after Liu Biao's death, but also kept his family.

However, at this moment, Pang Tong was really moved by Liu Bei, and replied with a smile: "Don't worry, my lord, Tong grew up in Xiangyang since he was a child, and he has already adapted to this cold river breeze." As soon as the conversation changed, Pang Tong suddenly asked: "The lord is worried about Zhang Wu and Chen Sun's affairs?" ”

Liu Bei suddenly reacted after Pang Tong's inquiry, he is no longer his former self, but now he has a phoenix chick by his side, he doesn't have to think about everything by himself like before, and he doesn't need to put such a big phoenix chick, isn't that a tyrannical thing? Liu Bei was not used to it for a while, and he actually forgot the existence of Pang Tong.

Joy climbed on Liu Bei's face, since Pang Tong came to look for him late at night, he must have already made a bamboo in his chest, which is something Liu Bei is very happy to see. Reaching out to grab Pang Tong's arm, Liu Bei patted his head with his other hand, and said with a smile: "Look at it, Bei actually forgot to ask Shiyuan for countermeasures, he is really confused!" Shi Yuan already has a strategy to break the enemy? ”

Feeling Liu Bei's trust and respect, Pang Tong said with a smile: "Lord, since ancient times, people have relied on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to draft water, and put the turbulent river by his side, why doesn't the lord take advantage of it?" ”

"Take advantage of the river? How to use it? Liu Bei asked suspiciously.

Pang Tong took out a map from his sleeve, spread it out in front of Liu Bei, pointed to the two county towns controlled by Zhang Wu and Chen Sun, and said: "The terrain of these two counties is flat, probably because Zhang and Chen felt that it was conducive to their guerrilla tactics, so they deliberately chose these two cities as base areas. But it also gave us the opportunity to order the soldiers to dig dikes and divert water from the tributaries of the great river, and to irrigate the two county towns, so that the enemy army would be defeated without a fight. ”

Liu Bei thought for a moment, slowly shook his head and said, "It's not appropriate." Diverting water to irrigate the city will inevitably cause the people in the city to suffer unjustified disasters, and Bei is a member of the Han family, how can he harm the people of the Han Dynasty because of a temporary success or failure? Although Liu Bei really wanted to win Zhang Wu and Chen Sun beautifully, he attached more importance to the famous festival. Liu Bei knows that he has no more than 10,000 soldiers, and he will not pass the pass, Zhang, and Chen to several people, and the strategists are only Pang Tong and Mi Zhu who can take on great tasks, and there is no foothold of his own territory so far, and the only reliance is a good reputation, which is Liu Bei's magic weapon, and the only weapon for him to turn over. As for whether it is really for the sake of the people in the city to reject Pang Tong's plan as he just said, then only God knows the way.

Liu Bei's acting talent is really good, no matter what he thinks in his heart, but when he says it, he always has a strong sense of benevolence and morality, even Pang Tong didn't feel the slightest abnormality, thinking that Liu Bei was really thinking about the people in the city. Ha Luha smiled, and Pang Tong smiled: "The lord is really a merciful lord." But Tong didn't say that he wanted to bring the river into the city, he only said that he would lead the river to the two cities. ”

Liu Bei asked suspiciously, "What's the difference?" ”

Pang Tong explained: "Lord, it's July, Jiangxia has just had a heavy rain, the water is rising and not retreating, the lord only needs to measure the water level, and use the river water to flood the way in and out of the two cities, so that the city will be cut off from food, there is no need to flood the two cities into lakes." This will cause panic among the rebels in the city, and after a few days, as the water level recedes, the rebels will inevitably desperately leave the city and find another way out, at which point the lord will be able to dispatch his troops and calmly defeat them. ”

Listening to Pang Tong's narration, Liu Bei reacted that Pang Tong's so-called diversion of water to irrigate the city was just to cut off the rebels' advance and retreat and grain routes. This is a good note, not only to protect Liu Bei's reputation, but also to force the rebels in the city to come out of the way.

Stretching out his hand to the map, Pang Tong continued: "When the rebels in the city go out of the city, they will definitely divide their troops, and Zhang Wu and Chen Sun will each lead an army to break through the siege respectively. At that time, the two of them have heavy troops in front of them, and there is no way to retreat, and the hunger formed by the siege of the river for several days will break the army's heart, so why is it difficult to break it? ”

After listening to Pang Tong's overall plan, Liu Bei clenched Pang Tong's hand excitedly, pointed to the bright stars in the night sky and said: "Shi Yuan is really a star monarch in the sky, and he has unpredictable wisdom." If you can get the assistance of Shiyuan, why can't you make contributions?! Tonight, Shi Yuan will rest in the big tent that has been prepared, and we will sleep on our feet. "In the Han Dynasty, sleeping on the foot was a symbol of deep feelings, especially for the monarch, only for those subordinates who were very trusting, would make such an invitation, in order to show the trust and unguarded to a subordinate, usually such a move, will make the subordinates grateful to Dade, engraved in the five.

Pang Tong at this moment is no exception, he never expected that on the first day of his service under Liu Bei, he was awarded the position of lieutenant general of the military division, and now, he has the special opportunity of sleeping with Liu Bei! Pang Tong's heart couldn't help but be deeply moved, because of his ugly face, few people would take the initiative to play with Pang Tong since he was a child; When he was studying, only a few people in Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu were willing to become friends with Pang Tong, and their inner inferiority complex often filled Pang Tong's heart, and Liu Bei did not dislike Pang Tong's ugly face, and issued such a special encounter, which was the first time in Pang Tong's life to enjoy. (To be continued......)