Shijian Mountain, Wei Ba and Wei Wu stood side by side on a boulder, chrysanthemum water flowed from their feet, although it was already a cold winter wax moon, the once lush chrysanthemum bushes had long been left with only stump branches and leaves, but there was still a fragrance of chrysanthemums floating in the air, which made people feel refreshed.

This is the source of Jusui, a tributary of the turbulent water, and you can enter the territory of Hongnong after crossing the Bear's Ear Mountain behind you. However, if you want to climb over this mountain, even Wei Ba's improved glider can't do it, so you can only honestly attack Wancheng first.

If you want to attack Wancheng, you must first break through the turbulent defense line.

Cao Rui retreated to Wancheng, deployed heavy troops with Wancheng as the center, and put on a posture of defending instead of attacking and stubbornly resisting to the end, if he could not take the lead in opening up the situation on the Western Front, not only would Li Yan, who was confronted by Sima Yi, not only make no progress, but as time went by, Sun Quan would be shaken. Once Sun Quan messes with Li Yan like he did last time he attacked Guan Yu, the joke will be big.

To deal with someone like Sun Quan, only by using one victory after another to strengthen his confidence and make him believe that it is not a wise choice to be your enemy, can he suppress his heart that may be ready to move at any time.

Ma Tan and Deng Zhi were in full battle in Lixian, preparing siege equipment, while Wei Ba took Wei Wu and 5,000 elite foot cavalry to sneak into the upper reaches of the turbulent water to find an opportunity.

The Nanyang Basin is a horseshoe-shaped terrain, with mountains on three sides, east, west and north, and only the Jianghan Plain in the south, with relatively gentle terrain. Although Wei Ba now also has 2,000 cavalry, these cavalry are not enough in combat effectiveness, and if they encounter the same number of Wei cavalry, they may not be able to take advantage. It was inevitable that he would encounter the same encounter as Ma Dai, so Wei Ba kept advancing along the foot of the mountain, ready to retreat into the mountains at any time, and take advantage of the mountain warfare advantage of the foot soldiers to win.

He didn't want to easily send these two thousand cavalry that had not yet fully matured into the blood of the Wei army.

"From here, cross Jushui, walk more than 30 miles to the east, and then turn south, about a day or two away, we can go around to the back of Lixian." Wei Ba pointed to the mountain road looming among the mountains in the distance: "As long as we don't encounter the Wei cavalry of the brigade, we can break the formation with foot soldiers and intersperse with cavalry." Defeat the battle formation of the Wei army. Solve the position behind Lixian first. ”

"Okay, no problem." Wei Wu patted his chest with a big grin: "When the time comes, I will lead the infantry to break the formation, and Tang Qianyu will lead the cavalry to expand the results, and you will just sit in the Chinese army." ”

"It's as simple as that?"

"Ahh What's so complicated about this? "Wei Wu looked at Wei Ba. The more you talk, the lower the voice. He has realized. Wei Ba was unimpressed by his heroism and was a little unhappy. He hurriedly changed his smiling face: "Brother, what do you mean?" ”

"You forgot one of my premises: don't meet the Wei cavalry in the brigade." Wei Ba glared at him angrily and with a smile: "Now we are deep into the enemy territory. Why aren't you vigilant at all? If Zhang He has returned to Nanyang from Yuzhou, this radius of hundreds of miles may be his battlefield, once he is embellished, how many chances do you think you have to go back alive? ”

Wei Wu touched his nose and laughed twice, a little disapproving.

"Zi Lie, the brave are afraid. You are not a scout now, you can make decisions with courage, you are a general with 2,000 men, and you are responsible for the lives of your men. Wei Ba said earnestly: "We sneaked here, there are no large ordnance, and the food is limited, not to mention being chased by a large number of cavalry, even if we encounter enemies twice as many as me, we may fall into trouble, if you don't always be vigilant, it is better to go back to the camp, and when the time comes, we will attack the city with Ma Changshi, maybe it will be more to your appetite." ”

"Don't, I'll just listen to you." Wei Wu muttered a few sentences, he felt that Wei Ba seemed to have an addiction to teaching him, and when he said it, he was like an old woman, and he talked about it for a long time.

Seeing Wei Wu's appearance, Wei Ba also scratched his head a little. Wei Wu is now in a serious rebellious period, and it is really a headache to say that he doesn't take anything to heart. Although he didn't refute it, he obviously didn't listen to it, and his left ear went in, and his right ear went out, and all of them were blown away by the wind. Sometimes when I get in a hurry, I really want to kick him twice.

"Let's go." Wei Ba shook his head helplessly, jumped off the boulder, and walked forward. Dunwu followed, smiled, and said softly, "Young master, it's time to find him a woman." ”

Wei Ba glanced sideways at Dunwu as he walked. Dunwu's body is surprisingly strong, the last time he flew to capture Nanxiang City, he was slashed at least seven times, but after half a month, he jumped around again, and he didn't look like a bloody man at all.

"Can finding a woman cure his donkey temper?"

"A man can only really grow up when he has a woman." Dun Wu smiled: "Look at the young master of the wind, isn't it much calmer now?" ”

Wei Ba shrugged, he really didn't see that Wei Feng was originally the calmest of the brothers, and there seemed to be no difference before and after marriage.

Dunwu said again: "Then young master, look at me." ”

Wei Ba raised his eyebrows and couldn't help laughing: "This example is more convincing. Okay, I'll keep an eye on that, but it's not easy to find the right person to keep the donkey on a leash. ”

"That's just as well." Atsumu laughed too. Wei Wu, who was following behind, saw that they were talking happily, and also rushed up, and asked curiously: "What are you talking about, so happy, let me listen to it." ”

"Let's talk about a certain donkey."

"She-donkey?" Wei Wu was confused: "Where did the female donkey come from, why didn't I see it?" ”

"Poof!" A martial artist next to him was raising his head to drink water, and after hearing Wei Wu's words, he sprayed a mouthful of water into the neck of his companion in front of him.

Wei Ba led his army to meander through the hills, and sent Dunwu to bring some capable soldiers to the front to inquire about the news. Going deep behind enemy lines, he did not dare to be careless. Be careful to sail the Ten Thousand Year Boat, before he left the mountain, he received a warning from Dunwu. The Wei army was very cautious, and the scouts were sent for fifty miles all the time, and the advance even penetrated deep into the mountains. It can be seen that they attach great importance to Wei Ba and Ma Yan.

After receiving the news, Wei Ba ordered the advance to be stopped, and the whole army hid in the mountains and stood by. He is now fifty miles away from the enemy, and the cavalry can arrive in an hour, but the foot soldiers cannot be so fast, even if the soldiers are strong, and if they go out of fifty miles in one breath, their physical strength will inevitably be greatly affected.

What's more, there are not many real soldiers around him, and in several major battles, the most elite soldiers of the Wei family have suffered very large losses, which cannot be replenished in a short period of time. As soon as he thought of this, Wei Ba was very unhappy. The biggest loss should be the Battle of Tongguan during the First Northern Expedition, where more than 1,000 soldiers died in Tongguan.

Now the total number of Wei family members who can meet the standard of martial arts is no more than 2,000, there are more than 500 people around Daddy Wei Yan, more than 500 around Wei Feng, and the rest are all here. If it weren't for Daddy asking Wei Wu to arrive with these troops, he wouldn't have dared to carry out this operation of going deep behind enemy lines.

Wei Ba summoned Wei Wu, Tang Qianyu and others over to discuss tactics together, and after careful discussion, even the most belligerent Wei Wu felt that it was very unlikely that they would launch a surprise attack on their own Liliang alone and defeat the Wei army on the east bank of the turbulent water. Therefore, Wei Ba sent people back to the camp in Lixian County and informed Ma Tan to prepare to launch an attack, attracting the attention of the Wei army and creating an opportunity for him to raid.

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Ma Tan stared at the soldier who delivered the letter, looked at it again and again, and said in a deep voice: "General Zhennan is ready?" ”

The soldier shook his head: "I don't know if General Zhennan is ready, my task is to send the news back." ”

The corners of Ma Yan's mouth twitched, and he turned his head to look at Wei Feng: "Are your martial arts guards so tight-mouthed?" ”

Wei Feng took it unhurriedly: "The military situation is urgent, it's better to be tight." ”

Ma Tan waved his hand and motioned for the warrior to go out. He opened the letter in his hand, stared at the letter for a while, then spread the letter on the case and patted it gently: "The Wei army is very guarded, Ziyu is still fifty miles away from Li County, we must create an opportunity for him, otherwise, it will be difficult for him to approach Li County quietly." ”

He looked at Deng Zhi and Wei Feng: "We are regular soldiers, and we are grasping the rhythm of the attack, and we must not only put pressure on the Wei army, but also not lose too much." ”

Deng Zhi nodded, glanced at the letter on the case, and couldn't help but be secretly frightened. The military information sent by Wei Ba was not plain text, but code words, if you only read the text and did not compare it with the agreed code book, you would not be able to understand the meaning at all. Ma Jian looked at the password and directly understood the meaning, he actually put the code book directly in his head, this cleverness is really extraordinary, no wonder Zhuge Liang valued him so much at the beginning.

Zhuge Liang is an extremely smart person, he can enter his blue eyes, of course he is also a smart person, but he didn't expect Ma Yan's brain to be so good.

Among the three of them, Wei Feng had the highest military rank, but according to Wei Ba's suggestion, he took the initiative to relinquish command. Although Deng Zhi is older, his military position is not as good as Wei Feng, Wei Feng has given up, of course he can't compete with Ma Yan, so Ma Jian served as the chief general as the general of Zhenbei, and Deng Zhi and Wei Feng were deputy generals. Since Ma Tan had made a decision, and Deng Zhi and Wei Feng had no objections, the attack plan was decided.

Seeing this scene, Ma Jian was very satisfied, and he had a little more trust in Wei Ba in his heart. If it weren't for Wei Ba taking the initiative to let Wei Feng give up the command, he would really not be able to ask for it, when Wei Feng had the highest military position, Deng Zhi was the oldest, and he would be the most embarrassed if he couldn't go up or down.

The discussion was decided, and Wei Feng got up and went to Wei Ba's camp. Wei Ba is not in the camp, and Guan Feng is in charge of the camp. It is said that it is not good for the eldest uncle and his younger sister-in-law to meet directly, but since they are in the military camp, they can't talk about so many rules.

As soon as he saw Guan Feng, Wei Feng said solemnly: "What plan does Ziyu have?" ”

"Respond to opportunities and adapt to changes." Guan Feng said calmly: "Brother, just in case, I want to prepare an escape path for Ziyu and Zilie, there are not enough manpower, you talk to Ma Changshi, and ask him to give me a part of the craftsmen of the baggage camp." ”

Wei Feng nodded without thinking: "Okay, I'll say it right away." ”…… (To be continued......)