The boulder fell from the sky like a meteor with a terrifying rumbling sound. The stone bullets thrown by the thunderbolt flew all over the sky as they had been a few days before, except that the direction of the stone projectiles was completely reversed, and they all flew from the bottom of the city to the top of the city.

The thunderbolts at the head of Xuchang City were torn apart under the bombardment of boulders, and Cao's soldiers also moved to the city for refuge. None of the generals in Cao Ying's camp thought that in just a few days, the soldiers and horses of the three routes outside the city would build a thunderbolt with a longer range, and they would have no power to fight back. This battle is like a replica of the battle of the previous days. Fortunately, the city wall of Xuchang was thick enough, and the thunderbolt outside the city could not collapse the city wall.

Cao Zhang had always been very confident in his martial arts before, believing that as long as he entered the battlefield, he could be invincible, but after days of fighting, Cao Zhang had already put away this arrogance. Not only did he understand that there is a sky outside the sky, and his martial arts are not invincible in the world, but he also understood how terrible it is to transform wisdom into power. Facing the boulders flying all over the sky, Cao Zhang thought that he couldn't deal with any of them.

"Wen Xiansheng, now that Nan Ye's thunderbolt is even better, what should I do?" Cao Zhang couldn't understand why Li Ru could still sit and drink tea in the mansion at this time, he was already going crazy in a hurry.

Li Ru hurriedly put down the teacup and asked, "Has the boulder ever fallen into the city?" ”

Cao Zhang frowned and said: "The thunderbolts in the south and east of the city are still only bombarding the city wall, but the west of the city is ......."

Li Ru smiled when he heard this: "Sun Quan has suffered several losses, so he naturally wants to take revenge and come back." Fortunately, Nan Ye and Liu Bei still took care of their faces. It is enough to order the soldiers and the people in the west of the city to take refuge elsewhere first. ”

Cao Zhangdao: "The people have scattered to avoid danger, but if it goes on like this, I see that it is only a matter of time before the city is broken." ”

Li Ru said: "Otherwise! The city of Xuchang is thick, and it can be broken by a thunderbolt. Sooner or later, the stone bullets outside the city will run out, and it will still depend on the soldiers to attack the city. ”

Cao Zhangdao: "Could it be that before the stone bullet is exhausted, there is nothing I can do?" ”

Li Ru smiled and said, "If Your Highness is willing, you can use the thunderbolt cart that moved into the city to fight back." ”

Cao Zhang shook his head and said, "Wen Xiansheng can't tease me?" Not to mention that the thunderbolt in the city can't shoot the thunderbolt outside the city, and even if it can shoot, it can't be hit by the city wall. ”

Li Ru said: "Your Highness doesn't need to be accurate, and you don't need to go far, as long as you throw the boulder out of the city, all over the city, it will be difficult for the soldiers and horses of the three roads to enter Xuchang." ”

Cao Zhang was shocked when he heard this, and he couldn't understand it, so he asked, "Why is this?" ”

Li Ru explained: "If the boulders are spread all over the city, the rushing cars and ladders will be impassable. If the three families want to attack the city, they must first clear the boulders. We can order our soldiers to shoot arrows at the head of the city to hinder the movement of their soldiers and horses, so that the three-way army and horses cannot enter the city. ”

Cao Zhang was overjoyed when he heard the plan and immediately complied. Xiahou Shang, Xiahou De, Niu Jin and other generals also began to throw stones outside the city, and for a time the boulders inside and outside the city wall flew wildly. Occasionally, boulders collide in the air and fall apart, scattering a rain of stone chips.

Just as a thundercar in the same city cannot be aimed outside the city through the wall, a thundercar outside the city cannot hit a thundercar in the city. As a result, Nan Ye, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan threw as many stone bullets into the city, as many stone bullets flew out of the city and spread all over Xuchang City. At this time, when you look at the ground outside the city, it looks like the back of a toad, and the pimples are densely packed with stones.

At first, Nan Ye didn't understand what Li Ru wanted to do when he saw that the boulders thrown in the city couldn't hit him, but when the dense stone formation was formed, Nan Ye understood Li Ru's intentions, these boulders were not for attacking, but for blocking the road and defending. At this time, a defensive position was formed outside Xuchang City, making Xuchang City more solid and difficult to attack.

Liu Bei and Sun Quan were obviously aware of this problem, and they each brought their military divisions to Nan Ye to discuss. At the same time, all three families also stopped attacking, anyway, the thunderbolt at the head of the city had been destroyed, and there was no need to provide ammunition to the city.

Sun Quan got the blueprints of the thunderbolt car, and he had a lot of fun these days, and his attitude towards Nan Ye was much better, and he asked Nan Ye: "The national teacher thunderbolt is powerful, but Li Ru is vicious and uses boulders to block the road, making it impossible for us to attack the city." How should this be? ”

Nan Ye also had a headache for Li Ru's move, and if he couldn't use the siege equipment, he would have to attack the city, which was the last thing Nan Ye wanted. So he looked at Zhuge Liang and asked, "Does Mr. Kong Ming have a clever plan?" ”

Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan and said: "Li Ru's plan certainly makes it difficult for us to enter the city, and it also makes it difficult for Cao Jun in the city to get out of the city, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing." ”

Lu Suqi said: "Cao Jun defends the city, so there is no need to go out of the city, what are the disadvantages?" ”

Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "Xuchang is an important place for Cao Jun's troops. If Xuchang is not broken, we will need to prevent Cao Bing from cutting off my way back if we want to attack Yanzhou, Bingzhou, and Qingzhou. Now that Cao's army is trapped in Xuchang, why don't I divide my troops to attack Xuchang? If you get the land of three states, what is the use of Xuchang City? ”

When Lu Su came, he was instructed by Zhou Yu that if Xuchang was difficult to attack, the three families could divide the army, and now Zhuge Liang's plan coincided with Zhou Yu, and Lu Su naturally had no opinion. Then he said to Zhuge Liang: "Mr. Kong Ming's words are yes! I just don't know how we divide our troops? ”

Zhuge Liang turned his head to Liu Bei and Nan Ye and said, "How to divide the troops still needs to be assigned by the lord and the national teacher." ”

Nan Ye, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan glanced at each other, and the three of them didn't speak, each calculating in their hearts. Sun Quan occupies the land of Xuzhou, and the adjacent ones to Xuzhou are Yanzhou and Qingzhou, and it is useless to take the state. Liu Bei's Yuzhou is adjacent to Yanzhou and Bingzhou, and it is useless to take Qingzhou. Nanye's territory is blocked by two soldiers and horses, and it is not adjacent to any state, so it seems that there is little difference between which state to take.

After thinking about it, Sun Quan preemptively said: "I want to take the land of Qingzhou, what does the national teacher think?" ”

Nan Ye didn't have any opinion on this, so he asked Liu Bei: "What does Xuande Gong think Zhong Mou is going to take Qingzhou?" ”

Qingzhou and Yuzhou do not border, so Liu Bei nodded and said, "It's okay!" I don't know where the national teacher wants to take? ”

Nan Ye saw that Liu Bei did not take the lead, but asked for his own opinion, and his heart was comfortable, so he said generously: "Xuande chooses one place first, and I will take the rest." ”

Liu Bei glanced at Zhuge Liang, and when he saw Zhuge Liang nodding, he said: "Then I will take the state, how about the national teacher take Yanzhou?" ”

Nan Ye originally felt that it didn't matter which state he took, so he agreed. Waiting for Liu Bei and Sun Quan to leave, Guo Jia smiled and said: "The master is Xuande and Zhongmou's plan!" ”

Nan Yeqi said: "Although Yanzhou is not the most extensive, it has the largest population, and it is also the place where Cao Cao raised his troops. ”

Guo Jia said: "The lord thinks that the land of the three states is no different, but he doesn't know that there is a difference between difficulty and ease. Yanzhou is bordered by Jizhou Yecheng in the north, Xuchang in the south, and there is Chenliu Town, which is the place where Cao Cao raised his troops, and it is the most difficult to take. If the two families take the state and Qingzhou, and the lord has not yet been able to take Yanzhou, and the two come to help, what does the lord think? ”