Shiquan was originally a very small town, but after being captured by the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Liang followed Jiang Yong's suggestion and expanded on the basis of the original Shiquan Town, and expanded a small mountain town that was not very suitable for the geographical location into a second-class town, which was not an ordinary investment.

However, this investment is worth it, first of all, in the battle of the capture of Nancheng, the expansion of Shiquan played a role in blocking the door, and secondly, after taking Hanzhong, Shiquan became the throat of the two main roads into Hanzhong in the direction of Meridian Valley and Xicheng, and made a great contribution to the safety of Hanzhong.

Now, Cao Cao is eyeing Shiquan, although Cao Cao played a trick of talking openly and secretly training soldiers, but this trick did not hide from Jiang Yong, Jiang Yong discovered Liu Bei's purpose as early as when Liu Bei intentionally or unintentionally gave up Xicheng, and understood Liu Bei's purpose, so he naturally knew how boring Cao Cao's so-called peace was.

However, Jiang Yong still returned to Nanzheng from Wudu in person and explained the secret ways to Zhang Liang.

"Therefore, Cao Cao's peace alliance with us is basically a trick to cover the world, on the one hand, he wants to paralyze our army, on the other hand, he also needs to make full preparations, such as training in mountain warfare, such as terrain exploration, such as ambushing troops in advance on the attack position in the form of ants moving, and so on."

Everyone suddenly, Zhang Liang raised his eyebrows, and said coldly: "Cao Cao is really a despicable villain, even so, it is enough to drive his messenger away1."

"Hehe, you don't have to, and he's useful."

"Useful? What's the use? ”

"My subordinates also said earlier that an alliance with Cao Cao would offend Liu Bei and Sima Fang at the same time. However, these two companies are actually afraid that we will be confused. ”

Zhang Liang looked at Jiang Yong with some puzzlement: "So what?" ”

"For fear that we would be confused, they sent messengers. Why, then, do we not take the opportunity to ask them for favors? If you want us to be on their side, you have to give some benefits, more or less, anyway, for nothing. ”

"Uh, haha, I see, the military advisor is really calculating. I understand, there must be no lack of benefits, but how should Cao Cao's side deal with it? ”

"It's not hard. Cao Cao's purpose is still Shiquan, as long as we teach Cao Cao a lesson in Shiquan, he will no longer have these unrealistic illusions, if he really attacks Shiquan head-on. The terrain of Stone Spring is dangerous. We're not afraid. ”

"Then how do you teach Cao Cao a lesson?"

"Cao Cao wants to attack Shiquan, he must be taken by surprise, first of all, this point is not possible now, we all know it, and we will naturally be prepared, secondly, he must move his troops to a suitable distance to ambush, which requires an accurate understanding of the terrain first. And we have to take the time to get the troops in place, and there are opportunities for us to do it. ”

"Understood. Mobilize the Inhumans to clear out the infiltrated Inhumans and scouts to make it more difficult for them to explore the terrain, and then ambush the opposing forces at the right time."

"No, the so-called ambush itself may be dangerous, Cao Cao is not easy to follow, don't easily think that you can catch Cao Cao's loopholes, in fact, as long as Shiquan is prepared, he is not afraid of sneak attacks at all, we don't have to risk ambushing Cao Cao, but hit him with dignity, and don't let him move his troops in from the mountains."

Zhang Mancheng wants to refute, but think about Cao Cao's ability to defeat most of the Central Plains, almost the people who unified the Central Plains, how can it be easy, when he wants to take advantage of others, maybe it is also the time for others to calculate themselves, the military advisor is right, as long as Cao Cao is upright and blocks Cao Cao in Shiquan, Cao Cao will not want to step into Hanzhong half a step

The terrain of Shiquan is very dangerous, the southwest is the Han River, and the height of the river bank is very high, it is not very realistic to attack or bypass from the Han River, as for the other side of the river, it is a steep cliff, and the south side of the Han River is a deep mountain canyon, the terrain is very bad, you can go around the Shiquan can only go to the northeast, but it is also a deep mountain and dense forest, and the road is difficult to find.

In the case of a frontal attack, there is only a rather narrow ramp, not only is the attack surface narrow and long, but also the stone spring city is irregularly shaped, and the north and northeast sides of the road can be attacked at the same time, and the attacker will not only have to attack along the hillside, but also face blows from two directions, which is definitely a desperate place.

Therefore, if you want to capture Shiquan, the best way is to sneak attack, enter the city at night to seize the city gates, create chaos, and then capture it in one fell swoop.

Cao Cao did this plan, before sending the attack troops to set off, the most important thing is naturally the terrain of the surrounding mountains, where to pass the troops, where to hide the troops, where to find drinking water, etc., without this information, the large army entering the mountains is not to fight, but to find death.

The task released by Cao Cao is very vague, mainly a clearing mission, but those who contribute to the map can get additional merit points, Cao Cao is using this to obtain a topographic map of the surrounding vast mountainous areas, of course, Cao Cao in order to make up for the blind spots, and accelerate the speed of exploration, also sent his elite scout troops into the mountains.

At the beginning, it was smooth, although there were also Inhumans from the Yellow Turban camp on the opposite side to do confrontational missions, but the number of opponents was not large, and the impact on the exploration operation was not very large, but soon after, like sharks smelling blood, more and more Inhumans from the Yellow Turban camp appeared in the mountains. Moreover, the strength of these Inhuman troops is also getting higher and higher, which also makes Cao Cao very confused, and he even suspects that the elite troops of the Yellow Turban Army may also be involved.

In fact, Cao Cao's guess was right, the elite of the Yellow Turban Army did participate, Jiang Yong used the method of lending the elite troops to strangers to improve the strength of the players in the Yellow Turban camp, on the one hand, he could get some benefits, on the other hand, he could also eliminate a large number of Cao Army scouts and players in Cao Cao's camp, and he could also create a lot of benefits for the players in his own camp, as well as improve their abilities, this method has so many benefits that it is not necessary to call it stupid!

On a hill northeast of Shiquan, two Yellow Turban players are lurking on a large tree at the top of the mountain, which is quite good to see the movement in the valley below, while their companions are ambushed on the mountainside, this kind of ambush tactic is much more efficient than looking around.

"There's movement, you see 1

"Scout, I don't know if it's a big fish, hehe, let's inform everyone to prepare 1 first

"Well, there's something wrong with the number of scouts1

"What's wrong?"

"How many scouts will there be in a force of less than 100 people?"

"Five or six, 1

"Look, there's a group over there, too?"

"Damn, it's a big fish, at least two hundred people! That's great. ”

"Don't be in a hurry to be happy, you look at the mountainside on the north side, and at the foot of the mountain here, there is still a group of each group, the scale of this Nima is at least five or six hundred people, and our one hundred and ten people can't beat it."

"Damn, big army, how can this be?"

"I don't know, maybe Cao Jun wants to force 1

"What then?"

"There is a head, what are you anxious about, the head naturally knows what to do, it is estimated that it is to destroy the other party's scout and then retreat, hurry up to deliver the letter 1

"Oh 1

Soon, the news of the discovery of a lot of tun-level Cao Jun spread to Zhang Mancheng, who was responsible for defending Shiquan, it seemed that Cao Cao was planning to tear his face, and the heavy losses in the mountains made Cao Cao understand that the possibility of sneaking up on Shiquan was basically gone, so Cao Cao wanted to plan to force his way through the mountains.

There are two purposes for bypassing Shiquan, one is to attack Shiquan from the rear, and the other is to cut off Shiquan's supply line, but Zhang Mancheng is not in a hurry, if Cao Cao really wants to cut off Shiquan's supply line, then what about his own interspersed supply of troops? Could it be that Cao Cao really thought that this mountainous area was so easy to climb.

Zhang Mancheng has already had Jiang Yong's analysis and foundation, and he is not in a hurry at all, on the one hand, he will also integrate the troops and issue a larger-scale mission, or let the aliens fight the main force, and if they can beat Cao Jun, they will be defeated, and if they can't be defeated, they will cut off their logistics, anyway, they can be supplied by Shiquan nearby, and Cao Jun wants to supply but it is far away.

Cao Jun soon found that they were too optimistic about the idea of crossing the mountains, maybe without the interference of the enemy army is not a big problem, and the supply of 300,000 soldiers is not impossible, but in the case of enemy interference, it becomes a task that is more difficult than climbing to the sky.

After holding on for another two days, he found that this was simply impossible, and the Yellow Turban Army and the Inhumans of the Yellow Turban camp were more capable in the mountains, whether it was speed or experience, the gap was still very large, and basically the same number of troops encountered, and ninety percent of the troops on their side were defeated.

In desperation, Fu Zhu had no choice but to completely give up the plan of infiltrating behind enemy lines and attacking Shiquan from behind, and instead prepared to attack head-on to take a look.

The frustrated troops officially set off from Xicheng and marched towards Shiquan in a mighty manner, and all the illusions of reconciliation on the surface of the two sides were completely torn apart.

In addition to condemning Cao Jun's actions, the Yellow Turban Army also immediately reached some secret agreements with Liu Bei and Sima Fang, and only the three of them knew what benefits they had gained.

For the Cao army's active attack, the Yellow Turban Army did not take advantage of the terrain to attack, but planned to defend Shiquan to the death.

The Yellow Turban Army did not come to harass, and Fu Zhu was naturally not polite, and soon moved the troops to the edge of the Han River in the southeast of Shiquan, and found a suitable place to set up a large camp, the camp was less than eight miles away from Shiquan, but Fu Zhu had studied all of Jiang Yong's battles in Hanzhong, for fear of being pitted by Jiang Yong, so he was very careful to scatter a large number of scouts and aliens around, and left enough reserves on the back road.

However, the Yellow Turban Army didn't do anything, it was really determined to defend it, which made Fu Zhu a little relieved, and his evaluation of the Yellow Turban Army defenders was also lowered by one level, such a good terrain was not enterprising, some were too conservative! To be continued...