Sun Jian followed Cao Cao's suggestion to go to Dongshan to watch the enemy situation in the city, the two left Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan, Han Dang, and Huang Gai in the camp to guard, and they took about 200 men and horses through the grove to climb up Dongshan, sure enough, Cao Cao's eyes were vicious, and wherever he went, he could have an unobstructed view of Yingchuan County, and Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao brothers in the city were not vegetarians, and the 100,000 troops under their command did not all shrink in Yingchuan County, but took advantage of the fact that the Han army led by Cao Cao and Sun Jian was only 10,000 people who could not besiege Yingchuan at all. They secretly released 50,000 troops from other city gates to hide in the mountains, leaving only 50,000 troops in the city to defend the city, and the banners of Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao were still floating in the city, which made Cao Cao and Sun Jian think that their forces were all shrunk in the city.

"Meng De - now the defense in the city is very tight, we have to attack if we want to break through the city, but now we want to build a cloud ladder in a short period of time It will take more than half a month, and when the army of General Huangfu and General Zhu arrives, then we will lose the opportunity! Moreover, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang brothers are cunning and abnormal, our strength is far from them, if we are not careful, we will be besieged by them, Sun's suggestion is that Sun will lead people to attack from the low-lying place in the south of the city tomorrow, to see if they can break the city in one fell swoop-" Sun Jian looked at it for a long time and felt that the southern corner of Yingchuan County had collapsed due to disrepair, and it looked like it was temporarily repaired, which was obviously lower than other places, and the enemy garrison here was scarce at the corner, If you take it by surprise, you may be able to take the lead in the city.

"Brother Wentai - Cao thinks that even if we are fast, it will take five days to prepare, you see that there is a big mountain not far from the north of Yingchuan County, and there is a valley mouth between the mountain and Yingchuan, we need to send people to occupy the commanding heights here in advance, so that they can't quickly escape into the mountain after the defeat; The terrain in the east and south of the city is open, which is only suitable for a large army to fight, but the road is overgrown with weeds, and two ambushes can also be set up to wait until the thief army escapes and attack it with fire; This time, the key to our defeat of Yingchuan is in the west of the city - according to Brother Wentai, even if the rear army is fast, it will have to arrive within ten days, so we can't sit here and wait, Brother Wentai can see the victory in the west of the city? Cao Cao schemed and saw at a glance a river flowing in the west of the city, he did not pass directly through Yingchuan County, but turned east from west to north, but there is a bulge in the place where the river turns north, if the river is diverted in this place, then the target of the river's water impact is Yingchuan County, the west of the city, the south of the city is low, as long as the river water is used to impact Yingchuan County, then the city is not self-defeating, but this big water is over the ocean, I don't know how many people will be ruined. However, now Cao Cao is fighting thieves for the Han Dynasty, he will not think about these problems at all, as long as he makes meritorious contributions, others will not think about it, anyway, all the people inside and outside Yingchuan are wrapped in the Yellow Turban Army, and they don't look like good people, and Cao Cao didn't have any intention of killing them.

"Mengde - are you talking about this river? It's just that if the diversion is too big, it will be detected in the city in advance, Sun feels that it is still according to what he said before, and I will lead the army to attack the city tomorrow to attract the attention of the enemy army In the east and south of the city, you take people to secretly prepare in the west of the city, and only wait until they are ready to kill them without leaving a piece of armor! Although Sun Jian agreed with Cao Cao's opinion, he felt that he still needed to lead troops to feint to cooperate with Cao Cao, and in their eyes, all the people of Yingchuan were anti-thieves, and not killing them was not enough to deter other anti-thieves.

After the two reached an agreement, they went down the mountain and returned to the camp to make preparations, and Cao Cao took the four brothers Xiahoudun, Cao Hong, Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan, and a thousand soldiers to the west of the city to gradually intercept the river, while digging the river to prepare for drainage; Sun Jian took his four generals to fight in the east and south of the city every day, and Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang brothers were also sent out to challenge Qu Shuai and Sun Jian every day, but Sun Jian was a tiger and died under his knife, and there were already three Yellow Turban Qu Shuai, and now even if they scolded the Yellow Turban Army, they ignored them.

The two Zhang Bao brothers were also a little impatient when they were so coerced, and they were ready to make a night attack after some discussion, but they didn't know if Cao Cao would be able to detect it.

Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei were sent by Lu Zhi to Yingchuan to support Huangfu Song, but before they arrived in Yingchuan, they met Huang Fu Song's army was chasing the remnants of Bocai, and Huang Fu Song saw that it was his old friend Lu Zhi who introduced them and beckoned them to enter the military tent to ask for details, because Huang Fu Song They had received news from the court at this time, that is, they were going to arrest Lu Zhi and go to Beijing to ask for guilt, he didn't know what was going on, and when he was about to help Lu Zhi get rid of his crimes, Liu Bei's three brothers happened to arrive.

"The last generals Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei see General Huangfu, which was brought by General Lu Zhi." Liu Bei presented a volume of secret letters to Huangfu Song, the letter was written that Liu Bei was one of his students, and the two righteous brothers under his command were superb in martial arts, and he heard that Huangfu Song was in a tight war here in Jizhou, so he sent his own student to Yingchuan and Changshe, and after reading Lu Zhi's letter, Huangfu Song looked at the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang standing below, and it was really Qi Yu Xuanang, but he had some other thoughts in his heart.

"General Liu-you are recommended by General Lu, but the battle here has taken a turn for the better, and the imperial court has sent reinforcements to pursue the enemy army in the area of Yingchuan County, and now I don't need your help for the time being!" Huangfu Song's opening suddenly made Liu Bei's heart tremble, which made their dream of making contributions to their careers broken.

"General Huangfu - the last general doesn't know what you mean by this?" Before Liu Bei could speak, Guan Yu couldn't help but speak, his already arrogant temperament didn't speak so well.

"Second brother-you must not be so rude, General Huangfu, please don't be surprised, since the general doesn't need us here, then the last general will retire!" Liu Bei was very angry in his heart, but after all, he was recommended by a teacher, and he scolded Guan Yu for not letting him speak, he felt that one sentence was that there was no place to keep a master here, and there was really no chance for their brothers to make contributions when the Han Dynasty was so big?

Recently, the old man received a war report that the eunuchs in Lu Zhi's court were framed and imprisoned, and the war in Jizhou was at a critical moment, and the three of them immediately rushed to Jizhou to stabilize the situation, otherwise Brother Lu Zhi's efforts will be in vain! The old man subsidizes you with some grain and grass, and you may still meet Brother Lu Zhi on the way, I wonder if the three generals are willing? Huangfu Song looked at the three of them helplessly, he didn't understand the etiquette in the army at all, if he hadn't looked at Lu Zhi's face, he would have to teach them military law.

In this way, Liu, Guan, and Zhang were slapped back to Jizhou by Huangfu Song, and as soon as they left, Huangfu Song pulled out the camp and went to Yingchuan County. Hearing the battle report of Cao Cao and Sun Jian, it was Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang that the two brothers occupied Yingchuan County, and Huangfu Song and the two of them were ready to lay a big net as soon as they put together a big net, wanting to wipe out the army of Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang brothers in one net, as long as there was no big flag, then the Yellow Turban Army in various places would be wiped out one after another.

(End of chapter)