(Foreword)

Cold ice can't break the water, and dead wood can meet spring again.

(Text)

"Don't say you're confused, even I can't figure it out. When I went to Shuzhong, I originally thought that with my identity, there was no token and no military order, so how could Prime Minister Zhuge let me visit him? But what I didn't expect was that when I just stepped into Hanzhong, there were already generals in Shuzhong waiting for me to come. Before I had time to declare my name and the purpose of coming, they had already taken me to Prime Minister Zhuge Mansion. "Zhang Han's words are becoming more and more incomprehensible to me, could it be that Zhuge Kongming already knew that Zhang Han was going to visit? Deliberately let the generals in the army go to introduce them? But this is too incredible, isn't it?

"And then ......? Zhuge Kongming, what did he tell you? Apparently, Cui Li can't wait to know how the story goes.

"I originally wanted to explain our situation to Prime Minister Zhuge and was still thinking about how to make him believe in me, but who knew that Prime Minister Zhuge had already told me about our situation and told me that 30,000 troops had been assembled at the city gate, and ordered me to quickly lead my troops back to rescue us. Not only did he know the names of each of us, but he also knew why we were helping the Shu army fight. As I was leaving, he delivered me this unsigned letter and told me to deliver it to you. ”

I have to say that Zhang Han's story is really exciting. It doesn't sound so real, but now it's not to guess how Zhuge Kongming learned about our situation.

I immediately opened the envelope and took out the letter inside, but when I carefully examined the contents of the letter, I was even more frightened than Zhang Han said: "This ...... How is this possible? How is this possible? Are you kidding us? ”

I had expected the letter to tell us how to deal with the enemy's army and achieve the final victory, but it was not what I thought it would be. There was more to the letter than I could have imagined.

"Cheng Yin, what exactly is written in the letter? Why do you look so shocked? Didn't Zhuge Kongming write about how to defeat the enemy army? Cui Li asked.

I looked at the letter and didn't answer Cui Li, every word on the letter shocked me.

"Isn't there a word on this letterhead? Or is it a new puzzle? I'll just say how can this 'odd array' be cracked so easily, and I'll tell you the answer. Cui Li saw that I didn't answer and continued to speculate.

"Cheng Yin, if it's a new puzzle, you might as well say it first, let's study and study together, everyone collects firewood, and the flame is high." Professor Wu suggested on the side.

"You guessed wrong. It doesn't tell us how we can win this battle, but it's not a new puzzle, and all of us here already know what it's written on it. ”

"We all know? How can it be? Aren't you the only one who has read the letter? How do we know what's on the letterhead? Cui Li asked suspiciously.

"Cui Li is right, when Prime Minister Zhuge entrusted this letter to me, I always carried it with me, and even I didn't read it myself, so it was impossible for us to know what was written on the letterhead. Cheng Yin, what exactly is written on this letterhead? Zhang Han looked at me eagerly.

I spread out the letter in my hand, and on the letter paper was written: Once in ancient times, there was a general who led a large army to press in, passing through a city, and after a few days of fighting, the defenders of the city were no longer able to continue to defend the city. In fact, he could have fled the city, but he didn't, and still led the remnants of his old army to stand on the tower. Its heroic spirit shocks the Quartet...

"This ...... Isn't this what is written on the book Battle of the Three Generals? What is the purpose of this? I thought there was some way to win. Isn't Zhuge Kongming peerless and smart, why don't you write some ways to teach us how to achieve victory? After Cui Li saw the contents of the letter, he was obviously a little unhappy.

It is true that we originally pinned all our hopes on this letter paper handed over by Zhuge Kongming to Zhang Han, but who would have thought that the content of the letter paper was exactly the same as the content of the battle of the three generals in my hand, and it was completely unclear. What kind of message does Zhuge Kongming want to convey to us?

Seeing the letterhead, we obviously became more distressed, Cui Li angrily took the letterhead from my hand, tore it to shreds and threw it into the sky, and said angrily: "Now none of us can rely on it, only we can believe in ourselves!"

I agree with what Cui Li said. In any case, the only one who can save yourself is yourself, and I have understood this truth a long time ago.

"Cui Li, even if this piece of letter paper is not helpful to us, you won't tear it apart, right? What if there's any information in it that we don't perceive? It's just too reckless for you to do that. Professor Wu said as he looked at the letter paper scattered on the ground.

"Forget it, Professor Wu, anyway, the content on the letter paper is all written in the battle of the three generals in my hand, word for word, in case there is really any hidden information, we can still study it carefully." I shook the battle of the three generals in my hand and said.

"If there is any hidden information, I think it is just a deliberate waste of our time." Obviously, Cui Li was still angry at this time.

"Cui Li." I motioned to Cui Li to control his emotions.

At this time, our situation has basically not changed, although we have received a letter from Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng, but it is useless. Everything seems to be back to square one, and a math problem that could not be simpler is placed in front of us again - how can a 35,000 army face an enemy army of 70,000? Just on the other side of the equal sign, it seems that the result of defeat is always hidden.

"Cheng Yin!" Suddenly, Xia Cheng's shout came from not far away, "Cheng Yin, we have found that mechanism, it's just ......"

At this time, Xia Cheng and Zhao Yuyu returned to our side.

"It's just something, you should say it quickly!" Cui Li could no longer hear another piece of disappointment.

"It's just...... The mechanism seems to be ...... and could not start. Apparently someone deliberately turned off the mechanism's activator. "Actually, Xia Cheng's words are not unexpected to me, Lu Xun will definitely damage various institutions in the city when he leaves Yiling Pass.

"Xia Cheng, no matter what, you might as well take us to have a look, maybe we can figure out how to activate this mechanism again."

Xia Cheng nodded and said, "That's the only way, you come with me, the location of that organ is not far away." ”

(End of chapter)