As mentioned last time, 50,000 Eastern Wu soldiers disguised themselves as young and strong to infiltrate the baggage team of the Shu army, but they were divided up by Guo Youzhi's design, making them become free labor in Shu. Although Sun Quan did not lose his wife this time, it is certain that he will lose his soldiers.

Sun Quan and Lu Xun originally expected that the elite of the 50,000 Eastern Wu army could give the Hong army and Liu Chan a fatal blow at a critical time, so as to change the declining national fortunes, but unfortunately they became meat buns for dogs, and the 50,000 horses had no return. This matter Guo Youzhi did very hidden, many Eastern Wu soldiers disappeared unconsciously, and everyone's whereabouts can give a reasonable explanation.

This extremely deceptive practice made Sun Quan and Lu Xun have long since disappeared for a long time when they received the news. In addition to beating their feet and scolding the monarchs and ministers of Shu for being shameless, they couldn't think much about him at all.

The only thing that can be done is to make solemn representations with Shu through diplomatic channels, and demand that Shu return 50,000 young people as much as possible. And the diplomatic department of Shu is not a vegetarian, and took a procrastination trick and slowly grinded with them, Liu Yan is familiar with this kind of thing, he takes the diplomats of Dongwu into and out of the entertainment venues and fireworks every day, and fills them with a lot of fancy # soul # soup, but not to mention the return of the young and strong.

If the diplomat of Eastern Wu was in a hurry, he would excuse himself by saying that the war against Wei was not over yet, and once the war was over, it would be returned immediately. Whoever knows it's just a pretext.

The diplomats of Eastern Wu were also helpless, they really didn't understand how the imperial court could make such a stupid decision, how could they send 50,000 young men to Shu? Now that Shu is clearly a tiger borrowing pigs, can 50,000 pigs come back after they have entered the tiger's mouth?

Shu borrowed something and didn't pay it back, but there is a criminal record, Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou and hasn't paid it back to this day, but now it's good, it's his son's turn. It is said that the son is pretty Laozi, the little emperor of Shu and his Laozi have a virtue, and they have the habit of borrowing things. This father and son are equally thick-skinned, and now they have borrowed 50,000 young people, can they pay it back?

The officials of the Honglu Temple in Dongwu were fooled by Liu Yan every day, and secretly complained about the unwisdom of the imperial court, but he didn't know that Sun Quan also suffered a dumb loss this time, but he should know that he wants to calculate people, and people also want to calculate him, who can calculate whom, it depends on each other's skills.

After Liu Hou dealt with the 50,000 Eastern Wu soldiers, a full month passed, and the originally planned Northern Expedition was postponed for a month. This made him feel very disadvantaged, because he believed in the philosophy that time is money, and knew that life is actually made up of periods of time, so he could draw a deference that money equals life.

Now that his life has been wasted for a month, of course he is very angry, but then he thought that these 50,000 elite soldiers of Eastern Wu could bring him a lot of wealth, and maybe he could make up for the loss of his life for a month, and his heart was a little better.

He secretly decided in his heart that he must squeeze out the surplus value of the 50,000 Eastern Wu soldiers and earn back the loss of life in this month.

After all the worries had been resolved, Liu Hou once again waved his army north, this time the Hong army had already replenished all the troops lost in the early stage, and there were 20,000 more horses and horses of Zhu Bao's fourth division, of course, several thousand of them were elite soldiers of Eastern Wu.

In addition, the weapons are brought more this time, the main increase is the number of rockets and a large number of "Angry Birds" slingshots and matching explosives# packs.

This made the ranks of the Hong army almost half larger, with a large number of oxen and wagons to transport all kinds of weapons and ammunition. With so many weapons and ammunition, Liu Hou was confident that he could plow the ground of the entire Xiangyang City.

When the army arrived at Maicheng, after resting for a day, it continued to march north, and when it arrived, Zhu Bao's fourth division officially ran in front as the vanguard army, Liu Hou led the Chinese army to follow slowly fifty miles behind, and the second division of the vulture bone was unfortunately appointed by Liu Hou as the rear army, and it was also fifty miles away from the Chinese army and followed behind.

The vulture was originally extremely dissatisfied with this arrangement, but Liu Hou fooled him, saying that Sima Yi was very insidious and liked to copy people's back roads the most, so maybe the rear army would have more opportunities to fight than the forward. The vulture believed Liu Hou's words, and happily ran with his second division to be the rear troops.

It was also after listening to Liu Hou's words that the vulture bones always thought about finding the Wei army's sneak attack troops for a decisive battle, in order to find these sneaky Wei troops as soon as possible, he scattered the scouts far away, looking for the shadow of the Wei army all over the world. Later, he found the encircling troops of the Wei army and fought a few big battles with them, which is not mentioned later.

There was nothing to say all the way, the Hong army was very smooth and approached the city of Xiangyang again, Zhu Bao rushed to be the vanguard, originally hoping to get a few battles and make immortal achievements, but unfortunately nothing was fished, this time it was the same as the first Northern Expedition, and there was no resistance from the Wei army along the way.

Xiangyang City has always been a battleground for soldiers, there have been many major battles here in history, not to mention the history for the time being, the generation that has been poisoned by martial arts novels since childhood has the most familiar impression of Xiangyang is: the hero Guo Jing once struggled here, and held Xiangyang City for decades so that the Mongolian army could not go south. His daughter Guo Xiang was also named after this city.

At this time, Xiangyang was also a big city that Liu Hou had to attack, and if he wanted to march into the Central Plains, Xiangyang must be captured first, otherwise, he would not dare to go north with confidence.

After Liu Hou arrived outside the city of Xiangyang, the Wei army still surrounded the Hong army from the east, west, and south, and the city of Xiangyang was to the north, that is, the Hong army was surrounded on all sides.

However, this time, Liu Hou did not flee as soon as he knew that the Wei army was in ambush as he did last time, but chose to wait and see what happened. Because after the last temptation, Liu Hou already knew the foundation of the Wei army, and at the same time, this time he brought more ammunition, and he was full of confidence in his heart, believing that he could defeat the troops of the Wei army in one direction at any time and leave calmly.

Last time, the Hong army used rocket artillery to quickly defeat the troops outflanked to the south and quickly escaped from the encirclement of the Wei army. Liu Hou believes that this time the Hong army also has this ability, and can do better.

When Liu Hou arrived at the city of Xiangyang, he did not immediately order the siege of the city, but wrote a letter for people to shoot into the city while letting the soldiers set up camp. The letter was naturally addressed to Sima Yi, and the content was that he had prepared good wine and food and asked him to go out of the city for a meeting.

The last time he came, Sima Yi asked Liu Hou to meet in the city, but he actually wanted to secretly bombard him with artillery. This time, Liu Hou, in turn, first sent an invitation to Sima Yi.

Sima Yi is not a fool, of course he didn't dare to go out of the city to meet his opponent, so he wrote back that he had been busy with official business recently and couldn't spare time, so he would write a letter to communicate if he had something.

So, Liu Hou wrote to him again, telling him a lot of great truths such as the orthodox status of the Han Dynasty, and then persuaded him to wake up in time and abandon the darkness and come to himself.

This is the old routine of Liu Hou's persuasion. This kind of rhetoric is not always effective, Liu Hou is not the kind of person who is eloquent against the sky, and he does not know much about psychology, negotiation and other knowledge, so he simply copied his Laozi Liu Bei's set, and at every turn he moved out of the name of righteousness and showed off his orthodox status of the Liu family to bluff people.

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