Lu Bu really thinks so, his strength has reached this level, is it necessary to play any conspiracy?

What's more, before setting out on the expedition, Liu Xuan also greeted Lu Bu: "Sun Ce must be captured alive, and Yu Ji should not care, even if he escapes from under his nose with the rest of the Sun family, don't pay attention!"

Lu Bu understood the meaning of Liu Xuan's words at that time - Yu Ji had reached some kind of agreement with the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven should have other intentions in keeping the blood of the Sun family.

What was going on, Lu Bu didn't ask, and he didn't want to ask, he just wanted to do what he should do well.

On this basis, Lu Bu began to think about how to deal with Sun Cejun.

If you want to talk about Lu Bu's strategic vision, you can't say that there is none, but compared with Cao Cao and Xun Yu, it seems average. However, it can be said that the command ability of the battlefield, that is, the tactical cultivation, is absolutely the first-class level today, otherwise it will only rush and fight fiercely, how can it win the name of the world's number one fierce general? How can the iron cavalry of Bingzhou led by him become an elite military horse that terrifies the Huns?

On the local battlefield, Lu Bu can use countless methods to accomplish his goals.

The Sun family's bloodline or anything can not be considered, this time the Sun family went on the expedition, although Sun Ce personally conquered, but Sun Ce's younger brother Sun Quan still sat in Jiangdong, guarding a choke point, ensuring that the army had a way to retreat when necessary.

Although Lu Bu led the army south to pacify the south, it would take a while to reach Sun Quan, not to mention that when he fought over, Sun Quan would have already run away.

Therefore, even if he doesn't do anything, Sun Quan can still run away. Then, just catch Sun Ce.

Sun Ce now personally led a large army to sit in Jiangling, seeing that his posture did not meet the current results, it was obvious that he wanted to continue to advance his forces to the north, preferably to Xiangyang, and then use the Han River as the boundary to block the imperial army in the northern area of Jingzhou and not go south.

This is a very safe place, because there is still a considerable distance from the Yangtze River, and the imperial army cannot use the Yangtze River to cultivate its own naval army and offset the advantage of the Jiangdong army in water warfare.

Although the Han River can train soldiers, it is definitely not comparable to the Yangtze River - I am afraid that Sun Ce would never have thought that Liu Xuan was a naval army trained by the sea from the beginning, and the water conditions were even more dangerous than the Yangtze River. The only disadvantage is that you are not familiar with the waterways of the Yangtze River, which can cause some problems.

Therefore, although Sun Ce's abacus played very well, in fact, it was not lethal to the imperial court, not to mention, the combat power of the imperial court army was so strong, and the Han Shui, which I thought could block the southward footsteps of the army, was easily broken through, not to mention whether the original strategy could be completed, and the territory on the north bank of the Yangtze River, which was finally conquered, could not be saved.

Compared with Han Dang and the others, who felt that they could withstand the attack of the imperial army because of their soaring strength, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were not optimistic about the current situation.

However, the current situation is that the arrow has to be sent on the string, and if the fight continues, no matter what, it can buy enough time for Jiangdong to develop, as long as it inflicts a certain amount of damage on the imperial army and consumes their ordnance, grain and grass, it can at least ensure peace for a few years -- even if the imperial court has abundant food, but the ordnance and arrows must be forged one by one, right? And the speed at which the war consumes these ordnance is no slower than that of grain and grass.

It's a pity that Sun Ce and Zhou Yu once again misjudged the ability of the imperial court in casting, if they knew that the imperial court didn't have to worry about arrows at all, and the new magic weapon that Huang Yueying had just invented also made making weapons a very simple matter, I don't know if they would directly express their submission to the imperial court.

Because this is completely impossible to fight, think about the time when you were still jumping for a few arrows and a spear, the opposite court soldier had a bundle of hands, and then pulled out a bundle from the side and asked you: "Or, dear?"..., this is really devastating!

In particular, arrows are extremely important in water warfare, because ships on the surface of the water must try to keep moving, and they will maintain a considerable distance, and the most effective means of attack are arrows.

Considering that his side had managed to raise countless arrows, the result was not as good as the number of arrows fired by the opposite side in a day, and this terrible number was enough to annihilate all gaps, including the combat capabilities of the sailors on both sides of the ship.

Looking at it this way, Sun Ce has no chance of winning at all, but unfortunately Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, and even everyone in Jiangdong don't know this.

After discussing with Zhou Yu, he still firmly implemented the established strategy, and after resting in Jiangling for a month, he personally led the army north to reinforce Xiangyang.

Because of Lu Bu's prestige, Sun Ce did not play any assault or stealing camps, but calmly led his soldiers and horses into Xiangyang City.

It's just that as soon as he entered the city, the strange atmosphere that filled the city made him realize that something was wrong.

Especially the soldiers patrolling back and forth, the morale is as low as a tired army that has been besieged for months, but it is clear that Xiangyang City is not besieged, and after Lu Bu set up camp thirty miles away, it is said that he has not even attacked the city once.

"What's going on?"

Sun Ce knew the power of spells, after all, Yu Ji had shown all kinds of immortal methods in front of him, not to mention Cheng Pu's return also confirmed the guess that 'reasonable use of spells can greatly affect the battle situation'.

After Han Dang saw Sun Ce, he first saluted the lord, and then pouted his lips with a look of disdain: "Then Cai Mao doesn't know what kind of wind is pumping in his brain, and he actually wants to lead the troops to attack Lu Bu's camp at night and drive him down the river to feed the fish!"

Sun Ce was stunned for a moment, then thought of the strange atmosphere in the city, and had already guessed the answer in his heart: "Hmph, it seems that Cai Mao has suffered a lot, right?"

Speaking of this, Han Dang's face also became a little bad: "It's not just a bitter end, even his younger brother was folded in the hands of Lu Bu, and both younger brothers died at the hands of the imperial army, this time the Cai family is not desperate with the imperial court? It's just that the imperial court army is not in a hurry in the face of a night attack, and it is easy to deal with it, so elite, no wonder the imperial court can pacify the north so quickly!"

Sun Ce didn't care about Cai Mao's immortal brother, he was more concerned about what level of combat power the imperial army had reached.

"What is the combat power of the imperial army?"

Han Dang shook his head helplessly: "I don't know!"

"Don't know?"

Speaking of this, Han Dang was also quite helpless: "Because Cai Mao couldn't let the imperial army go all out at all, when he led the army to sneak attack, he was discovered almost before he got close to the enemy camp, and then the imperial army camp opened the door directly, and as soon as the captain called Tai Shici led a group of soldiers and horses to beat Cai Mao back!"

"Just a soldier?"

One is a thousand, according to the Han military system, under the command of the tooth general, under the jurisdiction of two songs.

A thousand soldiers and horses is really not much, although Cai Mao wants to sneak attack, he can't bring too many people, but there will always be three thousand or five thousand, right?

Defeated by an enemy several times smaller than his own?

Cai Zhong rushed the fastest, but he was killed on the spot by Tai Shi Ci who raised his hand and shot an arrow at the front door, and the person stepped on the horse, and he didn't even get his whole body back.

When Sun Ce heard this, his face became very grim, and after thinking about it, he suddenly asked, "These days, can you find out how the Lu Bu camp is arranged?"

Han Dang had already prepared for this, and he copied out a map casually, which not only drew Lu Bu's camp in great detail, but also marked the terrain around Xiangyang and where there were any hidden paths, etc., which showed that Han Dang was very well prepared.

Sun Ce was very satisfied with this, but now was not the time to praise, while walking in front of him while looking at the diagram in his hand, and at the same time arranging for the soldiers and horses to rest, ready for one fierce battle after another.

It's just that he wanted to rest for a while, but Lu Bu didn't necessarily agree. ..., After learning that Sun Ce had entered Xiangyang, Lu Bu, who had been sitting in the camp for several days, stood up directly: "Assemble the army and prepare the horses!"

Then the entire camp was busy, and the most elite tiger rider took the lead in rushing out of the camp under the leadership of Cao Ren, and Lu Bu was not the only one who was eager to make meritorious contributions.

Some time ago, Yu Lin's horse Chao defeated Xinye, and Tai Shi Ci shot Cai Zhong with an arrow in a night attack - judging from his armor and belongings - it can be said that at the beginning of this battle of Pingnan, his tiger and leopard ride fell behind, and the human feather forest horse had already made a meritorious service, and his tiger and leopard ride had not yet opened, so this time it could not be left behind in any case.

Originally, the tiger and leopard cavalry wanted to go out, which should be the most strenuous of all the soldiers and horses, because the war horse could not be dressed in armor at all times, and the rider was also wearing heavy armor, which needed the help of others to put on.

Therefore, if the tiger and leopard ride is to be dispatched, it will take more than half a day just to prepare.

But Cao Ren has been stuck in time, and it is estimated that the day is almost up, so that the soldiers under the tent will be ready to fight at any time, so Lu Bu gave an order here, and Cao Ren immediately set off with his soldiers and horses.

The speed was so fast that Ma Chao, who had already rushed back to the vanguard army of Zhengnan, was dumbfounded: "Why are you in such a hurry?"

Zhang Liao next to him smiled: "Of course it's a battle merit!"

At the end of this battle, Cao Ren will definitely leave the position of general of the tiger and leopard, and the tiger and leopard cavalry will also be handed over to others to command. Considering that Cao Hong had also made contributions when crossing the river before, it was very likely that he would leave the tiger and leopard ride together, so this position had basically been decided and handed over to Cao Chun.

But after a big battle, if you don't even have merits, you will be promoted, even if others don't say anything, Cao Ren can't hold it on his face, so he took advantage of the fact that there was still room for cavalry in the north of Jingzhou to make some meritorious deeds.

After hearing this, Ma Chao smiled: "Could it be that General Cao Ren wants to take the tiger and leopard cavalry to directly defeat Xiangyang?" This was originally a joke, but for the imperial army, this was not an impossible thing.

Thinking that the tiger and leopard are not afraid of bows and arrows, they can directly rush to the city under the rain of arrows, and then blast open the city gate, and directly rush in to kill the Quartet.

"Uh......" After Ma Chao thought of this, he immediately jumped on his war horse: "General, we should also set off as soon as possible, and we definitely can't ask General Cao Ren to take all the credit!"

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