Cao Zhen felt that Zhang Fei was worthy of his reputation, and his attack was really brave and resolute, and it was very difficult.

But Zhang Fei also felt a little tricky about Cao Zhen's response.

Cao Zhen relied on the defense of the camp and commanded the defense in an orderly manner, although it looked a little difficult to face his own siege, but at least there were no major flaws for Zhang Fei to grasp, and the defense was quite orderly.

It's not that Zhang Fei doesn't have the confidence to break through this camp. Zhang Fei believed that as long as he continued to attack like this, sooner or later he would break through the camp.

But the price to be paid for breaking through this camp, Zhang Fei is a little difficult to estimate.

There is naturally no problem in laying down the camp, but the problem is how many soldiers he will be killed and wounded, and if the casualties are too large, Zhang Fei will not be able to afford it.

After all, the army in Zhang Fei's hands was the Northern Army that the Han Dynasty spent a lot of money to rebuild, and the combined armies of the North and South were only about 30,000 people. If this is in their own hands, it is really not cost-effective for the Northern Army to suffer heavy losses because of attacking a camp.

In addition, today's Cao Jun is already trapped by the Weishui River, there is no way forward, there is no need to fight to the death with this group of trapped beasts, right?!

Therefore, after Zhang Fei launched three attacks and failed to break through Cao Zhen's camp, he chose to withdraw his troops for the time being.

And for this, Wei Yan said that he did not understand.

Seeing that Cao Jun's camp has been shaken a little, if he can continue to strengthen the attack, it will only take two or three days to break through this camp, why did he suddenly not attack?!

Zhang Fei didn't hide it, anyway, Wei Yan and Wu Yi are their own people, one is from the eldest brother's subordinate and loves generals, and the other is the eldest brother's eldest brother, who is also the actual commander of the Southern Army, his own deputy general, there is nothing that can not be said.

After listening to Zhang Fei's explanation, although Wei Yan could understand it, he still insisted on putting forward opposing opinions.

Wei Yan still has his set of thoughts - what if the Wei army in front of him is not a trapped beast, they are just waiting for reinforcements from the waterway from Chang'an?!

If you don't break through the camp before Chang'an's fleet arrives, and drive these Wei troops down the river to feed Wang Ba, will you watch them withdraw safely?!

As soon as Wei Yan said this, Zhang Fei was suddenly a little dumbfounded. Indeed, there is really the possibility that Wei Yan said.

But even if Zhang Fei realized his mistake, it was no longer realistic to change the deployment and attack again at this time.

Now that the whole army has collected its troops and returned to the camp, the spirit of the soldiers has entered a relatively relaxed state of recuperation, and if these soldiers are allowed to fight, their combat effectiveness and will to fight cannot be guaranteed.

At least today we can't go on the offensive.

Therefore, Zhang Fei could only give an order to let the whole army rest and recuperate, and then attack the camp the next day.

Wei Yan was also a little unwilling to do this, but he also knew that Zhang Fei's decision was the right one. blame yourself for not telling Zhang Fei what he thought earlier, otherwise there would not have been such a show.

But early the next morning, when Zhang Fei gathered his soldiers and prepared to fight again. The offensive was again aborted.

This time, it was not Zhang Fei who changed his mind, but Liu Bei arrived.

Liu Bei did not lead the army into Meixian County to rest at all, but directly took an army of 20,000 and followed the trail of Zhang Fei, marched all the way to the Weishui River.

Even in order to arrive at Zhang Fei's camp as soon as possible, Liu Bei asked Huang Quan to lead most of the soldiers and horses to move slowly, and he only took a thousand personal guards and rushed all the way to Zhang Fei's camp.

Running wildly all the way, Liu Bei, an old man in his sixties, didn't think anything about it, but Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang, two young people in their forties, couldn't stand it on horseback.

This run can be regarded as making the two scribes feel the power of the emperor immediately. The average person really can't stand this bump.

As soon as Liu Bei arrived in the camp, he naturally took over the command of the war, and at the same time Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, who were a little uncomfortable, but still sober-minded, suggested that Liu Bei suspend the attack on Cao Zhen's camp.

At this moment, Wei Yan was anxious again, did these two military divisions run too fast all the way, and their brains were gone?!

I have already made it very clear that Cao Jun may be waiting for Chang'an to come over to meet their retreating fleet. If you don't attack at this time, will you wait until they are all gone, and let's swim all the way down the Weishui River to pursue?!

Wei Yan hurriedly argued in front of Liu Bei with a white face, while Pang Tong covered his head for a while, and had to stand up and say to Wei Yan, "General Wei, don't worry, this method of encircling three ques and one is also, Sun Tzu's art of war has clouds: don't stop returning to the division, besiege the division must be que, and don't be forced to be poor." That's right. ”

Wei Yan looked at Pang Tong with a confused expression, and said What are you talking about?!

What I'm telling you is that the enemy army may have reinforcements and can retreat calmly, what do you tell me about these things that you said about Sanque Yi, and our actual situation, are they all on the same page?!

Good guy, Pang Tong's head hurts even more.

There is one thing to say, Pang Tong really doesn't want to deal with Wei Yan, this person's character is really the art of war, not for rigid tricks, as a general, you have to understand a little bit of this truth, right?!

Isn't that a bar-raiser!!

If it weren't for the fact that he was the mastermind of this Northern Expedition, he wouldn't want to deal with Wei Yan.

After all, Pang Tong was born in a family, although he felt that he was still very kind to others, but there were some concepts in his bones that could not be changed for a while.

It's not that Pang Tong looks down on Wei Yan, but for Wei Yan, an object who feels good about himself and is not very reasonable, Pang Tong is really reluctant to deal with it.

But Pang Tong doesn't care, Zhuge Liang can't ignore it.

Wei Yan is also His Majesty's confidant, this kind of thing, you can't let Your Majesty explain it to Wei Yan in person. Aren't we the ones who are strategists doing this job!!

Therefore, Zhuge Liang could only stand up and say to Wei Yan, "Chief Wen, don't worry, I also expected this matter." As Wen Chang said, if Cao Jun is waiting for someone from Chang'an to respond, he will fight to the death to defend his life at this time. If we are to attack, it is no less than besieging a city and leaving no life for the enemy. If you wait for his ship to come, Cao Jun only wants to retreat at that time, and he will have no fighting spirit, and he will attack again in time, wouldn't he get twice the result with half the effort?! ”

That means, the vitality of the Cao army is that the fleet comes to pick up, and now attacking desperately is tantamount to cutting off the vitality of the Cao army, and the Cao army must fight hard to defend and hold this line of vitality.

But once Cao's fleet really came, then Cao's sergeants and soldiers all wanted to get on the ship and flee for their lives, which was equivalent to letting go of the siege, they would definitely not defend to the death, and it would be much easier to attack at that time.

As soon as Zhuge Liang explained this, Wei Yan immediately understood.

It's understandable, but Wei Yan still insists that he will attack immediately now.

And, Wei Yan also gave his own reasons.

Your tactics of encircling three and one, of course, can reduce the Wei army's determination to resist and make our attack more smooth, but it will always make a part of the Wei army withdraw to Chang'an, it is better to take advantage of the enemy's fleet before it comes, and want to break through the enemy's camp, so that the Wei army, which has no way to retreat, can only swim to escape from Weishui at the risk of death.

If you have to swim through Weishui in winter, it is basically equivalent to looking for death.

With such an opportunity to annihilate the enemy army, why give the enemy a chance to retreat?!

said this, Zhuge Liang didn't want to deal with Wei Yan, and he knew that he had a hard mouth!!

Yes, Wei Yan didn't really want to oppose the strategy proposed by Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, he was just stubborn and refused to admit his mistakes.

Wei Yan has been in Liu Bei's camp for a long time, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong are still quite understanding, and they know that this person's nature is not bad, and he is not the kind of person who does not take the lives of soldiers seriously. But if you say that, others will sound awkward.

It's impossible for this thing not to know that such a strong attack will cause heavy casualties among his own soldiers, and he is not the kind of brutal person who treats the lives of his soldiers as consumables. He also knew that his strategy was too reluctant, but for the sake of his own face, he had to insist on a few words.

Really, Zhuge Liang really doesn't understand. What's the point?!

Fortunately, Zhuge Liang knew what kind of personality Wei Yan was, and Liu Bei knew even more about Wei Yan's personality and temper, so no one really took Wei Yan's persistence seriously.

Liu Bei still ordered the whole army to rest for the time being, and at the same time sent soldiers to cut down trees and build siege equipment to prepare for the next battle.

And Liu Bei's side suddenly stopped moving, and Cao Zhen was also a lawsuit, and he couldn't figure out what the Shu army was doing.

We are waiting for the fleet from Chang'an to pick up. What the hell are you Shu army waiting for?!

If you don't break through our camp before our fleet arrives, drive us down the river to feed the king. Are you waiting to catch the fish?!

Cao Zhen really didn't understand, so he had to go and find Guo Huai, and the two of them discussed countermeasures.

Guo Huai was also a little puzzled about the strategy of the Shu army to suspend the offensive, his thoughts were actually similar to Cao Zhen's, and he really couldn't understand why the Shu army wanted to give himself time.

Could it be said. It was General Zhang He who successfully attacked Wuzhangyuan, which led to the lack of food and grass in the Shu army, so he did not move.

But that's not right.

If it was when he and Cao Zhendu were besieging Meixian, and General Zhang He succeeded in attacking Wuzhangyuan, then the main army of the Shu army did have the risk of running out of grain, although there was grain in Meixian County, it would be in vain if it could not be transported.

But now that Meixian has been relieved, even if the Shu army is really captured by General Zhang He, relying on the grain and grass hoarded by the Wei army in Meixian, it can fully support the two-front battle of counterattacking Wuzhangyuan and pursuing itself.

The current reaction of the Shu army is really strange.

Guo Huai and Cao Zhen discussed with each other, inspired each other's ideas, and finally Guo Huai's strategy went deeper and was terrifying.

"This is the method that the Shu thief wants to encircle the three ques!!"

Cao Zhen, who heard this, looked at Guo Huai with a look of the same expression as Wei Yan, and then began to think. What you say is the same thing as what I think?!

The Shu army didn't do anything, why did they surround the three queyi?!

(End of chapter)