On the eve of the war, the generals could not sleep.

In the old and new cities of Hefei, the old and new mansions of Longxiang are brightly lit, which is a practice handed down from the past.

According to the latest information from various places, as well as seeing in the city today, it was confirmed that there were 100,000 troops in Jiangdong.

The generals of Hefei, including the think-tank Lu Su, all showed a dignified look on their faces.

Whether the opponent was Cao Cao or Huang Zu, Jiangdong did not use so many troops, and it seems that Sun Quan was indeed angry this time.

When others heard that the 100,000 soldiers had a sad face, only Long Xiang's expression was full of confidence, not only did he not actively arrange the defense as usual, but he even secretly sent Lei Xu to lead his troops to Zipeng Mountain.

Lu Su mistakenly thought that Lei Xu would run out of food after going around, but unexpectedly, Long Xiang decided to take the initiative to attack, and Lei Xu divided his troops to Zipeng Mountain to intercept and kill the rout.

Long Xiang has always been happy and stable with soldiers, but suddenly changed his style of acting, so that Lu Su couldn't adapt to it.

He was worried that Sun Quan would besiege the city on both sides, and Lei Xu's troops would be useless in Zipeng Mountain, and he would not be able to return to Hefei after the grain was exhausted, so he could only retreat to Shouchun in the end.

And the album sent by Cao Xuan in the evening made Lu Su impressed.

Sun Quan set up camp outside the old city, clearly intending to attack the old city.

"Can Yunqi pinch it?"

After Lu Su finished boasting, he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Otherwise, why are you sure that Sun Quan won't fight Xincheng first?" ”

"How can I know how to do it?" Long Xiang shook his head and smiled lightly, explaining: "In fact, it is out of his understanding of Sun Quan, this person has never encountered a strong enemy before Cao Cao, but after fighting with Cao Jun, he was defeated and lost his self-confidence, so he developed a personality of bullying the weak and fearing the hard. ”

"I see."

Lu Su suddenly realized, and suddenly shouted again: "No, since Yunqi guessed that the target was the old city, why didn't you send reinforcements in advance?" General Tang only has 3,000 city defense troops, counting Cao Sima's reconnaissance battalion and Zhang Liao's 800 men, the total garrison is less than 5,000, which is far from the new city defenders."

Long Xiang disagreed: "I didn't plan to defend the city passively at all, so the number of defenders in the old and new cities will not affect the overall situation." ”

"Are you serious?"

Lu Su mistakenly thought that Long Xiang had defeated Zhang Liao and swelled, so he hurriedly frowned and reminded earnestly: "Yunqi, you have to understand that Sun Quan has an army of 100,000, and now General Lei has been transferred to Zipeng Mountain, in addition to General Feng's city defense army, there are only 15,000 people in the new city who can be dispatched, and it is difficult to repel several times the enemy when they take the initiative to attack. ”

"Haha, 100,000 troops? It's just a rabble. Long Xiang looked at Xu Chu with a smile and asked jokingly: "When Zhong Kang hears such a force, do you dare to fight?" ”

"I'm not even afraid of Cao Jun, why am I afraid of that Jiangdong rat?" Xu Chu slapped his chest, looking confident.

"Well said."

Long Xiang nodded slightly, then took out a letter from his arms, handed it to Xu Chu and instructed: "It is inconvenient to send a message at night, you quickly send this letter to the old city, it is a matter of whether you can defeat the enemy in a battle tomorrow, you must be careful not to let the enemy intercept it." ”

"Since it's so important, I'm going to go through it myself." Xu Chu stepped forward to take the letter, his eyes were as resolute as steel.

"It's fine."

Long Xiang casually handed Cao Xing's sketch to Xu Chu and added: "Bring this picture with you, and ask Uncle Yu to hand it over to Zhang Liao." ”

"Yui."

Xu Chu held the letter in one hand and the picture in the other, hugged his fists and went away.

Lu Su heard this, so he stepped forward and stared at Long Xiang and asked, "Yunqi, what are you going to do?" How do you feel that you are pinning all your hopes for breaking the enemy on that Zhang Liao? He had only eight hundred men."

Long Xiang smiled leisurely and said: "Hehe, don't underestimate Zhang Liao's eight hundred people, they can retire Sun Quan's 100,000 people." ”

"How is this possible?" Lu Su's face was full of disbelief.

"Have you forgotten my agreement with Zhang Wenyuan?"

Seeing Long Xiang's old story brought up again, Lu Su couldn't help but be stunned, and muttered: "No matter whether he makes meritorious service within three years, he will be released?" Isn't this your usual delaying tactic? ”

"Zhang Wenyuan's wife and children are all in Xudu, and Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, my strategy of delaying the army is useless to him at all, if Zhang Wenyuan wants to return to the Central Plains earlier, and does not fall out of favor in front of Cao Cao, he must follow General Guan to get the anti-heaven war exploits, Sun Quan's 100,000 soldiers and horses outside the city are his only chance, and he will inevitably fight for it."

"Hiss" Lu Su swallowed violently after hearing this, shook his head and quipped: "According to your analysis, Zhang Liao really doesn't have any choice, do you count yourself pushing your friends into the fire pit?" ”

"It doesn't count."

Long Xiang shook his head and said, "When Zhang Wenyuan persuaded General Guan to surrender, did he push the other party into the fire pit?" I am a mutual achievement with him, and success will go down in history, isn't it worth fighting? ”

"Is there a good chance?" Lu Su asked in a low voice.

Long Xiang affirmed: "Zijing also has experience in leading troops, he should know that there is an essential difference between commanding thousands of people and commanding 100,000, from the analysis of Sun Quan's previous achievements, his commanding ability is very weak, then Lu Meng has just succeeded to the governor, do you guess that Sun Jian and Sun Ce's old troops will obey him?" The more people, the more chaotic. ”

After hearing this, Lu Su suddenly realized, pointed to the direction where Xu Chu left, and exclaimed: "You gave Zhang Liao the sketch of Cao Sima, did you want him to enter Sun Quan's army according to the map, just to cause chaos in the enemy army?" And then let's fish in troubled waters? ”

"Hmm."

Long Xiang nodded and snorted coldly: "Since Sun Quan Xiao'er is too big and dares to camp under my nose, don't blame me for rushing directly to his face, even if Zhang Liao can't kill the commander, even if he only cuts off the commander of the Chinese army, 100,000 Wu soldiers will inevitably be in a mess, and there will be countless collisions and tramples on each other." ”

"Amount"

Lu Su hesitated for a while, but couldn't help but pour cold water: "Have you ever thought about what if Zhang Liao didn't complete the task?"

"How?"

Long Xiang said solemnly: "Eight hundred people can't do it, I will use eight thousand people to continue the raid, the enemy's weakness is there, and he is undefeated and has no reason." ”

"Well, there are elite tiger guards in Hefei, and they can defeat the Cao army on land, and it is said that it is not a problem to fight the Jiangdong people, once the Jiangdong soldiers begin to retreat, and General Lei will attack them behind him, the enemy will inevitably be frightened."

Lu Suyan was greatly touched, he suddenly understood Long Xiang's intentions, and said in his heart Are you still modest and can't use soldiers? I can't even think of the layout of this ring after ring, I'm really confused by the appearance, and it seems that I will have to understand it in depth in the future.

Between Long Xiang and Lu Su's words, Feng Zhong saw that he had not issued the task for a long time, so he clenched his fists and asked: "Yunqi, since you want to take the initiative to attack, will my city defense army also go out of the city?" One more person, one more strength. ”

"No, Uncle Zhong's city defense army can't move, even if there is no threat from the outside, it is necessary to prevent people in the city from rioting."

Long Xiang shook his head and rejected Feng Zhong, then got up and said to the generals: "The safety of Hefei New City will be handed over to Zijing and Uncle Zhong, and the rest of the people will go back to rest now, and tomorrow the third watch will make dinner and go out of the city on the fifth watch, and drive Sun Quan back to Jiangdong." ”

"Yui."

The low and neat answer echoed in the Taishou Mansion Hall for a long time.

The night sky outside the house is dotted, the shore of Shishui is also dotted, and there are Jiangdong soldiers who are going ashore in the dark.

(End of chapter)