After a few days of warm sunshine, there was a real chill.

The real winter, the biting cold, is still coming.

Lejin's 30,000-strong army was stationed sixty miles away from Jiming Mountain, although the road leading to Jiming Mountain had long been cleared of roadblocks and unimpeded, enough to support at any time.

But because the army did not dare to leak the position, it has not dared to conduct formal training for nearly a month, and it is not allowed to shout loudly.

Several soldiers lit a fire, and one head was roasted on the fire, and suddenly a rabbit that had died on a stake sprang out and whispered around them.

"This damn ghost weather, warm for ten days, cold for ten days, who can stand it?"

"You are content, the general is sympathetic to us, let us hide in the tent when it is cold, and allow us to hunt game, and barbecue meat to warm our stomachs, this is comfortable enough, meet other generals, this kind of ghost weather, let us practice, full of cold and cold, that taste is uncomfortable."

"It's just that meat isn't warm enough, if only there was a little wine..."

"Returning the wine? In my opinion, it is better to have a daughter-in-law and warm up in the bed, so that it will be warm? ”

At this moment, a voice suddenly came out.

“… At least we are stationed here, so that we will not die on the battlefield, and if we really die, then our daughter-in-law will go to someone else's bed. ”

The appearance of this voice silenced the soldiers for a moment, but soon someone laughed again.

"However, as long as we live, we can learn from Prime Minister Cao and dominate other people's daughters-in-law, so it will not be a loss!"

"Yes, it's good to be alive, long live to be alive!"

The rough conversations of the soldiers were accompanied by the laughter that came from time to time.

Le Jin was wearing a leather jacket, patrolling the camp, hearing these voices, he couldn't help but get closer to listen, he stretched out his hand to open the tent, thought about it, or left.

Alas...

With a deep sigh, Le Jin commanded the lieutenant general beside him.

"Prepare my horse!"

"Ah..." The deputy general was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly reminded: "General Yu Ban has an order, pay attention to secrecy, and don't go out..."

"It's not allowed to go out..."Le Jin glanced at the direction of the Jiming Mountain, then looked back at the soldiers behind him, and said with emotion: "Every day, the Nanyang soldiers in there send food, but it's a pleasure, but if it goes on like this, these 30,000 soldiers will be all wasted, and they are fat and fat, can they still fight?" Prepare the horses..."

At this time, the adjutant general did not dare to hesitate and hurriedly fetched the horses.

Le Jin got on the horse, and with the sound of the horse's hooves, he had already ridden away.

…

Le Jin came to the forbidden Bishan camp in a huff, and before he walked to the Chinese army's big tent, he first smelled a burst of rice from inside, and the junior colonel of the Bishan camp recognized Le Jin, and hurriedly said with a smile.

"General Le? Incense? Today, we are all curious, is General Yu Ban stewed dragon meat in it? We smell thunder in our stomachs. ”

Le Jin was distraught, and suddenly opened the tent, only to see a small pot in the tent was "gurgling" steaming, Yu Ban and the deputy general Dong Chao sat around the pot, Yu Ban scooped a spoon and tasted it, Dong Chao asked expectantly: "General, how is it?" ”

Yu Ban smiled and said, "It's worth the fairy qiong jade dew..."

As he spoke, he beckoned Dong Chao to scoop the soup, "You can taste it too!" ”

Seeing this situation, Le Jin couldn't help but be very anxious, and shouted in a big victory: "General Yu..."

Yu Ban looked back and saw Le Jin, he was slightly surprised at first, but he didn't blame him for coming here without permission, and greeted with a smile, "Wen Qian came just in time, come and taste this fish soup I made with my own hands, this dry season, the fish can be seen at a glance, it is easy to catch, it tastes!" It's delicious..."

Dong Chao brought the fish soup to Le Jin, and Le Jin took it but put it on the side of the case, "General Yu Ban? When is it time and you still have the heart to drink soup? ”

Yu Ban frowned and ordered, "General Dong, you go out first!" ”

Dong Chao agreed and withdrew, Yu Ban looked at Le Jin and asked calmly, "What?" Then Guan Lin led the army to fight? ”

"No?"

"That's General Lejin's 30,000 soldiers and horses exposed?"

"Not either!"

Yu Ban smiled lightly and said, "Then why don't you let me drink soup?" ”

"Wen Ze, Wen Ze, do you know why Prime Minister Cao Cheng asked me to bring these 30,000 soldiers over?"

Yu Ban drank the soup unhurriedly, and said with a faint smile: "The core of "The Art of War" lies in three articles, the first is - if you can not fight, you will not fight, the second - all battles, you should be invincible first, and the third is - you can see the opportunity to win in order to fight, to defeat the weak with the strong, to win with more and less, and to avoid the real and attack the false!" Win the overall victory with a local advantage! ”

Le Jin said worriedly: "It turns out that Wen Ze knows that this is more than less, and avoid the real and the false!" Can... But..."

He paused for a moment before he opened his mouth and said, "But Prime Minister Cao's purpose for asking me to bring 30,000 soldiers here is to make you a first-class horse... On the Huainan battlefield, Zhang Wenyuan has already won a battle, and although Xu Gongming was defeated on the Xiangfan battlefield, he was originally containing Guan Yu, and it didn't hurt to lose a small defeat... Only the text is you... You are Prime Minister Cao Cheng's superior horse, Guan Lin is the inferior horse of this battlefield, and Prime Minister and Jiang Xia's great victory are waiting for what you want to wear! Why do you shrink back up after losing a game? This... It's not like you! ”

Yu Ban sneered: "The prime minister thinks that Guan Jia Shiro is an inferior horse, hehe, but I Yu Ban thinks that he is a good horse!" An ordinary bronze mirror can make him play with Huazi and make our army suffer heavy losses, if I treat him as a horse, then I am afraid that Wen Qian's lives will have to stay in this Jiangxia City. ”

Lejin was still anxious, "That... We're just going to waste it? ”

Yu Ban's eyes were faint: "Wen Qian? Don't you know what we're waiting for? I am the only one who told you and Hou Yin, who is in charge of the Nanyang Army, that General Zhu Ling's father and son are surrendering by fraud, and he is inducing the enemy army to attack Jiming Mountain... Everything we do now is to catch turtles in the urn of Jiming Mountain! ”

"But..."Le Jin was anxious, "but it's only been a month, where is the slightest movement of the enemy army?" What if this Guan Lin is cowardly, insists on defending, or does not attack Jiming Mountain? Are we just spending time here with him? Let's go down with energy consumption, but the prime minister... Will he be able to consume energy? This time alone, Jingzhou-Huainan line, three ways to send troops... More than 100,000 soldiers and horses, more than 10,000 stones of grain and grass consumed every day! ”

As Le Jin said, a soldier consumes more than two catties of grain and grass in a day, and two taels of salt...

Horses consume five times as much as people, and so on... The daily outlay is a huge number!

The Central Plains has been in war for many years, and he has never recuperated, Cao Cao doesn't say it on the surface, but in fact his grain and grass are under great pressure!

Hearing this, Yu Ban frowned and said nothing...

At this time, the voice of the scout suddenly came, "The prime minister sent an urgent message!" ”

Yu Ban hurriedly ordered: "Let him in." ”

The scout strode forward and reported in a low voice: "The subordinates were ordered by the prime minister to inform General Yu of the latest information, and the prime minister has sent Sima Yi to Jiaozhou, successfully winning over Jiaozhou, and invited Lu Xun and 25,000 soldiers and horses to move north, and the target is directly aimed at Anlu City... I hope that the general will grasp the fighter plane, provide siege equipment, and then attack from the north and south to capture Jiangxia in one fell swoop! ”

The scout's words made Yu Ban and Le Jin stunned.

They didn't expect that after Lejin 30,000 soldiers and horses hidden in the shadows, there was an extra army of soldiers and horses on the bright side who came north, so it was not the Jingzhou-Huainan battlefield, but a Jiangxia There are more than 100,000 soldiers of the Wei army gathered now!

Lakh... This is six times the number of soldiers and horses of the enemy, and it is also a daily consumption of 10,000 stones.

This kind of quantity is absolutely unaffordable, and it can only be attacked, and it is enough to attack Anlu City.

Lejin exhaled with a sigh of relief, and he reminded.

"Wen Ze, now, 100,000 troops are in hand... You don't have to wait any longer, right? ”

"yes!" Yu Ban nodded lightly, and he immediately said to the scout: "There is a labor captain who returns to Huainan again and informs the prime minister that General Yu Ban will prepare siege equipment in advance, and after handing it over to Lu Xun, he will make an appointment with him to break the city together!" ”

"No—" The scout agreed, and walked away quickly.

Le Jin sighed: "Finally, I don't have to wait so aggrievedly." ”

But Yu Ban was inevitably a little worried, and he muttered in his heart:

- "Lu Xun? Sima Yi? They... Can you rely on it?'

…

…

Guan Suo galloped to Xiakou Port with 2,000 archers, but he saw that dozens of ships were passing by in turn above the summer water.

"Why don't you release the arrows?"

Guan Suo asked in surprise.

"If you want to get close to the enemy's ships, you need to leave the port... But there are more than 20,000 enemy ships, and there are only 1,000 people on our side? It's already the limit to be able to hold on, in case you get out of the city... The enemy ship rushed to board, and Xiakou was... It's gone! ”

A reasoned and well-founded answer made Guan Suo deeply feel...

Why, this warship from Jiaozhou can be so rampant on the Yangtze River without any hindrance. It's not without hindrance... But the cities did not dare to stop it...

"Open the gates," Guan Suo commanded firmly.

"Major General..."Taishou still wanted to persuade.

"I came to block the enemy's warships on the orders of my father, how can I not be afraid of the enemy..." After taking me out of the army, Taishou immediately closed the city gate, if the enemy army rushes to board, don't worry about me! ”

Taishou had no choice but to open the city...

Guan Suo took two thousand crossbowmen to pull the bow along the coast, and thousands of feathered arrows shot out like flying locusts, Guan Suo also opened the full moon with a bow, and the arrows were like meteors...

However, after all, he did not have a lot of experience in commanding archers.

So the shore shoots flat into the water? With a range of 200 paces, how can it be possible to stop the enemy's warship, in this case, but whoever is more experienced must seize the high point!

Really...

Guan Suo's operation was as fierce as a tiger, and when he looked at the battle situation, not a single arrow hit.

"Hahahaha-"

The mockery of the soldiers was constantly heard from the warship, this... ridicule and contempt made Guan Suo clench his fists.

At this moment, he longed too much for his fourth brother Guan Lin to be by his side...

If it were him, there must be a way, a way to stop these warships.

But now... Guan Suo could only let them go and let them rush to Anlu City, so that the fourth brother would suffer from the enemy!

- "Fourth brother, this... This battle? How are you still fighting!'

Guan Suo's heart was infinitely sad, and at this moment, his worries about Guan Lin were written all over his face... More than words——

…

…

The front is to be docked, and it should be the bow of the warship that opens the way first.

Lu Xun and Sun Ru stood there.

Sun Ru sighed with emotion: "I'm still wondering, if the road is unimpeded, but some flaws are exposed, the obstruction at Xiakou... It seems just right. ”

"Haha..."Lu Xun seemed to be in a good mood, "Fiction and reality, reality and fiction, Mrs. also understands the art of war!" ”

Sun Ru didn't answer, but took a deep breath of the air here, and said with emotion: "The air here gives me a feeling of refreshment, far from the blood, depression and pain of Dongwu..."

"Haha..." Lu Xun laughed again, but he just laughed, Lu Xun muttered: "There is still a war here, and there is more of the smell of gunsmoke and war in the air, right?" ”

"What's next?" Sun Ru hurriedly asked.

Lu Xun stretched out his index finger and signaled that he didn't need to go any further, he said lightly: "Knowing yourself and knowing your opponent, winning all battles, let's always see Cao Wei's plan first... Come to think of it, then Sima Zhongda must be more anxious than us..."

Sun Ru bowed her head deeply, she subconsciously felt as if she had escaped from Dongwu, and Bo Yan's entire aura had changed, becoming more relaxed and more confident!

…

…

Jiangxia City, outside the Sifang Mountain, is an empty place.

More than a dozen scribes, as well as dozens of migrant workers, were tied up with their backhands... In a straight line.

In front of them were several well-made and well-sealed clay pots, and Jiang Gan and a group of soldiers seemed to have just come out of the market where fish oil was refined, and they still had a fishy smell all over their bodies.

Since Jiang Gan mobilized all his forces to devote himself to the process of making "incendiary cans", inexplicably, the efficiency that should have been slightly improved has directly doubled.

This made Jiang Gan deliver 5,000 "incendiary canisters" under much less pressure.

As for today, these dozens of people are tied up because they have repeatedly taught them that they are either in the process of transporting white phosphorus, or in the process of filling, they do not let white phosphorus come into contact with the air in a closed environment.

Of course, because recently, the weather has suddenly turned cold...

This made white phosphorus not so easy to spontaneously combust, but Jiang Gan still decided to show these "repeated teachings" to let them remember it for a long time.

"Come—"

"Throw it out—"

Jiang Gan commanded.

Immediately, under these dozens of pairs of eyes, a soldier lifted the clay pot with one hand and ran forward with all his strength, and the place where he threw it was a hillside, with no grass and trees, no jungle, and the height was shorter than the hillside on Jiang Gan's side, which was also more convenient for everyone to see.

"Bang-"

With the crisp sound of the clay pot breaking, the white phosphorus in the clay pot scattered, and even the eggs were shattered, and the fish oil inside was sprinkled all over the ground...

Of course, a clay pot has limited reserves of white phosphorus... Fish oil and white phosphorus occupy only a small place.

"Go on..."

Jiang Gan spoke again.

Immediately... A few more clay pots were thrown, and more white phosphorus and fish oil almost filled the opposite hillside...

It's just that, in addition to the sound of the "clang" clay pot colliding and shattering with the stone steps, this is lonely, this clay pot has eggs?

Just when everyone is puzzled...

"Archery—"

Jiang Gan gave an order, and immediately a soldier shot a fire arrow.

And with the fire bolts falling down the opposite hillside.

It was like a fiery dragon squirting up from the ground.

In the eyes of dozens of people who were horrified, the fire rose into the sky.

That's right, there were no trees, no jungles, nothing to spread the flames, just a bare stone slope, just a few clay pots that could be thrown with one hand...

But his power—

Long...

Long... As the smoke is blown away by the wind, the flames continue... He burned on the bare stone slope, and the stone steps were burned to a red black.

For a moment, Jiang Gan was also shocked by this power...

Only then did he realize that the last ignition was just the spontaneous combustion of the "flint", but this time the ignition, with the help of fish oil, the power of the flame explosion and the durability of the burning were undoubtedly multiplied...

"Boom", at this time, Jiang Gan completely realized, why is this thing called an incendiary bomb?

Hehe... People are going to be led by this soaring flame, so where is there life?

"Ahem..."

"Now you all know, right?"

Jiang Gan cleared his throat and shouted, "Did I lie to you? If you are negligent, our entire refinery will be covered by this fire, and you, me, and everyone here will be burned to death by the fire, and there will be no slag left! ”

looked at the frightened eyes of the people and scribes who "refused to change their teachings".

Jiang Gan knew that his goal had been achieved.

"Alright, it's all loose..."

"Now you know what a great thing we've done, right?"

"Yunqi Gongzi can say, if Jiangxia wins this battle, then all the first merit belongs to our refining workshop... Cheer me up, work my mind, work on my muscles and bones... This is the heavens that will descend on you—"

It's like...

Jiang Gan is mobilizing, and then frankly, he has an extraordinary talent in the matter of "moving his mouth".

and his execution that Guan Lin values the most, indeed, makes people look sideways-

…

Just a short distance away on another hillside.

Guan Lin and Zhang Xingcai, Liao Hua, Zhuge Ke, and Shiwu also witnessed the test of the ignition of the "incendiary canister".

The effect was very good, which was beyond Guan Lin's expectations.

Of course, because he knew a lot in his heart, Guan Lin's expression did not fluctuate much, but Zhang Xingcai, Zhuge Ke, Liao Hua, and Shiwu were all shocked.

Even though the flames had dissipated, they were dumbfounded and stunned.

"Ahem..."

Guan Lin was helpless, so he could only cough heavily, retracting everyone's thoughts from the soaring flames.

"Saw it all, right? This is the power of the 'incendiary canister', and I have to thank the battlefield this time in Anlu City, otherwise, where would I get so many flints? ”

Zhang Xingcai pursed her lips: "I've always felt... What was Brother Yunqi waiting for, I thought it was reinforcements, but I never thought it was this... It turned out that Brother Yunqi wanted to use this 'incendiary canister' to attack Jiming Mountain. ”

Regarding Zhang Xingcai's proposal, Guan Lin was noncommittal...

Call... Zhuge Ke also let out a long breath and sighed with emotion: "In a few days, the five thousand incendiary canisters in the refinery here will be completed, and the fighter plane will appear..."

Shiwu thought to himself.

- "I don't know how much it will cost to buy this incendiary canister, but... Considering its power, no matter how much money it costs, it's worth it!"

He's already starting to ponder...

Liao Hua said excitedly: "The last general is invited to fight... Burn the grain and grass of the enemy's Jiming Mountain, so that the burning tank helps, 5,000 soldiers are enough! ”

Sharpen your knives and get ready to go——

On the other hand, Guan Lin, as always, showed the ultimate calmness.

He smiled: "Don't be busy yet... The situation is changing rapidly, and we will talk about it when the time comes! ”

At this moment, a scout quickly arrived, saw Guan Lin, and knelt on one knee to report:

"Guan Taishou, it's not good... Jiaozhou Lu Xun's fleet has passed Xiakou, along the summer water... It seems that his purpose is Anlu City! ”

This...

As soon as this statement came out, everyone here did not make a fuss.

After all, another soldier from Jiaozhou is still here.

He's here, Jiaozhou Lu Xun... Friend or foe? It doesn't get any simpler step than this.

As the scouts retreated...

Zhuge Ke suddenly realized: "It turns out that the prince of Yunqi has been waiting for Lu Xun, and he is the main force attacking Jiming Mountain, right?" ”

Hearing this, Guan Lin didn't speak, just smiled faintly...

He raised his head and looked at the sky, although it was cold in this winter, he could not stand the light of the sun and still be bright and dazzling.

The real war is about to break out -

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(End of chapter)