After breakfast the next day, when Liu Cong came over to take a look, he saw that Zhou Cangxing Daorong had already arranged the battle formation and was waiting for Cao's soldiers to come and break the pass.

Zhou Cang is holding a big sword and is standing on the stone wall on the left. Xing Daorong is also holding a big sword and is standing on the stone wall on the right. Beside them are the Jingzhou soldiers who are waiting in full formation. They all have swords and spears in their hands, bows and arrows, hiding in the

Cover the back and wait for the fight.

Behind the soldiers, there were piles of cannon, stone, wood, and weapons such as swords, clubs, and arrowheads scattered aside.

Liu Cong looked carefully and saw a lot of wood and stones, but not many cannon stones. There were more than a dozen baskets scattered around.

Inside the basket is lime powder collected from the battlefield, which will be used instead of cannon stones.

Liu Cong felt that these cannon stones were the trump card for blocking Cao's soldiers. Using these things to block Cao's soldiers' attack would produce excellent results. The lime powder would kill them and spread into a cloud of dust that filled the camp of Cao's soldiers.

The soldier's eyes are burned out, he can't breathe, his eyes and nose are filled with tears and mucus, and he can't see the target on the road. How can he fight with a sword, a gun, a bow and an arrow?

The success of the blocking battle in the past few days was mainly due to the role of this artillery stone.

There is less of this stuff now, and there is nowhere to get it for a while. Even though there are a lot of stone crossbars, they can block a burst of Cao soldiers' attack. However, they are not as effective as these lime blocks.

Zhou Cangxing Daorong also knew this, but they were very confident, thinking that even relying on mountains, rocks, wood, swords, guns, swords and halberds could stop Cao's soldiers from attacking.

So they all waited there with confidence, preparing to fight Cao Bing.

Liu Cong looked at these weapons and felt that although there were no lime blocks, these dozens of baskets of lime powder flew down from the air and fell into Cao's soldiers' formation, enough to form a large cloud of fog that filled Cao's soldiers, so he felt relieved.

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So, Liu Cong took Liang Zhu'er, Lai Fatty, Ma Gan'er, waved to Zhou Cang Xing Daorong, flew onto the Snow King, and patrolled in the direction of Xinye.

Although the road from Queweipo to Xinye District is an official road, it is not wide. It is just a mountain road that winds up a mountain and then down to a valley. It goes up and down like this.

After crossing more than a dozen mountain ridges and walking hundreds of miles of road, you can reach Xinye City.

On both sides of this official road, most sections of the road are overgrown with shrubs and weeds.

It was the end of autumn and the beginning of winter at this time. After the autumn wind, the bitter frost had fallen. After the wind and frost, the shrubs and grass had lost their lushness and just stood silently by the roadside.

The autumn wind blew by, and the shrubs and grass made a rustling sound. I looked at Liu Cong and the others in confusion as they passed by, not knowing what they were thinking.

Liu Cong was riding on his horse, thinking as he walked, thinking: "On such a road, Zhou Cang and Xing Daorong can hold off Cao's soldiers for more than ten days. Well, if we use fire to attack, as long as the ambush is good and the design is proper,

, Fire attack is an excellent tactic to eliminate Cao's soldiers. However, the shrubs and grasses all over the mountains and plains have withered to such an extent that if there is a spark, it will not only burn up the sky."

Thinking of this, a sea of ​​​​fire appeared in front of Liu Cong's eyes. The fire was soaring into the sky and the smoke was filled. Wherever he looked, there was only heaven and earth. There were only sky-high flames and blue-black smoke. Everywhere was burned to the point of holding hands and feet.

The soldiers of Cao were crying for their fathers and mothers, rolling all over the ground, and running around like mice with their heads in their hands??????

When Liu Cong thought of this, he immediately rejected his idea: "No. You can't attack with fire.

I can defeat Xiahou Yuan with conventional tactics, so why bother using fire attacks?

Besides, if Xia Houyuan is burned to death and tens of thousands of Cao soldiers are killed this time, it will definitely arouse Cao Cao's vigilance and anger. Maybe the old man will abandon Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang and lead his troops back to fight me.

It's not that I'm afraid of that old man, I've already thought about fighting him.

I just feel that Jingzhou's strength is not enough to compete with Cao Cao.

If Cao Cao brings his troops over, the battle will begin and it will be difficult to determine the winner for a long time. If the two sides continue to be in a stalemate, it will not only delay the recovery of Jingzhou's power, but also delay Cao Cao's military operations in Hebei to deal with Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi.

In this case, even if I defeat Cao Cao, maybe Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang's strength in Hebei will increase. When I go over to deal with Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang, it may be more troublesome than dealing with Cao Cao.

I can't do something stupid like that. I can't kill the tiger and let the jackals rise.

Well, I should let the tiger kill the jackal and then I kill the tiger."

Liu Cong laughed when he thought of this, laughed for a while and said to himself: "In fact, leading troops to fight is very simple, just as simple as hunting. Even a good hunter knows the truth just now.

Why should leading troops into battle be so complicated?

When people talk about leading troops in battle, they talk about the Thirty-Six Strategies, and, well, it’s about Sun Tzu’s Art of War, and it’s all nonsense!”

Liu Cong thought of this and felt that he was the only wise strategist in the world at this time. He straightened his body with pride and laughed. After laughing enough, he lowered his head and said to the Snow King under him: "Man, follow me.

Liu Cong, please show your face. From now on, I am the overlord of the world, and you are the mount of the overlord of the world. Humph! Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, is so powerful that he is unparalleled in the world! The black horse, the overlord's spear, what Yu Ji can do! Hang!

He is a reckless man. With only a moment of courage, he has achieved eternal fame! If such a fool were born today, he would have a fight with me, Liu Cong! With a wave of my white horse machete, the sky shook and the earth shook, and the rocks collapsed.

, Xiang Yu, just go aside! I won’t chop you because you and I have no grudges! But, Yu Ji must belong to me. Yu Ji, Yu Ji, that is an eternal beauty. What a fool! Beauty

You have been ruined by the King of Chu! You hate me so much. For this reason, I have to chop Xiang Yu. Only by chopping him will Yu Ji be willing to be hugged by me!"

When Liu Cong thought of women, he became restless. A ball of heat burned from his toes to the top of his head, making his whole body unbearably hot. He regretted: "Why didn't I bring this Cai Feng out with me? Oh, I regret it. I just didn't bring it with me.

This Cai Fengfei, why don't you bring Ru Hua and Feifeng with you, and we can solve the temporary problem then, oh."

Liu Cong couldn't restrain himself anymore. He looked around and saw only dead grass and shrubs everywhere. As the autumn wind blew by, where could he see a woman?

Liu Cong was impatient for a moment and muttered: "Even if a village girl comes out to collect grass, even if her body is covered with grass, as long as her beauty is pleasing to the eye, I will roll her in the grass with my arms and take care of it."

That’s fine too.”

However, when Liu Cong looked at the swaying withered grass and shrubs, he didn't even see a female hare, so he hated himself: "You are so useless! There is a big battle ahead, but you are here thinking wildly! What kind of overlord do you think you are?"

Thinking of this, he hit the whip stick at the restless guy who was resting on his saddle.

This time the pounding was a bit too much, Liu Cong felt a pain running straight up his abdomen, and his lower belly began to squeak in pain.

However, the random evil thoughts were suppressed.

Liu Cong started laughing. He smiled and remembered the situation in Jingzhou, the battle in front of him, and the purpose of his inspection on horseback. Thinking like this, he saw a river glowing with skylight at the bottom of the hillside.

It passed through the woods and disappeared into the distance.

Liu Cong looked at the woods that connected to the horizon and thought to himself: "Just this forest is dozens of miles away. Zhou Cangxing Daorong blocked Cao's soldiers in this tree age, and blocked Cao's soldiers for more than ten days."
Chapter completed!