With the completion of the cleanup plan in Runan, Cao Xing and Wei Yue also led their troops to Heilvjian to join Lu Bu's main force. With the return of these two troops, the strength of Heilvjian has reached 30,000.
If you include the Cao army that Huang Zhong summoned and surrendered, it would be an army of 50,000. However, Lu Bu did not get much information from this at this moment, and instead became a little impatient.
"Zi Yan has not returned yet?" Lu Bu called Wei Yue and asked again.
"My lord, don't worry. The general has sent troops to explore westward. I believe news will be sent back soon." Wei Yue comforted him with a wry smile. He didn't expect that the first problem he encountered when he came back would be this.
Where did Chu Nan send Guan Yu? No matter how far he was sent, a hundred miles away, with Chu Nanfeng's skills as a scribe, it would be time to come back. Could it be that Guan Er really dared to betray his trust and kill people?
Thinking of this possibility, Lu Bu became even more agitated. His son-in-law must not be in trouble. At this moment, Cao Xing walked in through the curtain and said in a deep voice to Lu Bu: "My lord, the scouts are here to report that there are a large number of troops approaching from the west."
Our army is coming quickly."
"Whose troops are they?" Lu Bu asked with a frown.
"It's the Nanyang Army." Cao Xing replied.
"Nanyang Army?" Lu Bu was surprised. He originally thought it was Cao's army. The Nanyang Army and Lu Bu can be regarded as allies. It is normal to send troops to help, but...
If I remember correctly, the Nanyang Army is now being dragged by Liu Biao, and the possibility of sending large-scale troops to help is very low. What does the appearance of a large number of Nanyang Army here at this time mean?
Lu Bu was already irritable, so he stood up and said in a deep voice: "Call three thousand cavalry and follow me out of the camp!"
Although I don't understand what's going on, according to common sense, the Nanyang Army should not appear here. If something goes wrong, there must be a monster! It is necessary to maintain a certain degree of vigilance.
Thinking of what Chu Nan said before, Lu Bu thought it made sense, so he went to stop this group of people first.
"Here!" Cao Xing agreed and hurriedly turned around to order troops.
The Nanyang army was very fast, and Lu Bu also sent troops very quickly. In just a moment, three thousand light cavalry surged out under the leadership of Lu Bu, and met the Nanyang army in the direction they came from. Within ten miles of leaving the camp, they encountered the surging Nanyang army.
military.
Seeing the Nanyang army rushing towards this side, Lu Bu raised the Fangtian painted halberd in his hand high, and then slammed it down. A black-red aura emerged out of thin air, and then sank into the ground.
"Boom~"
The ground shook violently, and a huge ravine stretched tens of feet westward from in front of Lu Bu, as if a natural chasm had appeared on the ground out of thin air. Such an earth-shattering halberd also suffocated the Nanyang army's advance.
, and then slowly stopped.
Lu Bu rode his horse to the front of the formation, faced the Nanyang army whose strength was several times his own, and when he opened his mouth, he said with murderous intent: "Who is leading the army? Why are you violating our territory!?"
But when he saw two people riding out from the Nanyang army, it was Chu Nan and Zhang Xiu. Chu Nan laughed loudly and said: "Father-in-law and son-in-law went to Nanyang by the way. The decisive battle is about to happen. We are a little short of soldiers and horses. This time
The title is Zhang Xiu, the governor of Nanyang. I wonder if my father-in-law still remembers him?"
"Jinrong?" Seeing his son-in-law back safely, Lu Bu breathed a sigh of relief. He saw Zhang Xiu again and knew that this group of people was a friend rather than an enemy. The original murderous aura quickly dissipated, but because of the previous strong momentum, there was still a few traces of it in his voice.
It's cold and makes people feel anxious.
"That's my nephew!" Zhang Xiu bowed in front of him. In terms of seniority, Lu Bu and Zhang Ji are of the same generation. Although because of the murder of Dong Zhuo, the friendship between Lu Bu and the Xiliang generals should have followed Dong Zhuo's death.
And disappear into thin air, even turn against each other.
But time has changed, and now some of the generals in Xiliang still remember Dong Zhuo, and Zhang Ji does not necessarily have any hatred for Lu Bu. What's more, Zhang Xiu is now in charge, and now that everyone is an ally, the relationship in the past will naturally
Become a link between both parties and quickly build trust.
Lu Bu was obviously satisfied with Zhang Xiu's attitude. He really didn't expect that Chu Nan sent Guan Yu to him, and ended up bringing back a large number of reinforcements for him. Although Zhang Xiu was a junior, in terms of martial arts and military skills, if anyone was under Lu Bu's command,
He was definitely a general who was only inferior to Zhang Liao and Gao Shun. He was probably better than Ji Ling. He laughed and said: "With Jin Rong's help, why worry about Cao's thief not being defeated this time?"
"Father-in-law, we don't want to stay here all the time." Chu Nan reminded.
"Not bad." Lu Bu nodded, turned around and said, "Song Xian."
"The general is here!" Song Xian came out.
"You are responsible for arranging for these Nanyang generals to camp and organize a banquet to entertain the Nanyang generals today!" Lu Brown said.
"Here!" Song Xian agreed, and ordered his people to choose suitable places to camp in the surroundings, and at the same time discussed with Nanyang generals how to set up camp.
Zhang Xiu was invited by Lu Bu to the main camp to discuss the details of how to capture the city. Jia Xu did not want to show up in the battle, so he did not attend and stayed in the army.
In the tent of Lu Bu's army, a sand table has been placed. It was made by Chu Nan using Confucian magical powers. It basically shows the topography of Xuchang and the surrounding areas, as well as the possible soldiers and horses.
"Father-in-law, General Zhang!" Chu Nan pointed at the location of Xuchang with a bamboo stick and said: "According to the information obtained from Zhong Yao, Xuchang currently has about 30,000 soldiers and horses, not including the Yulin Army and the patrolling tigers.
These two armies only amount to between 32,000 and 33,000."
"As for our current strength, there are 28,000 Jianghuai troops, 3,000 cavalry brought by my father-in-law, 20,000 surrendered troops from Cao's army, and 15,000 Nanyang troops. A total of 67,000 troops. In terms of strength, it is twice that of the enemy.
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"But..." Zhang Xiu looked at it for a moment and frowned: "Zi Yan, according to what I just said, these 20,000 soldiers and horses are the newly surrendered troops of Cao's army. How can they be used?"
"There is a usage of surrendering the army!" Chu Nan pointed to the north direction of Xuchang City and said: "I plan to use General Huang Zhong as the commander of the surrendering army. He will lead the troops to the direction of Beicheng. He will not attack the city. Instead, he will focus on defense and train his troops day and night.
horse!"
defense?
Everyone looked at Chu Nan inexplicably. This was a siege! As the siege party, why should we defend instead?
Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Chu Nan felt a little tired. If Jia Xu or Chen Gong were here, they would definitely understand what he meant. If Zhang Liao was not good enough, Gao Shun would be fine. Now that he has no followers, he said that he lacked a lot.
It’s fun, but also less of a lot of admiring looks.
After calming down, he pointed at the sand table and said, "If you are Cao Cao, and I station 20,000 troops here, even if I don't attack, how dare you ignore it?"
Everyone was stunned after hearing this. After all, they are enemies, and there are 20,000 soldiers. Who dares to ignore them? Maybe this is the opponent's strategy to paralyze themselves. When they relax, these 20,000 peaceful soldiers who have no fight with the world will blink of an eye.
He will turn into a ferocious tiger and wolf warrior!
"Besides!" Chu Nan lit the sand table and continued: "This team can also build some simple instruments, not to mention catapults and other things that require a lot of wood, but it is always possible to polish some stone bullets. This one
Soldiers and horses are not used to attack the city, but they can be used as backup to support the other two battlefields."
In short, apart from attacking, this surrendered army can be regarded as a logistics army and can do anything. Of course, if Cao Jun comes out of the city to attack, with Huang Zhong here, and with the ordnance provided by Chu Nan, it should be no problem to train a basic battle formation.
, this can also ensure that the troops and horses have sufficient combat effectiveness and will not collapse when being charged.
After training for a long time, this side can still develop a certain combat effectiveness.
"Where is the flaw in Xuchang that Ziyan said?" Lu Bu suddenly looked at Chu Nan curiously and asked. Chu Nan had already said that he got the flaw in Xuchang from Zhong Yao. Lu Bu had always been concerned about it, but unfortunately Chu Nan left after that.
Heilujian didn't tell him that now that he was about to attack the city, this flaw should be put to use. Lu Bu was curious about what method it would use?
"There are three flaws!"
Chu Nan nodded. This time, he did not lie any more. He pointed at the south gate of Xuchang with a bamboo stick and said: "In the past, Cao Cao used the work-for-relief method to expand Xuchang in order to provide relief to the victims. This south city area was secretly deducted by the supervisors at that time.
There was a lot of food, resulting in many starving deaths. For fear of Cao Cao's blame, corpses were wrapped directly in many parts of the city wall. Although nothing happened at the time, as the corpses rotted inside, a large number of corpses would appear inside the city wall.
Potholes.”
Everyone's eyes lit up, they didn't expect something like this to happen in Xuchang.
But then everyone gradually frowned. As the capital of Xuchang, city walls are usually not needed. After all, usually, if the army has already reached Xuchang, it doesn't matter whether the city walls are strong or not.
Of course, today is a special case, but in this case, a large number of Confucian mantras such as indestructibility can also cover up the internal problems of the city wall.
"Zi Yan, there are famous Confucians everywhere in Xuchang City. With them here, it doesn't matter whether there are problems inside the city walls!" Zhang Xiu said with a bitter smile.
"This is related to the second flaw I want to talk about!" Chu Nan said with a smile: "What do you think will happen to the people who supervised the construction of this place if this matter were spread?"
"What Zi Yan means..." Zhang Xiu looked at Chu Nan with a thought: "You want to use this to blackmail the person who supervised the construction?"
"The so-called embankment of a thousand miles was destroyed in an ant nest. We don't ask him to do anything big. As long as our army attacks the city, he mixes in the city, summons a few famous scholars, and performs utterances and magic on the designated location. Then the words and utterances of others will
No matter how powerful or indestructible the city wall is, once it has a weakness, it will no longer be indestructible. What we want is not to blow down the entire city wall, but as long as a section of the city wall is destroyed by our army, it will be considered a success!"
After saying that, Chu Nan used a bamboo stick to poke a section of the city wall hard, breaking it into pieces. He looked at the crowd and said, "As long as this point is broken by our army, Xuchang will be broken. What do you think?"
"This is a great plan!" Lu Bu nodded.
"Does Zi Yan have a candidate for this person who wants to enter the city?" Zhang Xiu was thinking about another thing. This requires someone to sneak into Xuchang and build an ant nest for this thousand-mile dike. This is not something ordinary people can do.
"There is a strange person under my command who has the ability to shrink his bones and change his shape. I plan to ask this person to sneak into Xuchang first." Chu Nan nodded. He had naturally thought about this.
"There is such a person?" Everyone was a little surprised when they heard this, but then they were overjoyed. With this person, Chu Nan's plan will be feasible!