In the next three days, the Sentinel Qiu paid special attention and found nothing unusual.
Just when everyone suspected that Wang Zheng and Wei Yan might have made a mistake in their judgment, at ten o'clock in the evening on the fourth day, a change finally occurred.
At this time, Wang Zhengzheng, Zhou Hui and others were discussing matters at the county government. After receiving the news, Wang Xiong immediately came to report that Sun Cejun in the west of the city suddenly made inexplicable moves!
However, more than a thousand men and horses were transferred to the south of the city, which caused a gap to appear in the west direction, and the vacant area happened to be the shallow and narrow ferry that Tao Ze mentioned before.
After hearing the news, everyone discovered something strange.
First, according to common sense, where is the reason for mobilizing troops and horses and changing the defense line late at night? Such sneakiness seems to be done deliberately, just because you don't want to cause the city to notice?
Secondly, the south of the city is where the main force of Sun Ce's army is gathered. The force is already strong enough, and it is farther away than the east of the city. The opposite side is now the siege team, which is an encirclement line. It should make up for the shortcomings and ensure the overall rationality and harmony.
Consolidation, where is the point in accumulating troops in one place? This is not a field battle.
Wang Zheng, Zhou Hui and others immediately rushed to the top of the city to watch. After watching for a long time, Tao Ze made a judgment first and said with a sneer: "You are trying to cover up the obvious! It seems that the thief Sun is just as Zhou Mu expected, and he wants to make a plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain."
Everyone nodded, but Wang Zheng did not make a conclusion immediately. He pondered for a moment and said: "Let's wait and see tomorrow." He then ordered Wang Xiong: "You and your brothers have to work harder these two days, day and night, and stay tight for me.
Keep an eye on the movements of the enemy troops below the city, especially the mobilized troops and horses."
"Here!"
Early the next morning, Wang Xiong came again to report that Sun Ce's army, which had been transferred to the south last night, was thrown out of the mountain of earth again by Sun Ce today.
Wang Zheng was immediately convinced. He looked around at everyone and said proudly: "Everyone, I can now conclude that the messenger Liu Xun must have entered the city deliberately because of Sun Bofu!"
Zhou Hui said in astonishment: "Last night the enemy army tried to cover up the enemy, but Wangzhou Mu did not make a judgment. How come now after hearing that the enemy army went to pile up mountains of earth, he can be sure that Liu Xun's messenger must have been deliberately put into the city by Sun Ce?"
Tao Ze also echoed: "There is a moat in Shu City. If Sun Ce wants to attack the city, he must conquer this natural moat first. It is reasonable and reasonable to send people to pile up mountains of earth. Maybe he wants to attack the city as soon as possible and win the battle quickly? Didn't Wang Zhoumu analyze it before?
"But Sun Ce has already exhausted his troops on an expedition. Can't he fight for a long time?"
"Haha, otherwise."
Wang Zheng explained with a smile: "Although it is a bit surprising to mobilize troops and change garrison positions late at night, it is not necessarily to show my weakness and lure me out of the city as we expected before. Maybe Sun Ce, who has more than a thousand people, has other plans, or
It is unknown, and it cannot be said that from this point we can conclude that Sun Ce was trying to cover up the situation, so perhaps Liu Xun's messenger entered the city because there were flaws in the enemy's defense line, rather than Sun Ce doing it intentionally."
"But now he is making a big show of it and uses that enemy force to pile up mountains of earth. That is unreasonable."
Wang Zhengdao: "Why do you have to surreptitiously pile up mountains of earth? It's obvious that after mobilizing to the south of the city last night, Sun Ce was worried that we could see that the troops on the encirclement line were unevenly distributed. This is the real cover-up!"
Wang Zheng's analysis was reasonable and everyone agreed, so Zhou Hui asked: "Now that the enemy's situation is clear, and the messenger entering the city is undoubtedly Sun Ce's deliberate indulgence, how should we deal with it next?"
Wang Zheng smiled when he heard this, looked sideways at Wei Yan and said: "Brother Wei said last time that he would use his strategy to his advantage. Now you can tell us in detail. We are all ears."
Wei Yan said in a deep voice: "If you want to pull off the plan, you must first understand Sun Ce's purpose of deliberately letting the messenger into the city."
Wang Xiong on the side couldn't help but said: "Is there any need to think about this? Sun Ce's purpose is of course to lure our army out of the city. It is best for the general to leave the city himself. This is a plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain."
"Yes, then why does he want to lure my defenders into dividing their forces?"
Zhou Hui on the side said: "It's just to weaken our city's defense strength."
"What the young master said is true." Wei Yan nodded: "But this is one of them."
Wang Zheng smiled and said: "I would like to hear the second one."
Wei Yan glanced at Wang Zheng, cupped his hands and said: "The Art of War says that the first priority is to attack the city, the highest priority is to attack the heart, the lowest priority is to weaken our city's defense capabilities, and the highest priority is to destroy the confidence of our defenders. Now that Sun Ce has come to Koushu County, he must have roughly figured it out.
After receiving the money and food for the troops in the city, we also expected that even if we were to recapture Long Shu, we would not be able to send many troops, only two to three thousand people."
"On that day, Yuan Tan of Jizhou besieged Fenggao. At that time, Wang Zhoumu's Xuzhou army was on an expedition to Beihai. They also faced the problem of being short of troops and horses. In the end, it was Wang Zhoumu who personally led the troops to attack thousands of miles, repulsed Yuan Tan, and relieved Fenggao's danger.
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Wei Yandao: "Now that the past happened again, if what I expected is true, is Wang Zhoumu still thinking of taking action personally this time?"
"Why did the editor say this?"
Hearing this, Wang Zheng raised his eyebrows and asked, "I have already guessed that Sun Ce's plan was to lure me out of the city. How could he still knowingly commit the crime and fall into this treacherous plan?"
Wei Yan smiled and said: "Zhou Mu has rarely suffered a defeat since the uprising. Looking at it from below, you may have the idea of "if you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch the tiger's cubs"?"
"Hahaha." Wang Zhengdao: "Then Chief Wen, do you think this general will charge into the battle, or will he sit in the middle of the army?"
"Zhou Mugui is the commander-in-chief of the three armies, so naturally he cannot be touched lightly!"
Wei Yan said seriously: "What's the use of two or three thousand people being wiped out by Sun Ce? There is enough food and grass in Shucheng, the city is high and strong, and there is a moat to protect it. Even if the number of people is reduced by half, it will be difficult for him to defeat it quickly. On the contrary, Wangzhou Mu
Even if you have unworthy courage, after all, the war is fierce and the world is unpredictable. If something goes wrong, not only the people in the city will be panicked, but the nobles outside the city will also be leaderless and panicked. Shucheng and even the entire Yangzhou have lost their largest foreign aid.
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"If I don't leave the city, will Sun Ce's plan come to nothing?"
"That's not necessarily true."
Wei Yandao: "Zhou Mu is naturally the biggest target of Sun Ce's plan, but Sun Ce may not be fully confident that he can lure Zhou Mu into danger, so he must have other plans. As expected, he is eliminated
After I leave the city, I will definitely place all the corpses of the fallen soldiers outside the city to deter others. Then the morale of our army will be greatly affected. This is to attack the city first and fight mentally first."
Wang Zheng and Zhou Hui looked at each other and both nodded in agreement.
Wei Yan added: "To attack the heart is Sun Ce's purpose, and to destroy my army out of the city is Sun Ce's method. How to destroy our army? The only way is to set up an ambush."
He pointed to the map of Lujiang County and said: "Look, everyone, our army is going to the north of Lujiang River to recapture Longshu. If we want the troops to be fast, we must go to the west... And the area Sun Ce has vacated for us is also the west of the city.
Therefore, there is no need to consider which direction our army will leave the city from, the only choice is to exit from the west gate."
"When the army marches out from the west city gate, this mountain is the place it must pass through."
Speaking of this, Wei Yan said seriously: "If Sun Ce wants to completely annihilate our army, he will definitely choose to set up an ambush, and he will definitely choose this place to set up an ambush. The generals below will use his plan. Otherwise, they will just avoid it."
"Avoid it?" A strange look flashed in Wang Zheng's eyes: "How to avoid it?"
"When our army leaves the city, there is no need to rush westward. Instead, we should walk northward and bypass this valley."
Wei Yan pointed at the map and explained: "Then we turn westward. As long as we bypass this valley, the rest of the journey is a flat plain. Even if there is still Sun Ce's siege, all the people leaving the city are cavalry, which is enough."
It can be passed."
While paying attention to the changes in Sun Ce's army in the past few days, Wang Zheng also discussed with Zhou Hui that if he wanted to retake Shu City with confidence, he would definitely need his Tianzhu battalion, which was basically all cavalry.
Everyone looked at the picture and pondered, and Tao Ze raised a question: "Our army can go north first and bypass the valley to the west. But there is one thing. If it is as Brother Wei said, Sun Ce must have set up an ambush outside the city. Then he
If we can set up an ambush in the valley to the west, can we also set up an ambush in the north?"
Everyone nodded. Sun Ce now had more than ten thousand troops outside the city. It was entirely possible to set up two or three ambush points.
And since he tried so hard to lure the Xuzhou army out of the city, could Wei Yan think of taking a detour to the north first? Would Sun Ce not consider this?
At this time, Zhou Hui waved his hand and said with a smile: "There is no need to worry about this. There is no valley terrain in the north of the city, except for the rivers, which are plains, and the gaps between the rivers are not wide. Even if there are other ambushes, the number of ambushes will not be too many."
Tao Ze shook his head: "There are not many people, but there are ambushes. We must be on guard..."
Before he finished speaking, Wang Zheng cut him off: "When two armies are fighting, how can there be a foolproof strategy?"
He looked around at everyone and said word by word: "As wise as Han Xin, he still had to fight his last battle, and as brave as Xiang Yu, he still had to risk his life. We have already guessed that Sun Ce will set up an ambush halfway. This is enough!"
"Do you really think that by strategizing, you can win a decisive victory thousands of miles away? In the final analysis, a decisive victory on the battlefield still requires the lives of the three armies and the bravery of the soldiers. This is the so-called brave man who meets on a narrow road and wins!"
"Besides..."
Having said this, Wang Zheng smiled casually, with surging self-confidence in his eyes: "As long as the tiger under my command is prepared, even if the enemy is several times more numerous, it is still possible to fight!"
This last sentence sounded so domineering that everyone was infected by his pride and nodded one after another.
Zhou Hui thought for a moment and said: "Wang Zhoumu, Shu City is now surrounded and the northwest road is cut off. Without reinforcements, the powerful enemy will be difficult to defeat. This is the autumn of Cheng's life and death, and now the strategy has been decided. It is time for the generals to show their power, but Wei Yan
What he said is true, Zhou Mu is the commander-in-chief of the three armies, but he should not take risks himself, so who should lead the army out of the city now?"
Hearing this, all the generals, regardless of the defenders of the Heavenly Army, took a step forward, half-knelt on the ground, and all said: "I am willing to go!"
Wei Yan even drew the knife in his hand, half-knelt on the ground, and inserted the knife in front of his feet: "Yan wants to make another contribution, but I hope Zhou Mu and the young master will allow it!"
The task of leaving the city and rushing to the northwest to reopen the passage to the north of the Lujiang River is an important task, so we must not be careful in choosing our leaders.
Wang Zheng had originally planned to take action personally, because there seemed to be no suitable candidate other than him. After all, his opponent in this battle, Cheng Pu, was not an unknown person, and even Wei Yan would have been hard-pressed to win.
And the more critical point is that Wei Yan has not entered the system!
This person is not in the same system as the Heavenly Army. The distance between the city and the city is not big. If he is allowed to lead the army alone, Wang Zheng is afraid that there will be a situation where the top and bottom are separated.
However, a piece of news received last night made Wang Zheng already have the most suitable candidate. He immediately smiled and said to everyone: "My general, Huang Zhong, is calm and courageous, with both wisdom and bravery. I can fight for this."
Before anyone else could answer, Wang Xiong shouted in surprise: "General, General Huang has broken out of Linhu?"
Wang Zheng nodded: "Han Sheng is currently stationing troops fifty miles east of the city. I will send someone to send a message shortly. The road ahead is far away from enemies and full of dangers. Wang Xiong, I will appoint you as my deputy general and leave the city.
Later he met up with Huang Zhong's troops in the north of the city."
Wang Xiong was overjoyed and agreed to the order: "It is an honor for the general to fight alongside General Huang."
Huang Zhong had not been in the Tianjun for a long time, and his reputation was not well-known outside Xuzhou, but he was already very popular within the Tianjun. Now his reputation alone was no longer under Xu Fang's ban, and even more so in terms of bravery.
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Wang Zheng slowed down his tone, beckoned him to take two steps forward, and warned: "There are many infantry and few cavalry in the city, so there are not many horses that can be allocated to you. I will try my best to mobilize them, but there are only two thousand cavalry, five of them."
Hundreds of elites from the Tianzhu camp, and Huang Zhong also brought a thousand troops this time, making the total number three thousand."
"After you and Huang Zhong arrive at Longshu, there is no need to rush to conquer the city first. Liu Xun has been the prefect for many years and has accumulated a lot of strength. It is expected that there will be many troops defeated at this time. We should try our best to gather together to increase the momentum. When everything is ready,
Then we can fight."
"You are the only one who can send troops in the city. If you succeed, Shucheng will be saved. If you fail, Shucheng will be in danger. If Shucheng is in danger, Jiujiang will be in danger, and Jiujiang will be in danger.
Xuzhou is also in danger, and this battle is actually about the safety of the two states."
In fact, these words are nothing more than six words. There is no room for failure in this battle. Wang Xiong also understands this, and his expression becomes more and more solemn.
Wang Zheng patted Wang Xiong's shoulder, looked at him and said warmly, "I will be sitting in the rear this time, waiting for the success of you and Han Sheng."
These words were exhorted in the front, encouraged in the middle, and moved with emotion in the end. Wang Xiong felt proud and courageous in his heart. He just nodded vigorously and said in a deep voice: "General, don't worry, since a man has received an important task, he will not leave until death!"
That night, Wang Zheng and Zhou Hui personally led the civil and military personnel in the city and sent Wang Xiong's troops out of the city gate.
Every soldier leaving the city rode past Wang Zheng. Wang Zheng smiled and nodded to everyone.
General Tiangong personally saw him off, what an honor!
Although Wang Zheng didn't say a word in order to cover up the movement, and the heavenly troops were also silent, Zhou Hui and others on the side looked at the soldiers with their eyes shining like flames one after another, and they were all awe-inspiring.
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In silence, the morale and fighting spirit of these two thousand elites have been mobilized to the ultimate peak by Wang Zheng!
Under the eyes of a group of people full of high hopes, two thousand men and horses left the city at night. Wang Zheng, Zhou Hui and others climbed to the top of the city. They watched the soldiers driving their horses across the river and gradually moved away. The faint sound of hoofbeats was as deep as thunder. For a moment,
Everyone fell into silence.
Looking into the distance, one can see night covering the surrounding areas, enemy camps surrounding the city, stretching for more than ten miles, and dots of firelight far and near, like stars falling upside down.