Zhuge Liang persuaded: "Brother Xian, our Zhuge family, since the ancestor Feng Gong (Zhuge Feng, official to the Western Han Dynasty Division), are all ministers of the Han family. My Zhuge family eats Hanlu, eats the king's Lu, and should be loyal to the king.

Back then, the Han family was in decline, and the princes rose together, and I won't say anything if you are in the north and Cao Wei. But now that the Han Dynasty has recovered, the Son of Heaven is wise, and you have been captured, why are you loyal to the Wei State? It's better to take refuge in the Han, you and my brothers work together for the Han, which is a good story. ”

Zhuge Dan was still very angry at Zhuge Liang's plan, and snorted coldly: "Hmph, don't say it again, I won't surrender!" ”

Zhuge Liang sighed and said, "Now that the Wei State is no longer tolerated by you, what's the point of you being this loyal minister?" If you don't want to surrender, I won't force you. It's just that now that my siblings and nephews have also come, you don't have to seek death, right? ”

Zhuge Dan's wife and children on the side cried when they heard this: "Master, Jing'er and I can't live without you." ”

Although Xiao Zhuge Liang didn't understand what he was saying, he only saw his mother crying and hugged Zhuge Dan's thigh and cried bitterly.

"Liang'er...... Mrs. ...... "Seeing his wife and children crying so embarrassed, Zhuge Dan also let go of his short-sightedness, patted his wife's shoulder, and hugged his son to comfort him.

When Zhuge Liang saw this, he knew that Zhuge Dan would not be looking for death, so he arched his hand and said: "I will go north tomorrow to attack Yuzhou, and you will stay here to rest and rest, and when I return from victory, I will have a good drink." ”

After Zhuge Liang left, he went to the city to inspect and explain various things, and then returned to the palace to rest.

Early the next morning, Zhuge Liang led 35,000 soldiers and horses north to attack Yuzhou.

Originally, Zhuge Liang had 40,000 soldiers and horses, but because he had collected and surrendered 40,000 Wei troops, he had to leave a part to take care of them, so the army on the expedition was only 35,000.

Although there are not many soldiers and horses, they are harmless.

First of all, Zhuge Liang is a commander who can attack more with less, Zhuge Liang has several Northern Expeditions in history, except for the first time when the troops have an advantage, the other Northern Expeditions have very few troops, at most only 20,000 or 30,000 people, but he can still be stationed in Tuben, and the Wei State that has the advantage can not be defeated.

Moreover, the 35,000 soldiers and horses in Zhuge Liang's hands, including 5,000 cavalry, are already a very powerful force.

Secondly, Wei is currently in Yuzhou, Yanzhou's strength is empty, and it is difficult for other places to send troops and horses over, even if Zhuge Liang only has 35,000 people, it is difficult for Wei to crush with a large advantage in terms of troops.

As the saying goes, the thief captures the king first, and the man shoots the horse first.

It's the same with waging war, if you want to occupy a place and destroy a country, the best way is to take the capital or capture the capital.

Yuzhou is in Runan, and the seat is in Pingyu.

And the north of Jiangxia is Runan County, Zhuge Liang wants to take Yuzhou, the easiest way is naturally to attack Runan, take Pingyu, destroy the government institutions of Wei, and then send troops to collect all places.

Xiyang is very close to Pingyu, only more than 100 miles, and Zhuge Liang can reach Pingyu after three days of marching.

On the mountain road more than forty miles away from Pingyu, Zhuge Liang led his troops to march.

A group of ten cavalrymen rode their horses from the direction of Pingyu.

This is the scout team of the Han army.

The scout rode his horse to Zhuge Liang's chariot and stopped, Zhuge Liang stretched out his hand to signal the army to stop, and asked the scout: "How is the situation in the direction of Pingyu, can you inquire clearly?" ”

The scout replied: "Da Sima, the situation is a little wrong, there is an extra camp outside Pingyu City, it seems that there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the flag post outside the gate is hung with Sima's banner. ”

"Sima Daqi?" Zhuge Liang heard the words and groaned: "So, Sima Yi led his troops over?" This person really doesn't know the number of days, and now in this situation, he dares to lead troops to guard Yuzhou! ”

Zhao Yun smiled when he heard this: "Isn't it just right that he came?" If Sima Yi's army can be destroyed, Wei will lose even more land. When the time comes, we will kill Luoyang in one go and directly destroy the Wei State, who else in the Wei State can stop us? ”

Zhuge Liang nodded when he heard this, and said in a deep voice: "Sima Yi is not to be underestimated, since he dares to come over to guard Yuzhou, I am afraid that there is some honor guard."

Now that he is encamped outside the city, he should be afraid that I will build a return cannon to attack the city, and when the time comes, he will be trapped in the city and will not be able to open the city, but he will not be able to prevent the return cannon when he goes out of the city and set up camp, Sima Yi should also build a return artillery, have you seen it? ”

When the scout heard this, he replied: "We can't get close to the Wei army camp, so we can't see it clearly, but around the Wei army camp, we don't see the return artillery. ”

Zhuge Liang muttered: "If Sima Yi builds the return artillery, he will naturally not show it openly, he wants me to lead my troops over, and then use the return cannon to attack me while my army has not yet built the return artillery." He flashed the return cannon, and I wouldn't have passed.

In this way, let's set up camp here first, and send soldiers and horses to build a return cannon overnight to prevent Sima Yi from attacking. General Huo Jun, you lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to camp, and Zilong, you lead 5,000 cavalry to patrol and guard. General Zhang Ren, you led 10,000 soldiers and horses to cut down trees to build back cannons, and compile baskets. General Liu Yin, you lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to collect rolling stones. ”

"No!" The generals will take the command.

It was now noon, and the Han army stopped, camped and set up camp, patrolled and chopped down trees.

By the end of the evening, the Han army had built the camp, and a lot of trees and rolling stones had accumulated.

At this moment, in the Wei army camp under Pingyu City, Sima Yi also learned the news of the arrival of Zhuge Liang's troops.

The scout said to Sima Yi: "General, Zhuge Liang led his troops to stop forty miles away, sent troops and horses to set up camp, and sent people to cut down trees and collect rolling stones. ”

Sima Yi muttered when he heard this: "This Zhuge Liang is so cautious, knowing that I am camping outside the city, he will not come."

Although our army has built a return artillery, it is very troublesome to transport it for forty miles. Even if he could transport it over, Zhuge Liang would have enough time to retreat. ”

Sima Yi has built a lot of return cannons in the past few days, and deliberately hid them in the camp so that they don't show up, planning to let Zhuge Liang lead his troops over, and use the return cannons to attack Zhuge Liang while Zhuge Liang has not yet built back guns.

However, Zhuge Liang was very cautious, and he was not fooled at all, and directly set up camp forty miles away, planning to build the return cannon first to kill Pingyu.

Forty miles away, it was very troublesome to transport the return artillery, and the Han army had cavalry, and if they rashly attacked with the return artillery, not only could they not attack the Han army, but they would be defeated by the Han army. Sima Yi could only extinguish the desire to attack the Han army.

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