Xi An came to Shuanghuling again and reported to Wei Ba the good news of the capture of Nanxiang City, and at the same time conveyed Wei Feng's apology. Half of the casualties were Wei Ba's personal guards, including Dunwu, and the six people who held out to Zuihou at the head of the city were also Wei Ba's men. Wei Feng was very embarrassed and wanted to allocate fifty soldiers to Wei Ba as compensation.

Wei Baqu flicked Wei Feng's handwritten letter and smiled: "What does my brother have to say about the next war?" Although Nanxiang starts, Shunyang may not be able to get it at your fingertips. ”

Xi An hurriedly replied: "The young master has already pursued to the foot of Shunyang City, and his initial plan is to join forces with General Fu Zhongjian to clear the pontoon bridge built by the Wei army on the Danshui first, and then besiege Shunyang City. Although Wu Qiu Jian defended the city firmly, but as soon as Nanxiang was broken, he became a lonely city, and if he could brainstorm, it must not be impossible to break Shunyang. ”

Wei Ba grinned: "I'm very happy that he can think like this." You let them fight with their hearts, with me in Shuanghuling, the reinforcements of the Wei army can't get through, so they don't need to worry. ”

"Whoa." Xi An responded and turned to leave.

Wei Ba rubbed his hands, feeling a little sorry for the soldiers who died in battle, they were all elites he had accumulated over the years, and any one of them had the ability to be a captain. However, it is also worth the money to be able to take Nanxiang City in this way. Wei Feng's deployment before the war, the reward after the war, and the rapid pursuit to Shunyang, and did not get carried away in the siege, but fought steadily and steadily, and the progress was remarkable, and it was worth paying a big price.

Wei Ba'an sat on Shuanghuling and continued to fight offensive and defensive battles with Guo Li.

Guo Li is going crazy.

Almost at the same time as Wei Ba. Guo Li also received the news of the loss of Nanxiang. Now Wuqiu Jian and Cao Yu are trapped in Shunyang, facing the possibility of being surrounded by the Shu Han army, but he is blocked from moving forward in Shuanghuling, which makes him anxious. He also knew that the real Wei Feng had just flown to Nanxiang City, and the Wei Feng in front of him was the Wei Ba that Bixia had been worried about, and the elite soldiers he faced also confirmed his conjecture.

Guo Li didn't dare to slack off, and immediately reported the news to Cao Rui.

……

Cao Rui's mood is not much better than Guo Li, or worse.

The situation in Fancheng was also unsatisfactory, and Li Yan crossed the water to form a formation, taking advantage of the advantages of the sailors. Firmly controlled the two pontoon bridges on the Han River. Once the Wei army attacked too fiercely. Li Yan would retreat the army back and line up on his back, with sailors firing arrows and stone bullets from the Han River for cover, and infantry on the shore waiting for an opportunity to counterattack. Xiangyang City can also provide the role of a granary. Firmly guarding Li Yan's rear.

Li Yan has no fear. Although he couldn't defeat Cao Rui for a while. Capture Fancheng, but Cao Rui did not have enough strength to defeat him. Being able to hold Cao Rui back is a good situation for him. What's more, he believed that as the battle progressed, it would be impossible for Cao Rui, the king of a country, to stay in Fancheng and confront him forever. Repelling the main force of the Wei army led by Cao Rui head-on, this impact is not necessarily less than the capture of Fancheng.

Of course, Li Yan didn't dare to take it lightly, he knew very well that not to mention that Cao Rui himself was in Fancheng, and the Wei army had also gathered forty or fifty thousand people inside and outside Fancheng, but this was far from all the strength of the Wei army. Before planning this strategy, Wei Ba reminded him that Sun Quan would not be entangled in the Jianghuai battlefield for too long, and once he got the benefits he wanted, he would quickly evacuate, so that he would not care about the life and death of the Shu Han army. At that time, the main force of the Wei army was transferred from the Jianghuai battlefield to the Nanyang battlefield, and his situation was very bad.

If you want to persevere, one is to constantly stimulate Sun Quan's ambition and let him spare no effort to attack, and the other is to ask Wei Ba to defeat the Wei army in Shunyang as soon as possible, and then attack Cao Rui's rear and force Cao Rui to retreat early. Only then will his persistence be meaningful and he will have a chance to fight back.

Sun Quan could only tempt, but he couldn't command, so Li Yan couldn't pin his real hope on him. The only thing he can count on is Wei Ba, but he also knows that Wei Ba himself doesn't have too many thoughts about this war, and he has realized that he was promoted too quickly, which has aroused the jealousy and vigilance of many people, so this time he consciously kept a very low profile and has been hiding behind the scenes. Not only did he hand over his main force to Zhao Tong and Chen Dao, and let them enter Yuzhou as other troops, but he only took 3,000 personal guard battalions to Shunyang, and he didn't even fight his own battle flag.

Wei Ba's own statement was to confuse Wei Jun's sight, but Li Yan knew that Wei Ba was Taoguang and obscure. This did not reassure Li Yan, a young man in his early twenties actually knew that Taoguang was obscure, which was a terrible thing. However, Li Yan understands better that compared with Wei Ba's threat, he needs Wei Ba's help more now, and only with Wei Ba's help can he capture Nanyang and make a battle that is enough to compete with Zhuge Liang, proving that he is more suitable than Zhuge Liang to lead troops to fight, and restore the arrangement when Liu Bei died.

Li Yan has one thing that he doesn't understand very much, when he didn't give Zhuge Liang more food, how could Zhuge Liang send troops to Longyou, where did he get the military food? If Zhuge Liang has never been short of food, then he has been urging food, and even raised the importance of food to the point of survival?

Li Yan realized that he had been deceived by Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang lied to him, which was expected, and what made Li Yan even more uneasy was whether Hu Zhong had deceived him in this matter.

In order to persuade Zhuge Liang to agree to his troops, he once sent Hu Zhong to Guanzhong. Hu Zhong is not only responsible for communicating with Zhuge Liang, but also responsible for investigating the losses in Guanzhong and understanding Zhuge Liang's strength. It was precisely because Hu Zhong said that Guanzhong Tuntian had suffered heavy losses and would not give support, Zhuge Liang would not be able to launch a large-scale military operation, and Li Yan would boldly send troops to Nanyang to compete with Zhuge Liang.

If Zhuge Liang is trapped in Guanzhong and unable to act, no matter what kind of achievements he achieves, as long as he is undefeated, even if it is now, just capturing Xiangyang is enough to return to the dynasty in triumph. But Zhuge Liang is out of Longyou, and the situation is completely different. If he can't take all of Nanyang, he won't be able to achieve the expected results this time.

Zhuge Liang unexpectedly sent troops to Longyou, forcing him to the point of no return, and what made him even more depressed was that the harder he fought in Nanyang, the more he helped Zhuge Liang.

Unconsciously, Zhuge Liang became the main force again, and he had to go all out just to contain the partial division of the main force of the Wei army.

It's all because of Fox Zhong.

Li Yan lowered his head and paced slowly in front of the map, his face so gloomy that he was about to drip.

There was a sound of brisk footsteps outside the tent, and Hu Zhong walked in and bowed: "General." ”

"It's Shuzhi." Li Yan raised his head, but his originally cold face eased a little, although he still couldn't see a smile, it was already a very polite attitude to him. "Wei Ba has just sent a battle report, first, Wei Feng has conquered Nanxiang, and second, the Wei army has 5,000 cavalry to support Shunyang, and now he is blocking it in Shuanghuling."

Hu Zhong glanced at the map that had been sketched by Li Yan, and couldn't help frowning slightly: "In this way, wouldn't he be able to enter the hinterland of Nanyang as soon as possible?" ”

Li Yan bowed his head lightly and sighed lightly.

Hu Zhong pondered for a moment: "Does the general want to send him some reinforcements?" ”

Li Yan raised his head, looked at the map, and suddenly said, "Shuzhi, you said that if I only capture Xiangyang, will this trip be considered a success?" ”

Hu Zhong was stunned for a while, and then said cautiously: "Guan Hou's Northern Expedition back then was just to use the power of Han Water to attack and kill the Forbidden Seventh Army, and he didn't even take Fancheng, let alone Xiangyang, which was already threatening China. The general's Northern Expedition and the capture of Xiangyang in one fell swoop should be said to have made outstanding achievements. The army of Cao Rui and Sima Yi is undefeated, and it is also very capable. No one dares to say anything about this class. As for whether it is consummatory or not, even if the general invades Luoyang and captures Cao Rui alive, I am afraid that some people will think that it is not consummation, so why should the general care about this? ”

Li Yan grinned silently and waved his hand. "Having said that, but there are tens of thousands of male teachers and countless food consumed, if it is just a Xiangyang City, it is better to give the food to the prime minister at the beginning, so that he can go out of Longyou wholeheartedly."

Hu Zhong was silent for a moment, then raised his head again and looked at Li Yan's gloomy face: "Does the general want to strengthen Wei Ba's forces, let him go out of Wanluo, and force Cao Rui to retreat?" ”

"Why not?"

"Wei Ba is now attached to the general because his strength is not enough to compete with the general and the prime minister. But did the general ever think that the general was only a county official at his age, and he had such strength at such a young age, if the general helped him again and let him make great achievements, he would surpass the general sooner or later. At that time, will he still be able to listen to the general's orders? ”

Li Yan's eyes rolled, and he said lightly: "Wei Ba's youth became famous, it is indeed very human, I have an ugly temperament, how can I be compared with such a young talent." Even if he is a genius like the prime minister, he is still studying in Longzhong at his age, let alone me. Besides, having such a talent is a blessing to the country, how can I suppress him because of my own selfishness? ”

Hu Zhong arched his hand helplessly: "The general's mind encompasses the world and the world, which is beyond my reach." How many men is the general going to give him? Nanyang is a flat land, and without sufficient superior forces, especially without cavalry, I am afraid that it will not be able to deal with the iron cavalry assault of the Wei army. ”

Hearing Hu Zhong's words, Li Yan also scratched his head a little. He really can't draw too many troops to Wei Ba now, and he doesn't have enough troops, and Wei Ba is indeed not enough to enter Nanyang, otherwise once he is pursued by the cavalry of the Wei army, he will definitely be defeated. Presumably, Wei Ba was not willing to take this risk.

This is the most real problem compared to the empty words of morality.

Speaking of which, he still shouldn't have listened to Wei Ba in the first place, Wei Ba said that he could only transfer another 10,000 people, but only 3,000 guards came to the battalion. At present, on the entire battlefield, Wei Ba's headquarters is 13,000 people, and even his standing troops have not been dispatched. If Wei Ba can mobilize all the men and horses he has recruited, he can add at least 20,000 people, and he will not be so nervous now.

"You go to Shunyang and talk to Wei Ba about change." Li Yan pointed at Hu Zhong, his hand paused in the air, and nodded heavily: "Tell him that this war has entered a stalemate situation so far, the opportunity for victory and defeat, and the success or failure of reviving the Han Dynasty, all in his thoughts, and he will not be disappointed." ”…… (To be continued......)

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