Li Bei and Wang Fang were planning how to harass Liu Bei and Li Su's military farming promotion plan; Li Su was also planning how to prevent problems before they happened.

On February 22, on the sixth day after the Weinan military farming plan began, the Weinan River Valley, 70 miles east of Chencang City, was ploughed and planted. The edge of the military farming area of ​​Liu Bei's army was only more than twenty miles away from the Beiyuan Weiqiao Village of the Xiliang Army. The risk of enemy harassment is getting greater and greater, and its claws must be cut off immediately.

Therefore, Zhao Yun, who had failed to challenge for several days before, and Guan Yu, who led the main infantry and navy, finally got another job.

That afternoon, Liu Bei called out Guan Yu, Zhao Yun and other generals, and there was Counselor Li Suxun You next to him and ordered the combat mission.

Liu Bei: "Yun Chang, Zilong. Our army seized the enemy and marched into the country. It was impossible for the enemy to react without any response. They would definitely be harassed. So he discussed with Boya and Gongda and decided to take the initiative.

Tonight, Yun Chang took the infantry on a boat and went down the river to raid, deploying fire boats first, burning down the Beiyuan Wei Bridge, and then landing from the empty part of the broken bridge, raiding the enemy camp on both sides.

Once the enemy's long chasing wall in Weinan was killed from the rear, the remaining enemy troops would inevitably collapse and try to retreat to Weibei or east of Wugong River. At this time, it was Zilong's turn to drive in, chase and kill the fugitives, and drive the remaining enemy troops who were not too late to cross the river down the river - do you know what to do? And I have sent someone to contact Xiaozhi, and then maybe the troops stationed in Wuzhangyuan can also help in the battle."

While Liu Bei said, pointing fingers on the map, planning how to break through the enemy's army outside the town of Ji County to build a building in Weinan. Guan Yu and Zhao Yun nodded to show their understanding after seeing it.

In the evening of that day, the soldiers had their meals early, Guan Yu took the lead in marching along the Wei River and mobilized 8,000 infantry, all of whom were Han infantry in Yizhou, farmers and fishermen on the Yangtze River, and familiar with the nature of the water. He rode more than 300 small boats and rafts and went down the river.

Guan Yu had 30,000 infantry troops in Chencang. The reason why he could only dispatch 8,000 people this time was that there were not enough ships and he could only transport so many at a time.

When attacking Chen Cang, Guan Yu's ships and rafts could only transport 4,000 people into the city at one time. Now they can transport 8,000. After Chen Cang gained a foothold, they have let all the soldiers who were idle without military garrison go to the Qinling Mountains to cut trees and build rafts, and constantly squeeze ships from Hanzhong to transport capacity, and transfer ships along the Western Han Dynasty waters.

This is why Liu Bei had to repair it for half a month after he gained a foothold in Chencang. It was not only for spring plowing, but also because the waterway of the Western Han Dynasty was too narrow and the transportation capacity was too poor. It took a period of time to relieve the bottleneck period.

At the front of Guan Yu's fleet, dozens of rafts were loaded with firewood and fire-induced objects, and sharp corners and long nails were tied on their heads. They were ready to set fire for a while, and rushed down the Wei River, hit Beiyuan Wei Bridge, and burned the bridge. It would be even better if the village walls on both sides of the bridge could also be burned a few places.

Zhao Yun brought five thousand cavalry and advanced in seclusion along the Qinling Mountains. If there was a fighter opportunity after a while, Guan Yu broke through Lei Xu's long-chung village wall in Weinan from behind, Zhao Yun could rush to the cut-off village and kill all directions, and even drove the remaining enemies down the Wei River and the Wugong River to drown them-

Li Bie's camp in Beiyuan Town, because there is a bridge across the Wei River to pinch the Fazheng Camp in Wuzhangyuan, so he has half a village on the north bank of the south bank. In addition, a village wall several miles long is erected on the south bank, blocking it from the Wei River to the side of the Qinling Mountains. This can prevent the Liu Bei army from coming from Chen Cang along Weinan and Fazheng from Wuzhangyuan from joining.

After a while, as long as Guan Yu set fire to cut off the connection between the north and south parts, Zhao Yun could find soft persimmons to squeeze through the village wall while taking advantage of the chaos and eat up half of the village that had lost command and left alone.

As long as this tactical goal is achieved, the number of enemies is still a trivial matter. The key is to completely remove the enemy's bridgehead nails in Weinan and connect the two occupied areas of Chen Cang and Wuzhangyuan.

Li Su also asked Liu Bei for his orders to act with Zhao Yun tonight - the reason why he came was not to personally conduct tactical command on the spot, and Li Su also knew that his battlefield command ability was actually not good.

Li Su's purpose was to follow Zhao Yun's troops to observe the enemy situation at close range and to find out the reality of the defenders in Mei County.

Didn’t Li Bie have been playing the trick of reducing troops and increasing stoves before, and setting up more flags? Li Su and Xun You couldn’t see if the other party didn’t dare to fight because they didn’t increase their troops, or they did not dare to fight, but they did not dare to fight because they were cowardly.

But as long as Guan Yu and Zhao Yun take the initiative to attack, break through some of the villages, and then capture some officers and prisoners, everything will be clear. The best way to find out the enemy's reality is to directly eliminate some of them, and the remaining part will be understood instantly.

The reason for following Zhao Yun instead of Guan Yu was that Li Su was because of personal safety. He was afraid that if he would capsize a boat or something else on a small boat, or that the entire army would go deep into the enemy's back. And if he followed Zhao Yun on land, there would be no traffic accidents, and Zhao Yun's protection of the military advisor was safer. (Of course, Li Su's usual bodyguard, Dian Wei, also had to follow him, and he took him wherever he went)

Because Zhao Yun could not directly attack the camp with cavalry, he dragged Guan Yu more than ten miles behind during the march.

Since he entered Guanzhong in the Northern Expedition, he has not only intercepted and killed Zhang Ji's scouts and messengers who asked for help, but has defeated Wang Fang who came to Chen Cang to investigate and support the cavalry units. He has no results in fighting. He had been scolding for ten days before, but Li Bie Wang Fang did not go out to fight, which made Zhao Yun very depressed.

Zhao Yun could not help but complain about being able to act with the military advisor tonight and wanted to complain in private.

He and Li Su ran together and started chatting immediately: "General Right, according to my opinion, we will stabilize Chen Cang's situation around the tenth day of the second month, dredge and retreat the accumulated water, and continue to advance eastward and attack Mei County before the enemy's army has not yet assembled.

Soldiers are very fast. Now they have been delayed for twelve days. Isn’t it delaying the fighter’s opportunity? Of course, there is nothing wrong with loving the people, but for the sake of the people of one or two counties, the entire Guanzhong people may not be able to suffer more at the hands of the traitors.”

Li Su couldn't help but smile and said, "Zilong, you are so arrogant and look forward to Qin. You are the leader of the cavalry and think that it is not wrong to have a speed. But you only know one thing, not the other.

Soldiers are the most important thing, and they are used when the enemy's main defense forces have been wiped out on the border operations, and the rear is empty and the army is full of food. Sun Tzu said: Wearing armor for 100,000 yuan will be fed thousands of miles. This will cost thousands of dollars a day. Those who are good at using troops will have enough food because the enemy is fed enough.

Now that our army has been planning to defeat Chen Cang for many years, it has succeeded in sneak attacks. It has not wiped out the main force of the Xiliang army in the early border battle, but it has only destroyed 15,000 Zhang Ji's troops. There are still more troops in Ji County than Chen Cang, so Cang can't take advantage of the enemy's emptiness.

Secondly, last year, Ji County used a plan to induce surrender to Xiaozhi, and moved its bureaucratic and wealthy households to the treasury and grain. Since then, there has not even been a single autumn harvest. Therefore, the warehouse in Ji County must be empty. Even if there is a garrison, the grain stored in the city will be transported according to the needs of the garrison, and there will not be too much surplus.

If we attack in a hurry and we won't have much surplus food supply, what about "food for the enemy"? That is just unnecessary extension of our army's logistics supply line and shortening the enemy's logistics supply line. In the battle stage with the purpose of annihilation of the main forces of the enemy's live forces, this is a taboo for military strategists.

In contrast, if our army is eager to attack during spring plowing, not only will the spring plowing in Chencang County be destroyed, but also the spring plowing in Weinan in Mei County be destroyed. How can we withstand it after the autumn harvest? Why should we wait half a month to let the enemy and me be cultivated in spring plowing. Anyway, our army is confident that we will capture Chang'an before the autumn harvest. Then the whole year of Guanzhong is planted for our army? Why can't we compare with the food that is about to enter our own treasury?"

Although Li Su did not study in his previous life so much that he knew that there were major earthquakes, droughts and major locust plagues in Guanzhong this year, he still knew that Guanzhong under Li Jue was indeed suffering from many disasters. After taking it, it would be Liu Bei's burden, and he could stop the troops and rescue disasters. So it would be best to think about how to operate it as your own territory before taking it down. The harvest of grain throughout the season cannot be destroyed.

The land you have quickly promoted will have to be productive and good land that is valuable. If it is a bad land without productivity, it is better not to take it for the time being and eliminate the enemy's vitality first.

The Battle of Stellinggrad in World War II, Kharkov counterattack, and Kursk, these three companies of battles are ironclad, because the land between Kharkov and Stellinggrad had been broken into scorched earth in two years of tug-of-war and had no productivity. At this time, the German army went deeper into the logistical pressure of scorched earth for more than thousands of miles, and the Soviet army went deeper into the logistical pressure of the Soviet army for more than thousands of miles of scorched earth, so whoever attacked failed, whoever shrinked its troops and defended would win.

In the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao lifted the siege of Baima, and took the money, grain and materials of Baima to voluntarily withdrew, and gave up the white horse and retreated to Guandu. This is the same reason. Cao Cao knew that it was meaningless to stick to the gains and losses of the land before annihilation of Yuan Shao's main force of his life.

Only by retreating to Guandu can Yuan Shao avoid transporting grain directly along the Yellow River at almost no cost. After forcing Yuan Shao's grain to Yanjin, he had to transport it south by land to Wuchao by ox cart.

Of course, Liu Bei also needs to mobilize Li Jue to attack before annihilation of Li Jue's main force, extend Li Jue's grain transportation route and shorten his own grain transportation route. (Unless you have the opportunity to directly attack and capture Chang'an, it is cost-effective. Apart from this, the gains and losses of a city and a place are not cost-effective)

When Chen Cang was taking advantage of the spring plowing, it was because of surprise. In addition, it was necessary to use the other party's psychological expectations and felt that no one had to send troops during the sowing season in February. After the sudden nature of the battle attack, the subsequent relaxation must be carried out and not be anxious.

In history, Zhuge Liang had a Northern Expedition in the Spring, but that was also the most busy stage of sowing. After the busiest period of the spring, it was about the end of the spring, which was not far from what Jia Xu estimated that "the troops would be sent in April."

After listening to Li Su's analysis, Zhao Yun realized that his military strategy was a bit harsh and did not notice the comparison between the enemy's vitality and the changes in food.

"Listen to the explanation of the Right General, I will be better than me who have studied military books for half a year, and I will be taught at the end."

Zhao Yun sighed, they had already rode horses for dozens of miles, and saw Beiyuan Village appearing on the horizon.

Zhao Yun had no time to chat, so he tightened his gun and asked the troops to try their best to lean south first, and to cover it up against the forests at the foot of the Qinling Mountains. As long as he saw the fire on Guan Yu and heard the shouts of killing, he was ready to fight out of the darkness at any time.

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In the middle of the night, Wang Fang was on the north bank and Lei Xu was on the south bank, and they were all asleep. The camp here was already very strong after a winter renovation.

Not only are there walls made of pointed wooden stakes and rammed earth, but stone platforms are even built at both ends of Wei Bridge, and some key points are also stone walls, which are almost the same as the city gate. Of course, they are limited to key areas. It is impossible for the entire village to be so impoverished, but at least they are not worried about the enemy's sneak attack.

Wang Fang also built a corridor to directly lead to the county town of Jixian, which facilitates the transport of grain and troops between the two places.

The establishment of this camp was just what Jia Xu suggested to Li Jue do last winter. It was a key card for the Wuzhangyuan garrison of Fa Zheng and Xu Huang. It was exactly the same as Sima Yi's deployment to block Zhuge Liang's Wuzhangyuan camp in history.

The camp cannot be said to have no weaknesses, such as the riverside facing the Wei River is a weakness. Because the project volume is too large, it is impossible to fully repair the village wall along the banks of the Wei River when building the village. The soil on the Wei River is soft, and the soil blocks along the riverside are often washed away by the river water, and it is impossible to bury the wooden piles in rammed earth and solid, so there is no need.

On the other hand, the Wei River is surrounded by villages in the north and south. If the enemy wants to come up from the river, it is equivalent to going deep under firepower from the north and south and then landing. It is too difficult. In addition, Chen Cang had not yet fallen last winter, and Zhang Ji knew that Fa had not had many ships at Wuzhangyuan, and the transportation capacity was insufficient, so he could not transport many soldiers to attack on the water route at one time. If there were few people, it would be useless.

In recent days, due to the fall of Chen Cang, Liu Bei's army had more ships upstream, but Li Biewang Fang also had intelligence sources. By interrogating the captured prisoners, they learned about the fall of Chen Cang City. They learned that Guan Yu had only shipped four or five thousand people at one time at that time.

Isn’t it a whimsical idea to launch a landing war at this little? Moreover, there is no concept of landing war at all in this era. Who would be so bored to prevent such things? Li Bie Wang Fang Lei Xu is not a talented general who knows the small things.

Therefore, the guards didn't take it seriously at all. They just asked the sentries to stand guard tightly every night, beware of the land routes in Weinan to prevent the enemy from attacking the village on a large scale from west to east. After all, the walls of Weinan are several miles long and are not as strong as those of the city walls, so there is still a danger of being broken through the key points.

At the third day of the morning, the sentries, with the help of torches, could not see the distance. They could only listen to the sound to identify potential dangers. The safety and safety of more than ten days made people drowsy.

The water of the Wei River flows and the noise is very loud. The closer it is to the mail tower by the river, the less likely it is to hear abnormalities.

On a sentry tower by the Nanzhai River, a sentry was in a daze until he saw something like a raft on the edge of the firelight dozens of steps away from the village wall. He thought it was an hallucination, and rubbed his eyes again. When he looked at it, he was scared and sweating. It turned out that just when he rubbed his eyes, the rafts had already lit the fire. There was no need to confirm again, what else could there be in a big fire in the dark night?

"Enemy attack! It's Liu Bei's navy!" Within a few breaths, the sentry's shouts spread far and wide. Within about one or two minutes, the sleeping soldiers were awakened and began to rush to lift the quilt and put on coats, armor and weapons.

It was still a little cold at the end of February, and the soldiers did not get up as fast as in summer. I had to find the officers to assemble the troops, but it would be impossible to deal with it in less than five minutes.

"Bang~Bang~" A few muffled sounds, Guan Yu was upstream and Wang Fanglei Xu was downstream. As the defenders gathered in armor, the fireboat had already hit the wooden bridge Beiyuan Wei Bridge. The raft was sharpened and the head was covered with long nails, and it was directly tied to the pier pile of the wooden bridge by inertia, and it was opened.

Soon, the weak wooden fortifications on the side of the bridge head against the river also caught fire. The suicide squads of Guan Yu's front army landed on a single-time raft to the beach. Then they cut off the hemp ropes on the raft. The rafts were naturally scattered into thick logs, and they carried them directly on their shoulders and became siege hammers.

It will take some time to collapse the wooden village wall by setting fire. However, as soon as the wood decay decreases, it will be very convenient and quick to collapse with a shoulder-type siege hammer.

When Wang Fang put on his armor, he held a big knife and brought his personal soldiers. When he arrived at the bridge head of the north bank, he saw that there were fire everywhere on the bridge, and several village walls were broken by Guan Yu's troops.

But Wang Fang was lucky enough to tell his fortune, because he was on the north bank. Even if the outskirts of the camp were broken through, he could still defend the defense layer by layer. In the end, he could still risk his life to cut off the rear. He could also withdraw to Mei County along the corridor and then close the gate of Mei County.

Lei Xu on the south bank was not so lucky. At the moment when the bridge was burned, he could no longer return to the north bank and Mei County. He either defended himself or retreated eastward, and retreated back to the second camp at the mouth of Wuzhangyuan Valley, and even swam eastward to retreat to the Wugong Water. The future was always bleak.

Wang Fang was not sure about the situation at the beginning, and always felt that he could rescue him. He rushed to fight wildly with one or two thousand personal soldiers who were hasty, trying to annihilate Guan Yu at the beach. While his foothold was not stable, he drove down the Wei River again.

However, although there were only a few hundred Han soldiers who had just landed, they had extremely brave combat power. When they had already broken through the wall of the village and were very fair in terms of geographical advantages, the Han soldiers waved their horse-killing swords one by one, forcing the Xiliang soldiers, who were three times the number of people on the beach, retreated.

The Xiliang soldiers in the previous teams of Wang Fang were quickly killed and killed most of them. Wang Fang himself gradually rushed to the front line, waving his big sword to kill several soldiers from the Han army's camp.

Even though Wang Fang's sword was so powerful that it was all due to the weight and the force was hit and half-cut and half-kill to kill the iron-armored soldiers. After killing a few people, he felt that his strength was a bit weak, and the thick-backed sword cut the gap in the curling blade.

"Hu—Hu—" Wang Fang took a few breaths of heavy breaths, and then he noticed that under the firelight opposite, he was also a powerful sword general in green robe and iron armor. The sword he used seemed to be more powerful than him, and had a red face and long beard. His red face became more pure under the reflection of the firelight, and it seemed that red light could be reflected.

The powerful general of the sword had also noticed that Wang Fang had killed four soldiers from the camp, so he targeted him and rushed over with the sword, killing more than a dozen of Wang Fang's personal soldiers who were blocking the road.

"Oh my God! Guan Yu!" Wang Fang screamed in surprise, turned around and ran away, "Brothers, hold on!"

There is no need to say much about Guan Yu's reputation now. After all, he has been famous for six or seven years. Zhang Ji has just been destroyed less than half a month. Wang Fang knows very well what terrible famous generals are in the enemy camp.

It’s a pity that today is a landing battle, and Guan Yu is also the general in the infantry battle. Without horses, Wang Fang turned around and ran and chased him out of time.

After defeating the Xiliang troops who tried to launch a counterattack and rushed the Han army down the beach, Guan Yu originally planned to chase the enemy fiercely, but he annihilated the entire Beizhai enemy along the corridor leading to Mei County.

But soon, Guan Yu was shouted by a commander under his command: "General! Don't forget the right general's instructions. It is important to break through the south bank from behind, so that he can pick up General Zhao's cavalry to chase and annihilate the remaining enemies!"

Guan Yu calmed down. At first, he landed on the north bank in person, knowing that Wang Fang would definitely not give up on rescuing Lei Xu, so he would try to counterattack. Now Wang Fang has been taken back, and the pursuit mission is not urgent, so it is more important to end the entire south bank.

Of course, the offensive on the South Bank has continued. Guan Yu's army originally had so many ships landed on both sides of the strait at the same time, but the troops on the South Bank were not in charge of Guan Yu himself.

Guan Yu quickly found a small boat to the dock, took a few personal soldiers, handed over the war on the north bank to the lieutenant under his tent, and then went to the south bank to supervise the battle. Anyway, the Wei River was particularly narrow at Beiyuan Wei Bridge, and it was only a hundred meters long, so it would not take long to cross the river once more.

After arriving at the south bank, the resistance of the Lei Xu tribe that Guan Yu encountered was even worse than that of Wang Fang. In theory, the 35,000 Xiliang army in the defense area of ​​Mei County was 20,000 in the north bank and Mei County, and Wang Fang and Li Bie each had 10,000 troops.

There were 15,000 people in the south bank, and they were Zhang Ji's old subordinates. Zhang Ji distributed half of Chen Cang's defenders to Lei Xu. But tonight, Lei Xu had a total of 15,000 people in several camps, but he did not show much fighting will to resist. He was surrounded by four or five thousand Han infantry soldiers on the south bank, and soon became in chaos.

In the darkness, many soldiers did not know how many enemy troops, nor did they know which defense areas the sneak attackers had broken through, so they thought that the whole line would collapse and would not end well if they ran too late. So many people fled east without fighting, trying to escape to the second-tier camp in Wuzhangyuan Fazheng Camp in Dukoukou.

Guan Yu waved the Qinglong Sword and rushed wildly with thousands of Yizhou Weaver soldiers with high morale, and soon surrounded the back and broke through several village walls.

The martial arts skills of the Iron Door Army brought by Guan Yu were not very good, but his fighting will was very tenacious and his morale was overwhelming.

The families of these weaver soldiers were all in the reform of the rent and mediocre law last year. Because the profitable merchants mortgaged the land and leveraged the brocade, the capital chain was broken and the government forced to close the position. When the land was forcibly auctioned, they bought the land at a low price. Liu Bei gave them the land, so of course they had to fight for life, which was a matter of no end.

But in the dark night, both sides had unclear vision, and martial arts and moves were not very important, so they just pushed forward with a momentum. Even though the Xiliang soldiers were savage by nature, they had never seen such a fighting style. So they were like a fierce gangster who met a real honest man who was desperate, and were frightened by the honest man and retreated one after another.

He is so arrogant that he is afraid of his life. The "brave" of the Xiliang soldiers is just a gangster-like slut, which is supported by a fox-like power. As long as he is not scared of the enemy, he will be discouraged very quickly. It is similar to the yelling cockfighting that cannot beat the dumb-like chicken.
To be continued...