Zhuge Liang saw Niu Jin hesitating and said, "I have withdrawn all my troops outside the city. If you don't enter, the Wu army will definitely take advantage of it. Don't hesitate any longer!"
Niu Jin said: "Don't retreat yet. The general's army has not arrived yet. I only have a thousand men. I'm afraid I won't be able to defend Jiangling City. You wait until noon. Once my army arrives, it will definitely enter the city."
Zhuge Liang said: "Okay, you go back and tell Sima Yi to come quickly. After noon, Wu people will be suspicious, and you will not be able to occupy Jiangling City."
"I know." After Niu Jin finished speaking, he turned around and left, taking a thousand Qingqi back the same way to see Sima Yi.
Zhuge Liang stood on the city wall, ordered people to close the city gate, raise the suspension bridge, and shouted: "Enter from the north gate at noon!"
After hearing this, Fu Tong asked: "Prime Minister, if you shout so loudly, what should you do if Wu Jun's scouts hear you?"
Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "The shout is just for the Wu Jun scouts to hear. Come here. At noon, all you need to do is..."
After Fu Tong heard this, he laughed loudly and said immediately: "The Prime Minister's clever plan, the Wu people will lose their troops again."
Zhuge Liang said: "Since we have decided to submit to the Huaxia Kingdom, we will naturally have to consume the Wu army and fight several good battles before we can gain a foothold in the Huaxia Kingdom."
Fu Tong said: "The general will finally understand."
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In the Wu army camp, the scouts told Sun Ce and Zhou Yu all about the conversation between Zhuge Liang and Niu Jin that they heard outside the west gate of Jiangling City.
After hearing this, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu couldn't help but feel shocked.
Zhou Yu said: "Your Majesty, it seems that Zhuge Liang wants to dedicate Jiangling City to the Huaxia Kingdom. As a result, our army will fight hard here, lose troops and generals, and gain nothing."
Sun Ce said: "Since they met at the North Gate and the time is set at noon, as long as our army sends troops to block Sima Yi's advance, and then our army disguises itself as the Chinese army and enters Jiangling City, then Jiangling City can be easily captured."
"Your Majesty is wise. However, if you send people to stop Sima Yi, there can be no conflict. General Sima Yi will never take it seriously. I went to see Sima Yi in person and wanted to meet this general who conquered the south." Zhou Yu said.
"No! I'm going! I'm the emperor. Sima Yi will never dare to be presumptuous when he sees me. I want to pull him to tell the story, and he can't disobey. It won't be good if you go." Sun Ce said.
Zhou Yu nodded and said, "I obey."
After the plan was decided, Sun Ce entrusted Zhou Yu with full responsibility for the matter, while he alone with more than ten personal followers waited for Sima Yi on the only way to Jiangling City.
Zhou Yu gathered Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Ling Cao, Chen Wu, Dong Xi, Pan Zhang, Xu Sheng, Ding Feng, Song Qian, He Qi and other generals, assigned orders one by one, and prepared to seize Jiangling City with all his strength.
Not long after, another scout came to report that there were soldiers and horses in Jiangling City. They entered the camp outside the city from the south gate and went back and forth several times. After hearing this, Zhou Yu became more convinced, and he had already known that Zhuge Liang had something to do.
He was inclined to surrender to the Huaxia Kingdom, but he never understood why Zhuge Liang didn't just hang the Huaxia military flag on top of the city and surrender directly.
Although I don't understand what Zhuge Liang is thinking, this is beneficial to the Wu State. In this way, the Wu State can also take advantage of opportunities and directly enter Jiangling City, so that the Wu State will not suffer any losses.
No matter what, this time Zhou Yu is preparing to take Jiangling City in one go. After everything is arranged, all that's left is to wait for time.
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Sima Yi was marching forward when he suddenly met Niu Jin returning. They met each other twice. Niu Jin told what Zhuge Liang had said. After Sima Yi heard this, he immediately urged the army to move forward. Thousands of horses galloped and the river flowed endlessly. On the snowy ground in winter
It left a long string of horse hoof prints, turning the soil on the snow into mud.
The army galloped forward for less than thirty miles when Sima Yi saw a man wearing a dragon robe and a crown on the only way to Jiangling City. Behind him were more than ten warriors, all wearing golden armor. They looked extremely luxurious.
Sun Ce, who else could it be?
So, Sima Yi hurriedly raised his hand and ordered his men to stop advancing and the army stopped. He rode forward alone and came to a place five meters away from Sun Ce. He turned over and dismounted, walked a few steps forward, knelt down on one knee and cupped his fists.
: "Sima Yi, the general of the Huaxia Kingdom in the Southern Conquest, meets His Majesty the Emperor of Wu!"
"Pingshen!" Sun Ce said with a smile, raised his hand, and motioned for Sima Yi to stand up.
After Sima Yi stood up, he said with a kind face: "I have heard for a long time that His Majesty the Emperor of Wu is extremely powerful. When I see him today, he is indeed worthy of his reputation. But the foreign ministers don't know how his Majesty the Emperor can appear in this wilderness?"
"Haha, General Sima, I am waiting for you here."
"Wait for me?" Sima Yi had already made some assumptions in his mind from the moment he saw Sun Ce. Hearing Sun Ce's words, he pretended not to know.
"Yes, I heard that General Sima came to the battlefield in person and prepared to cooperate with our army to attack Jiangling, so I specially waited for General Sima again. General Sima, I heard that you are the second liberal arts champion of the Huaxia Kingdom. When I saw you today, you are indeed a talented person. I have been waiting for you for a long time.
I have never seen such a young talent. I would like to sit down and have a chat with General Sima. What do you think?" Sun Ce said and got off his horse.
Sima Yi smiled and said: "Thanks to His Majesty the Emperor's respect, the foreign ministers naturally dare not neglect it. However, this is in the wilderness. I am afraid that Your Majesty will get cold. There is a small village in front. How about we go to the front to rest? There is also wine in our army. Let the soldiers
It would be more interesting to hunt some wild game and make delicious food."
Sun Ce was surprised by Sima Yi's answer. With Sima Yi's wisdom, he should not have known the purpose of his coming, but Sima Yi wanted to drink wine and eat meat with him. However, this was good, as it could stop Sima Yi from going to Jiangling, so Wu Jun also
Just enough to use.
"Haha, wonderful, wonderful, General Sima is indeed warm and hospitable."
After that, Sima Yi looked at Niu Jin and said: "Your Majesty and I are going to the village ahead to have a chat. You go hunting around, and send another group of people to clean up the village, so as not to stain your Majesty's dragon robe."
Although Niu Jin followed Sima Yi for the first time, he was quite understanding. Hearing that Sima Yi had changed his gentle and elegant demeanor, he already understood what he meant. He said "Promise" and immediately dispersed the 11,000 cavalry and sent out a group of soldiers.
Thousands of cavalrymen went to clean the village, and another person was sent to notify Sima Lang and ask him to change the route of the army and take a detour.
Sun Ce saw more than 10,000 cavalrymen suddenly dispersed in all directions. He was afraid that these cavalrymen would run around randomly, and he was also worried about what Sima Yi was up to, so he shouted: "General Sima, we don't need so many people to go hunting, right?"
Sima Yi smiled and said: "Your Majesty, do you like hunting?"
"Um."
"Then your Majesty should know that the so-called hunting rules are nothing more than to let all the soldiers disperse, then encircle the city in a circle from the outside, and finally reduce the distance, and then drive the prey to one place, and then shoot them collectively. I do this,
It’s nothing more than following the rules of hunting.”
Sun Ce was speechless, but he was also worried. However, he always thought that with Sima Yi by his side, these soldiers would not run around, so he walked forward slowly with Sima Yi.
Less than five miles later, Sun Ce and Sima Yi came to a village. The snow had been cleared away. Surrounding a fairly decent house, the soldiers of the Chinese Army had prepared everything and cleaned the house.
"Your Majesty, please!" Sima Yi said to Sun Ce with a smile.
After Sun Ce entered, he talked with Sima Yi for a long time, but no hunter came back for a long time. He couldn't help but start to worry, and said: "General Sima, your subordinates haven't returned for a long time. Is there something going on? Do you want to send someone out?"
Looking for something?"
Sima Yi poured a glass of wine for Sun Ce and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't worry, my subordinates are used to being wild. They are usually trained too strictly. If they encounter hunting by chance, they will naturally gallop a little longer and whip their horses and whips.
Galloping on this winter battlefield, there will be no
What's the matter, not to mention that all the Han troops are huddled in Jiangling City, and most of the people have moved elsewhere. Just let them be wild for a while. Your Majesty, let's just drink. Oh, where did we talk just now? It seems that my brother went to see Your Majesty, come on
Come on, let’s have a drink and chat.”
Sun Ce blushed and was embarrassed to refuse. He originally came to hold Sima Yi back, but he didn't expect that he was held back by Sima Yi instead. Only then did he realize that this Sima Yi was not a simple man. Those things that went out to hunt must have
He followed Sima Yi's men to Jiangling City. He made a mistake and couldn't help but feel annoyed, but he couldn't refuse Sima Yi, so he had to continue chatting.
After a while, Sima Yi's men came back with some game meat and began to bake it. After the cooking was successful, they gave it to Sima Yi and presented it to Sun Ce. Sima Yi persuaded Sun Ce to eat and drink without any scruples.
He was rambling on and on, making Sun Ce embarrassed to refuse.
After drinking and eating, it was almost noon, and Sun Ce couldn't help but worry about Zhou Yu. If there was a friction between the Wu army and the Huaxia army, it would definitely damage the diplomatic relations between the two countries, so Sun Ce left quickly on the pretext that there was something important in the army.
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After Sun Ce left, Sima Yi called to follow him and asked, "Where is Niu Jin now?"
"We are almost reaching Jiangling City. We should be able to arrive around noon."
"Very good, let's go. Sun Ce must have a purpose for coming here. But Zhuge Liang deliberately said something, and there must be a deception. He probably didn't come for us. Go and notify Niu Jin quickly and let him go in after noon.
City, stay outside the city and watch its changes."
The followers didn't understand what it meant, but they didn't dare to ask any more questions, so they used the secret technique of scouting to spread the news to the front. The scouts of the Chinese army all had a secret technique of flute sound, and the scout army was also very large, covering only a few dozen miles.
Within the area, there were hundreds of scouts hidden, and word by word, Sima Yi's orders were conveyed to the front army in a rapid-fire manner.
After Niu Jin received the news, he was also suspicious as to why he was not allowed to enter the city again. However, he did not dare to disobey the order, so he slowed down his advance with eight thousand cavalry.