Chapter 1,159 Jiangdong is at the end of its crossbow
In fact, it didn't take long for the time Zhuge Liang mentioned to have arrived.
Less than twenty miles away from Yixian County, there is a farm.
A post road leads directly from Guangchang to Yi County, and the farms are on both sides of this post road.
It seems that because they knew about the arrival of Liu Bei's army, the people in Zhuangzi had already been informed to evacuate their homes.
Only an empty body was left in front of Liu Beijun's eyes.
Suddenly, Zhuge Liang raised his right hand high to signal everyone to stop.
While everyone was confused, Zhuge Liang pointed to the farmland opposite the village and said immediately:
"The evidence is there!"
"ah?"
Hearing Zhuge Liang's unreasonable words, everyone was shocked and confused - where is the evidence?
What evidence?
There...isn't there just a piece of abandoned farmland?
Zhuge Liang naturally saw everyone's doubts.
Since they were not far from Yixian County, the army simply rested here for a while, while Zhuge Liang dismounted and headed towards the farmland with the confused generals.
"Don't forget, everyone. Although Liang is now a military advisor, a few years ago, he was just a hardworking farmer."
"I think I know some of the details in the fields better than most people."
While talking, Zhuge Liang was the first to arrive on the field ridge.
Looking around, the dozens of acres of farmland here are bare, and there is no clue at all - at least to Wei Yan and the others.
But Zhuge Liang signaled everyone not to say anything and just follow his footsteps - Zhuge Liang suddenly squatted on the ground and inserted his hand into the already dry soil -
He picked up a handful of soil easily.
"It's the autumn harvest season, and there's still no rice to be seen. I guess the garrison near the city has already arranged for soldiers to collect the crops, right?"
I don’t know who mentioned it, but this sentence aroused a lot of recognition.
Before the war, the crops in the fields around the city should be harvested, so that even the young crops cannot be left to the enemy. This is the consensus of many generals defending the city.
In fact, Liu Bei did this even when he was on the run.
Under inertial thinking, everyone agreed.
However, at this moment, Zhuge Liang stood up holding the soil in his hands, shook his head and said:
"That's wrong."
"Eh?"
Wei Yan and others were obviously surprised and thought they heard something wrong. However, they saw Zhuge Liang walking into the crowd and continued to say to them:
"It stands to reason that after the generals who defended the city learned about the arrival of our army, they should organize their troops to harvest the fields."
"But...this time, you all fell into the enemy's trap."
"What?"
Liu Bei was also shocked. Although he was not born in civilian life, he had worked hard when he was young and downtrodden. He did not understand the meaning of Zhuge Liang's words at all.
Zhuge Liang was not in a hurry and just let everyone look at the dirt in his hand.
"Look at the soil in the field, what do you find?"
However, as Zhuge Liang said, few of the people following Liu Bei were truly white.
Seeing the confusion on everyone's faces, Zhuge Liang gently opened the top layer of soil and exposed the contents inside.
"There's...there's nothing except weeds and some wilted millet seedlings?"
Zhang Fei scratched his head and without thinking, just followed what he saw in front of him and started talking.
But it was this sentence that Zhuge Liang captured.
He pointed at Zhang Fei and said immediately:
"What Yide said is the key!"
"Look, everyone!"
Zhuge Liang spread the soil in his hands forward so that everyone could see it.
"Although the soil is somewhat dry, there is still moisture in the deeper areas, indicating that this field was cultivated not long ago."
"You don't have to think about rain, because it hasn't rained nearby in the past half month. This soil only has moisture after being watered by others."
"Well...it turns out...that's what it is..."
Many people knew little about it, but they were all shocked by what Zhuge Liang just said.
A handful of details... It's a shame that someone like Zhuge Liang could notice them.
Of course, Zhuge Liang hadn't finished speaking yet. Seeing many people nodding, he continued to explain:
"This soil is just some soil I picked up at random. In fact, if someone has cultivated the field, it is not difficult to find that although the field has been harvested, it is still difficult to conceal its original appearance."
"That is to say——"
Zhuge Liang picked up the stalks of weeds in the soil and a bunch of wilted millet seedlings, and said firmly:
"There are too many weeds and millets that are difficult to grow. This can only mean one problem - that is, although the fields here have been well cultivated, the harvest may be extremely poor."
"Not only this place - along the way, I have personally inspected the fields that you have not noticed - Poyang is an extremely rich farming area in the east of the Yangtze River, and even the fields there are barren. It is not difficult to infer that
It’s different from what’s happening in other places.”
Zhuge Liang took out his feather fan again and expressed his conclusion:
"The equipment that can barely cope with it, the barren and desolate fields, and the defending army that is pretending to delay. Taken together, one can come to the conclusion that Jiangdong is at the end of its war effort."
"There is another thing that is easy to infer. I believe that Lu Xun and others are far from giving up resistance, but they still have to hold off. There is only one possibility that I can think of - their reinforcements may be coming soon.
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"To sum up, we do not want to divide our troops here, but we must divide our troops. They are delaying time, which means that our time is also very limited."
"Everyone...is this explanation still clear?"
Now no one dared to question Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong's decision.
Just kidding, this kind of detail that ordinary people can't even notice is caught by monsters like Zhuge Liang, so what else do they have to question?
If you want to question it, you can at least provide evidence that can refute Zhuge Liang, but the fact is that it is not easy just to understand Zhuge Liang's explanation. How can anyone dare to refute him?
But at the same time, just because they were shocked, everyone calmed down.
At least... at least Zhuge Liang is not an enemy, right?
After understanding this, Zhuge Liang's words were like reassurance, making everyone's fighting spirit rise.
"In that case, let's divide our forces here—"
Liu Bei nodded. To be honest, he didn't quite understand what Zhuge Liang said.
But his strength lies in knowing how to rely on Zhuge Liang.
"Shiyuan, how many troops and horses do you need?"
Liu Bei sent someone to call Pang Tong early. As soon as Pang Tong arrived, Liu Bei asked:
"It doesn't take much. Going north is the really difficult and dangerous road. If we just want to take down Poyang, Luling and Jian'an, 20,000 troops are enough!"
Pang Tong was quite confident, so he made a request of 20,000 yuan.
