Just when Liu Bei's army was besieging Zhu Ran, Wu Ban and Chen Shi's navy finally returned to the vicinity of Jianye.
After learning about this, Zhuge Liang naturally called a meeting immediately and began to discuss the details of the siege with the generals in the army.
Because he had suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Xiangyang before, Zhuge Liang would naturally not think of letting the navy directly attack the city.
However, because he saw the enemy's powerful weapons in the Battle of Xiangyang, Zhuge Liang has not been idle in the past few years, always looking for a group of craftsmen to make their weapons.
It's just that...his mind is naturally not as big as Yi Xiaotian's, and the weapon that was finally formed was only the same.
However, it really couldn't be more appropriate to use it at this time when attacking Jianye.
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The final confirmed engineering strategy was naturally that Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei would lead the army to attack Jianye on two sides, while on the other side the navy would use Zhuge Liang's improved weapons as surprise troops. After attracting enough attention from the enemy, the two armies joined forces.
Concentrate your efforts again and again to break the city.
One of the outstanding features of the entire plan is its stability.
This is the fighting method that truly suits Zhuge Liang's character.
With the help of the huge disparity in numbers and powerful siege equipment, Zhu Ran tried his best to use all the power in his hands. Even if Zhu Ran had three heads and six arms, it was only a matter of time before Jianye was defeated.
And there's another point - because the army besieged the city, Jianye didn't have much food surplus. With the food route blocked, even if they didn't attack, Jianye would be in a food shortage situation within a few days.
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It's a pity that Zhuge Liang didn't have much time to waste, otherwise with his style, he would definitely adopt the method of besieging the city and cutting off food to reduce their casualties as much as possible.
In short, the strategy is set and everything is waiting for the preparations to be completed.
In the past two days, Zhao Yun's anxious mood finally relaxed slightly.
Standing outside the camp, looking at Jianye City where many memories had been left, Zhao Yun firmly determined that he must fight here to dispel all Zhuge Liang's worries.
But Zhuge Liang didn't seem to think so.
When the war started, Zhuge Liang specially came to Zhao Yun's side and enlightened Zhao Yun, telling him not to have any worries and just attack the city.
Zhao Yun was naturally very happy when he heard what Zhuge Liang said.
However, Zhao Yun did not know that the battle plan he learned was actually a backup plan.
In fact, before Zhao Yun called the formation back, Zhuge Liang had already summoned the soldiers and told them a battle plan to use Zhao Yun's siege as a bait to induce the enemy to relax their vigilance, so that they could easily attack the city on the other side.
This incident naturally caused many people to raise questions. For example, Zhang Fei, who was relatively simple, felt that Zhuge Liang was biased against Zhao Yun.
But Zhuge Liang’s explanation for this is also very simple:
"Everyone, only by deceiving your own people can you deceive the enemy... If General Zilong knows that he is a bait, the battle will seem less real... Zhu Ran on the other side is an experienced general who has fought alongside us.
, only in this way can we deceive his eyes."
After Zhuge Liang's explanation, although many people still felt sorry for Zhao Yun, everyone agreed with this approach.
On the contrary, Liu Bei had been listening in. After the discussion, he went to Zhuge Liang alone and felt that Zhuge Liang would do this. Zhao Yun would be sad if he found out later.
"Lord... No matter what your previous opinions are about our battle plan, I will not have any refutation. Only this time, please don't raise any questions... I will definitely explain it clearly to you when the mystery comes to light.
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"Mystery...mystery? Kong Ming, what are you talking about?"
Liu Bei's eyes widened, looking at Zhuge Liang whose expression was completely different from the previous discussion, and he asked with some fear.
"Lord... don't ask anymore, if you don't want to fall short in the end..."
"Um...well...okay..."
Zhuge Liang's expression was gloomy and frightening. Liu Bei was just worried before, but now he realized that he really couldn't ask any more questions.
Feeling that something unfortunate was about to happen, Liu Bei felt a little heavy.
Zhuge Liang had no time to appease Liu Bei. He just reminded Liu Bei before leaving the camp:
"Lord, please don't forget that you cannot tell General Zilong about this matter under any circumstances..."
"Well, you go ahead, I understand."
Seeing Liu Bei nodding, Zhuge Liang breathed a sigh of relief.
And watching Zhuge Liang leave, Liu Bei, who was just pacing in the tent, collapsed on his seat weakly...
He's not stupid...he just trusts Zhuge Liang very much.
It was the same in the past and it is the same now...
His mind is as delicate as his, and although his strategies are not as good as Zhuge Liang's, he is often better at discerning people's hearts.
He had long noticed the strange pause when Zhuge Liang mentioned Zhao Yun in today's meeting...
It was as if saying the word "Zilong" was the biggest punishment for him - at that time, Liu Bei realized something was wrong.
"What on earth...what happened...Kong Ming...Zilong...what happened between you two?"
Naturally no one would answer Liu Bei's helpless murmurings, and he naturally had no ability to stop what was about to happen - it would be great if Pang Tong was here, he thought, but he didn't know that Pang Tong was currently experiencing a life-and-death battle.
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Poyang…
As the most critical point in Pang Tong's plan, as expected, there were troops stationed far beyond Pang Tong's previous expectations.
Before arriving in Poyang, Pang Tong had already vaccinated Wei Yan and others, telling them that Poyang would be a tough battle.
And if they want to conquer Poyang, they must take risks and let him act as a bait on the frontal battlefield.
Pang Tong even told them that even if he was defeated, Wei Yan and the others must carry out a rappelling attack on Poyang City as quickly as possible from Shiyin Mountain behind them.
This kind of behavior obviously put life and death aside, and also won the highest respect from Wei Yan and others.
As the army approached Poyang, Pang Tong did not hesitate and directly commanded the army to attack the city.
Such a sudden siege did not give the defenders of Poyang City any sense of surprise.
After feeling the orderly defense of the Poyang defenders, Pang Tong at least confirmed one guess——
"Sure enough... the Shanyue people have joined forces with the Jiangdong people, which also means... it is very likely that Yi Xiaotian is in Jiangdong."
This fact can be determined based on this piece of information alone. It has to be said that Pang Tong is indeed worthy of the name Feng Chu.
However... apart from these——
Pang Tong's situation was somewhat stretched.
Because he did not have the support of a general, even though Pang Tong had studied military art since he was a child, there was still a difference between actual combat and paper exercises.
From the current point of view, his ability to command operations is definitely inferior to Zhuge Liang.
And this incident also attracted the attention of the defender in Poyang City at this moment.
