The first thousand three hundred and thirty-four chapters are like a tree tumor
Chapter 1,334 Like a tree tumor
When the situation has developed to this point, the trump cards between the two sides have basically been exhausted.
Yi Xiaotian had calculated from the beginning that Liu Bei, who was the first to invade Jiangdong, would be defeated by them, and everything went as planned. In the end, Liu Bei was defeated and was forced to withdraw his troops.
Immediately afterwards, the situation entered the second stage, that is, the Jiangdong people pursued and blocked Liu Bei's army's retreat routes one by one until they were forced to a dead end.
At the same time, Yi Xiaotian will send a signal, asking a group of northern Cao troops led by Cao Ren who had already prepared to intercept Liu Bei's reinforcements to launch a final siege against Liu Bei.
But there were two things that Yi Xiaotian did not expect. First, the sudden change in weather caused the river to overflow. When a large area of Jiangxia was flooded, Cao Ren, who should have easily intercepted Guan Yu, found himself in an extremely disadvantageous situation.
situation.
And because of the constant rain, the bombs that Yi Xiaotian spent a lot of time and energy to make to ensure the chance of winning the battle failed to work as expected - the ultimate result is that they are still in a stalemate with Liu Bei inside and outside Wancheng.
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But that's not the most deadly thing. Soon... when Yi Xiaotian was making a new generation of bombs - a weapon that Yi Xiaotian named a grenade, he finally had time to calm down and review his previous plan.
But this review didn't matter, he immediately discovered a major flaw, and this was also the root cause of the shortage of Sun and Cao's coalition forces in the previous pursuit stage.
"An army is missing..."
"ah?
What did you say, sir?"
The military camp in the rain was still lifeless. Due to the failure of the bombs these days, and the extremely sound defenses of Wancheng itself, the originally great situation of destroying the city was gradually overcome by Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and the others.
If the siege cannot be carried out in one go and the enemy can withstand the first few offensives, even if there are many experienced generals, as long as the enemy does not make mistakes, it will be difficult for them to break the city again without a significant advantage in strength.
It can be said that the only possibility of breaking through Wancheng at the moment only exists in theory - if Yi Xiaotian can develop a new generation of bombs - grenades in just a few days, then they may still have a chance.
Destroy Liu Bei before enemy reinforcements arrive.
There is no other way.
It is often said that every inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but on this battlefield, every moment before the decisive battle was built by the soldiers with their blood, flesh and lives. This is far more expensive than the so-called money.
So Yi Xiaotian blamed himself very much, why did his originally flawless plan develop into the current situation——
Gan Ning has been blaming himself these days, saying that it was because of himself that the enemy captured Wancheng, but this should not be done——
Yi Xiaotian did not tell Gan Ning that if he went according to plan and he came to garrison Wankou, someone should be able to help him guard Wancheng.
The answer he was looking for was this——
Finally, with the help of Li Fu and others, Yi Xiaotian finally discovered the problem by reading various battle reports in the past half month during his spare time in developing grenades.
"Wancheng... there should be an army there. If I remember correctly, Zhang Liao came from Hefei and blocked the waters south of Wuhu, and here..."
Yi Xiaotian came to the table in the middle of the military tent, pointed to a certain place on the map and said:
"Shou Chun... Jiang Ji's soldiers and horses should have arrived in Wancheng long ago. Even if they arrived later, Liu Bei and others could only arrive after Liu Bei and others captured Wancheng. We should have been far more abundant than we are now.
The troops broke through Wancheng's defense——"
"But…"
"He didn't come?"
Huang Yueying listened with only a half-understanding, but she still understood generally. Following Yi Xiaotian, she knew that if Yi Xiaotian made a plan, there would definitely be a surplus - which is the so-called error tolerance rate:
"Sir, have you told Governor Jiang about this matter?"
Huang Yueying, who didn't know the whole plan, just followed Yi Xiaotian's words and asked.
Yi Xiaotian frowned, his expression even more confused:
"This matter was supposed to be done by Fengxiao - it was Fengxiao who sent the bombs in Wancheng to Gan Ning and the others. After delivering the bombs, he should have gone directly north to inform Shouchun as planned.
Jiang Ji——"
"Wait a moment…"
As Yi Xiaotian was talking, he suddenly seemed to realize something, and his expression became extremely solemn. Seeing Yi Xiaotian like this, Huang Yueying walked to him worriedly, tugged on his clothes and asked:
"Sir...are you okay?
What did you think of?"
"I hope my guess is wrong..."
However, Yi Xiaotian didn't explain much, he just shook his head and sighed in an extremely sad tone.
This made Huang Yueying have to look at Yi Xiaotian worriedly.
——
Yes, it stands to reason that Shouchun's troops and horses should still be in the hands of Jiang Ji.
But unlike Zhang Liao, people such as Jiang Ji and Wenpin belong to the floating forces on the periphery of the plan, which is what Yi Xiaotian calls the error tolerance rate.
Because if everything is executed perfectly according to the plan, it will definitely not require the efforts of Jiang Ji, Wenpin and others to destroy Liu Bei and others.
But during the review process, Yi Xiaotian finally remembered that although their plan had been going smoothly so far, it was not really flawless.
And the problem lies with himself.
That is to say, from the moment the hostages were exchanged, the plan had already deviated.
After all, if Yi Xiaotian ruthlessly chose to refuse to exchange hostages with Liu Bei, as long as they kept Pang Tong and Wei Yan in their hands and watched Zhuge Liang and the others have internal strife over Zhao Yun's matter, their pursuit would have been smoother.
It was this deviation that prevented the retreating Liu Bei army from being weakened to the level planned by Yi Xiaotian.
Until just now, Yi Xiaotian had taken it for granted that Zhao Yun was in their camp, but ignored the impact of his self-assertion this time.
At the same time - after there was a deviation on Zhao Yun's side, Yi Xiaotian's so-called error tolerance rate had to rush to help Wancheng when he should not have appeared on the stage.
But the problem was that because Yi Xiaotian could not really reveal the plan to Jiang Ji, who was still unsure whether he would be transferred, Jiang Ji did not send troops.
The cause of the matter was that Yi Xiaotian paid for Zhao Yun's affairs. As the plan developed like a giant tree with thousands of branches, this small fallacy gradually turned into a huge burl. In the end, Yi Xiaotian needed additional help.
When providing support, the most critical vital points were stuck.
At that time, Yi Xiaotian certainly understood that they needed additional troops, so Guo Jia acted as his agent and went to notify Jiang Ji.
But now that Jiang Ji didn't come, Yi Xiaotian had to wonder... whether something happened to Guo Jia.
Especially...especially when Yi Xiaotian thought that Cao Pi and Sima Yi were also in Shouchun at this moment and were undergoing assessment——
