The Three Kingdoms are invincible

The large army that Sun Jianjun saw outside Xuchang City was naturally the [-] reinforcements brought by Gao Shun.

As for why the [-] army seems to have the feeling of [-] to [-] troops, the answer is actually very simple. It is nothing more than tying branches and other things to the horse's legs so that it will raise endless dust as it advances, so that When people look at it from a distance, they will mistakenly think that there is a strategy such as the arrival of an army.

This is Guo Jia's strategy - the strategy of suspicious soldiers. Sun Jian's army must be convinced that there are a lot of reinforcements, so that he has concerns, so that he can successfully delay the time for his siege.

For this reason, Guo Jia also suggested that Cao Cao let Gao Shun take all the cavalry away.After all, only a small half of the [-] cavalry brought to Guandu is now left, and it is almost useless on the Guandu battlefield. It is better to make good use of it elsewhere—even if it is just tying branches on the horse's legs to make it look like a suspicious soldier. .

An excellent cavalry team usually has one man and three horses. Cao Cao's conditions are not so sufficient at this time, but one man and two horses are absolutely guaranteed. Therefore, Gao Shun brought back more than 800 horses to Xuchang.The legs of these [-] horses are all tied with branches, and the smoke and dust that can be raised is already quite powerful.

In another time and space, Zhang Fei used this tactic in front of the Changban Bridge. At that time, he just asked his subordinates to use a dozen horses to raise smoke and dust. As a result, Cao Cao mistakenly believed that there was an ambush and dared not enter.

If Cao Cao knew that there were really only Zhang Fei and a dozen of his men on the other side of the Changban Bridge, no matter how loud Zhang Fei's voice was, Cao Cao's army would have crushed you to pieces.

As for the reason why the support army chose to camp outside the city instead of entering the city to help defend, the reason is also very simple.If you choose to camp, you can arrange it in many ways, so that Sun Jianjun will continue to misunderstand that there are a lot of reinforcements.But once the army enters the city, its movements may be observed by Sun Jian's army, so that they can learn the details of the number of reinforcements through scouts and other channels.

Even if there were 5000 more people, Xuchang's defense force was still insufficient. If Sun Jian's army were to find out the truth, then the other side would attack the city recklessly.

In this way, when setting up camp, Gao Shun deliberately set up many empty tents according to Guo Jia's instructions, and then when eating at dusk, Gao Shun deliberately set up more camp stoves.According to Zhou Yu and Sun Jian's analysis of the number of tents in Cao's camp and the cooking smoke reported by the scouts, they felt that the number of support troops was at least [-].

———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— In Sun Jian’s camp, Zhou Yu looked serious and was thinking about some problems.

"Gong Jin, tell me, why didn't Cao Cao's reinforcements enter the city?" Sun Jian sat in the main seat and asked Zhou Yu, his expression was also very serious.

"Cao Mengde is deceitful, maybe this is his strategy." Zhou Yu was also very puzzled by this point. It stands to reason that when the reinforcements arrive, they should enter the city to help the defenders defend, but why did the reinforcements set up camp outside the city?

After much deliberation, Zhou Yu thought he had come up with a correct answer.

"I'm afraid Cao Cao wants to contain our army." Zhou Yu slowly expressed his thoughts, "Cao Cao chose to camp outside the city instead of entering the city, probably because he wanted to launch an attack while our army was attacking the city, so that our army could not look after each other. , and its momentum collapses on its own.”

Cao Zishuai's flag was hung high in Cao Ying, so both Zhou Yu and Sun Jian thought that Cao Cao had come in person.

After all, it was an army of [-]. No matter what unknown changes happened to Guandu in the north, since so many people came back, it meant that the battle at Guandu must have come to an end.

So Cao Cao must be among the reinforcements, as his coach, both Sun Jian and Zhou Yu are sure of this.

If Gao Shun knew what Zhou Yu and the others were thinking, he would roll on the ground laughing.

However, now Zhou Yu and Sun Jian really feel very embarrassed.

"They launched an attack as soon as we attacked the city, so aren't we extremely passive?" Sun Jian frowned heavily, and said in a deep voice.

Zhou Yu didn't say a word, Cao Cao's [-] troops arrived, and his own army is indeed very passive now.

Sun Ce, Tai Shici, Zhou Tai and others at the side looked at Zhou Yu who said nothing, and they were secretly worried.

Even Zhou Yu remained silent, which shows how troublesome the situation is.

"What is there to hesitate? If we are afraid that Cao's army will stab us in the back, then we should finish them all first and then attack the city." Zhou Tai had the most carefree personality, muttering directly.

Sun Ce and Tai Shici were sweating when they heard it, [-] Cao's army, although our army is still a little more in terms of numbers, but our army may not be able to defeat the opponent in a real fight.Furthermore, since it was mentioned that the reinforcements may launch an attack during the siege, why don't you think about it, when we attack the reinforcements, wouldn't the defenders in the city still be able to attack us?

We warriors can think of this truth, but unexpectedly there are people who are more stupid and naive than us.

Zhou Yu roughly explained the truth to Zhou Tai, Zhou Tai laughed a few times, and then fell silent.

According to Zhou Yu's current intention, he wanted to persuade Sun Jian to withdraw his troops.After all, if Cao Cao really led the army back in person, then there would be no possibility of Xuchang City being captured by his own army.

But in the end, he didn't say any words of persuasion. He knew that Sun Jian would definitely not be willing to withdraw his troops just like that.

As long as he can enter Xuchang City, then Sun Jian really has the capital to aspire to the world.

And if Sun Jian wants to win the world, he must also enter this Xuchang City.

Sitting in Jiangdong, no matter how well Jiangdong is developed, it will be nothing more than a prince after all.Only by mastering the Son of Heaven and connecting Jiangdong and the Central Plains, can one have the strength to expand to the whole world.

Just in the daytime, the self-army was only a short distance away from taking Xuchang City. If it could be done harder, Sun Jian might have already entered Xuchang City by now to "greeting" to the emperor.

It is indeed a pity!

Cao Ren, because of that Cao Ren's resistance to the death, made all this come to nothing.

Now Zhou Yu regrets it a little. When he set the East Gate as the target, he was a little casual.If he had known that Cao Ren was so difficult to deal with, he should have investigated it in the first place and chose a city gate with not so good guard ability to implement a strategy.

But in fact, there is no medicine for regret. The matter has evolved to this field, and what needs to be considered now is how to deal with the current situation.

Sun Jian, Sun Ce, Zhou Tai, and Taishi Ci all set their eyes on Zhou Yu, hoping that he could come up with a good strategy to defeat Cao Jun in one fell swoop and capture Xuchang.

If Zhou Yu knew that they expected so much from him, he would probably have to smile wryly. I am just Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin, not some god in the sky.

Although Zhou Yu came up with some strategies, they were quickly rejected by himself.

In his view, since Cao Cao was in the reinforcements, there must be many talented people around him, and the strategies he had thought up before were not without flaws, and some wise men might see them through.

If Zhou Yu knew that there was only one Gao Shun among the reinforcements, and that he did not have any counselors to assist him, then he would definitely slap his thighs while hastily asking people to implement the strategies he had thought of before.

"Let's wait and see what happens." After a long time, Zhou Yu said something that disappointed everyone present.

But no one will blame Zhou Yu, because they all know that Zhou Yu has done the best.