Jagged hegemony of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 872

"Send me an order to return half of the troops stationed on the border of Yanzhou!"

After careful consideration, Liu Wei issued an order to withdraw half of the garrison in Yanzhou.

As for the reason, it is to let Liu Bei deal with Liu Zhang with peace of mind, and even if Liu Bei loses to Liu Zhang, he can transfer troops from the south of Yanzhou to return to Jingzhou.

The reason why Liu Wei did this was all because Pang Tong took refuge in Liu Zhang.

"Here!"

Ten days later, half of Yanzhou's soldiers and horses withdrew, and the news of Liu Wei's withdrawal also reached Liu Bei.

"Military Master, Liu Wei withdrew most of Yanzhou's soldiers and horses, do you know what this means?"

Liu Bei didn't understand why Liu Wei withdrew his troops, so he asked Zhuge Liang.

"My lord, I thought that Liu Wei was playing hard to get. He withdrew the garrison in Yanzhou to let us relax our vigilance, but in fact Liu Wei did not withdraw his troops, but instead increased his troops. He wanted to make a surprise attack when we relaxed our vigilance. Yanzhou!"

Zhuge Liang guessed.

"What a cunning Liu Wei, if it wasn't for the military advisor, I'm afraid I'd fall for this fellow's trick again!"

Liu Bei believed in Zhuge Liang's speculation, and believed that Liu Wei's sudden withdrawal of troops was to let the garrison in Yanzhou relax their vigilance, and then raided Yanzhou.

"Then shall I strengthen Yanzhou's garrison?"

Liu Bei asked.

"No, we are now dividing our forces to attack Sun Quan, and we still need to guard against Liu Zhang. If there is any force left to send to Yanzhou, we can just let the garrison in Yanzhou strengthen their defenses!"

Zhuge Liang replied.

"Well, the military adviser is right, everything is obeyed by the military adviser!"

Liu Bei obeyed Zhuge Liang's words.

Zhuge Liang lowered his head, but suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly raised his head to look at Liu Bei: "Master, according to Liu Zhang's character, it is impossible to take the initiative to send troops to attack. Why is he so active this time!"

Liu Bei was taken aback by Zhuge Liang's question, and said in his heart: "You don't understand, but I can understand? Aren't you looking for something to talk about?"

Although he thought so in his heart, Liu Bei couldn't say that in his mouth. Liu Bei followed Zhuge Liang's intention and said, "Yes, Liu Zhang is weak and incompetent by nature. How could he take the initiative to attack us? Someone must have given him an idea!"

"Who could that be?"

Zhuge Liang fell into deep thought.

"I guess it's Zhang Song. Although Liu Zhang didn't mention it, everyone knows that Zhang Song is Liu Zhang's number one counselor. Except for Zhang Song, no one can talk about Liu Zhang!"

Liu Bei guessed.

"No, no, although Zhang Song appears to be Liu Zhang's adviser, but Zhang Song and Liu Zhang seem to be at odds with each other. Even if he came up with this idea, he would never tell Liu Zhang!"

Zhuge Liang shook his head.

"Who would that be?"

Liu Bei also thought with Zhuge Liang.

But unlike Liu Wei, they had spies like Jin Yiwei. They had very few spies in Xichuan. In addition, the rugged road made it difficult to send news out. Liu Bei's control over Xichuan's intelligence was almost zero.It is impossible to know the news of Pang Tong's entry into Sichuan.

Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei thought hard for a long time, but they couldn't figure out who gave Liu Zhang the idea. Liu Bei's brain hurt even thinking about it.

"Forget it, don't think about it. There are many heroes in Xichuan, and there is no shortage of resourceful people among them. Liu Zhang has got the help of an expert this time!"

Zhuge Liang no longer wondered who gave Liu Zhang the idea, and said to Liu Bei: "My lord, soldiers come to cover the water and soil, no matter how wise a counselor is, if it falls into Liu Zhang's hands, that is to use a horse to pull the cart, a hero!" Useless!"

"it is good!"

That night, Liu Bei ordered his troops and generals, and set off from Xiangyang overnight to station in Dongmo County in person, in order to prevent the Sichuan army led by Zhang Ren from going south.

At this time, Zhang Ren's army had arrived in Jiangzhou and was stationed in Jiangzhou.

Because the Sichuan army wanted to go south, they had to take a boat down the river from Jiangzhou, Liu Bei had to prevent the Jiangdong army from boarding the boat here.

At this time, Zhang Ren had two choices. The first was to head north and board the ship from Yiling, and the second choice was to board the ship from the south of Jiangzhou.

Zhang Ren was planning where to board the ship with his generals in Jiangzhou City, completely unaware that Liu Bei had already arrived at Dongmo, Jiangzhou.

Early the next morning, before Zhang Ren got up, he heard noises in the barracks. Just as Zhang Ren was about to reprimand, a soldier broke in from outside: "General, it's not good. We sent out to the river bank to guard the warships." Our army was attacked by Liu Bei's army, our army suffered heavy losses, and all the warships were destroyed!"

"what?"

Zhang Ren, who was sitting on the bed, jumped up all of a sudden, before he had time to wash up, he put on his clothes and rushed out of his tent.

Zhang Ren opened the long curtain of his tent and saw thousands of disgraced and defeated soldiers outside. They were the soldiers and horses he sent to guard the warship.

"How is this going?"

Zhang Ren looked at the defeated army and asked loudly.

The defeated army standing in front replied: "General, when I was ugly this morning, the brothers were already sleepy, and most of them had rested. Many soldiers and horses rushed out from nowhere and launched a fierce attack on us. The brothers were not ready yet. They had already arrived, and before we had time to resist, the warship was taken away by them, and many brothers who were still sleeping on the boat did not even have time to disembark, so the warship was ordered by them!"

Zhang Ren saw that many of their beards and hair were burned, and knew that he was not lying, but where did the Jingzhou army come from?

"How many are they?"

"General, we have already seen how many enemy troops there are, and we are already defeated. However, they are scattered all over the mountains and plains. It seems that they are a large force of the Jingzhou Army!"

"Where did the Jingzhou army come from? Isn't Liu Bei in Xiangyang? Why did he suddenly arrive in Jiangzhou?"

Zhang Ren roared angrily.

"Report!"

At this moment, a scout ran to Zhang Ren and knelt down on one knee: "General, a large number of Jingzhou troops were found in Dongmo City. There is a big flag on the head of Dongmo City, and on it is a big Chu Words, it looks like Liu Bei came in person!"

It turned out that Jingzhou soldiers and horses in Dongmo City had long discovered that the Sichuan army was searching for warships, and they were all placed in the river south of Jiangzhou. When Liu Bei arrived in Dongmo City, he immediately sent Liao Li (the son of Liao Hua) to lead a More than 1 Jingzhou troops seized the warships of the Sichuan Army before dawn and burned them all.

"Is Liu Daer here?"

Zhang Ren was taken aback, then calmed down again, and said: "Since Liu Daer is here, then Zhuge villager must also be here. Zhuge villager is not something I can deal with. I need to let Junshi Pang come to make the decision." !"

At that moment, Zhang Ren gave up the idea of ​​going down the south of the Yangtze River, closed the gate of Jiangzhou, and gave Liu Zhang and Pang Tong a letter of divorce, and informed Liu Zhang and Pang Tong of the situation here, and asked Pang Tong to come and command the battle.

After receiving Zhang Ren's letter, Pang Tong resisted the excitement in his heart and asked Liu Zhang to help Zhang Ren.

Liu Zhang had no doubts about Pang Tong, who had held an important position under Liu Wei, and immediately sent Pang Tong to Jiangzhou.

Liu Zhang was not afraid of Pang Tong pitting him, not because of anything else, but because Pang Tong once told him that he wanted to compete with Zhuge Liang, and because he once turned the Northern Han Dynasty upside down, Liu Zhang believed in Pang Tong's ability.

(End of this chapter)