The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 407 Seeking Liu Bei, Zhuge Xianwei
Losing the first battle was not a big disappointment for Dongfang Sheng. For a battle-tested veteran, one defeat meant nothing.

Dongfang Sheng, who convened another military meeting, put forward his own theory of quick battle in front of the generals under his command, but this time one person raised an objection.

"My lord wants to fight quickly, which is very wrong." The person who raised the objection was Zhuge Liang.

Everyone's attention was on this young man who had been following Dongfang Sheng silently, and Zhuge Liang didn't hesitate, and stepped forward: "Liu Bei looks weak, but he has the ability to confuse people, and Cao Cao's is even more powerful!" With the help of soldiers and horses, it is not easy to wipe out all at once."

"Then what do you think we should do?" Dongfang Sheng asked curiously.

Zhuge Liang paused for a moment, and then said: "According to my plan, I need to plan it slowly. I can retreat first, make room, and wait for Liu Bei's soldiers to get tired and counterattack when the sergeant's heart is different. At the same time, I can also send people to attack. Contact Jia Lao in Yizhou and ask him to send troops to capture Jingzhou. If Jingzhou is captured, Liu Bei will be panicked, and the morale of the Jingzhou soldiers who follow him will be greatly reduced. At that time, the Lord will be captured."

As soon as Zhuge Liang mentioned me, everyone in the entire military tent fell silent, not even Dongfang Sheng.

Seeing no response from the crowd, Zhuge Liang, who was still a little nervous, panicked: "Did I say something wrong?"

Dongfang Sheng suddenly applauded vigorously: "Kong Ming, you have really grown up, not bad!"

For a while, there was loud applause in the military tent, and all the generals looked at Zhuge Liang with admiration.

Zhuge Liang's eyes lit up, and he looked at Dongfang Sheng with a choked-up expression. At this moment, he suddenly felt that Dongfang Sheng's affirmation of his hard work in all aspects was more important than anything else.

"I will entrust Kong Ming with full responsibility for this operation, and I will act as a general under your command, at your disposal!" Dongfang Sheng decided loudly.

Dongfang Sheng is a person who does what he says, so he temporarily handed over his soldier talisman to Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang took over the military talisman and immediately issued his first order: "The whole army began to retreat in an orderly manner, and at the same time began to reduce the number of troops every day."

The method of reducing stoves, this is a method Sun Bin used to lure the enemy Pang Juan back then. It is to continuously reduce the number of military stoves in the barracks during the retreat, so that the enemy will think that the morale of their soldiers is low and keep running away, so as to confuse the enemy and induce them to escape. A way for the enemy to continue to pursue.

Dongfang Sheng's new defeat just gave Liu Bei the illusion that Dongfang Sheng's heart is unstable and vulnerable.

Zhuge Liang's strategy will naturally convince Liu Bei, and at the same time, he is more eager to pursue Dongfang Sheng.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhuge Liang retreated and reduced his focus, Liu Bei chased him even tighter.

During the several confrontations during the period, Zhuge Liang ordered to be defeated and not to win, and Liu Bei became more and more courageous as he fought.

As Dongfang Sheng retreated, Liu Bei kept pressing towards Shanyin where Lu Su was located, and Zhuge Liang also led Liu Bei to deliberately retreat towards Shanyin.

Although Pang Tong proposed to let Liu Bei suspend the offensive or even let Liu Bei directly return to Jingzhou to stabilize Jingzhou, but Liu Bei, who had been dazzled by several small victories, ignored Pang Tong's opinion and led his troops to continue to chase.

Zhuge Liang asked the scout battalion to contact Jia Xu in Yizhou and Lu Su in Shanyin before retreating. As soon as Jia Xu received Zhuge Liang's letter, he naturally understood Zhuge Liang's thoughts, and Sanxia had already gone with Liu Bei. A few of Liu Bei's cronies were guarding, and Jia Xu immediately sent troops to attack Jingzhou.

But Lu Su was asked by Zhuge Liang to stay still. At the same time, Zhuge Liang also asked Lu Su to build the Shanyin City, strengthen the Urn City, and dig a moat and a protective ditch at the gate.

Dongfang Sheng could see from Zhuge Liang's arrangement that Zhuge Liang wanted to have a battle to defend the city.

However, Dongfang Sheng, who originally thought that Zhuge Liang would fight back directly with Lu Su at the end, immediately raised his own question to Zhuge Liang: "Why do you want to have a battle to defend the city in Shanyin?"

Since ancient times, very few can counterattack in the battle of defending the city.

Zhuge Liang stood with his hands behind his back and said: "Brother, don't underestimate the Eight Tiger Cavalry under Cao Cao. Although the Jingzhou soldiers under Liu Bei will be exhausted after this journey, Xiahou Dun and the others will not. Fighting will drain their morale, and it will be more difficult to win."

"Well, okay, then do it according to your method." After hearing Zhuge Liang's explanation, Dongfang Sheng said in relief.

Let Zhuge Liang do it freely, of course Dongfang Sheng will not let him mess around, after all, this involves the lives of all the soldiers under his command, and it is no joke.

But since Zhuge Liang had his own explanation, after Dongfang Sheng heard it, he thought it was okay and ignored it.

The reason why Dongfang Sheng started to let Zhuge Liang take charge of some things now was because of his own later arrangements.

After Dongfang Sheng completely retreated into Shanyin City, Liu Bei immediately surrounded Shanyin County happily.

However, Dongfang Sheng, who had occasionally fought back on the way of pursuit, closed the gate of the city tightly at this time, allowing Liu Bei to scream outside the city without leaving the city to fight.

This made Liu Bei very depressed, and he quickly gave up the idea of ​​leading Dongfang out of the city for a battle, and started attacking the city directly.

Of course, after the siege, Liu Bei became even more depressed. Lu Su had previously reinforced the city wall according to Zhuge Liang's order, and at the same time prepared all kinds of things to defend the city.

For a while, the Jingzhou soldiers under Liu Bei's command were miserable by the city defense equipment and suffered countless deaths and injuries.

And it was at this time that Liu Bei suddenly got the news that Jingzhou had fallen. He originally planned to hide it, but he didn't expect that someone in the barracks already knew about it.

After the news of Jingzhou's fall spread among the Jingzhou soldiers, before Liu Bei could react, the group of Jingzhou soldiers followed a local general of Jingzhou and went to join Dongfang Sheng.

This move seemed to cut off Liu Bei's hands and feet directly. Now Liu Bei is left with a group of soldiers and Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Pang Tong.

Liu Bei's dramatic problems also made Sanxia a little shaken. They are not under Liu Bei's command and naturally they don't have to think about Liu Bei.

It's a pity that Zhuge Liang originally counted the three of them, so how could he let them leave so easily?
Just when Sanxia was hesitating, Zhuge Liang gave an order, and Dongfang Sheng's soldiers and horses came out together, with Tuobahan and Sima Bao as the vanguard, and Dongfang Sheng led the army to lead the formation.

With the addition of Cai Mao, Tai Shici and Lu Su's three-way soldiers and horses, the momentum alone is enough to scare people.

(End of this chapter)