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At night, Liu Jing's team was stationed near Jianmen Pass. Like last time, Liu Jing used a separate big tent, and Sun Shangxiang also had a small tent. Of course, she never slept in her own tent and lived with her husband every night in the big tent. In her words, there were more vixen in the mountains, and she was afraid that Liu Jing would be fascinated by the vixen.

It was already two o'clock, and the two hugged each other and Sun Shangxiang snuggled lazily beside him, resting her head on his shoulder, and her black waterfall-like hair was scattered outside.

"Mr. My brother asked me to bring you a message. Do you want to listen?"

Liu Jing was stunned and hurriedly sat up, complaining to her, "It's been so many days, why didn't you say such an important thing earlier?"

Sun Shangxiang pulled him down again, hugged his arm and said with a smile: "Tell me what you are teasing. I'm watching you fall asleep. I'm stimulating you for a while. I have to wait for me to go to bed first."

Liu Jing had no choice but to do anything to her, as naughty as a little girl. He pinched her nose and smiled, "If you give birth to a daughter like you, I will have to suffer a headache."

"Actually, my brother often talks about you to me, of course it's not a major military and national event."

"What did he say to me?"

"He said you have courage and vision and can compete with Cao Cao in seven or eight years. He said he is not as good as you, and he can't do many things even if you want to."

Liu Jing smiled and asked again: "What's going on with your cousin? I'm talking about Sun Ben's affairs."

Why

Sun Shangxiang sighed softly and said, "What else can he do? I heard that he was imprisoned on a deserted island and was already crazy. He howled at the sea all day long. I repeatedly advised my brother to put him back, but my brother ignored me. I couldn't. I also had my younger brother Sun Lang, who heard that he was imprisoned in Wujun and could not see him."

"What about other people, such as Zhu Ran, Han Dang and others, how are they doing?"

"The brother is quite tolerant of them and did not hold them accountable. He just removed them from their official positions. The brother said that they have deep connections in Jiangdong. If they handled them ruthlessly, they might have planted the root cause of the division of Jiangdong."

Liu Jing rested on his arm, and he shook his head. He did not agree with Sun Quan's compromise. If he did this, it seemed that things would be settled, but in the end it laid the root of disaster. These people's dissatisfaction with Sun Quan will not disappear. The deeper the hatred, and sooner or later something will happen in Jiangdong."

"Go to sleep and marches tomorrow"

Sun Shangxiang nodded, got up and blew out the candle, hugged her husband tightly and fell asleep.

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In recent months, Chengdu has begun to mobilize troops on a large scale, with 100,000 troops mobilizing Hanzhong, distributed on the front line of Hanzhong and Wudu County. As the Han army's control over Yizhou deepened, some of the main forces of Han army, which were originally distributed in Yizhou counties, were also transferred to Hanzhong, and general Huang Zhong was also transferred from the garrison of Yinan to Wudu County.

Licheng is the first fortress to go north to Qishan in Wudu County. At that time, Zhao Yun and Zhao Yun used the strategy of Pang Tong to burn Licheng and eliminated this fortress in one fell swoop. When the Han army retreated south, Cao Cao's army arrived at Licheng. The two thousand Han troops stationed in Licheng had to abandon the city and leave, and Licheng was again occupied by Cao's army.

Half a year has passed, and Cao Cao's army has already retreated to Guanzhong. Before Cao Cao withdrew, he deployed tens of thousands of troops on Qishan Road and built six defense lines, Licheng, Qishan Fort, Xicheng, Mumenzhai, Shangqiu County and Jicheng, among which Licheng is the first defense line.

Licheng was rebuilt, and the city was moved forward as a whole, eliminating the hidden danger of being easily attacked above his head. At this time, there were 4,000 Cao troops stationed in Licheng, commanded by Xiahou Ba. Since his father Xiahou Yuan was killed in Qishan Road, Xiahou Ba took the initiative to volunteer to guard Qishan Road. Cao Cao strengthened his determination and appointed him as the Zhennan Camp Captain and ordered him to station in Licheng.

Although Xiahou Ba was generously ordered because of his father's death, he also knew in his heart that Licheng was the first stop of the Han army's northern expedition. Once the Han army headed north in large numbers, Licheng would definitely not be able to defend it, and Xiahou Ba even had his life worry.

Early in the morning, Xiahou Ba stood above the city and looked at the south with concern. On the night ahead, he received information from scouts and found a patrol of Han troops. Each team was above people. Xiahou Ba knew in his heart that this was actually a signal that the Han army might be going north again.

Although he was very worried, Xiahou Ba would not determine that the enemy situation had arrived just because the enemy's patrol increased. He had to have a definite news to report to the higher authorities. For this reason, he rejected many scouts and rushed to various parts of the south to inquire about the information of the Han army.

It is only a few dozen miles from Licheng to Wudu County, not far away. It is logical that there should be news of the scouts back, but there is still no news of the scouts, which makes Xiahou Ba very worried. Will something happen to his scouts?

At this moment, several cavalrymen rushed over from a distance, which immediately cheered up Xiahou Ba. He held the battlements and leaned out to look out. After a moment, several cavalrymen rushed over. It was the scout he sent out. Xiahou Ba shouted anxiously: "What's wrong?"

A cavalry rushed forward and reported loudly: "Reported to General Xiahou, he found a Han army, about 5,000 people, building a city in Fengyun Valley to the south."

Xiahou Ba let down his heart. Fengyun Valley is located fifty miles south, and is a funnel-shaped valley. It is wide in the north and narrow in the south, which is conducive to the north attacking Hanzhong. If the Han army was building a city there, it means that the Han army is carrying out defense and has no intention of attacking north yet. It is the autumn harvest season. It should be that the Han army is worried that Cao's army will enter Hanzhong to harass and destroy it. It is reasonable to garrison the troops to defend. There are not many troops, and 5,000 people are just right to defend.

Xiahou Ba also heard Cao Cao say before that the Han army's re-emergence of northern expedition is likely to be in the spring of next year. The Han army will have to prepare for at least one year. It has only been half a year now, and the Han army's northern expedition is unlikely.

Xiahou Ba kept comforting himself, and his inner tension gradually calmed down. He turned around and ordered: "We must strengthen our defense, not relax and be lazy, those who violate the order will be killed."

He gave the order and went down to the city to rest. He had not had a good sleep these days and was already exhausted. He needed a good sleep.

Just in a forest southwest of Licheng, two Han soldiers were hiding, the patrol team discovered by Cao's army.

But in fact, they were not a patrol team, but an Eagle Strike Army. For the general, it was Liu Zheng. He led two of the most elite Eagle Strike soldiers to disguise themselves as patrol teams and gradually approached Licheng.

Of course, the time when the Han army officially marched north was not now, but during the second march, the Han army had changed its strategy, from sharp north to step by step, and the vanguard general was also changed from Zhao Yun to veteran Huang Zhong, and the vanguard military advisor was still Pang Tong.

According to Pang Tong's plan, the Han army needed to first establish a transit supply city on Qishan Road, and build a supply city every 50 miles to store grain and grass supplies, and use wooden cattle to transport it, so that the food and grass problems in the northern expedition could be completely solved.

Fengyun Valley was the first supply city they built, while Licheng was the second supply city, Qishan Fort was the first, Xicheng was the fourth, and the most important one. Although the Han army launched a large-scale northern expedition next spring, Huang Zhong, as the pioneer, needed to first open up the road from Wudu to Qishan and build a supply city.

Fengyun Valley is building the first supply city, but it is just a means to confuse the enemy. Huang Zhong’s goal is to capture Licheng. He sent Liu Zheng as the vanguard to seize the city and cooperate with his actions.

In the woods, Liu paved a map on a flat rock. This was the inner city deployment map of Licheng. They captured several Cao army scouts and drew the map from their mouths.

Liu Zheng and his general Ren Ping discussed a plan to seize the city. "The original Licheng was built by the mountain. You can use fire to attack from the mountain, but now Cao's army has moved the entire city southward, and it is impossible to attack from the mountain. You can only use its own loopholes to attack the city."

Speaking of this, Liu Zheng frowned and said, "The key is that this is a military city. There are no ordinary people and no merchants in the city. It is impossible to get in, unless you dress up as Cao Jun, Lao Ren, how about you tell us that we dress up as their scouts?"

Ren Ping has only been joining the Eagle Strike Army for more than a year, but he has repeatedly launched a strange attack and was promoted to a tooth general, becoming Liu Zheng's right-hand man. He smiled and said, "I know very well about Licheng. There was originally a beacon tower south of Licheng, which was destroyed by me one by one. However, I did not destroy the beacon tower, but I just killed the defenders. As long as I send soldiers up, I can use it again. But I found that Xiahou Ba did not restore these beacon towers, which means that this person is far inferior to Yu Jin in defense. It can be said that he does not understand defense. Such a person will inevitably have loopholes in defending Licheng. In fact, the general does not need to dress up as a scout, and I have a way to enter the city."

Liu Zheng was overjoyed, "What's your solution?"

Ren Ping focused on the city on the map, "The way is behind the city"

As the main scout who attacked Licheng last time, Ren Ping knew the situation of Licheng well. The city defense loophole he mentioned was the overall southward movement of Licheng. It took less than two months to complete it, which is enough to show the hasty rebuilding of the city. Moreover, Licheng did not re-quarret, but completely utilized the original old city stone. In this way, it would inevitably be very chaotic when demolishing the old city stones.

This is true. After the city moved, a wide step was formed behind Licheng, a wilderness area of ​​several miles long. The surface was messy, with ditches and deep pits everywhere. The deepest pit was two feet deep. The soil became very soft and the city wall was rebuilt very roughly. It was just piled up with stones, and there was no mortar hook between the cracks.

Ren Ping's method was to dig a hole from the city and enter the city, but soon he became depressed. He had a good idea. The soft land and huge gullies could indeed be dug. However, he did not expect that some things were filled with rain and the gullies, and turned into ponds. The soil became sparse and even digging the holes could not support it.

"Old Ren, your solution is still not good."

In the forest, Liu Zheng patted Ren Ping on the shoulder and smiled and said, "But the trip to the next trip has inspired me. I already have a way to break the city."

"What method?" Ren Ping asked listlessly.

Liu Zheng pointed to the city wall and said, "Did you see the city wall? It was built in a hurry and was tilted. Such a city wall could not withstand the heavy blow of hitting the city hammer."

Ren Ping stared at him for a while, and nodded, "You are right, it is indeed very rough, especially the city wall in the northeast corner is not flat at all. I don't need any tools to climb up the city directly along the city wall, or we don't have to hit the city hammer, but go directly to the city."

Liu Zheng pondered for a moment and nodded slowly, "Maybe you are right, you can go directly to the city. We will send someone to report to General Huang immediately."
Chapter completed!