Chapter 368

When Cao Jun came, Liu Xiu gave the order to attack.

Wei Yan served as the chief General of the vanguard army and led 1000 soldiers to meet him.

These 1000 soldiers are all elite.

On the other hand, Cao Cao's soldiers, though fearless of death and murderous, had been tossed on the boat for a while. After getting off the boat, because of the flood of the river, both sides of the river were swamped by the river. Walking with one foot shallow and one foot deep, I had to face the bow and arrow shooting. I was exhausted.

Wei YANTI killed the past with his sword, fought close to him, and quickly suppressed Cao's soldiers.

However, Cao's soldiers are still crossing the river.

Whenever Wei Yan was about to suppress the other side, Cao's soldiers supported him to make up for the previous losses. As a result, the two sides have been maintaining a stalemate, unable to completely wipe out the Cao soldiers.

The battle lasted from morning to noon, and then from noon to evening.

Finally, the crossing failed, and Cao Cao failed to break through Liu Xiu's line of defense.

Xun you stood beside Cao Cao and said, "prime minister, we are fighting all day today. We have sent 5000 soldiers to fight, almost all of them lost."

Cao Cao had a sharp look in his eyes and said, "although he lost, only a thousand people died in the war. More and more people have lost their fighting power because they have been blocked by stones in the river

"You see, in the end, Liu Xiu's catapult stopped attacking and no longer used it to suppress ships."

"This means that Liu Xiu has used up all the stones he has prepared."

"The opportunity has already appeared. Now it can't give Liu Xiusi a chance to breathe. Once he orders the soldiers to dig the stone again, it will cause great difficulties to the situation behind."

Cao Cao said, "besides, there are still our soldiers on the other side of the river. Once they give up crossing the river, the soldiers who survive fighting after crossing the river will be helpless, and it will be difficult for them to survive. So we can't stop, we can only continue to cross the river. Order, light up the whole river and continue to cross it. "

Xun you said, "yes, I'll give an order immediately."

With Cao Cao's command, Cao's army continued to cross the river to the south bank.

This action shocked Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu didn't expect that Cao Cao was so brave that he didn't rest at night and wanted to cross the river directly. In this way, Liu Xiu's soldiers could not rest and could only continue to resist.

Especially at the end of the day, the stones used by the catapult have run out, and only use bows and arrows to suppress each other.

The battle continued. Beside Liu Xiushen, Pang Tong had a dignified face.

Pang Tong said: "Lord, Cao Cao crossed the river overnight. Under such circumstances, it will be sooner or later that he was captured. I think we can consider withdrawing. "

Liu Xiu nodded, looked at the South Ferry which was still fighting, and said: "according to the original plan, we should take the step-by-step method to stop, so as to continuously consume Cao Cao's troops. Resisting on the South Bank of the river has consumed part of Cao Cao's soldiers. "

"So, this goal has been achieved."

"Down the ferry, you can give up."

Liu Xiuse said: "although it's good to keep blocking, Cao Cao has 200000 troops, which is not so easy to consume. In particular, Cao Cao did not divide his forces. Without division, many of his intrigues were difficult to achieve results. But we can't resist Cao's direct attack. "

Pang Tong said: "Lord, it seems that we have to make a new plan."

"Oh, what do you think?"

Liu Xiu's eyes showed a touch of expectation.

The battle against Cao Cao is a battle related to the fate of Jingzhou. We can only win but not lose.

Once lost, Liu Xiu completely fell into the dust.

Once won, Jingzhou will really rise, in a short time do not have to worry about Cao Jun.

Pang Tong was silent for a moment and said, "the attack of Cao Jun is still going on. If we want to stay at the lower ferry, our losses will increase. So, early tomorrow morning, we will begin to retreat to avoid the edge of the Cao army. Fighting with Cao Jun is totally out of line with the current situation. After retreating, we'll stop along the way. We should give priority to guerrilla and harassing, and constantly kill Cao's troops. "

"Cao Cao likes to fight day and night, and we will treat him in his own way."

"It's an interesting thing to believe."

Pang Tong had a smile in his eyes. If he could describe a big war as interesting, he was alone.

Liu Xiu deduced Pang Tong's plan and said, "Shiyuan, let's go back to the camp and discuss it."

Liu Xiu thinks Pang Tong's plan is not mature enough.

Liu Xiu put the war in Zhang Ren's charge, Zhang Ren is good at defense, Liu Xiu is at ease with him. Liu Xiu and Pang Tong returned to the camp and took out the map of Nanyang County.

Liu Xiu pointed to the map and said, "according to your plan, Chaoyang County must have a way to retreat. Even after resisting in Chaoyang County, they would give up Chaoyang County and eventually retreat to Deng county. But no matter how to retreat, no matter how to intercept, there must be a decisive battle site. Where are you going to fight? ""Deng County!"

Pang Tong didn't even think about it, and his hand fell on Deng county.

Liu Xiu asked, "why?"

Pang Tong said: "it's just the so-called one drum work, and then decline, three and exhausted. Cao Cao went south from Xinye, and his army was strong. He stopped at xiadukou and consumed part of his strength. In Chaoyang County, another part will be consumed. Along the way, you can also harass and attack. Finally, we'll have a decisive battle. "

Liu Xiu thought for a while and pondered: "blocking along the way has the advantages of blocking along the way. The biggest problem is that Cao Cao is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Pang Tong agreed with Liu Xiu's analysis and nodded: "my Lord has a point, so just as he said, we will fight a decisive battle in Deng county and defeat Cao Cao at one stroke."

Liu xiudao: "I agree with Deng County as the place of decisive battle. But to fight a decisive battle, we can't fight head-on. Even if our forces have drained the strength of the major armies, we don't have as many troops as Cao Cao. So we have to devise a scheme, otherwise it will be difficult to win this battle. "

Pang Tong began to laugh. He felt more confident and asked, "what's your plan?"

Liu xiudao: "on the basis of your plan, add another one."

Pang Tong said, "please make it public."

Liu Xiu replied: "Shi Yuan, we do this when we retreat And then And then Although Cao Cao is cunning. But we set up a plan, one by one, and there is a plan in the plan, so that Cao Cao can't guess the final killing move. Let him keep in the dark, and he will win at one stroke in the end. "

After listening to Liu Xiu's plan, Pang Tong was also thinking carefully.

Many factors need to be considered in the implementation of the plan.

In particular, it is not easy to complete Liu Xiu's plan, which is quite a difficult one. After all, Cao Cao and his advisers are not easy to cheat.

After listening to this, Pang Tong said, "Lord, it's near the plum rain season. If your plan, once met the plum rain season, it will be more perfect, more able to cover people's eyes and ears

Liu xiudao: "it's not easy to meet Meiyu. It depends on the mood of the Lord. But what we can do is to delay as much as possible. If we meet the best, it will be easier to operate. If there is no Meiyu season, it will not have much impact. "

Pang Tong said: "Lord, now that we have made a plan, I think we can withdraw our troops, and it's the most appropriate to take action overnight. After all, Cao Cao is still making soldiers cross the river, and we don't have time to rest. "

Liu Xiu ordered: "come, please Zhang Ren, Wei Yan, Huang Hu, and Sha Moke come to the camp for discussion."

The soldiers went down to give orders. Not long after, the people had already come to the camp.

Among them, Wei Yan was full of blood donors.

Up to now, Wei Yan is still leading his troops to block Cao's soldiers crossing the river. He led the army to fight today. It's been a day. However, still insist.

The rest of them have not yet joined the war.

Liu Xiu glanced at the people under his command and replied, "just now, my military adviser and I have agreed on the next strategy. Next, let's do this. General Zhang, you are in charge of the army; Hu Zi, you are Shamoko, you lead the army Wen Chang, your task is the most important, you first And then... "

Liu Xiu arranged the whole plan, and then said, "now, are you clear?"

"Clear!"

When they heard the words, they all agreed.

One by one, after listening to the plan, they were all in high spirits.

Liu Xiu waved his hand and said, "General Zhang, you can go down and make arrangements. Let's move tonight."

"No!"

Zhang Ren was ordered to go down immediately to deploy troops.

As Zhang Ren's order went on, all the rest soldiers got up and began to retreat overnight. However, although the army retreated, some soldiers were still left to fight with the Cao army who crossed the river and resist the Cao army who crossed the river.