Since the trick method will not work, Zhu Yuanzhang can only continue to attack Fancheng even if he is unwilling.
Fortunately, after experiencing that battle, the Fancheng defenders had suffered heavy losses, so it was considered an unintentional intervention, which saved them a lot of trouble!
Within a few days, the rainy season began to come, and Yu Wenxian made another great contribution. He discovered the 500 men and horses secretly moving upstream in Xiangyang City, and annihilated them in time.
Zhu Yuanzhang never expected that he would send people to check upstream every three days. Logically speaking, there should no longer be a possibility of water attack.
Even if the Jin army blocked the upper reaches, even if it is rainy in the southern rainy season, they would not be able to accumulate enough rainwater without blocking it for several days. If the water attack strategy does not accumulate enough water, it remains to be determined how effective it will be in the end.
However, the Jin army actually wanted to do something from the water. Regardless of whether the other party had the possibility of realizing it, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that it was necessary for him to station a team of troops there just in case.
There is no need to have many people and horses, just a thousand people is enough! After all, even if the Jin army sends people forward again, the scale will be similar to this time, only a few hundred people at most. It is enough to send a thousand people to station upstream!
Therefore, Yu Wenxian, who had made great achievements repeatedly, took the initiative to ask for help. Besides, this incident was the first sign he discovered, so the rest should be left to him naturally. If it were handed over to other people, it would undoubtedly be suspected of naked sharing of credit.
And now Yu Wenxian is an example set by Zhu Yuanzhang! It is certainly impossible to leave such a tongue! Otherwise, with such negative effects, when other people want to seek refuge with Zhu Yuanzhang in the future, they will have to think twice.
Zhuge Liang, Zhang Liang, and Li Si, three people who have been famous throughout the ages, devised a plan together, and Zhuge Liang was still hiding in the dark. They had thought of almost all possibilities!
However, Yu Wenxian never expected that, as planned before, Zhu Yuanzhang would leave the job to Yu Wenxian this time.
However, at this time, even though Zhu Yuanzhang already trusted Yu Wenxian quite a lot, he still subconsciously wanted to send a "deputy" to Yu Wenxian to assist and protect him.
After all, Yu Wenxian was now his favorite general, and Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't bear to let Yu Wenxian work too much, not to mention that Yu Wenxian and the floating house were always watching in the dark. Looking at it this way, Zhu Yuanzhang should send a deputy to his beloved general!
After Zhuge Liang devised this plan, he finally knew that Pei Xingjian was a chess piece embedded deep in the Yangzhou army, so he regarded Pei Xingjian as his back-up man.
If Yu Wenxian fails to successfully seize this mission, Pei Xingjian will have to take action! However, Pei Xingjian, the most important chess piece, will inevitably be exposed by then. Even the identities of the others who had followed Pei Xingjian to the Yangzhou Army were no longer reliable and needed to be withdrawn in time.
Therefore, Pei Xingjian can only serve as Zhuge Liang's back-up. Unless it was really time to do nothing, Zhuge Liang was really unwilling to use such an important chess piece that he had finally placed beside Zhu Yuanzhang.
However, this matter has finally developed to the present moment! It was about an opportunity to completely defeat Zhu Yuanzhang's army, and it was about an opportunity to resolve the pressure of the battle in Northern Jing. Pei Xingjian had no choice but to hesitate at this time. He had to stand up at the critical moment and take the initiative to serve as Yu Wenxian's deputy.
Reality does not allow him the opportunity to hesitate. As long as he hesitates for a moment, once this candidate is decided, Zhuge Liang's plan will face failure! Then, not to mention that the situation in the Jingbei war situation cannot be alleviated, the sacrifices made in the previous war situation will be in vain!
Pei Xingjian is known as the last famous general under Yuan Shu. With Pang Juan, Xian Zhen, Kuang Zhang, Wang Mang, Jiang Xiaobai and others either dead, captured or gone, he alone with a weak force besieged the three princes, Cao Cao, Zhao Kuangyin and Zhu Yuanzhang. He persisted for several months for Yuan Shu.
Although Yuan Shu was inevitably destined to perish in the end, after this battle, it has been shown that Pei Xingjian is also an undoubted famous general. In addition, there were still many capable people who followed Pei Xingjian to Zhu Yuanzhang's side, such as Shituo, who was a god-level warrior.
Therefore, Pei Xingjian has always been valued by Zhu Yuanzhang. In the past few years, since he came under Zhu Yuanzhang, Pei Xingjian has never failed to compete for him. But after Zhu Yuanzhang explained everything, he was able to complete it perfectly.
Pei Xingjian and Yu Wenxian had never had any interaction. Therefore, when Pei Xingjian was willing to take the initiative to ask for help, Zhu Yuanzhang did not refuse in the end.
From this, the last link in Zhuge Liang's plan was finally completed!
Even though Pei Xingjian had no choice but to intervene in the end, the direct consequence was not only his own exposure, but also Li Chunyang, Shi Tuo and others who had to evacuate in time for safety after this battle.
However, it has to be said that the effect will be even better after Pei Xingjian participates!
When Pei Xingjian first took refuge with Zhu Yuanzhang, he not only brought those under Yuan Shu's command with him, but he also brought his remaining soldiers and horses with him!
Therefore, Pei Xingjian still has a soldier in his hands. Zhu Yuanzhang naturally would not allow his subordinates to have their own private soldiers, but it was impossible to kill them as soon as they came up. Although Pei Xingjian's troops have been dismissed by Zhu Yuanzhang using various reasons and means over the years, he still has hundreds of personal guards left.
If there was really only Yu Wenxian, although Zhuge Liang had secretly hidden hundreds of people in advance, it would still take some means to deal with these thousands of people quietly.
But if there were hundreds of Pei Xingjian's personal guards among these people, it would be much easier to solve the problem.
As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang finally fell into Zhuge Liang's plan!
First, Zhuge Liang did not completely block the upstream, so the water level downstream did not drop significantly.
Secondly, the rainy season has arrived at this time. Under the influence of heavy rain, no one will suspect that something happened upstream because of the water level!
From this, after enough water was accumulated upstream, Zhuge Liang finally completed his painstaking plan and sent the armies of Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Xiu, and Xu Shiji into the ocean!
