Early the next morning.
Zhang Liao led a thousand soldiers to the east. After walking along the Bian River for more than ten miles, he finally found a narrow place in the river bed.
Now that the Bianshui River has completely thawed, the cool morning breeze blows along the water, making Zhang Liao feel refreshed.
"stop!"
Zhang Liao waved and shouted, and the team behind him stopped.
"Get some good water-based ones."
After the order was given, several soldiers quickly walked out and hugged Zhang Liao.
"General, the villain is pretty good at water."
Zhang Liao nodded, "Go into the water immediately and find out how deep the water is."
"only!"
The soldiers immediately began to take off their clothes, and soon jumped into the water with a splash. After making a splash, they dived as hard as they could.
Zhang Liao waited patiently on the shore. After a while, a soldier came up and shouted: "General, the water is about three feet deep."
Hearing this, Zhang Liao's eyes lit up with joy.
"Okay, mark this place!"
After leaving dozens of people behind, Zhang Liao continued to lead his army forward. In this way, before noon, he finally found three areas with narrow river beds and shallow water.
Once the Yellow River is completely open, it is unrealistic to stop it with just one dam, and the water volume is not enough to drown Niu Fu's army. So Zhang Liao planned to build three embankments, and finally dig them out one after another, creating a huge wave of water.
Fortunately, the places he chose were not far apart, so they were very suitable.
After finding a suitable place, Zhang Liao quickly sent a message to the camp and mobilized five thousand troops to serve as the engineering team and began to work overtime to build the dam.
On the other side, downstream of Bian River, Zhang Heng and Liu Bei stood with hands folded on the south bank, looking at Niu Fu's camp in the distance.
"Ziyi, how are you?"
After watching it for a long time, Liu Bei couldn't help but ask.
Anyway, he didn't have any clue.
"Not at all." Zhang Heng sighed, shook his head at the same time, and continued to look with his brows furrowed.
Liu Bei:? ? ?
Liu Bei was used to Zhang Heng being the Riddler.
In the past, he could only wait blankly for Zhang Heng's answer, but this time it was different, because Taishi Ci was right next to him, and Liu Bei quickly turned his attention to his newly promoted personal bodyguard.
“Mr.
Liu Bei waved his hand and said, "Zi Yi just said it, it doesn't matter if I'm wrong, how can I still say that I'm guilty of a crime?"
"The general thinks that the chief is worried that the enemy's three forts are too far apart."
"There is something strange about this. This arrangement is to prevent us from making a surprise attack. If I were an enemy general, I would also arrange it like this." Liu Bei said nonchalantly.
"Xuan De Gong, here is the crux of the problem. The enemy's three forts are far apart. If the water attack is always successful, it can only flood one or two forts, but it is impossible to annihilate the enemy's entire army."
Liu Bei then slapped his head and suddenly realized: "Yes, why didn't I think of it? If we can't wipe out the entire enemy army at once, the water attack strategy will be greatly compromised!"
The most critical aspect of the water attack strategy is not actually the water, but the surprise attack that accompanies the water attack.
It doesn't matter how many people can be drowned by floods on the plains.
Just imagine, if Liu Bei launches an attack when Niu Fu's two forts are submerged in water, Niu Fu still has available troops, so there is no big problem in forming a defensive formation. Once the flood recedes, it won't have much impact on Niu Fu.
But if the three fortresses are soaked in water, the effect will be different. Liu Bei can attack Niu Fu and wipe out his entire army.
This is not addition or subtraction. As long as a fortress is outside the water attack range, all previous efforts will be wasted.
Liu Bei was distressed when he saw Zhang Heng, who was staring at the camp opposite, finally came to his senses.
"Xuan Degong, it will take three or four days for Wen Yuan to build the dam here. Let's attack tomorrow!" Zhang Heng sneered, "Since the enemy has three camps, let's force him to form one!"
"How to force?" Liu Bei asked puzzled.
"Bypass the first two camps and go straight to the Niu Fu Chinese Army Camp!" Zhang Heng said decisively.
"However, the first two camps are at odds with Niu Fu's central army. Once our army attacks Niu Fu's central army, Li Meng and Zhang Ji will inevitably come to rescue us, and our army may be in danger of being attacked from two sides."
Zhang Heng shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter, the enemy is coming, let's just evacuate. I heard about Niu Fu when I was in Luoyang. He seems to be a stable person, but in fact he is greedy for life and afraid of death. Once his life is threatened, he will definitely panic. If we are at a loss, it will give us an opportunity to take advantage of."
"Okay, let's act according to Ziyi's words." Liu Bei nodded heavily, confirming Zhang Heng's idea.
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The next day, early morning.
Zhang Fei led his army to the enemy's camp and started a new round of scolding.
In order to confuse Niu Fu, provocations have become commonplace in the past few days, occurring several times a day. Today it is Zhang Fei, tomorrow it may be Cao Ren, the day after tomorrow it will be Cao Hong, and so on.
So much so that later on, Sergeant Niu Fu couldn't sleep at night unless he heard yelling and cursing several times a day.
But Ushifu remained as steady as an old dog, showing no signs of preparing to fight.
Zhang Fei rode his horse to the front of the stronghold, looked at the antlers and horse-rejecting stakes not far away, showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth, and immediately ordered the soldiers to start provoking.
The soldiers under his command were already familiar with this, and several loud soldiers quickly stood up and started yelling at the camp.
As for the content, some are vulgar, some are disgusting, and some are obscene, but none of them are polite, and the main one is offensive.
The soldiers in Niu Fu's camp watched with a kind of entertainment mentality.
They didn't dare to call anyway, so there was nothing to worry about.
But this time it seemed different from the past. The soldiers were scolding in front, but Zhang Fei secretly organized his troops behind. After the soldiers in front finished cursing for a round, Zhang Fei suddenly got on his horse and led his soldiers to fight.
This time the enemy soldiers were completely dumbfounded.
It was just a matter of words, why did he come to kill me?
"Quick, hurry up, the bandit army is coming to kill you!"
The military commander who was responsible for guarding the gate of the camp shouted, his intestines turning green with regret.
But after all, they were a step too late. Faced with Zhang Fei's unexpected attack, the Niu Fujun soldiers had no time to prepare and were killed directly by Zhang Fei.
Li Meng was sitting quietly in the tent when he suddenly heard a noise outside and couldn't help but frowned. Just when he was about to send someone to check, a soldier stumbled in.
"General, the enemy is coming!"
"What?"
Li Meng was shocked and hurriedly went out to check.
At this time, Zhang Fei had already reached the entrance of the camp, but the antlers and horse-repelling stakes arranged by Li Meng had their effect after all, making it difficult for Zhang Fei to break into the camp for a while.
"Fight in, whoever enters the camp first will lose millions of dollars and be promoted to the third level!"
Zhang Fei was furious and offered a heavy reward to boost the morale of his men.
But at this time, the enemy also reacted and gradually organized an effective defense.
After Li Meng wore armor, he personally went to sit down not far from the camp gate and personally directed the battle.
Suddenly, it became more difficult for Zhang Fei to break into the camp.
On the other side, the same scene was playing out in front of Zhang Ji's camp, but the person in charge of the raid here was Cao Ren.
In the last battle, Cao Ren performed well and held back Li Meng's 5,000 army with 3,000 men. Liu Bei admired him so much that he specifically named him to attack the camp with Zhang Fei.
Seeing that it was impossible to break into the enemy camp, Cao Ren simply stopped charging and ordered his soldiers to waste time with Zhang Ji. Anyway, his mission had been completed.
The real killing move is actually on the third line, the army led by Guan Yu.
In front of Niu Fu's camp, Guan Yu didn't even let his soldiers yell and cursed. He directly opened the attack array and launched a charge towards Niu Fu's camp.
Facing Guan Yu's army that was moving from the ground, Niu Fu got the news immediately and rushed to the gate of the camp. When he saw the number of Guan Yu's army, he couldn't help but feel worried.
Because Guan Yu had seven thousand men under his command!
Liu Bei mobilized his entire army this time. Zhang Liao led 5,000 men to build a dam, while Zhang Fei and Cao Ren each led 3,000 men to feint attack. In addition to Liu Bei's 1,000 soldiers, the remaining 7,000 men were all with Guan Yu. Here it is.
On the other hand, although Niu Fu had nearly ten thousand people under his command, he still couldn't feel at ease.
Prudent people have a common problem, that is, they don't trust anyone.
Niu Fu had seen the fighting power of Guan Yu's soldiers. If he really allowed him to break through the camp, he would definitely be in a hard fight.
"Come here, please notify Li Meng and Zhang Ji quickly and order them to send troops to help quickly and surround this bandit army again!"
Niu Fu quickly ordered without thinking.
