Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Mi Fang, Zang Ba and others were in the commander's tent. Zhou Ping led Zhuge Liang into the tent, while Zhang Wu stood outside the tent and went to the branch gate with Chen.

"Lord, Shucheng has a plan to defeat it."

Zhou Ping walked over and saluted Liu Bei.

Liu Bei was stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed. He quickly stood up and walked over, holding Zhou Ping's hands, and said with a smile: "Hahaha, I know you must have a good idea, tell me quickly."

"This is Zhuge Kongming's plan." Zhou Ping turned to Zhuge Liang and said, "Kongming, come and talk to the lord."

"Oh, is it Kong Ming's plan?"

Liu Bei couldn't believe that this boy who was only sixteen years old had a plan to break the city.

Zhuge Liang told Liu Bei his plan.

Liu Bei was deeply worried after hearing this: "With such a hasty attack, there will be many casualties. If the city cannot be taken out, morale will be lost. Sir, is there no other good strategy?"

Zhou Ping replied: "My lord, if you want to break Shu City urgently, this strategy is very suitable. Wu Jing and Sun Ben are not good at fighting and defending. Now that Sun Ce has captured two counties in Jiangdong, his military strength is very strong, and he has long been determined to break away from Yuan Shu and stand on his own. These two

We are Sun Ce's uncle and uncle, and they are not willing to defend Shu City for Yuan Shu. Our attack is becoming more urgent, and we have left the southern city free to persuade them to abandon the city and flee. As I expected, they will abandon the city. If Shu City is destroyed,

Then stay in your nest and be afraid. When our troops approach the city, Zhang Xun is afraid that he will not attack but flee."

"My lord, Su also agrees with this strategy. If we delay the attack and wait until Sun Ce captures Kuaiji, his power will be stronger. If he leads troops to help, it will be more difficult for us to attack Lujiang."

Lu Su cupped his hands and said.

Now all the generals in the army call Liu Bei their lord.

"Brother, the enemy soldiers dare not go out to fight, and I also think we should attack urgently." Zhang Fei continued.

Zang Ba, Cao Cheng Mifang and others also agreed to attack urgently.

Liu Bei looked at everyone and said happily: "Since all the generals are willing to attack urgently, then we will attack urgently from three sides and break the city quickly."

"Zhang Yide and Zang Xuangao, you two lead 10,000 people to attack the east side of the city. Lu Zijing, lead your troops to attack the west side of the city. Li Gongliang, you lead 5,000 people and stay on the south road to guard against reinforcements from the south.

, and intercepted the deserters from Shu City, and the rest followed me to attack the north of the city."

Liu Bei ordered loudly.

"promise."

The generals responded with arms raised.

Li Jia first led 5,000 soldiers to set off, and detoured to the south of Shu City twenty miles away to lie in wait.

In his opinion, it was impossible for Zhang Xun from Juchao to lead troops to help. Even if Yuan Shu ordered him to bring troops to help, it was impossible to bring all the 10,000 soldiers from Juchao.

If he only brought five thousand soldiers, he would simply be giving credit to Li Jia.

Therefore, the key thing Li Jia needs to guard against is that the enemy soldiers in Shucheng will flee southward after leaving the city. When the time comes, they can all be stopped and no one can be spared.

Zhang Fei and Zang Ba led 10,000 troops to camp in the east city, while Lu Su led more than 13,000 troops to camp in the west city. The soldiers and horses from three sides built siege ladders at the same time, preparing to attack by force.

"My lord, soldiers are cunning. There is a saying in the art of war. Show what you can't do when you can, and show when you don't use it. Now if we want to attack by force, we must make the enemy generals think that we don't want to attack by force, so as to make them unprepared."

Zhou Ping said to Liu Bei.

"It would be better if the city's defenders could be made unprepared, but how can we make them unprepared?" Liu Bei asked.

"Since we have built the ladder to climb the city together on three sides, we can go to the city gate and shout to the city, saying that we are going to attack by force. The defenders in the city will definitely not believe it and will relax their guard."

Liu Bei was surprised and said: "Speak directly? Then shouldn't the enemy generals need to be more on guard?"

Zhou Ping smiled and said: "Not necessarily. If we tell the enemy generals directly, they will think that we are bluffing and want to scare them away. They may think that we are bluffing and we are real, but they don't expect that we are real and real.

"

Liu Bei nodded and said, "Well, what you said makes sense, sir. If you tell them the truth, they won't believe it. Please go, sir."

Zhou Ping took Zhang Wu and rode to the city a hundred steps away.

Looking at the two generals on the city, he shouted: "Are these two generals Wu Jing and Sun Ben on the city?"

Wu Jing and Sun Bi stood on the city gate tower and looked at the two people outside the city. They saw only one person wearing silk clothes.

There was a wine gourd hanging on his waist, and one glance showed that he was not the leader of the army.

Another man was dressed in short clothes, carrying a long bow behind his back and a quiver on his waist. The horse he was riding was completely naked and was clearly a BMW.

According to what they heard, these two people were clearly Zhou Wen'an and his bodyguards.

"Exactly, are you Zhou Ping?" Wu Jing replied on the city.

"Sun Bofu is leading an army to attack Kuaiji. If the two generals don't go to help, why are they guarding the gate for Yuan Shu?"

Wu Jing didn't know how to answer for a while, but Sun Bi replied: "Bo Fu is so brave and Kuaiji can be defeated in just a day, so why should we go there? General Liu Xuande is not in Xuzhou, but he raised his troops here. Why?"

"Liu Zhengli, the shepherd of Yangzhou, was attacked by Yuan Shu. Of course my lord came here to revolt under the imperial edict. However, I heard that when the two generals were appointed governor of Danyang and captain of Danyang, they welcomed Liu Yangzhou to cross the river, but were captured by Liu Yangzhou again.

Therefore, my lord thought that the two generals had made great contributions to Liu Yangzhou in the past, and did not want to take their lives. We will attack this city by force in five days, but left the southern city empty and did not attack, in order to let the two generals leave.

I hope you will cherish the opportunity!”

After Zhou Ping finished speaking, he left.

"Hmph, what a threat. If they really wanted to attack the city, why would they come and tell us the date?"

Wu Jing didn't believe Zhou Ping's words.

"Having said that, we still have to be on guard. And looking at the stairs they created to climb the city, it seems they really want to attack the city. Let the soldiers step up their defenses in the past few days!"

Sun Ben was rather worried.

"Boyang, you are worrying too much. In my opinion, Zhou Ping must have thought that we, like the general Shouchun, would rebel out of fear. Liu Bei surrounded three people but only one was missing. He just wanted to force us away. He wanted to

If we abandon Shu City, he can seize the city without spending a single soldier. Hmm, he has a good idea."

"When you say that, I think they are bluffing," Sun Ben said.

"They were just bluffing, so we can rest easy." Wu Jing said with a smile.

Although Wu Jing and Sun Bi did not believe that Liu Bei would really attack, they still asked their soldiers to step up their defense.

So on the fifth day, they kept all the soldiers in the city awake to prevent the enemy from attacking the city.

But after waiting for a whole day, there were no signs of enemy troops attacking the city outside the city.

"Hahaha... I just said they were just bluffing and didn't dare to attack the city." Wu Jing laughed.

Sun Ben looked outside the city and found that the enemy soldiers outside the city no longer built ladders to climb the city. They seemed to be gathering in the camp and waiting for orders.

"Liu Bei may want to attack the city at night." Sun Ben expressed his judgment.

"Attack the city at night? How is that possible?" Wu Jing didn't believe it.

"Let all the soldiers go to the city to defend it tonight."

"That's fine." If you don't believe it, you still have to be careful.

After another night of guarding, there was still no movement outside the city. Until daybreak, no enemy soldiers outside the city came to attack the city.

Wu Jing completely didn't believe that Liu Bei would attack the city by force, and even Sun Bi didn't believe it either.

Two days later, not only did they not believe that Liu Bei would attack by force, but the soldiers in the city also didn't believe it. They had been waiting without sleep for the past few days, but could not find any enemy soldiers.

Now, except for the soldiers who took turns defending, the other soldiers were resting in the camp.

It was June 18th in the first year of Jian'an, which was the day Liu Bei and Zhou Ping agreed to attack the city.

Before dawn, each battalion was gathering troops and horses. As soon as the sun rose, they would attack the city with all their strength from three sides at the same time.

To the north, Liu Bei asked Xu Chu to lead the troops to charge into the city, and he personally supervised the battle from behind.

To the east, Yin Li led the troops to charge into the city, with Zhang Fei and Zang Ba supervising the battle from behind.

To the west, Lu Su personally supervised the battle, and Liu Bei told them not to attack too hard. After all, they were just a mob, as long as they could contain some of the enemy soldiers in the city.

Wu Jing and Sun Ben had just woken up when they heard soldiers rushing to report: "General, the enemy soldiers have begun to attack the city."

"How is it possible? From which side did they attack the city?"

"Except for the south, they attacked from three sides. They suddenly rushed to the bottom of the city and their attack was very fierce."

"Boyang, you go and defend the east side, and I'll defend the north side. We must defend the city."

Wu Jing came to the north wall.

The enemy soldiers outside the city were still filling in the trenches. Next to the trenches stood a row of shields that were taller than people. Behind the shields, in addition to the man holding the shield, there was also a crossbowman who was shooting at the city with a crossbow to cover the city.

Other soldiers filled in the trenches.

These crossbowmen stepped out of their shields and raised arrows to shoot at the city. After shooting the arrows, they immediately retracted behind their shields to load the arrows.

With the counterattack of these crossbowmen, the garrison on the city could not shoot at the people filling the trench at will, and dozens of people had been shot to death.

But the enemy soldiers filling the trenches outside the city were shot to death even more, and two to three hundred people had been shot down.

"Ziwei, put on your armor and go over there and shoot their commander."

Zhou Ping asked Zhang Wu to put on his armor, and several others walked to the trench with a large shield.

There were two people specifically looking for targets for him, mainly those who commanded the soldiers in battle.
To be continued...