Since Cao Jun was stationed in the camp, there has been no major movement, and it seems that he has no plans to send troops in a short time.
"Wow." The wooden pulp was submerged in the water and the water surface pushed a small boat slowly across the river. On the small boat sat a man in a coir raincoat with some fishing gear beside him. It seemed that he was passing by. fisherman.
It's just that I don't know any fisherman who would be so bold as to dare to fish nearby when the two armies were at war. In the distance is Cao Ying, the boat is not too close, the fisherman on the boat is looking at the head of Cao Ying from a distance by the river.
There were not even a few soldiers guarding the camp in Cao Ying, and they all looked like they were carelessly guarding, and their morale was low.
A Cao Jun soldier on his side seemed to see him.
The fisherman withdrew his gaze, picked up a fishing net beside him, and pretended to cast the net.
The soldier seemed not prepared to take care of him, and walked away under the camp wall.
Heaving a sigh of relief, the fisherman continued to look around Cao Ying.
After a while, he saw a group of soldiers coming out from the side of the camp, their mouths and noses were covered with cloth, and behind them was pulling a cart, which was covered with sackcloth, so it was impossible to see what was inside.
It wasn't until the soldiers came to an enclosed space that they stopped and lifted the sackcloth from the cart to reveal the contents of the cart. The fisherman's hands trembled, and he saw a pile of corpses and soldiers' armor on the cart.
The soldiers put the corpses and armor in the open space, and then burned them with a fire.
Black smoke from the burning rose from the river. The fisherman lowered his head, took back the fishing net he had just cast, and left the river to paddle far away.
"Is this what you saw?"
Sitting at the table was a man in his thirties, handsome in appearance, but not at all feminine, with sharp eyes under sharp horizontal eyebrows. Wearing a suit of iron armor and resting his chin on one hand, he listened with interest to the reports from the spies.
If Gu Nan was here, he would definitely recognize him. Although the two hadn't seen each other for many years, Zhou Yu really didn't change much this week.
The spy Zhou Yu reported to was the fisherman who was fishing in the river.
"Yes, my subordinates saw it with their own eyes."
"Yeah." Zhou Yu let go of his chin and waved his palm: "Go down."
"yes!"
The detective stepped back, and Zhou Yu sat silently, lowering his eyes, looking at the pen in his hand, probably thinking about what the detective just reported.
The morale of the army was low, and there was no intention to fight, and there were teams burning corpses and armor in the open space. In recent days, it was true that smoke could often be seen rising from the Cao camp on the other side of the river (in fact, it was cooking medicine).
It seems that the plague of Cao Jun is still there, and it is getting worse.
Most of Cao Cao's troops were not good at water warfare, and the Jingzhou navy under his command was not well equipped, making it difficult to deploy, and now this plague must be added.
"Crack." Zhou Yu pressed the pen in his hand on the table, and raised the corner of his mouth.
"This battle has a chance of winning."
But then there was a bit of doubt in his eyes, he was still unsure about one thing.
"Captain." Zhou Yu's thoughts were interrupted, and a soldier walked in first.
"Liu Bei's military adviser, Zhuge Liang, asks for an audience."
"Oh?" Hearing what the soldiers said, Zhou Yu's expression changed. He was also very interested in Liu Bei's military adviser. On the way back, he had already heard Zijing talk more than once about his verbal war against the Confucians.
It's just that he wasn't there at the time, otherwise he could still watch a good show.
Moreover, Zhuge Kongming had already gained a lot of fame among celebrities before he came out of the mountain.
Mr. Wolong...
Zhou Yu said to the soldier thoughtfully, "Please come in."
Zhuge Liang met Zhou Yu's eyes when he walked into the tent, and the two looked at each other.
"Zhuge Liang has met the governor." Zhuge Liang said first, and bowed while holding his feather fan with a smile.
"Mr. Kong Ming is too polite." Zhou Yu raised his hand with a smile, and said to a prepared table, "Please sit down."
"Thank you Dudu."
After Zhuge Liang was seated, Zhou Yu continued, "I heard about Zhuge Wolong a few days ago, and fortunately I finally got to meet him today."
"The governor was joking, a commoner is not worthy of the governor's concern."
Zhuge Liang shrugged off the duplication of names cast by Zhou Yu, stopped saying these polite words, and brought up the business instead.
"Liang came today because he wanted to ask the governor about something."
If you are not proud of your fame, this kind of bearing is far better than those celebrities who are doing nothing under the fame.
Zhou Yu nodded secretly, and his attitude towards Zhuge Liang improved a lot.
"Sir, please say it. I dare not say it when I ask for advice, but it is still possible to discuss it with my husband."
"Then Liang said it bluntly."
Zhuge Liang held the lupine and placed it in front of him.
"Now that Cao Cao's army is at his side, I don't know how the commander-in-chief sees the outcome of this battle."
Hearing that Zhuge Liang mentioned Cao Jun, Zhou Yu looked at him with slightly changed eyes, then smiled and said.
"Cao Jun raised an army of 200,000 to attack. Although Jiangdong is dangerous, it is not so easy to defend Cao Cao. However, we are not without a chance of winning."
As he spoke, Zhou Yu slowly raised his three fingers.
"First of all, among the 200,000 troops, more than 100,000 are cavalry troops. They came from the northern land with no water access, the water and soil are not acclimatized, and their combat power has been compromised.
Second, the Jingzhou navy was new to Cao Cao's tent, so it was difficult to dispatch, and there were many conflicts with the soldiers and horses of Cao Cao's headquarters. During the first battle a month ago, it could be seen that Cao Cao's dispatch of soldiers and horses was extremely inconvenient. "
Third, the plague is rampant in Cao's army and morale is low. I think we can take advantage of the situation. "
"Based on this, the odds of winning are about five or five." Zhou Yu looked at Zhuge Liang.
"Even so, Cao Cao still has 200,000 troops in his hands, and it is still not easy to defeat Cao's army."
"And I have an old friend who is still in Cao Ying. His vision and strategy are probably better than mine. If he fights with him, it is hard for me to know the outcome."
Although an army of 200,000 was by his side, Zhou Yu kept talking and laughing from the beginning to the end.
When he mentioned this old man, there was some embarrassment and helplessness in his eyes.
Zhuge Liang looked at Zhou Yu, paused, and nodded.
"I also have an old friend who worked in Cao Ying, but at this time, it is not what it used to be."
Zhou Yu was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and sighed, indeed, this time is not what it used to be.
He looked at Zhuge Liang again, and asked, "Mr. Kong Ming, I've finished my odds, why don't you tell me what Mr. Kong Ming's odds are?"
In fact, Zhou Yu already had his own answer in mind, and what he asked was just testing Zhuge Liang's thoughts.
Zhuge Liang understood this and was not dissatisfied. He held his feather fan lightly and said.
"Using troops since ancient times, using less to win more, is nothing more than a method of cutting off food and attacking the heart, using water, fire, earth and rocks. But the odds of winning this battle..."
He paused for a moment, looked at Zhou Yu, and said.
"When attacking with fire."
The two who looked at each other smiled lightly.
What they thought coincided with each other.
But Zhou Yu continued to ask: "Mr. Kong Ming, Cao Cao's camp is more than ten miles along the river, how can we burn it down?"
This is also his doubt, and he has not thought of a countermeasure yet.
Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan in his hand, stood up and walked to the gate of the camp, opened the curtain and looked at the river in the distance outside.
"Does the governor know that water is on fire?"
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Wulin, where Cao Cao's camp is located, is on the west side of Chibi, and the river bank there is a notch, and the river at the front flows inward. As long as you can get close to the front of Cao Ying and ignite that piece of river water, the fire will spread to the entire Cao Jun's camp. As for how to ignite the river water. Water is naturally impossible to ignite, but what if it is kerosene
When Zhuge Liang left, Zhou Yu sat alone in the tent, squinting his eyes.
"Water on fire."
It is indeed a strange strategy, but to implement this strategy, someone must lead the boat deep into Cao Ying, and then it needs to feign surrender.
Plague was rampant in Cao Ying. If someone surrendered to him from Jiangdong at this time, he would be overjoyed.
In the middle of the night, Zhou Yu's tent was still lit.
Instead of falling asleep, he wrote a letter on the desk case.
This is part of the letter.
"Brother, it's been a long time, but you also came to Jiangdong? With the current situation, you can't come if you want to invite you to drink. Heh, the scenery of Jiangdong is the same as before, but it's a pity that people can't be the same.
But speaking of it, when you said that your aspirations were not among the princes, I didn't understand where your aspirations were. You just pointed to the box behind you and said, it was inside. Brother is stupid, so far I still can't guess where your ambition is. If there is a chance, I really hope you can answer for my brother.
After Xiandi left, although I was in Jiangdong, I had heard many things about Xiandi. Helping Cao Cao enter Qingzhou, march north, and pacify the Central Plains in one fell swoop, I think these are all handwritten by my virtuous brother. Just a joke, if there is no good brother, where did Cao Cao come from? If you come to Jiangdong, why is Jiangdong afraid of Cao Cao
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After writing the last word and putting down the pen in his hand, Zhou Yu looked at the letter in front of him and sighed softly.
"It's ridiculous that this was supposed to be a letter to an old friend."
The letter in front of me is not a letter to an old friend, but a part of a strategy.
He believed that his old friend would be suspicious of the false surrender, lest the trick be exposed, so he wrote this letter.
He doesn't need this letter to have any big effect, Cao Cao is suspicious by nature, he just needs to let Cao Cao have some reservations about the person who received this letter.
In this way, at least in this battle, Cao Cao would not necessarily listen to what that person said.
He hadn't written to that person for a long time, and he didn't expect that it would be like this when he wrote again.
While sealing the letter, Zhou Yu's hand suddenly stopped.
After thinking for a while, he opened the letter again, but this time he took the pen seriously and added a sentence at the end of the letter.
"I heard that the plague is prevalent in Cao Ying recently, and the disease is difficult to cure. I hope my brother will pay more attention."
After finishing writing, he silently sealed the letter.
On the second day, a letter was "secretly" sent to Gu Nan, but Gu Nan told Cao Cao about it that day.
"Hahaha." Cao Cao had read this letter, which was called a gift to a friend, but was actually a letter to persuade him to surrender.
Touching his beard, shaking his head and laughing, everything was as expected, after knowing Cao Ying's "epidemics are everywhere", the people in Jiangdong really wanted to do something.
"It seems that someone can't sit still."