In this way, Liu Jun stayed in the barracks for five whole days.

In the past five days, his mother Cai Shi sent people to pick Liu Jun back to the city three times, and Liu Jun blocked him on the grounds of busy military affairs.

It was not until Liu Jun felt that the training of the entire barracks met his requirements and satisfied him, that he gave instructions to Deng Ai and Li Hu, and then returned to the city.

However, as soon as he returned to the county mansion on the front foot, Deng Ai sent soldiers on the back foot to send news, and the scout got the information, Shen Yan and Shen Yi already knew the news that Fangling City was occupied by Liu Qi, and the two mobilized 5,000 soldiers and horses from Shangyong and Xicheng to prepare to retake Fangling, so Liu Qiao immediately summoned Deng Ai and Ma Tao to discuss countermeasures.

"Shouyi, Shizai, Shen Yan Shenyi is preparing to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to attack Fangling, what are the countermeasures for the two?" asked Ma Tao and Deng Ai.

"Lord, the walls of Fangling City are built at the level of a county city, tall and strong, as long as we hold the city to the death, in a short period of time, Shen Yan and Shen Yi cannot be broken. Ma Tao is still full of confidence in guarding the tomb.

Fangling used to be a county, but due to its small population, it was later changed to a county and classified as Shangyong.

"Lord, it is indeed not easy for five thousand soldiers and horses to break the city, but if Shen Yan and Shen Yi besiege but do not attack, they will use the resources of two cities to fight us one city, so that the grain and grass will always run out, and more importantly, we still have Cao Cao of Xiangyang behind us, so it is not the best policy to hold on to it." Deng Ai raised no opinion.

"What Shi Zai said is reasonable, we must come up with a way to break the enemy!" Liu Jun also did not recommend sticking to the death, because if you keep it for a long time, you will lose.

"Shouyi, do you know how many soldiers and horses are there in total between Shangyong and Xicheng?" asked Ma Tao.

"There are three thousand soldiers and horses in each city, and there are six thousand in all.

"Six thousand, Shen Yan and Shen Yi led five thousand soldiers and horses to attack Fangling, that is to say, Shangyong and Xicheng each have five hundred soldiers left!" Listening to Ma Tao's words, Liu Jun's eyes suddenly lit up.

"The lord means to surprise Shangyong and Xicheng?" Deng Ai immediately guessed Liu Chen's thoughts.

"Exactly!" Liu Jun smiled, "Since Shen Yan Shenyi wants to give Shangyong and Xicheng away, how can we not be unreasonable!"

"Lord, we only have three thousand soldiers in total, if we divide the army again, won't Fangling City be empty?

Liu Jun and Deng Ai both frowned.

I have to say that Liu Jun's idea is beautiful, but if he really wants to implement it, he has to take a big risk.

Although Shangyong and Xicheng only have 500 soldiers, how many soldiers and horses can they divide to attack! And Fang Lingcheng can hold it in the face of the siege of 5,000 troops?

Even if he had five thousand soldiers and horses, he would not hesitate to implement this plan. No wonder in previous history, Cao Cao would say that Liu Jingsheng's son was like Inu'er, and Jingzhou with 100,000 armor, and he actually surrendered without

a fight! "No matter how risky you are, you have to gamble!" After a while, Liu Cao made up his mind, he only had this little capital, if he was surrounded, he would be too passive, and he must let go and fight!

"Shizai, a thousand soldiers and horses, can you guard the Fangling Tomb for a few days?"

"If the other party goes all out to attack the city, within five days, I can guarantee that Fang Ling will not lose!" said Deng Ai very firmly.

"Five days, that's enough!" Liu Ai nodded in satisfaction, because he knew that Deng Ai was by no means talking nonsense, "Li Hu and I led the Feiyu Camp and the Feitian Battalion to attack Shangyong and Xicheng, Deng Aimatao, with Deng Ai as the main commander, led the Flying Tiger Battalion to guard the Fangling Tomb!"

The Feitian Battalion and the Feiyu Battalion, a total of 3,000 troops, marched into Fangling City and deployed defenses at the two city gates in the north and south.

The people also knew that Shen Yan and Shen Yi were going to lead an army to attack Fangling, but after they saw these mighty soldiers under Liu Jun, they did not worry at all.

Liu Wei let all 3,000 troops enter the city, so that the people could see the army defending the city, so as to stabilize the people's hearts, and then use the night to quietly take the Feitian Camp and the Feiyu Camp out of the city.

Deng Ai and Ma Tao began to deploy nervously, and the two city towers were full of banners, and the equipment for defending the city was also piled up at the head of the city, including arrows, knives and guns, shields, rolling wood and thunder stones.

There were also several cauldrons on top of the city towers, there was no fire oil here, the people lived in poverty, and it was impossible to use other cooking oil, but they prepared buckets of dung, and when the enemy attacked the city, they boiled these things and dumped them, its lethality was very large, as long as it was contaminated, the skin would immediately fester, suppuration, commonly known as gold juice, was necessary to defend the city.

Under Ma Tao's persuasion, the enthusiasm of the people was high, and they heard that wooden boards were needed to defend the city, and some people simply removed the door panels, and some people also sacrificed the coffin board, and almost wrapped the entire city head with wooden boards, which could completely block the arrows fired from under the city.

And just when the city was in full swing, Liu Jun and Li Hu took advantage of the night to lead 2,000 soldiers and quietly out of the city.

The news of the scout was that Shen Yan and Shen Yi had just left Shangyong City at this time, from Shangyong to Fangling, there was more than a hundred li, and there was only one road, if Liu Jun's army drove directly to Shangyong at this time, then on the halfway would definitely encounter Shen Yan and Shen Yi's army, so Liu Wei hid 20,000 soldiers in a valley in the middle of Jingshan.

The next day, they waited for a whole day, and did not see the shadow of Shen Yan Shenyi's army, it seemed that the speed of their march was not fast.

In the mountains and forests in late autumn, the climate is humid and there are many mosquitoes, but the two thousand soldiers of the Feiyu Camp and the Feitian Camp did not complain, because their commander Liu Jun has always set an example, where the soldiers are hiding, he is there, what the soldiers eat, he will eat, and he also taught the soldiers many ways to prevent mosquito bites, so that the soldiers knew several herbs that can relieve pain and discomfort.

This made the soldiers' gratitude to Liu Jun turn into worship, and their loyalty was almost at its peak.

Finally, at noon on the third day, Shen Yan Shenyi's 5,000-strong army passed through the official road under the mountain and drove to Fangling City.

After arriving outside the city, he set up camp, and it was clear that he was not ready to attack the city immediately, but to rest for the night.

Liu Jun suddenly had a new idea, if he led his army to rob the camp at night, so as to wait for labor, and when Shen Yan Shenyi's military camp was in chaos, Deng Ai would lead his army out of the city again, wouldn't Shangyong be able to decide a battle?

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