Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

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Pan Zhang was dejected, "This Lai Gong is very good at predicting things. He sees the general's plan clearly. He can't do a frontal attack or a surprise attack at night. What should we do?"

The water battle and the land battle were defeated. Although the soldiers lost little, their morale was extremely low.

Lu Meng thought for a while, and then commanded Pan Zhang: "Wen Gui comforted the returning cavalry well, and don't announce what happened last night for now, so as not to affect the morale of our army."

"Wei." Pan Zhang responded with cupped fists.

The sun rises normally in the morning, and the smoke from the kitchen in Jiangdong Daying rises as usual.

The breakfast was brought to the main table, but the chief general Lu Meng didn't have any appetite, he didn't call all the generals to discuss the military situation, and he didn't assign any combat tasks, he just arranged for the battalions to train on the spot.

Lu Meng was alone thinking hard about how to defeat the enemy, and he didn't allow anyone to come near the big tent.

The current situation is quite embarrassing, the attack on land and water is not smooth, the key is that the loss of troops is not much, but it makes it impossible to advance and retreat.

What does Lai Gong want to do?

Just as Lu Meng was scratching his head, suddenly a gust of wind blew outside the big tent, and someone opened the curtain and broke in.

"Who is so bold..." Lu Meng turned angrily, only to find that it was Cangwu prefect Lu Fan.

"What's wrong with Ziming?" Lu Fan looked at him suspiciously, thinking that you still don't want to see me?

Lu Meng smiled awkwardly, "Who am I? Why are you here, Ziheng?"

Lu Fan pointed to the gruel on the table and asked in puzzlement: "Zi Ming didn't bring much food and grass when he left. I came overnight to transport food for the army. All the food and grass in Cangwu counties have been collected, and it is estimated that it can be used for half a month." Degree, you are..."

Lu Meng rubbed his forehead, "I have no appetite..."

Chapter 217

no appetite?Lu Fan frowned instantly after hearing this, it is rare to see Lu Meng in such a state.

"Ziqi and I first took charge of Cangwu and Nanhai. Now that the people's hearts are unstable, it's not appropriate to exploit too much. Although Ziming is not hungry, he can't waste food..." Lu Fan persuaded tactfully.

Lu Meng smiled wryly and sighed: "Hey...it's not because the attack was blocked..."

Lu Meng then gave a detailed account of the two-day battle. After hearing this, Lu Fan said incredulously, "There is such a strange person hidden in Lingnan? I guess General Ma Zhong is afraid that the danger will be more or less..."

"Why am I not? It's just that I don't even dare to talk about the cavalry raid last night. I'm afraid that the morale of the battalions will be even lower after learning of the defeat..." Lu Meng shook his head and said.

Lu Fan held his breath and thought for a while, then whispered a few words in Lu Meng's ear.

"Is this okay?" Lu Meng opened his eyes wide.

"A dead horse is a living horse doctor." Lu Fan nodded.

"But how do we defeat the enemy? This Lai Gong is really a rascal, he just guards the dangerous place and stays motionless, plus the beacon tower on the other side is observing the intelligence, my [-] troops really can't do anything against him..." Lu Meng was very distressed.

"For the current plan, we can only ask the lord to increase his troops...but the governor and the others intend to go to Hefei... Ziming has no choice but to find other ways to win glory..." Lu Fan analyzed.

Lu Meng tentatively asked: "Would you like to send someone to Longbian to meet Shi Xie and let him attack Lai Gong behind him?"

"I can only give it a try. Shi Xie is old and has no vigor, so he may not agree to send troops. Even if reinforcements cannot be invited, it is better to ask for some food and rice to fight a protracted war.

Cangwu County has already run out of food, and I guess the situation in Nanhai County is similar, and Lai Gong's depletion of military food is also a plot..." Lu Fan continued.

"But the time my lord has given me is running out..." Lu Meng said worriedly.

"The battlefield is changing rapidly. How can the siege of the city be limited to a specific time? If Ziming can take Yulin without losing troops, even if he spends more food and grass, it will be a great achievement. The weather in Jiaozhou is so dry this year, and the entire Yulin County will definitely reduce production. Lai Gong How can we waste the power of a county? I will explain it for you in front of the lord." Lu Fan continued.

"This is also a solution, so thank you Ziheng." Lu Meng clasped his fists in thanks.

Lu Fan sighed, "Zi Ming hurried to stabilize the morale of the army. I plan to go to the South China Sea to meet Zi Qi. I don't know how his food preparations are going. Let me leave."

"Walk slowly."

Lu Meng personally sent Lu Fan out of the camp, saying to himself that this Lu Fan is exquisite in everything, no wonder he is so favored in front of the lord.

Although it is a stupid way to consume troops and rations with Lai Gong, there is a way to be a light in the dark when you are bored.

Lu Meng immediately raised his account and called all the generals to discuss. He looked at the crowd and said solemnly: "Last night Lai Gong sent people to sneak attack, and General Ma Zhong led the cavalry to defeat the opponent. Now I let him harass the opponent's grain road. We will wait until the opponent's grain and grass are gone. To launch an attack, the soldiers of each battalion must not slacken their training on the spot during this period."

When all the generals under the tent learned that Ma Zhong had defeated his opponent, they were all overwhelmed with excitement after the two-day defeat.

Lu Meng sent Ma Zhong's cavalry deep into the enemy's back to cut off the grain. This is also a normal strategy of using troops, so no one believed it. These two short sentences boosted morale.

Pan Zhang looked at Lu Meng with a look of surprise. The cavalry brought by Ma Zhong were obviously defeated and returned. You turned your hands into clouds and rain, and you even arranged a mission to cut off food for these dead cavalry. How could an ordinary commander have such a means of turning decay into magic?

"Wen Gui."

"The end is here."

Lu Meng looked at Pan Zhang meaningfully, and said to himself that your cooperation is really good.

"General Ma is the Sima under your command, and you also have a share of his military exploits. After the battle, I will report to the lord for rewards..."

"Uh...thanks, General."

Just as the people in the tent talked about their happy plan, the guards outside the tent appeared at the door in a panic, as if hesitating to speak.

Lai Gong was so conservative in fighting, Lu Meng knew that it was impossible for him to take the initiative to attack, so he asked with a smile: "What happened? Report the truth."

The guard clasped his fists and replied loudly: "Just now, dozens of cavalry appeared on the west side of the camp. They dropped a corpse two miles outside the camp and left..."

Lu Meng's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly asked, "Whose body is it?"

"The head is bloody and bloody... It looks a bit like the outfit..." The guard didn't dare to continue in the middle of speaking, because he could hear Lu Meng's words clearly in the big tent just now.

"Don't hesitate, who is it?" Lu Meng frowned.

"It looks a bit like General Ma Zhong..." After the guard finished speaking, he lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Lu Meng.

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the tent.

Lu Meng's face became embarrassing, and he said in his heart that you are sorry, this is purely disgusting me.

"Since the face is bloody and bloody, it is Lai Gong who wants to confuse the public. General Ma Zhong is a nimble and agile general. How could he be killed just after receiving a heavy duty? Let's go to examine the body together. General Ma is the Sima under Wen Gui's tent. You must I will get to know you." Lu Meng said with a serious face.

"Wei." Pan Zhang couldn't get off the tiger, so now he could only cooperate with Lu Meng's actions.

Lu Meng and a group of generals followed the guards, and they quickly came to a secret gray tent. In the center of the tent was a dead body wrapped in a straw mat.

Lu Meng used his sword to push aside the straw mat. The armor on his body was definitely Ma Zhong's, but the lower half of the head was missing from the deformed iron helmet. It was indeed bloody and bloody as described by the guards, and it even felt a little nauseous.

This kind of forceful attack was obviously done by a blunt weapon, and Lu Meng and Pan Zhang couldn't help but think of the barbarian king with the barbed wire and thorns.

"Wen Gui, come and recognize him, I don't recognize him anyway..." Lu Meng set the tone first.

Pan Zhang knew it must be Ma Zhong when he saw his figure, and he couldn't bear to take a closer look when he heard Lu Meng's order. Even his own mother couldn't recognize this half face, so he had no choice but to say it wasn't Ma Zhong.

"Really or not?" Lu Meng continued to ask.

Pan Zhang shook his head, "Yes...it doesn't look like...it doesn't look like..."

Lu Meng immediately breathed a sigh of relief, "Now the blood is so bloody that I can't recognize who it is. It may be the Jiangdong cavalry general who died in the battle last night. Wen Gui, you should arrange for someone to bury him. After all, he is also my Jiangdong athlete..."

"Wei." Pan Zhang cupped his fists with tears in his eyes.

"General Renyi."

Everyone complimented in unison, Lu Meng quickly waved his hand to stop, and then quickly left the morgue.

The south has little rain and drought this year. Lu Meng looked at the sky in the camp all day long, hoping that the sun would be stronger. As long as the grain production decreases, Lai Gong will definitely run out of food.

Jiaozhou has ancient farming skills. If there is no two or three seasons a year, it is impossible to feed these people. After Lai Gong embraces Liu Bei's thigh, he doesn't have to worry about food shortages.

This involves Lantian's professional knowledge. After staying in Yulin for a month, he knew that there would be a drought. Fortunately, during his stay in Lingling, he had already built irrigation facilities, so he could deal with drought.

As for Shamoke's military rations, Lai Gong didn't need to provide them at all. Gan Ning's transport team would bring them from Quanling every half a month. Lu Meng didn't even know what giant he was fighting against.

Chapter 218 Brainstorming

After Lu Meng's continuous attack failed, he could only adopt Lu Fan's suggestion to confront Lai Gong. He arranged for each battalion to train troops in the camp every day.

Pan Zhang cooperated well in the Ma Zhong incident, and Lu Meng became more and more friendly to him. The two often discussed military affairs together, and they seemed to be Lu Meng's deputy.

One afternoon, when Lu Meng was cooling off by the Yushui River, Pan Zhang hurried over to find him.

"General, Lai Gong has a new move?" Pan Zhang said out of breath.

Lu Meng immediately jumped up from the ground, "What new move?"

"Lai Gong picked earth around the camp to build the city..." Pan Zhang replied.

Lu Meng thought to himself that Lai Gong really has nothing to do, we train him every day in the camp and he actually started to build the city?Is there any conspiracy in this?Are you trying to seduce me?

"General, if Lai Gong is really building a city on the hill, we will have to prepare catapults, siege vehicles and other equipment if we want to attack it..." Pan Zhang looked sad.

Lu Meng shook his head and said, "I'm worried that Lai Gong has schemes. Let's ignore him. As long as the food and grass are cut off, what's the use of thick walls?"

"Ah..." Pan Zhang was speechless, thinking that General Lu's strategy was still far behind Zhou Yu and Lu Su's.

Lan Tian is a pragmatic person. He will not let the soldiers waste time in the camp. He has surveyed the surrounding terrain before the battle. They camped on this hill, which is very suitable for building an earthen fortress for garrisoning troops. After it is completed, it can save a lot of guards. Army, even if there is no military use after the war, it can also be used as a post on the way in Yushui.

Lan Tian asked Jiang Wan to dispatch more than a dozen craftsmen in advance, and followed the grain transport ship in Quanling to the Tuqiu camp to help build this war fortress.

The Wuxi barbarians built houses differently from the Han people. When building the fortress, Lantian planned and designed it himself. The craftsmen of Quanling School served as construction technicians, and they were divided into two shifts on the mound to carry out the construction vigorously.

Gao Shun was also worried that Lu Meng would take the opportunity to attack, but there was no movement for several days.

"Sir, why are you so sure that Lu Meng dare not come to seize the mountain? Even if it destroys the earth fortress we built, it's a pity to stay in the camp like this." Gao Shun asked.

In fact, apart from Gao Shun who was puzzled, Gan Ning, Lai Gong and Sha Moke all wanted to know the reason.

Lan Tian picked up a dead branch and squatted on the ground in front of the camp to paint: "Let me teach you a deduction method, its name is 'brainstorming', you can speak freely, assuming that you yourself are the enemy general What are you going to do?"

Lan Tian first drew a circle, wrote the word Lu in the circle, then drew a line from the outside of the circle, drew another circle on the upper right, and then asked everyone: "Anyone can speak, as long as it is reasonable and reasonable, you can speak freely." Say, let's explain everything, who will come first?"

Seeing that everyone was silent, Sha Moke raised his right hand covered with medicine and said, "Can I talk to you?"

"Leader Sha, please tell me." Lan Tian waved his hand, and then wrote a word "Sha" in the new circle.

Sha Moke patted his chest and said: "I'm a rough man, and Jiangdong rats can't beat me again and again. If I were the general Lu Meng, I would either retreat or increase my troops. It's shameful to waste here for nothing."

Lan Tian nodded, and then derived two circles with lines from the newly drawn circle, and wrote the words "return" and "increase" in them respectively.

"Lu Meng was ordered to take Jiaozhou, but now he can't take Yulin County alone, what will happen if Sun Quan finds out?" Lan Tian asked again.

"If you lose, you lose. Victory and defeat are commonplace in military affairs. What else can Sun Quan do?" Shamoke muttered.

"That's why Sun Quan treats it as if it's nothing." Lan Tian once again extended the withdrawn circle to create a new circle to mark nothing.

At this time, Lai Gong took over the topic and said: "Although Sun Quan has no great talent and general plan, he is not a mediocre master in terms of the situation in Jiangdong. If rewards and punishments are not clear, how can he convince the public?"

Lan Tian nodded in affirmation, and then extended a new circle to write a penalty in the circle of retreat.

He continued to ask Lai Gong: "There are also many types of punishment, such as confiscation of property, demotion, and non-reuse, etc."

Seeing Lan Tian drawing more circles from the penalty circle, Lai Gong said incredulously: "The general sees the problem really deeply..."

Lan Tian shook his head and continued to ask. Gao Shun, Gan Ning and others also spoke one after another.

Gan Ning finally said in surprise: "Lv Meng is the enemy of Mr., and it is the light of the firefly to compare with the light of the moon. How did you think so much? My head is dizzy when I look at this picture. It really is a brainstorm..."

Lan Tian explained: "Brainstorming is to brainstorm and deduce all possibilities for reference, so as to be foolproof."

Lai Gong and Gan Ning kept sighing in amazement, but Gao Shun stared at the picture on the ground calmly.

"So Lu Meng is now in a dilemma. He intends to continue to confront us. The purpose is to compete with us for who has more food and grass?" Gao Shun asked.

Lan Tian nodded, "This is Lu Meng's strategy with the least risk. It's a pity that he doesn't know that General Lai is backed by Jingnan."

After hearing this, Lai Gong sighed: "My lord has General Ziyu to help me, so why worry about the uncertainty of the world? I just hate myself for not serving my allegiance earlier, and I don't know how many years I have been in Jiaozhou..."

"I'm wiser than General Lai in this regard." Shamoke scratched his head and smiled foolishly.

"Chief Sha is indeed very far-sighted. General Ziyu treats all foreign races equally. With his help, Wuximan will never go hungry again..." Lai Gong confirmed with a smile.

"Hey, I just like the general's personality..." Sha Moke was led into the road of flattery by Lai Gong without knowing it.

Lan Tian quickly changed the topic: "Don't think brainstorming is troublesome. In the future, no matter who is the chief general in the army, when you are in trouble, use this method to brainstorm, and you will definitely find a way to deal with it."

Gan Ning and Gao Shun nodded solemnly after hearing this. They are Lan Tian's right-hand men. Although their personal abilities are already very outstanding, they always feel that Lan Tian has endless whimsy. The longer they stay with him, the more they admire him.

"Sir, that Shixie has turned to Sun Quan, will he really send troops to help? Or provide Lu Meng with rice and food? If so, even if Lu Meng's military food consumption is greater than ours, it will not be too much to rely on food and grass to consume the Jiangdong Army. It's easy..." Gao Shun reminded.

Lan Tian nodded and said: "If there is no intervention, Shi Xie will choose the lesser power between the two. Maybe it will really get in the way of affection and provide Lu Meng with military funds, but it's really not certain now."

"Is Usdin really that powerful?" Gao Shun was full of doubts.

Lan Tian smiled and replied: "Ustin has been taught by a special person, and now his oral skills are not what it used to be. Bo Ping, don't underestimate our tongue, sometimes it is sharper than a sword."

Lai Gong showed a mysterious smile at the side. The person who taught Lan Tian was the person who taught him. If you think about it, you will be very successful if you think about it.