The two armies of Zhuge Liang and Xiahou Dun were only separated by a mere six or seven miles of underground camp, and the other camps were within sight of the horizon.

So Chen Dao's fight can be said to be at the right time to stretch his legs.

When Xiahou Dun heard that Chen Dao was coming, he was really surprised: In the afternoon, Chen Dao ran away as soon as he met us. Why is it so peaceful that it is almost dark and he is back?

The generals and deputy generals under his command advised him to go to war.

Du Xi, who had led the Wuyang soldiers before, looked up at the tower he had just built. He confirmed that Chen Dao had only brought up to 10,000 people, so he also advised Xiahou Dun to kill one and exert his power: "General, Chen Dao's military service is a little bitch, it's better to kill for a while."

Xiahou Dun retorted in a silence: "What have you done before? I should have chased and killed me in the afternoon, and I should have chased and killed Chen Dao and Liao Hua. At that time, you advised me to listen to Mancheng's advice last night and set up camp first. Now I'm asking me to fight? It's getting late, and I'm afraid there will be a fraud! Chen Dao dares to come forward and shoot back with the enemy's crossbow! No battle is allowed!"

Du Xi thought it made sense and didn't say anything more.

Chen Dao fought until it was dark, and he insulted for a long time, and retreated embarrassedly, but he was relieved: "Xiahou Dun was indeed afraid that we would lure the enemy to set up an ambush, so he did not dare to fight. Zhuge Changshi's historical information was accurate."

However, after returning to his camp, he was so angry that he was not angry with his colleague Liao Hua's condition. Before he set off, he was ready to take Liao Hua to respond, but Liao Hua did not even let the soldiers wear the troops and prepare for attack.

The soldiers took off their heavy armor and didn't take any weapons, so they were working as coolies in the camp repair camp there.

Chen Dao asked in anger: "Liao Yuanjian! You almost killed me! Fortunately, Xiahou Dun was really suspicious that he didn't go to the battle. What if he came out? You were not ready to pick him up. Wouldn't I be killed all the way when I escaped?"

Liao Hua also looked innocent: "I was preparing for it, but I was not on guard. Moreover, when the provocateurs learned that there was no fight in front of me, they asked the soldiers to go back to work.

This was the order of Zhuge Changshi. The construction period was very urgent. We asked us to use expansive soil to repair two long walls across the camp overnight, then find firewood to cook the snow and melt it slightly before pouring it onto the low wall of the expansive soil. We had to repair two two-mile long walls in one night. How could we do it if the army did not work hard?

Zhuge Changshi said that if we are weak, we are solid, and if we are in fact we are weak. The enemy is afraid that we will lure the enemy to set up an ambush, so we pretend to lure the enemy to set up an ambush first, but in fact we will rush to work to hold the ambush. In this way, the enemy will think that we are really rushing to work to hold the ambush."

Chen Dao was still a little confused and had not yet captured Zhuge Liang's true intentions.

Fortunately, the next morning, Xiahou Dun's reaction gradually made Chen Dao clear.

...

In the early morning of the 13th, Xiahou Dun was still sleeping when he suddenly heard the noise of the enemy camp in the west, and Cao's soldiers also got up one after another.

Xiahou Dun hurriedly hung up his horse with sleepy eyes and led his troops to carefully go out to meet the enemy. He discovered an amazing scene: Zhuge Liang's camp opposite built two long walls overnight, cutting off the valley near Bowangpo, which was very beneficial to the defense at first glance.

"How did Zhuge Liang build a long wall overnight? Is the soil here so easy to dig? It's impossible. The soil nearby has frozen, so it's very difficult to dig out, not so fast!"

Xiahou Dun was still surprised, but Zhuge Liang in the opposite camp shook the folding fan, and let the scolding players shout insults and announced the answer:

"Xiahou Dun, you are trapped! Our army was actually just bluffing last night, just to force you not to attack! You were really scared by our army.

We rely on just 20,000 river-building civilians to pick up weapons temporarily, and you will be afraid of the enemy as a tiger, treating us as elites and dare not fight. Now we build a long wall overnight, even if your elite troops are from me and rely on the right place, you will not be able to defeat them!

Let me tell you another bad news. General Gao Shun will definitely arrive with a 100,000 troops in Wancheng within three days. Then you will be the time to turn into powder!"

"It turns out that these people Zhuge Liang led were all civilians who dug rivers? I didn't fight last night and was the trap?" Xiahou Dun couldn't help but feel a little confused, and he wanted to figure out whether he was going to hit the trap or not.

"How should we deal with it now? Why don't we wait for Mancheng from the rear camp to come today and make a long-term plan?" Xiahou Dun thought to himself.

At this time, Du Xi also advised him to be serious and give some suggestions that are not painful but absolutely not wrong:

"General, why not wait for General Li Dian's rear army to come, and then discuss countermeasures before Gao Shun arrives, and decide whether to defeat Zhuge Liang before Gao Shun arrives.

In addition, Zhuge Liang was able to build two long walls overnight, which was quite strange. But since he could do it, we could definitely do it, but we didn’t find out the method. The most urgent task at the moment is to find out how Zhuge Liang did it.

If we can learn from him, we will also be able to build walls. Even if Gao Shun arrives, at most, it will be impossible to fight. When the lord behind and General Xiahou Yuan make contributions, the order given to us by the lord is to camp in the way and block Gao Shun."

Xiahou Dun thought it made sense: "Let the soldiers start to build walls immediately. In addition, Zhuge Liang's hands and feet are so fast, probably because it is related to the local geography. When the cavalry scout searched the day before, weren't there some surrendered river-building prisoners? Ask carefully, maybe these prisoners have been digging rivers here for a long time and have a better understanding of the key points."

It’s true that Xiahou Dun’s order was just issued, and within half an hour, a prisoner who “coveted wealth and honor” came to offer advice and exposed Zhuge Liang’s engineering tricks—

There was no way, these prisoners were originally detailed tasks arranged by Zhuge Liang in advance. The task he gave them before the war was to stay on the construction site and wait for the enemy to kneel down and surrender immediately to save their lives. Then, at the appropriate time, he offered suggestions to Xiahou Dun to popularize geological science knowledge.

If Xiahou Dun didn't care, these people would have to spend more time, pretending to be greedy for wealth and prosperity, and take the initiative to reveal the tricks of the original master.

The captive was soon taken to Xiahou Dun and knelt down: "I heard that the general was willing to share money and land for those who offered advice. I was the civilian who was arrested to build a river nearby. I was injured by Zhuge Liang and Guoyuan's supervisor because of being lazy. I would rather offer advice and exchange some rewards, and I dare not be too greedy."

Xiahou Dun slapped the table: "Stop talking nonsense!"

"Since the Nanyang Canal was trying to be dug, there have been many strange phenomena. It is said that there is ancient Xilan underground. How much soil is dug out and it will grow back when it encounters rain! It is impossible to dig it out, so we slacked off and said that things are just against God and cannot be done.

But Li Su and Zhuge Liang did not believe in ghosts and gods, and insisted that this was called expansive soil, not Xirang, and forced us to dig, so everyone was afraid of offending God and was lazy in different ways. Who knew that Zhuge Liang had learned the viciousness and didn't know where to calculate the workload. Even though the expansive soil would swell back, he could still figure out which groups of people were lazy and beat us up.

Now that he repairs the wall overnight, he probably uses watering to freeze it. Although the Xilan is hard to dig, just dig a little, lay a foot or two on the ground, just pour enough water, or burn fire and melt snow next to it to let the snow water seep in. Overnight, two foot thick walls can grow half a meter tall to freeze hard."

Xiahou Dun stared at him for a while, still wondering if the person on the other side had done it carefully, and then he thought of an easy way to identify it:

"You teach our soldiers in the army how to quickly repair the wall, and organize them to practice it one day. If it is done, I will reward you with ten kilograms of gold! If there is any fraud, serve as a sacrifice flag!"

Xizuo quickly cried and knelt down and begged for mercy: "General, I don't dare! I really want to join in, and this method will definitely be successful."

Xiahou Dun was too lazy to listen anymore, so he ordered the troops to be on guard, while allocating people to figure out how to repair the wall.

Because I was ridiculed at the beginning of the morning, I wasted a little time when I was struck by arrays. Later, I searched for answers and recruited surrenders to make a lot of trouble. So it was almost noon when the construction started, and it was not until dark that I could barely make some prototypes.

Xiahou Dun didn't want to wait until tomorrow morning to see the results, so he inspected the camp before resting at night.

Although the wall has not been constructed, the characteristics explained by the prisoners have been verified.

As soon as Xiahou Dun arrived at the construction site, one of his deputy generals in charge of supervising the worker came forward to report: "General, you can't make a mistake, those are true. These soils called expansive soil by Zhuge Liang and Xiran by ignorant and foolish people in the countryside can really expand several times when they encounter water.

So even if the frozen soil is frozen in winter, it can be constructed quickly with just a fraction of the excavation, and then there will be a night of walls. Our army can repair the walls tomorrow. And I heard that Zhuge Liang knew very well about this soil, so he also set up a workshop in Bowang County to collect this soil and add it to other things to create some secret tools."

Xiahou Dun was not relieved after hearing this, but was very disappointed: "So, Zhuge Liang did not lure the enemy from the beginning. He just wanted to pretend to lure the enemy but actually delayed time, scared me. He delayed it until two days later, Gao Shun's reinforcements arrived! I was helpless in this battle, but I just set up camp on the road and blocked the door!"

Xiahou Dun was very upset when he thought of missing an opportunity to annihilate 20,000 to 30,000 weak enemies.

He punched the newly expanded earth wall with a hateful punch. Because it was a little frozen, Xiahou Dun's fist also hurt, but then he was surprised to see that the earth wall was broken by him and several pieces of earth that were as big as a human head fell.

This kind of soil seems to be tough, but after all, it expands too loosely and can easily dissipate under strong impact.

The deceased surrender next to him breathed a sigh of relief: If General Xiahou did not discover this problem himself, he would have to lay a pretext to try to show off his charm and suggestions to point out the defects of this kind of earth-building fortifications.

Xiahou Dun realized it, picked up the dirt and looked at it again and again, cursing: "Okay, Zhuge Pifu! I want to fool this general for a few days when I use this kind of thing? Fortunately, this general is very wise and rigorous, and people try to imitate it, and then I can see your flaws!

Can the walls built with this kind of soil block the army? You don’t have to rush to the car, just carry two trees and hit them and fall down! Expansion soil is far less solid than compact soil! Expansion will be empty!"

Xiahou Dun became more and more excited the more he thought about it, and everything was integrated: in the morning, Zhuge Liang came to mock him and hit his morale, hoping that he would be desperate and no longer be enterprising, so as to hold him back until Gao Shun comes!

How could he make Zhuge Liang come true? Zhuge Liang would not let him go if he wanted to drag him down! He would defeat Zhuge Liang before Gao Shun arrived!

"Cut down dead trees overnight and cut off branches, and let the soldiers carry them as hammers tomorrow. The entire army made meals at the third and fourth sessions to eat out of the camp. Fo Xiao attacked Zhuge Liang's camp and directly broke through these broken walls and rushed in! Zhuge Liang was all the rammed people who built rivers and built rivers and were not afraid of it!"

Although Xiahou Dun was much more cautious than the original Battle of Bowang, he had two more twists and turns in his mind when avoiding the battle. Unfortunately, he finally made an attack decision.

Of course, aggressiveness and aggressiveness are also different. This must be praised for Xiahou Dun's progress.

In history, he was on the second level and was killed by Liu Bei on the third level.

Now he has at least upgraded to the fourth level, but Zhuge Liang is on the fifth level.
Chapter completed!