"What?" Liu Bei was shocked.

Chen Deng asked hurriedly: "How many soldiers and horses do the other party have? Who is the general who leads the army? What flag is it?"

The young man shook his head: "The enemy did not ignite the torch, and he retreated quickly when he encountered resistance. After a few hours, he came to harass him again. It was like this for two consecutive nights. General Chen Shi was worried that this was a trick to lure the enemy and dared not go out of the city to pursue him. He only heard the sound of drums from the other party, but he didn't know how many people there were. However, the opponent's armor seemed... to be the soldiers of the court."

Shen Pei immediately exclaimed: "Did the court send a large army to attack Xuzhou?"

When everyone was shocked and suspicious, Tian Feng said, "In my opinion, it may not be the military soldiers of the court."

"Oh? What does this mean?" Liu Bei was puzzled.

Tian Feng explained: "My lord thought carefully, the imperial court had an army of 300,000 to 400,000 troops in Yuzhou. If you really want to attack Xuzhou, you only need to send one general to command 30,000 troops. I dare not say that you can capture the entire territory of Xuzhou. It is enough to capture several cities and disrupt our army's morale. How could you only attack for two consecutive nights without any progress? What is the use of acting like this, besides alerting our army and making our army more alert?"

"This..." Everyone thought about it carefully and felt it was very reasonable.

Chen Deng's eyes rolled and suddenly thought of something: "The other party's drums are loud and the offensive is small, and it seems that there are not many people. Could it be... Could it be that someone used the imperial army to confuse the public?"

"Who would act like this?" Liu Bei asked.

Chen Deng thought for a while: "The only ones bordering Xuzhou are the imperial court, Cao Cao and Sun Jian. If you act like this, it seems that you will attack our rear, but the other party must also know that with the ability of the lord and several military advisors, you will definitely be able to see through the strangeness and a few abnormal movements, so that the army will not retreat to rescue. In this way..."

After he said this, everyone seemed to understand it.

"In this way, once our army has indeed not returned, and the facts of the garrisons of Donghai County have been discovered, they can advance in large numbers and attack the East China Sea. Even if we have not seen through the other party's tricks, we believe that the imperial army is attacking. From now on, the closest distance should be to go south of Yanzhou, rather than to go from Qingzhou."

"Therefore, the other party wants to force our army to quickly attack Yanzhou and fight a decisive battle with the imperial army. In this way, we can assist the East China Sea defenders as soon as possible, and we can also surround Wei and save Zhao, and force the so-called imperial soldiers to give up the siege."

After Tian Feng explained, Liu Bei suddenly felt enlightened.
Chapter completed!