"Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles."

The way to play to one's strengths and avoid one's weaknesses is to win the battle. The weak attack the strong, and the wise do not. For both the attack and defense, Cao Mengde is the strongest, which is to come and go freely and cover the sea fleet. Yuan Shu is the strongest, which is because the walls are high and thick, and the city is Shouchun.

Because of this, if Cao Mengde abandoned his boat and landed on the shore, even if he used a cart to attack the city, he would inevitably suffer countless casualties. Ji Ling, under Yuan Shu, was a good general. He could attack and defend, and should not be ignored.

Xun Yu is resourceful and must be calculating.

Sure enough, the so-called digging of soil to form a hill is just a strategy of underestimating the enemy.

Xun Yu secretly gave him the opportunity. The soldiers first surrounded the mound and dug deep pits. Then piled up soil in front of them, covered them with the mound, and dug them secretly, extending on both sides. After the left and right connects, they form a circular ditche.

Later, Cao Cao destroyed the Tushan Mountains, dug trenches, and surrounded Shouchun. The encirclement was more than forty miles.

At first, the ditch was narrow and shallow, and the soldiers could cross it with their feet. Yuan Shu saw it on the city and laughed loudly. The left and right shook his head and laughed apologetically, and his contempt was beyond words.

The chief clerk Yan Xiang pointed to the giant ship on the water and said, "This shallow ditch is to lure us out of the city."

Yuan Shu nodded gently: "The ditch is less than a thousand steps away from the water shore. If we leave the city to fill the ditch, we will surely set off ten thousand stones on the boat."

Seeing that Yuan Shu was still in control of his troops and did not go out of the city to fill the ditches. Cao Cao sent people to dredge them at night. Overnight, the shallow ditches were wide into wide, and the deep ditches were two feet deep.

The next day, Yuan Shu climbed the city and looked at it again. He was shocked. He still pretended to be calm and gave instructions to the country. He was unmoved.

Five days later, the deep trench was six zhang wide and three zhang deep.

Ten days later, the deep trench was ten feet wide and four feet deep.

"Breaking the dike and pouring water." Cao Cao ordered.

The soldiers under his command dug the Huai River embankment. The white waves surging and poured into deep trenches.

Seeing the deep trench full of water, it formed a Huan Canal. A bucket ship rushed down and rushed into the Huan Canal.

"Don't panic!" Yuan Shu on the top of the city sweated like raindrops. He still argued strongly: "There are still more than three miles away from the city around the canal. Cao Mengde's whip is long... beyond reach!"

He covered the battleship in the sea and looked at the city. Cao Cao laughed and said, "Wen is a clever plan, and the road of Yuan has become a fish and shrimp in a jar."

Liu Dai, the governor of Qingzhou, couldn't help but sigh: "The clear water surrounds the city, and Shouchun has become a dead place. What should we do?"

Xun Yu smiled and said, "Don't rush to attack the city, dig deeper trenches."

"Oh?" Liu Dai was stunned.

Seeing that Liu Dai had not understood it yet, Cao Cao laughed and said, "This is a plan to lure the enemy."

As expected, when the wings of the ship were turned, soldiers lined up and got off the ship. Within a thousand steps, they dug trenches.

At the top of Shouchun City, there was a dead silence.

As Yuan Shu said, around the canal is still three miles away from the city. The stone cart on the boat is not enough to attack from a distance. However, if you step a thousand steps and dig deep canals, the head of Shouchun city will be in the range.

Throwing 800 steps of stone, and throwing tinder oil can shoot a thousand steps away. There is a sea of ​​fire at the top of the city, and all the display instruments are coke. There is no more power to fight back.

"Where is Ji Ling!" Yuan Shu was furious.

"It's coming to this end." Ji Ling clasped his fists and left the list.

"Lead the army out of the city and set the enemy's formation."

"Here." Ji Ling took the order out.

Hearing that the war drums rumbled at the city wall of Shouchun, Xun Yu smiled and said, "The plan is done."

Cao Cao gave the order. The soldiers digging the canal immediately formed a formation to defend. He stepped into the camp and slowly retreated.

When Ji Ling ordered his troops out of the city, the enemy soldiers were scattered along the canal, in groups of three or five, without a large formation. For a moment, he didn't know where to attack.

"Divide the troops to kill the enemy!" Now that things have come to this point, how can we retreat without fighting? As Ji Ling's military commander pointed, the infantry rushed into the enemy's formation in different directions.

Looking down at the defenders of Shouchun, they came out in full bloom. Cao Cao suddenly sighed: "It's no wonder that Xuande is divided into the city and port."

Xun Yu said, "King Ji has always had a vision. Nangang and Wangcheng were several miles apart, so they attacked the city for the waterproof army."

The speaker has no intention, and the listener has no intention. Cao Cao's heart moved: "Wen Ruo said that I moved the capital to Zhencheng, eighteen miles away from the river. Is this the reason?"

"That's right." Xun Yu replied with a smile.

The sound is still in my ears, and the mechanism roars.

The internal fighting ships in the Huanqu River cast stones, and the falling rocks fell like rain, smashing into the enemy's formation.

For a moment, flesh and blood splattered, and people were overturned.

The power of the mechanism is terrifying. For both the enemy and us, it is the first encounter.

He rushed out of the rock-falling killing formation. He suddenly saw the side of the fighting ship, and the triple arrow window was opened. Without any reaction, the boat was down, and the arrows were like locusts. He shot from high and low, penetrated the back of the chest and hole. Some more, the fighting ship was shooting and walking. He was actually walking around the ring canal.

Arrows sprayed like rain.

Seeing the sudden cavalry, the arrows penetrated the body and the horses were dead. Yuan Shu almost bit his steel teeth.

"Ming Jin withdraws his troops!"

"General retreat quickly!" Ji Ling was covered in blood, and he was hit by an arrow, and he fought to the death without retreating. Then a confidant raised a shield to cover it.

"Get back quickly!" Looking around, arrow feathers were planted everywhere, thorns were growing, countless robes were buried under arrows. Ji Ling was sad and angry in his heart, you can imagine it.

Each machine fighting ship is a mobile dock. Machines emerge one after another, and the war mode has quietly changed.

Even the initiator, Cao Mengde, was also in awe. He looked around at the battlefield where he was harvested by sharp arrows and buried corpses everywhere. Cao Mengde suddenly asked: "If I were Yuan Shu, how should I defend against the enemy?"

Xun Yu replied: "Prepare fish oil, water and fertilizer (petroleum), pour it into the canal. It is like the battle of Guangzong."

"Fish oil, can Shouchun be prepared?" Cao Cao asked in surprise.

"I thought it would be insufficient." Xun Yu replied, "Yuan Shao led a large army to cross the east. Most of the ships and weapons were taken to Jiangzuo."

"That's right." Cao Cao felt at ease.

Xun Yu said again: "Yuan Shu was brave in his battle, and he was afraid of abandoning the city and leaving. How to act? Ming Gong should decide early."

"One of the three palaces and one." Cao Cao had already made a decision.

"The army must be surrounded by a lack of troops." Xun Yu understood it with great understanding.

Wait for the defeated army to enter the city.

The coalition soldiers lined up and disembarked, cleaned the battlefield, used their old tricks again, and dug deep trenches.

After the moat is dug into water, the machine-bucket ships enter the ring channel again. They can shoot far to the city. The people, horses and equipment on the city will all become a sea of ​​fire.

This battle will definitely be defeated.

In the Shouchun Palace, all officials lamented.

Now that things have come to this point, the Hou Fan of Hefei has no joy and sorrow: "Can you still fight?"

"Report to Your Majesty, Cao Mengde, the advantage of fighting ships in the machinery was used to dig canals and pour water, and the boats advanced together. The general's elite troops came out to attack Jiangdong. There was no strategy to defend against the enemy. This battle was in danger." Yuan Shu replied.

"If you can't fight, can you say peace?" Hefei Hou asked again.

"Cao Mengde is inviting personal anger, and he may not be able to give up." How could Yuan Shu not know?

"Why do you get personal anger?" The two Yuans acted secretly, how could the Marquis of Hefei know?

Yuan Shu sighed, "When you meet the general, your Majesty will know when you ask."

Now that things have come to this point, how can the Marquis of Hefei not understand?

The hall was silent for a moment.

After a moment, the Marquis of Hefei asked again: "What should we do for the sake of the present?"

He swallowed the word "moving the capital" and entered his stomach. Yuan Shu suddenly had an inspiration: "Maybe you can ask for help from Chen State."

"King Chen?" Hefei Hou was also stunned.
Chapter completed!