Chapter 476 Preheating
After listening to Yan Fei's words, Cheng Yu was silent for a long time. In the end, he smiled and nodded, not mentioning this matter.
"The only reason why I help is to end this chaotic and chaotic world as soon as possible." Yan Fei put down the wine glass in his hand, with a look of compassion on the face of the world. "I really can't bear to watch the people displaced and swallowed by the war."
"Zihou is so noble and honest, I admire him." Cheng Yu gave a thumbs up, then picked up a bronze lord and stood up to Yan Fei. "I respect Zihou for a cup."
After the two of them drank one, Cheng Yu waved his long and wide sleeves, turned around and prepared to go back to the back of his desk. However, Yan Fei said at this moment, "Although things are not worth much, they are used by my woman. Sima is better off putting it down."
"Hahaha~~~" Cheng Yu raised his hand and patted his forehead and laughed. "I'm drunk too much, don't blame me."
Cheng Yu took out a glass of wine from his wide sleeves and put it back on Yan Fei's desk, without any shame on his face.
It’s not that Cheng Yu’s vision is too low, but because his vision is too high. The backwardness of productivity in this era is unimaginable to modern people. For example, glass, which was called glass in this era, has a lot of impurities and a very small output. However, the standards produced by Yan Fei are crystal clear and perfect as if used in the Heavenly Palace. Even people like Cheng Yu who are used to treasures can’t help but want to be a thief.
As for Yan Fei, it’s not that he can’t bear to give up a glass cup. This thing can be done for more than ten yuan in the modern world. Even if he pulls a cart and falls, it’s okay to play with it. The reason why he is unwilling to let Cheng Yu take it away is because Xiao Qiao has used this cup before, and there are even traces of lipstick given by Yan Fei. This means that he can’t give it to anyone.
Cheng Yu was in a good mood at this time and was not embarrassed at all. Thinking about it, no one who has been on the battlefield would care about these things.
After drinking and eating, Cheng Yu took away the bottle that Yan Fei had drunk with Xiao Qiao and the others. When he left, he patted his chest and told Yan Fei that he would pass on these two glass treasures as heirlooms, so that future generations would be grateful for the family business they left behind.
Looking at Cheng Yu's swaying back, Yan Fei smiled and felt his stomach hurt. If Cheng Yu really passed these two wine bottles as family heirlooms for thousands of years, his descendants found two wine bottles after going through a lot of hardships. They probably would have a heart attack on the spot. It was completely a different version of King Solomon's story.
The next day, the sun shone brightly.
The water outside the city has retreated, and only Quyang Lake is still flooding. However, although the water has receded, there is still a muddy country outside the city. The fertile fields, ditches, villages, roads, mudflats and other things outside the city have been washed away, leaving only a muddy land and countless large and large lakes.
The Cao army in the city was all elite. When the flood came, they were scared to death because the water and fire were ruthless. No matter how strong people are, they cannot compete with the power of nature. In addition, they are all northerners, so they are of course scared to encounter a flood suddenly.
However, when the flood receded and the earth was exposed, the morale naturally rose again. Of course, the sufficient food and supplies provided by Yan Fei were also extremely close.
On the walls of Dongcheng City, Cao Jun gathered next to a big pot, holding the pancakes in one hand and the vegetable broth filled with the pot in the other hand, and eating it with a refreshing meal.
They were sergeants on duty last night. After staying on the city wall for a night, they were having a meal while changing their guards. They had to find an empty house to sleep and rest later.
After licking the broth in his pottery bowl, he put down the pottery bowl with unfulfilled intentions, got up and went to the city wall to put some water outside the city and rest. However, just as he was standing on the bush of arrows, he almost fell down with a swaying wave.
All the soldiers in the same team laughed and were about to make fun of each other. However, Nash jumped directly from the top of the city and shouted, "There is a ship coming!"
Indeed, a boat came. A large Wupeng ship came up from the lower reaches of the Xia River and arrived in An. When outside Lucheng, he turned the bow of the boat to Quyang Lake, which was close to the city wall due to the flooding of lake water.
The ship is roughly more than 100 meters away from the east wall. If you can't shoot at this distance, only the stone thrower is useful. The stone thrower in Lucheng has been demolished by Liu Bei when he was evacuated. Therefore, the ship does not need to worry about danger.
The person who came by boat was Mi Zhu, an old man who had followed Liu Bei for many years. He was also a person similar to Lu Buwei. When he was in Xuzhou, he took a fancy to Liu Bei and thought he was a rare item. Not only did he put all the wealthy servants on it, but he also gave his own girl to Liu Bei as his wife. It was Mrs. Mi.
His investments in history have indeed received returns. After Liu Bei established Shu Han, Mi Zhu was named General Anhan, and his status was even higher than Zhuge Liang. Unfortunately, his younger brother Mi Fang later lost Jingzhou because of his surrender to the Eastern Wu, and then Guan Yu was defeated and killed. Because of his involvement, Mi Zhu had to leave the market in disgrace.
Of course, Mi Zhu is just a small person around Liu Bei. This time he was ordered to persuade Cao's army in the city to surrender.
"Kong Ming, can Zizhong succeed in going here?" In a small wood dozens of miles away, he learned that the flood had successfully hit An last night. Liu Bei from Lucheng asked Zhuge Liang who was playing chess with him with a refreshing attitude. He could not wait to bring those elite soldiers under his command.
"No." Zhuge Liang, who casually fell down a chess piece, looked like a wise bead in his grip, and easily shook the feather fan in his hand, "Please, lord."
"No?!" Liu Bei was stunned, holding a chess piece in his hand, and looked at Kong Ming with a puzzled look on his face. "Why can't you?"
"The Cao army had just entered the city for only one night. Moreover, when they entered the city, they must have brought a lot of food in addition to weapons, armor, horses and animals." Zhuge Liang smiled and shook the feather fan. "After a night of terror, I still haven't tasted hungry. It's useless to persuade the surrender now."
"Then why do you ask Zizhong to persuade him to surrender?" Liu Bei stared at Zhuge Liang with his eyes, and the chess piece in his hand fell on the chessboard casually.
"Nothing else, add pressure to Cao's army and let Cao's army know that our army has surrounded him." Zhuge Liang left a son, "Lord, Liang won."
"Persist in surrender?" Yan Fei, who had not yet set off in the mansion, heard a report that an envoy from Liu Bei's army came to persuade him to surrender.
After comforting Xiao Qiao for a while, Yan Fei got dressed and went to the outside room. Cheng Yu, who had been waiting here, came forward and talked about the arrival of Liu Bei's envoy.
"Let him get out." Yan Fei's response was very simple, and he just chased someone out.
"Liu Bei must have a reason for this." Cheng Yu did a good job as a strategist. "I want to come, first, to exhaust our army and suppress our morale. Second, to intimidate our army, we do not want our army to evacuate An Lucheng at this moment."
"I understand suppressing morale." Yan Fei waved his hand to greet his personal soldiers for breakfast. "What does the second meaning mean?"
Cheng Yu found a case and sat down a few times, looking like he was ready to have breakfast. "Before, the flood passed through the border, An. The radius of dozens of miles around Lucheng was all the country. Then Liu Bei's army could not have surrounded him in a short time. So the messenger sent to delay time."
"So that's it." Yan Fei nodded, then laughed, "Zhuge Liang was worried that we would run away. But what he didn't expect was that I never thought about running. Instead of chasing all the way, it would be better to give him the opportunity to gather strength to fight to the death and defeat Liu Bei in one fell swoop."
An. There is almost no way to leave outside Lucheng now. But it is not impossible to leave if you really want to leave. It is impossible to cross the river. The navy under Liu Bei's army is not weak. If you evacuate from the land, you can leave even in a quagmire. But once Liu Bei's army pursues, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses. Being able to evacuate half of it is a great blessing in misfortune.
Yan Fei didn't want to retreat. He wanted to use this battle to settle Liu Bei who had been making trouble. Zhuge Liang was even more reluctant to Yan Fei leave. They were also counting on persuading the tens of thousands of elite soldiers to surrender, so how dare they let them run away?
Since neither side wants to leave, the next thing is simple.
Mi Zhu persuaded surrender for a while, but he didn't even see the master, so he bowed and left. However, the Liu Bei navy subsequently sealed the nearby Xiajiang and Hanjiang rivers. These Liu Bei's navy naturally could not compare with Cao Cao's navy who won the Battle of Chibi. But the problem was that at this time, Cao Cao's navy was attacking Lujiang, and Yan Fei did not have a ship here.
Yan Fei ordered the removal of the sandbags from the city gate after breakfast. Then he came to an open space in the city, released a drone and began to search for areas near An Lucheng.
There were indeed a large number of open spaces in ancient cities. These open spaces were not used to wait for building houses, but to farm.
That's right, it's farming. Ancient cities were surrounded every time during wars. Most of the time, there were long-term siege wars, and even wars that siege cities for several years. In order to increase some food supply to the people in the city, basically there were cultivated land in various cities for farming.
Moreover, there were no tall buildings or telephone poles and radio transmitters in the cities of this era. The use of drones was very simple.
After the drone took off from the open space, it began to gradually hover outward with An Lucheng as the center. More than an hour later, Yan Fei found many soldiers under the banner of Liu Bei heading towards An Lucheng dozens of miles east of An Lucheng.
After confirming that the main force of Liu Bei's army was indeed towards An. Lucheng, Yan Fei felt relieved. After retrieving the drone, he began to arrange food, training, medical care and other matters for the soldiers.
Yan Fei needed the troops under his command to maintain sufficient combat effectiveness. After a few days, the land outside the city was dried by the sun, he could leave the city to fight against Liu Bei's army.
Chapter completed!