Choose Liu Bei at the start, I am the only one who knows the plot of the Three Kingdoms.

This time, Surena decided to learn from the Han people what the essence of night attacks is and why he always fails.

"Okay, I'll go mobilize the troops now and go into battle with you."

"Deploy troops?"

Zang Ba immediately stopped Surena's behavior.

If Anluo's troops were used in the night attack, it would be tantamount to sending their heads away.

"No need, I have already prepared the troops, you just need to send a famous general to follow me."

"it is good!"

In order to learn what a night attack is, Surena brought five famous generals and followed Zang Ba personally.

Zang Ba led the crowd and five thousand Taishan tiger bandits along the small paths, clearing out the visible and hidden sentries, until the hour of Chou, when they finally arrived at the outskirts of the Yizhou military camp.

Along the way, Surena had a lot of feelings. He then realized that this is how night attacks are used. One has to be so careful along the way, and even the hooves of the war horses have to be covered with thick cloth.

Zang Ba saw that the time was almost up, so he waved his hand immediately.

Five thousand men rushed out directly and fired rockets into the military camp.

After two rounds of volleys, the entire camp of Cao’s army was engulfed in flames, and it was unknown how many tents were burned.

There was a great deal of chaos in Cao's camp for a while, and Zang Ba also led his men into the camp.

Surena immediately followed.

Inside the Chinese army camp.

Cao Ren and the other two were still discussing how to attack the city tomorrow.

Then a soldier covered in blood ran in.

"Report, Commander, all the generals, the front camp was attacked and suffered heavy losses. The attackers have now rushed to the central camp."

"What? When will these people from the Anluo Empire launch a night raid?"

Cao Ren was startled at first, then he ordered his deputy general beside him: "Go to the rear army to reorganize and come to support."

The deputy general took the order and turned to leave.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Ren, along with Xiahou Dun and Xu Huang, integrated the central army and started a fierce battle with Zang Ba and others who had arrived.

When they saw Xiahou Dun appear, Fabius and others immediately became furious and determined to avenge the death of Lucullus.

For a time, Xiahou Dun was under a lot of pressure.

However, because there were six famous generals who came with them this time, including Surena, three of them went to target Xiahou Dun, and the remaining three soon could not hold on against the attacks of Cao Ren and Xu Huang.

Seeing this, Zang Ba knew that the situation was almost over and immediately ordered a retreat.

However, except for Surena, the other six people present obeyed Zang Ba's order to retreat. As for the rest, some were unable to retreat, some did not want to retreat, and in short, they refused to leave.

In the end, Zang Ba had to dispatch two thousand Taishan tiger bandits to join the battle and forcibly replaced those who wanted to retreat.

The price was that the Taishan Tiger Bandits suffered heavy losses.

However, the three famous generals who were fighting with Xiahou Dun had no intention of retreating and were still fighting desperately with Xiahou Dun.

Cao Ren also rushed into the battle group.

As a result, within the time it took to stick of incense, another famous general was killed by Cao Ren.

With the death of another famous general, the two people present came to their senses completely. They could barely win with three against one, and now it was two against two, which was just courting death.

"withdraw!"

Following Fabian's order, the two men evacuated immediately.

Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren wanted to chase after him, but were entangled by the Taishan tiger bandits who followed closely.

Zang Ba looked at the two men running back and wanted to say something, but seeing that more and more Cao troops were surrounding them, he had to give up temporarily and rushed into the city with the remaining people.

After returning to the city, Zang Ba counted the number of people. In this night attack, the Taishan Tiger Bandits suffered a loss of up to three thousand people, most of whom were killed by these famous Anluo generals who were there to cover their retreat.

Zang Ba was already feeling extremely regretful at this time.

He just didn't understand why he was so impulsive and insisted on taking this group of stupid teammates to launch a night attack?

A good night attack was turned into an offensive.

Surena didn't look sad at all, and even seemed to want to laugh.

The one who died was the famous general of the Roman Empire, Trajan, not the one who rested in peace, which indeed achieved the purpose of his original visit.

Even though she was happy, Surena could only hold back her smile and pretend to be sad. She comforted Fabian who was coaxing her eyes beside her and looked at Zang Ba.

"General Zang Ba, can we say that this is a successful night raid?"

Success? What a success! The Taishan Tiger Bandits were elite troops, but what about Cao's army? What did they gain by using 3,000 elite troops? Cao's army lost at most 5,000 troops. 3,000 elite troops were exchanged for 5,000 ordinary soldiers. Only the Anluo people could say that this was a success.

Zang Ba was now full of grievances, but he had no way to speak them out. He could only sigh helplessly and waved at these people, asking them to disappear. Otherwise, he really wouldn't be able to hold it in any longer and would just curse them to death.

After everyone left, Zang Ba wrote down everything he had done and seen in the past few days after he arrived in a military report and handed it to Pang De in Linjiang City.

When Pang De saw the military report, he didn't know what to do for a moment. He could only send it to Gu Rubing in Jiaozhou at an urgent speed of 800 miles.

Cangwu County.

Gu Rubing looked at the battle report on the table and fell into deep thought.

There were 100,000 men defending the city, and there were also ten famous generals. However, in five days, the casualties reached 80,000. Even the Taishan tiger bandits suffered losses of 5,000. If the enemy had really more people, Gu Rubing would have understood.

But there were only 100,000 troops and three famous generals to oppose.

Gu Rubing looked at the burning candle and thought for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out how this battle was fought.

After an hour, Gu Rubing still couldn't figure it out. In the end, he could only sigh and continue reading the battle report.

When he finally saw that two famous generals of the Anluo Empire had died, he stood up from his chair.

Because of the fast speed and great force, the chair fell directly to the ground.

When Gu Rubing saw that the person who killed the two famous generals was not the same person, he breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time he felt a little scared.

Now the legendary generals of both sides have reached a balanced state. If the other side adds one more, my situation will be very dangerous.

How could this be called in reinforcements? This was just an experience pool for them. If these ten famous generals were to die, Cao Cao would definitely have one or even two more legendary generals.

"What a bunch of idiots! What on earth was Zang Ba thinking, bringing these idiots to launch a night attack?"

After Gu Rubing finished muttering, he went straight to Zhuge Liang overnight. After seeing the battle report in Gu Rubing's hand, Zhuge Liang also fell silent.

After a long time, Zhuge Liang suddenly asked: "My lord, are these our people? Aren't they Cao Cao's?"

"..."

Gu Rubing was also a little amused and helpless about Zhuge Liang's question.

"Prime Minister, given the current situation, do we still need to attack Yizhou? Given the current situation in Yizhou, if we continue to fight, we will definitely need to increase our troops, but we are currently running low on food and grass."

After hearing this, Zhuge Liang looked at the map and finally sighed.

"My lord, let Pang De and his men withdraw. We don't need Yizhou anymore. The problem of food and grass has not been solved yet. Liang has thought of a solution, but it's a bit troublesome."

Upon hearing that Zhuge Liang had a solution, Gu Rubing put the affairs of Yizhou aside.

"Now the entire north is suffering from locust plagues, and the harvest of crops has been damaged. The remaining Xiliang and other places are even poorer prefectures and counties. They usually need support from the northern cities, let alone now. Therefore, the only place without problems is the south."

After saying this, Zhuge Liang took the map next to him.

"My lord, in the south, Yizhou has fertile soil and abundant food and grass, but it is controlled by Cao Cao and is easy to defend but difficult to attack. If we want to take Yizhou, we will suffer a lot of losses and it will take a long time. I am afraid our food and grass will not hold up."

"As for Jiaozhou, the grain and grass income is also good, but it is jointly controlled by Cao Cao and Sun Jian. Both sides have hundreds of thousands of troops, and it is difficult to determine the winner for a while. So I suggest that we send troops from Yuzhang County and Guangling County at the same time and take Yangzhou in one go."

"Yangzhou?"

Gu Rubing did not expect that Zhuge Liang would choose Yangzhou right away.

Yangzhou is where Sun Jian started his career. There are many families living there, and Sun Jian has been there for many years. Even if he takes over Yangzhou, he will probably still be in trouble.

"Yes, it is Yangzhou. In comparison, the terrain of Yangzhou is more suitable for us to attack. In addition, Yangzhou's combat effectiveness is relatively low, and the number of defenders is not large, which is just right for us. The most important thing is that Yangzhou's soil and water are fertile, better than Jiaozhou."

Gu Rubing didn't say anything, but looked at the map.

No matter what, Yangzhou is Sun Jian's base camp. If they really attack Yangzhou, will Sun Jian defend it to the death? There are three legendary generals there, two of whom can make poison. If a fight really breaks out, the losses may not be less than attacking Yizhou.

Seeing that Gu Rubing was still hesitating, Zhuge Liang stood up.

"My lord, we don't have much time to make a choice now. Many soldiers have already known about the locusts in the north, and everyone is worried about the problem of food and grass. If my lord is worried about Sun Jian's problem, it is completely unnecessary."

"Ok?"

Gu Rubing looked at Zhuge Liang in confusion. His guess was correct. He was indeed worried about Sun Jian's desperate resistance.

"My lord, Sun Jian has overdrawn all of Yangzhou's potential in order to fight us. Now the people of Yangzhou are either dead or gone. The young and strong men in the entire state add up to only 60,000. It will take at least ten years for Yangzhou to fully recover. What we lack the most is civilians. There are even many refugees in various states and counties. We can give Jiaozhou to Sun Jian in exchange for Yangzhou."

Zhuge Liang's words woke Gu Rubing up. Sun Jian should not fight to the death to exchange Jiaozhou, which has great potential, for Yangzhou, which has already been overdrawn. However, if he wants to achieve this, he must let Sun Jian get Jiaozhou reasonably.

Thinking of this, Gu Rubing immediately asked someone to bring Sun Shangxiang over.

Sun Shangxiang was called over by Gu Rubing late at night and was very resentful.

"Why did you call me here?"

Hearing this, Gu Rubing smiled and said, "I heard that you want to go back to Jiangdong?"

"Ok?"

Sun Shangxiang looked at Gu Rubing in confusion. Do I need to hear this? She had told Gu Rubing in person that she wanted to go back.

But at that time, Gu Rubing not only disagreed, but also had himself locked up.

"Nonsense, let me go?"

"Of course, since Miss Sun is not happy here with me, I will let you go back."

"it is good."

After hearing this, Sun Shangxiang turned around and prepared to leave to pack her luggage.

"Wait a minute, Miss Sun, although I promised to let you go back, but not now. I will notify your father to come pick you up in person. Otherwise, if something happens on your way back, how will you let me explain it?"

Sun Shangxiang didn't think much about it and just nodded in agreement.

That night, Gu Rubing sent out two invitation letters, one to Sun Jian and the other to Cao Cao.

When they learned that Gu Rubing actually wanted to send Sun Shangxiang back, they were a little confused.

The existence of Sun Shangxiang is to strengthen the alliance between the two. As long as Sun Shangxiang is still in Liu Bei's hands, this marriage will not be successful, and the problems of this alliance will naturally become bigger and bigger. They can figure out such things, so how could Liu Bei not figure it out?
But now Liu Bei really wants to send Sun Shangxiang back. Cao Cao feels that this might be Gu Rubing's strategy, but he can't figure out why Gu Rubing does this.

Sun Jian was also confused at this time, and even called Zhou Yu. The two studied it for a whole night but could not come to any conclusion.

Noon the next day.

The two came to the outside of the city.

At this time, Gu Rubing, along with Sun Shangxiang, Zhao Yun and others, had been waiting here for a long time.

When Sun Jian saw that Sun Shangxiang was safe and sound, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"King Lie, thank you for sending my daughter back. What does King Lie want?"

"You don't need anything. I brought my niece back home because I thought she was unsafe outside and wanted to protect her. Now that she wants to go back, it's hard for me, as her uncle, to stop her."

Upon hearing this, Sun Jian gave Gu Rubing a cold look. Even a fool could tell that Gu Rubing was lying.

Cao Cao was standing aside, listening to what the two were saying, and then looking at Sun Shangxiang who had been silent. He had a feeling that something had happened between Gu Rubing and Sun Shangxiang.
Not only Cao Cao had such thoughts, but Cao Zhang beside him also had the same feeling. The way he looked at Sun Shangxiang changed a little at this time.

Gu Rubing waved his hand.

Under the escort of Zhao Yun, Sun Shangxiang came to Sun Ce.

"Alright, you two. I've already returned Miss Sun. If there's nothing else, I'll leave."

Gu Rubing turned around and went back to the city without any hesitation.

Looking at Gu Rubing's back, Sun Jian frowned slightly, thought of something, and turned to look at Sun Shangxiang.

"Shangxiang, you and Liu Bei, can you..."

Sun Jian did not ask the rest of the question. After all, there were many people present and he couldn't ask too obvious questions.

Sun Shangxiang didn't understand what Sun Jian meant, so she didn't answer.

But this silence made everyone think that Sun Shangxiang agreed to this matter, and Cao Cao's face changed drastically.

Cao Zhang snorted coldly, turned around and left.

"Sun Jian, what do you think about this?"

Cao Cao no longer had a good tone at this time, and his face became completely gloomy. (End of this chapter)