The only question is whether the information is true or false.

"I think... it should be true..." said a veteran.

"Why?" asked the team leader.

"Look at the picture... it was like a piece of shit..." the veteran said, "If it was fake... shouldn't we draw the trap clearly? Otherwise, we'd read it wrong and go wrong?"

"Hey, it makes sense!"

"That's right, when I saw the villain he drew in the picture, I thought he had piled up turbulent oil and firewood under the city..."

The captain of the cavalry also nodded, "I think it should be true... I just asked a few questions inverted just now, and his answers were the same... OK, clean up, we will go back immediately and report to the general!"

...

...

Zeng Shun is not a professional spy.

He is just an ordinary scholar.

After Li Dian arrived in Hanzhong, he began to send spies to the Shangyong area to collect information.

Zeng Shun is one of them.

Now, Li Dian's move has obviously received some rewards.

The news of Shangyong Shen's weakness was conveyed back by Shangyong's spies, which was also an important reason why Li Dian dared to raid Shangyong directly. Now Fang Ling's information was quickly delivered by the scout of the cavalry, but the picture drawn by Zeng Shun still made Li Dian frown when he saw it.

There is no way to do this. After all, when Li Dian sent these spies, he did not say how to open a course and how to draw a good picture...

Therefore, he could only listen to the retelling of the captain of the cavalry scout while looking at the picture.

"In Fangling East Mountain, there are a large number of Cao troops lying in ambush?" Li Dian pointed to the black blocks at the edge of the map and asked, "How many people do these represent?"

The captain of the cavalry scout replied, "He said he didn't know... but he could see the flags of Cao's army on the mountain, and there were many... He said that he heard from the city garrison that Cao's army came from Cao Zhen and Cao Zidan... He said that tens of thousands of people came...

"Ten Thousands?" Li Dian was stunned for a moment.

The captain of the cavalry scout said: "He said that the guard said so."

Li Dian shook his head, "It's unlikely."

The scout of the cavalry also said, "I don't think it's possible either. Most of the guards praised Cao's number of soldiers."

"Yes." Li Dian nodded.

But Cao's army is here, this is a fact.

Because Zeng Shun said he had seen the supplies sent from Pengshui...

Li Dian felt that Cao's army would definitely not have tens of thousands, but there should be three to five thousand.

This is a bit difficult...

Li Dian never expected that Cao Zhen had less than a thousand people.

After all, the great man is not as good as that general who can carry a small radar with him and count the red dots to confirm the number of people.

Li Dian believed that Zeng Shun did not lie to him.

Zeng Shun did not lie to Li Dian either.

But who would have thought that the error in this was caused by the bragging Di people?

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, the Di people blew the Cao army from thousands to ten thousand people. They said that they shouted every day, and that the more times they were, the people at the foot of Fangling Mountain thought that even if there were not tens of thousands of people, there should be thousands, right?

The key is that there are so many Cao army flags on the mountain...

Li Dian looked at the picture and frowned.

The information he was waiting for did come, but it made Li Dian even more embarrassed.

If Fang Ling only had the original defenders, then it would not be feared at all.

But Cao's army was in trouble when he was in Fangling East Mountain.

And there are quite a lot of...

Li Dian brought himself into the position of Cao's army and would inevitably guard Fangling.

If Fangling County is broken through, it will be equivalent to kicking open the wing gate of Jingzhou, forcing Jingzhou to open business and fight on both sides. Therefore, Cao Zhen eagerly sent people to support Fangling, which is also a measure that is in line with the changes in the war situation.

However, the side gate of Jingzhou is not easy to open. From Shangyong to Fangling, it takes a long mountain road, which is rugged and uneven. Then from Fangling to Jingzhou, although it is more convenient to have Pengshui, the question is how much food and grass can be supported in Fangling?

According to the information reported by Zeng Shun, there were not many storages in Fangling City, so Cao Jun sent a lot of supplies.

From the advantage of this matter, that is, once Fangling is besieged, civil unrest will easily occur inside Fangling, but from another perspective, it means that after taking Fangling, Li Dian will not only not be able to obtain supplies, but may also have to pay it over.

Unless Li Dian orders to drive all the civilians and people from Fangling to the battlefield, or...

If Li Dian is not going to go to Yongfangling in the future, then he can move the people to Hanzhong, just like Cao Cao did in history. However, now he needs Shangyong as a transit station to communicate with Wuguan and Jingzhou, so this kind of extinction method cannot be used.

So, this is naturally a bit troublesome...

You cannot defend the city alone. Similarly, those cities with reinforcements or retreat channels will be more difficult to fight. Regardless of whether the Cao army has tens of thousands, it is certain that as long as the Cao army is located in Fangling East Mountain, Fangling is not an isolated city.

Unless Li Dian can directly add gunpowder to open the gate of Fangling City like the last time, and then take down Fangling in one fell swoop, once the time is delayed, it will leave Cao's army with the opportunity to attack on the flank side, and will also make his too long food outlet a subsequent burden.

There is another hidden danger. Li Dian can send spies to Shangyongfangling and other places. Didn’t Cao’s army send spies to Nanzheng?

Li Dian has now won Shangyong with thunder, which makes it invalid for even the spies of Nanzheng to do and transmit any information. But if the delay in Fangling is too long...

Although there are Wen Si people watching in Nanzheng, Nanzheng is not like Fangling after all, daily transportation of goods and traffic and logistics from north to south are very large. No one dares to say that under such circumstances, he can keep an eye on everyone entering and leaving Nanzheng.

After thinking for a long time, Li Dian decided to enter Fangling.

However, Li Dian's purpose of entering Fangling has changed, from attacking Fangling to a tentative feint!

Li Dian is cautious, so he is not very good at doing high-risk things.

After Li Dian received Zeng Shun's information, he felt that it would be very risky to continue fighting with Cao's army in Fangling. Just like Cao Zhen had fought with Li Dian in the Xicheng area before, the side that was not familiar with the terrain would definitely suffer a loss!

Cao's army was outside Fangling. If Li Dian beat Fangling and could not be defeated in a short time, Cao's army could use their familiarity with the terrain to take the detour, or break Li Dian's retreat. If Li Dian left Fangling and attacked the location of Cao Zhen's forest, not to mention the issue of waiting for work, even if Li Dian's soldiers could be filled in an instant, can the traps and fortifications that Cao Zhen had arranged in the mountains and forests these days be eliminated instantly or directly identified?
Chapter completed!