These kidnapped horses that raided everywhere in the heart of Shu for five or six days, finally retreated because of the food. After 800 horses gathered north of Luocheng, they quickly returned to Jiange together.

Lu Bu listened carefully to the report of the leader general and thought to himself [As a matter of fact, Zhuge Liang tried to use a strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields and supplementing the strategy of cutting off the rear roads and cutting off the food routes of the army. Moreover, the two battalions of the east and west had enough food storage, because for so long, the raided cattle horses did not find the team that transported supplies and food for these two camps.]

In addition, based on the information they provided, Lu Bu also concluded that Zhuge Liang would move all the farmers outside the city walls to the southeast of Bashu. There was a range outside the combat radius of the kidnapped horse without logistics. Therefore, the old routine of riding horses and burning the valley in the autumn harvest season will not work.

[We have to find a way to force the Shu army to fight me in a decisive battle.] Lu Bu continued to think along this line and suddenly had an idea jumped out of his mind.

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The Shu army stationed in the east and west camps, the two camps of the east and west camps, discovered unusual movements of Lu Bu army in the past few days. They began to dig trenches outside the camp and build barriers. And not one, it was two. One inside was used to siege the Shu army camps, and one outside resisted the attack of the Shu army to aid the Shu army. The two inner and outer barriers formed a circular camp. A tall log was established on the half-height rammed earth barrier. There was a tower every 100 meters.

At first, Wei Yan, the chief general of the Dongdaying, and Yan Yan, the new chief general of the Xidaying, did not care about it. They believed that the enemy was nothing more than building a camp to confront him nearby, and at most it would affect his own supply safety. But military advisor Zhuge Liang had long thought of this, and the camp had stockpiled enough food and supplies for the soldiers for a year and a half.

As the other party's project progressed, they felt something was wrong and their intuition told them that it was very dangerous. So they reported this situation to Cheng Du one after another. However, Ling Bing was soon captured by Lu Bu's scout, and the information was not sent out.

On the periphery of Xidaying, some Lu Bu soldiers were digging the trench with some special equipment. Some special equipment was no different from later military engineer shovels and engineer hoes. There was also a special plow shovel specially used to dig trenches, which were driven by plowing oxen.

On the side, some soldiers used a special equipment to compact the soil barrier on the side of the trench. This special equipment uses pulleys, ratchets, reset pedals, etc. A group of several soldiers, repeatedly stepping on the pedals, can rhythmically let the machine's pile hammer hit the soil barrier repeatedly, which saves much effort than the traditional pile driving method. This is also produced by the dark high-end workshop of the city building, and of course it was designed by Lu Bu himself.

Suddenly, with the sound of horses neighing, more than a hundred cavalry and Shu cavalry rushed out of the Xidaying camp, with horse hooves flying and swords waving. Obviously, they were going to kill the soldiers of Lu Bu army who were under construction.

On the Lu Bu military construction site, the sound of a trumpet sounded immediately. The soldiers under construction and some soldiers guarding from the rear gathered together to prepare for battle. The crossbow tools in their hands were the Lu Bu crossbow that had just been issued.

When the Shu cavalry rushed to a range of 100 meters, the arrows were fired and poured towards the other side like heavy rain. One wave after another, continuous. The Shu cavalry was shot and fell to the ground, and some were frightened war horses that were injured and frightened. But after several waves of shooting, the remaining dozens of cavalry rushed over, and the soldiers of the Lu Bu army stopped shooting and dispersed to both sides.

When the Shu cavalry was about to massacre these scattered infantry, more than a hundred crooked horses patrolling not far away joined the battle group. These Shu cavalry were the latter's opponents, and in a moment, they were almost killed. In the end, only a dozen cavalry fled back to Xidaying.

This is a group of dozens of cavalry sent by Yan Yan. Their mission is to attack and harass the soldiers of the Lu Bu army under construction to obstruct the completion of the fortifications. However, these cavalry were all devastatingly hit by the crossbowmen of the Lu Bu army and the cavalry of the crooked horse. Wei Yan of the Dongda Camp also took the same measures and suffered the same consequences. After several such attempts, Yan Yan and Wei Yan did not make such unnecessary attempts.

Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and others who lived in Chengdu did not receive reports from the East and West Camp for more than 20 consecutive days. Zhuge Liang realized that something might have happened because he ordered Yan Yan and Wei Yan to report the battle situation to Chengdu every half a month. Zhuge Liang immediately ordered the nearby Fucheng defenders to investigate.

Soon, Zhuge Liang learned about Lu Bu building fortifications around the camp. He thought carefully for a moment and immediately understood what Lu Bu was going to do. He wanted to use two ring camps to lock his own camp, and he could not let Lu Bu succeed, otherwise the camp would be in danger! Cheng Du would be in danger! The entire plain in Shu would be in danger!

Zhuge Liang reported this emergency to Liu Bei at the first time and explained the great relationship. Without saying a word, Liu Bei ordered Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun to take 10,000 troops to rescue the two camps. Zhuge Liang said to Liu Bei: "Lord, this matter needs Liang to go in person. This Lu Bu is definitely not the ordinary man I have heard of. He is extremely wise and I am afraid that Yide and Zilong will fall into Lu Bu's treacherous plan."

Liu Bei replied: "It's so great, it's just a hard-working military advisor."

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Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei's 10,000 troops drove northward and were stationed in Fucheng two days later. At this time, Lu Bu had learned of the attack of Liu Bei's two armies through his scouts and estimated the general strength of the other party. Each army had about 10,000 people. After Lu Bu calculated, these two locations currently gathered 40% of the Shu army. If he could win in one battle, it would be equivalent to getting half of the Bashu land.

On the day when he was stationed in Fucheng, Zhuge Liang sent a team of scouts cavalry to Xidaying a hundred miles away to investigate the enemy situation. The scouts had basically completed the construction of the enemy's camp. Zhuge Liang said to himself in surprise: "How is it possible? The construction period is up to twenty days, and a belt-shaped camp can be built to lock Xidaying in more than twenty days. How much manpower does it take? Where did Lu Bu get so much manpower? Did he transfer most of the troops from the three prefectures and two counties?"

Zhuge Liang was thinking, and Zhang Fei walked over casually and said loudly: "Military advisor, why are we unable to move forward? This Fucheng is still a hundred miles away from Xidaying."

The sudden voice scared Zhuge Liang. He glanced at him and found that it was Zhang Fei. Zhuge Liang then responded: "Lu Bu has already prepared something and has built the outer camp. This person is extremely treacherous, so we must act cautiously. The army stationed in Fucheng, have some support, and facilitates us to build necessary siege tools such as must-tree chariots. After confirming that there are no ambush around and the siege tools are prepared, we can only break the siege of Xidaying."

"Hey, military advisor, you look down on Lu Bu too much. He is a slave of the three surnames. He has been able to find the three states and two counties by recognizing his father everywhere and being lucky. You let me take five thousand elite soldiers to break the birdman's formation."
Chapter completed!