?After Fa Zheng arrived at the Jingmen Mountain position, he handed over 100,000 new soldiers from Yizhou to Zhang Ren, the marshal of the Eastern Route Army. He took dozens of guards to dress up as the people in the mountains, secretly inspected the mountains, rivers, terrain and customs of Yiling, Yishan and Yidao, and then returned to Huya Mountain and proposed a brand new combat suggestion to Zhang Ren.-.

To sum up Fa Zheng’s plan, it is the eight words “hiding the truth and showing the false, and provoking discord.”

Now, considering the 100,000 troops brought by Fa from Chengdu, Zhang Ren's troops gathered near Huya Mountain has reached 180,000, which is no less than Liu Bei's army recorded in historical books to attack Wu (When Liu Bei attacked Wu, he claimed to be a 700,000 army, but in fact there were less than 200,000 people,)

Although Zhang Ren's troops had the advantage since he began to attack Huya Mountain, there was no way to deal with Huang Zhong. The key was two points. First, Huya Mountain was not conducive to the deployment of all the troops. Even if there were more troops, no more than 10,000 people could be put into battle head-on. Second, the fortifications on Huya Mountain were built by Huang Zhong like a huge hedgehog, which made the Yizhou army feel a sense of arrogance. I don't know where Huang Zhong learned these "bad-hearted" methods.

After Zhang Ren arrived at Jingmen Mountain, he did not think about bypassing Huya Mountain and leading a large army to attack Yidao from the west bank of the Yangtze River, and then first seized Jiangling City, the capital of Nanjun. However, with the troops at that time, if Zhang Ren attacked Yidao first, Huang Zhong would send troops from Huya Mountain to regain Jingmen Mountain, then cut off the Yizhou army's food and grass supply, and cut off the retreat of the Yizhou army. In this way, the morale of the Yizhou army would be greatly defeated and would be defeated without fighting. Even if the Eastern Army could barely persist, if Liu Biao sent an army to reinforce Jiangling from Xiangyang, what should the Yizhou army, which detoured the Yidao, go to the next step.

It was precisely for these reasons that after Zhang Ren arrived in Yiling, although he rectified the two troops of Wu Yi and Jia Long and commanded the army to seize Jingmen Mountain from Huang Zhong, he could not do anything great afterwards. It was not that Zhang Ren did not understand the art of military affairs, but that the geographical location of Huya Mountain was too special and prominent, which made it difficult to ignore it.

The strategy proposed by Fa Zheng this time was to fully draw on Zhang Ren's previous experience in using military forces in Huya Mountain, and add more content on the basis of detours to the barbarian path.

The truth is revealed, which means that the two 80,000 veterans from Wu Yi and Jia Long from Jingmen Mountain with rich combat experience are replaced, and the 100,000 new troops in Yizhou will be added, which will create the illusion that the troops in Jingmen Mountain are still slowly increasing.

Of course, how to withdraw and increase troops from Jingmen Mountain positions is a very patient and meticulous technical task. It cannot be replaced at once, nor can it be too slow to delay the follow-up actions of the army.

The eighty thousand elite troops of Yizhou who were replaced first quietly retreated westward to Qishan, and then went downstream from the Yishui River in the southern part of Qishan to attack Yidao. The news reached Huya Mountain. If Huang Zhong led his army to attack Jingmen Mountain, the army turned around and rushed towards Huya Mountain, partially drove Huang Zhong's troops and Li Yan, and then defeated them each; if Huang Zhong did not move his troops and Li Yan sent troops to rescue Yidao, he would fall into Fa Zheng's mind and directly ate Li Yan's troops.

So, where did the "disaster" come from in Fa Zheng's strategy? It turned out that Fa Zheng secretly analyzed the personalities of Huang Zhong and Li Yan. He found that although Huang Zhong and Li Yan were both good generals, Li Yan liked autocracy. At that time, Huang Zhong was still under Li Yan, but now he became a general in the Dushi area. Moreover, because he defended Yiling, his reputation and status in Jingzhou are even higher than Li Yan. This time, Huang Zhong and Li Yan worked together to defend Yiling, but Huang Zhong was the main and Li Yan was the auxiliary. Li Yan was really convinced.

Huang Zhong has a calm personality and Li Yan is very happy to be successful. As long as the two of them have obvious differences in their judgment on the Yizhou army, no matter which unit leaves Huya Mountain, Zhang Ren has a way to encircle and annihilate the troops divided into two places.

After hearing Fa Zheng's plan, Zhang Ren slapped his thigh with his hand and exclaimed: "Xiaozhi is indeed extremely smart and has a very good plan. I will arrange for my subordinates to start taking action!"

In the next few days, 100,000 new soldiers in Yizhou who were hiding behind Jingmen Mountain were taken to the Jingmen Mountain position in batches. The Yizhou soldiers who were originally defending Jingmen Mountain retreated twice as night. After all the soldiers on the mountain retreated, there were only 40,000 soldiers transferred up the mountain. Next, Zhang Ren ordered the remaining 60,000 new soldiers who were still outside the mountain to be transferred to the top of the mountain in a divine place in the sky. In this way, the feeling that outsiders were caused is that another 60,000 soldiers were added to Jingmen Mountain.

Sixty thousand new recruits were transferred to Jingmen Mountain every day, and it took half a month until the transfer was finally completed. During this half month, the 80,000 Yizhou veterans who had retreated from the top of the mountain had bypassed the mountain and then went down the Yishui River and successfully captured the empty Yidao of defense.

After capturing the Yidao, Zhang Ren ambushed the 80,000 troops in the forest leading to the Yidao on the side of Huya Mountain, and then waited for the movement on Huya Mountain.

Some of the Jingzhou soldiers who were deliberately released from Yidao City were fled towards Jiangling, while others fled towards Huya Mountain. The Jingzhou soldiers who fled to Huya Mountain naturally had to report the news of Yidao's loss to Huang Zhong and Li Yan. At that time, Zhang Ren commanded only 5,000 troops to attack Yidao City, while the rest of the army was hidden behind and did not allow the defenders in Yidao City to see it. Therefore, when these surrendered soldiers reported to Huang Zhong and Li Yan, they said that there were only about 5,000 troops to attack Yidao.

After Huang Zhong and Li Yan heard the reports of these soldiers, their ideas were different.

Huang Zhong already knew that there were now a large army of reinforcements on Jingmen Mountain, separated by a river. Where did the five thousand Yizhou troops suddenly appear near Yidao go from? Huang Zhong carefully studied the high-definition military map provided to him by Lu Meng, and then felt that the thousands of Yizhou soldiers suddenly appeared under Yidao City were very strange, so he insisted not to rescue Yidao for the time being, carefully observed the follow-up actions of the Jingmen Mountain defenders before making a decision.

As a helping Huang Zhong defend Yiling, Li Yan had different ideas from Huang Zhong. He felt that Huang Zhong was too cautious. Since the Yizhou troops stationed in Jingmen Mountain had increased, it means that the small troops that suddenly appeared near Yidao were just Zhang Ren's trick, and his main attack direction was still Huya Mountain.

Li Yan proposed to Huang Zhong that he would lead 20,000 troops to Yidao to destroy a small group of Yizhou troops. Huang Zhong wanted to stop him, but when Li Yan came to Huya Mountain, he brought 30,000 troops. Now he left 10,000 people for him, so he couldn't delay Li Yan going down the mountain to accumulate merits. Anyway, Yidao is very close to Huya Mountain. If Li Yan encounters any difficulties, he can retreat quickly, and there must be no big problem.

In this way, Fa Zheng’s plan will really succeed. Please see if there is no advertisement for the first release--.

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