Chapter 228 Zhuge Liang has a legacy

Previous revision: Xinye has 13 active personnel, so I forgot about Liu Feng.

Since Liu Bei had agreed to decentralize power, the generals naturally couldn't say anything. Just as Zhang Fei and others were ready to wait for Zhuge Liang to give orders, Zhuge Liang looked up at the sky and said:

"It's still early, everyone will go back to Xinye City for dinner and rest, and then listen to my order after dinner."

Zhang Fei couldn't help but say again:

"Although I, Zhang Fei, do not know the art of military affairs well, I also know the principle that military power is the most important thing. The 130,000 vanguard troops of Cao's army are stationed here, and a large number of follow-up troops are still coming. Since you have been ordered to the military advisor, you should come up with ideas as soon as possible to make the vanguard troops retreat, but how can you let us go back to the city? If the vanguard troops of Cao's army come to attack the city, how can you defend against the enemy?"

Zhang Fei expressed the thoughts in many military generals. Although Liu Bei was also doubting whether Zhuge Liang could do it, since he had decided to "use people without doubt", he had to stick to his established policy. Therefore, when Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan and chuckled without saying a word, Liu Bei turned his head and scolded Zhang Fei:

"The third brother must not be rude! Have you forgotten the power I just granted to the military advisor? Now the military advisor ordered you to return to the city to rest, so you should go back quickly!"

After Liu Bei said this, everyone had to bear the anger and go back to Xinye according to Zhuge Liang's wishes. After lunch, they rested for an afternoon, and had a full meal in the evening. Then Zhuge Liang dispatched troops in the main hall of the palace.

First, Zhuge Liang briefly introduced the terrain of Bowangpo:

"There is a mountain on the left of Bowang, called Yushan; the forest on the right is called Anlin, both of which can be ambushed military horses."

Then the official dispatch of candidates began:

"General Zhang Fei led 10,000 cavalry to ambush on Yushan. Cao's army should not be enemies at that time, but you can only attack when the fire breaks out in the south."

"General Zhao Yun led 10,000 crossbowmen to ambush Anlin, and also let Cao's army go until the fire broke out in the south before attacking."

"General Liu Feng and General Wu Fang led 10,000 crossbowmen to prepare fire-induced objects and lie on both sides of the roadside at the southern end of Bowangpo. When they saw Cao's army coming, they could set fire and attack."

"General Guan Ping led 10,000 new soldiers to attack Cao's camp at night. Once Cao's army is alarmed, he will immediately lead troops to withdraw and there must be no mistakes."

"The lord can lead 10,000 old, weak and remnants to pick up General Guan on the way. After seeing Cao's army chased him, he immediately retreated to the south."

After some dispatch, all the generals under Liu Bei, including Liu Bei himself, were sent to the battlefield. Due to the extremely shortage of funds during the three-year cession period of Xinye City, the army only increased by about 10,000 to the original 40,000 people. Now 50,000 people have been dispatched, which is almost the entire force of Xinye City.

Liu Bei's military generals were all suspicious of Zhuge Liang. When his adopted son Liu Feng saw that Zhuge Liang had finished his troops, he couldn't help but ask:

"The military advisor ordered us to go to meet the enemy, but I don't know what the military advisor did?"

Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan lightly and said:

"I just sit in the city."

Zhang Fei laughed and said:

"We're all going to fight, but you sit at home, so comfortable!"

Zhuge Liang did not pay much to Zhang Fei; "I have issued a transfer order, and those who violate the order will be killed!"

Seeing this, Liu Bei once again said to Zhuge Liang:

"Are you not hearing the saying that you are planning to win a thousand miles away? Don't say too much, just follow the orders of the military advisor!"

Everyone had to leave.

Afterwards, Zhuge Liang ordered Sun Gan, Jian Yong, Zhong Yao and others to prepare a celebration banquet in the city and arrange a "military merit book" to serve. After the assignment was completed, everyone took the order and left. Liu Bei was confused when he saw Zhuge Liang so confident. However, he had already said it, so he had to act according to Zhuge Liang's instructions.

When Liu Bei's generals led their troops out of the city, it was around 5 pm. When all the troops were already lying at the predetermined location and Guan Ping led another 10,000 new recruits to attack the camp, it was already two o'clock in the middle of the night.

The reason why Zhuge Liang asked Guan Ping to lead the new soldiers to attack the camp was due to two considerations: one was to preserve its strength, and the other was to make Cao's army think that Liu Bei's army had low combat power, so he took a care of attacking.

When the ten thousand new soldiers led by Guan Ping appeared at the camp gate, the soldiers on duty of Cao's army naturally appeared, and quickly knocked on the gong to warn the enemy to attack the camp. After Guan Ping led his army to destroy the camp gate, Cao's soldiers had already swarmed out of various tents. Seeing that the goal of alarming Cao's army had been achieved, Guan Ping then pretended to be defeated and led his troops to retreat.

At the same time, Wu Fan's apprentice, Pioneer Li Zhan, was already neatly dressed and came to the Pioneer's tent.

After learning that Liu Bei's army had left more than a thousand corpses, they retreated in a panic. Cheng Yin, Ma Wan, and Zhang Heng, among the eight cavalry under Han Sui, had led 20,000 troops to pursue him. Li Zhan frowned slightly, and then ordered the commander to say:

"Crash to the front of the army as fast as possible and inform these three generals to lead the army back to the camp immediately, and there must be no mistakes!"

Liang Xing, who was also one of the eight cavalry under Han Sui, asked Li Zhan at this time:

"Person Pioneer, the enemy has come to the camp over his own ability and was defeated by our army and fled. Now is a great time to pursue them. Why did Pioneer let our soldiers retreat?"

Li Zhandao:

"Liu Bei is not a reckless person. He still attacked the camp even though he knew that his troops were not as strong as our army. I must have made sufficient preparations. Although I am not sure what Liu Bei's real purpose is, at least he can be sure that his purpose is not just to attack the camp. Moreover, when the governor left, he specifically told me not to face the enemy impulse, so I ordered these troops to retreat."

Li Zhan is not like Wu Fan. He doesn't know Zhuge Liang, and he doesn't even know who Zhuge Liang is. However, Li Zhan has some understanding of Liu Bei, so it is normal to analyze this matter from Liu Bei's standpoint. In addition, Li Zhanchu was the pioneer and was always Wu Fan's general before, and his official ambition has not yet been formed. Therefore, he not only knew everything about his subordinates, but also answered very detailedly.

A moment later, Cheng Yin and the other two led their troops back. Li Zhan then ordered everyone to be closely guarded and not to move lightly in the camp. Everyone took the order and left.

At the same time, Guan Ping led the remaining about 8,000 new recruits to run in front. A messenger from behind ran up and told Guan Ping that Cao's pursuit had retreated. Guan Ping was very confused and couldn't figure out how Cao's army was chasing him tightly, so why did he retreat in a while?

At this time, Guan Ping had already run to Liu Bei's army, who was responsible for receiving the response, and told Liu Bei about this matter. Liu Bei then waited here for two hours until the sky was already bright, and Cao's army was still not chasing him. The sentry sent back and said that the Cao army's vanguard camp had repaired the camp gate and could not be guarded.

In this way, everyone could see that the plan to lure the enemy was failed. Liu Bei had to instruct the messenger to inform Zhang Fei and others who were still lying in ambush to lead their troops back to Xinye City.

Everyone led their troops back dejectedly, with a sense of resentment in their stomachs. When they arrived at the moat in Xinye City, Zhuge Liang was sitting in a car with a smile and looking at everyone. Seeing everyone coming to the moat, Zhuge Liang waved his feather fan to the side. The soldiers who had already been waiting on the city immediately played the vocal music, but it was "Going Victory".

Zhang Fei was about to rush, but Feng Fang beside him yelled in advance:

"Enough! Stop pretending!"

Zhuge Liang sat on the top of the city, laughing and waved the feather fan to the other side, signaling to lower the suspension bridge and open the city gate. In addition, the vocal music around him was deafening, and he didn't hear the sound of Yu Fang. It was not until almost all the generals shouted to stop, Zhuge Liang noticed something was wrong, and quickly asked the soldiers to stop playing music, stood up from the car and walked down the city tower, and came to the city gate to receive Liu Bei, he first glanced at everyone's faces, and then asked Liu Bei:

"Why are the lord and the generals flirting with grudges? Could it be that this ambush has not surpassed Cao's army?"

Liu Feng continued:

"Cao Army? We didn't even see the shadow of Cao Army!"

Zhuge Liang frowned deeply, and turned to Guan Ping to ask about the incident. Guan Ping said that Cao's army had been chasing, but later suddenly retreated for some reason. Zhuge Liang nodded slightly after hearing this and said:

"It seems that this Cao army vanguard Li Zhan is not simple. This person has never been able to take on important tasks before. He is only a general under Wu Fan. He did not expect to be so calm and unstoppable as a vanguard. I underestimate this person."

Zhang Fei sneered:

"You underestimate others, but we overestimate you. I squatted outside for a night and didn't even see the shadow of Cao Jun, but you were leisurely and leisurely in this city!"

Zhang Fei's words ignited the anger that everyone was holding in their hearts. Because Liu Bei couldn't say anything here, he could only look at Zhuge Liang with an angry look. Xu Shu hurriedly stood up and said:

"There are many variables in planning, but in fact, it is to seek victory in change. The reason why I made a mistake this time was because Mr. Kong Ming was not familiar with the vanguard of the Cao army, and the variables were larger than expected, which led to this. The generals asked to calm down and let Mr. Kong Ming make a good plan again."

Zhang Fei had wanted to say something else, but Liu Bei gave Zhang Fei a look and signaled that Zhang Fei not to continue talking. Zhang Fei had to groan and walked away alone.

Liu Bei actually did not believe in Zhuge Liang very much. However, Zhuge Liang had a long reputation in Longzhong area, and there were even rumors that he could win the world if he could win. Liu Bei attached great importance to fame and background when using people, so he had more trust in Zhuge Liang. Moreover, facing Wu Fan's 500,000 troops, Xinye could not have been able to defend it. Since this was the case, Liu Bei complained about the indifference of giving up and let Zhuge Liang do it.

Zhuge Liang also understood that this was his last chance and he would never make any mistakes. Therefore, he immediately decided: today's ambush operation was in person, and the specific deployment was not much different from last night. However, he put the time during the day and changed from the original attack camp to a slandering formation along Guan Ping's way. Zhuge Liang and Guan Ping moved forward together.

The celebration banquet that had been prepared last night had already been set up, and the military merit book was ready, so I was waiting to celebrate Liu Bei and others for their celebration. At this time, it seemed extremely funny to everyone. Zhuge Liang was also embarrassed about this, and his face turned red and white. However, since it had been put on, there was no reason to waste. Everyone ate the celebration banquet in advance, then rested for a long time, and after lunch, they sent troops to Bowangpo for the second time.

On the way, Zhang Fei and others were ambushed at the scheduled location. Zhuge Liang and Guan Ping led more than 8,000 new recruits to the Cao army's vanguard camp and began to challenge the enemy's rebuke.

First, the soldiers under his command cursed for a while, but because Li Zhanming ordered the generals not to lead the troops to attack without authorization, it was of course of no use. Then Zhuge Liang had to go forward in person, sit in the car and watch the camp gate for a while, and just saw Liang Xing climbing a guardhouse near the camp gate, probably to observe the enemy situation. Zhuge Liang smiled slightly and immediately took a plan to Liang Xing-

"Our army will win this battle. If the enemy generals are afraid of fighting, it is better to surrender early!"

This sentence sounded nothing on the surface, but because it had skill effects, Liang Xing was immediately furious when he heard it, and there was obviously anger on his head. After getting off the guardhouse, Liang Xing led his three thousand soldiers to open the camp gate and rushed towards Zhuge Liang!

After seeing Liang Xing leading his troops out, Zhang Heng, Ma Wan, and Yang Qiu, worried that Liang Xing would encounter an accident, so he quickly led his troops out of the camp, wanting to take Liang Xing back. However, Liang Xing fell into Zhuge Liang's plan and was angry. No one came forward to persuade him, but he just stared at him and led his troops to rush to Liu Bei's army, vowing to kill Zhuge Liang.

None of the four of them had the ability to calm Liang Xing and could not appease Liang Xing, so they had to lead their troops around Liang Xing's troops. In order for a long time, Liang Xing could wake up and return to the camp together.

Zhuge Liang naturally wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to command the troops to fight and retreat, and act vulnerable, luring Liang Xing and others to the pre-set ambush location.

At this time, Li Zhan, who was in the vanguard tent, had already learned from the commander that Liang Xing and others led their troops out of the camp. Although these temporary generals under Li Zhan did not have the sedation skills, Li Zhan himself was an exception. Therefore, after learning that Liang Xing was taken by Zhuge Liang, Li Zhan immediately decided to go out of the camp himself, appease Liang Xing, and take him back to the camp.

However, as a vanguard, Li Zhan could not go out of the camp alone, but ordered Zhang Ren, Wen Pin, Zang Ba and Zhang Xiu to accompany him and lead 50,000 cavalrymen.

As for the camp, Han Sui and his subordinates Cheng Yi, Li Kan and the other three were guarding him, and Han Sui was strictly ordered to be defended but not attacked. Afterwards, Li Zhan and Zhang Ren and four other four generals led 50,000 cavalry out of the camp to chase Liang Xing and others.

When Li Zhan caught up with Liang Xing and others, he was about ten miles away from the Pioneer Camp. Liang Xing and others had defeated Liu Bei, who was pretending to support Zhuge Liang.

Because he saw Liu Bei, except for Liang Xing's attention was still on Zhuge Liang because he was picked, the other four people all rushed to Liu Bei, thinking that they could pacify Xinye by killing Liu Bei, which was naturally a great achievement. Therefore, these people went from having to follow Zhuge Liang's army to actively pursue Liu Bei's army, and the march was much faster.

Li Zhan took the lead and rushed to Liang Xing's side and used the calming skill on him. He used it twice in a row. After about one minute, Liang Xing finally woke up.

Afterwards, Li Zhan was about to order all the troops to return to the camp, Zhuge Liang waved his feather fan again, and ordered Zhang Heng, candidate and Ma Wan to be selected again, abandoned Liu Bei, and continued to chase Zhuge Liang and beat him hard.

This made Li Zhan very busy. He is not a military advisor type, and strategy skills are not his specialty. It takes two to three times to succeed for each person to comfort him. Zhuge Liang is not only a military advisor type, but also has special attributes that are extremely good at strategy skills. He can choose these people at about 10% at a time.

In fact, Li Zhan could not care about the lives of these people and just stay in the camp, so he would naturally not fall into the passiveness at this time. However, because Li Zhan was particularly respectful to his master Wu Fan, he also knew that he could take the lead this time, which was actually a training opportunity given to him by his master Wu Fan. And these subordinates were actually all of his master Wu Fan's members, and Li Zhan did not want Wu Fan to suffer any losses because of him, including the death of his generals in battle.

Therefore, he knew that Liu Bei's military was inappropriate intent, but he still led his troops to rescue him.

After a lot of busyness, Li Zhan and others were about fifteen miles away from the Pioneer Camp. Seeing that Zhuge Liang took turns to pick Liang Xing and others, he was exhausted and comforted him. Li Zhan was also angry at this time. Seeing that Zhuge Liang did not have many soldiers and horses, only four or five thousand left, Li Zhan ordered Wenpin, Zang Ba and Zhang Xiu to lead 10,000 cavalrymen to attack Zhuge Liang's troops, so that he could take this opportunity to calm Liang Xing and others down and ask them to go back to the camp first to avoid being picked again.

As for Liu Bei, although Li Zhan was not completely sure, he could guess that Liu Bei was ambushing her here. Therefore, he did not order people to pursue Liu Bei, but to pursue Zhuge Liang. His purpose was as mentioned earlier, just to bring all the subordinates of Wu Fan back to the camp.

This strategy is very effective. Zhuge Liang had no way to resist the fierce attack of 30,000 cavalrymen, so he naturally did not care about taking Liang Xing and others and fled in panic. After Li Zhan comforted Liang Xing and others, he ordered them to lead their soldiers back to the Pioneer Camp immediately.

At this time, Zang Ba, who was leading his troops to rush in the front, was about twenty-five miles away from the Pioneer Camp. After Liang Xing and others led their troops away, Li Zhan quickly sent a messenger to inform Zang Ba and others to lead their troops back.

The terrain here is covered with reeds, higher than the top of the head, with many mud beaches and shallow muds nearby. An official road in the middle is not spacious, and only four or five horses can be used in parallel in the narrow areas. Tens of thousands of troops are running on such a narrow road. It is not easy to run from the rear army to the front army to convey the general order.

So, when the commander riding a fast horse finally ran to the front of the army and conveyed Li Zhan's order to retreat to Zang Ba, the front army had already reached the ambush place where Liu Feng and Feng Fang were ambushed. Seeing that Cao's army was indeed coming, the two of them were surprised and immediately lit the fire-burning object that had been prepared. Suddenly, the front army was trapped in a sea of ​​fire...

At the same time, the 370,000 army led by Wu Fan had arrived about twenty miles from the Pioneer Camp, about fifty miles away from Li Zhan's front army. Wu Fan, who was sitting in the commander's exclusive carriage, suddenly received a message of prompting-
Chapter completed!