Chapter 114: A Suspicious Tactic
A long neighing of a healthy horse suddenly cut through the quiet valley, and I saw that a rider had jumped off his horse, looked at the person on the white horse in front of him, gave a military salute, and said, "General Hui, there are still less than sixty miles from Qingzhou." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Li Muqi looked at the valley in front of him, looked at the wooded land, looked at this deep and vast place, and called out, "Where is the guide?" I saw a person dressed simply, very much like the local people, and came out. Looking at the guide officer in front of him, Li Muqi said, "Where is this place?
"This is the gourd valley," the guide responded, "only because the shape of the valley is like a gourd, there are two mountains on the left and right, one is called 'Chu Mountain' and the other is called 'Dusk Mountain', the mountain is more than ten zhang high, the trees on the mountain are deep, endless, only a clear stream leaks out from the twilight mountain, flows in the gourd valley," the right hand pointed forward, and you can hear the sound of gurgling spring water, which sounded far away in the direction he pointed, "That place is the 'Deer Eye Spring'." β
Li Muqi looked at this valley, looked at the trees in the valley, smelled the sound of the clear spring, and couldn't help but smile on his face, "This place is really a good land." Looking at the generals beside him, he smiled and said, "This is the best place to ambush soldiers, if the enemy army arrives here, the whole army will be buried here, and no one can return, but it is also the best place to camp troops at this time..."
"Garrison troops here?" Han Zhongbang was shocked when he heard this, and then looked at the other generals, just like Han Zhongbang's face, even the guide officer heard this, and he instantly climbed on his face like the color of earth ash, and he couldn't say a word in shock. "At this time, the weather is hot, and the water source is also next to it, but this is the best place to garrison soldiers," Han Zhongbang looked at the gourd valley and said slowly, and suddenly looked at Li Muqi with a turn of face and said, "But it is also the most dangerous place." If the enemy attacks with fire, how can our army survive, and I hope the general will think twice..."
"They will not attack, and they will not believe that our army is hiding here," looking at the puzzled look in Han Zhongbang's eyes, he suddenly asked, "Do you know who the lobbyist sent by the emperor to Qingzhou is?"
"I don't know. Han Zhongbang suddenly heard Li Muqi's words, he couldn't help but be stunned, and thought about it carefully, not knowing who that person was.
That person is a friend of the Qingzhou guard Ji Ruolan, and he is also a protΓ©gΓ© of Sima Changming. β
Han Zhongbang was shocked when he heard this. Panicked: "Does the emperor not know about this person?"
"If you don't know, how can you make him this lobbyist?" Li Muqi looked at the puzzled look on Han Zhongbang's face, and said slowly, "This person is the person recommended by Li Muhua, the king of Huai'an. After a pause, he continued, "When the emperor heard the person he recommended, his reaction at that time was the same as that of you, but the emperor quickly understood the meaning of King Huai'an's heart..."
"What do you mean?"
"Have you heard that during the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao used Xu Shu to talk about Liu Bei?"
How could Han Zhongbang not know about this matter, but he was still a little puzzled in his heart. Seeing the smile at the corner of Li Muqi's mouth, he pondered it carefully, with a puzzled look in his eyes, looked at Li Muqi and said, "Could it be that this person is also like Xu Shu, worried about the laughter of people in the world?"
"No, he will never care about this," Li Muqi said, "but this person is a person of great filial piety and a person of benevolence." Li Muqi suddenly stretched his neck, knelt in Han Zhongbang's ear and said, "This person's wife, the old mother has been invited into the palace by the emperor at this time, if he does not return in January, he will definitely receive a gift from the emperor..."
"Oh," Han Zhongbang thought for a while, and said slowly, "The emperor sent him this time, didn't he want him to say Ji Ruolan?"
"At this time, who can pull Ji Ruolan back?" Li Muqi sighed, "At this time, he only has one way to go, but one is only accompanied by the people in his mansion, and the other may add the people of Qingzhou." β
"Presumably the emperor knows Ji Ruolan's heart," Han Zhongbang looked at Li Muqi and said, "But why do you want to send the person who is good with him to be a lobbyist?" There was a thick puzzle in his eyes, and he said, "If this person goes to talk about Ji Ruolan, he will definitely tell him about the situation of our army, but I am afraid that it will be unfavorable to our army at that time..."
"If he is replaced by someone else, the emperor will not send him, but will choose someone else. Li Muqi said, "The emperor knows what I mean in his heart, and King Huai'an also knows what I think in my heart." That's why he recommended this person, and when he went on the expedition, the emperor specially told me that I would definitely take Wang Ximin with him in the army..."
"Could it be that the emperor wants him to let him know the reality of our army, the movement of our army, and then use his mouth to talk to Ji Ruolan. Ordered Ji Ruolan to go to our army and know the movements of our army. Presumably, Wang Ximin will definitely tell Ji Ruolan about the general's past deeds. Han Zhongbang seemed to already know the meaning of Li Muqi's army here, and knew what Li Muqi was thinking, "That's why the general ordered General Shao to lead thousands of soldiers to that place at that time, and also asked him to tie a branch to the horse's tail to roll up the dust, so that our side would stop and quietly walk this way." When Wang Ximin saw that dust, he would think that our army would definitely go in that direction, and he would not suspect that our army was going this way. β
Li Muqi smiled, "It's not true, even if Wang Ximin doesn't know." I think Ji Ruolan would also think that it must be a suspicious plan set up by me. By this time he must have seen the camp in that place. I don't think it will take much time for there to be spies sent by Ji Ruolan in this area..."
"Big camp?" Han Zhongbang said, "Could it be that General Fei set up a big camp in that place, not just a suspicious tactic, but wants to camp in that place?"
"No," Li Muqi said, "our army must not camp in that place. If you camp in that place, the horns formed by Qixian and Qingzhou have been formed, which will bring a huge disadvantage to our army, I am afraid that it will take a long time to capture Qingzhou, and I am afraid that it will be insufficient in April, but I am afraid that at that time, the beacon fire will not be only here, maybe the emperor will lose patience, I am afraid that the blood will flow like a river at that time, and the white bones will be deep..." Looking at the incomprehensible look in Han Zhongbang's eyes, Li Muqi said slowly, "That big camp will not hide from Ji Ruolan, but he doesn't dare to act rashly and capture that big camp." If he went to attack that big camp, he would definitely worry about Qingzhou. He will not know the reality of the camp, and it will be difficult for him to know the military horses in the camp, and he will never dare to act rashly. Besides, that big camp is not for him, but the Gyeongju Qiufu River not far from him, and when he sees that big camp, and then sees the lights in the camp, and then he sees those flags, his heart will be daunted and worried, and at that time, it will be our opportunity again..."
"However, if our army is stationed here, what if Ji Ruolan really comes here?"
"He will not dare to come, he knows the terrain here, and he learned about my troops from Wang Ximin, and then he heard the news from the spies, he will be puzzled in his heart, and he will not dare to lead the army here?"
"Why?" said Han Zhongbang, a little puzzled.
"Knowing that this place will be a place for ambush soldiers, and seeing the fire behind the mountain, how dare he lead the troops to get close?"
"The fire behind the mountain, how could he not know that it was a suspicious plan?"
"Don't you hear that the false is the real, and the real is false, and the false is real, and the real is endless. Li Muqi said with a smile, "Ji Ruolan knows the art of war, and he also knows that I am familiar with military books, and he will also know that if it is taboo for soldiers to station troops here, he knows that I will not station troops here, and he will inevitably guess that the fire behind the mountain is the place where I can camp my troops, and the fire in the valley is just a temptation to bring him here." β
"If so, he also guessed that the general would do this, attacking with fire, what then?"
He would not dare to do so. β
"How would the general know that he would not dare to do this?" Han Zhongbang looked at Li Muqi and said, "Could it be that the general guesses in his heart that he will not dare to do this, or the general is sure that he will not dare to do this." If the general is gambling in his heart, don't you know that if he wins, he will definitely get more than the general; if the general loses, these tens of thousands of horses will bury their bones here..."
General Han's words were very true. The generals chimed in.
Looking at the faces of the generals, Li Muqi said confidently: "Although the generals are at ease, if they are not completely sure, how can Ben Shuai be like this? How dare Ben Shuai gamble with tens of thousands of lives?"
"I hope that the general will make it clear that we will rest assured. The generals looked at each other.