Chapter 176: On the Importance of Information Warfare
"What a seven-trick heart! Thanks to your careful look, if you are careless, you must think that they haven't withdrawn yet!
Alas! It's a pity that this king can't be used by me!
Have you seen it, and as far as you can judge, how long have they been withdrawing? ”
"Judging from the traces of burying the pot and cooking, most of them have been evacuated for at least three days! As for the men and horses in front of the camp, they should have been withdrawn late last night! ”
"Evacuated in the middle of the night? Didn't you send someone to keep an eye on it? Why didn't you find it? ”
"It's the dereliction of duty of the last general! The people who were sent out may have been quietly dealt with by them, and the last general was sleepy and did not even notice it...... The last general will raise 8,000 elite soldiers now, chase after Hu Rui, and will definitely leave their corpses behind! Xiahoudun said ashamedly.
"Alas! Let's go! All of our tentacles have been cut off now! You can't be blamed for this, our scouts are indeed too weak!
Let them go! Don't chase anymore, you can't catch up now!
Even if you catch up, you may have some traps waiting for you to drill!
I have to say that Wang Zhirong is not only a genius in creating divine weapons, but also unpredictable in the way of transporting troops, you and I are mediocre, not his opponents!
The only way for us to defeat Wang Zherong is to rely on absolute strength, the army is crushed, if the army is transferred to pieces, then it is in the hands of the people......" Cao Cao waved his hand, and Xiahoudun had no choice but to walk out.
"Wait!" Xiahou had already walked out, but Cao Cao shouted.
"My lord! What is the command? ”
"With five hundred elite soldiers, the fast horse quickly went south along the eastern front controlled by our army, found the royal capital, and asked him to intercept Wang Zhirong who went south, and we led the troops to the south to attack, so that when writing the military report, it was said that the king was trapped, and we had no way to save it, it was a real military situation, so that we would not be considered to resist the decree on the surface!
After all, the emperor's face still has to be given!
It's better than what we can't do about it! ”
Cao Cao finally said the plan he had been thinking about for most of the day. To tell the truth, Cao Cao feels that he is very poor now, the army of 500,000 is strong, but he can't be the commander of a giant, they are 500,000 scattered people one by one......
And sending out less is tantamount to adding fuel! There are too many dispatches, but they are always ineffective in command, and they are dropped by people, and they bite down one by one, and they will inevitably suffer huge losses......
Wang Zhirong is really not a fuel-efficient lamp!
It should have been thought about a long time ago! It should have been fought a long time ago! What Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Zhang Xiu, Ma Teng, are not confidants...... Compared to Wang Zherong, those people are like children!
"Whoa!" Xiahou was depressed, but he didn't expect Cao Cao to have this idea!
Xiahoudun believes that victory is fought, and you can't wait to die, and death consumes not only money and food, but also morale!
Therefore, Xiahoudun was very much in favor of Cao Cao's plan.
In fact, the men and horses led by Wang Du fell into Zhuge Liang's fork in the road, and nearly 10,000 people were eaten in one bite, and then he ran in the mountains, always feeling that he was bitten to death, and when Wang Du turned back to fight.
These people are not in love with war at all, they turn around and run, scatter in all directions, and they do not look like an army at all, but like a bunch of hooligan bandits.
This group of people followed the path, huhulala, into the mountains, if you send a team to follow, then very sorry, you can come back, there are not many people left, or people come back to report the news.
The king didn't believe that this group of people who looked very weak, why was they so strong once they got into the mountains?
So he personally led a large number of men and horses, and carried the danger of being schemed, and went back to the mountains.
Only then did he realize that the inside of the mountain was not what he thought it was at all. When you go into the mountains, you can obviously feel that there is a person hiding behind every tree, because no matter where you go, there will always be a few people who will shoot cold arrows at you, and then run away like rabbits, and run away as fast as you can, and once you dare to send someone to chase after you, your people will also have no return.
So Wang Du finally made a decision, you follow it, if you don't beat me, I won't bother to pay attention to you, my strategic goal is in the south, I have been going south, going to Xiangyang and Yu Ban to join the division!
In this mountain, it's actually easy to get lost!
Wang Du was a clever man, and he identified a stream that flowed in a north-south direction, which was marked on the map! He followed the valley south......
It seems that Wang Zhirong is still a little prepared. Now there is a nasty tail behind us, and there are people in front of us, we don't know the truth, it is better for us to go east and join forces with General Li Dian's men and horses......"
In fact, the connection between the royal capital and the big camp Cao Cao has long been cut off, Cao Cao received a secret order from the emperor to order him to withdraw his troops, so he sent orders to all departments everywhere to proceed according to the original plan, but when he said it, he must say that he could not withdraw after being chased, so he had to keep fighting, and he could not say that he took the initiative to attack, so it was easy to write a military report......
Of course, this is a secret order for henchmen, and on the surface, everyone should find the right opportunity, hurry up and shrink their forces, and withdraw it!
But this order was intercepted by Zhuge Liang's troops who fought guerrillas in the mountains!
Although Cao Cao's military documents are still relatively advanced, they actually use the Taigong Yin Talisman, in other words, this thing is a kind of password code, and without the Yang Talisman corresponding, it is impossible to understand this thing at all.
That is to say, the kind of document you see is a mess of irregular, meaningless Chinese characters on the surface, and after the recipient receives it, he takes the number corresponding to these Chinese characters and turns out the corresponding Chinese characters in the yang rune book, so that it will become a meaningful language.
So far, the Jingzhou military camp has not cracked this kind of code, so it is impossible to understand Cao Jun's documents when he gets them, only to lock up the messenger, use it as a slave in the future, put the letter on hold, no matter what document you are, as long as you can't convey it, the command will be blind and deaf.
Therefore, the king did not receive any military orders, so he still obeyed the previous military orders, but even if he did, he did not violate the military orders......
Of course, 500 people went south into the mountains, and there was no way to survive at all, and there were militiamen everywhere waiting to cut off people's heads to get military merits and give their families an extra two acres of land or a cow!
Therefore, of course he couldn't receive the task of Cao Cao to let Wang Du intercept and kill and flank Wang Zhirong.
Including Cao Cao, Xiahoudun and Yu Ban still don't know Wang Zhirong's military deployment, in fact, Wang Zhirong risked the taboo of Fan's soldiers at this time to divide the troops, let Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Liu Feng, and Hu Rui each bring a soldier and horse, and instilled the idea of flexible combat movement warfare and guerrilla warfare to the generals of each department, let them drill into the mountains, fly ball signal contact, arrange a net of heaven and earth, and then lure the enemy, distribute their soldiers and horses, and eat them little by little.
At this point, Wang Du has already suffered a big loss in front of him. It was this arrangement that completely cut off the contact between Cao Cao's northern camp and the royal capital!
Liu Feng led the vanguard, Wang Zhirong was in the middle, and after Hu Rui broke off, after running for days and nights, Wang Zhirong finally saw Zhuge Liang.