Chapter 191: What's Bad to Hold?
Hu Rui's side, of course, someone specially observed Wang Zhirong's camp, when the flag here began to wave, that side began to record, the red flag, the green flag was shaken by the number of times, horizontal, vertical shake these factors, arranged and combined to form a password, each code corresponds to a Chinese character.
To record these codes and flip through the corresponding Chinese characters, you can accurately translate a sentence.
This kind of channel for transmitting information at the speed of light at close range has been popularized in the military, and it is much faster than a horse race in a place with a wide field of vision, and the personnel are relatively safe.
However, now it is a mountain battle, and most of the time everyone is hidden in the forest, and no one can see anyone, so this method of communication can only be reserved between Wang Zhirong and Zhuge Liang.
One is in the light, the other is in the dark, and now only Zhuge Liang knows where Wang Zhirong is, which makes them lose their direction at this moment, making them very confused......
After Hu Rui received the order, he immediately sent a herald to all departments, and strategically speaking, everyone began to change the style of play according to Wang Zhirong's will.
Of course, from a tactical point of view, after a period of recent practice, everyone in the Jingzhou army has learned well, everyone has a belly of flowers, fighting like hide and seek, that is, not to meet the other side, with the main purpose of destroying the enemy's vital forces, annihilating the enemy one by one, accumulating small victories into big victories, and unconsciously the enemy will find that he has lost a lot of soldiers and horses......
After Cao Apu and Xiahoudun finished discussing, they also asked the opinions of other generals, and everyone unanimously agreed with the lord's plan, so Cao Apu led 100,000 people to start eastward, and Xiahoudun led the army to attack Xiangyang, and then sent all troops and horses to defend the dangerous pass.
Xiahoudun was a little stunned in his heart, the lord was by his side, the army had a backbone, and the strength was strong, it was very difficult to advance, he was always bitten a little bite, but he couldn't find the main force of the other party......
After all, the army is crushed, and the strength is there, even if you lose some troops, you can only achieve the goal of going south by braving the enemy's powerful arrows and fierce thunders!
However, it is useless to pay such a big price......
If the troops are withdrawn now, the 100,000 people in front of them will die in vain, and the efforts they have made will be wasted......
Therefore, we had to take the risk of dividing our troops, and everyone knew that this was very likely to be the best strategy...... But I had to make this decision!
The Jingzhou army detected their movements, and it seemed that it was as Wang Zhirong expected, so they acted according to the original plan.
Zhuge Liang opened the door to Cao Apu, who was heading eastward, so that Cao Apo did not meet a living person on the way east.
This abnormality made Cao Apu very puzzled.
"It must be something bad! This kid seems to have suddenly disappeared out of thin air, there has been no news of him for a few days, it is this kind of weird scene, it must have been arranged by this kid!" Cao Apu muttered in his heart.
"The herald will expand the scout's exploration range by another twenty miles, and the scouts in all directions must report back once every two hours! In addition, behind the scout team, quietly follow a team of hundreds, lest ours be quietly intercepted again! ”
"Whoa!"
In fact, Zhuge Liang's scouts, who are now dressed in green clothes, are following most of Cao Apu's actions.
This kind of professionally trained hidden masters, after such a long period of actual combat training, even if they are hidden under your nose now, if you don't look carefully, you may not be able to find them. It's like Cao Apu's scout, who is not professional at all, not only wearing ordinary battle armor, but also wearing a cloak in order to show his identity as a scout.
Everywhere they went, it was a sight to behold, and it was clear that the scouts were coming.
So the real situation they can reconnoiter is very limited.
If Zhuge Liang hadn't wanted to keep them back to spread the false news, his scouts would have used high-grade Zhuge crossbows to shoot living creatures in bright red cloaks in a verdant jungle like shooting live targets.
"There is a White Fox Mountain fifty miles south of this place, and a certain family has been here when they were on a study tour, so you can design Cao Cao!" Zhuge Liang pointed to the map.
Liu Feng nodded, and said: "This place is the only way to go east, to the north you need to go around to hundreds of miles, to the south there are countless valleys and rivers as the road, although the last general has not been to this place, but read the geography, as soon as you say it, you will remember this place!" ”
"In that case, let's cut off Cao Cao's tail here and make him spin around in place a few times in pain! Liu Xuande's ministry will cooperate with us to make Cao Cao rush east and west for a while, of course, we can't fight hard with them, we have to keep our strength for a long time! ”
So, a plan was made, and Cao Cao was only bitten and deployed while advancing eastward.
Cao Cao was always uneasy in his heart, urging his army and horses to march quickly eastward, these northern soldiers were originally galloping on the flat battlefield, but now they were marching rapidly in the humid and sultry mountains, they were very unaccustomed, and they walked very hard.
But this kind of mountainous terrain is a piece of cake for Jingzhou soldiers and horses, their bamboo canes and straw shoes, shuttling in the mountains and forests, that is the ability to practice from childhood to adulthood.
Therefore, when he arrived in the area of White Fox Mountain, Cao Jun was already very tired.
Cao Cao checked the map, asked the people nearby (this place is not the main battlefield, the people will be evacuated in the future), and knew that he had now arrived in the area of White Fox Mountain, so he ordered to camp in an open place, rest for the night, recuperate enough, and climb the mountain the next day. On the one hand, a large number of scouts were sent to explore the path over the White Fox Mountain.
Cao Cao himself is already forty or fifty years old, and he is a Wenchen, his body is not so tough, he has been running for many days, he is already very tired, and after setting up the camp, he ordered his other generals to sleep well, but unfortunately he is always worried in his heart and can't sleep.
The scout came to report that Zhuge Liang and Liu Feng's soldiers and horses had followed, and they were now camped thirty miles away.
The scouts came to report that Zhuge Liang and Liu Feng's camp were frequently mobilized, and there was a possibility of attacking the camp!
Cao Cao rubbed his temples, felt a little dizzy, and asked, "Why don't you see the scouts heading to White Fox Mountain?" ”
A general in charge of the scouts replied: "The scout battalion has sent more than 800 scouts, followed by 2,000 soldiers, just in case, but it has been three hours since it was set off, and there is no return!" ”
"Do you know how big this mountain is? How many miles is the radius? ”
"This ...... It is not clear, and the "Geographical Chronicle" does not record the geometry of this mountain! However, from the geographical records, it can be seen that the valleys around this mountain are vertical and horizontal, and if you go east, turning this mountain is the closest path......"
"It seems that our scouts and those more than 2,000 people have been swallowed by Jingzhou soldiers and horses again! They must have set up an ambush here! ”
"That'...... What's next? ”