It's also a way to provoke Zhang Fei to fight.

Zhang Liao groped his chin, that Zhang Fei was indeed not panicked in battle, and he was quite brave, he was a good general, but his personality was indeed irritable, and he nodded at the moment: "It's okay, then invite him to fight." ”

If the other party is holding on to the danger, and there are a lot of soldiers and horses, if you can't lead him out, it is a little difficult to storm Xi'e, and inviting him to fight is also a way.

"Send someone to find a place to cross the river, and inform the defenders of Wancheng that our army reinforcements have arrived in Xi'e and are trying to cross the river, so that they can guard the city, and our army will arrive soon! In addition, send people to find land to repair the bridge. At the end, Zhang Liao commanded.

He didn't know the situation in Wancheng, but Wancheng couldn't be broken, otherwise if Wancheng was broken, all Zhang Liao could do was to retreat to Hengshan.

"Whoa!" The generals agreed, each left, camped in the area of Xi'e, confronted Zhang Fei, and at the same time sent people to find land to cross the river, the army to Wancheng, Xi'e is the only way, but just stragglers, you can cross the river directly to Wancheng through some boats or even make rafts, the Baihe River is not wide, but all the bridges along the way were destroyed, and the enemy is patrolling, Zhang Liao is not too approved of the plan to repair the bridge, time-consuming and troublesome, and the enemy will not look at this side to repair the bridge, rather than this, it is better to directly attack the West Hu.

On the other hand, Zhang Fei was a little ashamed to face Chen Zhi's inquiring gaze when he returned to the camp, this battle was aggrieved, and the 20,000 army was pressed and beaten by thousands of enemy troops.

Chen Zhi didn't ask this, but after knowing the results of the battle, he summoned Zhang Da and asked, "The thief army is so powerful?" ”

After all, no matter what, Zhang Fei still has a very good set of battles, he was defeated by Cao Cao in the past, and he was also outnumbered, but this time he was defeated by less, it is really a bit unbelievable, even if Lu Bu comes, he may not be able to play this kind of record, right?

"Awesome what?" Zhang Fei snorted a few times and scolded: "That Zhang Liao tried his best to trick our army into retreating, but he took the opportunity to press up, if not, with his little strength, a charge can be crushed." ”

On the battlefield, the winner is king, who will care what means you use?

Chen Zhi didn't want to say this to Zhang Fei directly, and he believed that Zhang Fei also understood this truth, so he just persuaded: "Now that the general has lost for a while, we must not blindly fight again, we just wait for this place to be guarded, just wait for the city of Wan to be broken, Zhang Liao has nothing to rely on, and he should evacuate." ”

"Uncle Zhi rest assured, although that Zhang Liao has some ability, if it weren't for trickery today, I wouldn't have been defeated!" Zhang Fei replied in a muffled voice, although after this battle, he had already underestimated Zhang Liao, but today's battle, he really didn't show his true ability, he could only say that Zhang Liao was tricky, and the two armies were really facing each other, and he was not afraid of him.

"It's good that Yide knows." Chen Zhi nodded, and immediately discussed with Zhang Fei how to defend the enemy army.

In fact, as the defender, when the strength of the two sides is not much different, they occupy a geographical advantage, as long as they firmly occupy this advantage, they can, no matter how powerful Zhang Liao is, he can't help them.

However, as an opponent, Zhang Liao was desperate for them to be able to go out of the camp to fight at this time, and early the next morning, Wei Yan led a group of men and horses to the camp outside the camp in Xi'e to call for battle.

"Zhang Feipifu, yesterday was like a dog in a hurry, today our army came to fight, but followed the example of the river turtle, shrinking his head, only such ability, but also dare to call the general, if I were you, I would have committed suicide in shame!" Outside the West Hubei Gate, a group of men with rough voices kept shouting and scolding outside the camp, intending to provoke that Zhang to fly out of the formation.

"Uncle Zhi......" Zhang Fei's dustpan-like palm clenched into a fist, squeaked, turned his head to look at Chen Zhi, and gritted his teeth.

Since he followed Liu Bei, although he has also had defeats, and there are many of them, when has he been humiliated like this? He has always been the only one who scolds, but today he was scolded in front of the camp and couldn't make a move, how could Zhang Fei bear it?

"Yide, the great cause of the lord is important, and the rest can be endured, if you don't want to listen, go to the camp to rest, and I will take care of it here." Chen Zhi just said lightly.

"Alas~ When my brother breaks the city, I will slash that Zhang Liao to eliminate the hatred in my heart!" Zhang Fei scolded in the direction of Yuanmen with hatred, and then turned to leave.

Chen Zhi came to the gate, looking at the soldiers of the Guanzhong Army who were scolding outside the city, his brows were deeply locked, yesterday's defeat was not a big blow to the morale of the soldiers under his command, and now the enemy is so scolding, they are closed, and it is even worse for morale, I only hope that Wancheng can break the city as soon as possible.

Wei Yan took his men and horses to scold outside the camp in Xi'e for a day, but the Jingzhou army did not move, so Wei Yan had to take his men and horses back to the camp to resume his life.

"General, the thief army refused to fight, and now it seems that there is only one way to attack." Wei Yan looked at Zhang Liaodao.

Zhang Liao didn't answer, looked at the map and was silent, and only after a long time did he turn his head to look at Wei Yan: "Wen Chang, I remember that outside Wancheng, there are a few places where the river is narrow, and the water flow has become extremely turbulent here, and there are occasional floods in summer and autumn every year. ”

Flooding is a relatively common problem in the south, Wei Yan nodded and said: "It is true that there are a few places where this is the case, but although the river in these places is narrow, the water flow is turbulent, and it is not easy to force it to cross." ”

"The reason is like this, but I know about this matter, but the Jingzhou army may not know, although they have destroyed various bridges, but when they first come here, I am afraid that they do not know as much about the terrain in this area as our army." Zhang Liao said with a smile.

"The general's meaning is ......" Wei Yan raised his head and looked at Zhang Liao.

"Tomorrow our army withdraws and marches south along the White River, the enemy will inevitably be suspicious, and you have people pretend to be mountain people and inform them that every year at this time, there will be a diversion of the river." Zhang Liao slid his finger down along the route of the White River on the map and smiled.

"The last general understands!" Wei Yan's eyes lit up and he nodded.

The plan has been decided, that night Wei Yan arranged for people to search the river to the south, looking for some abandoned mountain dwellings, it would be better if he could find the mountain people, but now that there is a big war here, the nearby township has long been empty, and it is not easy to find people.

Early the next morning, Zhang Liao set up camp and went down the river, Chen Zhi, Zhang Fei, and Ji Ling got the news, so they didn't know why, so they hurriedly sent someone to investigate.

At noon, scouts came back to report that the enemy had descended the river, as if they had found a place to cross the river directly.

"According to the mountain people, at this time of year, the river will be diverted, and the abandoned old bridge there can cross the river, and the originally turbulent river will slow down instead of rising because of the divergence, and the river will also become narrower, and a few logs tied together can be tied together to cross the river on both banks." Ji Ling relayed the scout's description to Chen Zhi and Zhang Fei.

"Is that so?" Zhang Fei and Chen Zhi didn't understand these knowledge of mountains and rivers geography, but they were a little stunned when they heard it, but they seemed to be a little right.

"I'll lead the army to chase after me!" Zhang Fei got up and said.

Chen Zhi frowned and said: "If there is really this, the army crossing the river is not a momentary crossing, Ji Ling, you take a team of men and horses to patrol along the river, if you find traces of the enemy crossing the river, if there are few people crossing the river, immediately lead the troops to attack it, if there are too many soldiers and horses crossing the river, then report immediately, there must be no mistake!" ”

"Whoa!" Ji Ling nodded in agreement, turned around and left.

"What about me!?" Zhang Fei looked at Chen Dao expectantly, he wanted to get it back for yesterday's grievances.

After Chen Zhi got up and took a few steps, he looked at Zhang Fei and said, "I always feel that there is fraud here!" ”

Zhang Fei said: "But you can't do nothing, if you really let them cross the river, what should you do?" In this way, Uncle Zhi, you will lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to garrison here, and I will lead the rest of the soldiers to pursue along the river, I see that Zhang Liao will definitely send people to ambush in order to cross the river safely for the army, so I will divide the soldiers and horses into two parts, one before and one behind, no matter which team is attacked, the other can support in time, what do you think? ”

When Chen Zhi heard this, he looked at Zhang Fei with some surprise, and said with a smile: "I don't want Yide to come up with such a clever plan!" ”

Zhang Fei: "......"

What's going on with a sudden desire to leave?

"That's fine." Chen Zhi knew that he was speechless, laughed embarrassedly twice, and then said solemnly: "This plan is quite good, since this is the case, Yide will lead the troops forward, if there is news from Ji Ling's side, I will rush to the aid in time, I will wait for the attack from both sides of the strait, and it will be difficult to deal with that Zhang Liao!" ”

"Okay, I'll go!"

At that moment, Zhang Fei exhausted the army, let Zhang Da be the vanguard, led half of the soldiers and horses in front, and led the army in the back.

"This Zhang Fei is a bit of a good thing!" On the other hand, after Zhang Liao and Wei Yan got the news, they appreciated Zhang Fei's cautious marching method, and Zhang Fei was not a wasted person.

"General, how do you deal with it now?" Wei Yan looked at Zhang Liao and asked: "This kind of march seems simple, but in fact, it is the end of the road, our army hits its front road, then the back road is corresponding, if our army hits the enemy's rear road, the front army will come back to help, if it hits the middle road, then the two ends will fight, it is not easy to deal with!" ”

"In this way, Wen Chang, you lead an army to ambush here, let the front, I lead the rest of the soldiers and horses here, but you see the rear army coming, so you light the wolf smoke, and lead the troops to kill the people, I see the wolf smoke as a number, when he returns to the front, cover from the rear, and then defeat the front of it, so that we can win!"

"Good!" When Wei Yan heard this, he nodded and smiled: "Then go and prepare for this?" ”

"Be careful, that Zhang Fei is quite brave, if you encounter it, you should avoid its edge, don't compete with it!" Zhang Liao nodded, and then instructed.

Zhang Fei's ability, he personally learned it the day before yesterday, Zhang Liao is also a figure who has seen the world, but as far as he knows, there are not many people who can compete with Zhang Fei in terms of bravery, I am afraid that only Lu Bu at his peak can win, Wei Yan is also brave, but compared with it is a lot worse, at least today's Wei Yan is far from Zhang Fei's enemy, if he encounters it, just run, he really fights with it, and Wei Yan is not an opponent, so Zhang Liao is very worried that Wei Yan will be beheaded by Zhang Fei in the chaos.

"General rest assured!" Wei Yan nodded and smiled, he saw the battle between Zhang Liao and Zhang Fei the day before yesterday, how stupid would he be to fight with Zhang Fei?