"Two days ago, you already started to set up a plan to lure the enemy?"

When Zhang Liang and Xiang Bo lost their souls together, of course, the children of the Xiang family were all happy, full of confidence in Xiang Kang's strategy. However, Xiang Zhuang suddenly remembered something again, and hurriedly asked Zhou Zeng: "Uncle Ya, if I remember correctly, I remember that during the last battle of the Prime Minister, you had already surrendered to the Tyrannical Qin army once, and this time you surrendered to Zhao Zhuang, the commander of the Surabaya County of the Tyrannical Qin, would he still believe it?" ”

"General Xiang Zhuang is not mistaken, I have indeed surrendered to the tyrannical Qin army once before." Zhou Zeng nodded, and said with a smile: "But don't worry, general, Zhao Zhuang will only believe in my fraudulent surrender more this time, because strictly speaking, my fraudulent surrender plan this time is actually a continuation of the previous time." The last time I surrendered to Gu Bi, the county commander of the violent Qin, to help the young marshal lure the violent Qin army to cross Surabaya in a hurry, and did not reveal my true identity afterwards, in addition, we also found out, Gu Bi sent my letter of fraudulent surrender to Xiangxian and handed it to Zhao Zhuang according to my request, which has left Zhao Zhuang with a dissenting impression, so this time I sent a letter to deceive and surrender, Zhao Zhuang not only will not doubt it, but on the contrary, it is easier to believe that I really want to surrender. ”

Xiang Zhuang suddenly realized, nodded again and again, and praised Xiang Kang and Zhou Zeng's clever plan with a smile, Zhao Zhuang had to be fooled again this time. And after Zhang Liang secretly admired, he couldn't help but ask Xiang Kang: "Young marshal, let Mr. Zhou, who was once a tyrannical Qin official, come forward to deceive and lure the enemy, this trick is really good, but doing so does not guarantee that the tyrannical Qin army in Surabaya County will be able to attract the tyrannical Qin army in advance of time?" If Zhao Zhuang still insists on sending troops at the same time as the tyrannical Qin army in Donghai County, it will be difficult to kill you, what can you do? ”

"yes." Xiang Bo also seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and immediately said: "Even if Zhao Zhuang's puppet believes in Zhou Zeng's fraudulent surrender, but he refuses to send troops alone in advance, what should you do?" ”

"It doesn't matter, as long as he believes in Uncle Ya's surrender." Xiang Kang sneered and said: "As long as he believes it, even if he and the tyrannical Qin army of Donghai County send troops at the same time, it will definitely be him who is here to deal with it, and the tyrannical army of Donghai County will beat the prime minister behind us, and then I only need to let Uncle Ya come forward again to lure Zhao Zhuang to secretly send troops to steal the city, and defeat him with ambush soldiers for a while, and then try to deal with his remaining rabble, of course, it will be much easier." ”

"Easy to say." Xiang Bo snorted coldly, turned to Zhang Liang next to him and asked, "Brother Han, what do you think, is my nephew's plan feasible?" ”

Everyone's eyes were focused on Zhang Liang, who was silent for a long time before he nodded and said, "It is feasible, it is also aimed at the weakness of Zhao Zhuang's unstable personality, and he has a great grasp of it." ”

"How is that better than our tactical plan?" Xiang Bo asked without giving up: "Which one is better?" ”

When Zhang Liang hesitated, Xiang Kang also heard the strangeness, and hurriedly asked: "Uncle, Uncle Han, what's the matter, you also have a strategy to break the enemy?" Speak up and let me hear how it goes. ”

After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Liang arched his hand and said: "Don't hide it from the young marshal, in fact, I want to ask you to arrange for the subordinates of the county to come out to Zhao Zhuang to surrender, and persuade Zhao Zhuang to attack the county first, and break your wings. ”

Xiang Kang was a little stunned at this time, because Xiang Kang really didn't expect Zhang Liang's strategy in advance, and at the same time, there was a lot of possibility of success, so Xiang Kang, who had not had a very good impression of Zhang Liang before, was inevitably a little impressed by Zhang Liang, and said secretly: "I can't see that this guy still has some ability, and he can actually come up with a plan to break the enemy." ”

"How?" Uncle Xiang was not very confident and shouted: "Kang'er, your Uncle Han and I came up with this method, how does it compare to your method?" ”

Xiang Kang laughed when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Uncle, do you want to hear the truth or lies?" ”

"What truth and falsehood? What do you mean? Xiang Bo asked suspiciously.

"Uncle, there is no need to compare, our strategy is not as good as the young marshal's." Zhang Liang took the initiative to speak, and admitted honestly: "Compared with the young marshal's strategy, our strategy is obviously more time-consuming, and the certainty of winning is much smaller, or the young marshal's strategy is better and more time-saving." ”

Hearing this, Xiang Bo suddenly turned into a deflated ball, and Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Han and others next to him also said: "Lead the Tyrannical Qin army to Yu County, and then we will send troops to Yu County to fight a decisive battle with them, both have to face each other head-on, and it takes time, of course, it is not as good as thinking about the decisive battle, or first kill a part of the Tyrant Qin and then fight the decisive battle, who is more sure and who is easier to see, how can this be compared?" ”

Xiang Bo kept his face silent, Zhang Liang was also a little embarrassed, and hurriedly apologized to Xiang Kang: "The young marshal forgives the sin, it is a presumptuous transgression, the young marshal is clever, strategizing in the middle of the plan, the decisive victory is thousands of miles away, and he admires it to the bottom." In the future, I will not dare to take the liberty of planning those carving insect tricks. ”

"Uncle Han said it, you also want to help me with a piece of kindness." Seeing that the strategy proposed by Zhang Liang is also very feasible, Xiang Kang opened his mouth to comfort a few words, and then took the initiative to say: "Uncle Han, in fact, your strategy is also quite good, if you come up with any plans to break the enemy in the future, just tell me directly, as long as it is feasible, I will definitely adopt it." ”

"The young marshal has won the award, and he is ashamed to be ashamed." Zhang Liang smiled bitterly and modestly, and sighed in his heart: "In the end, it is the descendant of Xiang Yan, a famous general of the Chu State, with family history, I used my strategy to capture, and my strategy was compared, it is not strange." ”

The matter was not over yet, just as Zhang Liang was sighing in his heart, a personal soldier of Xiang Kang suddenly came in outside the tent, presented a sealed letter with chicken feathers in front of Xiang Kang, and said respectfully: "Young Marshal Qiyu, Feng Zhong and Feng Duwei of Xu County have just sent an urgent letter from a fast horse, and it is urgent. ”

"100,000 urgent? Could it be that something happened in Xu County? ”

Xiang Kang's heart froze, and he quickly asked Xiang it to step forward and take the letter, and presented it to him, and after a cursory glance, he saw that the sealing mud was correct, Xiang Kang hurriedly used a knife to pry off the sealing mud, and took out the letter that was sandwiched by two blank slips to read, and then just glanced at it a few times, Xiang Kang showed a look of surprise, and when he read it carefully, Xiang Kang gradually opened his mouth wide, rubbed his eyes several times, and his face was full of disbelief, obviously surprised to the extreme.

"Young marshal, what's wrong? Can you let me see that too? ”

Zhou Zeng saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked Xiang Kang for his consent, and stood next to Xiang Kang to read Feng Zhong's letter together, and then, like Xiang Kang, when he quickly read Feng Zhong's letter, Zhou Zeng also opened his mouth in surprise, and the expression on his face was even more shocked and unbelievable than Xiang Kang. And after finally reading it carefully, Xiang Kang and Zhou Zeng looked at each other, and said in unison: "When did Feng Zhong become so powerful?" Why didn't we find out he had this ability before? ”

"What's wrong?" Xiang Bo couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked, "Can you let me take a look?" What did the surname Feng say? ”

Xiang Kang didn't pay attention to Uncle Xiang, but turned to Zhang Liang, and said with a wry smile: "Uncle Han, it seems that we both have to bow down, do you believe it?" Feng Zhong, my general, also saw that the current situation was that we had to strike first to defeat the enemy individually, and he also planned a more certain plan for me to break the enemy. ”

"A more sure way to break the enemy?" Zhang Liang was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "What is it?" ”

Xiang Kang didn't answer, but handed Feng Zhong's letter to Zhang Liang, Zhang Liang hurriedly stepped forward to take a closer look, and saw that on top of the slip, an unfamiliar handwriting was crooked, and he did propose to Xiang Kang the correct strategy of preemptive strikes and various breakthroughs, and also proposed a specific tactical plan. And when he looked at the details of this plan carefully, Zhang Liang's eyes gradually straightened, and he couldn't help but exclaim: "Brilliant plan! It's really better than ours, not only does it save time, but it also makes it more certain! ”

I can't help Zhang Liang to make such a fuss, Feng Zhong's strategy in the letter is indeed quite good, first suggested that Xiang Kang take the initiative to lead the main force of the young marshal's army to the west, and take the initiative to seek a decisive battle on the battlefield of Fuli, and at the same time pointed out that Zhao Zhuang must have a good face as a county guard, and the morale of the two cities of Chengxian and Qi County is booming, and he will definitely not shrink back to avoid the battle, but will only choose to lead the army to meet the battle. Then Feng Zhong suggested that Xiang Kang deceive the enemy and lure the enemy, and expected that Zhao Zhuang would definitely lead the army to chase after him with all his might in order to alleviate the siege pressure. The third step was that Feng Zhong suggested that Xiang Kang choose a suitable place on the way, deliberately discard the baggage and belongings carried by the army, and lure the Qin soldiers to fight.

Feng Zhong proposed this tactical plan also has the advantage of completely disrupting the Qin army's joint advance plan, creating more sure opportunities to break the enemy, and after defeating the Qin army in Surabaya County first, the young marshal's army can not only easily free up his hands to deal with the Qin army in Donghai County, but also has a great chance of forcing the Qin army of Donghai County, which has no friendly troops to help, retreat without a fight, and resolve the current crisis at a smaller cost. Therefore, from the perspective of the overall strategy, the tactical plan proposed by Feng Zhong is not only far superior to the tactics proposed by Zhang Liang, but also better than the tactics planned by Xiang Kang himself.

In addition, there is a very key point, Xiang Kang's tactic is to plan to lure the enemy to the city for a decisive battle, and the initiative is on the enemy's side, and it is very likely that it can only be implemented when the Qin army launches two attacks at the same time, which is too passive and conservative. The plan proposed by Feng Zhong is to let the young marshal's army focus on the enemy, firmly grasp the initiative on the battlefield, and act without looking at the enemy's face, even if there are mistakes and mistakes, you can also rely on the opportunity to adjust in time, which is better than being beaten passively by defensive counterattack.

After carefully reading Feng Zhong's handwritten letter with a shocked face, and finally came back to his senses, Zhang Liang's first reaction was to immediately ask: "Dare to ask the young marshal, who is your subordinate Feng Zhong?" Is it the one who is the queen of the Six Kingdoms? Under whom? ”

"After the fame? Under whom? Xiang Kang was asked by Zhang Liang, and said suspiciously: "I haven't heard of Brother Feng's famous family?" I've never heard of any teachers he worshipped? If I'm not mistaken, his ancestors seem to have been farming in the lower phase for several generations, that is, he studied private education for a few years when he was a child, and he could write and calculate, so he became the pavilion chief of Shiling Pavilion. ”

Zhang Liang was dumbfounded, and then all thoughts were lost, and he couldn't help but murmur in his heart: "It's too shocking!" Unexpectedly, I Zhang Liang was born in a famous Korean family and studied under Coats Huangshigong, but I can't compare to a mud leg who has been farming for several lifetimes. It's okay if I can't compare to the descendants of Wu Xinjun of Chu State, how can I not even compare to a rural fool? ”

Extremely frustrated and melancholy, Zhang Liang even couldn't help but have such a thought - the first thing he did after returning home was to burn the "Taigong Art of War" given to him by Huang Shigong, and he would never admit that he had read the art of war and understood what military affairs he had in the future, and he couldn't afford to lose this person.

At this time, Zhou Zeng had already asked Xiang Kang whether he would adopt Feng Zhong's tactical suggestions, Xiang Kang thought about it carefully, and found that after he grasped the initiative, not only was it easy to adjust his tactics, but he also did not have to worry about the safety of another battlefield in the decisive battle with Sijing, Surabaya, so Xiang Kang quickly made up his mind, and shouted a few times: "Use Feng Zhong's tactics!" Ordered the whole army to immediately start preparing to set off, and set off to the west at noon tomorrow to go to Fuli to find the violent Qin army for a decisive battle! ”

The children of the Xiang family present hugged their fists and sang a promise together, and Xiang Yang, who was responsible for conveying the order, also immediately arranged for manpower to inform the generals of the battalions of the young marshal's army to prepare for the expedition, but Xiang Bo's eyes were rolling, even if Xiang Kang did not ask him to go with the army, he did not take the initiative to make this request. And after the dejected Zhang Liang left the camp of the young marshal army, Xiang Bo also said to Zhang Liang sneakily: "Ovary, if Xiang Kang's little vertical son's chaotic enemy plan is discovered by the Tyrannical Qin army, and the Tyrannical Qin army refuses to be fooled, what do you think will happen?" ”

After all, he is a confidant, Xiang Boqiao wanted to pull what Yomida Gong Zhang Liang immediately understood, and immediately asked: "Uncle, do you want to quietly tell the tyrannical Qin army?" ”

"What are you kidding in the ovary, how can I be that person?" Xiang Bo laughed and said, "I'm just worried that Feng Zhong's puppet is talking on paper, and what kind of plan to disrupt the enemy will not work, so I care." ”

"Then why didn't you say it in the big tent of the Chinese army just now?" Zhang Liangxin snorted coldly, and said lightly: "It's useless if the Tyrant Qin army is not fooled, your virtuous nephew is not so stupid, seeing that the Tyrant Qin army is not chaotic on its own, he will definitely retreat directly with the army, and always lead the Tyrant Qin army to the city of Tyrant and then find another way, he will not be stupid to fight hard, that is not his habit and style of using troops." ”

Xiang Bo shut up in disappointment, but secretly hated it in his heart, and even wished that Xiang Kang would not go well with the troops, lose his prestige if he suffered a defeat, and give himself the opportunity to take charge of the army.

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According to Xiang Kang's arrangement, at noon the next day, Xiang Kang personally led the main force of the young marshal army of more than 5,000 people to set off eastward, and deliberately carried a lot of cloth, pigs and sheep in the army, ready to be used to disrupt the enemy. And the Qin army, who was lurking in the area of Xiwu, also sent the news to the Qin army's control area as soon as possible, and was sent to Fuli City by the Qin army's fast horse that night, and reported it to Zhao Zhuang, the guard of Surabaya County.

"Well done! Unexpectedly, Xiang Kang, a rebel thief, was so bold that he dared to take the initiative to send troops to Fu Li to fight a decisive battle with this official, and the official was not polite, and ordered the whole army to prepare for war immediately! When the thieves arrive, they will immediately send troops to fight a decisive battle! ”

As Feng Zhong analyzed in the letter, after receiving the news that Xiang Kang dared to take the initiative to send him to death, Zhao Zhuang really ordered the army to prepare for war as soon as possible, and immediately made up his mind to fight a head-on battle with the young marshal's army. However, an adjutant who accompanied Zhao Zhuang on the expedition had a different opinion, and advised: "Please think twice, Xiang Kang's soldiers and horses are not much different from ours, and the soldiers under his command have won consecutive battles, and their morale is booming, we will fight head-on with it, even if we win, we will definitely lose a lot of money, rather than risk a decisive battle, it is better to go deep and high, stick to the camp, wear down the spirit of the thieves, and then try to break the enemy." ”

"Deep ditch and high fortification, hold the camp?" Zhao Zhuang sneered when he heard this, and said: "This official is the county guard of Surabaya in Great Qin, and in the face of a group of rebels and thieves, you tell this official to only defend and not fight." ”

"Jun Zun, he can bend and stretch out his side as a big husband." The official persuaded again: "The county guard of Donghai County has promised to join forces with us to exterminate Xiang Kang's bandits, and he will personally lead the army south to Xiapi in the near future, and join forces with our army to attack Xiang Kang's rebels, even so, we only need to hold on for a few days, and wait until the Donghai County soldiers go south to Xiapi, and take advantage of the weakness to launch an attack on the back of the thieves, then Xiang Kang's rebels will inevitably be in chaos when they hear the news, and they can only hurry back to the army to rescue, and when the time comes, our army will take the opportunity to attack, and it will inevitably win a big victory." ”

If Zhao Zhuang listened to the persuasion of this assistant, then needless to say, Xiang Kang would not want to cry without tears, and he would definitely have to lose a lot of hair. But it's a pity that in Feng Zhong's analysis in the letter, Zhao Zhuang really shook his head and said: "There is no need to do this, if you do this, you will definitely grow the ambition of a thief, destroy the prestige of our Great Qin officers and soldiers, and this official will also lose face." Needless to say, it's decided, as soon as the thieves come, they will immediately send troops to fight a decisive battle! This official wants to see how long the rabble under Xiang Kang's traitor can last in front of the Great Qin Tiger and Wolf Division under this official's command! ”

Knowing Zhao Zhuang's temper of not listening to persuasion, the adjutant who spoke had no choice but to keep his mouth shut, and did not dare to continue to persuade himself to find his own pleasure. But fortunately, this assistant official only regretted that Zhao Zhuang refused to adopt his own prudent strategy, but he was not too worried that Zhao Zhuang would lose the decisive battle, after all, the county soldiers of Surabaya County were roughly equal to the young marshal army from the west in terms of strength, and the weapons and equipment were also occupied, and at the same time, in the ranks of the Qin army, there were many veterans of the Qin army who had participated in the border war, and their combat effectiveness was also guaranteed, so they would not be inferior to the rabble of the young marshal army who could not even unify their weapons and equipment.