Chapter 259: Deceit and Discord
Seeing Guan Yu holding the Qinglong Yanyue Knife and wantonly killing in his own formation, while the other Liu Bei soldiers slowly slowed down one by one, and gradually formed a formation under Liu Ye's command, surrounded by Guan Yu as an arrow, Zhang Liao's eyes narrowed.
Sure enough, maybe it was too hasty!
Although he had the upper hand at the beginning, relying on Guan Yu's superior force and deterrence, coupled with Liu Ye's scheduling, the situation began to turn around after a while.
Seeing the situation deteriorate little by little, Zhang Liao's face became more and more ugly. But at this time, he really didn't dare to rush forward, what if Guan Yu was cut with a knife? The gap in force is too big, even with the blessing of cloud qi, it is useless for Zhang Liao to go up.
As time passed, the battle became more and more intense, and the situation gradually turned upside down, turning into a one-sided massacre of Zhang Liao's army by Guan Yu's army.
Zhang Liao felt almost the same, and shouted with an ugly face: "Retreat!" Fall back! ”
Countless Yuan troops had long been emboldened in the face of this situation, and hurriedly retreated to the rear after hearing the words. But after all, it is the elite of Jiangdong, and even the retreat is quite methodical, fighting and retreating.
When Guan Yu saw this scene, his eyes were full of excitement, and he roared angrily: "Kill with me!" ”。 Then he continued to lead the army to rush forward with the Qinglong Glaive.
Looking at Guan Yu's chasing figure, Liu Ye faintly felt a trace of unease.
Although Zhang Liao's night attack was sudden and real, it was a little too hasty and simple. Liu Ye felt that there was something strange in it, and hurriedly asked the soldiers under his command to mingle and prepare to withdraw the troops.
Guan Yu frowned when he heard Mingjin's voice. However, Mingjin's withdrawal of troops is a military law, although Liu Ye is a little overstepping his authority in doing this, but as a military advisor, Guan Yu still trusts him. So although there were many doubts in his heart, he still stopped the impulse in his heart, and finally swung a knife and went back with a cold snort. Zhang Liao took the opportunity to also pack up the remnants and retreat to the camp.
"Strategist, this time our army has won a big victory, and we should take advantage of the victory to pursue, why do you want to withdraw your troops?" As soon as he returned to the camp, Guan Yu asked dissatisfiedly.
Hearing Guan Yu's questioning, Liu Ye frowned and explained: "Zhang Liao and Fa Zheng are not reckless people, today's attack on the camp is too strange, and there must be fraud behind it." Anyway, tonight is a big victory for me, so I can accept it when I see it. I also hope that the general will calm down and focus on the overall situation! ”
When Guan Yu heard this, although his face was not worried, but this explanation was also reasonable, so he had to say with a little resentment: "Today, our army killed and wounded more than 3,000 enemy troops, and its own losses were only 2,000, which can be regarded as a big victory." The enemy army has obviously been defeated just now, and if you pursue it for a while, you will definitely be able to expand the results of the battle. ”
Then he didn't care about Liu Ye's ugly face, and turned around and left directly.
Not to mention Guan Yu's resentment against Liu Ye, Zhang Liao returned to the camp a little embarrassed, but there was no trace of chagrin on his face, and he said to Fa Zheng calmly: "Do you need to continue tomorrow?" ”
Fa Zheng nodded affirmatively: "Although Guan Yu is arrogant, he is not a reckless person, and he can still take care of the overall situation." This provocation can only provoke his anger, but it will not make him lose his mind, and I will need to do it twice. ”
On the battlefield tonight, Fa Zheng didn't do anything, just hid behind and coldly observed Guan Yu and Liu Ye's expressions. Regarding the temperament and thoughts of these two people, Fa Zheng also guessed that he was not far from ten.
"Guan Yu's biggest weakness is his arrogance, although our plan is not difficult to break, but it is an unsolvable knot on Guan Yu's body, and it will definitely succeed." Yang Xiu said with great certainty.
After Jia Xu's hellish training, Yang Xiu's control of people's hearts is basically about to catch up with Fazheng. Arrogant, if you don't know how to take advantage of such an obvious weakness, is it worthy of suffering so much?
The character weaknesses of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the two peerless generals, are too easy to calculate. Historically, both of them died of their own character flaws, not to mention that one lost Xuzhou and the other lost Jingzhou.
But maybe that's the price of their ability! Is Guan Erye, who has lost his arrogance, still the martial saint who shocks Huaxia? How could Zhang Fei, who had lost his irritability, retreat Cao Cao's army at Changbanpo?
There are too many fierce generals in the Three Kingdoms who have character flaws. What Lu Bu, Ma Chao, and Sun Ce are mostly irritable or forgetful or arrogant people. Except for Zhao Yun and Jiang Wei, who do not have much flaws, they are basically fierce generals who are very arrogant and irritable.
And a person like Guan Yu, who is extremely arrogant and contemptuous of everything, is too easy to deal with in Yang Xiu's opinion, but it is a pity that there is a calm and cautious Liu Ye by his side. But fortunately, Guan Yu was not completely convinced of Liu Ye, which gave Yang Xiu a chance.
Discord!
It's not new, it just works. This kind of enduring and easy-to-use strategy instantly appeared in Yang Xiu's mind.
Wanting to separate the relationship between Guan Yu and Liu Ye is not difficult in Yang Xiu's opinion. But now the situation is so urgent, if you want to separate the relationship between the two in a short time, you must take strong medicine.
Letters disguised as covert contacts are too obvious in this case to be feasible. That's why Yang Xiu and Fa Zheng set up this series of schemes that include deception and discord.
On the evening of the second day, Zhang Liao led the army to attack the camp, but was still defeated and retreated by Guan Yu's army. When Liu Ye saw this situation, he felt even more that there was fraud in it, and once again Mingjin withdrew his troops.
"Strategist, I almost caught up with Zhang Liao and cut off his head, why did I withdraw my troops this time?" Guan Yu angrily reprimanded Liu Yedao.
Liu Ye's face darkened, and he somewhat understood Fazheng's plan. But if he is not afraid of 10,000, he is afraid of what happens, and at this time he has to withdraw his troops.
"General Guan, it's still the same sentence, the overall situation is important. Now that Cao Cao's army is coming, we only need to drag Zhang Liao's army, be careful, beware of fraud! Liu Ye said bitterly.
"Zhang Liao is not a reckless person, and such repeated useless night attacks show that there is fraud in it. General Guan must calm down, the other party has not taken this opportunity to separate your thoughts and mine! ”
Liu Ye's words came from the bottom of his heart and were well-founded. But it's a pity that he is facing the arrogant Guan Yu.
"Fraud? If Zhang Liao comes to attack at night again tomorrow, do you still want to withdraw your troops? Guan Yu shouted angrily.
"The last battle of Yuzhou was because you were timid, which caused me and my third brother to draw with Zhou Gongjin's child, and it almost became the biggest joke in the world. Now for the sake of this so-called prudence, you don't let Guan make meritorious contributions. ”
"Say! What are you thinking? Is it possible to see that my two brothers have made meritorious contributions? ”
In the face of Guan Yu's accusation, Liu Ye only felt angry in his heart: "A certain loyalty to the lord can be revealed, and there is no grudge against the two generals!" Why is the general so slanderous with so-and-so? ”
Guan Yu didn't pay attention to it, and snorted coldly: "You know what you are doing!" I don't care what you're thinking, but please don't point fingers at you in the next battle. Don't forget, I am the commander of this army, and if you withdraw the army without authority, don't blame Guan for being rude! ”