Chapter 144: Anticipate the Enemy's Aircraft First
Xiang Liang deliberately suddenly arranged a prison army representing distrust and surveillance for the young marshal army, Xiang Kang understood in his heart, while deliberately making conflicts with Xiang Liang's prison army in public, and deliberately indulged the children of the Xiang family to frequently pass through the camp to meet with Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu, and then the children of the Xiang family were secretly arranged by Xiang Liang, deliberately slacked off military affairs, repeatedly frolicked and had fun outside the camp, and did not hesitate to use the cavalry to gamble, and the traitorous uncle and evil nephew teamed up to stage a fraud drama, and finally deceived Zhang Han, who had been waiting for the fighter, to prepare to highlight the strange soldiers, dealt a fatal blow to Xiang Liang and Xiang Kang, who had already revealed their flaws.
The tacit cooperation between Xiang Liang and Xiang Kang, the unscrupulous uncle and nephew, not only deceived Zhang Han and Sima Xin, but also deceived countless civil and military officials and generals of the Chu army and the young marshal army, but it is a pity that in the lineup of the Chu army and the young marshal army of the Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger, there are still some people who can see the true intentions of Xiang Liang and Xiang Kang at a glance, but they just refuse to break it. At the same time, in the ranks of the anti-Qin friendly army, there was also a person who saw through the dirty purpose of Xiang Liang and Xiang Kang, and this person was Uncle Zhou, the Wei general whom Xiang Kang had never heard of before the crossing.
There are many reasons why Uncle Zhou is not reused in the Wei army, and he is not very good at handling interpersonal relationships is one of the key reasons, after being seconded to the account by Xiang Kang, although Xiang Kang is quite good to him, almost undressing and pushing food, but Uncle Zhou has never shown too much gratitude, and at the same time, Zhou Zeng, Feng Zhong and Chao Zhi and other Xiang Kang's henchmen saw Xiang Kang's plan, and deliberately made friends with Uncle Zhou, trying to establish personal feelings, but Uncle Zhou always had a cold attitude and refused to talk to Xiang Kang's several henchmen with different surnames, became friends with the situation, and Feng Zhong, who had a good temper, couldn't help but complain behind his back, saying that Uncle Zhou couldn't be a man than his number one henchman, surnamed Han.
However, Uncle Zhou also has the advantage of being conscientious, in addition to not breaking the organs of Xiang Liang and Xiang Kang, the cavalry of the young marshal army such as Guan Ying and Yang Xi ended the competition with Xiang Yu, and when Xiang Kang returned to the camp of the young marshal army after the performance, Uncle Zhou took the initiative to run outside Xiang Kang's Chinese army tent to ask for a meeting, and said to Xiang Kang after the meeting: "Young Marshal Xiang, the last general thinks that from now on, in addition to the need to further tighten the camp movements of the Tyrannical Qin army, it is best to carefully count the amount of cooking smoke of the Tyrannical Qin army every morning and evening. ”
"Count the amount of cooking smoke in the Tyrannical Qin army?" Xiang Kang was stunned for a moment, and then immediately came to his senses, nodded with a smile, and said, "It's still General Zhou who is careful, yes, we have to carefully count the amount of cooking smoke in the Tyrannical Qin army every day." ”
After that, Xiang Kang really immediately ordered the scouts of the young marshal's army to secretly count the amount of cooking smoke of the Qin army outside the camp from the dinner of that day, so as to grasp the amount of cooking for each meal of the Qin army. Uncle Zhou was also quite relieved to see that Xiang Kang was obedient to him, and it was rare to say a few words to Xiang Kang before leaving.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in the major generals are open, whenever the enemy is ready to attack the camp at night, there is usually a strong wind to report, blow off the flagpole or blow down the handsome flag to warn, for example, when Cao Boss went to attack Xuzhou, Uncle Liu Huang was ready to send troops to rob the camp, but before it was dark, the wind of the evil gate had already blown a blue and red tooth flag in Cao Boss's army, so that Cao Boss immediately knew that Uncle Liu Huang was going to steal chickens and touch dogs, and preemptively arranged an ambush to let Uncle Liu Huang steal chickens and almost put his life in.
Of course, Xiang Kang does not have a plug-in like Boss Cao, and at the same time, the initiative of this war is in the hands of Zhang Han, when to send troops to launch a sneak attack is Zhang Han's final say, Xiang Kang, who has no plug-in and no God's perspective, is destined to be beaten passively, so Xiang Kang has no choice, he can only be a scout who works hard, and carefully counts the amount of cooking smoke in the Qin army every day and every meal, and judges Zhang Han's dispatch time with this clue.
On the morning of the third day, the young marshal's scouts who were sent to investigate the movements of the Qin army's camp suddenly reported that the amount of cooking smoke in the Qin army's battalions was obviously more than yesterday and the day before yesterday. But what surprised Xiang Kang a little was that Uncle Zhou had just been invited to the tent, and Feng Zhong also ran outside the tent of the Chinese army to ask for a meeting, after Xiang Kang ordered the summons, Feng Zhong couldn't wait to say as soon as he entered the tent: "Young marshal, there is an abnormal movement on the side of the Tyrannical Qin camp, if the last general is not bad, I am afraid that the Tyrannical Qin army will make a move tonight." ”
"How did the eldest brother know?" Xiang Kang asked casually.
"Don't hide it from the young marshal, since the start of the Tyrannical Qin army's all-out reinforcement of the camp, the last general will send someone to quietly count the amount of cooking smoke of the Tyrant Qin army every day." Feng Zhong said truthfully: "Previously, each team of 10,000 people in the Tyrannical Qin army made 200 mouthfuls of rice per meal, but today's breakfast suddenly became 300. If the general's expectations are not bad, the Tyrannical Qin army may have planned to secretly make a night meal when cooking this morning and evening, so that their soldiers can eat it at night, but they are afraid that we will find out that they are rushing to make dry food, so we use this trick. ”
He had long been accustomed to the surprise that Feng Zhong brought to him, and Xiang Kang was not too surprised, but asked with a wry smile: "Then why didn't the eldest brother say it earlier?" ”
"I want to surprise you." Feng Zhong replied with a smile, and said: "Young marshal, it shouldn't be wrong, the tyrannical Qin army eats wheat rice, millet rice or chestnut rice (small rice), which is more difficult to cook than the rice we eat, if we use the same stove to cook for a long time, it is easy for us to see that there is a problem." If a large number of stoves are added in a hurry, it is easy for us to see the flaws. Since Zhang Handipfu is so deliberately covering up that he is quietly rushing to make dry food, it means that he will definitely make a move today, and we should also prepare in advance, and in turn kill Zhang Handpifu by surprise. ”
Xiang Kang nodded, and then told Feng Zhong that Uncle Zhou had also suggested that he secretly count the amount of cooking cigarettes in the Qin army, Feng Zhong was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly said to Uncle Zhou: "General Zhou, no wonder Young Marshal Xiang appreciates you so much, I didn't expect you to also notice this problem, great, great." ”
"General Feng is overrated." Uncle Zhou arched his hand and said: "The real great thing is General Feng, the last general only thought of this question the day before yesterday, but General Feng, you have already begun to pay attention at the beginning of the violent Qin army's deliberate weakness, so far-sighted, the last general is really admired." ”
Hearing this, the soldiers surnamed Han who were standing behind Feng Zhong were of course feeling a lot better, and found that they were still better than Uncle Zhou, but Feng Zhong couldn't wait, and asked again: "General Zhou, if the Tyrannical Qin army really comes to attack tonight, how are you going to deal with it?" Quick, let me hear it, let me see if we think of it again. ”
"Then the general will be ugly." Uncle Zhou was not polite, and immediately said: "In the opinion of the last general, if the Tyrannical Qin army really comes to attack tonight, then they must be the main attack on Xiang Zhuguo's camp, and they will only use partial divisions to contain our army, give priority to defeating Xiang Zhuguo's army, and then turn around and calmly attack our army." As for the reason, of course, our army's camp is too strong, even if it is a sneak attack overnight, it is very successful, and Xiang Zhuguo's camp is obviously not as strong as our army, and it is easy to succeed in a sneak attack, and the tyrannical Qin army also has the opportunity to concentrate its forces and break the army of Xiang Zhuguo in one fell swoop. ”
"Sure enough, I want to be with me again." Feng Zhongtian slapped his thigh shamelessly, and then said even more impatiently: "So it's better for us to do this tonight, ask Xiang Zhuguo to temporarily take charge of the defense, and temporarily contain the main force of the Tyrannical Qin army for us." At the same time, we took the opportunity to ambush and defeat their partial divisions against the violent Qin army, and also entangled their main rear team, and then asked Xiang Zhuguo to send troops to counterattack, and we will definitely win a big victory! ”
"General Feng really thought of it with the last general." Uncle Zhou was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "However, our ambush cannot be arranged outside the camp, we must take a little risk, place the ambush in our front camp position, and then deliberately let the partial division of the tyrannical Qin army steal the camp, wait for their army to rush into our front camp, and then launch an ambush." Otherwise, if our ambush soldiers were arranged outside the camp, they would definitely be easily discovered by the Tyrannical Qin army in advance, and our ambush would have failed. ”
"That's right." Feng Zhong applauded and said, "If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger?" Without taking a little risk, how could the Tyrannical Qin army be easily fooled? Only by placing the ambush soldiers in our camp can we seize the opportunity and defeat the stolen soldiers of the tyrannical Qin army. ”
When you said this, Feng Zhong remembered to ask Xiang Kang's opinion, and hurriedly asked Xiang Kang: "Young marshal, what do you think?" ”
Xiang Kang smiled bitterly and said weakly: "You have all said it so clearly? What else can I see? So let's do it, I'll go to my uncle in the camp and make an agreement with him about this tactic. ”
"Young marshal, you'd better change your clothes and pretend to be an ordinary official to pass through the camp, so as not to be discovered by the scouts of the tyrannical Qin army and become alert." Feng Zhong and Uncle Zhou said in unison. Xiang Kang smiled helplessly, then quickly changed his clothes, pretended to be an ordinary scribe of the young marshal's army, and tried his best to pass the camp to meet his heroic second uncle Xiang Liang.
It was Xiang Kang's turn to be as brazen and shameless as Feng Zhong, after seeing Xiang Liang, in order to show himself, and in order to prevent 'Feng Zhong' and Uncle Zhou from being poached by Xiang Liang's greed, Xiang Kang also boasted about the method of counting cooking cigarettes as his own clever strategy, but Xiang Liang was of course overjoyed when he heard it, and said: "Kang'er is still careful and can notice such small details." That's right, this must be a signal that the Tyrant Qin army is preparing to launch a night attack tonight! ”
"Good boy, you've got you!" Xiang Yu also strangled Xiang Kang's neck excitedly, and said: "Go back and prepare, as soon as the Tyrannical Qin army sends troops tonight, our Xiang brothers will join forces to attack and kill the Tyrannical Qin army with a crying father and mother, fart!" ”
"Brother, don't worry, I have a better way."
Xiang Kang shook his head, and then carefully explained the enemy-breaking strategy proposed by 'Feng Zhong' and Uncle Zhou, but Xiang Yu was very disapprehensive when he heard it, and said: "There is no need to be so troublesome, and there is no need for Brother you to risk arranging an ambush in your camp, as long as the Tyrannical Qin army dares to come, we just need to join forces to send troops, with Brother A, we don't have to worry about not being able to win the battle." ”
"Brother, it's better to be strategic." Xiang Kang said: "Although it is also a way to attack head-on, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive after all, and even if you win, you won't be able to gain too many results." It's best to use my method, as long as my ambush breaks through the partial division of the Tyrannical Qin army, the morale of the Tyrannical Qin army will inevitably be greatly disturbed, and the morale will be seriously affected. When the time comes, Brother, you will come out of your uncle's camp and join forces with me to fight back and forth, not only will you have a greater grasp, but you will also have more results. ”
After finishing speaking, Xiang Kang hurriedly turned to Xiang Liang again and asked, "Uncle, do you say that's the case?" ”
Looking at his two most competitive nephews with a complicated mood, Xiang Liang nodded for a while and said, "Kang'er is right, your strategy is more certain, we should fight like this." ”
Xiang Yu was helpless when he heard this, so he had to give up his proposition, but Xiang Liang said in his heart, "Yu'er and Kang'er's temperament and personality are too opposite, this is not a good thing, if I can't make a bowl of water level in the future, I'm afraid that it will be difficult for the two of them to have a dispute." ”
After agreeing with Xiang Liang on the tactics of dealing with the enemy, Xiang Kang hurriedly returned to the camp of the young marshal's army to organize the army to prepare for the night battle, fortunately, Xiang Kang had a lot of torches in the army in reserve in order to take precautions, but there was no need for temporary logging to catch up, and at the same time, the staple food of the young marshal soldiers and soldiers was easy to cook, Xiang Kang only needed to let the battalions of the young marshal's army properly extend some time when cooking at night, and steam more rice to make rice balls, so that the young marshal soldiers could have dry food to eat during the night battle, and there was no need to add a stove like the Qin army to steam wheat rice. Hard-to-cook staples such as millet rice and chestnut rice.
The same is true for the Chu army, who have long known that once the Qin army makes a move, it is likely to be a sneak attack at night, Xiang Liang has also stocked a large number of night battle torches in the Chu army camp early, and the Jiangdong soldiers who are more rice-based staple food are also very easy to prepare rice balls for night battles in advance without much action. However, what made Xiang Yu quite worried was that the Chu army was working hard to prepare for the night battle, but until it was completely dark, the last Chu army scout who came back from near the Qin army camp still reported that there was no abnormal movement in the Qin army camp, so Xiang Yu, who had never liked to fight secretly at night, inevitably muttered a little, and said to Xiang Liang: "Uncle, why is there no movement on the Qin army's side?" Ah Di shouldn't make a mistake in judgment, let's work hard in vain, right? ”
"Hold your breath and be patient." Xiang Liang replied very calmly: "If the Tyrannical Qin army is ready to launch a night surprise attack, and it can be easily discovered by our scouts wandering outside the camp, then it is not called a night attack." Your brother's analysis and judgment are reasonable, and we must believe them. ”
In the impatient waiting of the overlord brother, the night became deeper and deeper, and at the time of the second watch, the camp gates of the Qin army, which had been closed before, suddenly, with the faint moonlight lighting, a group of Qin army soldiers quietly walked out of the camp, with stone titles and horses, and quickly assembled outside the Qin army camp almost without sound, and then under the personal leadership of Zhang Han, the footsteps came briskly towards the camp of the Chu army and the young marshal army ten miles away.
When the third watch was approaching, the Qin army successfully arrived at the predetermined position, and then it was exactly the same as 'Feng Zhong' and Uncle Zhou expected, Zhang Han really asked Dong Peng to lead the partial division to deal with the camp of the young marshal army, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and personally led the main force to raid the camp of the Chu army, and also agreed to start at the same time when he heard the sound of the three watches in the camp of the Chu army and the young marshal's army, and at the same time launched a surprise attack, so that the Chu army and the young marshal army were in a hurry together, and it was more difficult for each other to echo each other.
Although it was clear that the camp of the young marshal's army was difficult to fight, for the sake of shame, Dong Peng, who had already suffered two heavy defeats on the Suiyang battlefield, was still determined to seize this opportunity to avenge himself, and at the same time arranged three armies to attack the three camp gates west of the young marshal's army camp together. Then just when he heard the sound of banging on the three watches from the camp of the young marshal's army, Dong Fei immediately waved his hand, and the three Qin army raid teams also looked like ghosts, and at the same time, the cat's waist rushed to the three camp gates of the young marshal's army.
Zhang Han was the same, and at the same time, he immediately launched a surprise attack as soon as he arrived at the third watch, but unfortunately, a Qin army commando team had just rushed to the vicinity of the Chu army's camp gate, and was immediately discovered by the Chu army sentry on the sentry tower, and quickly knocked on the gong alarm room, and the Chu army commando in the camp also immediately rang the gong to call the police. Zhang Han frowned when he heard this, but in order to seize the fighter, he immediately ordered the front army to charge, changed the sneak attack to a strong attack, and forcibly knocked on the camp of the Chu army.
Zhang Han didn't expect it, and Dong Peng didn't expect that the main force of the Qin army sneak attack on the Chu army camp was quickly discovered, but the progress of the Qin army's partial division was extremely smooth, and the Qin army commando team that rushed the fastest not only smoothly touched the door of the young marshal's army's camp, but also grabbed the door latch directly from the outside before the guards at the camp gate of the young marshal's army reacted, and pushed open the gate of the young marshal's camp, and then although the gate soldiers of the young marshal's army also quickly sounded the gong to give the alarm, they still couldn't stop the Qin army commandos from rushing into the camp and quickly killed them.
The young marshal soldiers in the camp were obviously not prepared, and after hearing the gong alarm, not only did no army immediately come to remedy, but on the contrary, there was a panicked scene of shouting and shouting, Dong Fei saw that the opportunity could not be missed, and immediately yelled, and commanded the army to rush directly to the door of the young marshal's barracks that had been wide open. At the same time, the other two camp gates were also directly split open by the Qin army commando with an axe, Dong Fei was even more overjoyed when he saw it, and hurriedly urged the army to step forward with all his strength, and personally led the army to charge.
At the same time, Zhang Han, who is good at night surprise attacks, has found that the situation is a little bad, because the attacked Chu army camp obviously has a certain amount of preparation, and before the Qin soldiers who forcibly attacked the camp touched the fence of the big camp, countless crossbowmen had already appeared inside the fence of the Chu camp. And then, a terrible thought immediately appeared in Zhang Han's mind, and he said secretly: "Oops! Thieves aren't prepared, are they? ”
Zhang Han only found out that something was wrong, but Dong Peng's side had already obviously discovered that something was wrong, and after successfully rushing into the camp of the young marshal army, although the soldiers of the Qin army also immediately set fire to it, burning the camp tent of the young marshal army, and at the same time struggling forward, directly impacting the camp of the young marshal army. However, the soldiers of the Qin army soon found that the tents of the young marshal barracks that bore the brunt of the attack were almost empty, and although there were many soldiers in the young marshal's camp running around shouting, the young marshal soldiers and soldiers of the Qin army really encountered were pitiful, so that even if the soldiers of the Qin army wanted to kill, they could not find a target to do.
In order to seize the fighters, the Qin army's charge was extremely fast, so after most of the Qin army's partial division had entered the camp, Dong Fei also rushed into the camp of the young marshal army surrounded by his own soldiers, and found that Dong Fei, who was surrounded by almost empty tents, made a correct reaction and exclaimed: "I have won the plan!" Evacuate! ”
"Knock knock knock!"
It's late, at this time, the Chinese army camp of the young marshal army is already beating war drums, and then immediately after, two huge numbers of young marshal army ambush soldiers almost simultaneously from the left and right to kill, holding high all kinds of weapons to kill the two wings of the Qin army, at the same time, the young marshal army's Chinese army camp also frontally killed an army, three breads sandwiched the Qin army's soldiers into the camp, without saying a word, they fired arrows together, shooting the Qin army soldiers who had no long shield to protect them to the devil crying wolf, and fell to the ground again and again.
If it is encountered with the young marshal's army in broad daylight, even if it is caught by three breads, the Qin army will definitely not collapse easily, but the night battle is completely different, the dim light is not only difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, but also more difficult to maintain the formation of the group under the command of the banner to which he belongs, plus the sneak attack is panicked, so the Qin army was immediately killed by the sudden appearance of the enemy, scrambling to run away from the road, and it was inevitable that there would be a situation of trampling on each other. As a result, the already chaotic formation was even more chaotic to the extreme.
"Withdraw! Remove! Evacuate! Dong Fei shouted frantically almost in despair, "Quick, send someone to report to the general!" Let's just say that I have been tricked again! Please send an army to help me, send an army to help me! ”