Huang Zhongsi will arrive, Liu Yi arranged for them to be familiar with military affairs in the camp, and train soldiers and horses every day, Liu Yi divided the 20,000 army into ten schools, but the number of each school is not equal, such as Lu Lingqi led a school, only the thousand barbarian women, Chen Ergou is responsible for Liu Yi's guards, only 300 people, also counted as a school, responsible for leading the army to fight, naturally more, these days, divided into eight schools to train soldiers and horses day and night, Liu Yi is not in a hurry to pursue Meng Huo, but frequently visit the local aborigines, invite them to live in the walled city, the effect is not obvious, However, Liu Yi helped these barbarians improve the conditions of the tribes and develop agricultural and water conservancy, but he won the favor of these tribes, and from time to time he would receive local cherished timber and even silver mines from these tribes.

On this day, Liu Yi was studying the terrain in this area with Huang Zhong and others, but saw Guan Xing walking quickly into the conference hall and bowing to Liu Yi: "Tinghou, then Meng has withdrawn." ”

"Retirement?" Liu Yi, Huang Zhong, and Ma Jian glanced at each other, and said with some confusion: "Where to retreat?" ”

"The last general asked the nearby mountain people, and I heard that the area is called Wuxueshui, which is a tributary of Lushui, surrounded by mountains on both sides, and the terrain is quite narrow, and Meng Shu is retreating here!" Guan Xing bowed.

"Probe!" Liu Yi nodded, Guan Xing promised, and left.

"No blood...... Liu Yi didn't look at the sand table, that was what he did, and it was very clear that there was no bloodless terrain on the sand table, if it weren't for Guan Xing to say, Liu Yi didn't know that there was this river, so he could only look for it on the map.

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But said that after Meng Shu suffered a defeat, he learned from the pain, he felt that the reason why the Han army was powerful, one was the armor, the other was the battle array, which was the short board of the Southern Barbarians, although he also wanted to improve the level of the barbarian army's battle formation, but this kind of thing could not be trained in a short period of time, not to mention that Meng Huo also knew little about the battle formation training, so it was naturally not good to train.

Since it is impossible to make up for the shortcomings, it can only make use of its strengths and avoid its weaknesses, relying on the terrain to limit the performance of the Han army's battle formation.

When he came back from Kunchi, he brought a lot of barbarian troops, plus the soldiers and horses he led before, and after making up the number of 30,000, he summoned Mrs. Zhurong and a group of barbarian generals to discuss.

"Although this battle was lost, I have seen the reality of the Han army." Meng Shu looked at the generals and said with a smile: "The people that the Han army relies on are nothing more than battle formations. ”

"The Han people's armor and weapons are also quite powerful!" A barbarian general said with a sad face, the last time he fought, he was almost surrounded and killed by the Han soldiers, which made him remember it vividly.

"So I can't just run into the Han army." Meng Shu said with a smile: "Then Liu Yi came to Nanzhong, it is difficult to travel along the mountain road, and it is bound to be difficult to supply logistics supplies, I have discussed with my wife, the last time we lost, it was because Liu Yi deliberately lured us into an ambush in a strategy, if you fight him here again, you can't say that you will fall into his tricks again, rather than this, it is better to set up the battlefield in the bloodless area." ”

"No blood?" The generals were puzzled.

"Yes, the terrain here is narrow, the Han people's battle formation cannot be used here, and our army is the best at fighting in the mountains, if a war starts here, they will not have the advantage of the battle formation, how can they be our opponents?" Meng Shu said confidently, he is a very good at summing up, the last time he failed, he summed up Liu Yi's troop routine, in fact, there is nothing surprising, but they dug a pit for them in advance, sent ambush soldiers, and when they camped in those three places according to Liu Yi's ideas, the ambush soldiers together, plus the Han army is good at battle formations, they were caught off guard, and there will be the defeat last time, this time, he chose the battlefield, if Liu Yi ignores it, and takes Yunnan directly, then Meng Shu will copy his back road, cut off his grain and grass, if the other party comes to attack, in order to avoid the risk of blood and water, must be called Liu Yi to come and go.

"Brilliant plan!" When the barbarian generals heard Meng Huo's strategy, they clapped their hands and applauded, and looked at Meng Huo with admiration.

The plan has been decided, Meng Shu immediately ordered the three armies to pull out the camp and raise the village, retreat to the bloodless area, build the enemy tower, on the cliffs on both sides, and learn from Liu Yi to build a beacon tower, just waiting for Liu Yi to attack.

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After Liu Yi learned that Meng was retreating to the bloodless water, he immediately called the generals to discuss, the terrain on the map was incomplete, and he could only roughly see where the bloodless water was, but for the surrounding terrain, the map was just a line, and he could not get a glimpse of the whole picture.

Liu Yi immediately ordered Yang Ren and Wu Banba to set up camps, commanded the army to move forward, and brought Huang Zhong, Guan Xing, Zhang Bao and dozens of personal guards to personally explore and check the terrain in the bloodless area.

After the surrounding mountain people knew, they specially sent a few barbarians as guides, these mountain people have lived here for a long time, although they did not respond to Meng Huo's call, but they did not want to be an enemy of Meng Huo, and felt ashamed of Liu Yi, so they filmed some guides, responsible for helping Liu Yi guide the way and avoid some dangerous places, which really made Liu Yi a lot more convenient.

Three days later, south of Wuxueshui, on the top of an unknown mountain peak, Meng Huo's camp could be seen stretching for more than ten miles along a river, and the camps were covered on both banks, with enemy towers and arrow towers all over the place.

Beside Liu Yi, a barbarian guide was talking in dialects, in this place, not all barbarians can speak Chinese, a barbarian general in Liu Yi's army said to Liu Yi: "Tinghou, he said that there is no blood and water here, this area of mountains is difficult to walk, and you can only enter through the road thirty miles to the south along the road on both sides of the water." ”

"Thank him for me, and tell him that when the battle is over, I will personally go and thank their patriarch." Liu Yi smiled at the guide in a friendly manner.

"Tinghou, this mountain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the terrain is narrow, that is, the two armies are fighting, and our army's battle formation cannot be used, and I am afraid it is not the opponent of the barbarians." Guan Xing frowned and looked at the direction of the barbarian camp, more than ten miles away, all he could see was a vague outline, and Liu Yi could see more clearly with a telescope.

Liu Yi took back the binoculars, pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "Don't fight, go, go back, I have a strategy to break the enemy!" ”

The generals were surprised when they heard this, and after following Liu Yi back to the barracks, Liu Yi didn't say much, and directly recruited craftsmen to make the sand table in the bloodless area, and looked at everyone: "What do you think?" ”

Ma Jian stood beside Liu Yi, looking at the terrain on the sand table without blood and water, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he was about to speak, but Liu Yi secretly pulled the placket of his shirt, turned his head to look at Liu Yi, but saw Liu Yi raised his chin in the direction of Guan Xing, Zhang Bao and Zhao Guang, the meaning was obvious, he wanted to give young people the opportunity to think for themselves.

Ma Jian understood and didn't say more, Huang Zhong obviously saw something, looked up at Liu Yi, but saw Liu Yi close his eyes and shook his head, Huang Zhong nodded immediately, and at the same time pulled Yang Ren, who wanted to speak.

Guan Xing, Zhang Bao and Zhao Guang looked at the terrain on the sand table, frowning and thinking hard, but thinking about it, the other party occupies a favorable position, no matter how they fight, the terrain in this bloodless area is all they take advantage of, and their own advantages cannot be brought into play.

After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't think of a way to break the enemy.

Guan Xing raised his head and wanted to ask Liu Yi directly, but when he saw that Liu Yi and the others were looking at them in a little secret, he was a little stunned for a while, and bowed to Liu Yi and said, "Tinghou, I don't know what I said before, what is the strategy to break the enemy?" ”

"Think for yourself." Liu Yi shook his head and didn't say much.

Guan Xing's face turned bitter when he heard this, and he turned his head to look at Ma Jian and then at Huang Zhong.

"This war can't be fought according to the enemy's ideas, just like we fought with Meng Huo before, Meng Huo set up camp according to our ideas, and was easily defeated by our army, and now he occupies a favorable position, this is what they want us to fight according to their ideas, if we follow the other party's ideas, then no matter what, we will suffer." Liu Yi explained two sentences, this general with combat experience will generally know this, you can't fight how the other party wants to fight in a war, and you must be the one who suffers in that way.

"Why don't you set fire to the mountain!?" Guan Xing's eyes lit up and blurted out.

Liu Yi sighed, shook his head and said: "We are here to subdue the Nanban and let it be used by me. And in such a big place, people won't run away if you burn it? ”

"Water attack?" Zhang Bao raised her head and asked tentatively.

"We're downstream!" Guan Xing glared at Zhang Bao, this can be regarded as following the trend, right?

"Drink water!" Liu Yi didn't bother to pay attention to them, he had already said his thoughts, if he still couldn't think of it, he would just hit the board for a while, and greeted a few other people.

"Tinghou teaches like this, but it's also interesting!" Ma Jian sat down, took a few sips of the water bowl and said with a smile, it is midsummer now, the weather is hot, this southern land is even more amazing, and thanks to the miraculous effect of the military camp established by Liu Yi, otherwise this climate alone is enough for the soldiers to drink a pot.

"Teach apprentices, you can't just teach and ask, you just tell them what to do, over time, it will make them become dependent, they won't think about it themselves, they will ask people if they have something, how can you expect them to be in charge alone? You have to let them think for themselves, so that they can hone really useful talents. Liu Yi drank the water and said with a smile.

"Reasonable!" Ma Yan nodded.

Wu Ban on the side heard this, looked down at the sand table, although his face was light, but he was thinking hard in his heart, it seemed that he had been left behind, obviously Liu Yi regarded him as the group of people who understood, but in fact, ...... He didn't know what kind of consensus these people had reached, so he could only pretend to look at the sand table a few times inadvertently, and then continue to think hard in his head.

Liu Yi is not in a hurry, he has time, even if he sets a strategy, what he has to do is wait, and he can repair roads if he has nothing to do, in Liu Yi's opinion, this is the most important thing.

Time passed bit by bit, and Liu Yi even opened a chess table with Ma Jian to play chess, chess! Huang Zhong and the others were also quite familiar with this, and they all gathered around to watch.

Until Liu Yi and Ma Jian killed three sets, Zhao Guang, who had been silent, suddenly raised his head and said: "Tinghou, you can block the valley mouth, although it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is not easy to supply grain and grass, if you can block the valley mouth and cut off its grain road, then Meng will definitely attack, and this bloodless land will naturally cease to exist." ”

Liu Yi glanced at Ma Jian when he heard this, nodded with satisfaction: "It will be according to the plan of the country!" ”