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"Report to the general, there is news from within Nanzhou."

"Oh? Tell me about it? Gao Wenyuan sat on the felt and looked at the two people who walked in, his brows furrowed slightly.

"The strength of Nanzhou is indeed as we thought before, it is the shape of a strong wall and a clear field. The periphery seems to be a little hard, but once it penetrates into the hinterland, Nanzhou's troops are extremely empty, scattered and vulnerable. Sun Xianfeng said happily, as if victory was within reach.

However, Gao Wenyuan listened, but his face was a little worried. "Do you have a detailed record?"

"Ah, yes." Sun Xianfeng took a piece of wood from the soldier's hand, "Well, there are not many people in the army who can write, and they all use marks, General Gao, you see that I will explain to you." With that, he took a few steps forward and placed the wood in front of Gao Wenyuan's eyes. The wood was an ordinary log, presumably from the soldiers who had taken it on the spot.

There are many traces of the knife and halberd on the wood, but when you look at it, I am afraid that it is just a rotten wood. After listening to the vanguard officer's point-and-finger explanation, the marks on Gao Wenyuan's forehead were obviously deeper.

"You mean, no army passed through there?"

"General Hui, listening to their report, I'm afraid that's exactly the case, this just shows that the main force of Nanzhou is now in the north, and there are no troops in this part we are facing."

"I'm afraid not." Gao Wenyuan took a deep breath, "Hiss-"

"General...... What comes to mind? ”

Gao Wenyuan nodded, "If I were the leader of the Nanzhou rebellion, I would definitely not choose the method of clearing the wilderness, then the battle line would be too long, and the defense would be very weak, and I would not be able to stop the attack of the 400,000 army at all." At this point, the best thing to do is to pretend to be a strong wall but actually lure the enemy. When the enemy has chiseled through the skin of the melon and thinks that it is time to reach the melon, it is the most terrible thing to envelop them in a front and back attack. Once it is wrapped inside, although it is not difficult to break through with our troops, it will really not be able to save Liangjing City at that time. ”

Hearing Gao Wenyuan's analysis, the vanguard officer couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, "What the general said is extremely true, the last general is not thoughtful." ”

Gao Wenyuan shook his head, "It's true that it's not well thought out, but it's not necessarily wrong." If the other party really uses the strategy I just said, then the best way to break the game is to divide the troops into four ways, and the middle two ways to feint, and the target is the abdomen of Nanzhou. Then send the main force from the left and right flanks, once the belly forces are besieged, the left and right flanks can go straight to the center, and divide the Nanzhou soldiers and horses in the surprise attack, and the two ways of the feint can take care of each other in the process of combat, delay and even contain the enemy's main force, killing multiple birds with one stone. ”

"That makes sense...... The general's soldiers are exquisite, and Sun really admires them. ”

Hearing this, Gao Wenyuan laughed, "I just said, you may not have thought about it wrong." If Nanzhou is really determined to strengthen the wall, using my strategy will only hit their hands. As soon as the four armies are dispersed, our attacks will become weak, and each of them may not be able to break the iron wall, and the casualties will only be more severe. ”

"Soldiers are treacherous, who dares to say who is 'exquisite', there are examples of fallacies even if one more step is counted." Gao Wenyuan smiled bitterly and waved his hand to the pioneer officer, "You go out first, you have to have a good rest." ”

"Yes!"

The pioneer officer left the camp with the soldier, so Gao Wenyuan was the only one left in the tent.

……

The morning of the next day may have been a little too early for the defenders of the county. Although it is the county closest to Gao Wenyuan's garrison in the south of Nanzhou, the defenders here have long been prepared for Gao Wenyuan's attack. But the raid on the fourth watch still caught them off guard.

The war drums in the dark sounded exceptionally loud, and it could be said that they were quite noisy. However, this contact initiated at night only lasted until the fifth watch, and as soon as the fifth watch arrived, Gao Wenyuan's side immediately withdrew his troops and was not greedy, which made the defenders of Huoxian a little confused.

Under normal circumstances, the second half of the night is the most sleepy time for a person, and the presence of a few days has numbed the nerves of the defenders. From a certain point of view, this is the best time to launch a surprise attack, and Gao Wenyuan also seized this opportunity very well and gave Yuxian a mallet.

However, this mallet is actually not heavy, and the impact of the night is the same for both parties. Maybe Gao Wenyuan took advantage of what he had prepared, but the rebels also had a huge geographical advantage. The ancients said, "Surround it five times, attack it ten times." "It shows the difficulty of attacking the city.

After an hour, the defenders of the county sorted out their moods from the sudden battle and began to cook in the morning. At this time, they heard the somewhat familiar war drums and thunder in the west, and Cao Yan, the county guard of Huoxian County, hurriedly gathered soldiers and horses to rush to the city wall. They were shocked by the situation at the city walls.

The expected siege did not appear, and there were only a few strong men in armor who moved Gao Wenyuan's snare drum to the city of Huoxian and were beating it loudly. Seeing that the defenders arrived, when the strong man in the center of the drum hurriedly stopped the drumstick, looked up at the city wall, stuck his two hairy arms into his waist, and began to scold:

"On the other side, are they all **raised?,Is it his***all***.,Grandpas have been waiting for your group of ** here for several days.,Not even a little *kid's head.,Is it not his* at all......"

It was called a full of energy, shouting and shouting that the strong man next to him also rushed to help one by one, and the more he scolded, the more turbulent it became.

Cao Yan stood at the head of the city, and she really couldn't listen to it. He also knew and heard that the teahouse storytellers often talked about it, which is called "cursing the enemy", the purpose of which is to provoke the other party, attract the other party to start a battle, and give up their favorable terrain in vain. Once when Cao Yan listened to the book, he also told himself that once his county guard had the opportunity to fight, he must not fall for such a low-level strategy.

But how can it be said that the gap between the mouth of the book and reality is so big?

Some things are true, and I don't know what it's like if I don't experience them. Cao Yan forcibly suppressed his anger, ordered the archers to line up, pull the bow tightly, and the tip of the arrow reached the strong men who were scolding, and wanted to shoot them to death with random arrows. At this critical moment, a soldier rushed from the city to report the news. I saw him running to Cao Yan's side in a panic and kneeling down on one knee:

"East...... The East Gate was attacked...... We can't stand it anymore. ”

……

Adjusting the tiger to leave the mountain is a very famous one of the 36 strategies, probably second only to "walking for the top". However, of course, Cao Yan did not have the idea of treating himself as a "tiger", not to mention that he did not "leave the mountain". It's just that because the storyteller talks about "striking the east and attacking the west" relatively little, Cao Yan can only think of the four words "tune the tiger away from the mountain" for a while.

However, this toss did not bring much serious consequences, because this battle was the same as the one in the early morning, and before it could be fought, Gao Wenyuan's side was golden, leaving Cao Yan and a group of defenders who had just entered the battle state.

"He's, who the hell is the little one." Cao Yan smacked the ground.

At this moment, his adjutant took an arrow with a letter tied to it from a soldier and handed it to Cao Yan from the side, "This seems to have been left by them, you see......"

"Read it, I've pretty much figured out what it is anyway."

"Uh......" The lieutenant untied the white cloth from the arrow, and said beside him,

"The county keeper of disloyalty and unfilial piety,

After a few days of fighting, Your Excellency actually fought with Gao's 400,000 army without falling behind, which really made Gao admire him very much. Tonight, Gao is willing to continue to learn your Excellency's way of defending the city, can you not hesitate to give advice?

Gao Wuquan participated"

The adjutant folded the white cloth and handed it to Cao Yan. Cao Yan took the cloth and exhaled fiercely.

"Tell the brothers to work hard tonight, and you must slap this tall child's face hard."

……

Two days later, Nanzhou City, the front hall of the state capital yamen.

"What does Cao Yan think, she is simply sick, do you really think that a mere county can stop Gao Wenyuan's army?" Qian Nanyan said with the battle report that had just arrived.

"Oh? The old man just said Gao Wenyuan? Liu Feiyu was suddenly attracted by this special name in Qian Nanyan's words.

Qian Nanyan didn't notice the change in Liu Feiyu, in fact, since his personal guards were replaced by his own people, he didn't give Liu Feiyu a straight eye, "Well, Gao Wenyuan of the Gao family is the one who came from the south with the army of the King of Yunnan." ”

With that, he let out a breath from his nose, "Heh, it's a boy again." ”

Liu Feiyu picked up the teacup from his side and took a sip to hide the change in his expression. "Ah, how is the battle in the county?"

Gao Wenyuan informed the defenders to attack the city at night and fight Cao Yan at the head of the city. beat Cao Yan to the point of losing his armor, and then returned to the station. ”

"It's so strange, Gao Wenyuan is not stupid, why is he doing this."

"Gao Wenyuan is indeed not stupid, but he still has a little ability. He should be a temptation, probably he didn't believe that I took the main force of Nanzhou to fight Liang Jing. Now that he is fighting like this, he undoubtedly only reveals to us the information that Yixian can't stop him at all. ”

"But so what?"

"Look at the reinforcements, if there are no reinforcements, it means that I don't care about the border county town of Huoxian, then the encirclement bureau we set up before will be useless; If there are strong reinforcements, it just means that my main force is not involved in the siege of Liang Jing, which is a good strategy from this point of view. ”

"The old man said this, it seems that he has a bottom in his heart?"

"Acting for him, sending some reinforcements that didn't help, and making him think that I was really out of troops. After confirmation, he will definitely put aside all his worries and go straight to the hinterland, intending to divide Nanzhou, and at that time, our pockets will be open. ”

"I didn't expect the old man to be a literati, and he even knew so much about leading soldiers."

"Heh, what's the use of knowing more." With that, he threw the battle report on the table beside him and paced around the back of the hall.

"Even for the sake of Childe, it's really time to think of a way." Liu Feiyu saw him leave, sat on the wooden chair and muttered to himself.

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South of Huoxian County, the garrison of Gao Wenyuan's army

There was still a long way to go from Gao Wenyuan's military tent, and he clearly heard Wang Lian's rough voice, "General, you are too powerful, I dare to protect it...... Hmm......" Before he could finish speaking, he stuffed a mud bowl full of water into his mouth.

Gao Wenyuan glanced at him lightly, "What are you calling, shut up, be careful to have ears." ”

"Hey, okay." Even if he was treated like this, Wang Lian, who put down the water bowl, was still overjoyed. "I'll protect the rebels - I can't see through your plan."

"I can't tell."

……

(To be continued)