Yang Wu guessed correctly, An Renyi did plan to ambush the pursuers here. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info At first, he accelerated the speed of the march so that his men showed flaws and wanted to lure the pursuers to attack, but the enemy army behind him did not move, but increased his speed like them and continued to maintain a distance of five miles.

An Renyi immediately deduced from the fact that the other party did not launch a surprise attack that the other side's troops were somewhat insufficient.

Just as he was considering his next move, the scout came with two pieces of news, one was good news and the other was bad news.

The good news is that the scouts confirmed that Hou Zhan's cavalry had entered the Yangtze River a few days earlier under the cover of night, and that they did not have many ships, at most carrying 2,000 infantry or 1,000 cavalry.

This also explains why only thousands of cavalry have been seen outside in the past few days, perhaps it is really as Zhang Hao said, Yang Wu only sent 1,000 cavalry to the south in advance.

But the bad news was that Yang Wu's fleet had arrived in Guangling and was about to enter the Yangtze River, and the fleet that stretched for miles before and after made An Renyi's scouts tremble and hurriedly pass the news on.

This also made An Renyi even more determined to return to Runzhou quickly.

However, although he knew that the enemy army was only 1,000 cavalry and more than 2,000 infantry at most, the threat of that 1,000 cavalry was still very great, and it was still difficult to withdraw his troops without trying to eliminate him, especially in this situation where a large number of enemy reinforcements could land at any time, it was imperative to rush back to Runzhou quickly.

Therefore, An Renyi's determination to lure the enemy army to attack became more resolute, and he even decided to risk exposing a bigger flaw, and in order to carry out the plan, he had to find a suitable terrain.

After arriving at the clamping post, like Yang Wu's reaction, An Renyi immediately found that this was a good place for ambushes, so he immediately ordered to stop and rest.

He ambushed a thousand elite soldiers behind a hill, led by his henchman Liu Yuanzhi. He also let the 1,000 soldiers who were in charge of guarding on the surface relax and give the enemy a chance to surprise attack.

As for the rest of the men and horses, they put down their flags, took off their armor, threw down their weapons, and ordered to bury the pot and cook food, as if they were completely unprepared.

In fact, although there are many of these soldiers, some of them are old and weak soldiers, and the other part is under Zhang Hao's command, and there are not many elite soldiers who really belong to An Renyi.

These people are not acting, but they are really unprepared, originally they are just as bait, even if they are attacked by the enemy and cause great losses, An Renyi will not be too distressed. In his opinion, as long as he can defeat the pursuers in one fell swoop, or get rid of the entanglement of the pursuers, so that he can quickly rush back to Runzhou, some losses are worth it.

"Well, the banner of the cavalry commander during the battle the day before yesterday was the word 'Hou', it should be Hou Zan under Yang Wu, according to his rank, he is much lower than Li Yu, so now it should be Li Yu commanding the enemy army. And according to Li Yu's cautious character, the previous little flaw was indeed not enough to fool him; But now I'm really unprepared, and I don't believe you can bear it. An Renyi thought to himself.

There are only more than 8,000 troops in total, of which 1,000 soldiers in charge of guarding are very lax, and the remaining nearly 6,000 are resting here defenselessly, and only 1,000 are lying in ambush.

It can even be said that his current plan is no longer a conspiracy, but an upright conspiracy: "I set up an ambush, but the number will not be too many, you must be able to guess this; But at the same time, I also gave you the opportunity to defeat me, if you attack decisively, you may not be unable to win, how you choose is up to you. ”

And this scene fell in the eyes of Li Yu and the others, which really made them wonder, and even wondered if An Renyi had a problem with his brain, and the signs of luring the enemy were too obvious, as long as anyone with a little brains would not be fooled.

"Although it seems that all their troops are defenseless in the camp, you are all generals who have been in the army for a long time, and you should know that it is easy to disguise your entire strength with five or six thousand men; In other words, An Renyi can secretly ambush one or two thousand troops. It's a trap for sure! Let's go according to the plan. Li Yu quickly judged the situation clearly and gave his opinion.

Yang Wu, Chen You and others also nodded, but who knew that Hou Zan suddenly objected; "Li Yuanjun's plan is good, but it is a little difficult to implement, and there are too many uncontrollable places. For example, after Li Yuanjun's attack failed, what should An Renyi do if he doesn't pursue? Or when he was pursuing, An Renyi didn't let down his vigilance and didn't give us a chance to launch an ambush? Even to say something not very good, what if the envoy personally led the army to lure the enemy? ”

Li Yu frowned, he also knew the loopholes in it when he proposed the plan before, but there was no perfect plan for fighting a war. And didn't Hou Zan agree with it before, why did he suddenly oppose it again now?

"Then what should we do with General Hou's opinion?"

"It's very simple, kill him directly, and defeat An Renyi before he reacts!"

"Do you mean that you know it's a trap and want to step in?" Li Yu asked in surprise.

"Yes, in the opinion of the last general, maybe An Renyi really arranged an ambush, but he should be targeting the situation that we only have 2,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry. But in fact, we add Chen You's 3,000 reinforcements to have 6,000 troops, which is only 2,000 less than An Renyi, plus the advantage of 1,000 cavalry, An Renyi's advantage is actually not much bigger than ours. Therefore, if you rush up directly and eat An Renyi's bait, you may not be able to defeat the enemy. It's like An Renyi originally just wanted to take the risk of luring a hungry wolf into his ambush circle, but he didn't expect that he was luring not a hungry wolf but a tiger. ”

"Anyway, the last general thinks that the simpler the plan, the easier it is to succeed, so Jun's previous plan is too complicated." Hou Zan said in a deep voice.

Yang Wu was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but look at Hou Zan with some surprise, in his heart, Hou Zan has always been a fierce general, and he moves forward bravely when he fights, and there are not so many crooked ways, so it is definitely a good choice to lead the army to charge into battle, but it is not good to use it as an operational staff officer.

However, after listening to Hou Zhan's words just now, Yang Wu couldn't help but look at Hou Zhan differently, no matter how you calculate on the battlefield, there will always be accidents that cannot be calculated, it is impossible to control everything, the more complex the plan, the easier it is to have accidents, and the simpler the plan, the easier it is to succeed.

Li Yu also paused for a moment before saying, "The simpler the plan, the easier it is to succeed." Well, this sentence does make sense, but do we have to step on it even if we know that there is a trap in front of us? ”

He was still a little difficult to accept, but Hou Zhan's opinion was also reasonable, and he couldn't help but look at Yang Wu, hoping that he would make a choice. And Hou Zhan's gaze also turned to Yang Wu.

Yang Wu frowned and pondered, but after a moment he made a decision.

"General Hou, maybe you're right, there are indeed too many uncontrollable plans before, so Ben will decide to do what you say!"

"Direct attack?" Li Yu frowned and asked.

"Direct attack!" Yang Wu nodded.