"Hahaha, they're back!"

"The Wei army has really retreated!"

"We won!"

"We're guarding the White Horse Pass, that's great!"

On the city wall of Baima Pass, the soldiers of the Wu army, who had survived the catastrophe, looked at the open space outside the city, and they couldn't help but cheer loudly.

With just one regiment and thousands of soldiers and horses, not only did they hold the White Horse Pass, but they also had the achievement of destroying 5,000 enemies, which was really impressive.

"We have finally defended this White Horse Pass!"

At this moment, the main general Xu Sheng is also bright-eyed and happy in his heart.

At the beginning, he didn't have the confidence to be able to hold the White Horse Pass, but he was just a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and he had no choice but to follow Zhuge Liang's methods.

"It's a big problem!"

Only Zhuge Liang, he stood quietly on top of the city, wearing a scarf and a robe for hunting, but he lacked the demeanor of the lonely town in the past two days, his face was pale, his eyes looked at a blank space outside the city, and his brows were twisted into a Sichuan character.

"Zhuge Overseer, what's wrong with you?"

When Xu Sheng heard this, he couldn't help but turn his head, looked at Zhuge Liang's somewhat pale expression, and was a little puzzled, and asked, "Now that the Wei army has withdrawn, why don't you have a happy atmosphere at all?" ”

After this battle, he was convinced of Zhuge Liang.

He Xu Sheng has also read "Thirty-six Strategies", and he has also read the latest textbook "The Psychology of War" in Jiangwutang, and he has a little understanding of strategy or the mentality of enemy generals, but he will definitely not be like Zhuge Liang, playing the empty city plan so perfectly.

If the fight started, he asked himself if he could hold the city and fight to the death with the Wei army.

But he couldn't keep the city.

"Commander Xu, how can things be so simple!"

Zhuge Liang couldn't help wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, and then said with a wry smile: "Zhang Ren is not a general with outstanding strategy, but he doesn't have too much thought, and naturally he is not so easy to fool, if he chooses to fight me outside the city for three days, he will retreat again, that is really a retreat, but he actually retreated at this time, just the opposite, he is planning to break the cauldron and fight!" ”

He used to be a minister in the same dynasty as Zhang Ren, and he knew this former general of Shu very well.

Only when he knows himself and his opponent can he grasp Zhang Ren's mentality and use the empty city plan to delay it for two days.

But he also knows himself and his opponent, Zhuge Liang also knows very well in his heart that Zhang Ren's character is indomitable, he will never retreat until the last moment, he has only besieged the city for two people, but he suddenly retreated at this time.

I'm afraid there is only one purpose.

That is to want the Wu army in the city to relax their vigilance, and then fight a tough battle.

This is Zhang Ren.

Even if there was a heavy ambush in the city, he would fight to the death, and he would not retreat until there was no hope.

"Shipwreck?" When Xu Sheng heard this, he couldn't help but gasp, hurriedly walked up, and asked in a low voice: "Zhuge Overseer, do you mean that Zhang Ren is likely to just pretend to withdraw his troops, and then kill us when our defense is lax?" ”

"Not a possibility, but a certainty!"

Zhuge Liang's face was straight, his eyes crossed a flash of affirmation, and he asked, "Commander Xu, I asked you to hide the grain before, how is the grain hidden?" ”

He had already done a good job early in the morning to close the city and not be able to protect the worst outcome.

In this Guancheng, the others are all floating clouds, only one, food is the most critical, if you can't keep food, you can't keep the hundreds of thousands of main forces on the front line.

Therefore, he used the empty city plan to delay for two days, not to defend the city, but to delay time and hide food.

Xu Sheng replied: "Zhuge Overseer, in the past two days and two nights, we have tried our best, but we have to fight and rest, and only about forty percent of the food that can be hidden is buried in the ground, even if they break through the city, it will definitely not be early." ”

"There are forty percent of the grain, which is already good, not to mention that the front-line army fought for a few months before, at least it can ensure that the front-line army retreats safely, you immediately burn the remaining food and all the armaments, leaving nothing behind, and then we will all withdraw from the White Horse Pass and give them an empty pass!"

Zhuge Liang cut the iron way.

"Zhuge Overseer, do you really want to burn?"

When Xu Sheng heard this, he couldn't bear it: "This is not raised by the Logistics Department, but Governor Zhuge gritted his teeth and withstood the pressure of the cabinet to raise it for us from the Governor's Mansion of Bashu!" ”

"I ask you, can you move all these things in one day?"

"Can't!" Xu Sheng shook his head.

"Are you willing to keep all this armament for you?"

"Of course not!"

"So is there any other way you can keep these armaments than to destroy them?"

"No more!"

Xu Sheng was asked three times in a row by Zhuge Liang, and suddenly he was like a frosted eggplant.

He knew very well in his heart that the armaments and materials in this city must not be saved, and since they could not be saved, they must not be obtained by Zhang Ren, and destroying them was the best way.

So Zhuge Liang's decision was right.

……

Evening.

The sun sets in the west.

Dadada!!!!

A quiet White Horse Pass, the gate of the city was wide open, and at this time, in the western suburbs, five thousand Wei cavalry came suddenly without a hint, and under the roar of the horse's hooves, they went straight into the city.

"Didn't the Wu army have ambushes? We got in so easily? ”

Zhang Ren chose to retreat in the early morning and come back directly in the evening, intending to kill Wu Jun by surprise, he believed that even if there were ambushes in the city, under his return gun, he would be killed by him.

But when they entered the city, they did not stop in the slightest, and when their army entered the city, they were faced with an empty city.

There is no one in this closed city.

There was no sound in this closed city.

The silence made every Wei soldier feel a little hairy in his heart.

"All the cavalry, divided into left and right echelons, search for me!"

Zhang Renhu's eyes were awe-inspiring, he looked up, swept over, and felt a trace of uneasiness in his heart, and said coldly.

"No!"

The generals led their own troops and searched the fortress from all directions.

The city was not big, so they searched it quickly, and then they came back to report it.

"General, we don't have any soldiers or horses in the city!"

"General, we found several large grain and military warehouses in the city, but they are all in ruins, and all the food and winter clothes have been burned by the Wu army!"

"General, we are under the city walls, and we find scarecrows and wooden men!"

The news reported one by one made Zhang Ren's face gloomy.

"Fooled!"

Zhang Ren's heart was cold, he had been guessing and trying outside the city in the past two days, but he didn't dare to attack the city on a large scale, he thought he was careful enough, but he didn't expect Zhuge Liang to play a positive game.

Empty City Scheme!

What an empty city plan.

Zhuge Kongming, you won!

Zhang Ren was annoyed and ashamed, and his whole body was fierce, and the silver spear in his hand was directly inserted under the bluestone bricks on the ground, half a foot into the ground, and the stone bricks were shattered.

"Damn the Wu army, they don't have ambushes in the city at all!"

"It's an empty city plan!"

"It's so damnable!"

The generals were also full of righteous indignation at this moment, scolding one by one, but they were more ashamed in their hearts.

They came in a hurry, vowing to break the city and seize the grain, but they were frightened by a powerless scholar standing at the head of the city, and they were calmed, and they couldn't help but be angry as soon as they thought of it.

"General, the main force behind us has entered the city!"

A herald returned.

Since it was a surprise attack with a return rifle, it was naturally the cavalry that went first, and the main force followed.

"Let them camp outside the city without going into the city!" Zhang Ren said coldly: "Wait for General Ben's order!" ”

"Yes!"

The herald immediately went to deliver the order.

"General, this battle is that the last general does not know the enemy, the last general is guilty, the crime is unforgivable, please punish the general!" The lieutenant bowed his head and pleaded loudly.

It was he who led his troops into the city and encountered an ambush by the Wu army, and finally confirmed the news of the Wu army's ambush.

However, he himself did not expect that there were only two or three thousand soldiers and horses who ambushed them from beginning to end.

Even now, he still can't figure out what the key is.

"I don't blame you for this, you get up!"

Zhang Ren jumped off the horse, raised his head, and looked at the undulating houses in front of him, feeling a little bitter in his heart.

No wonder the pawn was fooled.

Even if you change yourself, you may not be fooled.

The time and place are favorable, and with the addition of a person and, he can be undefeated in this battle.

"General, now we haven't got the food, and we haven't got the winter clothes, how can we be good?" An adjutant general walked up and asked.

"We didn't get it, but we also accomplished it, they personally destroyed their own food and armaments, didn't they?"

Zhang Ren took a deep breath and said: "Without the food support of Baima Pass, the hundreds of thousands of elite Wu troops will naturally not be able to maintain the siege of Xiabiancheng, and they can only retreat in the end, we have achieved our goal." ”

Cut off the grain channel, and they did it.

"That's right!"

"It's also a good thing to let them burn their own food and armaments!"

The generals nodded, and they found some safety.

"Now that the goal has been achieved, the next thing we should consider is how to withdraw our troops!"

Zhang Ren calmed down: "Map!" ”

"In!"

The guards on the left and right spread out the map.

"The north is the main force of the Wu army, and the south is Bashu, there are heavy troops about to go north, and once the north and the south attack us, our tens of thousands of soldiers and horses will definitely die, so we must withdraw our troops and leave Baima Pass as soon as possible!"

Zhang Ren pointed to the map and said analytically: "The east is Hanzhong, how Hanzhong is also the core of Wujiang, we can't go, only one way, to the west, how to come, how to go back, we retreat from the Qiang tribe to Xiliang!" ”

"General, what about Wudu?"

"Wudu County will definitely not be able to hold it, even if the Wu army retreats, after they prepare enough food, there will be a second and third siege, Sima Yi and I have already decided, no matter whether I succeed in this battle or not, the siege will be ten days, and he will retreat and argue!"

Zhang Ren said: "We just need to ensure that our soldiers and horses can return to Xiliang safely!" ”

"Zhang Lie!"

"Here, you immediately led 3,000 vanguards, set off overnight, opened the way all the way, and responded to the west for us and other main forces!"

"Yes!"

"Pawned!"

"In!"

"General Ben will give you a chance to make up for your merits, you will lead three thousand soldiers and horses, and after the break, if you can avoid the sniper of the Wu army and return to Xiliang, the merits will be compensated!"

"No!" Dianman nodded heavily.

"Now pass on my military order, tonight the officers and men of the whole army have a good rest, recuperate, and tomorrow morning, immediately withdraw the army!" Zhang Ren said in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

The generals nodded and began to raise plans for the withdrawal of the troops.

"Zhang Lin!"

Zhang Ren thought about it, and there was a touch of ruthlessness in his eyes.

"General!"

The soldiers of the pro-guard tribe came up.

"You go and prepare, and burn the White Horse Pass for me!" Zhang Ren raised his head and looked at this majestic Baima Pass with cold eyes: "I want to turn this pass into a ruin, without the transit of Baima Pass, strategically we can greatly delay the Wu army's campaign against Xiliang!" ”

"Yes!"

Zhang Lin nodded and led Zhang Ren's personal guards to complete the task. (To be continued.) )