Looking down on the entire Leigong Mountain battle zone from the sky, the situation of the entire battle situation can be seen only from the distribution of firelight points.

On Lei Gong Mountain, although the fire is small, it is relatively concentrated, indicating that Lei Gong Mountain has not been attacked. Five miles directly north of Lei Gong Mountain, the firelight was arranged in an orderly manner, showing the stability of Xiangjia's army. On the right side of Lei Gong Mountain, on the ground within a radius of more than 20 miles, the farther out, the denser the firelight becomes, proving the extent of the fighting between the two sides. On the contrary, in the surrounding miles of Lei Gong Mountain, the fire is scarce, indicating that this place is still not affected by the war.

On the west side of Lei Gong Mountain, the firelight expands outward like a fan, the innermost part is less than three miles away from Lei Gong Mountain, and the outermost part extends to more than 40 miles, and from time to time there is a new fire shining brightly, and then there is a huge explosion sound, and the sound of gunfire and fighting has never stopped, which proves the fierceness of the battlefield and the danger of the left flank of Lei Gong Mountain -- if it were not for the 12 earthen cannons on Lei Gong Mountain relying on their condescending geographical advantage and giving strong artillery support to the defenders within three miles, I am afraid that the Li family would have hit the foot of Lei Gong Mountain long ago.

However, to the south of Lei Gong Mountain, it was pitch black. makes the whole battle look like 'three circles and one'.

Wang Shihua personally commanded an army of 10,000 men, galloped over, and arrived at an unnamed high ground five miles away from Lei Gong Mountain at about nine o'clock in the evening. Immediately, the army took a short break before the war, and with this time, Wang Shihua held a pre-war meeting in the marching tent.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is based on the information that came fifteen minutes ago, and the current position of the enemy and our troops." In order to avoid the light leaking out and revealing the position, the tent was tightly closed, and the inside was filled with smoke, and everyone except Wang Shihua, Peng Shuihu and He Mei had a cigarette. In this regard, although Wang Shihua does not smoke, it doesn't matter, but Peng Shuihu and He Meike are uncomfortable, especially He Mei, whose brows are wrinkled into a Sichuan character. In this regard, Wang Shihua is not easy to say anything, after all, the war is imminent, the atmosphere is solemn, and smoking can appropriately reduce everyone's tension.

"Everyone, please see, the main force of my Lei Gongshan is on the left, and there are only 4,000 people on the right, plus the people are only six or seven thousand, but there are 10,000 people in the Xiang family, and they have fought with these six or seven thousand people for more than ten hours without making any progress, this is not the style of the Xiang family, nor is it in line with Xiang Dingtian's proud rooster-like temperament. However, the left wing of Lei Gongshan fought extremely fiercely, but the Li family ignored this abnormal situation, and made it clear that the Xiang family was playing ghosts, or rather, the Xiang family was waiting for us to arrive......"

Wang Shihua pointed to the right side of Lei Gong Mountain on the map, and when he said this, after raising his head and glancing at everyone, he said: "In this regard, my opinion is that they beat theirs, and we beat ours." ”

Seeing that everyone looked up one after another, Wang Shihua said solemnly: "This time we brought 10,000 horses over, I decided to personally take 8,000 people to kill the Li family, and the remaining 2,000 men and horses will be led by Uncle Tie to reinforce the right wing, not to defeat the other party, but to be able to hold back the other party's ......."

As he spoke, he looked at Uncle Tie and asked, "Uncle Tie, you have to hold on until dawn, are you sure?" ”

"Master, if you can equip me with more small steel cannons and machine guns, I'm sure."

"Okay, give you a total of six small steel cannons, five hundred shells, four heavy machine guns and ten light machine guns. How is it? ”

Uncle Tie looked up at Wang Shihua in surprise, slapped the "dong dong" on his chest, and replied forcefully: "Please rest assured, as long as I have a breath of air, Xiang family will not want to run behind me." ”

"Wait a minute!" Wang Shihua nodded, and was about to speak, but he didn't expect He Mei to interject and said, "Shihua, I thought about it carefully, and I think that the method we discussed before may not work. ”

"Aunt He, what's wrong?"

"You let them snuff out the cigarette first, and I will be so dizzy that I almost vomit."

Everyone laughed, and without waiting for Wang Shihua to speak, they extinguished the cigarettes in their hands one after another.

Although the big tent was still smoky, everyone's attitude made He Meixin much more comfortable.

"I've been thinking about it for a long time, and I probably came up with the idea of what Xiang family is doing." He Mei pointed to the map and said, "Before, we only thought about how to reinforce and stabilize the front, but we didn't expect that once we entered from here (south of Lei Gong Mountain), if Xiang Jia copied the bread from behind, then we would be in a dilemma......

Speaking of this, He Mei stopped, straightened up, and looked among the crowds, then set her eyes on Tang Ming.

"Old Tang, please immediately send more men to carefully search within five miles of the route that the army is about to pass. Always remember not to startle the snake. ”

Tang Ming glanced at Wang Shihua and saw that Wang Shihua nodded slightly, so he nodded to He Mei and turned around to go out to give orders.

"Look, once we go in and Xiang is outflanked, then we are in a passive situation. If we reinforce the left flank, then Xiang Jia can drive straight to the foot of Lei Gong Mountain, but if we turn around and fight Xiang Jia, then this increase will also become a fuel tactic. ”

After several years of militarized training, the military literacy of all the generals has been improved to a greater or lesser extent.

Wang Shihua saw that everyone was worried, so he had to interject to break the topic: "Aunt He, there are only 10,000 people in the Xiang family, why are you going to outflank us if you cut off your family like this?" ”

"They are small in number, but don't forget, although we are more numerous, we are more burdened. Either you can crush the enemy and retreat calmly, or you can only fight the enemy for the sake of your people. No matter how you look at it, we don't have the initiative. To put it bluntly, the enemy can attack from any side, but we can only be beaten passively. Therefore, it is best for us to give the enemy a hard note before entering the enemy's outflanking, so as to reduce the pressure on our side after entering the battlefield. ”

"As for why I'm so sure, it's because if I were to my family, I would do it. Moreover, the movements of Xiang's family have been unknown, and I really can't think of any other plans for them other than what I analyzed. Speaking of this, He Mei smiled faintly and said, "Actually, as long as you wait for the spies to report, you can know whether my guess is right or not." ”

Wang Shihua smiled and nodded, and when he saw that everyone wanted to speak, he asked for everyone: "Aunt He, even if the enemy wants to outflank us as you said, do you have any good way to deal with it?" ”

"I have three strategies here. As I just mentioned, take advantage of the fact that the enemy thinks we don't know their plans, so we will plan and give Xiang family a counter-outflanking. However, in view of the relationship between the rich and the rich, in order not to startle the snake and affect tomorrow's decisive battle, I suggest that this strategy should not be chosen; The middle strategy is that our main force will rest here until dawn, and send 5,000 people to reinforce the left flank of Lei Gongshan, so that it can not only break the plan of Xiang Jia's family, but also provide favorable support, stabilize the battle situation, and lay the foundation for tomorrow's decisive battle; Whether the Xiang family wants to ambush us or outflank us, but after all, they only have 10,000 horses, plus they are attacking the left flank of Lei Gongshan and have to stay in the camp, I estimate that they will send about 5,000 people at most. Therefore, my best policy is to ignore the left flank of Lei Gong Mountain first, take advantage of the emptiness of the Xiangjia camp, directly wave the army, and sweep the right flank of Lei Gong Mountain with the momentum of thunder, and fight all the way to the Xiangjia camp. In this way, the Xiang family can have to merge with the Li family's soldiers and horses, whether it is for the current situation, or for tomorrow's decisive battle, or the morale of the army, it will have huge benefits, at least, it can stabilize the entire battle situation and put us in a favorable position. ”

Aunt He's three strategies convinced everyone, especially for a young man like Kang Xuan, and she admired He Mei's wisdom. As soon as Kang Xuan heard the three strategies, he applauded and smiled: "Family master, Aunt He's three strategies are really wiser than Zhuge . In particular, the best strategy not only allows us to achieve the greatest results at the least cost, but also greatly deters the opponent and reduces the pressure on the left flank. No matter how you look at it, it's the best choice. ”

Wang Shihua nodded with a smile, and when he heard Kang Xuan's sentence of 'deterring the opponent', his heart jumped, and he thought of something, but his face remained unchanged and waited for Kang Xuan to finish speaking, before he smiled and said: "What Brother Kang said is very true, now, it depends on the return of the spy." ”

Everyone has confidence in He Mei and thinks that He Mei's analysis is very accurate, so they have made plans for He Mei's best strategy.

Soon, the spies returned.

"Report to the family master, the brethren, according to your orders, searched within five miles of the route, and found no large-scale enemy."

Everyone was startled, and almost at the same time looked at the spies, and then at He Mei. He Mei's eyes suddenly burst into a cold light, and she asked in a cold voice, "Can you search carefully?" ”

"Aunt He, the little ones know the importance and are very careful in their searches. But ......"

"But what? Speak quickly! ”

"Although we didn't find more than a few dozen people gathering, the small ones had a few tricks with the enemy's spies, and they won and lost each other."

He Mei's brows furrowed suddenly, but she didn't expect Wang Shihua to laugh.

"Are you laughing?"

Wang Shihua did not answer Aunt He's words, but asked the spy, "Are you sure that there are mutual victories and defeats?" ”

"Small certainty." The spy paused for a moment, then continued: "They seem to be red-eyed, and they fight with us as soon as they see us. ”

Wang Shihua smiled and nodded more confidently, and ordered: "I have to trouble you and the brothers to work hard again to expand the scope of the search by ten miles." ”

"Yes!"

After the spies went out, Wang Shihua smiled at He Mei and said, "Aunt He, I'm sure that the Xiang family must be ambushed on our forward route." ”

"Why?"

"It's not that I'm bragging, as far as the four major families are concerned, the spies of my Wang family dare not say that they are superior to each other in terms of personal skills, but they must not be worse than each other. But in terms of mutual cooperation, it is definitely much stronger than the other party. And the more desperate the other party's spies are, the more they are covering up their things; Second, we all make a habitual mistake. We all love to pay attention to an auspicious number, such as six or six Shun, ninety-nine to one, and on the march, we also like to pay attention to an integer, or a good-sounding and easy-to-remember number, such as five miles, ten miles. So, if it were me, I would have ambushed the ambush five or ten miles away, so that it would be very difficult for us to detect their existence out of habitual thinking. ”

Everyone nodded when they heard this, and even He Mei nodded approvingly to Wang Shihua.

Sure enough, not long after, the spies reported that they found an ambush on the right side of the route seven miles away.

Now, there are two choices in front of Wang Shihua......