The final battle is very simple. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 In the case that the front army was forced to retreat due to an unfavorable attack, the rear army was completely defeated, and Sun Yun was captured, there was only one way in front of Sun Shao: admit defeat and slowly withdraw. This is a shameful thing for Sun Shao, but at the moment, unless he Sun Shao wants to blindly send him to death, then only in this way can everyone's lives be saved.

"Do you think there's another way to do this? We're completely defeated. Sun Shao helplessly looked at Sun Lei, who had returned from being disgraced, and smiled bitterly: "It's my light enemy who has hurt everyone." The battle caused by greed and recklessness ended up in such a situation, and so many soldiers died, all of which were my own sin. ”

Sun Lei was silent, he only felt that he was very cowardly. If it weren't for the fact that he paid too much attention to the individual assault and neglected to guide the whole team. If you pay attention, then everything will be different. Even if the rear army was also defeated, the main forces of the front army and the middle army in his hands were very likely to defeat the enemy in a frontal attack and win the battle.

"Ahh One wrong move, every game is lost. Although he was very unconvinced, he knew that he had no ability to fight the enemy again:

The contingent of fifteen hundred men consisted of a thousand recruits and five hundred veterans. At this point, less than 400 of the 1,000 recruits remained, and 500 veterans were slightly better, but more than 100 were also wiped out. The current ranks, all combined, are less than six hundred soldiers. Moreover, these soldiers, both old and new, are newly defeated divisions, and they are all people who only leave their lives but lose their morale, and they do not have any courage to fight again.

"How else is this going to be fought?" In the face of the cold result, even Sun Lei, who still had the urge to fight again in his heart, had to hold back his temperament and agree with the decision of the clan uncle to retreat. After suffering a loss, the brave also understood a little: "On the battlefield, the strength of an individual is small after all." To win a battle, having a well-trained group of soldiers is often more important than a fierce general. ”

There is also a technique for retreating. Before retreating, you must first put your team in order, and you can't let the other party see your decadent appearance. As long as you show that you can fight again, then the opponent will take into account the possibility of counterattacking in defeat when estimating. Then in order to avoid some unnecessary losses, the other side will inevitably slow down the pace of pursuit, and may even not pursue. If such a situation occurs, it will undoubtedly be a boon for the discharged from defeat.

In fact, Sun Shao did the same. However, the presence of new recruits in the team made the retreat that could have been completed before the enemy arrived far away. None of these people have come to their senses from the fear of war. They were either running around frantically, or standing there blankly, in short, they couldn't hear everything Sun Shao persuaded them.

"What should I do?" Sun Shao seemed a little helpless. In his heart, he really doesn't want to give up on everyone here. Because he understands: "The general who abandons the soldiers, will one day be abandoned by the soldiers." ”

But this situation can't be solved with just one belief, Sun Shao was distressed, and his face showed a helpless look.

Suddenly, a loud voice sounded in everyone's ears, startling everyone. When everyone looked to the side, Sun Lei, who had taken off his armor, was slashing the ground with an axe.

"Shut it all up! If you are in such a mess, Lao Tzu will kill you first. All the guards are listening, and if that recruit is disobedient, you will kill him for me. It is necessary to drag all people down for the sake of one person's life. How noble do you incompetent sons think you are? Sun Lei shouted angrily.

The scoundrel is also afraid of the wicked. Sun Lei's violent drinking scared those numb and panicked recruits all over the place. They are not afraid of Sun Shao's painstaking persuasion, but they are afraid of Sun Lei, who is like a fierce god in front of them. It's not that they are still afraid of Sun Lei, but they are afraid of Sun Lei's orders. They were afraid that if they couldn't stand up well, those veterans with smiling faces would really stab themselves in the chest with the swords in their hands. Under the threat of death, they had no choice but to honestly obey the order and stand in line.

This move is significantly faster. However, due to the fact that a lot of time had been wasted before, so that Sun Shao's team on their side was lined up, and Li Sheng and Huang Zhong's troops over there pressed up neatly. Li Sheng and Huang Zhong were victorious divisions, although most of them were also recruits, but after all, they really won on the battlefield and experienced the test of battle. At this moment, these six or seven hundred people stood in unison, and a compelling momentum forced straight towards Sun Shao's side, which made Sun Shaojun's already low morale even lower.

Retreat is already out of the question. for the enemy is less than twenty feet before him. If they retreat like this, the enemy will definitely pursue them. They will quickly catch up with them, insert their weapons into their bodies, and let themselves slowly die in the flow of blood. And then they will say on their own corpses: "Look, this is idiocy who actually sold us behind his back." ”

This is fantasy, but it is also possible to become a reality. However, Sun Shao did not want such a cruel truth to appear in the end. In the face of the enemy army pressed in front of him, he didn't say any nonsense, just waved his right hand holding the sword hard, and ordered loudly: "The whole army is ready for battle." He knew that the enemy on the opposite side was very strong and powerful, and the troops in his hands were not enough to resist their blow, but at the moment, if he was not prepared to fight the enemy, he was afraid that he could only be slaughtered by them - if he did not resist, he would die, and although the resistance was dead, after all, there was still a glimmer of hope for survival, and Sun Shao wanted to fight this weak hope.

"Hey!" Sun Shao was thinking about it, when he suddenly heard a single tone from the enemy on the opposite side.

"What's going on?" Sun Shao and Sun Lei glanced at each other and saw doubts from each other. To be honest, they were taken aback by the sound just now.

"Woo ......!" It was the sound of the enemy smashing his blade to the ground. Although the sound of different blades is different, the timing of their activation is constant. The smashing of weapons on the place did not show much chaotic noise, but added a bit of mysterious majesty to the originally imposing team.

As they took a step forward with one voice, Sun Shao felt that the situation was not good. He found that the military spirit on this side was gradually crumbling as the other party approached step by step.

"It can't go on like this! Otherwise, my team will break up without a fight. Sun Shao understands this very well.

He was about to give the order to charge his whole army and engage the enemy directly, but to his great surprise, the enemy on the opposite side stopped advancing and watched him with complete bated breath. They no longer cried out, nor touched the ground with their weapons any more. They just stood quietly less than ten feet away from them, silently oppressing themselves with a dull and serious momentum, making themselves involuntarily feel suffocated.

Under such pressure, Sun Shao didn't dare to act rashly, he could only wait silently for the other party's action. He wondered what the other party had stopped for.

In the dim night, on the quiet battlefield, the formation of the Zhuge army was abruptly separated, and two large flags three feet square were raised in the formation. What is written on it, Sun Shao and others can't really see it in the dark. They only saw two generals riding out of the formation, with a few guards behind them, and a man who had been tied up to make a sturdy man.

"Is it General Sun Shao on the other side?" The man on the other side spoke, a small man among the two generals. Although the voice was very loud, Sun Shao still heard the childishness of the voice.

"How is it a child?" Sun Shao frowned, but finally greeted him and replied, "I am Sun Shao!" ”

"Even if you are Sun Shao, then I, Li Sheng, will hand over this guy named Sun Yun to you." Li Sheng said calmly.

"What? You said to give me back Sun Yun? Really? We're enemies. Sun Shao couldn't believe it, how could it be so easy to return the captives? Isn't there a conspiracy?

"Enemies? This is just a unilateral determination of you, Liu Xuanjun. We don't see you as enemies. Do you not know that we ordered a retreat as soon as we received news of your arrival? If it weren't for General Sun Shao, you would have pursued it overnight, and tonight's battle would not have happened. According to the plan, we are going to Xicheng early tomorrow morning, as long as the general can receive this place without losing a single soldier by tomorrow afternoon, why be in such a hurry? In the face of such a general who still had some ability, Li Sheng was not afraid, but said the words prepared in advance.

"So I'm the one who is doing everything wrong?" Sun Shao glanced at Li Sheng hatefully.

"So to speak." Li Sheng nodded bluntly.

"You ......" Sun Shao was so angry that he was a little speechless.

"Alright. Let's stop talking so much nonsense. For now, you just need to take this guy Sun Yun away and stop chasing us. Li Sheng said ruffianly. He shook uncomfortably like a scoundrel who had just learned to ride a horse, and could not sit still.

"It's such a scoundrel bastard who defeated yourself?" Looking at Li Sheng's performance without any temperament, Sun Shao was so angry that he almost fainted. Fortunately, he had seen strong winds and waves before, and he could still maintain some composure now, and he could still ask, "Is what you said true?" ”

"Don't believe it! I'll put them here, and we'll leave. If you don't crawl to death, you can come, but I advise you not to do so. You know, I'm not the only enemy of yours. Li Sheng said mysteriously: "You still have to be careful of the people in the south. ”

"People from the south?" Hearing Li Sheng mention this, Sun Shao was taken aback, and he was a little scared in his heart: "How could he think of this?" Is it a ......? Sun Shao didn't dare to think about it anymore, and hurriedly arched his hand towards Li Sheng and said, "Thank you little general for mentioning it." ”

"You're welcome." Li Sheng laughed: "If the situation in the south changes, and it is dangerous for Your Excellency to go back, you might as well come to Xicheng to find me." We've got to be more annoying to the guy in the south than Lord Liu Xuan. ”

"It's really straightforward......," Sun Shao couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard it.

He waved his hand and asked people to step forward and lead Sun Yun back, and then led the team back without looking back. didn't even give Li Sheng a greeting, which made Huang Zhong, who was next to Li Shengsheng, very dissatisfied.

"Sheng'er, should we give him this later?" Huang Zhong was dissatisfied with the rude treatment of his apprentices by others, and was planning to pursue Sun Shao and the others from behind. Although Li Sheng said just now that he would not pursue them, it was only lip service, and as the supreme commander of the whole army, he did not agree. Originally, it wasn't a forest that didn't keep promises or anything like that. And didn't it be said in the art of war: "Soldiers are not tired of deceit!" ”

"No, don't chase Master. Leaving them a certain amount of soldiers and horses will be beneficial to us in the future. Li Sheng shook his head lightly and rejected Huang Zhong's proposal.

"Why not? Wouldn't it be better to deliver a bigger blow to the enemy? Huang Zhong asked half as if he was puzzled, and half as if he was taking a test.

"First, our army has been fighting for most of the night, and it is really impossible to continue fighting; Second, there is also an unstable Charong existence within Liu Xuanjun. I want to take advantage of Cha Rong's ambition to let him have a fight with Zhu Hao and Sun Shao, and let them consume it in their own nests; Third, I'm also afraid of Sun Shao's counterattack at the end of the road. You know, the beast's counterattack before death is definitely very dangerous. Li Sheng explained calmly. Huang Zhong nodded again and again.

"In that case, I have to let them go." Huang Zhong's last words became the end of today's battle. With a gentle wave of their hands, the team began to turn and retreat towards their rear.

At the moment, the two sides withdrew their troops and stopped fighting. Li Sheng and Huang Zhong returned to Xicheng with their troops the day after the war. They disengaged with Liu Xuanjun.

In the days that followed, the two sides confronted each other across the Gan River. Zhuge Xuan's side used all the power in his hand to keep an eye on the changes on Yu Zhang's side.

"After yesterday's battle with you, Sun Shao returned to Yuzhang City with his men and horses. Later, it was not clear what conflict had occurred between him and Zhu Hao, but Zhu Hao was driven to the edge of Poyang Lake to station, and most of the troops in his hands were withdrawn. Zhu Hao only gave Sun Shao 300 soldiers plus 400 people under Sun Shao's own command, and Sun Shao's current troops were only 700, stationed in the north of Yuzhang City. In the south, Charong continued its march towards Yuzhang, which is now about three days away. "- This is intelligence on the first day after the end of the battle.

"Today, Zhu Hao began to appoint new officials in Yuzhang. His head seems to be a little old-fashioned, and he didn't report this matter like Liu Xuan; Sun Shao's troops were still stationed on the shores of Poyang Lake, and the cheers of drills were often heard in their camp. After the last defeat, Sun Shao had already discovered the disadvantages of untrained soldiers; Charong's team was still advancing, and they were still about 180 miles away from Yuzhang, and they could basically reach Yuzhang in two days. It is said that Cha Rong has sent an envoy into Yuzhang and asked Zhu Hao to let the troops enter Yuzhang for repairs. "- This is intelligence the day after the end of the battle.

In the following days, the situation in Yuzhang did not change more: Zhu Hao had officially started his office in Yuzhang; Sun Shao still stayed by Poyang Lake, training his team; And Charong is also moving towards Yuzhang step by step. Finally, on the fourth day after the end of the battle, Charong's army claimed to have entered Yuzhang City on the orders of Liu Xuan.

This is something that all can expect. Although Liu Miao had already sent Sun Shaojun to supervise him next to Zhu Hao, due to Sun Shao's rash advance, which caused a large loss of troops, it was not easy to monitor Zhu Hao. Under such circumstances, Liu Xuan, who was a scoundrel, had no choice but to order the whole army to speed up its movements, and at the same time let the troops closest to Yuzhang quickly advance to Yuzhang.

These pairs are undoubtedly also naturally encompassing the team of Charong. So on this issue, it is said that a dispute broke out between Liu Miao and his military adviser Xu Shao and others.

This is a dispute at the highest level within Liu Xuanjun, and outsiders cannot know about it. But Zhuge Xuan understood a little bit through the relationship between Guan Jia's housekeeper and Wen Bo, the assistant of Liu Xuanjun's military advisor.

"Mr. Zijiang objected to letting Cha Rong enter Yuzhang City. But Liu Miao had no other way, and he was closest to Yuzhang at the place closest to Yuzhang. Moreover, the number of troops in his hands was much more than the 400 people in Sun Shao's district. Liu Miao seems to have only 400 troops left for Sun Shao to control Zhu Hao. Gan Hai reported the situation of the enemy camp to Zhuge Xuan and the others.

"Liu Miao is so relieved about Charong? Isn't Liu Miao also clear about what Charong did before? Zhuge Liang asked suspiciously.

"That's why Lord Liu Xuan finally decided to let Cha Rong enter the army while attaching a premise of strict vigilance. In order to guard against Charong, on the one hand, he let his troops speed up the pace of marching, and its vanguard was a general named Tai Shici leading a thousand cavalry; On the one hand, Sun Shao, who was stationed in the north of Yuzhang City, was prepared for emergencies; At the same time, he also sent a person to secretly contact Zhu Hao, and that person was Wen Bo. Gan Hai explained in detail. Because of the relationship and the power of reconnaissance, he is very familiar with Liu Xianjun's subordinates. Some of them he asked directly from Wen Bo, and some of them he had detected through Hou Reprimand. Since Gan Hai left home to follow Zhuge Xuan, he has been responsible for the collection and sorting of information.

"Have you seen Wenbo? Zhuge Xuan asked.

"Yes." Gan Hai replied very bluntly. He is running around these days, not only has letters with Wenbo, but also often meets. Although the two now belong to different camps, the friendship between the two has not changed. Zhuge Xuan also acquiesced to his dealings with the people opposite, on the one hand, in order to obtain information, and on the other hand, in order to have a way back for himself to go, tending to the strong, which was originally the law of survival for the weak in troubled times.

"So, what does Wenbo think about this?" Zhuge Xuan asked again.

"Wenbo, beware of Zhu Hao's excessive trust in others." Gan Hai replied directly.

"He's that kind of person...... Zhuge Xuan sighed and looked out the window faintly, he seemed to be a little worried about his friend's life.

With his sigh, several people in the room: Zhuge Liang, Li Sheng, and Gan Hai all fell into silence. What will happen next is well known to everyone.

A few days later, the news came: after Cha Rong entered Yuzhang City, he simply killed Zhu Hao, who easily believed in others, but was immediately attacked by Sun Shao. Although Sun Shao was finally repelled by the backbone of the Futu Sect, the fierce street fighting caused by this caused huge losses in the area north of Yuzhang City. Most of the houses in the north of the city were burned down, and the whole chaotic situation spread to all corners of Yuzhang City. It seemed to be a planned change, and when Cha Rong finally suppressed all the chaos, he painfully found that most of the soldiers of Zhu Hao's army that he had planned to receive had dispersed in the chaos, and in the end only two hundred people were incorporated into the army.

"Damn it! It's not worth it for me to take another life for two hundred recruits. Cha Rong, who was good at calculating money, also felt a little at a loss this time, and couldn't help muttering irritably-this was also sent to Zhuge Xuan's desk as a piece of information.

In the face of such a big change in Yuzhang, Zhuge Xuan had to gather all the generals on his side again to discuss countermeasures. Unlike the last time there was no dangerous information discussed, this time there were not only Zhuge Liang, Li Sheng, Gan Hai and other people closest to Zhuge Xuan, but also Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Peng Ling, Xu Ding, Luo Zhao, Luo Mao and other Zhuge Xuan's civil and military staff.

"It seems that Charong is starting to be ruthless." Sitting in the middle of the upper seat of the conference hall, Zhuge Xuan sighed at the intelligence.

"Wasn't he ruthless in the first place? From the time Guangling killed Zhao Yu at that time! Li Sheng said indifferently. He sat in the back corner of the hall, and his status was not high among the people, but because he was Zhuge Xuan's righteous son, no one felt that there was anything wrong with his second speech.

"How did Cha Rong kill Zhu Hao?" At this time, Zhuge Liang asked. He seemed to be interested in this.

"Very old method: Cha Rong invited Zhu Hao to the barracks for a banquet. set up an ambush at the banquet, and killed Zhu Hao on the spot by smashing the glass. Gan Hai said succinctly. This is completely a copy of the "Hongmen Banquet", but in the "Hongmen Banquet", Gaozu is protected by brave generals like Fan Xu, but Zhu Hao here is a separate one. Different people compete for the same means, and different results will naturally have different results.

"Kill Zhu Hao in the way of the Hongmen Banquet, this is Charong's arrangement; Then use the chaotic situation to interrupt Charong's cloth, this must be Xu Shao's means. Zhuge Xuan guessed and said, he immediately laughed: "Looking at this, Cha Rong seems to have suffered a loss. He originally killed Zhu Hao in order to seize the command of Zhu Hao's army, but now that Zhu Hao is dead, Cha Rong has not received the corresponding troops, no wonder he mutters like that.

"Liu Miao should understand this, does he have any reaction now?" Huang Zhong asked. As a supervisor at this level of the army, he is also very concerned about certain things.

"Liu Miao was ready to raise troops to fight against him at that time. After all, Zhu Hao was under the protection of Liu Xuande, and now he had to be killed by Cha Rong for no reason, and Cha Rong did not give him a corresponding explanation, which was obviously a betrayal of Liu Xuan. If he doesn't raise troops to fight quickly, I'm afraid that he, the assassin of Yangzhou, will not be able to save face. Gan Hai explained. Most of his explanations are like this, very detailed.

"Do you want to fight on both sides? That's evenly matched. Li Sheng sighed.

"How?" Young Wei Yan scratched his head and asked. Because it was the first time to fight outside of Jingzhou, he was not familiar with people like Liu Xuan and Cha Rong. He had no information about them, and naturally could not comment accordingly. Helpless, he had no choice but to put down the shelf and ask his apprentice.

"Liu Xuan's team is a veteran of the battle, and its strength is certainly there; Although Charong's team has not experienced many battles, its core bones are Futu cultists who share a common faith, and its cohesion is also very strong, far from being comparable to ordinary armies. The strength of the two sides is roughly equal, and they are naturally evenly matched. Li Sheng analyzed the things in front of him in an orderly manner according to what he knew in later life.

"Isn't the battle going to be quite fierce in Yuzhang?" The two brothers, Luo Zhao and Luo Mao, couldn't help but say in unison. They are natives of Yuzhang, and they really don't want to see their hometown being messed up because of the war.

"What does Xu Shao think?" Zhuge Xuan asked.

"Mr. Zi General, I think that the enemy's strength may become their weakness. As long as there are some appropriate means, you can directly let Cha Rong finish, and there is basically no need to fight. Gan Hai said with a smile.

"It's thaumaturgy!" Zhuge Xuan didn't believe that Xu Shao would have such a ability, "What is he doing now?" Studying the Art of War? ”

"No, you're reading the scriptures of the Futu Sect?" Gan Hai shook his head and replied.

"What? At this time, he was still so free that he actually had time to study the classics? Zhuge Xuanjue was very strange, he didn't understand the meaning, so he asked the people sitting below: "What do you think?" ”

Most of the people shook their heads, and they couldn't understand Xu Shao's actions all of a sudden.

Zhuge Xuan's gaze swept over everyone's faces, and he found that everyone except Li Sheng and Zhuge Liang had puzzled expressions on their faces.

"Sheng'er, do you have any ideas?" Zhuge Xuan asked by name.

"I think Mr. Xu Shao wants to drive people away without a fight. He wanted to conduct psychological warfare against the Charong army. Li Sheng thought for a moment and replied quite confidently.

"How?" Zhuge Xuan also wanted to know more about it.

"Well! I don't know. I don't know much about the Floating Cult. It's just that from Xu Shao's actions, he thinks that he may want to put Cha Rong in a situation similar to 'embattled'. As for what Xu Shao wants to do, I think only Brother Liang can understand it. He's seen the Futu classics. Li Sheng replied with a smile.

"Ah Liang? Tell us what you think. Hearing Sheng'er mention this, I also remember that you seem to have seen these things. Zhuge Xuan asked with a smile.

"Yes, uncle!" Zhuge Liang was a little shy, but he said without hesitation: "The people and horses of Charong are based on the Futu Sect as the backbone. These people were not recruited, but were connected in the first place, and they had been gathered together, consciously or unconsciously.

Cha Rong was originally in charge of Xuzhou's Cao Yun, and he knew that most of the people who did Cao Yun were Futu sect members. In order to make it easier to manage these people, and to take advantage of them, Charong claimed to be a Futu cultist. He used all kinds of lavish tricks to package himself so that the simple congregation would recognize him as a leader.

However, now, Cha Rong killed Zhao Yu, Xue Li, and Zhu Hao...... These originally had no grudges against him, but the rest were gracious confessions, and the Futu Sect members may have some nostalgia in their hearts. Many of these Futu Sect members are from the Lady of Water's family, they have traveled by boat, and they have seen more than ordinary people, so they will not let him be deceived all the time.

The doctrine of Futu is relatively peaceful and opposes killing. This is completely contrary to what Charong has done. Once he knew that Charong was not a true believer, the most powerful of his men would betray him. That's all there is to thaumaturgy. ”

"I see." Everyone immediately understood when they heard Zhuge Liang's explanation: "Mr. Xu Shao studied the classics of Futu in order to uncover Charong's disguise. In the end, he had to find a way to convince those believers that the teachings of Futu were like this, so Cha Rong was not a believer in Futu, and could not be your leader, and you were all deceived by him. As long as Cha Rong's subordinates understood this, Cha Rong's team would disperse, and it would be impossible to fight Liu Xuanjun. ”

"That's amazing, these two little ones." After understanding this, only everyone looked at Li Sheng and Zhuge Liang's eyes, and suddenly became strange. They were amazed at the brilliance of the two teenagers, who were so vividly able to point out the outlines of things that even adults like them could not figure out. This makes them have to admit that these two teenagers' ability to analyze things has greatly exceeded their own.