Chapter 220: Puzzle solving
Wei Changfeng nodded, his expression became serious, and said to An Ran: "Order, tomorrow will be the watch, the whole army will set off, starting today, rest during the day, march at night, and arrive at Xilin Gol within five days!" ”
An Ran was shocked, thinking that he was now four hundred and fifty miles away from Xilin Gol, and he would go to Xilin Gol within five days, which would be a day to march nearly 100 miles, although at this time the whole army could ride horses and cars, but a day of nearly 100 miles of marching was definitely a great marching intensity, not to mention that it was a day rest and night march, which increased the difficulty. I don't know what General Lu Daowei's order means?
In the past, he would not have doubted Wei Changfeng's orders if he didn't understand them, because it turned out that Wei Changfeng's tactics were always so surprisingly successful. But now, General Wei is drunk, is this order still an order after normal thinking?
It was not good for him to refuse directly, after all, an order was an order, and resisting an order was a crime of killing his head, so he replied around the bend: "General Wei is a little tired now, let's rest tonight, General Wei will sober up first and make a decision tomorrow." ”
Wei Changfeng smiled, poured a glass of wine, sent the wine glass to An Ran, and motioned for An Ran to drink it.
An Ran was embarrassed in his heart, and saw Wei Changfeng holding the wine glass, which seemed to mean that if he didn't drink it, he would keep serving it like this, so he had to take the cup and take a small sip.
After this sip, An Ran's eyes almost came out of his sockets, he took another small sip, and was even more surprised, so he simply drank the rest of the wine in one gulp, smacked his lips, and finally shouted: "It's water!" ”
Wei Changfeng laughed, with a naughty look: "My amount of alcohol is not good, others can really drink, but I don't dare, I can only replace wine with water." ”
Peacefully stood on the spot.
It seems that General Wei was not drunk at all, not even a drop of wine, and his drunken state was completely pretended. Then, this is a ploy he used to deceive a few Hun envoys. It's just, what is the purpose of him doing this?
"You go and give the order first." Wei Changfeng saw that An Ran was in a daze, and urged, "Come and eat with me when you pass the order, this dish has already been served, we can't afford it." ”
After the tea time, An Ran passed the order and sat opposite Wei Changfeng in the tent, but he didn't move the chopsticks, but looked directly at Wei Changfeng.
Wei Changfeng took two bites, saw that An Ran didn't move his chopsticks, smiled, and said, "Don't you want to eat if you can't hear my explanation?" ”
An Ran also laughed, grabbed the chopsticks and took a big bite of the dish, and replied, "The last general will be rude." The last general has been thinking about the effect of your strategy in his heart, and he was so distracted that he forgot to eat the vegetables. ”
Wei Changfeng smiled: "Let's eat together, you don't have to think hard, I'll tell you." While eating with An Wen, he said slowly: "Originally, we have several ways to attack Xilin Gol, such as storming, surrounding, and so on. But since the other party has sent an envoy, we might as well use a better method. Do you think, the envoys of the other side are definitely not here to surrender, of course, with their current strength, it is absolutely impossible for them to come to the war letter or something, they even have problems with self-preservation, where can they challenge? So guess what they're going to do? ”
An calmly groaned for a moment, and suddenly slapped his thigh: "Bribe!" He blurted out, "Only with this method can we try not to attack!" ”
Wei Changfeng gave a thumbs up and praised: "Not bad! That's where they come to bribe! ”
An Wen understood the intention of the enemy's envoy, but he still didn't understand the intention of Wei Changfeng's strange moves. He asked: "General Wei, the last general wants to come, you may want to use a trick to break the enemy's army, but, since they are here to bribe, you can just come and pretend to be a bribe, and then carry out a surprise attack?" Why should you pretend to be drunk, and receive them in such a place? ”
Wei Changfeng smiled slightly: "General An, even if I pretend to take bribes, it is still impossible for the enemy to relax their vigilance, on the contrary, they will send more scouts to observe my movements to see if I am really taking bribes or fake bribes." In this case, it is more difficult for us to sneak attack, not to mention, with our current strength, we can still win if we don't sneak attack, but if the sneak attack is not successful, it will damage morale. ”
An nodded steadily. In fact, Wei Changfeng still has a layer of meaning that he has not said, that is, he hates the method of pretending to take bribes, and he must prevent Zhu Ling from retaliating by taking bribes.
"So, what are you ......going to do now??" An Wen still hasn't figured it out. And don't pretend to take bribes, and don't sneak attack, so why do you want to do this?
Wei Changfeng laughed happily: "General An, if you were the messenger and you saw the current situation, what would you do?" ”
An Wen hummed, knowing that this was General Wei inspiring himself, he stopped his chopsticks and thought seriously. What would he do if he were a messenger and saw the chaos in front of the West Gate, and then he saw the shabby weapons, the management of men and horses, the low level of training, and above all, a drunk, arrogant general?
"I'll sneak attack!" An Wen blurted out, "Since you are not bribed by us, in the face of the Han army, which is obviously poorly organized, poorly trained, and incompetent generals, I will take a gamble and attack with the whole army and carry out a sneak attack." If you succeed, it is naturally a good thing, even if you don't succeed, it will only push the time of defeat forward a little, after all, even if you don't sneak attack, you will still fail. ”
"Not bad!" Wei Changfeng nodded, "They will sneak attack, my purpose is to lure them to sneak attack, and the order I give now is to target their sneak attack." ”
An An Ann's mind lit up, and he understood. Since the enemy army will sneak attack, how should the Han army respond? The enemy army thought that the Han army would not be dispatched in the short term, but not only saw the chaos of the Han army, but also heard the false news reported by Wei Changfeng specially arranged for the guards. Five days later is the auspicious day of the zodiac, it is appropriate to sacrifice, and the general wants to sacrifice to heaven and earth, and it will be done after five days. ”
"Then I'll be optimistic in five days. Well, go down and tell the guards at the door not to let anyone in yet, and I won't say until I get these guys right. ”
This answer is clearly saying that the Han army will not act for at least five days. The three messengers watched and listened to the side, where was the reason not to pay attention.
What's more, even if one person didn't pay attention, it would not be two or three people who didn't pay attention, and as soon as they returned to Xilin Gol to report, the enemy generals would most likely immediately raise troops to raid. As soon as the envoy left, the Han army immediately raised troops, marched day and night, and advanced rapidly, so that a situation was formed: the Hun army was sneaking up on the Han army, and the Han army was making a sneak attack on the Hun army!
Therefore, General Wei wants to act tomorrow night, the purpose is to give these envoys the time to return to the camp to report, the Huns often use the falcon to transmit urgent news, such an important news, they can't pass it without the falcon, the falcon can fly four hundred miles away in one day, when the Han army raises troops, this news should have been placed on the desk of the Xiongnu commander.
"Good strategy!" An Wen blurted out, but then remembered something and asked, "General Wei, what if they don't raise troops to sneak attack?" ”
Wei Changfeng smiled: "So what does it matter? The envoy went back and said that the Han army would not be able to move in a few days, and they had only finished reporting on the front foot, and we had arrived on the back foot, and the first plan could not be achieved, so it was just time to try the second plan you just mentioned: a sneak attack on Xilin Gol. Even if the other party is well guarded and there is no possibility of a sneak attack, we just arrived in Xilin Gol quickly, and there is no loss, right? ”
An Wen slapped the table excitedly, and the chopsticks were almost knocked to the ground: "That's right! General Wei, you are really a clever plan! ”
Then he remembered something and asked, "What about the Southern Route Army?" Let's make an appointment to attack ......" Halfway through his words, he slapped himself lightly.
If the Northern Route Army can be captured, why do you have to wait for the Southern Route Army? If it can't be attacked, then can't it be done in Xilin Gol and other southern route armies?
Wei Changfeng smiled and said, "If you don't eat again, you'll be hungry." ”
Three days later, it was 200 miles away from Xilin Gol.
It is not easy to see the undulating mountains in the vast grassland, although this so-called "mountain" is just some undulating low hills, but after a continuous march that cannot see the ups and downs for thousands of miles, I suddenly see these hills, and I also feel like an elephant mountain.
This string of hills is long but not wide, running from east to west, and then circling in the west, extending northward.
20,000 Han troops were lying in ambush behind this hill.
If you look closely, you will see that there is a dense grass about five miles to the opposite side of the hill. These grasses grow tall, or some too tall, to be exact.
But it's not just this tall weed, it's also in the east.
Of course, under the meadow, there is a well-camouflaged Han army.
Being able to do this in a very short period of time, Wei Changfeng is very satisfied.
It has only been an hour since I received the letter that "the Hun army has been found in the front", and the Han army has been fully disguised, and such a quality can be said to be extremely rare.
However, when he ordered an emergency ambush, there were still some people with puzzled eyes in their eyes.
The Han army marched day and night, how can you be sure that the Hun army is too? If the Huns rested at night, wasn't it in vain?
Wei Changfeng didn't intend to explain to these people. First, he can't make everyone understand his judgment, and it's not necessary, and second, time is tight and he can't explain slowly.
Actually, this is a simple reasoning.
What is the purpose of the Han army's day and night march?
Answer: For sneak attacks, to prevent the enemy from detecting.
So, what would the Huns do if they also wanted to sneak attack?
The answer is the same as above.
No general would be stupid enough to march on the grasslands of Yima Pingchuan in broad daylight, the purpose of which was to sneak attack.
Therefore, the Xiongnu army can only be the day and night like the Han army. What's more, the news brought by Tanma also said that when the Hun army was discovered, the Hun army was on the march.