Chapter Seventy-One: The Soldier's Trickery

The mighty 50,000 soldiers were divided into two ways to set up camp and set up the village, according to the predetermined march strategy, Tang Bin and Yang Ke as the left wing led the troops 10,000 to advance 30 miles, Ma Long led 40,000 troops to the right road, the two armies were also 30 miles apart, and the baggage hall echoed each other, according to Ma Long's statement, they were each other's horns and each other's strategies. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info released five scout camps at the same time, and the search depth was pushed forward for nearly 100 miles.

According to the pre-agreed speed of marching, seventy miles a day, not just one day, before you know it, you have reached the distance of seven or eight days from the stone. Yang Ke put his hand on the pergola, looked in the direction of Lishi, and said to Tang Bin: "Brother Confucianism, is there any news from the commander's camp this morning?" ”

"The herald has brought a military order, and he will arrive at the back of Yongcheng and go down to the wall, if he is attacked by the enemy, he can enter the city and hold on, and he should not fight lightly." Tang Bin said.

Yang Ke nodded, and immediately took out the document he carried with him to look through it, Tang Bin looked sideways, and the mountains and rivers on it were all outlined by dots and lines, which was clearly a topographic sketch around the stone, and there were some zigzag symbols densely written on it, but Tang Bin couldn't understand it: "Childe, I can understand this map, but what are these symbols?" ”

Yang Ke explained: "The last time I came to Lishi with my second uncle, I surveyed the surrounding geography and mountains, and these symbols recorded the width and narrowness of the terrain, as well as the passes and dangers. ”

Tang Bin said with great admiration: "It turns out that Gongzi has already planned, looking at your sketch, it is much more accurate than the map we use. Childe is actually self-taught, and he is really a genius. ”

Yang Ke smiled slightly, the drawing technology and drawing concept of the ancients are still quite primitive, not to mention the combination of graphics and data can be used to show the entire battlefield situation in three dimensions, the maps of Gaode, Baidu, Google, etc. in later generations are the crystallization of thousands of years of human wisdom, especially the drawing idea is to get rid of the distance of the Pacific Ocean of the predecessors.

"Brother Confucianism praised it falsely, how can there be a self-taught genius in this world, I just kept an eye on it and did my homework in advance." Yang Ke didn't explain too much, and changed the topic: "Do we have any news from the people who are in ambush in Stone City?" ”

Confucianism shook his head: "Since three days ago, there has been no news. ”

Yang Ke and Tang Bin glanced at each other, and suddenly said at the same time: "The road is broken.......

Yang Ke and Tang Bin coincidentally reined in the reins of the horse, dismounted on the side of the road, and the pro-army understood, and immediately set up the marching case and unfolded the map, while Yang Ke took out the papers, and the two looked at the map intently.

After looking at it for a long time, Tang Bin frowned and said: "Three days ago, we had not yet left the defense area of the vassal king, and it was impossible for Liu Yuan's scouts to be released so far, someone must have reported to him, maybe even our direction and strength were leaked." Saying this, Tang Bin turned his head and instructed his own soldiers: "Quickly send a herald and report to the general that we have not heard from us in Lishi City for three days, and it may be that the army's collection has been leaked." ”

The pro-army asked, "Do you want to ask for the general's military order?" ”

"No, you don't." Tang Bin shook his head: "If the general has an order, bring it back, if the general has no order, there is no need to ask for an order." ”

According to the usual practice, when subordinates report the military situation, they must ask the superior to give instructions, but why did Tang Bin say that there is an order to receive an order, and no order is not requested? The pro-army went to arrange it with a suspicious face.

Yang Ke asked, "Brother Confucianism, do you think that the Great General will not adjust the deployment?" ”

Tang Bin nodded: "The three armies have moved, just because the scouts did not report for three days, they adjusted the military strategy, and the general may not be able to save this face, so if he wants to figure it out by himself, we can't force him." Fortunately, there is still time and distance to adjust. ”

Yang Ke suddenly said: "What if there is no time and distance to adjust? ”

This unprovoked sentence made Tang Bin pause, looking at Yang Ke, but he didn't know what the deep meaning of his words was.

"Liu Yuan not only knows our military strength and direction, but has even seen through our intentions." Yang Ke said as he tapped the map with his hand.

Tang Bin looked at the map along Yang Ke's finger, fell into deep thought, and only after a long time did he raise his head and say: "Liu Yuan has already sealed the city, so the scouts can't come out, and he has a strong city to defend, he must have been fully prepared, and he has insight into the fact that we only have 50,000 troops, more than besieged the city, not enough to break the city, and there is no time to maneuver, once we enter the confrontation with him, we will be trapped under the stone city." It's really cunning. ”

Yang Ke added: "There is another point, Liu Yuan is long in the cavalry, he can't use the cavalry to defend the city, and it is even more impossible to let the cavalry go, so I dare to conclude that his cavalry is not in the city, and must be cruising somewhere, looking for fighters to cooperate with Liu Yuan." ”

"But Lao Sun's secret report said that Liu Yuan only had more than 40,000 people in his hands, how could his troops be deployed?" Tang Bin was slightly puzzled.

"It's because he can't deploy his troops that he defends the city, do you think about it?"

Tang Bin was in the army, and he was thorough: "Yes, at most send 20,000 people to defend the city, and then recruit all the people and people in the city, the attack is insufficient, but it is more than enough to defend the city, so that he can free up troops and horses to find an opportunity to attack my flank and back, and attack from both sides." ”

Yang Ke nodded: "That's the truth, Liu Yuan's powerful place is here, he laid this bait in your must-attack place, and this bait turned out to be his lair and boss, do you guess Ma Long will be tempted?" First, Malone is good at using military weapons, and attacking the city is his housekeeping skill, will he think that this is a great gift from heaven, and second. With these two, it shows that Liu Yuan has figured out Ma Long thoroughly. ”

Tang Bin said: "It would be nice if we could find out where his cavalry was." ”

Yang Ke smiled slightly: "Brother Confucianism, you have reached the key point. If you were Liu Yuan, what kind of terrain and what distance would you put your cavalry? This little brother just doesn't know anything."

Tang Bin thought for a moment and said slowly: "The distance can't be more than a hundred miles, the cavalry can travel a hundred miles a day, but it is impossible to go into battle immediately when they run to the battlefield, people can insist, but horses can't, so they will design a day's itinerary, recharge overnight, and then they can immediately charge." ”

Yang Keqi said: "Why can't you put it within a hundred miles?" ”

Tang Bin explained: "Liu Yuan is a veteran, how could he not know that we would release the scouts, the scout's foot range is exactly the same as the cavalry's foot range, of course his cavalry must be hidden outside the scout's foot range." ”

"With such a distance, how do they get the message across?" Yang Ke continued to ask.