"Bridge Rui, that kid has defected? Defecting to Yuan Tan Pifu to embarrass me again? But that's not right, if Qiao Rui's goods mutiny, Zijing and Cao Hong should have news for me immediately? ”

When the layman sees the lively, the insider looks at the doorway, when he sees Yuan Tanjun's newly built Guandu camp for the first time, the first reaction of the deputy director of the half-barrel water pottery is very familiar, and the second reaction is to suspect that the general Qiaorui, who has been entangled with him for many years, has defected to Yuan Tan - because this Guandu camp is built too much like the style of Qiaorui, and the fortifications that need to be built are doubling the construction without pulling it, and the terrain advantages that can be used will not stop without squeezing out the last drop of oil. Some dispensable fortifications are also built and dug out at the expense of manpower and material resources, all for the purpose of defense, and the most pursued goal is to make the enemy tiger bite the hedgehog and have no way to bite it.

"The lord must be wrong this time, General Qiao Rui did not rebel, and the person who built the Guandu camp, the ability to defend may still be on Qiao Rui." Jia Lao, who accompanied him to inspect the enemy camp, said solemnly: "General Qiao Rui is only good at defending the city, and the ability to defend the camp is far inferior to defending the city, but the enemy we faced this time has made the most of the favorable terrain of the Guandu Pass to the extreme, the camp defense layout is almost flawless, and the fortifications are also very collocated, so it is reasonable that if we want to break through this enemy camp, it is definitely not so easy." ”

"Yes, the enemy who built this camp is very clear and smart." Liu Ye also said: "Even the placement of the thunderbolt car, he also considered it in detail, and specially built a high platform to house the thunderbolt car, so that the thunderbolt car condescendingly fought farther, held our attack camp point, and tamped a flat and hard road around the camp, so that the heavy thunderbolt car can quickly move and transfer, suppress the thunderbolt car array arranged by our army in every position, and protect his camp fortifications." It is indeed rare that a thunderbolt that has only been around for a few years has been studied in such detail. ”

"And the water grate." Xun Chen opened his mouth and added: "The scouts of our army have reported that the enemy has built a waterway fence that our army first created last year at the outlet of the canal behind the camp, protecting their pontoon bridge and the waterway behind the camp, so that our army can't do it even if they want to use boats and rafts to sneak attack the back of the enemy camp, and we really met a cunning opponent who is good at learning this time." ”

Deputy Director Tao nodded, and asked Liu Ye again: "Is there a report on our army's meticulous work, who built this battalion?" ”

Relying on strong financial resources and the inextricable connection with the Jizhou army before, the meticulous work of the Xuzhou army has long infiltrated and infiltrated the Jizhou army, so Liu Ye immediately replied: "It is Yuan Xi, the second son of Yuan Shao, but there is still a report from the scouts of our army, Yuan Xi built a camp this time, and he used a general named Hao Zhao very much, and the camp of Yuan Tan's army can be built so strongly, there should be the credit of this enemy general named Hao Zhao." ”

"Hao Zhao?!" Deputy Director Tao began to roll his eyes, and said in his heart, okay, Zhuge Little Demon went out of the mountain in advance, and Hao Zhao, a little pervert, also went out of the mountain in advance, I finally bullied the weak and good once in my life, and as a result, I ran into these two little perverts at the same time, it seems that my luck should really go to buy a lottery ticket.

led a team of cavalry to take a look around the enemy's camp, and neither found any flaws in Yuan Tanjun's camp defense, nor did he see Yuan Tanjun go out of the camp to fight, and he was determined to hold on, and Deputy Director Tao had to return to the self-army camp twenty miles away. On the way back to the camp, Deputy Director Tao asked the strategists about the strategy of breaking the camp, and the Xuzhou strategists also knew very well that Deputy Director Tao liked to be opportunistic, and knew that Deputy Director Tao had no intention of attacking head-on, and wanted to use some conspiracies and tricks to take Guandu, so they all started to think about how to take down this Guandu camp at the lowest cost.

"Lord, why don't you attack head-on once and test the enemy's strength?" Xun Chen suggested: "Guandu and Xuchang have been defeated twice, the Jizhou army has been completely lost, the old generals have suffered heavy casualties, and the overall strength is not as good as before. In this case, why don't our troops test it a little and see if they can find a flaw in the enemy's camp during the strong attack, and then take advantage of the weakness to enter? ”

Deputy Director Tao was a little tempted, and when he was about to consider Xun Chen's proposal, the other side was Yi and said in a deep voice: "No! The enemy's camp is too strong, and it is impossible for a tentative attack to be effective, on the contrary, it is very likely that a small defeat will be turned into a big defeat, and the losses will be huge in the successive attacks on the camp, which will dampen the spirit of our army, destroy the prestige of our army, and grow the enemy's morale. ”

"It makes sense." Deputy Director Tao nodded and said: "The last time Lord Yuezhang and Cao Thief made this mistake in the Guandu battle, Lord Yuezhang attacked Cao Thief's camp head-on, and after suffering defeats, he shook the morale of the army, drained the army's strength, and finally exposed his own flaws. As a lesson from the past, we cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past. ”

"That's a dilemma." Xun Chen frowned and said: "It's uncertain to take the enemy camp in one fell swoop, and you can't continuously storm the enemy camp to accumulate small defeats and turn big defeats into big defeats, and frustrate the morale of the army, so what should I do?" You can't follow Yuan Shao's example and use money and food to kill the enemy with poor logistics, right? ”

"It's not that easy to consume the enemy." Liu Ye interjected and said: "Our army has already reported that Yuan Tanjun was building the Guandu camp at the same time, and had already sent most of the winter wheat that had only been harvested and put into storage last month to Guandu, and the enemy's grain and grass were very sufficient, and it was not so easy to exhaust the enemy. Moreover, after a long time, our army will definitely have a situation of slack morale and slackness in military morale, which will still give Yuan Tan a chance to win by surprise. ”

Deputy Director Tao nodded again, although Deputy Director Tao was very confident that he would not give the enemy a chance to win by surprise, but he was still unwilling to do such a stupid thing as fighting with the enemy to consume grain and grass. After a little calculation, Deputy Director Tao turned his gaze to Jia Lao, who had always been silent, and said with a smile: "Mr. Wenhe, it's time for you to show your skills, but if you are the best at this kind of opportunistic thing, if there is any good way to break the enemy, please say it quickly." ”

"The lord is too modest, when it comes to opportunism, in front of you, you can only bow down." Jia Lao Poison smiled and said modestly, and then said: "And the lord is also a little embarrassed, now our army has just arrived in Guandu, and has not fought with the enemy, and has no knowledge of the details of the enemy, and even whether the enemy intends to hold on to help or defend alone is not clear, it is really not easy to come up with a strategy to break the enemy." ”

Deputy Director Tao smiled, and also knew that Jia Lao Poison was not modest, but a fact, the primary basis for the enemy's strategy was to understand the enemy's situation, and now the Xuzhou army's grasp of Yuan Tanjun's intelligence was still limited to the level of troops, grain and grass, and generals. So after listening to Jia Lao's answer, Deputy Director Tao could only continue to laugh and say, "Is it? Even Mr. Wenhe, who is the most resourceful in the world, can't think of a way for the time being, it seems that we should not waste our energy to think nonsense, or honestly set up the camp and prepare for a long-term hard battle. ”

"Don't worry, my lord, I haven't finished my words yet." Jia Lao Poison also smiled and added: "In order to defeat the enemy, although we must first understand the enemy's situation and then see the needle, there are some strategies, but we don't necessarily need to understand the enemy's situation. ”

"What does Mr. Wenhe mean by this?" Deputy Director Tao hurriedly asked.

"Quite simply, we don't know about the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know about us." Jia Lao Poison replied: "At present, our army does not know what Yuan Tan's plans are other than to defend Guandu, but after our soldiers are about to cross Guandu, what are the next plans, Yuan Tan's side is even more unclear, so as long as our army grasps this clever fabric, it will not be difficult to deceive Yuan Tan into chaos, expose flaws, and win the opportunity for our army to take advantage of the situation." ”

"Qiaobu fake? Tricking Yuan Tan into chaos? Revealing a flaw? Deputy Director Tao's eyes rolled a few times, and he hurriedly said: "How to do it, please tell Mr. Wenhe quickly." ”

"It's very simple, in a word, it is to scare Yuan Tan Gongzi who definitely doesn't know enough about our situation." Jia Lao Poison smiled kindly and said: "First of all, our army should arrange the illusion that it is easy to take Guandu, and then send an envoy to the enemy camp to recruit surrender under the pretext, and then arrange an illusion that there is no interest in destroying Yuan Tan, and also touch the internal situation of Yuan Tan's team by the way." And then ....... ”

…………………… On the morning of the second day when the main force arrived at the Guandu battlefield, without waiting for the camp to be established, Deputy Director Tao sent the general Xu Huang to lead an army of 3,000 to the Yuan Tan military camp to fight, and Yuan Tan Gongzi, who had been brainwashed by Cui Yan and Zhuge Liang, of course held on, ignoring the Xuzhou army shouting and scolding the generals in front of the camp, just arranging bows and crossbows to stick to the camp, saying that he would not send a soldier out of the camp to fight. Fortunately, all the generals in Jizhou knew that their army was weak, and they were not the field opponents of the Xuzhou army, but no one asked to fight, but the military advisor Guo Tu bullied Xu Huang with few soldiers, and ran to Yuan Tan to suggest taking the opportunity to fight, but he was scolded by Yuan Tangongzi, who was more and more tired of Mr. Guo Tu, and retreated to the side.

From the morning to the afternoon, seeing that Yuan Tanjun still refused to leave the camp, Xu Huangjun had no choice but to withdraw his scolding hand and prepare to withdraw the troops, Yuan Tan Gongzi and Uncle Liu Huang, who came to the camp gate to observe the movement, just breathed a sigh of relief, the east suddenly dusty, the banner was waving, and tens of thousands of Xuzhou troops attacked, and in the center there was an apricot yellow tooth flag, which turned out to be the handsome flag of Deputy Director Tao! Yuan Tan Gongzi and Uncle Liu Huang were shocked together, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to go out to defend the camp, but Zhuge Liang sneered and said: "Don't worry, don't worry, if Tao Envoy Jun really came to attack the camp, he wouldn't have only brought such a few soldiers and came in the afternoon, if nothing else, Tao Envoy Jun should have wanted to answer with Ji Hou in front of the battle." ”

Sure enough, Deputy Director Tao personally led an army of 10,000 to the camp before and after, the army had just lined up the array, Deputy Director Tao immediately led a team of guards out of the battle, to Yuan Tan 500 steps outside the door of the camp to stand still, and ordered a guard to ride a horse to the front of the camp and shouted, asking Yuan Tan Gongzi to go out of the camp to answer, Yuan Tan saw Xu Chu Zhao Yun Le Ma standing around Deputy Director Tao, and did not dare to go out of the camp to take risks, but shouted to the deputy director Tao guard who passed the word very unconfidently: "Go back and tell the Tao thief, just say that I am too lazy to see his dirty face, and if I have the courage to attack the camp, I'm here to the end! ”

The guard didn't scold back, but immediately went back to report to Deputy Director Tao, but what puzzled Yuan Tan Gongzi and Uncle Liu Huang and others was that ten wheelbarrows were quickly launched in the Xuzhou military formation, and they were pushed to the side of Deputy Director Tao and lined up from the Yuan army camp, and then took down ten wooden stakes from the car and branched diagonally to the sky, most of the Yuan Tan army was inexplicable about this, and Zhuge Liang, Cui Yan and Hao Zhao, who were good at collecting intelligence, exclaimed, "Not good!" Could it be the legendary Thunderbolt? What kind of thunderbolt was used by the pottery thief to defeat in the Battle of Xuchang? ”

"Thunderbolt?!" Yuan Tan Gongzi, who had also heard of this new weapon, suddenly changed his face, and the other Yuan Tan army civil and military forces also exchanged their heads and ears, and the power of the thunderbolt cannon was also exaggerated more than a hundred times at once, and even the nonsense of one cannon crushing ten miles and killing hundreds of Cao troops with one cannon came out.

Fortunately, Deputy Director Tao is also an unqualified public servant with a surviving conscience, when the soldiers in Xuzhou were nervous about installing the pine cannon, the guard was ordered to run to the door of Yuan's military camp again, and shouted at Yuan Tan Gongzi with an arrogant attitude: "The eldest son, my lord is merciful, and also look at the face of my lord and duchess, today our army's ten howitzers will not be loaded with shells, let you see the majesty of our army's howitzers!" By the way, let me tell you again, these ten howitzers of our army can shoot 750 steps at the farthest! It's easy to break through your camp! ”

After finishing speaking, the guard turned around and ran again, and returned to the front of Deputy Director Tao, at this time, the ten pine cannons with a range of more than 300 meters have also been installed, Deputy Director Tao made a small move, and the ten primitive pine cannons exploded one after another, and the explosion sound that sounded almost at the same time was earth-shattering, resounding throughout the entire camp of Yuan Tanjun, and the ground seemed to be trembling slightly, and it also shook Yuan Tanjun's top and bottom like earth, and he was bold!

"Xuzhou will win! Yuan Tan will be destroyed! Xuzhou will win! Yuan Tan will be destroyed! "The Xuzhou soldiers who had received orders in advance also shouted in unison, shouting rhythmically, 'Xuzhou will win!' Yuan Tan will be destroyed! Tens of thousands of Xuzhou soldiers shouted in unison, and the sound was also earth-shattering, and the power was unparalleled, which made the whole army of Yuan Tanjun, who was already frightened by the primitive pine cannon, even more frightened, and there were countless people whose legs trembled, and the morale of the originally not very high was suddenly low to the extreme.

To everyone's surprise, after basically crushing Yuan Tanjun's courage, Deputy Director Tao did not take the opportunity to order an attack, but turned around and left slowly, returned to his own position and led the whole army to retreat the way he came, and ignored Yuan Tanjun after intimidating him. And just as Yuan Tan Gongzi and Mr. Guo Tu were pale, and Cui Yan, Zhuge Liang and others frowned and quickly calculated and analyzed, the soldiers on the sentry tower shouted again, "Lord, someone is coming, with a white flag in his hand, it seems to be an enemy messenger?" ”

Yuan Tan Gongzi quickly raised his head, and sure enough, he saw a knight dressed as a scribe waving a white flag, slowly approaching the camp gate, as if he was planning to negotiate with the self-army. Seeing the arrival of the Xuzhou military envoy, Yuan Tan Gongzi, who had already been frightened, suddenly had a feeling of secret joy in his heart, and hurriedly opened his mouth and ordered: "Don't let the arrows go, let him come." ”

Yuan Tanjun's crossbowmen followed the order and no longer aimed at the horse-riding scribe, but when the scribe rode his horse closer, Yuan Tan Gongzi and Mr. Guo Tu exclaimed together, "Xun Chen Xun Youruo? Mr. Youruo, why are you? What are you doing here? ”

"The eldest son, Mr. Gongze, I haven't seen you for a long time, I haven't seen you for a long time." Xun Chen bowed on the horse, and said with a smile: "Chen is here today, of course, to save the eldest prince and Mr. Gongze, if the eldest prince doesn't mind, can you let Xun Chen, who is already an enemy minister, enter the camp?" ”

"Alarmist! It must be here to persuade you to surrender! Zhuge Liang snorted coldly in his heart, and gently stabbed Uncle Liu Huang next to him, and said in a low voice: "Be careful, the enemy is here to open his mouth to save the Marquis of Ji, and the intention must be to persuade him to surrender." Xun Chen had also heard of it, and knew that he had persuaded Han Fu to give up Jizhou to Yuan Benchu, and he was very good. Just in case, the lord must meet Xun Chen with Yuan Tan this time. ”

(To be continued)