After the arrangement was stopped, Uncle Liu Huang, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei quickly led their own team out of the camp to ambush, and Yuan Xi, the only loyal and honest son of the third prince of the Great Yuan, also led the only 6,000 cavalry in the Yuan Tan army out of the camp and ambushed further on the north side of the camp, preparing to attack the Xuzhou camp after the battle was launched, which not only contained the rescue troops of the Xuzhou army, but also increased the chaos of the Xuzhou army.

Zhuge Liang stayed in the camp to arrange an ambush, in order to make room for an ambush and eliminate the elite of Xuzhou as much as possible, Zhuge Liang suggested that Yuan Tan give up the front camp and sacrifice the entire front camp to arrange an ambush circle for catching turtles in the urn. The fortifications in front of the battalion are also bound to be completely destroyed, which is not conducive to the long-term holding of our army. ”

"General Bodao, Liang also knows that ambushing the enemy in the front camp will inevitably cause great damage to the fortifications in front of the main camp." Zhuge Liang replied for Yuan Tan: "But there is no way, the enemy we are facing this time is too deceitful, and it is too cunning, if an ambush is arranged outside the camp, it will inevitably be a big construction, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is impossible to hide from the eyes of the enemy. ”

Seeing that Hao Zhao still looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, Zhuge Liang said again: "General Bodao, Liang knows that you are good at defending the palace, and you have always advocated defending it with all your might, but Liang must be a little bit of you, with the ability of Tao Envoy Jun, his Xuzhou army is not unable to break through this Guandu camp, Tao Envoy Jun is just unwilling to pay a huge price in the battle." Therefore, we must severely damage his team before Tao Yuanjun makes up his mind to attack, destroy his living force as much as possible, and drag the Jingzhou reinforcements who are hiding in Yexian County into the water as soon as possible, otherwise, no matter how strong the Guandu camp is, it will not be able to block Tao Yuanjun's frontal attack at any cost, and it will not be able to consume Tao Yuanjun, who is far above our army in abundance of money and food. ”

Although he was still a little dissatisfied with Zhuge Liang's opinions, Hao Zhao, who was humble and lowly, saw that Yuan Tan Gongzi and Cui Yan and others were on Zhuge Liang's side, so he did not insist, but just took the order and led the team to arrange an ambush with Zhuge Liang to the front camp, and under Zhuge Liang's personal command, he built tents one after another with firewood and grass, which were splashed with sulfur, flames, nitrate and other fire-igniting things, and dug a large number of fire-starting ditches in the camp, which were full of firewood and grass and poured fire oil, so that once the fire was ignited, it could quickly burn throughout the entire front camp. At the same time, a large number of poisoned arrows and rockets were prepared, and the army was ambushed in a remote and dark place under the cover of night, and everything possible was done to ensure that all the troops were annihilated into the camp.

In addition, Zhuge Liang had to arrange a team of soldiers to hand over to Mr. Guo Tu to act, and at the same time arranged a number of pyres in the camp to create the illusion of arson chaos in the camp and lure the Xuzhou army into the camp to die.

After everything was arranged, the time was already more than half of the second watch, and he told Mr. Guo Tu's team to be sure to run around and shout at that time, creating the illusion of chaos, Zhuge Liang returned to the Chinese military camp, and Yuan Tan, Cui Yan and others climbed to the dark heights, condescendingly looking down on the entire battlefield, ready to appreciate the heroism of the official crossing fire, and the wonder of the Yuan-Liu coalition army breaking the pottery thief. During this period, the eye-opening Yuan Tan Gongzi and Cui Yan naturally couldn't help but praise Zhuge Liang's ambush methods, and Zhuge Liang was humble again and again, but also secretly hated that his methods were not ruthless enough, and he didn't have enough tricks to ensure that he could not be wiped out along with the enemies outside the camp.

Time flies, in the blink of an eye, there is only half a moment left from the third watch, seeing that it is still dark outside the camp and there is no movement, Yuan Tan Gongzi is inevitably a little breathless, and plans to send scouts out of the camp to reconnoitre, Zhuge Liang and Cui Yan hurriedly stopped, and persuaded together: "Ji Hou can't be cut, the enemy attacks our army camp at night, and he must not dare to use torches to expose the target, and it must be a human title, a horse sleeve chewing, without revealing the slightest sound, it is very normal for there to be no abnormal movement outside the camp. ”

After listening to Zhuge Liang's persuasion, Yuan Tan Gongzi had no choice but to hold his anxious mind and wait patiently for the arrival of the third watch, it was the night moon and the dark stars, the eyes were difficult to reach ten steps away, and everything was quiet, so quiet that Yuan Tan Gongzi was inevitably even more anxious, only hated that time passed too slowly, and he could not send out an ambush as soon as possible to destroy the enemy of Xuzhou. Fortunately, although time passed slowly, it was not far from the third watch after all, just when Yuan Tan Gongzi stood up for the fifth time and sat down in disappointment, Yuan Tan's barracks finally sounded the sound of the third watch, one fast and two slow, "Knock!" - Boom! Boom! ”

"It's finally here!" In fact, Zhuge Lianghuo, who was also very nervous, stood up, limped to the edge of the high platform, stared at the front camp with beautiful eyes, waiting for his clever plan to launch, Yuan Tan and Cui Yan also strode to the edge of the stage, staring at the front camp with wide eyes together, so nervous that even their heartbeats almost stopped.

"Kill!"

Hundreds of Yuan soldiers lit isolated pyres one after another, deliberately ran around the camp with torches, shouting and shouting, and deliberately made the sound of swords and guns colliding, pretending to launch a mutiny, and a group of Yuan soldiers rushed directly to the camp gate with torches, and the Yuan army guards in front of the camp gate scattered, letting the Yuan soldiers who were pretending to mutiny smash open the camp gate, remove the antlers in front of the door, and let the road in and out of the camp.

"Kill!"

A louder shout came, and in the darkness in the distance outside the camp, countless torches and flags suddenly appeared, shouting and rushing towards the Yuan Tan army camp, and the tide rushed to the Yuan army camp. Seeing the Xuzhou military torches and flags pouring like water bursting the embankment, Yuan Tan Gongzi and Zhuge Liang were so nervous that their palms were sweating, and they only hoped that the Xuzhou army would charge faster and enter the camp faster.

Finally, the first Xuzhou flag rushed into the front camp of the Yuan Tan army, and the torches of the Xuzhou army flags behind were also pouring in, and just as Zhuge Liang was smiling, Yuan Tan and Cui Yan were smiling together, the Xuzhou team that had entered the camp had just entered the middle of the front camp, but suddenly began to shout, and countless soldiers shouted frantically: "There is an ambush, there is an ambush, we have been tricked!" Evacuate! Evacuate! ”

Roaring, the Xuzhou soldiers threw torches at the tent in front of Yuan Tan's army, and turned around to flee for their lives, retreating faster than entering the camp. Seeing this scene, Zhuge Liang and Cui Yan were inevitably a little dazed, and for a moment they didn't understand where the flaws in the layout of the self-army were exposed, but Yuan Tan Gongzi jumped up and shouted: "Beat the drum!" Total Attack! Can't let the pottery thief slip away! ”

Zhuge Liang wanted to stop it was too late, more than 100 war drums in the Chinese army sounded, and the three-way ambush soldiers who were ambushed in the front camp shouted out at the same time, and the three breads were killed to the Xuzhou team that was already retreating outside the camp, and Liu Guanzhang's team in ambush on the two flanks outside the camp also killed left and right, and the army outside the Xuzhou camp was sandwiched, and the Yuan Xi team in the distance heard the fierce war drums, and did not hesitate to act according to the original plan, and immediately rushed to the Xuzhou camp more than 20 miles away.

"Bell, bell, bell!" The Xuzhou army also sounded the sound of gold, the whole army retreated quickly to the way it came, and the troops of Yuan and Liu, who were only one step away from encircling the Xuzhou army, were unwilling to be defeated, and pursued the Xuzhou army with all their might. Seeing this scene, after thinking about it for a while, Zhuge Liang's little face suddenly turned completely pale, and he hurriedly shouted to Yuan Tan: "Ji Hou, Mingjin, quickly order Mingjin!" ”

"Why did you order Mingjin?" Yuan Tan Gongzi asked rhetorically.

"As soon as the pottery thief team entered the middle of the front camp, they immediately retreated at full speed! This illustrates ....... The situation was urgent, Zhuge Liang didn't care about any demeanor, but just shouted: "This shows that the pottery thief has already seen through our deception plan, and deliberately used a lure to lure our ambush soldiers to dispatch, and then immediately retreated at full speed, lured our army to pursue, and then took the opportunity to launch an ambush, and in turn ambushed our pursuers!" Mingjin! Hurry up and mingle gold! If you can't chase it, you will lose if you chase it! ”

"Really? How could our deception be detected in advance by the pottery thief? ”

Yuan Tan Gongzi was unwilling to hesitate for a moment, a large number of Yuan Tan army troops had chased out the camp gate that had been destroyed and ignited by the Xuzhou army, and the imperial uncle army on both wings had also chased after the Xuzhou team that was flying away. Seeing this, Zhuge Liang was so anxious that he almost didn't cry, and pulled Yuan Tan Gongzi's sleeve and just shouted, "Ji Hou, Liang please, hurry up Mingjin!" Mingjin! Otherwise, Liang's main team will be over, and your camp team will be over! ”

"Lord, it should be Mingjin!" Cui Yan finally came back to his senses, and hurriedly said to Yuan Tan: "At this time, Mingjin, even if the enemy does not ambush the army, we will only lose a chance to win at most, if the enemy really has an ambush, we can protect all the camping teams." ”

"Dog, I'm about to faint!" Yuan Tan Gongzi, who had been at the mercy of him, scolded and yelled helplessly: "Mingjin! Let's talk about it first! ”

The order was conveyed, the sound of war drums gradually stopped, replaced by the sound of gold in a hurry, and the Yuan Tan army, which had been out of the camp for nearly half of the time, was suddenly dizzy, not knowing what was happening, and Han Meng, Tian Chou and Peng An, who led the army to ambush, although they did not understand what Yuan Tan was doing, but still ordered the army to stop and began to retreat to the camp, and at the same time, Uncle Liu Huang, who was chasing in front, found that the war drums suddenly stopped, and out of the consideration of this small profit, he also immediately ordered to stop chasing and began to retreat to the camp.

"Thank goodness." Zhuge Liang patted his chest and said happily: "Fortunately, I reacted quickly, otherwise we would be finished." ”

The words of rejoicing were not finished, but Zhuge Liang's eyes suddenly widened wider than a bull's eye, because in more than three miles outside the gate of the camp, torches all over the mountains and fields suddenly lit, and the Xuzhou military flag all over the mountains and fields was also revealed, and the shouts of killing came more violently, and at the same time, more torches also came to the front of the Yuan Tan army camp!

"Ahh Zhuge Liang pulled his hair with both hands, looked up to the sky and roared, "It's over!" Our army's emergency response was also expected by the pottery thief! Heaven damn your pottery thief, he actually arranged an ambush so close! Finished! Our team outside the camp will use corpses to pave the way for the pottery thieves! ”

............ "Thank goodness. This time it was Deputy Director Tao's turn to rejoice, patted his chest and said: "Fortunately, Lao Tzu is familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and knows that Zhuge Villager is more slippery than a fox, and he can only hide it from him for a while, and he can't hide it for a long time, and he didn't dare to arrange the ambush too far away, otherwise, he will miss the opportunity to break the camp today!" ”

Fortunately, Deputy Director Tao pointed at the main gate of the enemy camp with his Heavenly Annihilation Sword, and shouted: "Beat the drums, impact at full speed!" Force the enemy's out-of-camp team to give us free strikers! Send the order to go down, rush into the enemy camp, kill people when you see them, and burn tents when you see them! ”

The war drums of the Xuzhou army sounded, and the Xuzhou cavalry team that poured out of the nest raised their swords and guns, shouted frantically and quickly whipped their horses, and rushed to the Yuan-Liu coalition army that was fleeing for their lives in the camp like an avalanche in the mountains.

At the same time as killing and dispersing the emperor's army, the Xuzhou cavalry continued to advance rapidly, and in a moment they had already killed in front of Yuan Tanjun's gate, and they were in a melee with Yuan Tan's army, which had no time to withdraw into the camp. The Xuzhou infantry led by Deputy Director Tao also strode forward, like a solid thick wall, quickly and unstoppably crushing the enemy outside the camp, forcing the enemy to retreat to the camp of the self-army, and paving the way for the self-army to attack the battalion defense that Yuan Tan's army had worked so hard to build, and paving the way forward with the enemy's corpse.

When the Xuzhou army entered the camp before, it was easy to destroy the camp gate of the Yuan army's camp, and even the gatehouse had been ignited, igniting a raging fire, which could no longer be closed, so that although it was convenient for the Yuan army to escape back to the camp when the Yuan army went out of the camp, it was also convenient for the Xuzhou army to enter the Yuan Tan camp, and what was more terrible was that the torches in the hands of the Yuan soldiers in the chaos inevitably ignited many Yuan army tents, and as a result, these tents filled with firewood and grass and splashed with fire oil and sulfur were ignited, and the fire was suddenly unable to be contained. The fire spread along the fire channel arranged by Zhuge Liang, and soon ignited a sea of fire in the front camp of Yuan Tanjun's army, and the area of the sea of fire was still expanding rapidly, and the already extremely chaotic Yuan Tan army's team also fell into complete chaos.

If it is changed to peacetime, the Xuzhou army is indeed dispatched no matter how many teams are dispatched, it is difficult to take this strong Guandu camp that is close to perverted, but now it is different, the front camp is a fire, the defender soldiers scream back and forth, and the defeated soldiers of the Yuan army are expelled to impact the camp, and there are thousands of Xuzhou tiger and wolf divisions behind, if Zhuge Liang and Hao Zhao can still hold the front camp, then they are not called perverts, they have to be called immortals.

In the face of the fierce impact of the Xuzhou army, the soldiers of the Yuan-Liu coalition army were cut down in pieces like cutting wheat, the horse's hooves trampled on the human body, and the screams continued, the defeated army of Yuan and Liu desperately rushed to the camp gate in order to survive, trampled on each other in a panic, pushed each other, crushed the Faliang Bridge, filled in the trenches and traps full of sharp wooden stakes in large sections, and also tore off the tripwire and blocked the arrow mouth of the underground bunker, and then used their bodies to pile up the ramp of the upper wall under the sheep and horse wall that was undefended at all, and also knocked down a large area of the camp wooden fence, The camp fortifications carefully built by Hao Zhao were cracked for free, and the road to the camp of the Xuzhou army was paved for free.

Thinking that in this case, if the Xuzhou army can't rush into the enemy camp again, then Deputy Director Tao will definitely have to kill hundreds of incompetent generals, but fortunately, the Xuzhou soldiers are very competitive, and even General Qin Yi, an expert in the Xuzhou army, who specializes in defeating the enemy and not winning, has taken the second-line team under his command to take the enemy's defeat out of the camp as the vanguard, and then General Qin Yi Although he did not have the courage to take the lead in killing the enemy, he was also very smart to command the team to destroy the enemy's camp fortifications. Open a wider path to camp for your own team.

The front camp of Yuan Tan's army has already been completely turned into a sea of fire, the raging fire illuminates the camp brightly, the main force of the Liu Yuan coalition army, which is close to 20,000, cried and fled for his life at home and abroad in the fire of the front camp, rushing to the place where no one is without fire, and more rushed to the Chinese army camp where Yuan Tan's army is more tightly defended, in order to prevent the defeated soldiers from crushing the Chinese army camp, in the case of the strength is already very tight, Yuan Tan Gongzi can only order to shoot anyone who tries to get close to the Chinese army camp, etc., and at the same time send a herald to the front camp to find Han Meng, Tian Chou and Peng An and other generals ordered them to lead their troops to retreat to the open outside the camp, and to wait until the battle was over to return to the camp to rendezvous.

In this way, in a panic. The vast majority of the new poisoned arrows invented by Zhuge Liang were naturally consumed by the soldiers of Yuan Tanjun themselves, and the soldiers of Yuan Tanjun who tried to flee back to the camp of the Chinese army in vain tried to escape to the camp of the Chinese army fell to the ground one after another, even if they were not shot, they soon had symptoms of poisoning such as difficulty breathing, rapid heart rate and crooked tongue, and the soldiers of the Yuan Tan army who found themselves hit the poisoned arrows cried and shook the sky, rolling and wailing for help outside the Chinese military camp, the scene was unbearable, Yuan Tan Gongzi's face was black in the Chinese military camp, his teeth were almost bleeding, Cui Yan was full of tears, Zhuge Liang's face was pale, and he still couldn't understand how he could fall for Deputy Director Tao's serial poison scheme?

In the complete chaos, the heralds were not looking for people, but it was difficult not to be overturned and trampled to death by their own defeated soldiers, and the orders naturally could not be conveyed quickly and smoothly, and the chaotic Yuan Tan army naturally could not get the correct orders to flee for their lives.

With the main force of the Xuzhou army pouring into the front camp of the Yuan Tan army, the brutal massacre began, the Xuzhou team, whose combat effectiveness had already surpassed the Jizhou army, rushed back and forth in the chaotic Yuan Tan army position, and the blockers were invincible, although Han Meng and Tian Chou, the two Jizhou veterans, also organized a team that could be organized to resist, but in the case of defeat, the soldiers of the Yuan Tan army, who had been frustrated, had no fighting spirit at all, and the reluctantly formed square circle array was smashed by the Xuzhou army in less than a moment. Many Yuan soldiers were chopped into pieces, more Yuan soldiers ran away, fled to the Chinese army, fled to both sides of the camp, cut down and climbed over the fence to flee to the dark and no one, Jizhou veteran Han Meng, was also stabbed to death by a group of Xuzhou soldiers in the melee, becoming the first Yuan Tan army general to die in this battle.

The defeat has been decided, and what remains is only the difference between a big defeat and a complete fiasco, and when things come to this point, Yuan Tan Gongzi only has one hope left, that is, he hopes that the cavalry led by the second brother Yuan Xi can quickly return to help, or create a miracle to also enter the Xuzhou camp and force the main force of Xuzhou to come back to help. However, what Yuan Tan Gongzi couldn't think of was that outside the Xuzhou military camp at the same time, ............ "ambush soldiers?!" There are ambushes! Why is there an ambush outside the potter's camp? ”

Poor Yuan Xi Gongzi led 6,000 cavalry to attack the Xuzhou camp, but even the outer trenches of the Xuzhou camp failed to touch, and the darkness on the side of the team killed a Xuzhou ambush, rushed forward and fought with Yuan Xi's team, and then, in the darkness farther away, also rushed out of a Xuzhou ambush, striding towards this side to kill, in the darkness Yuan Xi's team did not know how many enemies and the elite situation, panicked and unintentionally fell in love, and suddenly showed defeat, so don't say that it was a miracle to rush into the Xuzhou camp, Even if you want to get rid of entanglement, it is difficult to return to the main battlefield.

"The lord really has the wisdom to know people, and Zhuge Liang is really not simple." Jia Lao, who stayed in the Xuzhou camp, also sighed, "When the strength is far inferior to our army, he dared to arrange a surprise army to sneak attack our camp, and he was either a madman or a genius to make such a bold arrangement." ”

"It's a pity that he met our lord, who is even more genius, and he also met Mr. Zhongming, who likes to go crazy more than him." Xun Chen next to him smiled and said: "I bet that Zhuge Liang will definitely be confused, and he must be thinking, how can the poisonous plan he will arrange be seen through by us?" ”

In Xun Chen's crow's mouth, Zhuge Liang, who was more than 20 miles away, was indeed confused, and looked at the traps in the front camp that he had carefully arranged, all of which were used on his own soldiers and allied teams, causing the soldiers of the self-army to cry and cry in the churning sea of fire, and there was no way to go to heaven and earth. How did the pottery thief become suspicious? How did you see through it? The discord plan and the anti-plot are easy to break, and this dead plot is impossible to break?! ”

In a trance, Zhuge Liang suddenly remembered a pair of eyes, which were bright and beautiful eyes, but unfortunately when those eyes looked at Zhuge Liang, not only did they not have the slightest tenderness and sweetness, but they were also full of indifference and disdain. Recalling that indifferent and disdainful look, Zhuge Liang's heart was even more twisted, and his heart was as painful as a knife.

(To be continued)