Chapter Ninety-Five: Genius Scheme
The 'calligraphy' art competition held in the Confucian Temple gradually came to an end, and more and more students returned to the hall of rice to watch the battle between Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Zhuge Liang, and Pang Tong.
I have to say that this game-like war of military strategy is more attractive than memorizing books, so that those students who are still discussing who is more proficient in which classic on the way back have already forgotten the victory and defeat of the Confucian Temple once they saw this unique strategy in the temple, and watched it attentively.
Not to mention the ordinary students, even Xun Shuang, Sima Hui, Pang Degong and other great Confucians, after the crowd, they also left their seats, stood on the huge map to watch the battle, and occupied the best position to watch the battle together with the outstanding students of the two academies, so that the later students could only crowd in the crowd and probe their brains to watch the battle.
After learning about the rules of this game from their colleagues who came first, the students of Yingchuan Academy and Xiangyang Academy couldn't help but discuss the current battle situation in the game.
"Bright ...... It's not good. Xiang Lang, a student of Xiangyang Academy, looked at Zhuge Liang's flushed face and sighed slightly.
But isn't it, since the fourth round, Zhuge Liang's 'general' Zang Ba no longer listened to the 'military advisor''s advice, and Zhuge Liang, who was only eleven years old, was red in the face, and his eyes were full of anxiety.
You must know that although from the current point of view, Zang Ba has an absolute advantage against Zhang Huang, but on the other side, Li Tong and Chen Zhi's mutual attack still has no signs of victory or defeat. This is definitely not what the cautious Zhuge Liang wants to see.
"Liang's side is not bad......" Shi Tao, who was also from Xiangyang Academy, sighed, and turned his head to look at Li Tong, the general of Pang Tong's side, if he remembered correctly, Li Tong had been attacked by Chen Zhi three times at night, losing a full one hundred and fifty troops, while Chen Zhi only paid a loss of thirty people.
Only once, Li Tong sacrificed the 'night attack ambush' operation, at that time, Xi Zhicai used the wooden plaque engraved with 'Ying' and 'Xiang' on both sides, and the result was 'Xiang' facing up. In this way, Xi Zhicai announced the failure of Chen Zhi's night attack. But. Chen Zhi only lost twenty troops, on the other hand, Li Tong, even if he saw through Chen Zhi's night attack, he also lost ten troops.
So far. I'm afraid that the students who were watching on the sidelines would have seen it. Hidden rules attached to Chen Zhi's body.
"In the absence of an ambush from the other side, the night attack will definitely succeed. The defender's losses are doubled; Otherwise, the wooden toss will determine the victory or defeat, and if the night attack fails. No rout perks have been added. After some contemplation, Cui Jun finally judged the hidden rules attached to Chen Zhi's body.
Indeed, just like the hidden trait of Zang Ba who does not appear to rout in a head-to-head confrontation, Chen Zhi has the trait that no matter whether he wins or loses during a night attack, which makes Chen Zhi the most terrifying surprise general in this game. It is no exaggeration to say that Chen Zhi is definitely the general that Guo Jia and Pang Tong hope to get the most, but unfortunately, Chen Zhi was just missed by Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, and even Guo Jia chose Zhang Huang, who fell in love with him, so that Chen Zhi, who had such strong rules, became a choice that Xun Yu did not choose. Unfortunately, Xun Yu is best at head-to-head royal warfare, rather than surprise attacks and other tricks.
Only Li Tong, the rules hidden in him have not yet been speculated by everyone.
But at the moment, this problem is not what the onlookers are more concerned about, what they are more concerned about is that the four 'generals' on the field, except for Zhang Huang, the other three seem to have abandoned their 'military advisors' and began to act independently, as if this competition is not a competition between the students of Yingchuan Academy and Xiangyang Academy, but a game of these former Guangling army sergeants.
"Continue to pursue Zhang Huangjun!" Ignoring Zhuge Liang in a hurry behind him, Zang Ba smiled evilly and began his actions in this round.
[This kid!] ]
Zhang Huang hated itchy, but he had no choice but to retreat backwards again. After all, he didn't want to consume too many troops before Guo Jia accepted it.
However, after seeing Zhang Huang's action card, Xi Zhicai smiled slightly, and said something that made Zhang Huang depressed: "Little Brother Zhang, you have retreated for eight rounds in a row, and the morale of the whole army has decreased. The morale reduction in your army has accumulated to five. If you don't find a way to change it, from the next turn, there will be 20 deserters in your army, and the action of the whole army will be halved. ”
"Huh?" Zhang Huang was stunned, you must know that compared to the 'morale punishment' of twenty deserters per round, halving the action power is the worst, which means that from the next round, Zang Ba can catch up every round, repeating the simple but practical tactic of forcing Zhang Huang to retreat from the scout battle, and it will not be the same as before, Zang Ba needs to use one round to chase Zhang Huang, and the second round can only sacrifice the killer trick of scout war.
[Despicable......]
Zhang Huang was stunned and glanced at Zang Ba, but saw that after this guy was stunned, the smile on his face became thicker.
[Chief, this is really going to destroy you......]
In addition to being proud, Zang Ba did not forget to sneer and glance at the military advisor Zhuge Liang behind him, and the meaning he wanted to express in his eyes was revealed: Look, I listened to your advice before, and I lost my troops, but now I am in charge of my own affairs, but I can win. So what's the use of you?
Zhuge Liang, who noticed Zang Ba's demonstrative eyes, even had his eyes slightly red, and his face was full of grievances.
The students on the side of Xiangyang Academy couldn't see it, and they opened their mouths to reprimand Zang Ba.
"Martial arts for self-serving!"
"If you don't listen to good advice, you will suffer a big loss!"
But these people just talk about it, after all, Zang Ba's advantage has become more and more obvious, and they don't need Zhuge Liang's good strategy at all. It is no exaggeration to say that if nothing happens, Zhuge Liang can be reduced to a bystander. But then again, if Zang Ba wins in this situation, I'm afraid that not only will there be no slightest increase in reputation for Xiangyang Academy, but it will be a heavy blow.
The people of Xiangyang Academy were busy squeezing Zang Ba, trying to force Zang Ba to obey Zhuge Liang's Jianyi. On the other hand, the students of Yingchuan Academy are savoring the words before Xi Zhicai. After all, before Xi Zhicai's mouth only said in general terms 'morale is reduced', but he did not disclose the specifics, but now, in Xi Zhicai's words reminding Zhang Huang, the specific amount of 'five' appeared.
[Could it be that the withdrawal of troops will lose morale?] But that Zhang Huang has been retreating for eight rounds in a row, if there is a punishment, why wasn't there before? ]
Xun Yu's younger brother Xun Chen was thinking in his mind. As the game got better, he couldn't help but be intrigued.
[Eight retreats, but only five demoralization.] This doesn't make sense. It was none other than three rounds in a row. Will there be a number of demoralized people accumulated? …… Wait a minute! Three? Speaking of which, that Zhang Huang seems to have just won three battles? By the way, his record with Zang Ba is one win and one draw in two battles, and one win and one win with Li Tong. In addition, Guo Fengxiao helped him hit Zang Ba and Li Tong hard in the way of water attack. Exactly three wins...... So it seems. The morale of the four armies was ten at the beginning, and the morale of the victorious ones was increased by one, and the morale of the defeated ones was subtracted by the morale of the defeated ones. Morale weakened to five, deserters appeared...... Hey! ]
While most of the people in the hall were still dizzy from the morale that Xi Zhicai said, the corners of Xun Chen's mouth raised a faint smile.
At the same time, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Guo Jia, Xun Yu and a small number of onlookers also captured important information from Xi Zhicai's words, and based on this, calculated the morale of the four armies.
Zhang Huangjun, morale five points, has already appeared deserters, and the mobility has been halved.
Zang Bajun, morale sixteen points.
Li Tongjun, morale nine points.
Chen arrived at the army, and the morale was eleven o'clock.
After calculation, the top strategists in the palace found that in addition to the difference in the morale of the army between Zhang Huang and Zang Ba, the difference between the morale of the army on the other side is not big, and the two points of morale, that is, the appearance of the victory or defeat of the two battles, are all from the wooden card in the hand of Xi Zhicai, in other words, Li Tong is just unlucky, in fact, the difference between him and Chen Zhi's strength is not big.
But despite this, Pang Tong, the military advisor on Li Tong's side, was still dissatisfied, and the more he looked at the small camp at Li Tong's feet, the more awkward he looked.
[At the beginning, it was called this camp building, this house was not built, and after three rounds of fighting, I couldn't attack the opponent's camp on the mountain, and this guy thought about building a camp again, but was attacked by the other party in vain. If you want to say that you build a camp, you will build a camp, where is it not good, you have to build it at the foot of the mountain, you are waiting for Na Chen to come and attack you at night, right? ]
Pang Tong stomped his feet and cursed in his heart.
In fact, speaking of which, Pang Tong didn't fail to understand Li Tong's thoughts, Li Tong just wanted to compete with Chen Zhi, but after finding that he couldn't attack the opponent's camp on the top of the mountain, he changed his tactics and became steady and steady. But because Li Tong hadn't listened to him for several rounds, Pang Tong hated more and more in his heart.
Not only Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong felt depressed, but Xun Yu was also helpless in his heart.
It's not that he didn't see the disadvantage of Zhang Huang's side, from the sixth round, Xun Yu 'built yì' Chen Zhi to leave half of his troops to guard the camp on the mountain, and split the other half to support Zhang Huang, after all, Zhang Huang was chased by Zang Ba and had lost eight rounds in a row, and it could almost be said that he was chased away by the wolf. If Chen Zhi could allocate half of his troops to support Zhang Huang, he would definitely be able to curb Zang Ba's momentum, but Chen Zhi was good, and he made it clear that he wanted to fight Li Tong to the death here. During the day, Li Tong attacked the camp, he responded to the battle, and at night he also went to attack Li Tong's station. Fortunately, the two sides decided the victory or defeat in the daytime camp battle by throwing wooden cards, and Li Tong had to let Xi Zhicai throw the word 'Xiang' twice in three times to capture the camp, otherwise, I am afraid that the camp has already been taken away by Li Tong.
As for the night attack, Xun Yu is relatively not worried, after all, Chen Zhi's additional rules are too strong in terms of surprise attacks, even if Li Tong is 'ambushed', he needs to lose the wooden card to determine the victory or defeat, otherwise he will definitely succeed. Moreover, even when the night attack failed, Xi Zhicai also revealed the rule of 'no additional rout'.
In general, Xun Yu is still more worried about Zhang Huang's side, after all, Zhang Huang's current situation can be said to be quite difficult, especially the emergence of 'deserters', so that Zang Ba can use this rule to gradually eat away at Zhang Huang's troops. The worst situation is that Zang Ba's army also annihilated Zhang Huang's army, and he himself can still have almost half of his troops left, that is, about 500 soldiers. Fatally, it would be an army of five hundred men with a morale of twenty. Even if Xi Zhicai has not revealed how the morale will be strengthened when it reaches twenty, Xun Yu can guess one or two in combination with common sense.
How can I make my generals obedient?
This is probably the answer that the other three military advisors except Guo Jia are most eager to know.
But it's not these three who should feel the most headache at the moment. It should be Guo Jiacai, after all, Zhang Huang, the general on his side, not only has only more than 400 troops left, but more importantly, his morale is only 5 points, while the Zang Bajun army chasing him has more than 600 people, and the morale is as high as 16 points. In general, it is impossible for Zhang Huang to win against Zang Ba. In other words, unless Zhang Huang can make any strange moves, he will definitely lose.
Finally, Zhang Huang retreated all the way to a forest on a huge map.
glanced at the position where Zhang Huang was standing. Guo Jia intentionally or unintentionally glanced at Zang Ba, who was proud of the spring breeze. Finally, I was dressed properly, and I took a pen and wrote a piece of Jianyì.
[Is Guo Bongxiao finally going to make a move?] ]
The students of Yingchuan Academy couldn't help but feel a pang in their hearts, especially those students who thought highly of themselves like Xun Chen, Xun Yue, Guo Tu, Feng Ji, etc., they couldn't wait to take a look. Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao, who are known as Yingchuan ghost talents. What kind of miracle strategy can reverse Zhang Huangjun's current absolute disadvantage. But there are also those who disagree. It's not that they look down on Guo Jia, but because Guo Jia also had a Zhenguan appearance a few rounds ago, as if he was ready to give advice to Zhang Huang. But as a result, Guo Jia shook his sleeves and asked the academy students around him to help him bring another pot of wine, and inadvertently tricked everyone.
But this time, Guo Jia seems to be real, and the building card he wrote has been handed over to a student of Yingchuan Academy who acted as a herald.
"Round 14, April 12th...... Begin. ”
As Xi Zhicai's voice sounded, Guo Jia's construction paper was handed over to Zhang Huang. Seeing the above line of words, Zhang Huang almost burst into tears, because since Guo Jia's dedication to the water to attack the strange strategy, aside from the first round of 'depending on the situation', this is only the second time he has really offered advice to Zhang Huang, look at Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Xun Yu, and write every round to build yì that is called a diligent.
However, when Zhang Huang saw the Zhang Jianyì clearly, he was immediately dumbfounded, because there were four big characters written on it: divide the army into seven three, and lead three to escape into the forest.
The implication is to ask Zhang Huang to divide the remaining more than 400 people into seventy percent, and only thirty percent to escape into the forest.
[What kind of building is this?] ]
Zhang Huang looked at Guo Jia in amazement, but found that Guo Jia was looking at him with a smile.
[Death is death!] It's a big deal, take off your coat and run around the hall......]
With a ruthless heart, Zhang Huang acted according to Guo Jia's proposal.
It didn't take long for Zhang Huang and the others to hand over the action card to Xi Zhicai, only to see him take a closer look at it, and said in a deep voice, "Zhang Huang's army's action force has been halved, and twenty deserters have appeared. Zang Bajun launched a scout war, did Zhang Huangjun fight? ”
"Don't fight!" Zhang Huang gritted his teeth and looked at Zang Ba with a wicked smile on his face.
"Zhang Huangjun chose to give up the scout war, the scout battle was defeated, the field was controlled by Zang Ba's army, and the military intelligence was obtained by Zang Ba's army!" After Xi Zhicai finished speaking, he came to Zang Ba and showed Zang Ba the building card that Guo Jia gave to Zhang Huang.
[What?] Still with the army division to build yì? ]
Zhang Huang was dumbfounded, because it was the first time that Guo Jia had offered advice to Zhang Huang since Zang Ba used the somewhat despicable killer trick of scout warfare against Zhang Huang, so Zhang Huang didn't know that the price of the failure of the scout battle was actually the leakage of the military advisor.
Even Zang Ba didn't expect that this would be an unexpected surprise for him.
[Hmm, I'll see...... Hey? Divide your troops and flee into the woods? So Guo Jia is capable of this? ]
Zang Ba glanced at Guo Jia very unexpectedly, and found that Guo Jia seemed to be a little stunned on his face.
[Hmm...... That Guo Jia is still a human being, and the disadvantage of the leader has reached this point, and he can't think of any way to come, so he can only run around and survive...... But this division of troops is a bit troublesome, forget it, let's chase the leader, as long as the leader's army is annihilated, it should be decided that I won......]
After thinking about it for a while, Zang Ba had already thought about the next round of action.
At this time, a sigh sounded among the students of Yingchuan Academy in the hall. Thinking about it, Guo Jia finally offered Zhang Huang a strategy, but he was intercepted by Zang Ba, so will Zang Ba still be tricked?
Many students sighed for a long time, because in their opinion, Guo Jia and Zhang Huang were doomed.
However, when the next round arrived, a striking turnaround occurred.
"Zang Bajun pursues Zhang Huangjun, Zhang Huangjun ......" After glancing at Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai's eyes showed a little surprise and appreciation, and he said in a deep voice, "Set fire to the forest!" ”
"What?" There was an uproar in the hall, you must know that not only Zang Ba was in the forest, but Zhang Huangjun was also in the forest, if this was set on fire, I am afraid that even Zhang Huangjun would have to lose most of it.
At this moment, I suddenly heard a student shout, "No! Zhang Huangjun had divided his troops before, and his losses were much less than those of Zang Bajun! ”
Everyone present was stunned, and after thinking about it carefully, they realized that this person was telling the truth.
At this time, I listened to Xi Zhicai and continued, "In addition, the more than 200 soldiers who were separated by Zhang Huang's army in the previous round attacked Zang Ba's army in the back. ”
"......" The entire hall was silent, only the sonorous voice of Xi Zhicai.
"The Zang Bajun and Zhang Huang armies were both attacked by fire, and they both reduced their morale by 100 soldiers, and the morale of the two armies was halved in the current round, and they returned to normal after breaking away from the sea of fire in the next round. At present, there are 550 people left in Zang Bajun's army, and 20 people in Zhang Huangjun's own team. Moreover, Zhang Huang's army counterattacked, and the front and rear encircled Zang Ba's army, and the morale of Zang Ba's army was halved again, and Zhang Huang's army was helped by reinforcements, and the morale was temporarily improved, and the two sides returned to normal in the next round. …… Before the battle, should Zang Bajun get down? ”
Zang Ba, who had a sluggish face, opened his mouth, and after a long time, he shook his head.
"Zang Bajun gave up fighting generals, and the morale of the whole army was temporarily reduced. The two armies are fighting...... Zang Ba's army was defeated, losing 90 soldiers, and had to withdraw from the forest in the next round. Zhang Huang's army lost 10 soldiers, the morale of the whole army improved, there were no more deserters, and the action force returned to normal. ”
Xi Zhicai's final verdict stunned everyone present.
After a long time, a student from Yingchuan asked in surprise, "Zang Ba...... Isn't there a rout in a head-to-head confrontation? ”
Xun Chen snorted coldly and said, "Stupid! …… Zang Ba is a head-on battle without a rout, and Fang Cai's obvious fire attack and ambush are all Qice, how can it be regarded as a head-to-head confrontation? ”
"But the morale of Zang Bajun is sixteen points, and Zhang Huangjun's morale is only five points......"
"Didn't you listen to what Xi Zhicai said, the fire attack, the morale of the Zang Ba army is halved, and the front and rear flanking attacks, the morale of the Zang Ba army is halved...... Although these are only temporary morale rises and falls in the current round, it can be calculated that Zang Ba's morale in this round is only four points, which is also added to the morale reduced by his abandonment of the fighting generals, and Zhang Huangjun's morale is halved and his morale is increased once, plus the morale of Zang Bajun's morale is reduced when the fighting generals, and the morale gap between the two sides is almost a little bit ......"
As soon as these words came out, the students who were puzzled suddenly realized. I was secretly shocked that Guo Jia was able to reverse the gap between sixteen points of morale and five points of morale.
However, future top strategists such as Pang Tong, Zhuge Liang, Xun Yu, Xi Zhicai, Xun Chen, etc., have seen more from it.
For example, the copy of the military division that was intercepted by Zang Ba in the previous round was deliberately leaked to Zang Ba by Guo Jia nine times out of ten, in order to let Zang Ba know the direction of Zhang Huang's escape and chase him into the forest, so that Guo Jia's fire attack in this round and the strange strategy of flanking before and after.
In just two rounds, Guo Jia greatly improved Zhang Huang's absolute disadvantage, and with the loss of 110 people, he exchanged the loss of 190 people from Zang Ba. If you add the characteristics of Zang Ba's rout in this round, Zhang Huang can also take advantage of the victory to pursue in the next round, completely reverse the disadvantage in terms of troops, and reach a level with Zang Ba in terms of troops.
In other words, in the next round, Zhang Huang is no longer afraid of Zang Ba using scout battles.
Strength, the most fundamental disadvantage of Zhang Huang's army, has been corrected by Guo Jia with only one strategy.
[This person...... He is really one of the geniuses in the world! ]
Even if it was Xun Shuang, Sima Hui, Pang Degong and other well-educated Confucians, looking at Guo Jia with a smile on his face at the moment, he also guessed that Zang Ba was completely calculated by Guo Jia, and he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, and secretly sighed that the future was terrifying. (To be continued......)