Chapter 50: Strategic Intent to Float in the Water

PS: I mixed up the words of Sun Jian and Chen Gong, a low-level mistake, and it has now been revised.

"I thought of it!"

Shan Fu suddenly exclaimed, which made Lu Min, Zhang Huang and others, who were sitting around the bonfire eating a big pot of rice, startled. The most outrageous thing is probably Li Tong, who trembled all over, and was so frightened that he directly pasted the soup bowl in his hand on his left eye, and after a miserable howl, this guy covered his eyes and rolled back and forth on the ground.

"What did Master Strategist think?" Tai Shi Ci glanced at Li Tong, who was rolling on the ground with some pity, and asked with some curiosity.

His words aroused the curiosity in everyone's hearts, after all, since the afternoon, Shan Fu has been contemplative from beginning to end, turning a blind eye to the outside world, even if Zhang Huang and others call him a perfunctory nod, which makes everyone want to know what he is thinking.

As for Li Tong, who was rolling on the ground while wailing in pain, he had long been forgotten by everyone at this moment. Anyway, this guy belongs to the category of people with thick skin and thick meat, how can a mere bowl of broth knock down this strong soldier who killed 100 people in Dongshishan and killed 50 people in Shuangshixia.

Facing everyone's eager eyes, Shan Fu smiled mysteriously, and immediately raised his thumb and praised: "Old man's good move!" General Yang makes a big move! ”

[Old man?] ]

Tai Shi Ci glanced at Zang Ba thoughtfully, everyone knew that the old man in Shan Fu's mouth was referring to Zang Ba's uncle Zang Min, but the problem was that Shan Fu was obviously commenting on the Guangling Army's strategic and tactical mistakes a few days ago, how could this suddenly change his tone?

Besides, the sentence 'General Yang's high move', a few hours ago, he scolded General Yang Qi, and the enemy is not the one who is making a faint move?

Not surprisingly, the eyes of Lu Min, Zang Ba, Chen Dao, and Tai Shici looking at Shan Fu became quite strange.

"Ahem!" Shan Fu, who noticed everyone's strange gaze, couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, coughed twice and said, "Isn't that that still unaware of the clever plan made by the old man and General Yang!" ”

"Brilliant idea?" Lu Min's eyes were full of doubts.

"Exactly!" Shan Fu straightened his expression, lowered his voice and said, "I don't know if you have noticed that the battle situation of our army in the past two days can almost be said to be losing and retreating, and it has fallen for thousands ......of miles."

Chen Zhi rolled his eyes when he heard this, and said angrily, "Do you still need to be reminded of this?" We have eyes and can see! ”

"Then have you noticed that although our army is retreating, our troops have not lost much?"

"Huh?" Uncle Lu Min is worthy of being an experienced low-level military attache who leads the team, and he couldn't help but move when he heard this.

"Let's talk about the loss of our First Army for the time being, we are the main force in the Linjiang Plain, so we lost more than 600 people, but we also got back at least more than 1,000 rebels; In the Battle of Dongshishan, although that Chen Qi did not wait to see us, in any case, we also killed more than 600 rebels in the 26th tent, and I heard that General Yang Qi also sent troops to attack the rebels in those days, although he did not succeed, but he did not suffer losses; Not to mention the battle of Shuangshi Gorge, we blocked tens of thousands of rebels for three hours with 500 people alone...... The battles fought these days were all defeats in which our First Army was not defeated, and if the number of troops killed on both sides was calculated, the rebels were far above our army, but the result was that our army was defeated and retreated, giving up more than 100 miles...... Don't you think there's something strange about that? ”

"Isn't it because of the deterrence of the total strength of the rebels?" Zang Ba asked thoughtfully.

"That's just one of the points." Shan Fu glanced at Zang Ba, lowered his voice and continued, "I heard that the old man dealt with the rebels eight years ago, and I don't believe that the imposing old man was easily driven to a dead end by the rebels just because of his ability. Compared with this conclusion, I am more inclined to another guess, that is, the old man deliberately gave up this land......"

"To the rebels?" Chen Zhi, who lacked strategic talent, exclaimed in surprise, and whispered with a shocked face, "Could it be that the old man is a ...... on the rebel side?"

"Shut up, you!" Shan Fu interrupted Chen Dao's words angrily, sometimes he was really puzzled, wondering what was in this guy's head, so that he couldn't even think of such an obvious thing.

"Show the enemy weakness and lure the enemy deeper?" Zhang Huang thought about it and said the guess in everyone's hearts.

"In a word!" Shan Fu nodded, and calmly analyzed, "The rebels have many warships, so the old man gave up the water war, and the battle in the Linjiang Plain, according to my guess, was just trying to make the rebels change their tactics of fast attack, which I explained a few days ago." The old man wanted to delay, he wanted to delay the date of the decisive battle between the two armies as much as possible. ”

"You know again?" Li Tong finally relented, and glared at Shan Fu viciously with his red left eye.

"It's not hard to guess, with the information I've been searching for in the past few days, I can roughly draw conclusions." Shan Fu shook his head and said in a deep voice, "The foundation of the rebels is in Huiji, and the reason why they were able to conquer almost the entire Wu County in just half a month was because of the fast attack tactics. There are many families in Wu County, and the four major families of 'Yu, Wei, Gu, and Lu' hold their bull's ears, and the government does not have the prestige of these local wealthy families in Wu County. Most of the rebels knew about this, so they launched a quick attack, attacking before the four great families learned of it. It can be said that the four great families lost because they did not have a leader in the true sense, so the rebels only needed to divide their forces to attack these four major families, and they could easily muddy the entire Wu County, and then take it into their pockets. ”

"......" Lu Min looked at Shan Fu with some surprise, he was very surprised that a soldier under his command had such a far-sighted vision, you must know that there are some things that even he can't figure out.

"Now the problem is ......" Shan Fu continued, looking at everyone, "Although the rebels' quick attack tactics have been effective in Wu County, they have not necessarily done anything in the Guangling army. Although the battle on the Linjiang Plain advocated by the old man seems unnecessary, it is actually a deliberate awakening of the rebels: The reason why you and others were able to take Wu County was because the four major families of Wu County were caught off guard, but I, Guangling, have already taken precautions, and besides, even when your army will land on the river bank knows it clearly...... Therefore, the rebels had to change the tactics of the quick attack, because they had just taken a Wu county, although the morale was like a rainbow, but their troops would eventually be limited, if the Guangling army was not prepared, they could naturally follow the tactics of attacking Wu County, and since the Guangling county had been on guard, it was impossible for them not to slow down the pace of the attack, and the main purpose was to restore the physical strength of the corporal under their command. ”

"I see." Lu Min nodded suddenly, remembering that after listening to Shan Fu's judgment before, he still had some doubts in his heart, but now listening to Shan Fu's detailed explanation, he finally understood, and understood why the rebels would obediently follow the strategic steps of the old assassin Shi Zangmin, the reason is very simple, the rebel soldiers no longer have much body, and no rebel general will be stupid enough to be greedy for merit after the warning of the Guangling Army in the Linjiang Plain.

"This is a conspiracy, not by the rebels!" Shan Fu praised it slightly, and then continued, "Sure enough, the rebels chose a steady tactic of pressing step by step, but this exposed another fatal point for them, that is, grain and grass!" Soldiers can march in a hurry, but it is difficult for the army carrying grain and grass to do so. It took less than half a month for the rebels to take the entire Wu County, and then quickly attacked Guangling, to say that the rebels' grain and grass can always supply the ground, I don't believe it! ”

At this time, Zang Ba raised an objection.

"I don't agree with what the military advisor said, but I don't dare to agree with this. A while ago, my brothers and I spent a few days in Dongshi Mountain, and General Yang Qi also took the opportunity to send troops to attack the rebels, but the general of the rebels on the opposite side, Gong Yu, obviously had 10,000 troops, but he did not move, and let General Yang Qi provoke and fight, until I got 26 accounts to be driven out by the wolf of the Min people, and he waved his army to force the army camp, what does this mean? It shows that he is a very careful person, and I don't believe that such a careful person would venture in the case of insufficient supply of grain and grass. ”

"I'm not talking about the lack of food and grass for the rebels." Shan Fu glanced at Zang Ba who was singing against him with some surprise, and was secretly surprised that Zang Ba's talent in strategy was far from being comparable to that of a reckless man like Chen Zhi, so he patiently explained, "Xuan Gao, think carefully about the route of the rebels transporting grain and grass. As a reminder, in less than ten days, the distance traveled by the rebels to transport grain and grass has increased by more than 100 miles, and there is still such a steep terrain as Shuangshi Gorge......"

Zang Ba was shocked when he heard this, and muttered, "What the military advisor means is that the purpose of the old man's family is ......."

"Cut off its grain route!" With a heavy wave of his hand, Shan Fu said in a low tone, "More likely, the old man still has an elite army that has not yet appeared, waiting for the rebels to enter the range of my Guangling County." Don't forget, the closer the rebels are to Guangling, the farther they are from Huiji, and the more difficult it is to transport grain and grass. If you think about General Yang Qi's stupid move today, he obviously told me to wait for three hours after the break, but in the end he ordered his soldiers to cut down trees by the river and build a camp...... This is not the judgment of a general! Moreover, before the defeat of our army at Pinqiao, General Yang Qi personally cut off the back, and it is said that he forcibly cut down Pinqiao in order to prevent the rebels from crossing the river......"

"Is there anything to do with these things?" The more Chen listened, the more confused he became.

Shan Fu glanced at Chen Zhi with some disdain, and asked rhetorically, "At that time, our army had been defeated, and the rebels' forced crossing of the river was a foregone conclusion. Speaking of this, he paused, and the old god asserted on the ground, "In my opinion, cutting off the Pin Bridge is the real purpose of General Yang Qi!" He wanted to keep the rebels in a cage less than thirty miles from Luzhuang to Pinqiao. If nothing else, this is the burial place of the rebel general Gong Yu! ”

"Danyang soldiers?" Casually throwing a branch into the bonfire, Zhang Huang said in a tone that did not seem to be questioning.

"Exactly!" Shan Fu nodded heavily, and said excitedly, "The old man once revealed that the Danyang elite soldiers would come to help, but the battle has been going on for nearly half a month, and the Danyang elite soldiers have been delayed. Nine times out of ten, the old man plans to ask this Danyang soldier to intervene in the battlefield at the most critical time, and the rebels will be broken in a battle! ”

Listening to the soldiers under his command commenting on the strategic matters of this battle, Uncle Lu Min was stunned.

[These little ghosts...... What exactly is sacred? This kind of military secret, which even the generals such as partial generals and generals may not be revealed, can they even guess it by themselves through the observations of the past few days? If it's just a lie, it's fine, but if they really guess it, then ......]

Lu Min left under the pretext of washing the dishes, and before leaving, he glanced at the minions who were still arguing with great interest, and in a trance, he felt that these boys seemed to have changed into generals in red robes.

[Unbelievable...... I think I, Lu Min, is also known as the Tiger of Hailing, but in front of these boys, I have an illusion that I can't do it...... Scold! ]

Lu Min smiled bitterly and shook his head, and as soon as he turned around, he suddenly saw that General Chen Qi was standing not far from them at some point, looking at them with a cloudy face.

[Did he hear that?] Conversation with the boys......]

Lu Min was slightly frightened, took a few steps quickly, and clasped his fists.

"General Chen Qi!"

"......" Chen Qi's gaze towards Lu Min was still cold, but his eyes when he looked at Zhang Huang and the others were vaguely inexplicable in the coldness.

"Chen just went to see the general, and the general ordered something. You are a soldier under Chen, you may attack at any time, get ready! Chen Qi said coldly.

"Sortie?" Lu Min's expression was slightly surprised.

I saw Chen Qi glance at Zhang Huang, Shan Fu, Zang Ba and others who were still talking, and nodded very rarely, but his tone was still indifferent.

"Well, it's time to fight back...... I hope you can wash away the impression of a 'deserter' in the general's mind in this battle, Lu Min Dubo! ”

"Yes......" For some reason, Lu Min was not angry because of that deserter, on the contrary, his face showed a little bitterness and repentance.

Suddenly, Lu Min raised his head abruptly and looked at Chen Qi in dismay.

"Dubo?"

It's a pity that Chen Qi has already turned around and left, which makes Lu Min, the former uncle who was promoted, inexplicably complicated.

At the same time, in the temporary camp of the rebels near Pinqiao, the general Gong Yu looked at the march map in his hand with a solemn expression in the tent, and a somewhat bitter smile appeared on his lips.

"It's been put on the table...... Yang Qi, an unknown guy...... Yours is it! ”

"General, what's wrong?" Several generals from the side saw that the main general's face was different, and asked suspiciously.

However, Gong Yu ignored them, only to see his eyes narrowed, and he muttered, "I thought it was just a lucky guy who was lucky enough to sit on the coach's lieutenant general, but I didn't expect it to be so insidious under the seemingly bright surface...... I wondered, how could the waste wood from the current enemy who was still thinking about cutting down trees and building camps could sit in the position of the commander's lieutenant...... I see, I see! ”

"General? Checkmate? ”

"Zang Min is an old fox, and Yang Qi is also very cunning! Blunder...... was deceived by Yang Qi's house, but ...... Our army hasn't lost yet! ”

Speaking of this, Gong Yu raised his head suddenly, his eyes flashed, and he snorted coldly.

"As long as Guangling is captured, every conspiracy and conspiracy will be a blank slate! General Ben wants to see how Lu Zhuang, which is only guarded by more than 2,000 soldiers, can stop my 10,000 elite soldiers! Pass the order and attack Luzhuang immediately! ”

"Huh?" The generals on the left and right looked at each other and said in surprise, "Sending troops at night? General, why don't you wait until tomorrow? ”

"Wait? Can our army afford to wait? Gong Yu's expression was cold, and he shouted without anger, "Wait any longer, my 10,000 elite soldiers will be served in a pot because of the front and back attacks!" ”

“……”

Seeing the frost on Gong Yu's face, the generals on the left and right didn't dare to make a sound, they couldn't figure out why the chief general, who was still kind and pleasant half a day ago, suddenly changed his expression.