Since Sun Jian decided that he would not hand over the heirloom jade seal, he was unwilling to spend money to buy the road. If you spend money to buy a road, it seems that Sun Jian is a little weak-hearted, wouldn't he not be self-defeating. Therefore, Sun Jian continued to be tough and wanted to fight Dong Shouye again.

However, now Sun Jian's strength is not as good as Dong Shouye, if he chooses to fight hard, he will definitely suffer. If you can't fight hard, you can only outwit.

The art of war is cloudy: all those who fight, with the right fit, with the odd victory. It means to fight in a regular form, and to win in a form different from the norm. It is usually used when one side has an advantage and the other side is relatively weak, and then the weak party can only defeat the strong with the weak by making a clever move.

Now the shape between Dong Shouye and Sun Jian is like this, Dong Shouye has more soldiers and horses than Sun Jian, and he is stronger, so he chooses to face Sun Jian with upright soldiers, and if Sun Jian also chooses a head-on decisive battle, then defeat is almost a certainty, unless Dong Shouye's brain suddenly breaks down and makes an irreparable mistake, otherwise Sun Jian's chance of defeating Dong Shouye is very small. At this time, Sun Jian wanted to turn things around, and he could only turn the tide by setting up a strange plot.

The problem faced by Sun Jian is that his combat style has always been straightforward, hard-hitting, and he has hard-nosed tactics, and he is surrounded by fierce generals who are good at charging into battle, and there are no wise men. The only two civil official roles, one is Yingchuan Taishou Li Min, and the other is Sun Jian's Changshi Gong Hatred.

But now these two people don't exist anymore, Changshi Gong said that he was beheaded by Zhang Liaozhen, the general of the Western Liang Army, and Li Min, the Taishou of Yingchuan, was captured by Xu Huang, the general of the Western Liang Army, and was later beheaded to show the public. There is a saying that it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and Sun Jian doesn't even have a resourceful person around him, so how can he set up a clever plan?

Fortunately, Sun Jian has also fought on the battlefield for many years, has rich experience, and is also a little witty, he has never eaten pork, can he still see a pig run?

After weighing it again, Sun Jian chose a night attack.

Night raids are the only way to defeat the strong with the weak, but there is also a very big risk, because almost all ancient people had night blindness, and they were almost blind in the dark night, let alone send troops to fight.

Although the risk is large, the effect is large, and it is a typical small investment with high returns.

The key to a night attack is to be sudden and hidden.

If the plan of the night attack is discovered by the enemy in advance and takes precautions, it can only be self-inflicted humiliation and loss of troops, so it is necessary to take it by surprise and make the enemy defenseless; In the night attack, it is necessary to pay attention to concealment, and not to be discovered by the enemy before running to the enemy's camp gate, which can only be a waste of previous achievements.

The general practice is to wrap the horses in a cloth to minimize the noise caused by the horses, and at the same time prohibit the soldiers from making loud noises and casual conversations.

In addition, try to march in the dark, light fewer torches, or even no torches, to reduce the light, and the most eye-catching thing in the middle of the night is definitely the light source.

Since Sun Jian decided to attack Dong Shouye, he must first paralyze the other party, so that the other party can relax his vigilance and slacken his defense, so Sun Jian sent a messenger to meet Dong Shouye.

With Sun Jian's "sincerity", the messenger came to Dong Shouye's camp.

Dong Shouye didn't stop him, he immediately let people in, and after seeing the visitor, Dong Shouye asked: "Your lord asked you to come, what is the so-called matter?" ”

The messenger saluted Dong Shouye, and then said, "Back to General Dong, my lord sent me here to discuss the matter of borrowing grain and grass from the two sides before. ”

Dong Shouye pretended to be surprised, and then continued to ask: "In this way, your father-in-law agreed to borrow grain, what do you say?" ”

The messenger replied: "Our army still has a month of grain and grass, about 20,000 stones, and my lord said that the two families have a good relationship, and he is willing to give 10,000 yuan to General Dong, and he will not have to repay it in the future." I just ask General Dong to make way for our army to return to Yuzhou, my lord is currently suffering from an old illness and urgently needs to return to Yuzhou to recuperate. ”

When Dong Shouye heard that Sun Jian had a physical problem, he suddenly came to his senses and continued to ask: "Uncle Sun has always been strong, but I didn't expect it to suddenly fall ill, it's really surprising!" Our military budget is still insufficient, has Uncle Sun ever mentioned that he is willing to borrow some of my military funds to tide over the difficulties? ”

The messenger shook his head and said: "At the time of parting, my lord once instructed that the army is now short of money, it is really difficult to borrow it, as for the matter of three thousand soldiers, our army is all from Yuzhou, since Luyang joined the army, it has been a year since the war was abroad, I miss my hometown very much, and it is normal for people to want to return to their homeland, and I hope that General Dong can understand and not embarrass our army." ”

There is a saying: ask for a price all over the sky, and sit on the ground to pay back. Sun Jian's purpose in sending the messenger was to bargain with Dong Shouye, so as to paralyze Dong Shouye. After all, Dong Shouye's conditions are very harsh, it is difficult for anyone to accept, bargaining is normal, if he agrees, it will be suspicious.

Dong Shouye lowered his head and thought for a while, and then said: "This matter still needs to be discussed with the generals, and there is a messenger to tell your father-in-law, and this son will send someone to reply tomorrow." ”

When the messenger heard this, he didn't say much, and after leaving Dong Shouye's camp, he returned to his own military camp and reported to Sun Jian the details of his meeting with Dong Shouye. After Sun Jian listened, he felt that Dong Shouye believed in the conditions he said, so he ordered to secretly prepare for tonight's attack on the camp.

After Dong Shouye waved away Sun Jian's messenger, Jia Xu and the others walked out from behind the big tent.

Jia Xu first said: "Son, this is Sun Jian's plan to delay the army, according to Jia's opinion, Sun Jian is very likely to come to attack the camp tonight." ”

Dong Shouye nodded and said: "People say that Sun Wentai is resolute and heroic, and he is broad and strange, how can such a character compromise with others and submit to others. Once this kind of person identifies a goal, he will bite it and will not change it lightly. Something is abnormal, it seems that Sun Wentai is indeed ill-intentioned. ”

Xu Huang next to him heard this and said: "Marshal, since you already suspect that Sun Jian has other plans, how should our army deal with it." ”

Dong Shouye replied: "Big brother, the younger brother hasn't thought about this matter yet. Although he wanted to take some people from Sun Jian's body, he didn't want him to lose too much. ”

Xu Huang was puzzled: "Why is this why our army wants Sun Jian to be an enemy of life and death, and it makes sense to be able to wipe out the other party's entire army." How could the marshal not want to let the other side lose too much? ”

It stands to reason that the two armies are at war and put each other to death, but Dong Shouye chose to let the opponent go, which made Xu Huang very puzzled, but didn't he know that raising tigers was a problem?