As the saying goes, soldiers are like water, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and when the two armies face each other, it is necessary to "make a temple calculation" before the battle, but this "temple calculation" can only calculate at most the various situations that may arise in the war, and at the same time formulate a corresponding general strategy in view of these situations.

Therefore, before the war, Wen Chou and Sun Jian did not set any specific countermeasures for the possibility that Xu Rong, Hu Zhen, and Lu Bu might rush to the aid of Taigu, but only discussed a general strategy of "first breaking Xu, Hu, and Lü, and then attacking Taigu".

Sun Jian frowned and said: "Now what I am worried about, Xu and Lu are fast, and Hu Zhen is slow, Xu Rong and Hu Zhen may arrive at the same time." ”

Hu Zhen is close to Taigu, Xu Rong and Lu Bu are far away from Taigu, normally speaking, even if he comes to help Taigu, it must be Hu Zhen who arrives first, and Xu Rong and Lu Bu come later. If this is the case, Wen Chou and Sun Jian can take advantage of this time difference to arrange a battle, for example: first concentrate their forces to defeat Hu Zhen, and then deal with Xu Rong and Lu Bu. If so, the battle will be easier

But the current situation is: Lu Bu unexpectedly arrived first, as soon as Lu Bu arrived, Xu Rong was not far away, in other words, that is to say, Xu Rong and Lu Bu's marching speed exceeded Wen Chou and Sun Jian's expectations, but Hu Zhen, who should have arrived first, was so slow that he did not arrive.

This is where a variable arises. In this way, Hu Zhen and Xu Rong may arrive at the same time. Indeed, as Sun Jian said, if this situation occurs, the battle will indeed be difficult to fight. In fact, Wen Chou and Sun Jian also discussed this situation before the war.

At that time, two responses were decided. One is to set up an ambush and send reinforcements. Xu Rong and Lu Bu's reinforcement is not easy to fight, because the direction they came from is in Taigu Guanbei, and Hu Zhen's reinforcement is relatively easy to fight, so you can find a suitable place. Set up an ambush and beat Hu Zhen severely. The other is to attack the east and the west, or Ke Yunzhi's "encirclement of Wei to save Zhao".

If Hu Zhen comes to help, there will be fewer defenders left in Yique and Guangcheng, and they can be divided into a partial division and rush to Yique or Guangcheng. pretended to attack, so that Hu Zhen did not know where to stay. If Hu Zhen goes, of course it is very good, if he stays, first, he can turn the feint attack on Yique and Guangcheng into a real attack, and secondly, even if he still attacks Taigu, Hu Zhen will not have much will to fight because of his thoughts of Yique and Guangcheng.

Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages. All in all. The strategic policy of Wen Chou and Sun firmly can be divided into two layers.

The first one is to first fight the reinforcements of Hu Zhen, Xu Rong and Lu Bu, and after defeating these two reinforcements, then besiege Taigu, which has no help. The second one is to fight Hu Zhen, Xu Rong and Lu Bu in the two reinforcements, choose Hu Zhen as the main direction of attack, no matter whether Hu Zhen arrives early, or he arrives with Xu Rong, he will be beaten first and defeated along the way. Then concentrate on fighting Xu Rong and Lu Bu.

Sun Jian looked at the map for a while and said, "Okay." Just do what you and I have deployed earlier! ”

After the plan was set, Wen Chou and Sun Jian sent scouts and horses to explore Hu Zhen's movements, and at the same time looked for a suitable ambush place in the west of Taigu Pass. There are several mountains in the east and west of Dagu Pass, with undulating peaks and ravines. Ambushes can be placed in the mountains.

Wen Chou and Sun Jian thought that Hu Zhenzhi would come to march quickly and to avoid an ambush, he would definitely not choose the road in the valley, and eight times out of ten he would come along the official road.

The official road is unobstructed. It's not easy to set up an ambush. In the end, the two chose a hill not too far from the official road as an ambush place. Wen Chou picked out 3,000 elite soldiers, and when Hu Zhen was about to arrive, he ambushed these 3,000 elite soldiers on the mountain in advance, but these 3,000 elite soldiers were not the main force to attack the enemy, but the main force was cavalry.

The mountain is small, there are not many people in ambush, and 3,000 people are already in the sky, and only these 3,000 armor soldiers will not be able to annihilate Hu Zhen's department, so Wen Chou and Sun Jian are preparing to use these 3,000 people to ambush the mountain just to use them to entangle Hu Zhen, and finally use cavalry to fight a decisive battle with Hu Zhen.

The cavalry is fast, and it can ambush a little farther, as long as these three thousand armor soldiers can drag Hu Zhen, it doesn't take too long, half an hour, an hour is enough, with this time, the cavalry can gallop in.

After choosing the ambush point and setting up the tactics of annihilating Hu Zhen, Wen and Sun waited for Hu Zhenzhi to come. The information came from the direction of Yique and Guangcheng in a hurry, first Hu Zhen completed the transfer of troops, and then Hu Zhen personally commanded the troops out of the customs, and a day and a half later, then Hu Zhen's soldiers and horses had passed Guangcheng, and after Guangcheng, it was not far from Taigu.

In order not to make Hu Zhen suspicious, Sun Jian specially issued an order, ordering the detachment he had sent to Yique and Guangcheng Pass earlier not to chase Hu Zhen too close, but not to ignore it far away, -- if he chased too closely, Hu Zhen would definitely be very careful, and if he ignored it completely, then Hu Zhen would definitely be suspicious, and maybe he would suspect that there was an ambush ahead, so it was most appropriate to be not far from Hu Zhen.

In the afternoon of this day, after hearing the news that Hu Zhen's troops had passed Guangcheng, Wen Chou sent the pre-selected 3,000 armor soldiers to the camp, and ordered them to immediately go to the hill to ambush, and at the same time, Wen Chou and Sun Jian selected the elite cavalry again, still a total of 3,000 cavalry, ready to leave the camp.

Wen Chou sent 3,000 armor soldiers to ambush the hill, and he chose Wen Ba as his general. Li Dian, who was left in front of the tent by him as an official, hurriedly returned to his tent after hearing the news that Wenba had received a military order and was about to leave the camp, took off the clothes of the scribes, took the armor and put it on, put it on neatly, and hung the sword that Wen Chou had given him before to his waist, and hurriedly returned to Wen Chou's tent with a spear, and asked to see him outside.

The battle of Hu Zhen is very important, if it goes well, it will be much easier to attack Taigu Pass, so there are now ministers Bi Ji in the Wen Chou account, and the military generals Yunhui, and there are no less than twenty or thirty people in the tent.

Everyone was discussing and speculating about what the victory or defeat of Hu Zhen would be this time, and Dian Wei came in from outside to report: "Li Dian asks to see." Everyone knew that Dian Wei was extremely trustworthy, so when Dian Wei came in, they all paused their conversations, and after listening to Dian Wei, they saw that it was an insignificant trivial matter, and some people continued what they had just said and started to discuss it again.

Wen Chou was also talking to Tian Feng, Tian Chou and others who were sitting around him, when he heard that Li Dian asked to see him, he said in his heart: "When the battle is about to begin, Li Dian suddenly comes to ask for a meeting, this must be a war coming." "For the word," called him in. ”

Li Dian got permission and strode in from outside the tent. He was fully armored, with a sword and spear at his waist, and he walked around, and he was vigorous. Such as Tian Feng and others, it is common for him to dress as a clerk, and it is rare to see him in a samurai attire. Guo Jiaton, who was sitting on the left side of Wen Chou, couldn't help but praise: "What a tiger!" (To be continued.) )