Chapter Eighty-Four: Hiding from the Sky and Crossing the Sea
Under the gaze of everyone, Cao Cao stroked his beard and smiled: "Actually, we have all fallen into conventional tactics and have fallen into a misunderstanding. The way to hide the yellow scarf does not necessarily have to avoid the eyes and ears of the other party, you can go out blatantly! ”
"And the only way is to rout, and only a rout of deserters will not attract the attention of the Yellow Turbans. Therefore, we can take advantage of the Yellow Turban's confidence in the Long Snake Formation to deceive the defeat, and then arrange in advance for reliable middle and low-level generals, deliberately lead a small number of soldiers to disperse and flee on the way to defeat, and meet in a place that the Yellow Turban will not explore several miles away. At this time, the Yellow Turban thieves will inevitably pursue our army, ignoring these small groups of deserters. As long as this is done several times, when there are enough soldiers, they will make a detour to the rear of Xihua, take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, and seize it in one fell swoop! Moreover, we can also use this deceit to retreat one after another, and then the Yellow Turban will definitely pursue it, and the farther away it lures, the higher the probability that we will capture Xihua City? ”
"Wonderful! That's a great plan! ”
As soon as Cao Cao's voice fell, and before he sat down again, Huangfu Song had already slapped the handsome case and jumped up. "Hahahaha...... Meng De's plan to 'hide from the sky and cross the sea', forgive the Yellow Turban thief will not be able to see through such a subtle tactic, the overall situation of this battle has been decided! ”
Zhu Jun, who was sitting on the right, was also smiling at the moment, and said loudly: "When the soldiers sneak out, we will implement the original plan of 'Ming Xiu Plank Road, Dark Chen Cang', the army is covering head-on, and making a posture of sworn decisive battle, but in fact, it is secretly detouring Liao Dice and Long S to write a master's plan, can the Yellow Turban be undefeated?" ”
The rest of the generals in the tent were also secretly impressed at this moment, and they were talking to each other, all of them with admiration!
Cao Cao saw that his plan was recognized by everyone, and his face was also happy, but he did not forget to have a good relationship with Yuan Shu, and said in a timely manner: "And at the last moment, my army can also use the other party's blind confidence in the long snake formation to break it in one fell swoop with the eagle soaring array of the highway, which will definitely make it cornered!" ”
Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, Yuan Shu, who was secretly sulking, was also happy, and laughed loudly.
"Good! Now that this plan has been decided, the generals will report to the officials today that they will be able to lead their troops to flee when they return to their headquarters. At five o'clock tomorrow, the point will ascend to the altar, and we must complete the plan to hide from the sky and cross the sea within five days, and completely pacify the yellow turbans of Chen Guo and Runan County! As Huangfu Song slapped the handsome case and gave the order, the generals also stood up excitedly, and they all surrendered their orders!
In the early morning of the second day, the resolute Huangfu Song issued a series of orders.
The army that attacked Xihua was led by Zhu Jun as the main general, with Sima Zhang Chao of other departments as the strategist, and accompanied by Bao Hong, the captain of the Tun cavalry, Gai Sheng, the captain of the Yue cavalry, and Sima Fu Xie, the commander of the three battalions of knights in Hexi, Hedong, and Hebei, Xia Can, Liu Meng, and Hu Guang, a total of six senior generals. It is also a selection of excellent generals in the middle and low ranks of the generals, and this lineup has shown how much attention Huangfu Song attaches to the attack on Xihua. is also because there are enough candidates, so Wang Xu's private collection of two young generals who have gradually become famous is also open one eye, and close one eye and let it go!
On the side of the camp, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were responsible for the training of the Eagle Xiang Formation, and the former Yangzhou Thorn History, which was the first to recommend Sun Jian, was in charge of the affairs of the camp, and the rest of the generals, including Wang Xu, were personally led by Huangfu Song and dealt with the main force of the Yellow Turban.
At three o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, Wang Xu fought a beautiful defeat under the leadership of Huangfu Song, and was killed by the Yellow Turban, scattered the flags, lost his armor, and! But in fact, Wang Xu didn't do anything, he kept hiding behind, so he didn't want to fight this kind of. Anyway, when Huangfu Song yelled and retreated, he turned around and fled with his own troops as quickly as possible, of course, he still made the illusion of defeat very carefully.
In the process of the Yellow Turban's pursuit, taking advantage of the cover of chaos, the generals who had been prepared in advance also immediately fled with their soldiers and horses. And the Yellow Turban Army really didn't suspect it, they only thought that it was just a defeat and fled, and ignored it at all.
In this way, before chasing all the way to the camp, the Yellow Turbans did not collect troops. It wasn't until Zang Min, Cao Cao and others saw that the situation was not good, and they pressed the formation with bows and crossbows in the camp that they had to stop. Because he was worried that the imperial court army and horses were not pouring out of the nest and the formation would be stable, he did not dare to attack, and slowly retreated in the wild laughter of victory!
Of course, the generals are equally happy. The yellow turban seems to be fierce, but because the army retreated in a planned way and made some protection faintly, the casualties were not large. It's just that this practice is extremely puzzling to the soldiers, and their morale has decreased. But what is even more gratifying is that the first batch of men and horses have successfully escaped under the leadership of Zhu Jun and Sima Zhang Chao of other departments. Therefore, the price paid was worth it, and Cao Cao's plan to hide from the sky and cross the sea finally unfolded slowly......
In the next five days, Huangfu Song led the army to change all kinds of inexplicable formation-breaking methods to fight five times in a row, and the result was, of course, defeated by the long snake formation one by one. And the battalion also retreated one after another, and it had retreated dozens of miles in four days, and Zhang Lie chased for dozens of miles!
However, the generals gradually held back a bad breath in their hearts, although they knew that this was a lure to the enemy, but they were chased and beaten like this every day, scolded! I still have to pretend to be panicked and run away, and the feeling is really unbearable.
Even Wang Xu was extremely depressed, he had shown his prominence in the previous wars and his prestige had long made Zhang Lie extremely suspicious. In the past two days, it is estimated that he has figured out the situation, as long as he is seen from a distance, that Zhang Lie is a curse, and the language is extremely unbearable, which is much more vicious than scolding Yuan Shao. Fortunately, most of the words were not understood by others, otherwise Wang Xu really didn't know if he could bear it.
But apart from him, the most unlucky one was Sun Jian. Because he has the highest martial arts, he is good at leading soldiers. Therefore, he was the one who rushed to the front of the army, he was the one who was scolded the most, and then he was the one who was ordered to run last! Moreover, he was also strictly ordered by Huangfu Song to interpret the rout well, and he could neither be too weak nor too strong.
This made him not an ordinary grievance, and from the next day onwards, he went around looking for generals to ask for a temporary change. But no matter who it was, when they heard that they were going to do this for him, they all shook their heads again and again, either their stomachs suddenly felt uncomfortable, or their heads suddenly became a little dizzy!
Wang Xu hid even more far away, because since Sun Jian heard that he had two fierce generals under Cao Cao, and then thought that he was also brave and witty, he was entangled all day long. Scare Wang Xu half to death and hide in Tibet! went to question Cao Cao, but the people just spread their hands and said a word with an innocent face, and completely blocked Wang Xu's mouth.
"Every time you go into battle, you retreat to the rear, and when you retreat, you rush to the front. All the generals in the army are extremely dissatisfied with you, and they all agree that Wentai's grievances should be directed at you, what can I do? ”