Chapter 536: The East Wind Rises
In Wulin Village, Liu Ze was also convening the strategists to discuss and arrange the decisive battle.
The Chinese army hurriedly entered the account and said to Liu Zeyu: "Lord Qiqi, Jiangdong Huang Gai sent a letter." As he spoke, he presented the letter.
Liu Ze had already calculated that Zhou Yu should have taken action in the past two days, and while he was thinking about it, Huang Gai sent someone to send a letter, which was as he expected. Liu Ze opened the letter and wrote: "Zhou Yu is well prepared, so there is no way to get out, tomorrow Chaisang has military rations arrived, Zhou Yu has sent a certain patrol to escort the river, and it has been convenient." After the third watch tomorrow, a certain will lead a grain ship to vote, and the ship will be planted with green flags, with the lights as the number, that is, the yellow cover will also arrive. ”
"Good, good at it!" Liu Ze stroked his palms and laughed.
Jia Xu took the letter and looked at it, and said with a little doubt: "After tomorrow is the winter solstice, the cathode and the yang solstice, the ministers look at the west wind gradually declining these days, the winter solstice or fear that the east wind is blowing, Huang Gai came to vote at this time, there are many strange things, the lord must be careful of his deception." ”
Liu Ze smiled and said: "It's not just strange, this time Huang Gai is coming, what grain ships are there, and on those ships, it is clear that there must be some sulfur flames and nitrate to ignite the fire, Zhou Yu wants to take advantage of the east wind to blow strongly, and put a good fire on the Chibi River." ”
Everyone present was shocked, and Chen Deng said: "Since the lord already knows Zhou Yu's scheme, why do you want to allow Huang Gai to surrender?" Why don't you send a navy to intercept Huang Gai in the middle of the river, and don't let him get close to the water village? ”
Liu Ze smiled indifferently and said: "Since Zhou Yu wants to burn Chibi, I will do what he wants, why should I stop him?" ”
Chen Deng was puzzled and said: "If Huang Gai leads the fireboat into the water village, once it is ignited. Our warships are connected, how can we avoid it? If the east wind blows, the wind helps the fire, and the fire borrows the power of the wind, not only the water village, but also the dry village, will not our army be in a catastrophe? ”
Jia Xu squinted his eyes half-squinted, and said with a whisker: "The lord is planning, and the ministers have already understood it for seven or eight points, so bold and open-minded is really something that our ministers and other ministers dare not think." Willing between. It's really a big deal, a big deal! ”
Liu Ze smiled slightly and said, "I didn't reveal half of it before, but I didn't want to hide it from you. In fact, the success or failure of this plan is not up to me alone. Since the confrontation with the Soochow against Chibi. The Soochow camp used all their tricks, full of tricks, and a discordant plan made Cai Mao and Zhang Yun's heads fall to the ground. Second, the grass boat borrowed arrows and took away 100,000 arrows from our army. To deal with Zhou Yu, I only used one plan - I will plan it! Pang Tong offered a series of schemes, iron cables, seemingly perfect, but there are endless hidden dangers, once encountering a fire attack, it is completely self-defeating. How can these little tricks be hidden from me, I am just pushing the boat with the current. The Yangtze River is wide, although our army is brave and brave, but it is useless, the Jiangdong Navy is strong, if Zhuge Liang's plan to divide the river and rule, our army is almost impossible to take an inch of land in the south of the Yangtze River. Zhou Yu is self-assured and self-serving, and does not use Zhuge Liang's tactics to vainly attempt to fight a decisive battle with our army on the Yangtze River, which is exactly what I want. If you want to win against Zhou Yu, you must lure him ashore and invite you into the urn. If you want to lure them ashore, you must set up incense bait, and if you don't have a big bait, you can't catch a big fish. Zhou Yu wanted to burn Chibi, so I fulfilled his wish, swallowed the hook, and then wanted to spit it out, but it may not be so easy. ”
Xu Shu arched his hand and said: "The lord is really a great wisdom, but just like this, but he has to sacrifice the entire Jingzhou naval army, even if our army can win, it will be a tragic victory." ”
Liu Zedao: "The combat power of the Jingzhou Navy is far from the Jiangdong Navy Army, if the water war alone, there is no possibility of victory, Zhou Yu's appetite is very big, not only only only want to destroy the Jingzhou Navy Army, but think about the whale swallowing Jingxiang Nine Counties, the Jingzhou Navy is a chicken rib, it is useless to stay, it is better to be a bait to lure the enemy." What's more, what was burned this time will only be those warships that are connected together, some time ago, I had already ordered Gan Ning to arrange a retreat channel, just wait for the water village to catch fire, 70,000 sailors can all be evacuated from the safe passage, as long as there are people, it is not difficult to reorganize the navy, just a few thousand ships, it will take a year or two, it is enough to build again. ”
Chen Dengxi said: "The lord is far-sighted, and he has already understood a qiē, but it is ridiculous that Zhou Yu is like a clown jumping off the beam, jumping up and down, making any bitter tricks, deception, painstaking, but I don't know that a qiē is already expected by the lord, the magic is one foot high, the road is one foot high, and Zhou Yu has exhausted all his organs, and he can't escape the number of defeats." ”
Liu Ze said to Xu Shu: "Yuan Zhi, you immediately send a message to Yide Feige, and ask him to lead the third army to set off immediately, and be sure to rush to the foot of Jutie Mountain at three o'clock in the morning on the winter solstice." "Xu Shu was a member of the Third Army, but after Liu Ze's army marched to Wulin, Xu Shu was not stationed in Yicheng with the Third Army, but was recruited by Liu Ze to be a staff officer in the Chinese Army.
Xu Shu took the order and retreated, and went down to make arrangements.
Chen Deng said with some concern: "Lord, the thunder cavalry led by the three generals is still in Yicheng, eight hundred miles away, at the moment, and there are only less than two days, can you reach Jutie Mountain on time?" "The speed of the archers is beyond doubt, if the light cavalry is transferred from eight hundred miles away, Chen Deng has no doubts, but the thunder cavalry is a heavy cavalry, and the men and horses are covered with heavy armor, and the speed of the long-distance march is naturally greatly reduced, and he arrived in Wulin within two days, and Chen Deng felt very hanging.
Liu Ze smiled slightly, the mysterious Cheng of the Lei Cavalry is not only external, but also internally, as long as he is not a member of the Third Legion, he is really not familiar with the Lei Cavalry. At the beginning of the establishment of the army, Liu Ze had a very high requirement for the thunder cavalry, not only to be invincible on the battlefield, but also to be fast and mobile in terms of marching speed, with a speed no less than that of light cavalry.
In order to achieve this purpose, Liu Ze specially created a set of thunder cavalry long-range battlefield projection system, each heavy cavalry division of the Third Army Corps, not only equipped with sweat and blood horses for combat, but also equipped with transport horses and carriages according to the ratio of war horses and logistics horses to one. In this way, when marching, the thunder horse is completely free of burden like the light horse, and the quality of the sweat and blood horse is completely superior to that of the northland horse, so the thunder horse is completely faster than the light horse on long-distance travel. Secondly, the horses used for transportation are not chosen casually, in order not to drag the hind legs of the thunder rider, the cart and horse are also one in a hundred, and only those horses who are good at long strength and fast feet can be competent.
This set of long-range thunder horse delivery system greatly guarantees the combat ability of the thunder horse, and as a secret weapon, it is completely unknown to outsiders, Liu Ze deployed the thunder horse in Yicheng, just to give Zhou Yu an illusion, so that he feels that the thunder horse is impossible to invest in the battle of Chibi no matter what, without the threat of the thunder horse, Zhou Yu also dared to cross the river boldly to attack. Zhou Yu calculated everything, how could he never have calculated that these heavy armored cavalry would fall from the sky, for Zhou Yu, it would be a complete nightmare.
As for the choice of Jutie Mountain as the main battlefield, Liu Ze is after field survey, Jutie Mountain is in front of a continuous mountain on the left, a remnant swamp of Gu Yunze on the right, only a flat road less than two miles wide can lead to Jutie Mountain, this road is more than ten miles long, although the mountains on the left are not very tall, but there are cliffs everywhere, it is extremely difficult to climb, the swamp on the right is a nightmare, once the foot rider falls into the Zhize, there is no hope of survival. As long as the thunder horses are deployed in front of Jutie Mountain, even if there are thousands of troops and horses, they will only be crushed.
Liu Ze carefully chose this place as the place of the decisive battle, which can give full play to the strengths of the thunder cavalry, no matter how many Jiangdong soldiers come, in the face of the invincible thunder cavalry, it will be vulnerable, and the narrow road makes it almost impossible for the Jiangdong soldiers to escape.
As for whether Zhou Yu will be recruited, Liu Ze is not worried, he set up the grain and grass camp in Jutie Mountain, which is a huge temptation for Zhou Yu, Cao Cao attacked Yuan Shao's granary in Wuchao and won the victory in the battle of Guandu, why didn't Zhou Yu want to replicate this victory. As long as the war broke out, Liu Ze himself took the initiative to lead the army to retreat to Jutie Mountain, and Zhou Yu was anxious for quick success, why wouldn't he take the bait?
Liu Ze quickly issued a battle order, after the water village was burned, Gan Ning should lead the army to immediately withdraw from the safe passage, assemble on the north bank, and be protected by Guan Yu and the second army corps, and retreat in the direction of Hengsangkou. In order to avoid the phenomenon of crowding and silting up the village during the retreat, Liu Ze asked Gan Ning to organize the evacuation of the water army after receiving the military order, but in order to confuse the Jiangdong army, at least about one-third of the sailors must be retained in the water village, and then completely evacuate after the fire started. Due to the poor land combat capability of the naval army, in the process of retreating to Hengsangkou, Guan Yu's second army will be escorted to avoid being pursued and annihilated by the Jiangdong army.
Liu Ze also ordered Zhao Yun to lead the 1st and 7th Cavalry Divisions to ambush in Hanyangchuan, and after Zhou Yu's defeat was defeated, he was killed. Xu Rong of Baqiu left a division to guard Baqiu, and led a division along the south bank of the Yangtze River to attack the Chibi military camp in Eastern Wu. The rest of the generals and staff officers set off with the Chinese army, and when the fire broke out, they retreated to Jutie Mountain as soon as possible.
In the end, Liu Ze called Pan Feng again, told him about his face, and told him carefully again and again, Pan Feng did not dare to slack off, and took the order to go down to arrange.
By the evening of the second day, the Jingjun people had already arranged for Anbi, waiting for orders. At the second watch, I saw the banner of King Jing, which was lying there silently, raised its horns, and the ghost made it float to the northwest direction.
"The east wind is rising-" I don't know who shouted, but looking at the flags in the Jing military camp, all of them were hula-la-la, and the wind was blowing, and the flags were all hunting and waving in the wind. (To be continued......)