Chapter 424
"The northwest wind is very urgent" is actually just the first half of a code sentence, and the second half of the sentence is "It is advisable to sail to the east." ”
Once Xu Huang received the news from Zhang Jun, it meant that Fuyu's trip was carried out according to the predetermined plan, and Xu Huang would lead the main force to leave the danger, secretly detour north to the vicinity of Gaoxian, and then enter the territory of Xuansu from the passage secretly left by the Fuyu, and then suddenly appeared under the city of Xiangping, giving Gongsun Du a black tiger to dig out his heart.
In order to achieve such a large-scale campaign maneuver, Xu Huang faced three problems.
First, the danger of going to Gaoxian, the road is hundreds of miles away, how to ensure that tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are not detected by the sentinels sent by Gongsun Du on the way to the march, is the premise of this maneuver. After all, there is a limit to what Zhang Jun can do in the territory of Fuyu Kingdom, and the next thing is at most to respond on the border of Xuansu, and other things need to be planned and arranged by Xu Huang, the main general.
Second, if Xu Huang leads the main force to leave the danger, there will not be too many troops in the area of more than 200 miles from the Great Liaoshui to the eastern foothills of Yiwulu Mountain, and there will not be too many troops to contain the tens of thousands of troops deployed by Gongsun Du on the east bank of the Great Liaoshui.
Third, how to coordinate operations with the main forces of Xian Yuyin stationed in Xinchang on the Eastern Front, and avoid the main forces of the east and west fighting separately, which will not only delay the fighters, but also greatly increase the losses of troops.
Although there were many difficulties, Xu Huang was not an ordinary general after all, and after some thought, he came up with a perfect coping strategy.
Xu Huang gave an order to Sun Li, who was stationed without worries, to lead the remaining Dragon and Tiger Guard soldiers to escort thousands of Xianbei captives to the danger, and then deliberately exposed some flaws before they were about to reach the danger, stirring up trouble among the Xianbei captives and luring them to resist and escape. Wait until Sun Li lets go of these Xianbei captives. Xu Huang feigned anger, so he led his army to arrest the escaped Xianbei captives, while Sun Li took advantage of the situation to prevent the danger of desecrating the city.
From the worry-free road to the dangerous road, the south is the vast Bohai Sea, the east is Xu Huang's main force, the west is the sad place of the Xianbei people, Yiwu Lu Mountain, and only the north is their hometown. Therefore, after the Xianbei captives were deliberately let go by Sun Li, they would definitely flee north, and Xu Huang just drove the troops to the north in the name of chasing the Xianbei captives. But it will not arouse Gongsun Du's suspicion.
As for the temporary absence of soldiers in Wuwu City after Sun Li left, it was not a problem. Although Xu Huang didn't really want to capture the escaped Xianbei people, as long as he led his troops to advance north, the Xianbei people who had just escaped would definitely tell the tribes they saw along the road about the hardships they had suffered, and as long as the leaders of these tribes did not have a problem with their brains, they would never take the clansmen to pick up the bargains, but fled as far as they could to the north before Xu Huang's army arrived.
Xu Huang only used this one strategy. The first two problems were successfully solved, and as for how to get in touch with Xian Yuyin in the direction of Xinchang, Xu Huang was not stumped. Xu Huang asked his soldiers to make tens of thousands of models of sea ships about one foot long out of waste wood, and carved "two people and one boat" on both sides of the sea boats. It can cross the Liaoshui. If the double sun rises, it will break the peace. Sixteen words, and then in front of countless defenders on the east bank of the Great Liao River, a grotesque form of prayer ceremony was held. The soldiers then had the soldiers drop the boats into the water and make them flow southward, eventually into the vast Bohai Sea.
When the soldiers of Gongsun Du on the other side of the river saw the soldiers of Liaoxi on the other bank holding this strange ceremony. Naturally, they were very nervous, and thought that they were going to force the Great Liao River next, but it turned out to be a false alarm. After Xu Huang asked the soldiers to throw the small wooden boat engraved with words into the water, he returned to the danger with the troops, and there was no intention of crossing the river at all. The officers and men of the Liaodong Naval Division cruising in the Great Liao Water hurriedly scooped up some small wooden boats to check what Xu Huang had done, but they only saw sixteen inexplicable words.
The commander of the sailor in charge of patrolling the river did not dare to hide this matter, and hurriedly reported to Gongsun Du in Xiangping City, and after Gongsun Du learned about it, he covered his stomach and laughed and said: "Haha, it's really ridiculous, Xu Huang didn't have a big boat to cross the river, so he came up with this way to pray to the sky for the big boat to help his soldiers cross the river!" What 'two people in a boat', how small must such a boat be, and can transport tens of thousands of soldiers and horses across the river? If there is a double sun, when will there be two suns in this sky? Ha ha...... If this method works, then I will immediately pray to the heavens and let God send me 100,000 elite cavalry, and Xu Huang's troops can be solved in one day! ”
The staff around Gongsun Du also felt that Xu Huang's move was really absurd, and he really couldn't see any effect.
A few days later, an even happier thing came from the dangerous direction.
"Haha......, good you Xu Huang, I only pretended to be a ghost on the bank of the Liaoshui River a few days ago, and retribution will follow immediately! Thousands of Xianbei captives have all run away, now it's up to you to explain to Liu Shiren! Tsk, that's thousands of Xianbei people with hands and feet, selling them to those wealthy manors south of the Yellow River, to say the least, you can earn millions of copper coins. ”
When Gongsun Du was having nothing to do, Xu Huang, who was "annoyed and angry", had already chased north with more than 10,000 light horses, and Sun Li, who made a "big mistake", was severely punished by Xu Huang in public, and then drove into the dangerous city with his troops in a gloomy manner, leaving behind in place of Xu Huang.
Two bold subordinates under the command of Gongsun Du suggested that Gongsun Du take advantage of Xu Huang's main force to chase the Xianbei prisoners to cross the river and sneak attack, Gongsun Du was a little moved, so he sent Liu Yi to lead 5,000 soldiers to cross the Great Liao River on a sailor boat at night, and launched a night attack on the danger.
Sun Li, who was waiting for work, commanded the Dragon and Tiger Guard infantry to unceremoniously launch a counterattack on Liu Yi and the troops he brought, and as a result, ten thousand lanterns were lit together at the head of the city, and Liu Yi was almost shot at the front door by the random arrows at the head of the city, so frightened that the goods quickly withdrew to the east bank with the soldiers.
Liu Yi returned to Xiangping to complain to Gongsun Du, saying that there were clearly tens of thousands of troops stationed in the dangerous city, and Xu Huang must have deliberately set up a bureau to wait for Liaodong to drill. Gongsun Du comforted Liu Yi and no longer dared to fight the idea of desecrating the city in Hexi.
A few days later, Gongsun Du received news from Xuansu's side, the lord of Fuyu sent 30,000 warriors to enter Xuansu County, Han Qi, who was stationed on the knee horse, and Gongsun Mo, who was stationed in Gaoxian, had handed over the two cities to Fuyu to garrison according to Gongsun Du's previous order, and they led 10,000 soldiers to Wangping and Liaoyang respectively to further strengthen the defense line west of Xiangping and on the east bank of the Great Liaoshui.
However, it is said that after Xu Huang let tens of thousands of small wooden boats be thrown into the Great Liao River, because these wooden boats are not sinkable in the water and always float on the water, and at this time the northwest wind has begun to blow on the surface of the Bohai Sea, so when these wooden boats drift into the Bohai Sea from the mouth of the Liao River, they are blown by the northwest wind in the direction of the Liaodong Peninsula. Many of these wooden boats surged up the coastline west of Anshi, Wenxian and Pingguo with the waves, and the sentries who were responsible for watching the movements of the Liaodong Naval Division found a strange symbol on the bottom of each wooden boat that only the intelligence personnel on the periphery of the Jicheng Command Office would recognize, and they were surprised to quickly scoop up a few wooden boats and send them back to Anshi, where Xian Yuyin was stationed.
After Xian Yuyin received the wooden boat sent by the spies, he looked over and over again, but he couldn't see the mystery in it. If he were to be a different kind of stubborn commander, he might have asked his subordinates to throw these small wooden boats into the stove as firewood, but Xian Yuyin was not such a person, and his intuition told him that these wooden boats with similar appearances, contact symbols and clear words engraved on them had a mystery.
Since Xian Yuyin couldn't understand it, he immediately sent someone to Xinchang City with the wooden boat stationed by Li Ru in the starry night, so that Li Ru, a resourceful man, could crack the secret on the small wooden boat.
After Li Ru got the small wooden boat, he also attached great importance to it, he copied the sixteen characters engraved horizontally on the wooden boat on the white paper, wrote it vertically, wrote it horizontally, and wrote it twice horizontally and vertically.
Li Ru pondered while writing.
"Two people in a boat...... Two people, that is, two people...... Stacking the word 'two' and the word 'person' together, it can be written as the word 'day', or it can be written as the word 'husband', or it can be written as the word 'jie', and the word 'benevolence' ......"
Looking at the words "Tian", "Fu", "Jie" and "Ren" that had just been written on the paper, Li Ru's eyebrows were tightly locked, and his mind kept thinking and associating.
Suddenly, Li Ru's eyes lit up, and he seemed to have found a clue.
"If the word 'husband' is understood as the husband and the rest of the people, then can the two people in a boat be understood as our people and the husband and the rest of the people have already been on the same boat?"
Li Ru asked himself questions and turned his gaze to the marching map hanging on the wall.
"The Fuyu people are in the north of Xuansu County, and between them and Xianbei in Liaodong is the Liaoshui in the north-south direction as the boundary, if Xu Huang leads the army to make a detour to the north, drive the Xianbei people west of Liaoshui to the north, and then cross the Liaoshui from the river controlled by the Fuyu people, they can break into Xuansu County from the north, and then quickly penetrate Xiangping City...... Well, such an analysis can stand up, and it is completely consistent with the literal meaning of 'two people and one boat, but they can cross the Liaoshui'. So how to understand the following two sentences? ”
"If the double sun rises, it will break the peace...... Sojitz can also be understood as a heavy day...... Heavy ,...... The Double Ninth Day ......, the ninth day of September, and now it is the end of August, and there are still ten days to go before the ninth day of September......"
Thinking of this, Li Ru's mind suddenly became clear, and he said to himself: "Hehe, I understand!" This is an important signal released by the friendly forces on the western side of Liaoxi to our army, they have secretly made contact with the Fuyu people, and there is a way to cross the Liaoshui smoothly, and prepare to attack Xiangping from the direction of Xuansu County around the ninth day of the ninth month of September, so a large number of wooden boats were released into the sea, and the wind and sea were transmitted to our side, informing us to prepare early and act at the same time with them! ”
"Come on, quickly send a message to General Xian Yu, ask him to return to Xinchang immediately, this army division has a major military situation to discuss with him!" (To be continued......)