Chapter Ninety-Five: Cao's Clever Plan

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Ten minutes later, all the generals of the Qin army above the rank of lieutenant all gathered in the main hall of the Chu Palace, but even if you count Meng Tian and Li Xin, there are only ten people left, Qin Shi Huang's gaze swept over everyone's faces, and said: "Tonight, the widow decided to help General Meng retrieve the bones of the old general Meng Wu, do you have any objections?" โ€

Everyone present clasped their fists at the same time and said, "We have no objections." โ€

"Very well, then....... Cao Cao immediately stood up and said, 'King Qin, can you hand it over to me to command next?' โ€

Qin Shi Huang nodded and stepped aside, Cao Cao stood in the position of the main general, took out a stack of arrows, looked at the Chu army camp map on the desk and stared for a while, and then ordered one after another, issued from his mouth in an orderly manner.

"Captain Li, I will give you 800 soldiers, wait for half an hour, take advantage of the night to lead the army to attack the right wing camp of the Chu army, remember to only use bows and arrows to disturb, if the Chu army out of the camp to pursue, you immediately lead the army to retreat, if the Chu army withdraws, you continue to attack, let the soldiers spread more rumors, just say that you have 30,000 people, the more powerful the momentum for me, the better."

"The last general commands."

"Adjutant General Sun, I will give you 3,000 soldiers, wait for Captain Li to do a quarter of an hour (fifteen minutes), you lead the army to storm the camp in front of the Chu army, remember that it is a fierce attack, after more than half of the casualties of the soldiers, withdraw to Yingcheng by yourself, do not continue to attack, and do not need to say much at the time of the battle, just attack, in addition, take the wine and oil in the city, and sprinkle it in the camp of the Chu army when the battle is fought."

"The last general commands."

"Captain Sun, I will give you 2,000 soldiers, after Vice General Sun is in the same hands, you attack at the same time, at the beginning of the attack and harassment, wait for the enemy to leave the camp, immediately retreat, and then the same task as Captain Li, let the soldiers spread rumors, just say that you have 10,000 people, remember, the Chu army out of the camp, you will retreat, the Chu army will return to the camp, you will continue to attack and harass, so three times, you will take all the soldiers to attack, without my order is not allowed to retreat, also bring good wine and oil, sprinkled in the Chu army's camp."

"The last general commands."

"Adjutant General Zhang, I will give you 5,000 soldiers, and after the two battalions on the left and left of the Chu army are attacked by our army, you will immediately lead your troops to attack, and you will not be allowed to retreat without my order, and you will also bring good wine and oil, and when you fight, you will sprinkle it in the camp of the Chu army."

"The last general commands."

"Captain Wang, you take three thousand crossbowmen, arrange the rockets, when the three battalions of soldiers and horses retreat, immediately ten thousand arrows are fired, all the bows and arrows must be shot into the Chu army camp tent, then the Chu army camp will be a sea of fire, and at that time, Cao Cao's eyes looked at Li Xindao: "General Li, I will give you 4,000 cavalry, 6,000 foot soldiers, and rush back and forth in the Chu army camp, without my order, you will always fight to the death." โ€

The one-armed Li Xin bowed his head and said: "The last general will take the order." โ€

"Finally....... Cao Cao looked at Meng Tian and said, "But seeing that the Chu camp is in flames, you can do what you want to do." โ€

Meng Tian said with joy on his face: "The last general will take the order." โ€

"The rest of the soldiers, follow the old man to defend Yingcheng, I expect that the Chu army will come to attack tonight."

"No!"

After arranging everything, everyone went down to prepare, only Cao Cao, Huang Xiaowei and Qin Shihuang stayed in the main hall, although Huang Xiaowei did not understand the art of war, but judging from the old man's arrangement just now, this is to play a fire attack, Huang Xiaowei pushed Cao Cao and said: "Lao Cao, there are two sons, I said that you are about to catch up with Zhuge Liang, how about it, is this fire in the past Chu army was almost burned?" โ€

Cao Cao glanced at him and said angrily: "What do you think of marching and fighting, and you burned hundreds of thousands of people with a fire, if it was really that simple, Lao Tzu would have ruled the world." โ€

"Then dare to ask what is the situation with Chibi?"

"Ah...... He's ...... As soon as he heard Huang Xiaowei mention Chibi, Cao Cao was a little embarrassed and said: "Can the situation at that time be the same as now, my 200,000 troops are all northerners, riding horses is okay, and the calves are over by boat, and they are all dizzy, plus the wind direction was not right at that time, a little fire can burn a few of my warships, and there are few soldiers who can swim, and there are no longer a few people who drown, but you look at now, there are no woods near the camp of the Chu army, and there is no suitable wind direction, which I light a fire is at most to cause a little chaos, If I can burn thousands of people, I have to burn high incense. โ€

Huang Xiaowei said leisurely: "You said that you were always burned by others before, and now if you want to burn it once, others won't get it, hey, Lao Cao, don't say it, you really have a relationship with fire." โ€

Cao Cao said angrily: "There is a fart fate, just like Liu Da'er has not been burned." โ€

Qin Shi Huang did not participate in the nonsense between Huang Xiaowei and Cao Cao, because at this moment he has been completely convinced by Cao Cao, amazing, this is too powerful, Qin Shi Huang only regarded Cao Cao as a friend before, and he didn't care about other people's previous achievements at all, tsk, now it seems that except for Huang Xiaowei's waste, the rest of the family are the top talents of a certain era, especially Lao Cao, a great strategic and tactical talent, who can be both a military advisor and a lord, really responded to that sentence, the capable minister who governs the world, the hero of the troubled times, Don't look at what Cao Cao said before, if you can burn thousands of people, you have to burn high incense, according to Qin Shi Huang, the Chu army will definitely lose tens of thousands of people tonight, so that the pressure on Yingcheng can also be reduced a lot.

Qin Shi Huang opened his mouth and said: "Lao Cao, do you think that according to your method, what is the probability that General Meng will be able to bring back the corpse of General Meng Wu alive?" โ€

Cao Cao's eyes dimmed, and he sighed: "I'm afraid, it's less than thirty percent......."

Huang Xiaowei and Qin Shi Huang were shocked when they heard this answer, less than thirty percent, this is ...... It's too low, isn't it?,Co-authoring or going to die?

Cao Cao explained: "My previous strategy is mainly to attack and create chaos, after all, Xiang Yan has more than 300,000 troops under his command, and it is easy for General Meng to take advantage of the chaos to lead people to rush in, but if you want to quit, it will be difficult, all I can do for him is to buy time, but according to my estimates, even if the fire burns, they will be extinguished in half an hour at most, that is to say, ......."

Qin Shi Huang clenched his fists and said, "That is to say, General Meng only has one hour. โ€

Yes, Cao Cao said in a low voice: "I have done everything I can, and then it depends on this student." โ€

........

At one o'clock in the morning in the camp of the Chu army, several flying insects surrounded the burning bonfire, enjoying the dazzling light and scorching temperature of the flame, they worshiped the flame, that kind of light, isn't it what they have been pursuing all their lives, but even the weak flying insects know that if they get too close to this tempting flame, they will be burned to ashes, but the desire in their hearts eats away at what little reason they have left, and finally they have a pilgrim-like mood, and they fly into the bonfire feverishly, and then turn into ashes...... This scene caught Li Shimin's eyes.

"Moths to the fire, moths to the fire, how can people not be like this, Li Shimin looked at Meng Wu's head hanging on the banner from afar and whispered: "Meng Tian, the light you want This king has been prepared for you, now it depends on whether you have the courage to break in." โ€

Li Shimin sat outside the big tent of the Chinese army, in addition to Xiang Yanyu, Wen Chengdu and others, dozens of crossbowmen were also ambushed, as for the surrounding camp tents, the arrow that was accidentally exposed by the handle had already exposed the existence of ambushes, but it didn't matter, as long as Meng Tian dared to lead the army to rush into the big tent of the Chinese army, then he would be like his father, becoming a hedgehog full of sharp arrows.

Looking at the Chu army in the distance who was dozing off, or simply sitting on the ground and sleeping, Li Shimin's mood became more and more excited, soon, soon, this time is the time when people are most sleepy and tired, and it is also the best time for a sneak attack, tonight Xiang Yan except for the 50,000 troops transferred from the rear army to ambush, everything else is normal, no preparations have been made at all, and even the number and position of the standing guard are exactly the same as usual, and they do not deliberately create a scene of the emptiness of the camp and the exhaustion of the sergeants, because then the fool can see that there is an ambush, it's not good to scare away the fat that comes to your mouth.

Li Shimin looked at Li Yuanba, who was lying on the side and was asleep, and just wanted to wake him up, when suddenly a loud shout of killing came from the right front, Li Shimin heard the sound of fighting, and stood up from the ground excitedly, coming, he really came, Xiang Yan and Yuwen Chengdu and other generals heard the killing shouts, and opened the camp curtain one by one and said eagerly: 'What's the matter, is Meng Tian killed?' โ€

As he spoke, a Chu sergeant hurriedly ran from afar, knelt down on one knee and said, "Report, General Qiyu, the right battalion has been attacked by the Qin army." โ€

Xiang Yan was overjoyed and said: "It's a good time, order Wei Wentong to put up a slight resistance and let the Qin army enter the camp, and quickly go to inform Brother Yang, let him lead the army to attack Yingcheng immediately, in addition, all the soldiers of the Chinese army, follow me to meet Meng Tian."

"No."

Everyone clutched the weapons in their hands tightly, stared ahead, waiting for the moment when Meng Tian appeared, and listened to the report of the soldiers, saying that there were at least 30,000 Qin troops on the right flank, but unfortunately, not all, it didn't matter, 30,000 was 30,000, no matter how thin the flies were, they were also meaty, but ....... Five minutes passed........ Ten minutes have passed, and the soldiers in ambush of the Chu army, from being full of energy just now, to being bored now, put down their weapons one by one, and looked at them strangely, why hasn't this Qin army come yet?

Xiang Yan was a little impatient, and said in a loud voice: "Come on, go and show the general what tricks Wei Wentong is playing, didn't he tell him to let the Qin army in after a slight resistance?" โ€

Damn, don't think that you are Yang Lin's person, Lao Tzu will not dare to clean you up, Xiang Yan thought secretly in his heart