The trap must be formed from the periphery and then silently surrounded like a large net, so that the prey can be successfully locked on without alarming the prey, and by the time the prey finds something wrong, it is already too late.

"Can't you hide? If you were Cao Cao and wanted to successfully hunt our army, what would you do? ”

Fang Zhiwen didn't seem to be in a hurry, but patiently pondered the matter itself, and seemed to be interested in the matter. p> "If it is a subordinate, there will be no trap set up here at all, the location of the trap should be near the city, at least there is an undefeated preparation before you can fight for victory."

Fang Zhiwen smiled, although Guo Jia's personality is full of opportunities, he has never been an adventurous person, war is a collision of strength and wisdom, not gambling.

"Why don't you set traps in the wild?"

"Lord, there is a possibility that any plan will be countered by the other party, just like fighting, there is also a chance to reduce the defense when swinging a fist, and the opponent will take the opportunity to break it."

"Hehe, didn't you say that offense is the best defense?"

"That's wishful thinking, the offensive can indeed tie in the strength, so as to limit the enemy's offensive power, but the offensive defense is also inevitable, if the enemy makes full use of this, it can form an effective counterattack, and then it may be because the forces are scattered, and form a local extremely unfavorable situation, in other words, the initiative offensive itself is a movement war, the movement war is beneficial to the more mobile side, the more mobile side. Undoubtedly us. ”

So, Bonghyo's idea was to set traps around the city. Limit and weaken the effectiveness of our attacks, and look for opportunities to complete the encirclement and annihilation. ”

"Well, the closer you are to the city, the less obvious the weakness of the slow movement of the infantry, Cao Cao wants to surprise the infantry and transport the infantry, which is strange enough, but the possibility of being countered has also greatly increased. Cao Cao, this is too underestimated, the lord. ”

Fang Zhiwen smiled and nodded, but Guo Jia was expressionless, a little not harmonious

"Then what do you think is the opportunity?"

"There are many opportunities, such as choosing to find an opportunity here to annihilate the troops of Cao's army that have already left the city, or you can also try to attack the city and induce the enemy army to move to find an opportunity for annihilation, or from the perspective of Cao's troops that have already been dispatched. Perhaps the city's defenses are quite flawed. ”

"City? How dare you think about it! Cao Cao has not yet reached the time of desperate betting, although Cao Cao likes to take risks, but he does not have the kind of desperate madness. Every commander is bound to be swayed by his personality in the end, and this cannot be changed. ”

"So, how is the lord going to choose? Annihilated enemy troops, or"

"What about Bonghyo's suggestion?"

"My subordinates suggest attacking the city."

"Oh? That's it.1

Cao Jun is like a big net. With the passage of time, it is slowly becoming more and more dense, netting Fang Zhiwen's cavalry in it.

In fact, Cao Jun moved according to a predetermined direction and speed of movement, although it was fine-tuned during the period. However, the general process is almost all going on according to Cao Cao's vision, if this Cao Cao is Cao Cao's own deity. Presumably the current mood must be very complicated, on the one hand, there is the excitement of about to defeat Fang Zhiwen, and on the other hand, there is naturally the worry of Fang Zhiwen's accumulation.

However, now Cao Cao is calmly commanding his troops, carefully calculating every possible factor and variable, vowing to encircle Fang Zhiwen's slippery cavalry in a net.

"Tell the lord that the enemy army continues to move eastward, ten miles from the chariot formation1

"The formation of the chariots remained motionless, urging the heavy infantry to arrive as soon as possible1

"No1

"Reporting to the Lord, the cavalry of Xiahoudun's army began to turn to the northeast as planned, and had broken away from contact with the enemy1

"Order Xu Chu's troops to increase their speed and compress the enemy's guerrilla forces towards this team! Xiahou Yuan's cavalry troops were ordered to go southeast to Aisu, and to block the only retreat to the southeast after two moments1

"No1

"Lejin reported that the forward army of heavy infantry had reached the predetermined position1

"Very good, what about Cao Chun's position?"

"General Cao Chun has not reported yet, according to the previous battle report, General Cao Chun will arrive at the designated place in a moment to standby."

"Lord, the net has basically been formed, Fang Zhiwen has now become a caged bird, even if he can fight again, it is impossible to escape from the encirclement without damage."

"That's right, now there is only a gap left in the southeast of the car formation, if Fang Zhiwen really breaks through there, our army can completely annihilate the enemy."

"It's not easy to achieve this, it's too obvious to push the enemy there, the enemy is not so easy to be fooled."

Cao Cao looked at Xun You and Xi Zhicai, shook his head and said: "The real is false, the virtual is real, the more obvious it is, the easier it is for Fang Zhiwen to be deceived, because he is a smart person and always thinks more than others." ”

Although Cao Cao said it confidently, this kind of thing is always just speculation, as for Fang Zhiwen's personality or something, to be honest, in the database of these three smart people, there is basically no conclusion, Fang Zhiwen feels like the wind, in order to achieve strategic goals, almost everything, basically there is no trajectory to follow, and there is no very obvious personalization and habitual behavior.

Therefore, it is indeed difficult to predict how Fang Zhiwen will choose, and Cao Cao does not think that such a trap can trap Fang Zhiwen.

"Concentrate the infantry on the left city, and arrange the scarecrow on the walls of the right city."

"The lord wants to use the empty city plan?"

"Empty city? And not just in case. ”

"Report to the lord, a heavy fog has suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and all units of our army have lost the whereabouts of the enemy's main force."

"Expand the scope of battlefield reconnaissance and strengthen the reconnaissance of the road between the city and the battlefield. Be sure to get back to grips with the enemy's whereabouts as soon as possible1

"I really ran out, I didn't think there was this trick 1

"It's hard to say. Maybe it's just a false shot, the ultimate goal is to mobilize the deployment of our army, and then find fighters from it1

Xun You and Xi Zhicai's opinions were different, but their speculations were reasonable.

"You are all right, and therefore, order the troops to continue the attack as originally planned1

"My lord, in case the enemy army has already broken out of the encirclement, if it is not adjusted in time"

"Even if you adjust it now. I don't know how to adjust now, if they let go of their speed and rush in the direction of the city, our troops outside will indeed be pulled out of the gap for about two hours. However, if our army hastily responds when the situation is unknown, it may fall into the trap of the other side, giving it the opportunity to annihilate the troops that have returned to our army1

"But on the city side, our army is now completely without cavalry support, and there are 50,000 defenders in each of the two cities. It's quite difficult to hold such a large city! And the lord is also "

Cao Cao was silent, squinting his eyes and thinking and calculating carefully, from the very beginning, Cao Cao knew that he could not fight a decent war, so as soon as he came up, Cao Cao wanted to muddy the waters, and then use the method to create the most complicated situation. to offset the advantages that Fang Zhiwen has.

And this opportunity is only once, in the case that Fang Zhiwen is not familiar with the terrain and Cao Jun can have a limited degree of prefabricated battlefield situation, he can use this asymmetry of battlefield information to disrupt Fang Zhiwen's thinking.

But alas. Fang Zhiwen was calm and abnormal, completely ignoring the many flaws exposed by Cao Cao, intentionally or unintentionally. Always held the policy of being steady, carefully avoided all kinds of traps, and even the largest trap arranged by Cao Cao easily dodged.

Moreover, at the last moment, a fog was used to completely close the information gap between the two sides.

The complicated situation on the battlefield is certainly made by Cao Cao, but Cao Cao himself has gradually felt powerless about this complicated situation.

"Report to the Lord that five miles west of the chariot formation has been found to be active in enemy troops, the number of which is unknown1

"Urgently, after a small engagement between General Xiahoudun and the enemy, the enemy army voluntarily broke away and fled to the southeast1

"Report to the lord, General Xu Chu urgently reported that he would completely break away from the enemy troops and lose the trace of the enemy army."

"My lord, this enemy army seems to have divided its troops?"

"Well, the smoke screen, all kinds of feints and feints, but the road leading to the city is unusually quiet, which is obviously abnormal! Ordered the defenders of the two cities to raise their alert1

"No1

There are still about ten miles away from the city, Fang Zhiwen's main force is assembled here, Fang Zhiwen used Guo Jia's skills to successfully create a fog area, and took advantage of the night to break into pieces to highlight the encirclement, and then reassembled not far from the city, while waiting for the follow-up troops to concentrate one after another, Fang Zhiwen sent scouts to reconnoiter the situation of the two cities.

"Fengxiao, both cities seem to be heavily guarded, which one do you think is better to attack?"

"Of course, it's the right city to the east."

"Oh, why is that?"

"The scouts reported that the head of the left city was patrolling normally, and the lights were normal, but the right city was already a warrior going to the city, this is obviously an illusion, how could a warrior wait for an unknown enemy in the city for a long time?"

"Hehe, that is to say, the right city is an empty city plan, and the purpose is to concentrate the limited troops in the left city?"

"To 1

"Wouldn't it be a trap? Maybe it's to induce us to attack the right city? ”

"In that case, the trap must be in the city, not on the walls, right, lord?"

"That's right, so we occupy the gates of the city walls, and then slowly probe into the city, and if there is a trap, take advantage of the favorable terrain to kill and injure a large number of enemy troops, or can we choose to attack the enemy troops coming from the left city?"

"Yes, as long as we are not in a hurry, and do not be greedy to think that we can achieve it overnight, the enemy army can help me1

Fang Zhiwen looked at the dark night sky and showed a confident smile, Cao Cao This is a ring after a ring, there are traps everywhere, and the battlefield is even more complicated, but this also makes Cao Cao's strength very scattered, is this intentional or unintentional? To be continued...