Chapter 14: Attacking the Heart
Gongsun Yu: "..."
The south is where Xijing is located. He couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart, the second prince even did not hesitate to gamble with the safety of 300,000 soldiers and thousands of people in the Central Plains for the sake of the throne
But he also didn't know that the time that Wen Zhong said was running out, but he was referring to his life. No one knows his physical condition better than him, although the speed of time in real movies is different, and the speed of thinking is far faster and longer than reality. But Wen Zhong didn't know how long his body could last, and maybe he would die in the next second.
In order to be able to complete everything before he died, Wen Zhongcai didn't care what he was doing, this was just a real movie, but he was gambling on his own life, so he was naturally even crazier than usual.
"Huh?" Wen Zhong only caught a glimpse of a red light, which slowly pierced the sky and landed on his shoulder.
"Your Highness? What's wrong? Gongsun Yu looked at the second prince with some doubts, not knowing what was going on.
Wen Zhong once again showed a trademark smile and shook his head, "It's nothing, let the soldiers get ready, there's not much time to rest!" ”
It wasn't until Gongsun Yu was far away that he turned his head to look at the red-robed girl sitting on his shoulder and asked softly, "Why are you here?" ”
Although Olivia's eyes were also full of worry, she still smiled and said: "This movie is your last movie, I have accompanied you through most movies from the beginning, this time... I want to accompany you to the end, is that okay? ”
Moon Zhong smiled and reached out to touch Olivia's head, but his fingers went straight through Olivia's body, apparently after Olivia's consciousness returned to his body, the real movie's body became untouchable. Wen Zhong didn't care, nodded slightly and said, "It's finally come to the end, but this time I think I'll need your help... It's a little overwhelming, I'm really unwilling! ”
Looking at Wen Zhong's reluctant expression, Olivia's eyes also flashed a trace of sadness, but she still patted her little chest and smiled: "There is me!" We'll make it to the end! ”
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Ten miles away from the position in front of the Shangqiu camp, Hal looked at the formation in front of the army with a solemn face, and was a little hesitant whether he should stay and fight with the troops that came after the barbarians, or retreat to the Shangqiu camp to defend. At this time, he had already forgotten that he was being used as bait, and his body and mind were all on the situation in front of him.
The military order that Wen Zhong left to General Cheng Lao was very simple, an ambush battle could never hide from Ptolemy, the most intelligent leader of the barbarians, Ptolemy's character of Lao Tzu who was second in the world and no one dared to recognize the first in the world, was definitely going to make a fuss about it. The biggest possibility is to set up an ambush and eat this army that is running as bait.
As described earlier, time is running out for Wen Zhong. Although he knew that the best way was to defend the Shangqiu camp and drag the barbarian army alive until the logistics were insufficient and retreated, Wen Zhong thought of the simplest and most brutal method he had always used - beheading.
Ptolemy's self-righteous character is set in the script. Wen Zhong has seen a lot of plot characters with such a character, the most notable is the ultimate boss Meng Ge in the real movie script "Beacon Xiangyang" that he entered for the first time. Maybe it's carved out of a template, or maybe it's a problem with the setting itself. Basically, these bigwigs with explosive combat effectiveness look down on people from the big countries of the Central Plains to a certain extent. This was the case with Mover in "Beacon Xiangyang", and now the same is true of Ptolemy in "A". Then they met Wen Zhong, and then they hit the streets.
Wen Zhong's idea is very simple, he doesn't have time to rub around with these plot characters in this place, and the thing he has to do doesn't allow him to grind here, so he wants to solve this plot that is very important for the whole script at once.
Ptolemy's current position is obvious, relying on the steady advance of the crowd, it seems very difficult to use the tactics of crowds to encroach on the land of the new dynasty step by step, and to get Ptolemy's army to be dispatched. But Wen Zhong didn't think so, in the era he came, there was a famous thinker and politician in the last century who once said something like this:
With 50% of the profits, the capitalists can take risks
For the sake of 100% profit, it will trample on all the laws of the world
With a 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime, even at the risk of being hanged. (Note 1)
Trying to get Ptolemy out of his million-old tortoise shell is simple, all you need is a bait of sufficient weight, such as... Adjutant marshal in the army.
To be honest, it would be more appropriate for Wen Zhong to do this kind of thing on his own, but he also knew that once he appeared on the ambush battlefield, Ptolemy would never appear. After all, the identity of this second prince's division, in the seventeenth year of the king and the twenty-third year of the king, he used two cremations to send away hundreds of thousands of barbarian warriors respectively.
Burdened by fame, once he appeared on the frontal battlefield, it would make Ptolemy's old fox dare not crawl out of the turtle shell.
The lure ambush battle was just a pretense, which should have been proposed by Wen Zhong himself, but the third prince Wu brought it up unprecedentedly, and took the initiative to be this disguise, Wen Zhong didn't even mean to tell him the truth, and even most of the main generals in the army knew about it, but only the deputy marshal in charge of the ambush this time didn't know anything about it.
With Howl's shining bait, it's not hard to imagine that Ptolemy would not be moved. So four teams of 10,000 people came out of the pit of the barbarian million-strong military camp and sent them into Wen Zhong's open cloth bag.
As described above, Ptolemy was very conceited, believing that with a spy and a clear understanding of the movements of the Central Plains soldiers, he could easily control the victory. But the moment he heard that the 10,000-strong team he sent out had been wiped out in two, he suddenly understood. He was fishing, and the cub on the other side was also fishing. The other two 10,000-strong teams that went to attack the three princes of the Central Plains are believed to be more than lucky. With 20,000 people, he fished out 60,000 of his own.
True, at the level of Ptolemy, sixty thousand people was nothing more than a number. But this feeling of being a chess game is more psychologically humiliating than anything else. The most important thing is that, in his eyes, the Central Plains army, which was definitely going to shrink up and fight a war of attrition, actually took the initiative to leave the turtle shell in the Shangqiu camp and ran away into the wilderness.
For Ptolemy, this was 300% profit. Even if these Central Plains troops would soon withdraw to the Shangqiu camp, as long as they did their best to reduce their numbers before they hid back in the turtle shell, it would be a good thing for the later war.
As for the bait? Ptolemy never thought about it, a million iron horsemen, unless that little cub of the Central Plains could set another fire to burn the entire army, how could he fight with himself?
Faced with such a great temptation, and without any factors that could lead to his defeat, Ptolemy did not hesitate to send troops, and they did so. Moreover... The barbarian cavalry was chosen to be the least suitable for battle... Night!
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