Chapter 123 Left and Right Flanking?

The Shu army has sent scouts to reconnoiter within 50 miles around the army day and night, and these horses have not been seen within 50 miles during the day yesterday, and it seems that these Wei troops should have marched overnight to approach the Shu army camp.

Due to the limited range of vision at night, the scouts did not walk hand in hand, they were always separated by a certain distance, and these centaurs happened to pass through the middle of the two scouts' walking routes, and they were not even found by the night scouts until after dawn.

After the members of the 5th scout team discovered the enemy's traces, they immediately launched communication fireworks into the air, and the hot air balloons floating in this area saw the communication fireworks, and used the signal to communicate with the scouts of the 5th team, and figured out the enemy's flag, number, location and other information.

Then this hot air balloon communicates with another hot air balloon that is closer to the base camp and is responsible for relaying information, and finally, the hot air balloon near the base camp communicates with the communication personnel of the base camp to quickly transmit the enemy situation back to the base camp.

In this information transmission, the role of the hot air balloon is very similar to that of the satellites of later generations: the ground communication terminal A sends the information to satellite A (hot air balloon) in the sky, and after satellite A relays one or more times, the information is sent to the satellite N in another region, and finally the satellite N sends the information to the ground communication terminal B in that region to complete the communication process.

The difference is that the hot air balloon flies low, the communication range is still small, and because it is operated by human hands, the speed is slower than that of purely electronic equipment. However, even if it is slow, it is far faster than passing it with a fast horse.

This technology, in addition to the key hot air balloon technology, has benefited from the development of cryptography, or coding. It is not an easy task to encode a complex piece of information with only a few colors of lights, fireworks, etc.

Fortunately, Liu Hou still understands a little bit of this content, and the easiest way is to take a dictionary, the first set of numbers indicates the number of pages, the second set of numbers indicates the number of lines, and the third set of numbers represents the first few words.

Many years ago, the "Ministry of Industry" set up a special research institute to study these problems, and the institute organized a group of literati to specialize in the study of Chinese character coding and cryptography.

The institute has now produced results, and they have studied several sets of cryptographic systems, but now the easiest way to look up a dictionary is used by the Hong Army. This method is simple and practical, and it is difficult to decipher except for the loss of the dictionary.

Liu Hou felt that the enemies of this era should not have thought of this problem, so he has been using this password system, and even the dictionary is only changed once in about three or five years.

"Sima Yi really has a back hand!" Liu Houdao.

After receiving this news, Liu Hou and the ministers stopped the discussion just now, and instead began to discuss the hidden things and countermeasures behind this military situation.

"The minister expects that Sima Yi's backhand is more than that, and His Majesty should make a decision as soon as possible." Guo Youzhi said worriedly.

"You mean......" Liu Hou asked, puzzled.

"The minister doesn't know what he wants, but he has an intuition that with Sima Yi's personality, it won't be so simple." Guo Youzhi.

"Well, yes, Sima Yi personally guarded the city, and then ambushed outside the city with all the men, and attacked our army at night, this kind of strategy is estimated that many generals will come up with. With Sima Yi's ability, it is estimated that it will not be so simple, and there may be other things that we don't know. Bu Qi also agreed with Guo Youzhi's view.

"What then?" Liu Hou asked helplessly.

"Your Majesty, it's better to retreat for the time being...... Whatever their schemes, most of them came to the place where our army was stationed, and it was known from the direction of the army. If we retreat and the position changes, maybe their plan will fail. "Guo Youzhi.

"You mean, they're trying to ambush us here? Or surround us? Liu Hou wondered, Guo Youzhi's idea sounded like it was based on the fact that the Wei army would launch a sneak attack or encirclement of the Shu army's camp, if that was the case, the way to crack it was also very simple, as long as he moved his nest, the Wei army's plan would inevitably fail.

The Wei army's means of communication were backward, and if everyone made an appointment to act together at a certain time, if there was a temporary change, it would be difficult to notify all units and departments to readjust their goals and coordinate their actions at the first time, and in this way, their plan would naturally fall through.

"It's not good that we just fought for a day and then walked away. Retreating without a fight is likely to be a big blow to morale. Others don't understand the situation and think that we are afraid of him, Sima Yi. Isn't there no crisis yet? We don't have to be so quick to quit. Deng Zhi said.

"Once something happens, it's hard to retreat." Guo Youzhi.

"It is not the work of a brave man to retreat at the slightest blow. Since the Wei army wants to come to attack, we can send a team of elite soldiers to break it, so why worry too much. Deng Zhi continued.

"The enemy's situation is unknown, it is really not advisable to take risks, 50,000 horses and our men and horses are about the same, if they are also equipped with firearms, it will be difficult for us to win in a short time, we must not be careful."

"It's also strange, it didn't take long for this Wei country to get our craftsmen, how could they make so many firearms so quickly?" Liu Hou interjected and asked.

What he didn't know was that in the feudal dynasty, under the emperor's order, the people of the whole country needed to work for him unconditionally, Cao Pi wanted to recruit manpower and materials, all of which were a matter of an edict.

Wei used the strength of the whole country to produce such ignitions, including ten cannons, all erected on Xiangyang City, 2,000 fire # guns, 500 in Xiangyang City, the rest were distributed in other troops outside the city, in addition, Thunderbolt also made tens of thousands, although these firearms are not much, but they are enough for Liu Hou and his Hong army to drink a pot.

"Maybe they have more firearms than that." Steps. He guessed correctly, the firearms in Xiangyang City were only a small part of all the firearms of the Wei army, and there were still a large number of firearms in the troops outside the city.

"If their troops outside the city also have a large number of firearms, it will pose a very big threat to our army." Guo Youzhi continued, it seems that he is in favor of retreating.

"But you can't be cowardly before you fight, and you can't retreat before you ...... fight," Deng Zhi said.

"We're just temporarily retreating, this is a tactical retreat, in order to better make a comeback in the future, how can this be cowardice before fighting?" Guo Youzhi retorted.

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The two argued endlessly, and Liu Hou decided for a while that he couldn't decide where to go.

"Report ......" came a long and long voice, and another herald ran into the tent.

"Say!" Liu Hou said with a gloomy face. It seems that this guy is definitely not good news either.

"Qi Yu Xià, a group of people and horses were found in the southeast direction, the distance is about twenty-five miles, the number is about fifty thousand, and the banners are 'Wei' and 'Xiahou'."

Liu Hou was speechless, Sima Yi really had more than one backhand, a group of people came to the west, who was the commander surnamed Cao, and the southeast was surnamed Xiahou, these two generals Liu Hou didn't know who they were, but it seemed that they should be Cao Pi's relatives, his own family and the like.

Liu Hou didn't know that the general surnamed Cao in the west was Cao Xiu, the leader of the Central Army. Cao Xiu is Cao Cao's clan, and Cao Cao once said to the left and right: "This is my family's thousand-mile horse!" And let him live with Cao Pi and treat him like his own son.

And the general in the southeast was Xiahou Shang, the general of Zhengnan. Xiahou Shang, the nephew of Xiahou Xuan, was close and friendly to Cao Pi, Cao Pi and Xiahou Shang were not so much the relationship between the monarch and the minister as the relationship between relatives and friends.

"It's 100,000 horses, it seems that Sima Yi is really willing. However, even if they have 100,000 horses to attack our army, our army may not be able to defeat them. Liu Houhao said dryly. His troops are now vine armor soldiers with fire # spearmen, and their offensive and defensive abilities are extremely good, so it can be said that they will not be afraid of any strong army in the world.

"If these 100,000 are firearms troops, they will flank our army left and right, and another large army will rush out of Xiangyang City, and under the siege on three sides, our army will be very dangerous. Moreover, it is not known whether this is Sima Yi's full means. If he only wanted to flank or sneak attack our army, there was no need for Sima Yi to do anything to clear the wilderness.

Since he has made so much effort to do so, there must be other tricks that we don't know about, so please retreat quickly. "Guo Youzhi.

At this time, Deng Zhi didn't say anything, because now it seems that Sima Yi has indeed arranged a trap to wait for Wei Jun here. If these people raid the Shu camp at night, the Shu army will definitely suffer heavy losses, even if they attack openly during the day, under the attack of several times their own troops on three sides, it is enough for the Shu army to drink a pot.

However, Sima Yi obviously did not expect the scouts of the Shu army to be so powerful, nor did he expect the scouts of the Shu army to spread so widely, let alone expect that the communication methods of the Shu army were so unbelievable, and the speed of communication was so fast, so he discovered them so quickly and began to arrange countermeasures.

"Okay, give the order to go down, immediately pull out the camp, retreat in an orderly manner, and order Guan Xing to transfer a regiment and E Huan to transfer a regiment out, and the two regiments will be responsible for the rear together." Liu Hou ordered.

"No!"

"Slow!"

Guo Youzhi and Bu Qi stopped at the same time.

"Oh? What do you two think? Liu Houdao.

Guo and Bu glanced at each other, made a gesture of invitation to each other, and after humbling each other, Guo Youzhi finally spoke: "Your Majesty, don't retreat in a hurry. "If Sima Yi is given a chance to capture the reality of our army at the head of the city, he will inevitably go out of the city and pursue our army while our army is retreating.

When you are attacked during the retreat, it is easy to lead to chaos or even irreversible rout. Even if our army is not defeated, if we hold them back and wait for the army to come up from the left and right, it will be very bad for our army. ”

"Oh, I see." Liu Hou suddenly realized. In fact, he also understands these truths, but he didn't think of them in a hurry, but Guo and Bu are experienced and delicate.

"The enemy army is still twenty or thirty miles away from our army, and it will take at least half a day to arrive, we have enough time to retreat calmly, we need to make good arrangements before retreating, and be sure to deceive the Wei army in the city, so that they think that we are still camped under this city.