The Duanguo army and the Tang army are not intimate and infinite, on the contrary, within their alliance, there is still a situation of intrigue and deceit, and Zhuge Liang is taking advantage of their psychology to make them look forward and backward, dare not attack the city, and then choose to temporarily retreat.

Judging from Zhuge Liang's thoughts, the idea of making the enemy temporarily give up the siege of the city was actually a success.

The enemy retreated, and Zhuge Liang's piano sound also stopped abruptly, and he let out a long sigh and muttered: "It's like this kind of strategy, one time is enough, it's too dangerous." ”

The last four words, what he said to Cao Cao, is to remind him that in the future, if he leads an army alone, he must be cautious, and he should not use a plan like today, because it is really a dangerous plan, which requires a thorough understanding of the enemy's generals.

Otherwise, as long as there is a small detail that goes wrong, then, waiting for you, will be a complete loss, fortunately, all this is successfully over.

Thanks to Zhuge Liang, if you were someone else, you wouldn't dare to do this.

Unlike others, Zhuge Liang had great confidence in this empty city plan from the beginning, thinking that although it was a dangerous plan, but in his true heart, as long as there were no subtle problems with this plan, it was a safe plan.

Through the non-stop fighting in the past few days, he has thoroughly touched the psychology of the commanders of the two enemy armies, which is impossible for anyone.

Zhao Changqing knew Zhuge Liang's ability very well, so he handed over the most difficult Tang army to him alone.

As for the Song Army and Liang Army on the Western Front, he handed them over to Xiao Yuming and Chen Qingzhi at the same time.

The two compared each other and made a judgment.

After the enemy retreated, Zhuge Liang hurriedly arranged for the troops and supplies to withdraw from the city.

After Deng Qi and Yan Xing found out, they both regretted it very much, what was the point of taking an empty city without attacking the city just now?

They regrouped and prepared to continue to catch up with Zhuge Liang.

At this time, after Zhuge Liang withdrew from Beizhou City, he had come to Huaiyang City, which is equivalent to the Yunxiao Pass of Chu State, once this town is lost, the original imperial capital of the Jin State is now the royal city belonging to the Great Wei Dynasty - Tianzhao City will face the risk of losing, which is a scene that all the soldiers of Wei State do not want to see.

Because once the original capital of the Jin Kingdom is lost, the entire territory of the Jin Kingdom will face a complete fall, and Xiao Yuming, Chen Qingzhi and others will also be attacked by the armies of the four countries.

Everyone understands one thing, how can Zhuge Liang not understand?

He decided to fight to the death with the enemy in Huaiyang City.

In the council hall in the city, he said to the soldiers: "Liang knows that you have anger in your hearts, since you left the capital to follow Liang to the Jin Kingdom, you will be defeated in every battle. Now, it's time for us to turn defeat into victory, but we have to wait for the exact timing. ”

The generals have waited long enough for this day, and they wish to kill the enemy now.

A few people said to Zhuge Liang: "Prime Minister, you can give the order!"

"Prime Minister, what do you say, how should this battle be fought?"

Zhuge Liang was very satisfied when he saw the generals so indignant, this is the real soldier of the Great Wei Kingdom!

He said to the generals again: "The combined forces of Tang and Duan are claimed to have one million to the outside world, but in fact, under the contact in the past few days, it is not difficult for us to find that the armies of their two countries are only 500,000 troops at most. But this number is still far beyond the strength of our army, so it is not easy to win. But... At this moment, it is our great army, far superior to the enemy. ”

Some soldiers were puzzled: "Prime Minister, our current combatable soldiers are only 300,000, how can we be regarded as far superior to the enemy?"

Of course, they wouldn't think that this was Zhuge Liang's untargeted nonsense, because, in this case, as the commander of an army, how could he be untrustworthy?

Zhuge Liang didn't want to explain too much, he revealed a few words to the soldiers, and said: "When the time is ripe, you will naturally know, now you listen to the words of the prime minister, first build fortifications in the city, and then go to prepare some flammable materials such as fire oil, the prime minister asserts that in these few days, the enemy army will attack the city." ”

All the soldiers nodded.

Because it's not hard to guess.

Sure enough, a few days later, the combined forces of Tang and Duan began to attack the city.

Because they were angry, they originally advanced their plan to attack Huaiyang City.

This is understandable, after all, just imagine, pouring so many troops, spending so much energy and time for so long, I didn't expect to harvest an empty city in the end, which is in anyone's heart, it is estimated that no one will feel good.

In this way, after they rested, they quickly set off from the Beizhou City they had just captured, came to the outside of Huaiyang City, and saw Zhuge Liang who had laid down an empty city plan.

This time, he still asked Cao Cao to follow and play the piano and music above the city.

How could the enemy coalition let Zhuge Liang go?

If you have been in such a trap once, you will not be able to do the same trick a second time.

Therefore, the Tang army and the Duan army discussed together, and one person sent 10,000 troops, organized into a small force, and went to the siege city to see the situation first.

However, they never expected that this time Zhuge Liang actually set up an ambush in the city, and after the 20,000 people entered the city, they immediately encountered the Wei army that had been waiting for a long time.

In the end, after a battle, the vanguard of 20,000 enemy troops did not survive.

At the same time, the enemy army hurriedly arranged a large army to attack the city, but when all the large armies marched into Huaiyang City together, they encountered the desperate resistance of the Wei army that appeared above the city, and finally repelled the enemy army.

The retreating Tang and Duan allied forces naturally could not just give up and continue to attack the city after camping outside the city for a day of rest.

But without exception, they were all repelled by the Wei army.

At this time, the commanders of the Tang and Duan Second Armies were a little confused.

Why did the combat effectiveness of the Wei army suddenly become so high?

In the previous battles, wasn't the Wei army repeatedly defeated?

They didn't know the situation, so they had to send large armies to attack the city one after another, but for dozens of days, they still did not break through Huaiyang City.

At this time, everyone in the Wei army was thinking, they had been shrinking turtles for so long, and the Tang army and the Duanguo army were just like this, why couldn't they take the initiative to attack?

How nice it would be to crush them in one fell swoop!

As a result, everyone in the Wei army was gathering strength and wanted to urgently fight the enemy army in a dignified manner.

But Zhuge Liang knew very well in his heart that it was not yet time.

The allied forces of Tang and Duan were all wondering at the moment, why did the Wei army's combat effectiveness soar so quickly?

In the previous battles, the Wei army was all vulnerable!

Since it is impossible to break through Huaiyang City in a short period of time, and the coalition forces are facing the problem of lack of water and food, so the commanders of the two armies are combined, or retreat first, and then talk about it, it is now the middle of July, it is the scorching summer, and they have been staying here, facing the Achilles heel of lack of water, and it is easy to lose the morale of the army.

But where to retreat?

It's best to have a place where you can escape the heat, so that you can use much less water.

Coincidentally, sixty miles outside Huaiyang City, there is a secluded forest that can escape the heat, and there is also a clear stream there, which can temporarily solve the problem of water shortage.

As everyone knows, what Zhuge Liang was waiting for was the moment when they took the initiative to retreat to that forest.

(End of chapter)