Conquer all worlds starting from the mythical Three Kingdoms

Just after Zhao Yun and Ma Chao drove Hauge and his men back to the base camp, the two sides once again entered a relatively peaceful confrontation.

Although both sides were still engaged in the game of siege and defense during this confrontation, the intensity was not high.

It feels like a military training.

In fact, both sides were indeed training their troops. The difference was that Zhou Yu's side was training the individual qualities of the soldiers, while the Qing army was training the combat tacit understanding of the large army.

Both sides are consciously strengthening their weak areas.

Maintaining a low-intensity war, engaging in a game of intrigue and deception.

"Report, the enemy has retreated!" The messenger delivered the news of the Qing army's retreat to Zhou Yu.

"Got it. Let the reserve team take over the city defense, treat the wounded, and let the soldiers have a good rest!" Zhou Yu nodded and ordered.

Zhou Yu is actually a very cautious general, but after spending too much time with Sun Ce, he will always be influenced by Sun Ce. This is actually Zhou Yu's biggest problem, because he looks very independent, but in fact he has to rely on Sun Ce to show his talents.

Therefore, after a wave of failures, Zhou Yu quickly regained his cautious nature and began to deal with the Qing army in an extremely stable manner.

At this moment, Zhou Yu was basically in the stage of surrendering in the wild strategy, and was trying hard to make use of his own advantages in defending the city.

The Qing army did not dare to advance rashly. After all, the failure of Hauge and his men had already shown that the rear was not completely empty and vulnerable.

If they advance recklessly, they will be attacked from both sides, which will be a bit troublesome.

Duoduo finally chose a steady and cautious strategic stance, first taking down two border towns and then advancing slowly.

In a war of this level, the first thing to consider is not how much can be gained, but how to avoid risks and reduce one's own losses.

Zhou Yu has fully realized how big the gap is between the army he trained and the regular army. It doesn't seem big, but when he encounters Hauge in the wild, the gap in levels has basically widened to half a level.

The elite troops who were trained with great effort were almost wiped out.

After realizing the problem, Zhou Yu of course had to formulate a strategy that would be beneficial to his own side.

Actually, Zhou Yu was not good at attacking, but was better at defending and counterattacking.

"Gongjin, is this the only way we can defend now?"

Sun Ce felt extremely frustrated with this way of fighting. You know, Sun Ce's fighting style has always been as aggressive as fire and as powerful as thunder. But now he can only defend here. How can he not feel frustrated?

"A new batch of reinforcements should be arriving soon. We will then consider attacking after we meet up with them!" Zhou Yu rubbed his head. He knew that Sun Ce wanted to challenge Sharle, but now was not the time.

The arrival of Zhao Yun and Ma Chao gave them a sigh of relief.

Especially the White Horse Volunteers, whose efficient reconnaissance and killing almost cut off all the tentacles extended by the Qing court. Together with Ma Chao, they forced the other side to shrink their forces and concentrate them in one place as much as possible.

This was good news for them. At least they didn't have to worry about the Qing army suddenly sending out a surprise force to infiltrate the city when they were besieging the city.

Just in case, Lu Meng even brought the elite troops who had been pursuing the enemy to join Sun Quan's troops to maintain the stability of the second line of defense.

After all, Sun Quan had brought 100,000 soldiers with him to encircle and suppress Sharle and Hauge, but they were easily broken through. If Lu Meng and Sun Ce had not arrived in time, Sharle and Hauge would have even wanted to behead Sun Quan.

After fighting a battle and realizing that he had no talent in land warfare, Sun Quan simply gave up on the military side, handed over the command to Lu Meng, and stayed in the rear to concentrate on logistics.

"Report, Baima Yicong reported that tens of thousands of cavalry are moving in the direction of the Qing army's base camp, suspected to be enemy reinforcements!"

"Investigate again and report back!" Zhou Yu felt a headache looking at the sand table.

The scale of both sides has begun to exceed 500,000 and is heading towards the scale of one million. To be honest, this is completely beyond Zhou Yu's control. Relying on the organizational bonus of Danyang, he can only command about 300,000 at most.

Lu Xun and Lu Meng were slightly weaker than him, with an army of about 100,000 men.

Although they are basically all elite troops and may be easier to command, but when it comes to this level, only a god of war can command them with ease.

What Zhou Yu is most worried about now is that the other side has hidden a military god and has not taken action. In fact, this is also the problem that Mu Yi and others are most worried about.

This is just like the Dark Forest. They don't dare to use the God of War first for fear of the escalation of the war, but they can't guarantee whether the other side will use the God of War as a nuclear weapon.

Therefore, Sun Wu was secretly sent over to Luoyang, and Mu Yi issued a strict order that unless the other side's god of war took action, he must not take over the command, even if he suffered a crushing defeat.

After all, the defeat of an army of hundreds of thousands and the loss of all Sun Wu's territory were bearable losses for Xinghan, but if the God of War was deployed, the number of troops deployed by both sides would definitely not be less than one million.

There may even be multiple worlds going to war, a new front may be opened in the small world, and even the new territories of Cao Cao and Liu Bei may ignite the flames of war.

As a result, all construction and development may be temporarily suspended and enter a full-scale war mode.

To see the devastation a military god can wreak, just look at the fate of Rome.

That would be a complete loss if you make a mistake.

Both sides still want to keep the war at the level of "friction".

Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. The two sides have fought several times, but this time it is a serious battle. Both sides need to evaluate the upper limit of the other side's strength that can be exerted in the absence of a military god.

A few days later, the reinforcements of the Han army arrived between the two border towns. According to Zhou Yu's instructions, they built another camp between the two border towns.

Because of the camp, Lu Meng, who was serving as commander on the second line, was pulled to the front line again.

A group of generals and officers gathered together and began to discuss how to fight this war.

"General Zhou, the emperor has ordered that everyone must obey your command, even General Zhang Liao. And the emperor has also said that this is your last chance!" Following Jia Xu's order, Zhao Yun conveyed Mu Yi's order to Zhou Yu in front of everyone.

"Thank you, Emperor!"

Zhou Yu was a strategist after all, and Zhao Yun didn't understand what Jia Xu meant. But as soon as Zhao Yun opened his mouth, Zhou Yu already understood what Jia Xu and Mu Yi meant, and immediately bowed his head to express his gratitude.

At this time, Zhou Yu turned his gaze to Yu Dayou who was sent by the Ming Dynasty.

"Emperor Hongwu has ordered that this time I will lead the Yu family army and obey Xinghan's command!" Yu Dayou also stood up and bowed and said in a very simple manner.

Wu Sangui's affair was so shameful that the Ming Dynasty had to make some concessions in order to maintain the alliance between the two sides.

Of course, it was also because the number of troops deployed by Xinghan this time was far greater than that of the Ming Dynasty, so Yu Dayou obeyed the order.

After all, Xinghan has already proven his military capabilities, and the video footage extracted from Wu Sangui's memory has also made them recognize the talents of Xinghan's officers. Having orders from the same family will also be beneficial to the performance of the army.

Zhou Yu nodded, but his own family knew his own business. He couldn't command hundreds of thousands of people. In the end, he had to split them up and command them. His most important thing was to maintain the strategic layout.

But to be honest, the strategic layout of this battle had already been finalized by him and Zhang Liao, which was a combination of the positive and the negative. However, due to various reasons before, the two sides ended up in a mess.

Now that Zhang Liao was nowhere to be found, Zhou Yu simply pretended that Zhang Liao did not exist. After all, there was no point in giving orders since he could not be contacted.

However, Zhang Liao's strategic purpose was very clear, and Zhou Yu only made some simple adjustments and did not completely modify the original plan.

"Everyone, the situation is now clear. What are your opinions?" Zhou Yu looked at the officers present.

However, his attention was still on Lu Xun, Lu Meng, Yu Dayou, Cao Ren, Zhang Fei... and other officers with command capabilities.

There is no shortage of capable fighters among the officers and soldiers present, but when it comes to legionary command capabilities, there are basically only a handful of them.

Zhang Fei was the first to spread his hands. As a commander of a large army based on muscle memory, he could only perform on the spot on the battlefield. If you asked Zhang Fei to make plans, he could occasionally come up with something, but if you asked him to make strategic deployments, he would be completely in the dark.

"I think it's a good idea to station troops between the two cities. The next step is to strengthen the military forces here and then use it to pose a threat to the enemy!" Lu Meng said calmly.

In fact, Lu Meng had already guessed Zhou Yu's plan. There was nothing wrong with Zhou Yu's previous layout. The main problem was that he did not have enough strength, and was forcibly defeated by Haoge. However, a fire did turn the situation around.

No one objected to Lu Meng's proposal, which was indeed a safe approach.

"Now that our army has more soldiers and generals, how about we turn passivity into initiative and go out of the city to fight the enemy?" Yu Dayou made a different suggestion.

It is indeed a beautiful vision for the two cities to help each other, but when the Qing army completely ignored Lu Xun and Lu Xun did not dare to lead his troops to attack, the meaning of supporting each other before was completely non-existent.

There was a gap between theory and practice, which gave Yu Dayou some other ideas.

Zhou Yu shook his head secretly. Yu Dayou's attitude towards the Qing army fully reflected the attitude of the Ming Empire towards the Qing court.

Basically, they looked down on the Qing army from the bottom of their hearts, thinking that if it weren't for the Mongols, it wouldn't take them much effort to defeat the Qing army.

This is certainly true, but the existence of the Mongols is also a fact. If the Ming Dynasty does not change this attitude, it will suffer great losses.

However, Zhou Yu himself understood that this thing could not be changed by just a few words.

Even he himself had been extremely arrogant towards the Qing army before, which almost led to a disaster. He has only now come to his senses.

Perhaps some people in the Ming Dynasty had already noticed this, but this was due to the Ming Dynasty's pride in its own empire. Even if they had noticed it, they would not be able to change the public's opinion.

Unless the Ming Dynasty suffers an obvious setback, it will be difficult for it to truly pay attention to the Qing Dynasty. Otherwise, it will be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to deal with the Qing Dynasty with caution.

As soon as Yu Dayou started to propose his suggestion, Lu Xun raised his objection.

"The officers and soldiers in our city are all new troops, and their skills are weaker than those of the enemy soldiers. If we have a head-on confrontation with a large army, it will be too difficult!" Lu Xun's words did not directly oppose the suggestion of Yu Dayou, a friendly army, but just put the problem in front of Yu Dayou.

Yu Dayou frowned, and thinking that this was definitely not the Ming army, he stopped talking.

After Lu Xun took advantage of the Ming Dynasty's pride to refute Yu Dayou's plan, he looked up at Zhou Yu.

"How about we give up the two border towns while fighting and concentrate all our forces in the middle?" Lu Xun drew a line on the map.

Zhou Yu immediately understood Lu Xun's plan and frowned as he thought about the feasibility of this plan.

"The other party won't fall for the same trick a second time!" Zhang Fei said with his arms folded, a little unhappy.

Zhou Yu looked at him in surprise, while Zhang Fei stood up and pointed at the map.

"The enemy may not need to enter the city, nor may they need to occupy our camp. You have already used this tactic before. The enemy will surely be fully prepared and will send out vanguards for reconnaissance. Once they are exposed, it will be completely meaningless!"

When Zhang Fei said this, there was a moment of silence. It was not that Zhang Fei was very smart, but he saw through the arrangement of the two people.

Instead, he triggered his muscle memory. This was how Han Xin had dealt with him before, burning down a stretch of camps over a distance of 700 miles. This one fire destroyed everything.

So when Zhang Fei saw this scene, he interrupted directly. This move could be considered a surprising one, based on Zhang Fei's experience against the god of war.

The more bizarre the moves, the faster you die.

In such a large-scale military confrontation, every choice must be made to minimize the risk.

After Lu Xun was pointed out by Zhang Fei, he fell silent. Before he even had the time to start outlining his plan, Zhang Fei's words hit the nail on the head.

Since Zhang Fei could see it, the person on the opposite side might be able to see it, so Lu Xun sat back.

Then the officers and generals present put forward suggestions one after another, which were basically rejected by Zhang Fei, Lu Xun and Lu Meng in just a few words.

Zhou Yu looked at Zhang Fei with some surprise. They had worked together in the past, and Zhang Fei did not give him the impression of a wise man. But now Zhang Fei was almost completely immune to tricks.

Various strategies were used on Zhang Fei, and before Zhang Fei even had time to react, he had already taken the best approach.

"In this case, our army will still set up camp between the two cities. The other side will definitely divide its forces. Our army will be able to adapt to the situation and prepare some flammable materials in the city in advance. If necessary, we will abandon the border city and burn the camp!" After summarizing everyone's opinions, Zhou Yu calmly gave the order.

"Generals, who is willing to be the commander?"

The others were stunned. It was too simple and crude to assign military duties right away.

"Although careful and detailed plans are useful, the more careful and detailed the plans are during war, the less likely they are to be executed. That's why generals need to be able to make decisions on the spot. They need to have a clear idea of ​​the general direction and framework, and then they can use their abilities when the time comes."

Seeing the expressions of the crowd, Zhou Yu casually explained a few words.

Both sides are bound to fight head-on. Since they are going to fight head-on, many calculations will become completely meaningless.

The grand strategy had already been decided.

At that time, we will really have to rely on improvisation.