The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Xun Min replied: "Looking at the scale of the camp, even if there are not more than 7,000 families, the difference is not much. Even if the strong soldier is less than 10,000, there will be one person from a family, and there will always be nearly 10,000 servants and disciples. There are barriers. It is still strong, I heard that it has more than ten grains of grain, and the grain is three thousand stone, enough to feed the rest of the month, but there are not many armors and weapons, and the strong soldiers have little training. If you defend yourself, it may be difficult to overcome quickly.”

Pei country borders Xuzhou, and the soldiers admire Xun Zhen deeply and want to help Xun Zhen. At this time, Fu Bai said: "The soldiers have two strategies to offer to the general."

"Please speak at your feet."

"Joining forces with Captain Sun, and now rushing to help Li Wenda, this is the best policy; Hou Feng will win first, and then attack with Captain Sun, this is the best policy."

"What is down, what is up?"

"If I help Li Wenda at this time and defeat Fengxian, it will not benefit me, and I will only lose my troops in vain, because it is the last policy."

"What does the superior policy say?"

"When Fengxian will win and our army will help us again, Fengxian's troops will be exhausted, which will help me to attack. One of them is that Li Wenda's strength has been greatly reduced after the hard battle, and he is bound to be unable to resist me. Entering Xu and enriching our state are the second, because it is the best policy."

When the soldier said this, everyone in the tent understood what he meant.

But it turned out that he had taken a fancy to the thousands of people who belonged to Li Tong and wanted to give at least half of them to Xun Zhen.

Xun Min was stunned and said, "Fang and Li Wenda made a pact, how can we take advantage of people's danger and seize people's people? This..."

The soldier laughed and said to Xun Min, "Sir is really an honest man." He asked Xu Zhongdao, "Dare to ask the general's opinion? How about the second strategy?"

Xu Shao said: "The best strategy is good, but if General Xu and Duwei Sun arrive late to help, Li Wenda can't stand the battle, and for self-protection, he surrenders to Lu Fengxian, what should we do?"

The soldier was confident and said, "As long as we seize the opportunity, don't give Li Wenda a chance to surrender."

"I'm afraid this time is not easy to grasp, right?"

"Even if Li Wenda surrenders, it doesn't matter. As long as the general and Captain Sun will repel Lu Fengxian, those people will still belong to the general."

What the soldier said was true.

Everyone looked at Xu Zhong, waiting for his decision.

Xu Zhong was silent for a while, then said: "Although the best strategy is good, I choose to take the next strategy."

Everyone didn't understand what he meant. Since it was said that the best strategy for the soldiers was quite good, why did they still choose the next strategy?

The soldier asked: "Zhuo dare to ask the general why?"

"Breaking the benevolent name of the lord of my family for the sake of thousands of people is destroying the righteousness for the sake of small gains, and I will not take it."

After hearing this, the soldier felt ashamed, but his impression of Xu Zhong and Xun Zhen was better. He bowed to the ground and apologized, saying, "It's because the soldier was ill-considered, and he endangered the reputation of Zhendong."

Xu Zhong asked him to get up and said, "It's good intentions to take a step, why are you thankful?" After speaking, he glanced at the soldiers and said to himself, "I don't follow your 'best policy', not just for the sake of the lord's reputation. , but also in order not to cause suspicion in Yuzhou."

Yuzhou was Xuzhou's ally, so he sent the agreement with Li Tong to Sun Ce. If he said to Sun Ce in a blink of an eye, "Why don't we tear up this agreement, don't save Li Tong, wait for him to fight with Lu Bu and lose both, and then you and I If you sit back and reap the benefits and divide the people equally, what would Sun Ce think of Xuzhou as an ally? Do you feel that Xuzhou values ​​profit over righteousness and does not keep its promises? If he felt this way, it would be detrimental to the image of Xuzhou and Xun Zhen, and it might be detrimental to the mutual trust between Xu and Yu in the future alliance.

Of course, having said that, just as Xu Zhong said, "this is for the sake of small profits and destroy the righteousness", in the final analysis, there are not many people under Li Tong's hands, and the temptation is not enough. At most, it is only "small profits". There are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people in the family. Faced with the same situation, Xu Zhong probably will not choose the "lower policy", and will most likely choose the "upper policy".

After careful consideration, everyone in the account agreed with Xu Zhong's opinion.

As a result, Xu Zhong sent people to see Sun Ce again, made an appointment to rescue Lang Ling, and attacked Lu Bu, while arranging the next military operation.

In order to save Langling, the first thing that needs to be solved is: Zhang Liao's army still stationed in Gepixi.

If Zhang Liao's troops were not resolved, Xu Zhong would not be able to lead his troops across the south. Even if the smuggling succeeded, Zhang Liao would surely chase after him. So, this is the top priority right now.

Everyone made suggestions, Xu Zhong learned from everyone's strengths, and finally settled on a battle plan.

This set of plans is based on the principles of "quick battle and quick resolution" and "at least to Zhang Liao's department with greater damage". He led his troops to cross the Han River in the south, and tempted Zhang Liao to lead his troops to chase. When Zhang Liao arrived, Xun Pu set up a formation to block them.

Because Zhang Liao knew that Xu Zhong had cavalry, he could not give all the cavalry to Zhang Fei. He had to leave some to cross the river from Xu Zhong to confuse Zhang Liao. Therefore, the number of cavalry under Zhang Fei was set at 400.

Xu Shao was a little worried and said, "If Zhang Wenyuan refuses to pursue him, what will he do?"

Xu Zhuo said with a smile: "Our army and Zhang Wenyuan have been at each other for a long time. Every time Wen Yuan fights with me, he or she returns with humiliation or humiliation. My army should not close the camp. Feng Xian killed Dong and came to Runan, and he was invincible in battle. He was strong and strong. I thought he would underestimate my Shandong generals and could not win a single victory. I think he will not be reconciled. , he will chase after him!"

Xu Shao thought for a while, agreed, and said, "Zhonglang's words are very true."

Xu Zhong explained to Zhang Fei and said, "After Li Feng destroys his camp, he can set it on fire."

Zhang Fei agreed.

Xu Zhong looked around at the people and said, "In front, there were soldiers from Xun and He's captain's division to intercept them, and then there were elite cavalry from Li Feng's division to attack and kill, and Xiwang's own camp caught fire. Attacking from the east, the troops of the Liao army are terrified, and it can be broken."

Usually before the battle with the enemy, Xu Zhong only issued military orders and told the ministries to act according to the orders. He rarely said "nonsense", but at this time, he rarely said a few more words. After several battles, he found that this man was indeed wise and courageous, and his parts, especially the hundreds of cavalrymen, also dared to fight, so in order to boost morale and facilitate the "quick battle", he said more.

Zhang Fei, Xun Pu, He Yi and others all said, "Yes."

Arranged properly, the next day according to the implementation.

Ever since Lü Bu had withdrawn from Pingyu, Zhang Liao had been very vigilant. He had been following the movements of Xu Zhong's department at all times. He suddenly received a report that Xu Zhong had first sent officials to the north bank of Tanshui to collect ships, and then the next morning early in the morning. He led his troops out of the camp and headed for the Moshui River, as if he was going to cross the Henan, so Zhang Liao immediately summoned the foot soldiers, leaving only about 200 foot soldiers to guard the camp, and all the main forces were chasing from the west.

It has been raining and snowing for more than two days. Not only has it not stopped, but it has become more and more serious. The day before yesterday, there was no rain, it was all snow, and a layer of snow had accumulated on the ground. . Zhang Liao has been in the north for a long time and has rich experience. UU reading www. Before leaving the camp, uukanshu.com ordered the cavalry to wrap the horse's hooves with weeds and other objects to avoid slippage.

Considering whether this might be Xu Zhong's trick to lure him out of the camp and ambush him halfway, Zhang Liao was very cautious and sent his scouts out for a few miles. After leaving the camp for a long time, I did not see Xu Zhong's soldiers in ambush. Following the traces left by Xu Zhong's soldiers, they approached the bank of the Shushui River, and the scouts turned back and reported: There are hundreds of Xuzhou soldiers in front of them, waiting in line, and it is he who is holding the banner. The old opponent: the middle base captain Xun.

Zhang Liao asked carefully, and asked where Xun Pu's soldiers were in formation. Both sides were flat, and there were no soldiers in ambush. Zhang Liao put down his snacks a little and thought: "It seems that this is not Xu Junqing's cheating. He should really want to take advantage of the snowy weather and not be good for my cavalry to march forward to cross the Nanshui River to help Langling." Even so. Thinking, still not completely relieved, and sent a few scouts to detour to the river to inquire.

Not long after, several scouts came back to report one after another, and the contents of the reports were similar: because the Xuzhou soldiers were heavily guarded by the river, they could not approach, but could only watch from a distance. Soldiers are already crossing the river.

Zhang Liao made up his mind and thought: "Marquis Lu ordered me to watch over Xu Junqing's department, and not let him cross over to rescue Li Tong, but today we cannot let Xu Junqing cross south." He also thought, "As long as I break through the obstacles to my pursuit. I can take advantage of Xu Junqing's half-passage and rush towards him, perhaps not only preventing him from crossing, but also annihilating him in one fell swoop!"

Fighting against Xu Zhong for many days, Zhang Liao never took advantage of it. He even failed to defeat Xun Pu with his cavalry steps. After several challenges, Xu Zhong refused to close the base, which made him suffocated. The ** of victory is very strong.

Immediately, he sent an order: "Xu Junqing wants to escape, and the water is half-crossed, you wait for me to break Xun Mengtu first, and then destroy Junqing!"

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