Chapter 232 Counterattacking the enemy

Wu Fan's words actually have two meanings.

Naturally, there is no need for the people to kill. The so-called killing of the people actually refers to chasing Liu Bei. Because Liu Bei hid his army to the people, killing Liu Bei must kill the people.

That's why Wu Fan asked directly whether these people should be killed. The actual meaning was whether Liu Bei would be let go.

Guo Jia has followed Wu Fan for many years, and of course he knows what Wu Fan means, so he replied:

"Liu Bei naturally wants to kill, but it is good for the people to hurt innocent people as little as possible. I think that if the 240,000 people in Xinye City escape, the team will be bloated and soulless. In order to ensure that our army can escape safely when massacres the people, Liu Bei will definitely not be in the middle of the team, nor will it be behind the team, but at the front of the team. The governor may as well choose elite soldiers under the leadership of the general, pretend to be fleeing people, enter it quietly, and then..."

Guo Jia made a slash.

Wu Fan smiled slightly and nodded in agreement. At the same time, Wu Fan couldn't help but sigh: From now on, Guo Fengxiao and Zhuge Liang have already started to confront each other indirectly. This feeling of historical disobedience is really interesting, hahahaha...

At this time, the messenger sent by Li Zhan came to Wu Fan and told Wu Fan about the situation in Xinye City. Wu Fan asked Xinye if it was raining, and replied that it was no. Wu Fan laughed and said:

"Very good, this time we will use our tricks and have a good time playing Zhuge Liang."

Since Zhuge Liang made a careful deployment around Xinye City this time, there will inevitably be omissions when he or she dictated it to the messenger and then conveyed it to Li Zhan. Wu Fan ordered people to take paper and pen, and while carefully recalling Zhuge Liang's military deployment when burning Xinye, he wrote a letter to Li Zhan.

In the letter, Li Zhan told Li Zhan to just enter the city, bury the pot and cook, and open the four city gates to abstain from the enemy. Tonight, there will be a fire in the city, but there is no need to panic. The enemy will not take advantage of the situation to enter the city. Instead, there will be ambush at the four city gates. Among them, the three gates in the south, west and north are shouting and making gestures. Only the East Gate is silent, intending to lure our army out of the east gate. Then, the troops lying at the east gate will follow our army to attack; at the same time, the two armies holding the red flag and the green flag during the day will also appear and attack together, intending to drive our army to Baihe. At that time, water is released from the upper reaches, and there will be ambushers coming downstream. Even if our army is an elite, it will not be able to withstand such trouble, and there will be heavy casualties.

The introduction of the enemy's deployment was completed, and Li Zhan was intended to make sure that he was clear in his mind. The next step was to deal with the enemy's deployment and counter the enemy's deployment, that is, to use his own tricks.

When Wu Fan ordered Li Zhan to rush out of the west gate as quickly as possible when the city was inflamed. Then he divided the 100,000 troops into three routes, two of which went around the south and north of the city to the east gate, and the other route returned to the city to prepare for an ambush. Although the enemy troops ambushed at the east gate had the largest number of ambushers among the four city gates, they would not exceed 10,000. When they learned that our army rushed out of the west gate, their chief general would inevitably lead the army into the city, intending to attack our army from the rear from the nearest distance and obtain relevant information from our army. This was also the reason why the city gate was deliberately opened, so that they could enter the city at this time.

When this army enters the city, our army's ambush will rise up and lead the troops to withdraw from the east gate. At that time, the two troops from the south city and the north city to the east gate can intercept the army on both sides of the gate, so that even if they are not completely destroyed, it will be almost the same.

At this time, the two troops raised the red flag and the green flag during the day, about 6,000 people, were swaying in front of Cao's army, so Wu Fan knew very well that the two troops should have reached the East Gate, but they were defeated and fled to the East Gate. I have my own arrangements for the reason. You just need to join with our troops who were chasing these two troops and drive all the three defeated troops to the Baihe River. You don't have to worry about what happened afterwards. Just lead the troops back to Xinye, put out the fire in the city, and carry out some preliminary renovations to garrison.

This is the general meaning of the letter. Of course, Wu Fan wrote a much simpler description than the Grip A. The ancients' writing style can often replace the current sentence, which saves paper a lot.

After the messenger left with the letter, Wu Fan called Hua Xiong and others and made another arrangement for them-

The third brother Yan Liang and the fourth brother Wen Chou each led 10,000 troops and horses in the headquarters to take advantage of the night to ambush the area between the east gate of Xinye City and the north Quewei Slope. Tonight, a big fire will inevitably occur in Xinye City, and the two military horses that raised the red flag and the green flag during the day took this fire as a horn and rushed to the east gate. The two brothers ambushed the two military horses halfway and did not completely wipe them out, but ordered them to escape to the east gate under the frightened bow. The two brothers then led their troops to cover up and join our army that rushed out of the east gate, and rushed all the defeated troops to Baihe.

At that time, water will be released from the upper reaches of the Baihe River, and enemy troops will also rush up downstream, letting the enemy soldiers kill each other for a while. When the shouts of killing are gradually getting louder, the two brothers will lead their troops to attack and rush all the enemy troops gathered on the Baihe River to the river, and the mission will be completed. The two brothers can lead their troops back to the west gate of Xinye City. I will order people to build a camp here and go to the camp to rest.

He also ordered his second brother Hua Xiong to lead 10,000 troops to the level of the lower reaches of the Baihe River, but he hid among the dense forests and weeds to hold his troops unmoved. When the enemy guarding here rushed upstream in the middle of the night, he led his troops to follow him secretly. When the enemy shouted and killed more, he rushed forward and drove all the enemy troops gathered on the Baihe River to the river. The same task was completed, and the army could be led back to the military camp outside the west gate of Xinye to rest.

Then Lu Lingqi ordered his troops to lead 10,000 troops to the upper reaches of Baihe River, and lie in the dense forest and weeds to hold the troops unmoved. When the enemy guarding here broke the dike and released the water, he led his troops to follow him in secret. When the enemy shouted and killed him, he rushed forward and rushed all the enemy troops gathered on the Baihe River to the river. The mission was completed and he led his troops back to the barracks outside the west gate of Xinye City to rest.

Finally, Zhou Tai, who had the admiral skills, led 30,000 soldiers from the headquarters to 15 miles upstream of the Baihe River and sent a post to detect the movements of Liu Bei's army at the dam. After learning that Liu Bei's army had broken the embankment, he went downstream from the river and killed all the enemy troops encountered on the river. After killing the enemy completely, he could return to the barracks outside the west gate of Xinye City to rest.

Everyone received the order and led the army and horses of our headquarters to take action immediately. Wu Fan led the remaining nearly 300,000 troops to remain unmoved and sent nearly 100 sentries to inquire about the situation of various troops and horses so that there would be temporary changes and prompt responses.

However, after reading Wu Fan's letter, Li Zhan suddenly admired his master Wu Fan and felt ashamed of himself. Like everyone else, Li Zhan also thought that Wu Fan had sent back through the spy and expected the deployment of Liu Bei's army, so he had no doubts.

No matter how much they want to break their heads, they can't think of Wu Fan's true background.

After nightfall, around nine o'clock in the evening, the south wind suddenly rose, and a large number of fire arrows suddenly shot into the outside of the city, igniting the sulfur flames and other objects on the roofs of the houses. The entire Xinye Castle suddenly fell into the sea of ​​fire. The fire took advantage of the wind and the wind took advantage of the fire, and the fire burned extremely violently.

At the same time, the three city gates in the south, west and north began to shout and kill, but there was no movement in the east gate. Li Zhan smiled slightly and secretly praised in his heart, "Master is indeed as expected!", and then ordered the entire army to attack the west gate!

There were only a thousand Liu Bei's army shouting and making gestures at the West City Gate, but Li Zhan's troops were nearly 100,000, and they were all elite. These Liu Bei's army, who were shaking flags and shouting, were all defenseless and were killed in an instant! The remaining dozens of soldiers hurried to the east gate and reported to Zhao Yun who was ambushing here.

The troops led by Zhao Yun had about 7,000 people. Although there were not many, Zhao Yun was very brave. Besides, his strength was extraordinary. Even if he was trapped in thousands of troops, it would be difficult to hurt him at all. Therefore, he was not afraid of Li Zhan’s nearly 100,000 troops.

When Zhao Yun learned that Cao's army rushed out of the West Gate, he was surprised and thought of Zhuge Liang's previous arrangements no longer work, and then thought of following and chasing him while Cao's army was panicked and fleeing. At the same time, he also saw where Cao's army fled and reported to Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang afterwards.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yun led his 7,000 ambush troops directly into the city from the east gate. Just as he reached the gate of the palace city center, Li Zhan personally led 50,000 troops and horses suddenly swarmed out from all directions! Zhao Yun was shocked and rushed forward. How could he kill more and more Cao's troops? He immediately saw that the situation was not good, so he led the entire army back from the east gate.

As soon as he left the east gate, two other troops and horses led by Li Zhan on both sides of the official road were rushing out together, attacking left and right. In addition, Li Zhan led the team behind him to cover the killing, Zhao Yun's army suffered heavy casualties, leaving only more than 1,000 people. He didn't care much in panic and had to flee south.

At the same time, Yu Fang and Guan Ping also led their defeated troops to chase the East Gate by Yan Liang and Wen Chou. Li Zhan and Yan Liang and Wen Chou gathered together, and chased Zhao Yun, Yu Fang and Guan Ping three defeated troops, followed the official road and drove the defeated troops to the Baihe south.

Besides, Liu Feng, located at the upper reaches of the Baihe River, had already stopped Baihe River and was waiting for the arrival of Cao's army downstream. Suddenly, in the dark, when the people downstream shouted and neighed, Liu Feng immediately dug the river embankment and let the water flood according to Zhuge Liang's previous instructions. At the same time, he led his army to fight downstream along the northern river bank.

Zhang Fei, who was guarding the Boling Ferry, also led his 5,000 troops to rush up. Liu Feng and Zhang Fei had been ambushing for a long time. Seeing that the battle situation was exactly the same as what Zhuge Liang said, he thought that Cao's army had indeed been trapped. Each of them had a great boost in morale and the ambushing plan was successful. His morale increased and his courage was unstoppable. He rushed towards the military in the dark.

So, Liu Feng, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Qing Fang, and Guan Ping, the five Liu Bei troops fought together on the edge of the Baihe River. In addition, Liu Feng was flooded, Zhao Yun's three defeated troops were killed in an instant and were basically wiped out.

During the battle, Zhao Yun shouted, "Don't attack, we are our own people!" Liu Feng and Zhang Fei's soldiers were reluctant to listen. They thought that the Cao army was confusing them, and Zhao Yun could not pick dozens of people in succession. Finally, they finally found Zhang Fei. As soon as the two met, Zhang Fei realized that he had killed his own people by mistake and hurriedly ordered the entire army to stop attacking.

On the other hand, Yu Fang and Guan Ping also met Liu Feng. At this point, the farce of Liu Bei's army killing each other gradually subsided.

Although the farce lasted only two minutes, it wiped out all the defeated troops of Zhao Yun and the other three groups. At the same time, Zhang Fei and Liu Feng's army also lost about a thousand people.

The farce had just been put out, and before Zhang Fei and Liu Feng could find out what was going on, Hua Xiong, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Lu Lingqi, and Li Zhan rushed up like a rush of horses!

At this time, only Zhang Fei and Liu Feng were left in this Liu Bei army. There were only 7,000 people together. How could they resist the 50,000 army pounce? After leaving behind two or three thousand corpses, all the rest were driven to the river. Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Liu Feng, Guan Ping, and Qing Fang, none of these five people had the skills of admiral, and countless people drowned Liu Bei's army.

At the same time, Zhou Tai led 30,000 troops to arrive here in a row from the upper reaches. After a water battle, Liu Bei's army was wiped out, and the bodies blocked the already small Baihe River.

When the general led his troops to return to the west gate of Xinye City in advance, Wu Fan had already ordered 70,000 Qingzhou fighters to build a camp here, and the soldiers of Cao's army were able to enter the camp to rest immediately. In terms of military merits, Wu Fan ordered civil servants to register the achievements of everyone, and asked Cao Cao for rewards after dawn, and took this opportunity to give the Snake Spear to his disciple Li Zhan. Everything was natural.

This time, Cao's army suffered less than 300 casualties, but it annihilated more than 20,000 Liu Bei's army! It directly put Liu Bei in a situation of being a commander-in-law and almost no soldiers were available.

He temporarily arrested Cao's army and returned to the camp to rest. Let's talk about Liu Bei.

In the afternoon, Liu Bei, who was almost killed by Wu Fan on Quewei Slope, was so scared that he fled back to the south bank of Baihe with Zhuge Liang in a mess. Liu Bei still felt uneasy enough and walked with the fleeing people for a long time until it was fifty miles away from Xinye at night, and then he dared to stop.

During this period, Zhuge Liang was always with Liu Bei. He originally planned to drink and play music on Queweipo while calming Hou Jieyin, but now it seems that it is not possible. He had to send a sentry to inquire about the movements on Xinye when he escaped with Liu Bei, so as to listen to the good news on Hou's front line.

This is also Zhuge Liang's last hope. He really couldn't figure out why he repeatedly set up detailed plans, but was repeatedly broken by Wu Fan. If he really couldn't figure it out, Zhuge Liang could only think that it was a result of luck, which made Wu Fan accidentally break his plan.

As for the entire military deployment of Huo Xinye, Zhuge Liang believed that there was no flaw. Even if Wu Fan was lucky, his army could not seriously damage Cao's army, at least it could hit Cao's arrogance. Moreover, Zhuge Liang believed that fateful Libra would not always be biased towards Wu Fan. If so, Huo Xinye would cause heavy losses to Cao's army.

However, things went against my wishes. When Zhuge Liang learned from the whistle that the garrison in Xinye City had lit a fire in the city and did not go to the east gate and changed to the west gate, he felt that something was wrong. He quickly sent a messenger to Xinye, ordering Zhao Yun and others to give up their plan to ambush Cao's army and withdraw them all.

But I knew that the situation was going a step faster. When the messenger arrived at the Baihe River, Zhou Tai had already wiped out all the armies of Zhang Fei and Liu Feng who fell into the water. The only 24,000 ambush troops were Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Guan Ping and Liu Feng. In this battle, Qing Fang was also drowned at the bottom of the river and was drowned.

The four of them returned to Liu Bei's side overnight with no war horses, and walked all the way back. After Liu Bei learned about the situation of the battle, he was stunned for a while and turned to cry. Although he was calling General Shi and more than 20,000 soldiers, he was actually crying that his luck might not be long.

The most sad thing about the news of the annihilation of the entire army was Liu Bei, and the most surprised was Zhuge Liang. After learning the news, Zhuge Liang was stunned for a while and thought to himself: Could this Wu Fan be the nemesis of my Zhuge Liang's fate? Could it be that even God believes that the world should be unified by Cao Cao, but does not agree with my three-point idea?

No! Cao Cao is a traitor of the Han Dynasty, who blasphemed the orthodox and ignored the imperial power. I, Zhuge Liang, must not allow Cao Cao to unify the world, I vow to go with Cao. After all, Zhuge Liang's ideas were confined by the orthodox ideas of feudal kings in this era. He did not realize that the root of the country was the people, but regarded the people as grass, and was born to rule the king. As for the king's injustice and the people's life, and even the people were suffering from disasters, it was indifferent. All the following behaviors that were committed by the superiors were ruling and unforgivable.

In other words, this is the ancient king version of the current Chinese official-oriented thought.

People are not perfect, and so is Zhuge Liang.

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The next morning, at about 10 o'clock in the morning, the Second Corps led by Wu Fan was already resting after a lot of sleep. After dinner, Wu Fan immediately led his army to chase Liu Bei. At the same time, he sent someone to inform Cao Cao and presented the military merit book he had recorded last night with Cao bsp. In Xinye City, Han Sui and his eight cavalry were left to guard the city. More than 10,000 troops and horses of Han Sui's headquarters were also kept as the city guard. Han Sui was appointed as the prefect of Xinye, and the city policy was to "prevent Xiangyang". At the same time, people were sent to Wancheng and ordered Wancheng prefect Xun Yu to dispatch another 5,000 troops to Xinye to strengthen the Xinye garrison.

Xinye is now the only enemy city that is about to be taken over, which is Liu Biao's power. Liu Biao was afraid of Cao's army and was afraid of sending troops to rescue Liu Bei. Now, Wu Fan believes that Liu Biao will never have any thoughts about Xinye, which has become the city of Cao's army. Moreover, even if Liu Biao wants to have any thoughts, Han Sui is not a waste of food. It is still no problem to defend Xinye in front of the generals and ministers under Liu Biao.

The distance between Xinye and Fancheng takes about three or four days, and it takes seven or eight days for the people to lead their families to Fancheng.

After Wu Fan led his army to walk slowly, he deliberately walked very slowly, and looked helpless against the people who were walking in the middle of the road. After Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang learned about this, they finally felt a little relieved after a series of blows, believing that this Tibetan army's plan for the people finally left Wu Fan helpless.
Chapter completed!