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When Wu Fan, Zhao Yun and Lu Lingqi led 300 cavalry to the Changsha territory of Miluo County, it was around 8:30 at night. The 170,000 infantry soldiers of Wu Fan's army were about ten miles away from the 100,000 coalition forces of the four counties in Jingnan. Under Wu Fan's order, 170,000 Cao's army stopped advancing and set up camp on the spot.

The main troops of the four counties in Jingnan were archers. When they learned that Wu Fan's 170,000 troops were all infantry, they knew that they could not fight against them at all, so they stopped advancing in advance and set up camps. They intended to wait until Liu Yan's army and Gao Shun's army arrived at Jiangling City first and ordered Wu Fan's army to continue to advance when they could not take care of each other.

What the four prefects of Jingnan never dreamed of was that less than one time Liu Yan's army and Wu Fan's army confronted each other, the entire army was dispersed and retreated to Shu. At this time, the stalkers they sent were still on the way to Jiabei Road.

The coalition forces of the four counties in Jingnan stopped advancing, and Zhou Tai continued to march south as Wu Fan had given instructions in advance until Wu Fan arrived in time, and then stopped.

This is not Zhou Tai's dementia, but Wu Fan was determined to lead his army forward.

One more time later, these 170,000 troops will fight with the coalition forces of the four counties in Jingnan. Since two of them have no chief generals, the losses will be very heavy.

In terms of time, Wu Fan grasped it just right, and it can be said that everything was under Wu Fan's plan. In this regard, Zhao Yun, who was leading the army with Wu Fan for the first time, admired him very much, and finally understood why Wu Fan was called the ever-winning general.

Since this battle is striving to fight and focus on Gao Shun's army, Wu Fan will naturally not waste time with the enemy here. At three o'clock in the morning, Wu Fan personally led 170,000 infantry to attack the camp of the four counties of Jingnan. After paying more than a thousand casualties, the gate of the camp was opened, and the 170,000 infantry rushed into the camp like a tide, leaving the coalition forces of the four counties of Jingnan without any way to resist. The body of the Jingnan Prefect was left behind and the Jingnan Prefect fled back while the night was night.

After repelling the coalition forces of the four counties in Jingnan, Wu Fan did not stop, but immediately led the entire army back to Jiangling overnight, so as not to prevent Zhuge Liang from sneak attacking Jiangling City while he was leading the army.

The next afternoon, after a rushing march day and night, Wu Fan led his army back to Jiangling City. What surprised him was that Zhuge Liang did not send troops to attack the attack. I wonder what the monster was thinking, was it just because he did not expect that he would attack the other two troops and was at a loss for a moment?

Wu Fan expressed doubts about this.

To be on the safe side, Wu Fan found a captain in the army and paid him 300 gold to settle the old man in his family, allowing him to get involved in Gao Shun's army and become his own eyewitness so that he could repay Zhuge Liang's military movements in a timely manner.

The lieutenant was named Li Kun, who was originally a soldier under Huang Zu. After Wu Fan acquired Jiangling City, he became a prisoner. Later, he was incorporated into the Cao army and became a member of the Guards. Seeing that he performed very well in the attack on the coalition forces of the four counties in Jingnan, Wu Fan thought of letting him do something for his own eyes.

In fact, Wu Fan's subordinates have many soldiers who are trustworthy, but they are basically soldiers from the north. Wu Fan's old subordinates followed Wu Fan to fight in the east for many years, and it would be very difficult for them to get into Gao Shun's army to act as eyeliners. Not to mention anything else, if you speak just by speaking, the accent of people who are not from Jingchu, which will immediately attract the attention of others. It is naturally undesirable for an eyeliner to attract the attention of people around you.

Because of this reason, Wu Fan chose Li Kun, who had just defected to him for a while.

As a local, Li Kun's accent will definitely not attract attention; and his family is all in Jiangling City, Wu Fan gave him a considerable amount of settlement fee, and the chance of rebellion is very high.

After receiving the order, Li Kun disguised himself as he disguised himself and left the Cao army camp after night that day. He ran twenty miles in one breath and hid in a wood outside the Gaoshun army camp. The next morning, before the sky was completely bright, hundreds of soldiers who picked up dead branches and made fires and cooked food came out of Gaoshun camp. Li Kun mixed among these soldiers, picked up some dead branches and firewood, and then returned to Gaoshun army camp together.

Although Gao Shun was strict in his military management, his command and intelligence were placed there. No matter how strict he was, he could not be as sensible as Wu Fan. He could not even imagine a fly. Moreover, in the first two battles against Jiangling, Liu Biao lost nearly 300,000 troops. More than half of the 150,000 troops led by Gao Shun were temporarily recruited, lacking the vigilance of experienced soldiers. No one cared about such an extra soldier around him.

After breakfast, Zhuge Liang sat in his military tent, watching the soldiers walking back and forth outside the tent, frowned.

Zhuge Liang had already received the news that Wu Fan led his army to attack the coalition forces of Liu Yan's army and the four counties in Jingnan. However, when he received these two messages, Wu Fan was already on his way back to Jiangling. Zhuge Liang thought about it over and over again, believing that he was not sure to take down Jiangling City in such a short time, and perhaps Wu Fan led his surprise troops to block the retreat, and surrounded the 150,000 troops around Jiangling City.

If that were the case, these 150,000 troops would basically be completely destroyed. After all, the combat power of the two armies was too different and they could not face the enemy head-on.

Even if they are not completely destroyed and escape by chance, the morale of the army will inevitably be greatly affected. The next step is to lead the army to retreat.

Therefore, after learning that Liu Yan and the four coalition forces of Jingnan counties were all defeated, Zhuge Liang did not take any action.

Of course, he was not idle either. He had been thinking about the strategy of attacking Jiangling City these two days.

This time the expedition to Jiangling was approved by Zhuge Liang repeatedly proposed to Liu Biao. Zhuge Liang also regarded this expedition very important. After all, Jiangling City was located in a special location. If Jiangling did not retake Jiangling, the anti-Cao Alliance would not be able to send all the troops to confront Cao's army. Because everyone scored some of the troops to stay in the back to guard against Jiangling.

As a result, Zhuge Liang sent a sensible and discerning person to lobby against Liu Yan and the prefect of the four counties of Jingnan. Finally, he said that these two forces sent a joint army to attack Jiangling, but was defeated by Wu Fan's surprise. This surprised Zhuge Liang, but even so, Zhuge Liang did not intend to lead his troops back.

After thinking about it, Zhuge Liang decided to send a death-long confusion of Wu Fan, and then make arrangements on his own, luring Wu Fan to attack before trapping him. As long as Wu Fan can be trapped, no matter how many defenders in Jiangling are, in Zhuge Liang's eyes, it will be nothing.

After making up his mind, Zhuge Liang ordered people to inform Gao Shun and other generals to go to the Central Army to discuss matters. Although Zhuge Liang was named the military advisor to participate in the war, his relationship with Liu Biao was extraordinary. Even as the general, Gao Shun had to obey his assignment. In a sense, Zhuge Liang was the general of these 150,000 troops.

The next moment, all the generals in Gao Shun's army, Zhuge Liang, Gao Shun, Zhang Fei, Su Fei, Wu Ju, Liu Pan and Wang Wei, gathered in the central army tent. Seeing that everyone had arrived, Zhuge Liang told everyone about his plan.

At the same time, Li Kun, who was mixed into Gaoshun's army, was wandering near the central army's tent. Seeing a soldier carrying a teapot heading towards the central army's tent, Li Kun hurriedly stopped him halfway and said to the soldier in a scolding tone:

"The generals are dry and dry. Why are you coming here slowly? Give me the teapot and go back and cook a few more pots!"

Without saying anything, Li Kun had already snatched the teapot and went straight to the central army's tent. The soldier was stunned for a moment, turned around and continued to boil water.

When Li Kun carried the teapot into the central army's tent, he saw two guards standing among the crowd. Zhuge Liang said to the two guards:

"I will order people to take good care of you and take care of you and keep you safe and have no worries about food and clothing. This is 200 taels of gold, and I will order someone to send it to your two families later."

These two guards were the candidates for death selected by Zhuge Liang. According to Zhuge Liang's plan, the two of them dressed up as business travelers and went to Yizhou and Yangzhou respectively, and then pretended to be returning from these two places, and deliberately were caught by Cao's army in Jiangling. They hid the letters written by Zhuge Liang in advance, and they were in the tone of Liu Yan and Sun Jian, saying that they would send a joint army to attack Jiangling soon, and so on.

At that time, according to the date of dispatch in the letter, Zhuge Liang believed that Wu Fan would definitely use the same trick again and staged a trick of attacking him one after another. However, he was ambushing in secret and lured Wu Fan to the ambush site. Even if he could not kill Wu Fan, it would be enough to trap him for a long time.

Then, he used the trick of doubting the troops to scatter the Jiangling defenders, and finally concentrated his superior forces to capture Jiangling City in one fell swoop.

The two guards were not willing. However, in the army of this era, there was no reason for the general to kill his subordinates; they could still get two hundred gold before they died, and their families were guaranteed, which was worth it.

Therefore, although the two were reluctant, they could only admit that they were unlucky. After hearing Zhuge Liang's words, they nodded to show that they understood. Then, Zhuge Liang ordered the civil servants to compile two letters of letters in the tone of Liu Yan and Sun Jian, and asked the two to take them with them, and immediately leave the camp and act according to the plan.

While writing letters by civil servants, Zhuge Liang had already told the generals about his next arrangement. Li Kun deliberately slowed down his movements and brewed tea one by one for everyone, and roughly listened to Zhuge Liang's arrangements with everyone. After brewing all the tea cups, before leaving the account, Li Kun heard Zhuge Liang finally tell everyone about the role he wanted to play in this operation - Wu Fan and the main general led their troops outside, and they would inevitably appoint Guo Jia as the general of the left-behind general. Guo Jia's plan was very high, so he would definitely be suspicious of this. I used the empty army...

Li Kun behind him did not hear it. He had already brewed tea for everyone and could not stay in the tent for a long time to avoid being noticed.

That night, Li Kun scrambled among the soldiers who were patrolling the camp and sneaked away halfway and returned to Jiangling City.

...

"Governor, this is what happens to people who get it."

In the prefect's mansion, Wu Fan sat beside the bed in the bedroom, and Li Kun stood in front of him and told Wu Fan all the time.

Wu Fan nodded repeatedly when he heard this. The information Li Kun said was too useful to him. If he hadn't sent Li Kun to infiltrate Gao Shun's army and learned the inside story; if he was caught in the future, he would have been very likely to have fallen into Zhuge Liang's trick.

As a result, Wu Fan was very happy and reached out to touch his arms. Fortunately, he had always had the habit of bringing some scattered gold around him for emergencies. He took out more than 20 taels of gold and handed it to Li Kun as a reward. Li Kun was even more surprised by this and took it with both hands respectfully.

At this time, it was around 0:30 in the morning. In order not to expose Li Kun's identity, Wu Fan asked Li Kun to go back to Gaoshun's military camp immediately, not to stay in the city for a long time, let alone visit the elderly at home, so as not to be sad and slutty, and waste time.

Li Kun received the order and immediately left the city and rushed towards Gaoshun’s military camp. He was still lurking in the woods outside the military camp, waiting for dawn to get into the soldiers picking up dead branches and firewood and enter the military camp.

Let Li Kun not say this for the time being, just talk about Wu Fan's side.

Two days later, at night, soldiers patrolling around Jiangling City indeed showed up the two deadly sent by Zhuge Liang and brought them back to the city.

It is difficult for these two people to show their performances between death.

According to Zhuge Liang's arrangement, they deliberately rushed to the road against Wu Fanjun who was patrolling at night. After meeting Wu Fanjun, they pretended to be very panicked. The captain in charge of the patrol felt that the two were suspicious. As soon as they searched, they found that they each had a letter of books and letters, so they were taken to the main palace of the palace and handed over to Wu Fanluo.

At this time, Wu Fan sat on the main hall and pretended to read the letters they had collected. According to the letter, Sun Jian's army would arrive in Yiling County east of Jiangling City the evening after tomorrow and set up camps; while Liu Yan's army would arrive in Wulin Valley, Wulin County west of Jiangling City tomorrow evening, and also set up camps there, waiting to support Gao Shun's army.

Wulin Valley is one of the rare valleys in Jiangling. The valley has a long and narrow terrain, with both sides blocked by mountains, and the valley is covered with weeds. If it weren't for the information Li Kun provided to Wufan in advance, Wu Fan would have been able to lead his troops to Wulin Valley, defeat Liu Yan's army who came first, and then return to the army to attack Sun Jian's army.

If that were the case, Wu Fan would have been fooled by Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang sent 100,000 soldiers in Wulin Valley, and had already set up an ambush in advance. He also set up a Void Camp in the valley, which contained a large number of fire-induced objects. Once Wu Fan led his army into the camp, he would inevitably be trapped in the sea of ​​fire! At that time, there would be 50,000 soldiers at both ends of the valley, accompanied by falling rocks and rolling wood rolling down the hillsides on both sides. Even if Wu Fan escaped from the sea of ​​fire without any injuries and led his troops to break out of Wulin Valley, it would take at least twenty hours, and he would have to suffer a lot of casualties.

By that time, when Wu Fan led his army out of the valley entrance, Jiangling City had been captured by Zhuge Liang using a trick.

This strategy is really vicious!

After putting down the letter, Wu Fan said nothing and looked at the two dead people kneeling in front of him for a long time. The two dead people were seen so hard that they didn't know what Wu Fan was thinking.

In fact, Wu Fan was determined to buy these two dead and think of a way to let them go back. However, after thinking about it, Wu Fan thought that it would be better not to destroy Zhuge Liang's prior arrangements, so as not to notice that his plan was exposed and change his military deployment.

With this idea, Wu Fan ordered people to push the two of them out and kill them directly. Then, he made some arrangements for Zhuge Liang's deployment.

This arrangement was carried out in a very secret situation, and the site was selected in the lobby of the prefect's mansion, not the main hall of the palace city; only Wu Fan and several important generals and ministers were present, and all the servants were cleared out to avoid leaking the news.

After all, Wu Fan has a spy in Gao Shun's army, so he must be careful whether the other party will set up an inner friend here.

After the arrangement, all the generals took the order and left. Wu Fan was sitting in the lobby looking at the map. Qiao walked up to the hall with his arms swung.

"Hey, you were so mysterious here with your subordinates just now, and you were not allowed to even get close to your servants, so what are you doing?"

Qiao never called Wu Fan's name, let alone official title, but a "heat", which was simple and direct.

Wu Fan didn't raise his head and said casually:

"I'm thinking about how to deal with Zhuge Liang."

Qiao picked up an apple from the fruit plate on Wu Fan’s table and was about to eat it. When he heard Zhuge Liang, he immediately shouted and said excitedly:

"Zhuge Liang? That is the most famous figure in the Three Kingdoms, the representative of the wise. How do you deal with him? Will you take him to his subordinates in the end? I see many people who traveled to the Three Kingdoms. The protagonists finally took Zhuge Liang as their younger brother. You can't escape this rule, right?"

Wu Fan smiled faintly and said without expression:

"Kill him."

Qiao was stunned and said:

"Kill him? Why? Don't you think Zhuge Liang is resourceful? Isn't it good to have such a person as a subordinate?"

Wu Fan moved his eyes away from the map, looked up at Qiao and said:

"It seems that I have to give you a humanities lesson. Zhuge Liang is smart, but his talent is limited to discernment and strategy. Politically, his consciousness is limited by feudal orthodox ideas. He regards the world as an emperor as an appendage, just like a slave, who should be the so-called true emperor for his whole life. In our era, this kind of thought is a standard crime against humanity, ignoring the voice of the people, ignoring the general trend of the world and acting alone, even if millions of people die in wars, he will have no regrets."

Speaking of this, Wu Fan picked up an apple from the fruit plate, took a bite and continued:

"From Zhuge Liang's official career to the present, at least 500,000 people have died directly or indirectly because of his role. If he hadn't proposed that Liu Biao join forces with Sun Jian and other princes to fight against Cao's army, among which Liu Yan, Yizhou and Jingnan counties would basically surrender to our Cao army. At present, although these four princes united together cannot stop our Cao army from the end of the world, in this process, there would be at least millions of casualties. The reason why these more than one million people died in the battlefield was due to Zhuge Liang's so-called orthodox thought."

Finally, Wu Fan looked at Qiao and said:

"Do you think I need to keep him for such a paranoid second-hand man?"

Qiao was stunned for a while when he heard this, he turned and doubted:
Chapter completed!