Day 077
However, on the fifth day of Wu Fan's vanguard, he led 20,000 troops on the official road to Pengcheng County.
There are many flat lands in the Central Plains, and there is a rare hilly hill. Looking around, a flat mountain. Despite this, Wu Fan still sent twelve squads to investigate the team on the left, front and right directions, and thirty miles apart.
"Report! A village was found ten miles ahead, named Zhaojiazhuang. There was no one in the village, and all the villagers had withdrawn."
A detective reported to Wu Fan in front of the horse.
Wu Fan looked up at the sky. There were clouds rolling in the southeast, and the cool breeze was a sign of rainy day. It was approaching supper time. Since the villagers in this village had already withdrawn, they might as well go to the village to shelter from the rain and then use the villagers' stove to make dinner.
After thinking about this, Wu Fan led the entire army toward Zhaojiazhuang.
When he arrived in front of the village, Wu Fan immediately raised his hand, and the army behind him immediately stopped. Then, Wu Fan ordered Xiahou Yuan to take a team to the village to see if there were any ambushing the traps or something. Xiahou Yuan took the order and left.
A moment later, Xiahou Yuan returned and said to Wu Fan:
"Sir, there are no ambush or work items in the village, but a large amount of firewood has been turned down, as if it is to lead our army into the fire to attack."
Wu Fan frowned slightly when he heard Xiahou Yuan say this.
Xiahou Yuan's intelligence is 56 points, which is not very high. It seems that the other party is really a stupid guy with a plan that can be seen through at a glance. However, after counting the generals under Tao Qian, there are really a few people who are capable of it at this level.
At this time, the cool breeze had already brought rain stars, and the sky was covered with clouds, and a heavy rain would soon come. Wu Fan turned his head and looked at a small hill about three miles away from the village. The sparse trees on it could not hide the army, but it was not a problem to hide one or two sentry detectives.
I guess the enemy is observing his every move at this time.
A chuckled faintly at the corner of Wu Fan's mouth, and then pointed the whip in his hand at the village and ordered the soldiers to enter the village to shelter from the rain to make rice.
Originally, Wu Fan believed that with Tao Qian's military strength and his military generals, facing the pressure of Cao's army, he would adopt conservative tactics to play the strong walls and clear the fields, waiting for reinforcements to come to rescue. Although this tactic is negative, it is a wise move that Tao Qian could use at this time.
However, he did not expect that Tao Qian would actually dare to send someone to take the initiative, which hit Wu Fan's mind. After several days of marching, the soldiers were so tired that they took advantage of this battle to strengthen the morale of their army.
Tonight, there will be a thunderstorm, and the enemy's fire attack plan has been completely ruined. Therefore, Wu Fan deliberately led his troops into the village to attract the enemy to attack and kill him without any return!
There is a saying that soldiers never get tired of deceit. Wu Fan also thought about whether the enemy deliberately showed it to be weak and numb himself. Wu Fan also hesitated for a moment when entering the village or not entering the village. However, Wu Fan is not lacking in the spirit of adventure, and also has some sense of being skilled and brave. How can a tiger be born if he doesn't enter the tiger's den? Wu Fan decided to use a trick for the enemy, deliberately showing himself to be very reckless in front of the enemy, so that the enemy would take it lightly.
This Zhaojiazhuang is only more than 20 miles away from Pengcheng, and it is quite large. After 20,000 people entered the village, they could actually accommodate them. While the soldiers were catching chickens and pigs, making fires and cooking, Wu Fan led his generals Hua Xiong and Xiahou Yuan to walk in the village for a while and investigated.
As Xiahou Yuan said, there was no work in the village, only firewood was scattered everywhere in the village, and the artificial signs were very obvious.
After all, the villagers did not take away the daily necessities such as bowls, chopsticks, kitchen knives and other daily necessities at the villagers' homes, the villagers were in a hurry at that time. It must have been the enemy's temporary driving the villagers away, but because our army was very close to this place, the enemy had no time to dig a trap, so they had to scatter the firewood and grass. They wanted to use rockets to ignite these firewood and grass in the evening while our army was sleeping, and rushed into the village in the chaos and caught our army off guard.
Wu Fan shook his head secretly. It would be fine if he had two clumsy plans, but God was not good enough. This general was unlucky enough.
A muffled thunder rolled over and raindrops began to fall. Wu Fan threw away a straw in his hand and said to the soldiers:
"You can find a place to shelter from the rain, have a lot of food and have a rest, and have a short rest. The distance between the cavalry and the horse must not exceed ten steps!"
The soldiers were waiting for Wu Fan's words, cheering happily, and they entered the villagers' houses, woodsheds and other buildings. They had a beautiful dinner in the thunderstorm with a warm heat.
After Wu Fan, Hua Xiong and Xiahou Yuan had dinner in the hall of a wealthy family, the time was already around 8:30 at night, and the sky was completely dark, but the rain was getting heavier and heavier.
Wu Fan came to the window and opened it. He saw heavy rain like a pouring rain. Sometimes one or two lightning flashed across the night sky, outlining the outline of the entire village, and instantly hiding into the boundless darkness.
It was raining so hard, and the water on the ground was like a river. It was really hard for the enemy troops who were ambushing outside the village. At this moment, Wu even had a little doubt that the enemy would be beaten by the heavy rain, and then retreated directly?
Instead, Wu Fan felt that he was too worried. What actions the enemy should take was the enemy's business. He just took the initiative and made arrangements according to the original plan to be prepared for any eventuality!
Thinking of this, Wu Fan ordered a guard beside him to call the messenger resting in the wing rooms on both sides of the courtyard.
A moment later, dozens of commanders came to Wu Fan one after another. Wu Fan explained to them like this. After everyone took the order, they disappeared into the night.
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Five miles outside Zhaojia Village, there is a wilderness covered with weeds.
Cao Bao's whole body was already wet, and his trouser legs were filled with water. He looked up and wanted to look at the sky, but was unable to open his eyes because of the rain.
"Damn, this damn ghost weather has caused this general's plan to attack the fire!"
Cao Bao cursed. This so-called fire attack plan has already developed Cao Bao's IQ to the limit and finally came up with it temporarily. It ended in vain. Cao Bao's depressed mood at this moment can be imagined.
Looking back at the five thousand soldiers who were photographed as slaughtered, then looking at the morale, it had dropped to 50 points. Cao Bao shouted in anger:
"Everyone straightens my waist, don't look fucking weak!"
A guard beside him said bitterly:
"Sir, we have been watering the heavy rain for almost two hours, and our morale has been greatly affected. However, the Cao army's vanguard troops were sheltering from the rain in the village and waiting for their hard work. We are afraid that it will be difficult for us to win when we enter the village."
The guard said all the soldiers' thoughts, and everyone nodded repeatedly to join in.
However, Cao Bao suddenly pulled out his sword from his waist and stabbed it into the guard's abdomen. Then he raised his leg and kicked it. The guard fell backwards and fell into a piece of mud.
"Whoever dares to mess with our morale will end up like him!"
Cao Bao carried a sword in his hand and shouted to everyone.
Five thousand soldiers were shocked and dared not say more.
Seeing this, Cao Bao was quite proud and said loudly:
"Wu Fan, the vanguard of Cao's army, is said to be quite capable. In my opinion, he is just a person who is unscheming! If it weren't for heavy rain this time, he would have died under our arms attack. Although the fire attack cannot be achieved, it is unlikely that this person who is unscheming will not be wary of it. Our army took advantage of the night to break into the village and take its head, which is a great achievement!"
After saying that, Cao Bao waved the iron fork in his hand and led five thousand soldiers toward Zhaojiazhuang with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
I entered Zhuangkou, but there was no soldier on duty, but I saw lights in several houses near Zhuangkou, and the sound of rock-scissors and orders was heard endlessly.
Cao Bao sneered and said in his heart: General Tiance Wu Fan is just like this. He is so relaxed in his military management. He thinks he is a fool. When the lord heard his name, he was shocked. I will take his head off this time and go back to invite him to reward him!
Thinking of this, Cao Bao looked into the village for a moment, and saw that the lights were on in the village, and Wu Fan must be there. So Cao Bao, who was determined to have a beheading operation, waved his hand to everyone behind him and hugged the wealthy family.
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At the same time, in several houses with lights at the entrance of the village.
Chapter completed!