On April 6, Lu Zhi led his army across the Zhang River and set up camp on the north bank of the Zhang River. He confronted the Yellow Turban Army across the Zhang River, and lived in the northwest-to-south-to-south-to-south-to-south-to-south-to-south-to-south-to-south-to-south-to-south-to-south-to-south-to-south

Starting from April 7, both sides began small-scale wars such as crossing the river and spying, fighting a tentative outpost battle to test the opponent's strength.

Several consecutive small-scale encounters ended with the victory of the Han army. The Han army killed hundreds of Yellow Turban Army, which slightly slapped the spirit of the Yellow Turban Army. However, a small failure did not hinder the overall situation, and Zhang Jiao quickly revitalized the morale of the army.

Through the outpost battle, Lu Zhi learned that the Yellow Turban Army's combat ability was very low, and it was entirely due to its momentum and courageous move forward. Once defeated, it would definitely achieve an unprecedented victory.

Lu Zhi sent people to investigate the camps of the Yellow Turban Army near Yecheng and found out that the Yellow Turban Army had dug many ditches and refused to fight against the cavalry. So he knew that the Yellow Turban Army did not have many cavalry, nor did he dare to fight against the cavalry of the Han army, and knew one of the major weaknesses of the Yellow Turban Army.

At the same time, Lu Zhi also learned about the current situation of the Yellow Turban Army's eagerness to win.

Guo Peng followed Lu Zhi to observe the battle of the Yellow Turban Army for several days. Lu Zhi asked Guo Peng about his opinion. Guo Peng thought about it and then told Lu Zhi what he thought.

Guo Peng believed that the Yellow Turban Army relied on a momentum to support them, which meant that Zhang Jiao and the Yellow Turban thieves created an illusion, making them think that they were extremely powerful, while the Han army was just a paper tiger.

When Lu Zhi first came, his victory in the small battle did not arouse the fear of the Yellow Turban Army, but made the Yellow Turban Army more and more irritable, and he wanted to defeat Lu Zhi immediately to ensure a complete victory.

Zhang Jiao may not know that this kind of emotion is dangerous, but he dared not suppress it, for fear that the illusion would be exposed. The Yellow Turban thieves realized the fact that they were just a group of little sluts again.

Lu Zhi can counter this sentiment and deceiving defeat, inducing the main force of the Yellow Turban Army to dispatch.

"The Yellow Turban Thieves have never been defeated since the rise of their army. The officials fled wherever they go, so they despise our army. Why don't our army take the initiative to attack and then pretend to be defeated and lure the Yellow Turban Army to pursue our army. They can make them escape from the ravines and ravines. At that time, the cavalry that our army has been preparing for a long time will be defeated in one move!"

Lu Zhi already had this idea and asked Guo Peng that he wanted to test Guo Peng's ability, but the result made him very satisfied.

However, there is still a long distance from speaking out to fully implementing the strategy.

Guo Peng understood the psychology of the Yellow Turban Army and knew how to use their emotions to defeat them, but how to dispatch troops and generals to assign tasks was not a skill he could master.

Lu Zhi taught the method verbally, but Guo Peng had no idea how to use it when things were about to happen.

So Guo Peng paid attention to how Lu Zhi dispatched troops and assigned tasks.

Fake defeat is definitely not just these two words.

It seems very simple. Two armies are fighting. One army pretends to be defeated and then flees, the other army pursues it, and then is led into an ambush. Together with the ambush, the enemy will be defeated.

People are blindly obedient. On the battlefield of tens of thousands of people, can they tell every soldier about the strategy of deception and defeat?

The soldiers will only think that this is really defeated and are busy running away, so why bother with your plan?

At that time, the army will be in chaos and fleeing in scattered areas, just thinking about escaping. Who will lead the superior enemy into the ambush circle?

It’s easy to say, but only two words are written, and it’s too difficult to implement.

If you lose, you must be defeated in a regular manner. You must not be too messy and lose control. You must not have any sincerity. At least you must make the opponent's coach believe that you are really defeated. You must also have more backup plans and several plans to ensure that you will not lose your game and be wiped out.

Military arts are military arts, and reality is reality. If copying and copying military arts can only end up with defeat.

After Lu Zhi taught Guo Peng this way, he asked Guo Peng another question.

"Do you know why the army set up camp on the north bank of the Zhangshui River and confronted the Yellow Turban Army across the bank?"

Guo Peng thought for a while.

"Setting camps through the Zhangshui River can give our army more room for revolving. If the Yellow Turban thieves want to attack, they need to cross the river to attack. We can be prepared during this period."

"What's the point of this Yellow Turban Thief can have the same advantage?"

Lu Zhi smiled slightly and continued to guide Guo Peng.

Guo Peng frowned and recalled Lu Zhi's movements over the past few days.

In addition to daily inspections of the military camp, Guo Peng also asked him to protect him to inspect the upper reaches of the Zhangshui River. He walked the west along the bank of the Zhangshui River for a long time, and stopped and didn't know what he was doing. Guo Peng didn't ask, and he didn't say anything.

"The terrain where we camped is higher, right?"

Lu Zhi gave another reminder, Guo Peng was suddenly stunned, and then he had a bold guess.

"Are the teacher planning to use Zhangshui?"

"How to use it?"

"Han Xin?"

Guo Peng asked tentatively, and Lu Zhi nodded and smiled with satisfaction.

Lu Zhi taught Guo Peng the art of war and often showed actual battle examples to explain to Guo Peng. Guo Peng remembered many battle examples that happened to his predecessors.

During the Han Dynasty, Han Xin's military and Zhang Liang's strategy were highly praised, and the battle examples of Han Xin's military were also the focus of Lu Zhi's discussion.

Lu Zhi slowly told Guo Peng that Guo Peng had already had a plan to defeat the enemy before, and informed the surrounding counties and counties that immediately organized manpower and material resources to prepare more than 10,000 sandbags, blocked the river channel in the upper reaches of the Zhangshui River, and sent people to prepare to dig sandbags and release water in the places where the river channel was blocked.

It is impossible to flood the enemy's army, and there is no need to do that. Lu Zhi's actions are just part of the trick.

From a fraudulent defeat to a counterattack, it takes an opportunity, otherwise if you lose, you will be defeated. The soldiers don’t know that you are fraudulent defeat, and they think you have failed and are about to escape. Behind them is the powerful Yellow Turban Army. What will they fight back?

However, if the Zhang River is used to dig up the sandbags and put down the water while the opponent crosses the river and pursues the river, the skyrocketing river water will cut off the road of the enemy's pursuit in a moment.

The part that had crossed the river and the part that had not crossed the river were separated, and the part that was crossed was washed away by the water. Such a huge momentum and reversal of the situation would bring the defeated soldiers' determination to fight back.

This is the opportunity. At that time, as long as the leading generals know how to inspire morale and lead, they can defeat the pursuers who have lost their retreat and lose their morale. After destroying the pursuers, the situation will be reversed.

Lu Zhi and Guo Peng knew that there were no masters of planning in the Yellow Turban Army who were well versed in strategy and tactics.

Lu Zhi was very happy that Guo Peng saw his intention, so he asked Guo Peng to accompany him to do things, and asked Guo Peng to lead a large army across the river to attack the Yellow Turban Army, then pretend to be defeated, and then prepare to implement the plan.

This plan is very important and requires the main general to lead the task personally, otherwise it is not appropriate to let anyone do it. Lu Zhi must lead by example, stay in the army, and always grasp the trends of the army.

The troops sent out must not be more or less, ten thousand are just right.

Guo Peng wanted to lead his cavalry team to follow Lu Zhi closely and protect Lu Zhi. If something happened, he would be Lu Zhi's last line of defense.

On April 17, Lu Zhi led his army to cross the river, leaving a unit in charge of a large number of ferries, and then led his army to line up on the south bank of Zhangshui River to prepare for the attack of the Yellow Turban Army.

On the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Bao stayed in Quyang, and Zhang Jiao led the main force to attack everywhere. Seeing Lu Zhi taking the initiative to lead the army to attack, he immediately rectified the troops and was ready to fight.

Zhang Jiao learned that Lu Zhi led about 10,000 people to attack him, and after thinking about it, he lit up 30,000 troops and horses to go out to the camp to fight.

He wants to win a battle and wipe out Lu Zhi's troops.

At the very least, the array can still be done quite well. Although Lu Zhi looks a bit rough, the morale of the Yellow Turban Army should not be underestimated. If you are not careful, there is still a risk of a failure, so the tactics continue.

Lu Zhi said to Guo Peng beside him: "Looking carefully at the changes in the battle situation, watching any changes on the battlefield, our army, the enemy, and feel the changes in the momentum of the enemy and our army, it is obvious."
Chapter completed!