Chapter 110 Pit
"Don't worry about Xiuming, the Yellow Turban thieves are just a mob. This point of Xiuming should be clear. With the ability of Xiuming, we will be able to restrain Zhao Hong's main force. We will have all our strength to cross the river and will definitely ensure that the maintenance is nothing wrong!" After leaving the Central Army camp, when Ye Zhao and Yuan Shao handed over the troops of Yueqin camp, Yuan Shao comforted.
"Benchu's intention, Zhao took it, but Huangfu Song treated me like a thorn in his eyes, how could he let me pass the test so easily?" Ye Zhao patted Yuan Shao's shoulder and whispered: "I know that Liu Pi and Gong were probably Benchu's internal responses. When he attacked Ge Ling, he had already noticed it. Benchu was relieved. You know and I know, no one would know about this. However, these two secrets should not be revealed unless they had to, otherwise it would easily arouse others' suspicion. When Zhao survived this disaster, he would plan for Benchu's good life."
When Yuan Shao heard this, he was shocked and looked at Ye Zhao in horror. It was not until Ye Zhao finished speaking that Yuan Shao breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Ye Zhao and whispered: "You asked Yu She to guard the West City that day, would you like to let these two men go?"
"Well, but it's because of insufficient troops." Ye Zhao nodded calmly and said, "It's just that the Yuan family was directly involved in the Taiping Sect, but Zhao never thought that this method was too dangerous. When the two of them were released, they were also considering the attitude of Yuan. However, Zhao thought that until today, when Nanyang City was broken, these two people were worthless and would become the handle of Yuan. At that time, Zhao would be gone, and I should try to get rid of these two people to eliminate future troubles!"
Yuan Shao took a deep breath, clasped his fists at Ye Zhao and said, "Don't worry, Shaoding should keep in mind Xiuming's words, and Xiuming should not be too worried. General Huangfu may have some misunderstandings about Xiuming, but he will never avenge his personal revenge. If he did this, Shaoding would truthfully report this matter to the court."
"Goodbye, I will send someone to mobilize troops later. The war will start tomorrow. I will deploy a little first to avoid the war tomorrow, and it will be messed up!" Ye Zhao clasped his fists at Yuan Shao.
"Take care!" Yuan Shao also nodded fiercely.
"Ding Li, go to Yueqi Camp immediately. I have discussed with Yuan Shao that after you transfer the Yueqi Camp, you will immediately go to the east coast to gather. Add our troops, a total of 5,000 people, but you will set up a camp of 20,000!" Back at his own military camp, Ye Zhao immediately mobilized the generals and handed over the Yueqi Camp military talisman to Ding Lidao.
"Here!" Ding Li agreed. For Ye Zhao's generals, it was already considered a practice that made perfect. Ding Li did this kind of thing, and he didn't need Ye Zhao to teach him the details. He took the military talisman, bowed to Ye Zhao, and turned around and left.
"Lord, didn't you say I won't take the credit?" Qiu Chi looked at Ye Zhao in confusion. All the generals present were Ye Zhao's confidants, so he asked directly without any hesitation.
"I don't want to take credit, but this time it may not be a meritorious service. We are being used as bait to attract the main attack of the Yellow Turbans on the other side to cover Huangfu Song's main army to cross the water." Ye Zhao sighed, the tree wanted to be quiet but the wind continued.
"By the way, where are Liu Bei and the others?" Ye Zhao said in confusion when he saw that there were no Liu Bei and the other two in the tent.
"I received an order to transport food and grass in the morning. I haven't come back yet, so I should have returned to the camp at this time." Qiu Chi said.
"Quickly call his three brothers to discuss matters." A sneer flashed in Ye Zhao's eyes. He needed a warrior in this stalker. He never thought he was a warrior. It happened that the three brothers were eager to make contributions, so he gave this opportunity to them.
Soon, Liu Bei and his three brothers entered the tent with high spirits. Seeing that the generals under Ye Zhao had arrived, they couldn't help but bow to Ye Zhao apologized: "General, forgive me, and Bei was unable to arrive in time, so I will be forced to wait for a long time."
"It's okay, Xuande just supervised the transportation of food and grass, which is also the important task of our army, so there is no need to blame himself." Ye Zhao signaled the three brothers Liu Bei to take their seats, and stood up and walked to the huge map hanging in the center of the tent. This was just copied by his memory. He had the ability to remember everything. As a disciple of Cai Yong, he was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but simply drawing maps would not hurt him. In addition, with the concept of some modern military maps, it was more detailed in detail than Huangfu Song's painting, and even recorded the velocity of the water flow.
"This morning, General Huangfu summoned the generals to discuss matters and decided to launch an attack early tomorrow morning. Our army was responsible for the feint attack, which was also to attract the attention of the Yellow Turban bandits on the other side and to cover General Huangfu's main army to cross the Qingshui smoothly. Therefore, our team has a heavy responsibility, and it can even be said that it is related to whether the crossing of the river is successful!"
Ye Zhao pointed to the location downstream of the Qingshui River and said, "This is the location where our army crosses the river and feints. Yuan Shu has ordered people to set up a beacon tower here. At that time, you can see the virtual and real soldiers on the other side. Compared with the upstream, this place is actually the most suitable place for the army to cross the river. It is also the most stringent place for the Yellow Turban Army to defend. The water is gentle, and it is the calmest section of the entire Qingshui River. The water area is two hundred steps wide, and it can be crossed by a quarter of an hour. However, the Yellow Turban thieves will not allow us to cross the river smoothly, and will definitely send troops to obstruct us."
"If our army wants to attract the main force of the Yellow Turban thieves on the other side, it must show sufficient impact and pressure to attract all the main force of the Yellow Turban thieves on the other side to this end. Here, Zhao has a word to explain it to you first." Ye Zhao slowly glanced at the generals in the account.
"This time, although our army is responsible for the feint attack, our general, Ye Zhao, has served as the Macheng Order from the north, and has been appointed as the Macheng Order, to defeat the Hu enemy, to kill Shanyu, to fight against the Central Plains, to pacify Liang Kingdom, and to defeat Runan. He has never been defeated. The Hu gangs who used to be bombarded by the Hanshan Mountains could not defeat me. The 200,000 Yellow Turbans in Runan were killed by us and could not retreat, so we could only run away in a panic. Today, although General Huangfu ordered our army to attack, we never knew what feint attack was. Since we wanted to fight, we naturally had to do our best, and there was no feint attack. Therefore, in this battle, we must forcibly break through from the front!"
Ye Zhao pointed to the location on the opposite bank on the map and said, "So, don't be careless tomorrow because our troops are just a feint attack support. Since we want to fight, we must fight beautifully. Before General Huangfu led his army to arrive, we landed on the shore. I, Ye Zhao, will take the first contribution of the Nanyang Battle!"
"Okay, this is a relief!" Zhang Fei raised his fist excitedly when he heard this, and laughed: "When I was rushing to the county, I often heard about the deeds of the general defeating the Hu people. It is Zhang Fei's blessing to be able to fight side by side with the general today!"
Liu Bei stood up and bowed and said, "General, I have a question."
"Tell me!" Ye Zhao nodded.
"The bandit army has a large force and our army has few soldiers. Even if we force the river to cross the river, how can we gain a foothold on the other side?" Liu Bei bowed and said, "It is necessary to know that if the bandit army adopts the strategy of attacking halfway, our army will be in a dilemma."
Qiu Chi, Fang Yue and others frowned slightly when they heard this. Although the truth was this, somehow, they always felt that Liu Bei was trying to find fault.
In fact, Liu Bei's approach is not difficult to understand. Just like Ye Zhao chose to stand in the camp of the emperor, so he was obviously controlled by Huangfu Song, but he ran away from Huangfu Song. Liu Bei had previously served Lu Zhi and fought against all sides. He had always been playing soybean under the top leader. Now in Nanyang, although he was pulled into his army by Ye Zhao, in his heart, Liu Bei was recommended to Huangfu Song by Lu Zhi, and he consciously brought himself to Huangfu Song's camp, so he was not very willing to buy Ye Zhao's kindness. The difference is that Ye Zhao has great achievements, and Cai Yong, the emperor, and the ten regular attendants spoke for him openly and secretly. Even Liu Bei's teacher Lu Zhi also had a good impression of Ye Zhao because of the adversary. Ye Zhao had the confidence to confront Huangfu Song.
Liu Bei was rather sad. Although he was willing to help Huangfu Song, unfortunately, Huangfu Song never looked at him from beginning to end. He was able to appear in the tent that day because he brought Lu Zhi's letter to him that day. Huangfu Song cut him off on Lu Zhi's face and did not drive him out. Therefore, although Liu Bei wanted to help Huangfu Song, he had no confidence to argue with Ye Zhao openly, so he could only try to find some of Ye Zhao's loopholes.
Although Liu Bei had already had scheming at this time, his political skills and courage obviously did not reach the height of establishing the foundation of Shu Kingdom in history. This little thought could naturally not escape Ye Zhao's eyes. However, Ye Zhao wanted to use him at this time, so he just pretended not to know.
"Good question, this is also the key to this battle." Ye Zhao did not scold Liu Bei, but picked up a brush to outline an arrow on the map.
"It is now midsummer, with the southeast winds mostly. I have asked the local old farmers that these two days, the east winds should be the main one, so the wind direction is so blowing. Our army crosses the water with boats, and the wind direction is tilted to the direction of the ship. Therefore, if we want to accurately reach the enemy camp, we should set out from here, wind power and manpower cooperation, and land in this area, which is also the main defense line of the enemy camp on the coast."
"You should have experience fighting with the Yellow Turbans. The Yellow Turbans have not much supplies. The soldiers sleep at night, mostly lying with hay. Not like our Han army, everyone has tents to live in. Therefore, even if the ground is wet, there must be a large amount of flammable hay in the enemy camp. Since ancient times, weak defeats the strong and borrows water and fire. Therefore, this time, this general also wants to use this fire to attack."
Ye Zhao took off the map and hanged another piece of sheepskin with the appearance of a walking boat on it.
"The boats are small ships. There are no large ships on this clean water. Therefore, in this battle, the boats are mainly used. Generally, the boats can carry three to five soldiers. Our army has two schools of men and about five thousand people. If we want to suppress the entire army, at least a thousand boats will have to go on. However, the matter is hasty, I am afraid that we will not be able to collect so many ships."
"Water battles are mainly bows and arrows, so I want to change the tactics. There are three people in a boat and five straw men. When the enemy fires arrows, our soldiers hide behind the straw men and wait for an opportunity to counterattack. On the one hand, they can reduce casualties, and on the other hand, they can quickly approach the enemy camp. For this group of fire ships, a brave general needs to lead the army. When approaching the enemy camp, they ignite the fire ships and use the wind to push the fire ships into the enemy camp. Then our main force uses the fire ships to block it, approach the enemy camp, and use the fire arrows to project the enemy camp to ignite the fire fires in the enemy camp. Our army can take advantage of the opportunity to land!"
"Lord's plan is very wonderful!" Fang Yue and others lit up when they heard this. Ye Zhao obviously had already counted everything. According to Ye Zhao's playing style, there is a great possibility of success!
"If you have no objection, just follow this plan. However, this first formation requires a brave general. I wonder who is willing to lead the army to fight this first battle?" Ye Zhao looked at everyone and said with a smile.
"Lord, I'm willing to go!" Guan Hai was the first to stand up.
"The lord is talking about a brave general. What are you going to stand up?" Dian Wei stood up, glared at Guan Hai, then turned around and smiled at Ye Zhao, "Lord, what do you think of the last general?"
"General!" Seeing this, Liu Bei didn't care about anything else. This was a great achievement. Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the three brothers were first sent to Jizhou by Liu Yan, then from Jizhou to Yingchuan, then sent to Jizhou, and then sent to Nanyang. After careful calculation, the Yellow Turban Rebellion has been for half a year, but the three brothers have been on the way to the battlefield for most of the time. Liu Bei is now very eager to make contributions to prove himself.
"Okay!" Seeing that everyone under the tent asked for a fight, Ye Zhao reached out and pressed, stopping everyone's quarrels and said, "Xuande is coming, and he also needs to gain a foothold. This battle will be left to the three of them."
Well, this battle is indeed important enough, but if you want to make meritorious contributions, it is established by those who follow closely. Their mission is to bear the enemy's arrow clusters and set fire. The mission is more dangerous, but it lacks technical content and has merits, but not too many. It is suitable for people who cannot see themselves clearly and the situation clearly.
Of course, afterwards, the three brothers had to owe themselves a favor and be grateful to themselves.
"Thank you, General!" Liu Bei took a deep breath, suppressed the agitation in his heart, and bowed to Ye Zhao very sincerely.
"Go and prepare. Before tomorrow, you must prepare enough straw men to stand on the bow of the boat." Ye Zhao nodded with a smile.
"Here!" After Liu Bei bowed to Ye Zhao, he left with his two brothers with enthusiasm.
He is too young after all!
Chapter completed!