Zhang Yun and Zhang Jian couldn't help but look at each other. They had never thought about this problem before.

"If I were Xiong Ze, I would definitely send more troops to Zheng State at all costs. After all, everyone knows that Zheng State's army has been almost wiped out. It is better to conquer Zheng State in one go!" Zhang Yun said.

Chen Xiaomu smiled and nodded, then turned to Zhang Jian and asked, "Vice General Zhang, if you were Xiong Ze now, what decision would you make?"

Zhang Jian thought for a moment and said: "I will temporarily transfer all the garrison at Xinyang Pass to Xinjing City to wait for reinforcements. As long as Zheng Guo's capital is in my hands, it will be more difficult for Zheng Guo to recover than to climb to the sky!"

Chen Xiaomu sighed and said with a smile: "Give it up, give it up. Only by giving up can you gain. It's ridiculous that the greedy hearts of people in this world are filled with the word "get", and there is no place for the word "give up". In fact, many times this "give up"

"The word is much more important than the word! But they are reluctant to give up the benefits they get, and most of them end up getting killed!"

Zhang Yun and Zhang Jian were confused by Chen Xiaomu's paradoxical emotion. They both looked at Chen Xiaomu in confusion, wondering what he meant.

Zhang Yun smiled and said: "Mr. Chen, we have both said that if you were in the position of Chu Emperor Xiong Ze now, what would you do?"

"Abandon Xinjing, the capital of the Zheng Kingdom, and transfer all the garrison troops in Xinjing to Xinyangguan to defend it!" Chen Xiaomu said firmly.

"How is this possible!" Zhang Jian first retorted: "It took so much effort and tens of thousands of people to conquer the new capital city, but it was so easy to just give up! Besides, as long as the new capital city of Zheng State is in Chu State,

In the hands of others, the Chu people can overwhelm us Zheng people until we can’t breathe!”

Zhang Yun even shook his head and said with a smile: "If I were Xiong Ze and that minister dared to make this suggestion, I would kill him on the spot for collaborating with the enemy, and mobilize the whole country to launch a war to destroy Zheng, killing and injuring hundreds of thousands of people.

, in the end, I didn’t get any Mao, and returned to the pre-war state. You said this is not considered collaboration with the enemy, so what is the use of this crime of collaboration with the enemy?”

"Sure enough, people with higher positions are more reluctant to get benefits, even if they are afraid that the benefits will be hot to the touch or even burn people to death." Chen Xiaomu said.

"Mr. Chen, don't talk so harshly! That's because the benefits are not on your head, but when they are, you might be able to hold on tighter than us!" Zhang Jian sneered.

Chen Xiaomu waved his hands at them, "Forget it, I won't argue with you about these things. In fact, you have seen many such things, but in the end you can only conclude that this person is unlucky, not from the greed of this person himself.

Find the reason."

After a night's rest, Chen Xiaomu got up from his tent the next morning, feeling refreshed and exhausted from yesterday's long journey. He summoned Zhang Jian and asked him to select two thousand men and have breakfast.

Then set off first.

Zhang Jian was very puzzled. He felt that Chen Xiaomu knew nothing about the art of war and was just messing around, so he asked, "Mr. Chen, our total supply is only more than 20,000 people, including the Lian'e army. Why do we need to divide our troops? It is extremely easy to be divided by the Chu army."

Surrounded and eaten!"

"Where are the Chu troops coming?" Chen Xiaomu asked Zhang Jian.

"Mr. Chen, don't forget, when we go to attack Xinyang Pass, we will pass through Xinjing City. According to my estimate, there are at least 40,000 to 50,000 Chu people garrisoned in Xinjing City now."

Chen Xiaomu waved his hand, "According to Li Gui's reconnaissance report, there are currently only more than 30,000 Chu troops in the new capital, and there are nearly 20,000 former Hubei soldiers among them. Do you think they are learning that the main force of the Chu State has already

You were annihilated under Tianquan City, and you still dare to rush out of the city to fight?"

"No, Mr. Chen, you just estimate that they dare not go out of the city to fight. But if they really go out to fight, I am afraid that none of my two thousand troops will be able to come back!" Li Gui still shook his head and rejected Chen Xiaomu's plan.

Chen Xiaomu suddenly laughed and said: "Vice General Zhang, haven't you always wanted to attack the new capital? I am just preparing to attack the new capital!"

Zhang Jian heard this and looked at Chen Xiaomu with a surprised look on his face, "Mr. Chen, didn't you say you gave up attacking Xinjing City? Why did you change it again?"

Chen Xiaomu knelt down and picked up a stone, put it in the middle of the tent, then pointed at the stone and said, "This represents the new capital." Then he picked up a branch and drew a line near the stone, "The two horse generals you brought with you

Pass through Xinjing City twenty miles away from Xinjing City, and the Chu army in Xinjing City must have sent out scouts and scouts outside the city. They will soon discover your troops, and the garrison leaders in the city are picking them up.

After receiving the reports from the scouts and scouts, they will come up with two plans. The first is to turn a blind eye and let you go, and the second is to gather the soldiers and horses in the city to come out to fight you. According to my speculation, the new

The garrison in the capital is very likely to adopt the second option and come out of the city to fight you!"

"Did you just say that they didn't dare to fight rashly?" Zhang Jian glared at Chen Xiaomu angrily and yelled.

Chen Xiaomu smiled and said: "Just now, if I ask Li Gui to let the Chu army's scouts and detective horses know that we are going to attack Xinyang Pass, will they still not go out of the city to stop us? If they don't go out of the city.

, which means that if we succeed in their Xinyang Pass, they will be cut off from all connections with the Chu State, thus turning Xinjing into an isolated city, and they will be defeated without a fight!"

Zhang Jian suddenly understood, "Mr. Chen means that the two thousand troops I brought will first lead the Chu army out of Xinjing City to fight, and then you lead the troops to cover up from all sides and annihilate the Chu army coming out of Xinjing City in one fell swoop."

?”

Chen Xiaomu nodded with a smile, "Yes, they surround you, we surround them again, attack from inside and outside, and great things can be accomplished. This is called moving the tiger away from the mountain. Is it more cost-effective than using our few troops to attack the new capital city with a high city and a wide river?"

Zhang Jian nodded repeatedly, "Mr. Chen's plan is really brilliant! Zhang admires him very much!"

But while he was happy, Zhang Jian thought of a new question. What if the Chu army in the new capital city refused to come out?

"If they don't come out, you can go forward without stopping, and walk as slowly as possible. When marching, all soldiers should take off their leggings and put down their wide trouser legs. Cut off the back of every vehicle and horse.

The branches are dragged behind. When marching, the team should be longer. It is best to walk in single file. The most important point is that when burying pots to make rice, instead of five people per marching stove, one person must dig five marching stoves, and they must all be buried.

You need to burn it for me on the stove fire."

"Mr. Zhang, why are you digging so many earth stoves? The soldiers are already tired after a day's march, and they have to be ready to fight the Chu army at any time!" Zhang Jian asked puzzledly.

"I would rather walk slower but still have to complete the task of digging stoves, and it requires 2,000 open stoves and 8,000 hidden stoves. In other words, after digging and burning the 8,000 stoves, they should be covered with a thin layer of soil.

Get up, but you don’t need to cover it too tightly. It’s best to be visible at a glance. Only in this way can the Chu army’s scouts and detective horses believe that you are attacking Xinyang Pass with a force of tens of thousands. Otherwise, let

The Chu army has reconnoitred that you only have 20 million soldiers and horses to attack the tens of thousands of Chu troops at Xinyang Pass. They don't need to take action. They just wait for you to be completely wiped out by the Chu army at Xinyang Pass. Even if they don't leave the city in the end, you can walk to

Near Xinyang Pass, we can draw out part of the Chu army stationed at Xinyang Pass, which can also reduce a lot of pressure for us to attack the key points later. I will lead a large group of people behind you, which is half a day's journey away from you. You just feel free to move forward boldly.

Walk."

At this moment, Zhang Jiancai finally bowed and bowed to Chen Xiaomu with clasped fists and said, "I will risk my life to complete your mission even if I don't receive the order!"

Since Zhang Jian led 2,000 men and horses to set off first in the morning, all the men and horses have camped in place to rest. Chen Xiaomu ordered the entire army to make enough dry food for five days. In the next five days, the entire army was not allowed to dig stoves for cooking. He

He also called Li Gui and asked him to lead the reconnaissance company to plan the route for the night march. The reconnaissance company would lead the way during the night march.

In the evening, Xiao Cheng and Ximen Ruoen found Chen Xiaomu together. Xiao Cheng looked at the darkened sky outside the tent and asked Chen Xiaomu anxiously, "Mr. Chen, Vice General Zhang has been gone for almost a day. When will we set off again?"

Are you not leaving today?"

Chen Xiaomu smiled and said: "What's the hurry? We'll set off at You o'clock tonight and set up camp at Mao o'clock tomorrow."

"What should I do about Lieutenant General Zhang and the others? They must have gone a long way, and I won't be able to catch up anymore!" Simon Ruon asked.

"Let them go. They are just bait to lure the enemy now. The real fierce battle will be on our side in two days!" Chen Xiaomu replied.

Since the Xinyang Joint Envoy, Marshal Han Fei and Qingyang Deputy Envoy Zhu Ping led the main force of the Zheng Army stationed in Xinjing to attack Tianquan County, the last city of Zheng State, the Zheng Kingdom's

The defense was all handed over to the Chu State's Wusheng Pass envoy, General Xuanwei Wu Yan, and the observation envoy Dingyuan General Fu Tong.

Wu Yan was a military general of the Chu State for more than forty years. Because the weather was too cold and because he liked to look for flowers and willows all year round, he was particularly afraid of the cold. That night, he had handled the government and military affairs in the new capital early, and asked his concubine to do it for him.

He boiled a large bucket of hot water and prepared to scald his feet. He went to bed and hugged his concubine to cover the bed. As soon as he finished scalding his feet and wiped the water off his feet with a piece of dry cloth, the guard at the door came in and reported that General Fu Tong

ask to see.

Wu Yan threw the footcloth in his hand into his concubine's arms and muttered, "It's so late, we can't leave it until tomorrow if we have something to do!" But his mumbling was nothing more than mumbling, and he still walked on his shoes.

In the reception room, as soon as he sat down on the chair, Fu Tong followed him in.

"Old man, your damn spirit is good. It's already so late today. Why don't you hug me and warm me in bed? Why are you here with me?" As soon as they met Wu Yan, he was so angry that he was holding a gun and a stick.

Fu Tong.

Fu Tong knew that this guy was a straight-headed donkey, so he was not angry. He immediately bowed his hands to Wu Yan and said solemnly: "I really have urgent military information to report to the envoy. If there is any disturbance, I will also

I really can’t do it myself.”

"Okay, okay, stop fucking with me here. If you have something to say, just say it and let it go." Wu Yan waved his hand at Fu Tong impatiently.

Fu Tong frowned and went straight to the point, "Your Excellency, we just received a call from a scout to report that a Zheng army has passed through about twenty miles away from the new capital!"

"Oh!" Wu Yan sat up from his chair and asked, "Approximately how many people are there?"

Fu Tong hesitated for a moment, then spread his fingers in front of Wu Yan and asked, "Only five thousand people?" Wu Yan then breathed a sigh of relief.

Fu Tong quickly shook his head and said: "My lord, there are fifty thousand people!"

''What, fifty thousand people!" Wu Yan jumped up from his chair in shock, "They have so many people?
Chapter completed!