Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 334
(There are errors in the titles in the previous chapters. Yuan Yin is Yuan Shu's younger brother, that is, a cousin, not a nephew.)
Fifty miles outside Xiaxiang City, in an unnamed valley.

Soon after nightfall, Wu Sheng summoned Li Ren, Yuan Yin and other generals who had joined Yuan Jun.

At the beginning of this military meeting, Yuan Yin naturally spoke, after all, it was he who led the army to station the Prime Minister for many days before.

After listening to Yuan Yin's feeble speech, he didn't say much about the truth, but mostly used excuses to cover up his defeat. Wu Sheng glanced at him sideways, disdainful in his heart, and after listening to it, he said, He put his head straight and said: "Young Master Yuan has finished speaking, I decided to go out to the army early tomorrow morning, let's take back the prime minister and avenge Young Master Yuan by the way, what do you guys think?"

He suspected that he was incompetent and irresponsible, but Wu Sheng didn't even bother to call him an official position. If Yuan Jun hadn't been the main one this time, and the king's strategy was more serious, something even worse would have appeared.

"It doesn't matter when you leave the city." Li Ren on the side pondered for a while, and said: "It's just that at this time, the two armies are facing each other, and the three parties will be hunting. No matter whether you are going to the Pi or the Prime Minister, there must be sentry cavalry everywhere. The distance of fifty miles is not good. Cover up."

Glancing at Yuan Yin, Li Ren continued: "What's more, Lieutenant Yuan was attacked by the enemy at night and lost his face by surprise. Now if we want to repeat the old tricks, it will be difficult!"

"That's right." The adjutant beside Yuan Yin also added: "If you can't cover up your whereabouts, you won't be able to receive the effect of a surprise attack if you don't cover up your whereabouts. It's not easy to fight, and you will suffer heavy casualties."

"What's more, once the city is attacked, if we can't get down quickly, there will be reinforcements in Xiapi, and we will be in danger!"

"Reinforcement from Xiapi?" Wu Sheng said bluntly, "General Tiangong has surrounded Xiapi with [-] soldiers from heaven. He, Liu Xuande himself, is in danger. How dare he come to rescue Xiapi? It's ridiculous!"

"Besides, if Liu Bei led his troops to help, how could the general just sit back and ignore him?"

Speaking of this, Wu Sheng waved his hand, and said proudly: "A few Xuzhou defeated soldiers, what are they? How can it be compared to our heavenly army?"

"Major Wu's words are wrong!"

While secretly scolding Wang Zheng for his nondescript official position, Yuan Yin couldn't help but refute: "If the governor Wang can't come to help in time, wouldn't we have to die without a burial when we face the two armies attacking back and forth?"

Hey, you prodigal son still have the nerve to talk?
Wu Sheng almost couldn't hold back and went into a rage, but at the critical moment, he finally grasped the measure and realized that if he wanted to capture Xiang Xiang, he now had to rely entirely on the defeated army like Yuan Shu, and although most of the defeated soldiers here were gathered by Li Ren, but from From the first time Yuan Yin arrived, everyone would only follow his example!
Because his surname is Yuan!
Even more because he is Yuan Shu's cousin!

"Mr. Yuan, you are making a mistake." Wu Sheng snorted and said, "Liu Bei is blocking the way. If you can't repel the opponent and clear the obstacles, how can you return to Yangzhou?"

"Even to put it in a bad way, you, Mr. Yuan, may not have the advantage when you go back, other people." Wu Sheng sneered: "No matter how good-tempered Yangzhou Mu is, it's impossible for such a big defeat to go unnoticed, right?"

Hearing this, when Yuan Yin was stunned, Li Ren and other generals felt dark in their hearts, knowing that although what Wu Sheng said was straightforward, it was quite reasonable.

After working hard and mobilizing [-] troops, he ended up in such a disastrous defeat. Not to mention that Yuan Shu was not considered a broad-minded hero, but no matter how tolerant he was, it was for the peace of mind of the army, and for the sake of extinguishing those relatives and friends. It is unavoidable to cut off a few heads of the families who died in this battle and the common people's mouth.

Yuan Yin is naturally not among them, but what about the others?

Cut one, who is unlucky?Cut in half?

It's even impossible to cut it all off.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Ren gathered the crowd. To put it bluntly, everyone knows that if they don't take advantage of the time when the Wang Zheng army is plundering, they may not dare to return to Yangzhou even if Liu Bei opens the way. .

Wu Sheng said again: "Why do we want to attack Xiaxiang? It is because if Xiaxiang loses again, Xiapi will become a lonely city!"

"And now that Liu Bei has lost Tancheng, he lacks logistics." As he said, Wu Sheng pointed to Yuan Yin: "Mr. The prime minister will send these things to Xiapi, hey"

"Xiapi may last for a long time." Wu Sheng said intimidatingly, "If other forces get involved, some of the advantages that the general has obtained after planning for a long time will be gone!"

"But if you can't make a surprise attack, how can you get a face?" Li Ren asked again.

"Good question." Wu Sheng turned his face and smiled suddenly: "Let me ask you, if we capture the Prime Minister, will Liu Bei come to help?"

"This is an inevitable truth!" Everyone said in unison.

"The reason why I am going to be a prime minister is to pretend to trap our army in a dead end, and lure Liu Bei from Xiapi to come to the city to help. Then our army surrounds the point to fight for reinforcements, annihilates them first, and then before Liu Bei receives the news, the general's The main forces attack at the same time, and we join forces to attack with all our strength. We will fight for a battle and make a decision, so that Liu Bei will be isolated and helpless, and wait for death!"

The generals looked at each other in shock, Yuan Yin couldn't help asking: "Fake?"

"What kind of hypocrisy?"

"Didn't Liu Bei lure you to go deeper with a fraudulent defeat?" Wu Sheng said with a smile: "We are going to pay back the original amount!"

"Come and see." Wu Sheng spread out the map, pointed to Jiangshan and said, "The distance between Xiapi and Xiapi is more than two hundred miles away. It will take time to rush to help, but next to the Huaihe River, the division is on the mountain. Zhenshan Mountain is twenty miles long from east to west, and more than ten miles wide from north to south, if you come from Xiapi to help the Prime Minister, you must pass this mountain!"

"Hey, I was a mountain dweller before I joined the army, and now the mountains are lush in summer and weeds are abundant, it's like blocking out the sky!"

"This place is an excellent ambush location!"

He turned to everyone and said, "What we need to do well is one thing. When Liu Bei's reinforcements arrive, we will deliberately act as a defeat."

As he said that, thinking of Yuan Jun's current virtues, he couldn't help laughing: "It doesn't need to be intentional, it's all done naturally."

Hearing this, everyone was secretly ashamed and couldn't help being silent.

This is called a defeat strategy, and it is not difficult to implement. Li Ren asked: "It is not difficult to lure Liu Bei's reinforcements into ambush, but Major Wu, with the current morale and morale of our soldiers, even if the enemy falls into ambush, cough, it may not be necessary. Win is sure."

"If the enemy enters the mountains and forests to ambush, do you still need your soldiers to kill the enemy?" Wu Sheng shook his head: "It's midsummer now, the sky is dry and things are dry, let's set it up with rockets, hey"

fire attack?

Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up.

Seeing the sudden change in the expressions of the generals, Wu Sheng smiled and pointed to the sky: "Such heaven-defying people should ask Huang Tian to send down fire from heaven to wipe them out!"

"My lords, is this plan feasible?"

Everyone nodded their heads one after another. Seeing this, Wu Sheng directly dispatched troops to order generals and assigned tasks.

"Li Ren, it's up to you, wear the uniform of Liu Bei's army, and go to the gate of the city to deceive the prime minister first."

Li Ren frowned when he heard this: "Major Wu, the guard guards the gate of the city very strictly, how could he be easily deceived?"

"I don't ask you to deceive me." Wu Sheng said with a smile, "It's enough to show off your appearance, well, just pretend to be a defeated soldier from Xiangben."

Not long after Yu Jin captured Xiangben, he captured a lot of armor from Liu Bei's army recently. Wu Sheng had notified Wang Zheng in advance and arranged for a hundred elites from the Tianzhu camp to send them to him. Five hundred sets are not many, and the movement will not be too big. .

At that time, let the people from the Tianzhu camp mix in, if there is any emergency, they can violently attack.

After listening to Wu Sheng's explanation, Li Ren nodded and accepted the order.

"Young Master Yuan, you and I will lead 1000 people into the mountain first, choose a place to set up an ambush, put down the flags and drums, and wait quietly for Liu Bei's reinforcements to arrive in Xiapi."

"Once the ambush has been decided, no military order will be issued. If there are generals who leave their positions without authorization, they will be executed; if there are soldiers who make noise and expose them, they will be executed."

Although he was displeased with Wu Sheng's domineering character, upon hearing this, Yuan Yin also felt that the strategy had a good chance of winning, so he nodded reluctantly, ready to cooperate first.

If he can really turn defeat into victory and regain a victory, he can also head back to Yangzhou with his head held high.

"Captain Jia, you lead 1000 people to ambush on the mountain. We will give you all the horses we have so far. At that time, each person will ride two horses. Don't go into the mountain, but find a place beside the mountain and wait for it. When my order arrives, you will Get out." Wu Sheng lowered his voice again, and whispered a few words with him.

The captain obeyed.

"Lieutenant Yi, your troops are waiting for the remaining 2000 troops, bring more siege equipment, and follow Li Ren. No matter whether the city gate is cheated or not, when you hear the sound of three drums, you will rush out together."

After the distribution was over, Wu Sheng glared, and said word by word: "Tonight, the first watch will bury the pot, the second watch will cook, and the third watch will set off!"

"My lords, if you want to give Liu Bei some color and let him know that there are no warriors in Jiangdong, then this time is the time!"

The night ends, the dawn breaks.

In the early morning of summer, weeds grow on the roadside, the river rushes in the distance, the sound of insects and birds chirps, and the sound of hoofbeats keeps ringing, slowly approaching the middle area between Xiaxiang and Xiapi.

Wu Sheng traveled all the way, and Liu Bei's army sentry sentry, all of them were captured and killed, even the common people in the mountains, they were all covered up and killed.

Such a reasonable and necessary killing is exactly what he likes to see the most.

By noon of the next day, the group of people had arrived at Sizhen Mountain, stationed at the foot of the nearby mountain, and set up camp.

That night rested in the middle of the night, and came in the early morning again. A group of people and horses were separated and stopped twenty miles outside Xiaxiang City. Li Ren led five hundred troops and horses to gallop out. Said to restore the original face, went to the city gate.

At the head of Xiaxiang City, there are many military flags, and soldiers with swords and guns patrolling back and forth.

Li Ren hadn't reached the city in time, when an arrow shot at him. He reined in his mount, raised his head and shouted: "I am the captain of Xiangben Ma Xiaowei's subordinate. A while ago, Langya Yellow Turban attacked Xiangben, and I Going out to fight, unexpectedly fell into the siege, fought bravely, and was about to return to the city, but was cut off by the yellow scarf bandits."

"Later, I learned that Xiangben had fallen, and there were thieves in the north of Xiapi to intercept them. They couldn't pass, so they simply fled here. I begged the captain to let us enter the city for the sake of the same army's robes."

The guard at the top of the city looked at him with his head, turned his head and left without saying a word.

"Brother, don't go!" Li Ren shouted, "Open the city gate quickly, I want to see the county lord and county lieutenant of this city!"

"It's because you don't miss the friendship of comrades in arms." He looked sad and indignant, and kept shouting: "I don't believe that these venerables also miss all of them!"

The routs behind him clamored together, and shouted in unison:
"Quickly open the city gate!"

"Let us in!"

Soon, the guard turned back, and there was another person with him, about forty years old, with white face and long beard, although he was wearing ordinary clothes and not wearing general armor, but the toughness on his face could be seen at a glance.

The man looked up and down, stared at Li Ren for a long time, and immediately asked, "What's your name?"

Li Ren guessed that this person must be the guard who is currently the prime minister, so he stopped his yelling, bowed his body and replied: "General, my surname is Mu and my name is Li, and I am the Dubo under the command of Lieutenant Ma of Xiangben."

"Captain Ma?" the guard asked, "Is the arrow sore on his back better?"

Li Ren was stunned, what is this? Captain Ma sent a letter from Yu Jin to tell Wu Sheng, and Wu Sheng told him again, but he didn't know if the other party had arrow sores. He was stunned for a while, gritted his teeth secretly, thinking that anyway, Wu Sheng It's okay to say that you can't be fooled, give it a go!
He frowned and thought hard, and it took him a long time to reply: "General, I didn't hear that Shangguan had arrow sores on his back, and then Xiangben fell, but the villain didn't know his whereabouts, let alone whether he was injured. "

The guard nodded and said with a smile: "There has been no war in Xiangben for the past three years. How could Lieutenant Ma be shot by an arrow, and why did he get sores from the arrow? This general did not know your authenticity, so he made a deceitful statement." "

"Come here, open the city gate, prepare wine and food, and invite friendly troops to enter the city!"

Taking advantage of the opening of the city gate, the guard asked again, "Yellow Turban bandits captured Xiangben? This general has heard about it. By the way, how many troops did Langya send? Who is leading the army? Will they continue to come down south? I will go down." Pi?"

"The Yellow Turban bandits have no less than [-] troops, led by Langya Jinyu himself."

"Is it Jin Yu who resisted the ghost and the ugly man?" The guard was startled, nodded immediately, and sighed: "Brother Ma did not deserve to lose."

Not long after, amidst the creaking sound, the city gate slowly opened, and the city was silent at the same time.

The guard smiled and said, "Let the brothers come in quickly."

At this time, Li Ren was a little stunned.

He didn't expect anything at first, but he didn't expect the city gate to open as soon as he said it, which surprised him and made him a little distracted.

Looking at the dark city gate, Li Ren looked up at the guard again, thinking: "When Wu Sheng let us lie to him before, he didn't have much confidence in himself. I also thought it was a waste of time, but it turned out like this .”

After thinking about it, he became suspicious again: "Could it be that this guy saw through the reality of my journey, guessed that it was the enemy, and now set up an ambush behind the city gate, and wants to shut the door and beat the dog?"

He couldn't help but look behind him, it was a real Dubo, from the Tianzhu camp.

To enter, or not to enter?

Li Ren asked embarrassingly.

The uncle nodded slightly, as if answering silently, of course he wants to enter!

Since he opened it, why didn't he go in?Let's take the city gate first!
Immediately, he gave sign language to a colleague behind him, and asked him to ride his horse back immediately to report to Yuan Jun, who was twenty miles away, and Wu Sheng, who was farther away, to come together with the army!
If the opponent falls for the trick, then after winning the city gate, kill him directly!

If the other party had followed suit, Du Bo, who was in the camp that day, also believed that with 100 members of his own family, guarding the main roads of the city gate, he would definitely be able to support Yuan Jun to come to his rescue, and the fakes would come true!

(End of this chapter)