In early November of the 20th year of Jian'an, in the school grounds of Xu Huang's camp.
It was late at night, and there was not much light in the entire sky.
In the school grounds in the camp, Xu Huanggao stood on a high platform in the school grounds.
In order to ensure the secrecy of the operation, there were not many torches burning in the school grounds to avoid being detected by Guan Yu's scouts.
Although Xu Huang, who was standing at a high place, had excellent eyesight, in the lack of light, Xu Huang still could not fully see how many soldiers were standing at his feet.
But from the heavy breathing that kept coming from the school grounds, as low as the surging tide,
Xu Huang can roughly judge that now more than half of the 15,000 soldiers under his command have arrived.
After Xu Huang saw that his subordinates had almost gathered, he turned to Zhao Yan behind him and said,
"Boran, after I leave, the camp will be handed over to you."
Xu Huang was preparing to attack the Sizhong camp at night. In order to ensure the success rate of the night attack, he wanted to take away most of the centaurs in the camp.
He only left more than 2,000 soldiers with the lowest combat power to guard Zhao Yan's camp.
Such a left-behind force is undoubtedly weak, so Xu Huang is a little worried.
Zhao Yan heard Xu Huang's worried tone, and he replied calmly,
"Gongming, you can go ahead with peace of mind. With me here, even if the bandit army attacks, you can still hold on until Gongming leads his army to return for reinforcements."
Xu Huang trusted Zhao Yan's ability. After receiving such assurance from Zhao Yan, Xu Huang nodded, and then he gave the order to send troops with peace of mind.
The reason why Xu Huang took the initiative to attack Guan Yu this time was, in addition to the biggest reason that Fancheng was about to be destroyed,
And because after months of practice,
Although the 50,000 soldiers under his command cannot be considered an elite division, they are still enough to fight a battle.
In addition, after many days of planning, Xu Huang finally came up with a plan to defeat Guan Yu.
That strategy is to seize the opportunity to attack the east and attack the west.
Xu Huang knew that the current initiative on the battlefield was in Guan Yu's hands. If he wanted to defeat Guan Yu, he could only give full play to his own strengths.
In terms of generals, Guan Yu is a famous general in the world. Even though Xu Huang himself is a long-established general, he dare not say that he can definitely be stronger than Guan Yu.
But in terms of soldiers, although Guan Yu's men are all veterans, most of them are infantry!
The soldiers and horses under Xu Huang's command were all mobilized by Cao Cao from the north, and most of them were cavalry.
Xu Huang's plan was that if he could lure Guan Yu's army to the plain for execution, then he would still be able to fight.
However, Guan Yu's military strategy was so good that under normal circumstances, he would not have made such a low-level mistake and allowed Xu Huang's army to lead him to the execution battle on the plain.
Therefore, Xu Huang came up with a plan to attack the east and attack the west.
Xu Huang deliberately released the news a few days ago that he was going to send troops to attack Weitoutun in order to paralyze Guan Yu.
What Xu Huang thought was that when Guan Yu learned that the trick he set up to lure the enemy worked, he would definitely lower his guard and wait for himself to fall into the trap.
And in order to cope with the attack of his own army, Guan Yu will definitely concentrate his troops in Weitoutun for a decisive battle with him.
Xu Huang wanted to take advantage of Guan Yu's mentality. He nominally wanted to raid Weitoutun, but in fact he wanted to attack Sizhongtun, which was farther away from him.
The reason why he chose to attack Sizhongtun was because it was further away from his army, so Guan Yu would lower his defenses there.
This way he can have the effect of a surprise attack.
The second is that after Guan Yu mobilizes his army to Weitou Tun, the troops in Sizhong Tun will be empty.
The existence of Sizhongtun is related to the gains and losses of Fancheng. Xu Huang believes that this is Guan Yu's destiny.
When Guan Yu learned that he was leading an army to attack Sizhongtun, he would definitely lead troops to come to his aid.
And outside Sizhongtun, there happens to be a wide plain area!
At that time, he can lead his cavalry to wait for work and attack them halfway.
Xu Huang believed that his plan was interconnected and had no flaws, so it had a high success rate.
If you want to ensure the success of your strategy of seizing the east and attacking the west, you must first ensure the secrecy of your surprise attack on Sizhongtun.
So Xu Huang chose the most difficult night attack in this era.
During the day today, Xu Huang ordered people to close the camp gate tightly and not allow anyone to enter or exit.
This ensures that no spies will inform Guan Yu in the future.
In addition, Xu Huang ordered his soldiers to have a good rest during the day.
When it got dark, Xu Huang ordered the troops to gather in the school grounds.
In order to ensure the success rate of the night attack, Xu Huang ordered the soldiers who went out tonight to have horses with chews and men with coins.
In addition, Xu Huang also ordered the groom to cover the horseshoes of the horses with cloth.
Xu Huang even considered that most of the soldiers had poor eyesight at night, so he deliberately selected the soldiers in his unit who had experienced night attacks as
Distributed to each camp to serve as guides.
He also ordered those who led the way to apply foul-smelling gold juice on their weapons. As usual, he used the stink to guide the march of the soldiers behind him.
In today's world, few generals can lead their soldiers to successfully carry out night attacks.
But there is no doubt that Xu Huang is one of the few people in the world.
After all preparations were completed, Xu Huang formally issued the order to dispatch troops.
When setting out for a night attack, there was no strong drumbeat to encourage them. Only countless messengers shuttled among the army in the school grounds, secretly giving Xu Huang's order to go out.
After receiving Xu Huang's order to go out on the expedition, more than 10,000 cavalrymen in the school field mounted their horses one after another. Xu Huang also bowed to Zhao Yan, then got off the platform to lead the army to go out.
Zhao Yan saw that under Xu Huang's arrangement, even at night, the Wei army men in the school field mounted their horses and set off in an orderly manner.
He couldn't help feeling that Xu Huang was really a famous general in the world.
Among the five good generals under King Wei, Yu Jin was famous for his perseverance and good training of soldiers.
Xu Huang was highly regarded by Cao Cao for his superb army command skills.
Now seeing with his own eyes Xu Huang's extraordinary military command skills, Zhao Yan couldn't help but have great expectations for Xu Huang's night attack tonight.
He bowed deeply to Xu Huang's back,
"I wish General Ping Kou a great victory over Guan Yu and his triumphant return!"
Xu Huang led more than ten thousand cavalry under his command, and after leaving the camp from the northern gate,
In the first few miles, he strictly ordered his cavalry to slow down their horses to minimize the noise caused by the march of the army.
This can prevent their actions from being detected by Guan Yu's scouts not far away.
When the army marched a certain distance, Xu Huang immediately ordered the army behind him to advance rapidly.
When it comes to night attack elements, one is about being stealthy, and the other is about speed.
Only in this way can the opponent be caught off guard.
Xu Huang knew that no matter what preparations he made, Guan Yu would learn about his night attack on Sizhong sooner or later.
But as long as he could delay Guan Yu's awareness of the matter for a moment, his chances of winning would increase.
