It's over, it's over, is Yuan Yao going to let Huang Zhong take the lead tomorrow?
What if my uncle loses his courage and loses?
Huang Yi quickly calculated in his mind, thinking about how to change Yuan Yao's mind.
"Let's go, we have to go to Zhuge Xuan's camp tonight!"
Yuan Yao turned around and saw three camps in the distance, far away from Zhu Hao's camp.
Zhuge Xuan, Liu Pan and Yuan Yao did not belong to each other, so they naturally camped separately.
The camps of Zhuge Xuan and Liu Pan were closer, while Yuan Yao's camp was slightly further away.
This old man Zhuge, Liu Pan used four thousand stones of grain to deceive one thousand of his soldiers, and he still licked his face and forced himself to Liu Pan all day long. I don't know what was in his mind?
It was night, in Zhuge Xuan's military camp.
Zhuge Xuan, Liu Pan, and Yuan Yao, the three coalition leaders, gathered in a tent to discuss tomorrow's battle strategy.
Zhuge Xuan sat on the throne, twirling his beard and said: "Whenever a large army fights, it must first use a small group of troops to test the enemy's strength."
"If we can win the first battle, it will definitely help stabilize the morale of the military and boost morale."
"I wonder who of the two generals wants to take the lead tomorrow?"
Yuan Yao couldn't help but feel angry when he looked at Zhuge Xuan who was putting on airs.
I'm sorry for you. If it weren't for your age and seniority, would it be your turn to sit in the first place and yell at others?
"In the first battle, I will definitely have to fight, my general!" Liu Pan immediately patted his chest: "It's not that I, the general, pride himself on his superior force, but since I was the one who issued the gauntlet, I should naturally fight first."
What Liu Pan said was really irrefutable, and Zhuge Xuan was stunned when he heard this.
In fact, Zhuge Xuan's original intention was to provoke Liu Pan and Yuan Yao to compete with each other, and then he would act as a peacemaker, mediating the conflict between the two and at the same time take the opportunity to propose that his subordinates take the lead.
He recently acquired a fierce warrior, who is eight feet tall, has a voice like thunder, and is as strong as an ox. Ten or eight people together cannot stop him.
Zhuge Xuan liked this person very much, and wanted him to take the lead and seize the opportunity. After that, if he wins the battle, he will be able to take the first place in the coalition and gain dominance.
So Zhuge Xuan turned his attention to Yuan Yao and said to himself, "You are talking, hurry up and fight with Liu Pan!"
"Ahem~"
Yuan Yao also lived up to Zhuge Xuan's expectations. He coughed twice and said: "What General Liu said is very reasonable, and General Liu is very brave. Zhu Haorong and others are just like chickens and dogs in front of General Liu."
"Furthermore, the Jingzhou generals under General Liu who followed General Liu in his campaigns east and west are all elite soldiers and strong generals. Zhu Hao's side is just a ragtag group of refugees and defeated soldiers."
"If General Liu takes the lead, he will definitely win!"
When Liu Pan saw Yuan Yao speaking, he thought that Yuan Yao was trying to compete with him for the lead, but he didn't expect that Yuan Yao would praise himself so much when he opened his mouth. He felt a little embarrassed and confused for a moment.
"but……"
Come, come, I know there is a "but"!
Zhuge Xuan became excited.
Yuan Yao changed the subject: "Does our army have to win tomorrow?"
As soon as Yuan Yao said these words, Zhuge Xuan and Liu Pan were completely confused, not knowing what Yuan Yao was going to say.
Zhuge Xuan asked doubtfully: "The two armies are fighting and if they don't win, is it because they want to lose?"
"It's too small, it's too small!" Yuan Yao smiled contemptuously.
"Tomorrow, if General Liu leads his troops to defeat Zhu Hao's former army, then imagine what you would do if you were Zhu Hao, the governor of Zhuge, and saw that your generals were so vulnerable."
Before Zhuge Xuan understood what Yuan Yao said, Liu Pan had already reacted and replied:
"Then we must retreat to the main camp and be unable to hold on."
Yuan Yao nodded: "Yes!"
"If Zhu Hao is allowed to hold on to the fortress and stay behind closed doors, wouldn't the subsequent battle be much more difficult to fight?"
"Although our coalition forces have the strength to break through Zhu Hao's camp, a strong attack will inevitably cause greater losses. Why not outwit it?"
Liu Pan already understood Yuan Yao's intention. He was not a simple reckless man. He could defeat Zhu Hao with a smaller loss, so why bother to attack a fortified camp with a small loss of troops?
"Could it be that General Yuan's plan is for our army to pretend to be defeated and show weakness first, luring Zhu Hao's entire army to move lightly, and thereby directly defeat his army in the field?"
Yuan Yao: "That's right."
"I observed the surrounding area today. The terrain here is low-lying and uneven, with many vegetation covering it. It is extremely suitable for burying ambushes."
"Tomorrow when we send out troops to fight, we should put the weak troops in front and the ambush troops on both sides. After the front army pretends to be defeated, the whole army will retreat. If Zhu Hao only sends the front army to pursue, then he will use an ambush to annihilate the front army, and then use the force to attack the enemy." If the army covers up and kills, we can win a big victory!"
"If Zhu Hao sees that our army is showing weakness, it would be best if he immediately takes the lead and orders the whole army to pursue us. When all the ambush troops are out, the battle will be decided!"
Yuan Yao revealed all his plans, and Liu Pan kept nodding.
But in my heart, I was a little more wary of Yuan Yao.
However, Zhuge Xuan was very dissatisfied with Yuan Yao's strategy. In the mind of a traditional scholar-bureaucrat like him, when two armies are fighting, they should line up their troops in a dignified formation and then meet head-on; making this kind of disgusting conspiracy and conspiracy really not the behavior of a gentleman. .
"This is a wonderful plan, and I agree with it."
Liu Pan immediately expressed his attitude, but the next second he became more coy: "If you want me to lead the troops to win in a fierce battle, I will never be ambiguous. But if you want me to deliberately fake defeat, it will be very difficult for me to do it... "
Liu Pan has well-developed limbs, but his mind is not simple at all. If he pretends to be defeated, even if he pretends to be defeated, he will have to lose a lot of people, and he will have to abandon his armor and put on a show for others. He doesn't seem to bear this loss at all.
After all, the Jingzhou Army under his command was a guest army, and they could not continuously replenish troops and ordnance like Zhuge Xuan and Yuan Yao.
Yuan Yao just sneered in his heart, how could he not guess Liu Pan's little thoughts, but he had no intention of letting Liu Pan fake defeat.
Huang Zhong had a very high evaluation of Liu Pan's force value, so Yuan Yao never dared to underestimate Liu Pan.
What if Liu Pan loses his strength and hacks to death the general Zhu Hao sent to challenge him, or if his subordinates' acting skills are not good enough and Zhu Hao finds out.
"If General Liu refuses, then the task of deceiving the enemy and luring him out will probably have to be done by Zhuge Prefect's subordinates."
"After all, General Liu and I have to lead our elite troops to ambush on both sides of the battlefield to form a dichotomy. Only in this way can there be no risk."
Yuan Yao glanced at Liu Pan and then raised his hand towards Zhuge Xuan.
Liu Pan understood in an instant that Yuan Yao had given him enough face today. If he didn't do anything again, he would be a bit unworthy of a human being.
"The county soldiers under Zhuge Shishu's command have only been recruited in recent months. This fake defeat must be more real for them."
"And if Zhu Hao sees that it is Uncle Zhuge who has defeated your men, he will definitely be so happy that he orders the whole army to attack."
"Uncle Zhuge, please relax. Tomorrow, General Yuan and I will send troops to cover up the enemy on both sides. We will definitely be able to decide this matter in Yuzhang in one battle!"
Zhuge Xuan almost lost his breath. You two were wearing the same pair of pants for a long time.
Doesn't this roundabout way of saying that Zhuge Xuan's troops are the weakest?
Although Zhuge Xuan didn't want to agree, he couldn't think of a rebuttal, and even if he thought of it, he wouldn't dare to say it. He could only be angry but dare not speak.
But in the blink of an eye, Zhuge Xuan had another idea in his mind.
Humph, how could I be caught by you two boys!
If you ask me to cheat, I will cheat? Don't I want to lose face?
The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, how can everything be satisfactory? If my general accidentally "loses the victory", what can you two do to me?
Can you two continue to fight Zhu Hao with me? It just adds a little difficulty to the subsequent battles, so what? The ending will be the same.
And it can also take advantage of the situation to consume the strength of both of your families. Anyway, since you two feel that I am the weakest and have the smallest number of troops and should be sacrificed the most, then when the time comes to attack Zhu Hao's camp, you two will take turns.
Although today's plot did not go as I imagined, no matter what the process was, Zhuge Xuan's original idea finally came true, and the opportunity to be the first to appear on stage fell into my hands!
Thinking of this, Zhuge Xuan pretended to smile and said: "In that case, I will send troops to fight the first battle tomorrow!"
