Returning to the topic, Zhuge Liang said again: "It is said in the military book that if there are dangers, wells, reeds, and mountains and forests beside the army, we must be careful to search for them. If these are hidden by traitors, we should search their fronts."
"When I first arrived in Yuzhang with my uncle, I landed at Chaisang. Therefore, I know that Chaisang is an absolutely dangerous place for military strategists because it has all these dangerous elements!"
"At present, the enemy's strength is not revealed and the conspiracy is deep. It is really lucky that the general did not underestimate the enemy and rush forward."
Liu Fu couldn't help but nod when he heard this. In order to open up wasteland for farming, he would survey the terrain and water conditions wherever he went, so he took Zhuge Liang's words seriously.
But He Kui shook his head when he heard it: "Don't we know what you are talking about?"
"Everyone gathered here today is specifically to discuss how to march to break the siege of Chaisang; they are not here to listen to you recite the art of war and say these compliments."
Zhuge Liang's expression did not change, and he still said calmly: "We must march, but we must first decide where to march and how to march."
"Chaisang is a dangerous place. We must not fight the enemy here. Instead, we should try to keep the battle place away from this place, or make the enemy fight against us with our back on such a dangerous place."
He Kui said disapprovingly: "What you are talking about are just things from the March Chapter of Sun Tzu's Art of War, but saying it is one thing and doing it is another thing."
Faced with doubts, Zhuge Liang just said calmly: "What's so difficult about this?"
"In my opinion, we can now use the strategy of 'building plank roads openly and using the warehouse secretly' to break the situation!"
Build the plank road openly, but secretly visit the old warehouse?
After hearing this, He Kui just sneered in his heart. In his opinion, this fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy was just a brat who could only talk on paper.
If he knows how to lead troops to fight, then I might as well go home and farm!
But when Yuan Yao heard Zhuge Liang's plan, his inner thought was:
This is sure!
He Kui smiled coldly and said, "I want to hear what you have in mind today!"
Liu Fu on the side had a friendly face and imitated Yuan Yao's address to Zhuge Liang: "Little friend Zhuge, your idea is certainly correct, but I don't know how you are going to carry out this plan of 'building the plank road openly and secretly building the warehouse'?"
"You can try your best to speak. Today we have put our heads together and everyone who speaks has merit and guilt!"
Zhuge Liang bowed to Yuan Yao: "General Yuan, can I borrow the map?"
Yuan Yao gave him a wink, and Lu Dai quickly moved the sheepskin map hanging behind the tent to the center of the tent with Huang Zhong.
Zhuge Liang was not polite and stood up directly next to the map and explained the strategy.
"Since Pengze is owned by the general, it is better to use it to recruit ships and send them to and from the river to form a formation for suspicious troops."
"If the Jingzhou army sees this, they will think that the general has summoned reinforcements, and they will definitely focus their attention on the east. This is the 'Ming Xiu Plank Road'!"
"At this time, the general can 'secretly attack Chencang' and order the army to bypass Chaisang and take the northwest mountain road to attack E County, Xiakou and other places in Jiangxia County, thereby forcing the Jingzhou army to return."
"If you act like this, the siege of Chaisang can be solved!"
As soon as Zhuge Liang finished speaking, Yuan Yao said: "This is easy!"
"Without the need to recruit civilian ships, our army captured about a thousand warships of Liu Yao's army in Pengze, which were just in use."
He Kui frowned and said, "The ones currently besieging Chaisang are the 5,000 navy troops of Huang Zu, the prefect of Jiangxia. In addition, I don't know if Liu Biao has sent other Jingzhou boat masters here."
"What if the enemy sends warships to test our ships while they are traveling south and north? If they find out what is true, wouldn't it be in vain?"
Zhuge Liang smiled and shook his head: "No, no, sir, you misunderstood."
"I don't want the ships to go south and north, but I want them to go 'east and west'!"
Going east and west?
He Kui was very puzzled and said: "If Huainan comes to help, it can only go from north to south. How can it go 'east to west'?"
Zhuge Liang explained: "There are not many boat masters in Huainan. This is something that even a young boy like me knows. How can the Jingzhou army not know?"
"If the ships are allowed to travel north and south, this suspicious tactics will be easily seen through."
"But it's different if it's 'traveling between east and west'! You can let the ships hang the flag with the word 'Sun', pretend to be Sun Ce's troops coming from Jiangdong, and then claim that Sun Ce personally led the army to pursue Liu forced labor."
"Liu Biao and Huang Zu's troops have always feared Sun Jian like a tiger, and Sun Jian also died at the hands of Liu Biao and Huang Zu. If they heard that Sun Ce led his army, the Jingzhou army would definitely suspect that Sun Ce led his army to avenge his father. The trick of doubting soldiers will definitely work!"
"Okay! Okay! Okay!" Yuan Yao clapped his hands repeatedly and said, "Why didn't this general think of this plan?"
"Sun Ce is gaining momentum. If we use his name, we will definitely disturb the morale of the Jingzhou army."
The rest of the people were stunned when they heard this. They never expected that Zhuge Liang's "clear plank road construction" would actually involve Sun Ce who was far away in Jiangdong.
The key is that it sounds very reasonable!
Sun and his son have always been Yuan Shu's subordinates. Yuan Shu can mobilize Sun Jian, and Yuan Yao can naturally mobilize Sun Ce!
Sun Ce crossed the river to fight under the banner of Yuan Shu's crusade against Liu Yao. And Liu Yao ran to Yuzhang, so it makes sense for Sun Ce to chase him to Yuzhang!
Is this kid really only fifteen years old?
Liu Fu pushed the stunned He Kui next to him with his elbow: "County Magistrate He, what do you think of this boy now?"
Although He Kui is stubborn and arrogant, he is not stupid. He had realized that he had misjudged the boy in front of him.
After a while, He Kui, who looked ashamed, blushed and said to Zhuge Liang: "Your wisdom and consideration are rare in a hundred years... I made a mistake today..."
Zhuge Liang hurriedly said humbly: "Young Master, you don't have to be like this. Being able to sit at the same table with you all today is a great blessing in my life, Zhuge Liang... In the future, Liang will ask you more for advice..."
Liu Fu nodded secretly from the side. This Zhuge Liang had a very good temper with him. He was so resourceful at a young age. What was rare was that he had a very stable character, knew how to advance and retreat, and was calm and collected in situations.
I don’t know how Yuan Yao dug out such a treasure!
Not to mention Yuan Yao's inner evaluation of Zhuge Liang. He was already a big fan of Zhuge Liang, but now he wanted to directly imprison Zhuge Liang.
"Okay, everyone has no doubts about the best strategy of 'building the plank road clearly', right?"
Yuan Yao asked.
Everyone shook their heads, indicating that they had no doubts.
"Okay, now it's time to talk about this 'secret attack on Chen Cang' strategy. What's so clever about it?"
Yuan Yao couldn't wait to hear how Zhuge Liang would implement the "secret attack on Chen Cang".
Zhuge Liang immediately turned his attention to Yuan Yao: "This depends on General Yuan!"
rely on me?
What's the meaning?
"When marching and fighting, everything is ever-changing, so you have to adapt to the situation; so no matter how thorough you think about it in advance, there may be changes before the battle."
"At present, I can only guarantee that this strategy can confuse the enemy, so that the enemy temporarily does not know the reality of our army, giving you, General Yuan, enough time."
"As for how to defeat the Jingzhou Army, it depends on how General Yuan marches and fights."
Zhuge Liang spread his hands and said that I have come up with the general strategy for you, but you can't rely on me to fight the war.
Everyone looked at each other in shock, but they had to admit that what Zhuge Liang said was reasonable.
If he really tells the details of how to arrange his troops, then everyone will doubt whether he is a so-called monster.
