From the perspective of a bandit, Su Chi and others are actually very eager to get Lu Yunyou's help. In addition, the fact that they can sit here and have a good discussion with Lu Yunyou today has a lot to do with Lu Yunyou's character. Through observing the various behaviors of Xingjun in Orchid Village and Qucheng, Su Chi and the family heads felt that Lu Yunyou was not the kind of person with a violent personality, and there was room for discussion between the two parties.
Because of this, they openly proposed conditions after meeting with Lu Yunyou today. If Lu Yunyou did not come today, they might even take the initiative to find Lu Yunyou.
"I wonder what General Lu wants?" After realizing that the previous request for Lu Yunyou to help them was a bit abrupt, Su Chi and the family heads gave Lu Yunyou a long time to think about it. After a long time, he asked Lu Yunyou again about his plans.
"Your conditions are worthy of consideration, but I don't know how you plan to help us?" In the past period of time, Lu Yunyou not only carefully considered the benefits of cooperation with Qincheng, but also asked about the attitudes of Xing Hu, Yu Tong and others.
Originally, Xing Hu and Lu Yunyou were both irritated by what Su Chi said at first, but after Su Chi and others expressed their willingness to cooperate, the attitudes of Xing Hu and others directly changed. If Lu Yunyou agreed, then they would have no objection.
"Su and the heads of the family present can try their best to provide manpower and material resources. As long as General Lu is useful, they will be there. But I wonder how sure General Lu is of suppressing bandits?" Su Chi lowered their demands. This directly gave Lu Yunyou a lot of room for consideration.
"With the words of City Lord Su, I am relieved. In fact, today I am not coming to Qin City to cause trouble for City Lord Su and other family heads. I just want to understand your attitude towards my coming here in person and to inquire about the bandits again." "It's just information. In order to complete the food collection task assigned to me, I have decided to agree to your conditions." Since both parties are interested in cooperating, Lu Yunyou can't think of any reason to reject the other party.
"General Lu, are you serious about this?" Unexpectedly, Lu Yunyou agreed so readily. Su Chi and the family heads all cast questioning glances at him.
"As a gentleman says, a horse is hard to catch." Time was running out, and Lu Yunyou was in no mood to fool Su Chi and others.
"Okay," Su Chi clapped his hands. He was very satisfied with Lu Yunyou's answer and looked very excited.
"City Master Su, don't be too happy too early. I haven't made up my mind yet on how to deal with that group of bandits." Seeing Su Chi and the family heads beside him all looking happy, Lu Yunyou had to tell them to calm down. , and at the same time, he was also thinking that his trip to Qincheng was not in vain.
"Su has some ideas on how to deal with those bandits. I wonder if General Lu would listen to them?"
"But it doesn't matter."
"As General Lu said before, the steep terrain of Xiaoyin Mountain is indeed not conducive for us to take the initiative to attack. Even if the general transfers a large number of personnel from Qincheng to help, there is still a great risk. Therefore, according to Su, it is not a wise choice to attack the bandit stronghold head-on. .”
"City Lord Su, do you want to lure them all out?" Lu Yunyou answered slowly.
"Exactly, if the general can think of a strategy to lure all the bandits out of the bandit stronghold and into the open area between Qin and Qu cities, then we will be able to eliminate the banditry problem in one fell swoop by working together," Su Chi nodded and said to Lu Yunyou The statement cannot be denied.
"What City Master Su said makes sense, but how to lure those bandits out is the key." He glanced at Su Chi and then at the other family heads. While thinking about whether they had any ready-made methods, Lu Yunyou turned around and looked at Xing Hu and others behind him.
Xing Hu and Yu Tong are really honest. Ever since he talked to Su Chi, he has never taken the initiative to express his opinion. Standing with the six guards is like a decoration. He can only ask Su Chi at the critical moment. He was waiting for others to demonstrate. Now that he thought about it, he was really helpless to bring a few people here.
"General Xing, do you and the two lieutenants Yu Tong and Xu Guang have a plan to lure the bandits out of the mountain stronghold?" After a while of helplessness, Lu Yunyou decided to ask them. After all, the three of them were more senior in terms of qualifications, so he could only I hope that the three of them have done similar things before and now they can come up with something.
"General, why don't you ask your subordinates to take people to the mountains to test and see how strong that group of bandits is?" Faced with Lu Yunyou's inquiry, Xing Hu, who had been paying attention to the conversation between Lu Yunyou and Su Chi and others, was confused. As soon as he turned around, he immediately proposed to Lu Yunyou a method commonly used by military strategists in combat.
"General Xing, there is no need to test the strength of those bandits. If you take people there, you will only alert the enemy. If the bandits are wary of us, things will be even more difficult in the future." Maybe he chose to avoid war, but in Lu Yunyou's opinion, Xing Hu's proposal obviously did more harm than good.
"How about my subordinates bring some people to fight?" Seeing that Lu Yunyou rejected Xing Hu's suggestion on the spot, before thinking of a better way, Yu Tongze slightly improved Xing Hu's method to deal with Lu Yunyou.
"Those bandit leaders may send some people to deal with you, but it will definitely not be all of them. More importantly, your actions are not enough to make them leave Xiaoyin Mountain," Lu Yunyou thought helplessly as Tong shook his head. Zhu Yutong's second idea is to change the soup without changing the medicine. It is no different from Xing Hu's proposal. It will only serve to scare the snake.
"General Lu, in fact, we have no good strategy at the moment. I wonder if you can give us some time to discuss it first." The person who spoke was one of the several family heads. He may have felt that the method they had considered before was inconsistent with Xing Hu and Yu Tong's suggestions were somewhat similar. After seeing that Lu Yunyou did not agree with those suggestions, the head of the family told him about the current dilemma.
Turning around and looking at the head of the family who spoke, Lu Yunyou continued to look at Su Chi and others. Seeing that those people were helpless, Lu Yunyou couldn't help but feel embarrassed. At present, there was not much food and grass left in their army, and the bandits were still there. It is possible that they are secretly paying attention to their situation. Based on all considerations, the sooner the better, but the plan they need is not easy.
After a while of worry, many thoughts flashed through Lu Yunyou's mind, and finally his thoughts stopped on something Su Chi had said earlier.
"City Lord Su, just now you said that the bandits wanted you to send several carts of property and food to Xiaoyin Mountain?" With a flash of light in his eyes, Lu Yunyou directly said what he had just thought of, hoping to find some clues.
"Indeed," Su Chi nodded, but he didn't know what Lu Yunyou meant when he mentioned this.
"Can those bandits ask you to give them an answer as soon as possible?"
"Yes, and they also asked us to send our things to the edge of Xiaoyin Mountain, because the bandits never wanted us to know too much about that area. Maybe they will send people to pick up before we arrive."
"What's the terrain like in that area?"
"Does General Lu want to ambush those bandits?" With a flash of light in his eyes, Su Chi directly guessed Lu Yunyou's plan, but the next moment his eyes dimmed again, and then he said the reason for his mood change: "If Su Chi You guessed it right, there should only be a few people coming to pick them up!"
"Then find a way to get them all out," as his tone became more intense, an imperfect plan model had already formed in Lu Yunyou's mind.
"I wonder what specific plans General Lu has?" Seeing Lu Yunyou's murderous intention, Su Chi suddenly thought that the person sitting in front of him was a general, not a handsome young master, and a sense of contrast came over him. After he was born, he even forgot to think about the implication of Lu Yunyou's words.
"First of all, it will intensify the conflict between you and me. Secondly, you will find a way to pretend to join forces with the bandits to deal with the Star Army. After the bandits are fooled and come out, we will catch them off guard," Lu Yunyou said in three sentences. Give an overview of the planning process.
"Su doesn't understand what General Lu means," but Lu Yunyou's answer was too concise and confusing. Neither Su Chi nor the family heads understood what he meant.
"To put it simply, you and I need to have a big fight. When the time comes, you will pretend to be defeated and we will pretend to be victorious. After that, I will send troops to the city to plunder. But in the end, you will be driven out of the city because there are few people. After leaving the city , I will order the army to be stationed about ten miles away from Qincheng, and attack your Qincheng on another day."
"During this period, our Star Army will celebrate grandly and deliberately commit many acts of dereliction of duty, while you will go to the bandits for help, promise them benefits, and make the bandits feel that they have an opportunity and are willing to cooperate with you. Let’s jointly attack our camp. When the time comes, you can defect and join forces with the Star Army who are pretending to be hungover and disobeying military discipline to completely eradicate those bandits.” As he said this, Lu Yunyou was refining the plan in his mind. The rough outline of the plan was constructed.
