Chapter 473 Three-way encirclement, the teacher must win
Author: Soy Sauce Mixed History
Chapter 473 Three-way encirclement, the teacher must win
In October of the third year of the reign of Emperor Zhangwu of the Han Dynasty, there was a flood at night in Xangqi County and he was banished to foreign affairs.
I still remember that in early February, Deng Ai, on the order of Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, led thousands of Liangzhou troops into Xangqi County to attack Zhu Bao.
But unfortunately, Deng Ai's army was infected with the miasma as soon as it entered the territory of Zangqi County.
Although the number of people infected was not large, and although Meng Huo, who accompanied the army, found a way to treat the miasma in time for the Liangzhou army, the combat effectiveness and morale of the Liangzhou army were not affected by that incident.
In that unfavorable situation, Deng Ai's 5,000 Liangzhou Army encountered an even more difficult dilemma.
The soldiers from Wanjiao Prefecture, who set out from Jiaozhou, led by Shi Hui, arrived at Xangqi County in the east. Taking advantage of the Liangzhou Army's unwillingness to retreat eastwards, they relied on their numerical and geographical advantages to gradually encircle the Liangzhou Army.
The most important thing was Yu Fan, who was beside Shi Hui, who proposed the strategy of "besieged on all sides" for Shi Hui.
Under the influence of that strategy, the military morale of the Liangzhou Army became even more depressed.
But luckily, the Liangzhou Army had two outstanding generals at that time - Deng Ai and Shi Bao.
After deliberation, Deng Ai and Shi Bao promptly took a series of measures to stabilize people's hearts and led their troops to defend the camp. This prevented thousands of Liangzhou troops from falling into a desperate situation.
As time went by, Ye Laoban's situation also underwent many changes.
The first change is that although Zhu Bao sent people to intercept the road, thanks to Deng Ai's timely dispatch of a messenger, a messenger initially broke through the encirclement and went to Yizhou County to ask for Zhuge Liang's help.
After learning about the danger Deng Ai's army was facing, Zhuge Liang was shocked.
He had thought that Sun Quan would secretly assist the Nanzhong rebels, but he did not expect that Sun Quan would send out so many troops and be so blatant!
Zhuge Liang was shocked and immediately changed his tactics.
Since Yong Kai had just suffered a major defeat, Zhuge Liang decided to give up attacking Yizhou County temporarily.
He immediately led nearly 10,000 Han troops who had just entered Yizhou County to go to Zanggao County to aid Deng Ai.
Zhuge Liang knew very well that Deng Ai's army had to make mistakes, otherwise the entire Nanzhong counterinsurgency situation would be reversed.
No matter how worried he was, the terrain in Nanzhong was steep and difficult to travel, and the marching speed of Zhuge Liang's army was greatly affected by this.
By the time Zhuge Liang led Ye Lao into exile, a month had passed since Deng Ai asked him for help.
In that month, Deng Ai was fighting hard almost every few months.
But thanks to the strict military discipline of the Liangzhou army and Deng Ai's good command, thousands of Liangzhou troops did not suffer a fatal blow that month.
The news of the arrival of Zhuge Liang's army was soon known to Shi Hui.
When he learned the news, Shi Hui asked Yu Fan for advice. Yu Fan, who was well versed in the art of war, did not disappoint Shi Hui. He once again asked Shi Hui whether he could prevent Jiaozhou soldiers from falling into a pincer attack. Yu Fan suggested to Shi Hui
Hui should let go of the encirclement to the west.
The strategy of encircling three and missing one could not only lower the fighting spirit of the Han army to the east, but also prevent the Jiaozhou Army in the west from being trapped in a situation of being attacked from both front and rear.
Shi Hui had also read the Art of War, and Yu Fan's suggestions made him feel that they were very consistent with the war situation in Dangdong, so he followed Yu Fan's suggestions.
Because Shi Hui deliberately let go of the encirclement, Zhuge Liang's army was able to successfully enter the heart of Ye Lao ban and meet up with Deng Ai's army.
When the two Han armies join forces, it means that the Han army has the strength to fight the enemy.
However, Zhuge Liang was cautious by nature, and Yong Wanzhe said that he had other plans in mind. When the generals asked him to fight, Zhuge Liang did not agree.
Within a few months of arriving from the east, Zhuge Liang did two things:
The first thing is to send Shi Bao back to Liangzhou to report a message to Mi Yang.
If people didn't find the first thing strange, the second thing Zhuge Liang did was hard to understand.
On the one hand, Zhuge Liang did not allow the generals to take the initiative to fight, and on the other hand, he did not lead the Han army to retreat slowly to Yuexi County.
As if he didn't know that there were tens of thousands of enemy troops a few miles away, he quietly led the Han army to station outside in the night floods, raising troops and practicing martial arts every month.
Not only the generals of the Han army did not understand the second thing Zhuge Liang did, but also Shi Hui and Yu Fan were confused.
Judging from Zhuge Liang's previous performance, he is not as good at foreign affairs as the rumors say.
Although Zhuge Liang's performance is more impressive than Mi Yang's, he can still be regarded as a man who knows military skills.
But it is precisely that kind of person who knows how to fight, but he makes an operation that other people who know how to fight are completely incomprehensible.
In that case, there are two possibilities: if you ask for it, it means Zhuge Liang's strategy is too much better than theirs, or if you ask for it, it means Zhuge Liang is giving blind orders.
At the beginning, Shi Hui and Yu Fan wondered whether Zhuge Liang was deceitful, or whether they were like Zhuge Liang and adopted the tactic of holding back his troops.
But as time went by, Shi Hui, who wanted to be more patient than Zhuge Liang, could no longer hold back.
For several months, Zhuge Liang kept his troops stationary and sent troops to challenge him in front of his camp. Zhuge Liang also refused to fight on the grounds that he did not understand the language and could not understand what the enemy soldiers were saying.
It cannot be said that Shi Hui has an impulsive and impatient character, but he is an ambitious person.
Shi Hui knew very well that his purpose here was to defeat the Han army and make him famous in Tiandong. The Han army never went out to fight, so how could he defeat it?
Do you want to continue to storm the Han army camp?
When that idea came to mind, Shi Hui naturally gave up the idea without the need for Yu Fan's group of guards.
At the beginning, thousands of Liangzhou troops were stationed in the camp, but his Zaiwan army was unable to attack eastward, and instead lost many soldiers and horses.
Now that the Han army has tens of thousands of troops, it is impossible to seize the Eastern Han army's camp by means of a fierce attack.
After getting rid of that idea in my mind, I felt that there was nothing that could be done to wrong the Han army's Shi Hui, and it was inevitable that I would become impatient.
Suddenly he thought of Yu Fan again.
There was nothing he could do about the situation when Yu Fan mistakenly took charge of Dong, but under Shi Hui's pressure to urge Dong, Yu Fan finally came up with a plan.
He wondered whether Zhuge Liang had any other plans, and whether it was because Zhuge Liang had no plans that he had no choice but to adopt the tactic of standing still.
After judging that point, Yu Fan had a new strategy in mind.
He suggested to Shi Hui that since Zhuge Liang had made up his mind to stand still, Shi Hui could take this opportunity to contact Zhu Bao and Yong Kai and ask them to mobilize more troops and surround the Han army again.
If Zhuge Liang had not sensed the danger and retreated before several large armies surrounded him, then Shi Hui could have used the geographical advantage to launch an attack against the retreating Han army.
If Zhuge Liang had not been able to rely on his troops to defend the camp and not pay attention to the external affairs, then after several armies surrounded Zhuge Liang's army, the morale of Zhuge Liang's army would have been shaken.
By that time, their fighter planes will arrive.
After Shi Hui thought about Yu Fan's strategy, he felt that Yu Fan's strategy did have merit.
Shi Hui was also a decisive person. After deciding to adopt Yu Fan's strategy, he sent a messenger to contact Zhu Bao and Yong Kai.
In the previous war, Zhu Bao had been conserving his strength due to Shi Hui's enthusiasm.
After receiving Shi Hui's letter, Zhu Bao wanted to reject Shi Hui's request, but he thought about whether Shi Hui was his ally. The current Zangda County could not do without Shi Hui's help, not to mention that in Zhu Bao's view, Shi Hui
The idea also had great success with Coco.
If the Han army could be defeated in one battle, Zhu Bao would be very happy.
As for Yong Kai, let alone him. He had just been defeated by Zhuge Liang a few months ago. He was sinister and always wanted to find an opportunity to take revenge.
Now that the opportunity has come, and with strong allies as his backing, Yong Kai has no reason not to agree to Shi Hui's request.
But not long after, Zhu Bao and Yong Kai led their troops to Ye Lao Ban Wai respectively.
Among the two, Zhu Bao had been conserving his strength, so the army he brought with him numbered eight thousand, which was considered his entire family fortune.
Compared with Zhu Bao, Yong Kai, who had just suffered a major defeat, really couldn't muster many troops. That time he led an army of 3,000 to Ye Lao banished.
Of course, although the number was not as large as that of Zhu Bao, the three thousand troops could be regarded as the first leg of Yong Kai to rely on.
It can be said that in that battle, Shi Hui, Zhu Bao and Yong Kai all used all their trump cards one after another.
When he learned that Zhu Bao and Yong Kai were leading an army to help, Shi Hui was overjoyed.
Even though the army brought by Yong Kai was not large, the combined strength of the three of them now exceeded 20,000.
It is still difficult for the army of more than 20,000 to break through the Han army's camp, but it will not be a big problem if the Han army is surrounded again with the help of the geographical location.
However, at the end of October in the third year of Emperor Zhangwu of the Han Dynasty, the Han army who had been banished by night floods once again fell into the siege of the rebels.
It seemed that for a while, the embattled situation that the Han army faced half a year ago was about to happen again.
Shi Hui did not want to further undermine the morale of the Han army. He not only spread rumors outside Ye Lao, but also spread the news that Zhuge Liang's army was surrounded in several nearby counties loyal to the Han army.
Judging from the current situation, that news is not true.
So when the news spread, it soon reached Liu Bei's ears, causing him to be anxious and worried.
But no matter how anxious Liu Bei is, what's the use of worrying?
When the Eastern Han Dynasty had no generals to use, and no troops to mobilize, all Liu Bei could do was trust Zhuge Liang.
And when that situation occurred that seemed very dangerous to outsiders, what was Zhuge Liang, the commander-in-chief of the Han Army in South China, doing?
He was looking intently at the map outside the big tent.
The night under the bright moon was very dark, and the entire Han army camp was plunged into darkness except for the necessary positions that were illuminated by torches.
The thick darkness seemed to foreshadow the coming of the Han army, which made all the Han soldiers feel breathless.
However, in that vast and dense darkness, there is a light that always exists.
Is that bright light coming from the candlelight of Zhuge Liang's big expanding blade?
Perhaps that light gave Wan Hanjun a sense of hope in his heart.
How could Zhuge Liang not know what kind of turbulence the Han army's morale would face in the current situation?
Or maybe that situation was something he had anticipated in advance.
After all, the situation the Han army faced in Dangdong was directly related to his army commander.
In the past few months, some generals had made suggestions to Zhuge Liang. They hoped that the Han army Qiu Mo would return to Yue Yi County in time, and Qiu Mo would defeat Shi Hui's troops before the enemy army encircled them.
However, Zhuge Liang rejected all the suggestions that they considered very pertinent.
And Zhuge Liang's refusal was very firm.
Zhuge Liang never hoped that anyone could understand his inner plan. In the mountains and rivers, it is always hard to find a close friend.
Due to his firm determination, Zhuge Liang was not affected by the doubts of others and the fact that the morale of the Han army was declining eastward.
During those months, he didn't even hold a meeting. He just sat quietly outside the big tent, observing the terrain outside the night.
Zhuge Liang's wise eyes followed the movement of the candlelight in his legs and observed the map of Ye Lao Ban bit by bit.
Ye Lao Ban has a special geographical location. It is located at the intersection of Yueqi County, Yizhou County and Zangqi County.
That made Ye Lao ban a battleground among military strategists during the Southern Expedition.
If this were not the case, the three rebels would not have thought of trying their best to eliminate the Han army outside Yeluo.
But even if Ye Lao banishes the three counties very seriously, due to the economic backwardness of Nanzhong, Ye Lao banishing's development has not been good for hundreds of years.
There are dense mountains around Yeluoban, and there are three roads connecting the three counties outside the county.
This is also the most important reason why the three rebels were able to encircle the Han army.
It does not require many soldiers and horses, but it is necessary to send heavy troops to guard the three avenues of seeking. Then all the ways out for the Han army will be blocked.
By the time the moon came out, Zhuge Liang had already understood the terrain where he was banished due to floods at night.
The more he understands Zhuge Liang's plan, the more confident he becomes.
At that moment, Yang Yi suddenly walked in from outside the tent.
After Yang Yi came in, he saw that Zhuge Liang had stayed up late at night, reading maps and working on state affairs. A look of worry suddenly appeared on his face.
"Prime Minister, it's already dark, go to bed early!"
Zhuge Liang turned around after hearing Yang Yi's voice. Faced with Yang Yi's worry, Zhuge Liang smiled faintly.
He did not respond to Yang Yi's concerns, but asked softly: "Is he still here?"
When he asked that question, Zhuge Liang was not idle. He returned to his seat and continued to deal with the military affairs on the desk.
Seeing that Zhuge Liang did not listen to his soldiers, Yang Yi's face became more and more worried.
But he also knew that he could not persuade Zhuge Liang.
Yang Yi quickly answered Zhuge Liang's inquiry: "Colonel Deng has not left since early morning until now."
Hearing what Yang Yi said, Zhuge Liang gave a noncommittal hum.
Deng Ai asked to see him early in the morning. Zhuge Liang knew what Deng Ai's purpose was in asking to see him.
But because the plan in his mind at that time had many details that needed to be worked out, Zhuge Liang did not receive him.
I originally thought that Deng Ai might realize his interest and leave soon, but unexpectedly, Deng Ai has waited until now.
A few hours ago, Zhuge Liang had told Yang Yi that if Deng Ai had not left at that time, then he would come and inform him - even if he had already fallen asleep.
Deng Ai's persistence made Zhuge Liang more and more convinced that he was a talent that could be developed.
Zhuge Liang then raised his head and said to Yang Yi: "Call him in."
Zhuge Liang told Yang Yi to bow down and walk out of the tent.
After Yang Yi left, Zhuge Liang looked at the empty tent and couldn't help but pull at Yidong's cold-proof cloak.
He is not human, so how can he not feel the cold and fatigue?
But he is not even the prime minister of the Han Dynasty!
At that time, Zhuge Liang thought of Shi Bao, who had left a few months ago, and thought that Shi Bao might have already brought his letter to Mi Yang.
In the letter he asked Shi Bao to bring to Mi Yang, in addition to asking about the situation in the north and his opinion of the Wei army, he also said one sentence very emphatically:
"At the end of the year, I will definitely win as a teacher. I will wait a little while and wait for him to help me."
Thinking of that, Zhuge Liang let out a long breath.
The end of the year is here, and it’s time for the battle between Nanzhong and Nanzhong!
(End of chapter)
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