It was confirmed that Hedong County had only lost half of the eastern part, and that the county's affairs were still in the hands of Zhuge Liang, which made Guan Yu breathe a lot of relief.

He didn't even bother to look at the confession and retreat plan compiled by Zhao Lei, but wanted to first spread the news that "most of Hedong is still in the hands of our army" and rekindle the panic morale of the whole army.

After all, Jia Xu's plan to teach Lu Bu's "enemies all over the world" in the first three days had a great blow to the morale of Guan Yu's army.

However, Zhao Lei hurriedly stopped him: "General! Why don't you take a look at Zhuge Sima's plan first? When I asked about my confession, I roughly understood that Zhuge Sima's plan was very detailed and based on the current military situation of our army, we divided the best and the worst.

It seems that Zhuge Sima has two sets of countermeasures in the situation of "Our army knows that Anyi has not been lost, and the enemy army knows that Anyi has not been lost," and "our army knows that Anyi has not been lost, and the enemy army does not know that Onei has not been lost.

If the general now spread the good news that our army had not lost Anyi now spread to the entire army, the morale would certainly be encouraging. However, the people were too talkative and the soldiers might not know how to keep it secret. If someone was captured in the subsequent battle, the enemy would soon know that our army knew that Anyi was not lost. Some of Zhuge Sima's strategy options might not be used, so let's take a look first."

Guan Yu was stunned for a moment, but he couldn't react. After all, he had fought for more than ten years and had never seen such a "General Staff Operation Plan" that was constantly refined in dichotomy.

It can only be said that Zhuge Liang's thinking is too meticulous. In the 21st century, it is almost the same as the programmers' model of "what conditions are encountered by IF, and they execute a certain piece of code". They exhaust all kinds of possibilities, and then "In the remaining situation of ELSE, IF is like this, and IF is like this, and ILSE is like this..."

"When he attacked Chang'an three years ago, Aliang occasionally had an idea, but he was indeed well-organized and helped me a lot. However, in the past three years, he has been learning and studying with Boya and pondering the affairs of those internal officials. How could he have such meticulous research on military strategy and strategy?

However, Bear himself has made great plans and is willing to value him so much, he must be a genius. Perhaps in recent years, Bear has taken him to travel around the world and taught him all his money, and he has become more and more enlightened. He likes to divide the situation and make plans when doing things. This is also Bear's style. He has never seen other strategists like this before."

Guan Yu thought to himself, and after a little psychological construction, he accepted this setting.

Then, with the help of Zhao Lei, he began to interpret Zhuge Liang's plan according to conditions.

"Aliang has conceived three retreat routes for the division of our army. In the best case, if a conflict breaks out between Lu Bu and Yan Liang and Wen Chou and Lu Bu is slow to push it, there will be a big loophole between the two armies' encirclement defense zones.

You can consider directly pretending to abandon your cart and overturning the northern slope of Gucheng County, Gucheng County, and retreating around Hangu Pass to attract Lu Bu to compete for his merits and cross the Yellow River south. Then our army actually took advantage of the emptiness of the north bank and used a caravan to get out of the shallows without the advantage of the ferry. To the west of Xiaopingjin, ordinary military strategists suddenly went north to cross the Yellow River where they believed that they could not cross the voyage and got rid of the pursuers.

In order to prevent Lu Bu's pursuit, the suicide army can also prepare objects to attract fire, and attack the Lu Bu's ships anchored in the Jin Ferry of Xiaoping to delay their pursuit. However, this method will give up the suicide army that set fire. In order to cover the main force's retreat, the entire army will inevitably be wiped out...

Then the main force of our army could retreat along the Qingshui River, Dongyuan, and Wenxi, that is, the original way of advancing. The Anyi defenders were sure to lure the enemy to defeat Wenxi. Even if they could not completely wipe out Zhang Liao and recover Wenxi, they would inevitably force Zhang Liao to defend Wenxi and dare not go out of the city to fight and block the road."

After reading the first one, Guan Yu could only smile bitterly. This situation was too idealistic and predicted his current situation too well. When Zhuge Liang wrote it, he didn't know that Yan Liang was dead. The imagined internal conflicts between Lu Bu and Wen Chou and Jiang Yiqu were not that serious.

Of course, this plan of retreat route is the best in terms of road conditions, which is equivalent to the original plan before entering the army. Unfortunately, the conditions for implementing the plan are not met.

Guan Yu had no choice but to continue watching.

The second route planned by Zhuge Liang in his letter was also to take the Yellow River waterway, but when he reached the mouth of Qingshui River, he would not turn into the Qingshui River, nor did he go to Dongyuan County. Instead, he continued to go backwards to the upstream of the main stream of the Yellow River. He even had to land on the north bank in some sections of the river, find sections of roads that are relatively easy to travel on the south slope of Zhongtiao Mountain, take a section of land, and even use this to bypass the insurmountable Dizhu Mountain and Sanmenxia.

When he saw this, Guan Yu's eyes were slightly shiny.

Indeed, when it comes to flexible application of amphibious caravans, there should be no one in the world that is stronger than Zhuge Liang. After all, this thing was proposed by Li Su and designed by Zhuge Liang. As the actual inventor, he is of course very familiar with its wonderful use.

And the key is that the Kanto princes had never dealt with caravans before. Even if they had met Guan Yu in the past few days, they had never seen Guan Yu use these cars to get into the water. Therefore, the Kanto princes must have insufficient understanding of their amphibious performance and do not know how to prepare for it comprehensively.

In the best strategy just now, Zhuge Liang mentioned that "If you want to go down the river, you must find the terrain of rocky beaches that ordinary ships cannot dock, and give full play to the advantages of the chariot's launch, so as to prevent the speed of the enemy's naval forces from pursuing the pursuit of the enemy."

Now it is so wild that Guan Yu can consider "crossing the Yellow River repeatedly and jumping across the north and south banks to avoid the enemy" under specific circumstances.

The specific details here are not clear for a while, but the general principle is to use the alternation of waterways to bypass some places that cannot be passed by simply walking on the water, or places that cannot be passed by simply walking on the land.

This is not a whim - because in history, just two hundred years later, when Liu Yu in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty attacked the Later Qin Dynasty, which destroyed the sixteen kingdoms, he used water and land to advance together, forcibly leaning the Eastern Jin warship on the side of the slope of Zhongtiao Mountain on the north bank of the Yellow River, and dragging it through the natural danger of Sanmenxia with civilians. Liu Yu became the first military strategist recorded in history to drive the warship across Sanmenxia in the Yellow River.

Because near Sanmenxia, ​​the cliff of Wushan on the south side of the south is steeper, which is not even a place where the boatman stands, so it is impossible to pull a boat. However, the south slope of Zhongtiao Mountain on the north bank is relatively gentle, and some places can be used to pull a fiber. It was precisely because Liu Yu wanted to protect the boatman on the north bank that the infantry landed in the carriage formation to fight the battle example of "The Yue Formation Breaks the Northern Wei Cavalry".

(Note: In history, when Liu Xie returned to Hongnong, he was chased by Li Jue and Guo Si near Sanmenxia. The Han army on the south bank was almost completely destroyed by the Western Liang army. Dong Cheng found a boat below Sanmenxia and transported Liu Xie away. At that time, he used more than a dozen silk pieces of silk to tie it and tied it to Liu Xie's waist and hung it off the cliff. The concubines in the harem were all asked to be carried by the relatives on their backs, and there were clear records of the Three Kingdoms and Romance. Even the emperor had to escape on the cliff. It can be seen that Sanmenxia on the south bank was absolutely natural and impossible to pass.)

Guan Yu now has a caravan that is both amphibious and land-based. Although it is a little more dangerous, it is not completely impossible for Liu Yu's civilians to force the car to push the car over the slope of Zhongtiao Mountain, climb over Sanmenxia and then put down the water.

It is nothing more than unloading the goods and carrying them on the hill. They carry the goods to the mountain with human power. They can get the empty car and get the war horses. Otherwise, the full load car will definitely not be able to pull up the hillside of Zhongtiao Mountain. If Guan Yu could do it and escape from this, it would be considered a feat in the history of human marching, and it could be compared with Liu Yu and Ottoman Mu II.

If the enemy chased him and saw him running away from this dead end, his expression would probably be like in the 94 version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series, Cai Mao chased Liu Bei and chased him into Tanxi. As a result, he chased Lu Ma and made a special effect on Journey to the West, jumping to the cliff opposite the Tanxi River.

The advantage of this route is that it can retreat from the entire division, and at the same time, it can also cooperate with the supplementary plan of "After our army leaves, we will send suicide squads to burn down Xiaopingjin enemy ships and delay the enemy's pursuit" as appropriate.

The disadvantage is that the road is more difficult than the best strategy. People will definitely fall to death on the road, and soldiers will consume a lot of physical strength. At the same time, every time they cross the Yellow River, it is a variable. I don’t know if there is any accident. The general must be able to adapt to changes on the spot, otherwise a mistake will easily lead to a disaster and collapse.

Guan Yu felt that this could be considered. The execution details later were still very complicated, so he would not look at it for the time being, but first look at the worst retreat route.

The worst retreat route is the most stable - the "feint attack" mentioned by the superior strategy "pretend to go to the north slope of Wushan to retreat by land" becomes the "main attack", and just take this route and retreat.

Is it bad? Guan Yu is also very clear, and he doesn't need to look at it. It's mainly because during the six days he was chased, Guan Yu himself was thinking about how to retreat. He had thought of this road himself.

This road requires abandoning all war horses, vehicles, ships and supplies. If the iron armor is too heavy and it is not easy to cross the mountain, it may also be thrown away some. If the iron armor is not thrown away, the number of people who die when crossing the mountain is probably the largest number of people.

To the north of Hangu Pass, there are indeed remote and steep roads for people to walk on, but they cannot pass through chariots and horses, so they cannot be used as a strategic channel for the army to attack. When attacking normally, they do not break through the main road of Hangu Pass. If they cross the mountain, they will only be starved to death by being surrounded by the enemy, but they can still be used to escape.

Guan Yu hesitated and did not choose, and felt that there were too many things to abandon, and he was reluctant to take advantage of the enemy, and he wanted to stay in a stalemate. After all, when the pursuit war began six days ago, there were more than one million arrows in his army, and the food could be eaten for twenty days after replenishment.

Since this is the case, with his experience in leading troops, he must have set up a cordon in his heart. For example, if the food is left for less than five days and the number of bows and arrows is less than 200,000, then we have to consider this withdrawal route. Otherwise, it would be a blessing to give Lu Bu for free if the materials were not spent?

If Lu Bu wants to do so, he has to shoot it to Lu Bu and not give it to Lu Bu! Let Lu Bu borrow arrows from human flesh!

In addition to basically using up consumables, Guan Yu would burn all these caravans and things that cannot be taken away or burned must be found to be smashed and buried. In short, we should try our best to destroy them to avoid attacking the enemy. Iron armor, which is really not easy to destroy, will sink to the Yellow River even if it is a little trouble.

However, since Zhuge Liang's central strategy is also very hopeful to meet the implementation conditions, Guan Yu feels that this "something that is similar" is better to let go of the worst strategy first. Anyway, he doesn't need to learn the worst strategy, he will do it himself.
Chapter completed!