After Guan Yu decided to use the withdrawal route planned by Zhuge Liang Zhongce, he looked closely and found that the following assumptions were still a lot.

It is also thanks to the secret envoys sent by Zhuge Liang that remember so clearly, and also thanks to Zhao Lei who helped him sort out his confession so well-organized—

According to Zhao Lei, Zhuge Liang should have this small group of secret envoys remembered the best and the worst, and divided them into the main and secondary. For example, Zhuge Liang thought that the probability of using a relatively high strategy, so that a few more people could remember it. In this way, if he died along the way or someone could not remember it completely, he could also check for omissions.

At the same time, Zhuge Liang's statement on the road that the secret envoys were captured was actually very strict. Once they were arrested, they said that they were just "the generals of Anyi were sent to find out what General Guan was doing recently and wanted to know if they could rescue General Guan." This statement was very reasonable, and most of the generals in Yuan Shao's camp would believe it.

There are really troublesome things, so let me explain to you a little more, saying that they "wanted to tell Guan Yu the good news that Anyi has not been successfully attacked by Zhang Liao, so as to help stabilize Guan Yu's military morale and avoid being disintegrated by enemies." After this is really impossible to really confess, even if Jia Xu comes in person, he will not doubt more.

Fortunately, no messengers were arrested on the road, but some people drowned and fell to death. All of them witnessed and confirmed their deaths and would not leak the secrets.

Therefore, after Guan Yu decided to implement Zhuge Liang's Zhongshou, he could also subdivided it into specific details, and implemented the IF conditions for the branch "The enemy does not know that our army already knows that Anyi is still in my hands" below.

When Guan Yu saw this, he couldn't help but be completely amazed: "Zhuge's wisdom is really not Abel."

He took a deep breath and continued to think about it. It turned out that Zhuge Liang's plan branch conditions were quite easy to understand:

If the enemy thinks that Guan Yu does not know that Anyi has not been lost, or is involved in the enemy's plan of "Oi has been lost", then the enemy will definitely believe that Guan Yu's final retreat route is to abandon his carriages, horses, and supplies to Hangu Mountain Road and retreat lightly.

At this time, Guan Yu should first shoot a shot and pretend to retreat south to meet the enemy's expectations, pull away the attention of the surrounding enemy troops, attract his main direction of encirclement to the south, and then actually turn around and retreat north.

If the enemy knows that Guan Yu has known that Anyi has not been lost, or that the "folk-sided enemy" scheme has been discovered, then the enemy will definitely believe that Guan Yu may still retreat northward. At this time, Guan Yu can actually go south first and then actually retreat northward.

Of course, these are just general ideas, and in fact, the execution can be adapted to the changes and has more details.

For example, when luring the enemy into making fake moves, don’t dispatch the entire army but divide the troops, let the partial division pretend to be the main force, the main force pretend to be the pig and the tiger pretend to be the partial division, so... Guan Yu still needs to take the details of this by himself. Zhuge Liang can only provide a general guiding ideology and strategic policy.

After all, Zhuge Liang did not have the opportunity to personally govern the army or command tactically. He knew that his on-site micro-care was definitely not as good as a famous general like Guan Yu who had fought for more than ten years, so the suggestions provided by Zhuge Liang did not involve any micro-care.

Some people may be surprised: Isn’t Guan Yu already surrounded on the eastern foot of Wushan Mountain and the banks of Yingshui River? Are there only a few camps left? Where can he get the opportunity to do false moves? As long as the enemy sieges to death, he will be completely out of the way?

This involves some military knowledge of ancient warfare, that is, any army with a size of more than tens of thousands of people is surrounded and cannot be really be besieged and forced into a small space with only one camp. The surrounded party will try its best to set up multiple camps based on the geographical location, resist danger and defend, and strive for a greater depth of defense for itself.

For example, take the example of Bai Qi surrounding Zhao Kuo more than 400,000 people, Zhao Kuo was finally camped in a triangle area between Danshui, Hanwang Mountain, and Bailishi. Later generations took a Baidu map and found that the side length of the triangle area was almost half the distance from Gaoping City to Changzhi City, more than fifty miles.

To put it closer, you can imagine the Battle of Yiling in history. Liu Bei's attack on Wu was not as many people as mentioned in the Romance, but it was indeed "divided into more than 40 garages" and it stretched very broadly. Of course, this example is different from the situation at this moment, because in the Battle of Yiling, Liu Bei was the attacking party, so it is normal for him to station troops in a large depth.

But no matter what, Guan Yu is also a famous general after all. Although he fought and retreated before, he still paid great attention to his defensive strategy depth, so that he could have a space for elastic defense to shrink when encountering strong attacks by the enemy. Just like when he attacked Fancheng in history, he had to set up many villages. The "Sizhongzhai" attacked by Xu Huang looked at the map and was far away from his main village.

At this moment, although Guan Yu's troops were compressed to more than 20,000 people, he leaned on the dangerous areas of the hillside of Wushan. There was Yingshui on one side to block these favorable terrain, and always maintained a depth of more than 20 miles north and south, and a thickness of more than ten miles east and west.

Five battalions were divided into garrisons, and they could quickly support and protect them when attacked. If the enemy forces crossed Yingshui to attack any camp, they would be quickly supported by the reserve teams of the other four camps and attacked them.

All of these solid basic skills provided a military basis for Guan Yu to fully and outstandingly implement Zhuge Liang's plan to withdraw troops and deceive, and also created a prerequisite for tearing a gap at the junction of Wen Chou and Lu Bu.

Guan Yu spent a whole afternoon conspiring with Guan Ping, Zhao Lei, Yin Guan and others, and finally finalized the detailed combat plan, and decided to make full use of the night to break through.

During this process, not only did not announce the real withdrawal plan to the soldiers in the army, but even other generals were not aware of it. The reason for this was that Guan Yu firmly believed that his army's morale had not reached the critical point of collapse. The confidence he had given his subordinates for more than ten years could still have enough amount to "overdraft" him.

Instead of telling soldiers and ordinary generals the real plan is to ensure that all of them firmly believe that their breakthrough direction is the real breakthrough direction before receiving the next order.

In this way, even if soldiers and officers were injured and captured during the breakout, or even if they were not determined and surrendered voluntarily, they would not reveal the final true retreat route and carry out the deception to the end.

"Everyone hurry up and have some rest. We will make meals at the second update tonight, and then immediately divide our troops to break through at night. We personally lead the main force of the infantry and some convoys to attack Xiaopingjin at night. We try our best to walk away with the ball and do not actively attack Lu Bu's camp. Only when the Lu Bu army scout who was patrolling the battalion was discovered by the Lu Bu army scouts patrolling between the battalions could they turn around and respond.

Ping'er led the cavalry to stand by on the southern wing. He heard that the north had fought, and then beat the drums in the camp, but he did not go out to fight, which would make Wen Chou on the opposite side frightened and dared not leave the camp without knowing the enemy situation. However, if Wen Chou was not afraid of coming to attack the camp at night, he would still have to fight back with all his strength.

After playing drums on the south side, the southern side was set on fire before dawn, and then searched west to hide and lurk in the dense forests of the mountains. The nearby mountains could not cross Hangu Pass, so I didn't expect you to escape from here. As long as you hide, don't be discovered by the enemy, hold on for one or two days, so that the enemy could think that our army had all gone north."

After giving the order, Guan Yu and the entire army stepped up their rest and broke through the second update at night.

...

When Guan Yu was preparing to break out north, the generals of Yuan Shao's army who surrounded him from three directions were slacking off and had different levels of vigilance.

Previously, because Lu Bu came from Hanoi, the position was north. As he fought in the past few days, he naturally formed a situation where "Lu Bu surrounded Guan Yu from the north and the northern half of the east side. Wen Chou and Jiang Yiqu surrounded Guan Yu from the south and the southern half of the east side respectively."

However, just at the night of May 15, Wen Chou on the south side was still nervous. There were many scouts sent out night patrols and soldiers were all taking turns to rest. In contrast, Lu Bu on the north side was relatively relaxed.

Moreover, Lu Bu himself was not in the north of Guan Yu's position, that is, between Guan Yu and Xiaopingjin Ferry, but threw this direction to his generals. Lu Bu himself was in a camp northeast of Guan Yu, preparing to find the most comfortable position to steal the head for Guan Yu's last blow.

The reason why Lu Bu made such a deployment was not because he underestimated the enemy, but because Jia Xu's remote control of "embraceful" scheme was too successful in the past three days. The Guan Yu army had more than 100 fugitive soldiers killed by his own military law. More than 300 people surrendered.

Lu Bu got sufficient information from these surrendered soldiers: these surrendered soldiers were so moved that their army was defeated because they believed that their old nest was taken away. Now the entire Guan Yu army was filled with despair of "it is impossible to retreat on the northern road."

In this case, Lu Bu certainly had to adjust the deployment posture of "easy to defend but not to pursue" to a deployment posture of "more conducive to pursuit, but perhaps less strict defense."

Because he was already convinced that Guan Yu would definitely break through to Wenchou's controlled area in the south. After killing to Gucheng County, he moved towards Hangu Pass, and then between Hangu Pass and Gucheng County, he looked for a relatively easy-to-climb position with a shorter mileage between the mountains, and gave up the carriage, horses, baggage and wounded soldiers crossed the mountains and fled.

If Lu Bu's starting position does not move south in advance, he will not be able to grab the heads as soon as possible.

As for the risk of Guan Yu fleeing north, Lu Bu really didn't need to take it in his heart: Even if Guan Yu took Xiaopingjin, what if he did? Can he still kill Cheng Lian on the other side of the river, or even Zhang Liao, and go home through the entire Hedong?

Even if Guan Yu can beat Cheng Lian and Zhang Liao's joint efforts with the remaining 20,000 people, it will take time! At this time, Lu Bu and Wen Chou are not crazy and catch up again and bite him! At that time, the more Guan Yu moves north, the further away the retreat route that can cross the mountains behind Hangu Pass in the south, and the more thorough Guan Yu dies!

In such a confident state, when the second half of the second day of the year was blocked, the camp of Wei Yue, the general of Lu Bu, who was blocked from the north of Guan Yu, was suddenly infiltrated.

Because Lu Bu's own camp was not in the same direction as Wei Yue, and because the Guan Yu controlled the area was more than twenty miles in the north and south, Lu Bu finally figured out what was going on after Wei Yue was raided open.

Although when Wei Yue first started fighting, Lu Bu heard a fight in the north, and there was a faint light of fire. But who made the drums at the junction of Guan Yu and Wen Chou camp in the south louder and the shouts of killing even more shocking, so that before Lu Bu received the messenger sent by Wei Yue himself, he did not know who was the main attack.
Chapter completed!