Chapter 283 Yun Changs Intention Three Tigers in the Same Tent
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But despite this, there was no fear on the faces of the Han generals, which shows that the military morale of the generals is still very high.
This kind of military spirit gave Guan Yu greater confidence in the upcoming decisive battle.
But as the commander-in-chief, Guan Yu certainly could not sit back and watch the enemy troops gather so unscrupulously.
Ever since, Guan Yu issued an order to the generals:
"Starting tomorrow, our army will retreat outside Fancheng and slowly retreat all the way to the Han River."
After Guan Yu's order was issued, some of the Han generals in the big tent began to have puzzled looks on their faces.
Now that the Wei army has begun to take action, why do they still want to withdraw now?
But after thinking carefully, the generals understood Guan Yu's intention.
Guan Yu's intention had three levels. The first level was that Guan Yu was worried that in the future, when fighting the Wei army, the Wei army in Fancheng would attack them from both front and rear.
Although Fancheng was now completely surrounded by the Han army, Guan Yu's original purpose was to encircle the point and mobilize reinforcements, so he did not launch an attack on Fancheng.
The Wei army in Fan City had not experienced any defensive battles and was not damaged.
In this case, if their army starts fighting with the Wei army in the future, and the Wei army in Fan City takes this opportunity to attack them from behind, it will be very dangerous.
A fortress without soldiers to guard it is just a dead thing.
By choosing to withdraw from Fancheng, the 60,000 Han troops could shrink their defense line and leave their rear to friendly forces with water control.
The second purpose of Guan Yu's move was that once the news of his withdrawal from Fancheng reached Cao Pi's ears, Cao Pi would think that the Han army was afraid and wanted to escape.
As soon as Cao Pi had this idea, he would issue another edict urging Zhang Liao to attack them.
In this case, it would be equivalent to invisibly breaking Cao Pi's method of summoning good generals from various places.
The purpose of Guan Yu's encirclement and reinforcements was just to capture the 30,000 Wei troops in Zhang Liao's hands. He did not want to rely on the 60,000 Han troops in his hands to challenge the entire Wei.
Even if Guan Yu has this ability, the Han Dynasty currently does not have the national power to support Guan Yu to eat Cao Wei's entire field army.
As for whether Cao Pi would order Zhang Liao to advance quickly after hearing that the Han army wanted to retreat, the answer is yes.
Cao Pi raised the army out of anger, so he definitely couldn't stand the Han army humiliating him and then retreating safely.
If this is the case, there will be no way to escape the shame he suffered this time.
As for Guan Yu's third level intention, it is relatively obscure.
Once the Han army withdraws from Fancheng, it means that Cao Xiu in Fancheng is free.
Originally the commander of the 60,000 Han army was Zhang Liao, but once Cao Xiu, the general of Zhennan and a clan member of the Cao family, came out of Fancheng, would the commander of the 60,000 Wei army still be Zhang Liao?
You must know that Cao Xiu is not a useless second generation like Cao Tai.
Although Cao Xiu is nominally the second generation, his actual time with Cao Cao is not much shorter than that of Cao Ren, Cao Hong and other generations.
And the most important thing is that Cao Xiu has a lot of military exploits. When Cao Cao was alive, he relied heavily on Cao Xiu.
What's more, it has been an unspoken rule in the Wei army for many years that the Cao family members control generals with different surnames.
Changing generals before battle is a taboo for military strategists.
Even if Cao Pi could not change the generals, would Cao Xiu, a clan member of the Cao family, be willing to be under Zhang Liao, a second general with a different surname?
Disagreement between generals is also a taboo for military strategists.
This is Guan Yu's conspiracy, and this is also Guan Yu's upright way of using troops to retreat in order to advance.
Of course, only a few people in the big account can understand Guan Yu's third-level intentions.
With Guan Yu's current status and prestige, the orders he issued did not require too much explanation to convince everyone.
After issuing this order, Guan Yu discussed a number of matters with the generals. After discussing everything, Guan Yu asked the generals in the big tent to go down one after another and act in accordance with the order.
Before all the generals left, Guan Yu asked Ma Chao and Mi Yang to stay.
When Ma Chao heard Guan Yu's order, he didn't know what Guan Yu wanted.
It's just that Guan Yu's current prestige and reputation are higher than his, so in the face of Guan Yu's orders, Ma Chao can only act according to his orders.
Among the entire Han army at present, except for Liu Bei, I am afraid that only the Dongmao commanded by Guan Yu has surpassed him.
Mi Yang, of course, had no doubts about Guan Yu's orders.
It's just that after Ma Chao and Mi Yang stayed, besides Guan Yu, there was a third person in this big tent.
That person is Zhang Fei...
Guan Yu didn't care what Zhang Fei was doing in the tent. After all the generals left, Guan Yu stood up first and walked to Ma Chao and asked Ma Chao:
"I heard that Meng Qi came this time and brought three thousand Qiang and Di warriors?"
Hearing Guan Yu suddenly ask him about this, Ma Chao's heart skipped a beat.
At the beginning of the Battle of Xiabian, Ma Chao mobilized more than 10,000 people from the Leiding Seven Tribes of the Di tribe to respond to Liu Bei and contain the main vanguard force of Cao's army.
Although the tens of thousands of Di warriors later suffered heavy losses in the war, some were still left behind.
In addition to some Qiang people who are following Ma Chao, there are currently nearly 3,000 Qiang and Di warriors around Ma Chao.
Three thousand Qiang and Di warriors were willing to follow Ma Chao solely because of his prestige as the mighty general.
These three thousand Qiang and Di warriors have always been regarded as Ma Chao's private soldiers. After Liu Bei learned about this, he did not deprive him of this part of his military power.
This time when he went south, in order to protect himself, Ma Chao brought all the 3,000 Qiang and Di warriors in Mianyang with him.
Because the purpose of bringing the Qiang and Di warriors was impure, when Guan Yu asked about it, Ma Chao had a look of panic on his face.
Seeing this, Zhang Fei unconsciously put his hand on his sword.
Later, he discovered that the person standing in front of Ma Chao was Guan Yu, and he silently lowered his guard.
The reason why Ma Chao was a little panicked was that he thought Guan Yu had doubts about him having three thousand Qiang and Di warriors with him.
After all, aliens are not welcome in the first place, let alone the aliens he leads.
In panic, Ma Chao first replied to Guan Yu: "Exactly."
After answering these two words, Ma Chao wanted to continue explaining with his fists clasped, but Guan Yu did not give him this chance.
Guan Yu said to Ma Chao: "In the previous battle, our army defeated the enemy's cavalry and captured many war horses and cavalry armor. I will order them to be sent to your camp later."
"With these, is Meng Qi confident that he can turn those three thousand Qiang and Di warriors into an invincible cavalry army in a short time?"
After Guan Yu finished speaking, Ma Chao knew what the real purpose of Guan Yu's question was.
In fact, Guan Yu's attitude towards Ma Chao was similar to Zhang Fei's, that is, there was absolutely no trust.
But Guan Yu didn't trust Ma Chao, but he trusted Liu Bei very much.
He knew that since Liu Bei would send Ma Chao to the front line, it meant that Liu Bei believed that Ma Chao was available, and Guan Yu was convinced by Liu Bei's eyes.
Therefore, Guan Yu did not want to test Ma Chao at all. What he wanted now was just to let Ma Chao play his role to the maximum extent.
What Guan Yu said was exactly why he asked Liu Bei to summon Ma Chao to Fancheng.
Hearing that Guan Yu meant this, Ma Chao felt instantly at peace.
When Guan Yu asked about his strengths, Ma Chao's face immediately showed pride, and he said to Guan Yu:
"Don't worry, General. In less than three days, Chao will definitely form a tiger and wolf cavalry army."
In three days, a cavalry army was formed that was like a wolf and a tiger. If someone said this, anyone would think he was talking big words.
But now it was Ma Chao who said this, and his words gave people a sense of trust.
The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the famous Wuhuan Cavalry were all defeated by the cavalry army led by Ma Chao.