Chapter 1178 The enemy believes in you more than you
Chapter 1,178 The enemy believes in you more than you do
In fact, this close encounter did not last long. One reason was that Zhu Ran's original plan was not to use up all his savings in one go. The other reason was probably that after realizing that Zhu Ran and others were about to retreat, no one in Liu Bei's army chose to
Stop them.
It’s hard to imagine what it feels like to have your excitement wiped out by someone, but the reality is so cruel.
Zhuge Liang's seemingly foolproof strategy completely collapsed due to a coincidence. Even Zhuge Liang has experienced this situation many times - looking at the defeated army at the moment, he felt quite uncomfortable in his heart.
"Where are the casualties...Send someone to send them soon..."
"General Zilong...are you okay? I just saw a white horse fighting out of the chaos..."
"Quickly send someone to inform the two generals Wu and Chen on the river that there is a change in the plan...instruct them not to rush out...wait...wait for us to rest..."
As he spoke, Zhuge Liang was stunned.
Although...the soldiers around him were still running around, most people's eyes were lifeless.
Nothing can make people soberer and more decadent than a tragic defeat.
People who barely managed to save their lives may start to doubt whether their choice is correct if they do not have strong faith.
And even if he had faith, a man as strong as Zhao Yun could only feel a sense of powerlessness in his heart when he looked at the enemy troops receding like a tide.
"As expected...it is indeed you, sir, who is directing me from behind?"
Zhao Yun murmured to himself, but no one heard his words.
The only person with a different style of painting may be Liu Bei. As the commander-in-chief of the army, the best thing he did when the enemy attacked was to not give the opponent any opportunity to take advantage of him.
Zhu Ran naturally wanted to achieve as many results as possible in this surprise attack, so he inevitably discovered Liu Bei's traces.
However, when he sent a small team to attack Liu Bei's team during the chaos, he found that Liu Bei himself reacted much faster than the soldiers he was guarding.
Before Zhuge Liang's signal could be responded to, Liu Bei fled towards the place where the army was originally stationed.
After receiving the news, Zhuge Liang's expression was not even more embarrassing:
"I don't know if it's our blessing to have such a master or..."
All in all, this battle resulted in the complete defeat of Liu Bei's army, which greatly delayed the advance of Liu Bei and others. Not only that, it also gave Jianye a chance to breathe - at least in the short term, Jianye would not
Faced with the risk of suddenly breaking the city, if Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and others really want to take this hard nut, then they must be prepared to lay siege to the city and then fight a war of attrition.
But if this is the case, things will develop in a direction that Zhuge Liang absolutely does not want to see. For a while, Liu Bei's army was caught in a dilemma - the worst case scenario, if they delay longer, in order to prevent the enemy from cutting them off
As a retreat, they may have to choose to withdraw their troops.
In that case...the entire plan planned by Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong and others for Liu Bei to seize Jiangdong will be completely ruined.
Not to mention... after returning to Jingnan, they faced the dilemma of being attacked from both sides by Cao Cao and Liu Zhang.
"No... we can't retreat. We must break the city as soon as possible, no matter what the cost -"
When Zhuge Liang was cleaning up the battlefield after the war, he swept away the gloom in his heart and strengthened his faith.
He felt the enemy's will to burn everything, but at the same time, because of the completely different fighting experience in the past few days, Zhuge Liang could finally conclude that the enemies in front of him were definitely the most elite troops in Jiangdong.
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Zhuge Liang's guess was correct. Yi Xiaotian had already prepared traps for Zhuge Liang one after another before Zhuge Liang and others set off from Chaisang.
The first trap is already quite obvious - either Yi Xiaotian's schemes are always beyond common sense, causing people like Zhuge Liang to suffer a lot.
When it comes to attacking the mind, Yi Xiaotian is only stronger than Fa Zheng.
Yi Xiaotian's clear understanding of the counselors and generals in various forces is what he relies on to set traps.
From the beginning, Yi Xiaotian concluded that Zhuge Liang and others would make so-called "accurate judgments" because of some of the small details he released.
Just because Yi Xiaotian knew Zhuge Liang's original identity - a farmer.
This is not to say that Yi Xiaotian despises farmers or anything. Zhuge Liang, who was born in a noble family, can "farm in Nanyang" and is no longer in the same situation as Jiang Taigong fishing.
There are various signs that Zhuge Liang really likes the poor life of farming and studying. This is quite rare.
But again, just because what Zhuge Liang did was not a face-saving project, his habits and cognitions that were deeply rooted in his heart were inseparable from his experience of farming Nanyang.
The astronomical calendar, the Eight Diagrams of the Book of Changes - the most important thing is the celestial phenomena during the farming season. These extraordinary abilities that Zhuge Liang possessed in the eyes of later generations, turned out to be a breakthrough for Yi Xiaotian.
Don't you like to see the big from the small and know the big from the small?
Then I will only leave the details for you to see, even if the details are shrouded in some quite inconsistent general framework. If it were not for the existence of Zhuge Liang and just let ordinary people judge, they would definitely make the completely opposite decision——
But Yi Xiaotian just believed in Zhuge Liang, just like Zhuge Liang absolutely believed in his own experience.
As expected, the so-called green and yellow seedlings, the "flaws" mixed in the rain of arrows, and the deceptive performance of the soldiers guarding the city, Zhuge Liang may not necessarily be fooled by any of these, but when these "coincidences" appear, Zhuge Liang may not be fooled.
"When they appeared together, even Zhuge Liang still got the idea.
After Zhuge Liang strengthened his judgment, the ensuing Battle of Jianye was the time for the first half of the strategy to come to an end.
To be honest, Zhu Ran has completed the task perfectly, and the next step is to really lose Jianye, and Yi Xiaotian will not blame him.
But when Zhu Ran learned that Yi Xiaotian originally planned to let him retreat only after winning the first battle, Zhu Ran chose to stick to it instead.
"I have no choice but to retreat, so at least I can shine at this moment. As a general, why not do it?"
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Here, at Jianye, Zhuge Liang was hit hard and finally had to stop and rest.
On the other side, Pang Tong's side, the situation seems to be even more grim.
Finally, after wandering around Dahua Mountain for about two days, Pang Tong realized that the opponent had already withdrawn from Dahua Mountain.
They fell into the enemy's delaying strategy. When he thought of this, Pang Tong felt extremely regretful.
But the ship was already done, and it was difficult to recover from the overturning of the water. Having reached this point, Pang Tong could not give up the pursuit on the spot and give up the opportunity to go all the way south to unite Poyang, Jiaozhou and Jian'an.
