Chapter 619: The enemy has a plan, talk on paper, hide the truth from the enemy
"Sure enough, they are really a bunch of cows. Mr. Zhang Ge is right. Hefei will be conquered in just a few days!"
Han Dang cursed carelessly and saw the flag waving on the top of Hefei City, but no soldiers came out to fight.
He and Ding Feng were stationed in front of the city, and they challenged each other for a long time——
Ding Feng looked at the silent Cao Jun on the city with a sneer, shook his head, and said to Han Dang:
"There is no need to add any extraneous complications. As long as we can ensure that General Zhu can successfully detour to the rear of Hefei, by then, even if they don't want to fight, they will still have to fight - otherwise, not only will they not be able to wait for reinforcements, but Shouchun behind them will also be attacked.
Surprise attack——"
As Ding Feng said, Zhu Huan's team is definitely a highly mobile force at this time. It is said that it wants to block Cao Jun's reinforcements. However, if the battle on the front line goes smoothly and the opponent's reinforcements have not arrived, as long as Zhu Huan judges
If they can continue their journey, they can penetrate directly into Cao Cao's rear and disrupt Hefei's arrangement——
Everything is fighting against Chibi. They believe that Cao Cao will never be able to spare any extra hands to deal with the war in Shouchun, Hefei.
As soon as Ding Feng waved, Han Dang turned back in disappointment and slowly returned to their military tent stationed on the south bank of Shishui River with the thousands of soldiers and horses they had excitedly ordered.
Fifteen Li - The military tent of the Soochow army chose to be in the broad area south of Shishui and east of Feishui - here you can advance to Hefei with strong bows, and when you retreat, you can cross Jiangjunling to the east to join the coalition forces.
Attack Xiangyang together, guard Ruxu Mountain in the south, and the mountains along Qibao Mountain - these mountains and rivers are natural barriers for Hefei, and why not for the people of Soochow?
It's just that when the army left, Ding Feng and Han Dang didn't seem to know that someone on the city was keeping an eye on them until they went to the other side and disappeared on the city wall.
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About two or three hours later, the army led by Zhang Zhao also arrived at the temporary garrison site opened by Ding Feng and Han Dang.
Nearly 80,000 soldiers and horses were facing Hefei across Shishui.
Zhang Zhao is a crazy person. An army of 80,000 men wanted to stand in front of Hefei City. He knew that the defenders in Hefei City could not escape to the east or west, so he clearly wanted to crush the opponent with a large force.
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The craziest thing is that he didn't even order a fierce attack the moment the army arrived at the city.
Instead, across the river, he ordered the army to light fires and cook meals on the spot - according to Zhang Zhao, this was to put enough pressure on the other side -
But...it's obvious that Zhang Zhao has another plan in mind.
Why does Zhang Zhao flaunt himself as a very qualified coach despite having never fought in any big games?
Probably because he has indeed read a lot of military books in private.
No - the trick of setting fire to cook is just a temporary trick he used called hiding from the sky - his real killing move will have to wait until the sun has completely set and the sky has darkened...
That's right...not attacking the city during the day, but attacking the city at night. Only a genius like Zhang Zhao could come up with such a strategy.
He stood complacently in front of Shishui Bank, looking at the majestic Hefei City in the distance, and said with a smile to the generals behind him -
"When tomorrow's sun hangs high above where it is at this moment, our soldiers in Soochow will drink happily in the city to celebrate an unprecedented victory!"
What could Zhu Zhi, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin and others say? They smiled awkwardly, and some didn't know how to point out Zhang Zhao's mistake - in fact, Jiang Qin had actually approached Zhang Zhao and told him in a subtle way, no matter what
At any time, soldiers are valuable and quick. With their superior strength, the best plan is to besiege the city as soon as possible——
It's a pity... Zhang Zhao hasn't refuted his words yet, and Yu Fan and other so-called "close friends" beside him have already turned their backs and retorted.
"What do you know! The elder Ge gave such an order, so of course there is a deep meaning in it! Don't use your conventional thoughts to accuse the elder Ge of his ingenious strategies!"
So...what else can Jiang Qin and the others say?
Pan Zhang, who was just going through the motions and watching the joke, smiled and responded to Yu Fan, praising Zhang Zhao's plan as "flawless."
Hearing Pan Zhang complimenting him for the first time, Zhang Zhao only thought that Pan Zhang was trying to restore his position in the army and was greedy for the military glory he could easily gain in the battle of Hefei.
He snorted coldly and didn't say anything else, but the implication was already obvious...that is:
Even if you, Pan Zhang, want to show your courtesy at this time, it is already too late.
But Pan Zhang obviously didn’t mean it this way——
Not long after, Pan Zhang excused himself due to illness and returned to his rear army, which made Zhang Zhao feel extremely comfortable.
"Zhou Yu, Lu Su...hehe...how do you fight with me?"
Feeling the majesty blowing from the river, Zhang Zhao felt refreshed, as if he had already imagined how Jiangdong's fathers would greet him on the day of victory, and how his status among the nobles would rise.
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It's a pity...Zhang Liao is not a good person.
Just when Zhang Zhao's so-called "hiding the truth from the sky" plan was in full swing, a cavalry army with only more than a thousand men and horses, but ridiculously heavy hoofs and feet, quietly opened the gate of Hefei City.
, on the wilderness, killing towards the unresponsive Soochow soldiers and horses——
"earthquake?"
Some people gathered around the pot with their bowls and chopsticks in front of them, watching the soup and rice in the pot start to splash, but they immediately thought that it might be a natural or man-made disaster.
However, soon, heart-rending shouts broke their rotten thinking.
...The iron hoof is too fast and too hasty. How can these young soldiers who have lived in the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River for a long time tell clearly that this is a precursor to Yama's harvest of human lives?
It wasn't until the extremely blind swords and guns fell mercilessly on the unsuspecting Soochow soldiers that all 80,000 people finally realized that something was wrong.
"What's going on! Why is it so noisy outside..."
"It's not good! Cao's army has entered the camp! It's not good...poof——"
The shouting outside the tent suddenly stopped, and the big shots in the camp panicked and began to look around for weapons to protect themselves.
Puff puff--
Killing is very simple, especially when the executioner is highly skilled and the opponent is unarmed. Killing is like cutting wheat or harvesting rice. There is not much difference.
Running in the pool of blood were black iron cavalry. They came in and out silently, and burned and killed everywhere in a very organized manner - after slaughtering one place, they slaughtered another.
Under the dim skylight, the fiery red tent seemed to have already brightened the morning sun.
Even the shooting blood arrows and the pools of blood were redder than the sunset before.
This disaster of blood and fire, amidst desperate shouts, lasted until the dead of night——
After leaving corpses all over the ground and burned-out barracks, the cavalry walked away... nothing could stop them.
...Oh... There seems to be a poor man here, squatting in front of the camp that has been burned to ashes, trying to stare at the retreating cavalry with his eyes.
But obviously, he failed.
Zhang Zhao was so angry that he couldn't say a word. He could only jump on the spot angrily, but he didn't know that the wreckage of the barracks behind him was slowly falling towards him——
