With suspicion, Li Xuan and the others arrived outside Shuilong Village. They were cautious along the way, just taking one step at a time and looking at three steps. The people exploring the path in front were even more wary, ready to turn around and run away at any time.
But the strange thing is that they moved forward without any danger, and did not see the men and horses from Shuilong Village at all.
When they arrived outside Shuilong Village, Li Xuan and others saw the people from Shuilong Village appear, but those people from Shuilong Village still did not go out to fight, but hid behind the gate of the village and watched them.
No matter what kind of plan the bandits in Shuilong Village have, Li Xuan and others have their own plans. Since the people in Shuilong Village will not come out to intercept them, everyone in Huangzhushan is happy to carry out the battle without interference.
preparation.
After arriving at Shuilong Village, Li Xuan saw for the first time why Wang Wenhua said before that Shuilong Village was secretly located and easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Shuilong Village, like Huangzhu Mountain, is located in the mountains and is blocked by the surrounding mountains and dense forests. It is impossible to find a bandit den here even two or three miles away.
In addition, this Shuilong Village is built in a valley among mountains. The other three sides are steep mountains and it is impossible to walk on it. Only the south side has a relatively flat terrain.
However, this flatness is only relative to those steep mountains. In fact, there is still a high mountain to the south, but the terrain is slightly gentler. To a certain extent, it can be regarded as hills.
The hills are concave in shape, with the terrain on both sides relatively high and covered with dense forests, while the one in the middle is relatively flat and has a path.
The gate of Shuilong Village is built on the flat terrain in the middle of the hills.
The gate of the village is made of bricks and stones, and the wall is made of rough wood. It is about ten feet high. You can clearly see a lot of people walking around on the wall.
"Your Majesty, if you want to attack Shuilong Village, you can only attack from here!" At this time, Wang Wenhua, who was leading the way, walked up to Li Xuan: "Other directions are either high mountains or dense forests. There is no way for the army to pass!"
Needless to say, Wang Wenhua said that Li Xuan could tell that the terrain here was very conducive to defense, at least much better than that of Huangzhu Mountain.
However, although this place is secretive and easy to defend and difficult to attack, it also means that as long as you and your people block it here, the people of Shuilong Village will not be able to escape even if they want to. After you attack from here, the food and food of Shuilong Village will be destroyed.
The population belongs to itself.
At this time, Li Xuan turned to look at Fang Dongquan and Chen Tufu: "The bandits are just ahead. Do you have any good strategies to defeat the enemy?"
Butcher Chen immediately said: "Your Majesty, I am willing to be the vanguard. We will rush forward and capture the rebel army easily!"
After hearing Butcher Chen's words, Li Xuan did not answer, but continued to look at Fang Dongquan.
Fang Dongquan said: "The space in front of the bandit camp is too small, and more than a hundred of us may not be able to use it!"
Li Xuan nodded slightly. Fang Dongquan was right. Why Shuilong Village is said to be easy to defend and difficult to attack? It's because the open space in front of their village gate is too small. At most, a dozen people can fight freely.
If more than a hundred of them rushed forward at once, let alone kill the enemy, they themselves would have to be squeezed to death first.
At this moment, Liu Bagou said: "Your Majesty, I have a plan to defeat the enemy!"
Li Xuan nodded and said: "Oh, Prime Minister, please tell me quickly if you have any good suggestions!"
Liu Bagou touched his Shanyang beard at this time, and said slowly as if he was an expert: "It is difficult to take down the bandit army in Shuilong Village, and it is easy and simple. For this reason, I,
There are three strategies: upper, middle and lower!”
Seeing Liu Bagou's appearance, Li Xuan didn't know that Liu Bagou had obviously entered the state of playing Zhuge Liang again, and was making three strategies, you might as well use a feather fan to make clever calculations.
However, after having been dealing with Liu Bagou for several months, Li Xuan knew what this man liked. He just liked playing Zhuge Liang, so Li Xuan asked him to play.
Immediately, he pretended to be eager for advice: "What are the three strategies?"
Liu Bagou seemed to be very satisfied with Li Xuan's expression. He immediately took a step and said loudly: "The first strategy is to attack by force. Although the gate of the bandit army is strong, the soldiers of our Tang Dynasty Heavenly Army are extremely brave. With General Chen as the vanguard, General Fang
For the central army, Your Majesty personally leads the Guards to suppress the formation, and the thieves will be defeated soon."
Hearing this, Butcher Chen became very excited and interjected: "That's right, as long as I lead my men and charge forward, I'm afraid I won't be able to capture the small Shuilong Village!"
But Liu Bagou glanced at Butcher Chen, with a hint of casual contempt in his eyes, and continued: "However, there are many bandits, and the terrain is not conducive to our attack. I am afraid that a strong attack will cost many brothers.
Therefore, this is the last resort!"
Li Xuan on the side thought to himself; Nonsense, if he could easily win through a force attack, why would Li Xuan play with him in the upper, middle and lower strategies? He would just let Butcher Chen lead the attack.
Liu Bagou didn't stop talking and continued: "The second strategy is to attack with fire. I observe that the gate of the traitor's stronghold is made of wood. As long as we get close and attack it with fire, the gate of the traitor's stronghold will definitely be reduced to ashes. By then our Heavenly Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty will
But you can come and go freely, and attacking Shuilong Village is like taking something from a bag, it's easy. But if you want to attack with fire, you need to risk getting close to start a fire, and I'm afraid you will lose a lot of brothers, so this is the best strategy!"
"Where is the best strategy?" Li Xuan knew very well that there must be a better strategy. This is how the ancients gave advice. Without a top, middle, or bottom strategy, you would be embarrassed to say that you are a strategist.
A plan that can be listed as the best strategy by Liu Bagou is probably a truly useful plan, so before Liu Bagou took the initiative to say it, Li Xuan asked first.
Liu Bagou stroked his beard again at this moment, and said with a confident look: "As the saying goes, attacking with troops and conquering the enemy's troops without fighting is a good person. Now our Tang Dynasty is as high as the beginning.
The Chaoyang is powerful in the world, and His Majesty is the chosen one. The Holy King of Nine Provinces has not left the country for thousands of years. To take over Shuilong Village, His Majesty only needs to issue an imperial edict to surrender. The thieves in Shuilong Village must be happy to surrender after accepting the imperial edict.
Be the pioneer of the Tang Dynasty!
Therefore, I think it is best to recruit and surrender!"
Listening to Liu Bagou's long words, Li Xuan was a little speechless. You, Liu Bagou, are the only one talking nonsense about the Chosen Lord and the Saint King of Nine Provinces. I don't believe it myself. How can you still count on those people in Shuilong Village?
Xin, as soon as people heard that he, the Emperor of Datang Valley, was coming, they would obediently offer food and women to surrender. Isn’t this nonsense!
The previous strong attacks and fire attacks were not that reliable. Li Xuan felt that Liu Bagou would be useless in attacking Shuilong Village this time.
It seemed that he had to make a good plan on how to capture Shuilong Village. Immediately, he stopped talking and started thinking about how to defeat the enemy.
While Li Xuan was thinking hard about defeating the enemy, Wang Wenhua, who had always had no sense of presence among the crowd, looked around at Liu Bagou and others. After hesitating for a while, he stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, I have a request.
Ce can defeat the bandit army!"
Li Xuan raised his head and looked at Wang Wenhua, who had a sneaky look on his face, and immediately said: "Oh! What's your plan, Aiqing?"