The large tent was paved with carpets, and dozens of oil lamps were placed behind the generals. Guan Yu was still sitting at the top. Under the candlelight, his already heavy brown face became even redder, although his eyes were closed.
, but Chen Mu could still see a trace of shame on his face.
After being together for more than ten years, Chen Mu knew clearly what his second brother was thinking. He had used moral kidnapping to let Guan Yu lure Yan Liang into an ambush circle, just to force him to make a choice. But Yan Liang aroused his anger and set things right.
Smashed.
This kind of shame was not entirely for Chen Mu, but only a small part. He felt that because of his own reasons, he missed an opportunity to defeat the enemy. He was mainly ashamed of Liu Bei and the Han Dynasty.
"Fourth brother...I..."
After a long silence, Guan Yu said hesitantly: "It's all my fault that we didn't win this battle."
It is not easy to make the arrogant second brother admit his mistakes.
Chen Mu sighed in his heart and said with a smile on his face: "What's wrong with my second brother?"
Guan Yu smiled bitterly and said: "If I hadn't insisted on fighting to the death with Na Yan Liang... maybe we would have defeated them long ago."
"No!"
Chen Mu stood up, looked around at everyone and said, "It was because of my second brother that I thought of a way to defeat the enemy. I owe most of the credit for this battle to my second brother."
Guan Yu suddenly frowned and said, "I let Yan Liang go. Isn't it my fault? In this battle, I will write to the Taiwei to plead guilty and demote myself to an official position. Fourth brother, please do not shield me because of brotherly righteousness."
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Chen Mu said with a smile: "Sun Tzu said: Water controls the flow due to the ground, and soldiers control the flow due to the enemy. Soldiers are like water, and there is no normal state. Previously, we made a plan to kill Yan Liang, and the morale of the enemy army dropped sharply.
We won the battle, but after today's battle, I thought of a way to annihilate the enemy's army. How can killing Yi Yanliang be as shocking as annihilating tens of thousands of troops to Yuan Shao?"
"oh?"
Guan Yu was surprised and asked: "What good advice does the fourth brother have?"
Chen Mu said softly: "I watched the enemy's formation today because I suspected the enemy's plan. This place is not far from Yecheng, and I am afraid that Yuan Jun has also made two preparations. Once Yan Liang is defeated, he will immediately flee north, and on the road
, there must be an ambush, so even if our army kills Yan Liang today, it will only be a victory, not a great victory. If all the enemies escape safely back to Yecheng, it will still be difficult for our army to move."
"What do you mean, fourth brother?"
"Just follow the plan."
"Just follow the plan?"
"good."
Chen Mu continued: "The enemy has set up an ambush on the road. If our army wants to catch up, it will inevitably fall into the ambush. Therefore, we can only defeat Yan Liang, but cannot completely annihilate his army. However, now that we have learned their intention, it is natural to occupy
Seizing the opportunity, before I returned to the camp, I had already sent people to Beicheng and ordered Tao Polu to come. They ambushed us, and we counter-ambushed them. Attacking from both sides, we will definitely annihilate Yan Liang in the wild."
"Annihilate good looks from the wild..."
Guan Yu pondered for a long time, nodded slightly and said, "I understand."
Sima Yi murmured: "My soldiers are like water. The shape of water avoids heights and goes downwards. The shape of soldiers avoids reality and attacks the weak. Water controls the flow according to the ground, and soldiers win according to the enemy. Therefore, soldiers have no constant momentum, and water
Those who have no permanent form and can win due to the changes of the enemy are called gods...we are called gods..."
The sky has turned completely dark, the moon and stars are sparse, and the birds are flying south. It is already the Mid-Autumn Festival. The sky is so bright that the moon is as cold as water. The moon hangs in the sky from a disk to a silvery white color.
In Yuan Jun's camp, Yan Liang was discussing matters with many generals.
After a day of hard work, Yan Liang has almost figured out Guan Yu's routine. Guan Yu's usual trick is to start with three axes, and then use three swords. If you don't end it, he can only win through normal fighting.
In a normal battle, Yan Liang also thinks that he is no better than Guan Yu. At most, his physical strength is inferior, and he will be at a disadvantage after more than one or two hundred rounds.
"Uncle Evil died unjustly."
Yan Liang sighed.
Wen Chou was younger than him, about the same as Guan Yu, but his physical strength was still superior to him. If it weren't for Wen Chou's mentality problem, and he could fight Guan Yu head-on, as long as he could resist the first three swords, he could fight Guan Yu for hundreds of rounds.
Not afraid of him, it's a pity...it's a pity...
Although he lamented that Wen Chou died unjustly, Yan Liang still cheered up. Even though he tested out that Guan Yu's strength was not much different from his, after a fierce fight, he could vaguely feel Guan Yu's abundant and inhuman strength.
Abnormal physical strength.
In fact, when you are in your forties, if you really say that you have started to decline, you will not fall behind by a few points. Huang Zhong can still maintain a force value of 99 points at the age of forty-two, and he is evenly matched with Lu Bu.
No matter what happened to Yan Liang, he would not have declined so sharply.
So the most important thing is that his upper limit of physical strength is indeed not as good as Guan Yu's.
The physical constitution of each person is different.
Some people may be smaller than you, but their endurance is stronger than yours. In a marathon or a competition, a strong man who can carry 600 kilograms of marble and walk quickly cannot outrun a thin man who only weighs 100 kilograms. In various boxing competitions
In the middle, they fight with each other for a long time, and it is countless to defeat their opponents through physical exertion.
Endurance is also a reference standard for a general's force value. For example, Xiang Yu, Yang Zaixing, Ran Min, Wen Yang, and Xia Luqi are recorded in official history as being able to kill a general with a hundred people. They are all people with extremely strong physical fitness, endurance and force.
All belong to the limits of human beings.
Guan Yu's physical strength and endurance may be a little worse than those of the above-mentioned people, but they are still second only to the human limit. Not to mention compared to the above-mentioned people, Yan Liang is also weaker than the Five Tigers, so naturally he cannot compare with Guan Yu.
Therefore, after a day of fighting, he also understood that it was too difficult to kill Guan Yu head-on. If he wanted to defeat his opponent, he had to resort to strange moves.
"General, today's bloody battle with Guan Yu has greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers. I think Guan Yu is no better... Well, I think the Luoyang army is no better than that. Why don't we just fight it out tomorrow and knock out the Luoyang army from Wei County in one fell swoop?"
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Meng Dai spoke up at this time. He originally wanted to say that Guan Yu was nothing more than that, but then he thought about it. One of his two generals, Wen Chou and Yan Liang, was beheaded by Guan Yu's three swords.
, they fought for a long time with no outcome. If Guan Yu was nothing more than that, wouldn't he be scolding these two people? Therefore, he could only swallow what he wanted to say and replaced it with the Luoyang Army.
Yan Liang shook his head: "It's not that simple. Guan Yu's strength may not be much different from mine, but his physical strength is extremely strong, and I'm not as good as me. Today, I had to hold on so that everyone didn't notice. In fact, I almost lost my physical strength twice.
, he was beheaded by his horse, and I might not be able to deal with him in the decisive battle tomorrow."
"Well......."
Everyone pondered. During today's fierce fight, Yan Liang did use the excuse that Guan Yu's beard was messy, so he stopped fighting and came back to rest. At that time, the soldiers were worried about him, but later Yan Liang said that he had found a way to deal with Guan Yu, and he was relieved.
Thinking of this, Ma Yan raised doubts and said: "Although the general is not as strong as Guan Yu, hasn't he found a way to deal with Guan Yu? I saw that during the second fight, Guan Yu was already at a disadvantage."
Yan Liang smiled bitterly and said: "Although he is at a disadvantage, it is almost impossible for me to defeat or kill him. If the stalemate continues, I will eventually run out of energy and barely escape. So if I continue to fight, I will definitely lose. Guan Yu is a man
This is the first time in my life that I have seen such strong physical strength. I'm afraid Lu Bu's abilities are nothing more than this."
"this......"
Several generals looked at each other. Strictly speaking, the soldiers of the Jizhou Army are not bad, but as the saying goes, the soldiers are more elite than more. The Luoyang Army is mainly elite, and often an army of 10,000 can defeat the Jizhou Army of 20,000. Coupled with Guan Yu's bravery,
Being invincible caused the Jizhou army to fear the enemy like a tiger.
The most important thing is that since Yan Liang and Wen Chou, whom the Jizhou Army regarded as the god of war, suffered successive defeats in front of Guan Yu, especially after Wen Chou was beheaded with three swords, the morale of the Jizhou Army plummeted and it was difficult to compete with the Luoyang Army with high morale.
Originally, Yan Liang regarded death as a decisive battle with Guan Yu, which at least improved his morale. But now Yan Liang said that he could not defeat Guan Yu. Once the truth was exposed to the soldiers, his morale plummeted. Even if the whole army attacked and fought to the death with the Luoyang army, it would probably be the same.
More bad luck than good.
Several people fell into deep thought. Yan Liang was actually very proud. But for such a proud man to admit that he could not beat his opponent, it can only mean one thing - Guan Yu now, even with the
Lu Bu, I'm afraid he might be able to fight.
There are no ghosts and gods in this world, but when a person reaches the limit of what he can achieve, the effect he brings is the same as that of ghosts and gods. For example, the morale increase that people like Xiang Yu and Ran Min bring to an army when they serve as commanders is
Infinite.
Guan Yu has this effect now. Perhaps a thousand men can be dispatched to kill Guan Yu.
But when he also brought tens of thousands of troops, his soldiers all became very powerful due to his increase in morale like the god of war.
Liu Bang was able to defeat Xiang Yu not because Liu Bang was so powerful, but because he had four great counselors: Zhang Liang, Han Xin, Chen Ping, and Xiao He.
Especially Zhang Liang and Han Xin, a perfect strategic genius and a perfect tactical genius. When the ceiling of force value meets these ceilings of intelligence, they can only suffer in the end.
However, despite this, Xiang Yu also defeated Liu Bang many times and forced Liu Bang to abandon his wife and children, which shows that he is a fierce general.
Now the Jizhou Army has entered an endless cycle. The overall morale and elite level of the soldiers are not as good as those of the Luoyang Army, and their numbers are only slightly larger.
If Yan Liang can defeat Guan Yu and his morale increases, he will still have the strength to fight.
But Yan Liang couldn't defeat Guan Yu, and their morale would continue to decline, which made them even more unable to defeat the Luoyang Army, forming a deadlock.
For a while, everyone didn't know what to do.
After a while, someone said: "In that case... why not withdraw our troops and go back?"
Yan Liang frowned: "The enemies have already reached Wei County, and Ming Gong is still in the plain. If we withdraw our troops now, won't we let the enemy army surround Yecheng?"
"But......."
"There's nothing wrong with it. Even if Guan Yu and I continue to waste our lives like this, we will never withdraw our troops unless I die."
Yan Liang waved his hand.
He had actually been prepared to die for a long time. As a general, he had been afraid of death, which led to the emergence of inner demons when facing Guan Yu.
But since Wen Chou's death, he has regarded death as home, and has broken through himself again, and his force value is even greater than before.
In layman's terms, this feeling is from inferiority to self-confidence.
If a person has a particularly low self-esteem, even if he has 100 combat power, he can only perform at 90. But if a person becomes mentally confident, with 100 combat power, he can often perform at 120.
Of course, confidence must be distinguished from arrogance.
Confidence is self-confidence, and arrogance is arrogance.
If Yan Liang now feels that he is full of confidence and can kill Guan Yu off his horse with a single blow, then he has completely entered a state of arrogance, which is commonly known as having a high eye but a low hand. This situation will become very dangerous.
Fortunately, Yan Liang is also an adult in his forties and has experienced many battles, so he does not become arrogant directly after his mood sublimates.
So he was sure that he was not afraid of death, but not being afraid of death did not mean that he could defeat Guan Yu, just like a person who is good at swimming did not mean that he would not drown.
Just being unable to defeat Guan Yu is still a dead end. You can't keep going out to fight for a while and then come back to rest for a while. As time goes by, the soldiers will eventually see the clues. Once the faith in their hearts collapses, the entire army will be defeated.
Seeing that Yan Liang did not intend to retreat, and several generals did not know what to do, Meng Dai hesitated for a long time, and suddenly remembered that Cen Bi had set up an ambush in Huanbei Pavilion, more than ten miles to the north, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
"General, I have an idea."
"oh?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Seeing that he had an idea, Yan Liang asked: "What can I do?"
Meng Dai said: "Every time the governor asked Cenbi to set up an ambush to intercept the pursuing troops. Why didn't we deliberately fake defeat and lure Guan Yu to pursue him? The soldiers thought the general was defeated and fled one after another. When the soldiers arrived at Huanbei Pavilion, the ambush troops came out, and the general returned.
If you lead the army to fight back, your morale will definitely increase and you can defeat Guan Yu!"
"Ambush?"
Yan Liang thought deeply: "It is not that easy for tens of thousands of troops to advance and retreat. Once things go wrong, a false defeat will turn into a real defeat."
Meng Dai said: "So tomorrow the general can order the two troops to retreat north, and then lead an army of 10,000 to fight Guan Yu. After the defeat, the 10,000 troops will protect the general and retreat first, while the other two troops are along the way.
Block the attack and make Guan Yu think that these are ambushes, let him relax his vigilance, wait until Huanbei Pavilion, then send out all the troops and capture Guan Yu!"
"Is that so?"
Yan Liang fell into deep thought.
Meng Dai's meaning is actually very simple, that is, their 40,000-strong army will retreat north in batches.
Yan Liang only led 10,000 men to fight Guan Yu first. Although the difference between 10,000 men and 30,000 men was too big and could be easily seen, Guan Yu was proud and arrogant. After defeating him, he would definitely continue to pursue.
During the pursuit, the other two armies came out to block him from time to time, but Guan Yu's army must have strong morale and would soon defeat these two armies.
However, as the saying goes, once you make great efforts, you will be exhausted again and again.
When Yan Liang was defeated first, the morale of Guan Yu's army was at its highest. If he pursued and defeated the second, third, and fourth lines, his morale would have dropped by about the same amount.
At this time, Cenbi, who was ambushing in Huanbei Pavilion, led his troops to rush out. Together with other defeated roads, they immediately began to make adjustments and counterattack.
When the time comes, we will fight head-on. Maybe we can really defeat Guan Yu.