Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 48
Chen Gong saw from a distance that Zhang Xun's troops retreated in an orderly manner outside the city, and immediately sent someone to report the good news to Bai Tu.

At the same time, it can be clearly seen that the other party has also left behind troops to prevent sneak attacks...

Chen Gong stated in the war letter that if he agreed, Zhang Xun's soldiers were required to retreat [-] miles—otherwise they would be too close, and the defenders would not dare to leave the city.

Since Zhang Xun was withdrawing his troops, he presumably agreed to the gauntlet.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Chen Gong to wait for Zhang Xun's reply. He just rode forward alone, shot an arrow directly to the tower, and then walked away.

"Tomorrow? He is really anxious...Afraid that I will cheat? That will be disappointing." Chen Gong muttered after reading the letter.

Not long after, Bai Tu came to the tower again, read Zhang Xun's letter, and then his eyes lit up and said: "Haha, Zhang Xun is not what Gongtai expected, so tomorrow Gongtai will bring four thousand Qu'a spearmen, There is also a foster father with a thousand wolf cavalry to show Zhang Xun how powerful he is!"

"The palace only needs [-] new troops, and the remaining [-] will ask Duke Bai to preside over the song." Chen Gong said.

He also predicted that Zhang Xun would definitely not have the face to really "attack in five ways", and most likely he would choose to pull more people out of the city!

At this moment, Chen Gong suddenly saw that in a mountain forest ten miles west of the city, far away from the meeting place, the flying birds were frightened but did not fall down. Suddenly he seemed to understand something and asked Bai Tu: "Mr. Bai, what about that?" On the other side... are the laborers logging?"

"Yes, you can see it? Do you want to..." Bai Tu was also startled.

Because at this time, various workshops are still producing city defense equipment - the number of wolf fangs is not enough to equip all the city walls at the same time, and there are other equipment.

Therefore, Bai Tu did not stop logging. Just to avoid being attacked by Zhang Xun's army, he sent laborers to bring some food and grass and went to the mountain forest ten miles away to cut down trees. He also asked the real person's supervisor to inform him that if he was still discovered, he would directly Just surrender.

Now it seems that Chen Gong discovered it at a glance?
"Mr. Bai is wise!" Chen Gong said.

Bai Tu:? ? ?
Bai Tu was also confused. He had been discovered, so how could he still be wise?
Forget it, Bai Tu is an easy-going person. Since Chen Gong insisted on saying this, Bai Tu smiled and nodded.

Besides, Zhang Xun's retreat of [-] miles was not worried that it was a delaying strategy. After all, he directly made an appointment until tomorrow. No matter what reason Chen Gong used to refuse, Zhang Xun was determined not to delay it for more than three days.

Even if he was delayed for three days because of this, Zhang Xun was not worried. After all, according to the current situation, it would not be possible to attack the city in just a few days.

And the opponent used "breaking promises in battle" as a delaying strategy, and the impact on the morale of the army was no less than that of Zhang Xun's three-day fierce attack!
In cold-weapon warfare, the battle is all about morale. Once morale collapses, a million-strong army can only stand up to the roar of the wind and the trees and grass.

And when retreating to camp, Zhang Xun also suddenly observed that the birds in the western woods were frightened and lingered over the woods!

"Huh? Get the map!" Zhang Xun said quickly.

Afterwards, I saw him looking at the simplified map of Qu'a for a long time, comparing and comparing, and finally came to a conclusion - the other end of the forest is near the meeting place tomorrow morning, where the flying birds are frightened. If our army travels at night, they will be able to reach the plains where the battle will take place tomorrow morning...

"Sure enough, there is a fraud... All the generals above the rank of captain were called to discuss the matter!" Zhang Xun said.

When the generals entered the tent, they saw Zhang Xun pretending to have a pearl of wisdom in his hand, looking deeply at the map in front of him, looking like he had been sunken for a long time.

"Chen Gong is treacherous, well-deserved reputation! If it wasn't for this general's quick-wittedness, he would have almost been tricked by him." Zhang Xun said, pointing to the direction of the woods where he found someone.

"Just now I saw the birds lingering here and hovering in the forest. There must be a large group of people passing by, and the place where I will fight Chen Gong tomorrow can also come through the forest!

This Chen Gong’s idea must be to bluff in the confrontation tomorrow, and while our army is attacking his main formation, elite troops will emerge from the forest on the side and attack directly at the general platform under my command..." Zhang Xun has a tone and eyes that I have seen through everything.

Li Feng, Liang Gang and other generals followed Zhang Xun's thinking and looked at the map, and found that this was really what happened!
In addition, Chen Gong’s appointment is indeed inexplicable. Three thousand versus fifteen thousand?Even the generals present did not believe it if there was no calculation involved.

At this time, the ambush was discovered, which made everyone worried.

"The general is wise! Then we simply ignore his invitation to fight and go directly back to the city to yell at him!"

"Wait, before that, we can go after those guys who went out of the city to ambush..."

The generals came up with ideas, but Zhang Xun acted like he hated iron but couldn't make it into steel. He said sadly: "In this case, isn't it back to the beginning? So what if we kill some soldiers? As long as they There are enough manpower to defend the city, even if I am the general, I am afraid it will cost a lot of money and food to defeat this song."

"General, what do you mean... to use his tactics to his advantage?" Liang Gang followed Zhang Xun and said.

"Yes, if they want to ambush, then just ambush! Look here... there is also a place with abundant vegetation. As long as I deploy elite troops here, when the opponent ambush charges, I can immediately attack from the flank and beat him. Caught off guard!" Zhang Xun said.

"General, over there at the fighting formation..." Li Feng looked hesitant.

"Oh, we only need [-] elites for the ambush. When the time comes, I will fill the main formation with [-] recruits, and I will plant more flags and make noise in the camp behind me. How will they notice?" Zhang Xun was confident. said.

In the end, Zhang Xun made the decision to add 4000 new soldiers, [-] elites, and [-] cavalry to fight Chen Gong head-on tomorrow, and then ambush [-] elites on the way to the opponent's ambush, leaving [-] or It is to defend the general's platform, or to bluff in the camp and pretend that there are many people.

Zhang Xun is not afraid of Chen Gong's deception, he is just afraid that he will not come out!
"General, would you like to investigate how many ambushes there are in the forest first?" Li Feng suggested.

"No need! The other party came here specially at night. They must be very cautious. If something happens, Chen Gong will not dare to come out." Zhang Xun refused.

Li Feng was a little hesitant when he heard this, but he thought that Quacheng's soldiers would only have five thousand soldiers at most. Even if Zhang Xun made a mistake in his judgment, both his own formation and the elites in ambush would be sure of victory, so he didn't say anything again...

Especially that night, Chen Gong's reply arrived, and he directly agreed to fight tomorrow. Zhang Xun was even more convinced that the opponent's tactics were ambush and beheading.

Zhang Xun had already written the "script" for tomorrow in his mind. Even when Yuan Shu later appointed him as Yangzhou Shepherd and Grand Governor, he had already written most of the words to thank him!
Early the next morning, when Zhang Xunjun was setting up a high platform, the scouts came to report that Ajun had also appeared...

(End of this chapter)