Three Kingdoms

"The day before yesterday, we advanced ten miles, and the Sichuan and Shu soldiers lined up to wait for a false alarm. The day before yesterday, we advanced another ten miles, and then these fools waited for another day. They were exhausted physically and mentally. Yesterday, they simply took a day off, but this group of Sichuan and Shu soldiers were fighting every day We are all in formation..." Wei Yan smiled at the commander of the army in the tent, "We have had a good rest for three days, and we can be regarded as waiting for work... Now let's see if these fools dare to pursue us. Already..."

"General, the Sichuan and Shu soldiers are not that stupid, are they? You still want to catch up like this?"

"It's hard to say this. What if we meet a fool?"

"Come on, listen to the general..."

Wei Yan nodded slightly and said, "Let's wait here for one more day. If we don't catch up, we'll count him dead! Then we'll turn around and go to Zitong..."

Wei Yan now fully understands his true job, which is to act as a troublemaker...ah! As a person who disrupts the current balance of Sichuan and Sichuan... Well, it seems that there is not much difference between the two...

Well, that's pretty much it anyway.

It's hard to say whether Wu Yi is stupid or not, but Wei Yan wants to bet on whether Wu Yi can swallow this breath. Wu Yi's face was damaged when he was in Guanghan. You must know that in the Han Dynasty, face was often more important than later generations.

Of course, Wu Yi may also go back to Fu County directly.

But there is no problem in this. Wei Yan can continue to lure the Zitong defenders, or continue to turn back and lure Fu County. Anyway, the choice of attack is in Wei Yan's hands, stabbing in the east, poking in the west, and Huang Cheng is hiding behind, if anyone can't help it anymore, haha, I'm sure it will give him a good time...

When Wu Yi formed an array in Fu River, Wei Yan instinctively felt that there was something wrong. However, since he had no plans to push it all the way to Fujian County for the time being, it was up to him to do anything Wu Yi wanted to do in Fu River. The reason why Wei Yan didn't expose it was because these days, no matter what kind of trap he dug, it required a lot of manpower and physical strength. It was better to let Wu Yi and others have somewhere to spend it than to spend it on their own side.

"Captain Ling, is there no information from Yuan Jian yet?" Wei Yan turned to Ling Jie and asked.

Ling Jie shook his head and said, "I haven't received any special reports yet. Zi Tong's army is still in the city and has not sent out any troops."

In order to avoid being flanked by Fulixian and Zitong, Lingjie's elite scouts stretched out like long tentacles in the direction of Zitong to detect movement, while on the Fulian side, Rely on Wei Yan's own scouts to check.

"Well..." Wei Yan nodded, politely cupped his hands and said, "Sorry to bother Colonel Ling..."

"I don't dare to take it seriously." Ling Jie returned the gesture.

What Wei Yan is most worried about now is that when he was fighting against the troops of Fujian County, he was attacked and killed by Zitong's defenders from behind. Therefore, on the one hand, Ling Jie's early warning was very important. On the other hand, Wei Yan was naturally concerned about Ling Jie and others. In terms of people's extremely strong personal combat power.

"By the way, Lieutenant Ling, if a certain flag is raised near Zitong, thinking that the soldiers are suspected..." Wei Yan suddenly thought of a plan, and after thinking about it, there seemed to be some room for maneuver, and then said to Ling Jie, "A certain time ago When we attacked Hanchang, we fought against General Zitong..."

Ling Jie was stunned for a moment, then looked at Wei Yan with a cold smile: "General Wei... you mean..."

"What I mean is, if we accidentally let Zitong's people see the flag, and then accidentally let them find out that this is just a trick..." Wei Yan chuckled twice, "Actually, they are also afraid, aren't they? ? Let them see it, maybe they won’t be so afraid..."

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The autumn sky is extremely blue and cloudless.

The Sichuan-Shu soldiers in the county, under the command of Guan Yu, with nearly 10,000 Liu Bei veterans and the Jingzhou coalition forces as the center, with the Sichuan-Shu soldiers as the two wings, the army was lined up in pins, along the rare basin flat land of Sichuan-Shu , after advancing toward Guanghan for twenty miles, they stopped.

After receiving the news from Liu Bei, Guan Yu immediately took action, uniting his soldiers and boosting morale. Then he unexpectedly left the defense system near the county and took the initiative to advance to invite battle.

Because behind Guan Yu are the fortifications that Pang Xi had built for a long time, and now the person guarding the back line for Guan Yu is another grasshopper on the same line, Wu Ban, so Guan Yu is naturally a little relieved. The general formation of Da Jing Ci was almost lined up in a line, and they were advancing towards Guanghan with great momentum.

Wu Yi and Wu Ban were all tied to Liu Bei's chariot. They would both suffer losses and gain glory. Therefore, leaving his back to Wu Ban, Guan Yu didn't have much worries in his heart. All he cared about was Guanghan's troops conquering the west. .

Will the troops from Guanghan come out to fight?

Or are you preparing to shrink your defense and use the city for defense?

This is the case in real war. It is never possible to completely know what the enemy is doing. Even the actions you see must be considered. Are these actions true, false, or half-true?

For Guan Yu, now that he knew that Guanghan's Zhengxi troops had sent a partial army, this time he took the initiative to leave the fortifications and attack forward, which was also a test, a test that could turn from false to real at any time. If Guanghan split his troops due to Although Guan Yu seemed weak, he didn't mind directly sending his troops forward and attacking forcefully.

If Guanghan shrinks its defenses, Guan Yu may even let Anhan's Jingchu coalition advance together to further squeeze the space for Guanghan's troops to conquer the west, and then either attack the city or draw out troops to outflank the Wei Yan army sent by Guanghan Combat.

Of course, if Guanghan is still strong, Guan Yu can still attract the attention of Guanghan's troops conquering the west while secretly attacking Chencang, or even fight and retreat. Anyway, Guanghan always has Anhan as a threat on his flank, and he also has strong fortifications at his rear. How many disadvantages will there be? It may even pull Zhengxi's troops and create a gap...

Guan Yu squinted his eyes and looked at the left and right wings.

Any military operation has certain risks, and the same is true for Guan Yu's behavior this time. His risk is the newly recruited Sichuan and Shu soldiers on the left and right wings, these original men of Pang Xi.

However, any soldier needs to be proven on the battlefield. It is better to expose problems earlier than to expose them at a critical moment, right?

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It would be safer to retreat to Fujian, but Wu Yi couldn't swallow this.

If he just retreated like this, wouldn't all the hard work he had done before be in vain? This is often the case for people. When there are more sunk costs, the impact will be greater, and the behavior will become more irrational.

Sunk cost is one of the most difficult problems in human nature. If it is not handled well, it can easily lead to two misunderstandings. One is that one is afraid of "sunk costs" that lead to unproductive output and dare not invest; the other is that one is overly concerned with "sunk costs". Nostalgic, continue the original mistake, resulting in greater losses.

Catch up! It would be best if we could defeat nature. If we could not defeat it, we would lure it to Fulishui again. In short, the dams we had built before could not be wasted like this, right?

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"General, the soldiers from Fujian County have crossed the Fushui River and are heading here..." Jiao Zong reported to Huang Cheng with his hands in hand.

Huang Cheng glanced at Jiao Zong and smiled naively, but his eyes narrowed: "How many people are here?"

"The ones chasing us are the vanguard of Fujian County, only a thousand people..."

"Thousands of people?" Huang Cheng frowned. It was not too many, but rather too few. It felt like I was hungry and about to have a big meal, but there were no cold dishes and only a plate of bean sprouts was served...

"Just a reminder to General Wei..." Huang Cheng swallowed, and then said, "Give me the order, hide them all, and let these guys go..."

Sunk costs also have an impact on Huang Cheng. He has been lying in wait for so long, so he naturally wants to eat well. What's the point of just eating such a plate of bean sprouts?

Bear it, wait.

As a hunter, you naturally need to have great patience...

In fact, speaking of it, perhaps most of the tactics have the same principle, which is just a replica of Tian Ji's horse racing. The so-called Xuanwu Formation and the Eight Gate Formation are actually about forming an advantage in a local area through changes in the arrangement of soldiers, and then And then achieve overall victory.

If you can understand this, you can naturally understand why luring the enemy and ambushing have become the two most important methods in war, even in the era of hot weapons.

As for the physical quality of the soldiers, these soldiers of General Zhengxi, at least in the ranks of serious soldiers, can be regarded as the treatment that only the top elites can get. It is not that other princes do not have it, but those who often have only the treatment Only the personal guards around the general can enjoy it, but ordinary soldiers don't need to think about it. This creates a huge gap in the physical strength and endurance of the soldiers.

Just like there is a saying, there are ten thousand Jurchens, but in fact it is just the difference in physical strength. If you are hungry or full, the most important task in normal time is not to train, but to make money for the general of the guard station. Can soldiers like this in business compare with the barbarians from the north who eat meat every day and spend at least nine months of the year fighting?

Even in later generations, wasn't it common for Maozi in Siberia to see a man as reckless as a bear, directly wrestling with a black blind man?

The difference between the soldiers was even more obvious between the soldiers under General Zhengxi and the local soldiers in Sichuan and Shu. This difference also brought confidence to Huang Cheng and others. They were led by their respective Qu Changjun to clean up the army. He found the remaining traces, climbed into the mountains and forests, hid his whereabouts, and did not launch an attack on this forward force in Fujian County...

Although Wu Yi also sent out many scouts, the Sichuan and Shu soldiers who had no experience fighting against General Zhengxi were unable to detect the crude camouflage equipment of Huang Cheng and others. They were just like players who had just come into contact with the chicken game. His eyes were almost glued to the screen, and he was still at a loss. Is there anyone here? Why can't I see anything?

The forwards were not attacked, so Wu Yi naturally did not realize any risks. In addition, in order to catch up with Wei Yan, Wu Yi even went out overnight. In order to overcome the night blindness of many soldiers, Wu Yi not only made friends, but also made people interact with each other. He used a rope to pull him and drove for most of the night, and finally caught Wei Yan's footprints the next day...

Wu Yi suspected that Wei Yan had to withdraw his troops first because something happened in Guanghan or Zitong. This seemed to be proved by the fact that Wei Yan did not set up an ambush to attack the forward sent by Wu Yi.

Traveling again and again, Wu Yi's men and horses, who had not encountered many obstacles along the way, approached Wei Yan's men and horses smoothly. The two sides came into visual range, and naturally began to form formations to face each other.

Both sides were adjusting their formations as quickly as possible. Wu Yi needed to expand the attack formation, and Wei Yan also needed to turn his troops around, all at once deploying troops.

Wu Yi knew very well that his personal prowess was naturally inferior to that of Wei Yan, so he did not dare to ram directly into Wei Yan's tail and take the lead in killing him. Instead, he suppressed his temper and waited for his soldiers to form an array. Seeing the soldiers from Sichuan and Sichuan arriving, they might be a little tired, or they might be a little timid after seeing the equipment of the people marching to the west. They couldn't help but frowned, and looked up at the sky again, and found that the sun had begun to set in the west, and then looked at the terrain. , couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh a few times.

The guard on the side joked and asked: "Why is the general laughing?"

Wu Yi pointed to the sun in the sky and said in a triumphant voice: "I originally thought that all those who fought in the west were good at fighting, but now it turns out that's not the case! It's getting darker today, and where the enemy's troops are, in a few moments, they will definitely be The eyes are dazzling and cannot be looked directly at! This is the right time for us, so we should be victorious!"

The guard quickly spread Wu Yi's words, which immediately made the surrounding Sichuan and Shu soldiers feel more at ease. After all, looking at the tall and powerful Zhengxi soldiers on the opposite side, their equipment was better than their own. Without Wu Yi's encouragement, it would be inevitable. The drums in my heart are beating.

"You need to know that those who are good at fighting are not necessarily brave in front of the battle! Those who can organize an army may not be able to lead them, those who can fight bravely may not be able to endure hard battles, and those who can defeat the weak may not be able to defeat the masses! Today, the enemy is in panic, we are safe and peaceful!" Wu Yi said! Ji encouraged his soldiers, "The people of the Western Expedition have done many evil things. They have taken away our land and robbed our wealth. They have used clever words to cover up their crimes and committed all kinds of evil! Now we have to fight for the heaven and kill the evil and rebellious people! Today we win, everyone will win." Great reward!"

"Oh oh oh..."

Wu Yi's encouragement seemed to have some effect. After hearing the transmission of the human flesh loudspeaker that Wu Yi was guarding, they all raised their swords and guns to cater to it...

"General, it seems that the enemy is still forming a team, and the formation is not tight. Do you want to take advantage of the good morale to cover up and attack?" The guards couldn't help but feel a little excited when they heard the word "big reward". After all, if there is a big reward, they will naturally take the big one. , then licked his lips and said with shining eyes.

Wu Yi looked at the sky again confidently, shook his head and said: "It doesn't have to be like this, even if the opponent's formation is complete, so what? After an hour, the sun will shine slantly on their eyes. By then, they will rebel, and we will take it. Wouldn’t it be better?”

Before he finished speaking, the soldiers at the front were heard exclaiming: "It's moving! It's moving! The soldiers who conquered the West have moved!"

Wu Yi was startled, and quickly looked up, only to see four to five hundred men standing out from Wei Yan's army formation. The sword, shield and spearmen in front were advancing steadily, and the long archers on the flanks were also advancing slowly, attacking directly. When Wu Yi came from the middle formation, he couldn't help but said angrily: "Shu Zi, how dare you take danger! Order the front troops to form a formation quickly, and scatter their bows and arrows to the left and right! The rear troops merged into the middle formation, and someone was able to use this place to disperse their ranks and kill them. The enemy's head!"