Three Kingdoms

Xu Huang was in Guanghan at this time. He regularly dispatched soldiers to Badong to monitor the situation of Liu Qi and others. He was like an eagle that was trying to survive, neither beating nor scolding, just enduring.

Liu Qi's identity is somewhat special, and Xu Huang also knows this. So it is not very good to kill them directly. After all, there are still many people in the Huang family in Jingxiang. If this makes Liu Biao go crazy, something bad will inevitably happen. Therefore, overall, maintaining the current situation, That's it.

Liu Qi will not be allowed to jump over the wall and the net will be broken, and Liu Qi will not be allowed to sneak back like this. In this way, he will have a method. Liu Biao will naturally have to know some propriety in Jingxiang affairs in the future.

But Xu Huang is willing to stay like this, but Liu Qi and Kuai Qi are not.

After Liu Qi got Kuai Qi's suggestion, he thought about it for a while and felt that it was quite ingenious. It was a plan within a plan and interconnected. Anyway, he would never have come up with it on his own, so he felt that Xu Huang would definitely not be able to guess it either. , if you had to guess, you could only guess at the first level, so you got excited again. The first thing you did was to find the captain who was in charge of the scouts and asked Xu Huang about the situation.

However, because for many days, Xu Huang had suppressed both morale and personal abilities of the soldiers, so the information about the tricolor flag was not very clear, so Liu Qi did not get very accurate information. Xu Huang may have 3,000 or 5,000 soldiers. The composition of the rest of the troops, including the generals and commanders under his command, are basically all in darkness...

"Is Zhengxi in Sichuan?" Liu Qi asked.

The captain in charge of the scouts hesitated.

These days, three to five months is a short time for an ordinary letter from home to travel on the road. How else can it be said that a letter from home is worth ten thousand yuan? After being suppressed, Liu Qi's intelligence circle was only twenty miles away from where he was stationed. How could he possibly know whether Fei Qian was still in Sichuan and whether there were any new changes?

Seeing that Liu Qi was angry, the captain in charge of the scout had to say that although he didn't know the situation of Zheng Xi, he didn't see the big banner representing Zheng Xi's identity when he checked around. It was estimated that Zheng Xi was at least not in Guanghan, and most likely still there. Chengdu…

Liu Qi and Kuai Qi calculated it again and felt that Fei Qian was most likely to be in Chengdu, because in the hearts of Liu Qi and Kuai Qi, they felt that Sichuan and Shu were such an important place, how could they leave Fei Qian to take charge?

Therefore, Liu Qi gritted his teeth and finally sent an envoy to neighboring Guanghan. On the way, Liu Qi's envoy carrying a white flag was intercepted by Xu Huang's soldiers and was immediately taken to Guanghan.

Some people say that the reason for flying the white flag is because the former Qin Dynasty was still black, so when the Han Dynasty came to Qin, Ziying was required to surrender in the opposite color of the Qin Dynasty. Therefore, the white flag represents surrender, but in fact, even though the Qin Dynasty was not still black, In the Chinese concept, white is still not a good color.

In early Chinese culture, white was disliked and despised. For example, in the West, white tiger is the symbol of death. , Bad omen, like wearing hemp and wearing filial piety, white is often used, and it even symbolizes incompetence and stupidity, such as idiot, white-faced scholar, white man, white body, and even white face, white-faced scholar, etc.

Therefore, the evolution of white from stupidity to purity is actually the influence of modern Westernization.

Xu Huang inquired about it and found out that the envoy who couldn't even speak completely was originally an ordinary soldier, and his garbled words were completely unclear. So Xu Huang impatiently asked him to leave, and then opened the messenger he brought. letter.

The meaning of the letter is very clear, that is, prepare to surrender.

Liu Qi said in his heart that he had been bewitched by Liu Bei in Jingxiang before, so he went west to Sichuan, but at that time he did not know that General Zhengxi had already entered Sichuan, and Liu Bei led troops to fight without permission. There was a dispute with General Zhengxi. Unexpectedly, Liu Bei was not only hypocritical, but also treacherous. He not only annexed the troops and horses that supported him in Jingxiang, but also embezzled Sichuan and Shu, and continued to resist Zhengxi...

Anyway, everything was Liu Bei's fault. Liu Qi was just deceived and innocently implicated. Liu Qi said that in order to avoid unnecessary casualties and to avoid death, he now repented and decided to surrender. He hoped that General Zhengxi would see Jingxi's fate back then. Xiang agreed to accept it out of some sense of friendship.

At the same time, he also said that because he had fought with Zhengxi before, he was a little worried now, so he did not dare to come in person. He first sent an envoy to send a letter to express his attitude. He did not doubt that Zhengxi would kill him...

In addition, Liu Qi requested that Zheng Xi could meet with him in the north of Anhan and make a personal promise not to kill him, and then he would surrender willingly.

"hehe……"

Xu Huang chuckled twice, then threw the letter on the desk and pondered for a while. It would be better if Liu Qi and others could surrender, but in Xu Huang's heart, there is now more doubt.

Is this preparing to set up an ambush?

If you want to surrender, why didn't you tell me earlier? Now that I am not eager to force Liu Qi, how can I feel so much pressure to surrender when death is imminent? He suddenly sent someone to tell him that he was desperate and deceived and was willing to surrender?

Unless Liu Qi tied himself up and surrendered, kneeling directly in front of the camp gate.

Xu Huang immediately wrote back and pointed out directly: "Are your words not deceitful?"

Xu Huang did not point out Liu Qi's mistake in calling Fei Qian, because that was not the point. The point was that Liu Qi originally joined forces with Liu Bei, so how could he say that he was completely unaware of Liu Bei's actions? Since you are ready to surrender now, why worry about it? Anyway, don’t be pretentious. If you want to surrender, just come over by yourself. It doesn’t matter if you don’t surrender...

The messenger brought back the letter in a hurry. Kuai Qi opened it and looked at it, and said with a smile: "As expected, even though I was suspicious, it has not been resolved..."

If you don't believe it at all, there is no need to reply to any letter. So Kuai Qi continued to lie and wrote back again, saying that although there were some soldiers in the city, their morale was now too low to fight. Then she talked about the food problem, saying that Liu Bei had tricked him so badly that he had not only taken away many elite soldiers but also the food and grass. He took away a lot, and now the army is quite short of food and grass, unable to follow up, etc. There are a lot of words mixed with half truth and half lies.

The letter was sent to Guanghan again. When Xu Huang saw it, he couldn't help but nodded. He felt a little more confident in his heart. However, he still had no idea about Liu Qi's proposal to meet and discuss at a so-called place in the north of Anhan. No consent.

Regardless of whether Liu Qi really surrendered or pretended to surrender, going to the location determined by the enemy was a very risky thing. Most people would not do such a thing unless they were completely sure. On the other hand, Xu Huang also He felt that Liu Qi was just a clown-like character, and even if he didn't surrender, it wouldn't be a big deal. Now Liu Qi said that surrendering was just the icing on the cake, so it was not worth taking any personal risks, so Xu Huang replied again He wrote a letter, promising to accept Liu Qi's surrender and stating that he would never surrender. Then he stamped his general's seal and asked Liu Qi's people to take it back.

Kuai Qi received the letter and couldn't help but sigh: "This person is really cautious... This strategy will not work..."

Originally, Kuai Qi's first-level plan was to lure some of Fei Qian's troops to start a wave. It was not aimed at Fei Qian, because Kuai Qi also knew that it was impossible for someone with a high status like Fei Qian to come in person. It's not realistic, so it's very likely that Fei Qian sent a general here, and then he could naturally ambush...

But on the one hand, the problem is that the information between Liu Qi and Kuai Qi is completely unequal. They don't know that Fei Qian has left Sichuan and has handed over Liu Qi's affairs to Xu Huang, which means that Xu Huang It can be dealt with directly without the need to report Feiqian. As the head coach, Xu Huang naturally cannot take such a risk.

At the same time, Liu Qi and Kuai Qi also took herself too seriously, but she didn't expect that the other party didn't value her at all, and she didn't care much. After understanding this, Kuai Qi felt something difficult to express in her heart. At the same time, There are also some nameless karma fires raging.

Although he had expected it before, Liu Qi was still a little uneasy when he saw that the first strategy failed. He looked at Kuai Qi and said, "How? Will you still act according to the strategy next?"

Kuai Qi nodded and said in a deep voice: "That's how it should be!"

Immediately, he wrote another letter to Xu Huang, saying that he could not trust Xu Huang's guarantee and that such insincere remarks were unacceptable. Then he and Liu Qi gathered troops and horses to cross the canal and hurried to Yufu.

Now that summer has entered, the water level in Yufu has also dropped a lot. Although it is not as low as the dry season in autumn and winter, it is much better than in the previous rainy season. Therefore, after pulling on the rope, we can reluctantly start building the pontoon bridge. He looked ready to build a pontoon bridge to return...

When Liu Qi made a move, Xu Huang naturally could not sit idly by, so he led three thousand soldiers and chased Anhan first. The journey was safe and there was no problem. Naturally, some of the remaining veterans and soldiers in Anhan did not dare to resist. , saw Xu Huang arriving and immediately opened the city gate.

From the mouths of these remnant soldiers, Xu Huang learned that Liu Qi was heading east, as if he was going to cross the river from Yufu, so he immediately sent Nanchong soldiers and horses down the river to invade Yufu.

Wei Yan had done something in Yufu before and brought back a batch of boats, which of course burned more. Therefore, overall, whether Liu Qi wants to ferry or build a pontoon, it is not that easy, nor does it take three or two days. It can be overcome within a short period of time.

But the problem is that there are no relatively capable naval forces in Sichuan and Sichuan at present, and those who are rushing to land on the shelves are barely usable. Therefore, the fleet in Nanchong can only be an intrusion at best, and cannot be used as a The decisive force, if you want to prevent Liu Qi from escaping, still has to rely on the strength of the soldiers on land.

And because of the time when Liu Qi's letter was delivered, Xu Huang was basically three or four days behind Liu Qi. Could these three or four days allow Liu Qi to successfully build the pontoon bridge in Yufu and pass?

Xu Huang thought it was unlikely, but for the sake of safety, he still made some arrangements after arriving in Anhan and returned to Yuyu. It was not that Xu Huang was careless, but because the time gap on the battlefield was originally like this. , In addition, Fei Qian's intention was not to defeat Liu Qi quickly, but to keep Liu Qi in Badong, so the long siege of the city would inevitably lead to some losses outweighing the gains.

If troops were sent to surround Anhan, Liu Qi would naturally be unable to fly, but the question was how to siege the city with only two to three thousand men? If a city is forcibly besieged, wouldn't there be holes everywhere?

And if 20,000 to 30,000 or even more soldiers are mobilized for siege, it means a lot of consumption of military rations. Before, whether it was Guanghan or Nanchong, they had already consumed 7788 in a series of battles. , cannot support such a long-term external battle. Because there are no combat missions when stationed in a town, the rations are generally reduced to half as a rule. Even if the number of soldiers is the same, the amount of food and grass consumed is different between stationed and fighting outside. Therefore, Xu Huang has always only monitored and controlled, and A siege strategy cannot be adopted.

This time Liu Qi took the initiative to withdraw from Anhan. In fact, Xu Huang didn't think it was a bad thing. After all, Anhan's city wall and other things were relatively well-defended, while Yufu was a ferry town. If it was difficult to attack, Naturally, it is easier to restore the fish. But what is difficult to judge now is whether Liu Qi's evacuation this time was due to dissatisfaction with the previous surrender conditions, or whether he was using another strategy...

But no matter what, Xu Huang still wanted to go to Yufu.

War is like this, just like the military chess of later generations. You generally know where the opponent's key points are, but the opponent's formation must be tested under the countermeasures, and then through thinking and strategy, mobilize and defeat the opponent's key points. The original line of defense.

Kuai Qi was quite proud now and said to Liu Qi: "It is often said that fish returns to water, but it is also often forgotten that fish returns to mountains!"

The terrain of Yufu is special because of the mountains. While more people focus on the ferry in Yufu, they often overlook that there are actually complex mountains in Yufu. This is Kuai Qi's plan this time. The ambush must be unexpected. Who would have thought that this time he came to Yufu not for the water, but for the mountains of Yufu?

Overall, Kuai Qi's entire plan has been relatively successful so far. He first eased the rhythm with surrender, then after an unsuccessful seduction, he diverted here, and then set up an ambush again, and regardless of From any aspect, there must be pursuers coming.

Once the pursuers come here, Liu Qi and Kuai Qi can naturally ambush them while waiting for work.

Even if she could see through the first level of the plan, she also had the second level of the plan. Kuai Qi couldn't help but be a little proud of her plan, but when she was proud, she actually forgot some things...

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