Three Kingdoms: Liu Bei seeks the master and seeks to conquer the world

Chapter 181 A surprise attack on Kuangting, Guan Yuyi explained Chen Dao

"Second brother, Yuan Shu has divided his troops."

"Let me go surprise Kuangting!"

Jiyang City is more than a hundred miles away from Fengqiu City.

Under the cover of Zhang Miao, Guan Yu personally led Buqi to secretly come to Jiyang City to seek a fighter.

Guan Yu didn't agree immediately, but looked at Zhang Hong and Chen Deng.

In terms of combat, Guan Yu believed in Zhang Fei's bravery.

But before fighting, Guan Yu had to confirm Yuan Shu's intention to send troops to Kuangting at this time.

"Yuan Shu stayed in Fengqiu City for a long time, and he never had any intention of attacking the city. It can be concluded that Yuan Shu doesn't care about the gains and losses of each city."

"Yuan Shu is waiting, waiting for an opportunity to annihilate the opposition forces in Yanzhou."

"But obviously, Yuan Shu overestimated Liu Dai's courage!"

"Yuan Shu's food, grass, soldiers and horses are all in Fengqiu City. If Liu Dai raises his troops to attack, Yuan Shu will take advantage of the favorable location of the city. But Liu Dai is now stationed in Fan County, and Yuan Shu's plan to lure snakes out of the cave will not work."

"At this time, it is obviously impossible to raise troops to attack Liu Dai who is firmly defending in Fan County."

"That's why I deduce that Yuan Shu's dispatch of troops to Kuangting was still for Liu Dai to see."

"He wants Liu Dai to understand that going north this time is not only to attack Yuan Shao, but also to win Yanzhou!"

"If my calculations are correct, Yuan Shu should have sent a large number of spies to Jiyin County to confuse Liu Dai."

Tian Yu, who was in charge of spying, said: "It is true that Mr. Yuanlong guessed that there are a large number of spies operating between Jiyin County and Kuangting."

Zhang Hong said: "But Liu Dai chooses to stick to Fan County, so it is impossible to raise troops to seal Qiu City because of Yuan Shu's temptation."

"Knowing that Liu Dai is unlikely to leave Fan County, but still using this method to lure the enemy, Yuan Shu is definitely waiting for the outcome of the battle in Dongjun."

Chen Dengdao: "The purpose of my waiting to go north is to prevent Yuan Shu from benefiting."

"Liu Xiang is a soldier who lures the enemy, and his combat power is relatively weak. If Liu Xiang can be captured alive, he can also obtain information about Fengqiu City."

"But in order to avoid accidents, it would be too much to let Yide go alone."

Zhang Fei said anxiously: "I can capture Liu Xiang alive by myself, you can't snatch him!"

Guan Yu said calmly: "Since one person supports the big, then the whole army should go together."

"If you leak one or two Yuan Shu soldiers, maybe you can lead Yuan Shu out of Fengqiu City."

"Fighting outside the city is much easier than attacking Fengqiu City."

Both Chen Deng and Zhang Hong expressed their admiration.

Seeing that Guan Yu had made up his mind, Zhang Fei had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​a surprise attack alone: ​​"Since the whole army is at the top, I want to be the front army. Second brother, you can no longer refuse."

Guan Yu nodded and gave an order: "Zhang Fei obeys the order."

Zhang Fei's eyes were happy, and he cupped his hands and fisted forward: "Yes!"

Guan Yu took out his token and said, "I'll give you a thousand soldiers and horses, take dry food for three days, and take a detour to the north of Kuangting. Three days later, at night, wait until the sky lantern appears, and immediately go out from the north."

Zhang Fei was overjoyed and stepped forward to receive the military order: "Order."

Guan Yu took out another token: "Tai Shici listens to orders."

"exist!"

"Give you a thousand soldiers and horses, bring dry food for three days, and take a detour to the west of Kuangting. Three days later, at night, wait until the sky lantern appears, and immediately go out from the west."

"Order."

"Qu Yi listens to the order."

"exist!"

"I'll give you a thousand soldiers and horses, bring dry food for three days, and take a detour to the east of Kuangting. Three days later, at night, when the sky lanterns appear, immediately fight out from the east."

"Order."

"The rest, follow Guan to march south of Kuangting."

"Pay attention to silence the flags and drums, and try not to reveal the whereabouts as much as possible. If the whereabouts are exposed, immediately use the sky lantern to send a message. If the ministries see the signal, they don't need to hide their whereabouts anymore, and go directly to Kuangting."

After issuing the military order, Guan Yu carefully explained the possible accidents and countermeasures during the surprise attack. After talking for half an hour, he made sure that Zhang Fei, Tai Shici, Qu Yi and other generals had understood it before letting the generals understand. Will prepare individually.

"General Guan's scheduling has improved again." Zhang Hong secretly marveled.

While Guan Yu was dispatching troops in secret, Liu Xiang, Yuan Shu's general in Kuangting, was drinking heavily for fun in the camp.

In the handsome tent, there are dancers and singers singing and dancing with frightened faces.

What kind of handsome and what kind of general.

Yuan Shu himself enjoys all kinds of enjoyment in Fengqiu City, and the generals under his command naturally follow suit.

Can't there be female relatives in the army?
That is to restrain others, so what does it matter to him, Liu Xiang?

"Jump, keep jumping."

"If you dance well, you will be rewarded!"

Liu Xiang yelled at the group of dancers and singers who had just been looted while drinking with jade wares.

"General Liu, the rear general has an order to wait for me in Kuangting to be careful and watch out for Cao Cao going south." Lieutenant Chen Dao reminded Liu Xiang dutifully when he saw that Liu Xiang was singing and dancing in the handsome tent.

Liu Xiang waved his hand, and said impatiently: "You are a lieutenant general, you just have to do this kind of thing well. You have to ask for instructions and report everything. What did you, the lieutenant general, do?"

"But—" Chen Dao wanted to persuade him again, but Liu Xiang had already put his arms around a dancing girl with a frightened face, and started pecking at random.

Chen Dao had no choice but to arrange the night watchmen by himself.

But if the general is like this, how can the soldiers and horses under his command strictly abide by military discipline?

Although Chen Dao arranged for night patrol soldiers and horses, he couldn't stop these night watch soldiers and horses from being lazy in twos and threes.

Many generals complained in front of Liu Xiang, saying that Chen would like to scare people with military law when he was free.

This made Chen Dao even more depressed.

third night.

Chen Daoqin led his soldiers to patrol the night.

Suddenly, the soldiers exclaimed in surprise: "General, look at what that is?"

When Chen Dao heard the words, he looked up, only to see praying lanterns floating in the sky one by one at unknown times.

"That's it, a lantern?"

Since the appearance of Caihou paper, lanterns have become popular in the Han Dynasty.

But what puzzled Chen was, how could the lanterns fly in the sky?
"This lantern is flying in the sky, so you can see it in Fengqiu City, right?" a soldier suddenly said.

He does not mean that.

Chen Dao suddenly felt a chill in his heart: "If the lanterns are flying into the sky, if they are used as a secret message, doesn't it mean that there are enemies who want to take the opportunity to rob the camp?"

Thinking of this, Chen Dao's heart trembled, and he ordered urgently: "Pass my military order, the scouts will immediately leave the camp from the four gates, and send out within thirty miles!"

But the guards didn't move: "General, the captain of the scout battalion won't listen to us."

Only then did Chen Dao remember that early this morning, he had a quarrel with the captain of the scout battalion. The reason was that the captain of the scout battalion thought Chen Dao was meddling in his own business, and then Liu Xiang asked Chen Dao to ask for more instructions in the future.

"Not enough successes, more than failures. Wake up all our brothers, and I will go to General Liu." Chen Dao was furious, and strode to the commander's tent.

But Liu Xiang, who was awakened, scolded Chen Dao sternly: "You come to disturb this general with a few lanterns flying in the sky. Cao Aman can't even beat the Black Mountain bandits, how can he have time to rob the camp?"

"We are sending spies to Jiyin County every day. If Liu Dai wants to come, he will be discovered."

"Why would the general use you, an idiot, as his lieutenant general?"

"Get out now!"

The cursing Liu Xiang got into bed.

Chen Dao clenched his fists and had no choice but to return to the headquarters.

Without Liu Xiang's general order, he, the deputy general, could not mobilize the scout battalion.

"General, could it be just a coincidence? Maybe it's just some rich young man playing with something strange?"

"Yes, last time I saw a wooden bird flying! Wooden birds can fly, so it's not surprising that lanterns can fly."

"Isn't it strange? Have you ever seen a lantern fly?"

"There are so many strange things from rich and noble families, it's all strange, and I can't help but get dizzy."

Listening to the guard's words, Chen Dao looked at the praying lantern still flying in the sky, and couldn't help but secretly sighed: The war is dangerous, even if there is a slight doubt, you should be cautious, how can you be so careless.

Chen Dao lay down sullenly, closed his eyes and rested his mind.

In the middle of the night, Chen Dao was in a daze, and the urgent shout of the guards sounded in his ears: "General, wake up, the enemy is robbing the camp!"

Chen Dao got up suddenly, and asked in a concentrated voice: "How many enemy troops, where did they go?"

The guards were also in a panic: "I don't know, there are enemy troops at the four camp gates, and they don't know where they came from!"

"That lantern is indeed a signal for communication!" Chen Dao's eyes dimmed, and he continued to sit down.

The guards were puzzled: "General, don't we resist?"

Chen Dao sighed helplessly: "The enemy is coming prepared, and our army is still asleep. How can we resist? Let the brothers gather together, maybe there is still a chance of survival."

And in the handsome account.

Liu Xiang looked at the Zhang Ba Snake Spear in front of his neck in horror, the pain in his neck pierced what Liu Xiang thought was a dream.

"Whose general are you?"

"My name is Zhang Fei. In the name of my eldest brother, Qingzhou Mu, and General Zhenxi, I came here to take Yuan Shu's dog's head. If you are honest, you can save a dog's life."

Qingzhou Mu, Liu Bei?

Liu Xiang's eyes widened: "How is it possible? How could you appear here? If you came from the east, my spies would not know about it!"

Zhang Fei kicked Liu Xiang to the ground and shouted, "Noisy! Tie me up!"

Liu Xiang's underestimation of the enemy, coupled with Guan Yu's surprise attack, made Yuan Shu's soldiers in Kuangting a prisoner with little resistance, and only a few remnants of the defeated soldiers escaped at night.

"It's no wonder Yuan Shu wants to wait for work in Fengqiu City with ease, so he has self-knowledge." Tian Yu couldn't help being a little contemptuous of succeeding in such an easy surprise attack.

Because they fought against Sun Jian before, Tian Yu and others subconsciously thought that Yuan Shu's troops should be as brave and good at fighting as Sun Jian's.

Even if it's worse, it won't be too much worse.

This is also the reason why Chen Deng would say that Zhang Fei was too big on his own, and Guan Yu also divided his troops into four groups to surprise Liu Xiang's Kuangting camp.

From the very beginning, Guan Yu and others deployed the battle in comparison to Sun Jian!

But this result disappointed everyone.

If he had known that Liu Xiang was such a waste, why would he have used Guan Yu's careful deployment of troops, imagined more than a dozen possible emergencies, and formulated corresponding countermeasures.

Guan Yu's eyes became a little colder.

This feeling of wearing armor and carrying a steel knife to kill a chicken made Guan Yu quite unhappy.

"You have a chance to tell this general what you know!" Guan Yu's tone was cold.

This biting murderous aura seemed to tell Liu Xiang that as long as he hesitated, he would be dragged out and beheaded.

Liu Xiang frightened: "General, spare your life, I say, I say everything!"

The terrified Liu Xiang, like beans falling from a bamboo tube, explained Yuan Shu's purpose for sending him to Kuangting.

At the end, Liu Xiang licked his face and begged for mercy: "General, I have already said everything, can you spare my life?"

Guan Yu was a little disgusted, so he ordered Liu Xiang to be taken down, and he ordered Liu Xiang's deputy Chen Dao to be brought up.

But unlike Liu Xiang's panic, Chen Dao's demeanor was very calm, even if he was a prisoner, he would not easily bow his knees.

"Sign up!"

"From Runan, Chen Dao, Chen Shuzhi!"

Seeing Chen Dao's sonorous words and his tall and burly figure, Guan Yu couldn't help but admire a little more in his eyes: "Since you are a prisoner, why don't you kneel?"

Chen Daoning said: "I have 120 villagers. If the general promises not to kill them, I will kneel down."

Guan Yu stroked his beautiful beard, and his eyes became more murderous: "What if the general disagrees?"

Chen Dao said neither humble nor overbearing: "The general will not only lose 120 warriors, but may also lose dozens of soldiers guarding the captives."

Zhang Fei couldn't help scolding: "You are still so arrogant when you are a prisoner, second brother, let me kill this madman."

Guan Yu stopped Zhang Fei, looked at Chen Dao and said, "You just said that you have 120 villagers, but Guan remembers that when you were captured, you didn't have any resistance."

"How can a group of soldiers who dare not even resist be called 'warriors'?"

Chen Dao said without hesitation: "I made them not resist."

Guan Yu became more interested: "Why?"

Chen Dao's tone suddenly became a little more indignant: "The lantern that flew up that day was a secret signal for you to send a message, right?"

"If Liu Xiang could listen to me and send four scouts out of the camp for thirty miles to spy, how could you succeed in the surprise attack?"

Guan Yu's eyes froze: "You can tell that we are going to rob the camp just by seeing the praying lanterns in the sky?"

Chen Dao said calmly: "Soldiers are dangerous, and caution should be the first priority when marching. Even if the judgment is wrong, it will only make the soldiers tired. It is better than being captured alive!"

"Well said!" Guan Yu got up from the table, untied Chen Dao himself, and bowed his hands: "General Chen has such talent, but Yuan Shu let Liu Xiang, a good-for-nothing, to lead the army. He has eyes but no eyes."

"Brother Guan is a descendant of the clan of the Han Dynasty. He is also the current Qingzhou Mu and Zhenxi General. He is benevolent and unparalleled. He likes to make friends with heroes all over the world."

"General Chen, why don't you choose a virtuous lord to do things, and together with Guan, help the Han family and calm the world?"

When Chen Dao saw this, he quickly replied, "General, you are serious. I am just a defeated general. How can I have the face to choose a virtuous leader?"

Guan Yu clasped his hands again and said, "Although the general was defeated, it was not the general's fault! It was Yuan Shu who didn't know the people and let Liu Xiang useless to lead the army. Then Liu Xiang didn't listen to the general's advice, so he lost tonight."

"Guan sincerely invites you, and please don't doubt the general!"

Seeing Guan Yu being treated so courteously by Chen Dao, Chen Deng, Tai Shici and others around him didn't show any intention of ridicule. Even Zhang Fei, who scolded him just now, showed admiration.

For a moment, Chen Dao was filled with emotions.

　It is reasonable for Chen Daorunan to follow Yuan Shu in the early stage.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)