Emperor Road of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 222
After carefully reading the last paragraph, Liu Yu suddenly laughed, then tilted his head and scolded Chen Dao: "This Xia Houlan is really unreliable. At this time, he still came to ask me about this kind of thing. If you want me to say, he What this general did was incompetent."

"Oh, what's the matter?" Seeing Liu Yu's high-spirited look, Chen Dao already guessed that Shangcai's situation had improved.But he was still puzzled by Liu Yu's claim that Xia Houlan was unreliable.

When Liu Yu heard the words, he smiled happily again, handed the letter to Chen Dao casually, and said with a smile: "Look, there is really no decision at all."

With doubts, Chen Dao took the letter, read it carefully, and then said with a smile: "Bogu is also cautious, for fear of any accidents."

It turned out that in the last paragraph of the letter, Xia Houlan said that Xu Huang had a plan to defeat the enemy, but Xia Houlan didn't dare to make the decision in private, so she dragged on for so long.Even sending scouts over, the main task was not to report the battle situation, but to seek Liu Yu's opinion on whether Xu Huang should be allowed to lead the army, and to implement the plan to destroy the enemy.

In fact, Xia Houlan was not to blame for this kind of thing, he was indeed not that kind of bold person.He is not like Zhang Fei, let alone Lu Bu, who has no guts to make decisions on his own.This is why Xia Houlan accepted Xu Huang's offer, but still guarded against him.

Fortunately, Xu Huang knew right from wrong, and didn't join the enemy because of this, or didn't do anything.He even took the initiative to cooperate and gradually gained Xia Houlan's trust.

But it's a pity that even though Xia Houlan convinced him, Xia Houlan didn't let him carry out his plan.He was indeed a little helpless, but he was already familiar with Xia Houlan and knew what Xia Houlan was like, so he didn't have any bad emotions.But he was unwilling to let it go. He took refuge in Liu Yu, not wanting to be mediocre, but to occupy a place.

Therefore, he came up with such a plan, which was not considered a plan, and persuaded Xia Houlan to send scouts to the ancient city to ask Liu Yu's opinion.He believed in his own vision and felt that Liu Yu would definitely agree.If he really disagreed, he would consider leaving Shangcai with his wife and children.

But he has a good vision, Liu Yu did agree, not only agreed, but also decided to let him lead the army alone.

Liu Yu is not stupid. The so-called doubting people and employing people is not suspicious. Since he decided to use Xu Huang, he naturally let him do it.If he was like Xia Houlan, how could Xu Huang be so devoted to him?

Besides, he knew Xu Huang's character, of course, from the history books, and knew that Xu Huang was not a duplicitous person.In addition, Xu Huang's wife and children are in Shangcai, and Xu Huang's temperament is unlikely to defect to the enemy.

To sum up, Liu Yu can naturally use Xu Huang with confidence and boldness.He wasn't worried about whether Xu Huang would really join him, but was looking forward to Xu Huang's first battle.He wanted to know if Xu Huang could solve Ji Ling.

From the history books, it is natural that Xu Huang is stronger than Ji Ling.But in the situation of Shangcai, it is obvious that Liu Yu's side is at a disadvantage.But even so, Liu Yu is still looking forward to Xu Huang's performance.

So, with a swipe of his pen, he immediately wrote a letter and asked the scouts to send it to Shangcai.There are not many words in the letter, only eight characters.

"Xu Huang is the general, let go and fight!"

When Xu Huang received this letter, he was really excited.Not only was he able to implement his own plan, but he was also moved by Liu Yu's trust.

This is the generals in ancient times. They may be able to guess the minds of the superiors, but they are still moved by their actions. For example, Zhuge Liang was like this with Liu Bei.Gein, this kind of thing is easy to say, but it takes a lot of courage to actually do it.Just like Liu Bei visited the thatched cottage three times, can ordinary people do it?

With Liu Yu's approval, without further ado, Xia Houlan allocated a team to Xu Huang, but of course the number was not many.It's not that Xia Houlan doesn't want to call more, it's just that there are not many soldiers and horses in Shangcai City, and there is no way to call more.

In the battle of Runan, even if Liu Yu won, he was still half disabled.

In addition to allocating troops to Xu Huang, Xia Houlan also discussed with Xu Huang about stealing the camp.The so-called stealing camp is Xu Huang's strategy.

This strategy is not complicated, but the effect is not necessarily simple.Just imagine that Ji Ling has been attacking the city for so many days, and Shang Cai didn't steal the camp, especially in those days when he was injured, would he still think that Shang Cai would steal the camp?
To be honest, Ji Ling was very cautious at the beginning, preventing Shang Cai from stealing the camp.But after a long time, and Shang Cai was beaten and beaten, even if Ji Ling was still very vigilant, his soldiers might not be very vigilant either.

Like this trick, Xia Houlan never thought of it.In his subconscious mind, he always thought that he had already ambushed once, and Ji Ling must have been prepared.But the fact is that the battlefield is constantly changing, and nothing is conclusive.

At this time, it depends on the ability of the general.A clever general can always find hidden opportunities in the chaotic battle situation.But the general generals can only follow the instructions in the military book, use troops stiffly, and don't know how to adapt.

Needless to say, Xia Houlan was that kind of unskilled general, while Xu Huang was a brilliant general.

Although Xia Houlan couldn't think of such a plan, as a general, after listening to Xu Huang's explanation, he could still hear the feasibility of this plan.Therefore, after some consideration, he agreed to sneak attack on Ji Ling's position.

Of course, sneak attack is not so easy.

They had to find out the situation of Ji Ling's camp first, to see if the defenses were really lax.This is very easy, and we can figure it out by dispatching some secret workers.

After figuring out the situation of Jiling Camp, they began to think about how to sneak attack, when, how many people and so on.

However, these were not matters, and under the discussion of Xu Huang, Gao Meng, and Xia Houlan, they were quickly resolved one by one.

"Haha, Gongming, I didn't expect that tonight is New Year's Eve." On New Year's Eve, Xu Huang, Gao Meng, and Xia Houlan each led a thousand soldiers to ambush outside Ji Ling's camp.

At this time, in the snowstorm, Xia Houlan laughed softly.It's no wonder that Ji Ling started attacking the city again these few days, so busy they all forgot about New Year's Eve.

If it wasn't for seeing the lights and festoons in the city today, and then asking about it, Xia Houlan probably wouldn't be able to remember it.

Hearing what Xia Houlan said, Xu Huang also remembered what day it was today, and then couldn't help laughing: "Let me tell you, it's no wonder that Ji Ling's camp is still brightly lit at such a late hour. Hehe, I guess they are celebrating, so that's good, more It is convenient for us to attack."

"Tsk tsk, when we succeed in the sneak attack, we will celebrate New Year's Eve when we go back." Although Xia Houlan looked serious, she still smiled lightly, presumably to ease the atmosphere.

Sure enough, after hearing what he said, the soldiers behind him couldn't help talking in low voices.But Xu Huang stopped it with a loud voice, otherwise, no matter how quiet the voice is, the sum of thousands of people is still very loud.

After talking for a while, the three of them led the troops of the headquarters, dispersed, ambushed outside the gate, and waited quietly.

(End of this chapter)