Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 1519 Double Rivalry

"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, exhausted physically and mentally. Yesterday, they simply rested for a whole day, and these Sichuan and Shu soldiers were fighting every day. All line up..." Wei Yan said with a smile to the Marquis Qu Zhang in the big tent, "We have had a good rest for three days, and it can be regarded as waiting for work... Now it's up to these fools whether they dare to chase... "

   "General, Sichuan and Shu soldiers aren't that stupid, are they? Are they still catching up like this?"

   "It's hard to say, what if you really meet a fool?"

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

  Wei Yan nodded slightly, and said: "We'll wait here for another day, if we don't catch up, it will be his life! Then we turn around and go to Zitong..."

   Wei Yan now fully understands his essential job, which is to act as a shit-stirring stick... Ahhh! It is as a person who destroys the current balance of Sichuan and Sichuan... Uh, it seems that there is not much difference between the two...

   Well, that's pretty much it anyway.

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

  Of course, it is also possible for Wu Yi to go directly back to Fu County.

But there is no problem with this. Wei Yan can continue to lure the defenders of Zitong, or continue to turn back and hook Fu County. Anyway, the choice of attack is in Wei Yan's hands. Cheng hides behind, if anyone can't help it, hehe, I'm sure it will make him feel good...

  Wu Yi lined up in Fushui, and Wei Yan instinctively felt that there was something wrong, but since he had no plans to push it to Fu County for the time being, it was up to Wu Yi to do anything in Fushui. The reason why Wei Yan didn't expose it was also because these days, digging any trap would require a lot of manpower and energy. It would be better to let Wu Yi and others have a place to spend it than to spend it on their own.

   "Lieutenant Ling, is there still no information from Yuan Jian?" Wei Yan turned to ask Ling Jie.

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

In order not to be flanked by Fu County and Zitong, the elite scouts under Ling Jie stretched out like long tentacles in the direction of Zitong to detect movement, while on the side of Fu County, Rely on Wei Yan's own scouts to check.

   "Hmm..." Wei Yan nodded, and said politely, "I'm bothering Captain Ling..."

   "I dare not take it." Ling Jie also bowed his hand in return.

What Wei Yan is most worried about now is that when he was fighting against the troops of Fu County, he was rushed and killed by the defenders of Zitong, so on the one hand, Ling Jie's early warning is very important, and on the other hand, Wei Yan naturally also looked at Ling Jie and others. People's extremely powerful personal combat power.

"By the way, Lieutenant Ling, if you play a certain banner near Zitong, you will think it is a suspicious soldier..." Wei Yan suddenly thought of a plan, thought for a while and seemed to have some room for manipulation, and said to Ling Jie, "A certain attack before During the time of Hanchang, he fought against the general guard of Zitong..."

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

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

  ………………

  The autumn sky is extremely blue and cloudless.

Under the leadership of Guan Yu, the Sichuan and Shu soldiers in Qixian County, with nearly 10,000 veterans of Liu Bei and the Jingzhou Allied Army as the center, with the Sichuan and Shu soldiers as the two wings, lined up in characters, along the rare basin of Sichuan and Shu On the flat ground, after advancing twenty miles toward Guanghan, it stopped.

   After receiving the news from Liu Bei, Guan Yu immediately took action, uniting his troops while boosting morale, and then unexpectedly left the original defense system near Qixian County, and took the initiative to advance to invite battle.

Because behind Guan Yu is the fortification that Pang Xi had built for a long time, and now it is another grasshopper on the same line, Wu Ban, who is guarding the back line for Guan Yu, so Guan Yu is naturally a little relieved. The general formation of big thorns is almost lined up, with a lot of momentum, advancing towards Guanghan.

Wu Yi and Wu Ban were all tied to Liu Bei's chariot, and all were hurt and prosperous, so Guan Yu didn't have much worry in his heart when he handed over his back to Wu Ban. What he cared about was only Guanghan's expedition to the west .

  Will the troops from Guanghan come out to fight?

   Or are you planning to shrink the defense and use the city to defend?

  Real warfare is like this. It is never possible to fully know what the enemy is doing. Even the actions you see must be considered. Are these actions true, false, or half-truth?

For Guan Yu, now that he knew that the Guanghan expedition to the west had dispatched a partial army, then this time he took the initiative to leave the fortifications and attack forward. But it seemed weak, Guan Yu didn't mind directly swiping his troops forward and making a strong attack.

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

Of course, if Guanghan is still strong, Guan Yu can still attract the attention of Guanghan Zhengxi troops, while keeping Chencang secretly, and even fight and retreat. Anyway, Guanghan's flanks are always threatened by Anhan, and he also has strong fortifications behind him. How many disadvantages will there be, maybe it is possible to pull Zhengxi's troops and create a gap...

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

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

  However, any soldier needs to see the truth on the battlefield. It is better to expose the problem earlier than to expose it at a critical moment, right?

  ………………

   It would be safer to return to Fu County, but Wu Yi couldn't swallow it.

   Just go back like this, wouldn't all the effort I did before be in vain? This is often the case for people. When there are more sunk costs, the greater the impact will be, and the behavior will be more irrational.

Sunk cost is one of the most difficult problems in human nature. If it is not handled properly, it will easily lead to two misunderstandings. One is that you are afraid to invest in "sunk costs" that have no beneficial output, and the other is that you are too much about "sunk costs". Nostalgic, continue the original mistakes, resulting in greater losses.

  Catch up! It would be best if he could defeat nature, and if he couldn't, then he would lure him to Fushui again. In short, the dam built before can't be wasted like this, can it?

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   "General Qi, the soldiers from Fu County have passed the Fu River and are coming here..." Jiao Zong reported to Huang Cheng with his hands clasped.

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

   "The ones chasing him are the forwards of Fu County, only a thousand people..."

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

   "Remind General Wei..." Huang Cheng swallowed his saliva, and then said, "Pass down the order, hide everything, let these guys go..."

  Sunk cost? It also has an impact on Huang Cheng. After lying in ambush for so long, he naturally wants to eat well. What's the point of eating such a plate of bean sprouts?

   Endure, wait.

  As a hunter, you naturally need to have a lot of patience...

In fact, speaking of it, perhaps the principle of most of the tactics is the same, it is just a replica of Tian Ji's horse racing. In order to achieve a global victory.

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

As far as the physical fitness of the soldiers is concerned, these soldiers of General Zhengxi, at least in the ranks of serious soldiers, can be regarded as the treatment that only the top elites have. Only the personal guards next to the general **** can enjoy it, but ordinary soldiers don't have to think about it, which has caused a huge gap in the soldiers' physical strength and endurance.

Just like there is a saying, what is called Jurchen full of thousands, but in fact it is the physical strength gap of the body, hungry and full, the most important task in normal time is not training, but to make money for the general of the guard. Can such pawns in business be compared with northern barbarians who eat meat every day and spend at least nine months of the year fighting?

  Even in later generations, Maozi in Siberia often sees people who are as reckless as bears and directly wrestle with black blind men?

The difference between the soldiers was more obvious between General Zhengxi's men and the local soldiers in Sichuan and Shu. This difference also brought confidence to Huang Cheng and others. After leaving the remaining traces, they turned into the mountains and forests, concealed their whereabouts, and did not launch an attack on this forward in Fu County...

Although Wu Yi also sent a lot of scouts, the Sichuan and Shu soldiers who had no experience in fighting against General Zhengxi couldn't find Huang Cheng and others' rough camouflage equipment at all. The two eyes are almost pasted on the screen, and they are still at a loss. Is there anyone here? Why can't I see anything?

The striker was not attacked, so Wu Yi naturally didn't notice any danger. In addition, in order to catch up with Wei Yan, Wu Yi even dispatched overnight. I used a rope to pull them, and drove for most of the night, and finally caught Wei Yan's footprints on the second day...

  Wu Yi suspected that Wei Yan had to withdraw his troops first because of some accidents in Guanghan or Zitong. This point seems to be proved by Wei Yan not setting up an ambush to attack the forward sent by Wu Yi.

   Walking and walking, Wu Yi's men and horses, who were not hindered much along the way, approached Wei Yan's men and horses smoothly, and the two sides entered the visual range, and naturally began to line up to face each other.

   Both sides are adjusting their formations at the fastest speed. Wu Yi needs to expand the attack formation, and Wei Yan also needs to turn his troops around. They are dispatching troops all the time.

  Wu Yi himself knew that his personal bravery was naturally inferior to Wei Yan's, so he didn't dare to slam into Wei Yan's tail for a long time and take the lead in strangling. Instead, he suppressed his temper and waited for his soldiers to line up. Seeing the Sichuan and Shu soldiers who rushed over, maybe they were a little tired, or maybe they were a little timid when they saw the equipment of Zhengxi troops, so they couldn't help frowning, then looked up at the sky, and found that the sun had begun to set to the west, and then looked at the terrain , couldn't help laughing a few times.

  The guard on the side asked jokingly, "Why is the general laughing?"

Wu Yi pointed to the sun in the sky, and said in a triumphant voice, "I thought that all the people who conquered the west were good at fighting, but now I see it, it's not the same! Today is getting worse, and the enemy's place, after a while, will inevitably be defeated." Shake your eyes, you can't look directly! This is the right time for us, so we should win a big victory!"

The guards quickly passed on Wu Yi's words, which immediately reassured the surrounding Sichuan and Shu soldiers. 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. My heart is beating a drum.

"You need to know that those who are good at fighting are not brave before the battle! Those who can organize soldiers may not be able to lead soldiers, those who can fight bravely may not be able to endure hardships, and those who can defeat widows may not be able to defeat the masses! Now the enemy's army is in panic, and we are at peace!" Wu Yi borrowed Ji encouraged the soldiers under his command, "The people who conquered the west did many evils, seized our land, robbed our wealth, covered up our wrongs with clever words, and did all kinds of evil! Now we will fight for the heavens and kill the evil! Today's victory, everyone Reward it!"

   "Oh oh oh..."

  Wu Yi's encouragement seemed to have some effect. After hearing the spread of the human amplifier of Wu Yi's guard, they also raised their swords and guns to cater to...

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

Wu Yi looked at the sky again with confidence, shook his head and said, "It doesn't have to be like this, so what if the opponent's formation is complete? After an hour, the sun will shine obliquely on his eyes. When they rebel, we will accept it. Wouldn't it be better?"

   Before the words fell, the soldiers at the front exclaimed: "It's moving! It's moving! The soldiers who conquered the west are moving!"

Wu Yi was startled, and quickly looked up, only to see four or five hundred people protruding from Wei Yan's army formation. Wu Yi came from the middle formation, and couldn't help saying angrily: "Zhuzi, how dare you take risks! Order the front army to line up, and spread their bows and arrows to the left and right! The rear army merges into the middle formation, so it is convenient for me to break up the ranks and kill them. Enemy leader!"

  (end of this chapter)