"This Jiangdong general is alert!" Zhang Liao listened to the news brought to him by the scouts of the Xiliang iron cavalry. The vanguard brought by the Jiangdong general directly pressed down in a dense forest on the way. There are a total of 5,000 people spying on the Stove of People and Horses, and these 5,000 people have killing intent on them, so they are not ordinary soldiers and horses at first glance.
Originally, Zhang Liao planned that if the vanguard came directly on the way, he would use a large-scale cavalry charge on the plain outside the city on the way to eat up the Jiangdong vanguard in one bite, frustrate the enemy's spirit, and then prepare for peace. After that, the more than 40,000 enemy troops went to deal with it again, but now it seems that it is not very reliable to directly eat the vanguard.
With the barrier of the dense forest, it can be said that the tough Xiliang iron cavalry in Zhang Liao's hands can no longer be used, and this dense forest is not far from the city on the way. Although it is tens of miles away, it is only half an hour for the cavalry. It was only a short time for the infantry battle. This Jiangdong general stationed his army in the dense forest, and he generously asked Zhang Liao's scouts to investigate in order to tell Zhang Liao that his Jiangdong army was coming. The enemy is in the dark and they are in the light.
"What banner is the Jiangdong Army playing?!" Zhang Liao became a little interested. Who is this general
"General, it is under the banner of Lu character!" The scout at the side reported.
"Lv?!" After Zhang Liao thought about it, there really wasn't such a Jiangdong general with the surname Lu. Those who were famous in Jiangdong were those Huang Gai and Han Dang, and there really wasn't such a surname Lu. How did this person appear
"Surnamed Lu?!" Zhang Liao didn't know who it was, but Xu Sheng seemed to vaguely know the name.
"General Xu Sheng knows?!" Zhang Liao asked.
"I don't know the specifics, but when I was with the lord, the lord mentioned a general named Lu from Jiangdong! This man is called Lu Meng, and he is around 20. The lord said that this man has the talent of a general, good at commanding troops, and even One side is commander in chief, but they lack training. If they are trained well, they will be the commander in chief, and if they are not trained well, they will only be talking on paper!" Xu Sheng told Zhang Liao everything he knew.
"Lu Meng, around twenty?!" Zhang Liao thought for a while, this is a young general. Twenty years old, a young general in Jiangdong at that time, no wonder Zhang Liao didn't know, but this person also made Zhang Liao nod. There are far fewer young people who can be so alert and calm instead of reckless.
Now Zhang Liao's army has fallen into a predicament. If he wanted to encircle the spot for reinforcements, he wanted to swallow the enemy one by one. Originally, Zhang Liao's strategy had already succeeded. With Qin Feng's request for help in the city on the way, let Jiangdong's 50,000 troops were divided. The vanguard was dispatched, and Zhang Liao was ready to eat the vanguard in one fell swoop, but it was hard to eat now that he was hiding in the dense forest. If he couldn't eat the vanguard, he wouldn't be able to defeat the enemy's spirit. It's not easy to fight after that.
"General, let's take the city on the way first, and wipe out the 20,000 enemies! After the disaster, we will have a decisive battle with the 50,000 Jiangdong army!" Ge Jun on the side suggested to Zhang Liao.
"Yes, General Zhang Liao, our army has plenty of live ammunition for the crossbows. It is absolutely possible to take down the city on the way first, and then it is not too late to entangle with this group of Jiangdong enemy troops. Otherwise, waiting for his army to arrive, we will be attacked by the enemy." Xu Sheng was also the chief general of the first army, so Zhang Liao would naturally consider his suggestion. Zhang Liao didn't reply to Xu Sheng immediately.
If you really want to take down the city on the way, it is still possible. Under the attack of the ballista, the city on the way has long been panicked. If Zhang Liao doesn't need to take out many, he only needs to take out 8,000 troops. Forcibly attacking the city, the city will be destroyed along the way!
As for the Jiangdong enemy army in this dense forest, even if he rushes to help, it doesn't matter if they are five thousand elites, Zhang Liao can definitely divide up two thousand heavy cavalry to stop the five thousand infantry.
But what if you win it on the way! It is said that Zhang Liao used to be the coach of Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. Bingzhou Wolf Riders only know how to attack, but are not good at defending. It is really impossible for Zhang Liao to be beaten passively.
They were fighting for help, not playing head-to-head with Jiangdong Sun Ce. If the fight continued like this, the loss would be too great.
"Zhang Hu, go find a local commoner!" Zhang Liao suddenly said to Zhang Hu who was beside him.
"Looking for a commoner?" Although Zhang Hu didn't understand, he ordered his subordinates to look for it immediately, but after searching for half a day, they couldn't find any commoners. These commoners had either hid in the city or left long ago Linhuai generation, here is better than Yangzhou, but not much better.
In the end, what Zhang Hu brought to Zhang Liao was a scout, and this scout was one of them who delivered the letter to Jiangdong. After all, although Zhang Liao deliberately let those scouts leave, he had to pretend to be a fake! Otherwise, he would be seen through at a glance, so how can he plan!
"Let go, let me go!" A scout from Qin Feng's army was escorted up by Zhang Hu.
"General, the last general is unable to find the people nearby, so it is!" Zhang Hu pointed to the scout and said.
"It's all the same!" Zhang Liao didn't care too much about whether it was a commoner or a sergeant, as long as he was on the way!
"Kill me, I won't say anything!" The scout was stubborn, and didn't say anything, turned his head away, and said nothing.
"Hehe, it's tough!" Zhang Liao showed a rare smile, "It's a pity that the master he follows is a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death." Qin Feng ran away as soon as he lost Linhuai City, and never According to the information given by Jin Yiwei in Yangzhou, this Qin Feng is not only greedy for life and afraid of death, but also very lustful and money-loving.
But I didn't expect such a master to have such a stubborn subordinate. I thought that Qin Feng's subordinates were all like the thousands of young masters in Linhuai City.
"Do you still want to talk about it in our general's tent!" Zhang Hu went up and Meng De put his foot on the soldier's body. The scout kicked sweetly in his mouth, and blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth.
"Kill him, don't say anything!" the scout struggled and shouted.
"General, you have a stubborn mouth, do you want to go down as the last general?!" Ge Jun asked Zhang Liao, meaning to wait for the scout to interrogate him first, and then bring him up, and his mouth will naturally open easily after some punishment .
"No need!" Zhang Liao shook his head, he didn't have much time, if he went to torture him again, it might be too late.
"It's good to be tough. Don't worry, I won't let you betray your lord. I just want to ask you a few simple questions?!" Zhang Liao lowered his body and approached the scout.
"snort!"
"If you can answer my question, I will ask my subordinates to let you go! If you are still stubborn, then go to hell! You can still find another scout. I don't believe that everyone is as stubborn as you !” Zhang Liao said to the scout.
"Hmph, I won't tell you, you executioner, butcher, tell you the military secretary, the end result will only be the massacre of all the people on my way, I won't tell you, what's so terrible about death!" The scout spit out bloody phlegm, but fortunately Zhang Liao avoided it quickly.
"Massacre?!" Zhang Liao listened to what the scout said, and he finally understood why this little scout was so stubborn. It turned out that it was because of the massacre of the city.
"When did our general say to massacre the city!" Zhang Hu retorted.
"Hey!" Zhang Liao stopped Zhang Hu's words. They didn't mention the massacre of the city, but Qin Feng in the city did. This Qin Feng must have spread the word that Zhang Liao's army was about to massacre the city on the way. The news made people panic throughout the journey. The same is true of the entire common enemy. This Qin Feng is really a character. To protect himself, he can make up such words, knowing how to use people's hearts, just like when Lao Cao attacked Xuzhou back then, Tao Qian said that Lao Cao wanted to slaughter the city, which made the whole Xuzhou went all out to defend the city. And Liu Mang's army is not a good person, after all, Liu Mang's army has a precedent of massacring a city, so Qin Feng can use this precedent!
No matter how Zhang Hu explained the scout now, he wouldn't believe it. The scout must be a local on the way, otherwise he wouldn't treat Zhang Liao like this.
Zhang Liao doesn't need Zhang Hu to explain whether he is massacring the city, what he needs is not this. What he needs is this scout. He is a local on the way, and that is the most important thing.
"As I said, General Zhang Liao, the things you asked must have nothing to do with the city on the way. I just want to know. The weather on the way these days, you just need to tell me when it rained the first time in the city on the way. That's fine! As long as you tell me, I'll let you go. I believe that your old mother must be there in the city along the way! Don't you have the heart to let your old mother end up with the white-haired man and the black-haired man? !" Zhang Liao said persuasively to the scout of Qin Feng's army.
"Mother? How did he know?!" Zhang Hu and Ge Jun on the side thought it was Zhang Liao making it up. Since you don't know her, how do you know if she has an old mother
"Mother!" When Zhang Liao said this, the scout seemed to really think of his old mother.
"You said you are dead, who will take care of your old mother! Do you still count on your robes in the city on the way? Do you count on your lord who is greedy for life and afraid of death? As long as you tell me the weather on the way, I will let you go I want you to be a filial son!" Zhang Liao captured the hearts of the soldiers by taking advantage of the soldier's filial piety.
The filial piety in Zhang Liao's heart was aroused, the scout gritted his teeth and said, "This is true!"
"Really?!" Both Zhang Hu and Ge Jun were stunned. This scout really has an old mother at home! Is this Zhang Liao a god
Of course Zhang Liao is no longer a god, and the presence of an old mother in this scout's family is not a foretelling, but an inference.
Although this person is a scout of Qin Feng's army, Zhang Liao saw that this person has patches on his shoes and on his body. These patches are neatly made. This is a woman's handicraft. It is very detailed, and this person looks like he is fifteen or sixteen years old. Among the nobles, he may have married early at the age of fifteen or sixteen, but among the common people, it is not so early, so it is impossible for this scout to have a wife. people, then there is only the old mother.
"Of course it is true!" Zhang Liao nodded with a smile, and he was about to succeed.
"No questions about anything but the weather?!"
"Of course! I don't ask about anything except the weather. I, Zhang Liao, don't need to lie to you, and you are not worth a single soldier! Killing you is not too much, and not killing you is not enough!"
"Okay! I'll tell you!" The young scout nodded and said it out of his mouth.
"Hasn't it rained for half a month?!" Zhang Liao got the news from the scout that it hadn't rained in the city for half a month on the way. Zhang Liao looked at the sky outside the camp, and the sky was clear and clear, "It really is so ah!"
"You said you were going to send me away!" The scout on the side shouted.
"Come and send him down!" Zhang Liao waved his hand and asked his subordinate Zhang Hu to send the scout of Qin Feng's army away.
"Come here, help me cut down a big tree in the nearby dense forest and send it here!"
Soon a big tree that had just been felled from the dense forest was delivered. Zhang Liao stroked the bark of the big tree, his branches, trunk and leaves with his hands. His fingers were dry, only the tree The roots are more humid.
Zhang Liao's eyes lit up immediately, and he immediately issued an order, "Pass to our military order, the entire army rests for half a day today, and breaks through the enemy's camp early tomorrow morning!"
"General Zhang Liao, you already have a plan to defeat the enemy?!" Xu Sheng, Wang Wei and others beside him were all at a loss.
"Naturally!" Zhang Liao said confidently.
"Since we have a strategy to defeat the enemy, why not defeat the enemy now and swallow the vanguard of the Jiangdong Army so as not to have more dreams at night!"
"Don't worry, how can things be done before the things arrive!" Zhang Liao said to the generals under his command.
"What do you want?!"
"Wuhe! Fiery fire!" Zhang Liao said the name very calmly.
"Fierce fire oil?!" Now Wang Wei understood that Wang Wei was not only a man of martial arts, but also good at using his brain, so Liu Mang put Wang Wei and Xu Sheng, an impulsive person, together.
"General, you want to attack with fire?!"
"Of course!"
"General, how do you use fire to attack the Jianghuai area?!" The generals below did not understand. You must know that Lu Meng had his own plan to hide in the dense forest. First, the Jianghuai area is densely forested, and the second is the rivers in the Jianghuai area Developed, and another is that the weather in the Jianghuai area is mostly rainy. So if you really want to attack with fire, you may not be able to burn a few grasses.
"Hehe, that's why I asked the scout of Qin Feng's army just now!" Zhang Liao explained to his subordinates, "It hasn't rained for half a month on the way. Look at this forest. Except for the damp roots, The rest of the place is already dry, even God is on our side!"
"But what about the river in this dense forest?!" There are streams in the dense forest, and these streams can be used to ward off fires in case of fire!
"So we need to use this fire oil!" Xu Sheng who was next to him helped Zhang Liao explain. Xu Sheng had seen Liu Wei use it before. This thing can burn on the surface of the river, let alone these little people. creek.
"Hehe!" Zhang Liao didn't refute or agree, just smiled indifferently. "Tomorrow will naturally know!"