The Julu Army and the Jicheng garrison have a huge strategic advantage to maintain, and they have too many options to choose from. They can advance or retreat without losing any control, and they are very comfortable.

Liu Bei knew that reinforcements had not yet arrived, and that a large number of local warriors in the army needed to continue training. He wished he could wait a few more days before setting off.

According to the overall battle plan, we cannot deter the enemy so as not to scare them away. We cannot lead troops to pursue them. We cannot lead a large army to press forward. We can only show the enemy's weakness.

One night, Liu Bei was thinking alone. He thought, if the Julu Army is really unable to get out, and the enemy army cannot see a single soldier coming to kill them, if he puts himself in his own shoes, if he knows that there is a large enemy army behind,

But he hasn't been seen for a long time, so I'm afraid he should be restless now.

Thinking of this subtle point, Liu Bei immediately realized that he was wrong.

That night, Liu Bei found Liu Yu and discussed with Liu Yu to send troops to Yuyang tomorrow.

The next day, the Julu Army and Liu Yu's Army combined with more than 18,000 soldiers to point at Yuyang. Along the way, Liu Bei looked at the huge crowds of people on his side and was worried because there were too many soldiers.

As the saying goes, if there are more than 10,000 people, there are no borders. If there are too many soldiers, the momentum will be too strong. For the enemy who has become a frightened bird, he will run away if he is slightly frightened, so he does not dare to use his sharp edge carefully.

Hide them all.

Liu Bei thought for a long time but could not think of a good way to show off his enemy and hide his edge by being weak. He was helpless as he watched the team go further and further away.

After walking for half a day, suddenly an urgent message came from Liu Yu's messenger.

Liu Bei hurried to meet Liu Yu. They met twice and figured out the cause of the matter in a moment.

It turned out that the vanguard officer under Liu Yu encountered the enemy at the front. Seeing that the enemy's troops were few, the vanguard officer rushed forward greedily for credit. He was accidentally ambushed and lost many soldiers and horses. The guilty general was tied up and knelt down.

On the ground, Liu Yu was so angry that he wanted to push the man out and chop him on the spot.

The vanguard officer's armor was disheveled, and he knelt on the ground with a dumbfounded expression, giving up all struggle and looking resigned.

Liu Bei stared at the vanguard officer thoughtfully, and suddenly he had a realization in his mind that this defeat might not be a bad thing.

Liu Beili pulled the angry Liu Yu aside and whispered for a while. After a moment, Liu Yu looked puzzled. He looked at the kneeling vanguard officer, then looked at Liu Bei, and asked doubtfully, "Seriously?"

"Seriously." Liu Bei nodded affirmatively.

Explaining the reason in detail, Liu Bei said that he was afraid that if the enemy retreated before the encirclement had begun, they would be unable to catch him. This small defeat was emboldening the enemy. Once the enemy's courage increased, they would not be willing to do so.

retreated.

Although this is the truth, Liu Yu was somewhat depressed when he sent out his army to fight head-on and was defeated.

Later, because the enemy's front was approaching, Liu Bei suggested that the march should be temporarily suspended and that in order to lure the enemy, most of the troops could retreat, leaving light troops in front.

Liu Yujin followed Liu Bei's suggestion, and each side sent out 1,500 troops to make up a total of 3,000. These 3,000 soldiers wore their armor inside out, with their armor on the outside. The 3,000 people did not put up banners, and did not bring cavalry. They only used chariots.

A camp was set up in the formation, and many transport vehicles were specially displayed in the camp.

The reason why three thousand people wear their armor backwards is to show the enemy that they are weak. If the enemy sees the three thousand men with sharp swords, they will be frightened by the power of the army and will want to retreat again. If the enemy retreats, the giant deer will

The army's calculations failed. Therefore, with the armor inside, the enemy was not intimidated by the power of the army, so he was not afraid and had no intention of retreating.

This is the first one. The second one is that three thousand people do not raise flags, which is also a way to show weakness. This method is the tactics accumulated by the Julu Army. When the Julu Army's cavalry caravan negotiates with foreign countries, they have [Duoli]

The method of setting up fewer flags and fewer swords and guns is to erect fewer swords and guns so as not to frighten the villagers, and to erect more flags to show dignity. The rangers’ own practical experience also said that when negotiating with the villagers with flags, it is easier to succeed.

At this time, if you are afraid that the enemy will retreat out of fear, you must minimize your own deterrence. A forest of flags can bring a strong deterrent. On the contrary, if you hide all the flags, the army will lose its intimidation.

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Third, there were no cavalry among the 3,000 people left to lure the enemy. This was because the infantry marched like a turtle, while the cavalry moved out quickly and sharply like fangs. Only the infantry left the 3,000 people as slow as a turtle, and the enemy was not afraid of them.

If there are cavalry on standby among the three thousand people, they will be hostile and show their fangs, so they will be afraid. In order to hide their fangs, they will withdraw the cavalry.

Fourthly, Liu Bei was afraid that the enemy troops would retreat easily, so Liu Bei deliberately left a large number of heavy vehicles as a lure. As the saying goes, people die for money and birds die for food. Even a coward will take risks if he sees money thrown around. Stay

This is the purpose of unloading baggage vehicles. If the enemy wants to retreat, but sees weak soldiers guarding a huge amount of money, food and baggage, the enemy may hesitate to retreat for a while, so the enemy will be firmly attracted, and the prey will be taken.

Already.

Earlier, Li Mengxi had systematically summarized the method of luring the enemy into defeat. The method of deceiving defeat can and can only be used to coddle the enemy. If the enemy is an army with shaky morale and is on the verge of collapse, if at this time rashly use

Pretending to be defeated will help boost the morale of the enemy, which will have the opposite effect. An army with low morale and collapse has no intention of fighting. Even if it sees its opponent defeated and fled, it will not fight.

Dare to pursue. The enemy does not dare to pursue. The strategy of deceiving defeat and luring the enemy will naturally fail.

During this period, the general rules of feigning defeat/showing weakness to lure the enemy have once again been verified by actual combat.

The Julu Army had covered up their flags, hid their armor, and tried their best to show weakness. However, the rebel army did not dare to attack rashly because they did not have full fighting spirit. The method of showing weakness and luring the enemy was not fully effective, but it was just enough.

If you don't use the method of showing weakness to lure the enemy, the enemy's intention to retreat is on the verge of danger. If you use the method of showing weakness to lure the enemy, the enemy's courage is neither high nor low, and their fighting spirit is neither great nor small. They neither dare to attack nor have any reason to retreat hastily.

At this time, from the enemy's perspective, the most prudent thing for the enemy to do is not to attack rashly, but to slowly test the actual situation, and then decide whether to attack or retreat after finding out the actual situation.

The enemy army did exactly this. They began to cautiously approach the sidecar array in order to test out the details inside the array.

The generals in the chariot formation had Liu Bei's instructions. If the enemy did not attack by force, they would never expose their combat power. Therefore, when the enemy began to approach and test, only a few bows and crossbows were fired back in the chariot formation.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The two sides have reached a strange balance, and the intensity of the car formation's counterattack is neither too large nor too small, leaving the enemy generals in an embarrassing state of neither superior nor inferior.

I wanted to attack the car formation in one fell swoop, but I was a little worried and couldn't make up my mind.

Wait a little longer. The enemy general thought that it would not be too late to investigate a little more and make plans after finding out.

It is a clever response to predict the opponent before making a plan and then take action. However, what the Julu Army is least afraid of is that the enemy moves slowly. The longer the enemy delays, the more sufficient arrangements the Julu Army will have for its backhand.

Judging from the battlefield situation, the strategy of showing the enemy's weakness is effective. Seeing the enemy from the small can make the enemy bigger. There is a small enemy army that has been confronting the vehicle formation in front. This at least shows that although it is not known how the majority of the enemy army in Yuyang reacted,

If most of the enemy's troops want to retreat, then the troops scattered outside will definitely shrink back. Since the troops have not shrunk, it may mean that the enemy has not made any move to retreat for a while.

This battle with the bandits was probably the second large-scale battle of the Julu Army. The first time was the battle with the Yellow Turbans when they were asking for the Yellow Turbans. After that, there were confrontations with Dong Zhuo, and there were confrontations with Huangfu Song’s officers and soldiers, but those were not

In a true sense, the only battles that involve open swords and clear guns are the Battle of the Yellow Turban and this one.

The thief soldiers were much more elite than the Yellow Turban refugees. While testing the vehicle formation, the thief soldiers cautiously sent scouts to go around the vehicle formation and probe the left, right and rear of the vehicle formation. As a result, there was no trace of the area within ten miles to the left, right and rear of the vehicle formation.

Not noticing any disturbance, the thieves' vigilance was greatly reduced.

In line with the overall battle plan, Liu Bei was afraid of alerting the enemy, so he did not even dare to send out scouts. After leaving a car camp in front to show off the enemy and attract the enemy's troops with weakness, Liu Bei led the main force back ten miles directly to find a hiding place to station.

Later, this move really worked. The thieves only thought that light troops were coming, but did not know that there was a tiger behind them, so they gradually relaxed their vigilance.

Liu Bei's private guess was correct. Thousands of troops spread out across the border, which was a kind of fear for the enemy. There was no trace or clue at all, which was another kind of fear.

In a situation where the bandit army clearly knew that the Julu Army was coming, if there was no trace of the Julu Army, they would inevitably become suspicious and eventually scare themselves away, and they would just run away.

Liu Bei noticed this subtlety, and deliberately exposed the Julu Army to the enemy's eyes openly and openly. The fear of the unknown was the biggest fear. When he saw the Julu Army, and saw that the Julu Army was weak in strength, the enemy was afraid of the enemy.

reduce.

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Two days later, a scout suddenly reported that a group of men under the banner of Da Han were approaching from behind.

There was no need for Liu Bei to judge. The scouts themselves could guess that it was probably their own team, and their own reinforcements had arrived.

Liu Bei took a small number of troops and left the main group to contact them. On the way, he met the team that the scouts mentioned. From a distance, it looked like a small team, but it had a lot of people.

As they approached twice, several figures on horseback immediately ran out from the team and rushed towards Liu Bei.

After almost two months of absence, they finally saw their own people, which made several Julu Army cavalrymen breathe a sigh of relief.

The cavalrymen turned over and dismounted, kneeling down on one knee in unison, "Wang Gu (Zhao Xing) (Li Shu) of the Third Cavalry Battalion is back!"

Liu Bei hurriedly helped a few cavalrymen up. He looked at the familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar faces in front of him. Liu Bei had a thousand words in his heart that he couldn't say at the moment, "Okay! Just come back! Just come back."

!" Liu Bei smiled brightly, patted one shoulder, straightened the other's clothes, and asked a few more warm words from the bottom of his heart, making the several cavalrymen feel as warm as returning home.

After the opening ceremony, the cavalrymen proudly took Liu Bei to inspect the team. The cavalrymen showed Liu Bei the vehicles, livestock, people they recruited, weapons they raised, and so on, as if they were presenting treasures.

The result of many years of hard work.

Liu Bei had his own observational eye. He took a look at the queue of rural soldiers lined up on the road, and saw that the queue was neatly aligned from front to back, left and right. Although the soldiers in the queue were dressed in different attires and were of different heights, they all stood upright. Only this one could be seen.

From the details, we can see that the rural soldiers in this unit are well trained.

Liu Bei also saw paper flags erected in the ranks of the rural soldiers. There was a small paper flag for every five people and a large paper flag for every ten people. From the beginning to the end, there were quite a few. Seeing this, he knew that the organization of the rural soldiers was clear.

, must be able to give clear orders.

When I saw the soldiers again, they all had green scarves wrapped around their heads. They looked uniformly in uniform and looked very impressive.

There were many grain-laden vehicles and mules and horses in the team, and the vehicles carried a lot of grain, firewood, and other supplies. Judging from the condition of the mules and horses, the animals seemed to be in good spirits. This meant that the team was far from the time when they needed to kill animals to satisfy their hunger, and there was still food and grass.

Can last for a long time.

After checking the armaments of the country soldiers, there was a lack of armor and stomach in the team, but almost all the country soldiers carried crossbows and enough arrows, perfectly completing the pre-war instructions.

Looking at the entire rural army, it completely exceeded Liu Bei's expectations, and Liu Bei was extremely satisfied.

When asked about the number of people in the team, the leader of the cavalry team laughed and said, "Hey, it's not many, just over seven hundred."

The smile on Liu Bei's face became even brighter, "Good! Good! It's really good!" He said three words "good" in succession, which was enough to show how satisfied Liu Bei was.

Five cavalrymen were sent out, and when they came back, they became a team of more than 700 people. In more than a month, the strength of the troops increased by a hundred times.

With the arrival of the first group of rural soldiers, this is a signal to start. You must know that in the previous battle plan, all the tribes in the counties set off at the same time. Every two days of marching, they would rest for one day, and there were scouts busy running around.

The communication and coordination work between various ministries is complex. In this framework, although each ministry is fast and slow, the difference in speed is generally not more than fifty miles. The arrival of a group of rural soldiers means that a large number of teams are about to approach.

What happened next was as expected. In the next half day, the scouts who came to deliver the message kept coming. In just half a day, six teams had arrived within a hundred miles.

At this time, Liu Bei suddenly realized a problem. According to the previous plan, after all the ministries assisted in the local defense against the thieves, they would march to Yuyang at the same time at the agreed time. There was no problem with this plan. The original battle plan was to

Assist the countryside to organize defenses, and drive back the looting bandits bit by bit. According to this plan, there is no problem in fighting all the way to Yuyang City. However, I did not expect that the battle plan before January will not be applicable after January.

Okay, now the situation has become, we need to surround Yuyang Yijun tightly from the outside before the rebel army can react, in order to annihilate the enemy in one battle. The top priority now is to set up the encirclement as soon as possible, and secondly to avoid alerting the enemy.

The enemy troops retreated, and the troops that were arriving one after another were still marching towards Yuyang City without receiving new orders. One after another, the troops were heading towards Yuyang. When the enemy troops saw it, how could they not be frightened, and how could they not be frightened?

Retreat hastily.

If the encirclement has not been closed tightly, the enemy troops will have retreated, and the hard work of many days will show flaws in the last step, and the effect of the perfect annihilation plan will be greatly reduced.

At this point of consideration, Liu Bei immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. He immediately sent a large number of cavalry to the Yuyang border to intercept all reinforcements outside Yuyang County to avoid delays.
Chapter completed!