In Luoyang City, public opinion surged. Outside the city, Zhang Fei had been unhappy for a long time after seeing an army camp.

Ten miles northeast of Luoyang City, an official army camp blocked the direction of the rebel army's outward sweep. This made Zhang Fei feel like he was stuck in his throat and was very unhappy.

Zhang Fei has sent people to inquire about the news. It is said that the military stronghold was actually Huangfu Song's handiwork. The military stronghold was established a few months ago. A few months ago, the banditry was fierce at that time. Before Huangfu Song sent troops, he suggested

Emperor Ling set up several new villages around Luoyang and recruited young men to train diligently as a reserve of soldiers.

Following Huangfu Song's advice, Emperor Ling set up a number of camps around Luoyang for training new soldiers. These camps became an important military force for the imperial court in the hinterland of Luoyang, and also became a barrier to the rebel army's plan to sweep the country.

's number one enemy.

Zhang Fei and a few capable officers quietly went to the woods near the army barracks and started playing cats.

Lying on the grass, Zhang Fei and the others observed the army camp from a distance. From a distance, they saw that the army camp was surrounded by wooden fences and was neatly organized. Although the army camp was built of wood, the gates and arrows

There should be no shortage of towers.

From a distance, I could see that the gate of the village was tightly blocked by horses, and there were armored soldiers meticulously walking around and inspecting the gate of the village. Looking up, I could see the sharp wooden arrow towers at the four corners of the wall.

Above, there were guards holding bows and crossbows, standing guard from above.

In the military camp, there were shouts of killing and drills one after another.

Judging from various signs, this military stronghold is a formidable enemy due to its strict military discipline, tight defense, and diligent training.

After lying in the grass nest and looking around for a long time, Zhang Fei didn't think of a good countermeasure. Zhang Fei quietly patted the shoulders of the people on the left and right and motioned for everyone to go back.

The soldiers rushed back to the depths of the woods.

In Zhang Fei's mouth, a piece of thatch root had been chewed for a long time and turned into a mouthful of dregs.

Zhang Fei spat out the dregs. He sat cross-legged and glanced at the chiefs. Zhang Fei lowered his voice and asked, "Do you understand everything? If we want to pull out the stronghold, what can we do?"

Ji Ao Shichang, who had scars and flesh all over his face, said with a nonchalant look, "General, why should you worry? If you measure a small village, if the soldiers and horses can reach the sky, how can there be a thousand?"

If the general gives a certain two hundred brothers, a certain person can take down the stronghold!"

Zhang Fei grinned and glanced at this person, "Oh, you are brave." Zhang Fei sneered.

Then, Zhang Fei glared, suppressed his voice, and cursed in a muffled voice, "Damn it! I know he is from a small village, and I know there are few soldiers in his village.

Why do we need two hundred people? I, Lao Zhang, rode in on horseback and picked up his village by just one person. Why do I need you to show off my strength?

I don’t even think about it, is this a matter of taking out the stronghold but not the stronghold?

Damn it, we only have 3,000 men in our hands, and it costs two to three hundred to pull out a stronghold. The officers and soldiers don’t know how many strongholds there are. If you do this, we will just pull out the stronghold and nothing else."

Zhang Fei had a good attitude. Zhang Fei scolded Shi Chang for his stupidity, which was quite good. He also explained to Shi Chang carefully why hard attacks were not allowed and why hard attacks were not good.

Being scolded by Zhang Fei, Shi Chang's expression was sarcastic and embarrassed.

Speaking of which, Liu, Guan, and Zhang had been getting along with Li Mengxi for a long time, and all three of them were deeply influenced by Li Mengxi.

Li Mengxi likes to gather the wisdom of everyone, and he likes to call a bunch of people together to discuss issues, because Li Mengxi, Liu Guan, and Zhang are also used to this.

Zhang Fei was able to ask ordinary soldiers for strategies, which was a valuable change for Zhang Fei. However, Zhang Fei's temper was too bad. When someone makes an idea, no matter whether it is good or bad, he should be praised to encourage him. But Zhang Fei is better.

Zhang Fei trains others to look like fools.

I asked about the first one, and the idea I came up with was of little reference value.

Zhang Fei then asked the remaining people.

Taking a lesson from the past, the remaining people were afraid that if they answered incorrectly, they would be scolded by Zhang Fei, so everyone was silent.

Zhang Fei was angry. He glared and cursed angrily, "Say it all! Who dares not to say it? I will deal with him!"

When Zhang Fei said he was going to take care of people, he really knew how to take care of them, and he really knew how to crack a whip.

Everyone had no choice but to bite the bullet and think hard.

Without a relaxed and free discussion environment, the output will definitely not be high, but even if the output is not high, there can still be output.

For a long time, one of the commanders spoke carefully. The commander secretly glanced at him and said, "General, I'm thinking, since we have few soldiers, let's fight at night, send twenty or thirty brothers, and wait until midnight to sneak in.

The officers and soldiers don’t know how many of us there are, so they certainly won’t dare to fight us.”

"Yeah." Zhang Fei nodded with satisfaction and smiled at Shi Chang, "Well, it seems like the same thing."

Zhang Fei then discussed with his soldiers the arrangements for attacking the camp at night. Since a large number of troops had to be used to sweep across all directions, there were not many people who could be divided into the camp. An official camp could only be divided into fifty men.

It's the limit.

Zhang Fei asked everyone, if he led fifty people to attack the stronghold, and asked everyone if they dared or not, what would be the success?

None of the elders spoke.

There is such a disparity in power. There are hundreds of people in a military camp, let alone dozens of people, and hundreds of people. It is estimated that there are only a few dozen people, and there is nothing that can be done against the walls of other people's villages.

This is one of them. Although a night attack is a surprise attack, it is a hard attack in a surprise attack. A surprise attack still requires attack and kill. To attack and kill, too few manpower is an unsolvable problem.

Secondly, although night attacks can disintegrate the combat power of a large number of government troops with very few troops, for the rebels, night attacks have great limitations.

Night attacks can only be carried out at night, and the current situation of the rebels is that if they hear that there is a change in the city during the day, they must immediately take over several villages and counties in one day, and they must take over at least one hundred thousand people in an instant.

Surname, this requires that if the incident occurs in the daytime, the army camp must be destroyed with lightning speed.

During the day, we cannot attack at night. There is no way that a few dozen troops can destroy the official and military camp during the day.

A night attack method may be useless against the rebel army, and it may be too late to use it at all.

As for the idea of ​​pulling out the army's stronghold before anything happens in the city, that's impossible because it would scare off the enemy.

As long as one or two strongholds are taken out here, the imperial court will be immediately alert, and soldiers and horses will be mobilized in all directions. At this time, facing the fully alert imperial court, it is impossible for the rebels to sweep across the four realms before the imperial court can react.

Already.

The main content of the sweeping plan is to completely hide the intention, and then take advantage of the court's unpreparedness to suddenly hit the court hard.

If the intention is exposed and the court is alert, it will not be sudden. Without the suddenness, coercion will not be possible.

The second strategy the leaders thought of still didn't work.

At this time, the third strategy came out.

Yishi Changdi grunted, "Just light a fire for him."

A person next to him agreed, "I said so too. The army's stockade was made of wood and was burned by him."

There are also objections. The objectors retort, "How can it be so easy to burn? Hard wood can't be ignited even if you hold a fire for a long time.

Besides, if you light a fire, how can people not put out the fire if they see it?

If there were more of us and we could set the fire faster than he could save it, it would be okay.

But didn’t the general say, we only have forty or fifty people, that’s all, if we can’t start the fire, we’ll let it be put out..."

Shi Chang was talking in a flurry, Zhang Fei's eyes lit up, Zhang Fei had a sudden inspiration, (Yes! Attack with fire!) Zhang Fei's heart lit up.

In terms of the current situation of the rebel army, night attacks are very different from fire attacks. The difference is that night attacks are fought with swords and guns. Once a night attack occurs, it will definitely alarm the court and scare the enemy.

The fire attack can achieve the purpose of destroying the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers without alerting the court.

In a fire attack, if the soldiers are allowed to bring rockets to fire, then although it is a fire attack, it is almost the same as an open battle. The officers and soldiers were harassed by rockets at night and reported to the court. When the court heard that someone dared to attack the army stronghold, it immediately became vigilant, and then

, the entire territory is on alert.

Therefore, if you want to attack with fire, you cannot use ordinary fire attacks, you cannot use rockets, and you cannot use any overt means such as fire bundles. You have to do it secretly. It is best to set the fire secretly, and it is best to make the officers and soldiers think it is you.

I accidentally burned down the camp by myself.

In this way, the officers and soldiers' camp was destroyed, but the officers and soldiers from top to bottom thought it was an ordinary accident and did not pay any attention to it. At this time, the snake was beaten, and the grass was not frightened.

Breaking the grass will frighten the snake, but what if the snake thinks it has moved the grass? Then the snake will not be frightened.

Zhang Fei was thinking quietly, frowning slightly, holding his messy beard in his hand, and his eyes flashing.

Zhang Fei had made up his mind and decided to attack with fire.

Zhang Fei, who had made up his mind, was devastated.

Zhang Fei ordered the chiefs to return to the camp first, while he himself went around in a circle to the gate in the other direction of the official camp. He walked swaggeringly to the front of the official camp and looked into the camp.

After taking a closer look, Zhang Fei saw that there were many tents set up in the village. Unfortunately, the tents were too scattered. It would be great if they could get closer and pile some firewood between the tents to light a fire.

Seeing Zhang Fei wandering around in front of the camp, soldiers from the camp came out and drove him away with curses.

Zhang Fei raised his feet and left. Before leaving, he took a deep look at the village.

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Zhang Fei began to prepare a fire attack plan.

Zhang Fei ordered his soldiers to collect dry firewood everywhere. In order to make fire easier, Zhang Fei specially sent people to buy a lot of wheat straw from the people.

Wheat straw is cheap in the countryside and can easily be purchased for dozens of cartloads.

The firewood was gathered in an instant, and the next question was how to pile the wheat straw into the army camp, Zhang Fei thought.

Zhang Fei quickly thought of the first method. Zhang Fei thought that he could sell firewood to the officers and soldiers. As long as the officers and soldiers bought the firewood and brought it into the camp, then there would be one more firewood in the army camp.

Bundling firewood increases the chance of a fire.

After coming up with this first method, Zhang Fei felt that this method was inappropriate.
To be continued...