Wen Chou had made specific arrangements before, so according to Wen Chou's deployment, Yan Liang divided his subordinates into four divisions.

A group of thousands of people, led by Liu Qing, went to ambush near the main peak of Mafu Mountain in the north. Two groups were led by Li Dian and Dian Wei. Li Dian was ambushed in Qiugang west of the official road, and Dian Wei was ambushed in the forest east of the official road. The remaining two thousand people, led by Zhao Yun himself, were ambushed in the south of Li Dian's army.

The entire combat plan is as follows: After Zuo Xu led his troops to cross the river, Liu Qing let them go and waited for him to reach Li Dian and Dian Wei's ambush, Dong Zhi and Dian Wei attacked him. ◇ If Xu's troops break through forward, Zhao Yun will stop him. If they flee backward, Liu Qing will block him by the river.

According to this deployment plan, Li Dian, Dong Zhi, Liu Qing and others took the order and each took the book to the predetermined ambush site. Zhao Yun also took 300 people to the south for a while, stopped to rest and wait. Xun Yu and Dian Wei were in Zhao Yun's army.

Zhao Yun, Liu Qing, Li Dian, and Dong Zhi were all famous brave generals in the Wen Chou army, and their troops were also elites in the Wen Chou army. Wen Chou sent them all to set up an ambush, and he was determined to win this battle.

Zhao Yun and others are different in their talents. Wen Chou also took great pains to arrange the tasks given to them. "Don't chase the enemy", and the soldiers who fled to survive are likely to burst out with strong combat power, so the brave Liu Qing was placed in the interception position; among the generals, Li Dian was scheming, Dong Zhi was steady and careful, and it was most appropriate to use the two of them as the main attack; Zhao Yun was the main general, and it was suitable to intercept him in front.

All the generals led their troops to their respective positions, and waited for the left to fall into the trap.

The Zuosu tribe's march was not fast, and it was not until the afternoon of the next day that it arrived at the riverside north of Mafu Mountain. The river surface was not too wide, but it was several meters long, so it was difficult to cross. Fortunately, there were boats on the shore, so Zuosu tribe collected twelve or three ships. It took less than half an hour to cross the river.

The river is about five miles away from Mafu Mountain, Liu Qing is closest to the river, about five or six miles away, and Li Dian and Dong Zhi are far away. It is about ten miles away. Because it is far away from the river, it is impossible to see Zuo Xu crossing the river. After receiving an urgent report from Liu Qing that Zuo Xu was already crossing the river, Li Dian simply climbed up to a high place quietly, looked at it from a distance, and saw that the long river was like a belt, and the boat was walking on the river like an ants. It was not real.

After waiting for a long time, Zuo Xu's troops finally left the river bank, organized the team, and continued to move southeast along the official road.

As the distance narrowed, as the distance narrowed, we could only see some black spots, and we could slowly see the team clearly. Li Dian put on a pergola in his hand, squinted his eyes and said, "Huh? It seems that something is wrong."

Several generals who followed him to a height, asked one of them, "Why is it wrong?"

"Mr. Xun said that there are only more than 3,500 thieves. Look, their marching team is so long, and the dust is flying. No matter how you look, it doesn't seem to have only more than 3,500 people."

The generals looked at it carefully and nodded. They fought with Wen Chou for half a year, and saw small scenes and big scenes. Everyone knew what it would be like when more than a thousand people marched. One person said, "Look at this corps, dust, it doesn't look like more than 3,500 people, so there are tens of thousands of people."

"Didn't the horse exploration say that there are only more than 3,500 people in the Zuosu tribe? Where did tens of thousands of people come from?"

One person speculated and said, "The chief of the Xi Jinping sent someone to reconnaissance the mountains. He received a report: There are many remaining Black Mountains hidden in the valleys of Qing and Heishan, and there are large groups of bandits. Maybe Zuo Xu united some of them?"

Li Dian frowned and said, "If this is the case, it will be difficult."

"How do you say this?"

"Our army set up an ambush only has 5,200 people, and if there are more than 3,500 thieves, you can attack them; if there are tens of thousands of thieves?"

As soon as he said this, the few generals suddenly realized, and one of them said, "If there are tens of thousands of thieves, it is far more than me, twice that of my troops, and it is really a bit difficult." Asked Li Dian. "If you don't send someone to tell Zhao Jun and Xun Jun, what should you do?"

Li Dian hesitated for a while and was about to speak, when he heard a person retorting: "'The disaster of the three armies arose from suspicion', you should be brave enough to attack the enemy in the face of battle! The deployment of ambushing the thief was decided last night. Now the thief is close to you, how can you ask Zhao and the other two kings again? The thief is only three or four miles away from me, Zhao and Xun are three or six miles away from me, and when you get Xu, the thief has passed by early!"

Li Xuan's words were reasonable, Li Dian knew that he was in the wrong, and he was also famous in the army, but now he was criticized by Li Xuan. He was quite embarrassed and displeased in his heart. He said reluctantly: "It was because the lieutenant told Zhao Jun that he must win this battle, so I hesitated a little."

"'Any place for war, where corpses are established, you will die, and if you are lucky, you will die. A good general is like sitting in a boat and burning down a house, so that the wise are not as good as planning, and the brave are not as angry as being attacked.'Jiang Jun, the thief is coming, please give orders!" Li Xuan learned military tactics when he was young. After three years of study, he did not achieve great success. Perhaps he could not be called "knowing the army", but it is not difficult to quote a few words from military books.

Li Dian was in his hometown and heard Li Gan tell them the art of war. He knew that these few sentences include the previous sentence "The disaster of the three armies originated from suspicion" from Wu Qi's military books. He thought to himself: "Although Li Xuan is rude, he said well. If he doesn't attack today, he will go back and see his lord without face. Forget it, the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road!" He quickly adjusted his mind, made up his mind, drew his sword in his hand, and ordered, "All the songs are ready for battle! When the thief arrives, Li Xuan leads his troops to attack first, and you will follow us to fight. I will supervise the battle behind. If anyone dares to retreat, kill him!"

Although there were still people among the generals who were dissatisfied with Li Xuan, after Li Dian's military orders were issued, he had no time to argue with Li Xuan anymore. Everyone agreed. Li Xuan took the task of attacking first, bowed, turned around and made great strides to prepare first.

A single sentence boosted everyone's fighting spirit. Wen Chou thought that Li Dian had scheming, but it was true.

The left Xu tribe went to Li Dian and Dong Zhi ambushed.

In front of Dong Zhi's army, Li Dian took the lead and fired the war drum and sent an order to attack. Li Xuan took the lead and led the crowd out of Qiugang. Immediately afterwards, the sound of drums also came from the forest opposite, but unlike Li Dian who was supervising the formation behind, Dong Zhi led the soldiers and personally led his troops out of the forest.

From last night to now, Zuosu tribe has only rested for two hours in the morning, crossing the river, and walking fifty or sixty miles, and has been exhausted. Li Dian and Dong Zhite have been replenishing their energy for a long time, and have used their leisure to attack and are not prepared for the attack. They have only one charge to shock the Zuosu tribe.

Li Dian was plundering the main unit at the back. He could see clearly, but he saw that there were tens of thousands of people in Zuoxu's tribe? Five thousand people were up to the sky. Among these five thousand people, at least half were old, weak, women and children. These were the people in the village who had been plundered along the way after Zuoxu left the valley. As for why the 5,000 people could make the momentum of tens of thousands? Zuoxu used the strategy of the adviser and bluffed and deceived Li Dian. (To be continued.)

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