Chapter 1681 Scheme
Xu Huang is in Guanghan at this time, dispatching soldiers to Badong to monitor the situation of Liu Qi and others every day.
Liu Qi''s identity is a bit special, Xu Huang also knows this. So it''s not very good to kill them directly. After all, there are still many people in the Huang family who are still in Jingxiang. If this makes Liu Biao crazy, some bad things will inevitably happen. Therefore, on the whole, maintaining the current situation, That''s it.
And don''t let Liu Qi jump the wall in a hurry, and don''t let Liu Qi slip back like this. In this way, there is more or less a way. In the future, Liu Biao will naturally have to know some measures in Jingxiang affairs.
But Xu Huang is willing to stay like this, but Liu Qi and Kuai Qi are not.
After Liu Qi received Kuai Qi''s suggestion, he thought about it a bit, and felt that it was quite ingenious, that there was a plan in it, and that everything was intertwined. Anyway, he could never have figured it out by himself, so he felt that Xu Huang would definitely not be able to guess it either. If you want to guess, you can at most guess the first floor, so you get excited again. The first thing you do is to find the captain who is in charge of the scouts and scouts, and ask Xu Huang about the situation.
However, because Xu Huang has been suppressing both morale and individual abilities of the soldiers for many days, the information on the tricolor flag is not very clear, so Liu Qi did not get a very accurate information. Xu Huang''s soldiers may have three thousand, or five thousand, and the rest of the soldiers are composed of generals and school who are basically smeared...
"Is Zhengxi in Sichuan?" Liu Qi asked.
The captain in charge of the scouts faltered.
In these years, an ordinary letter from home is considered short if it takes three to five months on the road. How about saying that a letter from home is worth ten thousand gold? After being suppressed, Liu Qi''s intelligence circle was only 20 miles away from where he was stationed. How could he know whether Fei Qian was still in Sichuan? Was there any new change?
The captain in charge of the scouts saw that Liu Qi was angry, so he had no choice but to say that although he didn''t know about Zhengxi''s situation, he didn''t see the big banner representing Zhengxi''s identity when he searched around. Chengdu...
Liu Qi and Kuai Qi summed it up again, and felt that Feiqian was most likely in Chengdu, because in Liu Qi and Kuai Qi''s minds, they felt that Sichuan and Sichuan were such an important place, how could they leave Feiqian to sit in town?
Therefore, Liu Qi gritted his teeth and finally sent an envoy to neighboring Guanghan. On the way, Liu Qi''s envoy carrying a white flag was intercepted by Xu Huang''s soldiers and brought to Guanghan immediately.
Flying the white flag, some people say that it was because the former Qin Dynasty was still black, so when the Han Dynasty was in Qin Dynasty, Ziying was required to surrender in the color opposite to that of the Qin Dynasty, so the white flag represented the meaning of surrender, but in fact, even though the Qin Dynasty was not still black, In the Chinese concept, white is still not a good color.
In the early Chinese culture, white was disgusted and disgusted. For example, in the west, the white tiger is the main punishment for killing gods. It is often used to conquer injustice and execute prisoners. Therefore, white is a dry, bloodless and lifeless expression, symbolizing death. , Bad omen, just like wearing hemp and filial piety, white is often used, and even symbolizes incompetence and stupidity, like idiots, busyness, white men, white bodies, even little white faces, white-faced scholars, etc.
So the evolution of white from stupid to pure is actually the influence of modern Westernization.
Xu Huang inquired, and it turned out that the envoy who couldn''t even finish his sentence was originally an ordinary soldier, and he couldn''t understand what he was talking about, so Xu Huang let him back down impatiently, and then opened the bag he brought. letter.
The meaning in the letter is very clear, which is to prepare to surrender.
Liu Qi said in his heart that he was bewitched by Liu Bei in Jingxiang before, so he went west to Sichuan and Shu, but at that time he didn''t know that General Zhengxi had already entered Sichuan, and Liu Bei led his troops to fight without authorization, so he was unable to get off the tiger. There was a dispute with General Zhengxi. I didn''t expect that Liu Bei was not only hypocritical, but also treacherous. He not only annexed Jingxiang''s troops to support him, but also encroached on Sichuan and Shu, and continued to fight against Zhengxi...
Anyway, everything is Liu Bei''s fault. Liu Qi was just deceived and implicated innocently. Liu Qi said that in order to avoid unnecessary casualties and avoid death, he has now repented and decided to surrender. On the face of friendship, Xiang agreed to accept it.
At the same time, he also said that because he had confronted Zhengxi before, he was somewhat worried now, so he did not dare to come in person. He sent a messenger to express his attitude first, not doubting that Zhengxi would kill him...
In addition, Liu Qi requested that he could be in the north of Anhan, let Zhengxi meet with him first, and make a promise not to kill, and then he would surrender willingly.
"hehe…"
Xu Huang chuckled twice, then threw the letter on the table and pondered for a while. It is naturally better for Liu Qi and others to surrender, but in Xu Huang''s mind, there is now more suspicion.
Is this going to set up an ambush?
If you want to surrender, why didn''t you say it earlier? Now that I am not eager to force Liu Qi, where does the pressure come from and I feel that death is imminent and I want to surrender? Suddenly sending someone to say that you are desperate, deceived, and willing to surrender?
Unless Liu Qi bound himself to cast and knelt down in front of the gate.
Xu Huang replied immediately with a pen, pointing out directly: "What you said is not a lie?"
Xu Huang didn''t point out Liu Qi''s mistake in calling Fei Qian, because that''s not the point. The point is that Liu Qi originally joined forces with Liu Bei, so how can it be said that he didn''t know what Liu Bei did? Now that you are ready to surrender, why worry so much? Anyway, just don''t play tricks, if you want to surrender, just come over by yourself, it doesn''t matter if you don''t surrender...
The envoy brought back the letter in a frenzy. Kuai Qi opened it and looked at it, and said with a smile: "As expected, although suspicious, it is not broken..."
If you don''t believe it at all, you don''t need to reply to any letters. So Kuai Qi continued to lie, and replied to the channel again, saying that although there were some soldiers in the city, their morale was in a state of collapse, and then they talked about the food problem, saying that Liu Bei had mistreated them before, and not only took away many elite soldiers but also brought food and grass. They took away a lot, and now the army is quite short of food and grass, and there is a lot of follow-up, etc., half-truths and half-false words are mixed together.
The letter was sent to Guanghan again. Xu Huang couldn''t help but nodded when he saw it, and he believed it a little more in his heart. However, regarding Liu Qi''s proposal to go to the north of Anhan and meet and discuss at some so-called place, he still agreed. No consent.
No matter whether Liu Qi surrendered for real or fake, going to the location determined by the enemy is a very risky thing. Unless he is completely sure, most people will not do such a thing. I feel that Liu Qi is just a clown-like character, even if he doesn''t surrender, it won''t be a big deal. Now Liu Qi says that surrendering is just icing on the cake, so it''s not worth taking any personal risks, so Xu Huang replied again He wrote a letter, promising to accept Liu Qi''s surrender, and said that he would never kill and surrender, and then stamped his general seal and asked Liu Qi''s people to take it back.
When Kuai Qi received the letter, she couldn''t help but let out a long sigh: "This person is really cautious... This strategy will not work..."
Originally, Kuai Qi''s first-level plan was to lure some of Fei Qian''s men and horses into a wave. It was not aimed at Fei Qian, because Kuai Qi also knew that it was impossible for someone as valuable as Fei Qian to come in person. It''s also unrealistic, so it''s very likely that Fei Qian will send a general to come, so it''s natural to ambush...
But on the one hand, the problem is that the information between Liu Qi and Kuai Qi is completely unequal. They don''t know that Fei Qian has left Sichuan and Shu, and they have handed over Liu Qi''s affairs to Xu Huang, which means Xu Huang It can be dealt with directly, without the need to report to Fei Qian, and Xu Huang, as the coach, naturally cannot take such a risk.
At the same time, Liu Qi and Kuai Qi also valued herself too much, but she didn''t expect that the other party didn''t value it at all, and she also acted as if she didn''t care much. There were also some unnamed karmic fires churning up.
Although he had expected it before, Liu Qi was still a little apprehensive when he saw that the first strategy failed. He looked at Kuai Qi and said, "How? Will you still follow the strategy?"
Kuai Qi nodded, and said in a deep voice: "It should be so!"
Immediately afterwards, he wrote another letter to Xu Huang, expressing that he could not trust Xu Huang''s guarantee, and that such insincere remarks were unacceptable. Then he and Liu Qi gathered troops and crossed the canal, and hurried to Yufu.
Now that it is summer, the water level of Yufu has also dropped a lot. Although it is not as low as in the dry season of autumn and winter, it is much better than in the previous rainy season, so after pulling the rope, you can barely start to build the floating bridge. Showed a posture of preparing to build a pontoon bridge and return...
As soon as Liu Qi made a move, Xu Huang naturally couldn''t sit idly by, so he commanded 3,000 soldiers, and first chased An Han. The journey was safe and there was no problem. Naturally, some old soldiers left in An Han did not dare to resist. , Seeing Xu Huang coming, he immediately opened the city gate.
From these remnant soldiers, Xu Huang knew that Liu Qi was heading east, as if he was going to cross the river from Yufu, so he immediately sent Nanchong soldiers down the river to harass Yufu.
Wei Yan had done one in Yufu before, and brought back a batch of boats, which of course burned more, so on the whole, it is not so easy for Liu Qi to get a ferry or build a pontoon bridge, nor is it three or two days. It can be passed within.
But the problem is that in Sichuan and Sichuan, there is no relatively good navy, and those who drive the landlubbers to the shelves are barely usable, so this fleet in Nanchong can only be an intrusion at best, and cannot be used as an enemy. The decisive force, if you want to prevent Liu Qi from escaping, you still have to rely on the strength of soldiers on land.
Because of the time when Liu Qi''s letter was delivered, Xu Huang was three or four days later than Liu Qi. Can Liu Qi pass the pontoon in Yuyu smoothly in these three or four days?
Xu Huang thought it was unlikely, but just to be on the safe side, after arriving in Anhan, he made some arrangements and came back. It was not Xu Huang''s carelessness, but it was just because of the time gap on the battlefield. In addition, Fei Qian''s intention was not to defeat Liu Qi quickly, but to keep Liu Qi in Padang, so the long-term siege of the city would not be worth the candle.
If troops are sent to surround Anhan, it will naturally make it difficult for Liu Qi to fly, but the question is only how to surround the city with two or three thousand people? If the city is forcibly besieged, wouldn''t there be holes everywhere?
And if 20,000, 30,000, or even more soldiers are mobilized to besiege the city, it means that a large amount of military food is consumed, and whether it is Guanghan or Nanchong, it has already been consumed in a series of battles. , and cannot support such a long-term foreign battle. Because there is no combat mission when stationed in a town, the rations are generally reduced to half according to the usual practice. Even if the number of soldiers is the same, the amount of food and grass consumed by stationing and fighting outside is not the same, so Xu Huang has been just monitoring and controlling. The siege strategy cannot be adopted.
This time Liu Qi took the initiative to withdraw from Anhan, in fact, Xu Huang didn''t think it was a bad thing. After all, the Anhan city wall was relatively well-defended, and Yufu was a ferry town. In terms of attack difficulty, Naturally, it is easier to return to fish. It''s just that it''s hard to judge now whether Liu Qi''s withdrawal this time was because he was dissatisfied with the previous surrender conditions, or he was using some other strategy...
But no matter what, Xu Huang still wants to go to Yufu.
War is like this, just like the military chess of later generations, you generally know where the opponent''s key points are, but the opponent''s formation must be tested under the counter, and then after thinking and strategy, mobilize and defeat the opponent. The original line of defense.
Kuai Qi is quite proud now, and said to Liu Qi: "It is often said that fish return to water, but I often forget that fish return to mountains!"
Yufu has a special terrain because of the mountains, and more people pay attention to the ferry of Yufu, but they often ignore that there are actually complicated mountains in Yufu. This time, Kuai Qi''s strategy is based on this, and the ambush is naturally to surprise, who would have thought that this time Yufu is not for the water, but for the mountain of Yufu?
On the whole, Kuai Qi''s whole plan has been relatively successful so far. First, he used surrender to ease the rhythm between them, and then diverted here after a failed lure, and then set up an ambush again. From any aspect, there must be pursuers coming.
Once the chasing troops come here, Liu Qi and Kuai Qi can naturally ambush while waiting for work.
Even if she can see through the first-level strategy, she still has the second-level plan behind her. Kuai Qi can''t help being proud of her own strategy, but when Kuai Qi is proud, she actually forgets some things...
(end of this chapter)