Three Kingdoms New Malaysia Super League

Chapter 829
The Art of War says: Soldiers can be attacked halfway through!

In ancient times, crossing water to fight wars was not as fast as it is now.However, Ma Chao crossed the Huzi River to fight Cao's army when he took few boats and most of his soldiers were from northerners who were not good at water. It was really a defeat.

However, under Li Dian's surprised expression, he still saw Ma Chao's subordinates building a boat.Another time, a small army of dozens of people even took the risk of crossing the Huzi River in the middle of the Huzi River, apparently to test the water flow of the Huzi River.

The Huzi River is not wide, only a few feet. Although the river is deep, the current is not rushing.Li Dian already knew about these situations.As for Ma Chao's whimsical posture of crossing the river, after watching it for a while, Li Dian finally came to a conclusion: "Soldiers can be attacked halfway across the river. How can Ma Meng not know? This move is to deceive me. Cao's army has no one. Do deceit!"

In this regard, Li Dianming not only strengthened the surveillance of Ma Chao's barracks, but also secretly dispatched spy agents to investigate, hoping to find out Ma Chao's real intentions.

The emperor paid off, and after a day, he will make a detailed report according to the local area.Li Dian learned that Ma Chao's fake boat ride during the day was really to confuse Cao Jun.But secretly, he had already discovered a path that could bypass the Huzi River!
Li Diangui is elegant, rigorous in running the army, brave and good at fighting.Among Cao Jun's generals who are like a cloud of generals, although they are not very shining.But one thing is that he is good at defending the city, the defense is as strong as a mountain, and it is as solid as gold.What is even more rare is that he is a general who combines both offense and defense. Apart from defending the city, he is especially good at intercepting strongholds. On this basis, he has a foresight foreboding about the enemy's actions.

Therefore, after hearing the news, Li Dian immediately went to see the small road in person: the land is wide and wide, it is a small calm lake, the water is only up to knees, and people can walk in the water without the help of boats. And pass.

After learning about this small path, Li Dian began to think about it.He secretly ordered his soldiers to increase the surveillance of Ma Chao's subordinates, and secretly arranged a mobile team to stand by here, hoping to eliminate Ma Chao in one fell swoop.

However, at this time, Li Dian received a letter written by Cao Cao, which said that "Ma Chao used one step and three strategies, interlocking each other, making it hard to guard against."Therefore, Kuan Yan encouraged Li Dian to be cautious.Moreover, at the end of the letter, Cao Cao also mentioned that he had transferred troops to Dongjun, and wanted to unite with Dongjun soldiers and horses to first defeat Ma Chao and then destroy Lu Bu's plan.

If it was an ordinary general, he would definitely be unable to hold back after receiving such news.Before the army arrived, he wanted to take Ma Chao's head and make a great contribution.But Li Dian was not the case. After he received Cao Cao's letter, he did as Cao Cao ordered him to stand still. At the same time, he put all his strength on monitoring the actions of Ma Chao's subordinates.

Because it suddenly occurred to Li Dian that Ma Chao himself was a master at manipulating intelligence, and his subordinate Shadow Battalion was even more elusive.It's really unbelievable that I can easily get information about his true intentions from him...

And the later development made Li Dian feel that he was too wise for not acting rashly.

On the second day, Ma Chao sent soldiers to scout around, looking for the appearance of the path.Then he ordered the remaining half of the soldiers to rest in the camp, and the rest of the soldiers stood and looked at Lihu City from a distance, neither attacking nor retreating, but sending people across the river to feign attacks from time to time. Respond, just back down.After noon, the sergeant who was resting changed his shift with the sergeant in the morning, and continued to feint and fight without pain.

This discovery is not very strange, but in fact, Li Dian also learned that the three thousand ambush soldiers sent by Ma Chao to the small road quietly returned to the city that night: it turned out that Ma Chao deliberately let himself know that he was going to spy on the small road. , So I want to use my plan to ambush my troops to defeat my main force!
Even though Li Dian was not fooled by this discovery, Li Dian suddenly felt a chill down his spine.Therefore, he became more certain of the idea of ​​'waiting for reinforcements'.

On the third day, the sergeants of Ma Chaojun's feigned attack in front of the Huzi River began to get busy again, not digging trenches, but also practicing fists and feet, loosening their muscles and bones, and pushing the army's war drums to the front of the city, every half an hour. Beat the drum and shout.

With this discovery, Li Dian shook his head in wonder, wondering why Ma Chao was going crazy again.

On the fourth and fifth days, the defenders on Lihu City became uncontrollably exhausted and numb. After all, the two armies had confronted each other for three days, and neither of them took the initiative to attack.This kind of boredom and depression will always make people restless and bored.

For this, Li Dian once again strictly ordered the military orders in the city, and severely whipped a few lazy and slack soldiers on duty, thus stopping the slack atmosphere.But in fact, Li Dian began to secretly relax and rejoice: According to the report from the spies, Master Sikong had ordered Xia Houyuan to secretly dispatch Xia Houyuan to lead two thousand leopard cavalry and three thousand Cao family cavalry to march to Lihu.At that time, after the two armies converged, even though Ma Chao had a brilliant plan, but with only [-] capable soldiers and [-] vulnerable county soldiers under his command, Li Dian believed that Ma Chao was absolutely helpless and unable to fly.

But on the sixth day, Cao Jun in Lihu City began to feel uneasy, because news came out from nowhere that Ma Chao had found a small road to bypass Lihu. , the Cao army in the city became nervous, and it was obvious that the defenders on the city increased.

But Li Dian just sneered at this, and said calmly: "Ma Mengqi is exhausted!" Afterwards, he ordered his subordinates to just practice defense quietly and as usual, and there is no need to act rashly.

At night, Ma Chao's subordinates began to march quietly, and these were naturally discovered by Cao Jun's spies who were paying close attention to Ma Chao's army.However, the completely different news they sent back at this time surprised Li Dian: Ma Chao had no intention of attacking Lihu City at all, but wanted to bypass Lihu City and surprise Puyang!
This conclusion is really unbelievable.Because for Ma Chao, bypassing Lihu City and not attacking is tantamount to giving up the safety of the rear and supplies.Moreover, if the lone army goes deep into Dongjun, it is even more likely that they will be wiped out by Cao Jun because they can't take care of the head and tail.

However, in Li Dian's view, this unimaginable move was not crazy at all to Ma Chao!
Back then, when Ma Chao first entered the battlefield, he dared to lead the Xiliang iron cavalry deep into the hinterland of the Qiang people outside the Great Wall, imitating the great Han Huo Qubing Hussar General's heart attack strategy.But at this time, he just sneaked into Dongjun where the war is unknown, it is too possible!

Numerous battles have already proved Ma Chao's subtlety in surprise attacks. Even Xia Houyuan, who is the best at surprise attacks among Cao's troops, once said in a heartfelt and sincere manner: Ma Meng's use of troops is not just a surprise attack. Invincible!
What's more, Ma Chao revealed the news of the small road a few days ago, and deliberately made Li Dian think that he had seen through his trick of using the small road to ambush Cao Jun, but in fact, he was the one who made the small road disappear. Because of its secrecy, he then so openly excused it, what is it if it is not a trick to hide the truth?And Ma Chao was so painstaking, what else could he do besides attacking Puyang by surprise? !

Li Dian, who came to this conclusion, immediately dripped with cold sweat on his forehead. He quickly ordered the scouts to rush to Puyang to report the news, and at the same time he ordered the entire army to set off—he wanted to take advantage of Ma Chao before he disappeared before his eyes. , to cut off Ma Chao's retreat with his own hands!
Because Li Dian had no choice.The reason is that he has a bad relationship with Xiahou Dun who guards Puyang!
If Ma Chao goes around Lihu and he doesn't attack from behind, even Ma Chao's entire army will be wiped out in the future.Li Dian knew that he himself would inevitably be punished, and Xia Houdun made it clear that he was even more duty bound!

Not to mention, at the same time, it is very possible to annihilate Ma Chao in one fell swoop and make a great achievement!
(End of this chapter)