The Three Kingdoms Fight for the Deer

Chapter 278 Pang Tong's Judgment
"It is estimated that the Lord sent us back to Xiangyang because he felt that Xinye could not be defended. After all, the city of Xiangyang is more difficult to attack." Wang Wei guessed.

"Now I finally understand why Huang Zhong didn't attack the city. I'm afraid he was waiting for Li Yuan to break through Jiangxia and go straight to Xiangyang. In this way, we have to return to Xiangyang to help defend. That's why he didn't spend his energy to attack Xinye, just to wait for us to leave. Then take Xinye." The more Wenpin thought about it, the more terrifying he felt, if Li Yuanlian could predict this step, it would be too powerful, and even their every move was personally arranged by Li Yuan for them.

The most powerful generals can mobilize not only their own troops, but also those of the enemy. Wen Pin feels that Li Yuan has already been able to do this.

"General Wen, do we want to return to Xiangyang?" Wang Wei asked. As the saying goes, the general will not accept the orders of the emperor. As the general, Wen Pin has the right to judge for himself. If he thinks it is more beneficial for them to guard Xinye, he can choose not to bring troops Return to Xiangyang.

After some deliberation, Wenpin finally made up his mind and said: "Let's go back. There are not many troops in Xiangyang now, and the lord is not absolutely safe in Xiangyang. In addition, I heard that Li Yuan has thunder chariots to attack the city." Sharp weapon, we'd better go back and help guard Xiangyang."

"Okay, then we will retreat tonight." Wang Wei and Zhang Yun obeyed Wenpin.

"When retreating tonight, put a scarecrow on the top of the city as a cover, so that the enemy will think that our army is still in the city, so as not to be chased by them." Even Wenpin is very cautious when retreating, after all, if Huang Zhong finds out that their retreat is difficult Will not chase from behind.

After Wenpin arranged everything, the army prepared to retreat in the middle of the night.

At midnight, many soldiers in Huang Zhong's camp had already begun to rest, but Huang Zhong had always acted cautiously. Even when he was resting at night, he would arrange soldiers to patrol to avoid being attacked by the enemy at night.

At this time, Huang Zhong hadn't fallen asleep. He was thinking about what to do next in the camp. These days, he mainly used feint attacks. He was waiting for Li Yuan to break through Jiang Xia and advance to Xiangyang. Recalling Xiangyang, this is what Li Yuan arranged at the beginning.

Huang Zhong was also very patient, and did not rush to attack Xinye because Wenpin did not evacuate. According to the information he obtained, he knew that there were a lot of troops stationed in Xinye, and the guard was Wenpin, who was quite famous in Jingzhou, so Huang Zhong did not Acting rashly, under Pang Tong's suggestion, he deliberately set up an unorganized camp, hoping to trick Wenpin out of the city, so that he might be able to break through Xinye in one fell swoop.

However, Wenpin did not go out to attack the city these days, and he did not even have the idea of ​​sending troops. This gave Huang Zhong a deeper understanding of Wenpin, that is, to be cautious in doing things. He felt that Wenpin might not be absolutely sure. It is not easy to go out of the city to fight against him.

Huang Zhong was thinking about it when suddenly a man walked in from the tent door. This man was short in stature, with thick eyebrows and raised nose, black face and short beard, and a weird face. This made people feel unhappy. The other person is Pang Tong.

Pang Tong was sent by Li Yuan to advise Huang Zhong. Although Huang Zhong did not know Pang Tong well, he did not underestimate Pang Tong because of his appearance. In Li Yuan's letter to him, he said that Pang Tong was very resourceful and made him do everything. Discuss with Pang Tong, don't be self-willed.

Huang Zhong knew that Li Yuan had always had a good eye, so he would discuss many things with Pang Tong. After contacting him, he felt that Pang Tong was indeed resourceful. It was Pang Tong's trick to deliberately set up a scattered camp. In fact, an ambush had been set up in the camp. Once Ping came in, he would never be able to escape. Although Wenpin did not attack the camp, Huang Zhong still thought that Pang Tong's plan was very good, but he didn't trick Wenpin out.

"Is Shi Yuan still up so late?" Huang Zhong stood up and said.

"General Huang didn't sleep either." Pang Tong walked into the tent, with a smile on his face, looking a bit wretched...

"I don't know what's going on with the lord. If Wenpin doesn't fight, we can only spend time with him here. I hope the lord will go well."

"General Huang can rest assured that with the strength of the lord, Jiang Xia can definitely be defeated. With the help of military advisers, Yuan Zhi and Chen Gong, and generals such as General Zhao, General Taishi and General Hua Xiong, it is no problem to capture the little Jiang Xia. Next." Pang Tongtong wasn't worried about Li Yuan at all.

"By the way, Shiyuan, what do you mean by coming to me?"

"General Huang, we are ready to attack Xinye."

"Attack Xinye? Why is it possible to attack Xinye now?" Huang Zhong was puzzled.

"Because Wenpin has already retreated, when I went to check the city just now, I found that the soldiers on the city were not normal. I guess it was a scarecrow deliberately made by Wenpin to cover up the retreat. There should be no soldiers guarding Xinye now. We can take it easily."

Pang Tong has a habit. In order to observe the movement of the enemy, he would go to check the situation on Xinye City every night before going to bed. When he checked tonight, he found something abnormal, so he expected that Wenpin had given up defending Xinye.

"But how do you know that Wenpin has taken people away from such a long distance?" Huang Zhong didn't understand how Pang Tong could tell.

Pang Tong showed a mysterious smile on his face, and said with a smile: "It's actually very simple. I used to go to see the situation in the city every night. When I went tonight, I found that the number of torches in the city was much less than before, and the fire was dim. , making it difficult to see the situation clearly, although the guarding soldiers can still be seen, but I guess they are just scarecrows used to cover up, because the weather is cold at night, it is impossible for the soldiers to stay still, so I guess Wen Pin is no longer in the city."

Pang Tong dared to make a judgment based on just a few clues. It can be said that he was both careful and bold.

Huang Zhong hesitated for a moment, thinking that even if Pang Tong's guess was wrong, their losses would not be great. He could send an army to the top of the city to check first. The lieutenant generals were called in.

The generals all woke up from their dreams, but they didn't show any complaints on their faces. They were not ready to sleep well after following the army.

"Everyone, we are going to attack Xinye tonight." Huang Zhong said concisely and directly pointed out the topic.

"Attack Xinye?" Everyone was stunned. Ever since they went out to attack, they had been feinting. They didn't know why Huang Zhong wanted to attack Xinye at this time.

"General Huang, are we going to sneak attack Xinye at night?" Ji Ling asked first.

(End of this chapter)