Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 207 Articles in the Stove
"General, the Jingzhou army attacked so ferociously today!" Lieutenant General Liu Guichao, who had his arms hanging around his neck in Berkshire, said angrily to Zhang Ren.This wound was shot through his right arm by a hidden arrow from the Jingzhou army when he was commanding the defense of the city.

"It seems that Zhang Fei is desperate and wants a quick battle!" Zhang Ren sneered, and then said to Liu Gui: "General, hold on for two more days. When Jingzhou's army rations are all withdrawn, I can counterattack and cover up the kill." gone."

"Is two days enough?" Liu Gui felt that Zhang Ren was a little too confident, but Zhang Ren laughed and said, "I have been waiting here for a long time, but Zhang Fei has already run out of food and grass. The day before yesterday, General Gao once again robbed Zhang Ren. Fei was furious, so he attacked with all his strength. We only need to hold out for a day or two, and his people will definitely retreat because of the lack of food and grass. Moreover, Zhang Fei has a fiery temper. If he can't attack for a long time, he will drink and whip his soldiers. There must be chaos."

"Although Zhang Fei is an ordinary man, Zhuge Liang is resourceful and resourceful, so don't take it lightly!" Liu Gui suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly reminded him.There is no historical battle of Chibi, but Zhuge Liang has a great reputation in Jingxiang, and Liu Gui has heard of it to some extent.

"This kind of white-faced scholar still has some skills in governing, so fighting a war is nothing to worry about!" Zhang Ren said disapprovingly.This Dudu Zhang is a typical practical school, and he believes that only those who have actually been on the battlefield can fight, and the role of those advisers who can only talk is limited.Such thoughts doomed him to failure.

As Zhang Ren expected, after the Jingzhou army attacked for three days and left more than 7000 corpses, the defenders were pleasantly surprised to find that the annoying Jingzhou army, with their terrible trebuchets, I didn't come to continue to harass myself today.

"Captain, the Jingzhou army retreated overnight!" Liu Gui reported to Zhang Ren in surprise.The latter frowned slightly when he heard the words, and sent a secret agent to inquire about the whereabouts of the Jingzhou army.In the afternoon, the ministries came to report one after another, saying that the Jingzhou army had gone south.

"To the south?" Zhang Ren was also taken aback when he heard the words, and then he understood and smiled: "It seems that Zhang Fei is not willing to go back to Jingzhou like this, he wants to go to Nanzhong to gain a firm foothold with Zhu Di, and then he will take a picture of me in Xichuan! "

"General, since Zhang Fei has retreated, should we pursue him?" Liu Gui and others asked.

"Chasing, of course we have to. Otherwise, if Zhang Fei is allowed to gain a foothold in Nanzhong, then I, Xichuan, will never be at peace!" Zhang Ren said in a deep voice.Immediately, Zhang Ren left Liu Gui to guard the city, and he personally led an army of [-]. Together with Ma Yan and Liu Han, they went south to pursue Zhang Fei.

"General, the Jingzhou army should have camped here last night. Look, there are cooking stoves all over the floor." Ma Yan pointed to the military stove on the ground.This kind of military stove is built with stones. After the base is built, the pot can be placed on it, and then firewood is lit underneath to cook rice and boil water.When the general army evacuated, unless they wanted to hide their tracks, these stoves would be kept as long as they were kept, and few people deliberately cleaned them up.

"Well, send someone to count and see how many military stoves there are." Zhang Ren said calmly.Not long after the army finished counting and reported, there were probably nearly [-] stoves.

"One stove for ten people, then there should be 5 people!" Zhang Ren mused.Marching is different from garrisoning. When marching, especially when marching in a hurry, the army only builds a stove to cook one meal a day, and prepares the other two meals at the same time, and then carries them on the road to eat.Generally speaking, a stove is only enough for ten people to eat around. First, the marching pot is about the same size, which is only enough for ten people to eat. Second, if there are too many people around a pot, it will be crowded. There will be bumps and bumps every now and then.

"General, do you still want to pursue?" Ma Yan saw that the opponent's number was almost the same as his own, and he couldn't help feeling a little bit drummed.Zhang Ren thought for a while, and finally said: "We still need to recover Nanzhong, and we can't retreat easily now, but we need to guard against this is Zhang Fei's trick. In this way, General Ma, you take the lead with 5000 troops to open the way first. The situation will be reported immediately."

"That's good!" Ma Yan also knew that it was safer to do so. He led a group of people to lead the way first, and Zhang Ren led the army to follow after him. It was obvious along the way that the Jingzhou army retreated traces of it.Such as fallen horses, discarded old armor.Although there are not many, it is enough to show that a large army has just walked here.

"General, there is a large group of stoves in the open space ahead!" At this time, a scout came to report, and Ma Yan followed suit, and quickly ordered someone to count the total number of military stoves, which surprised him.

"More than 7000 stoves?" Ma Yan felt that this was a bit strange. If ten people had one stove, it would be enough to feed 8 to [-] people. Why did Zhang Fei increase his troops instead?Ma Yan thought about it, and finally felt a little headache, so he decided to wait for Zhang Ren to come over before making up his mind.

"More than 7000 cooking stoves?" Zhang Ren frowned upon hearing this, and immediately began to personally check the military cooking stoves scattered on the ground.After a while, after looking at dozens of military stoves, Zhang Ren showed an intriguing smile on his face.

"Captain, what's going on, where did Zhang Fei increase his troops?" Ma Yan felt his head hurt, but Zhang Ren laughed and said, "Who said Zhang Fei increased his troops?"

"Huh? Governor, didn't Zhang Fei have more stoves?" Ma Yan asked inexplicably, and the rest of the generals also looked at a loss.But Zhang Ren laughed and said: "This fellow Zhang Fei is not out of his wits. He was afraid that I would pursue him, so he ordered the soldiers to dig more stoves to confuse the real ones. But what he didn't expect was that the fake ones are fake, and the real ones are the same as the real ones." It's different."

"What's different?" Ma Yan asked with curiosity to the end, but Zhang Ren asked: "Ma Yan, how long does it take to cook a pot of rice?"

"About half an hour!" Ma Yan pondered slightly.

"That's right, it takes about half an hour. During this half an hour, we have to burn firewood and cook the rice, and naturally there will be a lot of ashes accumulated in the stove. But I just checked dozens of stoves. Although they are used to build stoves All the stones have traces of being burned by fire, but there are many stoves with only a little ashes in them, probably just lighting a handful of grass and burning them!" Zhang Ren said with a smile.

"The governor means that many of these stoves are fake?" Ma Yan understood after listening for a while.

"That's right, Zhang Fei was afraid that I would see the truth, so he built up more fake stoves. Send an order to check all the stoves carefully to see how many are real stoves and how many are fake stoves." Zhang Ren continued to order, The soldiers quickly counted them carefully, and finally reported that there were more than 3000 fake stoves, and about [-] real stoves.

"If you talk about the real stove, there are not as many as yesterday. Zhang Fei is short of food and grass, and the soldiers are far away from Jingzhou, and they are homesick. It is not surprising that there are deserters. Come, pass my order, and chase at full speed!" Zhang Ren figured it out. After the situation, a full-speed pursuit was ordered.The 2000 Chuan army galloped all the way, and after two days of pursuit, they finally caught up with the Jingzhou army on the edge of Fushui. After a melee, this army of about [-] people suffered heavy casualties, and the rest threw away their helmets and armor before heading back. Running south, Zhang Ren ordered to continue the pursuit.These defeated soldiers ran to the prepared rafts by the river, and all ran across the river in a flash.

"General, there is another stove here!" When he chased to the edge of the Minjiang River, he suddenly found another army stove here.Zhang Ren almost sent someone to come forward, but it turned out that there were only more than 3000 real stoves, and there were more than 5000 fake stoves.

"Hmph, it seems that Zhang Fei is indeed short of food and grass. How long has it been since the army's morale has been broken!" Zhang Ren said with some disdain.Looking at the opposite side of the Fushui, Zhang Ren paused for a while, and then ordered the collection of boats and rafts from nearby counties and counties for the army to cross the river to pursue.

"General, Zhang Fei has already fled to Nanzhong. I'm afraid I'll lose if I wait for the lone army to go deep and pursue him. Why don't we go back to the army for a while and make plans?" General Gao Xiang hurriedly advised Zhang Ren when he saw that Zhang Ren was not going to accept him.

"Otherwise, if we don't take this good opportunity to drive Zhang Fei out of Xichuan in one fell swoop, and wait for him to develop a climate in Zangzi and connect with Jingnan, then I will have trouble sleeping and eating in the future!" Zhang Ren said disapprovingly.It took a whole day to collect a lot of various boats and rafts, and Zhang Ren ordered the army to cross the river in batches.After going back and forth four times, the [-] Sichuan Army finally crossed the river, and it was already this afternoon.After Zhang Ren ordered to advance for [-] li, he set up camp again.

"Kill!" Not long after Zhang Ren left, the originally silent river bank suddenly burst into shouts of killing. Thousands of Jingzhou Army soldiers who had been ambushing for a long time rushed out from the upper reaches of the river. Their goal was to be killed by Zhang Ren. The thousand Sichuan troops who stayed behind to guard the raft.Not long after, the two sides began to engage in hand-to-hand combat. The Sichuan army fought in a hurry and the number of people was small, and they were killed for a while.

"Captain, something is wrong. Our brothers who stayed behind to guard the ship were ambushed!" Zhang Renzheng led his army forward, but he heard the soldiers behind him come to report the news. This shock was really not trivial.If there are no boats and rafts, then I will really become a lone army and be trapped on the south bank of Fushui.

"Kill back!" Without thinking too much, Zhang Ren quickly made a decision.Then when the Sichuan army turned around and killed back, there was a burst of shouts from the south of them.Countless Jingzhou Army suddenly appeared behind the Sichuan Army, stabbing their formation fiercely.The Sichuan army was suddenly attacked, and suddenly panicked.

"Don't be chaotic, line up to meet the enemy!" Zhang Ren desperately commanded the rebellious army. With his efforts, the Sichuan army began to gradually organize effective resistance.What Zhang Ren didn't know was that on a dirt slope not far from him, several people were watching him.

"Although the soldiers are in ambush but not chaotic, Zhang Ren is indeed a famous general in the world!" Seeing Zhang Ren commanding the soldiers to charge back and forth in the field, Zhuge Liang also sighed.Zhang Fei next to him was not so patient. He ordered hundreds of soldiers to protect Zhuge Liang and other civil officials, and went down to meet the No. 1 general in Sichuan by himself.

"Military Master, in the past Sun Bin used the strategy of increasing troops and reducing stoves, but now you are increasing troops and increasing stoves, and you are tempting this guy to be fooled, but you are much better than the ancients!" Yang Yi on the side flattered. .

"Zhang Ren is known as the No.1 general of Xichuan, and he breaks the dawn of war. If you want to make him ambush, you can't do it without some tricks." Zhuge Liang was not humble either, but just waved his fan and watched the fierce battle under the slope.After Zhang Fei personally went into battle, the [-] Jingzhou Army had already fought with the [-] Sichuan Army.Both Zhang Fei and Zhang Ren, the arrow figures on both sides, are invincible, leading their respective subordinates to fight bravely.

But God doesn't want someone to be invincible for too long. After easily eliminating a lieutenant of the Yizhou Army, Zhang Fei suddenly felt a murderous aura coming towards him, and quickly crossed the Zhangba Snake Spear in his hand. .

After the loud noise of "Dang", Zhang Fei and the visitor each took three steps back. "Zhang Ren?" Looking at the general with a brass-colored face in front of him, Zhang Fei immediately guessed his identity.

"Zhang Fei, die!" Zhang Ren roared angrily, and then stabbed out with his spear.

(End of this chapter)