The Art of War: Half a soldier can be attacked!

In ancient times, crossing the water to fight was not as fast and fast as it is now. And Ma Chao crossed the Lizi River to fight against Cao's army when he had few boats and most of the soldiers were not good at water-based northerners, which was really a defeat.

However, under Li Dian's surprised expression, he still saw Ma Chao's subordinates building a boat. On one occasion, a small force of dozens of people even ventured to cross the middle of the Gouzi River by boat, apparently testing the rapid flow of the Gouzi River.

The Guzi River is not wide, only a few zhang, although the river is very deep, but the current is not turbulent. Li Dian already knew about these situations. As for Ma Chao's whimsical posture of crossing the river to fight, Li Dian finally came to a conclusion after watching it for a while: "The soldiers can be attacked in half of the crossing, how can Ma Mengqi use soldiers to be good?" This move is to deceive our Cao army and no one, and want to deceive him! ”

In this regard, Li Dianming not only strengthened the surveillance of Ma Chao's military camp, but also secretly took measures to dispatch detailed investigations, hoping to find out Ma Chao's true intentions.

The emperor lived up to his wishes, and a day later, he made a detailed report according to the local area. Li Dian learned that Ma Chao made the illusion of taking a boat during the day, and it was really to confuse Cao Jun. And secretly, he had already found a path that could bypass the Gourd River!

Li Diangui is still elegant, rigorous in governing the army, and brave and good at fighting. Among the generals of the Cao army, although they are not very shining. But there is one thing, that is, he is good at defending the city, defending like a mountain, and he is impregnable. What is even more valuable is that he is a double general who combines attack and defense, in addition to defending the city, he is especially good at intercepting the village, on this basis, he has a prescient premonition of the enemy's moves.

Therefore, after learning the news, Li Pawn immediately went to see the path himself: the land was gentle and wide, and it was a small calm lake, and the water was only knee-high, and people could completely wade through the water without the help of boats.

After learning about this path, Li Dian had a plan in his heart. In addition to secretly ordering his soldiers to increase the surveillance of Ma Chao's subordinates, he 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 from Cao Cao, which said, 'Ma Chao uses three plans in one step, which are interlocking, and it is impossible to prevent it'. Therefore, Kuanyan 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 the soldiers and horses of Dongjun to first level Ma Chao and then destroy Lu Bu.

If you are an ordinary general, you will definitely not be able to hold back when you get such news. Before the army arrived, he took Ma Chao's head and made a great achievement. But Li Dian was different, after he received Cao Cao's letter, he really did as Cao Cao ordered, and at the same time put all his strength on monitoring the actions of Ma Chao's subordinates.

Because Li Dian suddenly thought that Ma Chao himself was a master of playing with intelligence, and the shadow battalion under his command was even more elusive. It's a bit unbelievable that he can easily get information about his true intentions from him.......

And the later development also made Li Dian feel more and more that he did not act rashly, which was too wise.

On the second day, Ma Chao sent a sergeant to look around to find the appearance of the path. Then he ordered the remaining half of the sergeants to rest in the tent, while the rest of the sergeants stood from afar and watched the city from Lihu, neither attacking nor retreating, but sending people to cross the river from time to time to make a feint, and if the defenders on the tower reacted slightly, they would retreat. After noon, the rest sergeant and the morning sergeant changed shifts, and continued to make a painless feint.

This discovery is not very strange, but in fact, Li Dian also learned that that night, the 3,000 ambush soldiers sent by Ma Chao to the path quietly returned to the walled city: it turned out that Ma Chao deliberately let himself know that he was going to listen to the path, so as to ambush his main force!

This discovery, even if Li Dian was not fooled, also made Li Dian feel a chill in the back. Therefore, he became more determined in the idea of 'waiting for reinforcements'.

On the third day, the sergeants of Ma Chao's army who feinted in front of the Guzi River began to be busy again, either digging trenches, or practicing fists and feet, soothing muscles and bones, and also pushing the war drums in the army to the front of the city, beating drums and shouting every half an hour.

Li Dian shook his head and wondered what Ma Chao was smoking.

On the fourth and fifth days, the defenders on the fox city began to be tired and numb uncontrollably, after all, the two armies had been facing each other for three days, and each other deliberately forbeared, and no one took the initiative to attack. This kind of boredom and boredom will always make people restless and bored.

In response to this, Li Dian once again strictly ordered the military orders in the city, and severely whipped a few lazy and slacking soldiers on duty, so as to stop this lax atmosphere. But in fact, Li Dian's heart also began to secretly relax and rejoice: according to the report of the spies, Lord Sikong had ordered Xiahou Yuan to secretly dispatch Xiahou Yuan 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 plan to reach the sky, but when he only had 3,000 capable fighters and 2,000 vulnerable county soldiers under his command, Li Dian believed that Ma Chao would have no choice but to fly.

But on the sixth day, the Cao army in Lihu City began to be uneasy, because out of nowhere, Ma Chao found a path to bypass Lihu, Ma Chao began to gather the army, and the troops and horses were strong, as if they were going to attack in a big way, and the Cao army in the city began to be nervous, and it was obvious that the defenders in the city increased.

And Li Dian just sneered at this, and said calmly: "Ma Mengqi has been poor!" Then, he instructed his subordinates to just calm down and practice defense according to their usual practice, and there was no need to act rashly.

In the evening, Ma Chao's subordinates began to march quietly, and these were naturally discovered by Cao Jun's secret agents who paid close attention to Ma Chaojun. 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 attack Puyang by surprise!

This conclusion is really a bit incredible. Because for Ma Chao, bypassing Fox City without attacking is equivalent to giving up the safety of the back road and supplies. Moreover, if the lone army goes deep into Dongjun, it is even more likely that he will not be able to take care of the beginning and the end, so he will be annihilated by Cao Jun's dumpling.

However, in Li Dian's opinion, this unbelievable move is not crazy for Ma Chao at all!

Back then, when Ma Chao first came out of the battlefield, he dared to lead the Xiliang Iron Cavalry deep into the hinterland of the Qiang tribe outside the Saiwai, and imitated the great Han Huo to attack the heart of the sick hussar general. And at this time, he just infiltrated the East County where the war is unknown, which is too likely!

Countless battles have already proved the subtlety of Ma Chao's surprise attack and use of troops, even Xiahou Yuan, who is the best at surprise attacks in Cao's army, has also said with a sincere heart: Ma Mengqi's use of troops is not only a surprise attack, but also his battlefield sense and courage to fight, ten times better than me, except for the lord, can not be the enemy!

What's more, Ma Chao revealed the news of the path a few days ago, and deliberately made Li Dian think that he had seen through his trick of ambushing Cao Jun with the help of the path, but in fact, it was his clever tricks that made the path lose its secrecy. And Ma Chao is so scheming, what else can he do besides wanting to surprise Puyang?!

Li Dian, who came to this conclusion, immediately had cold sweat on his forehead, and 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 cut off Ma Chao's back road with his own hands while Ma Chao had not disappeared under his eyes!

Because, Li Dian has no choice. The reason is that he has a bad relationship with Xiahoudun, who guards Puyang!

If Ma Chao bypasses Lihu and he does not attack from behind, then even if Ma Chao's army is wiped out in the future. Li Dian knew that he himself would inevitably be punished, and even more Xiahoudun made it clear from him, so he was even more responsible!

Not to mention, at the same time, it is very likely that Ma Chao will be annihilated in one fell swoop and set up a good opportunity for immortal feats!