Since the army is in southern Xinjiang, it took a lot of time for Liao Hua to come back and forth, and it took even longer to come back by water! Even Liao Hua didn't stop and didn't rest much, and it took nearly seven days.

In the past seven days, Liaodong soldiers have also built nearly 10,000 rafts! Lined up on the riverbank, it is really spectacular!

"King, the Han army has built so many rafts, does it mean that they want to use these rafts to cross the river?" One of Chen Jian's soldiers said.

"Maybe!" Chen Jian frowned slightly, he was thinking, what was the Liaodong Army doing? Why are so many rafts made! Do you really want to use these rafts to cross the river with an army of 100,000 at once?

"Continue to stare at these Han troops, I want to see what they are going to do?!" Chen Jian ordered.

"Yes!" The soldiers said in unison.

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"Mr. Zijing, can we cross the river now?" In the big tent of the Chinese army, all the generals gathered together to discuss, and Zhao Yun took the lead in speaking.

"Wait first, let the downstream Liao Hua listen to the order at any time!" Lu Su said, "Our side can pretend to cross the river tomorrow and see how Chen Jian reacts!" ”

"Good!" Zhao Yun nodded, "Then I'll give Liao Hua an order now!" ”

"Wait a minute, we still need to plan how tomorrow's operation will go!" Lu Su said.

"Please also ask Mr. Zijing to command!" Zhao Yun naturally knew that Lu Su should be confident now, so he still didn't interrupt Lu Su's train of thought.

"Well, we'll do that tomorrow...... ...... like this," Lu Su slowly said the plan in his heart.

"Wonderful! Wonderful! After listening to Lu Su's strategy, the generals couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

"Now there's only one question left!" Lu Su suddenly frowned and said in a deep voice.

"What's the problem?" Zhao Yun was slightly stunned, after listening to Lu Su's strategy just now, he felt that there was no problem.

"The biggest problem now is not Chen Jian's tribe, but in the northeast of this Qiqi! It is the place where the Wuxi barbarians live, and after they can conquer Chen Jian's tribe, the tribe of the Wuxi barbarians is still a problem! Lu Su said.

"That's right!" Zhao Yun nodded and said, "But as the eldest brother said, the soldiers will block, and the water will cover the earth!" Let's take down this Chen Jian's tribe first! ”

"Well, there's no other way than to do it right now!" Lu Su nodded.

"Okay, let's all go back and rest, tomorrow after breakfast, we will do what Mr. Zijing said just now, everyone should not forget! Do you understand? Zhao Yun asked.

"Understood!" The generals replied in unison.

In the early morning of the next day, the Liaodong Army, which had just finished breakfast, moved! For many days, I didn't see any movement of the Liaodong Army, but today, the Liaodong Army actually put on a posture and wanted to cross the river!

In the summer of 638 BC (the 14th year of King Xiang of Zhou), Duke Xiang of Song led an army to attack the state of Zheng, which was subject to Chu, and King Cheng of Chu sent troops to attack Song to save Zheng. Song Xianggong returned to his division on the first day of November and fought with the Chu army at Hongshui (now north of Zhecheng, Henan). The original text in the history books is recorded as follows: In the Spring and Autumn Period, Song Xianggong and the Chu people fought in Hong, and the Song people were in columns, but the Chu people were not both rich. Sima Ziyu said: "He is outnumbered, and he has not helped, please hit him urgently." "Gong Fu Xu. That is, if the money is not listed, the fish will be re-invited. The public has not been reinstated. and fought in columns, and the Song division was defeated.

At that time, the Song army had already set up a position on the north bank of Hongshui, and was in a favorable situation of attacking the Chu army halfway. However, Song Xianggong adhered to the gentleman's principle of "no drum and no war" and did not attack. This war was not a key example in Chinese history, but it left two famous sayings for the ages, one is "half-crossing and attacking", and the other is the "benevolence" of Song Xianggong. More than 2,000 years later, *** even wrote an article to discuss that there can be no "benevolence of Xianggong" in war.

The later "Art of War" summed up this example as "do not welcome it in the water, let it be attacked halfway" (Ji Tongdu). This is the classic source of the "half-crossing attack".

"Half-crossing and attacking" means that when the opposing attacking army crosses the river halfway through, it will counterattack with all its strength and annihilate the enemy in a dilemma. If you take the initiative to attack when the opponent has not yet attacked and is still building momentum on the opposite bank, first consume your own strength, and then enter the opponent's position, it is impossible to win with half the effort; If the opponent has crossed the river and entered our position, there is no way for them to retreat, and the momentum is flourishing, and then the passive defense is basically evenly matched, even if they win, they will have to get twice the result with half the effort and pay a greater price. Therefore, it is necessary to attack halfway and receive twice the result with half the effort.

As far as the defending side is concerned, and considering from the standpoint of the attacking side, we must try our best to adopt various means to quickly get out of the "half-crossing" state and make preparations for the battle in advance. Otherwise, if you take it lightly in the most difficult times, you will be defeated halfway.

"Humph! Do you really dare to cross the river? Chen Jian saw that the Liaodong Army had put on a posture, and he was quite disdainful in his heart, was he really going to cross the river like this? Don't you know the allusion of the half-crossing attack?

However, although I despise it in my heart, I actually have to fight! He gathered his most elite soldiers together and quietly ambushed the other side of the Liaodong Army's crossing of the river! I want to wait until the Liaodong Army has a stable foothold and give the Liaodong Army a head-on blow.

However, how could Lu Su be such a person who made mistakes in the name of meat? What was the vanguard sent by Lu Su? It's the 5,000 trapping camp under Gao Shunji! Trapped in the camp, it can be said that it is the best soldier in the whole Han Dynasty's first defense! Even if it is a guard battalion, it is not easy to defeat the trapped camp.

Therefore, as a barrier to block the enemy's attack, it is important to trap the camp!

With Zhao Yun's order, the soldiers of the trapped camp began to cross the river.

"Huh? Why is it just such a small person? Chen Jian saw that there were only 5,000 people who crossed the river for the first time, and he couldn't help but be very confused, could it be that these soldiers were abandoned pawns of the Liaodong Army, and the Liaodong Army wanted to use these soldiers to test whether they had an ambush or not, and would they attack halfway? It must be like this!

After thinking about everything, Chen Jian nodded, and then ordered: "Hold your troops still, and wait until the next group of Liaodong soldiers cross the river, and we will eat these two groups of soldiers together!" ”

However, the next batch of Liaodong Army is still only 5,000 people, for a while, Chen Jian fell into an embarrassing choice, logically speaking, these 10,000 people should be eaten, but once these 5,000 people are eaten, it is very likely that the Liaodong Army will not cross the river, so he hesitated whether to do his best to ambush now, and then leave the 10,000 people who had just crossed the river here!

The trapped camp that crossed the river before, under the leadership of Gao Shun, has already begun to set up a formation, ready to respond to the enemy, and what they put is the signature defensive formation of the trapped camp, which is the defensive formation that made the guard battalion unable to attack when they fought with the guard battalion before!

(End of chapter)