Autumn rainy nights, cool and refreshing.

Han army camp.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, the banquet of the army, which was three days late, had lasted for an hour, and the officers and men of the whole army had opened their bellies to eat a large piece of meat and drink wine in a large bowl, which was really very comfortable.

The soldiers stationed in the camp at night were the 10,000 soldiers of the county government who had just arrived at the front line yesterday, and the soldiers in charge of guarding the Chinese army were the 5,000 iron cavalry brought by Li Li's army this time.

It is the front-line soldiers from Zhou Yu down, and all the soldiers of the army will rest tonight, hold a feast and drink heartily, and rest when they are drunk.

When the generals in the tent were drinking, coach Li Li quietly left the table, and then Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Fa Zheng, Dian Wei, Zhang Liao and others also got up lightly and moved to the back account.

In the back tent, Dian Wuflaw and Ma Yunluo had already changed back into women's clothes, cooked fragrant tea in advance, and poured a cup of fragrant hot tea for everyone sitting there, and then the two daughters retreated to the curtain and whispered.

"The last general is terrified, how dare the two duchess serve tea?" Zhou Yu sat next to Li Li and said in a respectful voice.

Li Li shook his head slightly and said with a smile: "Treat the whole army outside the tent, and at this moment, you will reward Gongjin and the generals." However, the war is not over yet, so your exploits will be recorded in the merit book for the time being, and will be rewarded after the reconquest of the lost territory. As for the fact that Flawless and Yunluo personally served tea, this is my punishment for them, and I asked them to apologize to Gong Jin in person. ”

"Uh, where do you start?" Zhou Yu was stunned when he heard this, and asked puzzled.

Li Li said frankly with a smile on his face: "Gongjin doesn't know anything. Prior to this, many generals in the army did not know what was going on, and they jointly petitioned me to change the generals and personally lead the troops into battle. Among them, there are two of them, worried that Gong Jin is still young and not enough to lead the whole army. That's why I can't sleep at night. Now Gong Jin is victorious, destroying the main force of the barbarian army in one fell swoop, and becoming famous in a battle. For this, the two of them felt deeply guilty, and made tea with their hands to apologize to Gongjin and everyone. I wonder if Gongjin can forgive me? ”

"Oh, I see." Zhou Yu suddenly responded, got up and waved his hand to the two daughters of Dian Wufang and Ma Yunluo behind the curtain, and said respectfully: "Thank you two ladies for giving me tea, Zhou Yu is ashamed." ”

"The general doesn't have to be polite, please get up." Dian Wuflaw and Ma Yunluo's two daughters opened the curtain and bowed to each other. Then Dian Wuflaw said with a smile: "It was true that the concubine sisters didn't know the talent of Gongjin before. Hence the concerns. Now it has been proved that Gong Jin is competent enough to be the main general, lead an army, and relieve her husband's worries. Where the previous faux pas were, please also ask General Yaliang Haihan. ”

Madame was serious. The end will be fearful. This matter is also reasonable, and the two ladies do not need to worry about it. Zhou Yu said respectfully.

Dian Wufang nodded slightly. Said softly: "Gong Jin Yaliang." Please take a seat and serve tea. Bowing again, Dian Wuflawless and Ma Yunluo's two daughters stepped back behind the scenes and stopped talking.

This little episode was not deliberately arranged by Li Li, but the two sisters Dian Wuflaw and Ma Yunluo insisted on doing so. The two daughters are both straightforward people, and they are very good-natured, and they know that they are wrong to blame Zhou Yu. I apologized in person. Otherwise, this matter will not be hidden, and it will definitely be known by Zhou Yu in the future, and it will be too late to explain by then. Therefore, it is undoubtedly wise for them to take the initiative to apologize. Words are not clear, but openness and honesty are more relieving. However, since ancient times, there is a difference between the main ministers and ministers, they do not need to apologize solemnly, and it is rare to cook a pot of fragrant tea to apologize by hand, which is enough to express their apologies. If they formally apologized, then Zhou Yu really couldn't afford it, and he would really be scared.

After sitting down, Zhou Yu said to Li Li respectfully: "The last general is indeed too shallow in qualifications and limited experience. Therefore, the last general will not dare to be greedy for merit, and please ask the Lord to learn clearly! ”

"Hehehe!" Li Li smiled happily, waved his hand and said: "All the soldiers in this battle have meritorious service, and the fallen soldiers have made great contributions, and they will be properly compensated by the county officials after the war." Therefore, Gongjin does not have to be too humble, and meritorious deeds will be rewarded, and this matter will be recorded in detail by Zijing, and meritorious deeds will be rewarded after the war. ”

"The lord is wise, and the last general will go out on behalf of the soldiers to thank the lord!" Zhou Yu and the people in the tent bowed down and bowed.

Li Li smiled and raised his hand, motioned for everyone to get up, and then raised a cup to invite everyone to drink.

After the greetings, Li Li said with a smile: "This battle of the Green Wolf Valley is an unprecedented victory for our army, which is gratifying. But I'm a little curious, how did the army succeed in one battle after defeat? ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone present, except for Lu Su and Fa Zheng, who laughed heartily, everyone else listened attentively, expecting Zhou Yu to explain the reason. In fact, the reason why Li Li asked this question was to say the doubts in the hearts of the outstanding generals, otherwise they would not know how to win after the victory.

Zhou Yu said with a smile on his face: "As we all know, the grassland barbarians live on nomadic herding, have no fixed residence, and have no permanent defense city. Therefore, if we want to pacify the Loop, completely wipe out the barbarian army, and regain the lost territory, we must wipe them all out, otherwise they will surely come back in the future and raid and plunder the border again. Since then, our army has been faced with a major problem, that is, the elimination of the barbarian tribes one by one will definitely be delayed for a long time, and it will not be achieved overnight. Because since the founding of the Han Dynasty, it has been fighting with the barbarians in northern Xinjiang for at least a hundred years.

During this period, our Han army expelled the Northern Xiongnu and fled to the Western Regions, and then fought and made peace with the Southern Xiongnu for more than 100 years, but never completely conquered. Therefore, our army's northern expedition will inevitably repeat the mistakes of the past, even if it can quickly defeat the barbarian army, it is difficult to completely occupy this grassland, and then it is very likely to gain and lose. ”

After a pause in the words, Zhou Yu took a sip of tea and continued: "In view of this, the last general came up with a strategy to show the enemy weakness and lure the enemy to go deeper. But every time our army is defeated, it is not a fiasco, but a defeat but not chaos, and we must not let the barbarian army win lightly, and we must beat the barbarian army to a painful beat, so that he can win and win very difficult, and there are not a few casualties. Only in this way can the barbarian army be tempted to see the hope of victory, so that instead of disbanding the coalition army, they will mobilize the forces of their respective tribes to fight on the front line, in an attempt to concentrate superior forces to defeat our army in one fell swoop, and then invade Liangzhou again and plunder on a large scale.

Things were as I expected. The barbarian army has repeatedly defeated our army, but it has been a small victory, and while defeating our army, their own casualties are not small. This gave the barbarian leaders the illusion that they could not completely defeat our army with their existing forces. Only by mobilizing men and horses again can we defeat our army and then drive our army out of the steppe. Therefore, after our army was defeated by the barbarian army in three consecutive battles, the leaders of the barbarian army mobilized the remaining soldiers and horses of the rear tribes to reinforce, and finally gathered more than 100,000 barbarian troops again.

In this way, the forces of the various tribes of the steppe were empty. At that time, I wanted to divide our army's more than 40,000 men and horses into a team of 40,000 people, sneak attack the tribes in the rear of the barbarians, and give them a plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, so as to cut off the back road of the barbarian army. And then slowly annihilate it.

Unexpectedly, just as I was about to divide my troops to attack, Yu Fuluo sent a war letter to fight a decisive battle with our army in the Blue Wolf Valley. Although the Blue Wolf Valley is a grassland occupied by the Tu tribes, our army has fought with the barbarian army in the valley three times. He knows the terrain within a hundred miles of the valley. There are hundreds of miles around the valley, which is conducive to the barbarian war cavalry charging and killing. And the Green Wolf Valley is the only low-lying valley in this grassland. If it is a decisive battle in the valley. Once the two sides fight together, it is difficult to get out. Yu Fuluo set the decisive battle site in the Valley of the Green Wolf, clearly in an attempt to gather our army and annihilate it and annihilate our army in one fell swoop. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Yu looked up at Li Li, and said sharply: "Just when I was at a loss and ready to refuse to fight a decisive battle with the barbarian army. However, the lord brought a batch of grain and grass from Shuofengkou, in which there was not much grain, but there were more than 2,000 fat cattle captured from the barbarian army's camp. At that time, I had an idea and thought about it. Fat cattle available! Because there were already hundreds of ploughing cattle in the barracks that had not yet had time to be slaughtered, plus the fat cattle sent from the rear, there were as many as 3,000 heads, and it would be a pity if we did not make good use of them.

So the last general immediately signed the battle table, and immediately sent his soldiers back to Northland County, and purchased cattle nearby, and collected nearly 2,000 cattle in two days, so that there were 5,000 cattle in the field. If so many ploughing cattle form a strange army, the combat effectiveness can be imagined, Hugh said that the barbarian army has more than 100,000 war horses, even if there are more. The terrain of the Green Wolf Valley is extremely unique, only the north and south ends can be used by war horses to enter and exit, and both sides are blocked slopes with large slopes, which is inconvenient to get out. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Yu couldn't help but be a little excited, and sighed with joy on his face: "In this way, Yu Fuluo originally wanted to gather our army and annihilate it in the Green Wolf Valley, but he didn't expect him to choose a place for hundreds of thousands of barbarians to be buried. The high ground on both sides of the valley mouth in the south is the place where our army escaped from the pursuit of the barbarian army twice before, and the potholes and potholes that blocked the slope and were trampled on were enough for our army to quickly climb the valley high ground and occupy favorable terrain. At the same time, I deliberately proposed to change the time of the decisive battle from midnight to noon, with two intentions: first, to leave enough time to prepare the fire ox formation, and second, because the weather was hot and humid in the afternoon, and once the tail of the ploughing oxen caught fire, it would become more and more frantic and more combative.

At the same time, among the fighting generals in front of the two armies, I specially instructed General Duan Xuan to leave Yu Fuluo's life, that is, to let him order the whole army of the barbarian army to attack. If there is no order from Yu Fuluo himself, I am afraid that it is inevitable that some people will not listen to the order and lag forward, so that our army will not be able to hold the retreat of the barbarian army, resulting in a great reduction in the power of the Fire Bull Formation, and it will not be able to complete the battle. Fortunately, General Duan Xuan lived up to his trust, and after being seriously injured by Fu Luo, he spared his life, prompting him to order the whole army to attack. However, after the barbarian army attacked, the opponent was not our army's 40,000 cavalry, but 5,000 fire bull regiments. Hahaha! ”

After explaining the truth in detail, Zhou Yu couldn't help laughing heartily, and when everyone in the audience suddenly realized, they also laughed out loud in physical and mental comfort.

"Good, good!" Li Li laughed and said: "Gong Jin is far-sighted with his soldiers, and he has already made a plan before using the Fire Ox Array, and then he keenly captured the fighter plane, and he was able to come up with a way to break the enemy and win from the Cultivating Ox. Then every detail was under control, the time and terrain were just right, and even the enemy leader Yufro was in your calculations, and finally helped our army a lot to break the barbarian army. Since ancient times, there is no one who has made good use of soldiers than Gong Jin, which is really unpredictable and incredible! ”

"What the lord said is very true!" Li Li's voice fell, and the generals echoed one after another, and they sighed secretly in their hearts while marveling.

In fact, the generals present included Dian Wei, Zhang Liao, Duan Xuan and other Western Liangsu generals, and they were all skeptical about whether Zhou Yu could lead the army to defeat the barbarian army under Yu Fuluo. However, they are all generals and important ministers who have won Li Li's trust, and the military orders issued by Li Li have always been strictly implemented, so although they doubt Zhou Yu's ability to lead the troops, they will not disobey Zhou Yu's orders, let alone act against their own opinions, and they will follow the orders.

However, for Zhou Yu, the chief general who pointed fingers at them when he first joined the army, to say that they did not have the slightest intention of resisting in their hearts, it was purely telling nonsense with their eyes open and deceiving themselves. But as long as people are human, they will inevitably have some competitiveness, especially many people who are quite capable, who will not be able to convince others, let alone obey the orders of young generals like Zhou Yu, who are latecomers. The reason why they obeyed Zhou Yu's dispatch was because the lord Li Li was sitting in the rear camp. Once they disobey the order, it will reach the ears of the lord within a day, and then the lord Li Li will be held accountable, and even Li Li will personally come to the camp to ask for the guilt. It was because they never showed signs of resisting Zhou Yu's orders, and they did whatever they wanted, and they did what they ordered, but they were very skeptical in their hearts whether they could win the war.

It wasn't until after the victory in the Green Wolf Valley that the generals were completely convinced and truly recognized Zhou Yu's status as the main general. After that, he was really obedient to Zhou Yu's dispatch, no longer doubting whether his general order was feasible, and he sincerely respected him when he usually met, no longer nodding and saluting as before, and then left by himself.

In addition, three days after the end of the battle, the generals still had no clue what was going on with this great victory. I can't figure out how the fire bull array has such a huge lethality, and it actually killed more than 50,000 barbarian troops in one fell swoop, causing more than 100,000 barbarian troops to be wiped out, and in the end, only a few thousand people escaped.

Until this moment, Zhou Yu told the truth, and the generals knew that the Fire Bull Formation was powerful, but if they wanted to complete the battle, they had to accurately grasp the time and the shape they were facing at that time. Only at the most appropriate time and the most favorable time can the Fire Bull Array be launched to achieve the effect of breaking the enemy to the greatest extent. Therefore, it is not easy to implement, and any detail must be grasped to the appropriate advantage, and any factor that is conducive to expanding the results of the Fire Bull Formation must be utilized.

It is precisely in this way that the battle of the Green Wolf Valley can achieve such brilliant results, the first battle wiped out the combat power of the barbarian army, so that hundreds of tribes on the grassland no longer have the resistance force that can resist the attack of the Han army head-on, and the victory of recovering the lost land of Hetao is already in sight.

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