On the other side of the Yin Valley, in Wei County, there were 20,000 Cao troops who had set up countless traps in the reeds, waiting for the Han army to throw themselves into the net.
Early in the morning, the calm and relaxed Le Yi was playing with Fan Li in the reeds, when he heard the sound of carrier pigeons flapping their wings in the sky, and they kept whirling overhead.
"It's coming" Fan Li, who was dressed in a white robe with a clear face and dressed more like a businessman, stood up, put his fingers between his lips and whistled, beckoning the carrier pigeon to land, while Le Yi stood by with an expectant face waiting for good news.
The carrier pigeon fluttered its wings and landed in Fan Li's hand, and then opened it neatly, and there was a line of scribbled official letters written on it, and it could be seen that the letter was written very urgently.
But Fan Li obviously doesn't care whether the handwriting is neat or not, what matters is the content of the letter.
"The traces of the Han army have been found, about 30,000 people, and they have passed Cangtingjin, and it is expected that they will be able to enter the ambush circle early tomorrow morning."
"Haha, I guessed it, this deal is good" Fan Li laughed and handed the letter to Le Yi.
After reading it, Le Yi couldn't help but give Fan Li a thumbs up: "Mr.
Fan is really clever, how did you guess that the Han army would sneak attack Yecheng from Yin Valley?"
Fan Li's answer was concise and concise, and it was summed up in two words: "human nature" "Human nature" Le Yi was stunned, "How to say this, please ask Mr.
Fan for advice" Fan Li smiled and said: "The Eastern Han Dynasty is full of talents, there are gains and losses, some people are proud, and some people are frustrated.
I heard that Wei Yan is Liu Wei's minister from the dragon, but now his status is getting worse, I think there must be unwillingness in my heart, it just so happened that I went north from Qian County, and happened to learn that this road called Yin Valley can connect the north and south of the Yellow River, from Dong'e to Wei County, so I decided to gamble once" It turned out that Fan Li was recommended to Cao Cao by Fan Zeng after he was born, but Cao Cao saw that Fan Li was a businessman and did not like it in his heart, but because of Fan Zeng's face and could not abandon it, he found an excuse to send Fan Li to the plains to assist Xiahou Yuan.
Fan Li is such a smart person, seeing that Cao Cao doesn't like himself, he naturally won't force it, and he is very annoyed that he chose the wrong lord, but because of Fan Zeng's face and can't change the court, he had to take his entourage to the plain unhappy.
After Fan Li left Qiaojun, he went all the way north, passing through Dingtao and Fanxian, crossed the Yellow River from Dong'e to the north, chatted with the boatman when crossing the river, and accidentally learned that there was a small road leading to Wei County from Dong'e, called Yin Valley, which corresponded to the Yang Valley of dozens of miles to the east, so there was a plan to wait for the rabbit here and ambush the Han soldiers.
Of course, until this time, Fan Li's plan was still just in its infancy, and it was not certain that the Han army would definitely throw itself into the net and attack Yecheng from the Yin Valley, after all, this requires enough courage and recklessness, otherwise it can only be fruitless.
Fan Li came to the plains to meet Xiahou Yuan and presented a letter from Cao Cao, saying that the Emperor of Great Wei had ordered him to come to serve in the army.
Xiahou Yuan didn't hate businessmen, but he hated those who relied on relationships to go through the door, thinking that these people were uneducated and unskilled, and they couldn't make a name for themselves with their skills, so they didn't reuse Fan Li, but just arranged an idle job for him to draft documents.
In addition to Fan Li, Le Yi was able to worship the position of a partial general because of his cousin Le Jin's light, but for most of the time under Xiahou Yuan, he did not make any contributions, and it also made Xiahou Yuan think that he was a mediocre person, just a disciple of the Great Wei court, so he was very unhappy.
Fan Li looked at it, yo, Cao Cao looked down on me, Xiahou Yuan looked at me again, uncle, I really have a hot face and a cold ass, I knew that it was better to do business honestly in the people, maybe I could be rich Fan Li wanted to hang up the crown and leave, but he remembered the Yin Valley when he came from Dong'a, why didn't he start to make some fuss from this aspect, and lure Wei Yanqian to throw himself into the net If the plan can be successful, he will be able to move forward smoothly, so that Cao Cao will be impressed, if the plan fails, it is not too late to hang the crown and go into the wilderness So Fan Li hired a few merchants to go to Licheng and talk about Yin Valley in teahouses and wine shops infested by the Han army, in order to attract the attention of the Han army soldiers.
Fan Li believed that as long as these soldiers knew the secret path of Yin Valley, they would definitely report back to Wei Yan, and when the time came, Wei Yan, who was eager to make meritorious contributions, would take the risk of sending troops.
And Tian Ji, who presented Wei Yan with a surprise strategy to get out of the Yin Valley, heard the discussion of the merchants in the wine shop, and remembered that the road of the Yin Valley could reach Wei County in the east of Yecheng.
It has been seventeen or eighteen years apart, Tian Ji has long forgotten this road that is not a road to the clouds, and after hearing the businessman's discussion, he suddenly woke up like a dream, and immediately went to Wei Yan excitedly to offer advice, and got Wei Yan's appreciation and support, but he didn't know that all this was in Fan Li's calculations.
Of course, until this time, Fan Li was not sure that Wei Yan would sneak attack from the Yin Valley, but he still suggested to Xiahou Yuan that he send a group of soldiers and horses to set up an ambush in the Yin Valley to prevent the Han army from sneaking up on Yecheng.
It's still Fan Li's words, if you succeed, you will turn over under Cao Cao, and if you don't succeed, you will hang the crown and run away, with a small and big one, anyway, there is no loss Xiahou Yuan personally rushed to Wei County to inspect, only to know that there was such an overgrown path, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, if Wei Yan went straight to Wei County along the Yin Valley, I was afraid that Ye County would be in danger.
"It turns out that Mr.
Fan is talented, but Xiahou Yuan is snubbing" After Xiahou Yuan returned to the plain, he immediately apologized to Fan Li, with a humble attitude, which was like a cloud of contempt before.
Fan Li took the opportunity to offer an ambush strategy, asserting that within ten days, Wei Yan would definitely send troops from Qingzhou to attack Yecheng from the Yin Valley, as long as the ambush was set up in advance, he would definitely win a complete victory.
Fan Li because Le Yi is not reused like himself, he has a great sense of sympathy, and at the same time he strongly recommends Le Yi as the main general, and ambushes Wei Yan in Yin Valley, which will inevitably be a great success.
The plan was proposed by Fan Li, Xiahou Yuan was in the way, and agreed to let Le Yi be the main general, and ordered Lu Zhishen and Daxi Changru to serve as deputy generals, and led 20,000 horses to leave the plain in the starry night and rush to the Yin Valley in Wei County to find an excellent place to ambush Wei Yan.
And Xiahou Yuan himself continued to station troops in the plains with Lejin, Pang De, Cao Zhang, Wu Yong and others, controlling Li Jing's corps in the north and Qingzhou in the south.
In this way, two days before Wei Yan led his troops to leave Licheng, Le Yi and Fan Li led 20,000 horses to arrive at the Yin Valley in Wei County, and after careful selection, they chose an excellent ambush site, dug a large number of traps on the road, and sprinkled a large number of sulfur, fire and other flammable materials on the reeds on both sides of the road, just waiting for Wei Yan to throw himself into the net.
After listening to Fan Li's analysis, Le Yi was happy and convinced: "Oh, listening to your words, it is better to read a book for ten years, Mr. knows the insight into human nature well, it is simply Tao Zhugong alive."
Fan Li laughed and said: "Tao Zhugong regards being a man, an official, and fighting a war as a business, and he has almost never been defeated in officialdom and shopping malls, how can he be compared with Xiaosheng."
But I will take Tao Zhugong as a model in this life, build a vigorous performance, and live up to what I have learned all my life."
The Han army was pressing step by step, and Fan Li and Le Yi could not afford to delay time, so they immediately summoned Lu Zhishen, Da Xi Changru and others to lead their elite soldiers to prepare for battle, the sword was unsheathed, and the bow and crossbow were wound Wei Yan led 25,000 elite soldiers along the Yin Valley all the way, during which he ate a few meals in the reeds, looked for water to drink the horses, rested for two and a half hours, and entered the territory of Wei County in the early morning of the next day.
The journey was unimpeded, and Tian Jizai was even more smiling on the horse, constantly encouraging morale: "If the soldiers work harder, there are still thirty miles to reach Wei County."
Wei County is just a small county town with a population of more than 10,000 people, we don't have to attack, just bypass Wei County, and we will be able to come to Ye County tomorrow evening."
In order to boost morale, Wei Yan immediately ordered: "After taking Ye County, I will allow you to rob for a day, as long as you don't kill people and set fires, you can do other things casually, as a reward for your hard work in the past few days."
Since ancient times, many famous generals have used this method to motivate the fighting spirit of the siege soldiers, and under the great stimulation, it often plays a role in doubling the morale of the soldiers.
This time was no exception, under Wei Yan's encouragement, the 25,000 Han troops were murderous and high-spirited, if it weren't for Wei Yan's repeated orders and five repetitions, the cheers would have been shocked into the sky.
The army marched forward by the moonlight for another five or six miles, and the east gradually turned white, and the sky was about to dawn, and the sky was chaotic, and it was the darkest hour of the day.
At this moment, there was a sudden "poof" loud sound on the road, Tian Ji, who was leading the way in front, was caught off guard, and even the people and horses fell into the trap pit, and they were poked into hedgehogs by the bamboo guns that stood up, and the neighing of the war horses resounded through the sky, cutting through the sky of dawn.
The soldiers of the Han army who fell into the trap with Tian Ji were countless in the dark night, and they let out heart-rending screams, and in an instant, the drums around were loud, the horns sounded in unison, and for a time the rain of arrows flew from all directions, carrying the whistling wind, like flying locusts.
"Kill, kill the Han army" "Hugh is going to leave Wei Yan, and the reward for capturing alive is a thousand gold, and the Hou of the customs is sealed" In an instant, the sound of killing was loud, and the Cao soldiers who had been in ambush for a long time rushed out, and fired arrows at the Han army, and the hook and sickle spears stretched out from the grass to harvest the legs and horse legs of the Han army.
"It's not good, it's in ambush" Wei Yanzheng was sitting in the Chinese army, and did not lead the way with Tian Ji, and escaped by luck, at this moment, facing the ambush soldiers in all directions, his face was like earth, and he hurriedly turned his horse's head and ordered the whole army to turn around and break through, "The ambush in the middle, the front army becomes the rear army, the rear army becomes the front army, desperately break through" t1706231537: