When Xin Pi came to see Ju Su this time, although his inner plan did not say that he would take the initiative to betray Yuan Shao, he was at least 55 and had no tendency. He wanted to take the initiative to ignite Ju Su's powder keg and give him some pleasure and see how Ju Su himself made a decision.

If Ju Su obediently hand over power and there is no trouble in the handover process, then Xin Pi will follow and continue to be Yuan Shao’s loyal minister for a while.

If Ju Su does not hand over power, he will also use the assassination to say to Ju Su, "I have this mind for a long time," so that his life safety can be absolutely guaranteed.

Just like in the Romance of the Romance, when Lu Bu threatened Li Su to "kill this old thief, support the Han Dynasty, and be loyal ministers together, and do not know what respect is." Li Su used the words "Su also wanted to kill Dong thief for a long time."

However, Ju Su is worthy of being a loyal minister. He received such bad news at the last moment. Although he was very angry, he still chose to hand over power. He just considered the stability of the troops who cut off the rear and said righteously:

"The lord wants me to completely hand over the military supervision power to cut off the descendants. This is no problem, but now it is almost noon. Shimen Xing is fighting in a fierce battle. You must not shake the morale of the army and harm the soldiers of the three armies. Let me withdraw my troops tonight and hand over the military power to you, can you?"

If Ju Su hadn't shown his attitude quickly, Xinpi would have almost taken the initiative to get angry. In the end, he was so happy that he stopped his words, but he just praised a few compliments:

"Mr. Ju is very wise and takes unity of the three armies and harmony between civil and military colleagues as the key. He is really noble and honest. Even if the lord has a misunderstanding about the teacher, he will eventually see the sun. When Via returns to report his life, he will try his best to defend his husband."

Ju Su and Xin Pi thought that this matter had been suppressed and that at least there would be no more trouble during the day.

Moreover, they will delay the enemy's time here without having to hold on for long. Yuan Shao should be able to retreat to Huai County tonight, and to Pinggao tomorrow night, and to go east, it will be completely safe and can return to Jizhou.

Even if there is a slight delay in the middle, at most, there will be more than one day left.

Therefore, Ju Su's army, if you block the door for up to two days, you can find a night to abandon the baggage and all ride horses and retreat lightly.

The pure cavalry unit did not take any supplies and did not spare horsepower. It was easy to march in the short term three times faster than the infantry army. Therefore, when Yuan Shao had more than one day left to escape from danger, Ju Su was able to catch up with the infantry that had been marching for three more days, so he could catch up.

During this period, Ma Chao should not have been able to reach the Danshui Front.

...

However, it can only be said that when the army is about to be completely defeated, internal conflicts will always be particularly prone to detonation.

On the other hand, this "detonation" is not entirely accidental or bad luck, but is related to the opponent's archery and digging a hole.

At this moment, in the Guanyu camp of Shimen Xing opposite Ju Su, Zhuge Liang was responsible for the fire archery work! What an existence that was!

During the stable stalemate stage a few days ago, there was no fancy tactics to play, so Zhuge Liang naturally had little room to play, that is, he was to steadily command strategic defense.

Of course, Zhuge Liang is also very good at commanding and defending with the right way.

After all, later generations evaluated Zhuge's life as cautious and fought a stable stalemate battle. Zhuge Liang's defense was never broken through. The only weakness of his stalemate battle was his lifespan. Sometimes, the old turtle that was not as long as his life was, and he would be consumed until his life was exhausted.

But Zhuge Liang, who is now nineteen years old, doesn't have to worry about life spans at all.

At that time, he buried mines inside Yuan Shao's camp in a row and made long-term counter-intervention operations that "no return". Now that Yuan Shao's army is moving and there is a suspicion of withdrawing troops, he must use them in a concentrated manner.

So, after Xinpi finished chatting with Ju Su, he had just returned to the camp arranged for him to rest. Not long after, some jealous people from the army came to rush to the fire.

These people are not people who have left their names in history, but are just some military Sima-level supporting roles. It can only be said that there is no shortage of people in any era who want to put down their colleagues and bosses to make themselves climb up.

Xinpi didn't understand at first, and thought it was Jushu's people. After hearing them speak, they were shocked that these people actually reported to Xinpi and provided some evidence to show that the general Tuo Yi, who was responsible for blocking the entrance in Guanxing, actually colluded with Guan Yu's people.

Guan Yu sent someone to send a letter to Qu Yi to discuss the conditions, reminiscing about a lot of things, and also mentioned last winter when he "warned Qu Yi to save Zhang Liao". During the field battle north of the wild king, the tacit understanding and friendship between the two sides, as well as many other long-standing destructive things later.

The more Xinpi looked at him, the more frightened he became. While stabilizing the whistleblowers, he then went to Ju Su with a secret letter.

Ju Su is also the first two: "These are Guan Yu's counter-espionage plan! Although I have strictly blocked the news that the lord's main force has retreated in the past few days, I guess Guan Yu has a keen sense of smell and I guess he has come, so all kinds of counter-espionage changes have become more severe.

I have strictly enforced military laws and required that all rumors in this regard should not be spread. Those who violate the order will be killed! This is a matter of shaking the morale of the army at present!"

Xinpi: "Sir, if you act so decisively, you will not be more suspicious of you after you go back? And according to military law, how can you marche indiscriminately against those who discover that your generals are suspected of colluding with the enemy?

Although these people came to me to report, they actually intercepted the messenger and secret letters sent by Guan Yu. The physical evidence was not fabricated. It was reasonable and at most they could only be temporarily imprisoned. Please think twice!”

Ju Su had no choice but to be so frustrated in his heart that he temporarily locked up those guys who reported to both sides for promotion and wealth. But in this way, a group of people in the army who were loyal to Yuan Shao's desire to get benefits were missing.

...

In the afternoon of that day, Guan Yu camp in the opposite Shimen Xing, Guan Yu was having a meal with Zhuge Liang and discussing countermeasures after listening to the battle situation that morning.

"Why is Ju Su's battle to defend Shimen Xing today becoming more intense than the previous two days? He actually took advantage of the end of our offensive and invested so many new forces to push back."

Zhuge Liang put down his chopsticks and replied intently: "In my opinion, Ju Su is bluffing, and he is strong on the outside and is doing it. The day before yesterday, I expected that Yuan Shao would retreat after Zhang Liao was destroyed, and this must be correct.

Yuan Shao just refused to make a statement. On the one hand, he could withdraw safely, and on the other hand, he would lose less face. But I didn't expect Ju Su to fight back so quickly and pretend that he still had enough energy.

I think he should have a shot when his troops behind the rear are also going to retreat, and then take the opportunity to break off contact with us. Now calculate the time. If Yuan Shao ran away the day before yesterday and had not retreated to a safe place, Ju Su should have persisted for a while.

He was anxious in advance, and it can only be said that there was new trouble within Ju Su. Perhaps one of our counter-espionage plans was really successful, or perhaps it was that Yuan Shao took the initiative to have other internal conflicts, or the strategists had different opinions on the specific implementation of the withdrawal plan.

I can't tell which of these three situations happened or which of them, but I definitely can't escape this range. In short, they are all beneficial to us.

Our army can continue to strengthen its offensive, or pretend to withdraw its troops in the evening as before a few days, but in fact, the enemy will relax their vigilance after it is dark and launch a fierce attack on the entire army again.

Moreover, Wang Ping can lead some elite troops in Wudang Flying Army. While it was not dark in the afternoon and the mountain road was still fine, he would take a small number of elite troops from the side of Shimen Pass for a relatively less dangerous place for 10 or 20 miles away from Shimen Pass, and jump out and cooperate with the harassment from other directions at night, thinking that he was suspicious of the troops."

Zhuge Liang did not guess what happened to Ju Su, but he could think of all the possibilities based on the analysis combination, and then have a hit rate of one-third, which was already very amazing.

Moreover, the details are not important at all. For Liu Bei's camp, the military response methods of these three possibilities are similar, and you can eat them all over the world with one move.

The terrain of Taihang Mountain on Shimen Xing is naturally more difficult to climb than Guanglang Valley. Because the place with the word "Xing" means that there are cliffs on both sides of the valley road. You have to go around a long distance or use a hanging basket rope to pendant down the cliff before you can pass.

Otherwise, the terrain of the "Eight Passes of Taihang" would not have caused the princes of Qin and Zhao to fight each other for a year or a half or even for several years in history. It is really hard to move forward. (In history, the battles in Taiyuan City were often besieged for one or even a few years, and the terrain is really disgusting)

The difficulty of this marching is comparable to that of Deng Ai who crossed Mage Mountain or Fu Youde crossed Motianling, so even Wang Ping's elite climbing like a flat ground could not bring too many.

The ropes of hanging baskets are enough, so at most two or three thousand people will be hung down as suicide squads and attacked at night. The remaining 20,000 people can only attack slowly from the front.

Guan Yu thought about it and asked: "Wang Ping can't take many people. Is it dangerous to do this?"

Zhuge Liang: "If it's a strong attack, of course it won't work. I dare to do this, that's to be prepared to give Ju Su a last blow. I crossed the most dangerous section of the road before dusk, and then detoured to the position after night to launch a surprise attack. It's absolutely fine to cooperate with the front.

By the way, the counter-espionage and rumors arranged before should continue to increase their efforts today. Before the last blow, the enemy's morale will be disrupted as much as possible."

...

Everything was deployed according to Zhuge Liang's arrangements, and even Guan Yu personally supervised the details of the explanation.

Within the two blocking troops of Yuan’s army opposite, Ju Su was also doing his best to make up for and plug the leaks as much as possible to reduce the impact of various adverse factors that were about to come.

Although Ju Su blocked the news, there was no airtight wall in the world. In this situation of storm, Qu Yi quickly learned about the news that he was falsely accused again. Even though Ju Su was temporarily suppressed and Xin Pi did not attack, Qu Yi did not dare to bet on what Yuan Shao would think after returning to Yecheng.

In this case, the frontal offensive of the day finally ended that night.

Ju Su was cautious and delayed for another half an hour to confirm that the battle was completely over. The troops returned to the camp to keep the alert and there was no chaos at all. Then they reluctantly handed over the military power to the military governor, went back to report to Xin Pi, and met Guo Tu halfway.

Guo Tu, a coward, did not come to Ju Su's military camp for a day, but set up a single camp dozens of miles downstream of Qinshui, for fear that Ju Su would start to cause trouble. It was still Xinpi who sent a letter to tell him that Ju Su would hand over the power after the battle in the evening, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Just after Ju Su handed over power and left the camp, Guan Yu's army launched another attack on the front. It was already the end of You hour in the evening, which was seven or eight o'clock in the evening, which was not too late.

At the same time, Wang Ping's two thousand suicide squad was also detoured on the east side of Jusu camp, which is the downstream of Qinshui, on the direction of Jusu army's return journey. Although Wang Ping did not dare to forcibly attack the camp, he also set fires on the outer side of the east side of Jusu camp. In the dark night, Guan Yu's reinforcements seemed to be everywhere, and there was no way to tell how many.

Coincidentally, the first attack in the darkness was the camp where Guo Tu was. He originally wanted to hide downstream of Jusu's camp to prevent Jusu from attacking.

As a result, Wang Ping came to the back, and Guo Tu's "rear" position where nearly a thousand guards stationed naturally became the front.

When Guo Tu heard Wang Ping's attack and saw the movement of setting fires everywhere, he was so scared that he only brought dozens of the most elite cavalry guards. He left the camp without taking anything and ran away, running around in the darkness away from the Qinshui River bank.

As for Xinpi who had not brought Ju Su back and handed it over to him, Guo Tu no longer cared about this scattered matter.
Chapter completed!