The conscience of heaven and earth. Although Li Su failed to visit the front line in today's battle in Bowangpo, he could only let his disciple Zhuge Liang show his feelings.

But Li Su, who is far away in Luoyang, is very familiar with the actual terrain around Bowangpo, because the canal he presided over must pass here.

Even the terrain in Bowangpo has become less pure due to Li Su's canal project.

The terrain of the "slope" is cut into two halves along the northeast-southwest direction by the canal. The original natural terrain was high in the northeast and low in the southwest, along the mountainous direction of Tongbai Mountain.

Now the middle is lowered out of thin air, and the altitude is always as high as the area near the Baihe River at the bottom of the slope, and it even stretches to the ridge pass and is still at a certain altitude. And this low concave location is the future river channel.

It is precisely because Li Su has seen the terrain around him that he is very clear that the "fire and burned Bowangpo" mentioned in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is purely because Robben has never been to Bowang and has never observed the surrounding terrain, so he made up it up.

Not only the problem of the protagonist being beaten by Luo Dai from Liu Bei to Zhuge Liang, but even the tactic of "fire attack" is pulled from beginning to end.

Of course, Zhuge Liang had never read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so he would not be misled from scratch, but would seek truth from facts throughout the process. Therefore, he was also very clear:

When encountering enemy troops in Bowangpo, fire attacks those stupid things are useless, so you don’t have to think about it from the beginning. It is more reliable to consider the possibility of ambushing or double-teaming.

Why is it useless? Because the terrain here is not the kind of terrain that is full of trees and is prone to fire. Because it is located on a major commercial and transportation route, all the business trips between Yuzhou and Jingzhou are here. The valley road here is relatively wide. After the canal is built, it has been widened and has more than a hundred feet along the river, with no trees at all.

Of course, in ancient roads, even if there were no trees, there must be a lot of grass beside the roads, so they could set fire. (The ancient mountain roads were not as thorough as weeding now, and many of them were stepped on by people. I can't imagine that book friends will know by watching the videos of Huanong brothers going up the mountain to play jungle.)

But if you expect the grass to set fire, it is easier to find the season when the grass leaves are dry in autumn. For example, fifteen years ago, Huangfu Song was in Changshe, not far from Xuchang, north. When the fire broke through the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan, it was summer stalemate, and the autumn things were dry and then the grass was successfully set fire.

Now it is snowing in the cold winter, and the grass has long since completely withered and is covered by thin snow, so it cannot set fire at all. It can be said that if it snows in winter, you can only count on the dead woods and set fires, and you cannot count on the grass to set fires.

Zhuge Liang did not waste brain cells in that direction from beginning to end.

Speaking of this, some people may wonder: Since the terrain of Bowangpo is not suitable for fire attack, why did Robben insist on writing fire attack? Even if it is compiled, there is always a basis for catching wind and shadows? This can only be said that the ancients wrote books briefly and may not be careful in reading books, so the spread of rumors has led to a misunderstanding.

The statement about the related battles in "The Three Kingdoms" is that "once you burn your own treacherous escaping, Dun and others will chase them and be defeated by ambush." ​​That is, Liu Bei first took an offensive, crossed Tongbai Mountain and arrived near Kunyang, Ye County, Yingchuan County, and was blocked by Xiahou Dun who came from Xuchang.

After the two sides fought, Liu Bei felt that there was no hope of fighting head-on, so he pretended not to be able to beat him. He burned his tent before dawn one day, and then the troops retreated at dawn.

This kind of action of burning the camp retreat is often interpreted as "when you feel that you can't beat it, the weak party hopes to get out of contact at high speed, and is afraid that the normal camp will be too slow to be caught up. He is unwilling to leave the tent supplies to the pursuers intact, so he burns himself."

To put it bluntly, in history, Liu Bei was a scorched earth policy in Bowang, and he was firm in the walls and cleared the world and did not rely on the enemy. Because of his thorough acting skills, Xiahou Dun chased after him.

As for Xiahou Dun's later defeat, it was because he was ambushed in a dangerous canyon, which had nothing to do with fire attacks. Setting fire was only part of the initial scorched earth strategy.

This misunderstanding is the same as most people's misunderstanding of Han Xin's "fight against the water". It confused the winning point of the formation of a backwater formation with a burning boat, thinking that the core combat power comes from the morale inspired by the backwater.

But the motivation effect of backwater is just a micro-job that can drive the golden body and delay time to protect yourself after being forced into a desperate situation. The purpose of backwater is to pretend to be so desperate that it will fall to death, seduce the opponent's entire army to attack, and then the core winning player is actually to steal the house.

It is equivalent to seducing out the golden body after starting the team, the teammates who stole the family ignited the crystal. You can't say that the golden body drags the time itself and directly eliminates the opponent.

The same is true for Liu Bei to burn the tun. It is not about setting fire to win, it is just pretending to seduce.

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Once you understand the principle, you will be able to keep everything inseparable.

The situation has changed, and it is impossible to set fire and seduce it.

However, the goal of "seduction" can still be achieved, and it is nothing more than a means to change it.

Stop setting fire, change to other ways to seduce!

At dawn on the 12th, Zhuge Liang brought tens of thousands of new recruits who built the river, but his equipment was not bad, so he advanced in batches and pressed forward. He tried to drive away the firepower reconnaissance at the Bowang Pass last night, and occupied the vanguard of Xiahou Dun's cavalry, who occupied the site, and seized the danger again.

In the not too wide valley terrain, infantry are not too afraid of cavalry. Anyway, cavalry has no space to detour, so Zhuge Liang's journey is quite smooth.

Zhuge Liang asked Chen Dao, the most skilled martial arts in the army, as the vanguard, and Liao Hua led the central army, and Zong Yu supported him.

These generals have no military achievements and are not considered talented. Zhuge Liang can only make do with it for the time being, after all, they were originally river digging supervisors.

As long as Gao Shun, who had lasted for a few days and had to Wancheng, personally led the army, there was no need for these young rookies to do things.

The only constraint on Zhuge Liang's army, mainly infantry troops, was that the marching speed was relatively slow.

It takes more than 40 miles to get from Bowang County to Bowangpo, and it is still a canyon terrain with a little slope. Even if Fo Xiao sets off, you have to leave in the afternoon.

Xiahou Dun, opposite, had listened to Li Dian's advice last night, and made a little steadily and advanced in steps.

Last night, the cavalry reconnaissance, which was quick and convenient to advance and retreat, was also to inquire about the ambush for the large army. If there were ambushes, they would retreat immediately. If there were no ambushes, they would report the news immediately, and wait for the main force to arrive.

It was discovered that Zhuge Liang was just like this, and there were no ambushers at the mountain pass, and nothing happened in the middle of the night, so Xiahou Dun's cavalry reported the truth back, and also informed Xiahou Dun before dawn.

Xiahou Dun immediately made meals at 4 o'clock in the morning and forcibly marched before dawn. He was only thirty miles away from the ridge pass, ten miles shorter than Zhuge Liang. In the end, he arrived almost at the same time as Zhuge Liang.

To be precise, the front and rear teams of the Han army were slightly disconnected. Chen Dao's vanguard ran fast and rushed to Bowangpo before noon. He forced Xiahou Dun's scout cavalry to retreat, killing more than a hundred cavalry of Xiahou Dun, and the Han army itself also suffered some casualties and wounding.

Then Chen Dao found that Xiahou Dun's main force was about to arrive, so he decisively retreated early and retreated for ten miles, joined forces with Liao Hua, and then set up camps in the valley to block the entrance.

When Xiahou Dun first arrived, he wanted to take advantage of the situation to kill Chen Dao for a while, but then he found that Chen Dao had successfully joined Liao Hua, so he ran away. Hundreds of people were killed and injured on both sides, which was considered a small-scale test contact.

After all, Xiahou Dun was also worried that the enemy would be cheating in seducing the enemy, so he deliberately made a flaw.

I just arrived at a strange environment when I was away, so it would be better to touch the bottom first.

Moreover, Cao Cao repeatedly reminded him before he set out:

"It doesn't matter whether the enemy is defeated. Gao Shun has a total of 150,000 troops in Nanyang County and Xiangyang County. Even if they are new recruits, it is impossible for you to completely defeat 60,000 people. What is important is to block the possibility of Gao Shun's support for Kunyang, and be sure to camp on the road!"

Cao Cao's advice is comparable to Zhuge Liang's advice to Ma Su before Jieting in history.

Xiahou Dun is not a person who commits suicide, so how could he deliberately refuse to listen to advice? Therefore, his IQ performance is currently higher than in the Battle of Bowangpo in history.

Liu Bei's camp in this life is not weak, so how can Xiahou Dun have the confidence that he underestimated the enemy as much as in his previous life!

"Don't worry, start camping first, observe clearly and find out the enemy's situation before considering something else!" Xiahou Dun endured it again and again. Thinking of the lord's instructions, Li Dian's persuasion, he chose to calm down.

In the afternoon of that day, the two armies set up their own camps. It was not easy to cut down timber in winter, so no decent fortifications were built in half an afternoon, and just a little fence cordon was pulled.

There were also relatively shortages in camps, mainly because Li Dian's camp behind Xiahou Dun was not abandoned and there were not enough tents. Zhuge Liang's side had no time to transport it from Bowang County and had no time to set up it. It was estimated that both sides would have to be frozen on the first night.

However, as it was getting late, and Zhuge Liang had not even set up all the tents, Zhuge Liang ordered Chen Dao to lead a unit and then fight to Xiahou Dun.

Chen Dao was surprised and suggested tactfully: "Zhen Zhuge Changshi, there are about 30,000 to 50,000 people in front of Xiahou Dun, which was roughly understood when he fought against the enemy in a small-scale afternoon. Although our army's soldiers on Bowang are not fewer than them, they are all new recruits who have just joined the army this year. They are not as brave and courageous as the enemy's army in field battles. And if you only ask me to lead the vanguard to fight, there will be only 10,000 people.

Since they are already stuck in the vicinity of the valley, why not wait for another three days. General Gao Shun will come with 70,000 main force and make plans. Although General Gao's 70,000 people are also recruits, they joined the army last year. Half of them have participated in the Battle of Pingjiangdong and were trained by Sikong."

(Note: Zhuge Liang is still the chief general. When he directly leads troops to fight, the generals have to call him military positions, so he does not call him a prefect or a minister.)

Zhuge Liang is not an unreasonable person, but Chen Dao's level is too low, so he is too lazy to explain more and makes a fuss:

"Since Xiahou Dun is in charge of camp, it means he is already timid and is afraid that we will be deceptive if we retreat. If we are too late today, he will see our army returning and come to fight again, so he will definitely not dare to come out. You just go! I will be responsible if I am defeated!"
Chapter completed!