Chapter 746

4763!

This is the number of spies Guo Jia found after investigating the entire army. This number also made Shang Ji lament once again that it was a fluke. If it hadn't been for the phantom guard erosion discovered in advance, this time it would really be a big deal! It is estimated that the entire army will not be wiped out, but the possibility of damage to the main force or even a rout is extremely high.

Except for Feifenghuoqi, Fengwuwei, and Shurawei, the entire army showed signs of being corroded, including more than 600 lurking phantom guards in the black armor Xuanqi.

The reason why the three armies of Feifeng Huoqi survived was because the three armies had never been dispatched in the previous small-scale confrontation, so the phantom guard naturally had no chance to lurk among the three armies.

In the previous contest, in order to train the army, Shang Ji deliberately made the armies take turns to fight the Lequan army, which objectively created favorable conditions for the erosion of the phantom guard.

This can also explain why Kuang Zhang stubbornly continued to send troops to fight after the Lequan Army suffered a series of defeats. His main purpose of sending troops to fight was to create opportunities for the phantom guards to lurk. within the scope of consideration. With Kuangzhang's mind, he clearly realized that relying on the Lequan City army could not defeat the Pingzhou army at all, and could only resort to dangerous moves!

The phantom guard is strong, but after being exposed, there is nothing to worry about. The individual combat strength of the phantom guards is not strong, roughly the level of a low-level special unit of the sixth rank. With less than 5,000 phantom guards, if they are on the frontal battlefield, a charge can solve the battle.

"Feng Xiao has worked hard, without Feng Xiao, our army's life and death in this battle are unpredictable!"

Shang Ji looked at Guo Jia, who was somewhat depressed, and said with emotion.

In order to find the phantom guard lurking in the army, Guo Jia was exhausted. The skills of Ghost Eye are somewhat similar to talents, and the usage cost is not large. But no matter how small the consumption is, it can't stand such crazy use!

This is a total of 300,000 troops, and it is lucky to identify Guo Jia who is not tired and ascends to heaven on the spot.

Guo Jia didn't answer, not even polite. The whole person was paralyzed on the seat like a salted fish, with an expression of being spoiled.

Continuously using the Ghost Eye at a super-intensive level, even with the recovery elixir, Guo Jia was still overdrawn, and felt his whole brain was buzzing at this moment.

Seeing this, Shang Ji retreated knowingly, and before leaving, he told the maid to take good care of Guo Jia.

"Military division, what do you think we should do next to take advantage of this opportunity?"

After leaving the big tent where Guo Jia was resting, Shang Ji turned around and asked Xi Zhicai.

"For now, we have to wait!"

"Wait?"

"Yes, wait!" Xi Zhicai nodded fiercely, and was quite dissatisfied with being bullied by Kuang Zhang. It's just that the skills are not as good as others, so I can only swallow this sulking breath.

"Although we have discovered the phantom guards lurking inside, the organization and discipline among phantom guards is extremely strict. Once they are lurking, they only follow the signals of Kuang Zhang. Even if we arrest all the phantom guards, we can't lure Kuang Zhang out of the city. The only way is to pretend that we don't know about Huanwei yet,

Let Kuangzhang continue to send people to lurk until he thinks the time is right and take the initiative to lead the army out of the city! "

Shang Ji thought about it, and found that this was really the case. Shang Ji wants to catch Kuangzhang, a big fish, not only cannot move the current phantom guards, but even has to continue to provide Kuangzhang with favorable conditions for sending phantom guards to lurk.

Once Huanwei is arrested on a large scale, Kuangzhang will definitely know that Huanwei has been exposed. With Kuangzhang's cautious character, it is estimated that he will really be unable to leave the city completely. However, with Lequan City's defense capabilities and material reserves in the city, Shang Ji may not be able to conquer it in a month or two. Based on the current situation of every inch of money, it is estimated that in a month or two, the neighboring countries will have unified their basic markets and started to march towards the Huaxia District!

"Okay, just follow what the military adviser said. But the phantom guards lurking in the army must be strictly monitored, and they can't really cause trouble by them!"

"Don't worry, general, this subordinate is personally responsible for this. Each phantom guard will arrange a few smarter soldiers to monitor it. If there is any sign of chaos, they will be killed immediately!"

Shang Ji frowned when he heard the words, and asked with some doubts: "Will this be exposed? There must be some sensitive people among the phantom guards. Sending people to monitor can certainly control the situation, but will it arouse their vigilance, and then expose them?" Our intentions?"

"Hahaha, the general is worrying too much!" Xi Zhicai immediately burst into laughter when he heard this, stroked his feather fan and said, "For the sake of confidentiality, Huanwei absolutely forbids contacting each other after lurking, even before they receive the signal from Kuangzhang. They don’t even know who their colleagues are. Although this strengthens the phantom guard’s latent survivability, it also makes their ability to adapt extremely fragile. Even if one or two astute people find that they have been exposed, they cannot inform other phantom guards.”

Shang Ji suddenly realized, and nodded again and again: "Well, very good, I will leave this matter to the military division."

"This subordinate will fulfill his mission!" Xi Zhicai cupped his hands and said.

After making a plan to lure the snake out of the cave, Shang Ji continued to send troops out to provoke every day in accordance with his previous style of action, so as not to arouse Kuang Zhang's suspicion.

And Kuangzhang sent troops to fight every time as always, and after the triumphant Pingzhou Army more or less had phantom guards lurking in. However, after knowing Kuangzhang's plan in advance, the threat of Phantom Guard plummeted. Without Guo Jia opening the eyes of ghosts and gods, Xi Zhicai could detect the lurking enemy troops under the premise of preparation.

Three days later, Liu Meng and Huang Zhong sent news within one day that they had successfully captured An Guangcheng and An Xincheng, and they would lead their army to join Shang Ji within two days.

After receiving the news, Xi Zhicai immediately found Shang Ji, thinking that Kuangzhang would do something in the near future, please Shang Ji get ready!

Anxin, Anguang and Lequan cities have special communication channels, which Liu Qing has confirmed. The news of the fall of the two cities must not be concealed from Kuangzhang.

According to Xi Zhicai's calculation, once the army led by Liu Huangeren merged with Shang Ji, because there were no phantom guards lurking in the two, even if Kuangzhang launched a surprise attack, at most it would cause chaos in the army of Shang Ji's headquarters. In the absence of external military suppression, once large-scale chaos occurs, it will be difficult to stabilize the army in a short period of time even if there are famous generals.

And once Kuangzhang took the opportunity to dispatch an army to make a surprise attack, it was very likely that the Pingzhou army would be defeated in one fell swoop. But once Liu and Huang joined Shang Ji, it would be different. The two could calmly dispatch troops to help Shang Ji's headquarters restore order.

Once this happens, Kuangzhang will gain nothing but lose thousands of phantom guards, and even expose a hole card in advance.

In order to maximize the results of the battle, Kuangzhang will definitely launch a fatal blow before Liu Huangeren's army arrives. After defeating the headquarters of Shangji, use superior forces to deal with Liu and Huang, and defeat each of them.

After discussing with everyone, Shang Ji agreed with Xi Zhicai's inference. Then the whole army turned on the mode of loosening outside and tightening inside, waiting for Kuangzhang to take the bait.

As expected, Kuangzhang led the troops to "night attack" that night!

It was said to be a night attack, but in fact Kuangzhang dispatched troops almost aboveboard. A total of 700,000 troops filed out from Lequan City, and the number of troops left in the city was less than 600,000—the small-scale combat orders in the past few days Lequan City suffered heavy losses. The current total army strength in Lequan City is less than 1.3 million, which can be described as a heavy loss!

And the troops that participated in this battle were all elites from Lequan City, and the proportion of the sixth-tier troops was as high as 30%. Kuang Zhang can be considered desperate.

Seeing Kuangzhang's formation of troops with great fanfare, Shang Ji immediately understood Kuangzhang's plan - to confront the Pingzhou army head-on, and then ordered the phantom guards to dispatch when the battle between the two sides was the most intense, causing chaos on a large scale and allowing Lequan City to win the victory .

As for why it wasn't a real night attack, Kuangzhang thought about it, but it's a pity that sending out fewer troops is useless, and it is completely impossible to send out enough troops without disturbing the Pingzhou Army!

Although Liu Yi was left to guard the house, Xingyao Qianggong joined the battle. Xingyao Qiangbow was always in charge of vigilance at night. Before that, Kuangzhang tentatively launched several small-scale night raids, but he was severely beaten back.

In desperation, Kuangzhang could only give up some fantasies and defeated the enemy with an "upright" formation. As for why it was chosen at night, it is probably because the army fighting at night is more prone to chaos or morale collapse. In fact, this is not good for both sides. Even Liu Yi can only greatly reduce the negative effects of night fighting. Completely immune (a very few special arms such as Xingyao Bow, Ghost Cavalry, etc. are not included in the discussion).

However, Kuangzhang believed that he had Huanwei as his backup, and the Pingzhou army would definitely be more disadvantaged than the Lequan army in night combat. In fact, this is also the case. If Guo Jia hadn't noticed the existence of the phantom guards in advance, when the battle between the two armies was the most intense, more than 5,700 phantom guards (later another 1,000 people came in) collectively rioted, and the time was still night. The elite of the state army also has a very high probability of falling into chaos, which will lead to the defeat of the entire army.

But Shang Ji made preparations in advance, so the result will be there!

When the Lequan army was forming its formation, the Pingzhou army was not idle, and the army quickly lined up.

"Woo--"

With a dull sound of the horn, Le Quan's army began to advance. The whole army is divided into three large square formations on the left, middle and right, and in each square formation, sword and shield soldiers are in front, bowmen are behind, and cavalry are supporting on the two wings.

It's just that the formation looks a bit messy, and the command is not particularly smooth-the negative effects of night combat have begun to appear before the actual battle begins.

Of course, the situation in Pingzhou is not as optimistic as that in Lequan City. Except for a very small number of arms such as Ghost Cavalry and Xingyao Qiang Bow, the other armies are also in varying degrees of chaos.

From the perspective of real history, there has never been an example of a large-scale night battle, let alone a confrontation between the two sides at night. That is to say, the situation of Fenghuo is special, and the five senses of high-level troops have been greatly strengthened, otherwise it would be impossible to have the current situation of millions of troops fighting at night.

However, fighting at night is still a tactic of killing one thousand enemies and destroying eight hundred. No one dares to try it easily, and it is easy to shoot yourself in the foot with a stone!

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