In addition to having a slight advantage in military strength, the Dejin-Zhai coalition forces also have an unremarkable but quite important advantage, that is, the special terrain in the Jinyang area.

The terrain in Jinyang is roughly like this. The Fen River flows east from Jinyang City, protecting the east gate of Jinyang. The Luliang Mountains are located in the west of Jinyang City, only a few miles apart. They are narrow from east to west and long from north to south. In the southwest of Jinyang City, there is another famous river in history, Jinshui flows out from the mountains, flows southwest to northeast, flows through the southwest gate of Jinyang and flows into the Fen River, forming a natural ditch, cutting off the narrow terrain between the Fen River and the Luliang Mountains in half.

The result of this is that whether the Han army stationed ten miles south of Jinyang City or the Zhang Han army stationed twenty miles north of Jinyang City, if they want to send troops to attack the opponent, they must first cross the Jin River before they can advance. Or they can take a very troublesome approach, first cross the Fen River eastward or go north or southward, to the east of the opponent's camp, and then cross the Fen River westward before they can get the opponent's camp.

Before this, the Jin-Zhai coalition army had of course destroyed all the bridges upstream of the Jin River, leaving only the bridges near the Jinyang City that did not move. This allowed the Dai Jin-Zhai coalition army to easily cross the Jin River with the cover of the defenders' bows and arrows on the city to advance southward and attack the Han army camp. If the Han army wanted to go northward to attack Jinyang City or Zhanghan's camp, there were only two ways. One was to build a bridge upstream of the Jin River, and to force cross the river from the bridge under the Jinyang City at the risk of being covered by the defenders' bows and arrows. The advancement was much more difficult, and therefore it was more passive in tactics.

Zhang Han, an experienced veteran on the battlefield, certainly would not ignore such favorable terrain, especially when the Han army's partial division must decide the victory or defeat as soon as possible. Zhang Han carefully considered the current psychology of the Han army's commander, Uncle Zhou, and soon formulated a detailed and meticulous tactical plan, deciding to use this advantage to fight poison with poison, and use the Han army's special conspiracy and tricks to compete with Uncle Zhou.

Zhang Han's initial move was also very confusing. He guessed that Uncle Zhou would be expected to be in a hurry to fight with him, so he deliberately sent an envoy to the camp to invite Uncle Zhou to send troops to fight on the next day on the open east bank of the Fen River. Then, without Zhang Han's expectations, he planned to arrange Wang Ling to sneak attack on Zhang Han's rear of the army in advance without any rushing to fight. Sure enough, he refused his own initiative to make an appointment. Zhang Han then personally led more than 20,000 troops to cross the Fen River to the south the next day, pretending to be eager to fight, and led his army to the Fen River shore outside the east gate of the Han army camp to fight.

"Uncle Zhou is as timid as a mouse, and he has the courage to come out and fight us to the death!"

"Shuppa Zhou, do you want to avenge your original master Wei Ju? If you want to, you will be able to help you and come out to fight us to the death!"

"Shameless rats, flattering people who only give women to Xiang Kang's children, come out to fight if they have the courage! Shameless dog thing, can you only rely on women's nepotism to be promoted? Come out to fight us if they have the courage! Come out to fight us if they have the courage!"

The scolding of Zhang Han's soldiers was also very unpleasant, and they also took out the matter of Uncle Zhou's matchmaking for Xiang Kang and Bo Yuanzhi to make a fuss. They insisted that Uncle Zhou was the commander of the Han army who was nepotism. They cursed and humiliated Uncle Zhou in every way, and tried their best to anger Uncle Zhou and lure the Han army to cross the Fen River to fight. The result was not bad. The Han army generals who were far inferior to Xiang Kang and Liu Laosan really used this trick. They ran to Uncle Zhou to ask for battle, hoping that Uncle Zhou could send troops to cross the river and fight to the west bank of the Fen River to fight to the death with Zhang Han's army.

Fortunately, although Uncle Zhou's face was not as thick as Xiang Kang and Liu Laosan, he was quite calm. He flatly rejected the requests for war by the Han generals and said, "Don't be fooled. If we cross the river and fight, we will not be sure if we send less troops. If we send more troops, the camp will be empty. Dong Yi and Sima Xin may take the opportunity to send troops to attack our camp, making it difficult for us to take care of the beginning and end. If the enemy suddenly releases a fire raft from the city of Jinyang and burns our cross-river bridge, we will have great trouble."

After trying hard to appease the Han generals, Zhou Shu ordered people to select loud soldiers from the Han army to go to the shore to curse Zhang Han's army, strictly prohibiting soldiers from crossing the river to fight, and then hid back to the central army's tent and refused to listen to Zhang Han's yell. During this period, Zhou Shu, one of the old men in Shangshan, asked strangely: "General Zhou, since you guessed that the thief army might release fire rafts to burn our floating bridge, why don't you nail a few rows of wooden stakes upstream of the surfing bridge to block the thief's fire rafts to get close to our floating bridge?"

"If I do this, Zhang Han will not have a chance to win by surprise. He will not have a chance to win by surprise. Where can we come here to take the opportunity to use the tricks and achieve the greatest victory at the lowest price?" Uncle Zhou's answer was meaningful, with a sound outside the string, and Zhou Shu, who had a homophone of his name, understood it, so he simply closed his mouth and never mentioned this again.

Because of Uncle Zhou's calmness and restraint, Zhang Han's army's insulting battle on the first day was of course a failure. However, Zhang Han refused to give up. On the second day, he changed his tricks. He sent two thousand troops eastward across the Fen River in the morning and afternoon, and took turns to the Fen River to shout and fight. Uncle Zhou continued to ignore it and refused to send one soldiers and one soldiers across the river to fight. He often sent loud soldiers to the bank of the Fen River to curse and fight with Zhang Han's army, so as not to be scolded blindly and to slam the military power.

Even Uncle Zhou did not expect that his arrangement would be effective. Two days later, because the Han army scolded him too badly, Zhao Ben, the general of Zhang Han army, who was known for his bad temper, was impulsive and directly urged the army to launch a charge, raiding the Han army soldiers guarding the Floating Bridge Ferry. Fortunately, the Han army soldiers were closely guarded and retreated to the enemy with arrows in time. Not only did they not give Zhao Ben army a chance to get close, but they also used bows and arrows to shoot Zhao Ben army many casualties and fled in a panic. After the news was reported to Uncle Zhou, Uncle Zhou was not surprised, but just smiled and said, "Good thing, the thief army began to be in a hurry. The more they were in a hurry, the more beneficial it was to us."

The matter was not over yet. On the afternoon of the next day, the scout of the Han army suddenly caught a man on the road to Luliang Mountain west of Jinyang City. The man claimed to be the personal soldiers of Zhao Ben, the general of Zhang Han, and had to report to Uncle Zhou in person if there were any secret matters. The scout of the Han army hurriedly took Zhao Ben's personal soldiers to Xian and Uncle Zhou. When Uncle Zhou came forward to interrogate himself, Zhao Ben's personal soldiers submitted Zhao Ben's letter of surrender, saying that Zhao Ben was scolded by Zhang Han after returning to the camp yesterday. He was angry and missed his relatives in his hometown at all times, so he had the idea of ​​surrendering to the Han army.

In addition, Zhao Ben also reported an important situation to Uncle Zhou in a letter of surrender, saying that Zhang Han fought every day just to paralyze Uncle Zhou, and was preparing to send troops tonight, cross the Jinshui and go south directly to attack the Han army camp. He also said that Sima Xin and Dong Yi's remaining troops in Jinyang City would also participate in this night attack. Uncle Zhou was asked to prepare early and never give Zhang Han, Sima Xin and others an opportunity to take advantage of it.

After reading Zhao Ben's letter of surrender, the generals of the Han army were of course very excited. They advised Uncle Zhou to give it a try and prepare for the response in advance. They gave Zhang Han's stolen soldiers at night. Uncle Zhou, who was familiar with military books and knew the tricks, was reserved. Although he did not have a full letter, he quickly arranged a response plan and waited for Zhang Han's army to come and attack at night.

The facts proved that General Zhao Ben did not deceive Uncle Zhou. It was only half past the night. Uncle Zhou arranged for the Han army outside the camp to send a signal to inform the Han army soldiers that the enemy was attacking. Uncle Zhou hurriedly urged the army to meet the enemy. The Han army ambushed at the foot of Luliang Mountain in advance also suddenly came out. He killed Zhang Han's army who had sneaked into the Han army camp overnight and fled. He took advantage of the victory to chase the Jinshui River and met the Jin-Zhai coalition army who secretly opened the south gate and went out of the city to attack the Han army.

Unfortunately, because Uncle Zhou did not fully believe that Zhao Ben did not dare to take risks, the night battle plan arranged by the Han army was not very strong in counterattack strength. The coalition of De Jin and Zhai was quite cunning. He just found out that he was ambushed and immediately retreated to flee north. The bridges on the Jinshui River were all covered by bows and arrows of the defenders on the city. Soon, under the cover of friendly forces, he quickly escaped from the Jinshui River and did not give the Han army a chance to expand the results of the battle. Therefore, although the Han army won this time, it was very regrettable that it only beheaded hundreds of them and only won a small victory.

Of course, all the generals of the Han army were extremely regretful, and Uncle Zhou couldn't help but regret it. He said with a rare regret: "It's a pity that I'm too conservative this time. If I were bolder, I arranged an ambush on the banks of the Jinshui River in advance and cut off the retreat route of the bandits' army first, the situation would definitely be completely different."

"It's a bit of a pity, but it doesn't matter." Zhou Shu, an old man from Shangshan, cheered Uncle Zhou and said: "At least we can confirm that General Zhao Ben sincerely asked to surrender. In the future, we can trust the news of the thief army he provided. Next time we have a similar opportunity, we will never miss it."

Uncle Zhou didn't say anything because Uncle Zhou clearly remembered that there was a saying in the military book - to lure him to attack him!

After the night attack failed, Zhang Han was very peaceful for several days and did not come to fight again for several days. He hid in the camp honestly and licked the wound. Uncle Zhou also calmed down and waited patiently for Zhang Han, who was upset by Wang Ling, to make new moves. The result was not as expected by Uncle Zhou. Four days later, Zhang Han indeed sent an envoy to the camp, sent Uncle Zhou a set of women's clothes and a letter of appointment to fight, inviting the Han army to fight to the death on the south bank of Jinshui the next day. He also said with a sensation: "If the general still has no courage to fight to the decisive battle, we will not force it. Please accept a set of women's clothes."

Uncle Zhou laughed out loud and said, "Can Your Highness the King of Dai have some new ideas and use women's clothes to irritate the opponent's decisive battle? This move seems to be the first of our King of Han? Isn't it afraid that the King of Dai will be laughed at and imitate him?"

"Our king did this to imitate His Highness the King of Han." Zhang Han's envoy was obviously a dead soldier and said directly: "Although it was imitation, as long as it worked, we should be afraid that others would say something behind their backs?"

Uncle Zhou smiled and then picked up his pen and wrote the four words "Decisive Battle to the Next Day" on Zhang Han's letter of appointment. The envoy Zhang Han was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed to Uncle Zhou to thank him, and said goodbye and left in a big way. Uncle Zhou ignored it and asked immediately: "Are we back when we steal some scouts of the thief's smoke every day?"

He replied left and right, saying that he hadn't come back yet, and Uncle Zhou was not in a hurry, but just ordered: "After coming back, let them come to see me immediately."

At noon, the Han army scout who was responsible for stealing some breakfast smoke from Zhang Han's army returned to the tent and said that Zhang Han's army had nearly half of the smoke from today and lasted much longer than usual. Uncle Zhou nodded and said, "Tonight, the thief army will make big moves."

After saying that, Uncle Zhou immediately ordered the Han army battalions to ask the Han army soldiers to take out the charcoal they had accumulated in normal times, make fires with charcoal that does not smoke, make more steamed buns, pancakes and other pasta dry food, and prepare sufficient torches for night battles. Then it was still at this time that Cui Guang, an old man from Shangshan, asked Uncle Zhou: "General, while the bandit army sent people to fight, they secretly built dry food. What are they planning to do?"

"It's not clear yet." Uncle Zhou replied: "But there should be only two possibilities. One is that the thief army plans to sneak attack our camp at night, and the other is that they are secretly preparing to retreat."

"Secretly preparing to retreat?" Zhou Shu asked in surprise: "How is this possible? Why does Zhang Han retreat? He doesn't plan to pay attention to Jinyang?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Uncle Zhou replied: "Estimate the time. If it goes well, our partial army General Wang Ling's troops should have already taken Shan Wu. I have previously told Wang Ling that as long as Shan Wu's food and supplies were successfully seized, I immediately went to Dai County along the way to attack Zhang Hanpifu's capital. His rear was in a hurry, and of course he would have the idea of ​​saving Dai County first. During this period, Dong Yi and Sima Xin had to deal with it carefully and stick to Jinyang City with sufficient food and grass. It was not impossible for Zhang Hanpifu to continue to rescue again."

"What should we do?" Cui Guang asked quickly.

"No hurry for the time being." Uncle Zhou shook his head and said calmly: "I can still determine whether Zhang Han's husband is preparing to launch a night attack, or pretend to fight and actually play the game and escape. When our scouts collect more clues, then I can guess his real plan."

Unfortunately, although Zhang Han, who had sneak attacked Xiang Liang to death, was not as good as the genius of the world such as Uncle Zhou and Xiang Kang in terms of tricks, it was not much different. Although the Han army scouts were always closely monitoring Zhang Han's army camp, there were no suspicious clues and could no longer provide useful relevant information for Uncle Zhou. Uncle Zhou began to worry, but there was no way - after all, Uncle Zhou was not the roundworm in Zhang Han's belly.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Zhao Ben, the general of the Dai Army who had betrayed Zhang Han once, suddenly sent his confidant soldiers to contact the Han army and reported to Uncle Zhou that Zhang Han decided to secretly withdraw from the Jinyang battlefield tonight and lead the main force of the Dai Army back to Dai County. He planned to first deal with Wang Ling, the partial Han army division who had already taken Shanwu, and then go south to help Jinyang. In addition, Zhao Ben of course suggested that Uncle Zhou be prepared for interception and pursuit in advance, and not give Zhang Han a chance to escape smoothly, and promise to act as an internal supporter. At that time, he would cooperate with Uncle Zhou and defeat Zhang Han!

"Okay! God helps me!"

After reading the letter, Uncle Zhou couldn't help but feel happy. In addition to rewarding Zhao Ben's messenger, he quickly ordered the summoning of the generals and quickly arranged a tactical plan to block the front and chase him, and to annihilate Zhang Han's main force at night. The generals of the Han army had long trusted Uncle Zhou's command ability, and all of them were happy to accept the orders and immediately went down to organize the army to prepare for night battles.

Seeing that the Han army was in high morale, Uncle Zhou was of course very happy, and he was preparing to go back to the tent to rest quickly, seize the time to sleep for a while, so that he could have enough energy to command the battle at night. But just when Uncle Zhou got off the seat and returned to the tent, Zhou Shu, an old man from Shangshan who was homophoned with his name, reminded him, "General, for safety reasons, should our soldiers seize the time and nail a few rows of wooden stakes upstream of our pontoon bridge to prevent the thieves in Jinyang City from suddenly launching a fire raft and burning our pontoon bridge?"

"You can't do this." Uncle Zhou shook his head and said casually: "At this time, Zhang Han will definitely understand immediately. We have guessed that he is ready to retreat overnight. At that time, he will adapt to the situation and may catch us off guard..."

As he said this casually, Uncle Zhou's face suddenly changed, because Uncle Zhou suddenly remembered an important question and said to himself: "Will it be as expected by Zhang Han's servant Zhang's man? As long as he is a slightly more rational army leader, he will definitely make the same choice as me!"

Uncle Zhou quickly calmed down and sorted out his ideas again. He gradually found that he was eager to win this time and neglected a very dangerous possibility. What if Zhao Ben had asked to surrender before and was throwing bricks and jade? Use a night attack that was destined to lose too much to deceive his trust in him and unconditionally believe in the important information he provided for the second time?

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Uncle Zhou quickly came to this conclusion and said in his heart: "If I were Zhang Han, the rear was in a hurry and the enemy was persistent and did not fight, and I was patient and fought against me, I could only try my best to win by surprise. As long as the enemy was deceived, it would be absolutely worth it even if I deliberately defeated one or two battles! If I was in Zhang Han's position now, I would definitely hope that the enemy's main force would cross the Fen River and create an opportunity to take the opportunity to sneak attack the enemy's solid camp. Anyway, there is a barrier between the Fen River. As long as I burn the floating bridge and cut off the connection between the enemy and the enemy's camp, I can be invincible!"

"What if my calculation is wrong, what should I do if Zhao Ben is not a fraudulent surrender?" Uncle Zhou closed his eyes again and quickly calculated in his heart. "The consequence is that I missed the opportunity, giving Zhang Han the opportunity to successfully withdraw from the Jinyang battlefield, but this is extremely safe. In addition, my cavalry is enough, and all of them can ride on horseback. The power of the mobility is far better than that of the Zhang Han bandits. He can easily bite Zhang Han, so that he can't retreat quickly, and give my infantry brigade the chance to catch up with Zhang Han bandits."

"It's better not to take risks. The king gave me the partial division, hoping that I would sweep across northern Jin and then advance to Zhao State to cut off the northern wings of the Western Chu thieves' army. It's not to give me risky gambling. Since I have the confidence to protect the victory, I can't determine the specific tactics of the enemy, so I can only give priority to protect the victory!"
Chapter completed!