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Chapter 6 Crossing the Yellow River at Night (Part 2)

In the central army tent, just when the generals had no countermeasures, they heard a whisper from behind, "I have a plan to ensure the army crosses the river smoothly!" and turned around to take a look.

The person who is coming to offer advice is not someone else. This is Liu Yixuan, the seventh-grade book writer.

"Let me, let me go, thank you, let me go!" Liu Yixuan pushed and squeezed from behind the tent to the middle, and walked to the edge of the sand table under a questioning gaze.

"The old general, I have some ideas, and I don't know whether to talk about it or not?" Liu Yixuan walked up to the front and bowed.

The governor of Runan Jiedushi Ma Menglong looked at the white-faced young man in front of him. Seeing that he was so handsome, with a fluttering belt, and did not look like a military general at all, he immediately looked puzzled. He looked at Zong Ze, knew that it was Zong Ze's subordinates, frowned and asked, "Is this person?..."

Zong Ze quickly introduced to him: "He is a military clerk under my tent."

"Hmph!" Ma Menglong sneered, "A little clerk, who knows how to marching and fighting, dares to come and offer advice. He really doesn't understand the rules!"

Zong Ze smiled and said, "Director Ma Jiedu. I have said just now. All the generals can speak freely regardless of their official positions. If what he said makes some sense, we can also use it as a reference. If he said it ignorant, we should ignore it!" Then he said to Liu Yixuan: "Young Master Liu, what good strategies do you have? Even if you say it, I will listen with a few generals!"

Liu Yixuan got Zong Ze's permission and spoke, "I just listened to the discussions of the generals, and also got a little understanding of the situation facing our army. From the current perspective, the enemy and our army have formed a confrontation between the north and the south with the Yellow River as the boundary. Because the Jin soldiers were suffering from the war in the north, there were not many soldiers and horses stationed on the edge of the Yellow River. However, when they retreated last time, they took away a large number of ships, leaving us with no ships available for a while, so the current situation is: There are more soldiers and fewer ships, few enemy soldiers and many ships, old general, what I said is right!"

Ma Menglong snorted aside and said, "It turns out that he is a scholar studying. He is talking nonsense. Who doesn't know about this? You also want to summarize it here!"

Liu Yixuan was very upset when he saw that Ma Menglong was hostile to him for no reason. As the saying goes, "Scholars meet soldiers and can't explain them clearly. These soldiers and fight against war are all rough people, and it is normal for scholars to look down on scholars and judging words. Liu Yixuan did not intend to argue with him, but just continued to talk about his own ideas.

"I think all generals have heard of Zhuge Liang's story of borrowing arrows from a straw boat. Since the ships are all in the enemy's place, why don't we borrow a boat to cross the river?"

As soon as these words were spoken, there was a burst of laughter in the tent, and it turned out that there was another lively atmosphere. This was more funny than Hu Yanqing's idea of ​​swimming across the river.

"Borrowing a boat to cross the river? Isn't it just a sleep talk? They all laughed at my idea for being unreliable, but I didn't expect you to be even more unreliable than me, hahaha!" Hu Yanqing smiled and grabbed Liu Yixuan's arm, while looking him up and down.

"I see that this little brother has a tender skin and flesh. He must be a young man from the school. He has also run to the military camp to make trouble! It's really time to fight!"

Liu Yixuan looked at Hu Yanqing. Although he was so fierce that he was also honest and cute. He just smiled at him and did not talk to him.

Although Zong Ze didn't know Liu Yixuan for a long time, he also knew that he was not a person who talked nonsense. Since he was not afraid of the dangers on the battlefield and took the initiative to ask for orders to follow the army, it already shows that he is not comparable to those playboys in the capital. After everyone laughed for a while, Zong Ze came to ask him:

"Since Mr. Liu knows the allusion of Kongming borrowing arrows from a straw boat, he must be confident. If you are not careful, tell us all your ideas. If it is really a good plan, I will use it more."

When the generals heard Zong Ze gave him face, they all doubted his identity. The generals who were originally named Yongying naturally knew that Liu Yixuan was the son of the prime minister and the future son-in-law, but the new generals knew nothing about him. When they saw that he wanted to offer advice, they all came forward and listened carefully.

"Just as the generals reacted just now, it is a dream to ask the enemy to lend us a boat to cross the river, but if the enemy does not borrow it, it does not mean that we cannot take the initiative to take it. As far as I know, there are five or six thousand ships of all sizes gathered on the north bank of the Yellow River, while there are less than a thousand defenders at the ferry on the north bank. So where are these ships docked? How many people will guard there?

The Emperor of Jin was busy fighting with the Xixia and the Mongols, and had long taken us, the Song army seriously. He expected that we would not dare to cross the river easily and would neglect the precautions. If we found a place where the enemy berthed ships and tried to steal the ships, wouldn't there be a boat crossing the river?"

Zong Ze smiled sadly when he heard this, thinking that this plan was feasible, but he didn't know what other generals were doing, so he had to see the reactions of everyone first.

Hu Yanqing is closest to Liu Yixuan. He stared at his cow eyes and listened carefully to him after he finished speaking. He couldn't help but applaud, "Oh, it's really a clever plan. It's much better than my idea of ​​swimming across the river. If I could really find the location of the Jin soldiers' ships and secretly steal thousands or eight hundred, wouldn't I be able to cross the river smoothly? The clever plan is indeed a clever plan!"

Liu Yixuan saw that Hu Yanqing was the loudest when he laughed at him before, and now he came to support him again. He also thought that he was a generous person and could make friends.

When Ma Menglong saw that Hu Yanqing was completely unscrupulous and was just a fence-bearing man, he felt disdainful of him, so he spoke, "What this little clerk said seems to make sense, but it is actually unrealistic. Not to mention that we find it difficult to find the place where the Jin soldiers stationed their ships for a while. Even if they find it, how can we steal thousands of ships? The Yellow River is only five miles wide, and when there is a wind and turmoil, the enemy soldiers can be noticed. Even our army has to go to the camp for more than one mile away from the shore to prevent the enemy soldiers from discovering the movements of our army on the north bank.

If a large number of soldiers were sent to smuggle over there, they would inevitably not be discovered by the enemy. By then, not only did they not steal the ferry, but they would alarm the snakes, exposing our army's intention to cross the river. Wouldn't it be that stealing chickens would not lead to a loss of rice?"

After hearing this, many generals nodded again and secretly praised: "This Ma Jiedushi is worthy of being a veteran who has led troops for many years. As expected, his analysis was thorough and thorough, and it was not comparable to these young players!"

When Hu Yanqing heard Ma Menglong's words, he felt something was right, but he was more interested in stealing a boat across the river. At this time, he only wanted to know how the young actor in front of him answered Ma Menglong's question. Hu Yanqing's big bearded mouth staring at Liu Yixuan's response.

How could Liu Yixuan not have thought of this? Since he dared to come out to offer suggestions, he must be confident. He smiled faintly and said, "Junsheng has long thought of General Ma's worries. It's not to be hiding from it. Wansheng already has a way to break the enemy. You can borrow thousands of warships without disturbing the enemy to ensure that our army can cross the river smoothly."

After hearing this, Ma Menglong was shocked and half-believing and half-doubted about him. His pair of doubtful eyes stared at him, and he was still muttering in his heart: "Who is this kid? How dare you boast about such a loud voice?"

Zong Ze felt that it was unrealistic after hearing this. After all, there were thousands of ships, so how could he steal them quietly? I'm afraid that Mr. Liu was young and energetic, and he couldn't say that he was boasting about it for a while. Ma Menglong was already cunning. If he caught the handle and insisted on forcing Liu Yixuan to get a thousand warships, wouldn't that make him embarrassed again? Before the war, Liu Anguo also had a letter to ask him to take care of Liu Yixuan so that he would not cause any trouble.

Zong Ze smiled and said, "Young Master Liu is indeed a young hero. You dare to think and speak. Teacher Yuan collected four or five days to find these 800 ships. If you want to get a thousand ships and still can't alarm the Jin soldiers on the north shore, what time will you have to steal? I think it's better to discuss it again!"

Liu Yixuan knew that Zong Ze might not believe his plan. Although he gave him a step forward, he did not want to give up this opportunity to make contributions.

"Don't these people believe in my plan? Can't you tell that I am possessed by Zhang Liang and reincarnated Kong Ming? They are all mortals with naked eyes! No, this is a great opportunity, I must seize it. Although I have never fought a war before, I have been studying "Three Kingdoms" since I was a child and know the truth. Besides, if the Song army can't even get through the Yellow River, then what else can we talk about regaining lost territory? Wouldn't it be in vain to go to the army this time? Grandma, let's go out!"

Liu Yixuan was cruel and said to Zong Ze: "The old general, I am sure that I can borrow a thousand warships for our army within three days. If I break my promise, I am willing to deal with the military law!"

"What? Mr. Liu, there is no joke in this army, don't talk nonsense!" Zong Ze hurriedly stopped him, for fear that he would talk nonsense again.

"Okay, it's true that a hero is a young man!" After listening to Liu Yixuan's words next to Ma Menglong, he immediately became energetic and knew that he was a ignorant child. No matter whose son he was, if he dared to be arrogant, he should have a long memory!

Ma Menglong stood up and smiled at Zong Ze, "The old general's tent is really hidden. Even a small clerk has such courage. It really makes us old men who have led troops for many years ashamed! Since that's the case, the old general really has to give Mo General a chance, so that Mo General will also come to see the geniuses under your tent!"

Zong Ze naturally knew that Ma Menglong had bad intentions and deliberately praised him. He also blamed Liu Yixuan for being too arrogant and boasted about such a whim. However, looking at his serious expression, he felt that he was not joking about his life and said to him: "Young Master Liu, you should not joke in this military camp. I am thinking that you have just arrived at the military camp and don't understand the rules of the military camp. If you take back what you said just now, I will not care about you."

Liu Yixuan bit his lip, pondered for a few seconds, measured his own plan again, and said, "A gentleman's word is as good as a horse. Please rest assured that the old general is sure to borrow thousands of warships for the Song army within three days!"

"Okay, I will believe you once! How many people do you want? I will give you the only one!" Zong Ze gave a reply after seeing him pondering for a while. I guess there must be a strange plan. Since ancient times, heroes have become young people, and it is impossible to say that he really has a good plan to defeat the enemy.

"If I only have one hundred soldiers familiar with water in Yongchang, I will lend me ten small boats, and I will also ask my sworn brother Wang Zichun to accompany me!"

(To be continued)
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