Chapter 66: Wisdom Fighting in the Formation

Lu Xun turned around and looked around, feeling that his place was a little familiar.

"Quan Cong, have we just been here?" Lu Xun asked.

Quan Cong looked around and said, "It seems that he has been here. But these stones look similar, and the general is not sure."

"Oh..." Lu Xun sighed slightly.

Lu Xun has always been quite confident in his abilities, but he didn't expect that he would get lost in this stone formation today.

At this time, Lu Xun remembered that Zhuge Liang used the east wind to burn the Red Cliff more than ten years ago. At that time, Lu Xun thought that Zhuge Liang was just a coincidence, but now from the stone formation, Zhuge Liang's talent is really a perfect match!

"Governor, we have caught several brothers and found them. They all came with General Gan Ning yesterday." Ding Feng walked and said.

"Bring it now!"

After a moment, Ding Feng brought five people, all of whom were Wu's army, all of whom followed the dogs and women the day before yesterday. During the attack of A Dou's bow and arrow, these people got separated from the large army, but they happened to meet Lu Xun here.

Lu Xun immediately asked the soldiers about Gan Ning's situation, and the news he got was that Gan Ning was attacked by Shu army archers at night, and these soldiers got separated from Gan Ning's brigade in panic.

"I don't know what happened to General Gan Ning..." Quan Cong sighed softly next to him.

Not long after Lu Xun entered the formation, the shout of killing suddenly stopped. I didn't know whether Gan Ning was dead or alive. At this time, Lu Xun was also very worried about Gan Ning's situation. If the shout of killing could last for a while, maybe he could find Gan Ning's whereabouts.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in Lu Xun's mind. There was something strange about this stone formation that could confuse people's vision and make people unable to distinguish directions, but it was difficult to confuse people's hearing. So the shouts of killing came just now, why not make good use of this?

Thinking of this, Lu Xun said, "Send an order immediately and the whole army will shout to me."

"Scream? What are you shouting?" Quan Cong asked in confusion.

"Just shout 'General Gan Ning, where are you?'!"

"General Gan Ning, where are you?"

"General Gan Ning, where are you?"

The shouts of 80,000 people were enough to reach more than ten miles away. In this quiet dusk, the shouts instantly covered the entire stone formation.

"General, listen..." Xiao Zheng pointed at the direction of his voice.

Gan Ning suddenly stood up from the ground, and the shouts came to Gan Ning's ears clearly.

"General, you are calling you!"

"Yes, it sounds like there are quite a few people!"

"Yes, it's Governor Lu Xun!" Gan Ning's heart once again felt hope. Judging from his voice, Lu Xun was not too far away from him.

"Brothers, the reinforcements of the governor have arrived. Let's walk along the sound and you will definitely see the governor!" Gan Ning shouted.

The morale of the Gan Ning army suddenly increased. At this moment, everyone forgot about fatigue and forgot that they had not had a rest for a while. Everyone was excited and walked towards the direction of the sound.

In the distance, A Dou was resting against a stone. At this time, the voice calling Gan Ning also reached A Dou's ears.

He raised his head and looked at the direction where the sound came from. It was exactly where Lu Xun was now.

"This Lu Xun is indeed smart. He actually thought of such a way to find Gan Ning!" Zhang Ren next to him said with a smile.

"It doesn't matter! So what if you let Lu Xun and Gan Ning meet together? They still can't get out of these eight formations!" Adou said, looking at Zhang Ren beside him, and asked, "Are the archer ready?"

"Your Highness, I have selected five hundred archers from the army, and the original five hundred, and now another thousand are on standby."

"Okay, send the order, when it dark, we will set off."

Gan Ning took the water bag from Ding Feng's hand, poured a few big mouthfuls into his mouth, and then said, "Oh, it's so good, I'm so thirsty! I didn't expect that Gan Ning, who has been a water thief for decades and has been a water thief for more than ten years, almost thirsty today!"

"Xingba, the governor is waiting for you, come with me!" Ding Feng said.

"Take me over."

Ding Feng brought Gan Ning to Lu Xun, and saw Gan Ning suddenly kneeling on the ground and said, "The last general is incompetent. Not only can he not capture Zhang Ren, he will suffer heavy losses. Please punish the general!"

Lu Xun's face darkened and he said, "Gan Ning, this time you are greedy for merit and make our army enter a dangerous situation. It is reasonable to punish me. However, in terms of your contributions for many years, remember this time, you are allowed to make meritorious contributions. If you have any more mistakes, you will be punished with multiple crimes and will never be spared!"

"Thank you, Governor!" Gan Ning stood up hurriedly and looked at Lu Xun with gratitude.

Lu Xun is not the kind of person who is unkind. Although when it is time to establish his authority, Lu Xun doesn't mind killing a few people, but Gan Ning is a Jiangdong general. Such a person is absolutely unavailable. If Gan Ning is killed, who will help Lu Xun fight? This is like when Guan Yu released Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang did not take Guan Yu's life, but just mentioned it lightly.

Some people can be killed, while others cannot be killed, and Gan Ning must belong to the latter. Lu Xun's so-called Dai Ru committed multiple crimes and punished him again was just a step to both parties.

At this time, Lu Xun spoke and said, "Gan Ning, tell me about your detailed situation in the past few days!"

"I will obey the order." Gan Ning told Lu Xun about the detailed battle situation in the past few days, and Lu Xun also obtained detailed information and valuable experience from Gan Ning.

When Gan Ning talked about hearing the sound of killing, Lu Xun was shocked and asked hurriedly: "So you didn't see any sign of the Shu army after hearing the sound of killing?"

Gan Ning nodded: "The governor said it well. I took the people to the direction of the sound, but it stopped before the sound could reach the sound!"

"Oh, I've been trapped!" Lu Xun shouted quickly. According to Lu Xun's intelligence, he naturally understood immediately that the Shu army was deliberately shouting just now, with the purpose of attracting himself to enter the stone formation.

Unexpectedly, there was such a powerful figure in the Shu army who easily plotted himself into it. Lu Xun understood that he had met a master this time. But now Zhuge Liang is in Hanzhong and Pang Tong is far away in Yongdi. Who will be the one who plotted against him?

After listening to Gan Ning's narration, the soldiers stood there with a gloomy face. It can be seen that everyone was not in a good mood. As the head coach, Lu Xun even lowered his head and thought.

Gan Ning had been in the formation for two days and two nights, but had not yet walked out, which shows that the stone formation was extraordinary. Many generals in the Wu army were roughly crafting the formation, and Lu Xun himself had some research on the formation, but Lu Xun could not see the reason at all about this stone formation. Lu Xun was not sure about being able to get out of this formation.

What made Lu Xun even more worried was that according to Gan Ning's description, the Shu army obviously would not have a head-on conflict with the Wu army. From the attack of Gan Ning at night, it can be seen that the Shu army was deliberately using a tired army strategy. Although there were not many bows and arrows, it was enough to make the Wu army worried all night and unable to sleep. The night was dark, and the Shu army used ejection, even if the Wu army wanted to counterattack, they didn't know where the Shu army was.

As a result, Lu Xun could not find a way out of the stone formation. In addition, the Shu army was exhausted, and the morale of the army would inevitably be disintegrated within a few days. The army had lost its morale. Then there was no need to fight this battle, just wait for the entire army to be wiped out.

If Zhang Ren used the method of dealing with Gan Ning to deal with Lu Xun, Lu Xun also had no good method to deal with it. A stone formation would make all Lu Xun's strategies become empty. As long as the stone formation could not be broken, winning would always be out of reach for Lu Xun.

There are two ways in front of Lu Xun. One is to find the main force of the Shu army and then fight against it; the other is to find a way out and leave the stone formation, otherwise you can only sit and wait for death.

The Shu army went all out to lure Lu Xun into the formation, which shows that the other party also had resourceful people. Since this is the case, the Shu army will definitely not fight against Lu Xun with the main force, so in fact, Lu Xun's only choice is to find a way to leave the stone formation.

Unfortunately, Zhuge Liang's eight formations are not ordinary formations. This eight formation was arranged by Zhuge Liang for several years, and lasted for more than ten miles. Even people like Adou who had learned formations from Xu Shu had to study the formation diagram for a long time before they dared to walk in. How could Lu Xun know the way?

Lu Xun needed time to find a solution, so Lu Xun ordered to stop for a while and rest for a night and wait until tomorrow to find a way out. At the same time, because he was considering that the Shu army would attack at night, Lu Xun ordered people to be careful of the Shu army attacking with bows and arrows.

As expected, Adou did not disappoint Lu Xun. Before the hour of Hai, Adou led his men to the vicinity of Lu Xun's army, and then shot Lu Xun's troops.

Adou is not greedy for too many people. Each archer only shoots ten arrows and retreats. After all, this archery is a sneak attack. If the enemy is prepared for more people, the effect will not be obvious. Moreover, archery is also a small trumpet physical strength. When ten arrows are shot out, the archer's physical strength will also be consumed a lot. If you shoot down, both the correct head and the strength will be much worse, and the lethality will become insufficient.

However, for these thousand archers, one person with ten arrows, there were 10,000 arrows in total, which was enough to cause great chaos for the Jiangdong Army. When the bow and arrow attacked, the Jiangdong Army ran around and hid everywhere like no flies, and many people walked away and left the brigade and lost in the formation. Fortunately, Lu Xun had sent someone to tell everyone to raise bows and arrows before, which made the Wu army mentally prepared. After the A Dou attack, the Wu army reduced its personnel in various ways and added about 3,000 people.

The sky gradually became brighter. Lu Xun looked at the soldiers around him and found that everyone was tired on his face.

Lu Xun sighed lightly, and the intention of the exhausted soldiers of the Shu army was still achieved. Now it was only the first night. Although everyone was a little tired, they could still hold on, so Lu Xun had to take advantage of the soldiers' strength to find a way out of the stone formation as soon as possible.

Lu Xun pushed a stone hard, but the stone remained motionless, which made Lu Xun somewhat discouraged. After this night of research, Lu Xun thought of many ways to break the formation, and the first way was to destroy these stones.

The foundation of this stone formation is these huge stones standing on the ground. As long as most of the stones can be destroyed, the formation will be destroyed. However, Lu Xun tried just now, and these stones are solid enough. Although it is much easier to destroy than to build, Lu Xun gave up this idea when he looked at the stone that could not be seen at all. Zhuge Liang spent many years laying out this stone formation. Lu Xun wanted to move or smash all of these stones, which was impossible every few months. Now, let alone months, Lu Xun could not wait for a few days.

If it is not possible to force the destruction, then there is only other way. So Lu Xun found Quan Cong Dingfeng and others and ordered all soldiers to go forward and make a mark when they see the huge rocks. When marching, just look for those unmarked stones to go, because the marked stones must have passed by before, and those without marks must have never walked by before.

This method is very troublesome, but now Lu Xun’s biggest advantage is that it has a large number of people, and all Lu Xun is not afraid of troubles.

Therefore, wherever the army passed, all the stones around were marked by Jiangdong soldiers, and Lu Xun only needed to walk along the unmarked stone. Although the number of these stones was large, they were still limited. According to Lu Xun's way of walking, he could definitely test a path.

Adou touched the mark on the stone and smiled slightly. This was the place where Lu Xun's army had just passed by. All the stones around were marked by Jiangdong's troops.

"This Lu Xun is indeed smart. He actually thought of such a method. Although this method is laborious, it can achieve immediate results. With the more than 80,000 troops under Lu Xun, our stones cannot withstand his marks several times!" Zhang Ren praised beside him.

"Yes, Lu Xun is indeed smart, but he has a plan for Zhang Liang. I have a ladder!" A Dou smiled, walked to a stone that had not been marked, and took a mark as the Jiangdong people did, and then said to Zhang Ren: "Don't Lu Xun want to mark the stone? Let's help him together!"

At this time, Lu Xun didn't know that someone helped him mark the unmarked stones. Unlike Lu Xun, Adou was familiar with the terrain within the Eighth Formation, so the Shu army started to mark them from places close to the periphery. In this way, even if the Jiangdong Army was lucky enough to come to these places close to the periphery, when they saw the marks on the stones, they would think that they had walked past here before, and turned to other directions, and lost the opportunity to go out.

In short, although the Shu army has few people, the marking speed is three points faster than Lu Xun. Because Lu Xun needs to detour in the formation, and every time he finds a mark, he has to work hard to find places without markings. These places without markings often return to their original places, which will waste a lot of time. The Shu army does not need to detours at all under the leadership of A Dou, so the efficiency will be higher.

It was getting dark again, but Lu Xun still did not walk out of the stone formation.

"Why did you stop ahead?" Lu Xun asked.

"Governor, the brothers in front are looking for unmarked stones." Ding Fenghui reported.

Lu Xun nodded. The more stones that have been marked, the closer they will be to the real road. Maybe after this choice, you will be able to find a way out.

At this moment, Gan Ning hurried over.
Chapter completed!