Chapter 1014: Kong Fang's Grand Plan

Kong Fang's words really hit Chen Wuji's heart.

He really likes the two words Shìhòu.

Fighting is essentially about repeated Shìhòu, feeling out a way to kill the enemy!

And for an enemy they are extremely unfamiliar with, Shìhòu is an essential principle.

Chen Wuji lay completely flat on the grass still smelling of fire, "Tell me about your idea of Shìhòu."

Before saying this, I humble myself to ask my lord for a Bīngmǎ, I want to personally lead people to complete this Shìhòu. Kong Fang smiled calmly, then threw a condition at Chen Wuji.

Chen Wuji glanced at him somewhat surprised, "Your talent should be in winning battles from a thousand li away, not leading troops to charge into battle!"

"But a strategist who doesn't understand how to fight will probably never be able to outshine the enemy," Kong Fang said.

"In my humble opinion, a strategist must not only study those military texts, but also understand how real battles are fought on the battlefield, and should also know what the enemy is like."

Chen Wuji nodded; there was nothing wrong with that.

"I can consider temporarily agreeing to you, but if I'm not satisfied with your answer, you will honestly stay in the camp and not think about personally leading troops," Chen Wuji said.

He suddenly realized he seemed to have underestimated this guy a bit.

Or rather, Kong Fang has been hiding his clumsiness all along.

He previously spoke, but never had been this confident; every word was spoken with extreme caution, and also carried a lot of uncertainty.

Look at him now, confidence soaring, the whole person appears steady, yet the spirit between his eyebrows cannot be hidden.

Kong Fang readily agreed to Chen Wuji's condition: "My lord, to Shìhòu a person, the simplest method is deception, something you can do anytime is a feint, a bit more advanced is disguise, the most direct is pointing at a deer and calling it a horse, the most refined is to become him!"

"People are like that, enemies can be like that too, after all they're all people!"

"I plan to mix these methods a little, using disguise to become the enemy to deceive him, repeatedly feinting until they accept my pointing at a deer and calling it a horse. Though this sounds simple, to achieve it precisely requires some effort, especially on the battlefield, where the deception of disguise must reach the point of pointing at a deer and calling it a horse, which is extremely difficult."

If Kong Fang hadn't added that last sentence, Chen Wuji would have poured some cold water on this kid.

Everyone can talk sense, but for someone who has fought their way out of the battlefield, Kong Fang's principles are just principles.

Not to mention the whole set, even any single item is actually very difficult.

"My lord, you might first listen to what kind of troop I want. I only need a thousand people to be sufficient, but I need a large number of Camp Tents, at least enough to accommodate ten thousand people; these thousand soldiers would best be the elite of the Xùhòu yíng, uh... is a thousand too many?"

"What do you say? How many people are there in total in the Xùhòu yíng?" Chen Wuji retorted.

Good fellow, not managing the household really doesn't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are, right?

He just blurted out a thousand!

How many people does the Xùhòu yíng actually have?

Saying a thousand, you might as well just move the whole Xùhòu yíng!

"My lord, then five hundred! Pick another five hundred elite soldiers to fill in; without a thousand, my plan would hardly succeed!" Kong Fang also felt a bit embarrassed; he just realized after speaking that the Xùhòu yíng apparently only has a thousand total.

Chen Wuji stared at him intently.

Kong Fang suddenly felt a bit guilty: "My lord, this plan is rather bold; it must have the cooperation of the Scouts to work. Other soldiers... probably couldn't endure consecutive high-intensity marches."

"The officers and soldiers of the Xùhòu yíng are all picked through thousands; five hundred, you'd better not think about it, I can at most give you a hundred people, how you do it is up to you. However, I can give you a suggestion: you can let the Xùhòu yíng people lead the soldiers of other camps; my Zhōngjūn zhū yíng troops are merely relatively inferior to the scout and guard camps, but they're not really useless!" Chen Wuji said.

Kong Fang's eyes lit up: "My lord, the Jīnwèi yíng has many people; why not... give me nine hundred, as long as my lord is willing to send people from the Jīnwèi yíng, the Xùhòu yíng's hundred can just be a hundred!"

Chen Wuji's eyes suddenly widened, "You damned cultured loser, you dare to even covet the Laborers' Personal Guard? Are you trying to go to heaven?"

"I'll give you a chance to say it again!" Chen Wuji said.

Kong Fang gave a heh laugh, rubbed his nose, "If the Jīnwèi yíng's people aren't given by my lord, then... I need three hundred from the Xùhòu yíng; without three hundred Scouts, my matter is really hard to accomplish. This isn't me being picky; really, without elite troops, this matter is really hard to accomplish."

Chen Wuji stared at Kong Fang for a moment: "A hundred from the Xùhòu yíng, three hundred from the Jīnwèi yíng, not even a single extra character, especially don't let me think about the Xùhòu yíng again; you take three hundred in one breath, do you think I'm not fighting here?"

"Hurry up and say clearly what you want to do; if you can't explain it, don't even think about coveting a hundred or three hundred, not even a single soldier."

Kong Fang carefully calculated and then nodded.

One hundred plus three hundred is just one hundred plus three hundred; at least we've settled it.

The Jīnwèi yíng are the elite among elites, that is, they lack the skills of those Xùhòu yíng people; at that time, letting the Xùhòu yíng people lead them should be sufficient to accomplish his plan this time.

"My lord, my specific plan is this: from Yǐnmǎchuān enter Uyghur, cast a net at the vital point, establish a Yíngzhù for two thousand people, then discard it after use." Kong Fang said.

"Although this is somewhat wasteful, only such a Yíngzhù is needed to examine the Uyghur army's Bīnglì bùzhì in these places, observe their Xíngchéng pèizhì, and see how they fight, among other habits." Kong Fang said.

"I plan to use this method to go deep into Uyghur territory all the way; this is also the fundamental reason why I need so many Scouts. I need to use my army's elite Scouts' skills to explore the surrounding terrain, draw maps, to determine the enemy's Lùxiàn, to avoid being blocked in Uyghur." Kong Fang said.

Chen Wuji's eyebrows furrowed: "You want to use a thousand people with Camp Tents that can accommodate ten thousand, to go around the enemy's border and deep into Uyghur territory? Come, tell me, who will be crazy between us two then?"

"My lord, I really am not acting rashly!" Kong Fang laughed.

"Camp Tents that can accommodate ten thousand, I will discard them as I go; by the time I go deep into Uyghur, they'll basically be all thrown away, or I might only leave a few at the end. Whether to keep them depends on the enemy's reaction; I wouldn't dare play with my army soldiers' lives."