Chapter 79 Huang Zhong's Defeat
Guo Jia's plan was brilliant, with one thing leading to another, but there was a loophole in it that Zhang Xiu could not figure out: Huang Zhong was indeed the Huang in "Huang Xu Sun Tai", without a doubt.

There is no other general with the surname Huang among the twenty-four generals, and Huang Gai is probably not even as good as Jiang Wei, who is at the bottom.

The ranking of the jingle is not absolutely accurate, but those that are not in the ranking basically cannot compare with the powerful players in the ranking.

Not to mention, Huang Zhong is ranked high.

Zhang Xiu once heard Ji Hao say that, except for Lu Bu, the ranking of the top few was not absolute, and it was very likely that Huang Zhong at his peak was no weaker than Zhao Yun. How could Huang Gai, who was not even ranked, be beaten?
"If I let you attack Jiangdong, what are your chances of winning?" Guo Jia asked back.

This question really stumped Zhang Xiu.

Is Jiangdong powerful?
Of course he was powerful, otherwise why would Liu Bei confer the title of King of Wu on Sun Jian?

In the group of "Huang Xu Sun Tai", Sun Ce and Taishi Ci are both generals of Jiangdong. In the group of "Er Zhang Xu Pang Gan Zhou Wei", Gan Ning and Zhou Tai are also generals of Jiangdong.

If a real fight breaks out, he, as Zhang Xiu, will definitely be the one being eaten.

"It's hard to win." Zhang Xiu said.

Hearing this, Guo Jia smiled and asked, "What about Huang Zhong?"

At this point, Zhang Xiu was confused.

In terms of martial arts, he felt that no one in Jiangdong could match Huang Zhong, but he always felt that something was wrong. Although Taishi Ci and Sun Ce were not ranked as high as Huang Zhong, with four against one, Huang Zhong wouldn't be able to win, right?

Although Sun Ce is detained now and cannot go back, the remaining three are not easy to deal with.

"Without Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, Huang Gai is Sun Jian's top general, while Taishi Ci, Gan Ning and Zhou Tai are all his subordinates!" Guo Jia said, "Huang Gai knows his own strengths and weaknesses, so he will definitely not fight Huang Zhong himself, but will send his subordinates to meet the enemy. In this way, Huang Zhong will surely lose, and as long as he loses, he will no longer be the 'Huang' in Liu Biao's eyes, which will give us the opportunity to implement the next plan!"

This actually involves the question of whether success or failure is the key to success.

If Huang Zhong's master was Liu Bei or Cao Cao, this plan would not be feasible at all because defeat would be inevitable.

It would be strange if we could win.

But unfortunately, that was Liu Biao and the complicated forces in Jingzhou!
"Of course, to be on the safe side, we have to do two more things!" Guo Jia smiled and said, "First, we use Sun Ce as a threat to force Huang Gai not to fight Huang Zhong in single combat, so as to prevent him from losing. Second, we let Zhou Yu go to ensure that the battle is foolproof!"

Theoretically, the configuration under Huang Gai's command is simply incomparable to that of Huang Zhong.

But there may not be any accidents.

Because Huang Zhong himself is a top-notch general who is both civil and military, and the battlefield changes rapidly, even if there is a 90% chance of losing, there is still a chance of winning.

But if Zhou Yu is added, he is gone.

If Han Xin could defeat Overlord, he believed that Zhou Yu would also be able to deal with Huang Zhong.

"Okay, I'll let him go right now!" Ji Hao said.

……

In the end, when Zhou Yu returned to Jiangdong with the message, his mood was complicated.

As a top strategist, how could he not know Ji Hao's plan? But he had to cooperate, and Huang Gai also had to cooperate, because Sun Ce was still in Ji Hao's hands.

Furthermore, since Huang Zhong took the initiative to attack, Jiangdong had no choice but to fight.

Even Huang Zhong had to be defeated.

You can't, just to foil one enemy's plan, deliberately lose to another enemy and miss the chance to weaken Liu Biao, right?
"Bo Fu is in their hands. We have no choice but to fight for Huang Zhong, but we can kill him!" Zhou Yu said, "Let's make a good plan and make Ji Hao's plan fail while meeting his request!"

Afterwards, he made a series of plans against Huang Zhong.

For example, he first sent General Taishi Ci to challenge Huang Zhong and pretend to be defeated to lure him into deeper territory. At the same time, he sent Gan Ning to lead his men to ambush Huang Zhong underwater and pierce through his boat.

Huang Gai also personally went into battle and led his army to annihilate Huang Zhong, leaving no one alive.

All the plans are sound.

However, when it was actually implemented, it always felt wrong: Huang Zhong and Xu Sun Tai were ranked in the same sentence, and normally the difference should not be too big. The two Xiahou at the bottom could fight Sun Ce head-on without losing. But after the real fight, Huang Zhong vs. Taishi Ci showed his suppressive power as soon as they fought.

Although Taishi Ci could still hold on, he didn't dare to hold back at all.

Because if you are not careful, you may die.

Fake defeat?

That would really be a defeat, and he would be beheaded!

"Zhou Tai, you go too!"

There was no other way, Zhou Yu could only change his strategy and ask Zhou Tai to go and help, to see if he could kill Huang Zhong directly.

But after he went up, he and Taishi Ci teamed up, but still failed to defeat Huang Zhong, and instead fell behind - the fighting generals did not just stand still to output, but could also move around, and the addition of Zhou Tai did not put too much pressure on Huang Zhong.

"No way?"

Finally, Zhou Yu dispatched Gan Ning over, and the three famous generals on the list fought against Huang Zhong himself.

In a short period of time, the game ended in a draw.

Not to mention killing him directly, he couldn't even win, which made Zhou Yu realize that he was wrong.

Big mistakes.

A powerful general who can make Ji Hao rack his brains to come up with strategies, is he really just at the level of Sun Ce?

Not at all!

This Huang Zhong is a peerless person who has fallen into a lower realm!
Zhou Yu was sure that at the age of 30, Huang Zhong was definitely an unrivaled warrior, on the same level as Lu Bu and Zhao Yun. But now that he was in his 50s and his physical strength had declined, he had fallen from the level of an unrivaled warrior.

But martial arts skills will not be compromised in the slightest!
"No wonder Ji Hao insisted on letting me go. If it was just General Huang, Huang Zhong would have rushed into the battle line and taken over the general position, and he would have been beheaded!"

Even now, the situation is still not optimistic.

Because it's a tie only when it's three against one.

Huang Zhong also had a deputy general under his command, named "Wei Yan" - many people thought that the three people of "Gan Zhou Wei" were Gan Ning, Zhou Cang and Wei Xu, because the latter two were generals under Ji Hao and Lu Bu respectively.

But in fact, the so-called "Zhou" is Zhou Tai, a general from Jiangdong.

Only Ji Hao and Jiang Dong himself know this.

As for "Wei", Zhou Yu used to think it was "Wei Xu", but when Wei Yan led a cavalry to attack from behind and easily defeated Cheng Pu, Zhou Yu realized that it was Huang Zhong's subordinate Wei Yan!
"Is Liu Biao blind?" Huang Gai sighed.

"The original plan was to retreat!" Zhou Yu said, "I arranged for Lu Meng to replace Gan Ning and ambush him in the water. We will definitely be able to defeat Huang Zhong!"

After saying this, he threw away his armor and fled with Huang Gai in simple clothes.

Wei Yan laughed out loud, and thinking of a rumor that had spread from Qingzhou, he couldn't help but say, "They are really rats from Jiangdong. They run away after being beaten!"

After saying that, he led his troops in pursuit.

On the other side, Taishi Ci and his two companions turned around and fled, leading Huang Zhong to chase them.

Huang Zhong, eager to win, didn't think too much.

He led the army and chased after them.

When they escaped to the river, Jiangdong people boarded the boat, and he also drove the boat to chase them, hoping to capture Huang Gai in one fell swoop and get a promotion and a raise. However, as he drove on, he gradually found something was wrong.

"Why is our ship's draft getting deeper and deeper?"

(End of this chapter)