Although Yuan Shang hated Yuan Yao to the bone, he also did not underestimate Yuan Yao, at least he did not directly lead the army to kill all the way, and with the help of Feng Ji and the trial under his hands, he walked around and scouted to understand the layout of the war in the entire Xuzhou.

But waiting for the news sent back by the scout made Yuan Shang a little confused.

The closest to Qingzhou in the whole Xuzhou is Langya County, but there are no two people in several cities in Langya County, and the cities are all long and open.

Even if there are defenders in the others, there are two or three big cats and small cats, and the only one is Kaiyang, and he Yuan Shang has not been able to get the news completely.

But it's just a matter of time.

"What is this Yuan Yao child doing?" Yuan Shang didn't understand that Langya County was the strongest place in Xuzhou that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, but Yuan Yao didn't take him to heart at all.

"I'll just say? This Yuan Yao Xiaoer is simply imaginary, and he won Cao Cao? I am afraid that it was my army that forced Cao Cao to retreat, otherwise Huainan would have been wiped out! Yuan Shang said disdainfully, "Langya County is not guarded, I want to see what you Yuan Yao uses to guard other places!" ”

Yuan Shang looked down on Yuan Yao very much, who made him hate Yuan Yao? A disgusting person is disgusting in everything he does.

"Is this Yuan Yao Xiao'er trying to lure the enemy deeper?" Feng Ji also asked suspiciously, but this is not right, you don't need to open the door so much to lure the enemy in, Xuzhou doesn't have many natural dangers to defend.

"Major General, isn't this Yuan Yao Xiao'er afraid of our Hebei Army!" The generals on the side laughed.

"I'm afraid, that's the best, if Yuan Yao'er surrenders early, I can still leave him a dog's life, if he doesn't surrender, then kill him!"

"It doesn't matter if he Yuan Yao'er lures the enemy deeper, or is afraid of us! We all have to play it steady! "The trial is much more vigilant, he let his soldiers and horses take the two cities closest to the periphery first, stand firm, and also transport the grain and grass materials in his army to these two cities.

Yuan Shang did not let the Karasuma Iron Cavalry go first, but let the Jizhou Iron Cavalry seize the two cities first, because he was afraid that after the Karasuma cavalry entered the city, he was afraid that the city would be abolished.

These two county towns, as if they were scouts before, didn't have any place at all, and they quickly surrendered, and everything in the city belonged to our third son of Yuan Shang, but what made Yuan Shang angry.

These two cities are so poor that there is no oil and water at all, Langya County is not as rich as other counties in Xuzhou, plus it was looted by Cao Cao, Yuan Yao was looted on the side, this land has been scraped several times, where is there still oil and water left.

The officials who surrendered in the two cities also quickly had the consciousness of being dogs and sold Yuan Yaojun, and they were sold completely.

"What do you say? Yuan Yao'er is in Kaiyang City now? Yuan Shang grabbed this surrendered Xuzhou county order.

Where has this Xuzhou county commander experienced such a formation, and the county magistrate was so frightened that he nodded his head again and again.

"Good, good, good!" Yuan Shang couldn't help but be overjoyed, "God really helps me!" ”

Isn't it because Yuan Yao that Yuan Shang has an opinion about the Huainan Army?

Isn't it because of Yuan Yao that the Huainan Army can have such development as it is now? As long as Yuan Yao'er is won, then the overall situation of the entire Huainan will be broken.

"In this way, I will definitely arrest that Yuan Yao child and admit my mistake in front of my father, haha!" In Yuan Shang's opinion, how many defenders can a Kaiyang City have? 120,000?

And he, Yuan Shang, has a full 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and attacking a Kaiyang City is not easy to capture.

Immediately, the third prince of Yuan Shang sent Karasuma Iron Cavalry as the vanguard, and he commanded the main force of the Chinese army towards Kaiyang City.

The vanguard troops had arrived outside Kaiyang City one day earlier, and Yuan Shang's own main force of the Chinese army had also arrived outside Kaiyang City at noon on the second day.

Outside Kaiyang City, except for some Huainan army scouts, the others could not see the soldiers and horses blocking the attack at all, and the entire city was locked with the gate, and the banners stood on the head of the city, which meant that the retreat was guarded. When Yuan Shang and his soldiers and horses saw Kaiyang City, the fortified city of Langya County, he couldn't help but gasp.

"What kind of city did this old thief Cao Cao leave for Yuan Yao's traitor!" Yuan Shangdu began to scold, how to repair this city, why there is no place to cut corners.

Not only the city wall is towering, but there are more guardrails, bow and arrow towers, surrounded by Mount Tai on three sides, and the river attracted by Zang Ba before, which can be described as a real city fortification.

"If I didn't believe that Yuan Yao was in Kaiyang City before, now I do!" With such a strong city, it is no wonder that Yuan Yao'er can stay with confidence.

"If the lord takes this city, our army may have to suffer great losses!" Feng Ji on the side reminded Yuan Shang.

"No matter how big the loss is, as long as you can catch Yuan Yao, Xiao'er will not save one in ten, it will be worth it!" Yuan Shang said viciously, the current Yuan Shang's mind is the same as that of Cao Cao at the beginning, thinking that once Yuan Yao is arrested, then the overall situation of all this is already doomed.

But he forgot that this premise was to catch Yuan Yao.

"Go, send someone to send me a letter of persuasion!" Yuan Shang's third son, this is planning to salute first and then soldier.

It's not that Yuan Shang is polite, but this Kaiyang City, seeing that his scalp is numb for the third son of Yuan Shang, he sees if he can persuade Yuan Yao to surrender this war.

But the idea of dooming Yuan Shang's third son is not valid.

"Haha!" Yuan Yao, who was in Kaiyang City, disdainfully tore the letter in half for him, "Didn't he Yuan Shang want to capture me alive?" Since he has this plan, then let him come, and I will wait for him in Kaiyang City! ”

"Yes!" His subordinates were about to go down to reply, but they were stopped by Yuan Yao.

"Slow, how did Yuan Shang send this letter?" Yuan Yao inquirer's subordinates.

"I sent someone to send it." It was the hanging basket that entered the city to deliver the letters.

"Okay, how can I Kaiyang City be his Yuan Shang's people who come and leave as soon as they want!" Yuan Yao said with a cold snort.

"Lord, the two armies will not fight each other!" Someone on the side advised Yuan Yaodao, and they thought that Yuan Yao was planning to kill the envoy.

"Who said I was going to kill the messenger?" Yuan Yao smiled slightly, "It's just a warning to him Yuan Shang!" With a wave of Yuan Yao's hand, this person who originally came in with a good hand became earless when he went out.

"Damn, hateful, Yuan Yao'er, this is you looking for death, you looking for death! Siege, give me siege! After receiving such a reply from Yuan Yao, the third prince of Yuan Shang, who had already had an opinion on Yuan Yao, was naturally full of anger, and immediately asked his soldiers and horses to take out all the ladder siege equipment made during the time when the envoys were sent to negotiate before.

"The Major General is angry, angry! Yuan Yaoxiao'er, this is deliberately provoking you, the young general! "The trial and Feng Ji on the side dissuaded Yuan Shang, but under the military order, it was too late to regret it, and the trial and Feng Ji could only regard this siege as a temptation, to see how many soldiers and horses Yuan Yao Xiao'er put in this city.

Under this temptation, the trial and Feng Ji knew that they had stepped onto the iron plate.

Arrows rain down above the city, rolling stones and falling wood and golden soup are also inclined out, how many Yuan Shaojun soldiers above the arrow tower died in the hands of the Huainan army, and now Yuan Shang already has the feeling that his father attacked Guandu, it is completely a turtle that the dog encountered, and he can't go down.

The attack didn't work, Yuan Shangsangongzi's two dog-legged strategists immediately thought of another way for our Yuan Shangsangongzi, that is, to fight tunnel warfare, if the front is not good, I will dig a tunnel for him.

The Huainan army above the city did not make any movement, Yuan Shang thought that he was hiding from everyone, and even sent his elite troops to the city to die in order to cover for digging tunnels, and even the Karasuma Iron Cavalry was forced to attack the city in a wave.

But in the end, digging the tunnel dug up a piece of solid mountain stone, Kaiyang City was originally a city under the mountain, his underground is naturally dominated by mountain stones, but before the Taishan thieves occupied Kaiyang in order to drain the formation of a moat, only to make part of the underground into black soil, but the closer you get to Kaiyang City, you will find that the soil is more solid.

In this era without explosives, huge rocks represent complete insolvability.

Just digging a tunnel, his Yuan Shang's soldiers and horses were delayed for several days.

The city could not be breached, the soldiers were used as cannon fodder, and the tactics used as cannon fodder were still so powerless, and now the morale of Yuan Shang's army began to decline.

One blow, then three times and exhaustion.

"Major General, let's give up Kaiyang!" The judge on the side suggested, "Kaiyang City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is nothing to do if the tunnel is attacked, this Yuan Yao Xiaoer can be said to have made full preparations, but this Yuan Yao has forgotten one point, that is, except for Kaiyang City, Xuzhou, the other cities are all in the front of our army!" ”

"Brother Zhengnan is attacking other places first, and then making plans?" Feng Ji asked suspiciously.

"Exactly!" The judge nodded, "Kaiyang City has gathered the main force of the Huainan Army, and several cities close to Kaiyang City are empty, we only need to send soldiers and horses to occupy a few cities on the edge of Kaiyang to form horns, then this Yuan Yao Xiaoer will either trap Kaiyang City, or need to send troops to break through, and then it will be time for us to control the battle!" ”

"What if Yuan Yao'er slips away?" Yuan Shang was a little unwilling.

"Young General, please rest assured, this Yuan Yao Xiao'er can't run away, as long as our army guards a few key places, where else can he Yuan Yao Xiao'er run to!" Feng Ji sneered.

"Good!" Yuan Shangsangongzi nodded, "Mr. Feng Ji will be stationed here with more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and Mr. Zhengnan and I will divide into two roads, one west and one south, first take the whole county of Langya, and then trap this Yuan Yao child!" ”5

Above the city, Yuan Shang's movements of soldiers and horses naturally couldn't hide from Yuan Yao.

Looking at the transfer of Hebei below.

"This Yuan Shangxiao wants to run?" Zhang Xun, a military general on the side, said.

"No!" Yuan Yao shook his head, now Yuan Shang is besieging the city, and it should be him Yuan Yao who is running, "This Yuan Shang still has a capable person in his hands!" ”

Although these two people are not as good as Tian Feng and Fu Yu in terms of strategy, they are also rare characters.

"If you can catch it alive, you should take it!" The direction of Yuan Shang's soldiers and horses is to divide the troops in the southwest, which is the idea of trapping him Yuan Yao to death in Langya County.

"Are the soldiers ready?" Yuan Yao asked Chen Dao on the side.

"It's all ready!" Chen Zhi nodded.

"Okay, follow me down to town!" Yuan Yao took a group of generals from Huainan down to the city tower, and a place was vacated early in Kaiyang, and thousands of soldiers on the field wore sophisticated weapons and armor.

"Okay, let all the Yulin guards take off their armor and throw away the spears in their hands, each of them, with a knife and a bow!" Yuan Yao shouted loudly to Yu Linwei under his hand.

"Huh?" Zhang Xun and the others on the side were stunned, "Lord, are you going out of the city to start a war with Yuan Shang's Hebei army?" ”

"yes!"

"Why?" Zhang Xun and the others didn't understand why they had to leave their armor and weapons when they went out of the city, they must know that the most advantageous place for the Huainan army to fight the Hebei army was probably the armor in their hands.

"No need to ask!"

"All the Yu Lin Guards unload!" Chen Zhi was much more real, and gave orders directly to the below.

"Good!" At first, there were only a few hundred of these Yu Lin Wei as commanders of Zhang Xun, and later Zhang Xun was used by Yuan Yao for other purposes, and this Yu Lin Wei was taught to Chen Dao.

"Fetch the arrows!"

"Everyone has two horses, one horse with a bow and one horse with an arrow! Open the city gate and follow me out of the city to kill the enemy! Under Yuan Yao's order, every soldier of Yulinwei had two war horses under his crotch, one of which carried people and one of which had a quiver on it.

Each war horse can put about eight pots,

"Click!" The gates of Kaiyang City slowly opened under Yuan Yao's orders.

……

In Yuan Shang's barracks, Yuan Shang had already begun to prepare for the division of troops, and he Yuan Shang himself personally took more than 10,000 Jizhou iron cavalry and the Karasuma cavalry that counted the money to the south.

Just when Yuan Shang was about to give instructions to judge and meet the discipline, a battle report came from there.

"Report!"

A herald hurriedly ran to the front of Yuan Shang in the camp, and knelt down in front of Yuan Shang and the others with both hands clenched into fists, "Report to the major general, Kaiyang City, Kaiyang City has sent troops!" ”

"What!" Yuan Shang and the others were all stunned by the news, but then they reacted.

Yuan Shang's eyes were full of hideousness, "This Yuan Yao Xiao'er is really not afraid of death, I can't do anything about him when he stays in the city, but now hehe, since he wants to die so much, then I will fulfill him!" "Yuan Shang, who has more than 10,000 elite cavalry under his hands, is full of confidence.

There is the city defense of Kaiyang City in the city, Yuan Shang can't break Kaiyang City at all, even if he fights, he Yuan Yao's own soldiers and horses will be lost, but now it's different, Yuan Yao Xiao'er can come out with the soldiers and horses under his hands, then don't blame him Yuan Shang.

"Pass my military order, and the whole army will follow me out of the camp and attack and kill the enemy!" Yuan Shang shouted, and the soldiers under his command began to prepare.

"Major General, this kind of deception!" The trial was frowning, this Yuan Yao and Yuan Zhongde stayed well in the city, why did he suddenly go out of the city?

Even took the initiative to attack? Isn't this looking for death?

"Brother Zhengnan, I think this Yuan Yao can't help it, they can see that we want to trap them, so they just came out to fight the trapped beast!" Feng Ji and the trial are different.

"Okay, Mr. Zhengnan, what can he Yuan Yao deceive? The first meeting will be. Yuan Shang was a little impatient, and the judges and others had no choice but to make plans to meet Yuan Yao first.

Yuan Shangzhong's army sent troops, leaving Feng Ji and others to sit in the camp, and he took Ma Yan and Xian Pei and others out of the camp.

10,000 Jizhou Iron Cavalry and a group of people with a number of money Karasuma cavalry, the sound of the war horse hitting the ground is like an earthquake, if it encounters a foot army, then this force is a soul messenger from hell.

"The lord should send a scout army to spy on it!" The trial reminded Yuan Shang on the side.

"Scouts?" Yuan Shang's camp is within thirty miles of Kaiyang City, because Yuan Shang's main force has nearly 100,000 troops, and there are naturally a lot of soldiers and horses.

And now it is not him Yuan Shang attacking Yuan Yao, but Yuan Yao has a long run to his Yuan Yao's camp, which can be said to be his Yuan Shang's home field, why send scouts?

However, looking at the stubbornness of the trial, I could only nod in approval.

"Major General, when you meet that Yuan Yao's soldiers and horses, remember not to fight with Yuan Yao's army!" Reviewed and reminded again?

"Why?" Yuan Shang asked with a frown.

"Young General, I heard that there are many fierce generals in Yuan Yao's army, and even Cao Cao's old thief has suffered a lot of losses in Yuan Yao's hands, and even Xiahou Chun and others have been captured by Yuan Yao'er!" The intelligence collection of Yuan Yaojun is still good.

The trial and match used Cao Cao as a comparison, which was to remind Yuan Shang, because Cao Cao and Yuan Shao fought before, but Yuan Shao lost Yan Liangwen and Chou two first-class generals one after another.

"How many generals can Cao Cao have, if it weren't for the three surnamed slaves, my father would not have lost the two generals Yan Liangwen and Chou one after another, and now these three surnamed slaves are no longer in Cao Cao's army!" Yuan Shang said disdainfully to the judge,

"This slave with three surnames is now in Yuan Yao'er's army!" The trial is not allowed at all.

"That's a broken leg, too!" Yuan Shang argued, but he said so, but in fact, Yuan Shang still listened to the suggestion of the trial.

"Once I lead the army to annihilate this Huainan Army unit, you will immediately let Zhang Hui take his soldiers and horses to attack the city!" Yuan Shang is going to hold on to victory and fight a tailwind battle

He listened to the verbose trial and prepared to play the match and leave.

Seeing Yuan Shang's dissatisfaction with himself, he also sighed, he knew that staying would only make Yuan Shang more and more disgusted, so he could only shake his head, and reminded him again, "Young General, remember not to be greedy for merit, with my 100,000 army, this victory is only a matter of time!" ”

"Yes!" Yuan Shang nodded, and immediately took his soldiers and horses to whip away.

More than 10,000 cavalry followers outside the camp Yuan Shang, the third son, these two troops are elite, although the Jizhou iron cavalry belongs to the mass production type, but it is also established under the situation of many war horses in Hebei, this Jizhou iron cavalry is equivalent to the elite Qingzhou soldiers under Cao Cao, and even stronger than them, after all, there is a war horse to assist.

And the other Karasuma Iron Cavalry was a foreign soldier and horse who was hung and beaten by the white horse general Gongsun Zan back then, but how to say that this is also Karasuma's soldiers and horses to support Yuan Shao's ally, and there are too many elites in it.

With such an iron cavalry, he Yuan Shang can be said to have a lot to go in the world, even if some small princes in the south can't come up with so many cavalry with all their might.

There is such a team of soldiers and horses, not to mention that Yuan Yao Xiao'er is only one, even if it is an army of 100,000, he Yuan Shang dares to break through.

So Yuan Shang and Yuan Sangongzi are very confident.

Yuan Shao taught Karasuma Iron Riding to Yuan Sangongzi, in addition to not worrying about him, the most beloved son, there is also a point that is to demonstrate, to tell Yuan Yao, to warn Yuan Yao.

Yuan Shao didn't want to have a decisive battle with Yuan Yao at this time.

If Yuan Yao is obedient, let Yuan Yao take his soldiers and horses to help him go to recover the south as cannon fodder, if he is disobedient, he will be destroyed.

In order to reflect the elite of his subordinates, Yuan Shang deliberately gathered the cavalry troops into a huge phalanx, but fortunately, this is Xuzhou, and the terrain is flat, so he can bring out such a large formation.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are all heavily armored cavalry, and when they move around, they are full of majesty.

The soldiers and horses of the two sides gathered dozens of miles, and it may take half a day for the foot soldiers, but for the cavalry, the distance of thirty miles is very close, and soon the scouts in front of them came with the news that they found the traces of Yuan Yaojun, the number of people was about 5,000, and there were three banners, one for Yuan, one for Chen and one for Zhao.

"Back to the major general, Huainan's soldiers and horses have been clearly investigated, and they are ten miles ahead!"

"Ten miles?" That is, it is very close, logically speaking, there should be some movement in the large-scale cavalry movement, but he Yuan Shang didn't hear the slightest cross talk.

"Major General Hui, those Huainan troops of Yuan Yao are now resting ten miles away!"

"Rest?" Yuan Shang thought that he had misheard, so he asked the scout to repeat it again, and sure enough, he was resting, Yuan Shang was immediately furious, this Yuan Yao child looked down on himself.

But then Yuan Shang calmed down his anger, and in general, the words before the trial still played a role, that is, he, Yuan Shang, at least a little more, "Could it be that Yuan Yao'er is deliberately angry with me?" ”

Under this kind of persecution paranoia, Yuan Shang also became smug, "It should be like this, haha, Yuan Yao'er, you can't imagine that General Ben will not be fooled by you!" ”

Yuan Shang is really right this time, Yuan Yao's posture is really here to provoke Yuan Shang, but who made Yuan Shang not move, he can only give up, Yuan Yao's soldiers and horses have no action, but Yuan Shang's army is moving.

As soon as he heard the movement, waiting for Yuan Shang's soldiers and horses to get closer and closer, Yuan Yao immediately asked all the soldiers and horses under his command to get on their horses and prepare for battle.

"Uncle Zhi, everything is according to plan!" Yuan Yao didn't expect to be able to provoke Yuan Shang or fool Yuan Shang once, he recruited one after another.

"Yes!" Chen Zhi nodded, and soon under the command of Chen Zhi, Yuan Yao brought out the Yu Linwei, who had less than 3,000 people, put out a strange formation, a long snake formation, that's right, you read it right, it is a long snake formation, this was originally a infantry formation, and the role was also used to block the enemy.

But when this is used on cavalry, it makes people laugh off their big teeth.

"Haha!" Yuan Shangjun's generals all laughed when they saw this formation.

"This Yuan Yao child is really interesting! A long snake formation! ”

"Did he think he was in the footsteps?" Yuan Shang's subordinates were ridiculed for a while.

"If you look at the weapons and armor on their bodies, is it possible that this Yuan Yao child is already poor like this? I can't even afford to equip a piece of armor. Only then did everyone realize that Yuan Yao'er's cavalry really didn't even have fast and heavy armor, and they were all cloth clothes.

"It's not poor, those are all brocade clothes!" Some generals saw that Yuan Yao's soldiers and horses over there were actually wearing brocade clothes.

"I wish this was Yu Linwei!" I can see the banner of the Chinese army on it clearly, and the words Yulin are written on it, "If it is Yulinwei, it is not unusual, Yulinwei, it was originally used by my dead uncle as a façade!" ”

Yu Linwei was really a cavalry unit used by Yuan Shu to serve as a façade before, but it was slowly changed by Yuan Yao later.

"I'm just saying that this Cao Cao must be accidentally defeated by Yuan Yao'er, otherwise it's up to them?"

"Okay, let's go and see our Yuan Yao's thief's Yu Linwei together!" Yuan Shang smiled, he was going to swallow this Lin Wei for him.