Han Cheng was afraid of being ambushed by Gao Gan, and led the soldiers of the Qinglong Battalion to march slowly, following Gao Gan's army twenty miles away.

Gao Gan's scout horse only found information fifteen miles away from the army, and did not find the Fenwu army behind him.

In this way, Han Cheng and the 4,000 soldiers of the Qinglong Battalion of the Fenwu Army came to Yuan Shao's territory - Pingxiang County, Julu County.

Pingxiang County and Shangai County are adjacent to each other, and the 15,000 troops of Gao Gan are stationed in the military camp in Pingxiang County.

After Han Cheng arrived in this county, he did not rush to attack Gao Gan's army, but spread widely to probe horses, probed for news from all over Jizhou, and thought about ways to break the enemy.

On this day, the Fenwu army reported to the Malay: "More than 30,000 Montenegrin troops have come out from Taihang Mountain to attack Wei County, and have broken through the three county towns of Neihuang County, Yin'an County, and Pingsi County in Wei County, and are approaching Yecheng. ”

Listening to this important news from Tanma, Han Cheng said to Zhang Fan beside him: "Quickly call Huang Zhong and Zhang Liao to come and discuss with me how to break the enemy." ”

When Zhang Fan went to inform the two, Han Cheng thought:

"Yuan Shao attacked my Changshan County, resulting in heavy casualties among the people and troops in the county, although the heavy casualties were driven by Zhao Fu's revenge heart, but the culprit was undoubtedly Yuan Shao.

Since his soldiers and horses came to Yuan Shao's territory, he didn't give Yuan Shao a hard time, but just made a small fuss, but it was a trip for nothing. ”

Under the influence of this thought, after Han Cheng heard the news that the Black Mountain Army was approaching Yecheng, he had a plan in his heart.

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When Huang Zhong and Zhang Liao arrived, Han Cheng told the two of them the news he had just gotten and said, "What do you two think about this?" ”

Although Zhang Liao initially disagreed with Han Cheng's pursuit plan, for a qualified general, the first and most important quality was to obey the orders of the lord.

When Han Cheng proposed a plan for the pursuit, what Zhang Liao had to do was how to make plans and lead the army to win the pursuit battle, rather than passive resistance.

After thinking for a moment, Zhang Liao said to Han Cheng: "Regarding this pursuit battle, there are three strategies for the lowly position, upper, middle and lower, please decide. ”

Han Cheng said: "There are three plans so soon, you talk about it, I'll listen to it." ”

Zhang Liao said: "In the Yecheng crisis, I think it is very likely that senior cadres will go to Yecheng to rescue. The next policy of the humble post is to take advantage of the high cadres to lead the army south to Yecheng, and our Fenwu army will capture Pingxiang County and other surrounding counties of Julu County, and expand the territory of the lord in Jizhou.

However, there are not many men and horses in Jizhou, and there are not too many people and horses guarding the county towns they captured. If you plunder and leave, it will damage the prestige of the lord; If we don't leave, the troops will be too small, and when Yuan Shao comes to his senses, it will be easy to break us all, so I think this is the next policy. ”

Han Cheng nodded with satisfaction: Han Cheng also considered this idea, but the disadvantages were too great, and it was given up by Han Cheng in a blink of an eye.

Zhang Liao immediately said the strategy, which showed that it was the worst choice, and there was a better strategy, so Han Cheng said: "I have considered this strategy, it is a waste of military power, and it is not applicable." I won't choose this strategy, Wen Yuan, you can continue to talk about the middle strategy. ”

Zhang Liao also didn't agree with this strategy, the next strategy was to capture the county seat, and the rest of the analysis was added by Zhang Liao himself, that is, he was afraid that Han Cheng would be hot and take down a few county seats, now that the lord Han Cheng is very calm, Zhang Liao's consideration is completely superfluous.

After hearing Han Cheng's words, Zhang Liao was much more relieved and continued: "The middle strategy is to eliminate Yuan Shao's military force. That is to say, our army took advantage of the high cadres to go south, taking advantage of the high speed of the cavalry, to set up an ambush on the road in advance. Eat the army of high cadres.

But after all, Gao Gan has an army of 15,000, and my 4,000 Qinglong Battalion is more troublesome to eat, and it will cause a lot of casualties to the Qinglong Battalion. So I think this strategy is just the middle way. ”

After Huang Zhong heard it, he spoke: "I think this middle strategy is good.

In Shangai County, that Wen Chou and Yan Liang are not cheeky, two people beat me one, I can't kill them, I am holding back the fire in my heart.

When we ambush them in advance, I will fight one, Wen Yuan is responsible for stopping one, I guarantee that Wen Chou's little bald head can be killed in less than twenty rounds, and then Yan Liang, who Wen Yuan stopped, will be killed, Yuan Shao suddenly lost his beloved two generals, and it is estimated that Yuan Shao, who was fighting with Gongsun Zan in Zhongshan County, vomited blood angrily. ”

When Han Cheng heard Zhang Liao's middle strategy, he looked at Zhang Liao with a relieved face, he could fight and give advice, no wonder 'Zhang Liao' could be ranked among the sixty-four generals in ancient China, and he did have his ability.

Han Cheng didn't know that Zhang Liao also had a title called "Baiji Zhang Liao".

In some operas, Cao Cao is basically a fixed two, one is Jiuniu Xu Chu, and the other is Baiji Zhang Liao.

Jiuniu Xu Zhu said that Xu Zhu's strength can pull nine cows, and the meaning of Zhang Liao is not that Zhang Liao only has a hundred schemes, but that Zhang Liao has many schemes.

Zhang Liao can appear as Cao Cao, and his status is the same as Xu Zhu's, which shows that Cao Cao values Zhang Liao.

After listening to Huang Zhong's words, Han Cheng said to Zhang Liao: "Wen Yuan is better than writing the location you want to attack in the best strategy on the palm of your hand, and I will also write my thoughts on the palm of your hand."

After a while, we opened the palms of our hands at the same time to show each other, and I saw if Wen Yuan was in line with my thoughts. ”

As soon as Zhang Liao heard that the lord's method was good, he wrote in the palm of his hand the location where he wanted to attack.

When Han Cheng raised his right hand after writing and saw the three words "Dongwu City" in Zhang Liao's hand, he was even more relieved. Sure enough, the hero sees the same thing.

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Everything is ready, and now only Gao Gan can go south to Yecheng to rescue.

Yuan Shao's army that attacked Jizhou was the original guard army of Julu County, and now it has to face two choices: one is to go south to rescue Yuan Shao's base camp - Yecheng, and the other is to stick to the same place, preserving the power of Julu County, and waiting for Yuan Shao's order. Han Cheng felt that the leading figure Gao Gan would help him make a choice.

Sure enough, Gao Gan held a large army and couldn't watch Yecheng being broken in vain, so Tanma inquired about the news: Gao Gan's army went south.

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After Han Cheng received the news, he ordered the whole army to rush to Qinghe County immediately.

Tobu Castle County, although the county seat is not large and the population is not very large, is very famous in Qinghe County.

The reason is because of a big family living in this county - Qinghe Cui family.

Qinghe Cui's family, although it does not have a lot of land or property, has something that others yearn for but can't get - family inheritance.

Since the Western Han Dynasty Cui Ye settled in Qinghe County Dongwucheng County, Qinghe Cui clan has produced many talents, although there is no Yuan family's 'four generations and three dukes' prominent position, but it has always been an official eunuch, and also enjoys a very high reputation in Confucianism.

In this generation, it has gone through the twelfth generation, and it has been standing tall in officialdom and Confucianism, relying on this family inheritance.

Cui Mi, the current head of the family, once worked as a Gongcao of Qinghe County, and had a good relationship with the contemporary Confucian Zheng Xuan when he was young, so he once recommended his second son Cui Yan to study under Zheng Xuan's seat.

And Cui Mi's cousin Cui Jing, who first served as the county guard of Wei County, and then transferred to Hejian County as the county governor, is actually the "old man" of Jizhou officialdom.

Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan's battle in Hejian County, military rations and other follow-up related matters, many of which were assisted by Cui Jing.

Cui Yan and Han Ye were friends when they were studying, and they were going to defect to Han Ye, but their father Cui Mi thought that Han Cheng was unreliable and would be destroyed by Yuan Shao sooner or later, so he let Cui Yan defect to Yuan Shao's name.

Now the defender of Dongwu City County is Feng Li, the general under Yuan Shao.

Because Qinghe County has a garrison of high-ranking cadres in Julu County in the west, Bohai County in the east, and Anping County in the north.

Facing the Yellow River in the south, it is a natural natural risk, and the other three sides are guarded by Jizhou counties and counties, which is really a rare and good place. Therefore, Yuan Shao settled the army in the surrounding three counties, and did not deploy heavy troops in Qinghe County.

As a result, the defenders of Julu County in the west, under the leadership of Gao Gan, went south to rescue Yecheng, and Han Cheng's Qinglong battalion appeared on the boundary of Qinghe County without resistance.

The day is just dawning, at the gate of Tobu Castle,

A strong man with a dozen Zhuang Ding pushing a cart appeared in the field of vision of the soldiers guarding the gate.

The cart was loaded with hay.

The soldiers guarding the gate shouted at the crowd, "What for? ”

The leader of these dozen strong men was Zhang Liao, and he hurriedly replied: "The owner said that yesterday I let these hay be transported into the city, but when we arrived yesterday, the city gate was closed, so we can only come early today and bother you military masters." ”

As he spoke, he handed over five hundred dollars and said, "Please help me and have a drink afterwards." ”

When the soldier guarding the gate saw that he was quite sensible, he said, "Hurry up." ”

These strong men pushed the cart, walked to the door, and suddenly stopped leaving.

The soldier guarding the gate was furious and said, "What are you doing here, do you want to die?" ”

Zhang Liao and the others took out a big knife from under the car, and in a blink of an eye, they cut the soldiers guarding the gate to the ground.

Then, set the hay in the cart on fire.

Huang Zhong, who was in the distance, saw a fire burning at the gate of the city, and knew that Zhang Liao had succeeded, and ordered the whole army of the Qinglong Battalion to attack and take Dongwu City.

Looking at the cavalry in the distance, Feng Li's subordinates looked dazed, where did this cavalry come from?

Four thousand against five hundred, although there are still eight hundred county soldiers, but how can the county soldiers who have not even been on the battlefield be the opponent of the elite Qinglong Battalion, at the time of Chen, Han Cheng was already sitting in the official office of Dongwu City County.

Kneeling at the foot of the hall were the guard general Feng Li and a cadre of officials in the county.