Yuan Tan thought to himself, he is now in the limelight, and the younger brother in Yecheng and the judge not far away must want to see him make a fool of himself, so as to snatch the military power that he has coveted for a long time.

Since the Xinxi Liang army has been forced back, why not take the opportunity to make a surprise attack to completely expel the other party from the Shangdang area, and then install Xin Ping to control Luxian, which is almost as dangerous as Huguan, and win over Zhang Yang to contain the trial.

After making up his mind, Yuan Tan rewarded Yan Liang and Wen Chou with a lot of money, commended their previous bravery and merits, and provided additional food and meat, encouraging and winning them over from spiritual and material aspects.

But on the other hand, he regarded ordinary soldiers as grass mustard, only gave the ordinary standard of 100 Han Jin a month, and did not strictly enforce military discipline, which led them to go to the countryside in an organized manner to rob houses and houses, and even had friction with Haoqiangwu Fort, which made the heavens angry and resentful.

It has been almost a year since he was stationed in the Shangdang, and he knows very well that this kind of rule on the periphery is very fragile, and if he offends the local villages and Haoqiangwu Fort, he will directly push them to Tong Yuan.

That Tong Yuan was young, but he was very successful in the offensive of grain, salt, and iron and carbon, and a group of local tycoons secretly traded with them.

If it weren't for Zhang Yang's familiarity with the local situation, he would have been able to take military discipline seriously, and he would have not committed any crimes in the autumn, and the locals would have already eaten pot pulp to welcome the Xinxi Liang Army.

Within his own jurisdiction, he captured a group of plundering soldiers, and without communicating with Yuan Tan, he corrected all the law.

Yuan Tan was jealous and hateful after learning about it, he thought to himself, now that his father Yuan Shao is still here, this judge and others are so domineering, if he comes to take charge in the future, won't he go to heaven?

This is no longer a matter of knocking and beating, he scolded the trial for not knowing how to prioritize, and reprimanded Yuan Shao for pulling back the side of the trial. On the one hand, the conniving general secretly caught fire, vowing to take revenge and get back to the field.

As a result, only generals such as Yan Liang and Wen Chou in the Yuan army focused on attacking, and the others were either fighting for control of the party, or serving their masters to fight openly and secretly.

During the period when the Xinxi Liang Army was in the party, it not only did not commit any offence against the people and Haoqiangwu Fort in various places, but also brought all kinds of commodities and a good duty-free policy, and rapidly developed several intelligence channels.

They were not very disgusted with Yuan Tan's army, and temporarily reduced the exchange of information on the grounds of strict control of soldiers and horses. But Yuan Tan's infighting looted the gift package, and pushed them back to the side of the Xinxi Liang army.

The information of Yuan's infighting and plundering of the countryside was constantly transmitted to Zhang Lu's side, but most of it would be digested by him and several military officials who specialized in classification and analysis, forming the type of report requested by Tong Yuan, and then passing it on to the military discussion.

This is a new system that Tong Yuan has added in the past two years, that is, on the basis of the system of protecting the people, gathering talents, and collecting intelligence, a small and flexible team of intelligence analysts will be established.

Most of them are their own people with excellent intelligence ability selected from the merchant gang branches, which are equivalent to the intelligence branch of the staff system.

Serious military discussions are conducted by generals directly under the army and a group of core civilian officials.

After discovering this situation of the other party, Zhang Lu proposed that he could take advantage of the situation of familiarity with geography, transparency of intelligence, and laxity of the enemy to take advantage of the opportunity to raid the opponent.

Then one blow goes, so that the opponent has nothing to do, and even has the effect of annoying the enemy and luring the enemy to go deeper.

Jia Kui believes that after executing a blow and leaving, he can retreat slowly, deliberately show that he is not good at fighting for a long time, and let the opponent follow the pursuit, so as to enter the predetermined combat area.

Tong Yuan listened to the words of the two strategists and felt that this operation was definitely not bad, but he felt that the decisive battle seemed to be not yet yet. Moreover, now that the enemy is lured deep, the enemy also has the strength to break through and move south, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to meet the expectations of encirclement and annihilation in his heart.

After several years of growth and training, Xu Huang's military strategy has become a good hand in the New Xiliang Army.

After pondering for a while, he said, "My lord, if our army wants to give full play to the advantages of the people's support in the Shangdang area, I am afraid that it will continue to feign retreat to the north and let the enemy relax. ”

"Then use elite troops to detour behind enemy lines, threaten their flanks and rear, cut off their food routes, and then encircle and annihilate the enemy's army, so that the threat of the other side can really be lifted."

After Xu Huang finished speaking, the audience fell silent.

The civil servants felt that this strategy was indeed exquisite, but it was more demanding to operate, and when communication was not very convenient, could there be such a tacit understanding between the ministries?

Most of the civil officials present were a little worried, but the generals such as Yu Xuan, Zhang Fang, Li Tong, and Zhao Ang were eager to try and gear up. They have been waiting for a big war for a long time, and they are eager to prove themselves on the battlefield as soon as possible.

"Xu Gongming's plan is very good, from the perspective of military supply, it is enough to run this plan. It's just that there are too many enemies, and if our army eats strongly, I'm afraid that the casualties won't even be broken through by them, and then something is wrong. ”

Zhang Ji's words are heavier, in fact, this kind of roundabout and interspersed tactics he also used when recovering Shangjun, at that time, there were poisonous soldiers and horses, but in terms of troops, he did not suffer much loss, so he could annihilate most of the enemy.

Tong Yuan looked at the generals, Xu Huang deserved to be the strongest combat power at present, the rest Yu Poison and Li Tong were able to take charge alone, and Zhang Fang and Zhao Ang were also excellent young generals.

But with only such a composition, the frontal toughness still can't fight Yan Liang, Wen Chou and the rest of the generals around Yuan Tan.

But in terms of mountain warfare, it is indeed possible to deal with Yuan Tan's main force.

Xu Huang, Yu Poison, Zhang Fang and others were already very good at mountain warfare, and the Tuntian army under them also trained in Taihang and Luliang for a long time. In addition, he has already thoroughly explored the Shangdang Mountains, and this time there must be a way to teach Yuan Jun a hard lesson.

Tong Yuan suppressed the last hesitation in his heart and said, "Maybe the timing is not the best now, but opportunities also need people to create." ”

All the civil and military forces present cheered up, and Tong Yuan said this, it seemed that he was about to start a real battle.

"Yan Liang and Wen Chou, we have to fight to win them."

His tone was heroic and irresistible, and then he pointed to Shangdang and said, "Shangdang County is used as a second bait to exhaust their strength in repeated rushes. ”

Jia Kui was surprised, "This is actually a bait, is the real goal?"

Tong Yuan nodded at the swarthy Jia Kui and said, "The real target is still Yuan Tan's army, and it is Yan Liang and Wen Chou, who are acting as defenders in the emergency return to help." ”

Jia Kui was secretly frightened, what a domineering thing this is. It turned out that the battle was not for the city, but for the destruction of the enemy's main force. For this purpose, even large cities can be used as bait.

Most of the people present still didn't understand Tong Yuan's plan, and they were still thinking about how to take Shangdang County, and what the bait meant.

Zhang Ji stroked his beard slightly, and said, "The lord is mighty, but to achieve this goal, two conditions are needed. The first was to lure the army of Yuan Tan, Yan Liang, and Wen Chou to continue north. The second is to take down Zhang Yang very quickly. ”