Linghu's mission to Xin Er is very clear.

The purpose of this battle is not to steal the territory, but as long as Pu Mao's troops can be mobilized, so that they can give up attacking Ranxing and reinforce Shuofang in the north.

Yang Chao's two military proposals are all based on this goal.

Shuofang County was established in the middle of the Qin Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty established this county to prevent the Xiongnu from moving south. Shuofang County is the south of Gaoque, relying on the Great Wall, the Yin Mountain in the north and the Yellow River, since its establishment, it is the throat of the "Tongchuan" and "key points".

At the earliest, Shuofang County governed ten counties, five counties in Hedong and Hexi, and later in the late Qin Dynasty, the national strength declined, and the five counties in Hexi were all revoked, and only the names of the three counties of Sanfeng, Linrong and Woye were retained, all of which moved into Hedong.

However, the ruins of the ancient city of Sanfeng County are still there.

Tang and Ding moved westward, the tribes in the north, the war continued, the strong soldiers and horses were the king, Pu Qin, Tiefu Xiongnu or not, their lords were not willing to defend the king, and refused to be confined to the Hetao area in the east of the river, therefore, Zhao Yanli, the current occupier of Shuofang, repaired the three ancient cities slightly, and sent a group of men and horses to be stationed here, as nails, ears and eyes to extend to the west of Shuo.

When there is nothing to do, this place can be used as a peripheral stronghold of Shuofang County. When something happens, it is the outpost of Shuofang or Pu Qin attacking Dingxi.

Yang Chao's suggestion is that "the general leads the fine horse, crosses thousands of miles of quicksand and attacks Shuofang, and accompanies the grain and straw, only for half a month." Today's battle strategy should be based on a quick decision. Our department is riding, the pros and cons are half, the advantages are in the desert of Shuofang, our department can hide its whereabouts, and turn to the speed of battle; The disadvantage is that our department lacks large-scale siege equipment, and there are no foot soldiers, so it is difficult to siege the city.

"It is advisable to make a quick decision, but it is difficult to attack the city, how can the king's order be accomplished? It is fashionable to think that the only way to seek magic is to achieve results. ”

Xin Er asked at the time, "The strange plan is good, but the plan will be settled?" ”

"The general's tent is full of horses. The king collected Hu to form an army, and the matter has been spread, and Shuo Fang must have heard about it, and at the same time, they must not have thought of the arrival of our department. Because the general is, he can choose Xianbei to follow a few, so that the Xianbei people of Beishan who pretend to be fleeing will be mixed into the three sealed cities.

"Internal and external attack, three seals are easy to take!"

Xin Er had read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in his previous life, and he remembered that in this book, there seemed to be many similar uses to the sheep fashion.

This kind of strategy of "earning the city gate and laying down the city" is simple to say, but it is not easy to use it in practice.

In the vast majority of battles, in fact, it is simply unusable.

But right now, it's just the right thing to do.

Because, as Yang Chao said, the Tiefu Huns "must not have imagined the arrival of our department". I am in the dark, and the enemy is in the light. The defenders of the three closed cities were not aware of the approach of the Xin Er Department at all, that is, at this moment, they were not vigilant at all. Xianbei Yicong drove camels and horses, and asked to enter the city under the pretext of fleeing, and the defenders of the three seals were greedy for their goods, and they were sure that they would not be rejected from the city.

Everything was as expected.

For the sake of realism, he also selected more than 20 people who did not have beards, pretended to be women, drove three or four hundred camels and healthy horses, and successfully coaxed open the city gate of Sanfeng County.

Xin Er and the others, who were lying in the distance, saw them enter the city.

Xin Yi smiled and said to Yang Chao: "The plan is done!" ”

The bald and wild people are all warriors, with strong physique and fierce breath, and when they look at the city and the city, they bow their heads and bow their heads, and they can temporarily coax the defenders, and as soon as they enter the city, they will soon be exposed. Without further ado, Xin Er immediately ordered Lan Baozhang and other leading parts to rush out from behind the sand dunes, and thousands of horse legs trampled out the rolling sand clouds. Thousands of horsemen whistled and ran three times.

Before the defenders in the three sealed cities could react, the bald Boye drew a sharp blade from the camel, a whistle, and more than 100 warriors took their knives and entered the fight. The bald man cut down three or four iron armor warriors one after another, led the crowd to form a camel formation, and firmly held the city gate.

There are not many Tiefu garrisons in Sanfeng County, only four or five hundred people.

Under the attack of Xin Er and the bald Boye, in less than an hour, the city has changed hands.

The 500 Tang cavalry who attacked the department were heavy, and it was inconvenient to participate in street fighting, so they did not enter the city, and the servants and light horsemen with the armored cavalry went around the outside, and all those who escaped from the city were intercepted.

Victory in the first battle.

I don't have time to celebrate.

The two strategies of the sheep fashion are the chain plan, the front plan is related to the back plan, and the time is very urgent.

In order to prevent the news from leaking and affecting the next plan, according to Yang Chao's suggestion, no prisoners were left and all those who surrendered were killed.

Then, after a short rest in the city, he led his army to continue the march.

The three seals are deserts to the south, north, and east. More than 100 miles to the east, on the edge of the desert is the Yellow River. On the other side of the Yellow River, it is the Hedong counties of Shuofang County, and the closest Linrong to Sanfeng.

After passing through the 100-mile desert, at noon the next day, we arrived at the west bank of the Yellow River.

The beggar led the forwards and captured a ferry. The whole army crossed the river. Linrong is in sight.

The second strategy is how to lay down Linrong.

His advice to Xin Er was: "After conquering the three seals, the general led his troops to march quickly and crossed the river east to Linrong." The defeat of the three seals, the Linrong defenders will not know. The general can choose to ride Hu, change into the uniform of the Tiefu Huns, pretend to rout, and repeat the trick to conquer this city again! ”

The Hu people were influenced by the culture of the Tang people, and now they also believe in the theory that the five virtues are the end.

Tang is the fire virtue, and the military service is still red. The Rong people who established Pu Qin were previously attached to the Xiongnu Qin State, and the Xiongnu Qin State claimed to be the nephew of the Qin Dynasty, separated from Tang and Cheng, and directly inherited the Qin Dynasty, still taking wood as its virtue. Although the Qin State of the Rong people is still named after "Qin", but that is to better compete with the Xianbei Wei State for "orthodoxy", in fact, they have long regarded themselves as the successors of the Xiongnu Qin State.

The color of Dingxi and Pu Qin's uniforms is different, and if you want to wait for the old skills to be repeated, and then coax open the gate of Linrong, this change of clothes is indispensable.

And Qu Yuanguang begged for war, Xin Er didn't use him, and still handed over this task to the bald Boye.

Bald hair is born once and matured twice.

The first operation was already successful, and although the second operation was a little more difficult, it was not difficult for him.

It was a smooth deception of the city gate of Linrong again.

As before, ambushes abounded. The bald hair is in chaos inside, and the commander of Xin Er, Lan Baozhang, etc., fights outside, and attacks both inside and outside, and Linrong Chengke.

Unlike last time, this time, the strict attack was ordered, and a lot of deserters and fugitives were released.

Standing at the head of the city of Linrong, Xin Er looked at the fleeing Tiefu soldiers and people from afar, and looked back at the wilderness outside the city, not far away from the dusty sky.

Bal Lian Fan and others led the cavalry of their headquarters, as well as camels, camels, horses, and other livestock, each with branches and leaves tied on their tails and legs, and were galloping back and forth there.

Xin Er smiled and said, "Shidao, such a dusty posture, don't say that there are more than 10,000 fine riders, it is 20,000 or 30,000, I'm afraid some people will believe it!" ”

This is also the strategy of the sheep.

With only four or five thousand Hu cavalry of the Xin Er Department, it can't scare the Tiefu Huns, nor can it scare Pu Qin's Pu Changsheng and Pu Mao. If you want to trick Pu Mao, you have to bluff. Not only is it more than 10,000 fine horses, but it is useless to face his own military flag, and he is playing the "koji" word flag. As for this "koji", whether it is the first-class handsome koji shuo in Dingxi, Tiefu Xiongnu and Pu Mao can consider it for themselves.

Yang Chao ghostwriter, in the name of "Koji Governor", wrote a letter, and sent someone to send it to Zhao Yanli on the day of Linrong.

There are only two sentences in the letter, which reads: "The north and east of the monarch are rivers, and the south is the desert; I have now conquered Linrong, 20,000 fine horses, stationed in Junxi, compared to the situation of the king, it is already a turtle in the urn! I hope to hunt in the wilderness with you, and decide the winner in a battle! ”

Two days later, Zhao Yanli received the letter.

The troops of Dingxi crossed the quicksand and suddenly attacked, and Sanfeng and Linrong had fallen; It is said that Dingxi came this time to ride more than 10,000 fine horses. These two news have reached Zhao Yanli's station, and he knows both left and right.

Zhao Yanli and his cronies read the letter one after another.

Zhao Yanli's expression was cloudy.

One person on the left and right said, "My lord, Dingxi and I are separated by thousands of miles of desert, and it is not easy to march, the so-called '20,000 fine horses' must be a lie in Dingxi!" ”

Another person said, "Linghu Fengcai forcibly recruited Lu Shui, Zahu, and Beishan Xianbei into the army, and together with these Huyi, it is enough to get 20,000 soldiers." Although it was not easy for the Tang soldiers to cross the desert, Hu Qi was hungry and thirsty, but he was not impossible. ”

When everyone talked for a long time, someone saw that Zhao Yanli didn't speak, and asked him, "Dingxi came to write a letter about war, dare to ask if the adults have any countermeasures?" ”

Zhao Yanli is in her fifties, short and stout, with rough skin after years of living in the wild.

He had figured it out, sat down on the Hu sit, spread his legs widely, touched his beard, put his other hand on his lap, and laughed, "Who will tell the enemy his true intentions when he is fighting?" ”

"What do you mean?"

"The Dingxi Army invited me to fight in the field, and I thought it must be their bluff. What '20,000 Elite Riders'? It is 20,000 horses all of them, and they also need a lot of food and clothing, and they have not heard of Dingxi's large-scale combat readiness measures in recent months, and these 20,000 elite horses, needless to say, must also be the intimidation of the Dingxi army! ”

Hearing the words left and right, I felt that he was right.

One breathed a sigh of relief and said, "In this case, there is no need to ask the court for help." As if complaining, he said, "Every time the court sends someone, it is like a wolf, forcibly taking it, and taking whatever it sees, it is really hateful!" ”

Zhao Yanli shook her head and said, "No." ”

"What do you mean, sir?"

"This aid is still requested."

Everyone on the left and right didn't understand what he meant, and asked in unison, "Why?" ”

Zhao Yanli narrowed her eyes, as if she was scheming, and said, "You are confused! Let me ask you, Shuofang is Pu Qin's Northland Fortress, why did Pu Qin let us and others entrench? ”

"That's because Pu Qin needs us to defend them against Rouran and Tuoba Xianbei."

"You're only talking about one thing, and there's another one."

"Dare to ask your lordship, what is the second one?"

"The land of Ranxing is the ancestral land of the Puqinrong people; And Ran Xing is rich, and the terrain is extremely important, if you can occupy here, the south can force Shuzhong, and the west can attack the ointment of the west, yes, Pu Qin will not forget Ran Xing day and night. Compared with the desolate Shuofang, they pay more attention to Ran Xing.

"Ran Xing is the 'second' that Pu Qin let us occupy Shuofang. Now Pu Mao led tens of thousands of troops and horses to attack Ranxing. Once Ran Xing is captured by him, the next one they want to occupy is probably our Shuo Fang! ”

After thinking about it left and right, he said, "Adults are far-sighted, and non-villains can reach them." ”

"Of course I'm not out of your reach!" Zhao Yanli said, "Therefore, although the Dingxi Army must be bluffing, since they have made a posture of strengthening the army and pressing the border, we might as well give some cooperation." "Give the order," immediately send someone south to ask for help from the imperial court!" Snorted, and said, "You Pu Mao want to fight Ran Xing, and then beat me Shuo Fang, and you have to ask me if I agree!" ”

saw Xin Er's pretense momentum, but for his own interests, Zhao Yanli gave active cooperation.

While shrinking his forces and sticking to his account, 100,000 people urgently asked for help from Xianyang.

And in the request for help, Zhao Yanli exaggerated Xin Er's "20,000 fine rides" to "30,000 foot riders". If the total standing strength of Dingxi is only 40,000 or 50,000, I am afraid that he will even say "100,000 heroes".

Yang Chao speculated that Zhao Yanli was "a repeated, just subduing Pu Qin, and he had no heart to fight to the death", and his guess was correct.

Zhao Yanli's request for help arrived in Xianyang.

The next day, an urgent order was sent to Pumao's army.

Pu Mao has now arrived at Ranxing, and the various battalions are either responsible for attacking or guarding against a sneak attack in Dingxi, and they have also been arranged to stop, according to the plan, at most, he will launch a general attack on Ranxing.

Pu Changsheng's order was delivered in due course.

The decree wrote that Dingxi rode 30,000 and rushed to Shuofang. Three seals, Linrong fell, and Zhao Yanli was defeated and asked for help. Ride back to the capital at a fast pace.

Pu Mao showed the decree to Wang Meng to watch.

Wang Meng looked at it, and said abruptly, "King, before sending troops, Prime Minister Pu Guang obstructed it!" This decree can only be made by him! He said firmly to Pu Mao, "The king, the general is outside, and the king's order is not subject to it!" The dispatch of our three armies has been completed, the offensive is about to start in the blink of an eye, and when the arrow is on the string, this order is not acceptable to the king! ”

Analyze the situation of Shuofang to Pu Mao, and said, "Regardless of whether Dingxi has sent 30,000 foot cavalry, just say that Shuofang is isolated from Dingxi in the desert, and Dingxi's supply is difficult to continue. ”

Pu Mao couldn't agree more.

But what he and Wang Meng didn't expect was that Pu Changsheng's decrees were not only one, but within one day, three decrees were stacked.

When the incident came out, many of the battalion generals and soldiers of various departments under Pu Mao's tent talked about it, which caused the morale of the army to fluctuate.

Wang Meng sighed and said, "King, the army is suspicious and fighting, and the soldiers are jealous. Now, it seems, there is only a withdrawal. ”

His expression changed, his eyes showed ruthlessness, and he said, "Although Taiwei Buqi is dead, Prime Minister Puguang has always been suspicious of the king, and the king believes in Puguang." Puguang is in the court for a day, and the great cause of the king is difficult to accomplish in one day. The king, there are two strategies, slow and urgent, dare to offer the king! ”

"Master Meng, please speak."

"Get rid of Pu Guang, Xu Tu is a big deal, this is a slow policy. Take advantage of the tens of thousands of steps in your hand, you can't miss the opportunity, and return to Xianyang,......" Meng Lang raised his right hand, put his fingers together into a knife, slashed down hard, and said, "This is a hurry!" Two strategies, dare to ask the king to choose. ”

Pu Mao was silent for a long time.

The sun outside the tent is bright, and the tent is murderous and gloomy.

the frustration of failure, the expectation of great causes; In the classics of the Tang Dynasty, the glorious image of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors and the Ming Monarchs of the past dynasties, the status quo of the light fruit of the emperor and the rude ministers of the court. All kinds of longings and all kinds of dissatisfaction, the heat ÷ books became a huge torrent, impacting Pu Mao's heart.

Under Meng Lang's intently watching and waiting, Pu Mao made a decision.

He stood up suddenly, raised his sleeves and said, "I am determined!" ”

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