Yecheng, Xiangfu.

Gao Ran and Yuan Tan have been at war for half a month, but in addition to the start of the continuous battle, since Yuan Tan retreated to Yangping, there has been no news, the worst thing is that Cao Cao continued to send troops to Dongjun, Jiang Yiqu frequently asked for help, although Chen Mo did not move, but Yuan Shang did not dare to relax his vigilance in Hanoi, if Gao Ran's side could not fight quickly, when Chen Mo and Cao Cao arrived, Yuan Shang would not only face the internal Yuan Tan's rebellion, but also face Cao Cao's coercion, the situation would be even more unfavorable to him.

And Han's fierce attack on the Bohai Sea was also blocked by Yuan Tan, and it was difficult to join Gao Lan.

"Gao Ran has not been able to capture Yangping for a long time, what do you think!?" Yuan Shang rubbed his temples with a little headache, what happened during this time made it difficult for him to sleep, especially the pressure brought by Cao Cao in Dongjun.

"After all, Gao Ran has few soldiers, and the eldest prince can't come out of the city, and it is inevitable that it will be difficult to break through in a hurry." Frustrated and persuaded, now this situation, it is useless to be anxious, Gao Ran's troops are not as many as Yuan Tan, and Yuan Tan is still on the defensive, the gap in the ability of the two sides to lead troops, one city is enough to fill it, not to mention that Yuan Tan still occupies the advantage of troops.

"But how did I hear that Gao Ran has a close personal relationship with his eldest brother!?" Yuan Shang picked up a few bamboo slips on the table and circulated them to everyone.

Gao Ran has a personal relationship with Yuan Tan? Is it still very close?

Tian Feng felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly took a roll of bamboo slips and opened it to see that the letter was written by Yuan Tan, but the content was a promise of benefits, so that Gao Ran would temporarily suspend the army, which was almost the same as what Gao Ran did now.

But if you think about it carefully, Gao Ran can't do anything now, the army is small, and if he attacks strongly, he will definitely not be able to defeat it, so he can only try to lure the enemy out of the city.

There is a problem with this letter.

Tian Feng raised his head and looked at Yuan Shangdao: "Lord, I don't know where this letter came from?" ”

"It was sent secretly by Lu Kuang, and these days, my brother will send someone to send a letter to Gao Ran almost every day." Yuan Shang snorted coldly.

"Gao Ran can you reply?" Tian Feng frowned.

"I didn't find it." Yuan Shang shook his head: "It is said that he has never read these letters except for the first few. ”

Tian Feng suddenly laughed when he heard this: "This must be Guo Tu's plan to divide the world." ”

"What's the explanation?" Yuan Shang was puzzled.

"I'm afraid that Yuan Tan must have sent a lot of letters to General Gao." Tian Feng said disdainfully: "The lord can teach Gao Ran to send all the letters from Yuan Tan, I'm afraid there will not be many letters like this." ”

Yuan Shang frowned, looked at Tian Feng and said, "Mr. is ...... mean"

"Guo Tu knew that he was invincible to General Gao, so he wanted to use this decree to make the lord suspicious of General Gao, so that the lord would transfer General Gao away or take the opportunity to recruit General Gao!" Tian Feng sneered: "Such a clumsy plan can only be used by Guo Tu." ”

Yuan Shang frowned, even so, he was still a little wary of Gao Ran in his heart, and after thinking for a while, Yuan Shang got up and said: "In this case, if you go to the front line alone, this battle should be resolved quickly, and you can also give Gao Ran a justice!" ”

"My lord!" Feng Ji frowned and said: "The lord is the lord of Jizhou, and now that the enemy is present, he should be sitting in Yecheng and strategizing, how can he leave lightly." ”

"But if it continues like this, I'm worried that this Jizhou will be gone!" Yuan Shang said categorically: "I have made up my mind, you don't need to persuade again." ”

"Whoa!" Tian Feng and Fu Zhu and others saluted, but their hearts were bitter, although Guo Tu's strategy was clumsy, but obviously, Yuan Shang still fell for it.

At that moment, Yuan Shang ordered Gao Gan to be the general of Wei, guarding Yecheng, and personally led Tian Feng and Fu to order 10,000 soldiers to Yangping.

Three days later, Yangping, Gaolan Daying.

Gao Ran was discussing with the generals how to break the enemy, when he suddenly heard that Yuan Shang was coming, he was shocked, and hurriedly got up and went out of the camp to greet him.

"Why is the lord here?" Gao Ran saluted Yuan Shang and bowed.

"Cao Cao's troops in Dongjun, Heluo area, frequent troop transfers, this battle of Yangping, has not been won for a long time, and he has to come in person, and he is also a helping hand to help the general." Yuan Shang sat down, looked at Gao Landao, and said indifferently.

"The last general is incompetent, and the tired lord comes in person! Please, the Lord to condemn him. Gao Ran hurriedly bowed down and pleaded guilty.

"The general doesn't need to be like this, Gu has no intention of blaming, but now the situation is urgent, General Han's side is also being resisted, and he can't capture the Bohai Sea for a long time, and Gu is also a little anxious, I don't know when this Yangping can be broken?" Yuan Shang asked with a smile.

"This ......" Gao Ran hesitated for a while: "If you want to attack, if you have enough troops, you can go down in half a month." ”

Yuan Shang came in person, obviously it was difficult to lure Yuan Tan out of the city to fight, but the strong attack cost troops, even if Yuan Shang brought 10,000 soldiers and horses, it was very reluctant to break through Yangping, which had similar troops.

"Yangping is just a small land, isn't it enough for me to wait for these soldiers and horses?" Yuan Shang frowned.

"Lord, although Yuan Tan suffered a defeat before, but it was only a small defeat, now the defenders in this Yangping City, there are also 40,000 people, similar to the strength of our army, such a siege, our army is difficult to take advantage of, but although this city has many soldiers, but there is not much food and grass, now the lord is coming, the last general asks for orders, leads his troops to cut off the enemy's grain road, and forces him to go out of the city for a decisive battle, then this battle can be won!" Gao Ran bowed.

Yuan Shang nodded, did not agree, but suddenly changed the topic and said: "I heard that the eldest brother and the general have been in close correspondence these days, but is there such a thing?" ”

Gao Ran hurriedly said: "Lord Mingjian, although the letter was sent, the last general did not pay attention to it. ”

"Where are those letters now?" Yuan Shang asked with a smile.

"Go and bring those letters." Gao Ran hurriedly instructed the guards to move those bamboo slips over.

"Whoa!" The guard said yes and turned to leave.

Soon, several guards came in carrying two boxes, and Gao Ran ordered someone to open it, but seeing that the box was full of rolls of bamboo slips, Gao Ran clasped his fists and saluted: "Lord, most of them are here, except for the first few volumes, the other generals have not looked at it." ”

"This ......" Yuan Shang looked at the two large boxes of bamboo slips, a little dumbfounded, it's only been a few days, and so many bamboo slips have been sent from the other side?

I ordered someone to take a few volumes and read them, but they were all innocuous things, and the whole article was about the past.

I flipped through a few more volumes at random, all of them were reminiscent like this, Yuan Shang's face turned dark, he threw the bamboo slip in his hand, and snorted coldly: "Guo Tu deceived me too much!" ”

Gao Lan: "? ”

Something seems to be happening.

"Lord, for the sake of today's plan, we must defeat Yuan Tan as soon as possible." Tian Feng bowed.

"Good!" Yuan Shang nodded and looked at Gao Landao [5200]: "General Gao, according to what you said before, you will go to cut off the enemy's grain route with 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the large camp here will be guarded by Gulai. ”

"Whoa!" Although Gao Ran didn't know what was going on, which made Yuan Tan so angry, he obviously didn't have anything to do with himself, so he agreed at the moment and took the order.