As soon as the sky was slightly bright, Liu De got up early and practiced swordsmanship, unless it was during the march and war, Liu De had no time to practice martial arts, as long as he had a free time, Liu De would get up early every morning to practice swordsmanship, after all, Liu De's current shortcoming is martial arts, but it is a pity that after practicing for three years, martial arts have not increased at all.

Liu De guessed that maybe the real life-and-death struggle would gain more experience in martial arts, but Liu De should not have this opportunity, no one would let Liu De personally risk arrows and fight in front of the enemy, if there was really that time, then Liu De was afraid that it would be the end of the road at that time.

Yan Nan walked in with a tiger, the armor on his body still had obvious blood stains, obviously he had just experienced a fight, Yan Nan knelt down on one knee and bowed: "Lord, the last general will not disgrace his mission!" All the forty-two families headed by the Yuan family have been arrested! ”

"It doesn't seem like the process is going so smoothly because of the way you look!"

Liu De threw the Chixiao Sword to Dian Wei, took a clean white towel, wiped the sweat on his face casually, and smiled at Yan Nan.

"Lord Qi, the other small and medium-sized families are okay, the Yuan family's mansion hides a large number of outlaws, and nearly a hundred armor and hard crossbows have been scavenged from the mansion, the Yuan family has long had the intention of rebellion!" Yan Nan said.

"That's for sure, if I were the Yuan family, it would definitely be the same, but the Yuan family is still too self-righteous, if he cooperates with us, he will be able to paralyze us, so that we can't find out the Yuan family's scheme, and now he blatantly rejects me, is it to bully me and dare not kill people?"

Liu De laughed at himself: "I wanted to solve the contradiction with the Beiping family in a gentle way, so I sent Gao Gong, a local family in Beiping, to lobby them, but in the end, I still have to tell them with bloody facts that everything they did was in vain, so why bother?" ”

"How much grain was seized? And what is the situation of the Gao family now? What was the Maison's reaction? Liu De asked three times.

Yan Nan continued: "Lord Qi, the grain confiscated from the Yuan family is enough for our 20,000 horses for three years!" According to the torture, the Yuan family still has a dock fort outside the city, the dock fort is very strong, and a large amount of food and money are stored inside, and the last general has already sent troops and horses over! ”

"The Gao family united dozens of families to take over the Yuan family's grain shop, while the rest of the families basically restrained their children, closed their doors tightly, and everyone was in danger."

"There must be a lot of families who think the same as the Yuan family, and there must be a lot of blades and grains in the house, but they have already found an excuse to get rid of the Yuan family, and with the effect of killing chickens and monkeys, other families don't need to worry, after all, the dog jumps off the wall if it provokes it!"

"Subordinates take orders!"

"There should be more than 10,000 people recruited by Gao Gong, and the order will be sent down, and Peng Yue and Wei Yan will be the main generals, command 5,000 people, and set aside a barracks outside the city for him to practice!"

"Order Qi Jing to temporarily lead the commander of the city army, and Xu Huang and Sun Chongjin will be the deputy generals!"

"Order Liu Bi and Yao Jun to lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to garrison Changyang! Ordered Jiang Lin and Jiang Haifeng to lead the troops and horses of their headquarters to garrison Liyang to clean up the bandits in the two counties, and be sure to make the people of the two counties stable before the New Year! ”

"Mobilize the Gong Guard Division and the Hanging Mirror Division, I want to know all the movements in Beiping City!"

"Yes!"

At this time, Zhang Qiuming, the deputy commander of the Gong Wei Division, hurriedly came to report: "Lord Qiqi, there are 40,000 troops in Pinggu County, and 20,000 horses from Bohai are coming to Beiping!" The main general is that Uncle Yang! ”

Liu De's expression remained unchanged, and he nodded and said: "Yang Tianlong really can't help but want to recapture Beiping, Qiuming, go and call Xu Shu and other gentlemen, as well as the generals and other generals, to discuss the matter!" ”

"I'll go right away!"

Zhang Qiuming immediately responded.

Xu Shu and others were working in the palace, and when they heard Liu De's summons, they immediately put down the affairs in their hands and rushed over, and Guan Yu and other generals also came by horse from the barracks.

Liu De sat down in a small pavilion in the courtyard, and the first to arrive were Zhang Zhao and Huang Gai, Liu De hurriedly got up to greet him, and asked with concern: "Can Zhang Gong's body be healed?" ”

Zhang Zhao arched his hand and said: "It's much better, thank you for your concern." ”

Liu De invited Zhang Zhao and Huang Gai to sit down and wait for the arrival of other generals.

Everyone arrived one by one for a few teas, and Liu De didn't talk nonsense, and directly told everyone about Uncle Yang leading the army to pull out.

Liu De said to Huang Gai and Zhang Zhao: "Now there are only more than 10,000 people in Bohai City, I want to ask the two of you to contact the people in Bohai City, attack inside and outside, take advantage of this opportunity to take Bohai City, and completely cut off Yang Tianlong's back road." ”

Huang Gai immediately knelt on the ground and said, "My lord, the recovery of Bohai City is what we are looking forward to day and night, and please rest assured, the last general will definitely not disappoint the lord!" ”

"Good!"

Liu De took Huang Gai's arm and asked: "Whether Bohai City can be taken depends on General Huang!" ”

Xu Shu had a thorough understanding of the hydrology and geography of the Beiping generation in a few days, and ordered the guards to take the map to plan for Liu De: "There is a river between Pinggu and Beiping, called Datong River, the river is turbulent, it is better to use the river as a wall, set up camp on the bank of the river, wait for the arrival of Uncle Yang's army, and attack it halfway!" ”

"With Uncle Yang's ability to command the army, he must not let us succeed easily!" Liu De has never seen Uncle Yang until now, but Liu De has always been wary of him, and it cannot be said that Uncle Yang will win every battle, but Uncle Yang leads the troops very steadily, step by step, steadily and steadily, such an opponent is very difficult, Liu De does not want him to seize the loophole, so as to be broken by Uncle Yang.

Xu Shu pointed to the two points on the map and said to Liu De: "Lord, there is a bridge in each of these two places, we can demolish these two bridges, and Uncle Yang only has two options to force the Datong River or bypass it, no matter what, we will have the first opportunity!"

”

Is it going to be a battle along the river?

Liu De touched his chin and considered it carefully, but when he saw Gao Xi standing on the side, he asked directly: "Does Mr. Gao have a plan to teach me?" ”

Gao Xi hurriedly came out and said: "Lord, the minister thinks that Uncle Yang is a person from Beiping, who leads the troops to supervise Jizhou all the year round, and is bound to be more familiar with the topography of Jizhou.

What's more, when Beiping was initially decided, the minister thought that it was better to stick to Beiping first, as long as Beiping was held, even if Uncle Yang attacked other counties, it would not be able to shake our foundation. ”

Liu De bowed slightly, what Gao Xi said was also reasonable, compared with the two, Gao Xi was more satisfied, while Xu Shu was more radical.

"What do you think?"

Liu De said to the other generals.

The generals also put forward their own suggestions, compared with Gao Xi's conservatism, most of the generals also agreed with Xu Shu's plan, using the river as a wall, and took the initiative to attack.

Even Wei Yan proposed to lead the troops and horses of his headquarters to go around the rear of Pinggu, and take advantage of the fact that Uncle Yang led the army to go out, Pinggu County must be defenseless, and take advantage of this to directly take Pinggu City.

However, Liu De vetoed this suggestion, Pinggu County is located in the plain, densely populated, there are more than 20 county seats, as long as one county town finds Wei Yan's army, then Wei Yan's raid will be in vain.

And it is very likely to fall into being surrounded and suppressed, after all, the soldiers under Wei Yan's command are all family soldiers and servants, and if you want to command them like an arm, Wei Yan still needs to put in a certain amount of effort and means.

Liu De was unwilling to sit in Beiping all the time, and Gao Xi said that there was also a way, as long as he set up a post on the river bank and secretly sent scouts, it was not difficult to find the enemy army, as long as the army was mobilized in time, it was not empty words to attack it halfway.

But in fact, Liu De still has a plan in his heart that has not yet been said, although the Yuan family in Beiping has been ambushed, but there must be a family that is in cahoots with the Yuan family, if his army goes out of the city, he will inevitably lure the family in the city to seek the city, so as to give himself an excellent reason to solve them.

Liu De wants to move the governance office to Beiping, so he can't leave a few regular zhà dàn by his side, and it is best to take this opportunity to solve it.

Then Liu De continued to formulate a battle plan, ordering Guan Yu as the main general, Gao Xi as the strategist, Zhang Fei, Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Huang Zhong, and Tian Yu as deputy generals, leading 10,000 elite soldiers to block the 20,000 enemy troops coming from the direction of Bohai City.

Huang Gai took Zhang Cheng and Zhang Xiu to lead more than a dozen people to infiltrate Bohai City, persuade the people in the city, wait for the opportunity, and cooperate with Guan Yu's army to attack and take Bohai City.

On the other hand, Liu De personally led the Chinese army, with Yannan as the central protector, Xu Shu as the military division, Chen Qi, Huo Jun, Wang Kun, Xu Huang, Zhao Yun, Qi Jing, Sun Chongjin, Pei Shuye, etc. as deputy generals, leading 15,000 troops, waiting for the 30,000 troops led by Yang Shuzi on the bank of the Datong River.

Jian Yong, Zhang Zhao, and Fan Zhongyan stayed in Beiping to deal with government affairs, Pei Shuye led 2,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Beiping, and Dai Zong and Li Yuanfang led their subordinates to also deploy in Beiping to monitor the movements of Beiping and prevent people from taking advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos.

Liu De then also sent a letter to Yanzhou, informing Xun Yu that he was going to move the administrative office after the year, so that Chen Shuo and Xun Yu could prepare early.

There are also the families of many soldiers in Liufu and Liaocheng, who will also slowly move over after the New Year.

Chen Ying and Mi Zhen are about to be born in December or January, and their eldest son Liu Zhao still has to catch Zhou on New Year's Day, and he doesn't know if he can rush over! Liu De sighed slightly in his heart.

......

Yu Ban led 10,000 soldiers and horses to camp fifty miles outside Guangping City, and after Yu Ban set up camp, he sent spies to spy on the intelligence of Guangping City!

About half a day later, the spies came over and said: "General Qiyu, the gate of Guangping City is wide open, and the soldiers defending the city have no spirit, and they gather in twos and threes, without the slightest defense. ”

When Yu Ban heard this, he was overjoyed, but his face was still calm, "Can you go into the city and have a look?" ”

"When I entered, there were vendors on both sides of the city gate, and there were more rén liú, it didn't look like there was an ambush at all!" The spy replied.

Cui You said to the forbidden: "General Yu, all the way to the army, I didn't see Guangping's sentry cavalry at all, obviously the Guangping army was negligent, it is better to send someone to pretend to be a merchant at this time, seize the city gate, and then the general will lead the army to quickly attack the city, and will definitely be able to take Guangping City in one battle!" ”

Yu Ban said to Cui You: "There must be no more than 10,000 horses stationed in Guangping City, first find out where the enemy army camp is?" And then the plan of the marching division! ”

Cui You's expression was exaggerated, he patted his head, and laughed at himself: "It's still the general who is thoughtful, You didn't expect this!" ”

Yu Ban hurriedly said: "The military division is serious, let's take Beiping City according to the strategy of the military division." ”

Although Cui You is Yu Ban's military advisor, Cui You holds the position of the right military division, which is a five-grade civil service.

As the main general, Yu Ban is just a seven-rank general, so Yu Ban has a lot of respect for Cui You.

Of course, Cui You didn't dare to make trouble with the general who had served as the chief general of Liu Dezhong's army, not to mention that Liu De's uncle was watching from the sidelines!

Li Siye looked at the two of them, lowered his head and continued to wipe the big knife in his hand, no matter what, as long as there was a big knife, Li Siye would call the thief to come and go.

Of course, the defenders of Guangping knew the news of Yang Tianlong's defeat, but they also knew that Yang Tianlong had stabilized his position in Pinggu and was confronting Liu De, so the generals in the city had their own ideas.

Without the suppression of Yang Tiantan, the main general, the generals in the city are arguing and doing their own thing, some think that they should lead the troops to attack the rear of Beiping to relieve the pressure on His Majesty, and some generals think that 10,000 soldiers are useless at all, don't you see that General Tiantan's 40,000 horses are defeated? Besides, there is also the old enemy of the northern plains, so it is better to stick to the city.

Of course, there are many ambitious people who secretly make trouble, wanting to seize power in Guangping City.

Several forces were entangled and busy with infighting, which also caused the city defense to be loose, they all thought that Liu De couldn't take care of them, who would have thought that Liu De's army would come so soon!

After exploring in the evening, the scout came back and said to the forbidden road: "General, the enemy camp is in the northwest of the city, it should be the Beiyuan City in the northwest direction, and the guard in the camp is lax, and even the sentries are not visible..."

"Good!"

Yu Ban slapped his thigh and said, "God really helps me!" ”

Then he instructed Li Siye and Cui You: "Captain Li, our soldiers are divided into two ways, all the way you pretend to be a trader and seize the city gate, Cui Junshi leads the troops behind, as long as Captain Li succeeds, he will wave his troops to seize the city, and a certain is leading a group of soldiers and horses to directly attack the camp outside the city, without giving the enemy a chance to react, and take Guangping completely!" ”

Li Siye and Cui You gave up their hands and said: "We take orders!" ”

In the early morning of the second day, before dawn, Yu Ban led the army all the way, and then divided the troops into two roads, all the way around Guangping City, and went to the northwest.

Choi Woo divided the army into several units, ready to support Li Siye at any time.

Several carts arrived at the gate of the city under the pull of the horses, and several soldiers defending the city saw the horses pulling the chariots, and their eyes lit up.

After glancing at each other, they surrounded the convoy, and a sergeant squinted at Li Siye, and asked scoldingly, "What are you in this car?" ”

Li Siye arched his hand and said flatteringly: "It's just some small things that come into the city to sell, and please ask the official to make it convenient!" ”

Li Siye took out a handful of copper coins and handed them to the soldier who was at the head.

The soldier looked at it and took a handful of copper coins, slapped it away, and scolded: "Send it to Hanako!" You must be in this carriage to take them down! ”

Seeing this, Li Siye lifted the sackcloth covering the carriage, and a big knife was revealed, and Li Siye waved the big knife under the panicked faces of the soldiers, and directly cut the soldiers in front of him into two pieces!

Li Siye yelled: "Seize the city gate first!" ”

The rest of the guards also quickly picked up the blades on the car, shouted, and slaughtered the city gate in unison.