When Yue Yun led the army to the expedition, Jinyiwei had already reported the deployment of soldiers and horses in Changsha County to Yue Fei and Wei Yan, Yue Fei thought for a moment and said: "Wen Chang, the Jingzhou army has 70,000 troops in this battle, but our troops only have 35,000 soldiers and horses, I don't know what you think about this battle?" ”

Wei Yan has been stationed in Baling City for more than three years, although there has been no major battle between Wei Yan's troops and the Jingzhou army in these two years, Wei Yan often sends his soldiers and horses to provoke the Jingzhou army in turn to maintain the combat strength of his own army, and to explore the specific combat strength of the Jingzhou army.

After Yang Ling led the county soldiers of Changsha County to garrison Baqiu City, Wei Yan had also led his troops to Baqiu City several times to provoke the defenders of Jingzhou, and Wei Yan was already familiar with the combat power of the county soldiers of the Jingzhou Army.

Although Wei Yan was arrogant in his heart, his attitude towards Yue Fei, who had great achievements and was excellent, was also very respectful, especially after the two years of contact, Wei Yan also respected Yue Fei even more.

Wei Yan laughed a few times, and replied: "General don't worry, although there are as many as 70,000 Jingzhou troops in Changsha County, 40,000 of these 70,000 soldiers and horses are just county soldiers from the four counties of Jingnan, and the combat power of these soldiers and horses is stronger than that of the rabble, and we only need to pay attention to the 30,000 elites under Liu Pan's department." The 30,000 soldiers and horses under Liu Pan's department often fought with the Jiangdong Army before, and later repeatedly clashed with our army, and the combat strength of the soldiers and horses was not much weaker than that of our army. ”

"Now the general and I are in one place, this time a total of 37,000 soldiers and horses, including 5,000 cavalry, these 5,000 cavalry is enough to offset the combat power of 40,000 Jingzhou army soldiers, and the remaining 30,000 troops are enough to defeat Liu Pan's 30,000 elite soldiers, compared with the overall combat strength, our troops and horses are stronger than 70,000 Jingzhou army."

"What's more, Liu Pan led more than 50,000 troops to be stationed in the area of Linxiang City, and he made it clear that he wanted to lure our army deep into Changsha County, and then choose the opportunity to cut off the grain route of our army and then win the battle, so it can be seen that Liu Pan has cowardice in his heart, and he does not dare to have a decisive battle with our army in the front!"

"The Jingzhou army stationed in Baqiu and Luoxian has 15,000 soldiers and horses, if our army can capture these two places with fewer casualties and destroy the 15,000 Jingzhou troops guarding these two places, then our troops and horses will have an advantage when facing the remaining 50,000 Jingzhou troops, even if the Jingzhou army sits on a strong city, it is difficult for us to completely defeat its army, but in this way, it will be much easier for us to contain the Jingzhou army in the area of Linxiang City."

"As long as we lead the army to contain the main force of the Jingzhou army in the area of Linxiang City, we can complete the task of the main bus to us, and then Chen Deng and Yue Yun can break into Guiyang County, and then sweep the remaining Lingling County and Wuling County, as long as we can capture these three counties, the Jingzhou army in the area of Linxiang City will be like a turtle in an urn that can be captured with one hand!"

"As long as we do this, our army will surely win a great victory!!"

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After listening to Wei Yan's remarks, Yue Fei smiled slightly, and said: "Well, what Wen Chang said is very much in line with me, no wonder the lord often says that you have the posture of a general, and now it seems that the lord is really knowledgeable!" ”

When Wei Yan heard Yue Fei's words, he smiled and said, "Hahahaha, this is just a shallow opinion, the general is too worried!" ”

Yue Fei shook his head with a smile and said, "Wen Chang, you have led the army to garrison Baling City for more than three years, and no one in our army will be more familiar with the situation in Baqiu City and Luoxian County than you, I wonder if you have a good strategy to help me capture the two cities of Baqiu City and Luoxian?" ”

Wei Yan pondered for a moment and said: "I haven't been in contact with the soldiers and horses of Chen Yingsuo's troops stationed in Luo County, and I haven't thought of the specific method of breaking the city, but here in Baqiu City, I have some opinions, I have led the army to deal with Yang Ling a few times before, although there has not been a big war between our two sides, but there have been several frictions. ”

"I have led the cavalry to Baqiu City twice before, Yang Ling is proud and hot-tempered, and he is the most unprovoked method, as long as someone goes to challenge, he will lead the army out of the city to meet the battle. When I challenged before, I had already tested this person's strength, although this person has an arrogant personality, but his martial arts are average, if I go all out, I can kill this person at most! ”

"The previous lord has sent troops soon, in order to facilitate the capture of Baqiu City in the future, I left this guy a life, two challenges are defeated and returned, Changsha County soldiers are foot soldiers, I went to the challenge with cavalry, so although I was defeated but did not lose the soldiers and horses, twice in a row, Yang Ling has hated me to the core, as long as I lead the army to challenge again, Yang Ling will definitely go out of the city to fight!"

"I am willing to lead the headquarters of two thousand elite cavalry to Baqiu to challenge Yang Ling, as long as Yang Ling goes out of the city to fight, I will definitely take the opportunity to kill him, Yang Ling is the defender of Baqiu City, as long as he is killed, this Baqiu City will be at your fingertips!" I wonder what the general thinks? ”

After Yue Fei listened to Wei Yan's words, his heart suddenly moved, Wei Yan could not be greedy for the skill of killing the general, but save the opportunity to kill Yang Ling until now, he really has the talent of a general!

Yue Fei laughed a few times and said, "Hahahaha, Wen Chang is really resourceful!" Okay, since Wen Chang is sure of this, I will order you to be the vanguard general, and lead the two thousand iron cavalry of the headquarters to attack Baqiu City. After you send out your troops, I will order 3,000 iron horsemen to be scattered ten miles behind your army as a response, and you can rest assured that you will send troops! ”

Wei Yan bowed and said, "No, the last general will take the order, and he will go down to the city first for the general!! ”

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After Yue Fei and Wei Yan finished discussing, Wei Yan handed over 15,000 soldiers and horses to Yue Fei, and he himself personally led 2,000 iron cavalry from his headquarters to Baqiu City.

After the five thousand iron horsemen set off, Yue Fei ordered the army under his command to pull up the camp and go straight to the direction of Changsha County with smoke and dust rolling all the way, and the battle of Changsha also began!

Baqiu City is only more than forty miles away from Baling City, Wei Yanqin led two thousand iron horsemen to gallop all the way, and soon came to the outside of Baqiu City!

Although the scale of Baqiu City is not large, but after three years of operation by the Jingzhou Army, this city has also been built into a military fortress, if you want to use a large army to attack, I don't know how many soldiers and horses you have to lose to capture this place, which is also where Liu Pan took advantage of the geographical advantage to dissipate the strength of Yue Fei's army!