After Zhang Shumo learned the news of Ji Wen's withdrawal from Qinghua City, he immediately sent Lu Li to congratulate him, and asked Lu Li to invite Jiao Qiang and Zhang Jun, two generals, to Xiu Wuzhi.

Jiao Qiang and Zhang Jun naturally understood Zhang Shumo's thoughts, so they happily went to the appointment and came to Xiuwuzhi with Lu Li.

The group entered Xiuwuzhi, and when they saw the long queue at the recruitment office, Jiao Qiang wondered: "Now that the war is raging, it is very dangerous to be a soldier, and many people do not want their families to join the army, why do the people of Xiuwuzhi have such a high enthusiasm for joining the army?" ”

Lu Li smiled: "My son-in-law has revised the law of calculating endowments, as long as one person in the family joins the army, the whole family will be exempted from calculating endowments, so that every household will let one person join the army." Xiu Wuzhi has more than 7,000 registered populations alone, and there are so many people from villages outside the city, so there are naturally more people who come to sign up and queue up. ”

Jiao Qiang and Zhang Jun looked at each other and smiled after hearing this, and seemed to appreciate the idea very much.

The group came to a courtyard, where a banquet was set up, and Zhang Shumo and Wu Tai had been waiting for a long time. The four of them sat down, Zhang Shumo toasted everyone with three glasses of wine, and after three rounds of wine, he got down to business.

"The main reason for inviting the two generals over this time is to discuss the matter of jointly resisting Jingguo, I don't know what the two generals think?" Zhang Shumo took the lead in saying.

Zhang Jun looked at Jiao Qiang, and then said: "Zhang Gongzi, the joint resistance Jingguo naturally has no opinion, but how to resist, how to cooperate, we have to say in advance to invite you, so as not to hurt the harmony in the future." ”

"General Zhang is right, I think since we want to cooperate, we should elect the leader of the alliance, and then everyone will obey the command of the leader of the alliance, and we will take Ji Wen in one fell swoop! Since this alliance was handled by Zhang Gongzi, it is better to elect Zhang Gongzi as the leader of the alliance, I don't know what the two of them think? Wu Tai said.

When Jiao Qiang and Zhang Jun heard this, they were thinking about how to deal with it, but Zhang Shumo took the initiative to say: "General Wu is too elevated, I am a yellow-haired child who is not as old as a weak crown, how can He De dare to command three generals?" There is a plan in my heart, the three generals can listen to it, and if we think it is feasible, we can act separately! ”

When the three of them heard this, they instantly became interested: "What is Zhang Gongzi's plan, why don't you tell me soon?" ”

Zhang Shumo brushed his thoughts and told the three of them about his plan.

"Ji Wen will not give up on retreating to Xu Liangcheng this time, and they don't have much food and grass left, so they should have the next move soon, but his actions are nothing more than three possibilities. The first is to storm Xiuwuzhi, and Jiwen will retain the possibility of bypassing Qinghua City and going straight to Dieling Pass. However, this possibility is relatively low, because he is now surrounded by our three sides, no matter who he attacks, the other two sides can quickly support, and then he can only return in vain. ”

"The second is to storm Qinghua City and directly open up the grain road to Dieling Pass. However, this possibility is even lower, they haven't fought for so long before, and they shouldn't try again. So only the third scenario is most likely to happen, and that is Ji Wen asking Jingguo to continue to fight! If Jingguo sends a large army over again, then Ji Wen and Jingguo's reinforcements should be combined with the outside, even if our three parties join forces, I am afraid they will not be their opponents. So we must drive Ji Wen back to Jingguo before Ji Wen asks for reinforcements! ”

The three of them nodded one after another, and Jiao Qiang said, "We are also worried about this." Although we have laid down Thanh Hoa City, the next city and Dieling Pass are still under the control of Jingguo. It's like having your own door in someone else's hands, and others can come in at any time, which is really hard to rest assured! ”

Zhang Shumo smiled: "So we need to close the gate, but before closing the door, we need to clear the enemies in the courtyard first!" It's definitely not okay to come hard, so I want to come up with a trick to divert the tiger from the mountain! ”

"How do you turn the tiger away from the mountain?"

"What do you think the Jingguo army is most afraid of now?" Zhang Shumo asked rhetorically.

"Afraid that we will attack the city together?" Wu Tai said.

Jiao Qiang directly denied him: "No, even if we join forces, we will only be evenly matched with the Jingguo army, and it will not make them afraid." I think they are most afraid of lack of food and grass! It's a pity that we don't know about their food and grass situation, otherwise we can estimate how long they can last! ”

Zhang Jun glanced at Zhang Shumo and shook his head: "In my opinion, Zhang Gongzi definitely doesn't want to talk about the problem of grain and grass, because grain and grass are not something we can control, so we can't send people into the city to burn their grain and grass, right?" ”

"This is not either, that is not either, the Jingguo army doesn't seem to have anything to fear?" Wu Tai said.

Zhang Shumo smiled: "Maybe my statement is not clear enough, not necessarily what Jingguo is afraid of, but what they don't want to see." For example, let's make a desperate bet to block the Dieling Pass! ”

Zhang Jun frowned: "It's not that we haven't thought about this, but once we forcibly block Dieling Pass, we will inevitably be attacked by the Jingguo army." If Jingguo's reinforcements arrive, then Dieling Pass will be attacked from both sides. It is already so difficult for us to defend a Thanh Hoa City, and if we add a Dieling Pass, we will definitely not be able to defend it at that time. ”

"Who said we were going to defend it? Don't forget what our plan is. Zhang Shumo asked rhetorically

"Turning the tiger away from the mountain?"

"That's right! I have ordered people to investigate, and the next phase of the city and the Dieling Pass together are only 5,000 people to guard. As long as General Jiao Qiang leads 10,000 people to capture Dieling Pass and the next city, Ji Wen and they will definitely not be able to sit still. When the time comes, they will either attack Dieling Pass or Thanh Hoa City, in short, they will definitely send troops. Then let's take advantage of the void to capture Xu Liangcheng and cut off its back road, and finally the three military horses will send troops together to pursue Ji Wen and drive him back to the north of Dieling Pass! Zhang Shumo said as he pointed to the sky in the north.

The three of them looked at Zhang Shumo's fingers and seemed to see Ji Wen being driven out of the northwest.

"Good! This plan has won my heart, and the old man will give it his full support! Zhang Jun was the first to say.

Wu Tai had planned to follow Zhang Shumo to earn some merits, so he didn't have to settle down.

Jiao Qiang shook his head after hearing this, and couldn't help laughing: "Ji Wen's opponent Zhang Gongzi is really unlucky, hundreds of thousands of troops committed my northwest but fell into the quagmire, and finally wandered around and was driven back, I don't know how Ji Xin, the king of Jingguo, will feel!" ”

Everyone laughed, and Zhang Shumo raised his glass: "Since the three generals have no objection, then let's drink this cup and work together to drive the Jingguo thief out of my country!" ”

After speaking, the four of them took the wine glass and drank it all!

Ji Wenzheng, who was far away in Xu Liang, was drinking wine sullenly, suddenly sneezed, and couldn't help but scold and said: "These Huaiguo children, none of them let this king worry, and when my Jingguo's army arrives, this king will definitely wait for ten thousand corpses!" ”