While the two of them were eating the meat, they were blowing water, and there was charcoal burning next to them, so that if the dog meat was cold, it could be heated at any time.

"King Han..."

When the dog meat was eaten, the voice of the halberd at the door of the tent came.

I saw Liu Bang stepping in, wearing a tiger-striped cloak.

Deng Yulong and Fan Xu got up and saluted.

"Oops! Looks like I'm late! ”

Liu Bang approached quickly, and saw that there was not much dog meat in the pot, and sighed: "I haven't eaten dog meat made by my brother-in-law for a long time, and I know that I want to make dog meat today, so I came to eat the meat on purpose, and I blamed it for getting up too late." ”

He made a very regretful look, and inadvertently, his eyes moved to Deng Yulong, and saw that the other party was wearing a little "thin", and said with concern: "Deng Aiqing, you are wearing too little, it is freezing this day, you must pay attention to your body." ”

Immediately, Liu Bang took off the cloak on his body and personally draped it on Deng Yulong.

"King Xie Han!"

Deng Yulong made a look of sincerity and fear, with gratitude in his expression, Liu Bang is a human spirit in controlling people, whether it is in front of him or in front of his courtiers, Deng Yulong must show his awe of Liu Bang.

He estimated that Liu Bang was using the excuse of rubbing meat to eat, but in essence, he deliberately wore a cloak to come to the tent, and deliberately behaved like this to show his concern for important courtiers.

Then again, this cloak is indeed very warm when draped over the body.

Looking at Deng Yulong's performance, Liu Bang was quite satisfied, and after achieving his goal, he picked up the chopsticks and started eating, he had indeed not eaten the dog meat made by Fan Hao for a while.

Deng Yulong basically didn't eat anymore, and gave it all to Liu Bang, and Fan Xu didn't eat anymore either.

After a while, Liu Bang ate all the remaining dog meat.

Subsequently, Fan Hao left first, and Deng Yulong and Liu Bang roughly told him about the next battle plan.

Now, Liu Bang and Deng Yulong's long march of 10,000 miles have also successfully taken the first step, the interests of the two are the same, there is no conflict for the time being, Liu Bang currently has enough trust in Deng Yulong.

Today, Deng Yulong let the whole army rest temporarily, but this is only applicable to ordinary combat teams, except for a small number of personnel, scouts are one of them, even in the cold winter, they are still reconnoitring the enemy situation and doing their own work.

The snowflakes fluttered in the sky, and it did not stop until the afternoon, and the Han army camp and Chencang City were already white.

In the afternoon, in the northeast of the camp, a man and a horse braved the wind and snow to rush to the camp, this is the Han army scout, came to the Yuanmen, showed his identity, dismounted and ran to the handsome tent.

"General, after Zhang Han led the army to retreat in the direction of Haoqi yesterday morning, before arriving at Haoqi, Zhang Han divided his troops to the direction of Waste Hill."

Scouts report on what they have discovered.

After seizing the Dasan Pass and setting up camp south of Chencang, Deng Yulong sent scouts to reconnoiter the enemy situation in the areas of Haoqi, Yongcheng, and Wangcheng. Although the Guanzhong Plain is a flat river, there are still many places that have not yet been developed for farming, and there are still many woods, where you can find hidden places to hide, and once you find an enemy situation, you will quickly come back and report it.

After listening to the report, Deng Yulong looked at the topographic map of Guanzhong drawn by him, thinking about the next battle.

Although a general battle plan had been drawn up before the expedition, the situation of the battle was constantly changing.

In the battle of the Northern Expedition, Zhang Feng was killed at the beginning, and Zhang Han did not enter Haoji, which deviated from the process of Liu Bang's capture of Guanzhong in history, and the plan must be appropriately adjusted according to the development of the war situation.

After seizing Chencang, to march into Guanzhong, the first to bear the brunt is Yongcheng in the northeast of Chencang, Yongcheng not only has a shorter city wall than Chencang, and does not have any geographical advantages, can be surrounded and attacked in an all-round way.

The northeast direction of Yongcheng is Haoqi, the southeast direction is the waste hill, the distance is close to three hundred miles, after taking Yongcheng first, then capture Haoqi, and then divide the troops into several roads.

The first way besieges the ruins of the mound; the second way to seize Xianyang and sweep the southern regions of Yongguo except for the waste hills; The third road went north to seize the vast land in the northern part of Yongguo, such as Qixian, Wangcheng, and Jingyang.

In addition, it is necessary to send additional troops to deal with the reinforcements of Dong Peng and Sima Xin.

This is the basic battle plan, and as long as nothing else unexpected happens, it will be implemented in accordance with this plan.

To capture Yongcheng in the siege of course, there is no problem, but casualties are unavoidable, to capture Guanzhong, there are many battles, Zhang Zhi, who has surrendered to Chengcheng, as long as it is used well, may be able to play a certain role.

In the evening, Deng Yulong came to Chen Cang and went to the Shou General's Mansion, where Zhang Zhi was locked up in one of the bedrooms. Strictly speaking, this is under house arrest, and you can still move freely in the mansion, but you can't go out.

After Deng Yulong came to the mansion, he walked directly to the room where Zhang Zhi was.

"The Great General"

Zhang Zhi was originally looking at the bamboo slips, and when he saw Deng Yulong, he got up and made a move.

Deng Yulong got straight to the point and said: "General Zhang, since you have defected to the Han army, I want you to do what you can." ”

Zhang Zhi showed a look of embarrassment and said: "General, you said before that the Han army still needs to face my uncle Zhang Han, which is very right, I am willing to serve the king of Han, but I really don't want to be enemies with my father and uncle, and I am not willing to deal with the generals of the Yong army." ”

Deng Yulong said: "General Zhang, this is wrong. The people of Guanzhong regard your uncle, as well as Dong Fei and Sima Xin as Qin traitors, they cannot get the support of the people, our Han army is unstoppable, if you really think about them, you should try to persuade them to surrender, not only to protect themselves, but also to save the Qin people from being burdened by the war. The Han army is about to start, and it is hoped that the general can set off with the army to persuade the Yongcheng defenders to surrender and reduce the needless casualties of the Qin and Han troops. ”

Listening to Deng Yulong's words, Zhang Zhi thought in his mind, thinking about it, he could not get the support of the people, and there was no chance of winning the battle, so it was better to surrender early.

"I am willing to persuade the defenders of Yongcheng to surrender, and I can also write a letter to persuade my father to surrender to you. As for my uncle, it's not something I can consuade. ”

Zhang Zhi was able to do this, which was already very good, and Deng Yulong was no longer demanding anything else.

Zhang Zhi wrote a letter of persuasion to Zhang Ping in the cloth on the spot, and then handed it to Deng Yulong.

Deng Yulong read the contents of the letters, and he understood the reason and moved them with emotion in the letters.

According to Deng Yulong's understanding of Zhang Ping in modern times, the possibility of being able to make Zhang Ping surrender is at most half, as long as it is possible, we must try to fight for it, and surrendering without a fight is the best choice.

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I recommend to you a starting point writer, pen name: Da Luo Luo, his book "Rescuing the Ming Dynasty" is very well written, and it is worth reading.