The envoys of Zhujiazhuang below were very moved when they heard this, and they burst into tears, they all felt that Liangshan was too hateful before, but at this time they felt that it was too reliable.

Liangshan is still the same Liangshan, in fact, the position has not changed, but the relationship with Zhujiazhuang has changed, as your enemy, you naturally hope that he is weaker and better, and as your ally, of course you want him to be stronger and better.

Ye Ling said to the messenger: "In this way, you go back and inform Zhu Chaofeng first, let him directly ignore the letter from the government, and then do a good job of defense, and the rest of the matter is naturally up to us Liangshan." ”

The messenger went with a thousand thanks, and Ye Ling didn't want the generous gift he brought, but he wanted to give it alive or dead, and he almost knelt down and begged bitterly - he was afraid that Ye Ling would refuse if he didn't accept the gift, and Ye Ling could only agree in the end.

After sending the envoy away, the high-ranking people of Liangshan began to formally discuss the plan for this dispatch.

The first step in formulating the so-called plan must be to analyze the enemy's strength, know yourself and know the enemy, and only then can you survive a hundred battles!

And this aspect is naturally the specialty of the military advisor Wu Yong, Ye Ling is extremely supportive of his work of collecting intelligence, no matter the human and financial resources are used to his best, so the basic information of the entire 12 prefectures and 108 counties plus 6 or 7 military counties in Qingzhou is well understood, and this Dengzhou Mansion is naturally no exception.

He touched his beard and said unhurriedly: "This Dengzhou Mansion is only more than fifty miles away from Zhujiazhuang, even if the infantry can reach it in one day, and the total strength of this Dengzhou Mansion is about four or five thousand people, and there are nearly twenty officers at the level of commanding regimental training, and the strength is still quite strong, and the most powerful person in this is none other than their cavalry Tizhi Lieutenant Chi Sun Li, about this Sun Tizhi, let's ask Teacher Luan to talk about it, hehe." ”

Everyone's eyes were focused on Luan Tingyu again, and when everyone was curious about why they asked Luan Tingyu about this Sun Li, they saw Luan Tingyu smile slightly: "All the brothers don't know, this Sun Lihe is taught by a master, I know all his martial arts, and he also knows all my skills, he is upright, and no one can surpass him among the officers in Dengzhou in martial arts, but he can only be a magistrate." ”

In this regard, Lin Chong and Yang Zhi both shook their heads and sighed, they are too familiar with today's officialdom, and it is useless to have skills and no background, otherwise the two of them would not be down-and-out now.

Wu Yong added: "If nothing else, Zhujiazhuang ignores the threat of the fish too shou of the Dengzhou Mansion, and the fish will definitely send troops to attack Zhujiazhuang, if it is only this Dengzhou Mansion, it is not too difficult to deal with the strength of our cottage, I am afraid that this guy will find someone to help, and then we will be passive."

So what Xiaosheng means is that he has to send a clever brother to Dengzhou Mansion to find out the news, in addition to sending some scouts to search around, and then prepare in the cottage, once the information is confirmed, he will immediately send troops. ”

All the leaders nodded frequently, except for a few people such as Gongsun Sheng, Lin Chong, Yang Zhi and others, they were more fierce generals who charged into battle, but they were not good at giving advice, so they were all used to obeying orders.

In the end, Wu Yong sent Bai Sheng, the white day rat, to Dengzhou Mansion to inquire about the news, and let Zhu Gui be responsible for intelligence collection in the rest of the places, while the rest of the leaders made their own preparations.

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A few days later, the information was sent back, Bai Sheng didn't look at the pitiful weak combat power, but he was still quite talented in this area, and soon the information from Dengzhou Mansion came.

It turned out that after Yu Wanchun heard that his letter was ignored by Zhujiazhuang, he was in the middle of it, and personally brought more than a dozen officers and 3,000 men and horses to take Zhujiazhuang directly, but it did not include Sun Li, who was the most capable of fighting.

This is because everyone thinks that this battle will undoubtedly be won, and everyone can take a lot of credit and share the money, so why let this Sun Li steal their limelight? In addition, Sun Li had no background, so he was naturally ignored and assigned the important task of "staying in Dengzhou".

This information was completely unexpected by Ye Ling and the others, and what really surprised them was the news from Zhu Gui's side.

It turned out that they had briefly captured and left the Jeju Mansion, because the previous Taishou also died under Liangshan, so it stopped for a while, but some time ago, the imperial court sent a new Taishou over - this is a disciple of Gao Yu, this guy also inherited Gao Yu's arrogant style, and as soon as he came, he shouted to exterminate the Liangshan thieves, so as to wash away the previous shame.

This coincided with the plan of the "fish" Taishou of Dengzhou Mansion, so the two sides decided to join forces together, Dengzhou Mansion went to Zhujiazhuang, and Jeju Mansion contained Shuibo Yangshan and made meritorious contributions together, but was overheard by a probe sent by Zhu Gui.

At this moment, all the leaders of Liangshan have exploded, and they have already scolded them in a hurry, and they have also said that they will divide their troops and take action, and at the same time teach these two officers and soldiers a lesson!

But the real professional soldiers or military advisers, such as Lin Chong, Yang Zhi, Wu Yong, Gongsun Sheng, and even Zhu Tong and Lei Heng are waiting for Ye Ling's decision, if the soldiers are really divided into two ways, it is not so simple, Liangshan's troops at this time already have more than 6,000 people, even if they are well-trained and well-equipped, there are 4,000.

But there are more than 1,000 of them are sailors, which is of little value in this land battle, and some people must be left to defend the cottage, so only 3,000 soldiers can really be used.

Ye Ling naturally thought of this question a long time ago, and after pondering for a while, he resolutely said: "This time the officers and soldiers have given us a problem, it is very difficult for us to deal with these two groups of people at the same time, and we don't need to take this risk, so we must have a key point, let's discuss it." ”

Lin Chong immediately nodded and said: "It is prudent to use soldiers, and it doesn't matter if you succeed ten times, but one failure may be a catastrophe, I fully agree with the suggestion of the owner of the village, but which side do we want to fight first?" ”

Ye Ling said confidently: "Of course it's Jeju Mansion, their target is us, and it's close to the cottage, so we must have taken them first." ”

Chao Gai frowned and said: "But we have already promised Zhujiazhuang, if they are attacked by Dengzhou during this time, wouldn't they be dishonest?" ”

Chao Gai is still very righteous, quite like an underworld big brother, and in his opinion, reputation and faith are even more important than his own life.

Ye Ling smiled faintly: "Brother Chao, rest assured, this Zhujiazhuang is actually in danger, first of all, their Zhuangzi's defense is extremely high, if they are dedicated to defense, even if it is ten days and half a month, there is no problem, and secondly, there are Li Jiazhuang and Hujiazhuang on the side to assist, and there is another point, there is a huge hidden danger behind them, if we control it properly, it can be thousands of people." ”