Liu Xiu still summoned Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei never dreamed that the young master he met in the gambling hall would be the son of heaven today.

After seeing Liu Xiu, Zhang Wei hurriedly knelt on his knees, bowed forward respectfully, and said in a trembling voice: "Grass people Zhang Wei, meet Your Majesty!" ”

In front of the Son of Heaven, the ancients basically did not call the Son of Heaven 'saint' or 'today', but usually addressed His Majesty.

Ministers who are close to the Son of Heaven may use the very intimate title of sage when talking in private, showing that they are close to the Son of Heaven, but it is not commonly used, so in formal literature, although the title of 'sage' is not uncommon, it is not used to address the Son of Heaven, and most of them are used to address Confucius, Laozi, Mencius and other sages.

Liu Xiu looked at Zhang Wei, smiled slightly, and said: "Last time in the gambling hall, I played two games with Mr., but I couldn't have fun, today, how about Mr. Zhang accompany me to play two more games?" ”

As the Son of Heaven, Liu Xiu is also quite boring in the palace, he doesn't like women very much, and he doesn't like to spend time drinking, there are very few entertainment items, and playing chess and games is one of his few entertainment projects.

When Zhang Wei heard this, he hurriedly bowed and said: "Your Majesty has this Yaxing, and the grass people will be accompanied!" ”

Liu Xiu laughed and nodded to Zhang Kun.

Zhang Kun immediately arranged the chessboard and chess box.

After the two sat down at the chessboard, Liu Xiu and Zhang Wei played two games.

When I was in the gambling house, the game between the two was not less than an hour in each game, and this time, the game of two games of chess did not take an hour when added to one piece.

The reason why this is the case is very simple, when he was in the gambling hall, Zhang Wei didn't know Liu Xiu's identity, and there were such high stakes, he naturally had to do his best, but now, he knew that Liu Xiu was the Son of Heaven, where did he dare to do his best to play?

Liu Xiu also clearly felt it.

Zhang Wei's style of playing chess is very calm, steady and steady, step by step, once he launches an offensive against him, Zhang Wei's counterattack is also extremely fierce.

And now, Zhang Wei's composure is still there, but the ferocity of the counterattack has completely disappeared.

He imposed a little offensive, Zhang Wei first retreated, and then he collapsed.

This kind of game made Liu Xiu feel bored, and there was no tension and excitement when playing in the casino.

He threw the chess pieces in his hand onto the chessboard and said to Zhang Wei on the opposite side: "Mr. Zhang is deliberately letting me?" ”

Zhang Wei's body was shocked, and he hurriedly knelt on his knees, kowtowed forward, and said repeatedly: "The grass people don't dare!" The grass people don't dare! ”

Seeing his sincere and frightened look, Liu Xiu felt even more bored, waved his hand to Zhang Wei, and said, "Go home!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty! ”

When Zhang Wei heard this, he was relieved and kowtowed to Liu Xiu again and again.

"Go, go!"

Liu Xiu stood up.

Zhang Kun stepped forward, waved his hand to Zhang Wei, and said, "Mr. Zhang, please!" ”

Zhang Wei bowed and withdrew from the main hall.

After Zhang Wei left, Liu Xiu shook his head, looked at Luo You beside him, and asked, "Do you see it?" ”

"Huh?"

Luo You didn't react for a while.

Liu Xiu said: "Zhang Wei's chess skills are not at this level, and when playing in the gambling hall, his chess skills are much higher than now. ”

Luo Youle was happy and said, "After Mr. Zhang knows His Majesty's identity, he will naturally be restrained and polite. ”

"That's why it's boring!"

Liu Xiu walked in the hall with his hands behind his back and said, "It seems that if you want to be addicted to chess in the future, you still have to go out of the palace in micro-service." ”

Luo You said: "Your Majesty can find the right general!" ”

Liu Xiu shook his head and said, "Zhonghua, he also let me, otherwise with my chess skills, I won't be able to win against him." ”

Since the decision to send troops to Liangzhou, Luoyang has been preparing for more than half a month.

In the past half a month, the Western Expeditionary Army led by Feng Yi has advanced into the state.

The situation in Bingzhou was as Feng Yi expected, and when he learned that the Western Army was approaching Bingzhou, Lu Fang led his subordinates and retreated to the north as soon as possible.

and withdrew all the way to Gohara County in the north.

Wuyuan County is already the northernmost county of Bingzhou, and if it continues to retreat north, it will be withdrawn from Bingzhou and entered the territory of the Huns.

It can be seen that Lu Fang doesn't even have the desire to fight with the Western Army.

The remnants of Jia Lan and the remnants of Ao Ri chasing the king originally planned to run north, but Lu Fang did not agree.

Lu Fang conveyed the order to Jia Lan, since the Western Expeditionary Army was introduced by you to merge the state, then now, it should be up to you to expel the Western Expeditionary Army from the annexed state.

After receiving Lu Fang's order, Jia Lan was almost angry, the soldiers and horses under his command had been dispersed by the Western Army, my lord, you asked me to expel the Western Army from the state, and you have to give me soldiers and horses! Jia Lan didn't have a single soldier from Lu Fang, so he could only gather the local county soldiers and county troops while running.

Not to mention, many county soldiers and county troops who didn't have time to withdraw were all collected by Jia Lan under his command.

He ran from Yanmen County to Taiyuan County, and then ran from Taiyuan County to Xihe County, and he really raised tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, plus his original remnants, together with a total of 50,000 people.

In addition, King Ori, who was with Jia Lan, also gathered thousands of Xiongnu troops here in Bingzhou.

Ao Ri chased the king and did not need to obey Jia Lan's command, but this time Ao Ri chased the king and lost very much, very unwilling, he really didn't want to go back so disgraced, so he insisted on being with Jia Ran, seeking a chance to turn defeat into victory.

After entering Xihe County, Jia Lan and Ao Ri chased the king all the way west and ran to Quanyin and Quanyang.

Huanyin and Huanyang are two cities, built near the water, Huanyang is in the downstream, Huanyin is in the upstream, the distance between the two cities is close at hand, less than 20 miles apart.

Huanyin and Quanyang are already at the junction of Xihe County and Shangjun, if the remnants of Jia Lan can't stop the rout here, then the Western Expeditionary Army can attack Shangjun.

Shangjun is a horse Pingchuan, there is no danger to defend, and then west from Shangjun, but it is Anding County of Liangzhou.

Although the two counties of Anding and Beidi in Liangzhou are now occupied by Lu Fang, Kui Huan is eyeing these two counties and has been trying to subdue the two counties.

Jia Lan now has no way to retreat, he can't let the Zhengxi Army enter Shangjun, which has no danger to defend, let alone let the Zhengxi Army enter Anding and Beidi, he can only block the Zhengxi Army in the territory of Xihe.

The two cities of Quanyin and Quanyang, which are close at hand, can form a corner of each other, and in Jia Lan's view, this is a place where it is very easy to set up a line of defense.

To say that Lu Fang's command, there are many generals, such as Li Xing, Sui Yu, Tian Sa, Shi Kun, Min Kan, etc., among which there are also many fierce generals of the three armies, but if you want to say that the most powerful leader in the war, it has to be Jia Lan.

Jia Lan dug a lot of ravines between the two cities of Quanyin and Quanyang.

One in the east, one in the west, one in the front, one in the back, messy, countless, and irregular.

These ravines can not only effectively organize the cavalry of the Youzhou Assault Cavalry to charge the formation, but also make it impossible for the formation of the Western Army to be deployed.

In this kind of trench and horizontal battle, no one on either side needs to arrange troops, and can only start a big chaotic battle, which is exactly what Jia Lan wants.

The Western Army is a veteran force that has been on the battlefield for a long time, and it is extremely skillful in both arranging troops and cooperating with various departments.

And the soldiers and horses under Jia Lan's command, except for the remnants of more than 10,000 people, the rest of the tens of thousands of soldiers were all beaten from side to side, and when they went to the battlefield, they didn't have to hope that there would be any cooperation between them.

Therefore, if you want to fight a frontal army battle, Jia Lan's disadvantage here is too great, no matter how exquisite his troop arrangement is, it is impossible to be the opponent of the Western Army.

Out of this consideration, he put on such a posture of wanting to fight a chaotic war with the Western Army, no one should arrange troops, no one should want to cooperate, and if they want to fight, they will fight a war of attrition in which they are mixed together.

This is a tactic of avoiding one's own shortcomings and suppressing the enemy's strengths.

Jia Lan was like a mirror in his heart, and the army of 50,000 people he had temporarily formed could not be the opponent of the Western Army.

However, you can defeat me on the battlefield, but before I am defeated, I will bite you hard, make you hurt, make you bleed, and make you unable to lead your troops north to threaten my lord.

This is the core idea of Jia Lan's arrangement.

The expeditionary army led by Feng Yi soon arrived near Quanyang.

At this time, Jia Lan and his main force were almost all in Quanyang.

The expeditionary army set up camp ten miles away from Huanyang, and sent a large number of scouts to investigate.

In the evening, the scouts returned to the camp one after another and reported the information they had found to Feng Yi one by one.

In the tent of the Chinese army, the sand table has already been arranged, and according to the information transmitted back by the scouts, there are special soldiers to adjust the sand table.

Feng Yizhu stood around the sand table, looking down at the layout of the sand table, Han Xin rubbed his chin and said: "Jia Lanbu defends the circle of yang and the circle of yin, I thought that he would divide his troops to garrison the two cities, so that the two cities will become horns and support each other, but I didn't expect that he actually put all his troops in the circle of yang, and also dug out so many trenches between the circle of yang and the circle of yin, what does he mean is to fight to the death with our army in the circle of yang?" ”

Geng Shu muttered: "There are two cities that form horns with each other, he doesn't use it, but only uses one of them, this is really weird!" ”

Listening to the discussions of the generals, Feng Yi smiled indifferently, picked up a wooden stick, pointed to the place between the circle of yang and the circle of yin, and said: "This is the place where Jia Lan is going to fight a decisive battle with our army!" ”

Everyone present frowned in unison, and Han Xin whispered: "General, although Jia Lan now has more than 50,000 soldiers and horses, most of them are county soldiers and county soldiers who have been scraped together. ”

"That's right! The enemy is indeed killing themselves! ”

Feng Yi nodded and said, "However, this move can also make our army pay a large number of casualties.

Jia Lan deliberately dug out these many ravines between the circle of yang and the circle of yin, first, it can make it difficult for our army's Youzhou cavalry to move an inch, and second, it can make our army unable to arrange troops and disrupt them in a chaotic manner. ”

Speaking of this, Feng Yi couldn't help but laugh out loud, and said: "This Jia Lan is really loyal to Lu Fang, even if he wants to be defeated, even if he wants to annihilate the whole army, he will bite our army back, so that after this battle, our army will not be able to go north and attack Lu Fang." ”

After listening to Feng Yi's analysis, all the generals present showed a sudden realization, it turned out that Jia Lan was the ghost idea.

Han Xin rolled his eyes, smiled, and said: "General, Jia Lan doesn't know, the real purpose of our army's entry into Bingzhou is not to pursue him, nor to attack Lu Fang, but just passing through Bingzhou, now, our army can completely ignore Jia Lan's deployment in Huanyang and Quanyin, and directly bypass the past, enter Shangjun, and then go west from Shangjun to Anding and Beidi!" ”

The generals present nodded one after another, indicating that Han Xin had a point.

Feng Yi blinked, put the wooden stick in his hand on the edge of the sand table, and then turned around and paced back and forth in the Zhongjun tent with his hands behind his back.

The generals looked at each other, and after a long while, Geng Shu opened his mouth and asked, "The general doesn't want to bypass the circle of yang and the circle of yin?" ”

Feng Yi said quietly: "I'm thinking that if we defeat Jia Lanbu, then there will be no more soldiers and horses of Lu Fang in the central and southern parts of Bingzhou, and our army can take the four counties of Xihe, Shangjun, Anding, and Beidi. ”

All the generals gasped and looked at Feng Yi intently.

Feng Yi continued: "Especially Anding and Beidi, it is very important, these two counties belong to Liangzhou, if our army can seize Anding and Beidi, we can send troops from these two counties, directly enter Long, and cooperate with Your Majesty to fight, and there is no need to make a special trip back to Sanfu." ”