Yang Ang kept complaining to Yang Ren while stating to Yang Ren the information he had heard and the conditions offered by the envoy sent by Jin Jue.

After listening to this, Yang Ren was silent for a while, and then shook helplessly and replied, "Second brother, the situation is stronger than people!" The reason why that son would offer such harsh conditions is that I didn't surrender directly like him before your eldest brother! ”

"Yangping Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, not to mention that he has 80,000 people, even if it is 180,000 people, he may not be able to capture this pass. What's more, the lack of food under his jurisdiction is an indisputable fact, and with so many people outside Yangping Pass, the daily consumption of food is an astronomical amount. How can they persevere? It's just that, listening to the other party's meaning, he doesn't need our brother's help, does he have any reliance or tricks to break through the Yangping Pass? Yang Ang nodded helplessly and asked suspiciously.

The situation is stronger than people, and Yang Ang actually understands this truth, but judging from the current situation, it is very difficult for Jin Jue's army to capture Yangping Pass no matter what. In particular, Zhang Lu just sent Yang Song, who was greedy for money but had no ability, to Yangping Pass, not to mention that his brother died in the hands of the other party, even if his parents died in the hands of the other party, he would hide in the pass like a turtle with a shrunken head and dare not fight.

In this case, it is even more difficult for Jin Jue's army to capture Yangping Pass in a short period of time, and fighting this kind of protracted war is very fatal for Jin Jue's army.

"Second brother, at the beginning, the eldest brother and I led 20,000 horses to attack Luoyang County, although Yang Bai was hindered by the side, and my troops in Hanzhong County were not elite troops, but they were much stronger than the Yellow Turban Army and miscellaneous armies from all over the country. But what was the result? From the beginning to the end, I was not able to fight the other side in a dignified manner, and I was defeated in a daze, and the whole army was captured.

Who would have thought that would have been the case? Yang Bai died, but I returned to Hanzhong County unscathed, Zhang Lu and the others in Hanzhong County thought that I was secretly colluding with each other, but only I understood that it was precisely because that Gongzi didn't take me seriously at all that he would release me and 10,000 soldiers back.

Therefore, I judge that when everyone's attention is focused on Yangping Pass, that prince will definitely attack Hanzhong County from an unexpected place. This time, Yang Ren gave his own answer without thinking.

Yang Ren naturally couldn't imagine that Jin Jue had already thought of a strategy to capture Hanzhong County before he captured Luoyang County.

Let's talk about Jin Jue.

After arriving in Shangyong County in the spring, Jin Jue stayed in the county to enjoy his happiness, but his generals were not idle, Cheng Lian and Wei Yan each led 2,000 elite Yellow Turban troops, and only did one thing in the eastern part of Hanzhong County - practice running.

From the generals to the rank-and-file soldiers, all of them were fully armed and ran five kilometers on foot, and this training was carried out every other day. Fortunately, there are not many soldiers brought by Jin Jue this time, and the population in the western part of Hanzhong County is small, but there is a lot of food in reserve, which can still maintain such high-intensity training.

Fu Tong and Bao Zhu's cousin Li Guanwei led the 1,000 Yellow Turban Army and the 2,000 defenders of Wuguan together, and practiced arranging two defensive formations - the Crane Wing Formation and the Circle Formation.

The crane wing formation is an ancient formation, the general is located in the middle and rear of the formation, surrounded by heavy troops, and the left and right wings are spread like cranes' wings, which is a formation that has both offense and defense. This formation is conducive to the advantage of crossbowmen.

Outflanking left and right is the basic tactical idea of the Crane Wing Formation. The crane wing array requires that the commander of the general should have a high tactical command ability, and the two wings can be opened and closed freely, which can not only attack at any time to outflank and attack the enemy's two wings, but also suddenly concentrate together and work together to flank the enemy who has broken through into the middle of the enemy formation.

Of course, in order to prevent the enemy from carrying out the decapitation strategy, the general's own defense naturally needs to be very tight to prevent a strong breakthrough by the enemy; The troops on both wings should also be mobile and flexible, closely coordinated, and the intensity of the attack must be very fierce, otherwise, the goal will not be achieved at all.

The circular formation refers to the circular battle formation during the ancient field defense war.

It is one of the ancient "Ten Formations" and was first recorded in Sun Bin's Art of War. The circle formation is a circular defensive posture of the army in order to defend itself, and all the golden drum banners in the main general are deployed in the center of the whole army.

The biggest feature of the circle is that there are no obvious weaknesses.

There are no weaknesses, which means that this formation also does not have very obvious advantages.

It can be said that among the various strange formations in ancient times, the circle formation is the formation with the strongest defensive ability in the field defense formation. And in this formation, the more archers there are, the sharper the bow and arrows, and the stronger the formation. At the same time, if the car formation can be supplemented outside the formation, the defense capability of the circle formation will be further strengthened, and it will even be able to resist the attack of the nomads in the northern Xinjiang.

On this day, two generals and 4,000 soldiers had just returned to Shangyong City from outside the city.

During this time, the second general and his soldiers had been competing in this only activity. However, every time it was always Cheng Lian's department that returned to the camp first.

There is no way, in order not to make Cheng Lian feel that he only treats the new generals preferentially, when dividing the troops, Jin Jue gave him the right to choose the soldiers he was the first to take care of Cheng Lian's emotions. Cheng Lian was also unceremonious, and the result was naturally that among the five thousand elite soldiers, all those soldiers who were young and strong were selected by Cheng Lian and became his subordinates.

In order to ensure the strength of Wei Yan's attack, Jin Jue asked Fu Tong to select the soldiers of his department at the end.

"Childe, do you let us run around like this every day, playing with us?" Cheng Lian, who came back with a stinky sweat, saw Jin Jue, so he immediately ran to him and complained loudly.

In the army, Cheng Lian dared to talk to Jin Jue like this, and after seeing the golden crossbow and Cheng Lian's personal bravery, Shen Mi and Lou Fa all put away their careful thoughts, and they all looked respectful in front of Jin Jue.

"Hehehe, General Cheng, whether this training method has any effect or not will soon be confirmed. News finally came from Hanzhong County, and Yancai finally led his troops to Yangping Pass, but Zhang Lu only sent 10,000 people to reinforce Yangping Pass. In this way, the pressure on your side and mine will be greater. I'm going to prepare for a military conference, just wait for you to come back, let's go!" Jin Jue smiled very indifferently and replied.

"Oh! Childe, is there finally a war? When Cheng Lian heard this, he was overjoyed.