Shi Hu was supposed to go to the front line to check the battle, but he was stopped by the pro-guard troops. Immediately, Ma Chi came to report and said: "General Zhang has sealed the Jin people, and I am afraid that there are no less than five or six thousand people who escape......

Shi Hu calculated that Guo Rong who was blocking the road in front had 3,000 people, and Zhang Raccoon Dog who was chasing after him was at least 2,000, and he was still an elite soldier - knowing that there were many enemies who escaped, it was estimated that Zhang Raccoon would also draw people and horses from nearby to help - three plus two equals five, which is not far behind. Set up an ambush in advance, flank the front and back, if not only can you not win, but even will be escaped by the main force of the Jin army, those two goods don't have to come back alive to see me!

Moreover, I have ordered the main force to go south, Zhang Xiong and others led the infantry straight into the Yao Temple, and then frustrated the southern base, which is estimated to be effortless; In addition, there are thousands of cavalry, detouring south, and it is estimated that it will be able to reach it after some noon. Then these cavalry are chasing and harassing, and most of the Jin people are infantry, how far can they run?

Thinking like this, I made up my mind a little, and then began to study the post-war problem - if Guo Rong, Zhang Raccoon, and thousands of cavalry could kill most of the Jin people, Zhang Xiong, Wang Hua and others would not have to chase after them, and they should collect the materials abandoned by the Jin people in the Yao Temple as soon as possible, and then cross Fen to the west and go to Pingyang City to show it, so as to disturb the hearts of Liu Yang and other defenders......

He immediately ordered his subordinates to order one of them to rush to Guo Rongjun to report the news, and the other person went to see Zhang Xiong, asking him to search carefully after seizing the Yao Temple and Nanlei, and see if there were any important things left behind by the Jin people - you just collect some Jin soldiers' flags, armor, and weapons, even if they are piled up in front of Pingyang City, the convincing power is not great, it is too easy to fake.

In fact, before this, Shi Hu had already sent someone to inform Guo Rong that the enemy might be trying in vain to break the siege and go south, and this time he sent someone to give the order, but he just wanted to inform the inaccurate figure of five or six thousand. However, the previous herald went south almost parallel to the Jin people, but one of them accidentally got too close and was killed by the Jin general's arrows...... Therefore, Guo Rong got the news a little late.

Besides, Shi Hu, the assignment was established, and he felt a little dry mouth, so he ordered the tribe to offer a water bladder to drink. I drank two sips casually, stretched out my hand to wipe my beard, and said with a slight smile: "I heard that the well water in the Yao Temple is very sweet, and it is waiting to be taken away, I will lead you and others into the ancestral hall to drink." There is a trilogy who is familiar with his mind and said: "I also hope that the king will not only conquer the Yao Temple, but also successfully capture Pingyang, then the war will rest for a while, and we can serve the wine for the king's birthday!" ”

When Shi Hu heard this, he couldn't help laughing, threw the wine bag to his subordinates, and said: "It won't take too long to ...... if you want to come" Before he finished speaking, suddenly a fast horse galloped from the north, and the cavalry immediately panted and reported: "Gao Liang is in danger, General Guo begs the king to send reinforcements quickly!" ”

Shi Hu was furious and said, "How can this be reasonable! Where did the Jin people come from, how many of them are there, and Guo Quan can't be emperor, and he still wants to ask me to save him?! "I'm looking forward to recovering Pingyang in a few days, and completely reversing the situation on the Western Front, but you dare to run to spoil my mood - after Guo Quan was hit by an arrow, did he become so cowardly? He's pampered and arrogant, do you really think I wouldn't dare to kill his brother?!

You must know that the Guo brothers have always been arrogant and short-tempered, just like Shi Hu belongs to the same type, but they are just a small thing. If Guo Quan was in front of him, maybe he would turn his face with Shi Hu on the spot - let's change positions, you can try it yourself, how to resist the invasion of the Jin people?

According to the courier's detailed explanation, it is estimated that the Jin people quietly crossed from the west of Fenshui, made a circle, and appeared in the north of Gaoliang. It was all cavalry, divided into multiple squads, taking advantage of Guo Quan's opportunity to put the cattle and sheep in the wilderness, and attacked and disturbed them in many ways. Guo Quan's command is only a few thousand miscellaneous beards, and if he wants to graze 100,000 cattle and sheep, it is inevitable that he will be scattered, and it is impossible to resist the cover attack of the Jin cavalry.

In particular, the goal of Jin Qi at the beginning was still cattle and sheep, and he tried every means to disperse them, and then saw that they were scattered and scattered, and it was difficult to support and cooperate with each other, so he turned to attack and kill these in theory, not soldiers, but just herdsmen's miscellaneous ...... When Guo Quan heard the report, he personally led hundreds of troops to kill the generals, and successfully dispersed the two Jin cavalry teams, but because of the provocation from all sides, all parties warned and did not dare to chase after him.

If there were no cattle and sheep, Guo Quan could gather those shepherds in a short time and deal with the Jin cavalry, who seemed to have a slightly smaller force than himself; However, it is inevitable that we can't ignore the cattle and sheep, and there are cattle and sheep to cover the road, and the team can't gather at all, so if dozens or hundreds of horsemen fight each other, how can the Zahu herdsmen be the opponent of regular soldiers?

Guo Quan rode his horse and galloped, but he was overstretched, and he was tired of running for his life, so he had no choice but to send people to the camp for help. The generals who stayed behind did not dare to be proficient, so they hurriedly changed horses, and let the messenger continue to go south and report to Shi Hu that he knew. However, Zhu Liang, who joined the army, proposed that saving the soldiers was like fighting a fire, and besides, the grain and straw were all in the sorghum, and the cattle and sheep were scattered in the four fields, so there was no room for mistakes, so please transfer the remaining hundreds of cavalry in the main camp to help in advance - the guard general agreed, and asked Shi Hu for guilt.

After hearing this, Shi Hu immediately glared and said, "In this case, why do you still come to report me?" "Didn't the reinforcements be sent to you? The messenger replied tremblingly: "General Guo asked the king to send an army to rescue, I am afraid that there will be less than a few hundred horsemen......

Shi Hu immediately lifted the whip, pulled it off on the spot, and reprimanded angrily in his mouth: "As you said, the Jin Kou is only one or two thousand horsemen, and since hundreds of cavalry have been sent to help, Guo Quan's troops are two or three times more than the thieves, why can't they be dispersed?" And Pingyang Jin Cavalry was able to cross eastward, which was Guo Tai's mistake - Guo's negligence should be made up by Guo's own fault! ”

The main Shi Hu didn't take the attack on Gaoliang too seriously, as he said before, his own family only had less than 10,000 grains stored in the abandoned city of Gaoliang, and the rations used for the soldiers were mainly those cattle and sheep all over the mountains and fields captured from Tuoba Xianbei, even if the Jin people let go of killing, how much could they kill? Even if it's slaughtered, I can dry it and make bacon. As for dispersal, there is a Fenshui barrier, where can you drive it?

The key is to thoroughly control the initiative in either Fendong or Fenxi, the entire battlefield. Now in the east of Fenshui, Yao Temple is at your fingertips, and the initiative on the battlefield is in my hands, so even if Gao Liang is served, what is there to fear? I can charge casually, and I can take back all the cities, cattle and sheep. Now the important thing is to wait for Zhang Xiong, Wang Hua and others to break through the base, and then if Zhang Raccoon Dog in the south drops the chain, they can send troops to help, otherwise, they must return as soon as possible to attack Pingyang City again.

At this time, Pingyang City sent one or two thousand cavalry to weaken itself, isn't that just right? I've already sent hundreds of cavalry to Gaoliang for reinforcements, Guo Quan, even if you can't expel all the Jin cavalry, it should be no problem to deal with them for a few hours, right? I have to rescue at every turn, is this still the brave Guo San I know?! When you insisted on going with me, you weren't so cowardly!

So he whipped and drank the messenger sent by Guo Quan, and the messenger hurriedly turned the horse's head and jumped away with his head in his arms. The more Shi Hu thought about it, the more angry he became, so he knocked his legs on the horse's belly and said to his subordinates: "Since I am about to attack Jin Kou in front and back, I might as well go forward and kill a few enemies to vent my anger." ”

The trilogy was still waiting to be stopped, and suddenly the horse rushed from the battalion again, and reported to Shi Hu: "General Guo was ambushed in the middle of Fenxi, and he was greatly defeated......

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Mo Huaizhong's grain ship originally wanted to sail to Yaoci, but was intercepted by Guo Rong in Fendong and forced to sail along the west bank of Fenshui, intending to advance to Pingyang City. Guo Rong sent people to cross Fenxi, found Mrs. Guo, and reported the matter, Mrs. Guo reassured his brother - "If the thief goes east, the second brother will decide himself, and if the thief goes west, he will be a brother here." ”

So he rode out and sentry along the Fenshui to spy and monitor, preparing to take advantage of the opportunity of the grain to go ashore to launch a surprise attack and completely burn it in one fell swoop.

Besides, Guo Rong also reported this letter to Shi Hu, and Shi Hu sent someone to warn Guo Tai, saying that leaving your mobile force in Fenxi is a great threat to the Jin Kou in Pingyang City, so you have to wander around with an invisible momentum to tie up the Jin people, and after I conquer the Yao Temple, I can reverse and seek Pingyang again. As for the grain team, as long as they can't send it to the Yao Temple, it doesn't matter if they enter Pingyang City or not, you must be vigilant, don't fall into the ambush of Pingyang Jin Kou because you want to stop the grain team.

In all fairness, although Shi Hu is cruel, rude, self-serving, and jealous, he still has a certain talent for battle planning, and sometimes he is just born with intuition, and he can often be to the point. But it's a pity that his reminders and warnings didn't reach Mrs. Guo's ears......

Guo Tai led the most elite cavalry of the 3,000 cavalry in the Pingyang army, cruising from the northwest to the south of Pingyang City, and the range was very wide. The only thing that was vacated was due north of the city. But in fact, Mrs. Guo also arranged eyeliner there, with the purpose of luring the Jin people out of the city to attack the pontoon bridge on the Fenshui River, so that he could take the opportunity to cooperate with the main force and eliminate it.

Mrs. Guo's arrangement was sparse, but she didn't expect that Chen An would lead the elite horse out of the north of the city, avoid the pontoon bridge, go around in a big circle, and then find a shallow place nearly forty miles away from the city to swim across the Fenshui. The eyes of the Zhao army's sentry were all focused on the vicinity of the pontoon bridge, and Chen Anshan's cavalry knew how to cut off the battlefield almost perfectly, so Chen An's north walk, and then crossed Fen to attack the 100,000 cattle and sheep near Gaoliang, and Guo Tai was almost unaware of this.

Therefore, Shi Hu said that this was "Guo's negligence", not a harsh criticism.

However, for several days in a row, thousands of cavalry could not always wander on the plain, and there was always a chance to camp and rest, otherwise even if the soldiers could still maintain their combat effectiveness, the mounts would inevitably be tired. Especially at the daily gallop, the horse needs to consume a lot of forage, and it is impossible to carry it with him, and it is too much time to indulge the mount to forage for food on its own.

Let's put it this way, if the war horse is purely wild food, even in the season and area where the vegetation is lush, it has to spend almost half of the day for grazing, and the remaining half of the day can be used for running.

However, if you camp in the wild, the target is too big, and it is easy to be hit by the sentinels sent out in Pingyang City, or just the wild people who can't kill enough. Shi Hu asked Guo Tai to use his troops like water, that is, Huer was in the east and Huyan was in the west, making it difficult for the Jin people in Pingyang City to capture. If Guo Tai's actions were all in the hands of the Jin people, then he could have planned to annihilate them, or at least defeat them—after all, the number of defenders in Pingyang was more than three times that of Guo Tai; Only by making the Jin people inexplicable can they tie the hands and feet of the defenders to the greatest extent and make them dare not act rashly.

So if you need to rest and recuperate, but it is inconvenient to camp in the wild, where is Mrs. Guo going to rest and feed the horses? Obviously, there is only Xiping City.

Xiping City was originally an old fortress belonging to Pingyang, and Hu Han rebuilt it as a shield in the northwest direction of Pingyang. Moreover, when the Zhao army was besieging Pingyang in the past, it immediately ordered the auxiliary soldiers to harvest and dry the forage used in the war horses, and a lot of them were left in Xiping City. Therefore, Guo Tai divided his troops into two parts, and in one or two days, one of them would return to Xiping City, rest for the night, and at the same time recuperate the horsepower.

As a result, Xiping City has also become the information center of the Qianjun army west of Fenshui, and the intelligence and orders from Fendong must enter Xiping City first - otherwise, where can you go to find Mrs. Guo in the huge plain? This time, Guo Rong sent people to wade across the river, and the news was that Guo Tai was found directly, because he led his troops to the south, which was not only in the south of Pingyang, but also north into Xiping City, which was too far to detour. In addition, during this period, he also passed several messages with his brother, so it was relatively convenient to find Mrs. Guo.

However, the information from Shi Hu's main camp was sent to Xiping City according to the usual rules, and then Chen Chuan sent someone to inform Mrs. Guo. It's just that Shi Hu reminded Mrs. Guo not to rob the grain lightly, be careful of the words of ambush, even if the horse is passed quickly, it will only arrive in the city in the middle of the night, and Chen Chuan has already fallen asleep...... When he got up the next day and his subordinates came to report, Chen Chuan asked, "Is it a message, or is there a letter?" The subordinate replied, "It's just a message." Chen Chuan's eyes rolled slightly, and then he sneered: "Be careful not to disclose this matter to others." ”

Since it was a verbal message, it was difficult to prove it, so Chen Chuan planned to hide this news and secretly trap Mrs. Guo. Why? Of course, it's because he doesn't deal with Guo Tai.

The Guo brothers are in the Shi Zhao army, with a prominent status and high reputation, and they are usually arrogant and domineering, how can they put a beggar general in their eyes? In particular, Chen Chuan also traveled thousands of miles to help Shi Hu send Zheng Cherry, and Zheng Cherry entered the slander of Princess Guo in front of Shi Hu, and occasionally news leaked out, and the Guo brothers naturally hated it. But they didn't dare to complain about Shi Hu, and it was impossible for them to go to Zheng Cherry, who was almost inseparable from Shi Hu, to settle accounts, so they could only vent all their anger on Chen Chuan's head.

- Who told you to send that woman to Jinyang? Invite pets, shameless!

When Shi Hu was still in Fenxi, it was inconvenient for Guo to directly scold Chen Chuan, and when Shi Hu crossed east, there were only two generals Guo Tai and Chen Chuan left in Fenxi, so with Guo Tai's temper, would he be willing to let Chen Chuan go easily? Almost every time he returned to Xiping City, he had to make excuses—for example, lack of forage, for example, lack of food, or even Chen Chuan's failure to meet him in time—and scolded Chen Chuan, that is, deliberately humiliated him in front of the generals and soldiers.

Even later, even if Mrs. Guo herself did not come, his subordinates would also dare to call Chen Chuan around.

Chen Chuan held a grudge and took the opportunity to trap Mrs. Guo. In this regard, Mrs. Guo herself was arrogant and lacked vigilance, and she failed to receive the warning from Shi Hu, so she stepped into the trap preset by the Jin people......

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