Hejian, Ju County.

In order to implement the strategy of clearing the wilderness and besieging Gongsun Zan of Yijing, the Hebei army stationed a large number of elite soldiers and horses in the six cities around Yijing, including Yanxian, Wen'an, Gecheng, Fanyang, Zhuoxian, and Fangcheng, and confined the Baima Yicong under Gongsun Zan to this small area, and continued to narrow the encirclement of Yijing.

Of course, this encirclement was not completely seamless for the cavalry under the command of Gongsun Zhan.

If Gongsun Zhan's soldiers and horses enter the Flying Fox, it can not only echo with the scattered Montenegrin army that is flowing in Taihang and scattered, but also can attack Daixian, break the encirclement of the Yuan army, and then sweep the entire Youzhou.

It's just that anyone with a discerning eye knows that the direction of this breakthrough was deliberately left to Gongsun Zan by the besieged Yuan Jun.

Once Gongsun Chan can't resist this naked temptation in front of him, and wants to lead the army to evacuate Yi Jing, which he has worked so hard to manage, and turn into the Flying Fox Clan, then the Yuan army from all walks of life around Sanque Yi will swarm up, capture Yi Jing, and annihilate the last army of Gongsun Chan on the outskirts of the field.

The Flying Fox, which seems to have a glimmer of life, is actually a dead end, and the encirclement that seems to have a gap is actually an impermeable iron bucket that tightly traps Gongsun Zhan's army.

Among the cities to which this encirclement belongs, the location of Ju County is the most important, and it confronts Yi Jing in the north and south, staring at every move of Gongsun Zhan's army.

As the chief general of the encirclement, Lu Yi led his army to be stationed here.

In the encirclement of loose on the outside and tight on the inside, the camp of Juxian County is like the existence of the Jin Ge Iron Horse.

It's just that recently, with the successive stationing of Yuan Shang, Fu Zhu, Chun Yuqiong, Yan Liang, Wen Chou and other Yuan armies, the sound of the orderly fighting every night has faintly changed, and the spearhead of the Hebei army has slowly shifted from the outside to the inside.

In the camp of Lu Yi, there was a strange atmosphere of uneasiness and anxiety.

In a special tent.

Hebei general Lu Yi, clan brother Lu Yan, eldest son Lu Ying, nephew Lu Guang and other important figures of the Koji family, young and old, all quietly gathered here.

Because the space in the tent was too narrow, and it was full of people at the moment, the muddy and choking smoke of the oil lamps spread in the tent, which inevitably caused one or two people to cough lightly from time to time.

They could perceive that the wick of the oil lamp was scorched, but no one got up to replace it, just as they were now so anxious that they did not dare to make a move.

Their Ming Duke, Yuan Shao, the overlord of Hebei, is really going to do something to their Lu family.

In the past year, Hebei's foreign military use has not achieved much success, Gongsun Chan is still alive and jumping on the Yijing on the border of Hebei, and Hanoi, which was originally expected to be annexed, had to withdraw hastily because of the imperial court's envoy reprimand, making the military success of the attack on Sanhe fall short.

However, the process of Yuan Shao's unification of internal forces was in full swing.

First of all, Youzhou, Youzhou's surname and Wuhuan have always been a piece of Yuan Shao's heart.

Youzhou, as a large northern state, is rich in products and strong horses, and the Wuhuan Tuqi of the three counties is a well-known elite army in the world.

Xian Yufu, Xian Yuyin, Qi Zhou, these big surnames in the state, Liu Yu's old department stabbed Gongsun Chan in the back in time, Yan Rou even summoned the cavalry of Wuhuan and Xianbei to fight, and assisted the Yuan army to defeat Gongsun Zhan's army, so that the entire Youzhou was out of Gongsun Zhan's control and completely fell to Hebei, which can be said to have made a great contribution to Yuan Shao.

However, these big surnames with the intertwined roots of local forces and faintly intended to support Liu He as the successor of Youzhou Mu are also unfavorable factors for Yuan Shao to fully control Youzhou.

Yuan Shao doesn't want to be like Gongsun Zan to wantonly suppress and completely tear his face with these people, but it doesn't mean that Yuan Shao will rely on them for everything like Liu Yu.

Yuan Shao first recalled Liu He, asked for merit for him, and gave him an official and a knighthood, but if there was no accident, Yuan Shao would not let him set foot in Youzhou, a land where his father had great influence, in this life.

Then Yuan Shao privately made a single golden seal to grant Lord Wuhuan, selected a woman of appropriate age in the clan to marry the Wuhuan nobles, and won the hearts of the Wuhuan people in the three counties through a series of means, and even directly sent an envoy to call on the Wuhuan of the three counties to fight for him.

It is safer to hold a good knife in his own hand, and Yuan Shao doesn't want to fake Yan Rou and others anymore.

Immediately afterwards, Yuan Shao supported Jiao Touch, Zhang Nan and other Youzhou heroes to check and balance Xian Yufu, Xian Yuyin, Qi Zhou and others, and slowly divided and hollowed out the power of Liu Yu's old ministry in the state.

In the end, he appointed his son Yuan Xi as the assassin of Youzhou, and really included Youzhou in the Yuan family's bag.

Although the Koji family, who was responsible for dealing with Gongsun Zhan, had come into contact with part of the internal affairs of Youzhou, they felt that it was none of their business, and they stood by and watched the dizzying Yuan Shao's series of methods throughout the whole process, but they didn't expect that after Yuan Shao solved the internal affairs of Youzhou, they would turn their heads and deal with their Koji family.

After all, the Koji family, which has always maintained a semi-independent state and is arrogant, is also a piece of Yuan Shao's heart.

In the past year, the order from Yecheng has been to urge Gongsun Zhan, who is the commander of the Luyi headquarters to attack Yijing.

This seems to be Yuan Shao's means of dealing with the Koji family, if he wins, he just uses Gongsun Zhan to consume the strength of the Koji family, and if he loses, he has the name of asking for guilt, and he can take the opportunity to seize the soldiers and horses in the hands of Lu Yi.

But Lu Yi is not a stupid person, so he will naturally not be at the mercy of Yecheng. He claimed that under the protracted war, the troops, horses, grain and grass of the headquarters were insufficient, and he could not use the troops, while insisting on holding the troops still, on the other hand, he urged Yecheng to send more men and horses, armor, grain and grass, and baggage to replenish his army.

Of course, Yecheng would not strengthen the strength of the Lu family at this time, but Yuan Shao did not dare to rashly cut off the supply and anger the Lu Yi before he was sure, so Yan County and Yecheng were consumed in a way of urging and prevaricating back and forth.

In the process of dry consumption, Yecheng also began to try other ways to solve the Koji family.

Yuan Shao secretly ordered the trial and investigation of the crimes of collaborating with the enemy and breaking the law by visiting the Lu family, and when the evidence of the crime was now conclusive, he began to send additional soldiers and horses to Yan County in the name of attacking Gongsun Zhan, and constantly increased internal and external pressure to force the Lu family to bow their heads and submit to it.

Now it has almost reached the point of trying to see the poor dagger, Chun Yuqiong, Yan Liang, Wen Chou three Hebei generals have already led the army to faintly surround Lu Yi's soldiers and horses, Yuan Shang, who arrived in Yan County, sent people three times and twice in the name of discussing the military situation and going to the banquet, invited Lu Yi to his army, but they were all shirked by Lu Yi on the excuse of occasionally feeling cold and sick in bed.

But this is not a solution to the dilemma, and if it continues like this, sooner or later it will be a civil strife and collapse of the army of the Tyrants.

"My lord, we can't wait any longer. In the past half a month, the military supplies transported from the rear have been intercepted by Yuan Shangxiaoer under various pretexts, and everyone gathered here tonight just to wait for your order. If we don't do it again, I'm afraid that we will become fish on the knife. ”

The eldest son, Lu Yi, was short-tempered, perhaps because he was tired of hearing the coughing sound in the tent and smelling enough of the fumes in the tent, he couldn't help but be the first to speak, and said anxiously to his father.

The young Zhuang faction of the Koji family has the leadership of Koji Ying, and they have also spoken out to join the topic of Kojiyi, all of which advocate the use of force against Yuan Shao, and they can't go on like this.

In their opinion, since their Koji family can overthrow a Jizhou pastor, it is not a big deal to overthrow another Jizhou pastor.

It's nothing more than fighting a few more tough battles and big battles, and when it comes to fighting tough battles and big battles, who are they, the children of the Koji family, afraid of.

Jieqiao, Longcuo, Lugushan, Changshan, Baoqiushui, have they fought many tough battles and big battles, Han Fu, Huns, Zhang Yang, Gongsun Zhan, Yu Poison, Zhang Yan, Lu Bu, these are all famous forces, and they have all become defeated generals of the Koji family.

As an elder, Lu Yan saw these young people who didn't know the height of the sky and the height of the earth making a fuss, and his face suddenly changed, and he scolded sharply, wanting to suppress them all.

During the whole process, holding his jaw and rubbing the gray beard, the glutinous man ignored it and did not say a word.

These young people, what they think in their hearts, he will not know. All they saw was victory or defeat on the battlefield where swords and arrows flew everywhere, and they never carefully figured out the deeper problems behind the war.

They even arrogantly believed that it was they who defeated Han Fu, which made Han Fu forced to give up Jizhou to Yuan Shao, and today Yuan Shao angered them, they could completely overturn Yuan Shao from the position of Jizhou pastor, and then jointly elect Lu Yi to replace him and become the master of Jizhou and Youzhou.

But Lu Yi knows that arrogance is arrogance, and big words will not become big truths, and Jizhou will never be defeated by the Lu family.

He wasn't going to sit still. This has been a consistent principle since he was recruited into the army and left Liangdi.

Even in the face of Yuan Shao, the overlord of Hebei, the Koji family will do their best to fight.

But in the face of the full-fledged Yuan Shao, Lu Yi also knew that their Lu family was powerless to resist at all, even if they united with Sun Zhan, the Duke of Yijing, who was close at hand, it would only be defeated in the end.

The only way to survive is to jump out of the current predicament of internal and external pressure in the county, and if you don't become a dead soul under the knife, everything will still have a chance.

Therefore, Lu Yi ignored the junior's ravines and the scolding of his clan brother Lu Yan, and he stared intently at the map on his desk.

As a general of Hebei, Lu Yi led the army to conquer Hebei and Youerzhou, and was familiar with the terrain of Hebei mountains and rivers in Pingchuan, but he was still thinking hard at the moment, looking for the best way for the Lu family to retreat.

While there is still strength in his hand, it is naturally right to rise up and resist, but Lu Yi is unwilling to fight a nest battle with no chance of winning, if he wants to fight, then he must not only win, but also be able to retreat, if not, then it is better to bow to Yecheng at the moment and give in.

Maybe looking at the merits of his past battles, Yuan Shao will also spare the widows and young of the Koji family.

Thinking of this, Koji Yoshi, who was focused on the map, raised his head suddenly, his eagle-like gaze extremely sharp, revealing a knife-like edge.