The troops started on the second day, and after arriving in Yidu, Sun Guan led the order to go north to Nanfeng and Guangrao counties to attack Linzi in Qi (county), while Zang Ba led most of the main force to cross Gushui (now Mihe) and go to Dong'anping into Qi County.

As a result, not long after the scouts crossed the river, an urgent news came that the Yuan army on the north bank of the Gu River was marching rapidly, and when the scouts came back to report the news, they said that there were many soldiers and horses in Jizhou, and the banners were like forests, and they looked at it, covering the sky and the sun, and the troops of this size were marching, and with their experience for so many years, it was conservatively estimated that the Jizhou army had at least 50,000 or 60,000 horses. And when they came back for reimbursement, they also found that the scouts of the Jizhou Army were searching for ferries and boatmen in the pavilion.

The Jizhou army came so fast beyond his imagination, it only took him two days to get from Juxian to Gushui, and this was also because he told Sun Guan to delay for half a day, but to go from Linzi to Gushui in Qi State, such a large-scale army march did not take five or six days to think about it. It came too quickly, Zang Ba underestimated in his heart, he sent troops five or six days ago? The action is so fast, think about it five days ago, he was still testing his patience with Kong Rong, how could this not make him afraid in his heart, if Wang Xiu hadn't personally prepared the grain and grass the day before yesterday and escorted him out of the city but delayed for a day, I am afraid that he would not need to send troops, Wen Chou had already arrived in the city.

It's cold to the bone, but the hot summer weather makes Zang Ba's back chill at the moment.

"Hurry up, set up the formation quickly, if the Jizhou army dares to come across the Gu River, half of it will be attacked." Zang Ba immediately ordered, as a commander, he can't mess up because of the sudden appearance of the enemy, at this time anyone can panic, but he can't, not only can't mess up, but also calm down. Come up with the best way to deal with a complicated situation at this time, otherwise you will be too anxious or too confused. Any order given is likely to send the troops into the tiger's mouth, and the battle will end in a crushing defeat.

And at the moment. In the Yuan army on the north bank of the Gu River, a middle-aged general under the banner of Jiang Zi Daxu stopped the troops after listening to the scout's return, and after a while, a fast horse came from the Chinese army, followed by dozens of horsemen, and this person was the chief general of the Jizhou army this time, Wen Chou.

"Why did you stop the march suddenly?" After the troops suddenly stopped advancing, Wen Chou led his own soldiers to rush to the front army, and now it was the moment when every second counted, rather than waiting for Jiang Qi to send a herald to explain the situation. Instead, it is better to go to the front army in person to see what is happening, delaying the march of the troops.

Wen Chou was extremely dissatisfied, although he came to see the situation, but he knew in his heart that the situation at this time must be because Jiang Qi did not collect enough ferries and was blocked by Gu Shui, and said dissatisfiedly: "Didn't I let you collect ferries a long time ago?" Why is it still blocked by water? ”

"The general is not the reason for the ferry." Jiang Qi, who was reprimanded inexplicably, was speechless, and pointed to the opposite side of Gu He with dissatisfaction: "General, you can understand it by yourself." ”

Could it be that the flooding occurred because the water level of the Guhe River rose in the summer? Until this time, he didn't believe that the Beihai army dared to take the initiative, and rode on top of the BMW to reach the pergola and look into the distance, and in the distance, he saw the Gu River flowing slowly. The water surface is gentle, what is abnormal, just about to reprimand Jiang Qi again, his eyes flickered. Immediately dumbfounded, I saw a surge of people on the other side, waiting in formation. Murderous.

"General, what happened suddenly. Not only did the last general have the audacity to order the river crossing, but he is about to send a herald to report to you. I don't want you to go to the front army in person. Jiang Qi said at the right time: "Please give the general an order!" Is it a big way to cross the river or ......" He ordered to suspend the advance was already very demoralizing, naturally he didn't dare to say anything like stationing in place, but the blank afterglow left behind was enough for Wen Chou to understand, as for what to choose, he must be able to understand, after all, as far as the current situation of the enemy army is concerned, it is also just to Gushui, and the formation is not yet neat, the best choice at this time is undoubtedly to take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold to cross the river quickly, otherwise it will drag on, and after the enemy army is formed, it will not be so easy to cross the river.

"Order the three armies to stay in place!"

"For ...... Why. ”

Jiang Qi was anxious, with his understanding of Wen Chou, he would inevitably choose to cross the river directly, but what was unexpected was that he made such a worst decision under the current situation, knowing this, he should have directly suggested that he cross the river directly instead of pretending to be smart, leaving the decision to him! ”

Jiang Qi directly chose to cross the river because he had fought with Zang Ba, and knew how effective Zang Ba's Langya army was, if it wasn't for Zang Ba's refusal to fight for some reason, he wouldn't have easily returned to Linzi, so he knew that the Langya army was powerful, and naturally he wouldn't wait for the enemy general to completely form a formation, but for Wen Chou, it was different, he didn't fight with the Langya army, especially after listening to some of Jiang Qi's boastful rhetoric, he didn't pay attention to the Langya army at all, at most it was stronger than the Northern Navy, this kind of combat power, now attack, The front army is less than 10,000 people, even if it crosses the Gushui, it will pay a great price of casualties, but it is better to wait for the Chinese army to arrive, and the army will cross the river in one fell swoop, and it will be more realistic and safe to defeat the Langya army in one fell swoop like a tsunami.

After learning of Wen Chou's plan, Jiang Qi seemed to have eaten a fly, and he knew that he had indeed experienced a bitter battle that day, but it was definitely not what he said in the battle report that he even said to Yuan Tan and Wen Chou that he could return safely after defeating the Langya army in one fell swoop.

A few years ago, Wen Chou reported such an attitude is understandable, after all, Qingxu Erzhou has been peaceful for a long time, and it is difficult to compare with border states and counties such as Youji and Liang, where they are at war with the Hu people all the year round, it can be said that even women and children can bend their bows to fight, but now, the civil strife of the Han Dynasty has made Qingxu Liangzhou no longer as happy as before, making Qingxu Liangzhou's combat power mentioned, although in front of the perennial Jizhou army, the combat effectiveness of the Qingzhou army is not mentioned, but Zang Ba's Langya army is not the same, as far as he knows, Zang Ba's Langya army fought with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban thieves all the year round, and defeated the Cao army during Cao Cao's invasion of Xu, causing the Cao army to leave thousands of corpses in Langya and retreat in panic.

And now that the army is set off, under the stimulation of the bounty, the morale is the highest, and it will be able to rush through the Gushui Dapo Langya army with one blow. At that time, it was impossible to break through the drama county with a big victory, but who knew that Wen Chou made such a worst decision. Of course, this has something to do with him, but he is a general in the army. One of the three major court pillars in Hebei, how could he not know that he was asking Yuan Tan for credit, and as a result, even he was convinced?

"General, the last general thinks that our army and the enemy army are not on a stable foothold, and once our army waits for the arrival of the Chinese army, the enemy army will also be properly arranged and attack at that time. It will only pay a greater price for casualties. ”

"Needless to say, I've made up my mind!"

Wen Chou made up his mind, it can be said that he decided to do this today, in fact, there is another reason, in the battle of Jizhou, he broke through the Black Mountain Army and marched with the troops for five days to relieve the safety of Yecheng, the troops were tired, and what the troops needed most at this time was rest, but because Gongsun Zhan was very anxious to attack Yecheng, Yuan Shao issued urgent orders three times a day. ordered him to return to the aid quickly, and under the repeated urging, he had no chance to choose at all, and he had to rush back to help before the city of Yecheng was broken.

Finally. He forcibly crossed the Zhanghe River to rescue before Gongsun Chan broke through Yecheng, but because the march was too hasty, he left the large army. But at that time, the appearance of 5,000 cavalry was enough to turn the tide of the war, and I thought that I could take advantage of the Youzhou army to break Gongsun Zan in one fell swoop after the siege of the city. And the situation at that time was exactly like this, he thought that he could settle Jizhou in a war. Who would have thought that at this critical moment, Liu Lan's sudden appearance made the tide of the battle turn sharply, and he saw Gongsun Chan close at hand, but he had to let him go.

At that time, how much he regretted his anxiety, if he didn't come with his own cavalry, but waited for all the cavalry to gather before launching a surprise attack on Gongsun Zhan, and then even if Liu Lan appeared, he would not dare to fight with him because the number of cavalry around him was too small, although in the end it was Yuan Shao who found out his embarrassment Mingjin collected his troops, but after going back, he was scolded by Yuan Shao, and he lost the right to command the army after that.

Afterwards, he reflected on this, if he could have been more calm at that time and waited for the troops to arrive, not only would the former soldiers and horses have been rested, but he would have been able to gather all his forces to launch a fatal blow to Gongsun Zhan, then, maybe he would not have to wait for Liu Lan to appear, he would have already broken the Youzhou army, and even if Liu Lan appeared, he could take advantage of the situation to repel it, so that there would not have been a later incident in which Gongsun Chan escaped from danger and finally lost Hejian.

Originally, the four major court pillars of Hebei became the three major court pillars because of the open jaw judgment of the enemy, and he and Gao Ran were idle and lost the right to command the army, after which the Jizhou army began to recover the two counties of Hejian and Bohai, but the limelight was all obtained by Liyi alone, even if Yan Liang's military exploits were brilliant, but he always fell behind, at this time, Wen Chou and Yuan Tan, who was also idle, were ordered to send troops to Qingzhou, and he and Yuan Tan generally urgently needed to gain the trust of the lord again through the battle of Qingzhou, so he must not allow any mistakes.

originally thought that Wen Chou, who could easily defeat Qingzhou, found that he underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Qingzhou army under Tian Kai's rule, and a Linzi alone made him pay a heavy price, but fortunately, in the end, he still sent Tian Kai's head to the lord.

But just when he thought he could pacify Qingzhou in one fell swoop, he suddenly ran out of Zang Ba, and the reason why he completely lost his previous decisiveness was that he found that the scene in front of him was so similar to that day under Yecheng, the Gu River in front of him was the Zhanghe River of the year, and the Zang Ba in front of him was like Gongsun Zhan of the day, he attacked now, maybe he would pay a smaller price, but what if something happened again?

No one can expect that there will be such a possibility, if it appears, then the scene of the year will appear again, once it is defeated in Qingzhou, then the lord may not give him another chance, although there will be no danger of his life, but he is afraid that there will be no chance for his only son to lead the army, at best he can only be a general.

This would be an absolute disaster for a general like him, so he would rather stay there at this time and wait for the arrival of the Chinese army, and then cross the river in a big way, rather than take the slightest risk.

He was afraid that an accident would happen again, and he was afraid that this time Liu Lan would become Kong Rong.

"General, don't hesitate any longer, if you don't attack now, we will lose the best opportunity!" Jiang Qi didn't give up, he still wanted to try again, maybe he would convince him, but every two words of a martial artist like him let him go into battle to kill the enemy, let him convince a person, his mouth was not so neat, and he only said a few words back and forth, how could he convince Wen Chou, who had made up his mind?

"Even if you lose the best opportunity, how can you get my Jizhou elite soldiers!" Wen Chou glanced at the Langya army on the other side of the river, and said disdainfully: "But have you ever thought that once you lead your troops across the river now, just when you and the Xuzhou army are in a bitter battle, Kong Rong led the Qingzhou army to suddenly kill, and our Chinese army has not arrived and cannot help you, what should you do at that time?" ”

"This ......" Jiang Qi gasped, like a man's back, if that is the case, I am afraid that he will only have one way to die in battle or can only surrender to the enemy. Jiang Qi was silent for a moment, he patronized and considered that the timing of the attack was better at this time, so he had mistaken the focus of Wen Chou's concerns from the beginning.

If he had to be reminded like this, he would have forgotten the scene of the Battle of Jizhou that year, he was on top of the city tower at the time, watching the city of Jizhou turn from danger to safety, watching Wen Chou break the Youzhou army and fall short because of Liu Lan's appearance, and finally ended up in the current situation, yes, the battlefield situation has always been changing rapidly, rather than taking great risks to cross the river and attack now, it is better to wait for the army to gather and then cross the river to be safe.

The art of war is a strange victory to be a positive harmony, and now it is surprising, if you can't win all, you will inevitably lose everything, but you can wait for the Chinese army to gather and then launch an attack, even if you can't successfully cross the river, but you won't be defeated, and you can keep a peace, in that way, there is still the possibility of dealing with the Xuzhou army, unlike the previous army, once the attack fails, there will be the possibility of the whole army being annihilated, it can be said that Wen Chou This is the most prudent way, no wonder he has always been anxious to suddenly make such an unprecedented decision.

Jiang Qi, who had already understood Wen Chou's purpose, was convinced, so that Wen Chou was even more convinced that his choice was right, even if he took a step back, the army marched rapidly for five days in a row, and he was exhausted, and he rashly crossed the river without resting, how long could he support it? Maybe the current offensive will be like the battle of Jizhou back then, and it will be the beginning of the reversal of occupation and all the fiascos!

At this time, Jiang Qi, who was waiting for the Chinese army with Wen Chou, looked at the troops who ordered to rest in place, and was shocked into a cold sweat, and the soldiers fell to the ground one by one to recover their physical strength, this scene made him feel chills in his heart, he had already seen the consequences of a rash attack, as the troops are now, even if they can cross the Gu River, I am afraid that their physical strength is not enough to support them to take the riverbed, and if they are undefeated, there is a ghost.

Fortunately, General Wen Chou didn't listen to himself, otherwise it was none other than herself who sent him to the guillotine. (To be continued.) )