Yan Liang, who sent the front army and cavalry to pursue, was not disrupted by the enemy's guerrilla scattering, he led the army to continue along the official road, and he was full of confidence and had no worries about the battle of his own infantry and cavalry to pursue and annihilate hundreds of enemy soldiers.

But soon he received a report that the infantry and pursuing cavalry of the front army were blocked by the enemy soldiers on the other side of a small river, and several times they made a strong attack on the river, but they all failed, and were not only driven down the river again, but also lost many men and horses.

The poor performance of the subordinate cavalry immediately made Yan Liang furious, but then the former military officer explained in a panic, which also made Yan Liangsheng have other thoughts.

According to the report from the former army, although the number of enemy soldiers blocking the shore was small, they were extremely fierce, the armor was excellent, and they were also waving the banner of the enemy generals.

This gave Yan Liang, who had the intention of dampening the morale of the defenders before attacking the city, and immediately ordered the army to turn around and speed up to the direction of Xiaohe.

He wanted to see if this elite enemy army, which could be outnumbered, could withstand the strong attack of 20,000 cavalry under his command.

Soon, Yan Liang, who led the army to the small river, received a report that the enemy soldiers on the other bank saw the smoke and dust billowing and knew that the army was coming on foot, and they were already fighting and retreating, and they were evacuating from the riverbank, and the former army officers would not watch them flee, and they had already mounted in unison, wading in the water to pursue, preparing to catch up with them, and were annihilated in one fell swoop.

Yan Liang, who had arrived at the river bank, was not idle, he was surrounded by many military officials and personal soldiers, and rode his horse in front of the army to look at the battle situation on the other side, only to see that the enemy soldiers of less than 1,000 people were very elite and fierce, and fought and retreated, and the soldiers who were caught up after the break stubbornly resisted and fought to death, none of them surrendered, and the soldiers who were still retreating retreated without chaos and continued to shoot, and many of their own foot cavalry who rushed ashore were shot by the strong crossbows in their hands one after another.

It seems that the former soldiers and horses will have to pay a lot of price if they want to completely annihilate this enemy army.

"Hmph, the mantis arm is used as a car, I don't measure my strength, beat the drum, and the whole army crosses the river to attack!"

When Yan Liang saw this annoying scene, he was furious, threw his whip to the ground, and shouted loudly to order.

When the officers around him saw this, they dissuaded him and said:

"General, these enemy soldiers are very elite, they will not block the river here for no reason, you can see that there are many enemy banners in the distance, maybe the enemy soldiers and horses are ambushing-"

Before the cautious officer could finish speaking, he was picked up by an angry Yan Liang like a baby and thrown into the river.

"Cowardly as a chicken, I have been frightened by the suspicious soldiers all the way to Luyi, since I joined the army, I have conquered cities and conquered all the battles, how can I be afraid of a mere ambush of Luyi, do I still want to let the general stand on the other side and watch these arrogant enemy soldiers escape."

Seeing Yan Liang angry, where did the other military officials dare to say another word, and hurriedly bowed their heads to obey the order, and in a moment, the 20,000 army sounded the war drums of the march before and after, and a large number of Hebei soldiers and horses waded through the river under the personal leadership of Yan Liang, and continued to move forward bravely and climb ashore.

It was also at this time that the former soldiers and horses who were chasing suddenly found that the flags in the distance had changed differently, which were completely different from the various colored banners and straw men that had been motionless before.

This time, the flags and figures that had been erected would change and move, and the smoke and dust raised in the distance were getting bigger and bigger, and they even heard the horns of the enemy's cavalry attacking.

"There are enemy troops, there are enemy troops!"

The officers of the front army shouted in panic, and their hoarse voices resounded on the spot.

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Taiyuan, under the city of Jinyang.

Yuan Shao, who was patrolling the camp in a big tent, carefully inspected most of the camp under the guard of the civil and military guards, and finally came to a camp near the gate and slowly climbed to the nearest watchtower.

The night is vast, and the four fields are like ink.

Looking at Jinyang City towering in the night in the distance, it was like a huge monster confronting the Yuan army company camp besieging it, and the little fire on the city wall, as if its countless eyes, were glaring at Yuan Shao viciously.

Yuan Shao, who was in a high place, exhaled a long breath, and his heart fluctuated.

Although Hebei was once faced with the dilemma of Yan and Cao's attack, first lost the important land of Bingzhou, and later Yecheng was almost attacked by Cao's army, losing 60,000 soldiers and horses in various places, and dozens of generals and colonels surrendered and died in battle, including even their own nephew, Bingzhou Assassin Shi Gaogan.

But in the end, he managed to regain his disadvantage.

Under the planning of himself and Tian Feng, Xu You, Feng Ji and others, Yecheng took a multi-pronged approach, using the game of Xuzhou in exchange for Cao Cao's anyway, and plotting against the enemy general Ma Chao caused civil strife in Guanxi, and with the assistance of means such as cutting and fighting, using the room, the military operation in Kanto was launched smoothly as expected, Yuan Shao dispatched 120,000 soldiers and horses, collected 200,000 people, known as 400,000 troops, mighty, multi-way march, attacking Bingzhou and Hanoi.

Among them, 30,000 soldiers and horses were led by the general Yan Liang and attacked Hanoi; 20,000 soldiers and horses, led by the general Wen Chou, attacked Shangdang; Yuan Shao personally led 60,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 cavalry to attack Taiyuan, and the rest of the soldiers and people were handed over to Fu Zhi, Chun Yuqiong and others who were sitting in the rear to dispatch and supply the army with grain and grass to prevent harassment and attacks by black mountain thieves hiding in the mountains and forests.

At present, soldiers and horses from all walks of life have invaded the territory of Taiyuan, Shangdang, and Hanoi as scheduled, and the good news is frequent, and the victory of the army is just around the corner.

For example, Taiyuan all the way, Yuan Shao's army has firmly besieged the enemy general Cao Yuan in Jinyang City, and the enemy soldiers trapped in the city could not escape, although they refused to surrender and resisted stubbornly under the leadership of Cao Yuan, but Yuan Shao had absolute confidence that he could lead the army to capture the fortified city of Jinyang.

After all, even the tricky buildings and barracks like Yi Jing were leveled by the Hebei army one after another.

"Listen! Did you hear the faint sound of the flute? ”

Yuan Shao, who was in a hurry, suddenly heard an intermittent flute sound from the wind in the distance, at first glance, he thought it was a change in the howling mountain wind, but after listening to it for a while, he felt that it was undoubtedly the sound of the flute, so he turned his head to look at Feng Ji and others who followed upstairs.

Feng Ji had heard the sound of the flute in the direction of the enemy wall in the distance long before Yuan Shao, and he took advantage of the gap between Yuan Shao's contemplation on the stairs to ask the other military officials on duty first, and immediately replied:

"Ming Gong, I also heard it below, it was the sound of a flute, and it came from the city wall."

"Oh, it's the sound of the flute on Jinyang City?"

"Yes, listen to the report of the military officials, in the past two days, at this hour of the night, there was a flute on the enemy wall, sometimes excited, sometimes low, and the scouts of the night detectives reported that there was a scribe on the city wall with the enemy soldiers, blowing the flute and Xun."

"It seems that the guards in the city are worried that Jinyang will be trapped for a long time, and people's minds will change, so they came up with the strategy of playing the flute at night to boost morale and appease people."

Yuan Shao is also the commander of the army, of course he knows that in the dull and boring, strict military law in the barracks, after a long time, away from home for a long time, the low-level soldiers who have been away from home for a long time and have been subjected to war labor will produce all kinds of anger, these anger will not only hurt others, but also hurt themselves, the generals who are good at leading troops to fight must resolve the excess anger on the soldiers in time, and this in addition to motivating them with victory and military merits in the battle array, it is also necessary to appease and comfort them through many other ways.

Prostitution, rewards, plundering, and slaughtering cities are all one of many ways, and of course, so are songs.

Songs, sometimes they will be Chu Ge that breaks the morale of the army, but more often, they appear in the form of boosting morale and calming people's hearts.

Yuan Shao raised his eyes and looked into the distance, accompanied by the faint sound of the flute, he seemed to see the enemy soldiers on the city wall with a smile on their faces and sleeping peacefully, and he didn't know how many nights the soldiers in his camp would also fall asleep listening to the lingering sound of the flute.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shao sighed, frowned and said:

"You say, could this be another ploy that Xu Shu came up with?"

Since the Hebei army marched into Bingzhou, there was an endless stream of people who had originally been under his rule who came to defect to Yuan Shao, such as the commander Shang Yao and the scholar Wang Ling, who not only complained about the atrocities of the Xiliang army, but also brought a lot of information about the enemy army.

According to them, the enemy general Cao Yuan originally planned to rely on the mountain danger to block the advance of the Hebei army in Taihang Mountain, but there was a staff member of Xu Shu who offered advice, telling Cao Yuan that the people in Taiyuan were willing to Yuan, the army was outside, and the county would change sooner or later.

This is indeed a poisonous ploy, and it has indeed had some effect. At least although Yuan Shao, who was invincible all the way, successfully invaded Taiyuan, he did not have the opportunity to eliminate a large number of soldiers and horses under Cao Yuan's command in the field, and it was also very difficult for Yuan's army to raise grain and grass on the spot.

"Quite possibly."

For this enemy general Xu Shu, who is known as a scholar from Yingchuan and a study tour of Jingxiang, the Feng Ji of Nanyang people knows very little, and even together with Guo Tu, who is a native of Yingchuan, heard the name of this person at first glance, pondered for a long time, and kept shaking his head, saying that he had many correspondence with the old people of Yingchuan, but he had never heard of this character in the county.

"When Jinyang is captured, I want to see what kind of person this Xu Shu is."

Yuan Shao held a grudge and said with a sinister face.

After a while, Yuan Shao, who was stretching his brows again, thought of something, looked at Feng Ji again and said:

"Yesterday, Zhang Jun said that Jinyang is a deep wall, the enemy has the will to defend, even if the army is besieged, it is difficult to attack in a hurry, it is better to leave only one general to lead the army to besiege here, and then lead the army to the south, he is willing to be the vanguard, go all out to capture Hedong and other places."