Gan Ling looked at Zhang Liao, who was isolated and speechless, and asked with a smile:

"Wen Yuan is an old man of Wenhou, and Shen Yi is wise, why has he been silent, could it be that he has not been careful in the number of ceremonies, and he has neglected Wen Yuan?"

The generals in the tent were still chewing and thinking about the suggestions of the candidates and Song Xian, but now when they heard Gan Ling say this, they all turned their eyes to Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao, who was red-faced and thick-bearded, with big eyes and a wide nose, heard this, his face turned red, and he could feel that the eyes around him were mixed with scrutiny, ridicule, and indifference, and the words in his chest stopped talking, hesitated for a moment, and still spoke.

"Liao originally assisted Wen Hou to serve the country, but his intelligence was short-sighted, which caused Chang'an to fall, and then he was exiled to Hanoi, and he was temporarily sheltered. I am really sad in my heart, and I have no face to give advice. ”

Zhang Liao originally assisted Lu Bu to defend Chang'an, but was captured by Ganling and other Western Liang troops, and went into exile in Hanoi, and was taken in by Zhang Yang, wanting to protect the territory and the people, and was defeated and captured by the army led by Ganling.

Listening to Zhang Liao's words, a flash of light flashed in Gan Ling's eyes, while the candidate, Song Xian, was ashamed and angry, glaring at Zhang Liao fiercely, and the generals in Hedong looked at Zhang Liao's red face a few times with approval and disdain.

Gan Ling simply waved his hand and laughed heartily:

"Haha, it's that I'm not thinking about it, that's it, that's all for today's military discussion, I've written down all the suggestions of the monarchs, and I will only use the best strategies later, if there is merit, this general will also ask General Pingbei for merit one by one."

"Well, today Song and Hou Erjun enthusiastically offered their speeches, and there should be a reward, a feast and meat soup dishes, and a good bow and a war horse."

"Thank you, General Zhonglang!"

"I am willing to serve the Zhonglang General and the Pingbei General loyally!"

Candidates, Song Xian are both generals, most of the war horses, armor and weapons are lost on the battlefield, and now not only get the wine and food rewards, but also get the war horse, good bow, naturally the heart is overjoyed, hurriedly thanked the loyalty, and at the same time provocatively swept over Zhang Liao on the side.

No matter how hypocritical you behave, it's not that I'm waiting for the reward, and I don't know the times.

When all the generals retreated, and only Gan Ling and Xu Huang were left in the tent, Gan Ling thought about it and asked out loud:

"Zhang Wenyuan, what do you think of this person?"

Gan Ling's question was asked suddenly, Xu Huang also thought that Gan Ling was the first to ask, it turned out to be this question, he was stunned for a moment, recalled Zhang Liao's words and deeds just now, hesitated for a moment and said:

"Either you are brave and loyal, or you are a great traitor!"

"Hmm." Gan Ling nodded, and then said:

"I'm going to take him with me to meet Lu Yi, what do you think?"

Xu Huang was shocked in his heart, and blurted out:

"General Zhonglang has already decided to divide his troops and retreat first?"

"Exactly." Gan Ling said decisively, "The candidate and Song Xian are all people with brains, but at the same time, they are also powerful people, Yuan Shao is strong, they are extremely righteous soldiers, Zhang Yang is weak, they belittle Zhang Yang too much, so their words cannot be fully believed." ”

"Pile up the earth into a mountain, attack the city wall, this method to attack the Yewang City I have also thought about, but Zhang Yang in the city to defend to the death, the battle in the Yewang City is also sufficient, if Zhang Yang waits for our army to build a mountain with earth and stones, with the building to defend, our army's method of attacking the city is in vain."

Pile up a mountain of earth to form a soil slope close to the city wall, and then a large number of foot soldiers attack along the soil slope, occupying the city wall is indeed a method, because the earth mountain is not like ladder cars, wells and other siege equipment, it is difficult to be destroyed by the guards on the head of the city.

Unless Zhang Yang sent troops and horses out of the city to destroy the earth mountain, he could only use bows and arrows to delay the accumulation process, and the gradually accumulated earth mountain could also have the effect of resisting the rain of arrows, and at that time, the city guards could only watch the earth mountain take shape.

But the emergence of this situation depends on the defense of the city will not be good at attacking and defending, and there is no sufficient war equipment and ordnance in the city, otherwise the army outside the city can pile up soil and climb high, and the guards on the city wall can also build towers, and then push the city wall from the horse road, which is equivalent to building a city wall on the city wall.

At this time, the siege soldiers who spent a lot of manpower and material resources and wanted to climb the city wall from the earth mountain would look at the towering and sturdy towers, sigh in vain, and retreat in despair.

This method looks good, but when used in Yewang City, the effect is not better than the stupid method of besieging the city, so Ganling will not use it to mobilize the public.

"And in the field to repel Koji, it is not without a chance." Gan Ling continued to analyze the battle situation.

"I heard that Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan have a fight in Youqing Erzhou, and a large number of troops need to be stationed on the border, and this year's famine is also serious in Hebei, Yuan Shao fought with the Montenegrin army last year, although he gained an advantage, but he was not able to achieve a complete victory, like a poison to defeat Zhang Yan, it can be seen that Yuan Shao has been fighting for many years, using troops in many places, and Hebei's soldiers and horses have also reached the end of the strong crossbow."

"Therefore, we will divide our troops to deal with the reinforcements of Lu Yi, and we do not necessarily have to fight quickly, as long as we make a posture of confrontation and stalemate, Yuan Shao and Zhang Yang originally had a gap, Lu Yi also defeated Zhang Yang, Zhang Yang has no deep affection for Yuan Shao, and we have no blood feud with Yuan Shao, Hebei is never willing to spend a lot of grain and grass for Hanoi in vain."

"Then Lu Yi is deadlocked, and he was ordered by Yuan Shao to march, and he must use troops at risk, this is the opportunity for me to wait, and there is no need to defeat Lu Yi, as long as our army defeats him in a small battle, let him know the strength of my Hedong soldiers and horses, he will not dare to rush into the rescue of Zhang Yang, and Zhang Yang is waiting in the city without help, and then finds that Lu Yi is defeated by our army, and there is no one to rely on, and his morale will be greatly reduced."

"At that time, the wild king will fall!"

Gan Ling's words had obviously moved Xu Huang, and Xu Huang also agreed with his opinions and analysis, so he asked:

"How is Zhonglang going to divide his troops?"

"I intend to lead 15,000 soldiers and horses, together with Ma Lin, Meng Tu, Zhang Liao and other generals to block the reinforcements of Lu Yi, leaving 10,000 soldiers and horses and conscripted militia to continue to besiege the wild king, you are the main general, and the siege of the city is up to you, how about it?"

When Anyi was the general, Yan Xing had already decided on the combination of lieutenant generals and colonels with Gan Ling as the main general and Xu Huang as the auxiliary after the combined army. At this time, Xu Huang naturally would not object to Ganling's troop allocation.

Gan Ling looked at the steady and capable Xu Huang, and was very relieved, but the siege of Yewang City was very important, and there was no room for the slightest mistake, and Gan Ling, who had already suffered losses in Linjin City, was now acting very cautiously, and he asked:

"After the division of troops, the number of soldiers and horses besieging the city has decreased, I am afraid that Zhang Yang will make up his mind and send troops to test it, do you have a countermeasure?"

Xu Huang touched the tiger whiskers under his chin, pondered for a while, and said seriously:

"Zhang Yang is quite aware of military affairs, the reduction of soldiers and horses outside the city, if it is a bluff and a multi-tree strategy, I guess I can't hide it from him, you can use the method of fiction and reality, and instead use the candidate to offer a strategy, unravel a side of the encirclement, and expose the breakthrough road to him."

Seeing this situation, he will suspect that it is a plan to "encircle three que", and when the time comes, he will be hesitant to go out of the city and break through. ”

"Good! The use of troops in this way is both false and real, which confirms the way of the art of war. ”

Gan Ling was quite amazed at Xu Huang's countermeasures after the division of troops so quickly, and boldly reversed the strategy of "encircling three ques", and immediately laughed with his palms, agreeing with Xu Huang's decision.

···

Shaanxi County, on the edge of the river.

Zhang Ji led a team of personal guards, stationed on the flat ground beside the road, and thousands of Hongnong soldiers formed a long queue, is marching in unison on the official road, mighty, people and horses like dragons, constantly trampled on the land raised a burst of dust, making a large number of soldiers' faces dusty.

As early as when Zhang Ji sent envoys to Anyi, Hedong, he had already begun to gather his soldiers and horses in the cities of Hongnong, and ordered all of them to gather at the Hejin ferry in Shaanxi County, preparing to cross the river in a big way and invade Hedong at the section from Caoyangting to Maojin.

And the Hongnong envoy who returned from Anyi was kneeling down in front of Zhang Ji's horse at this time, and carefully told Zhang Ji everything that happened in the county hall in detail, except for his last cowardly accident.

He concludes:

The Wenchen of Hedong looked worried, and the general was furious, obviously because the army of Hedong was outside, and the county was empty, and he suddenly heard that the lord had sent troops, so he would behave like this. It's just that General Pingbei's face sank like water, and when he refused the lord's request to borrow grain and borrow the road, he was not angry, but just asked his subordinates to tell the lord that he would kill himself if he did too much injustice, don't say it was unpredictable! ”

After listening to the report of the Hongnong envoy, Zhang Ji frowned and fell into deep thought, while Zhang Xiu on the side thought about it after listening to it, and couldn't help but ask softly to the uncle beside him:

"Uncle, this Yan Yanming said this, could it be that Hedong has already taken precautions?"

When Zhang Ji heard this, he glared at Zhang Xiu with wide eyes, and then said with a sneer:

"Preparedness? I think it's just a bluff. My spies have found out several times before and after that there are no less than 40,000 soldiers and horses in Hedong who are trapped on the battlefield in Hanoi, and how many troops can Anyi have to defend themselves, let him Yan Yanming urgently gather the soldiers and horses in the county, how much can he get, 10,000, 20,000? ”

"My army crosses the river to the north, if he Yan Yanming dares to come south, with a small number of enemies and a weak enemy, he will be captured by me!"

Hearing Zhang Ji's declaration full of confidence and threatening to capture Yan Yan, Zhang Xiu also smiled proudly, and secretly said that he was still too careful, everything was as his uncle expected, where could there be a large army in Hedong, that Pingbei general's posture and warning words must be just bluffing.

"Uncle, I ask you to lead the front army in person, cross the river by boat, capture Dayang, and open the way for my army!"

"Okay, let's go."

Since Zhang Ji ordered and determined to take advantage of the situation and capture the east of the river, this boat was naturally collected early in the morning, and the army needed to set up pontoon bridges to cross the river, but a small number of elite forwards could directly cross the river with the help of boats, rafts, wooden rafts and other things.

Zhang Xiu got permission, and his fighting spirit was high, so he immediately turned his horse's head, beckoned the cavalry around him to follow, and rode his horse to the front of the army.

After Zhang Ji saw Zhang Xiu's prancing horse go away, he also retracted his gaze and asked the Hongnong envoy to get up, he turned his head, his eyes crossed the crowd of people and horses in front of him, and looked due east, although he was blocked by the mountains, but Zhang Ji was very clear about what was happening in Hongnong at this time.

The 5,000 soldiers and horses of the false Dao Raider, led by his general Hu Che'er, attacked Henan. Hedong refused his request, and the two sides had torn their faces, but Hu Che'er's men and horses still rushed to Luoyang unhindered.

They will capture the empty garrison of Luoyang City, capture Yan Xing's brother-in-law Luoyang Ling Pei Qian, and then Chen Bing crosses the river bank to make a gesture to cut off the back road of the Hedong army in Hanoi, so that their army will be in great confusion and return defeated.

Since he made a move, how could he leave a chance to let the army from Hedong return to Anyi.

The sun will fall!

···

"Capture Luoyang!"

He led 5,000 soldiers and horses out of the Huche of Hangu Pass, the momentum was violent, he relied on his own bravery, personally led a thousand cavalry, ran ahead, and the cavalry with a rainbow shouted along the way "Capture Luoyang!" slogan.

In their opinion, Henan is an enclave for Hedong, as soon as they Hongnong tore their faces, they immediately cut off the original passage from Hedong to Henan, and Zhai Hao of Henan also led the army to Hanoi, leaving only one Luoyang to order Pei Qianhenan to stick to the city, the soldiers are weak, and they met Hu Che'er and other powerful generals, this Luoyang City is not at your fingertips.

Hu Che'er's scouts were still in a no-man's land, and went deep into Henan, and learned that Pei Qian, the commander of Luoyang, had planned to abandon the city and flee, and was leading a group of displaced people from Henan to abandon the ruined Luoyang City, flee to Dahejinkou, and prepare to venture across the river into Hanoi to avoid his own soldiers.

For this reason, Hu Che'er immediately rushed to attack with a thousand cavalry, this time he was rushing to capture the brother-in-law of Yan Yanming, the general of Pingbei, if he let Pei Qian cross the river and run, then even if he captured a defenseless and dilapidated Luoyang City, what is the meaning, how to highlight his Hu Che'er's brave name.

Migrated to Hangu Pass in Xin'an, there is also a valley city separated from Luoyang City. And his cavalry crossed the mountain pass in front of him, and soon stepped into the territory of Henan.

It's just that why the first group of scouts sent to the front have not returned, so they dare to ignore their military orders, and take advantage of Pei Qian's abandonment of Henan, and run to loot the people who have not had time to evacuate.

The military discipline of the Xiliang Army has always been like this, and Hu Che'er has also done a lot, but when he thinks of someone disobeying his military order, he can't help but scold in his heart.

Riding a war horse and running on the mountain road, Hu Che'er scolded secretly, and then looked up at the mountains on the mountain road, when he saw some unnatural light shining on the mountains on both sides, out of the intuition of a veteran who had been in battle for a long time, he still instinctively noticed that this was different from the mountains he had passed before, and smelled a hint of ominous smell from it.

"Stop, stop marching!"

Hu Che'er was full of excitement, and suddenly he roared loudly, and the roar was so loud that the knight's mount beside him raised his head and hissed.

ps: Recently, about the land of three rivers, as well as the war in Hongnong and other places, if you need a map, you can go to the book friend group, and I will take the time to upload some historical maps to book friends.