Chapter Seventy-Four: Hiding from the Sky and Crossing the Sea
After Zhang Yan finished speaking, he didn't look at Zhou Cang, turned around and returned to his camp, and left Nanluo Village with a group of Black Mountain troops.
"Hoo ......"
Zhou Cang let out a sigh of relief, looking at Zhang Yan's back as he left, his face was cloudy.
"My lord, Zhang Yan of the Black Mountain Army is a rare general, and he is probably on par with General Zhang He and others in terms of martial arts and command ability......"
On the way to Leping County, Fu Zhi and Zhou Cang went together.
"Oh? can be evaluated by the public and like this, looking at this Zhang Yan can't be underestimated? Is there a way for Zhang Yan not to peep at me and the counties? ”
"The lord rest assured, he has revealed the news to Yuan Shao, saying that the Montenegrin army and Gongsun Zanqi will attack Jizhou, Yuan Shao will definitely send troops to strictly guard the various main roads of the Montenegrin army, and let people mix in the Montenegrin army to walk the rumors that Yuan Shao will attack the Montenegrin army, thinking that Zhang Yan has no time to plunder and merge the state in the past two months, not to mention ......"
"Good, good, good!"
Zhou Cang couldn't help but applaud after listening to the strategy of the frustrated teaching, this time he could completely rest assured that he would use troops against the state.
"Junyi, Leping County will be handed over to you, I will give you 10,000 horses, and I will take Leping County within three days!"
"Yes, my lord."
After the escorted 50,000 loads of grain and grass were delivered to Zhang Yan, Zhang He had been following Zhou Cang with the army, and when he heard Zhou Cang's order at this moment, he immediately slapped his horse and stepped forward to receive the order.
"General Zhang, slow down." Zhang He, who was about to lead the army to leave, was stopped by Fu Zhu, and Zhou Cang also turned his head to look at Fu Zhu.
"What do you command?"
"General Zhang is not the time to send troops at this time, after setting up camp and leaving the village, he will set off in the evening?"
"Why is Gong He like this?" Zhou Cang asked puzzled.
"If the lord leads the army to attack Leping immediately at this time, Zhang Yan's spies will inevitably find out, if he sends people to the counties and counties of Bingzhou to investigate, how can our strategy hide Zhang Yan, if General Zhang leaves after leaving the village, we only need to stay here for a few more days, the camp and the smoke will not decrease, Zhang Yan will definitely not notice that our army has divided his troops to capture Leping, and after the capture, General Zhang will lead the army back to the camp at night......"
"Therefore, this attack on Leping must be quickly resolved, General Zhang left 5,000 people to defend the city after taking Leping, recruited 5,000 new troops from the city, and gathered 10,000 people to come here to join us, so that Zhang Yan felt that Leping was still in the hands of Qian Zhong (Leping County Taishou)......"
"Yes, Strategist."
After Zhang He listened to the frustrated strategy, he nodded lightly, this time he was still under a lot of pressure, it was not a big problem for 10,000 troops to attack Leping County, but it would be a little difficult to take Leping within three days, if Qian Zhong did not fight behind closed doors, it would be difficult to take it and keep it.
"Okay, order the whole army to set up camp after twenty miles!"
Zhou Cang sent his order and said to Dian Wei.
"Evil, after the camp, you can order your henchmen to take a walk in the barracks, I have an understanding of the battle with Zhang Yan today, and I need to stay in place for a few days to break through the ......"
"The lord's plan is very clever, so Zhang Yan will definitely not be suspicious."
Listening to Zhou Cang's arrangement, he couldn't help but smile.
At dusk that day, Zhou Cang's army set up camp by the small river thirty miles away from Nanluo Village, and in the early morning of that night, Zhang He led his army to quietly leave the camp and go straight to Leping County.
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Early in the morning of the second day, Zhang Yan camped in tent.
"Leader Qiyu, the army of Zhou Cang is stationed here, and I don't see it leaving the camp today."
Zhang Yan looked at the location of the spy on the map, and her brows tightened slightly.
"Zhou Cang, this guy is camping and not leaving at this moment, what is his plan?"
"Chief Du, you immediately order someone to closely monitor Zhou Cangjun, and notify me as soon as there is any trouble!"
"Yes, Chief!"
"I always feel like something is wrong."
Zhang Yan always felt uneasy at the moment, but she couldn't figure out what was wrong for a while.
"Wang Dang, you immediately order someone to check whether these 50,000 quintals of grain and grass are poisonous!"
"Huh? Could it be that the leader Zhou Cang was poisoned in an attempt to win us? ”
Du Chang was shocked when he heard this, if this was the case, wouldn't it be that he and others led the wolf into the room.
After some inspection, it was not found that the grain and grass were poisonous, but only some moldy grains were found, which was much better for the Montenegrin army who lacked food, and the moldy roots were much better than the bark and grass roots.
Zhang Yan's inspection of grain and grass was mixed into the detailed report of the Black Mountain Army to Zhou Cang and others, and he couldn't help but smile in frustration.
"If you can really find out, it will be too much to underestimate me."
"Gong and Aren't you really poisoned?" Zhou Cang couldn't help but look at Frustration when he heard this.
"It's not poisonous, I just mix and match a few ingredients, and I can eat each of them alone, but when I mix them, I will have diarrhea and other symptoms......"
"......" Zhou Cang's gaze was slightly unnatural.
"Nima's, what a talent, you can think of it......" Although Zhou Cang also knew that some foods could not be mixed and eaten, but at this time, where could he think of using this method.
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It is said that when Zhang He led the army to the dense forest ten miles away from Daoleping County, the sky was not yet bright, and Zhang He found hundreds of clever soldiers to disguise themselves as hunters, farmers, and woodcutters to blend into the city, some to inquire about the situation, and some to lurk in the city.
"The soldiers reported according to the news of the spies, there are a total of 8,000 defenders in the city, guarding the four city gates, and there is a team of 100 people patrolling every hour, the south gate is guarded by Xinxiu, and the east and west gates are well walled, and the guards are relatively few, I decided to open the city gate by the soldiers lurking in the city in the early hours of tonight, we must rush to the west gate in the shortest possible time, and be sure to take Leping ......in a battle."
In the early morning of the second day, the Zhou army lurking in Leping County, one by one quietly gathered near the West Gate, and suddenly launched an attack in the early morning, and the soldiers guarding the gate were cut down before they could reflect, and the Zhou army that took the West City Gate immediately opened the West Gate and sent a code to tell Zhang He that Zhang He, who had already been ambushed nearby, immediately led the army to the West Gate.
"Knock Knock"
The sound of war drums sounded when the Zhou army captured the West Gate, and the rumbling war drums woke up the sleeping Leping soldiers.
A moment later, the sound of footsteps and horses' hooves rushed towards the west gate.
"Brothers, be sure to hold this gate for a while, and welcome General Zhang's army into the city......"
Zhou Jun, who was the leader, clenched the steel knife in his hand and said to the thirty or so people around him.
"Who dares to steal my main city?"
Wang Jinhu, the commander of Qian Zhong of Leping County, led the army to come as soon as the war drums sounded, drove the horse with a gun, and pointed the gun at the Zhou army and said.
"Kill......"
Seeing this, the Zhou army immediately shouted and slashed at Wang Jinhu.
"Hmph...... I don't know if it's alive or dead! ”
Wang Jinhu snorted coldly, and as soon as he picked up his spear, he killed the Zhou army.
"Hahahaha, go die!" Wang Jinhu shouted strangely, when the spear in his hand was about to be bloodthirsty.
"Whoosh......"
An arrow shot from behind Zhou Jun and did not enter Wang Jinhu's throat.