833, Yecheng deceived the door
Wei Yan is naturally an adventurer who likes to win by surprise, but Zhang Yan does not dare to take risks easily.
Therefore, Zhang Yan was a little hesitant about Wei Yan's proposal, it was precisely because he had captured Yecheng, so he knew that Yecheng was actually not so easy to fight, if it wasn't for Hushou in the name of Chang'an Tianzi to say that the Yecheng soldiers rebelled and helped the Montenegrin army open the door to Yecheng, it would be difficult for the Montenegrin army to attack the city.
And now that Yuan Shao has Yecheng as his lair, it has been six or seven years, and naturally there will be more consolidation of Yecheng, and now it is almost impossible for them to sneak attack Yecheng with only tens of thousands of people.
At the same time, Zhang Yan had just thrown himself into Zhu Wei, and he didn't dare to make such a private move, so Zhang Yan just persuaded Wei Yan that the two could make this suggestion to Zhu Wei together, and then send troops according to the situation.
Wei Yan had no choice but to join forces with Zhang Yan to send a secret letter to Zhu Wei's side, but when they received the military order sent back by Zhu Wei, it was basically the time when Yuan Shang led his troops to Liyang.
However, Zhu Wei also gave Wei Yan and Zhang Yan the military order to lead the troops to attack Yecheng in the military order sent back, and he agreed to their suggestion, and said that there would be people from the school office in Yecheng who would assist them.
The person who brought Zhu Wei's military order was also the detailed work of the school affairs office, and when the time came, he would be able to contact the school affairs office that had already entered Yecheng, so as to provide Wei Yan and Zhang Yan with the latest information about Yecheng.
Of course, now that Yecheng's troops have been transferred by Yuan Shang, it just happened to give Wei Yan and Zhang Yan a chance to sneak attack.
So Wei Yan, Zhang Yan and Jiang Wan discussed a specific strategy on how to sneak attack Yecheng, and soon came up with an idea of pretending to be a high-level defeated army and going to Yecheng to deceive the door.
Although Gao Gan committed suicide after the destruction of Jinyang City, his younger brother Gao Rou surrendered with the remnants of Yuan's army.
In this way, Wei Yan, Zhang Ying, and Jiang Wan prepared to use Gao Rou as the core of the defeated army of Gao Gan, and Wei Yan's army of Jingnan Ying pretended to be the remaining defeated soldiers of Gao Gan to deceive the city gate of Yecheng, and Zhang Yan led the Black Mountain Army to respond in the rear.
In this way, almost when Zhu Weijun sent troops to Liyang and Yuan Shang fought in Liyang, Wei Yan, Zhang Yan, Jiang Wan, and Gao Rou sent troops to Yecheng.
The most direct way to get from Jinyang to Yecheng in Yizhou is to cross the Taihang Mountain, otherwise it will have to go around a big circle, but now there is Zhang Yan, the head snake, so the army has also successfully entered Shangai County, Changshan County, Yizhou.
It happened that Changshan Kingdom had been destroyed by Zhang Xiu and Zhang Liao's cavalry before, and there was no official control under Yuan Shao in the local area, so the army led by Wei Yan and Zhang Yan went all the way without encountering any obstacles.
Next, he marched in the direction of Yecheng, although there were also checkpoints set by Yuan Jun on the way, but Wei Yan successfully deceived Gao Rou in the past, and then these checkpoints were controlled by Zhu Weijun.
At this time, Yuan Shao was still in serious condition on Yecheng's side, and many things were handed over to Xu You, who Yuan Shang stayed in Yecheng, to deal with.
Although Xu You is also a famous man of the Three Kingdoms, and he has some political vision, but in fact, he is not worthy of his name, and he is not good at military ability, so the military affairs stationed in Yecheng will be handled by Han Meng and Jiao Touch.
However, Zhu Wei had already contacted Han Meng through the details of the school office and sent him the news of Han Ju.
This Han Meng was also worried about the safety of Han Ju, who fell into Zhu Wei's hands, but now that he got the news from Zhu Wei's side, Han Meng naturally hesitated a little.
It's just that Han Meng didn't make any decisions at the beginning, after all, he was also a general on Yuan Shao's side at this time, plus the four people above him, Wen Chou, Yan Liang, Zhang He, and Gao Lan basically didn't exist, so he still had a good chance to be reused by Yuan Shao with his martial arts.
However, Zhu Wei's school affairs poured cold water on him, saying that if Yuan Shang trusted him, how could he leave a fierce general like him to garrison Yecheng at this time, but not take him to the Liyang front.
This shows that Yuan Shang still has some doubts about Han Meng in his heart, if Han Ju's matter is known to Yuan Shang at this time, then how can Han Meng develop under the Yuan family.
In this way, Han Meng was a little moved, and then the school office told Han Meng that if he was willing to go to the front anyway, then there was an opportunity for him to make meritorious contributions recently.
Although the details of the school office did not explicitly say about Wei Yan and Zhang Yan's sneak attack on Yecheng, it could be regarded as a psychological ambush on Han Meng's side.
In this way, Wei Yan took Gao Rou and pretended to be a high-level defeated army to come to the vicinity of Yecheng, and sure enough, he also contacted the school office on the Yecheng side through the school office sent by Zhu Wei, and then he also learned the accurate information on the Yecheng side.
After that, Wei Yan looked for a day that belonged to Han Meng to patrol Yecheng, and came to Yecheng to deceive the door.
Originally, according to normal speaking, even the defeated army of the high-ranking cadres of the state could not easily enter Yecheng, it was said that the army should be stationed outside the city, Gao Rou could go to Yecheng to carefully report the matter of the state, and then wait for Yuan Shao to deal with it, or wait for Yuan Shang on Liyang's side to deal with it.
It can be said that Gao Rou can only bring a personal guard of less than 100 people into Yecheng at most, and may even let them turn their heads and go to Yuan Shang in Liyang directly because of Yuan Shao's illness.
But now with the cooperation of Han Meng, the general of Yecheng Patrol, it is different, and when Wei Yan and Gao Rou led the army to the north gate of Yecheng to call the door, Han Meng seemed to come to the north gate as if he happened to patrol the gate.
Originally, the military marquis guarding the north gate of Yecheng was a little embarrassed, although he confirmed Gao Rou's identity, but he didn't dare to open the city gate easily and let people into Yecheng.
Of course, Yecheng, as the lair of Yuan Shao in Hebei, can also be regarded as a national capital-level city, and each city gate is at least guarded by an urn city, even if Zhu Weijun deceived the outer city gate, but if he can't control the inner urn city gate in time, the army is likely to be shot into a hedgehog by Yuan Jun in the empty urn city.
Therefore, at this time, Wei Yan and Gao Rou still pretended to be the defeated army of Gao Gan, and fought with the gatekeeper on the city wall, hoping to let the gatekeeper release more personal soldiers to follow Gao Rou into Yecheng.
This is also the second step of Wei Yan's helplessness, that is, to take a few soldiers to the portal of the inner urn city first, and then control this portal and then lead the army to forcibly attack, there is still a chance to break in.
Just want to control the inner gate of the urn city and block the counterattack of the Yuan army, but it is also a very dangerous thing, not everyone can deceive the Yuzhang city gate like Pang Yan at the beginning, so as to hold the city gate and wait for the follow-up army to kill.
That battle gave Pang Yan the name of the Black God of War, but it was also the result of the battle that took the lives of hundreds of elite soldiers.
Of course, Han Meng didn't know the truth until the last moment from the mouth of the school office sent by Zhu Wei, who was following him, and Han Meng was also forced to make a decision, whether to help Zhu Wei's army attack the city, or to remind the Yuan army in the city that the enemy was coming......