Chapter 11: Recovering Donglai

You know your own business. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Gao Ye's last sentence is not the most worrying thing in his heart. I don't know why, my father really loves Yuan Shang to the core. When he was young, whenever he was sick, he was taken care of by his subordinates, and as for Yuan Shao, he basically couldn't see his shadow. But what about Yuan Shang now, Yuan Shao almost has to personally inquire about major and minor affairs, not to mention such a big thing as inviting Mr., even if he doesn't eat a meal, Yuan Shao has to ask what happened. In this way, how can I not worry about my current status in Yuan Shao's eyes?

Although he now wants to give an order, he orders the army to directly fight Gao Ye. But what Gao Ye said is not unreasonable, now his name of righteousness is no longer tenable, and his father is anxious to pacify Gongsun Zhan, and rashly starts a war with Gao Ye, I am afraid that it is inappropriate. Even if you win, what can you do? When the time comes, he and his father will not be able to escape the charge of rebellion. If he is defeated, let alone if he can escape back to Jizhou, his status will inevitably plummet, not only will he not be able to inherit Yuan Shao's foundation, but he will also be charged with a crime of provocation. Besides, since Gao Ye dared to come, he must have come prepared, how could he be defeated by himself so easily? If that's the case, then the title of Gao Ye, a famous general, is too undeserved.

And that's exactly what happened. Although there are not many soldiers and horses who come with Gao Ye now, there are still Xu Huang's soldiers and horses outside Beihai City, and once the fight starts, Xu Huang's reinforcements will arrive if there is no time for tea. And the two thousand soldiers and horses around Gao Ye, one thousand of them are the trapped camp under Gao Shun. The remaining 1,000 people are his own personal guard battalions, with these two battalions of men and horses, Gao Ye is full of confidence that he will hold on to Xu Huang's arrival under the attack of Yuan Tan's 30,000 soldiers and horses.

Xin Ping saw Gao Ye's playful smile and heart-wrenching words at this time, and knew that Yuan Tan must have been very angry at this time. It's just that the situation is like this, and he can't help but start a war without authorization, and it is better to withdraw from the military at this time. Therefore, Xin Ping whispered and persuaded Yuan Tan: "Eldest son, you can't do anything, it's better to withdraw the army first." ”

"Hmph, this high night!" Yuan Tan almost gritted his teeth and made a sound.

"Eldest son, although Gao Ye now occupies the North Sea, he has no intention of going north. His top priority at this time must be to pacify Beihai and Donglai County. The eldest prince now occupies the three counties of Pingyuan, Le'an, and Jinan, and as long as he holds it, he will not lose. After the lord decides on Youzhou, he will come to Gao Ye to settle the account. ”

Yuan Tan nodded, and after ordering the retreat, he arched his hand to Gao Ye and said, "Today's matter is that I, Yuan Tan, are reckless, and the general please don't take it to heart." Yuan Tan then took his leave. ”

"It's good to go, don't send it." Gao Ye also smiled and said, seeing Yuan Tan's army slowly retreating, he ordered to return to Beihai. Yuan Tan retreated for twenty miles in a row, and then set up camp. It's just that his expression has been cloudy and uncertain, and Xin commented on it, and he also strongly persuaded Yuan Tan not to take it to heart.

"Hey, why don't I know about these things? It's just that Gao Ye's last words really hit my heart. This person knows everything about my Yuan family, how can I not be frightened? Inside the big tent, Yuan Tan sighed while rubbing his temples. Knowing oneself and knowing that the other is invincible, now Gao Ye knows so much about my family affairs, not to mention others. Cao Ying knows our army well, but we don't know much about Cao Ying, so what do you think our army's chances of victory will be when the time comes? ”

"Naturally, it's 10%!" Xin Ping laughed and said, "Wait for the lord to settle Youzhou, take the power of the three states, attack Cao Cao, and go straight to the top of Mount Tai." How can Cao Cao stop it? Besides, there are some things that the eldest prince doesn't know, it doesn't mean that the lord doesn't know, and the lord has the help of the lord and Tian Yuanhao and others at this time, how can he have no understanding of Cao Ying? The eldest prince is thinking biasedly. ”

Yuan Tan was taken aback when he heard this, Xin Ping was right, he was now leading the troops, and he didn't know much about these confidential things. But with so many resourceful people under his father's account, how could he not think of investigating Cao Jun? I was really spoiled by Gao Yeqi today, and my brain was not enough for a while. However, I can't think about this matter now, but how to report the matter of Qingzhou to Yuan Shao is a big deal.

"Mr. Zhongzhi, but now that the situation in Qingzhou has come to this, how should we report to my father? My father is now about to conquer Youzhou, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to look south. ”

"There's no rush on this matter. As the eldest prince said, the lord is now attacking Gongsun Zhan, which can be said to be going all out. At this time, if the lord learns that Gao Yebing has entered Qingzhou, it will inevitably disrupt the lord's deployment. It's better to delay it and report it when the main victory has been decided. ”

"This ...... How does this work? ”

"Eh, eldest prince, think about it, why did Gao Ye use words to squeeze today and let the eldest prince retreat. Instead of a big army coming out and waiting for a battle with me? Thinking about it at that time, our army was only 30,000 horses, but there were 50,000 people in Gao Ye. But Gao Ye didn't do this, did the eldest prince ever wonder why? Xin Ping smiled, saw Yuan Tan's somewhat confused eyes, and then said, "That's because Gao Ye didn't want to start a war with us at all." He came to Qingzhou mainly to help Cao Cao take the land of Xuzhou. Hence his main target, the land of the North Sea and Donglai at that time. Beihai has now entered Gao Ye's pocket with Kong Rong's surrender, but Donglai is different, Donglai County is not only large, but also has many bandits. Now Zang Ba, who is stationed in Langya, has sent his subordinates to occupy Qianyi, and the soldiers have entered Donglai, and it is not easy for Gao Ye to take Donglai. It can be seen that Gao Ye will guard Beihai City for a long time, and will not go north. ”

"That's true, but why didn't my husband report it to my father directly, but asked me to delay the report. If my father found out, I'm afraid he would blame me. ”

"Hehe, eldest son, such a good opportunity, why don't you use it? Now the eldest prince is in Qingzhou, because of the delay of Beihai for two years. Now that Gao Ye clearly has no intention of marching, the eldest prince does not have to worry about defeat. When the time comes, we can report to the lord, saying that we have resisted Gao Ye's attack in Qingzhou, and the eldest prince has not lost an inch of land under Gao Ye's attack, how happy should the lord be in his heart? As for why he didn't report it early, it wasn't because the eldest prince was worried that the lord would divide his troops when he knew the news, which affected the big plan of Beiding Youzhou. In this way, it is too late for the lord to rejoice, how can he blame the eldest prince. ”

"Ah, yes." Yuan Tan's face was happy when he heard this, and then he praised: "Mr. is still thoughtful." In this way, my father must look at me differently, with such credit, the third brother is favored by his father again, so what is compared to me? Wonderful, really Mr. Wonderful! ”

Compared with Yuan Tan and Xin Ping's calculations in the big tent, now that they have finally sat in the high night of the Taishou Mansion in Beihai City, their faces are grim. After all, he is different from Yuan Tan, as long as he doesn't lose an inch of land, he is a great achievement. If he can't quickly take Donglai and all parts of Beihai, build a naval army according to the plan, and give due support to Cao Cao's attack on Xuzhou, he will have no success this time.

Therefore, although the army had just entered Beihai, Gao Ye immediately gathered everyone and prepared to assign tasks after Xu Huang, Yu Ban and others had arranged everything properly. Now in the lobby, there is still a left and a right side. The civil official sat in the first place, and it was naturally Chen Qun, who was engaged in the governance of Qingzhou. He is engaged in the main Cao paperwork in the middle of the governance, and he is the biggest official under the state pastor. Now that there is a persuasion of Kong Rong, so that everyone can take the Beihai without bloodshed, the whole person can't help but be more arrogant. His next head is the main bookkeeper Xu Shu, and the next step is the soldier Cao who has just been promoted by Gao Ye to engage in Jia Kui. The rest are some not-so-well-known mass faces.

On the side of the generals, there are Yu Ban, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Gan Ning, and then a group of little ghosts. Although Cao Ang is Cao Cao's son, in this big tent, on the side of the generals, he is still just a partial general. On military merits and qualifications, Yu Ban came first, so Yu Ban sat first on the side of the generals.

A huge map of Qingzhou hung behind Gao Ye, and as for everyone, they all had solemn expressions. Except for Xiahou Shang, who was eager to try at this time, everyone else was quietly preparing to listen to Gao Ye's orders. Gao Ye glanced around the crowd before he spoke: "Now the task I am waiting for, everyone must already be clear. Now that Yuan Tan has withdrawn north, I don't think I will come again in the short term, and we must take this opportunity to take the two counties of Beihai and Donglai, which is our top priority......"

With the issuance of Gao Ye's instructions one after another, everyone in the big tent was gearing up and preparing to do a great job. Gao Ye this time can be said to be divided into four routes, the first road is mainly forbidden, Cao Ang and Xia Houen are the deputy generals, leading 10,000 soldiers and horses, to quickly pacify all the counties in Beihai. The second road is Xu Huang as the main one, Cao Xiu and Xiahou Shang as the deputy generals, leading 10,000 troops out of Donglai, and it is necessary to occupy all the areas north of Donglai from Luxiang to Muping. The third way is to take Zhang Liao as the mainstay, Xia Houde and Xia Houlan as deputy generals, lead 10,000 troops to kill directly to Qian, and directly kill Changyi's soldiers and horses. The last way, Gan Ning was the main general, Jia Kui and Cao Zhen were assisted, and the 5,000 soldiers and horses could not be taken directly, and after taking the city, they immediately began to prepare for the construction of a naval army.

As for himself, he took Gao Shun and the rest of the soldiers and horses and continued to be stationed in Beihai to guard against Yuan Tan's possible attack. Although Gao Ye also felt that it was unlikely that Yuan Tan would take the initiative to attack, it was always a big mistake to be careful. What if Yuan Tan is angry for a while, or Yuan Shao is angry for a while, and the troops are coming?

However, things went smoothly as everyone expected, in a month's time, whether it was Yu Ban, Xu Huang or Gan Ning, they all sent good news, and all parts of Qingzhou were looking down on the wind, even if there were bandits and robbers who were not long-sighted, they were swept away by the army. Gan Ning was not there, and at this time he had even ushered in shipwrights and began to build a seaport in Jiaozhou Bay to prepare for shipbuilding.

Among the four roads, only Zhang Liao, who is facing Chang Xuan, has not yet received good news, but Gao Ye believes that with Zhang Liao's ability, it should not be a problem to kill just one Chang Xuan, right?