At the beginning, Song Qian guarded the West River, in order to prevent Zhang Yuan, he used a large number of people to thicken and heighten the city, which greatly enhanced the defense capability. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xihe was for the hinterland of Taiyuan, and Zhang Yuan's original plan was not to let Liu Bao's soldiers and horses enter the hinterland, for fear that he would take the means of fighting to support the war and plunder the counties due to the lack of food and grass.

The development of the situation was indeed as Zhang Yuan feared.

After Liu Bao led the army to the south of Xihe City, he tentatively launched several rounds of attacks, and found that the Xihe city wall was strong and unfavorable to the strong attack, so he forced the city to go down to the wall, forming a coercive trend, and at the same time divided thousands of soldiers and horses to plunder the counties around the Xihe, on the one hand, to isolate the Xihe, on the other hand, to solve the shortage of grain and grass supply.

Zhang Yuan's soldiers and horses were almost all concentrated in Xihe, and only a small number of township soldiers were left in the rest of the counties, which were almost in a state of undefense, and they were not Liu Bao's fierce regular army opponents at all.

At the same time, the news of Yishui's defeat spread, Yuan Shu in the south and Yuan Xi in the north thought that Zhang Yuan's defeat was a certainty, and the two, who were originally in a wait-and-see state, were ready to move again, and launched a fierce attack on Yang Zhi and Ran Min one after another, trying to get a piece of the pie before Liu Bao conquered the West River and turned the spearhead to deal with them.

The silk books that were in a hurry everywhere flew to Xihe like snowflakes again and arrived in Zhang Yuan's hands.

As soon as the big guy discussed, he felt that it was not a way to defend so passively, otherwise even if Liu Bao retreated in the end, Taiyuan was sacked to ten rooms and nine emptiness, and the people fled at that time, what would they use to fight against Liu Bao's comeback in the coming year.

"If you want to change your passivity and quickly retreat Liu Bao, you must first have the means to break the Hun cavalry, otherwise the ending will be the same as last time." Zudi thought and expressed his scruples.

The big guys nodded one after another, expressing their agreement with Zu Di's point of view, after all, the last defeat, the powerful attack power shown by the Hun cavalry, really made everyone jealous, the thought of fighting with the indestructible hedgehog monster, the big guy had palpitations, even if it was a tendon Li Dingguo, there was some sweat on the soles of his feet.

"In this way, defeating the Hun cavalry is the key to defeating Liu Bao, but how to break that indestructible monster......"

Zhang Yuan's brows tightened, his fingertips tapped his forehead, and he pondered.

In the middle of the night, he suddenly opened his eyes, and his eyes burst out with a hint of excitement and mystery.

"Well, when I think of someone, it looks like it's time to summon him."

Zhang Yuanping retired everyone, including Fan Lihua and Cai Yan.

Half an hour later, a person came out of the lobby with an extraordinary temperament, and took Zhang Yuan's order arrow, and hurriedly retired.

Subsequently, Zu Di and other suspicious generals were re-summoned into the lobby.

At this time, Zhang Yuan's expression was already quite relaxed, and he was confident that he had a strategy to break the enemy, and he would definitely be able to break Liu Bao within a month at the latest.

Zhang Yuan's announcement shocked everyone, both excited and suspicious.

Speaking of the hidden dragon and crouching tiger in the martial arts, everyone naturally knows this, the martial artist who held the arrow just now must have been selected by Zhang Yuan and entrusted with the important task of defeating Liu Bao.

The big guys guessed that that person must be going to carry out Zhang Yuan's secret mission, and this task is to defeat Liu Bao.

"Husband, what kind of trick do you have to defeat Liu Bao" Fan Lihua couldn't wait to ask.

Zhang Yuan smiled mysteriously, "The secret of heaven must not be revealed, you can show some patience, and defend the city with peace of mind, and you will see it soon." ”

The big guy came out and saw that it was a matter of confidentiality, and Zhang Yuan didn't want to leak too much, so as not to be guarded against by Liu Bao, so he didn't ask more.

"The last general has to remind the lord that at the moment, Liu Bao is rampantly tight, attacking the city and plundering the land everywhere, the last general thinks that Liu Bao must be taught a lesson properly, otherwise the people of the county are panicked, and they all think that we have abandoned them, if they all surrender to Liu Bao, I am afraid that we will hold out for less than a month."

Zhang Yuan's reminder made Zhang Yuan's figure shake slightly, and his brows couldn't help frowning again.

Zu Di is right, he has a strategy to break the enemy here, but the soldiers and civilians of the counties do not know his truth, all they see is that he is too guarded to shrink in the West River and dare not fight, and sit back and watch Liu Bao wantonly sack the counties, if you don't make a little counterattack, the soldiers and civilians in the counties may not take me long, they will lose confidence in him, and they will surrender to Liu Bao one after another.

"Old man, what you said is quite reasonable, but what's the use, how can we fight back against Liu Bao in our current situation." Li Dingguo shouted loudly, but he didn't forget to stuff meat in his mouth.

Zhang Yuan nodded slightly, and glanced at Gao Gong, who was hiding in the corner and sipping wine, "High drunkard, hurry up and come up with a strategy to counterattack Liu Bao and boost the morale of the army and civilians, otherwise you won't want to drink good wine in the future." ”

Zhang Yuanzhao is not for nothing, good wine is provided to him every day, that is, he values his strategy, if Gao Gong can't give advice for himself at a critical moment, then what's the use of him.

"Cough" Gao Gong choked out, the lazy expression on his face was slightly restrained, and he became serious.

Wiping the wine stains from the corner of his mouth, Gao Gong sneered and said, "Don't worry about the fire, let me ponder." ”

Gao Gong licked the wine gourd with his tongue, pretended to smile easily, tapped his fingertips on his forehead, and began to meditate with all his might.

Zhang Yuan kept staring at him, as if he was forcing him to come up with a plan as soon as possible.

"Got it"

After pondering for a long time, Gao Gong slapped his thigh, and a sly smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Zhang Yuan's heart was excited, and when he saw his expression, he knew that he had come up with a clever plan.

Gao Gong shook the wine gourd, looked mysterious, and said with a smile: "Isn't Liu Baojun the most lacking grain and grass, then let's make a fuss about this grain word." ”

"Grain" A glimmer of light flashed in Zhang Yuan's eyes, and he had already guessed the point in a blink of an eye, and a knowing smile rose at the corner of his mouth.

A few days later, it was nightfall.

The north gate of the West River was wide open, and a grain transport team with the word "Wang" flag hurriedly entered the West River under the cover of night.

Although Liu Bao was arrogant, his strength did not reach the point of encircling the West River, and except for the south gate, the other three gates were actually not garrisoned by enemy troops.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Yuan's grain transportation team can smoothly enter the West River.

It's just that the 100 truckloads of grain and grass were three days later than the time specified by Zhang Yuan.

"Wang Zizhong, this batch of grain and grass should have been delivered three days ago, why don't you respect my orders" On the city tower, Zhang Yuan glared at Wang Gang, who came to return to his life, angry and annoyed.

Wang Gang was sweating on his forehead, and he was busy explaining what roads were not easy to walk, what was worried about Liu Baojun robbing grain halfway, in short, he found a lot of excuses.

Zhang Yuan's face was gloomy and he was silent.

Fan Lihua beside her said coldly: "Taishou, grain and grass are important military matters, Wang Gang has been delayed for three whole days, and he should be beheaded according to the law." ”

As soon as these words came out, Wang Gang was shocked, his face instantly turned pale as paper, and he hurriedly said: "It is indeed due to irresistible reasons that the grain and grass were delivered a few days late, please forgive the lord." ”

Zhang Yuan was still silent, his eyes changed uncertainly, and he seemed to be a little hesitant, not knowing whether to deal with Wang Gang.

Zu Di on one side coughed and said: "If the lord is in the middle of the war, the lord can not care, but now when the two armies are fighting, if the lord does not punish Wang Gang, he will not be able to rectify the military discipline, and it is more likely to summon the dissatisfaction of the soldiers, thinking that the lord is biased, and the military spirit will be at risk of collapsing.

Zu Di is extremely prestigious in the army, and what he said carries a lot of weight, Zhang Yuan can't help but consider it, and what he said is also very reasonable. (To be continued.) )