On the dusty official road, the 30,000 Yellow Turban Army who were ordered to rescue Yanggu were galloping. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Taking advantage of the interval between the marches, Fa Zheng caught up with Zhang Jun's war horse, and said in a deep voice, "General Jun, Kong Rong, Liu Yan, and Liu Bei are adding Yuan Shao's army, and the enemy army in Yanggu at this moment is probably no less than 100,000, and our army is no more than 30,000 or 40,000 even if General Buji's soldiers and horses are added. Moreover, Yuan Shaojun's division Feng Ji, Xu You, and Liu Yan's subordinate Zhang Songsu are known for their resourcefulness, and since our army has fallen into its calculations this time, it will never let us rescue Yanggu safely and steadily, and there will be ambushes on this road! And the one who is ambushed must still be the elite of the enemy army. ”

Zhang Jun's expression changed when he heard this, if things were really as Fa Zheng expected, it would be extremely tricky.

"Since Xiaozhi has anticipated the enemy's plan, he must have a countermeasure in his heart!" Zhang Jun said in a deep voice, "Please also show your filial piety!" ”

"Don't dare!" Fa Zheng said in a deep voice, "I thought it was better to make a detour to cross the river at this time, and kill Qucheng, although it took time, it was the safest strategy at the moment!" ”

"Did Wei save Zhao?" Zhang Jun said in a condensed voice, "Jun Li, but in this case, it will be five or six days beyond the estimated time, can General Buji's men and horses hold on?" ”

Fa Zheng shook his head and said: "I don't know, at this moment, the enemy and us are like a competition, if our army takes the lead in capturing Qucheng, Yuan Shao will definitely withdraw his troops to help, if the enemy army takes the lead in capturing Yanggu." ”

"Okay~ No need to say it!" Zhang Jun immediately interrupted Fa Zheng's words, looked back and said sharply, "The whole army is speeding up, and we must rush to Qucheng within five days, otherwise the military law will deal with it!" ”

Zhang Jun studied under Gao Shun, and the army has always been known for its strict discipline, and the punishment for soldiers who disobey military orders is extremely severe. Therefore, Zhang Jun gave an order, and all the soldiers ran away with their lives.

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The big camp of the coalition army, the big tent of Liu Yan's Chinese army.

After Liu Yan sat high on the case, his face was gloomy and seemed to be able to drip water.

It has been several days since the army stormed Yanggu, with thousands of dead and wounded, but Bu Ji stubbornly blocked the attacks of the coalition army with a few thousand wounds! Zhang Ren, Wu Yi, Yan Yan, Yang Huai, and Deng Xian all looked ashamed and did not dare to face Liu Yan's eyes.

Seeing that all the generals were silent, Liu Yan turned his head to look at Zhang Song, and said in a deep voice: "Ziqiao (according to the official history, writing Zhang Song's character Yongnian for Ziqiao's "Romance" should be confused with the table character of Peng Yi, another Shu official, Peng Yi's character Yongnian. Choose the official history table here, otherwise Peng Yi will not be able to appear in the future. What do you think? ”

"Lord, Yanggu City is high and deep, and the thief army has the will to die, and the trapped beasts are still fighting with powerful combat power, and it is understandable that our army is difficult to overcome for a while! In time, the momentum of the thief army will be exhausted, and our army will attack the city, and Yanggu will fall. Zhang Song said in a condensed voice, "The person that Ran Song is worried about is not in Yanggu, but in the general Yuan Shaoye!" ”

"Huh!?" Liu Yan's eyes suddenly flashed with a glimmer of light, and he asked, "What does Ziqiao mean by this?" What is there for the general to worry about? Can he still withdraw his troops? ”

"Quite possibly!" Zhang Song said in a deep voice, "That day, the remnants of Buji's soldiers suddenly retreated into the city, and Song became suspicious. It stands to reason that the general has tens of thousands of elite soldiers under his command, and there is a world-famous Xiandeng battalion as the vanguard, how can he escape with his thousands of men and horses? Moreover, it is better for the general to give orders in order to assert his authority. Our army's siege of the city ended in failure for several days, but we didn't see the general send an envoy to take responsibility, which is quite strange! ”

Zhang Ren heard the words and said: "Military advisor, it's just right that Yuan Shao doesn't point fingers, so as not to be angry with him." Besides, he Yuan Shao withdrew the army, just now the military adviser also said that when the thief army is deflated, our army will enter the city in one fell swoop, and then unite with the history of Kong Thorn and Uncle Liu's army to drive straight into the lair of the thief army, then the lord will be the first hero to exterminate the thief army, how can the court not praise the lord? According to the general, at least the lord will be crowned with the position of three dukes! ”

"General Zhang Ren's words are wrong." Zhang Song shook his head and said, "If the general withdraws his troops, where does General Zhang Ren think he will withdraw his troops?" ”

"Uh~" Zhang Ren was stunned and said, "It should be Qingzhou, after all, Qingzhou is now Yuan Shao's lair." ”

"What about Qingzhou Thorn Shi Kong Wenju?"

"The history of the hole stab~ should ~ should ~ " Zhang Ren hesitated for a moment and said, "Although the history of the hole stab is a great Confucian in the sea, its prestige is afraid that it is difficult to match Yuan Shao of the fourth world and the third duke!" ”

"I see."

Zhang Song's eyes lit up, the doubts in his heart were solved, and he immediately said to Liu Yan, "Lord, Song understands." The general must have wanted to take advantage of Kong Wenju's leadership to secretly withdraw his troops back to Qingzhou, intending to eradicate Kong Wenju's forces in one fell swoop, and Qingzhou would be completely controlled by the general. ”

Liu Yan was taken aback and lost his voice: "The general is famous all over the world, how can he be such a petty man?" ”

Zhang Song said: "My lord." As the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, since the general settled in Qingzhou, Qingzhou has been divided into two, how can there be no gap? This is a good time to get rid of the other tiger, how can the general miss the opportunity? ”

Liu Yan said: "In this case, in your opinion, what should our army do?" ”

Zhang Song said: "The general withdrew from Qingzhou, Kong Wenju will definitely not give up when he learns the news, so that the coalition army on this road will not attack itself, and our army will do nothing even if it stays here." Besides, the lord has been away from Yizhou for a long time, and there will inevitably be small disturbances in the territory. ”

"Alas~" Liu Yan sighed, "United more than 20 princes, raise the whole country's troops to fight against the Yellow Turban thieves, but I don't want to fall short, the old man, as a Han clan, is ashamed of the first emperor and His Majesty~"

The generals were silent when they heard this, Zhang Song also showed a gloomy look in his eyes, although Xichuan is a country of abundance, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it also limits the enterprising heart of the Sichuan soldiers, this retreat, I am afraid that in the next ten or even twenty years, the princes of the Central Plains will compete for hegemony and have nothing to do with Xichuan.

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Yanggu.

The night is like ink, Bu Ji's majestic figure is standing in the wind on the head of the city, surrounded by more than a dozen Yellow Turban generals, that day Bu Ji thought he would die, but he didn't know that Yuan Shao suddenly had a brain twitch or other purpose, first boarded the camp and suddenly retreated, Bu Ji took advantage of the situation to lead the remnants of the army to kill a bloody road and retreated into the city, since then Bu Ji has closed the door and not out, no matter how the enemy lures is not out of the city, just ordered the soldiers to defend carefully.

Yanggu City is tall, although the coalition army has many soldiers and horses, with the soldiers who defend the city with the will to die, they repelled the enemy's attacks one after another. At this time, there were only more than 2,000 people left in the 10,000 army, and they were basically injured.

Standing on the city wall and looking out, the city was dark, only the light from the burning sheep fat torches on the city wall illuminated the city outside about ten steps, and the fire was difficult to reach no matter how far away.

Bu Ji turned his head to look at the strong men who had been organized, staggered and collapsed on the city wall, almost all of them fell asleep, and their physical strength had already been exhausted by the fierce battles of the day.

"Alas~"

Bu Ji sighed lightly, turned his gaze to the deputy general on the side, Bu Ji's eyes were bloodshot, the deputy general looked at Bu Ji worriedly, and said in a condensed voice: "General, the coalition forces have suffered heavy losses during the day, and I don't think there will be any more night attacks." The last general is staring here, and the general should go and rest, the general has not closed his eyes for three days and three nights, and even if he is an iron man, he can't stand it. ”

"Yes, General, go and rest first, we are here to guard, if there is an enemy attack, the last general will guarantee to notify you as soon as possible."

For a time, the generals persuaded each other.

Bu Ji waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "How much grain and grass is there in the army?" How many more equipment are there to defend the city? ”

"This~" The deputy general hesitated for a moment, and his face showed a gloomy color, "Since Yanggu was not a strategic place before, there was not much grain hoarding in the city, and the grain and grass in the city could only last for five days at most." And the equipment for defending the city has long been exhausted, and all the wood that can be used in the city has been used, and the rest is almost demolished. ”

Bu Ji said coldly: "Without the equipment to defend the city, how can we defend the city with a few thousand people?" Demolish, all the wooden houses in the city are demolished, and all the vegetable oil and fire oil in the city are collected as long as they are oil, and those who dare to disobey orders will be engaged in military law. ”

The adjutant general frowned slightly, and persuaded: "General, I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate." It is not a big problem to collect the oil of the whole city, after all, the poor people have very little oil in their homes, and most of them are still collected from the homes of the rich. It's just that if the house is demolished, the people's houses will be demolished, so I am afraid that it will violate the military order, and the people will lose their houses, how can they live? ”

"Extraordinary times are very good, I will explain to the lord." Bu Ji said in a deep voice, "Besides, you tell the people in the city that General Ben demolished their houses today, which is really a helpless move, and once the war is over, General Ben will definitely build new houses for all of them." ”

"No!"

"Also~" Bu Ji said in a condensed voice, "Send scouts, find a way to break out of the encirclement, and ask General Cen Ligang Guo for reinforcements." ”

"No!"

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On the outskirts of Yanggu City, more than 20 miles away, a military camp stands here, which is the most unlucky Liu Bei's camp.

A lamp is like a bean, the dim oil lamp illuminates the tent very dark, the uncle of the Han Emperor Liu Bei is bending down to look at the military map on the table, now Liu Bei has long lost the spirit of the early years, after a series of blows, especially the death of Xu Shu and the loss of the Son of Heaven, Liu Bei seems to be much older, and there is also a faint gray hair between the temples~

Sun Qian entered the tent and said softly: "Lord, it's not early, let's rest early!" ”

"Gongyou is here." Liu Bei raised his head, saw that it was Sun Gan with a smile on his face, and hurriedly got up and said, "Sit down, on this late night, I don't know what is important to Gongyou?" ”

"Thank you, Lord." Sun Qian bowed, knelt on the ground face to face with Liu Bei, and then said in a condensed voice, "My lord, I didn't dare to slack off when I received the news from Qu County in the East China Sea, so I came to tell my lord." ”

"Oh?" Liu Bei's heart moved, and his hand pouring tea trembled slightly, and then asked quietly, "What news?" ”

Sun Qian hesitated for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "There is news from the East China Sea, three months ago, the first thief Zhang Bao led the partial division to the south, attacking the land of Jing and Yang, and then transferred to Xuzhou and besieged Qu County. ”

"Bang Dang~"

The teacup in Liu Bei's hand was shattered, Sun Gan's news was tantamount to a bolt from the blue for Liu Bei, Liu Bei had been repeatedly calculated by Zhang Bao since he started his army to fight against Zhang Bao, and he was beaten in the river and lost his armor. Later, in the end, the strategist Jian Yong was killed by the thief army, and Zhao Yun, who was finally recruited, was snatched away by Zhang Bao again. This time, the Mi family was a wealthy family that Liu Bei had worked so hard to win over, and it was plundered by Zhang Bao~

These are not counted, whenever Liu Bei's power improves a little, he will inevitably be beaten back to the prototype by Zhang Bao with a stick, and Liu Bei begins to doubt his life, is Zhang Bao really the nemesis of his Liu Bei's generation?

Looking at Liu Bei, who was lost and depressed, Sun Qian sighed helplessly, his face full of gloom.

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Tiger Prison Pass, Jia Xu's big tent in the army.

Jia Xu was bowing his head and writing hard, suddenly there was a sound of footsteps, but he looked up in surprise but a secret guard crossed the door and entered, as soon as he entered the account, the secret guard knelt down and said: "The villain pierced the wind, I have seen Mr. Wenhe and Mr. Gongze." ”

"Hmm!" Jia Xu bowed his head slightly, sealed the parchment scroll he had just written, and said in a deep voice, "You will send this letter to the poisonous snake immediately, and tell him to act according to the plan and not to make mistakes. ”

"The villain understands."

Guo Tu said: "Where has the lord arrived now?" ”

"When the villain received the news, the lord's army was about to arrive in Leling, counting the time, now the lord should have arrived in Leling City."

"Hmmm! Got it, go ahead. ”

"No!"

Looking at the back of the dark guard leaving, Guo Tu turned his head, an inexplicable color flashed in his eyes, and said in a condensed voice: "Wenhe, once the plan is completed, this huge crusade will be over, and the main business has returned, shall we start to prepare?" ”

Jia Xu stroked his chin and muttered: "Justice, this matter is very important, and we must be cautious and not reckless. Let's talk about it until it's all worked out. ”

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Xuchang, Cao Cao's mansion.

Due to Zhang Ji's careful treatment, Cao Cao's epidemic was completely controlled, and his body was getting better day by day. ”

"Huh?" Cao Cao was startled and said in a condensed voice, "Where is Zhang Bao today?" ”

Cao Hong said: "According to the news from our army, it may be in Leling, it may be in Yanggu, Zhang Bao's specific whereabouts cannot be determined, but there is no doubt about returning to the north, because his cavalry has reached the mouth of the Yellow River." ”

"The mouth of the Yellow River?" Cao Cao frowned and said, "It should be Yuan Benchu's battlefield, Yuan Benchu and Liu Yan's Sichuan army are all foot soldiers, once this cavalry participates in the battlefield, I'm afraid it's not good!" ”

Guo Jia shook his head and said: "Lord, Jia thinks that since the collapse of the Central Coalition Army, the name of this coalition army has existed in name only, and it is an indisputable fact that the Yellow Turban Thief is big, no matter whether the general wins or loses, it has little to do with our army, but the person Jia is worried about is Yuan Shu of Yangzhou." ”

"Huh!?" Cao Cao's heart moved, and he said in a condensed voice, "Feng Xiao thinks that Yuan Shu really dares to lead the army to invade my realm?" ”

Guo Jia said in a deep voice: "Jia just got a message, and he was about to talk about the lord. ”

Cao Cao said: "Speak! ”

Guo Jia said: "The great Sima Yuan Shu actually appointed Sun Jian to be the assassin of Xuzhou without the permission of the Son of Heaven, this second news is that Yuan Shu's confidant Liu Xun has been appointed by Yuan Shu as the Taishou of Jiangting, Yuan Shu's intention is obvious, it is to contain the lord with Sun Jian. ”

Cheng Yu continued: "Although Sun Jian was appointed by Yuan Shu as the assassin of Xuzhou, it is impossible for him to gain actual control of Xuzhou, as for Liu Xun of Jiangting, he is even more of a straw bag, he only needs to send a general to lead 10,000 elite soldiers to garrison Qianjun, Liu Xun will definitely not dare to take a step beyond Lei Chi." ”

Guo Jia's eyes showed a worried look, and said faintly, "Zhongde, if Yuan Shu holds a grudge and does all the soldiers of Yangzhou to commit Yanyu, the situation will not be good!" And what Jia is even more worried about is that if Yuan Shu and the thief Zhang Bao collude, the consequences will be even more unimaginable. ”