The Montenegro region is still a mountain range.

It's late autumn now, and the autumn breeze is already a little cool, and it's the time when the autumn wind rolls up the leaves.

However, the green pine stands proudly, and although the deep yellow pine needles have fallen, it still looks like a lush deep mountain.

It is not easy to walk the secret road in the mountains, Yang Feng and Fu Zhu only sneaked into the Black Mountain area with more than 100 soldiers of special forces and more than 200 personal soldiers, in order to ensure the safety of Yang Feng and Fu Zhu, Liu Yi sent Meng Ding and Hu Che'er to Yang Feng.

Meng Ding, this kid, is not a kid now, he has already married and has a son, and the whole person is more mature and calm than the clever boy who could tease Wen Chou back then, and now he is much more mature and calm, which can be of great use.

He has also undergone special training and study at the Luoyang Xishan Military Academy, and has already drawn quite accurate and beautiful topographic maps.

Tai Shici ordered him to be mainly responsible for finding out the distribution of Yuan Shao's troops in the current Montenegro area, as well as the characteristics of their pass defenses, so that they could be used by the New Han army to storm Montenegro in case of necessity.

As for Hu Che'er, he climbed mountains and waded through rivers on foot, like flat ground, and he was with him, which facilitated the actions of their small team, especially the convenience of delivering intelligence back to Tai Shici.

The so-called secret passage is actually in some blind spots defended by Yuan Shaojun, by climbing mountain cliffs, sneaking into the Black Mountain area. Therefore, it is not suitable for the army to attack like this.

At this time, the Montenegro region is naturally not like the Montenegro when he attacked Zhang Yan in Montenegro, Yuan Shao has been operating for so many years, in order to guard against the passage of the New Han Army from the Montenegrin region. Directly attacked the abdomen of Jizhou, so Yuan Shao ordered people to build countless pass fortresses. Countless roads, large and small, entering the Black Mountain region from the west and north have been blocked.

Seriously speaking, the area around Montenegro is indeed the most important line of defense for Yuan Shao's defense to the New Han Dynasty. Therefore, Yuan Shao invested a lot of troops. Originally, there were tens of thousands of local garrisons, and now, Gao Gan led 100,000 troops and horses into the Black Mountain region.

Yang Feng et al. As soon as he sneaked into the Black Mountain area, he had already noticed that Yuan Shaojun's defense was very tight, and every pass. Almost no one is allowed to enter or leave, and even local people are subjected to strict interrogation when they pass through the gates.

Well, actually. Montenegro region. Within a radius of hundreds of miles, in fact, most of the people who come and go are locals in Montenegro, because the traffic is not very convenient, so people from the outside world rarely enter the Montenegrin region, and the people in Montenegro will not leave outside if they have nothing to do. To talk about the connection with the outside world. I am afraid that in recent years, after trading with the New Han Dynasty. There will be many people coming and going from the western and northern areas of Monteneg. Naturally, now that the New Han Dynasty is at war with Yuan Shao, all the merchants will no longer enter and leave Montenegro.

Under such circumstances, it is impossible for Yang Feng and others to pass directly through those passes, and those garrisoned Yuan Shaojun can see at a glance that Yang Feng and his party are not ordinary businessmen.

Yang Feng and others entered Montenegro, mainly to find out how many guards of Yuan Shao's defenders would be the Yuan Shao generals they knew, and they formed an alliance with Yuan Jie and Gongsun Zan to eliminate Zhang Yan in Montenegro together, and later the Montenegro area was owned by Yuan Shao, but out of a better governance of the people in Montenegro, Tian Feng, Yang Feng and others stayed behind to assist Yuan Shao in governing Montenegro. And the chief officer sent by Yuan Shao was frustrated.

In this way, many of the generals stationed in the Montenegro region were known to Tian Feng, Yang Feng, Fu Zhi and others, among them, many of Yuan Shao's local guards were also quite interested in the policy of governing the people in the New Han Dynasty. Although everyone did not talk about the question of who to submit, but in the current situation, if those generals can be found and persuaded to submit to the New Han Dynasty, it will be much more convenient for Tai Shici to seize the area around Montenegro. At the very least, even if one of the Yuan army guards can be persuaded and he can get it to let the New Han army enter the pass, then it is equivalent to directly allowing Tai Shici to break through into the Montenegrin area without forcibly attacking Yuan Shao's Montenegrin defense line.

Now, the most critical issue is a breakthrough.

In general, Yang Feng and Fu Zhu were relatively optimistic, after all, there were really a lot of Yuan Shaojun generals who knew and intersected with them back then, and they didn't believe that they couldn't persuade a person to submit to the New Han Dynasty.

Of course, it was imperative that they first inquire about the information of the Yuan army in the passes that allowed the army of the New Han Army to enter the various mountain passes of Montenegro, especially which general presided over it.

For the Montenegrin region, the Xinhan Army is actually quite familiar, and there are tens of thousands of Xinhan Army soldiers among them, who participated in the original attack on Zhang Yan in Montenegro. Therefore, for the terrain, the generals of the New Han Army still know it well, and what needs to be clarified is that Yuan Shao has increased the number of passes on the mountain roads entering Montenegro, and how many troops have been deployed in each pass, etc.

At the beginning, the New Han Army sent ten military horses to open the way for the vanguard, and at the same time captured ten major passages into Montenegro. Therefore, what we need to figure out now is the situation of the Yuan army in these ten main passages.

It is worth mentioning that the Yuan army guarding the various passages into Montenegro, they are all regarded as stubbornly defended troops, and the Yuan army at each pass, except for the newly increased troops, I am afraid that there will be no more reinforcements in the future. Moreover, in the Montenegro region, Yuan Shao's military horses, it is not easy to respond to each other, the distance between the passages is a big problem, between the first passage routes, it is possible to reach each other by a long distance, they just want to echo each other to help, I am afraid it will not be able to catch up, intelligence transmission, and then send troops and horses to the pass between them, I am afraid that the situation has already changed.

Therefore, Yuan Shaojun's defense in the passes into Montenegro was almost always stubbornly defended, once the New Han Army broke through one of the passages into the Montenegrin area, it was equivalent to this important defense line of Montenegro was broken by the New Han Army.

Yang Feng and the others naturally knew about the situation, so they also chose a channel to operate, hoping to open up a passage for the New Han Army to enter Montenegro.

Access to the Montenegro region. There is a relatively important passage, passing through the Sankou Valley and the Tibetan Soldier Valley, which was discovered when Liu Yi and others attacked Montenegro. Just take the three valleys. The army of the New Han Army can directly enter Montenegro.

Of course, before arriving at the Sankou Valley, you have to pass through a mountain road that is tens or hundreds of miles. Although this mountain road of hundreds of miles is relatively wide, it is not easy to walk, and the carriage will not work. Right now. Yuan Shao has sent people to build no less than ten passes.

Yang Feng and the others just wanted to open up this channel for Tai Shici's army.

From the very beginning, the first pass. It was built in a valley mouth with cliffs on both sides, and the New Han army wanted to storm it, and I was afraid that it would be really a bit troublesome. Yang Feng, Meng Ding and others dived to the cliff to see it. That's the pass. Nearly 2,000 Yuan Shao's military horses were stationed. Looking at Yuan Shaojun's banner, it is obvious that it is Yuan Shaojun who has just arrived, not the original local defenders of Montenegro.

Well, don't underestimate the pass guarded by only 2,000 people, because this pass is only about 20 meters wide, and the wall. It is several feet high, and almost all of them are made of solid stone. If the New Han army wants to storm it. It's not that it can't be captured, but I don't know how many soldiers Lu Dao has to sacrifice to take it. Within this pass, in addition to the one wall in front of you, there are two or three more behind.

After Yang Feng observed, he knew that there was no way to take it down for the time being, so he first wrote down the situation of this pass, and then went to the second level.

In this way, they have been scouted to the place of the Three Mouth Valley.

What made Yang Feng feel a little disappointed was that he couldn't help but arrest two or three Yuan soldiers with Meng Ding and others for interrogation, and found that none of the more than ten guards at the pass along the way were unknown to them. Almost all of the generals guarding the pass have been replaced.

Around Yuan Shao, although there are not many generals who can really be useful, there are still many second- and third-rate generals. I know several of them, but none of them have a deep relationship with them.

After the last, in the Valley of Sankou, Yang Feng and Fu Zhu finally met a general of Yuan Shaojun who they all knew and had a good relationship with them.

This general is called Liu Yue, when Liu Yi, Yuan Shao, and Gongsun Zan joined forces to attack Montenegro, this Liu Yue was only one of the commanders of Yuan Shao's army, because of his meritorious service in the crusade against Montenegro, he was promoted to the commander of the tun, and now, he is already a military commander who can command 500 soldiers. When Tian Feng, Yang Feng and others stayed in Montenegro, the army and horse he was in were also left by Yuan Shao to garrison Montenegro, and he was selected to lead the army to escort him to inspect the situation of the people in Montenegro, so they got to know each other.

When I saw him this time, it was he who was leading 500 soldiers and more than 1,000 people to escort a batch of grain supplies to Yuan Shaojun in the Tibetan Soldier Valley.

The Tibetan Soldier Valley has now become a major camp for Yuan Shaojun, and the people who originally lived in it have been moved, and now it has been run by Yuan Shaojun into a fixed military camp. It is also the place where Yuan Shao hid grain.

Yang Feng and Meng Ding blended into the people and met Liu Yue.

Liu Yue was directing the soldiers and people to send grain into the grain storage holes, when he suddenly saw Yang Feng, he was taken aback.

But fortunately, he seemed to realize something, and hurriedly shouted, letting Yang Feng and Meng Ding carry a bag of rice and noodles alone, and followed him to an unmanned camp.

"Yang Er is in charge, you, why did you come here? Don't want to die? If someone else recognizes you, you're going to lose your head. ”

In the Montenegro region, ordinary people are accustomed to calling Yang Feng Yang Er's house. Because in the past, Zhang Yan was the leader of the Montenegrin Army, and Yang Feng was the second leader. The people in the Montenegro region have always called Yang Feng Yang Er's master later, even if he voted for the New Han Dynasty, in the Montenegrin region, the people still call Yang Feng like this, so some of the generals in Yuan Shaojun's army who are good friends with Yang Feng are called Yang Feng like this.

And Liu Yue is a middle-aged man who looks honest, but he is a little clever, not as scheming as he looks, he asked Yang Feng in surprise.

"Brother Liu Yue, I'm here to find you this time." Yang Feng said straight to the point: "I saw that you were about to come to a catastrophe, and I thought in my heart that we met once, and we can be regarded as good friends, so I can't bear to see you in a different place to show you a clear way." ”

"Uh, show us the way? This ......" Liu Yue said with a little hesitation: "Well, Yang Er is in charge, brother, I know what you want to say, but." I guess not so much now, if you come to me, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you. ”

"Oh? What does this say? Yang Feng saw that Liu Yue had not waited for him to speak clearly, so he refused. I had to ask him.

"Alas, Yang Er is in charge, I know that you are now coming to persuade us to surrender for the New Han Dynasty, right? It's unlikely, don't talk about it, don't embarrass me, you better get out of here now. Even if I've never seen you here. Liu Yue sighed, and said a little depressedly: "Don't hide it from Yang Er, Yuan Shao sent a capable person to Montenegro. Now, all the generals are to do what he does. ”

"Huh? Who? ”

"Xin Comment!" Liu Yue seemed to be a little dissatisfied and said: "He is a strategist under Yuan Shao's account, and his fancy intestines are really not what we can expect." As soon as he arrived in Montenegro. First of all, the guards of each family were replaced. Almost all of them transferred some of Yuan Shao's cronies to guard the various passes in Montenegro. Then, we, the original guards, were transferred to Montenegro by him, mainly in charge of reserve affairs, he said, we have been stationed in Montenegro for too long, and many of them have a lot of dealings with the people of the New Han Dynasty. Therefore, he could not trust the original garrison guards in the Montenegrin region. In order to restrain us, he ordered our wives and children to be sent to Montenegro, called protection, but hostages. ”

"Xin Ping? Isn't it our brother who is too shou Xinbi in Guanzhou? This guy, how can he do things for Yuan Shao? Vote for our New Han Army, and brothers will serve the Lord together? Meng Ding was listening, and couldn't help but say a little angrily: "Brother Yang Feng, why don't you go and ask Mr. Fu Zhu to meet Na Xin Ping and see if you can persuade him?" ”

"Useless ......" Yang Feng shook his head and said: "Those literati are very stubborn, and they will not turn back even if they break through the south wall." I've also been in contact with Xin Ping, and I don't know what the reason is, it's just that I can't talk to us together. We can't let Mr. Frustration take risks, don't make it impossible to persuade Xin Ping, but it will put Mr. Frustration in danger. ”

However, Xin Ping was really very poisonous, and it was just a matter of removing the generals, and he actually let the wives and children of those generals gather in Montenegro, so that those generals of Yuan Shao, who might persuade them to surrender, had no idea of surrendering to the New Han Dynasty.

"Well, let's not talk about that yet." Yang Feng said to Liu Yue: "Brother Liu, do you know about Lu Dao now, your Yuan Shao and us are at war?" ”

"Naturally, I know it. Don't worry, now that we are all under guard, it is estimated that we will not have a chance to fight with your new Han army. Unless, you can fight to Montenegro. However, to tell you the truth, now that Yuan Shao has sent a lot of soldiers and horses to Montenegro at once, with sufficient troops, it is really not easy for you to enter Montenegro. ”

"Huh, huh? So do you know how many military horses our New Han Army has dispatched? Yang Feng asked again disappreciably.

"This, I don't know the specifics, after all, Liu is just a small military marquis now, and he can't get access to too important information."

"Then I'll tell you." Yang Feng said: "Our New Han Army, this time we have dispatched more than 500,000 New Han troops to enter the area at the junction of Youzhou and Jizhou, and the New Han Army in the Black Mountain region will be no less than 10,000 horses. And what about you? It is estimated that the strength of the Black Mountain region will never exceed 200,000 troops and horses, and it is estimated that there are still many young and strong people who have been forcibly recruited by you. Brother Liu, think about it again, how is your current strength compared to Zhang Yan of Montenegro in the past? Montenegro Zhang Yan, known as a million army, is in such a situation. Hasn't Zhang Yan been destroyed by us yet? Do you think, with your current more than 100,000 military horses, can you be the enemy of the New Han Army? At the beginning, my father-in-law, Liu Yi, sent ten military horses, each of which was actually only about 2,000 people, even so, and more thieves against Zhang Yan could still be like a bamboo, directly killed at the foot of Montenegro, and attacked the camp on the top of Montenegro. Do you think that with the current Yuan Shao, he can be the enemy of our New Han Army? ”

"This, although I Liu Yue don't know too much, I also know that your New Han Army is more capable of fighting. But the key is......" Liu Yue seemed to have a helpless look.

Yang Fengzhi said that Liu Yue wanted to say that their family was restricted, and even if they wanted to surrender, there was no way, so he raised his hand to stop him from talking and said: "Brother Liu Yue, I don't need you to make a decision right now, otherwise, let's do it, you sent food, and you will go back to Montenegro in a while, right?" You let me mix in your army and take me to Montenegro, and then you are responsible for contacting the original Montenegrin guards and asking them all to come and discuss it together. ”

Yang Feng said: "Actually, whether you surrender or not is irrelevant to our New Han Army, the important thing is, have you ever thought about it?" Even if you are now under the control of others, when we come in, it will not be the same fate? Do you really want to fight against us? Yuan Shao is not a Ming Jun, is it worth your life for him? If Yuan Shao really trusts you, why do you need to take care of your wife and children? ”

"Yang Er is in charge......" Liu Yue said with a wry smile: "Seriously, we didn't know each other on the first day, we all know that Yang Er is in charge, you are righteous, and you also talked to us a lot back then." We all know the difference between the New Han Dynasty and our Yuan Shao, from your assistance in governing Montenegro, and what we heard about the New Han Dynasty, we know that you are all for the people's good army, I, Liu Yue, was originally just an ordinary person, who was forcibly conscripted into the army by Yuan Shao. Among us, many of us have long wanted to follow Yang Er to take charge of you. Just now...... Also, are you on the black with Liu? Wouldn't it be dangerous if it was exposed? ”

"If you don't enter the tiger's den, you can get a tiger?" Yang Feng said lightly: "What's more, Montenegro is also my Yang Feng's home, what danger will there be when I go back to my own home?" (To be continued......)