When Zhang Liao escorted Wei Qi to Anyi, he ran into some trouble. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

To be precise, it was Yang Feng, who occupied the area of Anyi, who was in trouble.

When Li Dao borrowed the road from Hedong to attack the Dong coalition army in Hanoi, Yang Feng and Dong Zhuo secretly frowned, and the relationship was very good for a while. However, the good times did not last long, and Guo Dayu, who was entrenched in Xie County, also sent people to give in to Dong Zhuo at the instigation of Fuluo, saying that he would not cause chaos to Dong Zhuo, let alone attack Hongnong and Zuo Fengyi.

Dong Zhuo was busy dealing with the Dong army in the three directions of Hanoi, Suozao and Luyang, and he couldn't draw more troops to clean up Guo Da and Yang Feng for a while, so Li Ru made a plan for Dong Zhuo and asked the imperial court to send two groups of envoys to Hedong, one to Anyi to recruit Yang Feng, and the other to Xie County to recruit Guo Da.

Doing so seems to have benefited Guo Da and Yang Feng, but in fact, it is to provoke a fight between Guo Da and Yang Feng.

The official hats of the imperial court are now becoming less and less valuable, and it is better to give them to the rebellious Bai Bojun than to those scholars who oppose Dong! Anyway, Dong Zhuo didn't have to pay even a copper plate for Guo Da and Yang Feng.

Therefore, the imperial court named Guo Dawei as the general of Fenwei and Yang Feng as the general of Fenwu, and ordered him to garrison Hedong and not disturb the people.

As a result, the small Hedong County has formed a strange situation in which the four forces coexist.

Niu Fu led his army to garrison the area of Yucheng in the southeast of the river to prevent Guo Da and Yang Feng from crossing the river to the south. Guo Da and Yu Fuluo occupied the area of Xie County in the east and west of the river. Yang Feng occupied the area from Anyi to Wenxi in the central part of Hedong. Hedong Taishou Wangyi governed the six sparsely populated barren counties of Jiangyi, Linfen, Xiangling, Pingyang, Yangxian and Yong'an under the north-south barrier of Yang Feng and Lü Bu.

Zhang Liao's journey from Lishi to Jiangyi went very smoothly, and the banner of the Tiance Army had a strong appeal to the people of the six counties under Wang Yi's rule, and they welcomed the Tiance Army to come back often when there was nothing to do.

If it weren't for the Tiance army pressing on the north, Yang Feng in the south of Jiangyi would definitely not be as honest and obedient as he is now.

After Wen Xi, Zhang Liao learned that Guo Dazheng was taking soldiers and horses to compete with Yang Feng for the benefit of the salt pool, because Yang Feng lacked cavalry, and Guo Da had Yu Fuluo's 3,000 Hun cavalry to help fight, so Yang Feng suffered losses again and again, and now he does not dare to go out of the city to resist Guo Da head-on.

Yang Feng's loss is actually a good thing for Lu Bu, because only the little brother who suffers a loss outside will think of finding the eldest brother and hugging his thighs. If the younger brother gets stronger and stronger, then the position of the eldest brother will be in danger.

It's just that the eldest brother is very busy now, not only has to farm his own land to feed the troops, but also has to fight with the jackals, tigers and leopards in the north, and he really can't spare troops to help the younger brother find a field.

Yang Feng heard that Zhang Liao escorted Wei Qi to Anyi, and was very excited, so he hurriedly came to Wei's house with gifts to visit, and then pulled Zhang Liao to complain.

Yang Feng said: "When General Tiance led his army north, he left a clear order, ordering us not to send troops to plunder the people of the six counties between Jiangyi and Yong'an, but I strictly restrained my subordinates and never crossed half a step north of Wenxi!" It's just that the 40,000 or 50,000 people under his command have to eat and drink, and they can't feed them at all by relying on the production between Wenxi and Anyi. ”

"I originally wanted to take the salt pond and sell the green salt produced in the salt pond to Hanoi and Jingshi, so that I could feed these horses under my command, but after Yu Fuluo took refuge in Guo Da, he relied on the Hun cavalry who came and went like the wind, and beat our army in disarray, and saw that he took the salt pond as his own! In the long run, I am afraid that I will not be able to gain a foothold in Hedong. ”

After listening to Yang Feng's complaints, Zhang Liao frowned and was silent. Yang Feng's words may be exaggerated and untrue, but they are basically true.

Between Lu Bu and Yang Feng, it is not an alliance, but they have common interests. If Yang Feng is cleaned up by Guo Da, then the six counties under Wang Yi will inevitably suffer, and the back of the Tiance army will also be threatened. In order to ensure their own safety, the Tiance army will inevitably send troops to Hedong and clean up Guo Da. Once the Tiance army moves south to Hedong, the situation in Bingzhou will get out of control again, and even the military tun in Lishi may be destroyed by the Southern Huns and the Shangjun Qianghu.

Therefore, it is necessary to help Yang Feng and let him be optimistic about the Hedong Gateway for the Tiance Army during the period when the Tiance Army is running and merging states.

Zhang Liao didn't make any promises to Yang immediately, he said calmly: "Guo Da is just a disease of ringworm and scabies, and he can't make a big deal." I'll make up my mind when I go to the vicinity of the salt pond and observe! ”

The next day, Zhang Liao asked Yang Feng to find dozens of sets of clothes belonging to the soldiers in Yang Feng's army, Zhang Liao and his entourage changed them, and then rode out of the city to the south to investigate the Yanchi area.

Zhang Liao was originally ordered to go directly from Hanoi to Shangdang to join Zhang Yang, and did not follow Lü Bu to fight near Yanchi, so he was not very familiar with the terrain around Yanchi. However, among the 500 horsemen brought by Zhang Liao, half of them had fought a battle with Han Xian near Yanchi, and they were very familiar with this place, so they happened to accompany Zhang Liao to scout carefully.

Zhang Liao went out for three whole days. He not only went to the vicinity of Yanchi, but also went to Yishi County, and even approached Xie County for a time, and observed the movement of people and horses and transportation between Yanchi and Xie County at close range.

Zhang Liao likes mental arithmetic when he has nothing to do now, and by observing the rut marks and horseshoe prints on the road, he can roughly calculate the number of Guo Da's Baibo army and Yu Fuluo's Hun cavalry each time.

Back in Anyi, Zhang Liao came to meet Yang Feng and told him two ways to resolve the current crisis.

First, Yang Feng needed to disarm and remove from the army those peasants who could only farm and not fight, and the old, weak, sick and disabled, and generally only need to retain 20,000 elite soldiers.

Second, go out of the city to fight with Guo Da, hurt Guo Da, and then the two families sit down to negotiate and share the benefits of the salt pond equally. Among them, Yang Feng occupied the East Salt Pond, and Guo Da occupied the West Salt Pond, drawing an armistice line in the middle.

The two suggestions put forward by Zhang Liao were to the point, and they did not mean to fool Yang Feng. Yang Feng is not stupid, and he can tell the good and bad of these two suggestions.

Yang Feng looked sad and said with some concern: "Cutting out the old, weak, sick and disabled, and farmers, and leaving only the able-bodied soldiers, can naturally reduce the difficulty of providing for the troops, but where will the twenty or thirty thousand people who have been laid off go to?" When they started with me, they didn't even want their lives, they just wanted to eat, if I didn't care about their life or death, the people who stayed behind would not really support me. ”

Yang Feng's worries made Zhang Liao a little surprised. He found Yang Feng to be a very interesting person, although he was snobbish and slippery, but there were some merits.

Zhang Liao thought for a while and said: "These people were originally brought out by you from Xihe County, if the army is in Xihe Juntun today, there is a serious shortage of manpower, you can arrange troops to escort them back to Xihe, and I guarantee that Tiance will take in your old troops." ”

"Won't Admiral Tiance punish them?" Yang Feng was a little surprised.

"Why did Admiral Tiance punish them for their crimes?!" Zhang Liao smiled and asked, "If Admiral Tiance wanted to cure Bai Bojun's crimes, you should think about it, are Guo Dahe and you still in the world now?" ”

Zhang Liao's words are quite domineering, but they are not exaggerated at all. If Lu Bu wanted to kill Guo Da and Yang Feng, there were too many strategies and methods at the beginning. Just the two strange soldiers led by Gao Shun and Zhang Yang can solve Yang Feng and Guo Da in the area of Lianshui.

"Good! I also asked General Zhang to help me streamline my troops. For these people who have been laid off, I will let the troops escort them all the way back to Xihe, and I will never harass the six counties along the Fenshui Ancient Road. ”