Xin Ping and Han Meng, one article and one martial arts, they are now in Yuan Shao's army, and they can be regarded as rare deposits.

You must know that the original Yuan Shao can really be called a fierce general and a strategist like a forest. But who would have thought that now Yuan Shao has almost no one around him. Xin Ping and Han Meng are now particularly prominent.

When you think about it, it's really a bit emotional.

Yuan Shao, Wu has Zhang He, Gao Lan, Lu Yi, Lu Xiang, Lu Kuang, Chun Yuqiong, Zhang Nan, Jiao Touch, Zhao Zhao, Han Meng, etc., if it is considered history, there are Yan Liang and Wen Chou of Megatron Hebei. However, up to now, Yuan Shao's subordinate generals, who died and surrendered, are still under Yuan Shao's account, and those who can really be regarded as fierce generals are only a few people, and Han Meng and others can be regarded as important generals under Yuan Shao's account at this time.

And Yuan Shao's original advisers, say it, they are really all famous, not to talk about history, just say that in this life, Yuan Shao's advisers under his account, there are Xin Ping, Xin Bi brothers, Xu You, Guo Tu, there are judges, sewing discipline, frustration, Xun Chen, etc., these advisers, if Yuan Shao can guide like a stream and make the best use of his talents, the current Yuan Shao will not be so overstretched, no one is available. It's a pity that it's still a surrender, a defection of defection, and now, there are only Xin Ping and Juan who are still by Yuan Shao's side, two slightly more famous strategists.

However, no matter what, whether it is Yuan Shao in history or Yuan Shao now, it can be said that he is destined to have only one way to perish in the end. In this life, he is much bleaker than the situation in history. At least, Yuan Shao in history. Although he faced the same unfavorable situation, but. In the end, he will not be destroyed, after he dies of depression. More or less left a little foundation for his son's descendants. Even if Yuan Shao died of illness, he could barely be regarded as the end of his life, not directly defeated and destroyed by the enemy.

In this life, Yuan Shao is now afraid that he will have to face the situation of being directly killed by the New Han Army.

Yuan Shao's heart was definitely unwilling, or, he had already seen that his struggle was in vain, but. In this life, he was somewhat pressed by the New Han Army, which aroused the arrogance in his bones, and in the face of the overwhelming army of the New Han Army, he instead beat his spirit and did not get sick. Well, there may be illness, but he can still persevere, so as not to lie on the hospital bed and wait for his defeat.

Or or. Now there are still years before the defeat of Yuan Shao in history, and Yuan Shao in history died of depression and illness until 202. When Yuan Shao died of illness, there were still six or seven years. Due to the early occurrence of historical events, so. The current Yuan Shao can barely be regarded as being at a strong age. At this time, Yuan Shao, even if there are many troubles. I was depressed, but I didn't get sick.

Of course, before Yuan Shao, the painstaking strategy to ambush Liu Yi had completely failed, and when he heard the news that Liu Yi had returned to Luoyang safely, Yuan Shao did vomit a few mouthfuls of blood. This may be the relationship between people and heaven, which makes Yuan Shao feel bad luck and God will not bless him.

However, no matter what, Yuan Shao has no way out now. Especially when the news came that Cao Cao had beheaded the envoy Guo Tu he had sent and sent Guo Tu's head to the New Han Dynasty to Liu Yi, Yuan Shao knew that he had completely cut off the possibility of taking refuge in Cao Cao as a last resort. He knew in his heart that Cao Cao killed the envoy Guo Tu he sent, which meant that Cao Cao was afraid at this critical moment, afraid of the New Han Dynasty, afraid of Liu Yi, and did not dare to join hands with him to fight against Liu Yi. Dedicating Guo Tu's head to Liu Yi is equivalent to admitting his mistake to Liu Yi, and expressing his determination to Liu Yi, saying that from now on, he will no longer support the rescue of himself.

Under the whole world, the world is so big, there is no one who can provide Yuan Shao with any help. He was completely isolated.

There is no way, things must be reversed, Yuan Shao, who is completely desperate and hesitant, can only become the dog who jumps over the wall, and decides to fight to the death with Liu Yi's New Han Army, and burn the jade with the New Han Army.

He will no longer think about surrendering, the pride in his bones makes Yuan Shao unable to lower his head. At the beginning, the little volunteer once threatened to destroy his Yuan family, and now, it seems that people can do it, at this time, what shame is there to bend the knee and beg for mercy? What's more, Yuan Shao now knows about his wife and Liu Yi, and lets himself surrender to the person who took his wife? Yuan Shao really can't do it. Of course, if he and Liu Yi are friends, and between friends, they send concubines to each other, these are just trivial matters for Yuan Shao. In this case, Yuan Shao's heart will not feel anything unacceptable. However, like now, without his knowledge, his Yuan partner Mrs. Zhang actually fooled around with Liu Yi, which made Yuan Shao feel deeply humiliated and humiliated by taking his wife.

In particular, after listening to what his son Yuan Tan said after fleeing back from Bohai County, Yuan Shao broke off the idea of returning to the New Han Dynasty. Even a son can deny his biological mother, how can he surrender, and in the future, how can he face the woman who betrayed him?

Therefore, Yuan Shao already has the heart of death.

A person who has the idea of dying, he will fall into a state of madness. In this way, there will be a matter of imprisoning the families of the generals and strategists under his account, and only then will he intensify his efforts to drive the people to repair and strengthen the walls of Yecheng for him, and he will build many acropolis.

Originally, Yuan Shao knew that people like Xin Ping and Judge could give themselves many ways to resist the New Han Army, but he was even more afraid that these guys would betray when the enemy was in the present, and he was really fed up with the betrayal of his advisers. In the original battle of Guandu, if Xu Yu had not betrayed, he and Cao Cao might not necessarily lose the battle, at least he could have fought with Cao Cao into a stalemate.

However, it is useless to say this now, he now, no one will believe it anymore, he only believes in himself. To this end, he gave a clear order, requiring Xin Ping, Ju Pei, and a group of generals to defend Maocheng, Guangping, and Yangping Cities, and to hold back the New Han army as much as possible, so that he could have enough time to run Yecheng into a strong fortress.

In this way, Xin Ping and Han Meng, they have no choice. can only stay in Maocheng and fight to the death with the Xinhan army.

They are now. You can't advance or retreat, in order to be able to survive. They worked out such a method to defend Maocheng to the death to block the attack of the New Han army.

Han Meng led 50,000 cavalry troops to station in the south of Maocheng as a mobile force, no matter whether the New Han army came to attack the city, or to break through from the area east of Maocheng, Han Meng's 50,000 cavalry troops could quickly raid. Defeat the invading New Han army.

Early that morning, Xin Ping met with Han Meng, who spent the night in Maocheng, for a talk.

They have now become grasshoppers on a rope, so now this Wen Yiwu has become friends who talk about everything, and Han Meng also has a lot of respect for Xin Ping, a literati who seems to be powerless. Admire Xin Ping's talent. You must know that a series of strategies by Xin Ping earlier did a good job of hindering the attack of the New Han Army, making the New Han Army a bogey. For a while, they did not dare to rush forward, so that they had time to calmly arrange their defenses. Seriously, if they hadn't taken the initiative in the first place. sent military horses to infiltrate the north-central region of Beizhou to attack, fearing that the main army of the New Han Army had already been killed under Maocheng. And it is also possible that Maocheng will be captured by the New Han Army.

At this time, it was not yet fully dawn. The sun hasn't risen yet.

Han Meng was a little surprised that Xin Ping came to him so early, seeing Xin Ping's somewhat solemn look, Han Meng's heart was also a little abrupt, thinking that something had happened, and hurriedly asked, "Master Xin, did something happen?" Why do you look so preoccupied? ”

Xin Ping shook his head silently and said to Han Meng: "General Han Meng, Brother Han, in the past two days, Xin has always been restless, his eyelids have been jumping, last night, he couldn't close his eyes all night, and I don't know why, Xin always felt that the situation was not good, and it seemed that something big had happened." ”

As a strategist, you will inevitably do your best, and you will consider many things in your heart, and all aspects of the problem must be considered. When people think about this too much, they will naturally be suspicious, especially when the overall situation is not conducive to themselves. This can be regarded as the so-called thinking day and night dreaming.

However, it is undeniable that often, the thoughts and dreams of those strategists often give them a flash of inspiration, and they come up with a brilliant plan, or think of a loophole in their own plans. Anyway, it is because they think too much, many times, that they can come up with a feasible plan.

Han Meng has experienced several life-and-death battles, his strength has improved, and he can be regarded as a first-class fierce general, but after all, he is a brave and unscrupulous person, and he doesn't want to think about it at all, in fact, it is also for him to think about it, and he can't think of anything to come up with.

Seeing that Xin Ping always looked sad, he couldn't help but explain him and said: "Master Xin, Han Meng is just a rough person, without a mind like you, he can be regarded as a last resort. However, I think you literati are really thinking too much. Han Meng has already been in accordance with the strategy of the military division, has already cleared the north of our Maocheng, if the new Han army attacked, they will definitely stop under our Maocheng, in the face of our Maocheng's unique terrain advantage, if they dare to attack, they will be made to hit a head and break the blood, and when the time comes, kill them a river of blood. ”

"This is also what Xin is worried about, don't you think the New Han Army is a little strange now? According to the information detected by our spies, the army of the New Han Army has already been killed twenty or thirty miles north of our Mao City, and a few days ago, the New Han Army that killed our city was only their vanguard army. As soon as they came to our city and saw our situation, they immediately retreated. Xin Ping seems to be thinking hard.

"Xin Junshi, in fact, Han thinks that even if the Xinhan army has hundreds of thousands of military horses, I am afraid that it will be difficult to break through from our Maocheng, it is estimated that they will turn to attack in the direction of Guangping and Yangping, right? He asked us, if we could, send an army to support them, so that we could secretly march and raid the New Han army, not to defeat the New Han army, but to strike at the arrogance of the New Han army, so as to strengthen the heart of our army. You see...... "Han Meng wanted to lead the army to support Guangping and raid the New Han Army, he had already tasted the sweetness of taking the initiative, and felt that if he had the opportunity." Don't be afraid to stab the New Han Army.

"Well, in the case of our Maocheng. The 30,000 veterans and 30,000 new troops in the city are enough to hold Maocheng. Our cavalry is just to guard against the new Han army from the east of the city, if we do not have the new Han army in front of the city, or we can free up 30,000 or 20,000 cavalry to go to Guangping. It's just that Xin always feels a little inappropriate. ”

"Hey, what's wrong? Our Maocheng is like an iron bucket, and the defense of the city is well prepared, and the only thing to worry about is that. Even in the eastern part of our city, although it is a hilly area, there are also several rivers blocking it, which is conducive to our defense and blocking the enemy. However, if the army of the New Han Army kills from those places, we are afraid that there will be some trouble, after all, the area around it is dozens of miles wide. Our defensive army is difficult to control such an open area. Only by relying on our cavalry can we stop the enemy in time. Fang can stop the New Han army. However, Han thinks. As long as there are 50,000 cavalry of the general, they will be able to teach the attacking New Han Army to drink a pot. We have trained our cavalry to imitate the fighting style of the cavalry of the New Han Army, and even the war horses are like the war horses of the New Han Army. Stirrups were installed and horseshoes were applied. Not to mention. With those little things, our cavalry. It can also shoot arrows on horseback, which can be like an ordinary nomadic cavalry outside the cold, which is very conducive to the rapid raid of our army. Han Meng said a little excitedly: "Seriously, Han is really looking forward to it, looking forward to the attack of the New Han Army, so that they can also see the strength of our Yuan Army's cavalry." Of course, if Xin Junshi is not at ease, then we don't have to think about aiding Guangping for the time being, anyway, even if Guangping and Yangping fall, our Maocheng can still stand on its own, and we can still defeat the Xinhan army and protect Handan. It also formed a guard for Yecheng. ”

"That's right, the importance of our Maocheng is much more important than that of Guangping and Yangping. For the time being, the enemy situation in front of our city is unknown, and it is really not easy to divide troops to support friendly forces. Xin Ping nodded in agreement, but he was still a little difficult to let go of and said: "General Han, even though we have done all the work of defending the city, and we have considered all kinds of situations that will arise, this, on the surface, we seem to have done everything in case, but Xin's heart is still a little uneasy, if you don't want to understand the uneasiness, Xin is really restless, and his heart is like pressing a big stone, so he can't rest assured." ”

"Wouldn't it? Xin Junshi, then according to you, as far as our current situation is concerned, what other way can the New Han Army break through our Maocheng? Well, now, the strength of the New Han Army is indeed more than our Yuan Army, but I'm afraid it's not enough for them to surround our Maocheng, right? What's more, looking at the geographical location of our Maocheng, what can they do to surround us? If they want to attack, I believe we can teach them a bloody lesson. ，”

In siege warfare, the one with the most casualties will definitely not be the defending side, and in the end, the losses of the attacking side will be more than the defending side, and even many times, dozens of times that of the defending side.

Therefore, many times, when the two armies are at war, they are willing to set up a decisive battle between the two armies, and they are not willing to attack the city head-on.

At this time, Xin Ping suddenly turned his head to look at the mountains in the west of Maocheng, his heart jumped, and he said thoughtfully: "General Han Meng, you see, we will pay attention to the north and east of the city, even in the south of our Maocheng, there are 50,000 cavalry troops of General Han Meng guarding you, but, on the contrary, to the west of our Maocheng, Xin has been a little negligent, do you think, is it possible for the New Han Army to come out of the mountains?" ”

"Kill from the mountains?" Han Meng was stunned when he heard this, but soon he shook his head with a smile and said, "Impossible, this is impossible!" ”

"Xin Junshi, after you arrived in our Maocheng, you also went to the west of the city to see, from the mountains west of Maocheng, in fact, there are only a few mountain roads that can enter and exit the mountains, and we have already set up military guards at the mountain passes in and out of the mountains. Han Meng felt that Xin Ping's concern was superfluous, and he said: "We are in the mountains west of Maocheng, and we really didn't send many soldiers to guard it, but it doesn't mean that we don't pay attention to it, our people are distributed in the open mountains of dozens of miles in that mountain range, and every mountain pass that can be used by people and horses to pass, even if it is some cliffs that are difficult for people and animals to pass, we have sent people to monitor, once there is a situation and we find that there are military horses of the New Han Army, our people will immediately light the Beacon Fire, and we will know at the first time that the New Han Army is in the mountains, At that time, we will have to defend the key battles, and the initiative will be all in our hands. Perhaps, if the New Han Army really dared to enter the mountains, it would be possible for us to wipe them out in the mountains, thus breaking the myth that the New Han Army was invincible. ”

Han Meng was very confident and thought that it was impossible for the New Han Army to come out of the mountains. In fact, he came to Maocheng to defend much longer than Xin Ping's arrival in Maocheng, when he came to Maocheng, he had considered that in case he lost to the New Han Army, or he could lead the army to flee into the mountains, under the cover of the mountains, to escape, and even, he also considered whether to be like Zhang Yan of the Black Mountain at the beginning, simply fall into the grass in the Taihang Mountain and be a mountain king. Therefore, he sent people early to conduct a detailed investigation and understanding of the Taihang Mountain in the west of Maocheng, and he was already familiar with the terrain of that mountainous area, and he was fully prepared for his future way out, so he was really not worried that the Xinhan army would come out of the mountain.

"No, it's not right......" Xin Ping was a little noncommittal about Han Meng's self-confidence, and shook his head again and again: "These days, I'm always restless, and I always feel like I'm missing something." Now, Xin has a feeling of sudden enlightenment. It must be yes, in the style of the New Han Army, they are before our Maocheng, so the siege equipment is not useful, with their character, it is definitely impossible to risk death to attack Maocheng knowing that there will be too much sacrifice. Therefore, Xin thought that they would definitely pay attention to this area in the east of our city, and if they wanted to break through our defense line, the only way to attack was from the east of the city. But now, Xin doesn't think so, I think, they will definitely be in danger, and they should attack from the mountains. ”

"Oh? It's unlikely, right? Han Meng said with a disbelieving look.

"Humph! What's impossible? General Han, Brother Han, have you forgotten how Zhang Yan was destroyed in Montenegro in the first place? It was not our lord who really destroyed Zhang Yan, not our Yuan army, but Liu Yi's new Han army. Think about it, the Black Mountain region is steep, or is it the mountains west of our Maocheng? ”

"Well, it's all over it." Han Meng couldn't help but look a little solemn.

"Even Montenegro can't stop the attack of the New Han Army, so the New Han Army marching in the mountains west of Maocheng is probably just a piece of cake, right? Right! It will definitely be the case, the Xinhan army sees that our Maocheng is difficult to capture, and will inevitably use strange and dangerous moves, then, by surprise, suddenly launch a surprise attack on our Maocheng from the west of Maocheng, so, we are simply caught off guard, and it is really possible to be broken by them. The more Xin Ping spoke, the more sure he became, his eyes sparkling.

"Master Xin, since there is such a possibility, how should we deal with it now?" Han Meng also took it to heart and thought that he had to pay attention to this situation.

"Let's hope it's too late." Xin Ping thought for a while and said, "Now, we must first make sure that people find out whether there are any military horses of the New Han Army in the mountains, and then ...... Then, perhaps, we can take the plan as it is, and instead catch the New Han Army off guard. ”

"How?" Han Meng listened to Xin's comments, and his eyes lit up.

"Yes, that's right! Xin now, immediately transfer 10,000 military horses as scouts, stragglers into the mountains, inquire about the situation, and then, mobilize military horses, ambush the New Han army, you now, immediately in the cavalry barracks in the south of the city, assemble the cavalry, ready to attack at any time, see our beacon fire, General Han, you immediately lead 50,000 cavalry to kill, cavalry attack the New Han army. Xin Ping said a little energetically: "If the New Han army kills from the mountains, then they must all be infantry troops, and our cavalry can completely restrain their infantry troops." ”

"Good! I hope we didn't guess wrong, Xin Junshi, Brother Xin, and Han immediately returned to the barracks and were ready to attack at any time. ”

"Good! The time has come to make contributions, we must be careful and not slack! ”

"Obey the orders of the military advisor!" Han Meng clenched his fists, retreated and immediately left the city. (To be continued......)