"Why destroy the Great Wall!"

After saying it three times in a row, Tian Feng steadily picked up the wine glass, raised his head and drank it all.

On the morning of the eighth day of the fourth month of the sixth year of stability [198], a generation of wise men born in Jizhou, an important minister who controlled the actual authority of Qingzhou, and an arrogant giant deer fellow, Tian Toyoda Yuanhao, committed suicide calmly in a guest room in the Qingzhou Prefecture Pastoral Mansion, and died at the age of forty.

As soon as the news of Tian Feng's death spread, the entire Qingzhou immediately fell into a dead silence.

The state and county officials, who were already unintentional about working because of the turmoil at the top, only secretly speculated about what the consequences of this great change at the top would bring, so that a letter marked as an urgent military situation was placed on the official desk of the county temple for several days, and no one paid attention to it. And by the time someone finally noticed this urgent military information, the mobile cavalry from the northern Xinjiang had already surrounded a corner of Linzi City. The officials of Qingzhou only got the news of the large-scale invasion of the Zhang Madman Army at this time, and it seemed that it was too late.

"That arrogance, can you really see the heavens?"

As soon as Tian Feng died, the arrogant cavalry took advantage of this God-given opportunity to kill under Linzi City. Such a fact made Yuan Tan, who was already jealous of insolence, completely believe that insolence would be clever. Otherwise, how could he put his opponent in the worst possible situation every time at the best time and in the most effortless way?

Regarding the question of the lord Yuan Tan, Guo Tu could not answer it. He usually believed that he was on par with Tian Feng's ability, but at such a critical moment, Guo Tu felt that if Tian Feng was still there, he would definitely be able to come up with a way to save the situation.

Just as the two of them began a new round of silence against each other, an attendant ran in from outside in a panic and shouted:

"My lord, my lord...... Big things are not good! The Northern Thieves have entered the city! ”

"What!"

"What ......"

Hearing this greatly unexpected news, Yuan Tan jumped up from the couch. His eyes widened. But Guo Tu was like a deflated ball, and he collapsed to the ground involuntarily.

"Who is it! Who put the Northern Thief in! ”

Yuan Tan didn't believe that the arrogant forward, which was all composed of cavalry, could capture the high city wall of Linzi so easily. If they could enter the city so easily, there was obviously only one possibility. That is:

- There is a city that should be opened, let them in!

But. On this point, the retinue could not answer. He didn't know what the situation was.

While Yuan Tan and Guo Tu were still speculating about the reason for the fall of the city, at the same time, Guo Yan was loudly scolding his cavalry, asking them to quickly pass through the city gate and enter the city to seize various communication arteries, so as not to prevent the enemy from seeing the bad situation and quietly slipping away. If that's the case, the credit for overcoming Linzi. But it's going to shrink a lot.

"Quick! Give Lao Tzu a little faster! Which brother catches Yuan Tan's kid, the lord will definitely not hesitate to reward him! ”

After staying under Zhang Qiang for a few years, Guo Yan is no longer the habitual appearance of his original cloak. He was wearing a well-crafted Mingguang armor, with the style of a general, and he couldn't see the customs of the Hu people that were originally contaminated.

After taking refuge under Zhang Qiang, Guo Yan didn't feel anything bad. Under the special introduction of Zhang Mad , Guo Yan was honored to marry the daughter of the Julu Zhang clan, that is, Zhang Mad cousin. Now he is also half of the Zhang family's descendant general.

And compared with Li Dao, an old buddy who was also in the Liangzhou Army, Guo Yan and other bare-bones generals who lacked the drag of the clan. Obviously, it can also be integrated into the arrogant military system more quickly.

However, this time, Guo Yan was able to quickly open the city gate and enter after the soldiers came to Linzi City, and the credit was not all his own. The young man behind him, who seemed to be weak and had an ugly face, was the mastermind behind all these events.

This young man with a bad face. It is one of the upstarts of the state pastoral government who has been vigorously promoted by Zhang Qi in recent years, and the side branch of the Guo family of the Yingchuan clan: Guo Jia, the one who is known as Fengxiao.

Now Guo Jia's official position is still the sacrificial wine of the military advisor arranged by the arrogant back then. But his official position was from 200 stones. All the way up to six hundred stones. If he performs well in the Qingzhou strategy in the next step, Guo Jia has no doubt that Zhang Qi will directly add him to the thousand stones.

Of course, in Guo Jia's eyes, all the stones and hundreds of stones are trivial. With Guo Jia's crazy temperament, he was often able to spend all the money for a month in the three days after withdrawing it, and then return to the arrogant state residence to eat for a month.

Even, even if Zhang Qiang specially found a wife room for him in the Zhang clan, Guo Jia, the prodigal son among the flowers, still did not stop entering and leaving some flower streets and willow alleys. And this is what Guo Jia has criticized others.

Guo Jia's prodigal behavior obviously will not please his colleagues. Guo Yi, the chief of the state pastoral government, has repeatedly impeached Guo Jia with the same surname. Even Cheng Yu, a military advisor who presided over the Western Regions strategy for Zhang Mad in Bingzhou, also persuaded Zhang Mad to dismiss Guo Jia and other guys who hindered official character in the letter. Other state and county officials, many of Guo Jia's fortunate ministers beside the state pastor, feel that they look at people arrogantly, and there will be times when they make mistakes.

It's just that he knows Guo Jia's arrogance very well, but how could he dismiss a master who is proficient in spy warfare because of these small problems?

Zhang Qi not only firmly supported Guo Jia, but he even gave Guo Jia a power to allow Guo Jia to pay 30,000 yuan a month for "rouge fees", lest this subordinate always default on the night money that should be paid to others.

When he met the lord who trusted him like this, Guo Jia was of course grateful, but he could only do his best and die. And Zhang Qiang didn't look away at Guo Jia.

I don't know if it's because of the eyesight practiced in the willow alley of the flower street, this prodigal son who likes to mix with flowers is a must in terms of grasping people's hearts. Just like the timing of sending troops to the south this time, it was precisely at Guo Jia's strong request that it was postponed by 15 days compared with the beginning.

If it was according to the original plan, Yuan Tan would definitely not dare to take Tianfeng in such a critical period after receiving the news of Jizhou's large-scale southward movement. If Tian Feng is fine, he will definitely be able to calmly command the Qingzhou Army and make every effort to deal with the southward movement of the Northern Army. With Tian Feng's command, even if Zhang Feng's army can take a few county towns with Neiying and Ma Su in the early stage, it must not be able to cross the Yellow River smoothly - you must know that there is a force that Tian Feng trusts by the Yellow River, and it is always vigilant against the southern crossing of Zhang Feng's army. When Tian Feng was imprisoned, the Yellow River Garrison Army disbanded on its own!

And when Guo Yan heard about the big thing that had just happened in Linzi City, his eyes widened and he couldn't believe it at all. Because, when Guo Jia sent out the troops, he expected that Yuan Tan was afraid that he would have to deal with Tian Feng. Now that Guo Jia's prophecy has been demonstrated, Guo Yan can't help but feel a deep awe in his heart for his same surname.

- This kind of ghostly and godly character must not be offended......

Together, the lord who easily controlled a "ghost talent" like Guo Jia naturally became an unfathomable existence in Guo Yan's heart.

The fall of Linzi City was beyond anyone's expectations. But after careful investigation, it is also reasonable.

Tian Feng's sudden imprisonment and then his murder made the entire Qingzhou officialdom shake violently, and the people were panicked. The officials had nothing to worry about, and the news of the northern army's southward movement was greatly delayed. It is the loss of people.

The unexpectedly powerful mobility of the mobile cavalry in Northern Xinjiang had already approached the city before the officials of Linzi City could react. As a result, the defensive advantages of Qingzhou's layers of defense have also disappeared. This is a loss of location.

The reinforcement Lu Bu in the south attracted Zangba to Mount Tai, and the reinforcement Cao Cao in the west was busy welcoming the return of the Son of Heaven to the east, so he could not send troops to rescue in time at this time. This is the time of the lost day.

The three elements of the art of war, such as time, location, and people, are not on the side of Qingzhou, and the strength of the arrogant army is far greater than that of the Qingzhou army, and it is not surprising that as soon as the two sides start the war, they will play such exaggerated results.

On the other hand, Yuan Tan and Guo Tu, the two principals of Linzi City, were not properly dispatched in danger, which was also an important reason why Linzi fell within two days of the enemy's troops coming to the city.

Even if it was suddenly attacked, the number of garrison troops in Linzi City was actually more than Guo Yan's attacking force. But at this critical moment, Yuan Tan just couldn't believe the loyalty of those non-descendant troops, and strictly ordered all the troops he couldn't trust to stay in the barracks obediently and not go out without orders. As a result, Yuan Tan's subordinates were overstretched.

And in order to stabilize the situation in the city, Yuan Tan actually sent the most reliable five hundred people to the streets to suppress the dissatisfaction in the city. This directly made Yuan Tan unable to even get together the defenders of the four city gates, so he had to let some wall-riding factions whose position was not firm enough to guard the city gates.

- At least, these wall-riding factions will not suddenly rebel......

Yuan Tan thought so.

Yuan Tan thought well, the wall-riding faction would indeed not suddenly rebel. However, there is a high probability that they will suddenly surrender to the enemy.

The main general of the city guard at the south gate is such a wall-riding faction.

This military Sima was originally a powerful man in Jizhou, and when Yuan Shao was defeated from Jizhou a few years ago, he led his people to flee to Qingzhou with Yuan Shao. However, due to his mediocre ability, this military Sima was neither valued by Tian Feng nor Yuan Tan, and fortunately avoided the mutual crushing link of the chaos in Qingzhou. Yuan Tan saw that he was acting honestly, and at such a critical moment, he decisively decided to let him guard the south gate.

In Yuan Tan's heart, since this person is Haoqiang who fled from Jizhou and has a deep grudge against insolence, it is inevitable that he will not be able to take refuge in insolence.

However, Yuan Tan did not expect that there was also a Guo Jia in the Zhang Mad Army who went south with the army. And since Guo Jia is known as a "ghost talent", his courage is not ordinary. Guo Jia had been under Yuan Shao for a period of time, and he got acquainted with many middle- and lower-level officials in Yuan's army. After discovering who the Nancheng guard was, Guo Jia actually decided on the spot to visit this "old man" who had a relationship with him at night.

Guo Yan did not approve of Guo Jia's decision, and felt that there was no need for him to take such a big risk and do something that he was not very sure about. However, under the support of insolence, Guo Jia's identity has always been transcendent and self-contained, and Guo Yan can't control his own family. Then, the subsequent results surprised Guo Yan:

Guo Jia actually persuaded the Nancheng guard to surrender! (To be continued......)